Chicago Reader: print issue of May 19, 2016 (Volume 45, Number 32)

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IN THIS ISSUE 4 Agenda Attend the Tale of Danny Tanner: A Full House Musical, Adam Sandler and friends, a Frank Lloyd Wright walking tour, Black Feminist Futures Symposium, the film The Lobster, and more recommendations

CITY LIFE

8 Joravsky | Politics Rahm’s allies accuse Lucas Museum opponents of being elitists. Oh, the irony!

ARTS & CULTURE

35 Visual Art Photos return expired birds to flight at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s “Broken Journey.”

36 Theater TimeLine Theatre’s Chimerica looks at China’s hero, and America’s.

45 39 Lit Book Expo America is just like Halloween, only with books and no costumes.

40 Lit Experience Cannes vicariously by reading Roger Ebert’s journal.

41 Movies A new documentary on David Hockney tries to replicate the ease of his artwork.

43 Movies The war comes home— with a vengeance—in the 1948 documentary Strange Victory.

MUSIC

44 In Rotation Current musical

obsessions: Nick Lowe, Tyrant cabinets, Chicago Music Exchange’s repair shop, and more 44 Gossip Wolf Shake Rattle & Read closes this weekend, and more music news 45 Review: Coloring Book by Chance the Rapper The Chatham superstar rhymes about family, religion, and his hometown throughout his highly anticipated third mixtape.

47 Shows of note Rhys Chatham, Ben Frost, Soulja Boy, Kstarke, and more

FOOD & DRINK

54 Restaurant review: Roister The Alinea Group stations Andrew

Brochu at the helm of its casual spot— with jaw-dropping results.

CLASSIFIEDS

53 Jobs 54 Apartments & Spaces 55 Marketplace 60 Straight Dope Does one family secretly own almost every central bank in the world?

61 Savage Love Two charities benefiting sex workers. Plus: a pop overshares and a poly problem.

62 Early Warnings Puff Daddy, Billy Bragg, Ponys, Barbara Streisand, Yes, and more shows you should know about in the weeks to come

SUMMER GUIDE

Rahm’s Riverwalk is still a work in progress

Striving for a more peaceful summer

Parks and wrecks

But the water is closer to fine.

By DEANNA ISAACS 10

Community groups are trying to keep kids occupied and out of harm’s way.

Are music fests a sound use of public space? The debate’s never been so noisy.

BY STEVE BOGIRA 11

BY JOHN GREENFIELD 13

Three months of must-dos

Best of the fests

A fest for every sound

The best concerts, film premieres, comedy shows, parades, and more happenings 19

Beer, food, comedy, art, lit, and fashion festivals—even one dedicated to hot sauce! 22

Gatherings dedicated to everything from gospel and blues to house and metal 25

Sate yourself in the sun

Patios and rooftops for outdoor imbibing

Get fresh every day of the week

Cop a squat with your drink at these new bars. 31

Sixty farmers’ markets to stock up on the season’s bounty 33

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THEATER

More at chicagoreader.com/ theater At Mister Kelly’s From 1957 to 1975, Chicago’s Mister Kelly’s was a springboard for talent. From Barbra Streisand and Barry Manilow to Bette Midler and (trigger warning) Bill Cosby, the iconic Rush Street supper club and cabaret was a rotating door for emerging comedians and musicians. Time, taste, and technology have eroded these institutions, but in this immersive experience, created as a valentine to the era

by Jason Paul Smith, with music and arrangements by Gary Gimmestad, you can put on your pinup best or Mad Men attire to enjoy a night within Three Cat Productions’ imaginative time capsule.

This revival features an ensemble of budding Chicago talent who offer a crisp perspective on our favorite artists through impersonations, stories, and the quintessential songs that defined the age. It’s not a perfect show, but it’s damn good fun—and the three-piece jazz band is on point. —A.J. SØRENSEN Through 6/4: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 4 and 7:30 PM, Berger Park, 6205 N. Sheridan, 773-761-0376, threecatproductions.com, $25, $15 students and seniors.

Attend the Tale of Danny TanR ner: A Full House Musical I never watched Full House, the 80s-era

TV sitcom in which Bob Saget played Danny Tanner, a sportswriter who gets his best friend Joe and brother-in-law Jesse to help him raise his three daughters after his wife’s death in a car crash caused by a drunk. But that didn’t keep me from enjoying this cheerfully morbid musical goof on same. Writers Chris Gorton, Katie Johnston-Smith, and Tara Trudel have made Danny a psychopath who memorializes his wife by killing one drunk driver a year on the anniversary of her death. That’s OK with Jesse and Joe—until Danny starts getting sloppy.

The songs are competent, there are some very funny bits, and the whole thing lasts a manageable 60 minutes.

—TONY ADLER Through 5/28: Sat 10:30 PM, Playground Theater, 3209 N. Halsted, 773-871-3793, nerdologues.com, $10.

Disenchanted! This satirical musical revue (book, music and lyrics by Dennis T. Giacino) sets its sights on a worthy target—the lucrative, ludicrous Disney princess franchise—but never delivers on its promise to skewer it. Instead Giacino trots out a series of toothless musical bits poking fun at these iconic figures— in one song we learn the Little Mermaid drinks too much, in another that Mulan is a lesbian—but never drawing blood or inspiring big laughs. It doesn’t help that the performances in this touring production often feel forced. All too much of the comedy depends on funny costumes (designed by Vanessa Leuck), and at its worst the show indulges in the very sexism it pretends to be mocking (see the song “Big Tits”). In the end, it leaves us wanting less. —JACK HELBIG Through 6/5: Tue-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 and 6 PM; also Wed 5/18 and 5/25, 2 PM, Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place, 835 N. Michigan, 312-977-1700, broadwayinchicago.com, $32.75-$75.75.

Eurydice Not unlike Mary ZimR merman’s Metamorphoses, Sarah Ruhl’s 2005 mythological redux updates

a classical tragedy with anachronistic language and ethereal visual touches.

Mourning her late wife, Orpheus (Chloe Dzielak) composes a song so heartbreaking that it reaches the stones and vanishing souls in the underworld below.

Charles Riffenburg’s intimate production for BoHo Theatre capitalizes on superb and subtly affecting sound design by Joshua Wentz to create an atmosphere that heightens Ruhl’s imaginative and rich poetry. It’s a moving ensemble effort throughout, and as Eurydice, Amanda Jane Long delivers a nuanced, childlike, grief-stricken performance that perfectly conveys the play’s complicated and contradictory ideas about death and longing. —DAN JAKES Through 6/12: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Mon 5/30, 8 PM, Heartland Studio Theatre, 7016 N. Glenwood, 773-791-2393, bohotheatre. com, $25.

The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord Scott Carter’s play throws Jefferson, Dickens, and Tolstoy together in a locked room where

they quickly recognize that they’re (a) all dead, (b) in Purgatory, and (c) not going anywhere until they figure out what else they’ve got in common. Every hypothesis falls short until they realize that each of them wrote a version of the Gospels to conform to his own notions about Jesus. Dickens’s is novelistic, Jefferson’s informed by Enlightenment values, and Tolstoy’s by renunciation.

It doesn’t stop there, though. Once they’ve shared their theologies, they’re compelled to confront their lives. The 90-minute triologue is meant to be witty and profound yet plays out as a festival of gimmicks—a cutesy, down-market No Exit for Christians, processed through currently fashionable theatrical modes and reductive characterizations. In Kimberly Senior’s staging, only Nathan Hosner comes out all right as a pensive, dignified Jefferson. Jeff Parker’s performance is constrained by Carter’s apparent disdain for Dickens, while Mark Montgomery plays Tolstoy, mystifyingly, as Popeye and Bluto’s love child. —TONY ADLER Through 6/12: Wed 1 and 7:30 PM (except 5/25, 7:30 PM only), Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 2:30 and 8 PM, Sun 2:30 and 7 PM (except 6/12, 2:30 PM only), Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie, Skokie, 847-673-6300, northlight. org, $15-$74.

No Matter How Hard We Try R Extraordinary contemporary Polish playwright Dorota Masłowska’s

id-driven cynicism fits comfortably on Trap Door’s stage (already host to three plays by unsavory Austrian nihilist Werner Schwab). Her coarse, desperate 2008 play focuses (in those rare moments when Masłowska stoops to focus) on three generations of unlikable, impoverished Polish women: hopeless Halina; her screechy mother, Gloomy Old Biddy; and her impudent daughter, Little Metal Girl. Into their empty lives burst a creepy film producer, a self-absorbed movie starlet, a brainless entertainment reporter, and a depressive socialite, who ignore the women entirely.

Through 90 minutes of hallucinogenic mayhem, nicely corralled by director Max Truax, Masłowska ruminates on the post-World War II evisceration of a

meaningful Polish identity. It’s hard to sit through—exactly as it should be.

—JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 6/25: ThuSat 8 PM, Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W. Cortland, 773-384-0494, trapdoortheatre. com, $20-$25, two for one on Fridays.

Porn Minus Porn Unlike most R shows on Under the Gun’s improv-heavy calendar, this one is fully

scripted. Each week a cast of ten or so offer readings of two episodes from Cinemax’s soft-core series Life on Top, transcribed in stilted, preposterous glory by show creator Ben Bowman, who also acts as host. The dialogue is by turns mundane and overwrought (“I would drag my dick ten miles over hot asphalt to sniff the tire of the garbage truck that took away her panties”), the story lines impenetrable, and the sex— well, who knows? Whenever sex begins, the performers shake hands and an audience member releases a balloon. It’s joyous trash, and since the actors read the scripts cold, the hour feels as spontaneous as the best improv. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 6/25: Sat 10:30 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater. com, $12.

The Secretaries Created in 1994 by the New York collective known as the Five Lesbian Brothers, this wild comedy tells a dark and pulpy tale of office workers involved in a vaguely sapphic homicidal cult. The script circles a number of satirical targets—dehumanizing corporate culture and expectations of femininity chief among them—without really zeroing in on any of them. But the atmosphere of giddy amorality supplies a bracing corrective to the stereotype of feminist theater as hectoring and humorless.

Bonnie Metzgar’s pitch-perfect staging for About Face Theatre benefits from performers who play it straight (so to speak) instead of winking at the zany material. As the office ringleader, a fully committed Kelli Simpkins is as sleek and eerie as David Bowie’s Thin White Duke. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 6/12: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, aboutfacetheatre.com, $20-$35.

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The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window Had Lorraine Hansberry not been dying from pancreatic cancer as her final play was being prepared for its 1964 Broadway opening, she might have had time and energy to shape something cohesive from nearly three hours of promising material. Instead she left a series of discursive, issue-skipping encounters among a coterie of self-described bohemians struggling to find something to believe in. The central dilemma—Brustein’s risking becoming an “insurgent” by backing a friend in a local political race—carries scant weight, as Hansberry barely sketches the election’s political contours. It’s not until act three, somewhere around the two-hour mark in director Anne Kauffman’s unhurried Goodman production, that a series of focused, volatile two-person scenes provides palpable urgency. The rest is low-stakes tumult with little dramatic import. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 6/5: Wed 7:30 PM, Thu 2 and 7:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Tue 5/24, 7:30 PM, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312443-3800, goodmantheatre.org, $20-$85.

Twisted Knots Longtime married couple Frank and Carla—a stressed-out salesman and an underappreciated nurse—try to get back their conjugal mojo by role-playing a call-girl scenario (Carla plays the call girl) in their hotel room on New Year’s Eve. The Hard Rock Hotel on Michigan Avenue provided furnishings and decor to lend verisimilitude to Greg Pinsoneault and Shaun Renfro’s set design in this production directed

by Tara Branham. But it’s Dale Danner’s script that could use some authenticity; the couple’s sex games and the husband’s much-discussed superstitious streak feel contrived and strained. Only when the charade is dropped toward the end do we glimpse genuine disappointment and fatigue. Ryan Kitley’s Frank seems detached from the proceedings, but Mary Cross turns in lively, tangy work as Carla. —ZAC THOMPSON Open run: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 4 PM, $30, $25 seniors, $20 students.

DANCE Cinderella The Joffrey Ballet started off as an underdog to the New York City Ballet when it opened its doors in 1956. So it seems fitting that, in 2016, the higher-ups chose Sir Frederick Ashton’s buoyant Cinderella (first presented by the Joffrey in 2006) to close out its 60th anniversary season.

It’s been a year filled with celebratory fanfare for a company that was once a maiden with a glass slipper. Ashton’s three-act ballet—danced beautifully by the opening-night cast—takes inspiration from folk tradition, informing a story that highlights humor more than magic.

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Kevin Nealon The Saturday R Night Live alum performs standup. Sun 5/22, 8 PM, City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, 312-733-9463, citywinery.com, $45-$60.

Adam Sandler Sandler hosts a R night of stand-up with his friends David Spade, Nick Swardson, and Rob

Kyle Kinane ! GREG HARRIES / FLICKR Those hoping for a fanciful Disney version won’t be disappointed. The score by Sergei Prokofiev, performed live by the Chicago Philharmonic, has tremendous range, enough to keep the majestic fairies, a pair of bumbling stepsisters, and the whole gang dancing into the enchanted moonlight. —MATT DE LA PEÑA Through 5/22: Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Thu 5/19, 7:30 PM, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, 800-982-2787, joffrey.org, $32-$170.

Schneider. Mon 5/23, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, 312-462-6300, thechicagotheatre.com, $50-$200.

Squat Cobbler A stacked lineup R of local comedians telling their most embarrassing tales of awkward sex.

Treva Lindsey speaks at the Black Feminist Futures Symposium.

Tournament of Shows In this R bracket-style tournament, seven new shows compete for a run at Under

and services at the Logan Square Library. Sun 5/22, 10 AM, Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee, comfortstationprojects@gmail.com, comfortstationlogansquare.org.

Sun 5/22, 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

the Gun Theater. Through 6/17: Fri 7:30 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $18.

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VISUAL ARTS

W. Kamau Bell The stand-up R performs at this benefit for Housing Forward, a local social service

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Wright Plus, this exclusive three-mile walking tour provides a look inside private homes and public buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and his contemporaries. Sat 5/21, 9 AM, 951 Chicago, Oak Park, 708-848-1976, wrightplus.org, $110.

agency. Fri 5/20, 7 PM, Merle Reskin Theatre, DePaul University, 60 E. Balbo, 312-922-1999, theatreschool.depaul.edu/ about_merle_reskin_theatre.php, $30.

Clued In: An Improvised R Murder Mystery The Clued In cast and crew return to the Beat

Lounge for another round of this Agatha Christie-inspired improvised whodunit.

While the setting of “bar” suggested on the night I attended could have been bland, the cast created a kooky, clever world around a Berlin tavern called the Drunken Maiden, steeped in “World War One and a Half” history. After former fighter pilot Tony, played with unbridled panache by Bruce Phillips, was found dead in the bathroom/distillery, detective duties fell on the mysterious inspector with a penchant for puns, played by an observant and playful C.J. Tuor. Bringing a flashback-filled plot full circle in under an hour isn’t necessarily feasible, but the cast had infectious fun doing it. Caleb George won for best German accent and Laura Marsh recalled Seinfeld’s Mrs. Costanza with her well-timed theatrics. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 7/2: Sat 9 PM, Second City Chicago Beat Lounge, 1616 N. Wells, 312-337-3992, $13.

The Girl Talk All are welcome R to this all-female talk show, highlighting amazing women doing amazing things in Chicago. Tue 5/24, 6:30 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-2274433, hideoutchicago.com, $5.

Hyde Park Art Center “Shoretime Spaceline,” artist Karen Reimer presents her large-scale installation inspired by the Chicago Beach Hotel, which was demolished in 1927. 5/22-8/13, 5020 S. Cornell, 773-324-5520, hydeparkart.org.

Silent Funny “Bring May Flowers,” presentation of a site-specific mural by Juan de la Mora. Sun 5/22, noon, 4106 W. Chicago, silentfunny.com.

Slow “Mindy Rose Schwartz,” multimedia artist Mindy Rose Schwartz presents her latest exhibition, inspired by personal experience and domestic spaces.

Opening reception on Sat 5/21 at 6 PM. 5/21-6/25, 2153 W. 21st, 773-645-8803.

LIT Black Feminist Futures Symposium Symposium dedicated to starting a conversation about the security and future of black feminists. Speakers include Treva Lindsey, Omise’eke Tinsley, Kai M. Green, Vanessa AgardJones, and more. Fri 5/20, 5 PM, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 847-491-4000, blockmuseum.northwestern.edu.

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Kyle Kinane The Chicago comic Friends of Logan Square Book R R Sale Friends of Logan Square returns home for a night of jokes.

Sat 5/21, 11 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, Library present its first book sale, with 773-549-0203, metrochicago.com, $21.

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Hambook Release Show In R celebration of the first issue of Hambook, a magazine by improvisers,

the authors of the first issue participate in a panel discussion and perform. Thu 5/19, 10 PM, Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee, 312-335-3000, flatironartists.org.

Bob Mehr Author Bob Mehr R discusses his Replacements biography, Trouble Boys. Hosted by MTV editorial director Jessica Hopper. Sat 5/21, 3 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433, hideoutchicago.com.

Zoe Zolbrod Local author Zoe R Zolbrod discusses her experience with sexual abuse in her new book, The Telling. Fri 5/20, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-7699299, womenandchildrenfirst.com.

MOVIES

More at chicagoreader.com/movies NEW REVIEWS Hockney Randall Wright directed this profile of British painter David Hockney.

