All events on Sunday September 28
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- Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
- Sunday Sep 28 (8pm) @ Riviera Theatre More times »
- Sold Out!
- After 14 albums, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds are still evolving and making great music. Each of their records is a foray into rock's... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Hot Chip
- Sunday Sep 28 (7:15pm) @ Metro More times »
- While Hot Chip were initially dismissed as electro jokers, it quickly became hard to ignore the brilliance of their genre-mashing sounds. That's not to say... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Awesome Color
- Sunday Sep 28 (8:30pm) @ Beat Kitchen
- Though their militant rock anthems seem ready-made for a hall packed with drunken rebels, Awesome Color are also well-suited to the cozy confines of the... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Santogold
- Sunday Sep 28 (9pm) @ House of Blues
- Just a year ago, Santi White (aka Santogold) was chillin' in Bed-Stuy, happy to hustle her way onto the opening slot at a Spank Rock... View details »
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- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 Sep 28 (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 »
- Film
- Tell No One
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- Herein lies living proof that the French can spin a gorgeous existentialist drama in any genre. Pediatrician Alex (François Cluzet) has never gotten over the... View details »
- Art
- Mónica Herrera: Strings
- Sunday Sep 28 (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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- Millennium Park Revealed
- Sunday Sep 28 (11am) @ Chicago Architecture Foundation More times »
- Millennium Park has only been open officially for four years, but it's already a Chicago landmark. And like most things in the Windy City, its... View details »
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- Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 Sep 28 (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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- Flower Power
- Sunday Sep 28 (9am–5pm) @ Garfield Park Conservatory More times »
- Free
- If the concrete trek and throngs of spectators at Friday's Fourth of July festivities leave you pining for something a little more spacious and herbaceous,... View details »
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- Chic Chicago
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Art
- Art of Democracy
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 Sep 28 @ 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 »
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- Lurie Garden
- Sunday Sep 28 (10am–1pm) @ Millennium Park More times »
- Free
- Making good on Chicago's motto Urbs in Horto (City in a Garden), the University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners offers 20-minute guided tours around Millennium... View details »
- Film
- Bottle Shock
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- In 1976, British oenophile Steven Spurrier (Alan Rickman) hosted a much-ballyhooed blind tasting between France's finest wine and California's — including one made by small-vineyard... View details »
- Art
- Are We There Yet?
- Sunday Sep 28 (noon–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- Curated by photographer Dawoud Bey, Are We There Yet? is a group show of lens-based work that touches on issues of mobility. It's a timely... View details »
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- Henri Cartier-Bresson
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
- Film
- Elegy
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- Elegy is what happens when a female Spanish director (Isabel Coixet, My Life Without Me) adapts, of all things, a Philip Roth short story. Renowned... View details »
- Art
- Walead Beshty & James Welling
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 Sep 28 (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 Sep 28 @ 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 Sep 28 (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
- Light from Inside: Art from Illinois Prisons
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- For those whose impressions of prisoners have mostly been shaped by watching Oz, this exhibition provides a look at prisoners' creative talent and dedication. Light... View details »
- Film
- Hamlet 2
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Various locations More times »
- With a name like Hamlet 2, a movie is bound to be either the worst piffle to be hurled down the cinematic pike, or pure... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- David Dorfman Dance
- Sunday Sep 28 (3–5pm) @ Dance Center of Columbia College More times »
- Arranging bodies and movement on a stage presents unlimited opportunities for tackling large ideas, meaning choreographers must be skilled at handling abstraction. David Dorfman is... View details »
- Art
- Video as Video: Rewind to Form
- Sunday Sep 28 @ 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 »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Panorama of Modern Brazilian Architecture: From the 1950s to the Present
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Crown Hall More times »
- Free
- This exhibition provides a thorough visual survey of Brazil's modern architecture. Photographs, drawings, and design concepts profile the work of well-established Brazilian architects such as... View details »
- Art
- Twisted Into Recognition: Clichés of Jews and Others
- Sunday Sep 28 (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
- Shoot the Piano Player
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen (you guessed it) piano... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gore Vidal's Weekend
- Sunday Sep 28 (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: Documentary
- Derek
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- This loving elegy to one of the titans of queer cinema comes sandwiched between the June release of the... >Glitterbox set and KINO's November-slated Derek Jarman... View details »
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- WIRED NextFest
- Sunday Sep 28 (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
- Towelhead
- Sunday Sep 28 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- It's hard to imagine how director/writer Alan Ball managed to pitch Towelhead. Jasira (Summer Bishil) is a 13-year-old Arab-American girl stranded in the Texas suburbs... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Buddy
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 »
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- Kafka on the Shore
- Sunday Sep 28 (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 Sep 28 @ 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 »
