Events on Friday, August 21
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Neil Hamburger
- @ Schubas
- When Neil Hamburger bills himself as "America's $1 Funnyman," he's inviting audiences to stay away, knowing they'll come back for more.... View details »
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- Sneaker Pimps: The World's Largest Sneaker Show feat. Clipse
- @ Metro
- Now in its seventh year, Sneaker Pimps remains the premier tour of sneaker art. All the favorite models of kicks are... View details »
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- Art: Discussion
- Public Works Speaker Series: Chris Eichenseer, Jason Teegarden-Downs, and Justin Fines
- @ Andrew Rafacz Gallery
- Part exhibition, part creative lecture series, Public Works is both a chance to see great, tastemaking design and to explore its broader... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Ghostly International 10 Year Anniversary
- @ The Empty Bottle
- It's your standard story: college freshman launches tastemaking record label out of Michigan dorm room. (All right, maybe it's not.) You've... 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
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Zarina Bhimji: Out of Blue
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- Turner Prize nominee Zarina Bhimji returned to Uganda, her childhood home, to shoot this gorgeous, mournful short film. As Out of... 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- @ Apollo Theater
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The History Boys
- @ TimeLine Theatre
- The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Under Milk Wood
- @ Storefront Theater
- Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still... 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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- 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
- District 9
- @ 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.... 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: 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: Theatre
- Fruit of Zaloom
- @ Links Hall
- A weird all-ages vs. 18-plus dichotomy has played out in many artists' careers: Ice Cube went from "Straight Outta Compton" to... 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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- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... 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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- Art
- 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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