Events on Saturday, May 2
Saturday 5/ 2 @ West Loop
Chicagoland has its share of annual parades, but even the most festive tend to lack the creative spark and chutzpah that...
Crude w/ Hjertestop, Unit 21, and Closing In
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Beat Kitchen
Most fans of hardcore music already know of the much-anticipated and totally sold-out Burning Fight book release show, reuniting numerous '90s...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Western Exhibitions
Geoffrey Todd Smith is unabashed in his efforts to dazzle the eyes. The artist's vivid works on paper lay out repeating...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Zoe Crosher: Selections from the Analog Collection
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 65GRAND
Uninhibited by sexual mores, Michelle du Bois took a two-decade jaunt around the Pacific Rim by turning tricks and finding sugar...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Merchandise Mart
Even if a battered economy puts large-scale art fairs on the endangered list, there's still plenty to see this year at...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ The Annoyance Theatre
The town of Niagara, near the famous falls, was apparently daredevil central in the 19th century. Annoyance Theatre's giddily ridiculous and...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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,...
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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,...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Devening Projects + Editions
With framed works leaning against the wall and a sculpture of a lectern overturned on the floor, Christopher Michlig's exhibition MAN...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Various locations
This is not your average academic conference. Our Literal Speed's organizers describe it as a veritable "media pop opera" for the...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ The Goodman Theatre
Entertaining and cerebral, playwright Tom Stoppard made his name by giving intellectual pursuits a riveting life on stage. Rock 'n' Roll,...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Stage 773
"Because caring means sharing." Such is the slogan for Tony Fiorentino's new dramedy about open relationships, All My Love. When Ellen,...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Schneider Gallery
Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply...
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Economic and Financial Literacy Course
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Mess Hall
Derek Monroe doesn't get mad over shoddy products and rude customer service; he gets even. Well, sometimes. The Lake County consultant...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 5/ 2 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 5/ 2 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
