All events on Sunday December 30

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Film
Comedies of Harry Langdon
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (2:30pm) @ Portage Theater
This afternoon, the Silent Film Society of Chicago transports audiences back to the golden age of silent cinema. Celebrating five recently restored Harry Langdon comedy... View details »
Comedies of Harry Langdon
Music: Rock/Pop
Colonel Chloroform w/ Tigerpaw
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Tigerpaw conjure up the spirit of Living Colour with a combination of fuzzy textures and spastic lyricism. The event marks the release of Tigerpaw's latest... View details »
Colonel Chloroform w/ Tigerpaw

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Art
Sympathy for the Devil
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 »
Sympathy for the Devil
Art
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11am–5pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
This selection of master works from Yale's prestigious collection is a thrill ride through the annals of art history, from a medieval rendering of a... View details »
Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Art
William Pope.L
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
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 »
William Pope.L
Art
Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
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 »
Satoru Aoyama: Ancient Pixels
Film
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (9:30am–4pm) @ Museum of Science and Industry More times »
Though it's presented as a chance to learn about the possibilities of real science, the true draw of this exhibit is the assortment of props... View details »
Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination
Art
The New Authentics
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
Free
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 »
The New Authentics
Art
Mapping the Self
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
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 »
Mapping the Self
Music: Rock/Pop
Umphrey's McGee
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Aragon Ballroom More times »
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 at Aragon,... View details »
Umphrey's McGee
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MLA Convention
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (3–3pm) @ Various locations More times »
All college students — except those persnickety English majors, of course — hate the MLA. The august language-and-literature organization's detail-obsessed Style Manual and exhaustive Handbook... View details »
MLA Convention
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio apartment with his art... View details »
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Film
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Twenty-five years of hindsight, miraculously complete extra footage, and a serious need for closure all conspired to make Warner Brothers trot this dystopian neo-noir out... View details »
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Film
Man in the Chair
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Film school isn't supposed to be like high school, with angsty teens shoving one another up against lockers and spewing threats like, "Forget about... View details »
Man in the Chair
Film
The Whole Shootin' Match
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (4pm–midnight) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
This independent, self-financed film by Texan director Eagle Pennell follows two chronically broke vagabond cowboy types. Between boozing, womanizing, and brawling, these ne'er-do-wells pin their... View details »
The Whole Shootin' Match
Film
A Night at the Opera
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (11:30am) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Though it never really hits Duck Soup levels of absurdist anarchy, A Night at the Opera still stands as a Marx Brothers classic and an... View details »
A Night at the Opera
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
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 »
Girls on the Verge
Film
There Will Be Blood
Sunday Dec 30, 2007 (9am–midnight) @ Various locations More times »
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild one: There Will Be... View details »
There Will Be Blood