Events on Monday, March 1

Bad Meaning Good: <em>Hard Ticket to Hawaii</em> (1987)

Film

Hard Ticket to Hawaii

Monday 3/ 1 @ The Burlington

Another appallingly amusing selection for Bad Meaning Good's monthly movie event, cult favorite Hard Ticket to Hawaii is an early jewel... 

Chopin Fest: Happy 200th Birthday, Chopin!

Music: Classical

Chopin Fest: Happy 200th Birthday, Chopin!

Monday 3/ 1 @ Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

This event takes place at Lutkin Hall, 700 University Place, Evanston. Admission is free.   Join us for this... 

Ongoing Events

<em>11:11</em>

Theatre

11:11

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961&ndash;2008</em>

Art

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

Stan Chisholm: <em>ThingsThatNeverReallyHappened</em>

Art

Stan Chisholm

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Private Lives</em>

Theatre

Private Lives

Monday 3/ 1 @ Chicago Shakespeare Theater

At one point in Noël Coward's Private Lives, Amanda — half of a divorced socialite couple who rekindle their romance (and... 

<em>Fish Tank</em>

Film

Fish Tank

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

Sonnenzimmer: <em>Vorab Fabrik</em>

Art

Sonnenzimmer

Monday 3/ 1 @ The Family Room

The newest collaborative exhibition from Sonnenzimmer duo Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher, Vorab Fabrik, takes inspiration from the mechanical process of... 

Maya Lin

Art

Maya Lin

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero

Art

Angel Otero

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>

Art: Photography

50% Grey

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>

Art

Christine Tarkowski

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>

Film

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

<em>Taming of the Flu</em>

Comedy

Taming of the Flu

Monday 3/ 1 @ 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... 

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Special Event

Mondays are always FREE at the Chicago History Museum

Monday 3/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum

Every Monday is FREE at the Chicago History Museum. Come by and check us out!  We have exhibitions and programs for... 

Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico

Special Event

Benito Juárez and the Making of Modern Mexico

Monday 3/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum

As America faced its darkest days during the Civil War, Mexico, too, waged war that led to the creation of its... 

Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle

Art

Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle

Monday 3/ 1 @ Rotofugi

 Come check out Shag's newest work at his first Chicago exhibition in over three years....colorful, precise, fun work by one of... 

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Special Event

Abraham Lincoln Transformed

Monday 3/ 1 @ Chicago History Museum

He is often revered as the president who freed the slaves, but how did Abraham Lincoln arrive at his highly controversial...