For Dmitry Samarov’s review see page 39. 112 min. Fri 5/20, 8 PM; Sat 5/21, 5:30 PM; Sun 5/22, 3 PM; Mon 5/23, 6 PM; Wed 5/25, 6 PM; Wed 5/25, 8:15 PM; and Thu 5/26, 8:15 PM; Gene Siskel Film Center; also Wilmette

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The Lobster Greek weirdo R Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) takes aim at modern romance with this

deadpan satirical fantasy in which singles are hunted in the woods with tranquilizer guns, held captive at a luxury hotel, and given 45 days to find a mate before being turned into an animal. A nerdy-looking Colin Farrell is the latest guest, participating in matchmaking rituals and being socially conditioned for partnership; in one seminar, actors pantomime on the themes “man eats alone” (a fellow chokes to death on a piece of meat) and “man eats with woman” (his dining companion saves his life !

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Lanthimos works the premise assiduously, especially after the Farrell character escapes and joins a band of rebel singles in the woods, and though the story slows to a crawl near the end, the poker-faced dramatization of a warped world is compelling. With Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Lea Séydoux, and Rachel Weisz. —J.R. JONES Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark’s Century Centre, River East 21 Love & Friendship American indie cinema is a rich kid’s business, which has never been more evident than in Whit Stillman’s modern Restoration comedies (Metropolitan, Barcelona). Unwilling to break out of his narrow social parameters, Stillman instead leaps back into the distant past with this adaptation of Jane Austen’s epistolary novella Lady Susan, written in the 1790s.

Kate Beckinsale gives a nimble performance as Susan Vernon, a widowed 18th-century noblewoman, who arrives at her in-laws’ estate amid rumors of her impropriety and sets out to find husbands for herself and her daughter. The movie is more caustic and less romantic than the Austen adaptations that have connected at the box office, and the result is intelligent, nuanced, literate, and dismally dry; there’s little of the juice that Stillman brought to his earlier films as a chronicler of his own times. With Morfydd Clark, Chloë Sevigny, and Stephen Fry. —J.R. JONES PG, 93 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark’s Century Centre Marguerite Catherine R Frot gives a heartrending performance as the title character,

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The Lobster duced some of the better Danish dramas of the new millennium (Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World), but left to his own devices as writer-director he’s prone to somber black comedy (The Green Butchers).

This one is all about genetic mutations: two grown brothers (Mads Mikkelsen, David Dencik) discover they’re adopted, reunite with their three biological brethren out in the country, and learn that all five of them are the products of their late father’s radical experiments.

And hey, where did all these furry chicken come from? Occasionally rib tickling but more often gut churning, this turns largely on the spectacle of Mikkelsen, a respected dramatic actor and a Bond villain no less, being cast as a furiously dyspeptic nerd who keeps running off somewhere to masturbate. With Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Søren Malling.

In Danish with subtitles. —J.R. JONES 104 min. Fri 5/20, 6 PM; Sat 5/21, 7:45 PM; Sun 5/22, 5:15 PM; Mon 5/23, 8:15 PM; Tue 5/24, 6 PM; Wed 5/25, 8:30 PM; and Thu 5/26, 8:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

an aging baroness in 1920s Paris who feverishly pursues a classical singing career despite her utter lack of talent. Indulged by her squirming husband and snickering society friends, she’s an easy mark for opportunists: a cruel music critic who mischievously celebrates her in print, a gallery owner who incorporates her screeching into one of his anarchist provocations, and a down-at-heel tenor who collects a fat salary as her vocal coach.

Writer-director Xavier Giannoli attributes Marguerite’s delusional behavior to her loveless marriage and lack of professional fulfillment, but her passion and single-minded sacrifice are so ennobling that, when she takes the stage for her climactic recital wearing angel wings, I wondered if she might fly away. With André Marcon and Christa Théret. In French with subtitles.—J.R. JONES R, 129 min. Fri 5/20, 2 and 7:45 PM; Sat 5/21, 3 PM; Sun 5/22, 4:30 PM; Mon 5/23, 7:30 PM; Tue 5/24, 7:45 PM; Wed 5/25, 6 PM; and Thu 5/26, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

The Nice Guys This comedy noir by Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) opens with a spectacular—and spectacularly tasteless—sequence in which a boy admires the centerfold model in a porn magazine just before a car crashes straight through his house and expels the body of the very model he’s been ogling, which comes to rest in the same boob-baring pose. Her death sets off a convoluted mystery, with Ryan Gosling as a fly-by-night private eye, Russell Crowe as his low-rent muscle, and Angourie Rice as the detective’s teenage daughter, who adds a wholesome note by urging the Crowe character to stop strangling bad guys to death.

Because this is set in Los Angeles in the 1970s, we’re supposed to think back to Chinatown and The Long Goodbye and excuse the opaque plot, around which Black’s eccentric gags float like seasoned croutons in bland soup. With Kim Basinger. —J.R. JONES R, 116 min.

Century 12 and CineArts 6, City North 14, 600 N. Michigan, Webster Place

Men & Chicken As a screenwriter, Anders Thomas Jensen has pro-

Victory Director Leo Hurwitz’s 1948 docuR Strange

mentary candidly shows postwar America undermined by fear and racist attitudes. For J.R. Jones’s review see page 41. Fri 5/20, 6:15 PM; Sun 5/22, 3 PM; and Mon 5/23, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

REVIVALS A Brighter Summer Day R Bearing in mind Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy, this

astonishing epic by Edward Yang (1991), set over one Taipei school year in the early 60s, would fully warrant the subtitle “A Taiwanese Tragedy.” A powerful statement from Yang’s generation about what it means to be Taiwanese, superior even to his masterpiece Yi Yi, it has a novelistic richness of character, setting, and milieu unmatched by any other 90s film (a richness only partially apparent in its three-hour version). What Yang does with objects—a flashlight, a radio, a tape recorder, a Japanese sword—resonates more deeply than what most directors do with characters, because along with an uncommon understanding of and sympathy for teenagers Yang has an exquisite eye for the troubled universe they inhabit. This is a film about alienated identities in a country undergoing a profound existential crisis—a Rebel Without a Cause with much of the same nocturnal lyricism and cosmic despair.

Notwithstanding the masterpieces of Hou Hsiao-hsien, the Taiwanese new wave starts here. —JONATHAN ROSENBAUM 230 min. Fri 5/20, 2 PM, and Sat 5/21, 7 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

SPECIAL EVENTS Chicago Critics Film Festival This fourth edition of the annual festival features local premieres of indie features, its contributors ranging from amateur filmmakers to award-winning directors. For a full schedule, visit chicagocriticsfilmfestival.com Fri 5/20-Thu 5/26.

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CITY LIFE

Irizarry weighs in on the debate over summer music festivals in city parks. Turn to page 13.

Juanita Irizarry, a self-described “Puerto Rican girl from Humboldt Park,” has been called an elitist by Lucas Museum backers. ! SUNSHINE TUCKER

POLITICS

Playing the elitism card The irony at the heart of the Lucas Museum fight

By BEN JORAVSKY

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or the past few weeks, Mayor Emanuel’s allies have been trying to bully Friends of the Parks into dropping its opposition to the Lucas Museum’s lakefront site by relentlessly lambasting the group as a bunch of elites who want to deprive “black and brown children” of a world-class facility. As if that’s what this fight’s all about.

A recent salvo came in a letter to the SunTimes by Norman Bobins, a retired banker and Mayor Daley school-board appointee, who called Friends “an obstructionist, visionless and disruptive group of volunteers who should not have ultimate control over decisions affecting the future and vibrancy of our great city.”

Sounds like something I might say about the mayor’s appointed school board, though I don’t imagine Bobins will be joining the elected-school-board movement anytime soon.

Anyway, in an attempt to offer an alternative view, allow me to wade into this fight by introducing you to Juanita Irizarry, the executive director of Friends of the Parks. She’s frequently quoted in the press, though people like Bobins don’t seem to know much about her.

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Irizarry is, in her own words, “a Puerto Rican girl from Humboldt Park.” Raised at California and Armitage, she’s a graduate of Kelvyn Park High School, class of ’85.

For almost 30 years she’s worked on lowincome housing with various not-for-profits such as the Hispanic Housing Development Corporation and the Chicago Community Trust. In 2007, she earned her master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. And last year she ran for alderman of the 26th Ward, coming 140 votes shy of forcing the incumbent, Roberto Maldonado, into a runoff.

The Friends of the Parks board, meanwhile, is an interesting mix of power brokers—like the legendary near-west-side developer Oscar D’Angelo—and activists from all corners of the city, including the south and west sides.

If we’re taking a more historical approach, let me remind you that Friends of the Parks teamed up with the U.S. Justice Department in 1982 to file the suit that forced the city to spend more money on parks in black and Hispanic neighborhoods.

In other words, the power struggle over the Lucas Museum isn’t being driven by some group of elites (read: rich white people), and it has nothing to do with race—though that won’t stop the mayor and his pals from invoking it.

In many ways, the mayor and his allies are following a script written by Emanuel’s predecessor—Mayor You-Know-Who—when he tried to cram the Children’s Museum into Grant Park. Call it a four-step process.

Step one: The mayor announces, Great news, Chicago! You’re getting something you didn’t know you wanted. In this case, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, assembled by Star Wars creator George Lucas.

Step two: The mayor pressures his oversight boards and bodies to approve the deal without anything resembling serious oversight. In this case, that means Emanuel got the Plan Commission, the City Council, and the Park District board to enthusiastically approve putting the Lucas Museum on the lakefront.

Step three: The mayor gets scions of civic and corporate Chicago—always willing to oblige—to praise the plan. Usually they quote Daniel Burnham, who’s not around to defend himself since he’s been dead for more than a century.

Finally, if there’s any resistance, the mayor brings out the heavy artillery—often Father Pfleger—to denounce the opposition as elitists.

Thus Father Pfleger wrote on his Facebook page May 3: “How dare this Elitist Group of Unknowns decide they control Chicago. . .

They are friends of NOBODY, especially not of JOBS AND CHILDREN!!!!”

And Mellody Hobson, an investment strategist and George Lucas’s wife, wrote in a statement: “As an African-American who has spent my entire life in this city I love, it saddens me that young black and brown children will be denied the chance to benefit from what this museum will offer.”

Let’s give Rahm credit here. You’ve got a white banker, a black businesswoman, and a radical priest all teaming up to cram a building on the lakefront. Don’t tell me there’s no diversity here.

Ordinarily I’d say that race has something to do with just about everything in Chicago. This may be the one thing that doesn’t.

This is a land-use fight. On one side, you have an organization dedicated to keeping development off the lakefront—as it’s the

only lakefront we’ve got. And on the other side, you have a group of successful and well-connected people who’re used to getting what they want. When they don’t, they claim a higher purpose. Suddenly, they’re Rosa Parks.

No pun intended.

The Lucas lakefront fight had been going on for more than a year when Irizarry took over Friends of the Parks last September. By then, Friends had forced Emanuel to abandon the original site—a parking lot just south of Soldier Field—with a federal lawsuit that threatened to delay the project. In April, the mayor proposed a second option: spending about $1.2 billion in public money to put the museum on the current site of McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center, and build new exposition space to the west.

Soon after the mayor unveiled the plan, Hobson contacted Irizarry and asked for a meeting. That meeting, which Father Pfleger also attended, went a little like this: Hobson and Pfleger urged Irizarry to endorse the second proposal because it would be a great for black and Hispanic kids to have a world-class museum to attend. Plus it would create construction jobs.

Irizarry said both goals could be achieved if the museum were moved off the lakefront, say to the old Michael Reese Hospital site. Which we, the taxpayers, own, after Mayor Daley spent $120.7 million in TIF money to buy the site for his 2016 Olympics.

Hobson said, essentially, We can’t put it there because George wants the museum on the lake.

And Irizarry asked, Well, who made George the king?

Actually, I’m sure Irizarry’s way too polite to say anything like that.

So ended that meeting.

Lucas and Hobson have started looking elsewhere—San Francisco’s Treasure Island, for starters. In the meantime, the mayor’s forces have been pressuring Friends board members to drop their opposition.

The pressure’s so intense that a Cook County judge named Fred Bates took to his Facebook page to ask that people stop bugging him about the issue, because he’s not the same Fred Bates who sits on the Friends of the Parks board.

To which one of Judge Bates’s Facebook friends responded: “At least they’re not confusing you with Norman.”

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GUIDE Riverwalk construction, as seen from Wacker Drive and Orleans Street ! DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS

THE RIVER

Rahm’s Riverwalk is still a work in progress But the water’s closer to fine.

By DEANNA ISAACS

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efore the Lucas Museum came along, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s most visible legacy project was the reinvention of the city’s riverfront. The construction of six new blocks of the Riverwalk would be his sparkling achievement, the Emanuel version of Mayor Richard M. Daley’s Millennium Park.

But for now, the path is still under construction, and as of mid-May programming for the existing stretch—which opened last summer with much hoopla—has yet to be made public.

Aside from last week’s announcement that a 62-acre South Loop site that abuts the river will finally be developed, the big news this year is all about improvements to the water.

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continuous concrete path from the lakefront to the Lake Street Bridge, put the city at least $95 million in debt, and arguably mainly benefits the developers of a new crop of luxury high-rise buildings sprouting along its western reaches.

Those high-end towers—where, for example, 750-square-foot apartments will rent for $2,500—will have a view much improved from the industrial hodgepodge that previously characterized the vicinity of historic Wolf Point, site of the city’s first commercial buildings.

The city has said it intends to pay down the federal loan it used to finance the construction with vendor fees. Last year vendors on the existing stretch of Riverwalk grossed $4.5 million in revenue and paid the city $355,000.

Then, on Saturday, Mayor Emanuel released the names of vendors for this season, which runs from May 30 through November 1. In addition to returning vendors City Winery, Cyrano’s Cafe & Wine Bar, Island Party Hut, and O’Brien’s Riverwalk Cafe, three new food vendors are on the list: Tiny Hatt, with cocktails from Lincoln Square bar Tiny Lounge and food from Big Hatt Gourmet; Lillies, with grab-and-go options; and mobile dessert cart Dulce in Horto. Water taxis and cruise boats are back too, as is Urban Kayaks, with rentals at $30 an hour per person if you have experience and $45 for a training outing. You’ll also find Wheel Fun bicycle rentals and Downtown Docks, which provides motorboat parking.

In the neighborhoods, the mayor’s river renovation efforts so far mostly consist of four Park District-owned boathouses offering canoe and kayak rentals and public docks for launching. One of those, the Eleanor Boathouse at Park 571 in Bridgeport, is still under construction and won’t be open until November. The other three are the Ping Tom Memorial Park boathouse in Chinatown, inaugurated last summer; the WMS boathouse at Clark Park (on the site of the former Riverview Amusement Park, and named for the gaming company/donor whose headquarters it faces); and the River Park boathouse, near Argyle and Whipple.

There are no public storage facilities at the boathouses, and programming is limited, although year-round training and participation in recreational and competitive rowing is available at WMS through the Chicago Rowing Foundation. Eleanor boathouse will also offer rowing activities, although not in time for this season. Rental operations at the boathouses are run by private contractors; early this month, only the WMS facility was open; the other two will open Memorial Day weekend, according to the Park District.

Indeed, the biggest improvement for the river this year is the one you can’t readily see, and it has nothing to do with the mayor’s construction program: a federally mandated cleanup, ordered in 2011, but only recently implemented.

Since last summer, two plants operated by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District—one on 130th Street and one on Howard Street in Skokie—have begun disinfecting

water flowing into the Chicago and Calumet Rivers. Prior to this, the 1.2 billion gallons of effluent released into the river every day were treated but not disinfected, allowing E. coli and other potentially harmful pathogens to enter the river. An MWRD spokesperson says it’s “too soon to discuss the impact,” but the data so far is promising: In tests comparing water samples taken from the southeast-side plant in April 2015 to those taken during the same month this year, the concentration of bacteria dropped from an average of 55,996 colony forming units (CFU) per 100 ml to just 13. The Illinois standard for safe swimming is 235 CFU. “The sewage effluent now coming into the river at those two locations is very clean,” says Margaret Frisbie, executive director of Friends of the Chicago River. “The question would be, is there any other stuff in the river?” Like, for example, contaminants from combined sewer overflow—a mixture of wastewater and rainwater that empties into the river when Chicago’s sewer system is overwhelmed. That’s occurring less frequently now, with parts of the Tunnel and Reservoir Plan, the so-called “Deep Tunnel,” including two reservoirs, now online (one opened just last fall). Still, Frisbie says, MWRD dumped combined sewer overflow into the rivers about 40 times last year. And the Deep Tunnel project, started in the 1970s and designed to accommodate 20.5 billion gallons of overflow, won’t be complete until 2029.

“The goal is that the storage capacity is large enough that nothing ever gets released during a combined overflow; it only gets into the river system via a treatment plant,” Frisbie says.

Friends of the Chicago River is also advocating for water-quality warnings—like those that operate at Chicago’s beaches—at river access points such as the boathouses, Richard J. Daley Park, and forest preserves along the North Branch.

A year ago, the city, Friends of the Chicago River, and the Metropolitan Planning Council launched Great Rivers Chicago, a program to “creatively reimagine” the Chicago, Calumet, and Des Plaines Rivers. If you want to weigh in on what comes next, they’ll host a public meeting at Rowan Park Fieldhouse, 11546 S. Avenue L, on May 24 at 6 PM. As for swimming in the river, like the construction, it’s also a work in progress, Frisbie says—maybe within five years. But, she says, “We are going to start figuring out where good swimming and wading places should be.” v

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VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Striving for a more peaceful summer in Englewood With youth sports leagues and summer jobs programs, community groups will try to keep kids occupied and out of harm’s way.

