Events on Sunday, November 16
Sunday 11/16 @ Vic Theatre
Minneapolis' veteran duo Atmosphere (aka Slug and Ant, the backpacker's Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff) draw a die-hard crowd of indie...
Sunday 11/16 @ The Chicago Theatre
With the long-awaited release of SMiLE in 2004, pop genius and Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson pulled off the impossible, rekindling...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 11/16 @ Athenaeum Theatre
The singular H.P. Lovecraft casts a substantial shadow over modern horror fiction, and although his grandiloquent tales of "cosmic terror" aren't...
Sunday 11/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
All the President's Men (1976)
Sunday 11/16 @ Music Box Theatre
All the President's Men is one installment of director Alan J. Pakula's uncompromising "paranoia trilogy" — tales of corruption investigations full...
Sunday 11/16 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Sunday 11/16 @ Various locations
The Select Media Festival, produced by the nonprofit Public Media Institute, presents a week of experimental new-media shenanigans at Bridgeport's Co-Prosperity...
Sunday 11/16 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Sure, many people find the holidays depressing, but at least you're not a functionally alcoholic Dublin undertaker whose estranged daughter shows...
Sunday 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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...
Sunday 11/16 @ 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...
Sunday 11/16 @ Landmark Renaissance Place Cinema
Not everyone adores the sprawling stories-within-stories that identify Charlie Kaufman's screenplays (e.g. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John...
Sunday 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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...
Sunday 11/16 @ 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...
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
Sunday 11/16 @ Dan Devening Project+Editions
Michael Pfisterer's recent photographs collect multiple views of 19th-century mathematical models on single large sheets of white paper, depicting these varied...
Sunday 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes...
Sunday 11/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
A man arrives in a run-down office, finds The Great Gatsby on his desk, and reads the whole book aloud, cover...
Sunday 11/16 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with...
From the Arctic to the Prairie
Sunday 11/16 @ Golden
Helsinki-born, Spain-based Riiko Sakkinen's work appeals to hungry global palates, offering a witty update of the pop-art aesthetic. Stealing source materials...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Sunday 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ 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 11/16 @ Music Box Theatre
Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong...
