All events on Saturday March 08

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Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] NOFX
Saturday Mar 8 (6:30pm) @ House of Blues
Sold Out!
It's been 25 years since NOFX first came together, and the seminal San Francisco-based punk quartet still sounds exactly the same. Not that there's anything... View details »
[SOLD OUT] NOFX
Art: Photography
Craig Doty
Saturday Mar 8 (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
Music: Rock/Pop
Sending the Four-Star City to the Lone Star State
Saturday Mar 8 (noon) @ The Hideout
When it comes to South by Southwest, Chicago kicks ass big time. Indeed, the Windy City's indisputable star power last year led local music scribe... View details »
Sending the Four-Star City to the Lone Star State
More Flavor: Festival
Festival de la Francophonie 2008
Saturday Mar 8 @ Alliance Française de Chicago
While it's long been debated in the postcolonial world whether to embrace or reject the language of the conqueror, the Francophonie movement aims to be... View details »
Festival de la Francophonie 2008
Music: Rock/Pop
Sian Alice Group
Saturday Mar 8 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
Sian Alice Group have only been kicking around the London music scene for about a year, but they've already cultivated a mysterious allure... View details »
Sian Alice Group
Music: DJ
MSTRKRFT
Saturday Mar 8 (10pm–5am) @ Vision Nightclub
As MSTRKRFT, producer ALP and former Death from Above 1979 bassist Jesse F. Keeler have become one of indie dance's go-to remix teams. Retooling singles... View details »
MSTRKRFT
Music: Rock/Pop
Times New Viking
Saturday Mar 8 (9–11pm) @ Mr. City
Being a lo-fi, art-punk band from Ohio with a deal on Matador, Times New Viking can't help but draw comparisons to Guided by Voices. It's... View details »
Times New Viking
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Saturday Mar 8 (11am–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

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Art
The New Authentics
Saturday Mar 8 @ 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
Saturday Mar 8 (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
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Saturday Mar 8 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
Free
Self-taught artist Henry Darger was in many ways the archetypical mad genius, a recluse holed up in a tiny Chicago studio apartment with his art... View details »
Drawn from the Home of Henry Darger
Art: Photography
Rania Matar
Saturday Mar 8 (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
Cindy Loehr
Saturday Mar 8 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Free
Ohio native Cindy Loehr exhibits her grandiose installation Fuel for Constant Light, a theatrical installation featuring ethereal, nine-foot-tall metal wings, colored lighting, and a collaborative... View details »
Cindy Loehr
Art
Soft Life
Saturday Mar 8 (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
Nowheresville
Saturday Mar 8 (11am–6pm) @ Thomas Robertello Gallery More times »
Free
Nowheresville is a multimedia interpretation of utopian ideals, based on the writings of early 19th-century philosopher Charles Fourier. Collaborative duo Knut Hybinette and Troy Richards... View details »
Nowheresville
Art
Andy Roche
Saturday Mar 8 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
Andy Roche's film-based installation finds a common thread running between the ever-elusive Catholic leftist movement and recent cultural phenomena. Roche juxtaposes images from liberal Catholic... View details »
Andy Roche
Art
Adaptation
Saturday Mar 8 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday Mar 8 (10am–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
Saturday Mar 8 (10am–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: Photography
This Land Is Your Land
Saturday Mar 8 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
Free
Inspired by the subtle subversion of Woody Guthrie's populist anthem, This Land Is Your Land is a thoughtful investigation of US national identity, politics, and... View details »
This Land Is Your Land
Art
Joseph Noderer
Saturday Mar 8 (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
Saturday Mar 8 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Little Shop of Horrors
Saturday Mar 8 (8–10pm) @ The Blue Theatre More times »
Free
Boy falls in love with girl; girl rejects boy; boy spends his days dreaming of capturing girl's seemingly unattainable heart — this scenario might sound... View details »
Little Shop of Horrors
Performing Arts: Dance
Urban Bush Women/Compagnie JANT-BI
Saturday Mar 8 @ Dance Center of Columbia College More times »
The ladies of Urban Bush Women are an expressive bunch: few companies share so many facets of their performers in every dance. The Brooklyn-based group... View details »
Urban Bush Women/Compagnie JANT-BI
Performing Arts: Theatre
My Dinner with Amy
Saturday Mar 8 (8pm) @ Theatre Building Chicago More times »
After its extended run on 54th Street in Manhattan (that's off-off Broadway, not off-off-off, thankyouverymuch), Tony Fiorentino's theatrical rom-com My Dinner with Amy arrives in... View details »
My Dinner with Amy
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Saturday Mar 8 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Saturday Mar 8 (8pm) @ The Annoyance More times »
Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just a little more famous.... View details »
Art
A Survey of Hallucinogenic Printmaking
Saturday Mar 8 (noon–6pm) @ Co-Prosperity Sphere More times »
Free
Co-Prosperity Sphere's Radar Eyes exhibition showcases over 50 artists' experimental prints evoking altered states, perceptual distortions, and outright hallucinations. The trippy show is curated by... View details »
A Survey of Hallucinogenic  Printmaking
Art
Medium Cool
Saturday Mar 8 (11am–5pm) @ 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