All events on Friday September 05

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Performing Arts: Comedy
Rick Shapiro
Friday Sep 5 (8pm) @ Lakeshore Theater More times »
Rick Shapiro built his reputation in New York as an underground comedian with an unstable streak. After working his way through multiple managers and drifting... View details »
Rick Shapiro
Art: Photography
Alec Soth
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Alec Soth
Film
XXY
Friday Sep 5 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
If Ingmar Bergman had directed an Argentine movie about a pubescent hermaphrodite, the result might have been XXY. Alex is a wild-eyed teen who resides... View details »
XXY
Art
Angles in America
Friday Sep 5 (5–7:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
Opening
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 »
Angles in America
Art
Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
Friday Sep 5 (5–9pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
Opening
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 »
Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
Performing Arts: Comedy
Lewis Black
Friday Sep 5 (8pm) @ The Chicago Theatre
Since his first "Back in Black" segments appeared on the Daily Show nearly a decade ago, Lewis Black has perfected his trademark take on head-shaking,... View details »
Lewis Black
Music: Electronic
The Juan Maclean
Friday Sep 5 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
Shining, euphoric, and playful, the Juan Maclean's 2005 debut album, Less than Human, is one part Buddha-like spiritual bliss, the other part Euro-inspired disco with... View details »
The Juan Maclean
Music: Rock/Pop
Shudder to Think
Friday Sep 5 (8pm) @ Park West
Oh that reunion train, she just keeps rolling along. Fresh from a surprise appearance at a Barack Obama campaign rally organized by lead singer Craig... View details »
Shudder to Think
Film
Viva
Friday Sep 5 (8pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
It's hard to keep a feature film running on camp alone, so credit Viva's writer, director, and star, Anna Biller, for getting every shag... View details »
Viva
Art
Conrad Freiburg
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Conrad Freiburg
Music: Hip-Hop
Switch
Friday Sep 5 (8pm) @ Crobar
On the strength of MIA's Kala and Santogold's "Creator," British DJ/producer/label honcho Switch went from underground beatsmith to XLR8R Artist of the Year faster than... View details »
Switch
Art
Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops
Friday Sep 5 (6–9pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
Opening
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 »
Rashid Johnson: The New Escapist Promised Land Garden and Recreation Center and Cosmic Slops

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Art
Jeff Koons
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Jeff Koons
Performing Arts: Comedy
Campaign Supernova!
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Campaign Supernova!
Art
Collecting for Chicago
Friday Sep 5 (10:30am–9pm) @ 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 »
Collecting for Chicago
Film
Tell No One
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Tell No One
Art
Mónica Herrera: Strings
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Mónica Herrera: Strings
More Flavor: Tour
Millennium Park Revealed
Friday Sep 5 (11am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in the Windy City, its... View details »
Millennium Park Revealed
More Flavor: City Gem
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Art
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
Art
Book and Paper Arts Triennial
Friday Sep 5 (10am–6pm) @ Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts More times »
Free
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 »
More Flavor: City Gem
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
More Flavor: City Gem
Flower Power
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Flower Power
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
Baby Wants Candy
Friday Sep 5 (10:30pm) @ Apollo Theater More times »
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance, and a live band.... View details »
Baby Wants Candy
Film
The Dark Knight
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
The Dark Knight
Film
Brideshead Revisited
Friday Sep 5 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
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 »
Brideshead Revisited
Film
Bottle Shock
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Bottle Shock
Art
Are We There Yet?
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Are We There Yet?
Performing Arts: Theatre
On an Average Day
Friday Sep 5 @ Greenhouse Theater More times »
Route 66 Theatre Company's production of John Kolvenbach's On an Average Day sold out its inaugural run in Los Angeles, where critics lauded it as... View details »
On an Average Day
Art
A Declaration of Immigration
Friday Sep 5 (10am–5pm) @ National Museum of Mexican Art More times »
Free
It may be a country founded by those who arrived from elsewhere, but the United States arguably has a long way to go when it... View details »
A Declaration of Immigration
Film
Elegy
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Elegy
Art
Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
Friday Sep 5 (9am–5pm) @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago More times »
Free
Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists who give new meaning... View details »
Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
Art: Photography
Bill O'Donnell
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Bill O'Donnell
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fake Lake
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Fake Lake
Art
Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
Friday Sep 5 (10am–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 »
Chances Are the Comets in Our Future
Art
Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Film
Hamlet 2
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Hamlet 2
Art
Heather Mekkelson: Limited Entry
Friday Sep 5 @ Old Gold Exhibitions and Events More times »
Free
At first, it looks as if Heather Mekkelson has left Old Gold's basement gallery in a near-empty state. Gradually, it becomes clear that the artist... View details »
Heather Mekkelson: Limited Entry
Art: Architecture/Design
Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Gore Vidal's Weekend
Friday Sep 5 (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 »
Gore Vidal's Weekend
More Flavor: City Gem
Smart Home
Friday Sep 5 @ 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 »
Smart Home