All events on Thursday October 16
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- Tom Wolfe in Conversation with Carol Marin
- Thursday Oct 16 (6pm) @ Harold Washington Library
- The white-suited writer credited with founding New Journalism and introducing a nuanced, new language for his generation comes to Chicago tonight. In the 40th anniversary... View details »
- Reading
- Russell Peterson: Strange Bedfellows
- Thursday Oct 16 (6pm) @ 57th Street Books
- Free
- Last year, the Pew Research Center released the report that launched a thousand jokes. It found that regular viewers of The Daily Show and The... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- Thursday Oct 16 @ Various locations More times »
- Now in its 44th year, the Chicago International Film Festival offers a sneak preview of the most anticipated movies of the fall, along with independent,... View details »
- Reading
- Jonathan Mahler
- Thursday Oct 16 (6pm) @ International House
- Free
- Jonathan Mahler is one of those incredible nonfiction writers who combines a scholar's rigor with the limitless curiosity of a really interesting geek. Indeed, the... View details »
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- Urban Beekeeping
- Thursday Oct 16 (6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Free
- Here's a picture of sweet success: learn how a small Chicago apiary transformed an unused block in North Lawndale into a successful, honey-producing community space.... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- Citay
- Thursday Oct 16 (9pm) @ The Hideout
- Part pastoral collage, part AOR pastiche, Citay recall a simpler — er, more complex — time for rock 'n roll. The San Francisco collective's latest... View details »
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- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ The Second City e.t.c. More times »
- From the director of the recent hit Between Barack and a Hard Place comes another election-season winner, Campaign Supernova!, performed by Second City. Where... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Thursday Oct 16 @ 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 »
- Art
- Discarded Paintings by Gifted Amateurs
- Thursday Oct 16 (11am–7:30pm) @ Intuit More times »
- Free
- Whereas most found-art exhibitions make aesthetic objects out of forgotten knick-knacks, the focus of this exhibition is, more literally, fine art that's found. Discarded Paintings... View details »
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- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Thursday Oct 16 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Chic Chicago
- Thursday Oct 16 (9:30am–8pm) @ 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
- Thursday Oct 16 (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 »
- Art
- Art of Democracy
- Thursday Oct 16 (10am–5pm) @ Loyola University Museum of Art More times »
- Whether critiquing economic injustice, spotlighting social issues, satirizing public officials, or inspiring change, 20th-century printmaking has a long and storied history of disseminating ideas to... View details »
- Film
- The Dark Knight
- Thursday Oct 16 @ 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: Photography
- Alec Soth
- Thursday Oct 16 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a baby girl. During his... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Kathy Griffin
- Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ The Chicago Theatre More times »
- Kathy Griffin's mouth has gotten her into a lot of trouble over the years. Her infamous 2007 Emmy speech allegedly (one of Griffin's favorite words)... View details »
- Art
- Displacement
- Thursday Oct 16 (10am–8pm) @ Smart Museum of Art More times »
- Free
- China's Three Gorges Dam has become a dark muse for many artists. One of the largest engineering efforts in history, it embodies China's hunger for... View details »
- Art
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Thursday Oct 16 (10:30am–8pm) @ 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
- Thursday Oct 16 (9am–7pm) @ 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
- Thursday Oct 16 (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
- Thursday Oct 16 (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
- Thursday Oct 16 @ 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
- Thursday Oct 16 (8:15am–7:30pm) @ 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
- Francis Alÿs
- Thursday Oct 16 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
- Free
- Francis Alÿs is a renowned nomad who follows a global circuit of art biennials and museum commissions, but in his work he often returns to... View details »
- Art
- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- Thursday Oct 16 (10am–6pm) @ 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
- Thursday Oct 16 @ 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)
- Thursday Oct 16 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Carpenters Halloween
- Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Mary's Attic More times »
- What do you get when you mix a schlock-horror cinema classic with a couple of cheesy, soft-rock icons? You get Carpenters Halloween, a stage performance... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Thursday Oct 16 (7:30pm) @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place More times »
- Mamma Mia! and Movin' Out conquered Broadway even though their books are, respectively, a silly romantic melodrama and a confused narrative told through dance. Their... View details »
- Music: Experimental
- The Residents
- Thursday Oct 16 (8pm) @ Lakeshore Theater More times »
- Fans of the bizarre, the occult, and the avant-garde gather tonight as the Residents kick off their first national tour in six years. Dressed to... View details »
- Art
- Rodney Graham
- Thursday Oct 16 (10am–5:30pm) @ Donald Young Gallery More times »
- Free
- Rodney Graham's latest exhibition features both a kinetic op-art sculpture modeled after a Black Sabbath stage set and a room full of abstract impasto paintings... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- Thursday Oct 16 (7:30pm) @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
- Novelist Haruki Murakami may be our preeminent purveyor of dreamlike narratives, fraught with surrealist tremors, pop-culture curios, and the echoes of history. His recent "metaphysical... View details »
- Art
- Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
- Thursday Oct 16 (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
- Thursday Oct 16 @ 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 »
