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Julia Wertz
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (8–9pm) @ Quimby's Bookstore
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Web-comic artist, biker, and cheese aficionado Julia Wertz launched her autobigraphical website the Fart Party just last year, but she's already garnered a frenzied cult... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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You Weren't There
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Portage Theater
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Other than the Big Black chapter in Our Band Could Be Your Life, the Chicago scene has found itself largely written out of most Punk... View details »
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Casting a Shadow
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
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Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through production design, lighting, blocking,... View details »
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Taking its title from the 1968 Rolling Stones song, Sympathy for the Devil is grouped into geographical vignettes: New York, West Coast/Los Angeles, Midwest, United... View details »
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William Pope.L
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume, to draw attention to... View details »
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Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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Tokyo-born, Chicago-educated Satoru Aoyama would be a photorealist painter, if his preferred medium weren't a needle and thread. His striking pictorial embroideries appear to be... View details »
- Film
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Margot at the Wedding
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Director Noah Baumbach's breakthrough film, The Squid and the Whale, featured Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels as a squabbling Brooklyn couple whose dissolving marriage was... View details »
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Lynch
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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David Lynch is one of modern cinema's true artists, if also one of its most infuriating. This new documentary — directed by a filmmaker who... View details »
- Performing Arts
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Mr. Fluxus
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (7:30pm) @ The Neo-Futurarium
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In an ironic twist, many of the 20th-century "anti-art" movements, like Dada and Surrealism, have arguably become enshrined in the canon they worked so hard... View details »
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Audrey Niffenegger
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Printworks Gallery
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British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear the world's most outrageous... View details »
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Cody Hudson
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Graphic-designer-turned-painter Cody Hudson makes a splash with the most recent in a series of MCA 12 x 12 solo shows, There Ain't No Bottomless Pit... View details »
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Christopher Patch
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Monique Meloche
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American painterly realism makes a comeback in these paintings by Maine native Christopher Patch. Matinicus began when Patch set out onboard a small plane with... View details »
- Film
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The Telephone Book
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 @ Music Box Theatre
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The rough gem of the Music Box's Midnight Movies series, The Telephone Book is everything you could ask for in cult exploitation: an X-rated, not-so-seamless... View details »
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Mapping the Self
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck has organized an exhibition... View details »
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Meanwhile in Baghdad…
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society
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How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents — will no doubt be... View details »
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Sing-Along Grease
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (7pm) @ Music Box Theatre
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Despite a few cast members who look more like the parents of high-school students, Grease is everyone's favorite high-school musical this side of, well, High... View details »
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Jason Karolak
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Rowland Contemporary
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Chicago-based painter Jason Karolak's prodigious oil paintings evoke a feeling of intense satisfaction; he enthralls the viewer with vast, looping strokes in Untitled PO706, then... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Chalk
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater
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The British faux documentary Death of a President raised eyebrows last year by imagining the assassination of the sitting American chief executive. The Right Brain... View details »
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John Parot
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions
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Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance, John Parot's new show.... View details »
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Andrea Myers
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Saturday Nov 24, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
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Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use of reduction and accrual... View details »
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