Events on Friday, January 2
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Mannequin Men
- @ Schubas
- Mannequin Men's swaggering stomp-alongs bring to mind midwestern brethren like Naked Raygun and MC5. The Chicago quartet's sophomore album, Fresh Rot,... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- If Artists Ran the Media
- @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of Sean Hannity and... View details »
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- Film
- Let the Right One In
- @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
- A pitch-perfect suspense film from Swedish director Tomas Alfredson, Let the Right One In is that rare bird: a chiller with... View details »
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- Robert Lostutter
- @ Corbett vs Dempsey
- Rising alongside the Chicago Imagists in the late 1960s, Robert Lostutter is known for his richly rendered, subtly unnerving watercolor portraits... View details »
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- Art
- Deceptive Design
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer... View details »
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- Film
- Milk
- @ Various locations
- Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... View details »
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- Art
- No End in Sight
- @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
- Chicago is quietly producing some of the nation's most innovative and thoughtful young curators, and it's evidenced by No End in... View details »
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- Art
- Jenny Holzer
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike... View details »
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Ongoing
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Million Dollar Quartet
- @ Apollo Theater
- In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Scott Fortino
- @ City Gallery
- Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Dublin Carol
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Sure, many people find the holidays depressing, but at least you're not a functionally alcoholic Dublin undertaker whose estranged daughter shows... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Prairie Avenue House Museums
- @ Glessner House Museum
- Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
- @ Millennium Park
- A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Michael Wolf
- @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a... View details »
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- Omer Fast
- @ Betty Rymer Gallery
- Omer Fast rightly grabbed the grand prize at the 2008 Whitney Biennial for The Casting, a challenging four-screen video piece that... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Chic Chicago
- @ Chicago History Museum
- In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... View details »
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- More Flavor: Sports
- Free Fitness Centers
- @ Various locations
- Get a kick start on your New Year's resolution to lose last year's weight gain with two free weeks at the... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Graceland Cemetery
- @ Graceland Cemetery
- Hidden away on Chicago's north side, this secret memento of the city's architectural history is a large, rambling Victorian-style cemetery. Filled... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Heavy Traffic
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Perhaps the perfect midnight movie, animator Ralph Bakshi's X-rated Heavy Traffic plays like a cross between a gritty Bukowski novel and... View details »
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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Cecil Balmond: Solid Void
- @ Graham Foundation
- Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a... View details »
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- Art
- Displacement
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- America: All Better!
- @ The Second City
- The 2008 election may have delivered a ray of hope, but storm clouds still hang above us. That's the uneasy premise... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Doug and Mike Starn
- @ David Weinberg Gallery
- Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Bing Faithful's Very Merry Nondenominational Holiday Special!
- @ The Annoyance Theatre
- As Mystery Science Theater 3000 proved, there's gold to be mined from failed art; cringeworthy entertainment can be so bad it's... View details »
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- Music: Punk/Metal
- Naked Raygun
- @ House of Blues
- Big Black may be the most lauded Chicago act to have emerged from the '80s American underground, but Naked Raygun is... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Mickalene Thomas
- @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art... View details »
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- Melissa Dean
- @ Peter Miller Gallery
- Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive... View details »
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- Film
- Amarcord
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1975, Federico Fellini's Amarcord is his most sentimental and unabashedly... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- @ The Newberry Library
- The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a... View details »
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- Frost/Nixon
- @ AMC River East 21
- Showing a human, fragile and, to some extent, remorseful side of the former president for the first time, David Frost's 1977... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Coats for Cubs
- @ Buffalo Exchange locations
- Feeling guilty about the fur-lined gloves, vintage mink stole, or old chinchilla coat hanging in your closet? Fret not, all will... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Made in Chicago
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- @ Apollo Theater
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... View details »
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- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- @ 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... View details »
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- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
- Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Meet Me in St. Louis
- @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
- If you like your holiday entertainment gentle, heartwarming, and family-friendly, this is the show for you. Based on Sally Benson's short... View details »
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- Joseph Grigely: St. Cecilia
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seafarer
- @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
- If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the... View details »
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- Dr Wax
- @ DOVA Temporary
- A unique collaboration between the Hyde Park gallery DOVA Temporary and Dr Wax, a used record store (and the hip-hop, jazz,... View details »
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- Art
- Ulf Puder
- @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
- Ulf Puder is often lumped with the "New Leipzig School," a loose affiliation of artists celebrated by the art world —... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- @ Museum Campus
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The... View details »
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- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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