All events on Thursday October 30
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- Lawrence Lessig
- Thursday Oct 30 (7:30pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
- Sold Out!
- Henry Kissinger once remarked, "Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad." Indeed, in our cynical, post-Watergate world, political corruption — whether using political... View details »
- Music: DJ
- DJ Rekha
- Thursday Oct 30 (10pm) @ SmartBar
- Long before Jay-Z appeared on Panjabi MC's "Beware of the Boys" or MIA sampled Bollywood soundtracks, DJ Rekha started her internationally celebrated Basement Bhangra DJ... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gimme Shelter
- Thursday Oct 30 (7pm) @ Music Box Theatre
- If there were any hippies that still didn't grasp the potential for disaster in flower-power naïveté after the Manson murders, only the most stoned acid... View details »
- Reading
- Marti Kheel: Nature Ethics
- Thursday Oct 30 (7:30pm) @ Women & Children First Bookstore
- Free
- Environmentalists often view cullings — the controlled, selective slaughter of wild animals such as Namibian seals, South African elephants, and Alaskan wolves — as a... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- GWAR w/ Toxic Holocaust
- Thursday Oct 30 (9pm) @ House of Blues
- GWAR are the number-one reason to wear white after Labor Day (bodily fluids don't show up on dark fabrics). Days after seeing the intergalactic shock-rock... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 30 @ 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 30 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 30 (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 30 (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 30 (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 30 @ 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
- New Catalogue: Sergio Vieira de Mello: Rally Paris-Darfur
- Thursday Oct 30 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
- Free
- Artist collaborative New Catalogue often operates like a stock-photo agency or a design company in order to explore fictional imagery and submerged cultural narratives. Its... View details »
- Art
- Displacement
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 30 (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: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 30 (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: Photography
- Tamar Halpern
- Thursday Oct 30 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
- Free
- Should anyone need criteria by which to measure the success of emerging artists, one could investigate whether they had their first couple of solo exhibitions... View details »
- Art
- Jenny Holzer
- Thursday Oct 30 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- Her art may blend in with Las Vegas-strip-style lighted advertisements, but Jenny Holzer's brightly colored Truisms and arresting catchphrases are unlike anything found on a... View details »
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- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 30 (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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Coheed and Cambria
- Thursday Oct 30 (7:30pm) @ Riviera Theatre More times »
- Art
- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 30 @ 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 »
- Performing Arts
- Carpenters Halloween
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 »
- Art
- Omer Fast
- Thursday Oct 30 (11am–6pm) @ Betty Rymer Gallery More times »
- Free
- Omer Fast rightly grabbed the grand prize at the 2008 Whitney Biennial for The Casting, a challenging four-screen video piece that interweaves two divergent stories... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Doug and Mike Starn
- Thursday Oct 30 (10am–5pm) @ David Weinberg Gallery More times »
- Free
- Conventional wisdom has it that art and science don't get along. For years, artists/twins Mike and Doug Starn have been gracefully proving that notion wrong.... View details »
- Art
- Doug Smithenry
- Thursday Oct 30 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery More times »
- Free
- In his latest exhibition exploring the phenomenon of Internet identities, painter Doug Smithenry slyly asks "Are you a nobody?" He calls out the empty self-validation... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Made in Chicago
- Thursday Oct 30 (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
- Josh Azzarella
- Thursday Oct 30 (10am–6pm) @ Kavi Gupta Gallery More times »
- Free
- Josh Azzarella's photographs and videos smolder with an eerie silence and a sense of emptiness. They are also faintly, unnervingly familiar. Most are manipulations of... View details »
- Art
- Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant
- Thursday Oct 30 (4–7pm) @ Roots & Culture More times »
- Free
- Mike Andrews and Kaylee Rae Wyant's joint exhibition coyly takes the guise of a domestic scene — furniture positioned appropriately, paintings hung like home decor... View details »
- Art
- Regin Igloria
- Thursday Oct 30 (10am–5:30pm) @ Zg Gallery More times »
- Free
- With an eye to nature as a romantic ideal, Regin Igloria explores how we carry the wilderness along with us, both psychologically and as a... View details »
- Art
- Amy Mayfield
- Thursday Oct 30 (11am–5pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
- Free
- With viscous rivers of paint and delicate black lines, Amy Mayfield conjures phantasmagorical realms that are sensuous and chaotic, sinister yet vaguely winsome. In her... View details »
- Art
- Rodney Graham
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 »
- Film: Festival
- Chicago Underground Film Festival
- Thursday Oct 30 @ Viaduct Theater More times »
- With live-action doggy film Beverly Hills Chihuahua No. 1 at the box office for two weekends in a row, disgruntled moviegoers can be forgiven for... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- Thursday Oct 30 (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 30 (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 »
- Art
- Carrie Schneider: How Not to Fall
- Thursday Oct 30 (11am–6pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
- Free
- The northern landscape is a compelling, mysterious presence in Carrie Schneider's new photographs and films, made mostly in Finland this past year. The artist appears... View details »
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- Smart Home
- Thursday Oct 30 @ 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 »
