Events on Thursday, April 17

Cute Cupcakes & Marvelous Muffins

Workshop/Class

Cute Cupcakes & Marvelous Muffins

Thursday 4/17 @ Gallery 37 Center for the Arts

Whether you like a muffin with your morning paper or you wolf down cupcakes like your plane is going down, this... 

The Dodos w/ Woven Hand and Brendan Losch

Music

The Dodos

Thursday 4/17 @ The Note

The Dodos' acoustic guitar-and-drums setup might seem like the epitome of folky politeness, but their French Kiss debut, Visiter, boasts some... 

You Don't Remember the Time You Do: Moments in the Lives of Prisoners

Film: Shorts

You Don't Remember the Time You Do

Thursday 4/17 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

Recent headlines on our ever-burgeoning prison-industrial complex have cropped up everywhere lately (it's official: one percent of US adults are now... 

Destroyer w/ Colossal Yes

Music

Destroyer

Thursday 4/17 @ Logan Square Auditorium

As if universal healthcare isn't enough, Vancouver's Dan Bejar strengthens the case for our red, white, and maple neighbors to the... 

[SOLD OUT] Hot Chip w/ Free Blood

Music

[SOLD OUT] Hot Chip

Thursday 4/17 @ Vic Theatre

Fresh from the badlands of Putney, England, electro-funk outfit Hot Chip celebrate their most recent album Made in the Dark with... 

Ongoing Events

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

Film

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Thursday 4/17 @ 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... 

Brennan McGaffey: <em>1:16 Counter-chemistry (preview only) modeling ways to make a bad thing good. </em>

Art

Brennan McGaffey

Thursday 4/17 @ Vonzweck

Brennan McGaffey's latest creation is a 1:16 scale model of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. The US Air Force has used... 

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

Art

Gordon Matta-Clark

Thursday 4/17 @ 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... 

Eli Robb

Art

Eli Robb

Thursday 4/17 @ threewalls

Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground.... 

<em>Snow Angels</em>

Film

Snow Angels

Thursday 4/17 @ 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... 

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Thursday 4/17 @ 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... 

<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>

Art

Watercolors of Winslow Homer

Thursday 4/17 @ 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... 

Mark Wagner: <em>Creative Accounting</em>

Art

Mark Wagner

Thursday 4/17 @ Western Exhibitions

In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark... 

<em>Adaptation</em>

Art

Adaptation

Thursday 4/17 @ 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,... 

Armitage Gone! Dance

Dance

Armitage Gone! Dance

Thursday 4/17 @ Dance Center of Columbia College

There may only be seven of them, but each dancer in Armitage Gone! Dance is reason enough to see this show.... 

Edward Hopper

Art

Edward Hopper

Thursday 4/17 @ 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....