All events on Wednesday June 18

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Music: Rock/Pop
Crystal Castles
Wednesday June 18 @ Double Door
Free
Crystal Castles love small-scale blippy melodies styled after old-school video games, but their songs are always dance-floor ready, given a sensual push by vocalist Alice... View details »
Crystal Castles
Film
Pillow Talk
Wednesday June 18 (1:30pm) @ Portage Theater
The first movie that paired Rock Hudson and Doris Day, Pillow Talk is a classic tale of a womanizer who gets his comeuppance. It's well-trod... View details »
Pillow Talk
Music: Rock/Pop
Alice Russell
Wednesday June 18 (9pm) @ Schubas
Giveaway
Call her the next British blue-eyed soul export if you want, but Alice Russell doesn't need a trademark look, tabloid troubles, or a promotional deal... View details »
Alice Russell
More Flavor: Workshop
Foundation for Freedom
Wednesday June 18 @ Mess Hall More times »
Opening
Free
Regarding those who toil on Madison Avenue, the acid-tongued Bill Hicks once riffed, "You are Satan's little helpers… kill yourself, seriously… it's the only way... View details »
Foundation for Freedom

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Wednesday June 18 (8am–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
Wednesday June 18 (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
Wednesday June 18 (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
Film
The Visitor
Wednesday June 18 @ 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 June 18 (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 June 18 @ 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
Art
Ladylike
Wednesday June 18 (1–6pm) @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery More times »
Free
In a post-third-wave landscape of mommy wars, Sex and the City fever, and continuous political upheaval, feminism is having a bit of an identity crisis.... View details »
Ladylike
Film
Redbelt
Wednesday June 18 @ 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 June 18 @ 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
Wednesday June 18 (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 June 18 @ 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
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Wednesday June 18 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Walsh Gallery More times »
Free
Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999, the curator and scholar... View details »
Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
Art
Mark Booth
Wednesday June 18 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
In the current installment of the UBS 12x12 series, Mark Booth presents drawings and paintings that combine text with biomorphic forms and recall both cellular... View details »
Mark Booth
Art
Collecting for Chicago
Wednesday June 18 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode — its world-class collection was... View details »
Collecting for Chicago
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Wednesday June 18 (10:30am–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
Wednesday June 18 @ 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
Wednesday June 18 (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 June 18 @ 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
For Keeps and a Single Day
Wednesday June 18 (7:30–9:30pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
Lookingglass Theatre Company has chosen to revive the 2000 hit For Keeps and a Single Day for its 20th season. Thomas J. Cox won raves... View details »
For Keeps and a Single Day
Art: Photography
Ben Gest
Wednesday June 18 (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 June 18 (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 June 18 (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
Film
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Wednesday June 18 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Music: Rock/Pop
The Swell Season
Wednesday June 18 (8pm) @ The Chicago Theatre More times »
It was a pretty sweet moment when Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova won the Oscar for their song "Falling Slowly" from the sleeper indie-romance Once.... View details »
The Swell Season
Film
Reprise
Wednesday June 18 @ 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
ISN'T IT
Wednesday June 18 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
At first glance, ISN'T IT appears to be a loose collection of sculptures that brings modest materials to life. But the exhibition rewards close viewing,... View details »
ISN'T IT
Art
Shape-Shifters
Wednesday June 18 (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
Art
Clouds, et al
Wednesday June 18 (10:30am–6:30pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work of multiple artists. In... View details »
Clouds, et al
More Flavor: City Gem
Flower Power
Wednesday June 18 (9am–5pm) @ Garfield Park Conservatory More times »
Free
If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little more spacious and herbaceous,... View details »
Flower Power
Art
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Wednesday June 18 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
Free
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Wednesday June 18 (10am–8pm) @ 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