Events on Sunday, September 28
Sunday 9/28 @ Beat Kitchen
Though their militant rock anthems seem ready-made for a hall packed with drunken rebels, Awesome Color are also well-suited to the...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery
Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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....
Sunday 9/28 @ Riviera Theatre
After 14 albums, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are still evolving and making great music. Each of their records is...
Sunday 9/28 @ TimeLine Theatre
Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Millennium Park
To see the most recent technological innovations in robotics, health care, sustainable energy, and art — or if you simply want...
Sunday 9/28 @ The Suburban
The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in...
Sunday 9/28 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea...
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Sunday 9/28 @ Chicago Cultural Center
For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative...
Sunday 9/28 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of...
Sunday 9/28 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
This loving elegy to one of the titans of queer cinema comes sandwiched between the June release of the Glitterbox set and...
Sunday 9/28 @ The Renaissance Society
Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Sunday 9/28 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Randolph Street Market Festival
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Sunday 9/28 @ Swimming Pool Project Space
Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video's fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg's intellectual territory or...
Sunday 9/28 @ Museum Campus
Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
Sunday 9/28 @ Dance Center of Columbia College
Arranging bodies and movement on a stage presents unlimited opportunities for tackling large ideas, meaning choreographers must be skilled at handling...
Sunday 9/28 @ Music Box Theatre
In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen...
Sunday 9/28 @ Golden
In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan...
Sunday 9/28 @ 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...
