Events on Saturday, May 24

People Who Shape Our World: Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Dan Nadel

Special Event

Gary Panter, Chris Ware, and Dan Nadel

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

The Long Blondes w/ Gabby Glaser

Music

The Long Blondes

Saturday 5/24 @ Logan Square Auditorium

They might have called this bill the Time Machine Tour: Opening act Gabby Glaser mines a rich vein of 1970s soul... 

The Queers w/ Lemuria, Bomb the Music Industry, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Kepi

Music

The Queers

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Dark Meat w/ Quiet Hooves

Music

Dark Meat

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Rilo Kiley w/ the Spinto Band and Nik Freitas

Music

Rilo Kiley

Saturday 5/24 @ Riviera Theatre

Rilo Kiley have had to clean themselves up to appeal to a wider audience; last year's Under the Blacklight transported the... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Design in the Age of Darwin: From William Morris to Frank Lloyd Wright</em>

Art

Design in the Age of Darwin

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre

Avenue Q

Saturday 5/24 @ Cadillac Palace Theater

The producers of Rent have caught lightning in a bottle a second time, proving again that musical theatre can be relevant... 

Randolph Street Market Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Randolph Street Market Festival

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985</em>

Art

Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>The Visitor</em>

Film

The Visitor

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Joffrey Ballet:  American Moderns

Dance

American Moderns

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>The Witnesses</em>

Film

The Witnesses

Saturday 5/24 @ Music Box Theatre

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

Ken Fandell, <em>Part II: Until It Doesn't Matter </em>

Art

Ken Fandell

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Everyday People</em>

Art

Everyday People

Saturday 5/24 @ estudiotres

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

<em>Three Hours Between Planes: Contemporary Photography from Leipzig and Chicago</em>

Art: Photography

Three Hours Between Planes

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Campaign Supernova!</em><em> or How Many Democrats Does It Take to Lose an Election?</em>

Comedy

Campaign Supernova!

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Redbelt</em>

Film

Redbelt

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Black Is Black Ain't</em>

Art

Black Is Black Ain't

Saturday 5/24 @ The Renaissance Society

The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively... 

<em>Then She Found Me</em>

Film

Then She Found Me

Saturday 5/24 @ Various locations

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

Ben Gest

Art: Photography

Ben Gest

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Shape-Shifters</em>

Art

Shape-Shifters

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Smart Home: Green + Wired

City Gems

Smart Home

Saturday 5/24 @ Museum Campus

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

<em>A Steady Rain</em>

Theatre

A Steady Rain

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Jellyfish</em>

Film

Jellyfish

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Barbara Hashimoto: <em>Junk Mail</em>

Art

Barbara Hashimoto

Saturday 5/24 @ 2003 S Halsted St

A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —... 

Christa Donner: <em>ExtraSensory</em>

Art

Christa Donner

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Tony Fitzpatrick: <em>The Wonder:</em><em> Portraits of a Remembered City</em>

Art

Tony Fitzpatrick

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Schadenfreude Rent Party Tour

Comedy

Schadenfreude

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Baby Mama</em>

Film

Baby Mama

Saturday 5/24 @ Various locations

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

Justin Cooper: <em>Thread</em>

Art

Justin Cooper

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Roman de Gare</em>

Film

Roman de Gare

Saturday 5/24 @ Various locations

Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's... 

<em>Strange Habit</em>

Art

Strange Habit

Saturday 5/24 @ I Space Gallery

For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —... 

<em>About Art</em>: Photographs by Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich

Art: Photography

Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus

Saturday 5/24 @ City Gallery

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

<em>Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century</em>

Theatre

Lipstick Traces

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Son of Rambow</em>

Film

Son of Rambow

Saturday 5/24 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 5/24 @ Chicago History Museum

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