Events on Saturday, February 20

Pastoral's Winter Blah Buster

Food/Wine

Pastoral's Winter Blah Buster

Saturday 2/20 @ Pastoral

When the Chicago Tribune recently acknowledged Pastoral with a 2010 Good Eating Award, the nod emphasized what local cheese and wine... 

Troy Taylor: <em>Murder & Mayhem in Chicago</em>

Books: Reading

Troy Taylor

Saturday 2/20 @ Quimby's Bookstore

Although Chicago's tales of crime and corruption could fill a library or two, local author Troy Taylor packs the best (or... 

Love Letters and Live Wires: Highlights from the GPO Film Unit

Film

Love Letters and Live Wires: Highlights from the GPO Film Unit

Saturday 2/20 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

Commissioned by Britain’s GPO (GPO) Film Unit in the... 

Black Star Saturday w/ DJ Bonsu (Hiplife + more from Ghana!)

Music: Global

Black Star Saturday w/ DJ Bonsu (Hiplife + more from Ghana!)

Saturday 2/20 @ The Shrine

DJ BONSU is back with BLACK STAR SATURDAYS! Featuring Afro Funk, Highlife and Hip Hop from Ghana! This party gets packed... 

Ongoing Events

Martin Parr

Art: Photography

Martin Parr

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>11:11</em>

Theatre

11:11

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>

Art: Photography

50% Grey

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Taming of the Flu</em>

Comedy

Taming of the Flu

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Stan Chisholm: <em>ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened</em>

Art

Stan Chisholm

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>

Film

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Michiko Itatani: <em>Personal Codes</em>

Art

Michiko Itatani: Personal Codes

Saturday 2/20 @ Walsh Gallery

A ring of mystical lights keeps appearing among the trees in Michiko Itatani's paintings of forests, which are draped in darkness... 

<em>Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out</em>

Art

Production Site

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Neo-Futurists: <em>I Am a Camera</em>

Theatre

I Am a Camera

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero

Art

Angel Otero

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Susan Giles: <em>Buildings and Gestures</em>

Art

Susan Giles: Buildings and Gestures

Saturday 2/20 @ 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,... 

Chicago Restaurant Week

Food/Wine

Chicago Restaurant Week

Saturday 2/20 @ Various Chicago restaurants

Chicago's annual salute to fine dining at an affordable price is once again in full swing — making it the perfect... 

UBS 12x12: Aspen Mays

Art: Photography

Aspen Mays

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>

Comedy

Studs Terkel's Not Working

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>24 City</em>

Film

24 City

Saturday 2/20 @ Max Palevsky Cinema

One of China's best filmmakers, Jia Zhang-ke essentially worked underground for years. Since 2004 he's proven adept at making subtle political... 

<em>The Brother/Sister Plays</em>

Theatre

The Brother/Sister Plays

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Get Social

Prairie Avenue House Museums

Saturday 2/20 @ Glessner House Museum

Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago... 

<em>Private Lives</em>

Theatre

Private Lives

Saturday 2/20 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and... 

<em>Moholy: An Education of the Senses</em>

Art

Moholy: An Education of the Senses

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</em>

Special Event

Actions: What You Can Do With the City

Saturday 2/20 @ Graham Foundation

We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,... 

<em>Abigail's Party</em>

Theatre

Abigail's Party

Saturday 2/20 @ A Red Orchid Theatre

In films like Secrets & LiesLife Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of... 

Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>

Art

Christine Tarkowski

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

<em>Fish Tank</em>

Film

Fish Tank

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Laura Letinsky: <em>The Dog and The Wolf</em>

Art

Laura Letinsky

Saturday 2/20 @ moniquemeloche gallery

Artist Laura Letinsky's lush photographs, rife with allusions to Dutch still lifes, are meditations on the detritus of our lives. Whether... 

Celestial Navigations: The Short Films of Al Jarnow

Film: Animation

Al Jarnow

Saturday 2/20 @ Gene Siskel Film Center

Reminiscent of puzzles, science experiments, and logic games, Celestial Navigations brings together rarely seen works of the great animator Al Jarnow.... 

<em>Hughie</em> and <em>Krapp's Last Tape</em>

Theatre

Hughie and Krapp's Last Tape

Saturday 2/20 @ The Goodman Theatre

From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy... 

ComedySportz

Comedy

ComedySportz

Saturday 2/20 @ The ComedySportz Theatre

Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all... 

Garage Rep

Theatre

Garage Rep

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

The Treasure of Ulysses Davis

Art

The Treasure of Ulysses Davis

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Saturday 2/20 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

Exhibition Tours

Art

Exhibition Tours

Saturday 2/20 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

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Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Saturday 2/20 @ Chicago History Museum

As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its... 

Distracted

Theatre

Distracted

Saturday 2/20 @ American Theater Company

Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli   ... 

The Darker Side of Light

Art

The Darker Side of Light

Saturday 2/20 @ 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... 

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections

Art

A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections

Saturday 2/20 @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema

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Licorice Saturdays&nbsp;w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis

Music: Hip-Hop

Licorice Saturdays w/ Timbuck2 & Shon Dervis

Saturday 2/20 @ The Shrine

Chicago's BEST Saturday night party blows up each and every week with The Heavy Hitter, Timbuck2 (in the main room) and... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Saturday 2/20 @ Chicago History Museum

He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial... 

The Hot Karl

Comedy

The Hot Karl

Saturday 2/20 @ 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,... 

Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle

Art

Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle

Saturday 2/20 @ Rotofugi

 Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of...