Events on Saturday, September 13

Veggie Bike and Dine

Food/Wine

Veggie Bike and Dine

Saturday 9/13 @ Xochiquetzal Peace Garden

If you think eating vegan involves munching on dirt and twigs served out of a WBEZ tote bag, here's a good... 

Ice Cube

Music: Hip-Hop

Ice Cube

Saturday 9/13 @ House of Blues

With high-profile roles in films like Are We There Yet? and xXx: State of the Union more recently on the radar,... 

Wine Crush in Old Town

Festival: Performing Arts

Wine Crush in Old Town

Saturday 9/13 @ Old Town

If you're a wine snob, closet wino, or maybe just an I Love Lucy fan, you'll find something to appreciate at... 

Flying Lotus w/ Shugo Tokumaru, Blues Control, and Lau Nau

Music

Flying Lotus

Saturday 9/13 @ The Empty Bottle

The fourth night of The Wire's Adventures in Modern Music series spotlights three solo acts and one duo, each... 

<em>Johnny Dodgeball</em>

Film

Johnny Dodgeball

Saturday 9/13 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

This mockumentary follows a ragtag dodgeball team called the Chicago Superdawgs as it rises to pseudo-glory in the National Amateur Dodgeball... 

Ongoing Events

Alec Soth: <em>Dog Days, Bogot&aacute;</em>

Art: Photography

Alec Soth

Saturday 9/13 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery

In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a... 

<em>I Served the King of England</em>

Film

I Served the King of England

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage</em>

Art

Collecting for Chicago

Saturday 9/13 @ 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 —... 

The Seldoms:  <em>Convergence</em>

Dance

Convergence

Saturday 9/13 @ 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.... 

Garfield Park Conservatory: Flower Power

City Gems

Flower Power

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson

Art

Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Art

Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Sunday Painters: Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs</em>

Art

Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Stan Shellabarger: <em>Walking Books</em>

Art

Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books

Saturday 9/13 @ Western Exhibitions

Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western... 

<em>Are We There Yet?</em>

Art

Are We There Yet?

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Fake Lake</em>

Theatre

Fake Lake

Saturday 9/13 @ Welles Park

What do you get when you combine a Lincoln Square swimming pool, a dam in Utah, and the alternative theatre of... 

<em>Psychodrama</em>

Art: Photography

Psychodrama

Saturday 9/13 @ Golden

In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Rashid Johnson: <em>The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center </em>and <em>Cosmic Slops</em>

Art

Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops

Saturday 9/13 @ moniquemeloche gallery

Rashid Johnson is one of the more promising young artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years, with photographs and sculptures... 

<em>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Randolph Street Market Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Randolph Street Market Festival

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

M&oacute;nica Herrera: <em>Strings</em>

Art

Mónica Herrera: Strings

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Buddy:  The Buddy Holly Story</em>

Theatre

Buddy

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Hamlet 2 </em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Saturday 9/13 @ Various locations

With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the... 

Barbara Hashimoto: <em>Junk Mail</em>

Art

Barbara Hashimoto

Saturday 9/13 @ 2003 S Halsted St

A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District —... 

<em>The Dark Knight</em>: The IMAX Experience

Film

The Dark Knight

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Angles in America</em>

Art

Angles in America

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Art of Democracy</em>

Art

Art of Democracy

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Campaign Supernova!</em><em> or How Many Democrats Does It Take to Lose an Election?</em>

Comedy

Campaign Supernova!

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

<em>Chances Are the Comets in Our Future: A Visual Introduction to Drag City</em>

Art

Chances Are the Comets in Our Future

Saturday 9/13 @ Gallery 400

Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and... 

Smart Home: Green + Wired

City Gems

Smart Home

Saturday 9/13 @ Museum Campus

Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... 

Conrad Freiburg: <em>A Great Daydream</em>

Art

Conrad Freiburg

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Comedy

The Sarcastic Squad

Saturday 9/13 @ The Playground Theater

The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians... 

Jeff Koons

Art

Jeff Koons

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Bill O'Donnell: <em>Elevations</em>

Art: Photography

Bill O'Donnell

Saturday 9/13 @ 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.... 

Gore Vidal's <em>Weekend</em>

Theatre

Gore Vidal's Weekend

Saturday 9/13 @ TimeLine Theatre

Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican... 

Art

Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons

Saturday 9/13 @ Chicago Cultural Center

For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative... 

Renegade Craft Fair

Festival: Fair

Renegade Craft Fair

Saturday 9/13 @ Division St between Damen Ave and Hermitage St

As the Renegade Craft Fair boasts on its handmade-feeling website, it's one of the biggest and best-known craft events out there.... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Saturday 9/13 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 9/13 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...