All events on Monday January 21

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More Flavor: City Gem
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Monday Jan 21 (11am–2pm) @ Chicago History Museum
Free
Nobel Peace Prize winner and iconic Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered across the country today for his tireless efforts to enact... View details »
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Buck Burgers at Big Chicks
Monday Jan 21 (5pm–midnight) @ Big Chicks
Free
A boisterous polysexual neighborhood bar on the edge of Uptown, Big Chicks features an eclectic, often erotic collection of modern art, and its longstanding Monday... View details »
Buck Burgers at Big Chicks

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Art
William Pope.L
Monday Jan 21 (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
Monday Jan 21 @ 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: Photography
Rania Matar
Monday Jan 21 (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: Photography
Girls on the Verge
Monday Jan 21 (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
Monday Jan 21 (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
Monday Jan 21 (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
Soft Life
Monday Jan 21 (9am–8pm) @ 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
Film
American Zombie
Monday Jan 21 @ 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