Events on Friday, February 5

DJ Yoda w/ Kosha Dillz, Ohvaur, Save the Clocktower, and DJ Intel
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Music: Hip-Hop
DJ Yoda
@ Abbey Pub
Not unlike Mike Relm, Britain's DJ Yoda has helped transform turntablism into an all-out audio-visual experience. Yoda's old tapes, guest spots...  View details »
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Bishop Allen w/ Kid, You'll Move Montains
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Music: Rock/Pop
Bishop Allen
@ Lincoln Hall
When a group of Harvard alums pulls a band name from a Cambridge street sign, comparisons to hyper-literate, "collegiate" acts like...  View details »
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Varietease Cabaret
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Performing Arts: Cabaret/Burlesque
Varietease Cabaret
@ Lakeshore Theater
At least since the Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle threesome paid their Dita Von Teese worship, burlesque has been flung into the...  View details »
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The Interview Show: Two-Year Anniversary Show
Month_02 Friday Day_05
More Flavor: Discussion
The Interview Show
@ The Hideout
After the drawn-out NBC debacle starring Jay and Conan, we're feeling an unusual hankering for a solid talk show this week....  View details »
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<em>Fish Tank</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Beeswax</em> (2009)
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Film
Beeswax
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
Despite some guarded comparisons to Eric Rohmer and Mike Leigh, the mumblecore movement didn't seem to have legs. Too often, the...  View details »
Ongoing
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UBS 12x12: Aspen Mays
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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The 21st Annual Rhinofest
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rhinofest
@ Prop Thtr
For the next month, Prop Thtr is the place to be in Chicago for absurdly original theater, avant-garde performance art, and...  View details »
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Martin Parr
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Picturing the Studio</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
Picturing the Studio
@ Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
An impressive if somewhat theoretically unoriginal show, Picturing the Studio examines the artist's space as a site of fantasy, myth, production,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Art
Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love
@ Antena
Watching curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin's Cheat Codes: Lessons in Love, an hour-long presentation featuring the works of 12 video artists, feels like...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
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Anna Shteynshleyger
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Art
Anna Shteynshleyger
@ Renaissance Society
The Renaissance Society mounts a solo exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Anna Shteynshleyger (b. 1977). Trained at Yale, Shteynshleyger belongs...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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<em>Broken Embraces</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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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<em>August: Osage County</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Cadillac Palace Theater
If you find live theatre less exciting than movies or television, this is the show for you. Tracy Letts' hugely entertaining...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Hughie</em> and <em>Krapp's Last Tape</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
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Prairie Avenue House Museums
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>American Buffalo</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Performing Arts: Theatre
American Buffalo
@ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre
The fast-talking machismo of Glengarry Glen Ross earned David Mamet international acclaim and a 1984 Pulitzer Prize, but by then he'd...  View details »
Ongoing
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Laura Letinsky: <em>The Dog and The Wolf</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Baby Wants Candy
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Taming of the Flu</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
Italics
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
Taking a new angle on Italian art since 1968, Italics ruffled a few feathers last year when it was first mounted...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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 »
Ongoing
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Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>The Brother/Sister Plays</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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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<em>The Year of Magical Thinking</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Year of Magical Thinking
@ Court Theatre at the University of Chicago
Joan Didion is one of our most acclaimed essayists, and her incisive observational gifts and fluid style drive The Year of...  View details »
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Maya Lin
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Private Lives</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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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Adam Ekberg: <em>In the between</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art: Photography
Adam Ekberg
@ Thomas Robertello Gallery
In Aberration #8, one of Adam Ekberg's signature images, concentric circles of light flood the frame, suggesting a metaphysical order while...  View details »
Ongoing
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Richard Rezac
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Art
Richard Rezac
@ Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Precisely composed and impeccably fabricated, Richard Rezac's sculptures feel a bit like fragments of a high-end manufacturing process, re-combined by machinery...  View details »
Ongoing
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Daria Martin: <em>Minotaur</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
Art
Daria Martin: Minotaur
@ Museum of Contemporary Art
This show's titular maze-dwelling man-bull of Greek myth inspired Rodin in 1886, who inspired choreographer Anna Halprin for a duet filmed...  View details »
Ongoing
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Robert Klein
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Performing Arts: Comedy
Robert Klein
@ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
A comedy legend as seen on The Tonight Show!  View details »
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<em>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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<em>The White Ribbon</em>
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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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ComedySportz
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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 Hot Karl
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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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URBAN SUITE FRIDAYS with DJ 33 1/3 @ The Shrine
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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Abraham Lincoln Transformed
Month_02 Friday Day_05
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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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Distracted
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Performing Arts: Theatre
Distracted
@ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli   ...  View details »
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Armita Raafat
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
Armita Raafat
@ threewalls

January 15 – February 13, 2010

Exhibition Opening: Friday, January 15, 6:00-9:00 PM

Artist Talk: Thursday, February 4,

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Triptych Tongues
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Performing Arts: Dance
Triptych Tongues
@ Links Hall
Triptych Tongues features Lisa Biggs, Misty DeBerry, and Ni'Ja Whitson.    A triple bill of dance, text, and sound: Lisa Bigg's...  View details »
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I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Month_02 Friday Day_05
Art
I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
@ Rotofugi
Renowned Chicago gigposter artist and all-around good guy Jay Ryan will be showing all new paintings based loosely on his travels...  View details »
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Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum
Month_02 Saturday Day_06
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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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