Events on Tuesday, December 30

The Sea and Cake w/ Baby Alright
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
Music: Rock/Pop
The Sea and Cake
@ Schubas
Built from the wreckage of the late, great Shrimp Boat, arty popsters the Sea and Cake are the frothy confection their...  View details »
Wax Museums w/ Teenage Cool Kids and Big Knife
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
Music: Punk/Metal
Wax Museums
@ Cobra Lounge
As kids, the members of Denton, Texas-based the Wax Museums clearly binged on Ramones records. As such, the band's classic take...  View details »
Free

Ongoing Events

<em>If Artists Ran the Media</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Omer Fast
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Deceptive Design: Experiments in Furniture</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>I've Loved You So Long</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
<em> Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and Photography of Paris</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Twisted Into Recognition: Clich&eacute;</em><em>s of Jews and Others</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>West Side Story</em> (1961)
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Joseph Grigely: <em>St. Cecilia</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Milk</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
<em>America: All Better!</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
I&ntilde;igo Manglano-Ovalle
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Sunday Painters: Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Flavorpill 50
Graceland Cemetery
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Michael Wolf: <em>The Transparent City</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>No End in Sight</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Jenny Holzer: <em>PROTECT PROTECT</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Scott Fortino: <em>Elements: Earth, Sky, Water</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Frost/Nixon</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Devil in a Woodpile
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
Music: Folk/Country
Devil in a Woodpile
@ The Hideout
It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
The Harlem Globetrotters Spinning the Globe World Tour
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
More Flavor: Sports
The Harlem Globetrotters
@ Allstate Arena
If you're lovingly forced to spend the weekend lull between Christmas and New Year's with your family, escape the house for...  View details »
Ongoing
Melissa Dean: <em>Second Nature</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children's Books</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Coats for Cubs
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
More Flavor: Benefit
Coats for Cubs
@ Buffalo Exchange locations
Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Made in Chicago: Photographs from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Synecdoche, New York</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Doug and Mike Starn: <em>alleverythingthatisyou</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Let the Right One In</em>
Month_12 Wednesday Day_31
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 »
Ongoing
Mickalene Thomas: <em>Girlfriends, Lovers, Still Lifes and Landscape</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Jeff Parker's <em>The Cushicles</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
Music: Jazz/Blues
Jeff Parker
@ Rodan
If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Seafarer</em>
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Ulf Puder
Month_12 Tuesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Free