Events on Sunday, June 28
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- Chicago 40th Annual Pride Parade
- @ N Halsted St
- Years from now, when equal rights for gay people have taken their place next to women's suffrage and the end of... View details »
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- Music: Experimental
- The Present
- @ The Empty Bottle
- The Present's Rusty Santos has helped mastermind some of the most chaotically beautiful music of the last five years, from Animal... View details »
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- 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 »
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- David Horvitz
- @ Believe Inn
- David Horvitz draws inspiration from "rabble-rousers, mischief makers, saboteurs," and other kinds of rascally figures, and his retooled version of '60s-style... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- 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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Sonic Youth
- @ Vic Theatre
- Almost three decades and 16 albums into their career, Sonic Youth have established a reputation of cool, virtually unmatched by any... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Shellac
- @ Bottom Lounge
- Imagine asking Shellac: "What do you pimp out your MySpace with?" It probably wouldn't be an answer of disdain, but a... View details »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- Film
- Whatever Works
- @ Various locations
- Long ago, Woody Allen owned up: his one regret in life was that he was not someone else. Yet, for the... View details »
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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 »
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- Dance Dance Party Party
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Soul/R&B
- A Tribute to the Black Crooners (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)
- @ Black Ensemble Theater
- News of R&B superstar Maxwell's return after a long hiatus is a reminder of times past, and not just his previous... View details »
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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 »
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- Errol Flynn Series
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Film geeks can be every bit as gossipy as the TMZ crowd: Bring up Errol "In Like" Flynn to a cinephile... View details »
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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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