Events on Sunday, December 14
Kevin Appel, Peter Coffin, Brendan Threadgill
Sunday 12/14 @ The Suburban
Oak Park might not make your mental inventory of the city's main avenues for art, but that's part of the logic...
Sunday 12/14 @ Bottom Lounge
While Sissy Wish's Siri Walberg may not be breaking ground, her electro-pop dirges remain absolutely unshakable. The pop diva won a...
Sunday 12/14 @ Millennium Park
What better way to flex that rigor mortis than with ice skating? Chicago Zombie is organizing their army to appear at...
Sunday 12/14 @ The Empty Bottle
Love Is All's sassed-up, echo-drenched indie anthems backdrop a seedy nighttime landscape where hearts are routinely broken. Like that of similarly...
Sunday 12/14 @ Metro
Whether playing in the US or their native Brazil, CSS inspire smooth gyrations beneath strobe lights, evoking the discotheques of a...
Sunday 12/14 @ House of Blues
Wu-Tang Clan hit the road this winter to keep plugging last year's full-length, the fitfully brilliant 8 Diagrams. Although bad blood...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Sunday 12/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
12th Annual Festival of French Cinema
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ Flat Iron Studios
Searching for a creative Christmas gift but ruled by the left side of your brain? Look no further than the 100...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Sunday 12/14 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ Old Gold Exhibitions and Events
Selina Trepp invited dancer Ayako Kato to respond to Tina Turner's plaintive ballad "Private Dancer" for her latest collaboration. In Old...
Sunday 12/14 @ Music Box Theatre
If High School Musical graduated its teenage actors from clichéd school scenarios, it could look a lot like Were the World...
Sunday 12/14 @ Music Box Theatre
The excellent Murder on the Oriental Express always toes the line of camp, but just when the outlandish dialogue, loud orchestral...
Sunday 12/14 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Hiroshi Teshigahara's homage to Antonio Gaudí is, like the Spanish architect's own work, as much about form as it is about...
Sunday 12/14 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Sunday 12/14 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Sunday 12/14 @ AMC River East 21
Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ Daley Plaza
Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree...
From the Arctic to the Prairie
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
Sunday 12/14 @ The Second City
The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise...
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
Sunday 12/14 @ Dan Devening Project+Editions
Michael Pfisterer's recent photographs collect multiple views of 19th-century mathematical models on single large sheets of white paper, depicting these varied...
Sunday 12/14 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Sunday 12/14 @ 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...
