All events on Monday August 25

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Reading
Adrienne Pine: Working Hard, Drinking Hard
Monday Aug 25 (7–8pm) @ Quimby's Bookstore
Free
Adrienne Pine, assistant professor of anthropology at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, talks about her encounters with Honduras' culture of violence, alcoholism, and manual... View details »
Adrienne Pine: Working Hard, Drinking Hard
Music: Global
Habib Koité & Bamada
Monday Aug 25 (8pm) @ Martyrs'
No place outside the Delta has produced such beautiful, soulful blues music as Mali. Born in the lineage of African griots (storytellers), Habib Koité is... View details »
Habib Koité & Bamada

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Art
Collecting for Chicago
Monday Aug 25 (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
Film
Tell No One
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Tell No One
Art
Mónica Herrera: Strings
Monday Aug 25 (9am–8pm) @ 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 »
Mónica Herrera: Strings
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Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Monday Aug 25 @ 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
Art
Book and Paper Arts Triennial
Monday Aug 25 (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 »
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Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Monday Aug 25 (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 Aug 25 (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
Film
The Dark Knight
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
The Dark Knight
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Brideshead Revisited
Film
Bottle Shock
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Bottle Shock
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Sing-Along Little Mermaid
Monday Aug 25 (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 »
Sing-Along Little Mermaid
Art
Are We There Yet?
Monday Aug 25 (10am–8pm) @ 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 »
Are We There Yet?
Film: Festival
Black Harvest International Festival
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Black Harvest International Festival
Film
Elegy
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Elegy
Film
Eight Miles High
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Eight Miles High
Art: Photography
Bill O'Donnell
Monday Aug 25 (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 »
Bill O'Donnell
Art: Photography
Death + Extinction
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Death + Extinction
Film
La France
Monday Aug 25 (6 & 8pm) @ 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 »
La France
Art
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Monday Aug 25 @ 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
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Hamlet 2
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Smart Home
Monday Aug 25 @ 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 »
Smart Home