Events on Sunday, February 28
Closing Brunch: Nathaniel Russell
Sunday 2/28 @ Home Gallery
Nathaniel Russell's show in Hyde Park felt vaguely familiar, and sure enough, without fully realizing it we've discovered his work a...
Sunday 2/28 @ Reggies Rock Club
The self-titled second album from DC grindcore/thrash revivalists Magrudergrind was among '09's most underappreciated metal finds. The Deathfest-bound trio has the...
Sunday 2/28 @ The Nightingale
Covering everything from LARPers to air guitarists, the aughts' boom of wacky-subject-matter docs was inching toward insufferable when The Rock-afire Explosion...
Dr Wax Closing After Party: JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound + Fly Phoenix (LIVE!)
Sunday 2/28 @ The Shrine
After 30 years in Hyde Park, Dr. Wax Record Store is closing. It's the end of an era! Come to a...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater
At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ The Family Room
The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Steppenwolf Garage Theatre
Dog & Pony presents this strange and astounding promenade show about the true story of identical twins June and Jennifer Gibbons....
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
Sunday 2/28 @ The Art Institute of Chicago
You've seen a William Eggleston or five, we'll put money on it, whether it's his famous ground-level trike shot or the...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ The Goodman Theatre
From time to time a director and an actor so inspire each other that they build an enduring artistic partnership: Jimmy...
Sunday 2/28 @ Various Chicago restaurants
Chicago's annual salute to fine dining at an affordable price is once again in full swing — making it the perfect...
Moholy: An Education of the Senses
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
The World is Flat!: A Weekend of Toy Theater
Sunday 2/28 @ Links Hall
For The World Is Flat!, 2009 Jeff winner Seth Bockley assembles four evenings worth of dazzling toy theater. That's a lot...
Sunday 2/28 @ A Red Orchid Theatre
In films like Secrets & Lies, Life Is Sweet and Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh explores the foibles of...
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Glessner House Museum
Chicago's historic Prairie Avenue district — the site of the 1812 Fort Dearborn Massacre — became known after the Great Chicago...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ McCormick Place
Competition will be fierce and furry as thousands of groomed four-legged friends and their proud parents descend on McCormick Place for...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli ...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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 Brother/Sister Plays Marathon Sundays
Sunday 2/28 @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
The Brother/Sister Plays are presented in repertory with In the Red and Brown in rotation with The Brothers Size and Marcus;...
Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle
Sunday 2/28 @ Rotofugi
Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico
Sunday 2/28 @ Chicago History Museum
As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its...
