Events on Monday, November 24
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Owen
- @ Beat Kitchen
- Mike Kinsella has been on quite a journey: in addition to playing alongside his brother Tim in indie stalwarts like Cap'n... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Germany in Autumn (1978)
- @ Doc Films
- An unsung classic of New German Cinema, Germany in Autumn explores the terrorist acts that rocked the country in the fall... View details »
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- More Flavor: Workshop
- NaNoWriMo Write-In
- @ Open Books
- NaNoWriMo — that's National Novel Writing Month for the uninitiated — is a 10-year-old grassroots, do-it-now initiative that began with 21... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Film
- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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
- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- Art
- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- Art
- 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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- 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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