All events on Monday June 09

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Music: Rock/Pop
Yellow Swans
Monday June 9 (9pm) @ AV-aerie
Giveaway
If Yellow Swans were a French New Wave film, they'd be Last Year at Marienbad: baffling, hypnotic, and nonsensically gorgeous. Over seven years, the avant-garde... View details »
Yellow Swans
More Flavor: Discussion
The Kabul Beauty School
Monday June 9 (6pm) @ InterContinental Hotel
During its five-year reign of oppression, the Taliban prohibited Afghan women from gaining employment, seeking an education, or even venturing outside without a burqa. When... View details »
The Kabul Beauty School
More Flavor: Party
MAKE Magazine Release Party
Monday June 9 (7pm) @ The Hideout
Since its inaugural issue in June 2005, local lit mag MAKE has represented a very specific sensibility. The hard-to-find biannual issues — which focus on... View details »
MAKE Magazine Release Party

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Monday June 9 (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: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Monday June 9 (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
Monday June 9 @ 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
Film
Baby Mama
Monday June 9 @ 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
Monday June 9 @ 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
Monday June 9 @ 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
Film
Roman de Gare
Monday June 9 @ 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
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Monday June 9 (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
Monday June 9 @ 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
Monday June 9 (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
Monday June 9 @ 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: Architecture/Design
Chicago International Poster Biennial
Monday June 9 (10am–3pm) @ Crown Hall More times »
The poster has gone from ephemera to collectible. The medium's widespread appeal warranted the founding of the Chicago International Poster Biennial Association (CIPBA), an organization... View details »
Chicago International Poster Biennial
Art
David Hockney
Monday June 9 (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
Monday June 9 (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
Reprise
Monday June 9 @ 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: City Gem
Flower Power
Monday June 9 (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