All events on Sunday April 13

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Music: Hip-Hop
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Sunday Apr 13 (8:30pm) @ House of Blues
Cleveland-based rap act Bone Thugs-n-Harmony are still best-known for their ubiquitous 1997 single "Tha Crossroads" — but really, they've got a whole lot more love... View details »
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
More Flavor: City Gem
Those Were the Days Radio Players
Sunday Apr 13 (2–3:30pm) @ Rockefeller Chapel
Free
The devoted NPR set notwithstanding, most people think that curling up by the fire to listen to your favorite radio program is a quaint relic... View details »
Those Were the Days Radio Players
More Flavor: Lecture
Should Marx Be Treated like a Dead Dog?
Sunday Apr 13 (1pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
Free
The practical results of the world's communist revolutions led many to declare Marxism a failure, unable to account for the exigencies of the real world.... View details »
Should Marx Be Treated like a Dead Dog?

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Art
The New Authentics
Sunday Apr 13 @ 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
Sunday Apr 13 (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
Adaptation
Sunday Apr 13 (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
Sunday Apr 13 (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
Sunday Apr 13 (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
Film: Shorts
Chicago Short Film Brigade
Sunday Apr 13 (5:30pm) @ The Hideout More times »
While culture as a whole may lose out, the oft-ignored film short has a lot to gain from the decline of the American attention span.... View details »
Chicago Short Film Brigade
Film
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Sunday Apr 13 @ Various locations More times »
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night kicks off with El... View details »
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Film
Snow Angels
Sunday Apr 13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
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 »
Snow Angels
Performing Arts: Theatre
Nine: The Musical
Sunday Apr 13 (2–4pm) @ Porchlight Theatre More times »
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2. Fellini's title reflected the... View details »
Nine: The Musical
Art: Architecture/Design
Unseen Current
Sunday Apr 13 (noon–5pm) @ Extension Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Unseen Current
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Sunday Apr 13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
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 that they don't realize... View details »
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
More Flavor: Fair
CHIRP Record Fair
Sunday Apr 13 (10am–5pm) @ Pulaski Park Auditorium More times »
The Chicago Independent Radio Project (which includes many former staffers from community-radio stalwart WLUW) has been working tirelessly to obtain a license for a new,... View details »
CHIRP Record Fair