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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Battles w/Caribou
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (8pm) @ Metro
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Battles' brand of spastic post-rock takes as much from '70s prog and post-punk as it does from cartoon soundtracks and drone metal. There are head-scratching... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
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Lewis Black
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (8pm) @ Genesee Theatre
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If you've ever seen Lewis Black, you know the man is pissed. And he's pissed about almost everything: Starbucks, brain-dead politicians, Tae-Bo, the new five-dollar... View details »
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The Valerie Project
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (8–9:30pm) @ Lakeshore Theater
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The fourth installment of the Million Tongues Festival begins tonight with what might be its most exciting and broadly appealing offering. For The Valerie Project,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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Chalk
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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Casting a Shadow
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (10am–8pm) @ 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
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The Crucible
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (7pm) @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
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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 »
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Guns & Ammo
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Gallery 40000
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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 »
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Kacy Maddux
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (noon–6pm) @ Gescheidle
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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 »
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Mr. Fluxus
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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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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Thursday Nov 8, 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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Meat Puppets
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Thursday Nov 8, 2007 (9pm) @ Double Door
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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 »
