Events on Friday, November 21
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- Music: Experimental
- A Million Tongues Festival feat. Terry Reid
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Since its inception five years ago, the annual Steve Krakow-curated Million Tongues Festival has brought the finest in freak folk, experimental... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- M83
- @ Bottom Lounge
- When France's M83 first washed up on these shores with 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, it was a... View details »
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- A Christmas Tale
- @ Various locations
- In a film about that favorite of French topics — what's to be done with the family legacy (including, naturally, the... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- VHS or Beta
- @ Debonair Social Club
- Few are the bands that can appease both the indie elitists and the electronic-music junkies. Part disco, part indie rock, Louisville,... View details »
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- Film: Shorts
- CHANNELING
- @ The Nightingale
- You don't have to be a psychic to channel the queer body politic. Curators Latham Zearfoss and Ethan White use the... 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- 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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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Camper Van Beethoven
- @ Abbey Pub
- Of all the conceptual pranks Camper Van Beethoven have pulled off over their 25 years, nothing tops the band's inexplicable fling... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Cecil Balmond: Solid Void
- @ Graham Foundation
- Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a... View details »
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- Jenny Holzer
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dublin Carol
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Doug and Mike Starn
- @ David Weinberg Gallery
- Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Michael Wolf
- @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a... View details »
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- Film
- Humboldt County
- @ Wilmette Theatre
- Fans of coming-of-age stories like Catcher in the Rye and The Graduate should enjoy new indie film Humboldt County, the tale... View details »
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- From the Arctic to the Prairie
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Scott Fortino
- @ City Gallery
- Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book... View details »
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- I've Loved You So Long
- @ 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... View details »
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- Omer Fast
- @ Betty Rymer Gallery
- Omer Fast rightly grabbed the grand prize at the 2008 Whitney Biennial for The Casting, a challenging four-screen video piece that... View details »
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- Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
- @ Donald Young Gallery
- In Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's current exhibition, dusty cultural icons like the atomic bomb and Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome are reborn as sleek... View details »
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- Ashes of Time Redux
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Ashes of Time may have been an instant wuxia classic when it was released in 1994, but Hong Kong director Wong... 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- @ Apollo Theater
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... View details »
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- Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
- @ Monique Meloche
- The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past... View details »
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- Displacement
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
- If you like your holiday entertainment gentle, heartwarming, and family-friendly, this is the show for you. Based on Sally Benson's short... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Dreams in the Witch House
- @ 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... 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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- Regin Igloria
- @ Zg Gallery
- With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
- @ A Red Orchid Theatre
- A bunch of children singing carols about Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard sounds like the recipe for an episode of South... View details »
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- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art... View details »
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- More Flavor: Fair
- 2008 FamilyFarmed EXPO
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Foodies have always known that locally-grown, seasonal ingredients are fresher, tastier, and more nutritious. But facing an economic crisis and climate... View details »
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- Synecdoche, New York
- @ 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... View details »
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- Paint for Print
- @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- It takes more than a tutorial in Adobe Illustrator to make someone an artist. Extraordinary computer design and illustration rely on... View details »
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- Let the Right One In
- @ 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... View details »
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- Karen Lebergott and Edra Soto
- @ Rowland Contemporary
- For Karen Lebergott, mapping is a conceptual departure point that sets off multiple trajectories. Her oil paintings suggest Chinese landscapes or... 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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- Performing Arts
- Charged Bodies
- @ Links Hall
- Proposing himself as a kind of Tim Gunn for the queer performance-art set, Tim Miller took a break from his life... 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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- Francis Alÿs
- @ The Renaissance Society
- Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Smashing Pumpkins 20th Anniversary Tour
- @ Various locations
- Some of us work out our issues in group therapy, benefiting from the wisdom of our peers. Those who can afford... View details »
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- Josh Azzarella
- @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
- Josh Azzarella's photographs and videos smolder with an eerie silence and a sense of emptiness. They are also faintly, unnervingly familiar.... View details »
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- Select Media Festival
- @ 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... View details »
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- Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
- @ Roots & Culture
- Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant's joint exhibition coyly takes the guise of a domestic scene — furniture positioned appropriately, paintings... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Daniel Johnson
- @ 65GRAND
- The tangible and the ephemeral have a dance in Daniel Johnson's exhibition (curated by Melanie Schiff), which pairs photographs of reflections... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Mickalene Thomas
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- The Exiles (1961)
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Originally released to much ballyhoo at the 1961 Venice Film Festival, The Exiles has sunk into an undeserved oblivion over the... 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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