Events on Thursday, December 13
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Sword
- @ Reggies Rock Club
- The Sword cut a niche for themselves among metal lifers and hipsters alike with Age of Winters, a dialed-up-to-11, unapologetically retro... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Russian Circles
- @ Double Door
- In the years since Simon Reynolds coined the once-helpful term, "post-rock" has come to envelop nearly any band with rock instrumentation... View details »
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- Reading
- Tom Brokaw
- @ Borders
- Tom Brokaw refuses to retire, and the literary world isn't complaining. Since leaving NBC Nightly News — where he served as... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Beer and Bacon Bonanza
- @ Vella Cafe
- Tonight's tribute to all things porcine and hops-based is a four-course study in outright indulgence. Created by the bacon lovers at... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- Meanwhile in Baghdad…
- @ The Renaissance Society
- How the United States' ill-fated war in Iraq resonates in contemporary art — both in literal depictions and creeping undercurrents —... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Tokyo-born, Chicago-educated Satoru Aoyama would be a photorealist painter, if his preferred medium weren't a needle and thread. His striking pictorial... View details »
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- The New Authentics
- @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
- In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... View details »
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- John Parot
- @ Western Exhibitions
- Jack Daniel's bottles, pink rope, dripping caves, and mesmerizing tendrils are just a few things you will encounter at Biological Exuberance,... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Christkindlmarket
- @ Daley Plaza
- Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter... View details »
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- Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a... View details »
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- Film
- Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
- @ Museum of Science and Industry
- Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is... View details »
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- Mapping the Self
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- The 800 lb Gorilla in the Room
- @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
- Shirley Mordine says she's "throwing down the glove" with this new festival, a collection of lucid, socially relevant work nestled deep... View details »
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- Audrey Niffenegger
- @ Printworks Gallery
- British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Girls on the Verge
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art... View details »
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- Sympathy for the Devil
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Taking its title from the 1968 Rolling Stones song, Sympathy for the Devil is grouped into geographical vignettes: New York, West... View details »
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- David Coyle
- @ Gallery 40000
- With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000.... View details »
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- Sara Schnadt
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Unseen maps come to life with Connectivity, a solo show of visual and performance art by Sara Schnadt. As part of... View details »
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- Andrea Myers
- @ Lisa Boyle Gallery
- Decay is rarely a stunning sight, but Chicago artist Andrea Myers gives it an element of real beauty. Her continuous use... View details »
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- William Pope.L
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- William Pope.L, the self-proclaimed "friendliest black artist in America," first received recognition for belly-crawling along city streets, often dressed in costume,... View details »
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