All events on Saturday October 11
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- Reptile Breeders Conference & Trade Show
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Tinley Park Holiday Inn Select More times »
- Apparently, a herpetologist is not a medical specialist who treats the consequences of misbehavior in the alley behind John Barleycorn. If all you know about... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Cold War Kids
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (8pm) @ Vic Theatre
- Sold Out!
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- Being a Chef: Cooking with Cider
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (10am–12:30pm) @ Alliance Française de Chicago
- Brisk air, changing leaves, colorful squash, and cider mean just one thing: autumn has arrived. Today, bid adieu to summer with a cooking class on... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Throw Me the Statue
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (7pm) @ Beat Kitchen
- As Throw Me the Statue, Seattle-bred multi-instrumentalist Scott Reitherman mixes uber-precious indie-pop with Casio tones and tightly wound orchestrations. Recently reissued on Secretly Canadian, his... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- Riotfest
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (9pm) @ Double Door
- These days, it's hard to imagine anyone feeling threatened by NYC spikes-and-leather crew the Casualties, but if you listen to frontman Jorge Herrera's throat-mangling scream,... View details »
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Randolph Street Market More times »
- This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly summer-shopping hub that takes... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (8 & 11pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. More times »
- From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by Second City. Where... View details »
- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (9am–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and invites viewers to play... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary More times »
- Free
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into conversation. In this sancturary,... View details »
- Art
- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Intuit More times »
- Free
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art that's found. Discarded Paintings... View details »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
- Free
- Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
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- Chic Chicago
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (9:30am–4:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum More times »
- In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the residents who helped put... View details »
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- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago More times »
- Free
- Jack Kerouac's On the Road — the landmark work of the Beat Generation — is a thrilling, chaotic, Benzedrine-soaked whirl of frantic jazz, aimless sex,... View details »
- Art
- Art of Democracy
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Loyola University Museum of Art More times »
- Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history of disseminating ideas to... View details »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ Navy Pier More times »
- The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic death overshadowed its prodigious... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Alec Soth
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a baby girl. During his... View details »
- Art
- Angles in America
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
- Free
- You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the game for the exhibition's... View details »
- Art
- Displacement
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
- Free
- China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it embodies China's hunger for... View details »
- Art
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
- A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea of capturing "the decisive... View details »
- Art
- Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
- Free
- Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western Exhibitions the artist displays... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Sarcastic Squad
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ The Playground Theater More times »
- The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians and mediums." The show... View details »
- Art
- Walead Beshty & James Welling
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ The Suburban More times »
- Free
- The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in its attention to form.... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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. This series, on display... View details »
- Music: Festival
- Baltimore Round Robin Tour
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (6pm) @ Epiphany More times »
- Inimitable art rocker Dan Deacon has put together a two-night event of epic proportions, towing a grip of Baltimore bands around seven cities (in vehicles... View details »
- Art
- Deceptive Design
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (9am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer is invariably yes. The... View details »
- Art
- Mark Porter
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery More times »
- Free
- Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery — as the show... View details »
- Art
- Barbara Hashimoto
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St More times »
- Free
- A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Psychodrama
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Golden More times »
- Free
- In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan Jill Frank, nodding both... View details »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Mike Daisey
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (7:30pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Mike Daisey takes the stage looking like your schlubby, good-natured cousin and armed only with a glass of water and a scribbled outline — then... View details »
- Art
- Ian Pedigo
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND More times »
- Free
- Although Ian Pedigo makes raw-feeling sculptures out of humble materials — cardboard, plastic, scraps of wood — they reflect a certain sense of precision. His... View details »
- Art
- Conrad Freiburg
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Linda Warren Gallery More times »
- Free
- Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist for its own sake... View details »
- Art
- Video as Video: Rewind to Form
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Swimming Pool Project Space More times »
- Free
- Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video's fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg's intellectual territory or that of the structural... View details »
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- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (8:15am–5:30pm) @ The Newberry Library More times »
- Free
- The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a lesser-known facet of the... View details »
- Art
- Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (1–6pm) @ Normal Projects More times »
- Free
- Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by emerging and established artists,... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
- Free
- Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work he often returns to... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
- Art
- Night of the Living Artist
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Chicago Art Department More times »
- Free
- Turning your artistic influences into zombies is either a Halloween-flavored Oepidal dream or a curiously macabre motion for their immortality. In either case, that's the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Hubbard Street Dance
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (8pm) @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance More times »
- Released, weighted dancing, written in boldface and arranged into giant shapes, reigns as the style of the moment, yet Toru Shimazaki finds a way to... View details »
- Film
- The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (4 & 8pm) @ TimeLine Theatre More times »
- Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican senator as he prepares... View details »
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- WIRED NextFest
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–7pm) @ Millennium Park More times »
- Free
- To see the most recent technological innovations in robotics, health care, sustainable energy, and art — or if you simply want to hang out at... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (2 & 8pm) @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place More times »
- Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative told through dance. Their... View details »
- Art
- Rodney Graham
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–5:30pm) @ Donald Young Gallery More times »
- Free
- Rodney Graham's latest exhibition features both a kinetic op-art sculpture modeled after a Black Sabbath stage set and a room full of abstract impasto paintings... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (3 & 7:30pm) @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
- Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of history. His recent "metaphysical... View details »
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- Smart Home
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 @ Museum Campus More times »
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The Museum of Science and... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Cecil Balmond: Solid Void
- Saturday Oct 11, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Graham Foundation More times »
- Free
- Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a distant, alloyed future. Designed... View details »
