All events on Saturday March 01

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Music: Rock/Pop
Black Lips
Saturday Mar 1 (8:30–10pm) @ Logan Square Auditorium
Black Lips just can't stand to sit still. Not letting up on 2007's relentless schedule, the Atlanta group has announced a rigorous follow-up tour, before... View details »
Black Lips
Music: Rock/Pop
Atlas Sound
Saturday Mar 1 (9:30pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
Googling Bradford Cox yields a few key points: he's tall, he's confrontational, and he sings in Georgian dream-punk band Deerhunter. The first two facts often... View details »
Atlas Sound
Performing Arts: Dance
Garth Fagan Dance
Saturday Mar 1 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
Dance described as "a fusion of different techniques" is often only partially so — more a whistle-stop tour of an artist's varied interests than a... View details »
Garth Fagan Dance
Music: Rock/Pop
Lightspeed Champion
Saturday Mar 1 (9–11pm) @ AV-aerie
While UK indie roots-rocker Lightspeed Champion (aka singer/guitarist Devonte Hynes) rose to semi-prominence with Test Icicles, little trace of that band's ADD-riddled, dance-punk chaos remains.... View details »
Lightspeed Champion
Performing Arts: Theatre
Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ The Annoyance More times »
Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just a little more famous.... View details »
Music: Classical
Music from Final Fantasy
Saturday Mar 1 (8–11pm) @ Rosemont Theatre
Some may consider them kiddy stuff, but video games gross more money in America than Hollywood movies. So it makes sense that their background music... View details »
Music from Final Fantasy

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Art
The New Authentics
Saturday Mar 1 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
Free
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which faith and history color... View details »
The New Authentics
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Mapping the Self
Saturday Mar 1 (4am) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
As part of the citywide Festival of Maps, kicking off at the Field Museum on November 2, curator Tricia Van Eck has organized an exhibition... View details »
Mapping the Self
Art
Gordon Matta-Clark
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring to the loss of... View details »
Gordon Matta-Clark
Art
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio apartment with his art... View details »
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Saturday Mar 1 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant inner conflicts of Lebanese... View details »
Rania Matar
Art
Mike Lash
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–6pm) @ GARDENFresh More times »
Free
Mike Lash's portraits — with their simple line-work, sardonic one-liners, and assertive, comic-book style — have always been the artist's signature, but his new work... View details »
Mike Lash
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Cindy Loehr
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored lighting, and a collaborative... View details »
Cindy Loehr
Art
Soft Life
Saturday Mar 1 (9am–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
Free
Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art mines the often-excruciating emotions... View details »
Soft Life
Art
Nowheresville
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–6pm) @ Thomas Robertello Gallery More times »
Free
Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut Hybinette and Troy Richards... View details »
Nowheresville
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Andy Roche
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
Andy Roche's film-based installation finds a common thread running between the ever-elusive Catholic leftist movement and recent cultural phenomena. Roche juxtaposes images from liberal Catholic... View details »
Andy Roche
Art
Adaptation
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–5pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation, of combining tropes from... View details »
Adaptation
Art
Edward Hopper
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective. It includes his most... View details »
Edward Hopper
Art
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor painting, with landscapes depicting... View details »
Watercolors of Winslow Homer
Art: Photography
This Land Is Your Land
Saturday Mar 1 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US national identity, politics, and... View details »
This Land Is Your Land
Art
Joseph Noderer
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–5pm) @ Linda Warren Gallery More times »
Free
Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could easily be mistaken for... View details »
Joseph Noderer
Art
James J. Peterson
Saturday Mar 1 (noon–5pm) @ Gescheidle More times »
Free
In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts the only way he... View details »
James J. Peterson
Performing Arts: Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
Saturday Mar 1 (8–10pm) @ The Blue Theatre More times »
Free
Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart — this scenario might sound... View details »
Little Shop of Horrors
Performing Arts: Theatre
My Dinner with Amy
Saturday Mar 1 (8pm) @ Theatre Building Chicago More times »
After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner with Amy arrives in... View details »
My Dinner with Amy
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Saturday Mar 1 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show at the newly christened... View details »
John Phillips: New Paintings