Events on Saturday, December 29
Saturday 12/29 @ Book Cellar
Chicago's finest indie mag, THE2NDHAND, celebrates its eighth birthday tonight with the release of its first all-visual art issue, "The People."...
Saturday 12/29 @ The Empty Bottle
At first, the Chamber Strings may sound like an orchestra company, but upon further examination, the
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Music Box Theatre
Though it never really hits Duck Soup levels of absurdist anarchy, A Night at the Opera still stands as a Marx...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Gallery 40000
With pensive abstraction aplenty, Brooklyn-based artist David Coyle presents new oil paintings and video for his second solo show at 40000....
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ Printworks Gallery
British fashion-magazine editor and style icon Isabella Blow was a true original — a modern-day Marchesa Casati who dared to wear...
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Killer Klowns from Outer Space
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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,...
Saturday 12/29 @ 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,...
Saturday 12/29 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 12/29 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
