Events on Wednesday, July 29
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- El Ten Eleven
- @ Schubas
- Although El Ten Eleven haven't yet garnered the mainstream praise they deserve, their sophisticated sound earned them a prominent spot on... View details »
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- Film: Documentary
- Italianamerican
- @ Doc Films
- Sandwiched between Mean Street's bleak gangster drama and Taxi Driver's unsettling tale of a lonely urban man's descent into insanity, Italianamerican... View details »
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- The Third Man
- @ Northwestern University, Norris University Center
- Whether or not it's a "true noir" is a debate we'll leave to the online message boards (and Friday's Noir City... 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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
- Studs Terkel's Not Working
- @ The Second City e.t.c.
- After taking aim at Obama, Hillary and McCain in its recent shows, the Second City looks homeward with a heaping helping... 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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- More Flavor: City Gem
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- 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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- 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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- 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 »
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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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- 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 »
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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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- Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Our usual introductions to the history of 20th-century art tend to lean on certain narratives — the subversive march of the... 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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- Film: Documentary
- Soul Power
- @ AMC Loews Pipers Alley 4
- Soul Power documents the Zaire '74 all-star concert that set the stage for Muhammad Ali and George Foreman's legendary Rumble in... 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: Puppetry
- Felt
- @ iO Chicago Theater
- It's tough for an improv troupe to set itself apart in a city bursting with quality comedy options. But as anyone... View details »
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- More Flavor: Benefit
- Veggie Bingo
- @ The Hideout
- Community gardens win big at the Hideout's weekly Veggie Bingo. Each Wednesday until September, Martha Bayne, the gastronome behind this winter's... 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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- 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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- 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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