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This year's flower show will feature a changing selection of spring blooming plants including Azaleas, spring flowering annuals and spring flowering perennials.
Wicked
March-06 - July-27
Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre
Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the Land of Oz. One born with emerald-green sking, is smart, firy and misunderstood. The other i sbeautiful, ambitious and very popular.
How People Make Things
Opens January 26
Learn, through hands-on discovery, fascinating facts behind the creation of familiar childhood objects—from conception through assembly!
Journey back to the Late Cretaceous, when a great inland sea divided North America in two. National Geographic’s new giant-screen film, Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure, weaves together spectacular photorealistic animation with standout finds from paleontological digs around the world—treasures that shed light on the film’s incredible cast of characters. The film follows a family of Dolichorhynchops, also known informally as “Dollies,” as they traverse ancient waters populated with saber- toothed fish, prehistoric sharks and giant squid. On their journey the Dollies encounter other extraordinary sea creatures: lizard-like reptiles called Platecarpus that swallowed their prey whole like snakes; Styxosaurus with necks nearly 20 feet long and paddle- like fins as large as an adult human; and at the top of the food chain, the monstrous Tylosaurus, a predator with no enemies. Merging ultra-high-resolution 3-D graphics with compelling imagery and powerful storytelling, the film is an unforgettable
Through May 11th
Based on Victor Hugo's classic novel, Les Miserables travels through three turbulent decades of 19th century France. Full of romance, passion, suspense and humanity, it is the story of one man, the fugitive Jean Valjean, who is pitted against the self-righteous Inspector Javert in a lifelong struggle to evade capture.
Les Miserables is the winner of over 50 international theater awards, including eight 1987 Tony Awards (two of which were for Best Musical and Best Score).
February 16 to May 10, 2008
Regenstein Hall and Galleries 262–65
The first major museum exhibition of the artist in outside of New York in in 25 years, highlighting Hoppers most productive period, when he created iconic painting including the institutes own Nighthawks.
Exhibition runs February 1st to July 6, 2008
A look at the remarkable altruist, who, born into slavery, overcame incredible odds to make lasting contributions to the fields of science, education and agriculture lessons particularly relevant to today's conservation movement.
In an installation of Andy Warhol's Silver Clouds, visitors wade through helium-filled "pillows" that float, floor to ceiling through a 2,000 square-foot gallery in the Loyola University Museum of Art suggesting heavenly bodies and children's birthday parties in equal measure.
Five dance troupe's perform during the exhibition's run.
February 16 to May 10, 2008
Exhibition runs February 1st to July 6, 2008