Events on Friday, December 28
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- The Man of My Life
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- French director Zabou Breitman investigates a different kind of love affair in The Man of My Life (L'homme de sa vie).... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Alex Chilton Birthday Bash
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Alex Chilton's rough-pop smarts make him the perfect candidate for a tribute night. Not only is he an artist's artist who's... View details »
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- MLA Convention
- @ Various locations
- All college students — except those persnickety English majors, of course — hate the MLA. The august language-and-literature organization's detail-obsessed Style... 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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- Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio... View details »
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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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- Man in the Chair
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Film school isn't supposed to be like high school, with angsty teens shoving one another up against lockers and spewing threats... View details »
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- Killer Klowns from Outer Space
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Before moving on to bigger, though not-necessarily better, work with Team America (2004) and Elf (2003), the Chiodo Brothers debuted with... View details »
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- The Whole Shootin' Match
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- This independent, self-financed film by Texan director Eagle Pennell follows two chronically broke vagabond cowboy types. Between boozing, womanizing, and brawling,... 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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- 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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- There Will Be Blood
- @ Various locations
- It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild... View details »
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- Blade Runner: The Final Cut
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Twenty-five years of hindsight, miraculously complete extra footage, and a serious need for closure all conspired to make Warner Brothers trot... 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: Comedy
- Dysfunctional Holiday Revue
- @ Beverly Arts Center
- The entertainment industry has its time-honored rites of passage. In Los Angeles, aspiring moguls set their egos aside and toil in... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Umphrey's McGee
- @ Aragon Ballroom
- Umphrey's McGee have been an industry standard in the jam-band scene for nearly a decade, and they're doing a three-night stint... 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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- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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