Events on Sunday, October 26

<em>Detour </em>(1945)

Film

Detour

Sunday 10/26 @ Doc Films

For all their celebration of seedy down-and-outs and urban grime, many classic film noirs are visually sumptuous (if not downright baroque)... 

David Byrne: Songs of David Byrne and Brian Eno

Music

David Byrne

Sunday 10/26 @ Civic Opera House

Released nearly three decades ago, Brian Eno and David Byrne's first collaboration, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, went out... 

Magnetic Morning w/ the Life and Times

Music

Magnetic Morning

Sunday 10/26 @ The Empty Bottle

Good rule of thumb: side projects are only for the most hopeless of loyalists. Who else could possibly extend their patience... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Campaign Supernova!</em><em> or How Many Democrats Does It Take to Lose an Election?</em>

Comedy

Campaign Supernova!

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em>The Dark Knight</em>: The IMAX Experience

Film

The Dark Knight

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

Francis Al&yuml;s

Art

Francis Alÿs

Sunday 10/26 @ The Renaissance Society

Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work... 

<em>Twisted Into Recognition: Clich&eacute;</em><em>s of Jews and Others</em>

Art

Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others

Sunday 10/26 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies

Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —... 

<em>Deceptive Design: Experiments in Furniture</em>

Art

Deceptive Design

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

44th Chicago International Film Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Chicago International Film Festival

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the... 

<em>Buddy:  The Buddy Holly Story</em>

Theatre

Buddy

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em>Jack Kerouac: On the Road</em>

Special Event

Jack Kerouac: On the Road

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em>Art of Democracy</em>

Art

Art of Democracy

Sunday 10/26 @ 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 Parkways

City Gems

Sunday Parkways

Sunday 10/26 @ Various locations

For two Sundays this month, major thoroughfares from Logan Square to Little Village transform into easily traversable trails for cyclists, walkers,... 

<em>Radiolab</em> Live!: Martian Invasion

Performing Arts: Spoken Word

Radiolab Live!

Sunday 10/26 @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

When Orson Welles' radio drama War of the Worlds first aired on October 30, 1938, some listeners — despite an intermission... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em>Psychodrama</em>

Art: Photography

Psychodrama

Sunday 10/26 @ Golden

In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan... 

Jenny Holzer: <em>PROTECT PROTECT</em>

Art

Jenny Holzer

Sunday 10/26 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike... 

Bill O'Donnell: <em>Elevations</em>

Art: Photography

Bill O'Donnell

Sunday 10/26 @ 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.... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em>Kafka on the Shore</em>

Theatre

Kafka on the Shore

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em>Night of the Living Artist</em>

Art

Night of the Living Artist

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em>Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection</em>

Art: Photography

Made in Chicago

Sunday 10/26 @ 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

Festival: Performing Arts

Randolph Street Market Festival

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

Smart Home: Green + Wired

City Gems

Smart Home

Sunday 10/26 @ Museum Campus

Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... 

<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Sunday 10/26 @ Chicago History Museum

In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... 

<em>Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art</em>

Art

Displacement

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

<em> Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris</em>

Art

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sunday 10/26 @ 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... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Sunday 10/26 @ 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...