Events on Tuesday, April 29

Chef Showcase
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
More Flavor: City Gem
Chef Showcase
@ Chicago History Museum
These days, Chicago is a must-stop destination for foodies on the quest for good eats. But this wasn't always the case...  View details »
Flavorpill 50
Yelle w/ Codebreaker and Millino $ Mano
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Music: Electronic
Yelle
@ Logan Square Auditorium
Yelle's timing couldn't be better, hot as she is on the heels of fellow Frenchies Justice and the Ed Banger crew....  View details »
Gary Marcus: <em>Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Reading
Gary Marcus
@ 57th Street Books
Those looking to debunk evolution often argue that the human brain, with its complex design and remarkable capabilities, could not have...  View details »
Free
The Teenagers w/ Team Robespierre
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Music: Rock/Pop
The Teenagers
@ Abbey Pub
With trademark Parisian pouts and Zoolander-like stage presence, these fashionable Frenchies sing catchy, often X-rated electro-pop in tongue-in-cheek accented Franglais. Their...  View details »
<em>The Funniest One in the Room</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
More Flavor: Discussion
The Funniest One in the Room
@ The Second City e.t.c.
Late Second City teacher and ImprovOlympic co-founder Del Close taught the art of improvisation to a who's-who of comedy, including John...  View details »
Free

Ongoing Events

<em>Strange Habit</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Watercolors of Winslow Homer: The Color of Light</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Adaptation</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bomb It</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Baby Mama</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Ken Fandell, <em>Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter </em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Edward Hopper
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Gordon Matta-Clark: <em>You Are the Measure</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Snow Angels</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
<em>The Visitor</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_30
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 »
Ongoing
Eli Robb
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
David Hockney<em>:</em> <em>Looking at Woldgate Woods</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Justin Cooper: <em>Thread</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
<em>Black Is Black Ain't</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Year My Parents Went on Vacation</em>
Month_04 Wednesday Day_30
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>A Steady Rain</em>
Month_04 Tuesday Day_29
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 »
Ongoing