All events on Monday October 20
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- Mount Eerie
- Monday Oct 20 (8pm) @ AV-aerie
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Phil Elverum (formerly "Elvrum") is the gentle giant of the
- Reading
- Alaa al Aswany
- Monday Oct 20 (6pm) @ Harold Washington Library
- Free
- The most celebrated Egyptian writer since Naguib Mahfouz, Alaa al Aswany came to global literary prominence six years ago with the scandalizing The Yacoubian Building.... View details »
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- The Other Side of the Story: Media from the Arab World
- Monday Oct 20 (7pm) @ Martyrs'
- Controversial Qatar-based television network Al Jazeera launched an autonomous English-language sister channel two years ago. While the burgeoning channel enjoyed almost immediate success across the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Duffy
- Monday Oct 20 (7:30pm) @ Riviera Theatre
- Sure, you could brand her Winehouse redux, but it's better to think of Duffy as just another student of Stax soul (Amy didn't invent it,... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Monday Oct 20 @ 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 20 (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 20 (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 20 (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 20 @ 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 20 (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: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Monday Oct 20 (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 20 (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 »
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- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- Monday Oct 20 (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 20 (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 20 @ 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
- A Secret
- Monday Oct 20 @ 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
- Monday Oct 20 @ 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 »
- Art: Photography
- Made in Chicago
- Monday Oct 20 (8am–7pm) @ 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 »
- Art
- Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
- Monday Oct 20 (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 20 @ 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 »