By STEVE BOGIRA

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know there are concerns in the community that it could be a bad summer, but I’m optimistic,” Perry Gunn says.

It’s Gunn’s job to be hopeful. He’s executive director of Teamwork Englewood, a community group working to improve the quality of life in the south-side neighborhood, which stretches from Garfield Boulevard to 75th Street and Racine to about Wentworth.

Improving the quality of life requires attracting investment, so Gunn tends to accentuate the positive.

For decades now, however, Englewood has been afflicted by poverty and the crime that goes with it. The especially violent year in Chicago thus far—221 homicides and 1,272 shooting victims through May 11—has heightened concerns about Englewood and the city’s other impoverished neighborhoods, especially given that crime usually rises in the summer.

CeaseFire “violence interrupters” worked to suppress shootings in Englewood last July.

The nonprofit group uses former gang members to mediate disputes and stop budding conflicts from becoming shooting wars. Its executive director, Mark Payne, says the group plans to have violence interrupters in Englewood again this summer. But because of the budget impasse in Springfield, CeaseFire has received none of the $1.9 million allotted to it by the state this year. It’s relying on support from foundations and individuals, but likely will have fewer interrupters in Chicago overall. (The group already has workers in Little Village and South Shore, Payne says.)

Englewood will rely mainly on more traditional methods for interrupting violence— youth programs and summer jobs. “If we keep kids engaged, we can have a positive summer,” Gunn says.

He raves about one program in particular: a baseball league for kids ages nine to 12 that will play twice weekly at Hamilton Park. The 120 or so kids in the league are coached by ten Englewood district police officers, many of whom were recruited to coach by their commander, Larry Watson.

The success of the Jackie Robinson West Little League team in 2014 raised interest in baseball in Englewood, Gunn says. (Jackie Robinson West won the Little League World Series that year, but its title was stripped because the team violated residency rules.) The Hamilton Park league launched last year, and on its opening day, a band from the neighborhood played as the kids paraded around the field in their uniforms and parents and guardians cheered from the bleachers. Later that summer, Watson and the coaches took the youngsters to a White Sox game at U.S.

Cellular Field. (The Sox provided passes.)

“That’s what community policing is all about,” Gunn says.

Englewood officers have also run programs for neighborhood youth in bowling, swimming, soccer, and golf, according to Watson.

In Englewood, “Police may not be looked upon as an asset, unfortunately,” he says—but this kind of involvement “helps kids see that police are people too.”

“When you’re fishing, you’re not throwing a rock through a window,” Watson says. “And a kid may discover that he’s good at something he’d never tried.” When kids are fishing or playing baseball, “there’s no shots fired, no ambulances,” he says. “It’s just all about having fun.

“It may sound corny, but I’m expecting great things in Englewood this summer,” Watson adds.

Before games and practices at Hamilton Park, youth workers teach the kids strategies for dealing with friction. “We talk with them about ‘How do you avoid getting into conflict with a peer?’” Gunn says. “‘What are steps you can take when you get hot with someone else, to make sure it doesn’t escalate?’ ” But the most important benefit of the league, he says, is “it connects the kids with a caring adult.”

Englewood will be one of about 15 neighborhoods participating in Hoops in the Hood in July and August. Community groups that participate in the 17-year-old program organize weekly games and tournaments in their neighborhoods; a city championship is held at the end of the summer. The games in Englewood are played on courts at 69th and Morgan; Gunn expects about 150 youths, ages ten through 19, to participate.

Gunn says the city’s summer jobs program will also help limit violence in Englewood in the coming months. The city has added 1,000 jobs and internships to the program, which is for young people ages 14 through 24; the more than 25,000 jobs and internships this year will be the largest summer jobs program in Chicago’s history, according to the city. Most of the applicants and recipients are from low-income minority neighborhoods, officials say; Englewood residents will get 500 of the jobs.

In addition, the city is expanding a jobs program it launched in 2012 that has a special antiviolence focus. Participants in this program, One Summer Plus, are ages 16 through 21, and are recruited from the high schools with the highest rates of poverty and truancy.

The participants are identified as being at high risk for becoming victims or perpetrators of violence. Along with a part-time, J

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minimum-wage summer job, they get a mentor who meets with them regularly at their workplace. Community groups such as Teamwork Englewood find jobs for the participants—as day camp counselors, cleaning up in parks, assisting in the offices of nonprofits—and supply or recruit the mentors, who are counselors, youth workers, and teachers on summer break.

A study of the program’s first summer found significantly fewer arrests for violent crimes among the 700 participants, compared with a control group—not just during the eight-week working period, but for 13 months afterward. The study was published in Science magazine in December 2014.

Sara Heller, the University of Pennsylvania criminology professor who authored it, noted that job providers credited the mentors with helping participants learn to manage conflict at work. Heller wrote that the process of working itself might have also improved participants’ self-control and poise, which in turn might have made

“If we keep kids engaged, we can have a positive summer,” Teamwork Englewood’s Perry Gunn says. ! JEFFREY MARINI

them less inclined to respond violently when disputes arose in their neighborhoods. Heller concluded that “well-targeted, low-cost employment policies can make a substantial difference, even for a problem as destructive and complex as youth violence.”

Lisa Morrison Butler, commissioner of the city’s Department of Family and Support Services, likewise believes that the mentors are key to the program’s success.

The mentors offer guidance on “navigating the working world” that many youth aren’t able to get at home, she says: “Maybe you were late today and your boss spoke critically to you. And perhaps in your family, you’re the only one working. You might not feel you can go home and say, ‘My boss got in my face today—what do I do?’” A youth in the program “can pick up the phone and talk to his mentor, who may tell him, ‘Don’t be discouraged, those things happen. Go back to work tomorrow.’”

Aided by a $10 million grant, Chicago will provide 3,000 One Summer Plus jobs

this year, 275 of which will go to Englewood residents.

Gunn says youth in summer jobs “learn employment behavior. It’s important for everybody to get up and go to work. And they think about their future—that ‘If I stay out of trouble, I may be able to get a job down the road.’”

The police department has used overtime spending to put more officers on the street in previous summers, but superintendent Eddie Johnson has yet to indicate whether it will do so this year. Gunn doesn’t think the key to reducing violence in Englewood is more officers, though. “I think we have enough police,” he says. “It’s about using the resources we have.”

Of course, Englewood residents don’t have anywhere near the resources of residents in neighborhoods such as Lincoln Park or Norwood Park. And until that fundamental inequity is addressed, the violence in Englewood will continue, even as community groups do their best to reduce it. v

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PUBLIC CONVENING ON ETHICAL REDEVELOPMENT June 22, 2016 • 2–5pm Logan Center for the Arts

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Join us as we make the case for mindful city-building at the first Public Convening on Ethical Redevelopment, an interactive, theatrical event that will explore and showcase how artists, entrepreneurs, developers, and civic leaders are joining forces in a more equitable process for community revitalization.

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GUIDE During Riot Fest 2014, rain mixed with heavy foot traffic disfigured Humboldt Park. Community outrage about inadequate repairs prompted the festival’s move to Douglas Park last year. ! PETER HOLDERNESS

first to take place after it was announced Riot Fest would be held in Douglas Park, Concerned Citizens members displayed signs reading a 3-day binge is not an economic development plan and lawndale is a community, not a commodity.

“It’s disrespectful to tell two communities that something is going to happen in their park instead of asking them to let you have it in their park,” says UIC grad student Sharaya Tindal, who helped form Concerned Citizens in spring 2015 because she was worried about the impact Riot Fest would have on Douglas Park.

The group is upset that the festival will return to Douglas Park on September 16-18.

“This concert is not for this community,” Tindal says. “It’s not even for us, and we are being locked out of our own park.”

PUBLIC SPACE

Parks and wrecks Are large-scale music festivals a sound use of public green space? The debate has never been so noisy.

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n a recent Monday afternoon, members of a group called Concerned Citizens of Riot Fest in Douglas Park guided a visitor around the west-side green space they say was disfigured by the three-day music festival last fall. Eight months after the fest, the south end of Douglas Park—bounded by Ogden, Albany, 19th, and California and occupied by soccer and baseball fields—still displays tire ruts and wide, muddy areas where heavy foot traffic from 135,000 festgoers tore up the turf. Although the tour took place days after the last rainstorm, pools of standing water remained on the compacted dirt.

The fest debuted in Douglas Park last September after it was ousted from Humboldt

Park, where it had taken place since 2012.

Humboldt Park residents complained that the event turned that park’s turf into a mud zone that Riot Fest organizers never properly repaired, prompting 26th Ward alderman Roberto Maldonado to pull his support for the concert.

Members of Concerned Citizens say Douglas Park has experienced the same problems.

In the immediate aftermath of the concert, much of the south end of the park was fenced off until November while crews hired by the festival made repairs—but the activists say it’s obvious the green space remains in disrepair.

“This park is not structured to receive that many people and maintain its health,” says nearby resident Nance Klehm, a veteran land-

scaper and sustainability advocate. “There’s no Band-Aid to that. It needs to be restructured, and the soil needs to be reengineered.”

Concerned Citizens activists say that Riot Fest should never have come to Douglas Park.

They claim that Riot Fest, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago Park District, and the local aldermen made the decision to move the event to the park with little or no input from the primarily African-American and Latino residents of the neighboring North Lawndale and Little Village neighborhoods. They’ve hosted public meetings on the subject, collected signatures on petitions against the fest, held protests, and have lobbied their aldermen and the Chicago Park District about the matter. At a 24th Ward community meeting in June 2015, the

IT’S A GROWING REFRAIN in Chicago. As large-scale music festivals—Riot Fest, Lollapalooza, North Coast, Pitchfork—have proliferated throughout the city over the last decade, aldermen, community groups, and concerned residents have begun questioning the rationale behind turning over public parks to private entities for much of the summer.

And with repairs sometimes stretching into the fall, popular areas of parkland can remain closed for much of the peak season.

The executive director of Friends of the Parks, Juanita Irizarry, says her organization frequently hears from residents who are concerned that a concert is being foisted upon their park without adequate public input, or people who feel like the event being planned is out of scale with the park. “It’s clear that there tends to be a general lack of appropriate community process around decisions about concerts and festivals in parks,” she says.

“There also exists serious tension between parks as revenue generators and tourist attractors versus parks as places of recreation and relaxation for local residents.”

Chicago officials see things differently.

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land to private companies is a net positive for the city. “For private events like Riot Fest, Lollapalooza, and other ticketed festivals, event organizers must pay to use park space,” she says. “Proceeds from such events directly benefit Chicago Park District parks and programming.”

Lollapalooza, for instance, has caused as much as $1 million of damage to Grant Park (that was back in 2011, when torrential downpours softened the turf). But part of the tenyear agreement between the fest’s producer, C3 Presents, and the Park District guarantees a full annual restoration of the park and a minimum payment of $1.5 million to the park system, plus a percentage of the net admission revenue, which was set at 11 percent in 2012 and will increase annually until it reaches 15 percent in 2021. In addition, each year the Park District gets a 5 percent cut of all sponsorship revenue Lolla makes in excess of $3.25 million, as well as 5 percent of food and beverage revenue in excess of $3 million.

Irizarry says Friends of the Parks is currently checking in with park advisory councils, neighborhood groups, elected officials, and event promoters with the goal of devising a tool kit to help communities make informed decisions about whether and how local parks should be used for festivals.

The tool kit could help avoid the kind of discord that resulted from Riot Fest’s treatment of Humboldt Park, which became increasingly intolerable to neighbors, according to Lynda Lopez, a Hermosa resident who campaigned against the event as part of the social welfare organization Grassroots Illinois Action.

“There was growing anger with Riot Fest’s presence,” she said, citing the disruption of park activities, the high noise level, and the perception in the largely working-class Latino community of the event as a symbol of gentrification.

THE LAST STRAW CAME during Riot Fest in 2014, when heavy rain mixed with the crowd and production traffic, leaving a large portion of Humboldt Park bruised and battered. Last April, seven months after the fest ended, 26th Ward alderman Roberto Maldonado came out against the festival, which had supported his 2014 reelection campaign. “I am exceptionally disappointed at the Riot Fest organizers for the mess they left at the park last year and their shallow and hollow promises to restore the park,” Maldonado told RedEye. “I don’t support them coming back.”

Concerned Citizens of Riot Fest in Douglas Park organizers Sharaya Tindal, Nance Klehm, and Sara Heymann say the park remains in disrepair eight months after the festival. ! JOHN GREENFIELD

Park District CEO Michael Kelly offered up an alternative, recommending Riot Fest move the event three miles south to Douglas Park.

Alderman George Cardenas of the 12th Ward and 24th Ward alderman-elect Michael Scott (he was inaugurated in May 2015) were in favor of the idea.

Mayor Emanuel said at the time that Riot Fest would be held to a strict standard for repairing Douglas Park, and if organizers failed again, it wouldn’t get another chance. “I don’t think it’s in their best interest to have a second park say we don’t want you in Chicago,” the mayor said. “So they’ve been put on notice to be a better citizen in holding this festival because if you go O for two, we don’t have a three-strike rule in the city of Chicago.”

Riot Fest organizers paid $225,000 into the Park District’s general operations fund for the use of Douglas Park. They also held a job fair to recruit about 150 neighborhood residents for short-term, minimum-wage jobs during the festival.

To further ingratiate itself, the fest donated hundreds of turkeys to residents and held a toy drive at Christmas that was conducted in

a rather unorthodox manner. Riot Fest falsely claimed that a “bitchin’ Camaro” owned by the festival had been stolen from outside of the Cobra Lounge on the near west side. A ransom note from the supposed thief said the car would be returned only if Riot Fest fans donated $2,500 to a crowdfunding campaign to purchase presents for underserved children in the communities near Douglas Park. After the theft was revealed as a hoax, near-westside alderman Walter Burnett denounced the scheme as a case of the festival crying wolf.

The company, which also holds an annual fest in Denver, also organized a free soccer clinic for local youth featuring players from the Chicago Fire and held a meet and greet event with Ice Cube for area students.

Riot Fest spokeswoman Heather West says that the organization has already spent $192,000 on park repairs and improvements and will be doing more this spring and summer. “Long-term improvements to preexisting park issues have now become the festival organizers’ primary focus moving forward,” she says.

“Riot Fest has brought positive attention

to Douglas Park,” says Alderman Scott, whose ward includes parts of North Lawndale.

“We’re now renowned as the next best place to move in Chicago, and Riot Fest has had some positive impact in that manner.” The alderman was alluding to a Chicago magazine article that referred to Douglas Park as one of several up-and-coming neighborhoods. (Cardenas didn’t return interview requests.)

Scott says that Concerned Citizens of Riot Fest in Douglas Park represents a vocal minority of naysayers, while most residents have welcomed the festival. One of the people in the latter camp, truck driver Charles Rice, a lifelong area resident and member of the Douglas Park Advisory Council, has coached the North Lawndale Eagles youth football team for the last 27 years. “I think the festival is beneficial,” he says, citing the fact that Riot Fest donated about $900 worth of water, juice, and soda to his football league’s annual awards dinner.

“If I get over 100 people on my team benefiting from Riot Fest, I’m with it,” he says. “And [Concerned Citizens wants] to complain because there’s a pothole in the grass?”

But the activists have a laundry list of other grievances. They note that it’s hard to tell how much, if any, of the event’s permit fee will directly benefit Douglas Park. (The Park District has declined to provide specific figures and has instead directed residents to file a Freedom of Information Act request to get the information.)

At the same time, the activists say that the park actually lost money because the turf damage that remained last fall closed soccer and baseball fields, facilities they say bring in $40,000-$50,000 a year in rental revenue.

The temporary jobs created by the fest are a drop in the bucket, says Tindal of Concerned Citizens, and the roughly $3,000 vendor fee is a barrier to area small businesses that might want to sell food or merchandise. Scott says he wants to see the fee lowered for local merchants, but he didn’t say whether he’s actually asked the fest to do this.

Concerned Citizens organizer Sara Heymann, who teaches costume and set design at nearby Dvorak Elementary, took photos of Little Village’s Cermak Road business strip after last year’s Riot Fest. She says the shots show a “ghost town” with few concertgoers spending money at the taquerias and bodegas, which conflicted with boosters’ claims that the festival would be a boon for local merchants.

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But Tindal says she heard reports of local youth being harassed and followed by overzealous officers “playing concert security” during the event. “It was really ironic to hear Ice Cube singing ‘Fuck tha Police’ while people from the neighborhood were stuck listening from outside the gates, and the police were there to keep them out,” she said.

The activists say that, although they didn’t attend Riot Fest in Douglas Park (some of them surveyed the area from outside of the gates), they actually enjoy many of the artists who performed. Heymann used to organize underground punk shows herself. “I’m 100 percent pro-punk,” she says, “but a public park is not an appropriate space for a private concert.”

SIMILAR ARGUMENTS HAVE been made against massive Lollapalooza, which in its 12th year in Grant Park will occupy much of the city’s “front yard” from July 28-31, featuring acts such as Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and LCD Soundsystem. A friend of Friends of the Parks, Elaine Soble, a retiree who lives across the street from the park, says Lolla and other big events in the area make life difficult for those who live downtown. She’s been meeting with fellow area residents to discuss strategies for lessening the fest’s impact on its neighbors.

Lollapalooza drew 300,000 attendees in 2015—and this year it’s tacked on an additional full day of music. “The fests keep getting bigger, and the noise factor is horrible,” Soble says. “Street closures create traffic headaches before, during, and after big events. Everyone who can get out of town for that weekend does.” She added that while green space in Grant Park near her home on the 900 block of South Michigan is outside the official festival grounds, it’s commandeered for staging equipment during the event, so it’s not available for use.

