Events on Friday, February 26
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- Music: Rock/Pop
- Portugal. The Man w/ Port O'Brien
- @ Lincoln Hall
- Alaska's image could use polishing after the nonsense of rogue-style politics, so praise be for good ambassadors on the music front.... View details »
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- I'm Gonna Explode
- @ Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and Block Cinema
- I'm Gonna Explode (Voy a explotar) explores first love 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
- 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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- 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: Dance
- Akram Khan Company: bahok
- @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- The great gadfly Dubravka Ugresic once said, "An airport is the most common metaphor for our contemporary world." Understandably so: it... 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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- 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: Photography
- Martin Parr
- @ 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... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Puppetry
- The World is Flat!: A Weekend of Toy Theater
- @ Links Hall
- Curated by Seth Bockley. The national toy theater revival comes to Chicago with Great Small Works' "A short Entertaining History... 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: 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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- 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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- 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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- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Actions: What You Can Do With the City
- @ Graham Foundation
- We all know city life doesn't have to mean swimming a sea of concrete, braving traffic, and fighting off urban alienation,... 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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- Film
- House (Hausu)
- @ Gene Siskel Film Center
- Even if you've ingested a lifetime's worth of gleeful J-horror violence or knowing, Raimi-style bloodletting, nothing quite prepares you for House,... 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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- 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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- 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: Comedy
- The Tim & Micah Project: Continue
- @ Donny's Skybox
- Rather than inducing immediate fits of hysterics, voice-over artist and performer Tim Soszko and improv aficionado Micah Philbrook's head-scratching sketches often... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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: 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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- More Flavor: Spectacle
- Chicago Dog Show 2010
- @ McCormick Place
- Competition will be fierce and furry as thousands of groomed four-legged friends and their proud parents descend on McCormick Place for... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- I Am a Camera
- @ 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... 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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- Sonnenzimmer
- @ The Family Room
- The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- Baby Wants Candy
- @ Apollo Theater
- Whether you love or fear musicals, you can delight in Baby Wants Candy, a fully improvised comedy show with song, dance,... 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
- Garage Rep
- @ 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... View details »
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- Music: Hip-Hop
- URBAN SUITE FRIDAYS with DJ 33 1/3 @ The Shrine
- @ The Shrine
- The Shrine brings you URBAN SUITE, the sexiest Friday night in Chicago! DJ 33 1/3 spins Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, R... 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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- Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
- @ Chicago History Museum
- Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out! We have exhibitions and programs for... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- ComedySportz
- @ The ComedySportz Theatre
- Our long running main stage show "ComedySportz" offers a unique blend of fast funny improv comedy that is appropriate for all... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy/Improv
- The Hot Karl
- @ 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,... 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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- 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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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- John Roy
- @ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
- From Comedy Central's "Premium Blend," and "The Tonight Show"! 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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- 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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