Events on Thursday, August 20
Thursday 8/20 @ Schubas
The annals of power pop are filled with cult heroes and should've-beens. Collector favorites like the Jags and the Records come...
Thursday 8/20 @ The Empty Bottle
The Max Tundra faithful waited an excruciating six years for Parallax Error Beheads You, the follow-up to the groundbreakingly idiosyncratic Mastered...
Thursday 8/20 @ Fat Cat
Single male, tired of Sidetrack raids and their deafening dance-pop trappings, seeking robust adventurer for real campaigning. Musts: You collect interesting...
Thursday 8/20 @ Lakeshore Theater
Chicago comedy aficionados will recognize the name Kumail Nanjiani and giddily anticipate his homecoming. But if you missed his formative Empty...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ AMC River East 21
Overturning the usual alien invasion scenario, District 9 recasts a million extraterrestrial visitors as refugees, confined to a slum in Johannesburg....
Thursday 8/20 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Shaft meets Bruce Lee with the wardrobe of Charlie's Angels in this Sundance-delighting, throwback homage to '70s blaxploitation. Black Dynamite must...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ White Big Top
Not all road-show extravaganzas that play huge tents in the West Loop are Cirque du Soleil shows. For example, Cavalia, a...
Thursday 8/20 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Thursday 8/20 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Thursday 8/20 @ 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...
Thursday 8/20 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