As for Lollapalooza’s benefits for the park and the city, Grant Park Conservancy president Bob O’Neill speaks glowingly. “Grant Park looks phenomenal all the other days of the year because of the few days Lolla is there,” he says. According to O’Neill, the fest has paid to have hundreds of trees planted and gardens refurbished in the park. However, much of the need for those new trees and rosebushes was due to the fact that the old ones were damaged by festival attendees.

He says Lollapalooza bankrolled the resodding of Hutchinson Field at Grant Park’s south

end and landscaping of the area around Buckingham Fountain, as well as providing funds for the recent construction of Maggie Daley Park on the north. (C3 Presents didn’t respond to a request for an interview about any efforts made to mitigate damage to Grant Park and make sure the event is a net positive for local residents.)

Use of public green spaces for private festivals that fund park improvements is the wave of the future for Chicago, O’Neill says. “This model is not going away, because the city and the state are in such dire financial straits. So if it’s done well, I support these kind of public-private improvements.” He says this requires local residents and community organizations to be proactive about negotiating with festival organizers regarding specific demands, including the requirement that the parks be properly repaired and also improved afterwards, and holding the fests’ feet to the fire to make sure there is follow-through.

O’Neill says that the lack of communication and negotiation between Riot Fest and residents led to the downfall of the Humboldt Park event. “Moving to Douglas Park was costly, and it was bad PR,” he says. “If Riot Fest had communicated with the neighborhood, it would have been a much better situation.”

North Coast Music Festival, which occupies Union Park on the west side, has also faced flak from locals. Now in its seventh year, the fest will take place September 2-4, offering up an eclectic mix of EDM, jam bands, and hip-hop. West Loop residents have complained about noise, traffic, and parking headaches, plus drunk and drugged revelers hanging out in the neighborhood after the fest. Notably, in 2013, 22-year-old Sam Schauer of Auburndale, Massachusetts, stripped naked near the festival grounds and jumped ass first onto the front of a moving Mercedes, shattering the vehicle’s windshield. He was tasered by police, who said at the time they believed he was under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.

Asked what North Coast is doing to address these community concerns, spokeswoman Michele D’Amaro from the festival’s producer, React Presents, replied via e-mail. “Over the past seven years, North Coast Music Festival has worked closely with various neighbors and community organizations to ensure a safe event and mutually beneficial partnership with the surrounding Near West Side community,” the statement read. “The neighborhood around Union Park has seen dramatic changes in the last 5 to 10 years, and our plans will con-

“THE MODEL OF PUBLIC GREEN SPACES BEING LEASED TO PRIVATE FESTIVALS IS NOT GOING AWAY, BECAUSE THE CITY AND THE STATE ARE IN SUCH DIRE FINANCIAL STRAITS.” —Grant Park Conservancy president Bob O’Neill

tinue to adjust to the developing needs of the community.”

At a community meeting last week, North Coast organizers told residents they’re planning to reduce the number of main stages from five to three, hire uniformed Chicago police officers to provide security, and add a hotline neighbors can call with concerns. D’Amaro also noted that React has provided funding and donations to the Union Park Advisory Council, the Women’s Center of Chicago, the Hope Institute Learning Academy, First Baptist Congregational Church, and the Heartland Alliance.

Music journalist Jim DeRogatis has written extensively and critically about park privatization issues on his blog for WBEZ. He says that Chicago officials should look to Milwaukee’s Henry Maier Festival Park—a lakeside space downtown that’s the dedicated home of Summerfest (promoted as “the world’s largest music festival”) and a spate of ethnic festivals—as a model for how to stage big fests within cities.

“Milwaukee does [outdoor festivals] better than Chicago,” he says. “As a Chicago music critic and fan, I take great shame in that.”

Constructed in phases during the 70s and 80s on the site of a former U.S. army Nike missile site, the Milwaukee park has several distinct advantages, DeRogatis says: Since the events take place on pavement, not turf, rain doesn’t allow foot traffic to turn the grounds into a mud pit requiring weeks of costly repairs; the venue is centrally located and it has permanent concession stands and restrooms (more sanitary than porta-potties); and instead of providing only a few days of temporary work for local residents, it creates more stable seasonal jobs. Plus, DeRogatis says, Maier Festival Park’s scenic Marcus Amphitheater is far superior in terms of sound and aesthetics to Grant Park’s spartan Petrillo Music Shell.

While DeRogatis isn’t certain of the best location for such a venue in Chicago (he brought up Northerly Island and the former U.S. Steel South Works site on the southeast side as possibilities), he’s convinced that the status quo of concert promoters commandeering parks citywide needs to be interrogated. “No one wants to be seen as being anticulture,” he says.

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Tue 6/7, 7 PM, Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum Campus, 312-2357000, soldierfield.net, $65-$600.

Chicago Nightlife Awards Celebrate Chicago’s best dance parties, clubs, drag performers, and more at this award ceremony and concert featuring ProbCause, the Walters, Sleep on It, and My Gold Mask. Tue 6/7, 7:30 PM, Concord Music Hall, 2047 N. Milwaukee, 773-570-4000, chicagonightlifeawards.com, free with RSVP. “The Propeller Group” opens June 4 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. ! COURTESY JAMES COHAN

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Three whole months of must-dos JUNE Avondale Restaurant Crawl A foodie desert no more, Avondale is one of the hottest hoods for good eating. This neighborhood crawl kicks off in Brands Park, then moves on to 12 area restaurants including Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Parachute, and Square Bar. Wed 6/1, 6-9 PM, Brands Park, 3259 N. Elston, 773478-2414, avondaleneighborhoodassoc.com, $30, $25 in advance.

Saved by the Max Nineties nostalgia reaches its apotheosis with this Saved by the Bell pop-up dinner featuring a Bayside-themed menu (macaroni and Screech, anyone?), daily costume contests, memorabilia giveaways, and even a Zach Attack cover band. 6/1-8/31: Mon-Fri 5 PM-2 AM, Sat-Sun 10 AM-2 AM, 1941 W. North, savedbythemax.com.

Good Night Out launch party Good Night Out, a U.K.-based organization working to end harassment in nightclubs and venues, gets going in Chicago with this party featuring a raffle, a photo booth, and live music from Blizzard Babies, Hi Ho, and Split Feet. Fri 6/3, 8 PM, Township, 2200-2202 N. California, 773-3841865, goodnightoutcampaign.org.

Grindhouse Film Festival Get your fix of cinematic sex and violence with this presentation of films from the 70s and

80s, including The Mystery of Chess Boxing (1979), Shaolin vs Wu Tang (1981), a collection of Grindhouse trailers, and more.

Fri 6/3-Sun 6/5, Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre.com, $9-$12.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Spinal Tap meets Justin Bieber in the Lonely Island’s faux documentary of pop singer Conner4Real (Andy Samberg), who leaves his boy band, the Style Boyz, behind in search of a solo career. Opens Fri 6/3.

Local guitar phenom Walker opens for the veteran alt-rockers who are, ironically, neither blond nor redheaded. This performance is the first of this year’s Millennium Park Summer Music Series, which offers free outdoor concerts all season long. Mon 6/6, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Michigan and Randolph, 312-7421168, millenniumpark.org. F Copa America Centenario The U.S. Soccer men’s nation-

“Frank Lloyd Wright Edifies” The Arts Club of Chicago returns to its original location to reopen one of its earliest exhibitions for one night only: Japanese prints from Frank Lloyd Wright’s collection. Fri 6/10, 7-8 PM, Fine Arts Building, 410 S. Michigan, 312787-3997, artsclubchicago.org.

Colin Jost The Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-host steps out from behind the news desk. 6/15-6/18: Wed-Thu 8:30 PM, Fri 8:30 and 10:30 PM, Sat 7 and 9 PM, Zanies, 1548 N. Wells, chicago.zanies.com, $25 plus two-drink minimum.

Funny Women Festival In its fifth year, the female-centric fest features more than 400 performers, including Joan & Ro, the Real Housewives of Improv, and Kristen Toomey. Thu 6/16Sun 6/18, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, chicagowomensfunnyfestival.com.

Brew to Be Wild Guzzle samples of more than 75 different brews

while exploring Lincoln Park Zoo after hours. Fri 6/17-Sat 6/18: 6-11 PM, Lincoln Park Zoo, 2200 N. Cannon, 312-742-2000, lpzoo.org, $49, $20 for designated drivers.

Chicago Zombie March Don your best Dawn of the Dead costume and join the horde taking over downtown during this annual lumber, er, march. Sat 6/18, 3:30-6 PM, Millennium Park, Michigan and Randolph, 312742-1169, chicagozombie.com.

Paul Simon Still crazy after all these years, the distinguished songwriter performs under North Shore skies. Sat 6/18, 8 PM, Ravinia, 200 Ravinia Park, Highland Park, ravinia.org, sold out.

Flight of the Conchords After a hiatus of three years, the New Zealand comedy folk duo stop in Chicago on their highly anticipated reunion tour. Sun 6/19, 7 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Michigan and Randolph, 312-742-1168, millenniumpark.org/ artandarchitecture/jay_pritzker_pavilion.html, $25-$55.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off The Millennium Park Summer Film Series kicks off with a Chicago crowd-pleaser: a 30th anniversary screening of John Hughes’s classic about the suburbs’ most notorious, most lovable truant teen. Tue 6/21, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph. F Chicago Cubs vs. Saint Louis Cardinals The Cubbies face off against their feathered rivals to the southwest in a three-game series at the recently renovated Friendly Confines. 6/20-6/22:

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Bob Dylan, Mavis Staples The last time Dylan played Ravinia, he was billed as Robert Dylan and was just about to cause a stir by going electric—it was 1964. He couldn’t ask for a better opening act in gospel-soul queen Mavis Staples. Fri 6/24, 7:30 PM, Ravinia, 200 Ravinia Park, Highland Park, ravinia.org, sold out.

Free State of Jones Forget Marvel’s Civil War—this Matthew McConaughey vehicle takes a look at the real deal in an inspired-by-history tale of a rebellion against the Confederacy, hopefully with a few rebellious alright, alright, alrights included. Opens Fri 6/24.

Independence Day: Resurgence Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman have unfinished business with some extraterrestrials in this follow-up to the 1996 blockbuster. Opens Fri 6/24.

Chicago Pride Parade Slip into your rainbow-colored everything for the year’s most festive procession. Sun 6/26, noon, Montrose and Broadway, chicago.gopride.com.

JULY Guns N’ Roses After reuniting at Coachella this year, GNR welcome fans to the jungle of their Not in This Lifetime tour.

Fri 7/1 (sold out) and Sun 7/3, 8 PM, Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum Campus, 312-235-7000, soldierfield.net, $44-$250.

Kartemquin Films 50th Anniversary Celebration The city honors the acclaimed Chicago documentary company with an outdoor screening. Tue 7/5, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph. F

“The Propeller Group” The first U.S. exhibition of the Vietnam-based artist collective includes the ambitious: AK-47 vs. M16, The Film, a comment on the history of the two guns in pop culture that’s cobbled together from movies, promotional videos, documentaries, news reportage, and YouTube clips. 6/4-11/13, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org.

“America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s” Behold 50 works by major American artists— including Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Grant Wood— who were creating pieces considering America’s identity during and after the Great Depression.

6/5-9/18, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, 312-4433600, artinstituteofchicago.org.

Mon-Tue 7:05 PM, Wed 1:20 PM, Wrigley Field, 1060 W. Addison, 312-645-9511, cubs.com, $36-$109.

Jazzin’ at the Shedd The weekly summer cocktail party offers up live jazz, full bar, fireworks, and access to multiple exhibits in the aquarium. Wed 7/6, 5 PM, Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S. Lake Shore, 312-939-2438, sheddaquarium.org, $18.

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The Roots, Donnie Trumpet Questlove and the gang take a break from their gig as The Tonight Show’s house band to play the Taste of Chicago.

Chance the Rapper and the Social Experiment affiliate Donnie Trumpet opens. Wed 7/6, 5:30 PM, Petrillo Music Shell, Grant Park, 205 E. Randolph, grantparkmusicfestival.com, $23-$50. !B

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Chicago Challenge Grab some friends and take part in this Amazing Race-style scavenger hunt for the chance to win cash prizes. Sat 7/9, 11:45 AM, various locations, $55.

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The Arts Together Join us on Northwestern University’s Evanston campus, your destination for world-class performances and exhibits.

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Color in Motion Trash your whitest whites (who can keep ’em clean anyway?) with packets of powdered color at this walk-run 5K benefiting the Special Olympics of Illinois. Sat 7/9, 9 AM, Montrose Beach, 4400 N. Lake Shore Drive, $50.

Weezer At 45, Rivers Cuomo doesn’t look much like Buddy Holly anymore, but his band’s infectious 90s power pop has aged better. Panic! At the Disco and Andrew McMahon open. Sun 7/10, 7 PM, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-80 & Harlem, Tinley Park, 708-614-1616, $10-$250.

Gary Busey’s One-Man Hamlet Actor David Carl portrays actor Gary Busey portraying all of Hamlet’s roles, with the help of homemade puppets, video, and songs. Tue 7/12-Sun 7/17, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand, 312-5955600, chicagoshakes.com, $35.

The Infiltrator Bryan Cranston stars as Robert Mazur, a federal agent who infiltrates (get it?!) Pablo Escobar’s Colombian drug cartel. Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) directed. Opens Wed 7/13.

Bastille Day Celebrate the French National Day with local French restaurants, raffles, wine, and live music. Thu 7/14, 5 PM, Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington, 312-346-3278, bastilledaychicago.org. F Cafe Society Woody Allen’s latest rom-com—his 47th film as a director—stars Steve Carell, Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Live-

ly, Parker Posey, and Kristen Stewart. Opens Fri 7/15.

Ghostbusters You’re gonna wanna call the group of ladies in this female-centric reboot of the 1984 classic. With SNL firecracker Leslie Jones in the action-comedy role she deserves. Opens Fri 7/15.

“The Making of a Fugitive” Work by Dennis Adams, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Bruce Nauman, Carrie Schneider, and more focused on Patty Hearst and other fugitives in pop culture, as well as the media’s construction of criminality.

7/16-12/4, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, 312280-2660, mcachicago.org.

Chicago Hot Dog Fest A celebration of the Chicago dog and Vienna Beef featuring bites from local vendors along with live music from JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound. 8/5-8/7: FriSat 11 AM-9 PM, Sun 11 AM-8 PM, Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark, 312-642-4600, chicagohotdogfest.com. F “Photo Show” Vince DeSantiago curates a Chicago-themed photography show. 8/5-8/14, Galerie F, 2381 N. Milwaukee, 773-819-9200, galerief.com.

The Founder In this biopic of Ray Kroc, Michael Keaton stars as the late Oak Park-born businessman who turned McDonald’s into the fast-food giant we know today. Opens Fri 8/5.

Martin Luther King 1,000 Mile March A re-creation of a portion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic 1966 march to Marquette Park against housing segregation, during which King and his followers faced thousands of violent protesters. Sat 8/6, Marquette Park, 6734 S. Kedzie, 312-747-6469, mlkmemorialchicago.org, $25.

Burgers and Beer 5K There’s nothing like Shake Shack burgers and Begyle beer serving as motivation to finish a run. Vegetarian options are available as well.

Mon 7/18, 7 PM, Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum Campus, 312235-7000, soldierfield.net, $50.

Case/Lang/Veirs Talk about supergroups! Neko Case, K.D. Lang, and Laura Veirs perform songs from their new collaborative album. Sat 8/7, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, thechicagotheatre.com, $29.50-$60.

Alabama Shakes See the southern rockers at what is probably one of Chicago’s least rootsy venues: the Civic Opera House. Tue 7/19, 7:30 PM, Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker, 312-332-2244, civicoperahouse.com, $42-$72.

Chicago Comedy Nerd Festival A celebration of all things dorky and funny including Improvised Star Trek, the Geek Show, and more. 8/11-8/14, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-3275252, stage773.com/CNCFShows, $13, $40-$60 for day pass, $100 for all-festival pass.

Star Trek Beyond In addition to reprising his role as Scotty, Simon Pegg (The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead) helped pen the screenplay for the rebooted Star Trek franchise’s third installment. Beam us up! Justin Lin directed. Opens Fri 7/22.

Drake When that hotline bling, it could only mean one thing: the Canadian rap sensation’s in town. Future opens. Tue 7/26 and Wed 7/27, 7 PM, United Center, 1901 W. Madison, 312-455-4500, unitedcenter.com, $45-$180.

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Ginza Holiday Commemorate Japanese culture with traditional food and drink, taiko drumming, Japanese folk dancing, and more. 8/12-8/14: Fri 5:30-9 PM, Sat 11:30 AM-9 PM, Sun 11:30 AM-5 PM, Midwest Buddhist Temple, 435 W. Menomonee, 312943-7801, ginzaholiday.com, $7.

Florence Foster Jenkins Meryl Streep goes for another little gold man in this biopic about a New York socialite who chases after her operatic dreams. Opens Fri 8/12.

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MCA Talk: Michelle Grabner and Angel Otero The artists step away from the canvas to discuss their painting techniques. Sat 8/13, 3 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, 312280-2660, mcachicago.org. F WizardWorld Nerd out to the max with four days of sci-fi, fantasy, anime, manga, cosplay, comic books, card games, and celebrity appearances. Among those in attendance: Bruce Campbell, Rosario Dawson, and Fox Mulder himself, David Duchovny. 8/188/21: Thu 3-8 PM, Fri noon-7 PM, Sat 10 AM-7 PM, Sun 10 AM-5 PM, Donald E. Stephens Convention Center, 5555 N. River, Rosemont, 847-694-2220, wizardworld.com/ comiccon/chicago, $40-$60 for day pass, $105 for weekend pass.

