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• Feb 08
  • The Hunchback Variations Victory Gardens Biograph Theater, 8 p.m.

    Launched in 2001, The Hunchback Variations has been one of Theater Oobleck’s most popular ...

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    Slow Animal, Gypsyblood, and The Field Auxiliary Empty Bottle, 9:30 p.m.

    Hailing from New Jersey and thusfar playing shows mostly along the East Coast, Slow Animal ...

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    Paul Van Dyk and DJ Austin Leeds The Mid, 10 p.m.

    For those intimidated by the stop-start intensity of dubstep, trance DJ Paul Van Dyk has ...

• Feb 09
  • A Burlesque Tribute To Pink Floyd's The Wall Stage 773, 10 p.m.

    There was a time not so long ago where an album mattered, and there is ...

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    Casablanca Block Cinema - Northwestern University, 7 p.m.

    Michael Curtiz’s masterpiece rumination on love versus virtue, Casablanca has lodged itself at or ...

  • Letters/X Apollo Theater, 8 p.m.

    Heartbreak is a painful thing sometimes, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t ...

• Feb 10
  • Other Lives and Wim Lincoln Hall, 10 p.m.

    Other Lives, the band formally and shortly known as Kunek, released its self-titled album in ...

  • House Of Pleasures Gene Siskel Film Center, 6 p.m.

    Brothels were way classier in the early 1900s than today’s Bunny Ranch aesthetic—or ...

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    Netherfriends, Secret Colours, and Vamos Empty Bottle, 10 p.m.

    Succinctly articulating Netherfriends is no easy feat. The collective is a musical chameleon of sorts ...

• Feb 11
  • Brian Posehn UP Comedy Club, 10:30 p.m.

    Comedian Brian Posehn has gotten a lot of leverage out of being imposingly large and ...

  • Turquoise Jeep, Fresco, and Black Lung Reggie's Rock Club, 8 p.m.

    Turquoise Jeep records is a collective of absurdist rap and R&B artists that occupies ...

  • The Isley Brothers and Chrisette Michele Chicago Theatre, 8 p.m.

    Their 1959 hit “Shout” has become a staple of proms and weddings across the land ...

• Feb 12
  • Mister Rogers & Me Gene Siskel Film Center, 3 p.m.

    While PBS’ Fred Rogers is a staple in a great number of Americans’ lasting memories ...

  • El Bulli: Cooking In Progress Gene Siskel Film Center, 3 p.m.

    Foodies mourned when El Bulli, widely regarded as the world’s best restaurant, closed earlier ...

  • The Gingerbread House Red Tape Theatre Company, 2 p.m.

    Playwright Mark Schultz made waves a few years ago with a daring and dark look ...

• Feb 13
  • Unicycle Loves You, Lightfoils, and The Grooks Empty Bottle, 9:30 p.m.

    Chicago’s Unicycle Loves You may seem at first to have a gimmicky name, but ...

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    Pickpocket Gene Siskel Film Center, 6:15 p.m.

    As obsessive and detail-oriented as any director in history, French master Robert Bresson found the ...

  • Lock Up, Goatwhore, Strong Intention, Black September, and Austaras Reggie's Rock Club, 7 p.m.

    Louisiana’s Goatwhore seems dead set on reinforcing every metal stereotype extant, from Satanic-themed lyrics ...

• Feb 14
  • In A World... Annoyance Theatre, 9:30 p.m.

    Improv shows run on the same fuel, for the most part: dubious audience suggestions. There ...

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    Heartless Bastards, Hacienda, and Precious Blood Lincoln Hall, 8 p.m.

    After signing with Partisan Records in 2011, Austin-via-Cincinnati act Heartless Bastards are still an act ...

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    The Black Belles Logan Square Auditorium, 8 p.m.

    In 2011, Jack White’s record label, which had once breathed life back into Loretta ...