Events on Tuesday, February 16
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- Music: DJ
- Daedelus w/ Nosaj Thing
- @ Lincoln Hall
- Daedelus, the alter-ego of Alfred Darlington, brings his Magical Properties tour, and his new label roster, to Chicago. With characteristically cheeky,... View details »
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- Reading
- Alison Bechdel
- @ University of Chicago - Classics Building
- Few American cartoonists are as critically acclaimed and as widely read as Alison Bechdel. For nearly 30 years, she has drawn... View details »
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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Sweet Home Chicago: Tasty Treats Today!
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Chicago's up-and-coming confectioners join us at the Museum for a chat about our city's current candy culture. Local shops that have... View details »
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- Music: Jazz/Blues
- Jeff Parker
- @ Rodan
- If for some incomprehensible reason you're feeling down on the Chicago music scene, the fact that you can see Jeff Parker... 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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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Brother/Sister Plays
- @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- A breakthrough theatrical event: three interconnected plays by a brilliant new American voice. Grand in scope, yet intimate and heartfelt, Tarell... 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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- 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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- 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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- Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
- @ 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,... 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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- Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
- @ Walsh Gallery
- A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness... View details »
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- Film
- 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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- 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
- Rush Limbaugh! The Musical
- @ The Second City e.t.c.
- From the creative team that brought you Second City's 2009 hit Rod Blagojevich Superstar! comes this loving homage to a bloated,... View details »
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- Art
- Laura Letinsky
- @ Monique Meloche
- Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether... 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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- 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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- 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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- Art: Photography
- Maya Lin
- @ The Arts Club of Chicago
- The name Maya Lin goes hand in hand with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in DC. Less well-known is Lin's long-running practice... 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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- 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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- 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Danie Kinno & special guest Charlyne Yi
- @ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
- Daniel Kinno - As seen on MTV, The Game Show Network, ESPN, and more! Charlyne Yi - As seen on... View details »
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- Art
- The Treasure of Ulysses Davis
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- Timbuck 2uesdays
- @ The Shrine
- Getting the week started early, WCGI's own heavy hitter, Timbuck2 hits it hard! Flexing knowlege and the funk. With Special guest... View details »
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- Art
- 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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