Events on Thursday, January 14
Thursday 1/14 @ Harold Washington Library
Like Nabokov and a select number of other literary emigrés, award-winning Chinese author Ha Jin has done well for himself since...
So You Think You Have Nerves of Steel?
Thursday 1/14 @ Quimby's Bookstore
For nearly 10 years, Chicago-founded new-lit broadsheet (and companion site) THE2NDHAND has showcased some of the most surprising, funny, weird, and...
Dorian Wind Quintet Master Class
Thursday 1/14 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall
This event takes place in the Pick-Staiger Rehearsal Room. Please use the Ticket Office entrance at the southeast end of the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 1/14 @ Linda Warren Gallery
The art of Juan Angel Chavez is like a collage of a forgotten side of Chicago, bringing fragments of the streets...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ Rotofugi
With Concoction, the Post Family's Chad Kouri clips and recontextualizes a decades' worth of Don Draper-worthy, '60s ad photos. Idealized beauties...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Jason Lazarus, Wolfgang Plöger, and Zoe Strauss
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Thursday 1/14 @ Thomas Robertello Gallery
In Aberration #8, one of Adam Ekberg's signature images, concentric circles of light flood the frame, suggesting a metaphysical order while...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Monica Bonvicini: Light Me Black
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Thursday 1/14 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
An impressive if somewhat theoretically unoriginal show, Picturing the Studio examines the artist's space as a site of fantasy, myth, production,...
Thursday 1/14 @ Gallery 400
Mathew Paul Jinks' film The Queen's Tailor, which ran earlier this year at Green Lantern Gallery, used the classic Ealing farce...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 1/14 @ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
Joan Didion is one of our most acclaimed essayists, and her incisive observational gifts and fluid style drive The Year of...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Thursday 1/14 @ 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...
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Thursday 1/14 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Elio Petri's deft 1970 political parable won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film, but it remains somewhat obscure and under-viewed....
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival
Thursday 1/14 @ Stage 773
The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival began nine years ago when producer Brian Posen booked a six-week run at the Theatre Building...
Thursday 1/14 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Thursday 1/14 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 1/14 @ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks. ...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Thursday 1/14 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
