All events on Saturday September 13
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- Veggie Bike and Dine
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am) @ 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 chance to get schooled.... View details »
- More Flavor: Fair
- Renegade Craft Fair
- Saturday Sep 13 (noon–10pm) @ Division St between Damen Ave and Hermitage St More times »
- Free
- As the Renegade Craft Fair boasts on its handmade-feeling website, it's one of the biggest and best-known craft events out there. (Born in Chicago, it... View details »
- Film
- Johnny Dodgeball
- Saturday Sep 13 (8pm) @ 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 Tournament. The path to... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Flying Lotus
- Saturday Sep 13 (9pm) @ The Empty Bottle
- The fourth night of The Wire's Adventures in Modern Music series spotlights three solo acts and one duo, each with an exquisite sense... View details »
- Music: Hip-Hop
- Ice Cube
- Saturday Sep 13 (9pm) @ 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, it's easy to forget... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Wine Crush in Old Town
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am–10pm) @ 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 this festival. After sampling... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Saturday Sep 13 (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
- Saturday Sep 13 (10am–5pm) @ 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!
- Saturday Sep 13 (8 & 11pm) @ 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
- Saturday Sep 13 (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
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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
- Saturday Sep 13 (9am–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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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 »
- Art
- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am–5pm) @ Intuit More times »
- Free
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art that's found. Discarded Paintings... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Saturday Sep 13 (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
- Saturday Sep 13 (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 »
- Art
- Art of Democracy
- Saturday Sep 13 (10am–5pm) @ Loyola University Museum of Art More times »
- Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history of disseminating ideas to... View details »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Alec Soth
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a baby girl. During his... View details »
- Film
- Bottle Shock
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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 »
- Art
- Angles in America
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
- Free
- You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the game for the exhibition's... View details »
- Art
- Are We There Yet?
- Saturday Sep 13 (10am–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 »
- Art
- Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
- Free
- Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western Exhibitions the artist displays... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Sarcastic Squad
- Saturday Sep 13 @ The Playground Theater More times »
- The Sarcastic Squad, a comedy collective featuring four permanent members and a weekly guest, bills itself as a "collaboration of comedians and mediums." The show... View details »
- Film
- Elegy
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Saturday Sep 13 (10am–6:30pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake Lake
- Saturday Sep 13 (8pm) @ Welles Park More times »
- What do you get when you combine a Lincoln Square swimming pool, a dam in Utah, and the alternative theatre of the Neo-Futurists? You get... View details »
- Film
- I Served the King of England
- Saturday Sep 13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and communist regimes from a novel into an engaging, balletic... View details »
- Art
- Barbara Hashimoto
- Saturday Sep 13 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St More times »
- Free
- A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Psychodrama
- Saturday Sep 13 (noon–6pm) @ Golden More times »
- Free
- In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan Jill Frank, nodding both... View details »
- Art
- Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
- Saturday Sep 13 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
- Free
- Music may come first for Chicago-based Drag City — the record label has championed singular talents like Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Bill Callahan/Smog for years... View details »
- Art
- Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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 »
- Art
- Conrad Freiburg
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am–5pm) @ Linda Warren Gallery More times »
- Free
- Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist for its own sake... View details »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Convergence
- Saturday Sep 13 (8:30pm–midnight) @ The Seldoms More times »
- 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. Inside what Hanson calls... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
- Saturday Sep 13 @ Crown Hall More times »
- Free
- This exhibition provides a thorough visual survey of Brazil's modern architecture. Photographs, drawings, and design concepts profile the work of well-established Brazilian architects such as... View details »
- Art
- Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops
- Saturday Sep 13 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
- Free
- Rashid Johnson is one of the more promising young artists to emerge from Chicago in recent years, with photographs and sculptures in exhibitions across the... View details »
- Art
- Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
- Saturday Sep 13 (1–6pm) @ Normal Projects More times »
- Free
- Normal Projects is a new salon-style apartment gallery that spotlights video and works on paper. The space hosts two-person shows by emerging and established artists,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Saturday Sep 13 (4 & 8pm) @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Saturday Sep 13 (2 & 8pm) @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place More times »
- Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative told through dance. Their... View details »
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- Smart Home
- Saturday Sep 13 @ 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 »
