All events on Monday October 27
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- A Sandra Bernhard Halloween
- Monday Oct 27 (7 & 9:30pm) @ Steppenwolf Theatre Company
- Sandra Bernhard may be best remembered for her acidic '80s heyday as Madonna's best friend and David Letterman's favorite guest, but the outspoken diva has... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Of Montreal
- Monday Oct 27 (7pm) @ Riviera Theatre
- Athens, Georgia's Of Montreal have evolved a unique and eclectic musical style that might best be termed "indie glam." Since 2004's Satanic Panic in the... View details »
- Music: Folk/Country
- Jolie Holland w/ Herman Dune
- Monday Oct 27 (10pm) @ Lakeshore Theater
- Jolie Holland's songs are at once old and new — too freaky for blues, too jazzy for folk, and too punky for country. The title... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Starfucker w/ Mother Mother
- Monday Oct 27 (9pm) @ The Hideout
- While Starfucker's name might seem pedestrian (or at least juvenile), it turns out that the moniker comes from a Rolling Stones tune whose name was... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Monday Oct 27 @ 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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 @ 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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 27 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Spoken Word
- Radiolab Live!
- Monday Oct 27 (7:30pm) @ Victory Gardens Biograph Theater More times »
- When Orson Welles' radio drama War of the Worlds first aired on October 30, 1938, some listeners — despite an intermission notice that the broadcast... View details »
- Art
- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- Monday Oct 27 (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 27 @ 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: Festival
- Chicago International Film Festival
- Monday Oct 27 @ 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 27 (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 27 (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 27 @ 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 »
