Events on Saturday, May 3
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Various locations
There's no catch, just free comic books. From teenage angst to the war on terror, comic-book subject matter in recent years...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Hideout
Like a lot of bands, Indian Jewelry are faithful to the fuzz-rock holy trinity of the VU, the Jesus and Mary...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Zola Jones
Mother's Day is just around the corner — sadly, the days are long gone when a yarn necklace or elbow-macaroni picture...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Abbey Pub
Thousands of bands imitate Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer, but few do so with the finesse of Dead Meadow. The power...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Metro
Georgia's Drive-By Truckers used last year's Dirt Underneath tour to adjust to their lineup without guitarist Jason Isbell (the ex-husband of...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Empty Bottle
The future seemed rosy for the Narrator: their new(ish) drummer was finally broken in and their sophomore album, All That to...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Western Exhibitions
In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Smart Museum of Art
It isn't just the title of a plot-twisting Spike Jonze film — "adaptation" also refers to the artistic practice of reappropriation,...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Edward Hopper, the quintessential American realist, receives one of the most comprehensive stateside surveys of his work in this far-reaching retrospective....
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Male perspectives dominate public dialogue about the Iraq War (about most wars, in fact). Smothered in praise since its 2003 UK...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Renaissance Society
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ I Space Gallery
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby —...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Chris Burden put it best when he said that Gordon Matta-Clark's 1978 death was "a drag" — he was referring...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Porchlight Theatre
Winner of the 1982 Tony Award for Best Musical, Nine is based on Italian director Federico Fellini's classic film 8 1/2....
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
Winslow Homer began his career as a humble illustrator for Harper's, but he retired as the self-taught American master of watercolor...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Music Box Theatre
Stanley Kubrick, Michel Gondry, and even George Romero owe a debt to Alain Resnais' new-wave classic Last Year at Marienbad. The...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Extension Gallery
Sinuous and perceptually disorienting, Ball–Nogues Studio's installation is enigmatic and fascinating. The entire exhibition centers and flows around an amorphous orange...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 3 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 5/ 3 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
