All events on Saturday May 31

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Music: Rock/Pop
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Saturday May 31 (8:30pm) @ Logan Square Auditorium
Giveaway
Composed primarily of members from Godspeed You! Black Emperor (a band that, sadly, remains on indefinite hiatus), Thee Silver Mt. Zion have developed a cult-like... View details »
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
Music: Rock/Pop
The Breeders
Saturday May 31 (8–10pm) @ Metro
Despite being an aging "alternative nation" act, the Breeders continue to inspire legions of loyalists: Deerhunter singer Bradford Cox has recently been seen sporting a... View details »
The Breeders
Art
Jeff Koons
Saturday May 31 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
It's easy to forget that art star and auction darling Jeff Koons made his name as a provocateur. His Made in Heaven series includes photographs... View details »
Jeff Koons
More Flavor: Festival
Do-Division Street Fest
Saturday May 31 (noon–10pm) @ Do-Division Street Fest More times »
Giveaway
The sweet scent of summer is in the air, and that means neighborhood-festival season has arrived. This weekend's Do-Division Street Fest has the typical street-party... View details »
Do-Division Street Fest

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Art
Tony Fitzpatrick
Saturday May 31 (9am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center's Studio Theater More times »
Free
Born and raised on the South Side, Tony Fitzpatrick is a prolific artist whose work ethic and oeuvre are both quintessentially Chicago. This exhibition comprises... View details »
Tony Fitzpatrick
Art: Photography
Three Hours Between Planes
Saturday May 31 (9am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
Free
In Three Hours Between Planes, co-curators Marco Poloni and Eiko Grimberg find the common themes running through the work of 11 young artists from Chicago's... View details »
Three Hours Between Planes
Art
Justin Cooper
Saturday May 31 (noon–6pm) @ Gallery 400 More times »
Free
Justin Cooper's installation is a combination of opposites: small-scale material creates large-scale sculpture, and conceptual performance art runs up against personal-space issues. Using tangles of... View details »
Justin Cooper
Art
Black Is Black Ain't
Saturday May 31 (noon–5pm) @ The Renaissance Society More times »
Free
The subject of race seems to be on many minds of late, but in the art world, the topic is positively hot. This large group... View details »
Black Is Black Ain't
Art
Ken Fandell
Saturday May 31 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
Free
In part two of his exhibition at Tony Wight Gallery, Ken Fandell continues working with an image taken by NASA's Hubble telescope, fragmented and refracted... View details »
Ken Fandell
Music
Erykah Badu
Saturday May 31 (7:30pm) @ The Chicago Theatre More times »
For the last few years, neo-soul priestess Erykah Badu has been off the pop-music grid, choosing to focus on her other passions: holistic health, astrology,... View details »
Erykah Badu
Film
The Visitor
Saturday May 31 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Some character actors should really never be leading men (Jude Law), and some just haven't been given the chance. Richard Jenkins (I Heart Huckabees, 2004)... View details »
The Visitor
Performing Arts: Theatre
Lipstick Traces
Saturday May 31 (7:30pm) @ AV-aerie More times »
After combing the American mythos of early-to-mid-'70s rock in Mystery Train, Greil Marcus looked to Europe in search of punk's hidden lineage. Spurning the usual... View details »
Lipstick Traces
Film
Baby Mama
Saturday May 31 @ Various locations More times »
With their smart mouths and hyperactive wit, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey have already proven irresistible as a comic team, most memorably as the SNL... View details »
Baby Mama
More Flavor: Festival
Randolph Street Market Festival
Saturday May 31 (10am–5pm) @ 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 »
Randolph Street Market Festival
Film
Redbelt
Saturday May 31 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Gulf War veteran Mike (Chiwetel Ejiofor) runs a Jiu-Jitsu studio, but refuses to participate in competitions — which he believes compromise the martial art's principles.... View details »
Redbelt
Film
Son of Rambow
Saturday May 31 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Young Will lives in a religious household that forbids television or film. But once school bully Lee exposes him to a bootleg copy of First... View details »
Son of Rambow
Art
Christa Donner
Saturday May 31 (10am–4pm) @ International Museum of Surgical Science More times »
For decades, the International Museum of Surgical Science has spotlighted the macabre wonders of invasive surgery. But along with historical displays of bizarre artifacts and... View details »
Christa Donner
Film
Roman de Gare
Saturday May 31 @ Various locations More times »
Roman de Gare takes its name from the French term for popular novels sold in train stations, and, indeed, this film's whodunit plot is pure... View details »
Roman de Gare
Performing Arts: Comedy
Campaign Supernova!
