All events on Friday March 14

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Music
[SOLD OUT] The Magnetic Fields
Friday Mar 14 (7pm) @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Sold Out!
Stephin Merritt, the man who brought us the Future Bible Heroes, the 6ths, and the Gothic Archies, returns to Chicago after many years... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Magnetic Fields
More Flavor: City Gem
16th Annual Mystery Book Fair
Friday Mar 14 (noon–6pm) @ The Newberry Library More times »
Free
If you're one of the Americans who still enjoys literature — sadly, fewer than 50% of US adults do — head over to the Newberry... View details »
16th Annual Mystery Book Fair
Film: Documentary
Let's Get Lost
Friday Mar 14 (7pm–midnight) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Forgive Bruce Weber for his sculpted Abercrombie and Fitch ads or his too-chic-for-comfort Calvin Klein photography if only to fully appreciate his exceptional, incisive documentary... View details »
Let's Get Lost
Music: Rock/Pop
School of Language
Friday Mar 14 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
With UK's Field Music on indefinite (if relatively ambiguous) hiatus, it's about time drummer David Brewis struck out on his own. As School of Language,... View details »
School of Language
Art: Architecture/Design
Unseen Current
Friday Mar 14 (noon–5pm) @ Extension Gallery More times »
Free
Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange and blue shape, emerging... View details »
Unseen Current

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Art
The New Authentics
Friday Mar 14 @ 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
Art
Gordon Matta-Clark
Friday Mar 14 (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
Friday Mar 14 (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
Friday Mar 14 (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
Soft Life
Friday Mar 14 (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: Photography
Border Film Project
Friday Mar 14 (9am–5pm) @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University More times »
Free
Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means that, for all the... View details »
Border Film Project
Art
Adaptation
Friday Mar 14 (10am–4pm) @ 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
Friday Mar 14 (10:30am–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
Friday Mar 14 (10:30am–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
Friday Mar 14 (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
Friday Mar 14 (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
Friday Mar 14 (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
Art: Photography
Craig Doty
Friday Mar 14 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often focus on the human... View details »
Craig Doty
Performing Arts: Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
Friday Mar 14 (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
Friday Mar 14 (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
Performing Arts: Comedy
Bear Force One
Friday Mar 14 (8pm) @ The Annoyance More times »
Giveaway
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work would one day springboard... View details »
Bear Force One
More Flavor: City Gem
Brown Bag Stitching Salon
Friday Mar 14 (noon–1:30pm) @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum More times »
Free
This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded the progressive community Hull... View details »
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Friday Mar 14 (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
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Friday Mar 14 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
Free
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series Are You Rea (1966-67).... View details »
Robert Heinecken
Art
A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking
Friday Mar 14 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere More times »
Free
Co-Prosperity Sphere's Radar Eyes exhibition showcases over 50 artists' experimental prints evoking altered states, perceptual distortions, and outright hallucinations. The trippy show is curated by... View details »
A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking
Performing Arts: Dance
Mordine & Co. Dance Theater
Friday Mar 14 (8pm) @ Dance Center of Columbia College More times »
Shirley Mordine's dances can overcome you at any moment. Rather than orchestrating a succession of climaxes through build and release, she paints time with a... View details »
Mordine & Co. Dance Theater
Art
Medium Cool
Friday Mar 14 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms, as reflected in the... View details »
Medium Cool