Events on Saturday, February 7

Los Campesinos! w/ Titus Andronicus

Music

Los Campesinos! w/ Titus Andronicus

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Logan Square Auditorium

Over the course of eight months in 2008, Welsh septet Los Campesinos! released their first two albums to critical acclaim, made... 

Ongoing Events

Christa Donner: <em>Re:Production</em>

Art

Christa Donner

Saturday 2/ 7 @ threewalls

Chicago artist Christa Donner explores human and animal reproductive systems at threewalls' first SOLO exhibition of 2009. Donner employs drawing, animation,... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Von Kommanivanh: <em>You Are Ugly</em>

Art

Von Kommanivanh

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Art

Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>The Seafarer</em>

Theatre

The Seafarer

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre

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

<em>Frost/Nixon</em>

Film

Frost/Nixon

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Cecil Balmond: <em>Solid Void</em>

Art

Cecil Balmond: Solid Void

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink

City Gems

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Millennium Park

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

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

Comedy

America: All Better!

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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>Altogether Mutable: The Work of Mary Lou Zelazny</em>

Art

Mary Lou Zelazny

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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>Polaroids: Mapplethorpe</em>

Art: Photography

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University

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

<em>Dead Man </em>(1996)

Film

Dead Man

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Scott Fife: <em>Heads</em>

Art

Scott Fife

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Waltz With Bashir</em>

Film: Animation

Waltz With Bashir

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Various locations

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

Justin Cooper: <em>Paranormaldise</em> &nbsp;

Art

Justin Cooper

Saturday 2/ 7 @ moniquemeloche gallery

Artist Justin Cooper is both a madcap performer and a maker of objects, frequently interweaving the two endeavors. We may not... 

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

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum

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

Steppenwolf presents <em>Art</em>

Theatre

Steppenwolf presents Art

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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,... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Jim Lutes

Art

Jim Lutes

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Revolutionary Road</em>

Film

Revolutionary Road

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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,... 

Coats for Cubs

Special Event: Benefit

Coats for Cubs

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Art

Joseph Grigely: St. Cecilia

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

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

<em>Japan Dance Now</em>

Dance

Japan Dance Now

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert Davis and Michael Langlois

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Desire Under the Elms</em>

Theatre

Desire Under the Elms

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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>Vivre Sa Vie</em> (1962)

Film

Vivre Sa Vie (1962)

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Art

Criteria

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Various locations

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

Jason Robert Bell: <em>The Unreasoning Mask</em>

Art

Jason Robert Bell

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

UBS 12x12: Curtis Mann

Art: Photography

Curtis Mann

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Batsheva Dance Company

Dance

Batsheva Dance Company

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Auditorium Theatre

The dances made by Israel's Ohad Naharin are so forceful in their confidence, and so progressive in their execution, that many... 

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Get Social

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Glessner House Museum

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

<em>Let the Right One In</em>

Film

Let the Right One In

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 2/ 7 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum

Art

The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum

Saturday 2/ 7 @ 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...