All events on Monday October 13
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- David Sedaris
- Monday Oct 13 (8pm) @ Auditorium Theatre
- To paraphrase Heidi Klum, in the world of literature, one day you're in and the next day you're out. Once-golden boys James Frey, Augusten Burroughs,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Mountain Goats
- Monday Oct 13 (7:30pm) @ Park West
- The Mountain Goats come to Chicago this week as part of their depressingly titled The Last Happy Night of Your Life tour. With a whopping... View details »
- Music: DJ
- 100 Songs
- Monday Oct 13 (9pm–2am) @ Sonotheque
- Now that iTunes can concoct "the perfect playlist" inspired by your favorite song, it might seem like the art of mix-making is doomed to sink... View details »
- Reading
- Alistair McCartney
- Monday Oct 13 (7:30pm) @ Links Hall
- Taking the book reading out from behind its veneered lectern, Alistair McCartney combines selections from his (literally) encyclopedic debut novel with illustrative projections that underscore... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Monday Oct 13 @ Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary More times »
- Free
- If nothing else, taking up birdwatching gives you a convenient excuse to bring terms like "Magnificent Frigatebird" and "Purple Gallinule" into conversation. In this sancturary,... View details »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Monday Oct 13 (7:30am–7:30pm) @ Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool More times »
- Free
- Escape the roaring cars on Lake Shore Drive and the crowds at Lincoln Park Zoo by slipping through the unobtrusive entrance to the Alfred Caldwell... View details »
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- Chic Chicago
- Monday Oct 13 (9:30am–4:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum More times »
- In this glittering costume exhibition, the Chicago History Museum presents a rarely seen collection of haute couture fashions designed for the residents who helped put... View details »
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- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- Monday Oct 13 (noon–7pm) @ Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago More times »
- Free
- Jack Kerouac's On the Road — the landmark work of the Beat Generation — is a thrilling, chaotic, Benzedrine-soaked whirl of frantic jazz, aimless sex,... View details »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Monday Oct 13 @ Navy Pier More times »
- The Dark Knight might go down as Heath Ledger's final film, but it would be a shame if the actor's tragic death overshadowed its prodigious... View details »
- Art
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Monday Oct 13 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
- A canonized master of photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson's legacy includes a staggering number of great images, as well as his influential idea of capturing "the decisive... View details »
- Art
- Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
- Monday Oct 13 (9am–5pm) @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago More times »
- Free
- Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists who give new meaning... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Monday Oct 13 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
- Free
- Bill O'Donnell's color photographs offer a world of spooky little vacation homes, troubling the eye with mixed-up scales and half-focused views. This series, on display... View details »
- Art
- Deceptive Design
- Monday Oct 13 (8am–7pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Can a chair be more than just a place to sit and rest your feet? In a modern-art exhibit, the answer is invariably yes. The... View details »
- Art
- Mark Porter
- Monday Oct 13 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery More times »
- Free
- Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery — as the show... View details »
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- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- Monday Oct 13 (8:15am–5:30pm) @ The Newberry Library More times »
- Free
- The Newberry Library's celebrated collection boasts copies of Shakespeare's first folio and the Popol Vuh, but a new exhibition showcases a lesser-known facet of the... View details »
- Art
- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- Monday Oct 13 (10am–5pm) @ Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies More times »
- Free
- Hoping to eliminate stereotypes about Jewish people — they all subsist on gefilte fish and bagels with lox, for example — the Spertus Institute has... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Religulous
- Monday Oct 13 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- In Religulous, veteran comedian and free thinker Bill Maher travels the world, visiting a Holy Land theme park in Florida, London's famous Speaker's Corner, and... View details »
- Film
- The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Monday Oct 13 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Wild Combination
- Monday Oct 13 (8pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Cellist/composer/producer Arthur Russell embodied the cross-pollinating spirit of late-'70s New York, entertaining the avant-garde art world with his blissed-out dance jams. Club-goers dabbled in his... View details »
- Art
- Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
- Monday Oct 13 (11am–6pm) @ The Arts Club of Chicago More times »
- Free
- Though it's cited as a seminal example of installation art, Marcel Broodthaers imagined his late work Décor: A Conquest (1975) as both film set and... View details »
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- Smart Home
- Monday Oct 13 @ Museum Campus More times »
- Just admit it, you've ogled the sleek modern houses you pass on certain streets and wished you could peek inside. The Museum of Science and... View details »