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The best of the fests JUNE Third Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival The A.V. Club welcomes headliners Tracy Morgan and Sarah Silverman to town for its third annual comedy festival. Other performers include Reggie Watts, Jenny Slate, and Chris Gethard. Wed 6/1-Sun 6/5, various locations, 26comedy.com, $10-$72.50.

Pilsen Food Truck Social This festival features more than 20 local food trucks in one place— Da Lobsta, Pierogi Wagon, and Tamale Spaceship among them— with live music from Sonorama and CumbiaSazo, displays from local artist Kinga McCraven, and even more to eat from local brick-and-mortar restaurants, for those who prefer their food not on wheels. Sat 6/11-Sun 6/12: 10 AM-11-PM, 18th and Allport, pilsenfoodtrucksocial. com, $5 suggested donation, $20 sampler tickets available.

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Printers Row Lit Fest The midwest’s largest book fair hosts panels, discussions, performances (musical and literary), and signings with guests like Marcia Clark, Seymour Hersh, Lindy West, and Ethan Hawke—plus some 200 others. Among this year’s highlights is the presentation of the Chicago Tribune Young Adult Literary Award to R.L. Stine. Some events require tickets. Sat 6/11-Sun 6/12: 10 AM-6 PM, Dearborn between Congress and Polk, 312-2223986, printersrowlitfest.org. F Chicago Ale Fest More than 200 beers from American craft breweries—plus live music and food from local eateries, including Burger Bar and Taco in a Bag. 6/17-6/18: Fri 6-10 PM, Sat 2-6 PM, Buckingham Fountain, 301 S. Columbus, 312-888-2104, chicagoalefest.com, $50, $25 for designated driver ticket.

Pride Fest A warm-up for the Pride Parade on Sunday,

June 26, this Boystown takeover kicks off with a Pet Pride Parade, local street vendors, and three stages of music with performances by Dumblonde, Daya, and Jordin Sparks. Sat 6/18-Sun 6/19: 10 AM-10 PM, Halsted between Grace and Addison, northalsted.com.

Vegan Food and Drink Festival A fest where all the food is 100 percent vegan—even the Big Mac, a new addition to this year’s edition. Other bites include vegan hot dogs, doughnuts, waffles, and more, with performances by a lineup of all-vegan artists. Sat 6/25, 11 AM-7 PM, Grant Park, 100 S. Lake Shore, vegandrinkfest. com/chicago, $10, $20 for VIP, free for children under 12.

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Sat 7/9-Sun 7/10: 11 AM-10 PM, Clybourn between Diversey and Barry, $10 suggested donation.

Bristol Renaissance Faire Transport back to Elizabethan England with more than 30 acres of 16th-century-themed games, rides, arts, crafts, food, and music. 7/9-9/5: Sat-Sun 10 AM-7 PM, Bristol Renaissance Faire, 12550 120th, Kenosha, Wisconsin, renfair. com/bristol, $25, $11.50 for children 5-12, $125 season pass.

Chicago Hot Sauce Fest For those who like things hot, this festival fires up pepper-eating and sauce contests, and vendors serve their spiciest sauces to only the most daring participants.

Sat 7/23-Sun 7/24: noon, Belmont and Elston, chicagohotsaucefest. com, $5 suggested donation.

Fiesta del Sol A Pilsen Neighbors Community Council fund-raiser known as the midwest’s largest Latino festival.

There’s food from local vendors such as Juanita’s Mexican Food, Restaurant El Asador, and Taqueria La Ciudad; live music from Orgullo Guerrerense and Grupo Ideal de Tlapehuala Guerrero; educational resources like the Civil Rights of Immigrants Booth; and plenty of carnival rides (tickets required). 7/28-7/31: Thu 5 PM-10 PM, Fri-Sat 11 AM-11

PM, Sun 11 AM-10 PM, 1400 W. Cermak, fiestadelsol.org. F Newberry Book Fair Peruse more than 120,000 donated books, many priced at $3 or less.

All proceeds benefit the Newberry Library. 7/28-7/31: Thu-Fri noon-8 PM, Sat-Sun 10 AM-6 PM, Newberry Library, 60 W. Walton, 312-255-3501, newberry.org. F

AUGUST Retro on Roscoe A street fest with three stages of live oldies music, a classic car and motorcycle show, and plenty of food and drink. 8/12-8/14: Fri 5-10 PM, Sat-Sun noon-10 PM, Roscoe and Damen, starevents. com/festivals/retro-on-roscoe, $10 suggested donation.

Clark After Dark The USO of Illinois hosts this one-night festival, which features local cover bands, military-themed activities and games, and a raffle. Thu 8/18, 5-10 PM, Hubbard between Clark and LaSalle, usoofillinois.org/ clark-after-dark, $10, $100 VIP. Festa Italiana The four-day festival focuses on Italian fare, and takes place in the heart of

Bucktown Arts Fest This annual street fest, which supports arts education, boasts beer, food trucks, three stages of live music, more than 200 artists, and activities for kids. Sat 8/27Sun 8/28: 11 AM-7 PM, Holstein Park, 2200 N. Oakley, 312-7427554, bucktownartsfest.com. F

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The weekend includes live music, an “after dark” fashion show, and deals at local stores.

Sat 8/27-Sun 8/28: noon-10 PM, Damen and Division, facebook.com/fashionfestchicago, $5 suggested donation.

Taste of Greektown A celebration of Greek culture in—where else?—Greektown. There’s lots of food, drinks, and dancing— all Greek, of course. Sat 8/27Sun 8/28: noon-11 PM, 400 S. Halsted, chicagoevents.com.

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Logan Square Arts Festival Xenia Rubinos, Screaming Females, Blitzen Trapper, and Meat Wave are among this fest’s notable musical performers.

6/24-6/26, Illinois Centennial Monument, logansquareartsfestival.com, $5 suggested donation.

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A fest for every sort of sound Do Division Street Fest This staple street fest showcases rock, punk, pop, experimental music, and more. Acts include Peanut Butter Wolf, A Place to Bury Strangers, Beach Fossils, and Nikki Lane. 6/3-6/5, Division between Damen and Hoyne, do-divisionstreetfest. com, $5 suggested donation.

Chicago Gospel Music Fesival The headliners of the city’s 31st annual gospel fest are Hezekiah, Travis Greene, and Shirley Caesar. 6/3-6/4, Chicago Cultural Center and Grant Park, chicagogospelmusicfestival.us. F Ribfest Headliners Ivan & Alyosha, Coin, and Jukebox the Ghost will have to compete with the smoked pork if they want to be the main draw of this North Center festival. 6/106/12, Lincoln between Irving Park and Berteau, ribfest-chicago. com, $5 suggested donation.

Chicago Blues Festival Shemekia Copeland, Fred Wesley, and Diunna Greenleaf are among the headliners at the event that calls itself the largest free blues festival in the world. 6/10-6/12, Grant Park, cityofchicago.org. F Spring Awakening This massive celebration of electronic music just keeps growing, and this year it’s booked Crystal Castles, Deadmau5, Claude Von Stroke, A-Trak, and Flux Pavillon, among many others. 6/10-6/12, Jackson Park, springawakeningfestival.com, $199-$250. 18+

Hotmix 5 Festival This party celebrates the 35th anniversary of the formation of the legendary Hot Mix 5 house-music crew, which includes DJs Farley “Jackmaster” Funk and Mickey “Mixin” Oliver. 6/11, McCormick Place, hotmix5festival.com, $50-$150.

Remix Chicago This celebration of everything remixed, reused, and recycled is paired with live music. Bands playing include Cults, Moving Units, and Shannon & the Clams. 6/11-6/12, Milwaukee and Fullerton, remixchicago.com, donation requested.

WGCI Summer Jam Chicago’s go-to station for hip-hop hosts Fetty Wap, Jeezy, 2 Chainz, T.I., Plies, and Migos at this annual event. 6/17, United Center, wgci.iheart.com, $20-$125.

Windy City LakeShake This giant lakeside festival features giants of modern country, including Lady Antebellum, Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Martina McBride, and Travis Tritt. 6/17-6/19, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion, lakeshakefestival.com, $99.50 per day, three-day pass $255.

Taste of Randolph Street Enjoy food from Randolph Street restaurants to a soundtrack of indie acts such as Ms Mr, Atlas Genius, Devotchka, and Peter, Bjorn, and John. 6/17-6/19, 900 W. Randolph, tasterandolph. com, $10 suggested donation.

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Old St. Pat’s World’s Largest Block Party This shindig presented by Old St. Patrick’s supports the church’s mission— social-justice initiatives and outreach programs both local and international—with headlining acts Passion Pit and JD McPherson. 6/25, UIC Festival Lot, worldslargestblockparty. com, $40, VIP $90 (on sale 5/16).

International Festival of Life This four-day festival showcases sounds from all over the African diaspora, including lots of reggae and Caribbean music. The bill includes Lova Boy, Supa G, and Luciano. 7/1-7/4, Washington Park, festoflife.biz, $25, four-day pass $100, children under 12 free.

Chosen Few Picnic The beloved all-day house-music picnic grows into a two-day festival honoring the legendary DJs who helped build Chicago’s famous scene.

Roy Ayers and Cheryl Lynn perform, in addition to the Chosen Few DJs themselves. 7/2-7/3, Jackson Park, chosenfewdjs. com, $25 single-day tickets.

Mamby on the Beach The name of the game: feel-good beachfront jams from pop, dance, and hip-hop acts such as Chet Faker, Milky Chance, Atmosphere, and Chromeo. 7/2-7/3, Oakwood Beach, mambybeach. com, $65, two-day pass $125. 18+

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Taste of Chicago The Taste is a Chicago institution, combining well-known restaurants, popular bands, and thousands of drunk people. This year the Roots, the Decemberists, Billy Idol, and the Isley Brothers headline the shows at the Petrillo Music Shell. 7/6-7/10, Grant Park, tasteofchicago.us, free (ticket prices for seats at Petrillo vary).

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Festival Cubano One of the largest events of its kind in Chicago, this celebration of Cuban culture features live music from Willy Chirino, Isaac Delgado, Albita Rodriguez, Rey Ruiz, and many more. 8/12-8/14, Riis Park, thecubanfestival.com, $20.

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Ruido Fest This Pilsen celebration of Latin music includes La Ley, Panteon Rococó, and Carla Morrison. 7/8-7/10, Addams/Medill Park, ruidofest. com, $49.98-$59.98, two-day passes $84.98-$94.98, threeday passes $129.98-$149.98.

Square Roots Five stages of country, folk, and world music (programmed by the Old Town School of Folk Music) vie for festivalgoers’ attention with an impressive variety of craft beer on tap. Artists to be announced.

7/8-7/10, Lincoln between Montrose and Wilson, squareroots. org, $10 suggested donation, $5 seniors and kids, $20 families.

Pitchfork Music Festival The tastemaking indie festival is in its 11th year, and 2016’s performers include Sufjan Stevens, Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Brian Wilson, and Savages. 7/15-7/17, Union Park, pitchforkmusicfestival.com, $65, three-day passes $165.

Chicago Open Air This new south-side festival leans a little hard on nu-metal and 90s relics (Korn, Slipknot, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson) but also includes relatively relevant acts such as Meshuggah, Gojira, Carcass, and Babymetal. 7/15-7/17, Toyota Park, Bridgeview, chicagoopenair. com, single-day tickets sold out, $149.50-$289.50 three-day passes.

Metal Threat Fest Three days, two rooms, and all the extreme metal you can handle—including Inquisition, Absu, the Ruins of Beverast, Exciter, Angelcorpse, and Razor. 7/15-7/17, Reggie’s Rock Club and Reggie’s Music Joint, facebook.com/MetalThreatPromotions, three-day passes sold out, single-day tickets $50.

Windy City Smokeout This festival dedicated to coun-

try music and barbecue pairs smoked meats and smoky tunes. Chase Rice, Billy Currington, and Old Dominion headline. 7/15-7/17, 560 W. Grand, windycitysmokeout.com, $30$45, three-day passes $110.

Laid Back Festival This tour, curated by headliner Gregg Allman, is heavy on the classic rock—Peter fucking Frampton will be there. 7/16, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion, laidbackfest.com, $25-$99.75.

Warped Tour Once again frustrated suburban teens will flock to this mall-punk mecca. Falling in Reverse, Every Time I Die, and New Found Glory are among the bigger bands playing the long-running traveling festival. 7/23, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, vanswarpedtour.com, $41.50.

Wicker Park Fest One of Chicago’s most popular street fests brings two days of big-name music to the heart of Wicker Park, but we’re still waiting on a lineup announcement.

7/23-7/24, North and Milwaukee, wickerparkbucktown.com/ fest, $5 suggested donation.

Lollapalooza Lollapalooza expanded to four days for its 25th birthday this year, and festival passes once again sold out before the headliners were announced. They include LCD Soundsystem, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, and J. Cole. 7/28-7/31, Grant Park, lollapalooza.com, sold out.

Fed Up Fest This three-day DIY festival celebrates queer and transgender voices in the punk community with live music and workshops. 7/29-7/31, venue to be announced, fedupfest.com.

The Art of Rap Many stripes of classic hip-hop come together at this party with sets from Public Enemy, Ice-T, Naughty by Nature, and more. 8/5, Holly-

Reggae Fest Chicago “One day, one love!” is this festival’s motto.

Programmed by Subterranean, its lineup of ska, reggaeton, roots reggae, and world music includes Toots & the Maytals, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Hepcat. 8/13, Addams/Medill Park, reggaefestchicago.com, $37.50.

Mad Decent Block Party The Mad Decent label’s wild dance party returns to Chicago with sets from Diplo, Gryffin, Kesha, and others. 8/21, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion, maddecentblockparty.com, $45.

Chicago Jazz Festival This venerable free fest has been promoting awareness of and appreciation for all forms of jazz since 1979. Headlining sets include Orbert Davis’s premiere of Soul Migration, Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the Bad Plus, and a quartet led by John Scofield and Joe Lovano. 9/1-9/4, Chicago Cultural Center and Millennium Park, chicagojazzfestival.us. F North Coast Music Festival This three-day party features some of EDM’s most recognizable names, including Odesza, Bassnectar, Zedd, and Logic— plus hip-hop, pop, bluegrass, and more. 9/2-9/4, Union Park, northcoastfestival.com, sold out.

Riot Fest The annual punknostalgia fest keeps growing.

This is year two at its new southside location, and the big names on the bill include the Original Misfits, Morrissey, and Deftones.

9/16-9/18, Douglas Park, riotfest. org, three-day passes $149-$169.

World Music Festival Now in its 18th year, this sprawling and diverse festival has featured music from more than 80 different countries since it began.

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Sate yourself in the sun AMERICANO 2211 WICKER PARK Those familiar with Birchwood Kitchen, which closed its doors last fall, will also remember its picturesque ivy-covered back patio. Americano 2211, which opened in April in the same space, retains much of the relaxed, European feel of the former occupant, with a brief menu comprising breakfast dishes, pastries, sandwiches, and salads. There are plans to add an herb garden to the 30-seat patio and to stay open for dinner, allowing for an evening glass of wine out back (a liquor license is in the works). Breakfast, lunch: daily. 2211 W. North, 773-360-8757, americano2211.com.

BERNIE’S LUNCH & SUPPER RIVER NORTH There wasn’t much time last year to enjoy the 88-seat rooftop at Bernie’s after it opened in mid-September. This summer, though, it’s likely to see

plenty of patrons eager to relax in the 1,500-square-foot space with hanging lanterns, strings of lights, and a full bar.

The entire menu of Mediterranean-influenced comfort food is also available up on the roof. Lunch: Mon-Fri; dinner: daily. Sat & Sun brunch.

Open late: Thu-Sat till 11 PM. 660 N. Orleans, 312-624-9892, bernieslunchandsupper.com.

BOEUFHAUS UKRAINIAN VILLAGE While Boeufhaus opened last year, its tiny 14-seat patio, with marble brasserie tables set off from the sidewalk by wine barrels, is brand-new.

So is its happy hour, which runs from 3:30 to 5:30 PM on weekdays and features $1.50 oysters and rotating specials on beer, wine, and cocktails.

Lunch: Tue-Sat; dinner: Sun, Tue-Sat. Open late: Fri & Sat till midnight. 1012 N. Western, 773-661-2116, boeufhaus.com.

COTTON DUCK UKRAINIAN VILLAGE This BYOB restaurant and art gallery features an art-inspired menu that changes every three months with the art installations (the current iteration of both, titled “Forage,” runs through July). A fenced-in front patio, strung with lights and decorated with potted plants, seats 35.

Dinner: Sun, Tue-Sat. Sun brunch.

941 N. Damen, 773-661-6131, thecottonduck.com.

DOS URBAN CANTINA LOGAN SQUARE Chef Brian Enyart’s take on modern Mexican food has already made Dos Urban Cantina a destination, and the new 40-seat sidewalk patio with heat lamps and flower planters isn’t going to hurt things.

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Hanging planters and lights soften the stark concrete with metal tables a bit, and the seafoam-green chairs are a nice touch. 2523 N. Milwaukee, 773904-8567, analoguechicago.com.

BEST INTENTIONS LOGAN SQUARE A cabana bar in the enclosed back patio serves a limited menu of cocktails, beer, and wine, but if you’ve really got your heart set on a boozy milk shake, anything ordered inside can be taken outside.

Flower-filled planters around the perimeter of the fence enhance the tropical feel.

