All events on Friday January 18

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Music: Rock/Pop
Headache City w/ Telenovela
Friday Jan 18 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Loaded with old-school "whoa-oh-oh!" choruses, gnarly riffs, and vintage keyboard melodies aplenty, Headache City's 2006 self-titled debut was an exhilarating collection of surfy garage-pop confections,... View details »
Headache City w/ Telenovela
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Bon Iver
Friday Jan 18 (9pm–2am) @ Schubas
Sold Out!
Giveaway
In a Walden Pond-worthy gesture of self-mythology, Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon receded to the Wisconsin woods in the winter of 2005 to exorcize personal... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Bon Iver
Art
John Sabraw
Friday Jan 18 @ McCormick Gallery More times »
Opening
Free
Hyper-realistic landscapes and eerily futuristic still lifes come together in new work by English-born painter John Sabraw. In this exhibit, titled Harbinger, he displays elegantly... View details »
John Sabraw
Art
The Commercial Woman
Friday Jan 18 (noon–7pm) @ Woman Made Gallery More times »
Free
Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions of themselves and others.... View details »
The Commercial Woman
More Flavor: Benefit
Benefit for the Shape Shoppe
Friday Jan 18 (9–11pm) @ The Hideout
From LA's the Smell to New York's ABC No Rio, indie obsessives tend to use some rather misty-eyed, utopian language when it comes to describing... View details »
Benefit for the Shape Shoppe
Film
American Zombie
Friday Jan 18 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
It's time to get meta. Grace Lee tries her hand at a mockumentary this time 'round, poking fun at the pretensions of documentary filmmaking with... View details »
American Zombie

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Art
William Pope.L
Friday Jan 18 (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
Friday Jan 18 @ 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
Friday Jan 18 (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
Friday Jan 18 (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
Some Abstraction Occurs
Friday Jan 18 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND More times »
Free
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at intimate gallery 65GRAND. Curator... View details »
Some Abstraction Occurs
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Friday Jan 18 (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
Friday Jan 18 (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
Friday Jan 18 (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
Friday Jan 18 (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
Friday Jan 18 (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
There Will Be Blood
Friday Jan 18 (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
Friday Jan 18 (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
Art
Tiffany Calvert: New Work
Friday Jan 18 (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