All events on Sunday December 09

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Film: Documentary
The Chicago Maternity Center Story
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (1:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum
Thirty years before Michael Moore's critical diagnosis of the American healthcare system, The Chicago Maternity Center Story examined how the interests of corporations and those... View details »
The Chicago Maternity Center Story
Music: Rock/Pop
D Numbers
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (4–8pm) @ Subterranean
A surprisingly concordant blend of mathematical polyrhythms, minimalist glitch samplings, and sweetly tinkling keyboard and xylophone melodies, D Numbers occupy a very weird space between... View details »
D Numbers

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Art
Casting a Shadow
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
Alfred Hitchcock's legendary attention to detail in his mise en scene — literally, "setting the scene" within the cinematic frame through production design, lighting, blocking,... View details »
Casting a Shadow
Art
Sympathy for the Devil
Sunday Dec 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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 9, 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
Art
Meanwhile in Baghdad…
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (noon–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
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 »
Meanwhile in Baghdad…
More Flavor: City Gem
Christkindlmarket
Sunday Dec 9, 2007 (11am–midnight) @ Daley Plaza More times »
Free
Adding a bit of authentic Deutsche flavor to Chicago's holiday season, the four-week, outdoor Christkindlmarket — named for the historic winter shopping fairs of medieval... View details »
Christkindlmarket
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Sunday Dec 9, 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