All events on Saturday July 05
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- Chris Saathoff Foundation Benefit Show
- Saturday July 5 (9pm) @ The Hideout
- When beloved musician Chris Saathoff (Chin Up Chin Up and Miss Alex White & Chris Playboy) was killed by a drunk driver near the Empty... View details »
- Film
- The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
- Saturday July 5 (11:30am) @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Director Jacques Demy described The Umbrellas of Cherbourg as "a film in song" — every line is sung to Michel Legrand's sublime score, which conforms... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- The Book Bike
- Saturday July 5 @ Various locations
- Free
- Looking curiously like an old-fashioned ice-cream cart, a bicycle built for books hits Wicker Park this afternoon, with writer and editor G.M. Levinson passing out... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Kode9
- Saturday July 5 (9pm–3am) @ Sonotheque
- DJ and founder of the genre-leading Hyperdub label, Kode9 is the UK's most tireless ambassador of dubstep. The illegitimate spawn of jungle, two-step, and grime,... View details »
- Reading
- Jana Kohl
- Saturday July 5 (2pm) @ Barbara's Bookstore at Oak Park
- Free
- Most animal activists can cite the defining moment when they changed from a lover to an advocate. Jana Kohl's moment was when she visited a... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Los Dynamite
- Saturday July 5 (8pm–midnight) @ Metro
- Mexico City-based rockers Los Dynamite make their Windy City debut tonight as part of INDIEcent, a new series spotlighting Latin music. Los Dynamite have started... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Russian Circles
- Saturday July 5 (7 & 10:30pm) @ Schubas
- Giveaway
- In the years since Simon Reynolds coined the once-helpful term, "post-rock" has come to envelop nearly any band with rock instrumentation sans vocals playing in... View details »
- Art
- Several Landscapes and 3 Landscapes in the Modern Style
- Saturday July 12 (6–9pm) @ Western Exhibitions More times »
- Free
- If you relish summer group exhibitions and air conditioning, head to the two landscape-themed shows at Western Exhibitions. Director Scott Speh works with several artists... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Jeff Koons
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Three Hours Between Planes
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Film
- The Visitor
- Saturday July 5 @ 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 »
- Art
- Ladylike
- Saturday July 5 (noon–4pm) @ Gosia Koscielak Gallery More times »
- Free
- In a post-third-wave landscape of mommy wars, Sex and the City fever, and continuous political upheaval, feminism is having a bit of an identity crisis.... View details »
- More Flavor: Festival
- Randolph Street Market Festival
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Art
- Christa Donner
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- Campaign Supernova!
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Art
- Portraying Food (and the Absence of It)
- Saturday July 5 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ Walsh Gallery More times »
- Free
- Interest in Chinese art has reached a fever pitch, but Wu Hung has always been ahead of the curve. Since 1999, the curator and scholar... View details »
- Art
- Collecting for Chicago
- Saturday July 5 (10am–5pm) @ The Art Institute of Chicago More times »
- You may not have noticed, but the Art Institute's Department of Prints and Drawings has been running in stealth mode — its world-class collection was... View details »
- Art
- Amanda Browder: Cyclone
- Saturday July 5 (1–6pm) @ Green Lantern More times »
- Free
- Dynamic fiber and performance artist Amanda Browder spins into Chicago again — this time with a stuffed tornado in tow. Browder is known for large... View details »
- Art
- Videodance
- Saturday July 5 (9am–5pm) @ Hyde Park Art Center More times »
- Free
- Since 1978, the Centre Pompidou in Paris has paired visual artists with choreographers and dancers at its annual Vidéodanse festival. The results of these... View details »
- Art
- Mario Ybarra, Jr.
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Art
- Jim Tansley
- Saturday July 5 (9am–6pm) @ Chicago Cultural Center More times »
- Free
- Jim Tansley's abstract paintings and drawings combine seemingly familiar lines with expanses of soft color to create arrangements that appear both carefully structured and completely... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Brian Ulrich and Jason Lazarus
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Film
- When Did You Last See Your Father?
