Events on Saturday, May 24

Rilo Kiley w/ the Spinto Band and Nik Freitas
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Music: Rock/Pop
Rilo Kiley
@ Riviera Theatre
Rilo Kiley have had to clean themselves up to appeal to a wider audience; last year's Under the Blacklight transported the...  View details »
The Long Blondes w/ Gabby Glaser
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Music: Rock/Pop
The Long Blondes
@ Logan Square Auditorium
They might have called this bill the Time Machine Tour: Opening act Gabby Glaser mines a rich vein of 1970s soul...  View details »
People Who Shape Our World: Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Dan Nadel
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
More Flavor: Discussion
Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Dan Nadel
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Emmy-winning graphic artist Gary Panter — designer for Pee-Wee's Playhouse and album-cover artist for Frank Zappa and the Red Hot...  View details »
Free
Dark Meat w/ Quiet Hooves
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Music: Rock/Pop
Dark Meat
@ AV-aerie
Despite a revolving-door lineup of no less than 15 (sometimes closer to 30) members and an album dedicated to free-jazz legend...  View details »
The Queers w/ Lemuria, Bomb the Music Industry, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Kepi
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Music: Rock/Pop
The Queers
@ Reggies Rock Club
A long-running, Felix the Cat-obsessed pop-punk act from New Hampshire, the Queers add bubblegum harmonies and proto-emo lovesickness to Beach Boys-worshipping...  View details »

Ongoing Events

Ben Gest
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
<em>The Witnesses</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
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
<em>Avenue Q</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
Performing Arts: Theatre
Avenue Q
@ Cadillac Palace Theater
The producers of Rent have caught lightning in a bottle a second time, proving again that musical theatre can be relevant...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Everyday People</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Art
Everyday People
@ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Campaign Supernova!</em><em> or How Many Democrats Does It Take to Lose an Election?</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
<em>Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
Joffrey Ballet:  American Moderns
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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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<em>Baby Mama</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
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
<em>Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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>Strange Habit</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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>Jellyfish</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
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
<em>Then She Found Me</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
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
Christa Donner: <em>ExtraSensory</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
Schadenfreude Rent Party Tour
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Performing Arts: Comedy
Schadenfreude
@ Various locations
Whereas the sketch comedians of Schadenfreude were once a cult sensation, these days they're operating squarely above-ground. Turns out it's hard...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Shape-Shifters</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Art
Shape-Shifters
@ Alfedena Gallery
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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>A Steady Rain</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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>The Visitor</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
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
<em>Black Is Black Ain't</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
Ken Fandell, <em>Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter </em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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>Son of Rambow</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
Film
Son of Rambow
@ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...  View details »
Ongoing
Randolph Street Market Festival
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
More Flavor: Festival
Randolph Street Market Festival
@ Randolph Street Market
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Roman de Gare</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
Film
Roman de Gare
@ Various locations
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...  View details »
Ongoing
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
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
<em>About Art</em>: Photographs by Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
Tony Fitzpatrick: <em>The Wonder:</em><em> Portraits of a Remembered City</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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>Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
Justin Cooper: <em>Thread</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
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
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Barbara Hashimoto: <em>Junk Mail</em>
Month_05 Saturday Day_24
Art
Barbara Hashimoto
@ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Redbelt</em>
Month_05 Sunday Day_25
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