Events on Friday, May 16
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Pillars & Tongues
- @ Ronny's Bar
- They say good things come to those who wait. With avant-classical experimentalists Pillars & Tongues, it's a long wait — and... View details »
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- More Flavor: Festival
- Manifest
- @ Grant Park
- The hundreds of happenings at Columbia College Chicago's Manifest 2008 can be a tad overwhelming, so you'll have to pick wisely.... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Out of the Vault
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Tonight, the Chicago Film Archives relives the 1968 Democratic National Convention with three newly restored shorts filmed during those tumultuous three... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Art
- Christa Donner
- @ 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... 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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Brown Bag Stitching Salon
- @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
- This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Art
- Maleonn and Brian Yates
- @ Kasia Kay Art Projects
- The term "visual artist" is a relatively vague one, but it's a dead-on description of Shanghai's Maleonn; his work demands a... View details »
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- Film
- Return to Oz
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Return to Oz (1985) is the highly stylized semi-sequel to 1939's mega-classic. It picks up with Dorothy a few months after... View details »
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- Film
- Then She Found Me
- @ Various locations
- Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... View details »
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- 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 »
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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
- 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 »
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- Art
- Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
- @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
- Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Eddie Izzard
- @ The Chicago Theatre
- Only Eddie Izzard could make wearing jeans and loafers an act of subversion. For Stripped, the "executive transvestite" British comic retires... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lipstick Traces
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Film
- Dark Matter
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- Dark Matter, a film about the fraught power dynamics of higher academia, flounders when its storytelling reflects the ideological absolutism that... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Jellyfish
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their... View details »
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- Frau Fiber
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Ben Gest
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sarah King
- @ Apollo Theater
- Writer/actress Sarah King knows crazy: she spent two years working for Chicago's most outrageous export, The Jerry Springer Show. But she... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Art: Photography
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- @ City Gallery
- Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 9 Parts of Desire
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tony Fitzpatrick
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- American Moderns
- @ Auditorium Theatre
- Last we checked, high-modernist dance peaked at 1972's Stravinsky Festival, and what followed hasn't improved much with age — which makes... View details »
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- Mark Wagner
- @ Western Exhibitions
- In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark... View details »
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- Redbelt
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a Jiu-Jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions — which he believes compromise... View details »
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- 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 »
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- The Witnesses
- @ Music Box Theatre
- The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- @ Museum Campus
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... View details »
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- More Flavor: Tour
- Millennium Park Revealed
- @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
- Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in... View details »
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- More Flavor
- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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