All events on Thursday August 28
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- Nico Muhly
- Thursday Aug 28 (8pm) @ Lakeshore Theater
- Bridging the divide between classical-music chops and indie-rock chic, Juilliard alumnus Nico Muhly has one hell of a resume: besides being young and good-looking, he... View details »
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- Politaoke
- Thursday Aug 28 (9pm) @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Free
- Designed by ex-pat artist Diana Arce, Politaoke is a nonpartisan party that mixes the best (and worst) of politics and karaoke. Featuring an impressive menu... View details »
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- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Thursday Aug 28 (8pm) @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Improv Match Game
- Thursday Aug 28 (10pm) @ The ComedySportz Theatre More times »
- Although Improv Match Game panelists concoct impromptu answers to broad questions, it's less an exercise in traditional improv comedy than a faithful revival of the... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Daniel Traub
- Thursday Aug 28 (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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 (11am–7:30pm) @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
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- Flower Power
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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 »
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- Sing-Along Little Mermaid
- Thursday Aug 28 (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?
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
- Film: Festival
- Black Harvest International Festival
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
- Film
- Elegy
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 (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 »
- Art
- Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
- Thursday Aug 28 (10am–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
- Free
- Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Bill Callahan/Smog for years... View details »
- Art
- Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Thursday Aug 28 (7:30pm) @ 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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- Smart Home
- Thursday Aug 28 @ 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 »