3281 W. Armitage, 312-818-1254, bestintentionschicago.com.

BARCOCINA | LAKEVIEW The 4,000-square-foot sidewalk patio seats 122, and retractable garage doors on two sides of the corner bar open so wide that even indoors it’s like sitting on a covered patio. Cocktails and food are Mexican inspired, and there’s wine on tap as well as a wide selection of beer. 2901 N. Sheffield, 773-6879949, barcocinachicago.com.

BURNT CITY BREWING LINCOLN PARK The 28-seat patio on Lincoln Avenue next to bowling alley the Seven Ten Lounge has been around for a few years now, but the brewpub behind it just went through an unexpected change. Atlas Brewing, forced to change its name in early May following a trademark dispute, decided to “burn it all down,”

changing up its beer and food recipes to take a less conservative approach than before (the brewpub is also absorbing the bowling alley next door). The beers now include Facemelter Hibiscus IPA and Retrofit Radler, a low-alcohol summer seasonal.

2747 N. Lincoln, 773-295-1270, burntcitybrewing.com.

CINDY’S | LOOP The view of the lake from Cindy’s, the restaurant and bar on top of the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, is hard to beat. As with many downtown rooftops, you’ll pay a premium for it—but the $9 draft beers and $15 glasses of wine just make bartender Nandini Khaund’s seriously creative cocktails seem like a deal by comparison (most are about $15). Bring a crowd; the food comes on large platters meant for shar!B

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CORRIDOR BREWERY & PROVISIONS | LAKEVIEW This brewpub from the DryHop owners is currently rotating summery beers like a watermelon-hibiscus farmhouse ale, a blueberry blond, and a smoked chile pepper saison into its lineup. The 25-seat sidewalk patio on Southport is set off by planters and features bench seating made from old railroad boxcars, sky-blue vintage metal armchairs, and reclaimed wood tables. 3446 N. Southport, 773270-4272, corridorchicago.com.

ISLAND PARTY HUT LOOP The Riverwalk’s first and only tiki bar has returned for a second year and is planning to double in size and offer games—including tetherball, bocce ball, and a giant Connect Four set—in addition to tiki drinks and grilled meat.

There’s also live music from Thursday to Sunday. Other

Riverwalk options include City Winery’s pop-up location (11 Chicago Riverwalk, 312-2295593) and O’Brien’s (41 Chicago Riverwalk, 312-346-3131).

355 E. Riverwalk South, 312600-0488, islandpartyhut.com.

Downtown Hotel is Raised, an Urban Rooftop Bar—which pretty much sums it up. The third-floor lounge overlooks the river and offers several beers and wines on tap as well as many more by the bottle; cocktails are available by the glass and by the decanter. The food menu will focus on locally sourced small plates. 1 W. Wacker, 312-372-7200, marriott.com.

J. PARKER | LINCOLN PARK Thanks to a retractable glass roof, patrons have been able to experience the J. Parker’s rooftop deck since February, but now that the weather is warmer those 140 seats will be in the open air (there’s still a 55-seat indoor area). The summer cocktail menu for this lounge atop the Lincoln hotel is inspired by David Bowie and includes the Ziggy Stardust, Moonage Daydream, and Suffragette City; Paul Virant created the menu of small plates. 1816 N. Clark, 312254-4747, jparkerchicago.com.

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ry daiquiris and piña coladas, plus a menu of small bites. 112 W. Hubbard, 312-955-0339, joychicago.com.

MEZCALERIA LA FLORES LOGAN SQUARE The new mescal bar adjoin-

ing Johnny’s Grill (formerly Flower Shop) is getting a renovated patio inspired by Mexican street markets. The vibrantly colored space will be decorated with buckets of cut flowers (which you can buy) and seat 80-100 people;

the menus from both the bar and the grill will be available.

3149 W. Logan, 773-278-2215, mezcalerialasflores.com.

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WHISKEY BUSINESS WICKER PARK Themed around the 80s movie Risky Business, Whiskey Business offers more than 100 whiskeys by the glass, though the cocktail menu runs the gamut from vodka to mescal to—well, whiskey (there’s a full food menu as well). The 120-seat rooftop deck, which is shared with Cheesie’s Pub & Grub next door, includes three flatscreen TVs for sports fans and couches for lounging.

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Green City Market 5/7-10/26: 7 AM, 1750 N. Clark, 773-880-1266, chicagogreencitymarket.org.

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Independence Park Farmers Market 6/12-10/23: second and fourth Sunday, 10 AM, Irving Park and Springfield.

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West Humboldt Park Farmers Market 7/24-9/18: 10 AM, 3601 W. Chicago, facebook.com/pilsenmarket.

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Glenwood Sunday Market 6/510/30: 9 AM, 6950 N. Morse.

Community Farmers Market Year round: 8 AM, 1901 W. 51st.

Portage Park Farmers Market 6/5-10/2: 10 AM, Berteau and Central.

Loyola Farmers Market 6/69/19: 3 PM, Loyola Plaza, 6540 N. Sheridan, blogs. luc.edu/farmersmarket.

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El Conuco Farmers Market at Humboldt Park 6/11-10/15: 10 AM, California and Division.

TUESDAY Federal Plaza Farmers Market 5/17-10/25: 7 AM, Adams and Dearborn.

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Lincoln Square Farmers Market 6/7-10/25: 7 AM, 2301 W. Leland.

PCC Farmers Market 6/710/25: 7 AM, 330 N. Lotus.

SOAR Farmers Market 6/7-10/25: 7 AM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago,

LaFollette Park Farmers Market 6/29-9/28: 2 PM, 1333 N. Laramie.

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest Lawndale Market 7/6-10/5: 9 AM, 3750 W. Ogden.

Chicago Botanic Garden’s Windy City Harvest Washington Park Market 7/6-10/5: 9 AM, 555 E. 51st.

Pullman Farmers Market 7/6-10/26: 7 AM, 111th and Cottage Grove.

Seaway Bank Farmers Market 7/20-9/21: 9 AM, 87th and Langley, seawaybank.us.

THURSDAY Daley Plaza Farmers Market 5/12-10/27: 7 AM, Daley Plaza, 50 W. Washington, 312-3463278, thedaleycenter.com.

Hyde Park Farmers Market 6/210/27: 7 AM, 53rd and Harper.

Lincoln Square Evening Farmers’ Market 6/9-10/27: 4 PM, 2301 W. Leland.

Low-Line Farmers Market 6/210/13: 3 PM, 3411 N. Southport.

Garfield Park Community Market 6/16, 7/14, 8/18, 9/15, and 10/13: 3 PM, 200 N. Kedzie.

South Loop Farmers’ Market 6/16-9/29: 4 PM, Second Presbyterian Church, 1936 S. Michigan, 312-225-4951, 2ndpresbyterian.org.

Weiss Uptown Farmers Market 6/23-10/27: 7 AM, Weiss Memorial Hospital, 4646 N. Marine.

Argyle Night Market 7/79/1: 5 PM, Argyle between Sheridan and Kenmore.

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The Sidetrack Saturday Market 5/7-10/8: Sat 1 PM, Sidetrack, 3349 N. Halsted, 773-4779189, sidetrackchicago.com.

Division Street Farmers Market 5/14-10/29: 7 AM, Division and Dearborn.

61st Street Farmers Market 5/14-10/29: 9 AM, Backstory Cafe, 6100 S. Blackstone, 773324-9987, backstorycafe.com.

Back of the Yards Community Market at the Plant 6/4-9/10: 10 AM, the Plant, 1400 W. 46th, 773-847-5523, plantchicago.com.

Horner Park Farmers Market 6/4-10/1: 9 AM, Horner Park, 2741 W. Montrose, 312-742-7572.

PCC Farmers Market 6/710/25: 7 AM, 330 N. Lotus.

Willis Tower Farmers Market 7/14-10/13: 7 AM, 233 S. Wacker, 233 S. Wacker.

Edgewater Farmers Market 6/11-8/20: 8 AM, 1200 W. Norwood.

Austin Town Hall Farmers Market 7/28-10/27: 2 PM, Austin Town Center, Lake and Central.

El Conuco Farmers Market at Humboldt Park 6/11-10/15: 10 AM, California and Division.

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Englewood/Anchor House Farmers Market 6/25-10/1: 8 AM, 76th and Racine.

North Center Farmers Market 6/25-10/29: 7 AM, 4100 N. Lincoln.

Community Farmers Market Year round: 8 AM, 1901 W. 51st.

Printers Row Farmers Market 6/25-10/29: Sat 7 AM, Printers Row Park, Dearborn and Polk.

Healthy Food Hub at South Shore Good Foods Market Year round: 11 AM, 2423 E. 75th.

Edgebrook Neighborhood Farmers Market 7/2-10/1: 9 AM, 6525 N. Hiawatha.

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Birds on film

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hen you walk into the second-floor gallery space of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum you might be surprised to see Art Fox’s photographs of birds literally hovering off the wall. For the exhibition “Broken Journey,” instead of being displayed in a standard gallery presentation—where the artworks are positioned flush against the wall—15 of Fox’s images are hung with wire to appear as if they’re floating. The birds, all dead, are photographed against blurry backgrounds—the wings of some are bent; others are extended, as if in motion. Even

though the show is meant to convey flight, the irony is that the subjects are incapable of ever flying again.

Fox’s aim, however, is to bring the power of flight back to creatures that are long gone. He started to photograph dead birds in the spring of 2014, when a summer tanager expired on his balcony in the West Loop. He admired the animal’s beauty, regardless of the fact that it was deceased. “I had never seen anything like it,” Fox said. “I knew that it was the tip of an iceberg in terms of my curiosity. It was a wakeup call by Mother Nature.”

A retired physician, Fox doesn’t attribute

his his interest in birds to his background in medicine. “I would say this project is an aesthetic adventure rather than a science adventure,” he said. “I’ve learned some technical things about the subjects in the process, but I am first and foremost struck by the beauty and pathos of their situation.”

Initially, Fox photographed birds mostly from his home—in his bathroom or on his balcony. Recently he has worked in more professional environments, such as the Field Museum and the lab of Reuben Keller at Loyola University, institutions that collect birds that expire in Chicago for study, education, and display.

Often, the birds’ deaths are due to indirect human intervention, whether it’s smacking into the windows of a house or skyscraper, or even being attacked by a house cat. Steven Sullivan, senior curator of urban ecology at the Nature Museum, estimated that up to a billion birds die each year from flying into buildings, and an additional 100 million or so perish due to colliding with communication towers, power distribution lines, and other seemingly innocuous structures. “Cities are intrinsic death traps for birds, and wildlife in general,” Sullivan said. “But we as Chicagoans want to mitigate that problem.”

Advocacy groups like Chicago Bird Collision Monitors are doing just that. The team of all-volunteer workers advocates for safer lighting practices in buildings downtown by encouraging building-management groups and the general public to reduce lighting during spring and fall migration (birds are drawn to, and confused by, the light emitted by large signs, towers, and other sources).

The group also collects injured and dead birds from Chicago’s streets, bringing nearly 3,000 injured specimens to wildlife rehabilitation centers each year.

According to Sullivan 300 species pass through Chicago throughout the year, with migration typically peaking between March and June and from August to October. Birds are attracted to Chicago for its location and resources: the city is in the middle of one of the most efficient migratory routes, from South America and Central America to Canada, and is in close proximity to a coastline.

Fox explains that people came to Chicago for similar reasons, noting that the city’s citizens are helping to destroy creatures that are here due to comparable primal instincts.

Sullivan and Fox hope the exhibition produces both an empathetic reaction and an aesthetic one. The lifelike appearance of the birds in the photographs was one of the factors that led to this exhibit, which also serves as an educational tool. “The Nature Museum strives to be everybody’s gateway to nature and science,” Sullivan says. “We want people to understand the nature that is in their very own backyard.” v “ B ROKEN JOURNEY” Through 2/12/2017, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, 2430 N. Cannon, 773-755-5100, naturemuseum.org, $9, $7 students and seniors, $6 kids 3-12, Thursdays free.

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In search of Tank Man

By TONY ADLER “Oh fuck, what is he doing?”

—Joe Schofield, in Chimerica

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n June 5, 1989, a lean young Chinese man in a white shirt and dark pants stepped in front of a column of military tanks heading toward Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to help crush the insurrection taking place there. By the following weekend I was pushing a stroller through the 57th Street Art Fair, wearing a T-shirt with that man’s picture printed on it.

If you were anywhere near conscious that summer, you’ll remember the story and the images it produced. The lone protester—still identified only by his media epithet, the “Tank Man”—took up a position in multilane Chang’an (“Eternal Peace”) Avenue. The lead tank stopped short before him, and the Tank Man gestured with a bag he was carrying as if to say, Clear off! When the tank turned to go around him, he moved to cut it off, and— strange to say, inasmuch as untold numbers of people had been shot by soldiers and crushed by tank treads the previous night—the tank

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stopped again. The Tank Man even climbed up onto the vehicle at one point, evidently trying to engage the crew. Things went on this way for about three minutes, until some people in civilian clothes (friends? Samaritans? police?) hustled him off to parts unknown.

It was one of the most electrifying acts of dissent of my lifetime. Also one of the most enigmatic, at least from my American point of view. What made him do it? What made him think he could do it? How come the tank crew didn’t blast or bulldoze him? Automatic weapons fire is loudly audible on a CNN video of the event, yet the Tank Man’s actions seem to take place in a charmed circle, outside of time, circumstances, or, really, mortality. His apparent obliviousness to consequences reminds me of Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist monk who set himself aflame on a Saigon street in 1963 and then sat composedly, allowing himself to be reduced to ash.

And, like I say, I got the T-shirt.

That’s another piece of the Tank Man story, the piece on which British playwright Lucy Kirkwood concentrates in her 2013 drama Chi-

merica, offered now in an engrossing threehour production directed by Nick Bowling for TimeLine Theatre.

There were several Western news photographers on hand to document the Tank Man’s death-defying feat 31 years ago, most of them standing on the balconies of a hotel a half mile away from Chang’an Avenue. A couple took photos that became iconic representations of the confrontation. Kirkwood posits the fictional Joe Schofield as one of them.

We first meet Joe as an inexperienced 19-year-old, lucky enough to witness history, alert enough to take its picture, and clever enough to deceive the Chinese police when they come to confiscate his film. Fast-forward to 2013 and he’s a middle-aged camera jockey with great shots of war zones all over the world but not much else to call his own. No wife or kids, certainly. He’s pleased enough about the lack of encumbrance. But changes in technology and the news business can’t be laughed off so easily, because they’re quickly rendering him obsolete. Anyone in media at any level will recognize the landmarks: a corporate boss who’s big on lifestyle and leisure, skittish on hard news; iPhones that make everybody a reporter; online profiling systems that dice the public into nano-niche sales targets. No wonder Joe attempts to revisit the triumph of his youth, selling his editor on a story about the fate of the Tank Man.

The quest takes him back to Beijing, where he reconnects with an old associate, Zhang Lin, whose life now consists of teaching “crazy English” and mourning his wife, killed at Tiananmen Square. In Zhang Lin and Joe, Kirkwood explores the tension between Chinese and American, native and visitor, participant and voyeur, victim and witness, event and, yes, T-shirt.

Kirkwood makes one glaring omission in failing to acknowledge her own role as a European building a fiction from this material. She can be accused of appropriation—the postmodern crime of transforming other people’s lives into metaphors—which is precisely her charge against Joe. But what she gives us within the conventional limits of the narrative is worldly, smart, and surprisingly playful considering the depths of sorrow it reaches. My wife and I spent the ride home debating Joe’s personal responsibility (her side) versus his situation as a victim of journalistic duty (my side). Not a lot of shows manage that. I’m sticking to my argument, however: Like any good tragedy, Chimerica unfolds with a sense of necessity beyond the ability of the characters to avert it.

Bowling’s staging seemed diffuse, perhaps a little underrehearsed on opening night.

The elements were all there, though, and I have no doubt that the show has pulled itself together by now. Coburn Goss is a charmingly obnoxious Joe, wearing his self-righteousness like a foolscap while others try their best to steer him toward their versions of growing up. Those others include H.B. Ward as the editor, amusingly gruff but also pained as he copes with the new rules of the news game. As Joe’s love interest, Tessa, Eleni Pappageorge’s rather spectacular sexiness is tempered by her developing ambivalence toward her work in digital demography: on the one hand calling the Tank Man a consumer by virtue of the bags he held in his hands (“The Tank Man . . . has been shopping!”), while on the other sensing just how creepy that is.

Norman Yap’s Zhang Lin is hapless, funny, and finally much more, his performance greatly enhanced by that of Wai Yim as Lin’s fatherly older brother, Zhang Wei. The relationship between these two is among the tenderest, truest things I’ve seen on a stage in a long time. v R CHIMERICA Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, TimeLine Theatre, Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Baird Hall Theatre, 615 W. Wellington, 773-281-8463, timelinetheatre.com, $28-$51.

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t first, Book Expo America, the largest annual book-industry event/ circus in North America, which opened at McCormick Place on May 11, seemed like a wonderful dream. I walked into the exhibit hall and saw an enormous banner that read harry potter: it’s magic; beneath it, nice people from Scholastic publishing were distributing short, bound excerpts of the new illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I walked a little farther into the Hachette booth where publicists stood by handing out free books like they were candy—they also handed out tote bags to hold the free books. It was like Halloween, if you are like me and, when given a choice, will almost always choose a new book over candy. (The candy has to be pretty damned extraordinary.)

