All events on Sunday May 25
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- Flameshovel Records Night
- Sunday May 25 (9pm) @ Double Door
- Free
- In just seven years, Chicago's Flameshovel Records has built an impressively eclectic roster. From local upstarts the Narrator (RIP) to scene stalwarts Make Believe and... View details »
- Music: Classical
- Purbayan Chatterjee's Legacy Tour
- Sunday May 25 (3pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Free
- Tonight's show features two father/son combos. Sitar and tabla authorities Shri Parthapratim, Purbayan, Anindo, and Anubrata Chatterjee join forces to pay tribute to Nikhil Banerjee,... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Bike the Drive
- Sunday May 25 (5:30am–noon) @ Various locations
- As you enter downtown from the south side, Lake Shore Drive's skyline view is truly breathtaking. The skyscrapers swell with civic pride, lending the moment... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tony Fitzpatrick
- Sunday May 25 (10am–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 »
- Art: Photography
- Three Hours Between Planes
- Sunday May 25 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Black Is Black Ain't
- Sunday May 25 (noon–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 »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- American Moderns
- Sunday May 25 (2pm) @ Auditorium Theatre More times »
- Last we checked, high-modernist dance peaked at 1972's Stravinsky Festival, and what followed hasn't improved much with age — which makes Paul Taylor's Cloven Kingdom... View details »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Farnsworth House Plus by Bus
- Sunday May 25 (9:30am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
- A seven-hour, $70 architectural tour may seem like a bit much. But when the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosts an authoritative, metro-area-spanning tour of local treasures... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Lipstick Traces
- Sunday May 25 (7:30pm) @ AV-aerie More times »
- 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 lineage. Spurning the usual... View details »
- Film
- Baby Mama
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Sunday May 25 (9am–4pm) @ Randolph Street Market More times »
- This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly summer-shopping hub that takes... View details »
- Film
- Redbelt
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Sunday May 25 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
- Film
- Jellyfish
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Film
- The Witnesses
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Art
- Christa Donner
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Film
- Roman de Gare
- Sunday May 25 @ Various locations More times »
- Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Sunday May 25 (7pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Everyday People
- Sunday May 25 (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 »
- Film
- Then She Found Me
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- Sunday May 25 (10am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Avenue Q
- Sunday May 25 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Millennium Park Revealed
- Sunday May 25 (11am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
- Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in the Windy City, its... View details »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Lurie Garden
- Sunday May 25 (10am–1pm) @ Millennium Park More times »
- Free
- Making good on Chicago's motto Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden), the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners offers 20-minute guided tours around Millennium... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- Sunday May 25 (noon–5pm) @ 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 »
