Events on Saturday, September 12
Bloodshot Records 15th Anniversary Beer-B-Q
Saturday 9/12 @ The Hideout
Since its humble origins in a dark corner of Delilah's, Bloodshot Records has evolved from a homegrown idea to the magnet...
Saturday 9/12 @ Bottom Lounge
Tonight, indie-rap party-starter Amanda Blank opens for Matt and Kim — the hyper-pop duo who put on equally lively shows of...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 9/12 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Mainstream culture has absorbed tattoos to the point where your buttoned-up boss probably has an arm ringed in barbed wire by...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ TimeLine Theatre
The History Boys treads familiar ground, following a band of students and the teachers who light their way — but Alan...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Saturday 9/12 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Saturday 9/12 @ Tony Wight Gallery
Black skies, ashen snow, and solitude: these are the ingredients of a fading world. In painstakingly rendered graphite drawings, Robyn O'Neil...
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ Facets Cinémathèque
Ulrich Seidl spends his time like many dedicated biologists, rooting around in the Earth's cesspools in search of life's truths and...
Saturday 9/12 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf Theatre Company kicks off its new season on the theme of belief with a world premiere written and directed by...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Molly Springfield: Translation
Saturday 9/12 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
Layered acts of translation, both linguistic and visual, drive Molly Springfield's latest project. First the artist photocopied every page of the...
Saturday 9/12 @ Catherine Edelman Gallery
In Hiroshi Watanabe's best-known photograph, a small figure scales a dramatic web of arcing poles beneath a gray sky. At the...
Saturday 9/12 @ Storefront Theater
Under Milk Wood began as a radio play by Dylan Thomas, and adapted for the stage, the music of language still...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Michael Ruglio-Misurell: Project #12
Saturday 9/12 @ Gallery 400
Some of the more memorable artworks of recent years have been immersive, meticulously constructed environments (see Mike Nelson, or Marfa's Hello...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ Division St between Damen Ave and Paulina St
Heralding the start of autumn, the Renegade Craft Fair rolls into town each September to provide a much-needed reprieve from the...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ Daley Bicentennial Plaza
If you heard about a big summertime brouhaha in Grant Park featuring hundreds of things to eat and drink, plus celebrity...
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Saturday 9/12 @ 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,...
Saturday 9/12 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Luis Gispert got the art world's attention by retooling elements of street culture and proposing that hip-hop is today's Baroque. However,...
Robert Davis and Michael Langlois
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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,...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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 9/12 @ Rotofugi
Kaiju cultists have about 70 reasons to celebrate as Toy Karma II unveils another overstuffed exhibition of Japanese toys and art...
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
Saturday 9/12 @ 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...
Saturday 9/12 @ Chicago History Museum
Bertha Palmer reigned as the queen of Chicago society, but her influence was known around the world. She was a champion...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 9/12 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Joseph Yoakum: Line and Landscape
Saturday 9/12 @ 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....
