Events on Sunday, February 7

Ongoing Events

<em>Picturing the Studio</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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 »
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<em>The White Ribbon</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
Featured
<em>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Fish Tank</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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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Prairie Avenue House Museums
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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>August: Osage County</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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 Monday Day_08
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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<em>Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Private Lives</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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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Anna Shteynshleyger
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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 »
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<em>Taming of the Flu</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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>Broken Embraces</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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 »
Ongoing
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Dance Dance Party Party
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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
Free Featured
<em>The Year of Magical Thinking</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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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Richard Rezac
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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
Free Featured
UBS 12x12: Aspen Mays
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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<em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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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<em>Uncle Vanya</em> (1970)
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
Film
Uncle Vanya
@ Gene Siskel Film Center
Of the many fine films included in the Siskel Center's Celebrating Chekhov series (Russia's Oscar submission Ward No. 6, Louis Malle's...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>11:11</em>
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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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<em>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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
Free Featured
<em>Beeswax</em> (2009)
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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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The 21st Annual Rhinofest
Month_02 Monday Day_08
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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Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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
Free Featured
Abraham Lincoln Transformed
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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Distracted
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
Performing Arts: Theatre
Distracted
@ American Theater Company
Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by PJ Paparelli   ...  View details »
Ongoing
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I've Been to Europe - New Factual Paintings by Jay Ryan
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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Triptych Tongues
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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 »
Ongoing
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Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico
Month_02 Sunday Day_07
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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