Events on Sunday, January 20

<em>Please Vote for Me</em> (2007)

Film: Documentary

Please Vote for Me

Sunday 1/20 @ Chicago History Museum

Kids can be so cruel, and nothing brings out cruelty like a competition — whether it's a race for popularity, kickball... 

[SOLD OUT] Unibroue Ale Pairing Seminar

Food/Wine

[SOLD OUT] Unibroue Ale Pairing Seminar

Sunday 1/20 @ Custom House

Unibroue's beer is delicious, and Custom House's food is delicious; tonight, both serve and explain their respective deliciousness in tandem. For... 

Gay Witch Abortion w/ Shovelfight and TraMADOL

Music

Gay Witch Abortion

Sunday 1/20 @ The Empty Bottle

Gay Witch Abortion have yet to release an album, but their imposing sound — all distorted, downtuned guitar lines, dizzying polyrhythms,... 

Ongoing Events

<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>

Art

The New Authentics

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Sunday 1/20 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art... 

<em>There Will Be Blood</em>

Film

There Will Be Blood

Sunday 1/20 @ Various locations

It was the strongest year cinema has seen in at least a decade, so the following claim is not a mild... 

<em>Persepolis</em>

Film: Animation

Persepolis

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

William Pope.L

Art

William Pope.L

Sunday 1/20 @ 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,... 

<i>Mapping the Self</i>

Art

Mapping the Self

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

Kate&#345;ina Šedá

Art

Kateřina Šedá

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

<em>Girls on the Verge: Portraits of Adolescence</em>

Art: Photography

Girls on the Verge

Sunday 1/20 @ 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... 

<em>The Commercial Woman</em>

Art

The Commercial Woman

Sunday 1/20 @ Woman Made Gallery

Woman Made Gallery's current group exhibition investigates the role of the female form in advertising and how it effects women's perceptions... 

Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Sunday 1/20 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... 

See and Ski Beverly Hills

Sports

See and Ski Beverly Hills

Sunday 1/20 @ Beverly Bike and Ski

Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic... 

<I>Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger</I>

Art

Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger

Sunday 1/20 @ 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...