Events on Saturday, August 30
Saturday 8/30 @ Doc Films
The dead return from the grave to munch on the living in George Romero's classic 1968 film. After a zombie attacks...
Saturday 8/30 @ Schubas
Joel Thibodeau's stratospherically high voice and bright delivery don't sound particularly funereal, but he carries his Death Vessel moniker with unflinching...
Saturday 8/30 @ Subterranean
When Don Caballero burst onto the scene in the early '90s, their heady, precise, neo-classical metal (unfortunately tagged "math rock") seemed...
Saturday 8/30 @ Metro
Little was heard earlier this year from M_nus, the minimal-techno label set up by Richie "Plastikman" Hawtin in 1998. But the...
Ongoing Events
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday 8/30 @ Randolph Street Market
This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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....
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Saturday 8/30 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative...
Saturday 8/30 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Directors Lucia Small and Ed Pincus cut their teeth on the old-school concept of documentaries: filmmaker as fly on the wall....
Saturday 8/30 @ 2003 S Halsted St
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —...
Saturday 8/30 @ The Playground Theater
The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Saturday 8/30 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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....
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ Music Box Theatre
German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — running away from her Bavarian parents to...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
Saturday 8/30 @ Gallery 400
Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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 —...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
The Gene Siskel Film Center gives you the chance to do Derrida and Zizek in one night with this deconstructionist double...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Saturday 8/30 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 8/30 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
