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Alan Weisman
Alan Weisman
Today (6pm) @ Harold Washington Library
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In nonfiction eco-thriller The World Without Us, veteran environmental journalist Alan Weisman explores what would happen if humankind was suddenly wiped... View details »
Music: Rock/Pop
Spiritualized
Spiritualized
Today (8pm) @ Metro
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For more than 25 years now, Jason Pierce (aka J. Spaceman) has been making mind-altering, drug-inspired music, replete with trance-inducing chants... View details »

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  1. Fri Sep 05 03:53pm

    Elusive songwriter Phil Elverum takes his avant-pop project, Mount Eerie, on tour this fall.

  2. Fri Sep 05 03:52pm

    Coney Island's Astroland amusement park closes this Sunday after 46 years in operation.

  3. Fri Sep 05 03:48pm

    Tennis twins Mike and Bob Bryan win their second US Open-doubles championship.

  4. Fri Sep 05 03:47pm

    Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art exhibits R. Crumb's Underground, a career retrospective of the famed comic artist.

  5. Fri Sep 05 03:20pm

    Usher plans to perform an "intimate," women-only show.

  6. Thu Sep 04 03:21pm

    The Tate acquired $112 million of art in 2008 — a record for the network of British museums.

  7. Thu Sep 04 03:21pm

    Sufjan Stevens wins the Municipal Art Society of New York's Brendan Gill Prize for his multimedia spectacle, The BQE.

  8. Thu Sep 04 03:21pm

    The Rodgers & Hammerstein Org considers selling its catalog of showtune classics, worth an estimated $150-200 million.

  9. Thu Sep 04 02:41pm

    Acclaimed country musician Jerry Reed, known for the hit single "East Bound and Down," dies at age 71.

  10. Thu Sep 04 12:35pm

    Bruce "the Boss" Springsteen may appear in the next Judd Apatow film, Funny People.

  11. Wed Sep 03 04:45pm

    NYC's MoMA taps Ann Temkin to succeed John Elderfield as chief curator of painting and sculpture.

  12. Wed Sep 03 02:59pm

    Don LaFontaine, the baritone "Voiceover King" of Hollywood, dies at age 68.

This Week

More Flavor: City Gem
Chicago TV Horror Movie Shows
Tuesday Sep 9 (7pm) @ Chicago Public Library, Roden Branch
Performing Arts
Third Coast Festival Listening Room
Wednesday Sep 10 (7pm) @ The Hideout
Film: Animation
The Films of Robert Breer, 1957-86
Thursday Sep 11 (6pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
Art
Joe DeNardo and Aaron Henderson
Friday Sep 12 (6–8pm) @ Normal Projects More times »
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Veggie Bike and Dine
Saturday Sep 13 (11am) @ Xochiquetzal Peace Garden
Film
Alexander Nevsky
Sunday Sep 14 (3pm) @ Gene Siskel Film Center More times »

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Thomas Frank
Reading
Thomas Frank
Monday Sep 15 (7pm) @ Experimental Station
Thomas Frank's 2004 bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas? posed a question that has long dogged liberals: how have conservatives... View details »

Big Shows Plan ahead!

Mogwai
Music: Rock/Pop
Mogwai
Friday Sep 26 (7pm) @ Congress Theater
Music: Rock/Pop
Sigur Rós
Wednesday Sep 24 (8pm) @ The Chicago Theatre
Music: Rock/Pop
My Bloody Valentine
Saturday Sep 27 (8pm) @ Aragon Ballroom
Music: Rock/Pop
Beck w/ MGMT
Thursday Oct 2 (7:30pm) @ Aragon Ballroom More times »