Events on Sunday, April 6
Sunday 4/ 6 @ Doc Films
The Coen Brothers' first literary adaptation — a faithful rendition of a Cormac McCarthy novel, no less — uses naturalistic storytelling...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ Schubas
Portland's Blitzen Trapper take the stage at Schubas with countrified indie rock. The sextet's third release, last year's Wild Mountain Nation,...
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Sunday 4/ 6 @ Park West
While some have already bought tickets for this gig (enough to sell it out, actually), others may be thinking, "Well, their...
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Sunday 4/ 6 @ Metro
For those who avoid the typical channels of hype, the oddly named Vampire Weekend are the latest yelpy Brooklyn act to...
Ongoing Events
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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,...
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Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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....
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia has a tumultuous history, having been occupied by Nazi Germany before being absorbed into the...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
24th Chicago Latino Film Festival
Sunday 4/ 6 @ Various locations
For 24 years, this annual festival has been bringing the best of Latin American and Spanish cinema to Chicago. Opening night...
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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....
Sunday 4/ 6 @ 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...
