Events on Wednesday, March 3

Penny Arcade: <em>Bad Reputation</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Reading
Penny Arcade
@ Quimby's Bookstore
Performance artist, Factory reject, OG fag hag, and all-around provocateur Penny Arcade has proudly been the fly in the ointment since...  View details »
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Maya Lin
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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>Touch with Your Eyes</em>: Recent Work by Angel Otero
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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>Studs Terkel's Not Working</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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: <em>Buildings and Gestures</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Art
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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Dance Dance Party Party
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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<em>The White Ribbon</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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<em>Fish Tank</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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 »
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Prairie Avenue House Museums
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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Sonnenzimmer: <em>Vorab Fabrik</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Martin Parr
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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William Eggleston: <em>Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961&ndash;2008</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Art
William Eggleston: Democratic Camera
@ 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...  View details »
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<em>Private Lives</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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<em>Taming of the Flu</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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<em>Production Site: The Artist's Studio Inside-Out</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
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<em>Actions: What You Can Do With the City</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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 »
Ongoing
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Christine Tarkowski: <em>Last Things Will Be First and First Things Will Be Last</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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>Broken Embraces</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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>Trust</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
Performing Arts: Theatre
Trust
@ Lookingglass Theatre
David Schwimmer became a household name and earned a king's ransom trading quips on a slick, lightweight sitcom. To his credit,...  View details »
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<em>Moholy: An Education of the Senses</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Art
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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Michiko Itatani: <em>Personal Codes</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Laura Letinsky: <em>The Dog and The Wolf</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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<em>Felt</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Puppetry
Felt
@ iO Chicago Theater
It's tough for an improv troupe to set itself apart in a city bursting with quality comedy options. But as anyone...  View details »
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<em>50% Grey: Contemporary Czech Photography Reconsidered</em>
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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<em>The Brother/Sister Plays</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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 Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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>House</em> (<em>Hausu</em>) (1977)
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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<em>11:11</em>
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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Brazilian Funk at Coup d'état Lounge @ The Shrine
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Music: Electronic
Brazilian Funk at Coup d'état Lounge @ The Shrine
@ The Shrine
BRAZILIAN FUNK returns to The Shrine for the month of February! DJs FLX and David Pardo will spin the Latin Spectrum...  View details »
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Garage Rep
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
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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Abraham Lincoln Transformed
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Art
Series A
@ Hyde Park Art Center
Join us for this reading series dedicated to showcasing experimental writing in the US and the Midwest through readings, discussion and...  View details »
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GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
Month_03 Thursday Day_04
Music: DJ
GIRLS RULE! with DJ GT & guests at Coup d'état @ The Shrine
@ The Shrine
GIRLS RULE! With DJ GT and Special Guest...Get the weekend poppin' early! Ladies free ALL NITE. Gents: just five bucks.  ...  View details »
Ongoing
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Red Star, Black Eye: New Work by Josh (Shag) Agle
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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The Darker Side of Light
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Art
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 »
Ongoing
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Bret Ernst
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
Performing Arts: Comedy
Bret Ernst
@ Zanies Comedy Nightclub
From Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show & Showtime's Weeds! Ernst headlines his own episode of the Showtime series Comics Without...  View details »
Ongoing
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Benito Juárez  and the Making of Modern Mexico
Month_03 Wednesday Day_03
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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