Events on Sunday, September 14

Read Against Recession feat. Irvine Welsh, Stephanie Kuehnert and Bill Hillman

Books: Reading

Read Against Recession

Sunday 9/14 @ Metro

It's been well over a decade since Trainspotting worked its insidious way into mischievous hearts and minds the world over. Drugs!... 

Icy Demons w/ Daedelus, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Dead Machines

Music: Experimental

Icy Demons

Sunday 9/14 @ The Empty Bottle

Compositions lying outside the realm of convention abound tonight, as weirdo electro-experimentalists Icy Demons join electronica and IDM whiz Daedelus (aka... 

Spindrift w/ Velcro Lewis & His 100 Proof Band

Music

Spindrift

Sunday 9/14 @ Beat Kitchen

Spaghetti-Western psych-rockers Spindrift were born for a gig in the back-room saloon in The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (or... 

Ongoing Events

Heather Mekkelson: <em>Limited Entry</em>

Art

Heather Mekkelson: Limited Entry

Sunday 9/14 @ Old Gold Exhibitions and Events

At first, it looks as if Heather Mekkelson has left Old Gold's basement gallery in a near-empty state. Gradually, it becomes... 

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

Film

I Served the King of England

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

Millennium Park Revealed

Special Event

Millennium Park Revealed

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

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

Art: Photography

Bill O'Donnell

Sunday 9/14 @ 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.... 

<em>Hamlet 2 </em>

Film

Hamlet 2

Sunday 9/14 @ Various locations

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

<em>Alexander Nevsky</em> (1938)

Film

Alexander Nevsky

Sunday 9/14 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

As a propaganda film, Russian director Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky is powerful and effective. Commissioned by the Soviet government in response... 

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

Film

The Dark Knight

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mónica Herrera: Strings

Sunday 9/14 @ 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>Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage</em>

Art

Collecting for Chicago

Sunday 9/14 @ 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 —... 

Garfield Park Conservatory: Flower Power

City Gems

Flower Power

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

Smart Home: Green + Wired

City Gems

Smart Home

Sunday 9/14 @ Museum Campus

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

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

Theatre

Buddy

Sunday 9/14 @ 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>Elegy</em>

Film

Elegy

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

Renegade Craft Fair

Festival: Fair

Renegade Craft Fair

Sunday 9/14 @ 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.... 

Guided Tour of the Lurie Garden

Special Event

Lurie Garden

Sunday 9/14 @ Millennium Park

Making good on Chicago's motto Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden), the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners offers 20-minute... 

Art

Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons

Sunday 9/14 @ Chicago Cultural Center

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

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

Comedy

Campaign Supernova!

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

<em>Tell No One</em>

Film

Tell No One

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

<em>Psychodrama</em>

Art: Photography

Psychodrama

Sunday 9/14 @ Golden

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

Jeff Koons

Art

Jeff Koons

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

Randolph Street Market Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Randolph Street Market Festival

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

Art

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

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

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

Theatre

Gore Vidal's Weekend

Sunday 9/14 @ TimeLine Theatre

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

<em>Bottle Shock</em>

Film

Bottle Shock

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

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

Art

Are We There Yet?

Sunday 9/14 @ 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>Art of Democracy</em>

Art

Art of Democracy

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Sunday 9/14 @ 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... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Sunday 9/14 @ 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...