All events on Wednesday November 07

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More Flavor: Lecture
The Dark Side of the Universe
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (5pm) @ The Newberry Library
Free
In tonight's lecture, University of Chicago professor Rocky Kolb explores the mysterious forces of the great above. Kolb, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics, focuses... View details »
The Dark Side of the Universe
Music: Rock/Pop
Meat Puppets
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (9pm) @ Double Door More times »
Giveaway
Led by brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood, punk-rock pioneers Meat Puppets have enjoyed a decades-long run with roots in seminal indie label SST Records. Still,... View details »
Meat Puppets
Film
Bill Plympton's Secret Premiere
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (10pm) @ Music Box Theatre
In a career spanning four decades, animator extraordinaire Bill Plympton has produced everything from the Oscar-nominated "Drawing Lesson #2" to an animated Kanye West video.... View details »
Bill Plympton's Secret Premiere

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Art
Casting a Shadow
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
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 »
Casting a Shadow
Art
Sympathy for the Devil
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 »
Sympathy for the Devil
Art
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a medieval rendering of a... View details »
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Art
Theaster Gates
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
Theaster Gates
Art
William Pope.L
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
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 »
William Pope.L
Art
Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
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 »
Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Crucible
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (7pm) @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
Steppenwolf director Anna D. Shapiro has elicited profoundly felt performances from her ensemble that bring fresh life to well-worn roles. Disregarding race, her inventive casting... View details »
The Crucible
Film
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (9:30am–4pm) @ Museum of Science and Industry More times »
Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is the assortment of props... View details »
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Art
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (6–9pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
Free
You might expect a group of artists and art administrators to meet in art school, or perhaps while commiserating over a substandard merlot at an... View details »
Grace Chicago Curatorial Project: Making Peace & Ann Toebbe: Stained Glass
Art
Guns & Ammo
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 40000 More times »
Free
Gallery director Britton Bertran based Guns & Ammo on Newton's third law of motion: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Some... View details »
Guns & Ammo
Art
Kacy Maddux
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Gescheidle More times »
Free
Kacy Maddux's curiously symmetric, Rorschach-like creations are the end product of an intensely freeform technique. Utilizing a vocabulary of iconic, organic, and geometric imagery —... View details »
Kacy Maddux
More Flavor: Discussion
I Am Eyebeam
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
Tonight, artist Melanie Schiff and Gallery 400 director Lorelei Stewart come together to talk about their co-curated exhibition I Am Eyebeam, which includes work from... View details »
I Am Eyebeam
Art
Audrey Niffenegger
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Printworks Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Audrey Niffenegger
Art
Cody Hudson
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 »
Cody Hudson
Art
Christopher Patch
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
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 »
Christopher Patch
Film
The Telephone Book
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
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 »
The Telephone Book
Art
Mapping the Self
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 »
Mapping the Self
Film
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 @ Various locations More times »
The 19th Annual Polish Film Festival promises Chicago — second only to Warsaw in our number of Polish-speaking residents — a two-week crash course in... View details »
19th Annual Polish Film Festival
Art
Rendered in Black and Rendered
Wednesday Nov 7, 2007 (10am–6pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
Free
Showing work from three series — Rendered in Black, Events Are, and Reading — New York-based artist Adam Pendleton displays an array of aesthetically tight... View details »
Rendered in Black and Rendered