All events on Wednesday September 03
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- Music: Classical
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Kronos String Quartet
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Wednesday Sep 3 (8pm) @ The Pavilion at Ravinia
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In their 30 years together, the Kronos Quartet have single-handedly maintained the string quartet's cultural relevance. The San Francisco ensemble's dossier of past collaborations gives... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Andrew Bird
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Wednesday Sep 3 (6:30–8pm) @ Millennium Park
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Just as Joanna Newsom hearts the harp, chanteur Andrew Bird vanquishes the violin. Not only does Bird (signed to Ani DiFranco's Righteous Babe Records) strum... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Xiu Xiu
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Wednesday Sep 3 (9pm) @ The Bottom Lounge
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Oakland tunesmith Jamie Stewart is as important to his young, earnest fans as Ian Curtis and Morrissey were to the post-punk adolescents of their day.... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Ellen Alien
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Wednesday Sep 3 (9pm) @ Sonotheque
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The Berlin invasion rolls through town tonight, bringing doe-eyed techno doyenne Ellen Allien and party monsters Modeselektor to Sonotheque. In conjunction with her latest record,... View details »
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Jeff Koons
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Wednesday Sep 3 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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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Collecting for Chicago
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Wednesday Sep 3 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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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
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Tell No One
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Wednesday Sep 3 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Mónica Herrera: Strings
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Wednesday Sep 3 (9am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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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 »
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Book and Paper Arts Triennial
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Wednesday Sep 3 (10am–6pm) @ Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts
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This juried triennial exhibition, dedicated to paper preservation and innovation in an increasingly paperless world, opens today at Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book &... View details »
- Film
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Brideshead Revisited
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Wednesday Sep 3 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format. The story of the... View details »
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Bottle Shock
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Wednesday Sep 3 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Are We There Yet?
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Wednesday Sep 3 (10am–8pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center
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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 »
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Scarface
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Wednesday Sep 3 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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Released in 1932 and initially censored, Scarface is one of the earliest — and greatest — gangster talkies. Based on the Prohibition-era exploits of Al... View details »
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Elegy
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Wednesday Sep 3 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Eight Miles High
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Wednesday Sep 3 @ Music Box Theatre
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German model/actress Uschi Obermaier could have been dismissed as a classic '60s groupie — running away from her Bavarian parents to sleep her way through... View details »
- Art: Photography
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Bill O'Donnell
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Wednesday Sep 3 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery
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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 »
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Hamlet 2
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Wednesday Sep 3 @ Various locations
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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 »