It took me a few hours to realize that there is a strategy for approaching BEA, similar to the one for Halloween trick-or-treating. You can’t just accept every book blindly, otherwise you’ll get bogged down by your tote bags filled with books and, if you didn’t bother to search for a quality bag, the one you have will start to rip, and you’ll wonder how the hell you’ll ever get home. Instead, you need to do a little reconnaissance to find out who’s giving out

which book when, and, equally important, who is handing out quality canvas tote bags.

This is the first year since 2004 that BEA has been in Chicago, and veterans say that it’s smaller and quieter than the New York edition.

Many publishers sent smaller contingents than usual, and some didn’t even bother to send anybody. For a first-timer, though, it was big enough—which is another way of saying “slightly overwhelming.” There was a daily expo newsletter that was thicker than most regular newspapers, and the BEA smartphone app had its own little maps section to help expo-goers find their way around.

Nearly 700 exhibitors had set up booths.

Not all of them were book publishers—some were digital companies, some were literary publications, some sold book-related accessories like T-shirts and posters, and some were especially determined self-published authors.

And not everyone was there in blind pursuit of galleys and autographs, though there were plenty of fangirls and -boys waiting patiently in very long lines.

BEA is, above all, a trade fair. Those lines snaked past secluded meeting areas where people in suits sat at tables and chairs talking about subsidiary and foreign rights and going over the contents of their seasonal catalogs with book-

store owners and librarians. Aside from the galley frenzy, though, a lot of those tables sat empty, even within the special partitioned-off Penguin Random House deal-making area.

In the ballroom, across the main concourse from the exhibition hall, book people gathered for panel discussions about various aspects of the business, authors stood up to promote their books in five minutes or less, and editors listed the upcoming titles they were most excited about.

The exhibition floor officially opened at 1 PM on Wednesday. The hottest galley of the afternoon was Here I Am, Jonathan Safran Foer’s new novel, his first in 11 years. It’s about a pair of crises, one within a family, the other in the Middle East. Foer sat at a table in the Macmillan booth, signing copy after copy; I saw one woman stroke hers lovingly as she walked away.

Had I acted quickly enough, I could have nabbed an autographed copy of Nicholas Sparks’s new book, See Me, for a colleague’s mom. Alas, I did not. I also missed out on How to Bake Pie by Eugenia Chang, as well as Shannon and Dean Hale’s middle-grade novel based on the comic Squirrel Girl, which also came with a squirrel headband that I later saw adults actually wearing. I did grab copies of new books by Jennifer Close, Margot Livesey, and Emma Donoghue, plus The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life. (“This would be perfect for the Reader,” the publicist said, eyeing my badge.) And I gave a pat to George, the surfing Newfoundland who inspired his human, Colin Campbell, to rediscover the joy in life and write a book about it.

Unfortunately, I only had time for one afternoon at BEA. So I missed out on meeting Jay McInerney, Marcia Clark, Chris Cleave, Jodi Picoult, Colson Whitehead, Dav Pilkey, Mary Kubica, Amor Towles, Kristi Yamaguchi, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Connelly, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jeffrey Brown, Richard Russo, Veronica Roth, Christine Sneed, Candice Millard, Sylvia Day, and Richard Peck, all of whom have books coming out. I have no idea what any of these books are about. I don’t think too many BEA attendees were too bothered about it.

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wo Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook is not, as I’d initially hoped, Roger Ebert’s report of last year’s Cannes film festival, transmitted from the Great Beyond via Ouija board and painstakingly transcribed by University of Chicago Press interns. The truth is much less exciting: it’s a reprint of a 1987 book ostensibly based on Ebert’s journal from that year’s festival, illustrated with his own amateur drawings.

It begins at Heathrow with Ebert en route to France, determined to turn two weeks of jet lag, screenings, and interview chasing into some sort of coherent narrative.

The festival is not all glamour, Ebert warns us at the outset: it’s essentially a trade fair, with celebrities and tuxedos and, occasionally, transcendent art. Unfortunately, 1987 would not turn out to be an especially memorable year at Cannes: there were no riots, no scandals, not even the debut of an instant classic.

(The Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona screened out of competition, but Ebert didn’t see it.)

Ebert had decided to follow the sweatsuit-clad Israeli producer Menahem Golan, an outsider who was making a bid for Palme d’Or glory, but his two entries, Barfly (directed by Barbet Schroeder) and Shy People (directed by Andrei Konchalovsky), only won one award between them, a Best Actress statue for Barbara Hershey for Shy People.

This lack of drama may have been frustrating for Ebert back in 1987, when he had a story to cover. But now, nearly 30 years later, it turns out to be an advantage. Ebert was already a seasoned festival veteran (in his

journal, he estimates he’d spent six months in Cannes, two weeks at a time), so he was able to pad out the narrative with reminiscences of some of the highlights of years gone by: the 1979 showing of Apocalypse Now, with two distinctly different endings; colorful festival regulars such as the press agent Billy “Silver Dollar” Baxter and the starlet Edy Williams; and ridiculous publicity stunts and memorable remarks that enlivened otherwise painfully dull press conferences. There are also some lovely, apparently offhand observations about the art and culture of moviemaking. (Two of my favorites: “Plot is theater, and the movies are not theater. Movies are time, and movies with people in them are behavior and personality in time”; and “I had seen [Hershey] on the screen in Shy People, and now I was looking at the person who had played that character, and the character was nowhere to be found.”)

As a result, Two Weeks in the Midday Sun feels timeless. The names of the films and the people who made them are different, but aside from the vendors hawking cheap movies on videotape and Ebert’s difficulties getting his copy back to his editors in Chicago, it’s hard to imagine that the festival going on now is significantly different from the one Ebert saw.

No one else will ever see it or write about it the way Ebert did, though. He’s been gone three years, but reading this makes me miss him all over again. v R TWO WEEKS IN THE MIDDAY SUN: A CANNES NOTEBOOK By Roger Ebert (University of Chicago Press)

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he troubling thing about much of David Hockney’s work is its seeming lack of trouble. Especially in his drawings, his undeniable facility can lead him into images that are trite.

Yet there’s no denying the man’s skill and, in his best work, his ability to evoke the grace, character, and beauty of his subjects. Hockney himself is the subject of an adoring new documentary by Randall Wright, and, watching it, I wondered if the director were trying to replicate the ease captured in so many Hockney canvases. Hockney certainly deserves praise, but a puff piece such as this does even the greatest artist little good.

The opulence and leisure Hockney would depict in much of his mature work had an unlikely origin. He was born in 1937 in Bradford, England, a declining textile town gripped by strict wartime rationing during his early years. Hockney recalls chocolate being available for only a few hours on Saturdays. This gray industrial burg was a far cry from the lush California environs that dominate his paintings; perhaps this contrast or contradiction is the key to his work. ssss EXCELLENT

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Being an openly gay man in the 1960s and ’70s, when Hockney came into his own, couldn’t have been easy, but aside from the occasional shot of him looking sad after a breakup, Wright glosses over this and the many other difficulties that even a man as successful as Hockney must have encountered. Hockney was hugely influenced by such older gay men as the writer Christopher Isherwood and the curator and collector Henry Geldzahler, who became a lifelong friend and confidante. The unabashed, matter-of-fact homoeroticism in many of Hockney’s paintings challenged social mores, but Wright notes only that the artist’s

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No one can accuse Hockney of being lazy: over a 50-plus-year career he’s embraced every medium imaginable, from drawing and painting to set design to photography to iPad art.

His restless quest for fresh visual expression is inspiring even when the results are less than memorable. This flitting about from one type of mark making to another sometimes comes off as a kind of attention deficit disorder; like a hummingbird, Hockney can’t land in one place for too long for fear of getting boxed in.

Picasso—who also restlessly reinvented himself—is Hockney’s great idol, and like Picasso, Hockney has arrived at a level of success where anything he touches can be monetized.

Unlike Picasso, and to his great credit, he’s not content just to cannibalize his past work.

His current output may not always transcend a kind of pretty, designed tastefulness, but neither is it crass or cheaply conceptual like so much stuff made by his contemporaries from the 60s onward.

The clownish peroxide-blond dandy portrayed in Hockney is smart, charming, and hard not to love, at least a little. Unfortunately, Wright is so enthralled with his subject that the documentary becomes an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous rather than a true portrait of an artist. The endless glamour shots of Hockney’s extravagant residences might work for a real estate spread but give little insight into one of the most celebrated visual artists of our time.

There are many ways to document a creative person’s life. I don’t mean to suggest that a documentary has to pillory its subject to be legitimate, but it demands some angle other than blind adulation. Toward the end of Hockney there’s a scene in a huge gallery where people applaud ecstatically as a fax machine spits out sheet after sheet of a large Hockney drawing to be assembled on the gallery wall.

This is what happens when average people interact with the ultrarich or ultrafamous; they can’t help but be dazzled. But it’s hard for a viewer to understand Hockney as a creative force when the film presents so little evidence of difficulty. There must be more gravity to the man’s life and work than this breezy love letter will admit. v

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emember how it was?” a voice-over narrator asks periodically in Leo Hurwitz’s bold essay film Strange Victory (1948).

For the first 20 minutes, Hurwitz revisits the World War II years, when Americans of all stripes pulled together to defeat the racial tyranny of the Axis powers. War Department footage shows the fury of the air war against Germany and the suffering of its people as U.S. soldiers chase through Berlin in hope of capturing the Führer. Victory brings the first Nuremberg trials, with Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, and company sitting in the dock, and dancing in the streets back in the U.S. But the party is cut short when Hurwitz shows propaganda stickers and chalked graffiti turning up on the streets of New York: Help Save America! Don’t Buy From JEWS! and P.L. IS A POPE LOVER and NIGGERS RUINT THIS TOWN. “The theme of the film was very simple,” producer Barney Rosset once explained. “It was about how we won the war, and crushed Hitler, but he escaped. Escaped and came here.”

A Chicago native, Rosset would find his true calling a few years later as owner of Grove Press, fighting landmark obscenity battles over such novels as Tropic of Cancer, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and Naked Lunch. Four years after his death at age 89, Milestone Films has restored and rereleased Strange Victory and is also distributing Ross Lipman’s documentary Notfilm, about the 20-minute short that Rosset produced in 1964 with silent comedian Buster Keaton performing a script

by Samuel Beckett. Strange Victory demonstrates that Rosset, who had family money, was a maverick from the start—even now the movie is shocking for its graphic footage of the war dead in Europe, and in the first paranoid clutches of the Cold War, it openly equated the rise of Hitler in Europe with domestic racism and xenophobia.

What makes Strange Victory such an arresting experience is that there’s no need to “remember how it was”—in fact, the film often seems like a snapshot of some modern-day voters who have propelled Donald Trump toward the White House. “A fear runs through the country, a worrying,” reads the narration, written by Saul Levitt. “We live like a man holding his breath against what might happen tomorrow.” Providing a thin narrative frame for Strange Victory is the story of an African-American veteran who flew planes during the war but can’t get a decent job back in the U.S. (played by Virgil Richardson, himself a former Tuskegee airman). Hurwitz cites statistics to prove how few African-Americans at the time held jobs as engineers, architects, doctors, and lawyers; the percentages are startling not only because they’re so low but because they haven’t changed much in 70 years. v R STRANGE VICTORY ssss Directed by Leo Hurwitz. 64 min. Fri 5/20, 6:15 PM; Sun 5/22, 3 PM; and Mon 5/23, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State; 312-846-2800, siskelfilmcenter.org, $11.

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Nick Lowe, “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” I was reminded of this song from Nick Lowe’s 1978 LP Jesus of Cool when it played in a goofy video review of Death Wish 3. I like its chattering funk guitar, playful tumbles of piano, and sly dropped beats, but I like what my colleague Monica Kendrick has called Lowe’s “wry, dry-eyed lucidity” even more. “I love the sound of breaking glass,” he sings, his sharp teeth hidden behind a tight smile.

“Especially when I’m lonely / I need the noises of destruction / When there’s nothing new.”

Meinl cymbals Having the proper tools for the job is a necessity in any musical endeavor. You’re only limiting yourself and fighting an uphill battle when you use garbage gear. Cymbals are definitely one of the most important factors for a drummer. I’ve had several different cymbal setups through the years and have used many different brands. Once I used Meinl, I never looked back. I was instantly satisfied. The cut and response was exactly what I was looking for.

The Brvtalist Anyone in need of guidance into the dark heart of Los Angeles nightlife and culture should seek out the Brvtalist and the events that the website’s operators produce. They cover the arts, electronic music, fashion, film, and more, and they have a refined taste in the metropolitan experience I appreciate. They also cover events in other cities, including New York, Berlin, San Francisco, London . . . perhaps soon Chicago? At least Chicagoans can hear the electronic mixes they upload to Soundcloud.

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Birushanah, Makyo On this 2015 album, Japanese trio Birushanah play fuzzy, sprawling posthardcore inflected with doom, hard rock, folk, and prog, driven by clotted rhythms at a constant rolling boil and topped by the histrionic, hyperventilating holler of front man Iso. But what makes the band distinctive is second percussionist Sano, whose rig includes tuned metal—it clinks and clangs like a junkyard gamelan, its cyclical patterns running parallel to Iso’s riffs in a radically different sonic space.

Various artists, Funeral Dance in the Mountains Speaking of tuned metal percussion, it’s everywhere on this Canary Records collection of southeast Asian rural ethnographic recordings, compiled from LPs released in the 60s and 70s. Low fidelity makes the gongs and bells sound murky and watery, their resonance bleeding at the edges. The competing layers of ritualistic rhythms—sometimes stately and meandering, sometimes frenzied and warlike—divide your mind against itself, suspending it in a trance of blissful forgetfulness.

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Godflesh, Messiah I have been jamming the shit out of the Messiah EP by Godflesh. My favorite track is “Sungod.” It doesn’t matter what mood I’m in, this record works for me. It’s excellent driving music as well. The songs have great structure, and the record flows from start to finish. The bass propels each song, and the tone is incredible. It’s a unique and creative record, and you should check it out. Not overbearing and too aggressive, but also not your Top Gun soundtrack.

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SINCE 1976, CHICAGO nonprofit Connections for Abused Women and Their Children (CAWC) has provided a wide range of assistance for victims of domestic abuse, including a 24-hour hotline, professional counseling, and emergency shelter. According to CAWC, hundreds of women and children are turned away from the organization’s Greenhouse Shelter each month due to a shortage of facilities. On Sun 5/22, the Chicago chapter of Women in Music hosts a benefit for CAWC at the Empty Bottle that includes a raffle and performances from incorrigibly tuneful garage rockers Varsity, winsome power-pop band Bloom, shoegazy grunge outfit Colossal Woman, and singer-songwriter Quinn Tsan.

We’ve all known since late last year that Uptown institution Shake Rattle & Read was about to close, and more recently the shop has announced that the sad milestone will arrive this month—to be more precise, its final day of business is Sat 5/21.

Gossip Wolf got the news straight from owner Ric Addy last week, while paying a visit and buying some vintage copies of Punk Planet and Flip Side for cheap. At press time, new vinyl was 50 percent off and everything else was a dollar—and it’s always free to drop in and say good-bye.

Gossip Wolf is fairly literary for a beast.

And as a bonus, newsprint and old books are great for keeping a Dumpster crash pad warm! Anyway, at the Hideout on Sat 5/21, two of Gossip Wolf’s music-journalist pals—MTV News honcho Jessica Hopper and Memphis Commercial Appeal critic Bob Mehr, both of whom used to write for the Reader. They’ll discuss Mehr’s ripping new Replacements bio, Trouble Boys.

Sounds like a hootenanny! In his Reader review, Alfred Soto says Mehr “imposes order” on the Replacements’ “unrelenting barrage of grotesque behavior . . . leavened by several of the most beautiful, inchoate records of the 80s.” The free event will include an interview and Q&A session. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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Love illuminates Chance the Rapper’s new Coloring Book The Chatham superstar rhymes about family, religion, and his hometown throughout his highly anticipated third mixtape.

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hance the Rapper’s third mixtape, Coloring Book, grew into an outsize presence long before the public knew what it was called. In the three years since the Chatham MC dropped Acid Rap, he’s become a special kind of superstar, using his growing fame to benefit his friends and neighbors. He tabled the follow-up to Acid Rap to work on last year’s Surf, an album credited to Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment (the latter is the touring band Chance formed in 2013). He happily ceded top billing to Donnie Trumpet, aka Social Experiment trumpeter Nico Segal, even as he was fielding calls to do guest vocals for the likes of Justin Bieber and Skrillex.

Chance has also taken advantage of his high profile to spread joy to people he doesn’t know. Last year he founded Open Mike, a high school open-mike series named after his mentor “Brother” Mike Hawkins, who died in late 2014. Besides giving young people the opportunity to perform in front of a crowd of their peers, Open Mike lets them see their musical heroes up close—Chance’s famous friends sometimes drop in to play a song or

two, and in May 2015 those pals were Vic Mensa and Kanye West. And in December 2015 he launched the Warmest Winter campaign, which raised more than $100,000 to provide coats that can double as sleeping bags for the local homeless population.

Chance’s devotion to Chicago is beyond question, but he still reminds us of it from time to time—on the recent Skrillex remix of Hundred Waters’ “Show Me Love,” he raps that Chicago is “the only thing I can covet, in public.” Last month’s irrepressibly jubilant video for “Angels,” the first Coloring Book single, features Chance dressed up as a superhero created by local artist Hebru Brantley and riding atop a CTA train filled with kids busting out a mix of local dance styles, including bop and footwork.

Before the release of Coloring Book, Chance kept details about it close to his chest—until Apple Music began exclusively streaming the mixtape last night, most people assumed it was called Chance 3. But the three singles he dropped leading up to Coloring Book (“Angels,” nonmixtape cut “Paradise,” and “Blessings”) provided clues about its prevail-

ing themes—family, religion, Chicago, and of course love, which binds all those subjects.

