Events on Thursday, May 8
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- Reading
- John Hagedorn: A World of Gangs
- @ 57th Street Books
- The city has responded to the recent wave of gang violence by stepping up SWAT-team patrols (armed with semiautomatic weapons), increasing... View details »
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- More Flavor: Lecture
- Screaming Queens and Lavender Panthers
- @ Chicago History Museum
- For queer historian, activist, and filmmaker Susan Stryker, the roots of the contemporary transgender movement lie in the Compton's Cafeteria riot... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Art
- David Hockney
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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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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- More Flavor: Tour
- Farnsworth House Plus by Bus
- @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
- A seven-hour, $70 architectural tour may seem like a bit much. But when the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosts an authoritative, metro-area-spanning... 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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- Art
- Mark Wagner
- @ Western Exhibitions
- In the springtime, most of us use our money to catch up on overdue heating bills, but New York-based artist Mark... View details »
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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 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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- Watercolors of Winslow Homer
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Frau Fiber
- @ Various locations
- Artist/activist Frau Fiber's investigation of the history and global politics of the garment industry is the latest installment in Gallery 400's... View details »
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OngoingFree
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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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- 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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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Dolly Parton
- @ The Chicago Theatre
- In classic Horatio Alger fashion, miniature powerhouse Dolly Parton escaped her dirt-poor Tennessee roots to find fame and fortune in the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 9 Parts of Desire
- @ 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... View details »
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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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- Edward Hopper
- @ 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.... View details »
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- Film
- 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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- Art
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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Ongoing
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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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