Events on Saturday, May 10
Saturday 5/10 @ Music Box Theatre
Technology gets more advanced and accessible with each passing day — and yet, here we are in 2008, and still no...
Saturday 5/10 @ Abbey Pub
If you weren't around for Friday Night Videos, you only know Was (Not Was) as perpetrators of the wedding-reception funk songs...
Saturday 5/10 @ Vision Nightclub
Thanks to a string of singles from now-superstars Booka Shade and a couple of genre-defining anniversary comps, Get Physical planted electro...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/10 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Whether or not it's a "true noir" is a debate we'll leave to the online message boards — but good luck...
Saturday 5/10 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Saturday 5/10 @ Chicago Cultural Center, Studio Theater
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially...
Saturday 5/10 @ The Second City e.t.c.
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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....
Saturday 5/10 @ Various locations
Whereas the sketch comedians of Schadenfreude were once a cult sensation, these days they're operating squarely above-ground. Turns out it's hard...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ Various locations
Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's...
Saturday 5/10 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ International Museum of Surgical Science
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays...
Saturday 5/10 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In the wrong hands, Steve James' Hoop Dreams and Stevie could've been rote fodder for ESPN or Dateline — instead, they...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Male perspectives dominate public dialogue about the Iraq War (about most wars, in fact). Smothered in praise since its 2003 UK...
Saturday 5/10 @ Pullman State Historic Site
The Free Store is a roving first-come, first-serve collection of shoes, books, music, sports equipment — anything and everything that's free...
Saturday 5/10 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina...
Saturday 5/10 @ Schubas
The Mother Hips' anthemic rock is punctuated by falsetto howls and soaring, multi-layered orchestration. Tempered by a fundamental NorCal style of...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ AV-aerie
After combing the American mythos of early-to-mid-'70s rock in Mystery Train, Greil Marcus looked to Europe in search of punk's hidden...
Saturday 5/10 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Saturday 5/10 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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...
Saturday 5/10 @ 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....
Saturday 5/10 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 5/10 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
