Events on Sunday, February 15

Meshuggah w/ Cynic and the Faceless

Music

Meshuggah

Sunday 2/15 @ House of Blues

Diehard metal fans largely dismissed Meshuggah as lowbrow throwbacks, until the band began amassing critical acclaim from unlikely sources: its 2004... 

Ongoing Events

<em>The Seafarer</em>

Theatre

The Seafarer

Sunday 2/15 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre

If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Coats for Cubs

Special Event: Benefit

Coats for Cubs

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Altogether Mutable: The Work of Mary Lou Zelazny</em>

Art

Mary Lou Zelazny

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth</em>

Art

Becoming Edvard Munch

Sunday 2/15 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Although blockbuster exhibitions often reaffirm melodramatic clichés about tragic artists, the Art Institute of Chicago attempts a "myth-busting" show with Becoming... 

<em>America: All Better!</em>

Comedy

America: All Better!

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Frost/Nixon</em>

Film

Frost/Nixon

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Desire Under the Elms</em>

Theatre

Desire Under the Elms

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>PhotoDimensional</em>

Art

PhotoDimensional

Sunday 2/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography

In PhotoDimensional, photography becomes sculptural through Heather Mekkelson's recreations of disaster photographs; lifelike in Bettina Hoffmann's video rotating around a still... 

Joseph Grigely: <em>St. Cecilia</em>

Art

Joseph Grigely: St. Cecilia

Sunday 2/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as... 

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Steppenwolf presents <em>Art</em>

Theatre

Steppenwolf presents Art

Sunday 2/15 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company

If your best friend spent a fortune on an all-white painting you hated, could you bite your tongue and praise it,... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Sunday 2/15 @ Various locations

Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... 

<em>Abandoned Demolition</em>: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Art

Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Jim Lutes

Art

Jim Lutes

Sunday 2/15 @ The Renaissance Society

The paintings of Chicago-based artist Jim Lutes feel at once concrete and obscured, like a distant memory where the missing details... 

UBS 12x12: Curtis Mann

Art: Photography

Curtis Mann

Sunday 2/15 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Like a fever dream, Curtis Mann's bleached and altered found photographs seem to drift outside of time. The images often depict... 

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Sunday 2/15 @ 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,... 

<em>Ashes and Diamonds</em> (1958)

Film

Ashes and Diamonds

Sunday 2/15 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

Antiwar auteur Andrzej Wajda's three-part study of wartime Poland's ruin and reclamation culminates in its hypnotic hypotenuse, Ashes and Diamonds. Somewhere... 

<em>Polaroids: Mapplethorpe</em>

Art: Photography

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

Sunday 2/15 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University

The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the... 

Snow Days Chicago

City Gems

Snow Days Chicago

Sunday 2/15 @ Grant Park

Hopefully, the city warms up enough — from the 10th-coldest January on record — to keep us outside for the five-day... 

Robert Davis and Michael Langlois: <em>House of the Rising Sun</em>

Art

Robert Davis and Michael Langlois

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

Dance Dance Party Party

Party

Dance Dance Party Party

Sunday 2/15 @ 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... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Sunday 2/15 @ Various locations

Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... 

<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Sunday 2/15 @ Chicago History Museum

In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Get Social

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Sunday 2/15 @ Glessner House Museum

Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... 

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink

City Gems

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink

Sunday 2/15 @ Millennium Park

A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Sunday 2/15 @ 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...