All events on Monday October 06
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- Chinese Stars
- Monday Oct 6 (9:30pm) @ The Empty Bottle
- Free
- Formed from the remains of Providence noise-punks Arab on Radar, the Chinese Stars streamline their former band's abrasive tendencies. It's easy to toss the foursome... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Boston Spaceships
- Monday Oct 6 (8pm) @ Double Door
- Robert Pollard hasn't changed his formula much in the years since breaking up Guided By Voices. The choruses are still the size of humpback whales,... View details »
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- Dinner Party Planning
- Monday Oct 6 (7pm) @ Chicago Public Library - Sulzer Regional Branch
- Free
- Efrain Cuevas (or, Chefrain) knows how to pull together a fabulous dinner party on the fly. Indeed, his acclaimed BYOB supper club 24Below forgoes restaurants,... View details »
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- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- Monday Oct 6 (9am–8pm) @ 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
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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 6 (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 6 (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 6 (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 6 @ 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
- Angles in America
- Monday Oct 6 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rhona Hoffman Gallery More times »
- Free
- You may find this show's title easy to misread, and that's by design — such ambiguity is all part of the game for the exhibition's... View details »
- Art
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Monday Oct 6 (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
- Walead Beshty & James Welling
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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
- Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures
- Monday Oct 6 (9am–5pm) @ Glass Curtain Gallery at Columbia College Chicago More times »
- Free
- Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans turned mass-produced objects into meaningful art. With this transmutability in mind, Scavenger Constructs features five artists who give new meaning... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Bill O'Donnell
- Monday Oct 6 (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
- Mark Porter
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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 »
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- Fashion Focus
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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 »
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- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- Monday Oct 6 (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 6 (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 6 @ 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)
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- Louise Bourgeois
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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 »
- Film: Documentary
- A Man Named Pearl
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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 »
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- Smart Home
- Monday Oct 6 @ 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 »
