Agenda Calendar
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Everybody's into Gatsby these days, including the Randolph Street Market, the city's best source for fabulous antiques, which reopens for the season with an old-school garden party. There will be carnival games, a fashion show, and a beer garden. »
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It might make you feel pretty bad to think about all the teenagers running around having a sexy prom season, meanwhile you're old. Buck up! »
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Nothing says summer's here like a bunch of hairy guys in leather hats, chaps, and codpieces. Following a weekend (5/24-5/26) of parties, seminars, and leather markets, some lucky fella has already been crowned International Mr. Leather, but there's one last hurrah tonight, the Black & Blue Ball with DJs Matthew Harvat and Ralphi Rosario.
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A film festival featuring independent short films, hosted by Matt Kubinski and Charles Klein.
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Melissa DuPrey understands what few of us are willing to admit: sex is fucking hilarious. In her comic monologue Sexomedy, DuPrey shares her most embarrassing—and hairy—sexual experiences. »
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The local pizza chain celebrates with food and drink specials, including complimentary slices of its new "Chef Series" pizzas, which includes original offerings from Rick Ortiz, Chris Curren, and Stephanie Izard.
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Chicago Jazz String Summit: Musique Noire, Jessica Pavone & Mary Halvorson, Tomeka Reid Trio, James Sanders's Blue Violin Quartet Arts Incubator May 31
Guitarist Mary Halvorson is duly celebrated for her excellent trio and quintet projects, to say nothing of her valuable work in bands led by the likes of Tom Rainey, Ingrid Laubrock, and Ches Smith; violist Jessica Pavone has become a terrific long-form composer, and last year she released the song cycle Hope Dawson Is Missing (Tzadik). But as much as their long-running duo together has been overshadowed lately, I retain a great fondness for it. »
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Few things go together as well as drinking and writing. That, at least, is the guiding principle of Drinking & Writing Theater. »
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Electric Daisy Carnival: Above & Beyond, Benny Benassi, David Guetta, Kaskade, Michael Mayer, and others Chicagoland Speedway May 24
Dust off your glow sticks and plastic baby pacifier 'cause we've got ourselves a rave to hit up at the Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-day EDM extravaganza in Joliet (note: campsites are available for day-sleeping). Big names like David Guetta, Nadastrom, Tiesto, and Empire of the Sun perform while you dance like a spaz and kiss a bunch of strangers.
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It's an established fact that the only true Irish in Chicago are the south-side Irish. Celebrate them this weekend at Irish Fest with a wide range of traditional activities: beer drinking, sausage eating, step dancing, music playing, Connemara horse petting, freckle counting, and, of course, Sunday mass.
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In 1938, Talladega College commissioned the Harlem Renaissance artist Hale Aspacio Woodruff to paint six murals to hang in a campus library. Three tell the story of the slave ship Amistad: an onboard mutiny, the trial of the captives, and their eventual return to Africa. »
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The local pizza chain celebrates with food and drink specials, including complimentary slices of its new "Chef Series" pizzas, which includes original offerings from Rick Ortiz, Chris Curren, and Stephanie Izard.
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In 1938, Talladega College commissioned the Harlem Renaissance artist Hale Aspacio Woodruff to paint six murals to hang in a campus library. Three tell the story of the slave ship Amistad: an onboard mutiny, the trial of the captives, and their eventual return to Africa. »
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Traditional Turkish food and family entertainment.
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Electric Daisy Carnival: Above & Beyond, Benny Benassi, David Guetta, Kaskade, Michael Mayer, and others Chicagoland Speedway May 24
Dust off your glow sticks and plastic baby pacifier 'cause we've got ourselves a rave to hit up at the Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-day EDM extravaganza in Joliet (note: campsites are available for day-sleeping). Big names like David Guetta, Nadastrom, Tiesto, and Empire of the Sun perform while you dance like a spaz and kiss a bunch of strangers.
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Northwestern University's lauded brass program performs variations of Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," Gabreli's "Canzon Primi Toni," and more.
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Beaches open May 27
We lived through a really gruesome (or at least really long) winter that wouldn't leave us alone no matter how many times or how nicely we asked it. It's over now. »
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Photos of urban ruin by Xavier Nuez. Reception Thu 4/18, 6-9 PM.
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In 1938, Talladega College commissioned the Harlem Renaissance artist Hale Aspacio Woodruff to paint six murals to hang in a campus library. Three tell the story of the slave ship Amistad: an onboard mutiny, the trial of the captives, and their eventual return to Africa. »
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InFusion Theatre's second collaboration with playwright Qui Nguyen is a campy spectacle with little substance beneath its well-staged exterior. In its midwest premiere, this intergalactic parody follows E-V (played by Sheila O'Connor), the last known human in the galaxy—or so she thinks. »
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Local chefs and mixologists, including Matthias Merges and Martial Noguier, prepare unique dishes paired with select wines in this fundraising event.
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