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TODAY
Sunday, April 28
Slowdown
BY DAY
Sunday, February 28 2010
Alkaline Trio & Cursive @ Metro
Alkaline Trio is back in town for a weekend at Metro in support of their new disc This Addiction that's out on Epitaph Records.The Chicago natives are nice enough to bring Saddle Creek's very own Cursive along with them. As expected, both shows are already sold out. Metro: 3730 N. Clark St. (773) 549-0203
Pete Seeger Documentary @ Empty Bottle
The Empty Bottle presents a screening of the documentary film Pete Seeger: Power of Song this evening at 7pm. Admission is free. Empty Bottle: 1035 N. Western. (773) 276-3600.
Tinariwen @ Old Town School of Folk Music
Tinariwen will once again be playing at the Old Town School of Folk Music this weekend for two back to back concerts on Saturday at 7pm and 10pm, and a third concert has been added Sunday at 7pm. A Sunday guitar and percussion workshop is also on the schedule at 3:30pm. For more, keep an eye on Transmission. The Old Town School of Folk Music is located at 4544 N. Lincoln Ave. 773-728-6000.
Matt Saunders Exhibition Opens @ The Renaissance Society
In drawings, paintings, short films, and photographic works, Matt Saunders recasts images, often taken from film or television, into new narratives about portraiture and spectatorship. His subject matter is a diverse cast of characters, spanning World War II and the Cold War, providing a kind of stuttering record of 20th Century lives. This is an exhibition about painting, and also about moving pictures, how they are found, loved, and lost. The opening reception is today from 4-7pm with a talk with the artist from 5-6 pm, in Cobb Hall Room 307 (directly below the gallery.) The Renaissance Society is located on the U of C campus, at 5822 S. Ellis Ave. This show will stay up through April 11.
punkplay @ Steppenwolf
Gregory Moss's punkplay, about "two sort of marginal adolescent boys growing up in the suburbs who latch on to punk rock and use it to find an identity outside of the mainstream," is a Pavement Group production, going up as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company's new Visiting Company Initiative, Garage Rep. Read the Gapers Block interview with Moss here. The show starts at 8pm in the Merle Reskin Garage Theatre, 1624 N. Halsted. Tickets are $20 and available here or by calling (312) 335-1650. Student tickets are $12.
MEET THE OSCARS Chicago @ The Shops at Northbridge
Practice the acceptance speech you know you've been writing since you were a kid at MEET THE OSCARS Chicago, an exhibition brought by Kodak to The Shops at Northbridge, 520 N. Michigan Ave. You can hold and have your photo taken with a real Oscar statuette, learn more about Chicago's own R.S. Owens & Company, which makes the statuettes, and check out Oscars previously awarded to Bette Davis, DuPont Film Manufacturing and Eastman Kodak. This event is free. 10am to 7pm on Level 1 in front of Nordstrom.
Chicago's Best WingFest
Thirty of the city's top hot wing-selling restaurants compete to see whose are the best, today starting at 1pm at Bailey Auditorium, 1340 W. Washington Ave. Come sample wings judged in Mild, Hot, BBQ, or Exotic categories; watch a wing-eating contest; and enjoy live blues music hosted by WXRT's Lynn Bremer. Tickets are $24, available in advance; VIP tickets are available for $50. Proceeds benefit Chicago Neighbors United. 21+ More info here.
