All events on Friday August 01
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- Gogol Bordello
- Friday Aug 1 (11pm) @ Metro
- Gogol Bordello are known for raucous live shows that spill into the crowd, often ending with a Gogol girl perched defiantly on top of a... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- Official Lollapalooza aftershow feat. Black Lips w/ the Yolks
- Friday Aug 1 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
- Giveaway
- The Black Lips' live shows are infamous for homoerotic antics, expelled bodily fluids, and shenanigans involving flammable materials. The Atlanta garage-punk foursome's music, on the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Rogue Wave w/ Dr. Dog
- Friday Aug 1 (10:30pm) @ Schubas
- Sold Out!
- Just because a band is friends with Jack Johnson doesn't make it a jam-branded John Mayer in the making. While haunting indie-popsters Rogue Wave's most... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Dance Intersections
- Friday Aug 1 (6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Free
- Improvisation can leave an unsure dancer frozen in existential crisis or wandering through solipsistic patterns. But those who have committed years to solo practice can... View details »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Friday Aug 1 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
- Film
- Contempt (1963)
- Friday Aug 1 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Jean-Luc Godard's 45-year-old masterpiece Contempt is still a conundrum. Coming off a run of shoestring gems, the French New Wave icon suddenly had a big... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Black Harvest International Festival
- Friday Aug 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- All month long, the Gene Siskel Film Center screens critically acclaimed movies that focus on the black community. This is the 14th year that the... View details »
- Film
- Take
- Friday Aug 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Take begins with two close-ups: that of Ana (Minnie Driver), her face drawn and mouth grim; and Saul (Jeremy Renner), wearing handcuffs, his eyes clouded.... View details »
- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- A Taste for Charity
- Friday Aug 1 (6–9pm) @ Mars Gallery
- Wines for Humanity is no ordinary wine-tasting club: its mission is to raise funds for poverty-alleviation charities while giving aficionados the chance to quaff fine... View details »
- Music: Festival
- Lollapalooza
- Friday Aug 1 (noon) @ Grant Park More times »
- No need for pithy adages about beating the heat or keepin' cool when you're talking Lollapalooza: there ain't a force on earth can stop people... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- [POSTPONED] Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler
- Friday Aug 1 (8pm) @ Lakeshore Theater More times »
- Postponed
- With her wide-eyed innocence, retro sensibility, and daffy enthusiasm, Kristen Schaal is a Jazz Age flapper at a Zelda Fitzgerald garden party who has been... View details »
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The following events are ongoing.
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Brown Bag Stitching Salon
- Friday Aug 1 (noon–1:30pm) @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum More times »
- Free
- This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded the progressive community Hull... View details »
- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (11am–6pm) @ 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
- Friday Aug 1 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (10:30am–9pm) @ 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.
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- Art
- Alex Katz: Subject to Reversal
- Friday Aug 1 (10am–4:30pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Friday Aug 1 @ 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
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- Sunday Aug 3 (3–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and invites viewers to play... View details »
- Film
- Eraserhead (1977)
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Tour
- Millennium Park Revealed
- Friday Aug 1 (11am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
- Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in the Windy City, its... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Friday Aug 1 @ 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
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- Art
- Book and Paper Arts Triennial
- Friday Aug 1 (10am–6pm) @ Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts More times »
- Free
- This juried triennial exhibition, dedicated to paper preservation and innovation in an increasingly paperless world, opens today at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book &... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Flower Power
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- Friday Aug 1 (10:30pm) @ Apollo Theater More times »
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance, and a live band.... View details »
- Film: Festival
- The 2008 Silent Summer Film Festival
- Friday Aug 1 (8pm) @ Portage Theater More times »
- The annual Silent Summer Film Festival resurrects the glory of film's Golden Age, screening classics from the silent era. Comedies, dramas, and sci-fi flicks are... View details »
- Art
- Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 @ 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
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- More Flavor: Sports
- Taste of Fitness
- Friday Aug 1 (6pm) @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- Let's be honest — exercising in gyms is boring and expensive. But the Chicago Park District has a solution to the ubiquitous dilemma: free outdoor... View details »
- Art
- Portraits from the Mind
- Friday Aug 1 @ 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 »
- Art
- Boys of Summer
- Friday Aug 1 (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?
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- Art
- Zachary Cahill: The Best Laid Plans
- Friday Aug 1 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- On an Average Day
- Friday Aug 1 @ Greenhouse Theater More times »
- Route 66 Theatre Company's production of John Kolvenbach's On an Average Day sold out its inaugural run in Los Angeles, where critics lauded it as... View details »
- Art
- A Declaration of Immigration
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (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
- Friday Aug 1 (10am–8pm) @ 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 »
