All events on Sunday October 19
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- The Dead C
- Sunday Oct 19 (8–11pm) @ The Empty Bottle
- The Dead C emerged from the same early-'80s New Zealand scene as the Chills and the Clean, but the band quickly staked out distinct sonic... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Unzipped
- Sunday Oct 19 (1:30pm) @ Chicago History Museum
- Documentary Unzipped is ostensibly a "behind-the-seams" look at fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's 1994 fall collection, but Mizrahi's obscure pop-culture references and mile-a-minute running commentary are... View details »
- Film
- Jon Jost
- Sunday Oct 19 (2pm) @ Facets Multi-Media
- In an age where the term "indie" is applied to Juno as much as Jack Smith, we can take comfort in knowing that cinema still... View details »
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Sunday Oct 19 (9am–4pm) @ Randolph Street Market More times »
- This year marks a revamp of the successful, Euro-style indoor/outdoor Chicago Antiques Market. The Randolph Street Market festival is a monthly summer-shopping hub that takes... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Sunday Oct 19 (7pm) @ 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
- Sunday Oct 19 @ 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
- Sunday Oct 19 (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
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–5pm) @ 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
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–5pm) @ 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
- Sunday Oct 19 (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
- Sunday Oct 19 @ 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
- Displacement
- Sunday Oct 19 (11am–5pm) @ 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
- Sunday Oct 19 (10am–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: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Sunday Oct 19 (10am–5pm) @ 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 »
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- Deceptive Design
- Sunday Oct 19 (10am–6pm) @ 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: Photography
- Psychodrama
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–6pm) @ Golden More times »
- Free
- In personal memorabilia, frozen grins tend to dominate — smiling is the Pavlovian response to the appearance of a lens. Chicagoan Jill Frank, nodding both... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–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
- Sunday Oct 19 (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
- Sunday Oct 19 @ 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 »
- Art
- Night of the Living Artist
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–5pm) @ Chicago Art Department More times »
- Free
- Turning your artistic influences into zombies is either a Halloween-flavored Oepidal dream or a curiously macabre motion for their immortality. In either case, that's the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Cie Heddy Maalem
- Sunday Oct 19 (3pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- First performed in 2004, this adaptation of Rite of Spring is an expressionist dance-poem of modern barbarism. It's "simple" in the sense that the steps... View details »
- Film
- A Secret
- Sunday Oct 19 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- This epic about a 15-year-old boy alienated from his parents in post-WWII France is a Holocaust movie that is not really about the Holocaust. It... View details »
- Film: Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- Sunday Oct 19 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Sunday Oct 19 (2 & 6pm) @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Made in Chicago
- Sunday Oct 19 (10am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- For years, the photographic collection of Chicago's LaSalle Bank has been one of the small number of corporate art collections to rival museums. (Lucky for... View details »
- Film
- The Candidate
- Sunday Oct 19 (11:30am) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- With the election just an Alaskan moose hair away, now seems like the perfect time to revisit Michael Ritchie's staggeringly prescient 1972 political pseudo-doc, The... View details »
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- Around the Coyote Fall Arts Festival
- Sunday Oct 19 (noon–6pm) @ Plumbers Hall More times »
- A neighborhood operation founded 19 years ago, the Around the Coyote Festival has grown into a grander-scale platform for emerging artists. Building on last year's... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- Sunday Oct 19 (3pm) @ 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 »
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- Smart Home
- Sunday Oct 19 @ 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 »