- Saturday July 5 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- Adapted from writer Blake Morrison's 1993 memoir about his bullying father's death from cancer, When Did You Last See Your Father? tackles potentially maudlin material... View details »
- Art
- Michael Jones McKean
- Saturday July 5 (11am–6pm) @ ThreeWalls More times »
- Free
- Michael Jones McKean's ramshackle constructions combine disparate found objects with wood, clay, and papier-mâché. His work has a strong physical presence, and the unusual artifacts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gutenberg! The Musical!
- Saturday July 5 (5 & 9pm) @ Royal George Theatre Center More times »
- Aspiring Broadway composer/lyricists trying to attract angel investors usually consider more contemporary material than Johannes Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Yet that's the sputtering... View details »
- Film
- Brick Lane
- Saturday July 5 @ Landmark Century Centre Cinema More times »
- With its sunflower hues poking through England's grime, Brick Lane cleaves to the trajectory of an East-to-West immigration tale. Teenager Nazneen leaves her small Bangladeshi... View details »
- Art
- ISN'T IT
- Saturday July 5 (11am–5pm) @ Tony Wight Gallery More times »
- Free
- At first glance, ISN'T IT appears to be a loose collection of sculptures that brings modest materials to life. But the exhibition rewards close viewing,... View details »
- Film
- My Winnipeg
- Saturday July 5 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- In My Winnipeg, Guy Maddin fashions both a valentine and a Dear John letter to his hometown, with a hypnagogic blur of sliding typography, found... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Up the Yangtze
- Saturday July 5 @ Music Box Theatre More times »
- Earthquakes and social protest make headlines, but a far more complex and subtle catastrophe is taking shape in the shadow of China's Three Gorges Dam,... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Forever
- Saturday July 5 @ Facets Cinémathèque More times »
- Paris' Père-Lachaise — one of the most-visited cemeteries in the world — is the final resting place for a stunning number of artists, including Chopin,... View details »
- Art
- Clouds, et al
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
- Saturday July 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 »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Flower Power
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Superior Donuts
- Saturday July 5 @ Steppenwolf Downstairs Theatre More times »
- Chicago theatergoers might know better, but for a long time, most people only recognized Tracy Letts as "that guy from the Festivus episode of Seinfeld."... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Frank & Cindy
- Saturday July 5 (7:45pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »
- Episodes of VH1's I Love the '80s and 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders might keep memories of OXO's "Whirly Girl" alive, but OXO's members are all... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Bloody Bess
- Saturday July 5 (7:30pm) @ Storefront Theater More times »
- Bloody Bess isn't a pirate story for children, and it's definitely not your standard, polite downtown theater — the show's full of swashbuckling swagger, clamoring... View details »
- Art
- Boys of Summer
- Saturday July 5 (11am–5pm) @ Monique Meloche More times »
- Free
- A good group exhibition can feel like a free buffet serving top-quality market produce; it all looks so enticing, and you don't know where to... View details »
- Film: Documentary
- Gonzo
- Saturday July 5 @ Various locations More times »
- The father of gonzo journalism and a '60s-counterculture icon, Hunter S. Thompson revolutionized American prose with his drug-fueled, first-person narrative style. His maverick ways allowed... View details »
- Art
- A Declaration of Immigration
- Saturday July 5 (10am–5pm) @ National Museum of Mexican Art More times »
- Free
- It may be a country founded by those who arrived from elsewhere, but the United States arguably has a long way to go when it... View details »
- Art
- Chicago Imagism: 1965-1985
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Art: Photography
- Beyond the Backyard
- Saturday July 5 (10am–5pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Photography More times »
- Free
- Recognized as a fixture in Americana, the backyard has, over the previous two decades, become a space favored almost as much by postmodern thinkers as... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design in the Age of Darwin
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
- Art
- Barbara Hashimoto
- Saturday July 5 (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 »
