Events on Saturday, July 18
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- Music: Folk/Country
- Slim Cessna's Auto Club
- @ The Empty Bottle
- One of the diamonds of Denver's music scene and the rare country band on a punk-rock label, Slim Cessna's Auto Club... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Plants and Animals
- @ Schubas
- Most bands will usually tighten their rambling passages when the time comes for a full-length close-up. Luckily, Montreal's Plants and Animals... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Cymbals Eat Guitars
- @ Bottom Lounge
- Eschewing dance beats and psychedelia for a sound more reminiscent of early-'90s alternative, Staten Island's Cymbals Eat Guitars' songs slowly materialize... View details »
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Dutchess and the Duke
- @ The Hideout
- The Dutchess and the Duke aren't the first garage punks to throw their fuzzboxes into the attic, turn down the gain,... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Music: Festival
- Pitchfork Music Festival
- @ Union Park
- Since its inception four years ago, the Pitchfork Music Festival has become the end-all, be-all of summer music fests. Each year,... 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- 12th Annual Brave New Voices
- @ Various locations
- We may never know what a teenaged Shakespeare's rhymes were like, but we can find out what this generation's most talented... View details »
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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 »
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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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- Dave McKean: Nitrate and Kinogeists
- @ Portage Theater
- Dave McKean's illustrations and multimedia works are celebrated for creating otherworldly dreamscapes — splendor and nightmare coming together in a hallucinatory... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- The End of the Line
- @ Facets Cinémathèque
- The End of the Line's tagline asks viewers to "imagine a world without fish," as the powerful Rupert Murray-directed documentary sniffs... 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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- The Hurt Locker
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- Famous for sensational thrillers like Point Break, filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow stakes a new claim as a serious-minded action auteur with The... View details »
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- 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 »
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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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- 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- Three Monkeys
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Visual catchphrases borrowed from Lynch, Bergman, and Billy Wilder get a thoroughly modern treatment in the Turkish noir Three Monkeys, a... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
- @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
- MP3 II presents works by three Midwest-based photographers, their divergent approaches united by the transformative nature of their pieces. Curtis Mann... View details »
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- 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
- @ 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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