Events on Sunday, May 24

Bike the Drive

City Gems

Bike the Drive

Sunday 5/24 @ Various locations

As you enter downtown from the south side, Lake Shore Drive's skyline view is truly breathtaking. The skyscrapers swell with civic... 

<em>Late Autumn</em> (1960)

Film

Late Autumn

Sunday 5/24 @ Doc Films

Doc Films' ongoing love affair with Yasujiro Ozu continues tonight with a screening of the Japanese director's criminally underrated gem Late... 

Mike Simonetti w/ Jerome Derradji and Kool Hersh

Music: DJ

Mike Simonetti

Sunday 5/24 @ SmartBar

Mike Simonetti, founder of the post-punk/noise label Troubleman Unlimited, started his dance-oriented Italians Do It Better imprint in 2006, as a... 

Ongoing Events

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>Rod Blagojevich Superstar!</em>

Comedy

Rod Blagojevich Superstar!

Sunday 5/24 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod... 

<em>Artists Run Chicago</em>

Art

Artists Run Chicago

Sunday 5/24 @ Hyde Park Art Center

Launched in storefronts and spare bedrooms, artist-run exhibition spaces have played a dynamic role in Chicago's creative life for years. Hyde... 

Harry Potter: The Exhibition

Special Event

Harry Potter: The Exhibition

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

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

Comedy

America: All Better!

Sunday 5/24 @ 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>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Sunday 5/24 @ Chicago History Museum

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

<em>Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera</em>

Art: Photography

Double Exposure

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>The Big World: Recent Art from China</em>

Art

The Big World: Recent Art from China

Sunday 5/24 @ Chicago Cultural Center

Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced... 

<em>The Human Condition</em> (1959-61)

Film

The Human Condition

Sunday 5/24 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

Perhaps the greatest war epic ever put to film, Masaki Kobayashi's The Human Condition is a nine-hour rumination on the futility... 

Steppenwolf presents <em>Art</em>

Theatre

Steppenwolf presents Art

Sunday 5/24 @ 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,... 

Windy City Sound Clash Festival

Festival: Performing Arts

Windy City Sound Clash Festival

Sunday 5/24 @ Reggies Rock Club

The summer music-festival season kicks off with a fist-pumping bang with annual punk-rock fest Windy City Sound Clash. The three-day blowout's... 

<em>Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H.C. Westermann Study Collection</em>

Art

H.C. Westermann

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Tom Stoppard's <em>Rock 'n' Roll</em>

Theatre

Rock 'n' Roll

Sunday 5/24 @ The Goodman Theatre

Entertaining and cerebral, playwright Tom Stoppard made his name by giving intellectual pursuits a riveting life on stage. Rock 'n' Roll,... 

<em>Several Silences</em>

Art

Several Silences

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

<em>Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000&ndash;2007</em>

Art

Cy Twombly

Sunday 5/24 @ The Art Institute of Chicago

Keeping to his own path, Cy Twombly has developed a singular idiom over five decades. His energetic paintings are marked by... 

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

Art

Buckminster Fuller

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Dance Dance Party Party

Party

Dance Dance Party Party

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Get Social

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Sunday 5/24 @ Glessner House Museum

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

<em>Of This Land: The Artist's Touch</em>

Art

Of This Land: The Artist's Touch

Sunday 5/24 @ 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... 

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Special Event

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Sunday 5/24 @ Chicago History Museum

Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world.  She was a champion...