All events on Sunday August 31
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- The Nike+ Human Race 10k
- Sunday Aug 31 (6:30pm) @ Soldier Field
- Nike has seemed intent on reimagining the experience of running ever since it began collaborating with Apple. The company's latest effort, the Human Race 10k,... View details »
- Film
- The Harder They Come (1972)
- Sunday Aug 31 (6pm) @ Delilah's
- Free
- In The Harder They Come, aspiring reggae star Ivanhoe Martin moves to the city in hopes of releasing an album. He quickly learns that money... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Roky Erickson & the Explosives
- Sunday Aug 31 (9pm) @ Double Door
- As a founding member of '60s psych legends 13th Floor Elevators, singer/guitarist Roky Erickson wasn't shy about experimenting with drugs (he often described the band's... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Aimee Mann w/ Squeeze
- Sunday Aug 31 (7pm) @ Ravinia Festival
- Aimee Mann is the Kevin Kouzmanoff of pop music. Just as the ballplayer hit a grand slam on the first pitch he saw in the... View details »
- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Ornette Coleman
- Sunday Aug 31 (8:30pm) @ Grant Park
- Free
- Ornette Coleman is a legend like few others. His raw, keening saxophone style heralded the birth of free jazz — and broke every musical rule... View details »
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- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Sunday Aug 31 (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 »
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Sunday Aug 31 (9am–4pm) @ Randolph Street Market More times »
- This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly summer-shopping hub that takes... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Sunday Aug 31 (7pm) @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 (10am–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 »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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 »
- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- Sunday Aug 31 (noon–5pm) @ 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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- Millennium Park Revealed
- Sunday Aug 31 (11am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
- Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in the Windy City, its... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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 »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Sunday Aug 31 (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
- Sunday Aug 31 (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: Documentary
- The Axe in the Attic
- Sunday Aug 31 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
- Directors Lucia Small and Ed Pincus cut their teeth on the old-school concept of documentaries: filmmaker as fly on the wall. As Northern liberals interviewing... View details »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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 »
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- Lurie Garden
- Sunday Aug 31 (10am–1pm) @ Millennium Park More times »
- Free
- Making good on Chicago's motto Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden), the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners offers 20-minute guided tours around Millennium... View details »
- Film
- Brideshead Revisited
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 (1, 3:15, 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?
- Sunday Aug 31 (noon–5pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- On an Average Day
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 (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
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 (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
- Sunday Aug 31 (10am–5pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Death + Extinction
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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 »
- Art
- Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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 »
- Art
- Heather Mekkelson: Limited Entry
- Sunday Aug 31 (1–4pm) @ Old Gold Exhibitions and Events More times »
- Free
- At first, it looks as if Heather Mekkelson has left Old Gold's basement gallery in a near-empty state. Gradually, it becomes clear that the artist... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Sunday Aug 31 (2pm) @ 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
- Sunday Aug 31 @ 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 »
