Events on Sunday, February 1
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Chinatown
If your New Year's resolutions haven't gotten off to an auspicious start, or if 2009 is already kicking your ass, lift...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ The Empty Bottle
Bringing some real butch fierceness to what's often seen as a boys' club, the Tampa-based female rap trio Yo! Majesty confront...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
One of the most heart-wrenching documentaries to appear in decades, Dear Zachary began as a memorial to director Ken Kuenne's friend...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ threewalls
Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
Kelly Reichardt returns to Oregon — the setting of her critically acclaimed Old Joy (2006) — with Wendy and Lucy, the...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ The Goodman Theatre
Set on a rugged New England farm in 1850, Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms stacks up human passions like firewood...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Various locations
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ City Gallery
Scott Fortino, a Chicago cop who used his insider's access to photograph jails, jury rooms, and public schools for his book...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Once a heavy-industry mecca, now a service-industry hub, Chicago has a changing industrial history that's ripe for artistic examination. Painter Andy...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Spanning nearly 30 years, the skillful paintings in Mary Lou Zelazny's mid-career retrospective center on a cast of weird creatures, shapely...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Auditorium Theatre
After Monty Python's Flying Circus redefined television sketch comedy, the troupe turned its attention to feature films. With financing help from...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Sunday 2/ 1 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Collaborative artists Robert Davis and Michael Langlois reconfigure their LA show of the same name for a three-month stint in the...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
Sunday 2/ 1 @ 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...
