Events on Thursday, February 19
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- Music: DJ
- Classique feat. Derrick Carter
- @ SmartBar
- Smart Bar's Classique party nabs no less than the greatest house DJ of all time. Local boy Derrick Carter built his... View details »
Ongoing Events
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- Art
- If Artists Ran the Media
- @ C33 Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- If artists ran the media, would Fox News actually be fair and balanced? And where would the voices of Sean Hannity and... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Graceland Cemetery
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Frost/Nixon
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Coats for Cubs
- @ 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... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Justin Cooper
- @ Monique Meloche
- Artist Justin Cooper is both a madcap performer and a maker of objects, frequently interweaving the two endeavors. We may not... View details »
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- Film: Animation
- Waltz With Bashir
- @ Various locations
- Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning... View details »
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- Art
- Joseph Grigely: St. Cecilia
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as... 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Curtis Mann
- @ 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... 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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- Art
- Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Mary Lou Zelazny
- @ 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... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film
- Revolutionary Road
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Art
- Scott Fife
- @ Tony Wight Gallery
- However you want to describe them — stately busts for a post-marble age; eerie Frankenstein constructions; a poacher's trophies from the... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- Jason Robert Bell
- @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
- Jason Robert Bell's last exhibition in Chicago featured paintings of a yeti-like alter-ego. Since then, the Brooklyn-based artist's oeuvre has both... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- @ 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... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Chicago Restaurant Week
- @ Various locations
- As the recession puts a damper on your dining budget, the return of Chicago Restaurant Week grants you temporary respite from... View details »
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- Art
- Von Kommanivanh
- @ Walsh Gallery
- In large mixed-media paintings, Von Kommanivanh skewers the lurking evils and cultural convulsions of the 21st century like a hopped-up shish-kabob... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Film
- Ashes and Diamonds
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Steppenwolf presents Art
- @ 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,... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Polaroids: Mapplethorpe
- @ Block Museum, Northwestern University
- The name Robert Mapplethorpe might bring to mind formal photographs of flowers or homoerotic figure studies — or more likely, the... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Desire Under the Elms
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Chic Chicago
- @ Chicago History Museum
- In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the... View details »
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- Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons
- @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago
- Cuban political artist and performer Maria Magdelena Campos-Pons' newest exhibition seeks to uncover hidden truths and secret knowledge with large-scale Polaroid... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Criteria
- @ A + D Gallery
- Criteria explores contemporary notions of sustainability without limiting itself to a focus on green design and environmental artwork. The show's theme... View details »
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- Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- Milk
- @ Various locations
- Gus van Sant's highly anticipated biopic of Harvey Milk — the nation's first openly gay man to hold a major elected... View details »
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- Art
- Sigmar Polke
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- One of the giants of post-war painting, Sigmar Polke is an irreverant experimentalist — an artist of many moves whose work... View details »
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- Art
- Becoming Edvard Munch
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Jamie Kilstein
- @ Lakeshore Theater
- From time to time, an already polished standup comic elevates his game by moving from broad observational humor to more personal... View details »
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- More Flavor: City Gem
- McCormick Tribune Ice Rink
- @ Millennium Park
- A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Seldoms: 3x3
- @ Dance Center of Columbia College
- Choreographer Carrie Hanson has an eye for fashion as keen as her stage instincts. For eight years, her company, the Seldoms,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Seafarer
- @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
- If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the... View details »
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- Art
- PhotoDimensional
- @ 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... View details »
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OngoingFree
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- Art
- 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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