Events on Thursday, February 5
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Six-Word Memoirs of Love and Heartbreak
- @ Book Cellar
- As a follow-up to their wonderful collection of Six-Word Memoirs, the editors at Smith magazine have compiled a new edition of... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Tortoise
- @ The Empty Bottle
- Hometown heroes Tortoise dabble in an idiosyncratic mix of musical genres, taking an ambitious (if minimalist) approach to cool jazz and... View details »
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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- Let the Right One In
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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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- Art: Architecture/Design
- Cecil Balmond: Solid Void
- @ Graham Foundation
- Labyrinthine hedges of gleaming, die-cast metal fill the ground floor of the Graham Foundation's Prairie-style mansion, like viral arabesques from a... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Dead Man
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Jim Jarmusch's mystical western suffered an inglorious reception at the hands of a lackluster Miramax marketing campaign and critics expecting hipster... View details »
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- Christa Donner
- @ threewalls
- Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,... View details »
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Who Does She Think She Is?
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Director Pamela Tanner Boll's nuanced documentary investigates the "burden and joy" experienced by women who balance their art-making practice with their... 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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- 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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- Film: Documentary
- Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
- @ 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... View details »
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- 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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- Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Starring Jean-Luc Godard's radiant, enigmatic muse Anna Karina, Vivre Sa Vie (My Life to Live) remains one of the director's most... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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: Dance
- Japan Dance Now
- @ Dance Center of Columbia College
- Japan Dance Now is a composite look at a national choreography fascinated with glossy fashion, satirical humor, and the futuristic possibilities... View details »
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- 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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- Jim Lutes
- @ 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... 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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