All events on Saturday April 19
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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The Fiery Furnaces
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Saturday Apr 19 (10pm) @ Lakeshore Theater
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Calling the Fiery Furnaces "indie rock" would be like referring to the Civil War as "a wee skirmish," or to Proust as "light reading." To... View details »
- Film: Documentary
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A Dream in Doubt
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Saturday Apr 19 (2pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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Balbir Singh Sodhi, a 52-year-old Sikh gas-station owner from Mesa, Arizona, was shot and killed by a local four days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Meat Beat Manifesto
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Saturday Apr 19 (10pm) @ Abbey Pub
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Since forming in Swindon in 1987, Meat Beat Manifesto have toyed with breaks, techno, industrial, dub, and everything in between, carving out a distinct (if... View details »
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- Art
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Gordon Matta-Clark
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Saturday Apr 19 (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 19 (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 19 (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 19 (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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Mark Wagner
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Saturday Apr 19 (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 19 (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 19 @ 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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Ken Fandell
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Saturday Apr 19 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery
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In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble telescope, fragmented and refracted... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
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Unseen Current
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Saturday Apr 19 (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 »
- Film
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The Visitor
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Saturday Apr 19 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
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Barbara Hashimoto
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Saturday Apr 19 (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 »
