All events on Thursday May 22

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Music: Rock/Pop
Headlights
Thursday May 22 (9pm) @ Schubas
Giveaway
Touring is an exhausting affair. For indie-pop purveyors Headlights — who logged over 300 shows in support of their debut EP, Enemies, and full-length followup... View details »
Headlights
Film
Sonic Celluloid
Thursday May 22 (8pm) @ Block Cinema
Jointly curated by Block Cinema and WNUR 89.3 FM, Sonic Celluloid is a reliably awesome marriage of weird bands and obscure, experimental, animated, and silent... View details »
Sonic Celluloid

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Thursday May 22 (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
Thursday May 22 (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
Art
Justin Cooper
Thursday May 22 (10am–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
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 issues. Using tangles of... View details »
Justin Cooper
Art
Jay Davis
Thursday May 22 (11am–6pm) @ Bucket Rider More times »
Free
Brooklyn-based artist Jay Davis returns to Chicago with new paintings on vinyl. His colorful, mystical pieces are complex and full of life, vibrating with recurring... View details »
Jay Davis
Art
Black Is Black Ain't
Thursday May 22 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively hot. This large group... View details »
Black Is Black Ain't
Art
Ken Fandell
Thursday May 22 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble telescope, fragmented and refracted... View details »
Ken Fandell
Film
The Visitor
Thursday May 22 @ 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
Thursday May 22 @ 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
Art
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Thursday May 22 (11am–5pm) @ Kasia Kay Art Projects More times »
Free
The term "visual artist" is a relatively vague one, but it's a dead-on description of Shanghai's Maleonn; his work demands a general characterization, anyhow, not... View details »
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Film
Baby Mama
Thursday May 22 @ 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
Thursday May 22 @ 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
Thursday May 22 @ 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
Thursday May 22 @ 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
Christa Donner
Thursday May 22 (10am–4pm) @ International Museum of Surgical Science More times »
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays of bizarre artifacts and... View details »
Christa Donner
Performing Arts: Comedy
Campaign Supernova!
Thursday May 22 (8pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. More times »
From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by Second City. Where... View details »
Campaign Supernova!
Art
Strange Habit
Thursday May 22 (11am–5pm) @ I Space Gallery More times »
Free
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby — who incorporate unintentional elements... View details »
Strange Habit
Art
Frau Fiber
Thursday May 22 @ 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
Thursday May 22 (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
Thursday May 22 @ 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: Photography
Ben Gest
Thursday May 22 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
Free
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina Barney, and Alec Soth... View details »
Ben Gest
Art
David Hockney
Thursday May 22 (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
Thursday May 22 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Avenue Q
Thursday May 22 @ Cadillac Palace Theater More times »
The producers of Rent have caught lightning in a bottle a second time, proving again that musical theatre can be relevant to the twentysomething crowd.... View details »
Avenue Q
Art
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Thursday May 22 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
Free
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Thursday May 22 (10am–8pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we make of the canon-splitting... View details »
Design in the Age of Darwin