Events on Monday, September 1
Monday 9/ 1 @ Millennium Park
Admit it, the reason you didn't want to join your high-school glee club was because you would have much preferred singing...
Monday 9/ 1 @ The Empty Bottle
The Hidden Mitten aren't the most polished band in the city. But on their best songs — "These Are the Things"...
Ongoing Events
Monday 9/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — running away from her Bavarian parents to...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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 —...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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....
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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...
Monday 9/ 1 @ 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
Monday 9/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative...
Monday 9/ 1 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Directors Lucia Small and Ed Pincus cut their teeth on the old-school concept of documentaries: filmmaker as fly on the wall....
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Monday 9/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
