Events on Saturday, April 19
Saturday 4/19 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Balbir Singh Sodhi, a 52-year-old Sikh gas-station owner from Mesa, Arizona, was shot and killed by a local four days after...
Saturday 4/19 @ Abbey Pub
Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving...
The Bravery w/ Fiction Plane and Your Vegas
Saturday 4/19 @ Metro
The Bravery may have come a long way since their Skabba the Hut ska-band college days, but the group still want...
Saturday 4/19 @ Lakeshore Theater
Calling the Fiery Furnaces "indie rock" would be like referring to the Civil War as "a wee skirmish," or to Proust...
Bound Stems w/ So Many Dynamos and Bailiff
Saturday 4/19 @ Subterranean
On 2005's Logic of Building the Body Plan EP and the following year's full-length debut, Appreciation Night, Chicagoan quintet Bound Stems...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 4/19 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins...
Saturday 4/19 @ Various locations
Whereas the sketch comedians of Schadenfreude were once a cult sensation, these days they're operating squarely above-ground. Turns out it's hard...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ Tony Wight Gallery
In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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....
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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....
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 65GRAND
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ Chicago Cultural Center
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11...
Saturday 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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 4/19 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 4/19 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
