Events on Thursday, September 10
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- The Most Serene Republic
- @ Schubas
- Toronto may not have quite the foothold on indie rock it did, say, eight years ago, but if the fanfare has... View details »
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- Art
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Dance
- The Waking Room
- @ Co-Prosperity Sphere
- Directoire-era France, studies on psychosis, and Henri Michaux's mescaline trips all collided in dancer Jonathan Meyer's research. The result: three characters,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fake
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jersey Boys
- @ Bank of America Theatre
- The Chicago theater scene has been blessed of late with a raft of high-quality jukebox musicals: the Black Ensemble Theater showcased... 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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- 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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- 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: Theatre
- Mistakes Were Made
- @ A Red Orchid Theatre
- Aglow with an Oscar nomination for his supporting role in Revolutionary Road, Michael Shannon reunites with A Red Orchid Theatre, the... 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- It Might Get Loud
- @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
- You can imagine it started with a big idea: get three guitar gods in the same room and let them talk... 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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- Chicago Underground Film Festival
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- How would CUFF celebrate My Super Sweet 16? It would probably include a bathtub full of swill beer, an abandoned warehouse,... View details »
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- Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Believers in the classic power of large-scale oil painting, Robert Davis and Michael Langlois work collaboratively to give the venerable art... 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
- 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: 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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- Toy Karma II
- @ Rotofugi
- Kaiju cultists have about 70 reasons to celebrate as Toy Karma II unveils another overstuffed exhibition of Japanese toys and art... 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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- 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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- 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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- Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
- @ Gallery 400
- Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello... 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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- Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- During the last decade of his life, self-taught artist and South Side resident Joseph Yoakum (1890–1972) began drawing almost full time.... 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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