Events on Friday, October 10

Silver Jews w/ the Mattoid
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Music: Rock/Pop
Silver Jews
@ Metro
David Berman's Silver Jews were once dismissed as a Pavement side project. But really, Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich's presence in...  View details »
Stereolab w/ Monade
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Music: Rock/Pop
Stereolab
@ Vic Theatre
Art-pop connoisseurs Stereolab have a knack for nostalgia. With a name borrowed from a '50s record label's designation for stereo LPs,...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Stan Shellabarger: <em>Walking Books</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
@ Western Exhibitions
Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children's Books</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Exhibition
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
@ The Newberry Library
The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
<em>Campaign Supernova!</em><em> or How Many Democrats Does It Take to Lose an Election?</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Comedy
Campaign Supernova!
@ The Second City e.t.c.
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Film: Documentary
Wild Combination
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
Cellist/composer/producer Arthur Russell embodied the cross-pollinating spirit of late-'70s New York, entertaining the avant-garde art world with his blissed-out dance jams....  View details »
Ongoing
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
@ The Arts Club of Chicago
Though it's cited as a seminal example of installation art, Marcel Broodthaers imagined his late work Décor: A Conquest (1975) as...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Kafka on the Shore</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Kafka on the Shore
@ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Art of Democracy</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Art of Democracy
@ Loyola University Museum of Art
Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history...  View details »
Ongoing
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: City Gem
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
@ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Bill O'Donnell: <em>Elevations</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Photography
Bill O'Donnell
@ City Gallery
Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views....  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Walead Beshty & James Welling
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Walead Beshty & James Welling
@ The Suburban
The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
@ Normal Projects
Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Ian Pedigo: <em>Left in the Open Terraces</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Ian Pedigo
@ 65GRAND
Although Ian Pedigo makes raw-feeling sculptures out of humble materials — cardboard, plastic, scraps of wood — they reflect a certain...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Rodney Graham
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Rodney Graham
@ Donald Young Gallery
Rodney Graham's latest exhibition features both a kinetic op-art sculpture modeled after a Black Sabbath stage set and a room full...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Godfather</em> (1972) and <em>The Godfather Part II</em> (1974)
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
@ Music Box Theatre
Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola...  View details »
Ongoing
Alec Soth: <em>Dog Days, Bogot&aacute;</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Photography
Alec Soth
@ Stephen Daiter Gallery
In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
@ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Baby Wants Candy
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
Baby Wants Candy
@ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...  View details »
Ongoing
Gore Vidal's <em>Weekend</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Gore Vidal's Weekend
@ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>WIRED</em> NextFest
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Festival
WIRED NextFest
@ Millennium Park
To see the most recent technological innovations in robotics, health care, sustainable energy, and art — or if you simply want...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mike Daisey:<em> If You See Something Say Something</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Spoken Word
Mike Daisey
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Mike Daisey takes the stage looking like your schlubby, good-natured cousin and armed only with a glass of water and a...  View details »
Ongoing
<em> Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Henri Cartier-Bresson
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Displacement
@ Smart Museum of Art
China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
The Sarcastic Squad
@ The Playground Theater
The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Deceptive Design: Experiments in Furniture</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Deceptive Design
@ Chicago Cultural Center
Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer...  View details »
Opening
Ongoing
Free
<em>Twisted Into Recognition: Clich&eacute;</em><em>s of Jews and Others</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
@ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Religulous</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film: Documentary
Religulous
@ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Psychodrama</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Photography
Psychodrama
@ Golden
In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sunday Painters: Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
@ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
M&oacute;nica Herrera: <em>Strings</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Mónica Herrera: Strings
@ Hyde Park Art Center
For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor: City Gem
Smart Home
@ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...  View details »
Ongoing
Conrad Freiburg: <em>A Great Daydream</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Conrad Freiburg
@ Linda Warren Gallery
Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: City Gem
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
@ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago Fall Series
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Dance
Hubbard Street Dance
@ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Released, weighted dancing, written in boldface and arranged into giant shapes, reigns as the style of the moment, yet Toru Shimazaki...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Buddy:  The Buddy Holly Story</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Performing Arts: Theatre
Buddy
@ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative...  View details »
Ongoing
Cecil Balmond: <em>Solid Void</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art: Architecture/Design
Cecil Balmond: Solid Void
@ Graham Foundation
Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Angles in America</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Angles in America
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Dark Knight</em>: The IMAX Experience
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
The Dark Knight
@ Navy Pier
The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic...  View details »
Ongoing
Baltimore Round Robin 2008 Tour feat. Beach House, Dan Deacon, and Jana Hunter
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Music: Festival
Baltimore Round Robin Tour
@ Epiphany
Inimitable art rocker Dan Deacon has put together a two-night event of epic proportions, towing a grip of Baltimore bands around...  View details »
Ongoing
Francis Al&yuml;s
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Mark Porter:  <em>Nurture/Alter: Recent Kinetic Sculptures and Preliminary Drawings</em>
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Art
Mark Porter
@ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jack Kerouac: On the Road</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Exhibition
Jack Kerouac: On the Road
@ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
Jack Kerouac's On the Road — the landmark work of the Beat Generation — is a thrilling, chaotic, Benzedrine-soaked whirl of...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Night of the Living Artist</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
Art
Night of the Living Artist
@ Chicago Art Department
Turning your artistic influences into zombies is either a Halloween-flavored Oepidal dream or a curiously macabre motion for their immortality. In...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>
Month_10 Friday Day_10
More Flavor: Exhibition
Chic Chicago
@ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure</em> (1989)
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
Film
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
@ Music Box Theatre
In what is arguably his best performance to date, Keanu Reeves stars as Ted Logan, a high-school slacker and founding member...  View details »
Ongoing
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Month_10 Saturday Day_11
More Flavor
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
@ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50