Events on Wednesday, December 10
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- From Salon to Department Store: Women's Taste and French Identity
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- French women have long enjoyed a reputation for being paragons of great style and fine taste — and for not getting... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- 93XRT Holiday Concert for the Kids feat. Cheap Trick
- @ Vic Theatre
- A pioneering exemplar of that music-biz cliche "big in Japan" (their hugely successful 1978 LP Live At Budokan made them international... View details »
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- SKAFFS
- @ Rotofugi
- To look at the animation of pop illustrator Luke Feldman, aka SKAFFS, you'd never guess he hails from Down Under. His... View details »
- Free Flavorpill 50
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ted Leo
- @ AV-aerie
- Since forming in Washington, DC, nearly a decade ago, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists have steadily become one of the country's... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Suicidal Tendencies
- @ House of Blues
- Still riding high off that cameo appearance in the original Miami Vice series, Suicidal Tendencies deliver their signature energy-driven speed guitar... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Joseph Grigely: St. Cecilia
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as... 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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OngoingFree
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Million Dollar Quartet
- @ Apollo Theater
- In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the... 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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- If Artists Ran the Media
- @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of Sean Hannity and... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Very Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol
- @ The Neo-Futurarium
- It's not exactly how Charles Dickens envisioned Christmas Eve in Ebenezer Scrooge's life, but this political and interactive remaking of the... 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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- 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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- 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: Festival
- 12th Annual Festival of French Cinema
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- Following our president-elect's lead, we're on track to become mindful world citizens again — there's no better place to start than... 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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OngoingFree
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- Milk
- @ Various locations
- Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... 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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OngoingFree
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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
- The Seafarer
- @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
- If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the... 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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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Christkindlmarket
- @ Daley Plaza
- Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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OngoingFree
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Graceland Cemetery
- @ Graceland Cemetery
- Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled... 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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- 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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OngoingFree
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- Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Sergio Leone may have pioneered the spaghetti western with his "Dollar Trilogy," but the Italian director's true masterpiece is the dark,... 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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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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- Melissa Dean
- @ Peter Miller Gallery
- Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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: 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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- 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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- Beauty in Trouble
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Young mother Marcela has never had much going for her. She got pregnant young and ran away from her tyrant stepfather,... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- HERO
- @ iO Chicago Theater
- The late David Foster Wallace demonstrated that the structure and ambition of the novel are limited only by the author's imagination.... View details »
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