Events on Sunday, February 22
Sunday 2/22 @ Center on Halsted
If your Victorian mansion needed a paint job, you'd hire a qualified contractor. If you wanted to raise a tennis prodigy,...
Sunday 2/22 @ The Morse Theatre
On Juana Molina's fifth and most recent album, Un Dia, the Argentine singer/songwriter bolsters her tried-and-true formula, propping up sweet fantasy-folk...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Millennium Park
A trip to the McCormick Tribune Ice Skating Rink at Millennium Park is quickly becoming a quintessential Chicago winter experience. Presenting...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/22 @ Various locations
As the recession puts a damper on your dining budget, the return of Chicago Restaurant Week grants you temporary respite from...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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,...
chelfitsch: Five Days in March
Sunday 2/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Since 1997, Toshiki Okada has been creating dance/theatre works out of Japan; in 2005 he received the 49th Kishida Kunio Drama...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Joseph Grigely's artwork has a definite visual appeal, but sound — or the absence of it — drives his practice as...
Talk Cinema's Sneak Preview Film Series
Sunday 2/22 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Created by USA Today and Film Comment critic Harlan Jacobson in 1992, this multi-city, sneak preview series features some of the...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Phaiz
Richard Colman's star is on the rise, thanks in part to eye-catching exhibitions with fellow artists who grew up on graffiti...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ 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...
Sunday 2/22 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
If the classic Christmas stories are starting to seem like cloying guests that have overstayed their welcome, The Seafarer at the...
International Kennel Club of Chicago Dog Show
Sunday 2/22 @ McCormick Place
The fur will fly at McCormick Place this weekend as 6,000 pedigreed pooches strut and strike a pose for the ultimate...
Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos
Sunday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Sunday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
