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Special Event: Benefit

Neighborhood Writing Alliance Benefit

Monday 5/19 @ Roosevelt University Library

The Neighborhood Writing Alliance's mantra reads, "Every person is a philosopher." Since 1996, the group has been urging Chicagoland's grown-ups to... 

Music

KTL

Monday 5/19 @ The Empty Bottle

About two years ago, Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) and Peter Rehberg of Pita started collaborating as KTL, constructing a black-metal-glitch... 

Special Event

Third Coast Festival Listening Room: The Lemon Tree

Monday 5/19 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies

The award-winning radio documentary The Lemon Tree, produced for NPR's Fresh Air program in 1998, tells the story of an unlikely... 

Film

Arranged

Monday 5/19 @ Evanston Public Library

Indie drama Arranged examines the dying tradition of arranged marriages in the United States. The story, based on the experiences of... 

Film

Then She Found Me

Monday 5/19 @ Various locations

Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of... 

Art

Everyday People

Monday 5/19 @ estudiotres

Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People... 

City Gems

Smart Home

Monday 5/19 @ Museum Campus

Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... 

Film

Jellyfish

Monday 5/19 @ 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... 

Film

Dark Matter

Monday 5/19 @ Facets Cinémathèque

Dark Matter, a film about the fraught power dynamics of higher academia, flounders when its storytelling reflects the ideological absolutism that... 

Art

Frau Fiber

Monday 5/19 @ 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... 

Art

David Hockney

Monday 5/19 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Three Hours Between Planes

Monday 5/19 @ 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... 

Film

Redbelt

Monday 5/19 @ 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... 

Art: Photography

Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus

Monday 5/19 @ City Gallery

Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic... 

Film

The Visitor

Monday 5/19 @ 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... 

Film

The Witnesses

Monday 5/19 @ Music Box Theatre

The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris... 

Art

Tony Fitzpatrick

Monday 5/19 @ 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... 

Film

Baby Mama

Monday 5/19 @ Various locations

With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most... 

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 5/19 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...