Events for December 5th, 2008
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Friday - December 5th
Museums / Museum Exhibit
The Aztec World
Field Museum - 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
Includes artifacts, works of art and weapons detailing the rise and fall of the Aztec civilization.
Movies / Movie Event
Doc Films
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago - 1212 E. 59th St. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
6:30 p.m. "Tropic Thunder", 8:45 p.m. "Tropic Thunder", and 11 p.m. "Tropic Thunder"
Founded in 1940, this student-led society is billed as the longest continuously running club of its kind in the nation. Programming consists of 10-week seasons featuring nightly screenings. In general, Fridays and Saturdays feature blockbuster fare while Sundays through Thursdays are dedicated to...
Movies / Movie Event
Doc Films
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago - 1212 E. 59th St. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
6:30 p.m. "Tropic Thunder", 8:45 p.m. "Tropic Thunder", and 11 p.m. "Tropic Thunder"
Founded in 1940, this student-led society is billed as the longest continuously running club of its kind in the nation. Programming consists of 10-week seasons featuring nightly screenings. In general, Fridays and Saturdays feature blockbuster fare while Sundays through Thursdays are dedicated to...
Movies / Movie Event
Doc Films
Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago - 1212 E. 59th St. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
6:30 p.m. "Tropic Thunder", 8:45 p.m. "Tropic Thunder", and 11 p.m. "Tropic Thunder"
Founded in 1940, this student-led society is billed as the longest continuously running club of its kind in the nation. Programming consists of 10-week seasons featuring nightly screenings. In general, Fridays and Saturdays feature blockbuster fare while Sundays through Thursdays are dedicated to...
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Field Museum - 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago
Learn about the causes and aftermath of earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes and more
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Smart Home: Green + Wired
Museum of Science and Industry - 5700 S. Lake Shore Drive - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
Tour a three-story sustainable "green" home constructed on the museum's grounds
Theater / Theater Event
Radio Macbeth
Court Theatre - 5535 S. Ellis Ave. - Chicago (Hyde Park/University Of Chicago)
A group of actors who gather in an abandoned theater to rehearse Shakespeare's "Macbeth" are visited by the story's ghosts.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
Dia de los Muertos: La Vida Sin Fin
National Museum of Mexican Art - 1852 W. 19th St. - Chicago (Little Tuscany)
Billed as the nation's largest Dia de los Muertos/Day of the Dead exhibit, this 22nd annual collection highlights local and international artists and includes a tribute to student demonstrators killed 10 days before the 1968 summer Olympics in the Tlatelolco massacre.
Museums / Museum Exhibit
USA Today
Museum of Contemporary Art - 220 E. Chicago Ave. - Chicago (Gold Coast)
Browse works created primarily during the 1980s and '90s.
Events / Museum Exhibit
Artifacts of Childhood: 700 Years of Children’s Books
Newberry Library - 60 W. Walton St. - Chicago (Near North Side)
Features the library's collection of 65 books and manuscripts created for and by children in more than 100 languages, from the 15th Century to the present.
