All events on Monday May 19

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Music: Rock/Pop
KTL
Monday May 19 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Giveaway
About two years ago, Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) and Peter Rehberg of Pita started collaborating as KTL, constructing a black-metal-glitch soundtrack to the theatre... View details »
More Flavor: Benefit
Neighborhood Writing Alliance Benefit
Monday May 19 (5:30–7:30pm) @ 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 to pick up a... View details »
Neighborhood Writing Alliance Benefit
Film
Arranged
Monday May 19 (7pm) @ Evanston Public Library
Free
Indie drama Arranged examines the dying tradition of arranged marriages in the United States. The story, based on the experiences of Yuta Silverman, who spearheaded... View details »
Arranged
More Flavor: Discussion
Third Coast Festival Listening Room: The Lemon Tree
Monday May 19 (6:30pm) @ 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 friendship between a displaced... View details »
Third Coast Festival Listening Room: The Lemon Tree

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Monday May 19 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater More times »
Free
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially Chicago. This exhibition comprises... View details »
Tony Fitzpatrick
Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Monday May 19 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11 young artists from Chicago's... View details »
Three Hours Between Planes
Film
The Visitor
Monday May 19 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor
Film
Dark Matter
Monday May 19 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
Dark Matter, a film about the fraught power dynamics of higher academia, flounders when its storytelling reflects the ideological absolutism that it maligns. But for... View details »
Dark Matter
Film
Baby Mama
Monday May 19 @ Various locations More times »
With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most memorably as the SNL... View details »
Baby Mama
Film
Redbelt
Monday May 19 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a Jiu-Jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions — which he believes compromise the martial art's principles.... View details »
Redbelt
Film
Jellyfish
Monday May 19 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Israeli co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have both written children's books and graphic novels, so it's only natural that their first feature, Jellyfish, possesses... View details »
Jellyfish
Film
The Witnesses
Monday May 19 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
The first French import of note this year, The Witnesses picks up at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in Paris around 1984. But, as... View details »
The Witnesses
Art
Frau Fiber
Monday May 19 @ Various locations More times »
Free
Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's At the Edge: Innovative... View details »
Art
Everyday People
Monday May 19 (10am–5pm) @ estudiotres More times »
Free
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People at estudiotres in Chicago's... View details »
Everyday People
Film
Then She Found Me
Monday May 19 @ Various locations More times »
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
Then She Found Me
Art
David Hockney
Monday May 19 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
Free
David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based work, like pieced-together canvases... View details »
David Hockney
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Monday May 19 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic exhibition at City Gallery... View details »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus