All events on Thursday October 09
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- Tegan and Sara
- Thursday Oct 9 (7pm) @ Riviera Theatre
- These identical Canadian twins strike a balance by melding voices — one ethereal, one gutsy — with a musical diversity ranging from garage rock and... View details »
- Film: Shorts
- Pull My Daisy
- Thursday Oct 9 (7pm) @ Film Row Cinema of Columbia College Chicago
- Free
- As part of Columbia College Chicago's two-month celebration of Beat culture, the Museum of Contemporary Photography screens the 30-minute, black-and-white film that embodies a generation... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Hubbard Street Dance
- Thursday Oct 9 (7:30pm) @ Harris Theater for Music and Dance More times »
- Released, weighted dancing, written in boldface and arranged into giant shapes, reigns as the style of the moment, yet Toru Shimazaki finds a way to... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Broken Social Scene
- Thursday Oct 9 (7:30pm) @ Vic Theatre
- Canadian supergroup Broken Social Scene feature an ever-rotating cast of musicians (Leslie Feist was once a member), many hand-plucked from Toronto's indie underground. Part rock... View details »
- Art
- Marcel Broodthaers: Décor: A Conquest
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 »
The following events are ongoing.
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 »
- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Thursday Oct 9 @ 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 9 (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 9 (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 9 (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 »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Jack Kerouac: On the Road
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 9 (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 9 @ 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: Photography
- Alec Soth
- Thursday Oct 9 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
- Free
- In 2002, after finishing his breakthrough series Sleeping by the Mississippi, photographer Alec Soth traveled to Bogotá, Columbia, to adopt a baby girl. During his... View details »
- Art
- Angles in America
- Thursday Oct 9 (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
- Displacement
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 9 (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
- Stan Shellabarger: Walking Books
- Thursday Oct 9 (11am–6pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
- Free
- Artist Stan Shellabarger repeats mundane actions over and over again, turning them into extreme undertakings. For his second show at Western Exhibitions the artist displays... View details »
- Art
- Walead Beshty & James Welling
- Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
- Thursday Oct 9 (9am–7pm) @ 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
- Thursday Oct 9 (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
- Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
- Conrad Freiburg
- Thursday Oct 9 (11am–5pm) @ Linda Warren Gallery More times »
- Free
- Conrad Freiburg's clever contraptions require audience participation, but viewers' actions can sometimes lead to destruction. The artist's exquisite handiwork doesn't exist for its own sake... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Childrens Books
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 9 (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 »
- Art
- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 9 @ 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)
- Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
- Carpenters Halloween
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Thursday Oct 9 (7:30pm) @ 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: Documentary
- Louise Bourgeois
- Thursday Oct 9 @ 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 »
- More Flavor: Festival
- WIRED NextFest
- Thursday Oct 9 (noon–8pm) @ 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
- Thursday Oct 9 @ 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
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Kafka on the Shore
- Thursday Oct 9 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Smart Home
- Thursday Oct 9 @ 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 »
