All events on Sunday June 01

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More Flavor: Discussion
Teacher Tales
Sunday June 1 (3pm) @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
With its low salary and heavy workload, teaching can be a tough gig. And the slow decline in respect accorded to tutors and their tutelage... View details »
Teacher Tales
Film
Metropolis
Sunday June 1 (7pm) @ Doc Films
While the gorgeous dystopia of Fritz Lang's classic Metropolis practically screams Weimar, the film retains an unsettling quality of being just outside of history. It... View details »
Metropolis

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Tony Fitzpatrick
Art
Jeff Koons
Sunday June 1 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in Heaven series includes photographs... View details »
Jeff Koons
Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Three Hours Between Planes
Art
Black Is Black Ain't
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Black Is Black Ain't
Film
The Visitor
Sunday June 1 @ 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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lipstick Traces
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Lipstick Traces
Film
Baby Mama
Sunday June 1 @ 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
Sunday June 1 @ 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
Sunday June 1 @ 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
Art
Christa Donner
Sunday June 1 (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
More Flavor: Festival
Do-Division Street Fest
Sunday June 1 (noon–10pm) @ Do-Division Street Fest More times »
Giveaway
The sweet scent of summer is in the air, and that means neighborhood-festival season has arrived. This weekend's Do-Division Street Fest has the typical street-party... View details »
Do-Division Street Fest
Film
Roman de Gare
Sunday June 1 @ 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
Performing Arts: Comedy
Campaign Supernova!
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Campaign Supernova!
Film
It Always Rains on Sunday
Sunday June 1 (5pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
Every year, several decades-old, rarely seen films appear with restored prints and end up on critics' top-ten lists. Robert Hamer's It Always Rains on Sunday... View details »
It Always Rains on Sunday
Film
Love and Honor
Sunday June 1 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
He's directed over 70 films, but Yoji Yamada was virtually unknown outside Japan until 2002's Oscar-nominated Twilight Samurai. His new Love and Honor closely follows... View details »
Love and Honor
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Sunday June 1 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Free
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits of William Wrigley, Jr..... View details »
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Film
Constantine's Sword
Sunday June 1 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
Constantine's Sword
Art
Everyday People
Sunday June 1 (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
Sunday June 1 @ 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
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Performing Arts: Theatre
Avenue Q
Sunday June 1 @ 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
Sunday June 1 @ 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 »
More Flavor: Tour
Millennium Park Revealed
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Millennium Park Revealed
More Flavor: Tour
Lurie Garden
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Lurie Garden
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Sunday June 1 (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 »
Design in the Age of Darwin