Events on Saturday, December 27
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- Music: DJ
- Colette
- @ SmartBar
- The sultry DJ Colette has long been associated with names like Paul van Dyk, Kaskade, Mark Farina, and other earth-shakin', booty-bumpin'... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The David Bowie Hepzikat Velvet Flarney Solstice Spectacular
- @ National Pastime Theater
- Perhaps the most peculiar bit of culture clash since Elvis met Nixon, the 1977 "Little Drummer Boy" duet between David Bowie... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Kidz in the Hall
- @ Beat Kitchen
- Kidz in the Hall's Ivy League-educated MC Naledge and producer Double-O defiantly proclaimed School Was My Hustle on their 2006 debut,... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Flosstradamus
- @ Sonotheque
- Manning four turntables, J2K (aka Josh Young, brother of the inimitable Kid Sister) and Autobot (Curt Cameruci) craft mashed-up hip-hop, electro,... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- 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
- 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
- Dr Wax
- @ DOVA Temporary
- A unique collaboration between the Hyde Park gallery DOVA Temporary and Dr Wax, a used record store (and the hip-hop, jazz,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- 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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OngoingFree
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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
- Rosemary's Baby
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- Roman Polanski opens his dad-may-be-the-devil classic with a lugubrious lullaby and a pan across Manhattan's gloomy skyline. Within a few frames,... 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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- 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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- Film
- Frost/Nixon
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- My Morning Jacket
- @ The Chicago Theatre
- Rockin' country/indie/funk/psychedelic/Southern quintet My Morning Jacket were originally slated to perform here in October, but singer Jim James' fall from the... 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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- 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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- Art
- 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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- 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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- 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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OngoingFree
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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
- Barbara Hashimoto
- @ 2003 S Halsted St
- A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —... 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- With their landmark album Black Monk Time, the Monks created a unique document of the pre-Woodstock '60s, made up of Beatlemaniac... View details »
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- Art
- Robert Lostutter
- @ Corbett vs Dempsey
- Rising alongside the Chicago Imagists in the late 1960s, Robert Lostutter is known for his richly rendered, subtly unnerving watercolor portraits... 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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OngoingFree
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- Film
- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- America: All Better!
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- 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: 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
- Ulf Puder
- @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
- Ulf Puder is often lumped with the "New Leipzig School," a loose affiliation of artists celebrated by the art world —... 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Prairie Avenue House Museums
- @ Glessner House Museum
- Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
- @ Millennium Park
- A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting... View details »
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- Film
- West Side Story
- @ Music Box Theatre
- If the winter doldrums have got you down, the Music Box's weeklong run of West Side Story is sure to get... View details »
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- Film
- Clue
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Based on the classic Hasbro board game, and starring Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Michael McKean, and Madeline Kahn, Clue is one... 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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- 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
- The Wild Child
- @ 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... View details »
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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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- Film
- 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
- Michael Pfisterer: The Fall of Bodies Near the Earth
- @ 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... View details »
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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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- Art
- No End in Sight
- @ 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... View details »
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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
- 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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- 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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