Events on Sunday, October 19
Sunday 10/19 @ Chicago History Museum
Documentary Unzipped is ostensibly a "behind-the-seams" look at fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's 1994 fall collection, but Mizrahi's obscure pop-culture references and...
Sunday 10/19 @ The Empty Bottle
The Dead C emerged from the same early-'80s New Zealand scene as the Chills and the Clean, but the band quickly...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Sunday 10/19 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Chicago International Film Festival
Sunday 10/19 @ Various locations
Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the...
Sunday 10/19 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
First performed in 2004, this adaptation of Rite of Spring is an expressionist dance-poem of modern barbarism. It's "simple" in the...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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....
Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival
Sunday 10/19 @ Plumbers Hall
A neighborhood operation founded 19 years ago, the Around the Coyote Festival has grown into a grander-scale platform for emerging artists....
Sunday 10/19 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Sunday 10/19 @ Randolph Street Market
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Sunday 10/19 @ Golden
In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan...
Sunday 10/19 @ Music Box Theatre
With the election just an Alaskan moose hair away, now seems like the perfect time to revisit Michael Ritchie's staggeringly prescient...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
Sunday 10/19 @ 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...
