All events on Wednesday May 28

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Film
The Band's Visit
Wednesday May 28 (7:30pm) @ Beverly Arts Center
An Egyptian-police band invited to perform in Israel arrives at the wrong town, much to the dismay of the group's leader, the officious and stoic... View details »
The Band's Visit
Music: Rock/Pop
Langhorne Slim
Wednesday May 28 (9pm) @ Schubas
Even alone on a stage, lanky young'un Langhorne Slim and his red Guild guitar get a crowd more riled up than a Southern preacher at... View details »
Langhorne Slim
Music: Rock/Pop
Jeremy Enigk
Wednesday May 28 (8pm) @ Abbey Pub
As frontman for '90s proto-emo heroes Sunny Day Real Estate, Jeremy Enigk used vocal histrionics to inspire rockers to get in touch with their sensitive... View details »
Jeremy Enigk
Film
The Mother and the Whore
Wednesday May 28 (6:30pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Giveaway
To all but the hardiest cinephiles, a three-and-a-half-hour French art-house film composed mostly of conversations might sound tough to endure. But The Mother and the... View details »
The Mother and the Whore

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Wednesday May 28 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater in Downtown 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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Art
Maleonn and Brian Yates
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Son of Rambow
Wednesday May 28 @ 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 »
Son of Rambow
Film
Jellyfish
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Film
Roman de Gare
Wednesday May 28 @ 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 »
Roman de Gare
Art
Strange Habit
Wednesday May 28 (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
Everyday People
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
A Steady Rain
Wednesday May 28 (7:30pm) @ Royal George Theatre Center More times »
Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only homicide here is in... View details »
A Steady Rain
Art: Photography
Ben Gest
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 (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
Wednesday May 28 @ 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
Film
Reprise
Wednesday May 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Joachim Trier deftly interweaves disparate themes, including ambition, love, punk rock, and the writer's life, in his debut feature-length film. Set in Oslo, Norway, Reprise... View details »
Art
Shape-Shifters
Wednesday May 28 (10am–6pm) @ Alfedena Gallery More times »
Free
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates the ways that familiar... View details »
Shape-Shifters