Events on Thursday, January 8
Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Northwestern University, Tech Auditorium
Although Chicagoans know better, 42% of the US adult population doesn't believe in evolution. For these confused souls, despite the scientific...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ The Hideout
Although best experienced in concert over some sort of holiday — amid festive Christmas lights, not-so-distant firecrackers, or a crowd of...
Ongoing Events
Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example —...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Photographer Michael Wolf transitioned from keen observations of Hong Kong in his Architecture of Density series to a...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artists from Matisse to Rothko have topped off their careers by designing chapels that serve as places of spiritual contemplation and...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
8th Annual Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Stage 773
The world's largest sketch-comedy festival returns for another year with over 100 troupes performing 125 shows at the Theatre Building. The...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Symphony Center
Although symphonic music is his milieu, the most accurate description of Gustavo Dudamel is "rock star." At just 27, the dynamic...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ The Goodman Theatre
For 30 years, the Wooster Group has pushed the envelope of contemporary theater with innovative multimedia productions and radical deconstructions of...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Beautiful young black women level their gaze at the viewer from within Mickalene Thomas' large paintings. Covered with glittering rhinestones, Thomas'...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Peter Miller Gallery
Like the "viral components of consumer desire" she hopes to underscore, the familiar forms of domestic objects are omnipresent but elusive...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 1/ 8 @ 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...
