All events on Monday July 07

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Music: Rock/Pop
Le Loup
Monday July 7 (noon) @ Millennium Park
Free
With wolf-like guile and at least a few bachelor's degrees among them, Le Loup play sharp, circuitous pop that makes good on electro-folk's oft-unsubstantiated claims... View details »
Le Loup
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Carillon Concert
Monday July 7 (7pm) @ Chicago Botanic Garden
Free
Although it's common in the low countries of Europe — the Netherlands and Belgium, particularly — the carillon is a relatively rare sight stateside. The... View details »
Carillon Concert
Film: Documentary
The Gits
Monday July 7 (7pm) @ Delilah's
Free
In the early '90s, Seattle outfit the Gits were rising stars in the Northwest punk scene — thanks in no small part to the ferocious... View details »
The Gits

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Film
The Visitor
Monday July 7 @ 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
Art
Collecting for Chicago
Monday July 7 (10:30am–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 »
Collecting for Chicago
Art
Videodance
Monday July 7 (9am–8pm) @ 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 »
Videodance
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Monday July 7 (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.
Art
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Monday July 7 (10am–5:30pm) @ Richard Gray Gallery More times »
Free
At 81, Alex Katz has only recently emerged as one of America's major contemporary artists. The Richard Gray Gallery shows why the artist's profile has... View details »
Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
Art
Jim Tansley
Monday July 7 (8am–7pm) @ 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 »
Jim Tansley
Art
David Hockney
Monday July 7 (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 July 7 (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
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Monday July 7 @ 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 »
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Film
Brick Lane
Monday July 7 @ 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 »
Brick Lane
Film
My Winnipeg
Monday July 7 @ 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 »
My Winnipeg
Film: Documentary
Up the Yangtze
Monday July 7 @ 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 »
Up the Yangtze
Film: Documentary
Forever
Monday July 7 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
Paris' Père-Lachaise — one of the most-visited cemeteries in the world — is the final resting place for a stunning number of artists, including Chopin,... View details »
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Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Monday July 7 @ 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 »
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
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Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Monday July 7 (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 »
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
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Flower Power
Monday July 7 (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
Performing Arts: Theatre
Superior Donuts
Monday July 7 @ 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 »
Superior Donuts
Film: Documentary
Gonzo
Monday July 7 @ 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 »
Gonzo
Art: Photography
Beyond the Backyard
Monday July 7 (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 »