Events on Sunday, November 1

Los Lobos
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Music: Rock/Pop
Los Lobos
@ Symphony Center
After modestly entitling an early album Just Another Band from East L.A., Los Lobos have grown into so much more. Founded...  View details »
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Lovvers w/ Turbo Fruits and Half Rats
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Music: Rock/Pop
Lovvers
@ The Hideout
Brits by birth, the art-damaged fuzz-punks in Lovvers actually sound more like children of the West Coast. On their new Wichita-minted...  View details »
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'L'Tours: Brown Line
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
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'L'Tours: Brown Line
@ Chicago History Museum
Enjoy a guided tour of the Brown Line as it travels through some of the city's most famous neighborhoods. Sundays from...  View details »
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<em>Reversed Images: Representations of Shanghai and Its Contemporary Material Culture</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art: Photography
Reversed Images
@ Museum of Contemporary Photography
In Hu Yang's photograph Shanghai Living, a young Chinese man rests in his room, his surroundings hinting at concepts of individualism,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Yes Men Fix the World</em>
Month_11 Monday Day_02
Film
The Yes Men Fix the World
@ Music Box Theatre
The Yes Men's new documentary chronicles the subversive duo's elaborate, politically progressive hoaxes. Using cheap suits, aliases, and "straight" talk, Andy...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Carpenters Halloween</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Halloween
Carpenters Halloween
@ Mary's Attic
What do you get when you mix a schlock-horror cinema classic with a couple of cheesy, soft-rock icons? You get Carpenters...  View details »
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<em>Kandahar</em> (2001)
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Film
Kandahar
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf proved eerily ahead of his time when his film Kandahar premiered in May 2001. Based on true events,...  View details »
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Liam Gillick: <em>Three perspectives and a short scenario</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
@ MCA Chicago
Liam Gillick emerged in the early 1990s as part of a re-energized British art scene, producing a sophisticated body of work...  View details »
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Jeremy Deller: <em>It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Artist Jeremy Deller orchestrates public events and collaborative undertakings that bring different social issues into relief. His Battle of Orgreave, for...  View details »
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<em>Iran Inside Out: Homeland and Diaspora in Contemporary Iranian Art</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Iran Inside Out
@ DePaul University Museum
For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Heartland</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Heartland
@ Smart Museum of Art
Throughout the vast interior of the United States, contemporary artists are responding to the world around them and reshaping it in...  View details »
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James Castle: A Retrospective
Month_11 Monday Day_02
Art
James Castle
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Self-taught, working-outside-the-mainstream artists are an often-misunderstood phenomenon, if one considers the myriad terms that emphasize their otherness: "outsider," "visionary," "naïve," "folk,"...  View details »
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<em>America: All Better!</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Million Dollar Quartet</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
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 »
Ongoing
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Barbara Crane: <em>Challenging Vision</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art: Photography
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
@ Chicago Cultural Center
When walking through Barbara Crane's six-decade retrospective at the Cultural Center, it can be hard to imagine that a single career...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
@ Victory Gardens Theater
Of the two shows by young playwrights at Victory Gardens right now, one stumbles a bit over stereotypes and delivers cultural...  View details »
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<em>Chicago Model City</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art: Architecture/Design
Chicago Model City
@ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Prairie Avenue House Museums
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
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 »
Ongoing
Allan Sekula: <em>Polonia and Other Fables</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art: Photography
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
@ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...  View details »
Ongoing
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Daria Martin: <em>Minotaur</em>
Month_11 Monday Day_02
Art
Daria Martin: Minotaur
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...  View details »
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<em>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Performing Arts: Comedy
Studs Terkel's Not Working
@ The Second City e.t.c.
After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping...  View details »
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Dance Dance Party Party
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
More Flavor: Party
Dance Dance Party Party
@ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...  View details »
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<em>On the Scene</em>: Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Pl&ouml;ger, and Zoe Strauss
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art: Photography
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...  View details »
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Zarina Bhimji: <em>Out of Blue</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Zarina Bhimji: Out of Blue
@ The Art Institute of Chicago
Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of...  View details »
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<em>Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)</em>
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)
@ American Theater Company
An evolutionary new rock musical from the Tony Award-winning creators of Urinetown   The world’s first family, a colony of salt-eating...  View details »
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Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
@ Smart Museum of Art
During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time....  View details »
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Bertha Honoré Palmer
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
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Bertha Honoré Palmer
@ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world.  She was a champion...  View details »
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Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Fake It 'til You Make It & The Devourer of Men
@ Rotofugi
Two new exhibits in our gallery will be opening Friday, October 16, 7pm-10pm. We've got new works by both Martin Ontiveros...  View details »
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Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality
@ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Robert Motherwell helped define 20th-century American art as a member of the New York School of painters (a group that also...  View details »
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Abraham Lincoln Transformed
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
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Abraham Lincoln Transformed
@ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...  View details »
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Henry Moore: Elephant Skull
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Henry Moore: Elephant Skull
@ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
In the late 1960s the British artist Henry Moore received an unusual gift—the skull of an African elephant. This exhibition highlights...  View details »
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Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
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Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
@ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...  View details »
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Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Month_11 Sunday Day_01
Art
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
@ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...  View details »
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