Events on Saturday, August 23
Saturday 8/23 @ Union Park
Dub beats and syncopated rhythms resonate from Union Park this weekend during the second annual Chicago Reggae Festival, a New Roots...
A Discussion on Pop Culture and Sexual Abuse
Saturday 8/23 @ Humboldt Park Library
Despite the myriad achievements of the women's movement over the last 40 years, misogyny and sexual violence remain all-too-potent forces in...
Saturday 8/23 @ Music Box Theatre
Cringe-worthy acting, trite dialogue, and shamelessly explicit nudity aren't enough to turn a box-office bomb into a cult classic, but Showgirls...
Saturday 8/23 @ Abbey Pub
Aesop Rock is one of Def Jux's most consistently brilliant voices, with a gritty, futuristic take on left-field hip-hop. His flow...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/23 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, Are We There Yet? is a group show of lens-based work that touches on issues of...
Saturday 8/23 @ Chicago Art Department
With the death knell sounding for Polaroid film, there's been an upsurge of exhibitions centering on those much-loved instant photos. But...
Saturday 8/23 @ Hyde Park Art Center
For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and...
Saturday 8/23 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Sergei Paradjanov's final film Ashik Kerib is a Rubik's Cube of color — although it's a whisper of his earlier, more...
Saturday 8/23 @ Music Box Theatre
Haskell Wexler made Medium Cool during one of the most turbulent periods in American history. A rash of assassinations, escalating war...
Saturday 8/23 @ Navy Pier
The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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 —...
Saturday 8/23 @ The Playground Theater
The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ Music Box Theatre
Without the songs, Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989) would be just another vividly animated fairy tale about a pretty mermaid who...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ Trebes Park
In an effort to one-up the greatest invention to hit the grocery store — free-sample day — Whole Foods Market's FlavorFest...
Saturday 8/23 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including...
Saturday 8/23 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
As China becomes a major player in global culture, attention shifts towards its booming cities. In a new series of photographs,...
Saturday 8/23 @ Music Box Theatre
German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — running away from her Bavarian parents to...
Saturday 8/23 @ City Gallery
Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views....
Saturday 8/23 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Saturday 8/23 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative...
Saturday 8/23 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Saturday 8/23 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ Greenhouse Theater
Route 66 Theatre Company's production of John Kolvenbach's On an Average Day sold out its inaugural run in Los Angeles, where...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 8/23 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art...
Saturday 8/23 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Howard Henry Chen's exhibition at the MCA is made up of just four artworks — a photographic triptych and three sculptural...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Saturday 8/23 @ 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...
Black Harvest International Festival
Saturday 8/23 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
All month long, the Gene Siskel Film Center screens critically acclaimed movies that focus on the black community. This is the...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 8/23 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
