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- Music: DJ
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DJ Rekha
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10pm) @ SmartBar
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Long before Jay-Z appeared on Panjabi MC's "Beware of the Boys" or MIA sampled Bollywood soundtracks, DJ Rekha started her now internationally celebrated Basement Bhangra... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
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Brian Dennehy
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (6–7pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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Tony and Golden Globe winner Brian Dennehy chats about his theatre experience, along with the works of infamous American playwrights Arthur Miller and Eugene O'Neill... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Steepwater Band
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (8:30–11pm) @ Double Door
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It's hard to pull off blues rock in 2007 — just think of the Ghost World sequence in which the frost-tipped twentysomethings of Blues Hammer... View details »
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Sympathy for the Devil
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Thursday Dec 20, 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 Dec 20, 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 Dec 20, 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 »
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David Coyle
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (4am) @ Gallery 40000
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With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000. Coyle's bewitching brush strokes,... View details »
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The New Authentics
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
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In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which faith and history color... View details »
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Audrey Niffenegger
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Thursday Dec 20, 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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Mapping the Self
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Thursday Dec 20, 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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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10am–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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Sara Schnadt
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (midnight–midnight) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Unseen maps come to life with Connectivity, a solo show of visual and performance art by Sara Schnadt. As part of the MCA's UBS 12... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Girls on the Verge
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Thursday Dec 20, 2007 (10:30am–8pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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Timidity and fearlessness; self-consciousness and bravado; naiveté and worldliness — all the dichotomies of female adolescence find expression in the Art Institute's photography exhibition Girls... View details »
