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Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—May 9, 2008
09 May 2008
Friday / May 9 The stage at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park plays host to a live simulcast of the Chicago Opera Theater’s production of Don Giovanni, performed concurrently at the Har...
Shortcuts—Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid
01 May 2008
Elbow’s fourth studio album, The Seldom Seen Kid, arrives just in time for a spring love affair, for which it seems tailor-made. Th...
STD (Stuff to Do)—May 2, 2008
01 May 2008
Friday / May 2 Reputed by the Chicago Reader’s Jonathan Rosenbaum to be the greatest film ever made, Alain Resnais’s 1961 Last Year at Marienbad was a landmark of the French New Wave and has r...
STD (Stuff to Do)—Friday, April 25, 2008
24 Apr 2008
Friday / April 25 Genre-busting singer and composer Luciana Souza, a three-time Grammy nominee and teacher at the Manhattan School of Music, leads her trio through a program that draws on clas...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—April 18, 2008
18 Apr 2008
Friday / April 18 A flawed work of daring brilliance, There Will Be Blood will never be a big Saturday night rental, what with its unsettling soundtrack, indulgent cinematography, and most of ...
Humor left black and blue at HPAC exhibit
15 Apr 2008
Between the late ’60s and mid-’80s, a number of black comics rose to national prominence by way of their ribald humor, which served as a vehicle for strident social criticism. Ri...
Shortcuts—R.E.M.'s Accelerate
10 Apr 2008
Few aging bands so plainly advertise their method of redeeming themselves after a string of lackluster albums as R.E.M...
STD (Stuff to Do)—April 11, 2008
10 Apr 2008
Friday/April 11 Tour the artists’ enclave of East Pilsen tonight when studios and galleries open their doors for public receptions and new art showings as part of Chicago Arts District 2nd Fri...
STD (Stuff to Do)—Friday, April 4, 2008
04 Apr 2008
Friday/April 4 The Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men, 2008 Oscar-sweeper and one of the first films of the decade to become a cultural touchstone, screens at Doc this evening. ...
Attempters succeed with clever high-school script
06 Mar 2008
Essentially a pastiche of every high-school romantic comedy ever made, The Attempters, which opened Wednesday night at The Building Stage, is a genuinely enjoyable—if slight—finale to the House T...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—March 7, 2008
06 Mar 2008
Friday / March 7 Attend Hyde and Chic, MODA’s fourth annual spring fashion show, which promises a spectacular night of fashion showcasing original designs from students and Chicago designers. ...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—February 29, 2008
29 Feb 2008
Friday / February 29 The award-winning chamber ensemble Alban Berg Quartet gives its last Mandel Hall concert as part of its farewell tour...
UT strikes gold with Orton’s Loot
25 Feb 2008
It appears that the University of Chicago is quietly staging a minor Joe Orton renaissance...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—February 22, 2008
22 Feb 2008
In honor of the 80th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, this week’s STD features every movie—save the new ones that everyone knows about—that you could possibly want to see in the next six days. ...
Arctic tale digs into the explorer’s state of mind
08 Feb 2008
For me, stories about great explorers always bring to mind the famous lines of Dante’s Inferno about Ulysses. ...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—February 8, 2008
08 Feb 2008
These days it’s easy to feel like whoever is controlling the weather has got a bone to pick with the city of Chicago. ...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—February 1, 2008
31 Jan 2008
Friday / February 1 Ingmar Bergman’s classic Persona, a deceptively simple film about a nurse who comes to know her patient intimately, screens at the Gene Siskel Film Center tonight. ...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—January 25, 2008
25 Jan 2008
Friday / January 25 It sounds like a creative writing major’s arch-attempt at magic realism: A cranky and utterly obscure recluse, living in a one-room garret on Chicago’s North Side, creates ...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—January 18, 2008
18 Jan 2008
Friday / January 18 Chicago Critical Mass is an anarchic, free-form non-organization dedicated to bike-riding Michigan Avenue in semi-protest of what it calls “car culture” on its website, and...
Novel rendition of James ghost story serves up classic scares
15 Jan 2008
What makes The Turn of the Screw so fascinating? It has proved to be the most enduring and well known of Henry James’s works; its numerous adaptations to both stage and screen could form their ow...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—November 9, 2007
08 Nov 2007
Friday / November 9 The small, guitarlike instrument known as the cuatro is the centerpiece of tonight’s Puerto Rican Cuatro Music Festival at the Auditorium Theatre. ...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—November 2, 2007
01 Nov 2007
Friday / November 2 The Center for East Asian Studies, the Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop, and the Korean Film Council are sponsoring an ongoing Korean film festival at Doc Films this ...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—October 26, 2007
26 Oct 2007
This week, the week of midterms, the events are all local...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—October 19, 2007
18 Oct 2007
Friday / October 19 On Friday and Saturday the Franke Institute for the Humanities hosts a series of all-day mega-symposia entitled “Anxiety, Urgency, Outrage, Hope: A Conference on Political ...
Palme d'Or winner derives global truths about oppression
11 Oct 2007
This year’s Palme d’Or winner at Cannes Film Festival, 4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 days, opens with the image of two goldfish in a bowl. It...
Voices Stuff to Do (STD)—October 12, 2007
11 Oct 2007
Friday / October 12 Ida Noyes Hall rocks out this Friday as COUP hosts its annual Blues ’n’ Ribs event. Th...
Voices STD (Stuff to Do)—October 5, 2007
05 Oct 2007
Friday, October 5 The acclaimed Academy of St...
The Kingdom fights bad guys, runs from real issues
30 Sep 2007
The Kingdom, a Middle Eastern–flavored thriller starring Jamie Foxx, is a true testament to the magic of cinema. ...
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