Events on Saturday, June 14
Saturday 6/14 @ The Sportsman's Club
It's no secret that dad's pretty tired of steak dinner on Father's Day. So celebrate one of mankind's primal traditions, and...
Saturday 6/14 @ Subterranean
The Fall may have inspired These New Puritans' name, and frontman Jack Barnett's shouting repetition may bring to mind a certain...
Saturday 6/14 @ Park West
Billy Bragg is hardly the only bloke to bring punk and politics to the pub, but his incisive lyrics and unaffected,...
Saturday 6/14 @ Lakeshore Theater
When Sun City Girls drummer/ranter Charles Gocher passed away last year, the most formidable and raucous avant-folk act of the last...
Saturday 6/14 @ Metro
Of all the Creation Records bands, Swervedriver most resemble the aggro-sensitive mold that actually impacted the charts during the early '90s....
Saturday 6/14 @ Schubas
Telenovela's delightful sophomore effort, You're Gonna Need It, is a vinyl-only release — in an era of MP3s, digital-only albums, and...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 6/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in...
Saturday 6/14 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits...
Saturday 6/14 @ 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...
Saturday 6/14 @ 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...
Saturday 6/14 @ 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 6/14 @ Music Box Theatre
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects....
Saturday 6/14 @ 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...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Saturday 6/14 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Saturday 6/14 @ Storefront Theater
Bloody Bess isn't a pirate story for children, and it's definitely not your standard, polite downtown theater — the show's full...
Saturday 6/14 @ Garfield Park Conservatory
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little...
Saturday 6/14 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we...
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Saturday 6/14 @ Walsh Gallery
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999,...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Saturday 6/14 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father?...
Saturday 6/14 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode —...
Saturday 6/14 @ Russell Bowman Fine Art
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their...
Saturday 6/14 @ Green Lantern
Dynamic fiber and performance artist Amanda Browder spins into Chicago again — this time with a stuffed tornado in tow. Browder...
Saturday 6/14 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Saturday 6/14 @ 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 6/14 @ Various locations
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday 6/14 @ Randolph Street Market
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly...
Saturday 6/14 @ estudiotres
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People...
Saturday 6/14 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
It's difficult to imagine a Buddhist meditation retreat in a maximum-security prison, but at Donaldson Correctional Facility in
Saturday 6/14 @ 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 6/14 @ Festa Pasta Vino
Most Chicagoans know the Sicilian-dominated Little Italy on Taylor Street, but there's another Italian 'hood, settled mostly by Tuscans, tucked away...
Saturday 6/14 @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work...
Saturday 6/14 @ Various locations
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of...
Saturday 6/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
In the current installment of the UBS 12x12 series, Mark Booth presents drawings and paintings that combine text with biomorphic forms...
Saturday 6/14 @ Alfedena Gallery
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates...
Saturday 6/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Lookingglass Theatre Company has chosen to revive the 2000 hit For Keeps and a Single Day for its 20th season. Thomas...
Saturday 6/14 @ 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 6/14 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 6/14 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
