Events on Sunday, March 22

Fred Anderson's 80th Birthday Party

Music

Fred Anderson's Birthday Party

Sunday 3/22 @ Velvet Lounge

Chicago jazz in the '60s saw the emergence of countless prodigious talents, such as Anthony Braxton, Johnny Griffin, and the Art... 

Primal Scream w/ Kuroma

Music

Primal Scream

Sunday 3/22 @ Metro

Primal Scream have been riding a wave marked by peaks of euphoria and troughs of paranoia for over two decades. The... 

Ongoing Events

Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes:<em> Monsters and Prodigies: The History of the Castrati</em>

Theatre

Monsters and Prodigies

Sunday 3/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Equal parts history lesson, tabloid sensation, and Baroque spectacle, Monsters and Prodigies elucidates and parodies the 18th-century phenomenon of castrati —... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

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

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Sunday 3/22 @ Chicago History Museum

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

Prairie Avenue House Museums

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Prairie Avenue House Museums

Sunday 3/22 @ Glessner House Museum

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

Talk Cinema's Sneak Preview Film Series

Film

Talk Cinema's Sneak Preview Film Series

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

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

Comedy

America: All Better!

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Sunday 3/22 @ Music Box Theatre

Complex mob-flick Gomorrah shows the realities and ironies that many conventional mafia films only romanticize. The drama, based on Robert Saviano's... 

<em>Wait Until Dark</em>

Theatre

Wait Until Dark

Sunday 3/22 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago

In a time of creeping horrors like war, recession, terrorism and Bernie Madoff, there's perverse satisfaction to be gleaned from a... 

Coats for Cubs

Special Event: Benefit

Coats for Cubs

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Paul Chan

Art

Paul Chan

Sunday 3/22 @ The Renaissance Society

Artist Paul Chan may well be one of the wittiest and most astute political commentators of our time. The Renaissance Society... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Steppenwolf presents <em>Art</em>

Theatre

Steppenwolf presents Art

Sunday 3/22 @ 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,... 

<em>All My Love</em>

Theatre

All My Love

Sunday 3/22 @ Stage 773

"Because caring means sharing." Such is the slogan for Tony Fiorentino's new dramedy about open relationships, All My Love. When Ellen,... 

Steven Frost: <em>Merit</em>

Art

Steven Frost: Merit

Sunday 3/22 @ Swimming Pool Project Space

Artist Steven Frost is devising his own set of merit badges. Forget the Boy Scouts' promotion of civic virtues and handy... 

<em>PhotoDimensional</em>

Art

PhotoDimensional

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

Robert Davis and Michael Langlois

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Sunday 3/22 @ 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>The Arab-Israeli Cookbook</em>

Theatre

The Arab-Israeli Cookbook

Sunday 3/22 @ Storefront Theater

Interweaving the diverse voices of more than 40 characters, this stage production of playwright Robin Soans's The Arab-Israeli Cookbook offers an... 

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

Art

Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mary Lou Zelazny

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

Dance Dance Party Party

Party

Dance Dance Party Party

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

<em>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Sunday 3/22 @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4

An imaginative ode to Japan's capital told in three parts, Tokyo! is cleverly linked by themes of alienation, identity, and destiny.... 

Richard Colman: Opera Pink

Art

Richard Colman

Sunday 3/22 @ Phaiz

Richard Colman's star is on the rise, thanks in part to eye-catching exhibitions with fellow artists who grew up on graffiti... 

<em>Polaroids: Mapplethorpe</em>

Art: Photography

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

Sunday 3/22 @ Block Museum, Northwestern University

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

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

Art

Becoming Edvard Munch

Sunday 3/22 @ 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... 

<em>Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe</em>

Art

Buckminster Fuller

Sunday 3/22 @ Museum of Contemporary Art

Buckminster Fuller was a man of vision and contradiction. The twentieth-century architect and inventor was well ahead of his time, yet...