All events on Sunday March 16

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Film
Summer '04
Sunday Mar 16 (5:15pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Giveaway
Stefan Krohmer's Summer '04 is a small-scale psychological thriller with an obvious debt to Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water (1962). Miriam and André are... View details »
Summer '04
More Flavor: Discussion
Chicago Women Activists
Sunday Mar 16 (1:30–4pm) @ Chicago History Museum
This afternoon, in honor of National Women's History Month, the Chicago Area Women's History Council kicks off its latest undertaking: Chicago Women Activists, 1960s–1980s. The... View details »
More Flavor: City Gem
Sewing Rebellion
Sunday Mar 16 (noon–4pm) @ Mess Hall
Free
Led by local artist, activist, and sewing diva Frau Fiber (aka Carole Frances Lung), this monthly, drop-in workshop is an antidote for those whose politics... View details »
Sewing Rebellion
Music: Rock/Pop
Wilderness
Sunday Mar 16 (9–11pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
On Wilderness' self-titled Jagjaguwar debut, the band's unassuming rhythm section wisely surrenders the spotlight to Colin McCann's deep-echo guitar. His Chameleons-style chimes aren't just reverb-splashed,... View details »
Wilderness

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Art
The New Authentics
Sunday Mar 16 @ 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
Sunday Mar 16 (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
Sunday Mar 16 (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
Sunday Mar 16 (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
More Flavor: Sports
See and Ski Beverly Hills
Sunday Mar 16 (1–2pm) @ Beverly Bike and Ski More times »
Free
Unlike the often difficult, expensive, and outright scary sport of downhill skiing, cross-country skiing is easy to learn and a fantastic workout for every major... View details »
See and Ski Beverly Hills
Art
Soft Life
Sunday Mar 16 (noon–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
Adaptation
Sunday Mar 16 (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
Sunday Mar 16 (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
Sunday Mar 16 (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
Sunday Mar 16 (noon–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: Photography
Craig Doty
Sunday Mar 16 (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
Sunday Mar 16 (2–4pm) @ 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
Sunday Mar 16 (3pm) @ 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
Film: Documentary
Let's Get Lost
Sunday Mar 16 (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
Art: Architecture/Design
Unseen Current
Sunday Mar 16 (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