Events on Friday, September 12

<em>A Magical Vision</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Holy Fuck w/ the Poison Arrows
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
The Walkmen w/ Golem
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Dianogah w/ Pinebender
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Junot D&iacute;az
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Free
Busdriver w/ Henry Flynt and Ecstatic Sunshine
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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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Ongoing Events

<em>Sunday Painters: Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Bottle Shock</em>
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
<em>I Served the King of England</em>
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
Film
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 »
Ongoing
Stan Shellabarger: <em>Walking Books</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Campaign Supernova!</em><em> or How Many Democrats Does It Take to Lose an Election?</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Buddy:  The Buddy Holly Story</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Are We There Yet?</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Psychodrama</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Garfield Park Conservatory: Flower Power
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Dark Knight</em>: The IMAX Experience
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
Film
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Elegy</em>
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
Alec Soth: <em>Dog Days, Bogot&aacute;</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Hamlet 2 </em>
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
Rashid Johnson: <em>The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center </em>and <em>Cosmic Slops</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Jeff Koons
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Baby Wants Candy
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Angles in America</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Gore Vidal's <em>Weekend</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
M&oacute;nica Herrera: <em>Strings</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Tell No One</em>
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
Millennium Park Revealed
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Conrad Freiburg: <em>A Great Daydream</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Chances Are the Comets in Our Future: A Visual Introduction to Drag City</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
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Smart Home: Green + Wired
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Art of Democracy</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
Art
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Fake Lake</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
The Seldoms:  <em>Convergence</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Bill O'Donnell: <em>Elevations</em>
Month_09 Friday Day_12
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
Free
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Month_09 Saturday Day_13
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 »
Ongoing
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