Events on Thursday, February 18
Thursday 2/18 @ Columbia College Chicago
It's difficult to overstate Jirí Trinka's impact on stop-motion puppet animation, from the Brothers Quay to fellow Czech Jan Svankmajer. Today,...
Thursday 2/18 @ Metro
Fresh off a grueling European tour with Grizzly Bear and stateside dates with Andrew Bird, St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) lands...
Thursday 2/18 @ Gene Siskel Film Center
One of the rising art stars with a part-Chicago pedigree, L.A.-based Sterling Ruby is alluring partially because he's hard to pin...
Lectures in Photography: Mitch Epstein
Thursday 2/18 @ Ferguson Lecture Hall at Columbia College Chicago
All the innovator's cred usually goes to William Eggleston (whose retrospective opens next week at the Art Institute), but Mitch Epstein...
Thursday 2/18 @ Smart Museum of Art
Grab a pencil and experiment with shading during an evening of sketching that focuses on creating dark, light, and everything in...
Online Dating: an In the K/Now program
Thursday 2/18 @ Chicago History Museum
In today's busy society, more and more Chicago singles are looking for love online. But with all of the processes, protocols,...
Radical Disciple: The Story of Father Pfleger
Thursday 2/18 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
Father Michael Pfleger of Chicago's Saint Sabina Church has...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Thursday 2/18 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes
Thursday 2/18 @ Walsh Gallery
A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness...
Actions: What You Can Do With the City
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Schubas
For all the new-found open spaces and rhythmic expansiveness on Wild Beasts' Two Dancers (Domino, 2009), it's still singer Hayden Thorpe's...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
Thursday 2/18 @ moniquemeloche gallery
Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures
Thursday 2/18 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
Thursday 2/18 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Steppenwolf's Visiting Company Initiative is pleased to present Garage Rep, three productions from some of Chicago's most innovative theatre companies, presented...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ The ComedySportz Theatre
Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all...
