Events on Friday, November 6
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Whigs
- @ Bottom Lounge
- Athens, Georgia's the Whigs are proud torchbearers of the bash-and-pop tradition. Like the Living Things (minus the revolutionary pretension), there's a... View details »
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- Music: DJ
- Basement Jaxx
- @ Congress Theater
- After three bona fide masterpieces, a near-perfect singles comp, and a mountain of accolades, Basement Jaxx still keep making records like... View details »
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- Film
- Cool It Carol!
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- “A beautiful thing happened throughout the world in the late... View details »
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- Viva
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- Inspired as much by 1970s advertisements... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Susie Essman
- @ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
- Comedienne Susie Essman is of course most recognizable today as the scene-stealing, expletive-hurling Susie Greene in Curb Your Enthusiasm; but it's... View details »
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- Art: Fair
- SOFA Chicago 2009
- @ Navy Pier
- Now in its 16th year, the Sculpture Objects and Functional Art Fair once again brings together emerging artists from around the... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Freaks & Flash
- @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
- Freaks & Flash will explore the roots of modern Western tattooing with a selection of tattoo flash (the design drawings for... View details »
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- 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 »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jersey Boys
- @ 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... 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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- CJ Pyle: Kilroy's Delight
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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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- David Corbett: Change Makes It New
- @ 65GRAND
- David Corbett has shown his paintings at 65GRAND before, but the enamel-dipped sculptures in his latest outing are a new addition.... View details »
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- Jan Tichy
- @ Richard Gray Gallery
- Call it populist schadenfreude, but there's something spectacular about an artist taking over a floor of the John Hancock building where... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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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- 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 »
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- 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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- Elizabeth Murray
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- In the early '80s, Elizabeth Murray started "making paintings that would blow up into the space," a breakthrough she later recalled... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Dave Attell
- @ Lakeshore Theater
- Just as Howard Stern's nonpareil interviewing skills are overshadowed by his notorious shock-jock style, so is Dave Attell's comedic brilliance often... View details »
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- Rob Carter
- @ ebersmoore
- Photographs are the lifeblood of Rob Carter's work, but video is the beating heart — it's the artist's principal medium and... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Actions: What You Can Do With the City
- @ Graham Foundation
- We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by... View details »
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- The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
- @ 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... View details »
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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