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The Fall
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Wednesday Aug 27 (7:30pm) @ Beverly Arts Center
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In The Fall, a paralyzed Hollywood stuntman convalesces in a hospital where a young Romanian girl heals from a broken collarbone. To compel her to... View details »
- Reading
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Joan Marie Johnson
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Wednesday Aug 27 (7:30pm) @ Women & Children First Bookstore
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Although the efforts of Greater New England-based first-wave feminists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are well known, the story of southern suffragettes... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
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Jana Hunter
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Wednesday Aug 27 (9pm) @ Schubas
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Jana Hunter has been a mainstay in neo-folk circles since the genre (however gleefully un-unified it may be) picked up critical steam almost five years... View details »
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Jeff Koons
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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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Collecting for Chicago
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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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 »
- Film
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Tell No One
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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
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Daniel Traub
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–5:30pm) @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
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... 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 »
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Mónica Herrera: Strings
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Wednesday Aug 27 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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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 »
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Book and Paper Arts Triennial
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–6pm) @ Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts
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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 »
- Film
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Brideshead Revisited
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Bottle Shock
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Are We There Yet?
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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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 »
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Elegy
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Eight Miles High
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Music Box Theatre
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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 »
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Howard Henry Chen
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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
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Bill O'Donnell
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Wednesday Aug 27 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery
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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 »
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La France
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Wednesday Aug 27 (6 & 8pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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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 »
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Hamlet 2
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Wednesday Aug 27 @ Various locations
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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 »
