All events on Saturday March 22

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Film
Mary Poppins
Saturday Mar 22 (1pm) @ Beverly Arts Center
Mary Poppins' plot points are timeless entertainment, from Katie Nanna's suffrage rally to the giggle-powered, hovering tea party. (And we'll take two minutes of Dick... View details »
Mary Poppins
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Black Mountain
Saturday Mar 22 (7–8pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Sold Out!
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On their eponymous 2005 debut, Vancouver's Black Mountain offered their take on classic '60s and '70s rock, declaring, "we can't stand all your modern music."... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Black Mountain
Music: Jazz/Blues
Donny McCaslin Group
Saturday Mar 22 (1pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
Free
Saxophonist Donny McCaslin is one of New York's leading jazz musicians, having worked with experimental collective Lan Xang, the Dave Douglas Quintet, and the Maria... View details »
Donny McCaslin Group
Music: Rock/Pop
Karl Blau
Saturday Mar 22 (9pm–midnight) @ Ronny's Bar
Karl Blau plays the kind of electro-organic, lo-fi indie rock you can take home to mom. His bashful persona and click-clack production is instantly endearing,... View details »
Karl Blau

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Art
The New Authentics
Saturday Mar 22 @ 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
Saturday Mar 22 (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: Photography
Rania Matar
Saturday Mar 22 (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
Saturday Mar 22 (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
Adaptation
Saturday Mar 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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
Saturday Mar 22 (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
Art
Nicholas Knight: Depictured
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND More times »
Free
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works on display include smart,... View details »
Nicholas Knight: Depictured
Performing Arts: Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
Saturday Mar 22 (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 22 (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 22 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Saturday Mar 22 (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 »
Film
Chop Shop
Saturday Mar 22 (7pm–midnight) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all similarities stop. Rather than... View details »
Chop Shop
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–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
Saturday Mar 22 (noon–6pm) @ 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
Film
Snow Angels
Saturday Mar 22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Working with a sympathetic, clear eye, writer/director David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls, 2003) may be the best portraitist of small-town America working in... View details »
Snow Angels
Art
Medium Cool
Saturday Mar 22 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Art: Architecture/Design
Unseen Current
Saturday Mar 22 (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