• Born Ruffians

The citywide indie-rock fest Tomorrow Never Knows kicks off this evening at multiple locations—Schubas, Lincoln Hall, and Smart Bar among them. This year, the fest will incorporate "indie hip-hop, outlandish dance, and other not-so-yawny subgenres of music." Tonight's highlights: Bear in Heaven, Born Ruffians, and Supreme Cuts.

"Greetings From the Holy City," a show of photographs by Jason Reblando of contemporary residents of North Lawndale, is currently on display at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum alongside an exhibit on the Conservative Vice Lords, who were active in the neighborhood in the 1960s.

If you've ever wondered who is more powerful, God or Hall & Oates, the Drinking and Writing Theatre at Haymarket Pub & Brewery might have some answers for you. "The answer, if you can call it that, comes in the form of seven inane challenges, including an oatmeal-eating contest and a surprisingly captivating game of Jenga. A few gripping personal monologues constitute the best things about the show," according to Keith Griffith.

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• Internet Superheroes: Art and Technology

If all you're using the Internet for is the illegal downloading of music, movies, and TV shows—not that there's anything wrong with that—you ought to consider attending Internet Superheroes: Art and Technology, a monthly lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art that highlights individuals who use the World Wide Web as a force for good. This month's event features Alex Inglizian, a Chicago resident who specializes in "integrating hacked, modified, and circuit bent devices into a tempo-synced electronic music system."

At First United Methodist Church, a spoken-word series called It's Complicated presents three speakers sharing personal anecdotes of embarrassing family stories.

Comedian and Chicago native John Roy (Conan, The Tonight Show) performs at Zanies.

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• Slut River

At Permanent Records, Iowa City natives Slut River—yes, Slut River—perform one of two scheduled shows in Chicago. Kevin Warwick describes them as "a punk band tighter than you'd expect in this genre, scrawling Greg Ginn-style guitar gnarliness over eerie Dead Kennedys-like hardcore—a perfect combination." Sioux City Pete & the Beggars open.

Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock, a concert documentary that's about exactly what you would expect it to be, screens at the Music Box in honor of the guitar legend's 70th birthday.

"The Mermaid and the Dragon," an exhibition currently on display at Beauty and Brawn Art Gallery and Think Space, features work by artist Lindsey Meyers.

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• Nerds at Heart

It's winter in Chicago—although you wouldn't know it, based on this eerily mild weather—which means the city's best farmers' markets have been driven indoors. The Logan Square Farmers' Market sets up shop in the Congress Theater every Sunday, while the indomitable Green City Market sets up shop at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum starting 1/19.

The next event from Nerds at Heart, which aims to bring intellectual types together romantically, is a party at Market Pub in which all varieties of nerds, dorks, geeks, and dweebs can mingle with like-minded individuals. If at least one Star Trek-themed wedding goes down as a result of this event, I think we can all consider it a rousing success.

Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything Is Illuminated and Eating Animals, speaks at the Spertus Institute on the subject of "Judaism, Writing, and Inspiration."

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• Stefan Klapko
• ShowYouSuck

It's likely too late to register for Schubas' Second Annual Turkey Bowl—e-mail maureen@schubas.com to find out for sure—but if you're in the mood to watch people hurl frozen turkeys at bowling pins, the festivities start at noon.

At Challengers Comics + Conversation, Atomic Sketch and AG47 band together for a fund-raising effort. The event finds members of AG47 working collaboratively with local artists to create original, on-the-spot works based on audience suggestions. Complimentary drinks and food provided by Three Floyds and Cafe Mustache.

Local rapper ShowYouSuck, whose most recent mixtape, One Man Pizza Party III: Rest in Pizza, is filled "with pop-culture references that anyone who grew up with Beavis & Butthead can dig," according to Leor Galil, performs at the Bottom Lounge. St. Millie and Warhound open.

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• Pat Mahoney

The complete collage works of C.T. McClusky, who during the 40s and 50s worked as a traveling circus clown, is on display at the Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art, marking the first occasion the entire collection has appeared in Chicago.

Pat Mahoney, formerly of LCD Soundsystem, performs a DJ set at Smart Bar alongside local favorite Kyle Woods, aka Kid Color.

Midwest native John Heffron (The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Last Comic Standing) performs at the Improv.

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