Events on Friday, August 29
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- Music: DJ
- Afrika Bambaataa
- @ SmartBar
- Legendary godfather of the block party, pioneer of electro-funk, and originator of the Universal Zulu Nation, Afrika Bambaataa lends his guidance... View details »
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- Reading
- Lloyd Dangle
- @ Quimby's Bookstore
- Cartoonist and political satirist Lloyd Dangle hits Quimby's tonight with a mouthful of left-leaning sarcasm and an armful of slides from... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- @ TimeLine Theatre
- Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Flower Power
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Death + Extinction
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The Axe in the Attic
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- Directors Lucia Small and Ed Pincus cut their teeth on the old-school concept of documentaries: filmmaker as fly on the wall.... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Brown Bag Stitching Salon
- @ Jane Addams Hull House Museum
- This bring-your-own-lunch gathering of handicrafters is held in honor of artist, educator, and social activist Ellen Gates Starr, who historically co-founded... View details »
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- Film
- Bottle Shock
- @ 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... View details »
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- Collecting for Chicago
- @ 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 —... View details »
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- Art
- Are We There Yet?
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Elegy
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- @ Museum Campus
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... View details »
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- Art
- Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
- @ Gallery 400
- Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and... View details »
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OngoingFree Flavorpill 50
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake Lake
- @ Welles Park
- What do you get when you combine a Lincoln Square swimming pool, a dam in Utah, and the alternative theatre of... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Tell No One
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Sing-Along Little Mermaid
- @ 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... View details »
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- Brideshead Revisited
- @ 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.... View details »
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- More Flavor: Tour
- Millennium Park Revealed
- @ Chicago Architecture Foundation
- Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Art
- Book and Paper Arts Triennial
- @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago
- This juried triennial exhibition, dedicated to paper preservation and innovation in an increasingly paperless world, opens today at Columbia College Chicago's... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Sarcastic Squad
- @ The Playground Theater
- The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- @ 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.... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film
- Hamlet 2
- @ Various locations
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Howard Henry Chen
- @ 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... View details »
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- Scarface
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Released in 1932 and initially censored, Scarface is one of the earliest — and greatest — gangster talkies. Based on the... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative... View details »
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- The Dark Knight
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Daniel Traub
- @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
- As China becomes a major player in global culture, attention shifts towards its booming cities. In a new series of photographs,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- On an Average Day
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- A Declaration of Immigration
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Eight Miles High
- @ Music Box Theatre
- German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — running away from her Bavarian parents to... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- @ Apollo Theater
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... View details »
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- Art
- Jeff Koons
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor
- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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