Events on Saturday, November 21
Saturday 11/21 @ Pulaski Park Auditorium
It's so easy to feel over the holiday season before it even really begins: overpriced, overcrowded, overwhelmed. But the DIY Trunk...
Saturday 11/21 @ Lincoln Hall
Following the success of his critically acclaimed debut, Ash Wednesday, folk troubadour Elvis Perkins has teamed up with four longtime friends...
Saturday 11/21 @ The Empty Bottle
Just what is a f*ck button? Jenny Slate, Governor Schwarzenegger, and Rosie O'Donnell seem to know, and this Bristol duo seem...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 11/21 @ Open Books
There was already plenty to love about Open Books and its numerous literacy programs and mentoring initiatives; now it's also launching...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 11/21 @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
The ninth installment of this Public Media Institute-supported festival is once again filled with experimental art, music, and video — as...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
When Charles Addams started drawing a group of macabre characters for The New Yorker in 1937 they weren't officially a family,...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Saturday 11/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Saturday 11/21 @ Aragon Ballroom
It's often said that only a thousand people bought the Velvet Underground's first album, but everyone who did started a band....
Saturday 11/21 @ DePaul Art Museum
For all the attention showered on Iran for the government's nuclear posturing, political crackdowns, and other media-magnetic topics, not much trickles...
Saturday 11/21 @ Bank of America Theatre
The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased...
Saturday 11/21 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Mainstream culture has absorbed tattoos to the point where your buttoned-up boss probably has an arm ringed in barbed wire by...
Saturday 11/21 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Carnival Nocturne is a colorful and engaging, if uneven, production about a cursed traveling circus, complete with fortune tellers and Siamese...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
The performances shine in this incredible, consistently hysterical production from Court Theatre. Two actors at the top of their game —...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Saturday 11/21 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Saturday 11/21 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Saturday 11/21 @ Writers' Theatre
Tom Stoppard's inventive, razor-sharp absurdist play imagines Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as offstage existential anti-heroes with no understanding of what play they're...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Saturday 11/21 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Saturday 11/21 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Visual Acoustics, a new documentary about the late architectural photographer Julius Shulman, speaks both to his largely unsurpassed talents and his...
Saturday 11/21 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Allan Sekula: Polonia and Other Fables
Saturday 11/21 @ The Renaissance Society
Among the many artists to reflect on globalization and its discontents, few do so with the critical sophistication and sustained focus...
Santa Claus Conquers the Nazis
Saturday 11/21 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
In the spirit of such gonzo Yuletide entertainment as Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and Bing Faithful's Very Merry Nondenominational Holiday...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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,...
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Saturday 11/21 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
For anyone who has written off Nicolas Cage as the debt-saddled has-been who squandered the gifts so apparent in Leaving Las...
Saturday 11/21 @ Lakeshore Theater
Like Mitch Hedberg before him, Canadian comic Glenn Wool disarms you with his Spicoli-esque, easygoing vibes — which makes his pitch-perfect...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Saturday 11/21 @ 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...
Saturday 11/21 @ EBERSMOORE
Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and...
Saturday 11/21 @ 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,"...
Saturday 11/21 @ Carl Hammer Gallery
CJ Pyle's portraits, drawn in ballpoint pen and colored pencil on the inside of old LP sleeves, gather up the most...
Saturday 11/21 @ Chopin Theatre
Not for the faint of heart, Aunt Dan and Lemon ruthlessly examines the worst of human nature and comes to the...
Saturday 11/21 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Exit Strategy: New Works by Jesse LeDoux
Saturday 11/21 @ Rotofugi
Seattle-based Jesse LeDoux has a great almost old-school style that we just can't get enough of. Amazing use of color and...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Saturday 11/21 @ 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....
Saturday 11/21 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Allan Sekula: "Polonia and Other Fables"
Saturday 11/21 @ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society will present an exhibition of new work by photographer Allan Sekula. This new series, titled Polonia and Other...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 11/21 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Opera: The Barber of Seville (Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Saturday 11/21 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This event takes place at Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson Street, Evanston. Music by Gioachino Rossini; Libretto by Cesare Sterbini
Jay...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 11/21 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Hells Yeah! Let's Do It!: New Works by Veggiesomething
Saturday 11/21 @ Rotofugi
Chicago-based Veggiesomething is not only a talented character designer, he's a pretty awesome painter and graphic artist as well...and just happens...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 11/21 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
An exhibition of Joseph Yoakum’s visionary landscapes, curated by Mark Pascale, caretaker of Whitney Halstead’s collection bequeathed to the Art Institute...
