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TODAY
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BY DAY
Saturday, January 08 2011
World Kitchen Learning Series: Eleven Soups
Now is the time to learn how to make soups, and this class will lead the way. Meets today from 11am-2pm at Gallery 37, 66 East Randolph. Register in advance; admission $30. Class offered through the city's World Kitchen Learning Series.
Family Cooking Class: Madeleines @ Alliance Francaise
The Alliance Francaise hosts a kids (ages 6-10) and parents cooking class to make madeleines today at 2pm, 810 N Dearborn St. Admission $30 for one child, $55 for two siblings, $45 for each parent.
Handmade Market @ Empty Bottle
Handmade Market returns to the Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western Ave., today from noon to 4pm. Browse the work of local crafters and artists, and maybe have a beer while you're there. Free.
Lost German Chicago @ DANKhaus
Chicago Foodways Roundtable hosts a exhibit viewing this morning at DANKhaus (4740 N Western) from 10am-noon on the history of German culture in Chicago, with historian Joseph Heinen talking about food's place in the city's history. Admission $5. Email for more information.
New Chicago Comics @ MCA
It's a sequential art kind of January at the Museum of Contemporary art. Today through January 30th, the museum features comic book artists and animators both known and rising -- Jeffrey Brown, Lilli Carré, Paul Hornschemeier, and Anders Nilsen showcase their differing yet equally interesting styles. 220 E. Chicago Ave. $12 suggested admission (free Tuesdays). More information here.
A Certain Ratio Opens @ Roots & Culture
The five artists in A Certain Ratio (Elijah Burgher, Ryan Fenchel, Jonah Groeneboer, Shane Huffman, and Erin Zona) engage abstraction to investigate classic philosophical inquiries -- where math intersects with science, religion and art. A reduction of form to symbolic or geometrical composition imparts their work with a depth of mystical pursuit. The opening reception for this exhibition is tonight from 6pm to 9pm at Roots and Culture: 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Talia Chetrit, Daniel Gordon, & Matthew Metzger Exhibitions Open @ Tony Wight Gallery
In the north gallery, two young photographers (Talia Chetrit and Daniel Gordon) show collaborative work that utilizes the studio as a site of production. While there is an evident parallel between their practices -- both artists compose and photograph temporal situations in their studios -- this exhibition aims to articulate divergences as well as similarities. In the south gallery, three paintings by Matthew Metzger explore the dependency and exchangeability within Figuration and Abstraction as a method to portray the liminal and fleeting qualities that compose aspects of being. The opening reception for these exhibitions is tonight from 5pm to 8pm at Tony Wight Gallery: 845 W. Washington.
The Paper Machete @ Ricochets
The Paper Machete returns to Ricochets Tavern (4644 N. Lincoln) with a stellar lineup of guests: film critic for The Onion Keith Phipps; Chicago Magazine writer Scott Smith; Time Out Chicago theater critic Caitlin Parrish (of the infamous Neil LaBute online meltdown last spring); New York sketch troupe Elephant Larry; Impress These Apes members Rob Anderson and Neil Arsenty; Green Mill slam poet Emily Rose; the cast of the Hypocrites' Pirates of Penzance; and musical guests Duck and Goose. The Paper Machete starts at 3pm, and is free. For more info visit The Paper Machete.
Chicago Artists' Coalition Holiday Sale
For one last weekend, Coalition Gallery artists are offering original works, ALL PRICED UNDER $100. Art for sale includes pottery, works on paper, glassware, photography and more. This sale is going on today and tomorrow from 12pm to 6pm at 2010 W. Pierce Ave. Admission is free. For more information call the CAC at (773) 772-2385.
