Events on Friday, January 11
Millions (A Lottery Story) (2006)
Friday 1/11 @ Facets Cinémathèque
If you've never bought a lottery ticket, dreaming may be dead in you. Sure, the chances of winning are almost nil,...
Friday 1/11 @ Symphony Center
Celebrating five years of sporadic collaboration, the dancers of Hubbard Street and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra share the Symphony Center stage...
Friday 1/11 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Eugene S. Robinson's unusual instructional book on fighting teaches the little guy how to stand up for himself. Robinson brings a...
Friday 1/11 @ SmartBar
Although Juan Atkins and Derrick May are rightfully celebrated for their electro classics, no one shaped the sound of Detroit techno...
Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2006)
Friday 1/11 @ Music Box Theatre
For his 1993 book on Kurt Cobain, rock journalist Michael Azerrad interviewed the grunge-rock legend for more than 25 hours....
Ongoing Events
Friday 1/11 @ Music Box Theatre
How can a writer ensure that a film adaptation will be faithful to his original tale? He directs it himself,...
Friday 1/11 @ 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...
Friday 1/11 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Last year, Todd Haynes reimagined Bob Dylan's fabled 1965 Newport Folk Festival performance as a literal (i.e. gun-toting) assault. Dylan's chameleonic...
Friday 1/11 @ 65GRAND
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at...
Friday 1/11 @ The Renaissance Society
Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana...
Friday 1/11 @ 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...
Friday 1/11 @ 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,...
Friday 1/11 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant...
Friday 1/11 @ Various locations
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared...
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Friday 1/11 @ 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...
Friday 1/11 @ 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...
Friday 1/11 @ Packer Schopf Gallery
Horror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also...
Friday 1/11 @ Various locations
It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild...
