Events on Saturday, May 24
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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Ongoing
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree
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- 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 »
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OngoingFree
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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