Events on Friday, April 25
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Aaron Dilloway
- @ The Flowershop
- In 2005, former Wolf Eye Aaron Dilloway left the renowned Michigan noise trio to live and record solo in Nepal. Since... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- I Heart Robots 2.0
- @ School of the Art Institute of Chicago's Gallery 2
- Artist Suzie Silver returns to her alma mater with collaborator Terry Boyd to present I Heart Robots 2.0: A Spacedelic Video... View details »
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- Reading
- Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout
- @ Quimby's Bookstore
- As founding members of the Lit 6 Project and accompanying radio show Electric Arc Radio, Geoff Herbach and Sam Osterhout have... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Cloud Cult
- @ Schubas
- Minnesota-based art-rockers Cloud Cult have principles. Since musician/environmentalist Craig Minowa founded the band in 1995, the Cult have scorned lucrative record... View details »
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- Art
- Adaptation
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Immediate Sound Series 2nd Anniversary
- @ The Hideout
- The Hideout celebrates the second anniversary of its Immediate Sound series with an all-star lineup of Chicago improvisers and out-of-town guests.... View details »
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- Film
- Double Indemnity
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Double Indemnity is the quintessential film noir — a pitch-black whirlwind of double entendres and triple crosses in which Barbara Stanwyck... View details »
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- Mark Wagner
- @ Western Exhibitions
- In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark... View details »
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- Art: Fair
- Goffo
- @ Merchandise Mart
- Does the mega-conglomerate of art fairs that is Artropolis seem a bit overwhelming? We'd say so. Not that you shouldn't check... View details »
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- Edward Hopper
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Bomb It
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- A modern-day incarnation of 1983's groundbreaking Style Wars, graffiti documentary Bomb It moves past the boroughs of New York to survey... View details »
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- Gordon Matta-Clark
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Baby Mama
- @ Various locations
- With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Nine: The Musical
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Three Hours Between Planes
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Brown Bag Stitching Salon
- @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
- This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded... View details »
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- Ken Fandell
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Snow Angels
- @ 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... View details »
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- David Hockney
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based... View details »
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- Justin Cooper
- @ Gallery 400
- Justin Cooper's installation is a combination of opposites: small-scale material creates large-scale sculpture, and conceptual performance art runs up against personal-space... View details »
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- Film
- The Visitor
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- A Steady Rain
- @ 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... View details »
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- Black Is Black Ain't
- @ The Renaissance Society
- The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively... View details »
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- Eli Robb
- @ threewalls
- Chicago-based artist Eli Robb's life was going swimmingly — until his house and studio caught fire and burned to the ground.... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Unseen Current
- @ 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... View details »
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- Strange Habit
- @ I Space Gallery
- For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —... View details »
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- Watercolors of Winslow Homer
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor
- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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