Events on Sunday, March 30

<em>Three Stooges in Orbit </em>(1962) & <em>Three Stooges Meet Hercules</em> (1962)

Film

The Three Stooges

Sunday 3/30 @ Portage Theater

Larry, Curly, and Moe team up with Hercules to rescue a damsel in distress, and then jump into a spaceship to... 

Terese Svoboda: <em>Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan</em>

Books: Reading

Terese Svoboda: Black Glasses Like Clark Kent

Sunday 3/30 @ Women & Children First Bookstore

Where US soldiers are now trained to recognize post-traumatic stress disorder and offered treatment to quell combat-related distress (in theory, anyway),... 

Featherproof Books release party: <em>This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record</em>

Books: Reading

This Will Go Down on Your Permanent Record

Sunday 3/30 @ The Hideout

Local indie imprint Featherproof Books commandeers the Hideout tonight to celebrate the release of Susannah Felts' debut novel, the charmingly titled... 

Ongoing Events

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

Film

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Sunday 3/30 @ 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>Soft Life</em>

Art

Soft Life

Sunday 3/30 @ 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>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

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

Dance

[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker

Sunday 3/30 @ 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>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Sunday 3/30 @ 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,... 

Maple Syrup Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Maple Syrup Festival

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>CJ7</em>

Film

CJ7

Sunday 3/30 @ 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>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Sunday 3/30 @ 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.... 

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

Art

The New Authentics

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Unseen Current</em>

Art

Unseen Current

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

Craig Doty

Art: Photography

Craig Doty

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

<em>Snow Angels</em>

Film

Snow Angels

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

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

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Sunday 3/30 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Rania Matar

Sunday 3/30 @ Chicago Cultural Center

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