Events on Thursday, November 6
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- Reading
- Michael Greenberg: Hurry Down Sunshine
- @ Book Cellar
- The best memoirs about mental illness — like William Styron's Darkness Visible or Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted — transcend the limitations... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Detroit Cobras
- @ Bottom Lounge
- The soulful past comes to party when the Detroit Cobras hit the stage. Led by sultry singer Rachel Nagy, the band... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- The Homosexuals w/ Plastic Crimewave Sound
- @ The Hideout
- If the Homosexuals were on a bill with the Kinks during the British Invasion, they may have turned a few heads... View details »
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- More Flavor: Discussion
- The Politics of Fashion
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Is donning fake fur more than just a fashion statement? Is buying fair-trade or non-sweatshop clothing a political act? Answer: it... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Neil Halstead w/ Kevin Tihista
- @ Schubas
- Slowdive was the perfect name for a band so singularly focused on endless, gliding melodies. Lumped in with the shoegazers like... 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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- 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
- Lola Montès
- @ Music Box Theatre
- With the recent spate of restorations, it was only a matter of patience before Max Ophüls' winsome swan song, Lola Montès,... 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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- Art
- New Catalogue: Sergio Vieira de Mello: Rally Paris-Darfur
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Artist collaborative New Catalogue often operates like a stock-photo agency or a design company in order to explore fictional imagery and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art
- 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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- 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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- Art
- The Exquisite City
- @ Viaduct Theater
- A cardboard city has sprung up inside the Viaduct Theater in Roscoe Village, but it isn't the set for a play.... View details »
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- Art
- Art of Democracy
- @ Loyola University Museum of Art
- Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history... 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
- 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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- 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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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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- Rodney Graham
- @ Donald Young Gallery
- Rodney Graham's latest exhibition features both a kinetic op-art sculpture modeled after a Black Sabbath stage set and a room full... 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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- Amy Mayfield
- @ threewalls
- With viscous rivers of paint and delicate black lines, Amy Mayfield conjures phantasmagorical realms that are sensuous and chaotic, sinister yet... 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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OngoingFree
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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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- Art: Fair
- SOFA Chicago
- @ Navy Pier
- Over 400 artists from as far as Tel Aviv and London gather at Navy Pier for this weekend's Sculpture Objects and... 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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- 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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- Music: Festival
- Umbrella Music Festival
- @ Various locations
- Chicago's leading jazz-series curators, including the minds behind the Hideout, Elastic Arts, and the Hungry Brain, come together to present the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- @ The Second City e.t.c.
- From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by... 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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- 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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- Film
- Tokyo Gore Police
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- Fans of Japanese shock cinema are familiar with the genre's violent depravity, having exported extreme works such as Battle Royale, Suicide... View details »
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- Art
- 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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OngoingFree
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- Art
- 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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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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- Art
- Doug Smithenry
- @ Packer Schopf Gallery
- In his latest exhibition exploring the phenomenon of Internet identities, painter Doug Smithenry slyly asks "Are you a nobody?" He calls... 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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- 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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