Events on Thursday, July 10
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- More Flavor: Party
- Lora Fosberg
- @ Spy Bar
- In Lora Fosberg's offbeat art, you're likely to find some skeletons tongue wrestling, or an airplane above the beach towing the... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- What's Your Point, Honey?
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- With Hillary Clinton's historic campaign finally kaput, feminists are left wondering: who's next? To that end, the documentary What's Your Point,... View details »
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Red Red Meat
- @ The Hideout
- Presaging the new-millennium rise of shadowy indie Americana by about eight years, Chicago's own Red Red Meat were like a house... View details »
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- Reading
- Salman Rushdie
- @ Harold Washington Library
- Indian-born author Salman Rushdie spent nearly a decade in hiding due to his controversial, fatwa-inducing novel The Satanic Verses, but somehow... View details »
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- Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
- @ Walsh Gallery
- Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999,... View details »
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- Jim Tansley
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both... View details »
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- Film
- Outsourced
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- What do you do if the only way to save your job is to fly off to India and train your... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Improv Match Game
- @ The ComedySportz Theatre
- Although Improv Match Game panelists concoct impromptu answers to broad questions, it's less an exercise in traditional improv comedy than a... View details »
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- Art
- Clouds, et al
- @ Carrie Secrist Gallery
- During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gutenberg! The Musical!
- @ Royal George Theatre Center
- Aspiring Broadway composer/lyricists trying to attract angel investors usually consider more contemporary material than Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press.... View details »
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- Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
- @ Richard Gray Gallery
- At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into... View details »
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- Art
- A Declaration of Immigration
- @ National Museum of Mexican Art
- It may be a country founded by those who arrived from elsewhere, but the United States arguably has a long way... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film: Documentary
- Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- The tragic turn of events surrounding Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning and subsequent death unfolded like a seedy crime novel. The... View details »
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- More Flavor: Sports
- Taste of Fitness
- @ Various locations
- Let's be honest — exercising in gyms is boring and expensive. But the Chicago Park District has a solution to the... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Michael Jones McKean
- @ threewalls
- Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence,... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- @ 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... View details »
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- My Winnipeg
- @ Music Box Theatre
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur... View details »
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- Boys of Summer
- @ Monique Meloche
- A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Flower Power
- @ 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... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Superior Donuts
- @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
- Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- @ Museum Campus
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... View details »
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- Mario Ybarra, Jr.
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- It Came from the Neo-Futurarium
- @ The Neo-Futurarium
- Substandard cinema usually has a special place on Blockbuster's back shelves, but the Neo-Futurists drag it back into the spotlight by... View details »
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- Christa Donner
- @ 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... View details »
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- Gisela Insuaste
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Local artist Gisela Insuaste mines the terrain of personal recollection and material culture for her multidisciplinary installations. In painting, drawing, and... View details »
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- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- @ 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?... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bloody Bess
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much... View details »
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- Brick Lane
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen... View details »
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- Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
- @ Western Exhibitions
- If you relish summer group exhibitions and air conditioning, head to the two landscape-themed shows at Western Exhibitions. Director Scott Speh... View details »
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- ISN'T IT
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- At first glance, ISN'T IT appears to be a loose collection of sculptures that brings modest materials to life. But the... View details »
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- Videodance
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
- Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival.... View details »
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- The Wackness
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About... View details »
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- Collecting for Chicago
- @ 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 —... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo
- @ Various locations
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style.... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- @ 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... View details »
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- Jeff Koons
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- @ City Gallery
- Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic... View details »
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- The Visitor
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Macho
- @ Lincoln Lodge
- Tonight might be your only chance this summer to get a shot of testosterone delivered by two women, as NYC comics... View details »
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- Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
- @ 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... View details »
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- Tell No One
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (François Cluzet) has... View details »
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- Ladylike
- @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery
- In a post-third-wave landscape of mommy wars, Sex and the City fever, and continuous political upheaval, feminism is having a bit... View details »
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- David Hockney
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- David Hockney gained recognition in the '60s for his flat, single-panel paintings of swimming pools, but he also creates more narrative-based... View details »
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- More Flavor: Tour
- Farnsworth House Plus by Bus
- @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
- A seven-hour, $70 architectural tour may seem like a bit much. But when the Chicago Architecture Foundation hosts an authoritative, metro-area-spanning... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of... View details »
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