Events on Thursday, March 20
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- Reading
- Stories Without Borders
- @ Metro
- Literary fiction occasionally pops up in the most unlikely places. Just the other day, the New York Times revealed that a... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Ting Tings
- @ AV-aerie
- Combining bright bits of lo-fi electro, pouty girl-pop, and dance music, the Ting Tings are perfectly cut out for our post-Justice... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- [SOLD OUT] Justice
- @ Riviera Theatre
- Despite their recent ubiquity (thanks a lot, New York Times), Justice show no signs of compromise. Treating first-wave French filter house... View details »
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Sold Out!
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- Reading
- Scott Simon
- @ Borders
- Scott Simon's new novel about Chicago politics, Windy City, is part Julius Caesar, part Primary Colors. When the mayor is killed... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- An Albatross
- @ Beat Kitchen
- More than any other band, Pennsylvania's An Albatross epitomize turn-of-the-century grind punk. Anchored by prog chops and pinched-throat screamo vocals, the... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- My Dinner with Amy
- @ Theatre Building Chicago
- 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Border Film Project
- @ Gage Gallery of Roosevelt University
- Despite continuous media coverage on the inflammatory issue of border security, the US-Mexico divide still lacks effective federal oversight. That means... View details »
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- Film
- It's a Free World...
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- British director Ken Loach (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism.... View details »
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- John Phillips: New Paintings
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- 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... View details »
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- Medium Cool
- @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
- Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- This Land Is Your Land
- @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US... View details »
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- Film
- Snow Angels
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of... View details »
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- Soft Life
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
- Exploring love's sordid relationship to art, this exhibition of finely crafted threadings, embroidery works, sculpture, and related installation and video art... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Let's Get Lost
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Forgive Bruce Weber for his sculpted Abercrombie and Fitch ads or his too-chic-for-comfort Calvin Klein photography if only to fully appreciate... View details »
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- Joseph Noderer
- @ Linda Warren Gallery
- Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could... View details »
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- Watercolors of Winslow Homer
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor... View details »
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- Adaptation
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,... View details »
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- A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking
- @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Co-Prosperity Sphere's Radar Eyes exhibition showcases over 50 artists' experimental prints evoking altered states, perceptual distortions, and outright hallucinations. The trippy... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Robert Heinecken
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Steady Rain
- @ Royal George Theatre Center
- Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Rania Matar
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... View details »
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- James J. Peterson
- @ Gescheidle
- In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts... View details »
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- Edward Hopper
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective.... View details »
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- Gordon Matta-Clark
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring... View details »
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- The New Authentics
- @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
- In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Craig Doty
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Craig Doty's photographs are urban slices of life, depicting flash personal reactions and responses in theatrical tableaux. His past images often... View details »
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