Events on Saturday, April 12
Saturday 4/12 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Chicago's thriving arts community owes its existence to the 80,000+ musicians, directors, dancers, designers, and visual wunderkinder who call our fair...
Saturday 4/12 @ SmartBar
DJ Heather's deep Chicago house is rooted in the old style of local legends like Derrick Carter and Mark Farina. But...
Life, Love, and Everything in Between
Saturday 4/12 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
This aptly titled program features a passel of alternately funny, poignant, and eccentric short films by award-winning Asian-American directors. Highlights include...
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Saturday 4/12 @ Riviera Theatre
Unlike Chrissie Hynde and Devo, the Black Keys are an Akron, Ohio, band that still likes (and lives) in their hometown....
Saturday 4/12 @ Schubas
Of rock 'n roll's many princes of darkness, American Music Club singer Mark Eitzel has the market cornered on barroom laments....
Saturday 4/12 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Whether he's staging a fake feud with Oprah or gathering an unlikely posse of supporters (including Hank Williams III and hair-metal...
Ongoing Events
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 65GRAND
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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,...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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....
Saturday 4/12 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts
Seldoms artistic director and choreographer Carrie Hanson is one of the most ambitious, exacting artists in the local scene. Not afraid...
Saturday 4/12 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In Chapel/Chapter, Bill T. Jones' choreography scans like a lecture or a sermon; it's dance designed to really convince you of...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
The Chicago Independent Radio Project (which includes many former staffers from community-radio stalwart WLUW) has been working tirelessly to obtain a...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ Porchlight Theatre
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2....
Saturday 4/12 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Saturday 4/12 @ Various locations
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night...
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Saturday 4/12 @ The Chicago Theatre
While the Superman-obsessed Jerry Seinfeld has been lying relatively low since his show's finale in 1998 — notwithstanding his annoying, omnipresent...
Saturday 4/12 @ 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...
Saturday 4/12 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 4/12 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
