Events on Saturday, August 22
Saturday 8/22 @ Downtown Oak Park
The menu for today's late-day drinking is a combination of microbrewed sustenance, a small contribution to the renewability charity Seven Generations...
Saturday 8/22 @ Jay Pritzker Pavilion
The Chicago Dancing Festival's closing program is all over the map in a high-energy, extreme-states kind of way. Ulysses Dove's Vespers...
Saturday 8/22 @ Lakeshore Theater
British funnyman and Comedy Central fixture John Oliver appears tonight at the Lakeshore Theatre in a set of back-to-back standup shows....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
MP3 II: Curtis Mann, John Opera, and Stacia Yeapanis
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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....
Saturday 8/22 @ Storefront Theater
Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
The Big World: Recent Art from China
Saturday 8/22 @ Chicago Cultural Center
Since the Chicago Cultural Center last presented an exhibition of recent art from China 12 years ago, the country has experienced...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 8/22 @ 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...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 8/22 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Saturday 8/22 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
