Events on Saturday, April 5
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- California Occidental Museum of Art
- @ California Occidental Museum of Art
- And so it goes: another apartment gallery space is about to close its doors. The shuttering curse has infiltrated the California... View details »
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- Reading
- Chavisa Woods
- @ Quimby's Bookstore
- Chavisa Woods' characters know that heartbreak isn't fun. The New York writer/poet's latest work, Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Pissed Jeans
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Allentown, PA, might not be the first place you think of for groundbreaking heavy rock — in fact, excepting Billy Joel's... View details »
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- More Flavor: Workshop
- Circuit Bending
- @ 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... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- [SOLD OUT] The Lastmaker
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Persistently concerned with architecture, place, and space, Goat Island Performance Group considers 20 years of collaboration by peeling away the histories... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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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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- Nicholas Knight: Depictured
- @ 65GRAND
- For Registers, Nicholas Knight's first solo exhibition in Chicago, the artist blends images with text, and color with grayscale. The works... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- John Phillips: New Paintings
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- 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... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- The New Authentics
- @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
- In The New Authentics, 16 Jewish-American artists examine the role of Judaism in everyday American life, exploring the ways in which... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
- @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
- While Hubbard Street's first week at the Harris featured some choice pieces — notably the latest from in-house choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo... View details »
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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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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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Medium Cool
- @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
- Medium Cool features photographs by Joy Episalla and paintings by Michael Antkowiak. Episalla depicts the quiet, transitional spaces of hotel rooms,... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film
- 24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
- @ Various locations
- For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Georgy Porgy and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
- @ The Annoyance Theatre
- Chicago's Annoyance theater usually sticks to homemade sketch and stage comedy written by talented locals, but tonight's weirdo wordsmith is just... 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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- 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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OngoingFree
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- Art: Photography
- Robert Heinecken
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- This exhibition consists of Robert Heinecken's photograms, film transparencies, and works on canvas from 1963-74, including work from his pivotal series... View details »
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