Events on Sunday, January 10
Sunday 1/10 @ Quimby's Bookstore
Perhaps more than any generation before it, today's twenty-thirtysomethings have their childhood nostalgia repackaged back to them time and again; but...
Sunday 1/10 @ Schubas
Conceived and hosted by designers Michael Renaud (who designs for Pitchfork, the Sun-Times, and numerous local bands) and Zach Dodson (of...
Sunday 1/10 @ House of Blues
Based on cultural stereotypes involving maple syrup, socialized healthcare, and general congeniality, heavy metal wouldn't seem to be Canada's forte. Then...
Jewish Identity and Imagery, Lecture Series: Margaret Olin
Sunday 1/10 @ Renaissance Society
lecture: Margaret Olin
January 10, 2010, 2 pm
As a Senior Research Scholar at the Yale Divinity School, Margaret...
Winter Chamber Music Festival: Lynn Harrell, cello
Sunday 1/10 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
A program of Johannes Brahms' beautiful chamber music performed by artists included the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concertmaster violinist Robert Chen, the...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 1/10 @ Music Box Theatre
Bob le Flambeur, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1955 casino-caper flick, doesn't quite stare you down with the grim-faced irony of Le Samouri or...
Sunday 1/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...
Sunday 1/10 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
"Art-design" pieces lead a thorny existence: they aim for both artistic significance and consumer practicality, and, critics argue, often fail at...
Sunday 1/10 @ Webster's Wine Bar
The monthly 2nd Story series is not your average reading. Performers from the Serendipity Theatre Collective covertly chat and sip wine...
Sunday 1/10 @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
When Charles Addams started drawing a group of macabre characters for The New Yorker in 1937 they weren't officially a family,...
Sunday 1/10 @ Rotofugi
Linder Sterling's punk collages meet Paul Pope's Playboy groove in David van Alphen's exhibit at Rotofugi. Under glistening acrylic resin, big-collared,...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Sunday 1/10 @ Music Box Theatre
Terry Gilliam's visually rich follow-up to such cult gems as Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), and Fear and...
Liam Gillick: Three perspectives and a short scenario
Sunday 1/10 @ MCA Chicago
It's a disservice to label Liam Gillick guilty by YBA association. Smartypants like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin may have made...
Sunday 1/10 @ The Hideout
Back in the olden days (read: 1990s), there was a strange abundance of face-melting, Midwestern post-rock bands with martial-arts-inspired monikers (Sweep...
Sunday 1/10 @ 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...
Sunday 1/10 @ Perpetual Motion Dance Studio
Since its inception in 2006 by two New York dance enthusiasts, Dance Dance Party Party has developed into a fully-fledged, ladies-only...
Sunday 1/10 @ Various locations
Chicago can be tough on a new year's resolution: there's a tacqueria (or an Old Style sign) on every corner, the...
Sunday 1/10 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 1/10 @ Antena
Watching curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin's Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, an hour-long presentation featuring the works of 12 video artists, feels like...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Sunday 1/10 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
In the third installment of the AIC's On The Scene series, the divergent work of three artists is displayed in a...
Sunday 1/10 @ The Second City
The Second City has recently mined the public lives of Rod Blagojevich, Rich Daley, and Rahm Emanuel for creative and box-office...
Sunday 1/10 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Whether you're a tried-and-true Wes Anderson fan or part of the camp that feels the director lost his way in a...
Sunday 1/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Before diving headlong into the abyss with Salò's brilliant but grueling extended metaphor of sexual-control-as-fascism, Pier Paolo Pasolini had sunnier visions...
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Sunday 1/10 @ Stage 773
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival began nine years ago when producer Brian Posen booked a six-week run at the Theatre Building...
Sunday 1/10 @ Smart Museum of Art
In hopes of tapping the under-applauded artistic pulse of America's sizable center, Heartland's three curators — hailing from Chicago and the...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Sunday 1/10 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
With elements fabricated from materials like fluorescent tubes and safety glass, Monica Bonvicini's exhibition Light Me Black has a discreet beauty...
Sunday 1/10 @ Renaissance Society
Moscow-born, Yale-trained artist Anna Shteynshleyger's austere images belie a host of influences. Her large, arresting photographs of the Siberian countryside are...
Sunday 1/10 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
In the early '90s, the Norwegian black-metal scene gained international notoriety following a series of grisly acts committed by some of...
Sunday 1/10 @ Various Chicago theaters
A fictional cinematic biography that weaves fantasy with universal themes of identity and alienation, Broken Embraces might be Pedro Almodóvar's most...
Sunday 1/10 @ Rotofugi
With Concoction, the Post Family's Chad Kouri clips and recontextualizes a decades' worth of Don Draper-worthy, '60s ad photos. Idealized beauties...
Sunday 1/10 @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Precisely composed and impeccably fabricated, Richard Rezac's sculptures feel a bit like fragments of a high-end manufacturing process, re-combined by machinery...
Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision
Sunday 1/10 @ Chicago Cultural Center
When walking through Barbara Crane's six-decade retrospective at the Cultural Center, it can be hard to imagine that a single career...
Sunday 1/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Temporarily departing from the UBS 12 x 12 series tradition of featuring work from one up-and-coming artist at a time, this...
Sunday 1/10 @ 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...
Sunday 1/10 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
The fast-talking machismo of Glengarry Glen Ross earned David Mamet international acclaim and a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, but by then he'd...
Sunday 1/10 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
The title character of Bernardo Bertolucci's politically-tinged comedy Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man is one Primo Spaggiari (Ugo Tognazzi), the rich...
Sunday 1/10 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Sunday 1/10 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Sunday 1/10 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
