All events on Saturday July 26
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- Isis
- Saturday July 26 (10:30pm) @ Subterranean
- Prog rock never died — it just grew a tougher skin. Like a more meditative hybrid of Neurosis and Godflesh, Isis create expansive slabs of... View details »
- Film
- Hud (1963)
- Saturday July 26 (11:30am) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Cinema hottie-turned-salad-dressing connosieur Paul Newman stars in this Oscar-winning drama about cattle disease, rape, and other frontier tomfoolery, inspired partly by Larry McMurtry's Horseman, Pass... View details »
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- Bughouse Square Debates
- Saturday July 26 (noon–4pm) @ Washington Square Park
- Free
- From the '20s to the '60s, Chicago's Washington Square Park was a hotbed of rhetoric, as poets, preachers, left-wing agitators, and crackpots waxed radical before... View details »
- Film
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
- Saturday July 26 (2pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell star as Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw, two lounge singers and best friends who travel to Paris on the dime... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
- Saturday July 26 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
- Giveaway
- From the beginning, the LA-based art rocker Ariel Pink has been a love-him-or-hate-him sort of guy. His mix of muddied home recordings and damaged pop... View details »
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- Wicker Park Fest
- Saturday July 26 (11:30am–10pm) @ Wicker Park More times »
- As Chicago neighborhoods go, Wicker Park isn't exactly flying under the radar, so this annual festival celebrates the area's communal energy, more than it introduces... View details »
- Art
- Portraits from the Mind
- Saturday July 26 @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Despite a well-respected decades-long career, painter William Utermohlen didn't enjoy widespread fame until he became unable to make art or communicate. When the septuagenarian, now... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Earlimart
- Saturday July 26 (9pm) @ The Hideout
- Most towns could only dream of this kind of cred: named after a city in California, Earlimart polish taut, melodic gems that recall the sad... View details »
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- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Saturday July 26 (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
- Jay Davis
- Saturday July 26 (11am–5pm) @ Bucket Rider More times »
- Free
- Brooklyn-based artist Jay Davis returns to Chicago with new paintings on vinyl. His colorful, mystical pieces are complex and full of life, vibrating with recurring... View details »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Saturday July 26 @ 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 July 26 (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 July 26 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Saturday July 26 (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
- Collecting for Chicago
- Saturday July 26 (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
- Mario Ybarra, Jr.
- Saturday July 26 (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
- A Steady Rain
- Saturday July 26 (5 & 8pm) @ Royal George Theatre Center More times »
- Most playwrights would kill for the rave reviews that have been heaped upon Keith Huff's A Steady Rain. Happily, the only homicide here is in... View details »
- Art
- Jim Tansley
- Saturday July 26 (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
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- Saturday July 26 (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 »
- Art
- Michael Jones McKean
- Saturday July 26 (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 July 26 (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
- Tell No One
- Saturday July 26 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (François Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
- Art
- Jane Fisher
- Saturday July 26 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery More times »
- Free
- Figurative painter Jane Fisher returns to Chicago with her latest series of paintings: a simple celebration of humanity entitled Big Heads and Bigger Women. The... View details »
- Art
- ISN'T IT
- Saturday July 26 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Daniel Traub
- Saturday July 26 (10am–5:30pm) @ Catherine Edelman Gallery More times »
- Free
- ... China becomes a major player in global culture, attention shifts towards its booming cities. In a new series of photographs, Daniel Traub looks farther... View details »
- Film
- Eraserhead (1977)
- Saturday July 26 (midnight) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Pointedly personal and unapologetically polemical, Eraserhead is David Lynch's 1977 invitation into a wonderful well of weird. The offbeat classic is a miracle of mannered... View details »
- Film
- The Wackness
- Saturday July 26 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About a teenage weed dealer... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Saturday July 26 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary More times »
- Free
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into conversation. In this sancturary,... View details »
- Art
- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- Saturday July 26 (11am–5pm) @ Intuit More times »
- Free
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art that's found. Discarded Paintings... View details »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Saturday July 26 (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 July 26 (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 July 26 @ 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 »
- Art
- Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
- Saturday July 26 (noon–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
- Free
- If you relish summer group exhibitions and air conditioning, head to the two landscape-themed shows at Western Exhibitions. Director Scott Speh works with several artists... View details »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Saturday July 26 @ Navy Pier More times »
- The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic death overshadowed its prodigious... View details »
- Art
- Gisela Insuaste
- Saturday July 26 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Local artist Gisela Insuaste mines the terrain of personal recollection and material culture for her multidisciplinary installations. In painting, drawing, and three-dimensional forms, Insuaste conjures... View details »
- Performing Arts
- Tim Miller: Us
- Saturday July 26 (8pm) @ Links Hall More times »
- In his acclaimed 2003 work Us, Tim Miller goes into forced exile when his British partner's visa expires and he's not legally allowed to stay... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Roman Polanksi
- Saturday July 26 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Roman Polanski may be best known in some circles as the director of such classics as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and Chinatown (1974), but to many... View details »
- Art
- Boys of Summer
- Saturday July 26 (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
- Are We There Yet?
- Saturday July 26 (10am–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- Curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, Are We There Yet? is a group show of lens-based work that touches on issues of mobility. It's a timely... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo
- Saturday July 26 @ Various locations More times »
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
- Art
- Zachary Cahill: The Best Laid Plans
- Saturday July 26 (noon–5pm) @ DOVA Temporary More times »
- Free
- Explicitly political art has fallen out of favor in recent decades, although there have been signs of a comeback as the state of the union... View details »
- Art
- A Declaration of Immigration
- Saturday July 26 (10am–5pm) @ National Museum of Mexican Art More times »
- Free
- It may be a country founded by those who arrived from elsewhere, but the United States arguably has a long way to go when it... View details »
- Art
- Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
- Saturday July 26 (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 July 26 (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 July 26 (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 »
