Events on Wednesday, July 8
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Lesser Birds of Paradise
- @ The Empty Bottle
- The Lesser Birds of Paradise are not a cool band, but that's not what they're gunning for. The Birds' songs don't... View details »
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- Paloma Delight
- @ Chicago Cultural Center
- The Grifters meets Arabian Nights in this 2007 Cannes crowd-pleaser from Algeria. Crafty con woman Madame Aldjeria employs a small roster... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Flight of the Conchords workshop
- @ Old Town School of Folk Music
- There was a time when the duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement might have only been the fourth most popular... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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