All events on Sunday June 22
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- Thalia Zedek
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (8pm) @ Abbey Pub
- Giveaway
- Her lengthy career has included stints with fairly disparate cult-rock faves like Live Skull and Come, but Thalia Zedek's best work may be as a... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Aluminum Group
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (7pm) @ Darkroom
- While the brief '90s vogue for Burt Bacharach ballads and lounge grooves is long gone, the Aluminum Group continue to fruitfully mine the subtleties of... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
- A Day in the Country
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (2pm) @ The Hideout
- A tangle of upright bassists, sit-down banjoists, and hometown honky-tonkers, the Hideout's annual A Day in the Country festival gathers 11 acts for an afternoon... View details »
- Film
- Rocco and His Brothers
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (2:30pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Luchino Visconti's epic 1960 family portrait marked the director's transition from dour neo-realism to baroque melodrama. A violent parable investigating the effects of industrialization and... View details »
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- Art
- Tony Fitzpatrick
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Three Hours Between Planes
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Farnsworth House Plus by Bus
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (9:30am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
- A seven-hour, $70 architectural tour may seem like a bit much. But when the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosts an authoritative, metro-area-spanning tour of local treasures... View details »
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (9am–4pm) @ Randolph Street Market More times »
- This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly summer-shopping hub that takes... View details »
- Film
- Son of Rambow
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ 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 »
- Art
- Christa Donner
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Art
- Mark Booth
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Art
- Collecting for Chicago
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (10am–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 »
- Art
- Amanda Browder: Cyclone
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (1–6pm) @ Green Lantern More times »
- Free
- Dynamic fiber and performance artist Amanda Browder spins into Chicago again — this time with a stuffed tornado in tow. Browder is known for large... View details »
- Art
- Videodance
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival. The results of these... View details »
- Art
- Mario Ybarra, Jr.
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Art
- Everyday People
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- For Keeps and a Single Day
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (3–5 & 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 »
- Art
- Jim Tansley
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both carefully structured and completely... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Sky Hangs Down Too Close
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (7:30pm) @ The Galaxie More times »
- Bertolt Brecht's play In the Jungle of Cities — sans convoluted vendetta, lumber, and prostitutes — is an ideological wrestling match, with an exhortation to... View details »
- Film
- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ 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 »
- Film
- Refusenik
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- A chronicle of the 30-year international movement to free Soviet Jews, Refusenik is old-school — full of talking heads, historical footage, and blissfully, very little... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Scott Hicks' documentary on the legendary composer Philip Glass is an admiring portrait, not a warts-and-all exposé. Hicks, the director of the musical biopic Shine,... View details »
- Film
- Sangre de Mi Sangre
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- New York has always been a magnet for black sheep, a makeshift family for people who don't have family of their own. In Sangre de... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Millennium Park Revealed
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
- Free
- Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Flower Power
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Superior Donuts
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
- Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the Festivus episode of Seinfeld."... View details »
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- Lurie Garden
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bloody Bess
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (3pm) @ Storefront Theater More times »
- Bloody Bess isn't a pirate story for children, and it's definitely not your standard, polite downtown theater — the show's full of swashbuckling swagger, clamoring... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
- Free
- Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much by postmodern thinkers as... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- Sunday June 22, 2008 (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 »
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- Smart Home
- Sunday June 22, 2008 @ Museum Campus More times »
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The Museum of Science and... View details »
