Events on Thursday, March 27

Panther w/ Detholz!, US Girls, and Slow Gun Shogun
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Music: Rock/Pop
Panther
@ Abbey Pub
Last year, Charlie Salas-Humara (aka Panther) emerged with the fun (if uneven) Secret Lawns, a go-for-broke album of bedroom electro-twitters, hyperactive...  View details »
Holy Ghost! w/ onefiftyone, Bald Eagle, SR-71 and the Modular DJs
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Music: DJ
Holy Ghost!
@ Sonotheque
Having released their first 12-inch on DFA Records, the Holy Ghost! now bring their thumping, analog dance beats to Sonotheque. Their...  View details »
Free
CameraLESS Films / Movies Without Cameras
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Film
CameraLESS Films
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
"A film festival without cameras?" you say, "But that's impossible!" In fact, over the years, a handful of avant-garde directors and...  View details »
Queer Exclusions: Sexuality and US Citizenship
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
More Flavor: Lecture
Queer Exclusions
@ Chicago History Museum
The little-known Uniting American Families Act of 2007 notwithstanding, the intersection of immigration, naturalization, and citizenship with sexuality remains an obscure...  View details »
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Ongoing Events

Edward Hopper
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
[SOLD OUT] Goat Island Performance Group:  <em>The Lastmaker</em>
Month_03 Friday Day_28
Performing Arts: Dance
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories...  View details »
Sold Out!
Ongoing
Robert Heinecken: <em>Dream/Circles/Cycles</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>CJ7</em>
Month_03 Friday Day_28
Film
CJ7
@ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Chinese director/star Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (2004), a whirl of martial-arts pyrotechnics and tomfoolery, proved irresistible to even the most...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Chop Shop </em>(2007)
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Film
Chop Shop
@ Music Box Theatre
Director Ramin Bahrani may be as "true indie" as the directors loosely clumped into the mumblecore movement, but that's where all...  View details »
Ongoing
John Phillips: <em>New Paintings</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Medium Cool</em>:<em> </em>Joy Episalla & Michael Antkowiak
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>
Month_03 Friday Day_28
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Craig Doty
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
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 »
Ongoing
Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Snow Angels</em>
Month_03 Friday Day_28
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 »
Ongoing
<em>A Steady Rain</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
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 »
Ongoing
Joseph Noderer
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Adaptation</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Soft Life</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Owl Prowl
Month_03 Friday Day_28
More Flavor: City Gem
Owl Prowl
@ North Park Village Nature Center
Henry Thoreau once noted that the hooting of owls "faintly suggests the infinite roominess of nature." Strangely, as rural landscapes give...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Year My Parents Went on Vacation</em>
Month_03 Friday Day_28
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
@ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
It's the summer of 1970 in Brazil, and 12-year-old Mauro's radical parents have left him at his grandfather's house so hastily...  View details »
Ongoing
James J. Peterson: <em>Snooping for a New Lexis of Peace </em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_27
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free