Events on Friday, September 12
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- Film: Documentary
- A Magical Vision
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Before it evolved (or, rather, devolved) into David Blaine's "endurance art" stunts and Criss Angel's gimmicky Las Vegas illusions, magic melded... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Holy Fuck
- @ Subterranean
- The bawdily named Holy Fuck are know for their rapturous live performances, tweezing dark Kraut disco from two giant flight-case jumbles... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Walkmen
- @ Metro
- Few bands boast the closeness of the Walkmen: featuring former members of the Recoys and Jonathan Fire*Eater, the five-piece coalition has... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Dianogah
- @ Bottom Lounge
- If you weren't around for the halcyon days of Chicago post-rock, Dianogah might seem like a footnote in some long-passed history.... View details »
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- Reading
- Junot Díaz
- @ Harold Washington Library
- It took more than ten years, but Junot Díaz finally exceeded those huge, Drown-inspired expectations with last year's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- Henry Flynt
- @ The Empty Bottle
- The criminally underappreciated bluegrass experimentalist and philosopher Henry Flynt was the first hillbilly to embrace the space-age hoedown. Single-handedly pushing old-timey... View details »
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- 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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- Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
- @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists... View details »
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- 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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- I Served the King of England
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes from a novel... View details »
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- Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
- @ Western Exhibitions
- Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
- @ Crown Hall
- This exhibition provides a thorough visual survey of Brazil's modern architecture. Photographs, drawings, and design concepts profile the work of well-established... 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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- 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
- 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
- Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative... View details »
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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Psychodrama
- @ Golden
- In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Alec Soth
- @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
- In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a... View details »
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- 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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- Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops
- @ Monique Meloche
- Rashid Johnson is one of the more promising young artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years, with photographs and sculptures... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- Angles in America
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the... View details »
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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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- Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
- @ Normal Projects
- Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Conrad Freiburg
- @ Linda Warren Gallery
- Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist... View details »
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- 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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- 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 of Democracy
- @ Loyola University Museum of Art
- Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history... View details »
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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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- Convergence
- @ The Seldoms
- Like David Byrne's Playing the Building translated into dance, Convergence finds choreographer Carrie Hanson excavating conceptual bedrock in a 15,000-square-foot garage.... View details »
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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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- 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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- 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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