Events on Sunday, February 14
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Nneka
- @ Double Door
- Already an established voice in Europe, Nigerian-German singer Nneka is quickly catching ears Stateside with her heartfelt, message-laced singles like the... View details »
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- Valentine's Day
- Casablanca Sweetheart Singalong
- @ Music Box Theatre
- The folks at the Music Box know that Valentine's Day is likely to leave you in a sappy mood, so they've... View details »
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- Valentine's Day
- Naked at the Museum Scavenger Hunt
- @ The Art Institute of Chicago
- What better way to spend Valentine's Day than by searching the museum for tempting, fleshy bits and visual philandering while wandering... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Opera
- Stars of Bolshoi
- @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance
- The embattled renovation of the historic Bolshoi Theatre continues with no end in sight (well, 2011, according to latest reports). Meanwhile,... View details »
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- Valentine's Day: Classical
- Love, Italian Style
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- Enjoy an afternoon of eighteenth-century Italian sonatas, canzonettas, and solo cantatas on the theme of love, including treasures by Arcangelo Corelli,... View details »
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- Music: Electronic
- Heartbeat with DJ FARLEY JACKMASTER FUNK
- @ The Shrine
- He has been crowned the King of House Music and is one of the Original members of the legendary Hot Mix... View details »
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- Music: Soul/R&B
- LOVE HANGOVER: Classic Disco, Soul & House w/ DJ Ron Trent (3-9pm)
- @ The Shrine
- Valetine's Day brings the first edition of LOVE HANGOVER to The Shrine! A Deep Exploration of Classic Disco, Soul and House... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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- Film: Documentary
- Still Bill
- @ 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... View details »
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- The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- 50% Grey
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- 11:11
- @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater
- A group of college-aged counselors at a Christian summer camp accidentally take ecstacy, resulting in a night of romance, hilarity, and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Private Lives
- @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Taming of the Flu
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art: Photography
- Aspen Mays
- @ 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... View details »
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- Film
- The White Ribbon
- @ 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... 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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- Fish Tank
- @ Music Box Theatre
- Acclaimed British drama Fish Tank follows troubled teen and aspiring urban dancer Mia Williams (played by first-time actress Katie Jarvis) as... View details »
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- Art
- Moholy: An Education of the Senses
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape
- @ The Goodman Theatre
- From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy... View details »
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- Art
- Christine Tarkowski
- @ 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... View details »
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- More Flavor: Party
- Dance Dance Party Party
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Abigail's Party
- @ A Red Orchid Theatre
- In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of... View details »
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- Film
- Broken Embraces
- @ 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... View details »
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- Art
- Angel Otero
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Sandra Bernhard
- @ 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... View details »
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- Production Site
- @ 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... 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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- Italics
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Taking a new angle on Italian art since 1968, Italics ruffled a few feathers last year when it was first mounted... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
- @ Chicago History Museum
- As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Distracted
- @ American Theater Company
- Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ... View details »
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- More Flavor: Workshop
- Second Sundays
- @ Hyde Park Art Center
- An opportunity for the whole family to get creative. Second Sunday features FREE job-in, take-home art making workshops, scavenger hunts,... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- SELF(ish)
- @ Links Hall
- Solo musings on the body and others. Featureing K. Bradfor, PAul Escriva, Sentell Harper, James Leija, Carole McCurdy, Jennifer Morales, Erica... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Abraham Lincoln Transformed
- @ Chicago History Museum
- He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial... View details »
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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Honest Abe of the West
- @ The Newberry Library
- Honest Abe of the West chronicles Lincoln’s early years in Illinois, focusing on his career as an attorney in Springfield and... View details »
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- Art
- I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
- @ Rotofugi
- Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels... View details »
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- The Darker Side of Light
- @ 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... View details »
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