Events on Friday, June 12

PJ Harvey & John Parish
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Music: Rock/Pop
PJ Harvey & John Parish
@ Riviera Theatre
The fact that PJ Harvey can release an all-originals collaboration and have it play like a solo retrospective is a pretty...  View details »
Bacardi B-Live feat. Q-Tip and DJ Z-Trip
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Music: Hip-Hop
Q-Tip
@ House of Blues
Judging by his unusual selections, Q-Tip — the Harlem-born, Queens-bred leader of A Tribe Called Quest — is still obsessed with...  View details »

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Harry Potter: The Exhibition
Month_06 Friday Day_12
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Harry Potter: The Exhibition
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Rod Blagojevich Superstar!</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Comedy
Rod Blagojevich Superstar!
@ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
The freshly ousted governor of Illinois exploited its top job, squandered its treasure, hamstrung its legislature, and tarnished its reputation. Rod...  View details »
Ongoing
Graceland Cemetery
Month_06 Friday Day_12
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Graceland Cemetery
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Of This Land: The Artist's Touch</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Of This Land: The Artist's Touch
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Cy Twombly: The Natural World, Selected Works 2000&ndash;2007</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Cy Twombly
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe</em>
Month_06 Saturday Day_13
Art: Architecture/Design
Buckminster Fuller
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Art Brut
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Music: Rock/Pop
Art Brut
@ Schubas
Indie-pop punks Art Brut take over Schubas this week, on the heels of the release of their third album, Art Brut...  View details »
Ongoing
Clare E. Rojas: <em>Believe Me</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Clare Rojas
@ Kavi Gupta Gallery
For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Stephen Sondheim's <em>Follies</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's Follies
@ Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre at Loyola University
Stephen Sondheim set Follies at the 30-year reunion of the Weismann Follies, a Broadway musical revue based on Flo Ziegfeld's real-life...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
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Chic Chicago
@ Chicago History Museum
In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Artists Run Chicago</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Artists Run Chicago
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Zoe Crosher: <em>Selections from the Analog Collection, from</em><em> the Reconsidered Archive of Michelle du Bois</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Zoe Crosher: Selections from the Analog Collection
@ 65GRAND
Uninhibited by sexual mores, Michelle du Bois took a two-decade jaunt around the Pacific Rim by turning tricks and finding sugar...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Double Exposure: African Americans Before and Behind the Camera</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art: Photography
Double Exposure
@ DePaul University Museum
Pairing a collection of small 19th-century photographs with larger works by contemporary artists, DePaul University's engaging group exhibition Double Exposure takes...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
Month_06 Friday Day_12
More Flavor: City Gem
Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Pop Sizzle Hum</em> & <em>Single Channels</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Pop Sizzle Hum & Single Channels
@ Tony Wight Gallery
A crop of painting-focused group shows has sprouted in the West Loop this summer. While you'll find some appealing works in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
Month_06 Saturday Day_13
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Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Baby Wants Candy
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
Baby Wants Candy
@ Apollo Theater
Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Your Pal, Cliff: Selections from the H.C. Westermann Study Collection</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
H.C. Westermann
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Free Featured
<em>Million Dollar Quartet</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Theatre
Million Dollar Quartet
@ Apollo Theater
In the days before corporate behemoths controlled the music industry — yes, there used to be one — some of the...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Chicago Model City</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art: Architecture/Design
Chicago Model City
@ Chicago Architecture Foundation
As the city celebrates the centennial of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago (if you don't think it's brilliant, try navigating a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Prairie Avenue House Museums
Month_06 Friday Day_12
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Prairie Avenue House Museums
@ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Big World: Recent Art from China</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
The Big World: Recent Art from China
@ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jesse McLean: <em>Invisible Tracks</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Jesse McLean: Invisible Tracks
@ threewalls
The war in Iraq, in its evolving guises, often seems like an abstract idea rather than concrete reality; what impressions we...  View details »
Ongoing
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Gaylen Gerber
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
Gaylen Gerber
@ Rowley Kennerk Gallery
Gaylen Gerber's strategy is to play humble host and deft interlocutor at the same time. He invites other artists to include...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Lalla Essaydi
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art: Photography
Lalla Essaydi
@ Schneider Gallery
Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Enlighten Up!</em>
Month_06 Saturday Day_13
Film: Documentary
Enlighten Up!
@ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
With more than 18 million people practicing in the US, Enlighten Up! asks a fundamental question: Can yoga transform your life?...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>America: All Better!</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Performing Arts: Comedy
America: All Better!
@ 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...  View details »
Ongoing
Jed Fielding: <em>30 Years on the Street</em>
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art: Photography
Jed Fielding: 30 Years on the Street
@ Catherine Edelman Gallery
Although the golden age of street photography may have passed, the genre didn't die with the likes of Garry Winogrand or...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Month_06 Friday Day_12
Art
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
@ 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...  View details »
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Bertha Honoré Palmer
Month_06 Friday Day_12
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Bertha Honoré Palmer
@ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world.  She was a champion...  View details »
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Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Month_06 Saturday Day_13
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Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
@ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for...  View details »
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