Events on Thursday, April 30
Thursday 4/30 @ Film Row Cinema of Columbia College Chicago
The current economic crisis may make artist types fret over their prospects when even bankers are in trouble. The Rise of...
Thursday 4/30 @ House of Blues
Blessed with a voice both brassy and bluesy, and admired by present-day belters such as the Gossip's Beth Ditto, Etta James...
Thursday 4/30 @ Abbey Pub
Hip-hop is for nerds — or so seems to be the sentiment of Stones Throw Records. You won't see the label's...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 4/30 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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...
Thursday 4/30 @ Smart Museum of Art
A remarkable artist with a sensibility all his own, H.C. Westermann pursued themes of love, death, and catastrophe in his works...
Thursday 4/30 @ Museum of Science and Industry
Raised eyebrows and a few chuckles greeted the 1990s announcement that an exhibit of Star Wars movie memorabilia would tour such...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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...
Thursday 4/30 @ Western Exhibitions
Geoffrey Todd Smith is unabashed in his efforts to dazzle the eyes. The artist's vivid works on paper lay out repeating...
Thursday 4/30 @ Richard Gray Gallery
In his more extravagant moments, Marc Swanson hones a style that one might call "glam hunting lodge": think of the artist...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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...
Thursday 4/30 @ Music Box Theatre
Kiyoshi Kurosawa normally plies his trade in the horror genre, so Tokyo Sonata, a meditation about modern domesticity, marks a compelling...
Thursday 4/30 @ Various locations
This is not your average academic conference. Our Literal Speed's organizers describe it as a veritable "media pop opera" for the...
Thursday 4/30 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Chiara Clemente's Our City Dreams is a lyrical and joyful portrait of five female artists reflecting on their shared home of...
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
Thursday 4/30 @ Salvage One
Nestled inside the labyrinthine West Loop antiques-and-architecture warehouse that is Salvage One, Of This Land: The Artist's Touch is a unique...
Thursday 4/30 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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...
Thursday 4/30 @ Stage 773
"Because caring means sharing." Such is the slogan for Tony Fiorentino's new dramedy about open relationships, All My Love. When Ellen,...
Thursday 4/30 @ 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,...
Thursday 4/30 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
Any stage production whose advertising tagline is "The Greatest Musical. Ever." doesn't exactly suffer from a lack of confidence. Still, as...
Thursday 4/30 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Thursday 4/30 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Amid the economic gloom, universities are reporting a sharp enrollment surge in the "practical" majors (including finance and health) and a...
Thursday 4/30 @ DePaul Art Museum
Pairing a collection of small 19th-century photographs with larger works by contemporary artists, DePaul University's engaging group exhibition Double Exposure takes...
Thursday 4/30 @ The Renaissance Society
On April Fool's Day, an LTH Forum reader pranked the online foodie community with news on a Hot Doug's Celebrity Sausage...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Thursday 4/30 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 4/30 @ 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...
