All events on Monday September 08
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- Music: Rock/Pop
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Spiritualized
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Monday Sep 8 (8pm) @ Metro
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For more than 25 years now, Jason Pierce (aka J. Spaceman) has been making mind-altering, drug-inspired music, replete with trance-inducing chants and droning guitars. Originally... View details »
- Reading
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Alan Weisman
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Monday Sep 8 (6pm) @ Harold Washington Library
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In nonfiction eco-thriller The World Without Us, veteran environmental journalist Alan Weisman explores what would happen if humankind was suddenly wiped off the face of... View details »
- Music: Electronic
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Tricky
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Monday Sep 8 (9pm) @ House of Blues
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Tricky has always sat awkwardly between his collaborators in Massive Attack and fellow trip-hop progenitors Portishead. His early records built an aesthetic around his harsh,... View details »
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- Art
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Collecting for Chicago
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Monday Sep 8 (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 »
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Tell No One
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Monday Sep 8 @ 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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Monday Sep 8 (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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Monday Sep 8 (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 »
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Brideshead Revisited
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Monday Sep 8 @ 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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Monday Sep 8 @ 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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XXY
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Monday Sep 8 @ Facets Cinémathèque
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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 »
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Angles in America
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Monday Sep 8 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
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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 »
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Are We There Yet?
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Monday Sep 8 (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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Elegy
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Monday Sep 8 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
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Bill O'Donnell
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Monday Sep 8 (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 »
- Film
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Hamlet 2
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Monday Sep 8 @ 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 »
