Events on Friday, May 16

Pillars & Tongues w/ Talibam! and Binges
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Free
Out of the Vault: Year of Confrontation
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Free

Ongoing Events

Christa Donner: <em>ExtraSensory</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Nine: The Musical</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Campaign Supernova!</em><em> or How Many Democrats Does It Take to Lose an Election?</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Baby Mama</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
Maleonn: <em>Days on the Cotton Candy</em> and Brian Yates: <em>you ruin everything</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Return to Oz </em>(1985)
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Then She Found Me</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
David Hockney<em>:</em> <em>Looking at Woldgate Woods</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>A Steady Rain</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Black Is Black Ain't</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Eddie Izzard: <em>Stripped</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Dark Matter</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
Ken Fandell, <em>Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter </em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jellyfish</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Ben Gest
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Sarah King: <em>Good Crazy/Bad Crazy</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Justin Cooper: <em>Thread</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50
<em>About Art</em>: Photographs by Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Heather Raffo: <em>9 Parts of Desire</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Tony Fitzpatrick: <em>The Wonder:</em><em> Portraits of a Remembered City</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Visitor</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
Joffrey Ballet:  American Moderns
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
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Mark Wagner: <em>Creative Accounting</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Redbelt</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Strange Habit</em>
Month_05 Friday Day_16
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Witnesses</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
Millennium Park Revealed
Month_05 Friday Day_16
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 »
Ongoing
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Month_05 Saturday Day_17
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 »
Ongoing
Free Flavorpill 50