All events on Saturday June 28
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- The Temptations w/ The Four Tops
- Saturday June 28 (7:30pm) @ The Pavilion at Ravinia
- Although the Temptations and the Four Tops were two of Motown's flagship groups during its golden era, they've weathered so many lineup changes over the... View details »
- Film
- Dillinger Is Dead (1969)
- Saturday June 28 (7 & 9pm) @ Doc Films
- Despite his key role in the early development of Italian art cinema, filmmaker Marco Ferreri isn't nearly as well known as contemporaries like Michelangelo Antonioni... View details »
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- Belmont Arts and Music Festival
- Saturday June 28 (noon–10pm) @ Belmont Arts and Music Festival More times »
- Summer in Chicago means movies in the park, walks along the shore, and a cheap music fest nearly every weekend. The Belmont Arts and Music... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Lisa Lampanelli
- Saturday June 28 (8pm) @ Genesee Theatre
- Lisa Lampanelli might look like a typical fortysomething soccer mom, but she's got the mouth of a depraved, horny sailor. The acid-tongued comedienne — who... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
- Hayden
- Saturday June 28 (10:30pm) @ Schubas
- Giveaway
- Hayden has been carving out a nice little following over the last decade, having begun his career with lo-fi, limited-edition releases with hand-drawn liner notes.... View details »
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- Art
- Tony Fitzpatrick
- Saturday June 28 (9am–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
- Saturday June 28 (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
- Saturday June 28 (9am–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
- Saturday June 28 @ 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 »
- Art
- Ladylike
- Saturday June 28 (noon–4pm) @ 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 »
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Saturday June 28 (10am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Christa Donner
- Saturday June 28 (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!
- Saturday June 28 (8 & 11pm) @ 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
- Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
- Art
- Mark Booth
- Saturday June 28 (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
- Saturday June 28 (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
- Saturday June 28 (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
- Saturday June 28 (9am–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.
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- For Keeps and a Single Day
- Saturday June 28 (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
- Saturday June 28 (9am–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
- Ben Gest
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Sky Hangs Down Too Close
- Saturday June 28 (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?
- Saturday June 28 @ 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
- Milos Forman
- Saturday June 28 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
- Given his terrific contribution to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His relatively under-the-radar profile may stem from... View details »
- Art
- Michael Jones McKean
- Saturday June 28 (11am–6pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
- Free
- Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence, and the unusual artifacts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gutenberg! The Musical!
- Saturday June 28 (5 & 9pm) @ Royal George Theatre Center More times »
- Aspiring Broadway composer/lyricists trying to attract angel investors usually consider more contemporary material than Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Yet that's the sputtering... View details »
- Film
- Brick Lane
- Saturday June 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
- Art
- ISN'T IT
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
- Film
- My Winnipeg
- Saturday June 28 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Saturday June 28 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Nicole Garneau: UPRISING #6
- Saturday June 28 (10am–4pm) @ Center For New Possibilities More times »
- In 2005, activist and performer Nicole Garneau marked the tenth anniversary of Chicago's deadly heat wave with a run of 365 daily performances. Her latest... View details »
- Art
- Shape-Shifters
- Saturday June 28 (10am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Clouds, et al
- Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ 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 »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
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- Flower Power
- Saturday June 28 (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
- Saturday June 28 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bloody Bess
- Saturday June 28 (7:30pm) @ 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
- Boys of Summer
- Saturday June 28 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
- Free
- A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you don't know where to... View details »
- Art
- Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- Saturday June 28 (10am–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
- Saturday June 28 (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 »
- Art
- Barbara Hashimoto
- Saturday June 28 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St More times »
- Free
- A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
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- Smart Home
- Saturday June 28 @ 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 »
