All events on Sunday January 20

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Music: Rock/Pop
Gay Witch Abortion
Sunday Jan 20 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Gay Witch Abortion have yet to release an album, but their imposing sound — all distorted, downtuned guitar lines, dizzying polyrhythms, and machine-gun drumwork —... View details »
Gay Witch Abortion
Film: Documentary
Please Vote for Me
Sunday Jan 20 (1:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum
Kids can be so cruel, and nothing brings out cruelty like a competition — whether it's a race for popularity, kickball captain, or teacher's pet.... View details »
Please Vote for Me
Art
Soft Life
Sunday Jan 20 (noon–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art mines the often-excruciating emotions... View details »
Soft Life
More Flavor: Food/Wine
[SOLD OUT] Unibroue Ale Pairing Seminar
Sunday Jan 20 (6–8pm) @ Custom House
Sold Out!
Unibroue's beer is delicious, and Custom House's food is delicious; tonight, both serve and explain their respective deliciousness in tandem. For non-biere connoisseurs, Unibroue... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Unibroue Ale Pairing Seminar

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Art
William Pope.L
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Sunday Jan 20 @ 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 Jan 20 (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
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Sunday Jan 20 (noon–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
More Flavor: Sports
See and Ski Beverly Hills
Sunday Jan 20 (1–2pm) @ Beverly Bike and Ski More times »
Free
Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic workout for every major... View details »
See and Ski Beverly Hills
Art: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Film: Animation
Persepolis
Sunday Jan 20 (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
Sunday Jan 20 (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
The Commercial Woman
Sunday Jan 20 (noon–4pm) @ 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