All events on Friday October 31
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- Halloween: Hip-Hop
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Lupe Fiasco
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Friday Oct 31 (7pm) @ Congress Theater
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Chicago's own Lupe Fiasco returns tonight with his manicured, brainy hip-hop. He first came on the mainstream scene in 2006 with his album Food and... View details »
- Halloween
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Halloween Parade
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Friday Oct 31 (7–9pm) @ N Halsted St
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The highlight of this year's North Halsted Halloween celebration is The Rat City Parade, an outrageous float conceived by Chicago artist Ben Fain. This self-propelled... View details »
- Film
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I've Loved You So Long
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Friday Oct 31 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes sense that she's finally... View details »
- Halloween
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Night Tide
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
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Experimental filmmaker Curtis Harrington made his feature debut with this moody tale of doomed romance. Dennis Hopper (in one of his first film roles) is... View details »
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Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Block Cinema
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The initial response to Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux was notoriously mixed. James Agee's superlative-laced review was the exception, as most American critics of 1947 panned... View details »
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Ballast
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Friday Oct 31 @ Music Box Theatre
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When his brother ODs, Lawrence attempts suicide. Instead of dying, however, he slowly mends his fraught relationship with his troubled nephew James, and James' mother,... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
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Detholz!
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Friday Oct 31 (10pm) @ The Empty Bottle
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Every Halloween for nearly a decade, local new-wave pranksters Detholz! have been playing Dr. Frankenstein by recombining trashy '80s and '90s pop detritus into musical... View details »
- Film
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Tokyo Gore Police
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Friday Oct 31 (7 & 9:15pm) @ Facets Cinémathèque
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Fans of Japanese shock cinema are familiar with the genre's violent depravity, having exported extreme works such as Battle Royale, Suicide Circle, and roughly half... View details »
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- Art
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Art of Democracy
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–5pm) @ Loyola University Museum of Art
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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 »
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Displacement
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–4pm) @ Smart Museum of Art
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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 »
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Friday Oct 31 (10:30am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago
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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
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Bill O'Donnell
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery
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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
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Friday Oct 31 (8am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center
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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
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Tamar Halpern
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Friday Oct 31 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery
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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 »
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Ian Pedigo
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Friday Oct 31 (noon–5:30pm) @ 65GRAND
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Although Ian Pedigo makes raw-feeling sculptures out of humble materials — cardboard, plastic, scraps of wood — they reflect a certain sense of precision. His... View details »
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Jenny Holzer
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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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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Francis Alÿs
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society
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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 »
- Film: Documentary
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Religulous
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Friday Oct 31 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema
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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 »
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Night of the Living Artist
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Friday Oct 31 (noon–5pm) @ Chicago Art Department
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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 »
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Omer Fast
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Friday Oct 31 (11am–6pm) @ Betty Rymer Gallery
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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
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Buddy
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Friday Oct 31 (8pm) @ Drury Lane Theatre Water Tower Place
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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 »
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Doug Smithenry
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Friday Oct 31 (11am–5:30pm) @ Packer Schopf Gallery
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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 »
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Josh Azzarella
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–6pm) @ Kavi Gupta Gallery
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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 »
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Regin Igloria
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–5:30pm) @ Zg Gallery
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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 »
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Amy Mayfield
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Friday Oct 31 (11am–5pm) @ ThreeWalls
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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 »
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Rodney Graham
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Friday Oct 31 (10am–5:30pm) @ Donald Young Gallery
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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 »
