Events on Tuesday, March 31

Bishop Allen w/ Miniature Tigers and Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band

Music

Bishop Allen

Tuesday 3/31 @ Subterranean

When a group of Harvard alums pulls a band name from a Cambridge street sign, comparisons to hyper-literate, "collegiate" acts like... 

Ongoing Events

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

Comedy

America: All Better!

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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>Becoming Edvard Munch: Influence, Anxiety, and Myth</em>

Art

Becoming Edvard Munch

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Tuesday 3/31 @ Chicago History Museum

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

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

<em>Gomorrah</em>

Film

Gomorrah

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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>Polaroids: Mapplethorpe</em>

Art: Photography

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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>Abandoned Demolition</em>: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Art

Abandoned Demolition: New Painting by Andy Paczos

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

Devil in a Woodpile

Music

Devil in a Woodpile

Tuesday 3/31 @ The Hideout

It's no wonder that Devil in a Woodpile draw a crowd each Tuesday at the Hideout, where they've been playing country... 

<em>Valentino: The Last Emperor</em>

Film: Documentary

Valentino: The Last Emperor

Tuesday 3/31 @ Various locations

The titular allusion of Matt Tyrnauer's warts-and-all portrait of Italian couturier Valentino Garavani to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1987 epic is an apt... 

Sigmar Polke: <em>Lens Paintings</em>

Art

Sigmar Polke

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

Angelina Gualdoni: <em>Proposals for Remnants</em>

Art

Angelina Gualdoni

Tuesday 3/31 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery

In her previous paintings, Angelina Gualdoni depicted modern-day ruins with a mix of naturalistic detail and hazy atmospherics. Her latest exhibition,... 

<em>Loaded: Hunting Culture in America</em>

Art

Loaded: Hunting Culture in America

Tuesday 3/31 @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago

Hunting is one of our country's semi-submerged traditions, stretching well beyond the red states. Gathering a varied group of insiders, outside... 

<em>Milk</em>

Film

Milk

Tuesday 3/31 @ Various locations

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

Steppenwolf presents <em>Art</em>

Theatre

Steppenwolf presents Art

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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,... 

Paul Chan

Art

Paul Chan

Tuesday 3/31 @ The Renaissance Society

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

Anne Chu

Art

Anne Chu

Tuesday 3/31 @ Donald Young Gallery

New York-based artist Anne Chu's drawings, prints, and sculptures conjure mythology reminiscent of Kiki Smith. Bear Head (all works 2008), cast... 

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

Art

Robert Davis and Michael Langlois

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

Jeff Parker's <em>The Cushicles</em>

Music

Jeff Parker

Tuesday 3/31 @ Rodan

If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker... 

<em>Tokyo!</em>

Film

Tokyo!

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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.... 

Coats for Cubs

Special Event: Benefit

Coats for Cubs

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

<em>PhotoDimensional</em>

Art

PhotoDimensional

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

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

Art

Mary Lou Zelazny

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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>Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe</em>

Art

Buckminster Fuller

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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... 

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

Art

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

Tuesday 3/31 @ 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...