All events on Saturday August 23
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- Medium Cool
- Saturday Aug 23 (11:30am) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Haskell Wexler made Medium Cool during one of the most turbulent periods in American history. A rash of assassinations, escalating war in Vietnam, and violent... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Aesop Rock
- Saturday Aug 23 (9pm) @ Abbey Pub
- Giveaway
- Aesop Rock is one of Def Jux's most consistently brilliant voices, with a gritty, futuristic take on left-field hip-hop. His flow is supremely confident, and... View details »
- Film
- Ashik Kerib
- Saturday Aug 23 (3:15pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Sergei Paradjanov's final film Ashik Kerib is a Rubik's Cube of color — although it's a whisper of his earlier, more complex films. The film... View details »
- Film
- Showgirls (1995)
- Saturday Aug 23 (10:30pm) @ 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 has all that and... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- FlavorFest
- Saturday Aug 23 (11am–9pm) @ Trebes Park More times »
- Free
- In an effort to one-up the greatest invention to hit the grocery store — free-sample day — Whole Foods Market's FlavorFest takes over Wrightwood Park... View details »
- Music: Festival
- Chicago Reggae Festival
- Saturday Aug 23 (noon–10pm) @ Union Park
- Dub beats and syncopated rhythms resonate from Union Park this weekend during the second annual Chicago Reggae Festival, a New Roots Productions event that donates... View details »
- Music: DJ
- A-Trak
- Saturday Aug 23 (10pm) @ Subterranean
- Giveaway
- After winning the DMC DJ Championships at age 15, A-Trak embarked on a meteoric rise that continues to this day. The Montreal native has manned... View details »
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- A Discussion on Pop Culture and Sexual Abuse
- Saturday Aug 23 (2pm) @ Humboldt Park Library
- Free
- Despite the myriad achievements of the women's movement over the last 40 years, misogyny and sexual violence remain all-too-potent forces in popular culture. From Dolce... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Saturday Aug 23 (4 & 8pm) @ TimeLine Theatre More times »
- Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican senator as he prepares... View details »
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- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Saturday Aug 23 (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 »
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Saturday Aug 23 (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 Aug 23 (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 Aug 23 (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 Aug 23 (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 »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Saturday Aug 23 @ 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: Photography
- Daniel Traub
- Saturday Aug 23 (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
- Saturday Aug 23 (9am–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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Saturday Aug 23 @ 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 Aug 23 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Saturday Aug 23 (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
- Saturday Aug 23 (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 Aug 23 @ 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 »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Saturday Aug 23 @ 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 »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Saturday Aug 23 @ 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
- Bottle Shock
- Saturday Aug 23 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small-vineyard... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Sing-Along Little Mermaid
- Saturday Aug 23 (1, 3:15, 5:30 & 7:45pm) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Without the songs, Disney's The Little Mermaid (1989) would be just another vividly animated fairy tale about a pretty mermaid who falls in love with... View details »
- Art
- Are We There Yet?
- Saturday Aug 23 (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: Festival
- Black Harvest International Festival
- Saturday Aug 23 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- On an Average Day
- Saturday Aug 23 @ 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
- Saturday Aug 23 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Sarcastic Squad
- Saturday Aug 23 @ The Playground Theater More times »
- The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians and mediums." The show... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- Saturday Aug 23 (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 »
- Film
- Elegy
- Saturday Aug 23 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
- Film
- Eight Miles High
- Saturday Aug 23 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — running away from her Bavarian parents to sleep her way through... View details »
- Art
- Howard Henry Chen
- Saturday Aug 23 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Howard Henry Chen's exhibition at the MCA is made up of just four artworks — a photographic triptych and three sculptural ensembles — but that's... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Saturday Aug 23 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
- Free
- 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. This series, on display... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake Lake
- Saturday Aug 23 (8pm) @ Welles Park More times »
- What do you get when you combine a Lincoln Square swimming pool, a dam in Utah, and the alternative theatre of the Neo-Futurists? You get... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Death + Extinction
- Saturday Aug 23 @ Chicago Art Department More times »
- Free
- With the death knell sounding for Polaroid film, there's been an upsurge of exhibitions centering on those much-loved instant photos. But rather than waxing nostalgic,... View details »
- Film
- La France
- Saturday Aug 23 (3, 5 & 7:45pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Forgoing the grandeur or gravitas of most WWI movies, La France is an intimate, unconventional fable about being lost. After receiving an ominous letter from... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- Saturday Aug 23 (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 »
- Art
- Barbara Hashimoto
- Saturday Aug 23 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St More times »
- Free
- A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
- Art
- Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
- Saturday Aug 23 @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative talent and dedication. Light... View details »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Saturday Aug 23 @ Various locations More times »
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
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- Smart Home
- Saturday Aug 23 @ Museum Campus More times »
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The Museum of Science and... View details »
