Events on Tuesday, January 1
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Pajama Brunch
- @ Café Ba-Ba-Reeba!
- As one of the oldest tapas restaurants in the city, Café Ba-Ba-Reeba! is an ideal place to try a variety of... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- New Year's Day Swim
- @ North Ave Beach
- The annual Chicago Polar Bear Club New Year's Day Swim is a local tradition that's funnier to watch than to do.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Fireworks
- @ Navy Pier
- The difference between the fireworks shows on Fourth of July and New Year's is layers and layers of clothing and blankets.... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Film
- 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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Ongoing
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- Art
- 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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- 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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- 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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Ongoing
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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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Ongoing
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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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- 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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Ongoing
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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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Ongoing
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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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