All events on Thursday April 17

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Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Hot Chip
Thursday Apr 17 (7:30pm) @ Vic Theatre
Sold Out!
Fresh from the badlands of Putney, England, electro-funk outfit Hot Chip celebrate their most recent album Made in the Dark with this toast to their... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Hot Chip
Music: Rock/Pop
Destroyer
Thursday Apr 17 (9pm) @ Logan Square Auditorium
Giveaway
As if universal healthcare isn't enough, Vancouver's Dan Bejar strengthens the case for our red, white, and maple neighbors to the north. Under the Destroyer... View details »
Destroyer
Film: Shorts
You Don't Remember the Time You Do
Thursday Apr 17 (6pm) @ 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 behind bars). But it's... View details »
You Don't Remember the Time You Do
Performing Arts: Dance
Armitage Gone! Dance
Thursday Apr 17 (8pm) @ Dance Center of Columbia College More times »
There may only be seven of them, but each dancer in Armitage Gone! Dance is reason enough to see this show. Megumi Eda, especially, gives... View details »
Armitage Gone! Dance
More Flavor: Workshop
Cute Cupcakes & Marvelous Muffins
Thursday Apr 17 (6–8:30pm) @ 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 evening's workshop is a... View details »
Cute Cupcakes & Marvelous Muffins
Music: Rock/Pop
The Dodos
Thursday Apr 17 (9pm) @ 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 of the most immediate... View details »
The Dodos

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Art
Gordon Matta-Clark
Thursday Apr 17 (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
Thursday Apr 17 (10am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Apr 17 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Thursday Apr 17 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
Mark Wagner
Thursday Apr 17 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Free
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 »
Mark Wagner
Art
Eli Robb
Thursday Apr 17 (noon–6pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
Free
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 »
Eli Robb
Film
Snow Angels
Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Thursday Apr 17 @ 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
Art
Brennan McGaffey
Thursday Apr 17 (6–9pm) @ Vonzweck More times »
Free
Brennan McGaffey's latest creation is a 1:16 scale model of a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. The US Air Force has used Stratotankers for aerial refueling... View details »
Brennan McGaffey