All events on Saturday April 12
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- Reading
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Mike Adams
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Saturday Apr 12 (7–8pm) @ Quimby's Bookstore
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Whether he's staging a fake feud with Oprah or gathering an unlikely posse of supporters (including Hank Williams III and hair-metal vet Billy Sheehan), Mike... View details »
- More Flavor: Fair
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2008 Creative Chicago Expo
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Saturday Apr 12 (10am–4pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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Chicago's thriving arts community owes its existence to the 80,000+ musicians, directors, dancers, designers, and visual wunderkinder who call our fair metropolis home. Today, these... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Indian
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Saturday Apr 12 (8pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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Listening to Indian's sludgy doom metal is a genuinely harrowing experience. With their down-tuned guitars, thundering bass lines, droning feedback, and soul-scraping shrieks, the local... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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American Music Club
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Saturday Apr 12 (10:30pm) @ Schubas
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Of rock 'n roll's many princes of darkness, American Music Club singer Mark Eitzel has the market cornered on barroom laments. Family, love, and politics... View details »
- Film: Shorts
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Life, Love, and Everything in Between
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Saturday Apr 12 (5pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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This aptly titled program features a passel of alternately funny, poignant, and eccentric short films by award-winning Asian-American directors. Highlights include Ted Chung's elegant, eerie,... View details »
- Music: DJ
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DJ Heather
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Saturday Apr 12 (10pm–5am) @ SmartBar
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DJ Heather's deep Chicago house is rooted in the old style of local legends like Derrick Carter and Mark Farina. But as the dance cognoscenti... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
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Madlib
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Saturday Apr 12 (9pm–3am) @ Sonotheque
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Stones Throw Records, that venerable hub for forward-thinking hip-hop, presents Move, a showcase of some of its most distinguished talent. Tonight features the one and... View details »
- Art
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Barbara Hashimoto
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St
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A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
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- Art
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The New Authentics
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Saturday Apr 12 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
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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 »
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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Saturday Apr 12 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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 »
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Adaptation
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Saturday Apr 12 (11am–5pm) @ Smart Museum of Art
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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 »
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Edward Hopper
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Saturday Apr 12 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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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 »
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Watercolors of Winslow Homer
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Saturday Apr 12 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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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 »
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John Phillips: New Paintings
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Saturday Apr 12 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery
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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 »
- Art: Photography
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Robert Heinecken
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Saturday Apr 12 (11am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
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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 »
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Mark Wagner
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions
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In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark Wagner uses his bucks... View details »
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Eli Robb
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–6pm) @ ThreeWalls
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Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground. Undaunted, Robb used the... View details »
- Film
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Snow Angels
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Saturday Apr 12 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Medium Cool
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Saturday Apr 12 (11am–5pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
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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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Unseen Current
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Saturday Apr 12 (noon–5pm) @ Extension Gallery
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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 »
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