Events on Monday, October 27
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Starfucker w/ Mother Mother
- @ The Hideout
- While Starfucker's name might seem pedestrian (or at least juvenile), it turns out that the moniker comes from a Rolling Stones... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Jolie Holland w/ Herman Dune
- @ Lakeshore Theater
- Jolie Holland's songs are at once old and new — too freaky for blues, too jazzy for folk, and too punky... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Of Montreal
- @ Riviera Theatre
- Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal have evolved a unique and eclectic musical style that might best be termed "indie glam." Since 2004's... View details »
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- Halloween
- A Sandra Bernhard Halloween
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Sandra Bernhard may be best remembered for her acidic '80s heyday as Madonna's best friend and David Letterman's favorite guest, but... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Film: Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Art: Photography
- Made in Chicago
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Radiolab Live!
- @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
- When Orson Welles' radio drama War of the Worlds first aired on October 30, 1938, some listeners — despite an intermission... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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