All events on Wednesday March 26

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Music: Rock/Pop
Boredoms
Wednesday Mar 26 (8:30–10pm) @ Congress Theater
Considering Boredoms' ability to cram a career's worth of ideas into a single EP, it's not terribly surprising that these godfathers of Japanese noise rock... View details »
Boredoms
More Flavor: Lecture
British and American Elections in Perspective
Wednesday Mar 26 (6:15pm) @ The Newberry Library
Anyone who's ever seen the British Parliament in action knows that UK and US politics are entirely different animals. Indeed, the UK system has a... View details »
British and American Elections in Perspective
More Flavor: Discussion
Healing the City
Wednesday Mar 26 (7–9pm) @ North Park Village Nature Center
Free
Chicago gets a little greener each year, but there are still plenty of options for making this a more ecologically self-sufficient city. The concept of... View details »
Healing the City
Reading
John K. Wilson: Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest
Wednesday Mar 26 (6pm) @ 57th Street Books
Free
It's been a long time since a battle for the Democratic nomination was this heated for this long. As the impending nomination comes down to... View details »
John K. Wilson: Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Beach House
Wednesday Mar 26 (9pm) @ Schubas
Sold Out!
Touring in support of their sophomore album, Devotion, Baltimore-based dream-pop purveyors Beach House bring their shimmering, spectral arrangements to Schubas tonight. The duo has only... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Beach House
More Flavor: Benefit
Girls Rock! Chicago Benefit
Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ Cobra Lounge
Free
The indefatigable organizers of Girls Rock! Chicago — the summer camp that helps budding rock goddesses realize their dreams — throw one heckuva fundraiser. From... View details »
Girls Rock! Chicago Benefit
Performing Arts
Mortified Chicago
Wednesday Mar 26 (8pm) @ The Green Mill
In the latest installment of Chicago's production of Mortified, six locals unearth their most humiliating, heartbreaking, and hilarious teenage-era diaries, love letters, home movies, and... View details »
Mortified Chicago

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Art
The New Authentics
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (9am–8pm) @ 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Joseph Noderer
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
John Phillips: New Paintings
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Film
Chop Shop
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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
Film
Snow Angels
Wednesday Mar 26 @ 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
Wednesday Mar 26 (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