Events on Saturday, March 29

Swap-O-Rama-Rama

Fashion/Style

Swap-O-Rama-Rama

Saturday 3/29 @ AV-aerie

If the clothes make the man, shouldn't the man (or woman) make the clothes — or at least personalize them a... 

Black Moth Super Rainbow w/ Brilliant Pebbles and Magical, Beautiful

Music

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Saturday 3/29 @ The Empty Bottle

Black Moth Super Rainbow make space-age bachelor-pad music envisioned through kaleidoscope eyes. Like Broadcast and Air, they blanket their songs with... 

Ongoing Events

Theatre

Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl

Saturday 3/29 @ The Annoyance Theatre

Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just... 

<em>The Year My Parents Went on Vacation</em>

Film

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Saturday 3/29 @ 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,... 

Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>Lagerfeld Confidential</em>

Film: Documentary

Lagerfeld Confidential

Saturday 3/29 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

Perhaps the only fashion designer to be immortalized by a collectable figurine, Karl Lagerfeld has become as iconic as the great... 

James J. Peterson: <em>Snooping for a New Lexis of Peace </em>

Art

James J. Peterson

Saturday 3/29 @ Gescheidle

In the midst of asinine warfare and random violence, an artist's role is always unclear. Former Chicagoan James J. Peterson reacts... 

John Phillips: <em>New Paintings</em>

Art

John Phillips: New Paintings

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>CJ7</em>

Film

CJ7

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>Unseen Current</em>

Art

Unseen Current

Saturday 3/29 @ Extension Gallery

Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange... 

<em>Medium Cool</em>:<em> </em>Joy Episalla & Michael Antkowiak

Art

Medium Cool

Saturday 3/29 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery

Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,... 

Maple Syrup Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Maple Syrup Festival

Saturday 3/29 @ North Park Village Nature Center

Maybe you like it on pancakes; maybe you like it on pizza; maybe, after a hard week, you like to put... 

[SOLD OUT] Goat Island Performance Group:  <em>The Lastmaker</em>

Dance

[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

Joseph Noderer

Art

Joseph Noderer

Saturday 3/29 @ Linda Warren Gallery

Joseph Noderer's paintings — New England landscapes and images of the Chicago suburbs rendered in a warm, old-timey palette — could... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Saturday 3/29 @ 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.... 

Rania Matar: <i>Women of Islam</i>

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Saturday 3/29 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Contemporary Lebanese society is increasingly torn between the influence of Western culture and traditional Islamic devotion. Rania Matar captures the poignant... 

<em>Snow Angels</em>

Film

Snow Angels

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

Nicholas Knight: <em>Depictured </em>

Art

Nicholas Knight: Depictured

Saturday 3/29 @ 65GRAND

For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works... 

Robert Heinecken: <em>Dream/Circles/Cycles</em>

Art: Photography

Robert Heinecken

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

Craig Doty

Art: Photography

Craig Doty

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

<i>The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation</i>

Art

The New Authentics

Saturday 3/29 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 3/29 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...