Events on Saturday, June 13

Being a Chef: Chill Out with Chocolate

Workshop/Class

Being a Chef: Chill Out with Chocolate

Saturday 6/13 @ Alliance Francaise de Chicago

Like love, chocolate is a universal language, but also like love, the French may just do it best. The focus of... 

The Aggrolites w/ Green Room Rockers and the Void Union

Music

The Aggrolites

Saturday 6/13 @ Beat Kitchen

Forget AIG and Citigroup. No once-trusted brand has ever seen its stock plummet as spectacularly as ska's did after the mid-'90s.... 

<em>Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One</em> (1968)

Film

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One

Saturday 6/13 @ Facets Cinémathèque

Facets Night School returns with a midnight screening and discussion of William Greaves' avant-garde classic Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. The pseudo-documentary film... 

Ongoing Events

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

Art: Photography

Double Exposure

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

City Gems

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Lalla Essaydi

Art: Photography

Lalla Essaydi

Saturday 6/13 @ Schneider Gallery

Taking a scalpel to simplistic Western perceptions of the Middle East, Lalla Essaydi's painstakingly crafted photographs feel implicitly political, yet deeply... 

Jed Fielding: <em>30 Years on the Street</em>

Art: Photography

Jed Fielding: 30 Years on the Street

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

<em>Artists Run Chicago</em>

Art

Artists Run Chicago

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

<em>Rod Blagojevich Superstar!</em>

Comedy

Rod Blagojevich Superstar!

Saturday 6/13 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

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

Errol Flynn Series

Film

Errol Flynn Series

Saturday 6/13 @ Music Box Theatre

Film geeks can be every bit as gossipy as the TMZ crowd: Bring up Errol "In Like" Flynn to a cinephile... 

Jesse McLean: <em>Invisible Tracks</em>

Art

Jesse McLean: Invisible Tracks

Saturday 6/13 @ threewalls

The war in Iraq, in its evolving guises, often seems like an abstract idea rather than concrete reality; what impressions we... 

<em>Chic Chicago: Couture Treasures from the Chicago History Museum</em>

Special Event

Chic Chicago

Saturday 6/13 @ 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>America: All Better!</em>

Comedy

America: All Better!

Saturday 6/13 @ 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>The Big World: Recent Art from China</em>

Art

The Big World: Recent Art from China

Saturday 6/13 @ Chicago Cultural Center

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

Zoe Crosher: <em>Selections from the Analog Collection, from</em><em> the Reconsidered Archive of Michelle du Bois</em>

Art

Zoe Crosher: Selections from the Analog Collection

Saturday 6/13 @ 65GRAND

Uninhibited by sexual mores, Michelle du Bois took a two-decade jaunt around the Pacific Rim by turning tricks and finding sugar... 

<em>Enlighten Up!</em>

Film: Documentary

Enlighten Up!

Saturday 6/13 @ 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?... 

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

Art

H.C. Westermann

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

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

Art

Cy Twombly

Saturday 6/13 @ 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>Chicago Model City</em>

Art

Chicago Model City

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Stephen Sondheim's <em>Follies</em>

Theatre

Stephen Sondheim's Follies

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

City Gems

Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Gaylen Gerber

Art

Gaylen Gerber

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Clare E. Rojas: <em>Believe Me</em>

Art

Clare Rojas

Saturday 6/13 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery

For her second exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery, Clare Rojas returns with a carefully conceived installation of her distinctive gouache paintings,... 

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

Art

Of This Land: The Artist's Touch

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Get Social

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Saturday 6/13 @ Glessner House Museum

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

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

Art

Buckminster Fuller

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

<em>Pop Sizzle Hum</em> & <em>Single Channels</em>

Art

Pop Sizzle Hum & Single Channels

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Harry Potter: The Exhibition

Special Event

Harry Potter: The Exhibition

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

<em>Daredevilry</em>

Comedy

Daredevilry

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Graceland Cemetery

City Gems

Graceland Cemetery

Saturday 6/13 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 6/13 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Special Event

Bertha Honoré Palmer

Saturday 6/13 @ Chicago History Museum

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

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

Art

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

Saturday 6/13 @ 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...