Saturday May 31 (8 & 11pm) @ 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 »
Campaign Supernova!
Art
Strange Habit
Saturday May 31 (11am–5pm) @ I Space Gallery More times »
Free
For Strange Habit, curator Luke Batten selected artists — Emily Kennerk, Curtis Mann, Alice Shaw, Shane Huffman, and Steven Husby — who incorporate unintentional elements... View details »
Strange Habit
Film
Love and Honor
Saturday May 31 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
He's directed over 70 films, but Yoji Yamada was virtually unknown outside Japan until 2002's Oscar-nominated Twilight Samurai. His new Love and Honor closely follows... View details »
Love and Honor
Art
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Saturday May 31 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
Free
In his first solo museum exhibition, Mario Ybarra, Jr. presents a witty comparison of Chicago and Los Angeles through the exploits of William Wrigley, Jr..... View details »
Mario Ybarra, Jr.
Film
Constantine's Sword
Saturday May 31 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
Too often, "essay films" — documentaries arguing a specific point of view — are made by those antipathetic to their subjects. What's unusual about Constantine's... View details »
Constantine's Sword
Art
Everyday People
Saturday May 31 (10am–5pm) @ estudiotres More times »
Free
Curators Rob Bondgren and David Getsy push beyond the reductive categories of sexuality and gender in the LGBT-themed exhibition Everyday People at estudiotres in Chicago's... View details »
Everyday People
Film
Then She Found Me
Saturday May 31 @ Various locations More times »
Ever since Mad About You made Helen Hunt a household name, she's never been able to shake the distinct scent of sitcom, even after garnering... View details »
Then She Found Me
Art: Photography
Ben Gest
Saturday May 31 (11am–6pm) @ Stephen Daiter Gallery More times »
Free
Ben Gest's portraits of friends and family are carefully orchestrated to seem totally improvised. But where like-minded photographers Sally Mann, Tina Barney, and Alec Soth... View details »
Ben Gest
Art: Photography
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Saturday May 31 (10am–6:30pm) @ City Gallery More times »
Free
Jason Lazarus and Brian Ulrich take an irreverent glimpse behind the scenes of the art market with About Art, their photographic exhibition at City Gallery... View details »
Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
Performing Arts: Theatre
Avenue Q
Saturday May 31 @ Cadillac Palace Theater More times »
The producers of Rent have caught lightning in a bottle a second time, proving again that musical theatre can be relevant to the twentysomething crowd.... View details »
Avenue Q
Film
Reprise
Saturday May 31 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
Joachim Trier deftly interweaves disparate themes, including ambition, love, punk rock, and the writer's life, in his debut feature-length film. Set in Oslo, Norway, Reprise... View details »
Art
Shape-Shifters
Saturday May 31 (10am–5pm) @ Alfedena Gallery More times »
Free
Curated by Newcity art editor Jason Foumberg and hosted by Alfedena Gallery, the Contemporary Arts Council's 14th annual emerging-artist exhibition illustrates the ways that familiar... View details »
Shape-Shifters
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Clouds, et al
Saturday May 31 (11am–5pm) @ Carrie Secrist Gallery More times »
Free
During the quiet months of summer, dealers often turn to group exhibitions as an easy way to trot out the work of multiple artists. In... View details »
Clouds, et al
Art
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Saturday May 31 (10am–5pm) @ Russell Bowman Fine Art More times »
Free
Chicago Imagism began with a group of artists from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago who first showed their work at the Hyde... View details »
Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
Art: Architecture/Design
Design in the Age of Darwin
Saturday May 31 (noon–5pm) @ Block Museum, Northwestern University More times »
Free
What effect did Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species have on the development of early modern architecture? What can we make of the canon-splitting... View details »
Design in the Age of Darwin
Art
Barbara Hashimoto
Saturday May 31 (noon–4pm) @ 2003 S Halsted St More times »
Free
A landscape of mountain ridges is visible through the wide windows of this storefront space in the Chicago Arts District — or maybe it's a... View details »
Barbara Hashimoto