Events on Monday, November 3

<em>Splendor in the Grass </em>(1961)

Film

Splendor in the Grass

Monday 11/ 3 @ Film Row Cinema of Columbia College Chicago

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet — the model tale of unrequited love (and sexual repression in doomed teenage relationships) — is reworked... 

Magnolia Electric Co. w/ Bottomless Pit, Tre Orsi, DJ Scary Lady, Sarah

Music

Magnolia Electric Co.

Monday 11/ 3 @ Abbey Pub

Whether recording as Songs: Ohia or, in recent years, as Magnolia Electric Co., Jason Molina is one of today's most underrated... 

Gang Gang Dance w/ Marnie Stern and Growing

Music: Experimental

Gang Gang Dance

Monday 11/ 3 @ The Empty Bottle

Bands with "big sounds" often aim for stadium-sized glory or brain-busting depth, but Gang Gang Dance are huge in a manner... 

Ongoing Events

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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> Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris</em>

Art

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children's Books</em>

Special Event

Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>

Film

I've Loved You So Long

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Tokyo Gore Police</em>

Film

Tokyo Gore Police

Monday 11/ 3 @ Facets Cinémathèque

Fans of Japanese shock cinema are familiar with the genre's violent depravity, having exported extreme works such as Battle Royale, Suicide... 

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

Art

Deceptive Design

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

Smart Home: Green + Wired

City Gems

Smart Home

Monday 11/ 3 @ Museum Campus

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

Art

Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Paint for Print: Contemporary Illustration, Traditional Media</em>

Art

Paint for Print

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Religulous</em>

Film: Documentary

Religulous

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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>Twisted Into Recognition: Clich&eacute;</em><em>s of Jews and Others</em>

Art

Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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>Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection</em>

Art: Photography

Made in Chicago

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

<em>Ballast</em>

Film

Ballast

Monday 11/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre

When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew... 

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

Special Event

Jack Kerouac: On the Road

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Monday 11/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum

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

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Monday 11/ 3 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 11/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...