All events on Saturday April 05

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Music: Rock/Pop
Pissed Jeans
Saturday Apr 5 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
Allentown, PA, might not be the first place you think of for groundbreaking heavy rock — in fact, excepting Billy Joel's downtrodden, early-'80s hit, you... View details »
Pissed Jeans
More Flavor: Workshop
Circuit Bending
Saturday Apr 5 (1–4:50pm) @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Patrick McCarthy's circuit-bending workshop at the Old Town School of Folk Music offers a step-by-step course on how to rejigger your cheapo Casio — or... View details »
Circuit Bending
Reading
Chavisa Woods
Saturday Apr 5 (7–8pm) @ Quimby's Bookstore
Free
Chavisa Woods' characters know that heartbreak isn't fun. The New York writer/poet's latest work, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind, is a collection... View details »
Chavisa Woods
Art
Mark Wagner
Saturday Apr 5 @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Opening
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
Saturday Apr 5 (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
Art
California Occidental Museum of Art
Saturday Apr 5 (7–10pm) @ California Occidental Museum of Art
Free
And so it goes: another apartment gallery space is about to close its doors. The shuttering curse has infiltrated the California Occidental Art Museum (aka... View details »
California Occidental Museum of Art

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Art
The New Authentics
Saturday Apr 5 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
Free
In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which faith and history color... View details »
The New Authentics
Art
Gordon Matta-Clark
Saturday Apr 5 (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
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ 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
Performing Arts: Dance
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Saturday Apr 5 @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Sold Out!
Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories of both a building... View details »
[SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
Art
Edward Hopper
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Saturday Apr 5 (10am–5pm) @ 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
Nicholas Knight: Depictured
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND More times »
Free
For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works on display include smart,... View details »
Nicholas Knight: Depictured
Performing Arts: Dance
The Seldoms
Saturday Apr 5 @ Ruth Page Center for the Arts More times »
Seldoms artistic director and choreographer Carrie Hanson is one of the most ambitious, exacting artists in the local scene. Not afraid of attacking topical material... View details »
The Seldoms
Art
John Phillips: New Paintings
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
Chicago's John Phillips employs witty, music-inspired titles and jaunty patterns in his large-scale "semi-intuitive doodles." The SAIC professor's latest solo show at the newly christened... View details »
John Phillips: New Paintings
Performing Arts: Theatre
Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Saturday Apr 5 (8pm) @ The Annoyance More times »
Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just a little more famous.... View details »
Art: Photography
Robert Heinecken
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
Free
This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series Are You Rea (1966-67).... View details »
Robert Heinecken
Performing Arts: Dance
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Saturday Apr 5 (8–10pm) @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance More times »
While Hubbard Street's first week at the Harris featured some choice pieces — notably the latest from in-house choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo — Program Two better... View details »
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Film
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Saturday Apr 5 @ Various locations More times »
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night kicks off with El... View details »
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Film
Snow Angels
Saturday Apr 5 @ 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
Art
Medium Cool
Saturday Apr 5 (11am–5pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms, as reflected in the... View details »
Medium Cool
Performing Arts: Theatre
Nine: The Musical
Saturday Apr 5 (8–10pm) @ Porchlight Theatre More times »
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2. Fellini's title reflected the... View details »
Nine: The Musical
Art: Architecture/Design
Unseen Current
Saturday Apr 5 (noon–5pm) @ Extension Gallery More times »
Free
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 »
Unseen Current
Film
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Saturday Apr 5 @ 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