Events on Sunday, July 13
Sunday 7/13 @ Chicago History Museum
Chicago 360 v.3 is a 90-minute film combining five short documentaries about urban labor and working life. Produced by local nonprofit...
Sunday 7/13 @ Abbey Pub
It's almost poetic that Steed Lord should emerge as a MySpace phenom. Just like the social-networking site, these Icelandic electro-wavers seem...
Women in the Modern American City
Sunday 7/13 @ Smart Museum of Art
The Smart Museum and Seminary Co-op's 57th Street Books present this discussion of Theodore Dreiser's classic Sister Carrie and John French...
Sunday 7/13 @ The Hungry Brain
Daniel Levin has been expanding the vocabulary of the cello in improvised music for some years now. His 2006 release Some...
Sunday 7/13 @ The Chicago Theatre
Every aspiring rock guitarist bows down to Jimmy Page and Slash, but Mark Knopfler? His band Dire Straits debuted in 1977...
Sunday 7/13 @ Rednofive
Back in April, one of the already quiet nights for Chicago dance became a little quieter when Sunday night's Smartbar residency...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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....
Sunday 7/13 @ Millennium Park
Making good on Chicago's motto Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden), the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners offers 20-minute...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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....
Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File
Sunday 7/13 @ Facets Cinémathèque
The tragic turn of events surrounding Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko's poisoning and subsequent death unfolded like a seedy crime novel. The...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival....
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Sunday 7/13 @ City Gallery
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Sunday 7/13 @ 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?...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ Music Box Theatre
Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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 —...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in...
Sunday 7/13 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Sunday 7/13 @ Randolph Street Market
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly...
Sunday 7/13 @ 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...
Sunday 7/13 @ Welles Park
The annual Folk & Roots Festival is an all-inclusive affair — even the Welles Park tennis players can't ignore the music...
Sunday 7/13 @ Music Box Theatre
In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur...
