Events on Saturday, December 20
Saturday 12/20 @ Joel Hall Dance Center
Just in time for the slew of holiday parties you're mandated to attend, the winter go-go workshop arrives, providing a chance...
Saturday 12/20 @ Double Door
The secret's out about Kuma's Corner and their Marshall Stack-sized, metal-inspired burgers. (We recommend the High on Fire.) And how better...
Saturday 12/20 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Gary Hustwit's documentary Helvetica considers the cultural importance of typography by tracing the proliferation of the titular font. First developed...
A Very Special Clash Christmas
Saturday 12/20 @ Schubas
What kind of crazy crusties would associate Christmas with the Clash? Santa, reindeer, and… yobs on the dole? Maybe it's the...
Saturday 12/20 @ The Map Room
For beer aficionados, a visit to the Map Room, which stocks nearly 200 brands in an abundance of brewing styles, can...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Saturday 12/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Saturday 12/20 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
David Lean's studiously spectacular epics still cast a shadow over Hollywood's annual crop of Oscar bait. In addition to visual grandeur...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Winter Solstice Percussion Concerts
Saturday 12/20 @ Links Hall
Stumble through the pre-dawn snow to Wrigleyville's Links Hall for the most exhilarating morning you've had all year. At the Winter...
Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Lakeshore Theater
If ever there was a perfect show for its time, it was MST3K. Hocking good-natured snark at some of the most...
Saturday 12/20 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
The 25th Annual Music Box Christmas Show
Saturday 12/20 @ Music Box Theatre
This year's Christmas Show offers a twofer stocking stuffer of classic holiday treats: Michael Curtiz's croon-tastic White Christmas and Frank Capra's...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Saturday 12/20 @ 65GRAND
The tangible and the ephemeral have a dance in Daniel Johnson's exhibition (curated by Melanie Schiff), which pairs photographs of reflections...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Saturday 12/20 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Daley Plaza
Chicago's Christkindlmarket takes everything that is decadent about Christmas and German culture, and combines it underneath a large, sparkling Christmas tree...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Hideout Christmas Dinosaur Panto
Saturday 12/20 @ The Hideout
Christmas celebration, evolutionary biology, and good old-fashioned high-seas derring-do wrestle one another in this year's appropriately oddball Hideout Christmas Panto (as...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Corbett vs Dempsey
Rising alongside the Chicago Imagists in the late 1960s, Robert Lostutter is known for his richly rendered, subtly unnerving watercolor portraits...
Saturday 12/20 @ 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...
Saturday 12/20 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
Chicago is quietly producing some of the nation's most innovative and thoughtful young curators, and it's evidenced by No End in...
Saturday 12/20 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
François Truffaut's exquisite L'Enfant Sauvage is based on the true(ish) story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, an 18th-century feral child...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 12/20 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
