All events on Sunday October 05
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- Sunday Parkways
- Sunday Oct 5 (9am–1pm) @ Various locations More times »
- Free
- For two Sundays this month, major thoroughfares from Logan Square to Little Village transform into easily traversable trails for cyclists, walkers, strollers, and scooters. Along... View details »
- Music: Punk/Metal
- These Are Powers
- Sunday Oct 5 (8pm) @ AV-aerie
- These Are Powers refurbish the kind of avant-noise first perpetuated by early-'80s no wave and then domesticated by art-rock posturing; their credibility comes from things... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 5 (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 »
- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- Sunday Oct 5 (noon–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- For her interactive sound installation at Hyde Park Art Center, Mónica Herrera transforms the gallery into a giant musical instrument and invites viewers to play... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Sunday Oct 5 @ 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 5 (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 5 (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 5 (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 5 (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 5 @ 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 5 (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 5 (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
- Walead Beshty & James Welling
- Sunday Oct 5 @ The Suburban More times »
- Free
- The Suburban pairs two like-minded artists of different generations in this exhibition, which is rich with conceptual layers and enthralling in its attention to form.... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Art
- Mark Porter
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Center Gallery More times »
- Free
- Fusing found objects and his own custom-made creations, Mark Porter produces one-of-a-kind pieces that gradually transform themselves — and the gallery — as the show... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Psychodrama
- Sunday Oct 5 (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
- Video as Video: Rewind to Form
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Swimming Pool Project Space More times »
- Free
- Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video's fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg's intellectual territory or that of the structural... View details »
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- Fashion Focus
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Various locations More times »
- The fourth year of Fashion Focus Chicago honors all levels of local clothing design — from elaborate couture to college-student creations — during its style-conscious... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 5 (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 5 @ 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
- The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974)
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Paramount has done cinephiles a favor by restoring the one-two punch that is Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather I and II. Coppola and cinematographer Gordon Willis... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Sunday Oct 5 (2pm) @ TimeLine Theatre More times »
- Gore Vidal's cutting political satire Weekend was written (and is set) during the fraught 1968 presidential campaign. Weekend follows a Republican senator as he prepares... View details »
- Film
- Blood Simple
- Sunday Oct 5 (11:30am) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Now seems like the ideal time to revisit the Coen Brothers' tense hick-noir debut. Fargo notwithstanding, nothing else in their catalogue strikes such a caustic... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Louise Bourgeois
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Don't let the name fool you. At 96, Louise Bourgeois is still the diametric opposite of middle-class politesse and mass-produced good taste. Her flamboyant mix... View details »
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- WIRED NextFest
- Sunday Oct 5 (11am–7pm) @ Millennium Park More times »
- Free
- To see the most recent technological innovations in robotics, health care, sustainable energy, and art — or if you simply want to hang out at... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- A Man Named Pearl
- Sunday Oct 5 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- In 1976, when black factory worker Pearl Fryar moved to all-white Bishopville, South Carolina, his neighbors didn't disguise their trepidation: "Black people don't keep up... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- Sunday Oct 5 (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 5 @ 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 »
