All events on Friday March 28

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More Flavor: Benefit
[SOLD OUT] RampFest 2008
Friday Mar 28 (7–9:30pm) @ Prairie Production
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It's not often that vegetables are the guests of honor, so RampFest is a chance for the unsung star of the farmers' market to get... View details »
[SOLD OUT] RampFest 2008
Music: Rock/Pop
Bodies of Water
Friday Mar 28 (9pm) @ Schubas
Giveaway
LA's Bodies of Water make life-affirming indie pop, a happy-go-lucky mashup of Arcade Fire's heart-thumping arrangements, the Polyphonic Spree's communal euphoria, and the Go! Team's... View details »
Bodies of Water
Film
CJ7
Friday Mar 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Chinese director/star Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (2004), a whirl of martial-arts pyrotechnics and tomfoolery, proved irresistible to even the most disinclined audiences. His latest,... View details »
CJ7
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Friday Mar 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
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 that they don't realize... View details »
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

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Art
The New Authentics
Friday Mar 28 @ 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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Performing Arts: Dance
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Friday Mar 28 @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Sold Out!
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories of both a building... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Art
Edward Hopper
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 (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: Comedy
Bear Force One
Friday Mar 28 (8pm) @ The Annoyance More times »
Giveaway
When Harrison Ford starred in the 1997 action movie Air Force One, he couldn't have been aware that his hard work would one day springboard... View details »
Bear Force One
More Flavor: City Gem
Brown Bag Stitching Salon
Friday Mar 28 (noon–1:30pm) @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum More times »
Free
This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded the progressive community Hull... View details »
More Flavor: City Gem
Owl Prowl
Friday Mar 28 @ North Park Village Nature Center More times »
Free
Henry Thoreau once noted that the hooting of owls "faintly suggests the infinite roominess of nature." Strangely, as rural landscapes give way to ever-burgeoning urban... View details »
Owl Prowl
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Friday Mar 28 (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
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Friday Mar 28 (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
Friday Mar 28 @ 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
Friday Mar 28 (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
Art: Architecture/Design
Unseen Current
Friday Mar 28 (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