Events on Saturday, February 13
Saturday 2/13 @ Permanent Records
The signposts on Zola Jesus' debut full-length The Spoils (Sacred Bones, 2009) are familiar to the Wire/Signal to Noise crowd: Suicide...
Bikerman & The Jewish Avenger: Love Hurts
Saturday 2/13 @ Metropolis Performing Arts Centre
Metropolis Executive Director Jim Jarvis and playwright Scott Woldman once again don their Bikerman and Jewish Avenger alter egos, respectively, for...
Saturday 2/13 @ Congress Theater
After reportedly sending stunt doubles to perform in his place not too long ago, the metal-mask-sporting MC now known simply as...
Saturday 2/13 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Adapting one of author E. M. Forster’s most personal...
Ongoing Events
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Saturday 2/13 @ Graham Foundation
We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,...
Saturday 2/13 @ Lakeshore Theater
Sandra Bernhard may be best remembered for her acidic '80s heyday as Madonna's best friend and David Letterman's favorite guest, but...
Saturday 2/13 @ Chicago Cultural Center
It's clear now that the Cultural Center was really waiting for a mammoth, cardboard clipper ship with a broken corkscrew mast...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Saturday 2/13 @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
Everyone may have a certain building etched into memory, whether one that's magnificent or just personally meaningful. Projected inside a large,...
Saturday 2/13 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Chicago Cultural Center
These aren't your grandma's still-life paintings, even if the artist is inspired by memories of his own grandma's house in Puerto...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Saturday 2/13 @ Loyola University Museum of Art
After a notable stint at Germany's Bauhaus school, László Moholy-Nagy became one of the great modernists to work in Chicago, where...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Photography
Full of black-and-white photographs with unassuming subject-matter, mostly tacked to the walls without frames, 50% Grey is resolutely low-key. That's not...
Saturday 2/13 @ Various Chicago locations
For four days, Chicago serves as a visual-arts mecca for college-level educators, scholars, and students from around the globe. Among the...
Saturday 2/13 @ The Neo-Futurarium
Not to be confused with the John Van Druten Isherwood-inspired, Cabaret-inspiring play from which it takes its name, the second show...
Saturday 2/13 @ Hyde Park Art Center
Very funny and very dark, Stan Chisholm's installation consists of line drawings on paper and foam board and multimedia dioramas that...
Saturday 2/13 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Three poetic, stark, and incredibly funny plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney, documenting several generations of intertwined African-American families in an abstracted...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/13 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Saturday 2/13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
In Michael Haneke's latest film, a series of mysterious acts of violence disturbs a small, puritanical Northern German village on the...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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 2/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Most visitors to Production Site aren't going to come away with a dramatically altered impression of the artist's studio, even in...
Saturday 2/13 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Stephen Daiter Gallery
The Stephen Daiter Gallery has re-opened at a new location with an exhibition of the tongue-in-cheek British social documentary photographer, Martin...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Aspen Mays' photographs are among the more colorful, eye-catching works to grace the 12x12 exhibition series, but they're also the product...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Saturday 2/13 @ Facets Cinémathèque
After a string of soul classics such as "Grandma's Hands" and "Ain't No Sunshine," Bill Withers went a bit Salinger in...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Saturday 2/13 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Saturday 2/13 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Valentines Weekend at The ComedySportz Theatre!
Saturday 2/13 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
First date? Long time lovers? No matter what age you are, you'll laugh and enjoy our main stage show...
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Saturday 2/13 @ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...
Saturday 2/13 @ Chicago History Museum
He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...
Saturday 2/13 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
Saturday 2/13 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Since 1999, The Hot Karl has been presenting their brand of stage-clawing, no-holds-barred long-form improv to packed houses. You may gasp,...
Saturday 2/13 @ Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
Intuit kicks off its 2010 season with The Treasure of Ulysses Davis. A Savannah barber, Davis spent his free time carving...
Saturday 2/13 @ Links Hall
Solo musings on the body and others. Featureing K. Bradfor, PAul Escriva, Sentell Harper, James Leija, Carole McCurdy, Jennifer Morales, Erica...
Saturday 2/13 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Saturday 2/13 @ Chicago History Museum
Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for...
Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis
Saturday 2/13 @ The Shrine
Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Saturday 2/13 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Saturday 2/13 @ Smart Museum of Art
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Paris reigned as the city of light and Impressionism captured the bustle of...
