Events on Sunday, February 21
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- Reading
- Patti Smith
- @ Harold Washington Library
- Though she is best known as the "Godmother of Punk" (referring to her formative role in the scene that developed around... View details »
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- Music: Global
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
- @ Old Town School of Folk Music
- Banjoist Béla Fleck is probably second only to Alison Krauss when it comes to dad-grass uncool, and from Graceland to Buena... View details »
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- More Flavor: Memorial
- Day of Remembrance
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Commemorate the anniversary of FDR’s Executive Order 9066, which forcefully incarcerated 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent during World War II. Award-winning... View details »
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- Art
- Family Day: I [Heart] the Smart
- @ Smart Museum of Art
- Warm your heart by celebrating your love of art with the Smart Museum this winter. Produce and star with your family... View details »
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Ongoing Events
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 24 City
- @ 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... 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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- 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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- 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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- Film
- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Food/Wine
- Chicago Restaurant Week
- @ Various Chicago restaurants
- Chicago's annual salute to fine dining at an affordable price is once again in full swing — making it the perfect... 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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- Art
- 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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- 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: Theatre
- Poetry on Stage: Lysistrata
- @ Poetry Foundation
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Only two performances, Sunday & Monday! Victory Gardens Studio
2433 North Lincoln Avenue
(773) 871-3000
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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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- 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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- Art
- Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle
- @ Rotofugi
- Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of... 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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