All events on Wednesday January 16

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More Flavor: Festival
Tomorrow Never Knows Festival
Wednesday Jan 16 (10–11pm) @ Schubas
Tomorrow Never Knows Festival
More Flavor: Discussion
Leon Despres and Kenan Heise
Wednesday Jan 16 (6–8pm) @ Harold Washington Library
Free
Former Fifth Ward alderman Leon M. Despres went up against the authoritarian Daley machine for two decades. Elected to the Chicago City Council in 1955... View details »
Leon Despres and Kenan Heise
Music: Electronic
Jeans Team
Wednesday Jan 16 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
Any German group with electronic instrumentation is destined to suffer bemused Kraftwerk comparisons. And while Jeans Team certainly owe a debt to the pulsing, motorik... View details »
Jeans Team
More Flavor: Volunteer
[SOLD OUT] Sip 'n Knit for Warm Up America
Wednesday Jan 16 (6–8pm) @ The Grafton
Sold Out!
Free
Seasoned craftivists and newbie knitters alike are welcome to gather 'round the fireplace of this Lincoln Square Irish pub for an evening of knitting, hot... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Sip 'n Knit for Warm Up America

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Art
William Pope.L
Wednesday Jan 16 (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
The New Authentics
Wednesday Jan 16 @ 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
Wednesday Jan 16 (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
Aaron Van Dyke
Wednesday Jan 16 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Free
Deranged imagery, disjointed aesthetics, disruption of visual order: if any of these sound appealing, you might like artist Aaron Van Dyke. His appropriation of text,... View details »
Aaron Van Dyke
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Wednesday Jan 16 (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
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Wednesday Jan 16 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant inner conflicts of Lebanese... View details »
Rania Matar
Art
Kateřina Šedá
Wednesday Jan 16 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
Kateřina Šedá's familial project It Doesn't Matter (Je to Jedno) began as a simple exercise to help integrate her grandmother Jana back into family life... View details »
Kateřina Šedá
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Wednesday Jan 16 (10:30am–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: Animation
Persepolis
Wednesday Jan 16 (3pm–midnight) @ Various locations More times »
Not since Art Spiegelman's Maus has a graphic novel so powerfully conveyed political turmoil. Fans of Marjane Satrapi's bildungsroman Persepolis feared its film adaptation might... View details »
Persepolis
Film
Duck Soup
Wednesday Jan 16 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Giveaway
The nation of Freedonia is in bad shape at the opening of Duck Soup. The country is fiendish, war-hungry, and nearly bankrupt, so the president... View details »
Duck Soup
Film
There Will Be Blood
Wednesday Jan 16 (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
Art
Clive Barker
Wednesday Jan 16 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery More times »
Free
... rror-fiction master Clive Barker, whose writing inspired films like Lord of Illusions (1995) and Candyman (1992), also happens to be... View details »
Clive Barker
Film: Documentary
The Other Side of the Mirror
Wednesday Jan 16 (4am–midnight) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
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 nature lends itself well... View details »
The Other Side of the Mirror
Art
Tiffany Calvert: New Work
Wednesday Jan 16 (noon–6pm) @ Lisa Boyle Gallery More times »
Free
Constant chandeliers and displaced furniture bind Tiffany Calvert's paintings into a series entitled NOLA (New Orleans, Louisiana). Revisiting the tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina with... View details »
Tiffany Calvert: New Work