Love fuels Coloring Book. Love helps Chance engage with life’s bruises and the worst of humanity, and allows hope to shine through his most arduous, woeful stories.

You can hear this working most potently on “Summer Friends.” Atop the song’s limber, pitter-pattering production, Chance strings together autobiographical snippets of his childhood in Chatham—he breezes through memories of catching lightning bugs as other kids catch bullets. Chance rarely lingers on details in “Summer Friends,” though at the end he repeats “79,” aka 79th Street. The stretch of 79th that cuts through Chatham has seen more than its share of violence, and in recent years news coverage has helped make those blocks synonymous with gang activity. Chance’s half-whispered chanting of “79” serves as a reminder that even as we associate an area with death, an entire community of people are working to build their lives there.

Chance’s affection bolsters the best tracks on Coloring Book, including the hometown anthem “Angels” and “Juke Jam,” a sashaying R&B ballad about a romance born in the roller rinks where young black Chicagoans could gather and footwork. A variety of guests fill out Chance’s immaculate, supple songs: he’s recruited rappers on the cutting edge (Young Thug, Future), pop superstars (Kanye West, Justin Bieber), hip-hop heroes (Lil Wayne, Jay Electronica), and musical talents who are Chicagoan through and through (Saba, Noname, Jeremih, Eryn Allen Kane). Coloring Book also includes Chance’s most overtly religious work—he drops praise like it’s going out of style. On “Grown Ass Kid,” a fantastic nonmixtape track that leaked just hours before Coloring Book dropped, he waves the flag for his religious beliefs: “Everybody can finally say it out loud / My favorite rapper a Christian rapper.”

The devotion Chance expresses on Coloring Book isn’t always denominational, but it’s always intimate and powerfully relatable. In an interview with the Fader last week, artist Brandon Breaux, who’s done the cover images for all of Chance’s mixtapes, explained why Coloring Book features Chance looking down and smiling: “He was holding his baby daughter in the shoot because he wanted to capture the expression he had on his face when he looked at her.” Chance instills the mixtape with the same tenderness, compassion, and love. v

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THURSDAY19 Ben Frost Sanford Parker and Michael Vallera open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $15.

Maybe it’s just because I’ve been reading Greg Bear, but Ben Frost’s latest record, 2014’s Aurora (Mute), gives me science-fiction feelings. This Iceland-based Australian artist’s music roars, pulses, scintillates, and thunders like the torrential neural traffic of a just-awakened artificial intelligence whose proliferation of networks and subroutines makes the vastness of the human mind seem as humble as a raindrop. Even the passages of tense quiet—sizzling drones, distant chimes—serve largely to underscore the hugeness of its eruptions. When I saw Frost at Constellation on Halloween 2014, his searing, screaming jet-engine crescendos unfolded fractally into so many layers that the effort of following them all precluded any other conscious mental activity, and they reached such an obliterating volume that they could dissolve not just your ego but your sense of the boundaries of your body. Because my brain tortures me incessantly during my waking hours, I prize this kind of erasure above almost anything else—and when the PA system cut out just short of the set’s first peak, plunging the room into sudden silence, I felt like I’d been birthed into a metal bucket full of ice water. Frost remarked drily, “I feel like my mom just walked in on me.” When it kept happening, though, he stopped joking, and the crowd stopped finding anything funny about it. The Empty Bottle has hosted high-decibel shows by the likes of Tim Hecker and Sunn O))) without incident, however, so tonight’s performance should stay on the rails. —PHILIP MONTORO

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ON HIS FORTHCOMING ALBUM Pythagorean Dream (Foom) veteran experimentalist and composer Rhys Chatham goes it alone, ditching the guitar armies that put him on the map during the punk era—though not allowing his interest in unconventional harmony to wane. Chatham famously studied under La Monte Young in the early 70s and was steeped in the lessons of the just-intonation tuning system, but as the title of this new record suggests, he employs Pythagorean tuning here. Essentially the first tuning system to be widely embraced in Western music, it’s based on perfect fifths tuned to the frequency ratio of 3:2. Chatham also salutes Terry Riley, a minimalist who pioneered using tape machines, via the

use of less cumbersome digital delay pedals. The stripped-down results share the hypnotizing quality of the rest of Chatham’s work, as scrappy fingerstyle picking bathes the listener in a droning swarm of sound loaded with overtones. For the second part of the composition Chatham switches to flute—his primary instrument when he studied music—creating bass, alto, and C passages that suggest a surface serenity with their fluttery patterns and long tones but have as much harmonic intrigue as the guitar section.

The CD version of the album contains a bonus track with Chatham playing the same piece on trumpet. For his first local performance in six years he’ll play solo. —PETER MARGASAK

Soulja Boy Bobby Raps and Warhol.SS open.

8 PM, Double Door, 1551 N. Damen, $10, $3 with RSVP. 18+

It’s been nine years since Soulja Boy first encouraged schoolchildren to belt out “Superman dat hoe,” and regardless of whether or not you could digest the molten hit “Crank That (Soulja Boy)” back then, it’s easy to appreciate Soulja (aka DeAndre Cortez Way) for guiding rap’s eccentric and idiosyncratic voices online. Someone else would have done it if he hadn’t, but we’re better off since he turned a track made with the music-production program Fruity Loops into a flat-out phenomenon. Like legions of great pop songs before it, “Crank That” is aggressively simple and occasionally idiotic, though in my opinion far fewer hits have made as immediate a shift in the culture. The single felt “new” in 2007 in the way a trailblazing song resembles nothing before it—plus it helped change the perception of how music could be created and deployed. Now 25 and living in LA, Soulja is a godfather to weirdo rap kids audience testing music on Soundcloud, regardless of whether or not they get his plug—though some do (hi, Chief Keef). And Soulja is still cranking out new tunes. Swaths of March’s Stacks on Deck (SODMG) are an acquired taste, but Soulja has at least put that music in the hands of those who’ve acquired that taste (or want to). Fittingly, he headlines the latest presentation in Fake Shore Drive’s curated Sound Select series, which has show- J

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cased rising local acts who’ve garnered a legion of fans online. With that in mind, show up early to see Chicago rapper Warhol.SS. —LEOR GALIL

FRIDAY20 Rhys Chatham See Pick of the Week on page 47. Natural Information Society open.

8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $17, $15 in advance. 18+ Kstarke Noon, Randolph Square, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. F b The history of Chicago house music is labyrinthian and imposing, its chapters overstuffed with characters whose experiences and travails could each fill a novel. But within this glut of riches there will always be some folks who don’t get as much attention as they should—and I always think Kevin Starke is one who deserves a little more love. Starke’s worn several hats over the years, among them DJ, producer, and head of a label called Kstarke Records, which shares its name with his delightful Ukrainian Village record shop hidden in plain sight on Western Avenue (I never walk away from there empty-handed or without a deeper appreciation for the talkative man who runs it). Local DJ and producer Jerome Derradji must share my affinity for Starke—in late 2014 his great Still Music imprint dropped a double LP of work attributed to Starke’s “Jackmaster Hater” alter ego. Kstarke Records (The House That Jackmaster Hater Built) compiles obscure recordings that had been about as attainable as a golden amulet buried within the pyramids. Mixed in are Starke’s own creations, like the delirious, nefarious “Passion,” which

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melds what sound like samples of screams ripped from horror films with harrowing synths dragged through the muck. Today’s set is the finale for the current season of the excellent Wired Fridays, the Chicago Cultural Center’s free noontime electronic-music series that’s showcased luminaries such as DJ Rashad, Cajmere, and Jesse Saunders. I suspect Starke will find a way to make this finale a memorable one. —LEOR GALIL

SATURDAY21 Chris Abrahams 8 PM, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, 915 E. 60th. F b Often articulated in tremolo-saturated chords or unfaltering repeated phrases, the gently struck piano notes on Chris Abrahams’s new solo album Fluid to the Influence (Room40) possess the trademark hypnotic sparkle of his work with veteran Australian improvising trio the Necks, but to get there the listener has to wade through an array of disparate sounds. On opener “1 Liter Cold Laptop” the pianist patches together electronic gurgling, fluttering organ, harsh guitar scraping, and white noise to create a five-minute excursion that bears no relationship to his primary group. But then on its successor, “Scale Upon the Land,” shimmering, tinkling piano permutations are caressed by subtle electronic sound bursts to cast a spell of hovering, ethereal beauty. As the recording proceeds Abrahams more or less switches between rough-edged, largely electronic sketches of texture and color and mesmerizing piano-based soliloquies, imbuing the formula with plenty of variety and dynamic range. On the heels of a typically powerful, transfixing Necks gig in March, Abrahams is back to make his solo debut. —PETER MARGASAK J

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Since the 2014 release of James Armstrong’s most recent album, Guitar Angels (Catfood), Glenn Frey of the Eagles has passed away. So while Armstrong’s remake of the Eagles’ “Take It to the Limit” is no posthumous tribute, let’s still give him credit for reworking the tune well beyond recognition. The original 1975 version is a slowish tribute to Philadelphia soul just moody enough that any contemporary blues artist could easily redo the song unchanged. But this LA-based singer-guitarist took it one step further and refashioned it as a kind of T-Bone Walker shuffle—and considering his interpretation still makes sense without referring back to the original, it’s safe to say he’s winning all the way. Beginning with his 1995 debut album Sleeping With a Stranger, Armstrong has carved a niche for himself similar to the path taken by Joe Louis Walker, setting his reflective lyrics against a soul-blues background. Past the obligatory clever redo of a standard, the other tracks on Guitar Angels give Armstrong space to tell his own tales, and while the album opens with the jokey jumpblues of “Grandma’s Got a New Friend,” the rest of the record is far more serious. Plenty of attention has been focused on Armstrong’s guitar playing, but he’s also long had a knack for recounting stories worthy of the neighborhood griot—if he actually were moving to Nashville as in the song of that name, he’d certainly be able to hold his own at the city’s late-night sessions, where songwriters pass the guitar around and sing their latest creations.

He might even hear a few cover versions of his own material. —JAMES PORTER

BOAT 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+ Led by versatile Belgian drummer Teun Verbruggen, this knotty transcontinental sextet bridges not only an ocean but many styles as well. The combo’s latest album, Hapax Legomena (RAT), deftly moves between free jazz, postbop, and a kind of in-thered jazz-rock fusion powered by Icelandic guitarist Hilmar Jensson and New York electric bassist Tim Dahl. While the leader focuses on corralling an eclectic cast and propelling the music forward with a muscular thrust that toggles between fat back beats and scrabbling, hyperactive, proggy accents, everyone else in the group contributes tunes to the record. The disparate styles reflect their varied backgrounds: trumpeter Nate Wooley and reedist Andrew D’Angelo both come from New York and bring fearless, inventive spontaneity and monster technique, while keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin, who hails from Belgium, has developed a striking approach to playing the Fender Rhodes that effectively renders the instrument a homemade synthesizer with a dazzling timbral range. Within each tune the group moves between passages of cool serenity, rumbling grooves, and controlled chaos with exhilarating energy and impressive concision, particularly considering its members convene only sporadically. For the Chicago debut of BOAT (Bureau of Atomic Tourism) Verbruggen performs with a different but still superb front line, with Russ Johnson and Jon Irabagon subbing for Wooley and D’Angelo. —PETER MARGASAK

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For his first visit to Chicago in a couple of years German reedist Peter Brötzmann reconvenes one of his strongest bands as well as one of his most mystifying partnerships. He’d separately forged strong bonds with Chicago vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz and the British rhythm section of drummer Steve Noble and bassist John Edwards before bringing them all together a few years ago—but as the 2014 album Mental Shake (Otoroku) makes clear, when they join forces they elevate the power of their music exponentially. Noble plays less frenetically, though no less propulsively, than some of the veteran reedist’s favored drummers of late (Paal Nilssen-Love, Hamid Drake), favoring a more direct sense of movement. He masterfully works his cymbals to create a forceful clang that fits well with Adasiewicz’s extroverted maneuvers—rich bowing, bar-damped clatter—while Edwards provides a center, plucking high-velocity lines that prod and propel as much as anything Noble does.

But reflecting the full range of the leader’s capabilities, the group also delivers moments of tenderness and gorgeous introspection. This concert is the quartet’s first performance in Chicago. The evening will begin with another local debut: Brötzmann’s duo with former Charalambides member Heather Leigh, whose primitive pedal steel guitar playing on their album Ears Are Filled With Wonder (Not Two/Trost) has the interactional power of amp buzz. Her wobbly, droning arpeggios and

MUSIC pained, quasi-psychedelic single-note runs make little use of the instrument’s liquid capabilities, instead providing the reedist with the ultimate challenge—finding something to work against amid the lifeless, unimaginative din. —PETER MARGASAK

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Following the tragic passing of Telefon Tel Aviv member Charles Cooper in 2009—not two weeks after a profile by former Reader music writer Miles Raymer ran basically in conjunction with the release of the local electronic duo’s new record, Immolate Yourself—partner Joshua Eustis had no course but to put the longtime venture on indefinite hiatus and suspend future tours and albums.

He did, however, keep on releasing music under his solo-project moniker Sons of Magdalene (a debut full-length is actually due this June), producing and working on Puscifer records, and even performing as a touring member of Nine Inch Nails.

But now, with a pair of Telefon Tel Aviv reissues on the Ghostly International docket—their first two albums, 2001’s Fahrenheit Fair Enough and 2004’s Map of What Is Effortless—the LA-based Eustis has reconvened his former project, reviving its IDM ambient swells, sprinting and panning

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rhythms, and glitch-loaded roadblocks. But as Raymer points out in his column, the duo were headed in a new direction with Immolate Yourself, a record that favors songwriting and enveloping live performance over sequencers and getting asses out on the floor. And via the official Telefon Tel Aviv page, Eustis makes clear that, whether or not he tours on it, once the aforementioned Sons of Magdalene album drops he’ll be focusing on his former project full-time. Tonight he performs solo. —KEVIN WARWICK

SUNDAY22 Magrudergrind Yautja, Sick/Tired, and Stay Asleep open. 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 2105 S. State, $12, $10 in advance. 17+

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stripped-down, energy-efficient violence. Gone are the humorous bits and samples—this is all rhythm and riff power (thick and crunchy despite the lack of a bass player). Each of the 15 short, brutal tracks of no-frills, meat-and-potatoes hate hit hard and get out of the way fast. The tunes barely have time to get their vicious claws in you before they’re gone again, which might be why standout “Black Banner” is noncoincidentally the longest, at about three and a half minutes. But the album as a whole is a great exercise in being pummelled by true grind professionals. —MONICA KENDRICK

MONDAY23 Yeasayer Young Magic open. 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, sold out. 18+ For as long as I’ve been listening to Yeasayer my mind has given me reasons why I shouldn’t bother with them—for one, they often remind me of late Genesis or sentimentally fecund 80s synth-pop like Depeche Mode and Tears for Fears. Despite knowing better, however, I’m sucked in by each of the Brooklyn combo’s records, including the new Amen & Goodbye (Mute), their first in four years.

The dancing little synth figure at the start of “Silly Me” sends shivers down my spine as I’m visited by the ghost of Kajagoogoo, though by the time the submerged horns and what sounds like slide guitar kick in, I’m all-in too. “Half Asleep” borrows from British folk with results that more suggest a Renaissance faire than Fairport Convention, but Yeasayer’s melodies are hard to resist, even with their weird mix of proggy confection and new-wave mascara. —PETER MARGASAK

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TUESDAY24 Claire Cronin TALsounds open. 9 PM, Elastic, 3429 W. Diversey, $10 suggested donation. b There’s a devastating starkness to the music of Claire Cronin that connects her to the old-school British folk tradition, especially given the bleak poetry that she sets her gorgeously forlorn melodies to. But there’s also a mix of plaintiveness and sunshine that undoubtedly reveals her loyalties to her American heritage and influences. Her brand-new album, Came Down a Storm (Ba Da Bing), is the most arresting record I’ve heard all year, the haunting imagery of a line like “One season keeps repeating / Scars asking why they’re bleeding” ameliorated by both the dry grain of her voice and the surprising arrangements that make the most of minimal materials. Cronin wrote the six songs during a long-distance collaboration with Deerhoof guitarist John Dieterich, eventually recording with him in Albuquerque. The strings of Heather Trost (A Hawk and a Hacksaw) and her touring partner Ezra Buchla together with Chris Vatalaro’s judicious drumming add depth and counterpoint at powerfully unexpected moments. On opening track “The Unnatural” there’s a sudden passage shaped by lines of weeping strings that inject a blast of unlikely gut-punching beauty, while on “Dark Water” crushing walls of noise surround the lone strumming of a guitar. Ultimately the imaginative guitar playing of Cronin and Dietrich—marked by sudden rhythmic shifts—does the lion’s share of the work, serving up a jagged angularity one doesn’t expect in such a mellifluous singer-songwriter setting.

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Now here’s the latest one. Inhabiting the space adjacent to Next formerly occupied by the late Homaro Cantu’s Ing, Roister is the group’s first attempt at an accessible, casual break from the highly stage-managed finedining experiences they’re most known for. That means a just-short-of-too-loud soundtrack, ranging from the Jam to Springsteen to Sonic Youth to GNR, in a dining room surrounding the chefs and a woodburning hearth—the most naked of open kitchens— and an undifferentiated menu of modern

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American comfort food with descriptions that might actually give you some inkling of what you’re in for. Chances are you’ll still be surprised.

But my thumping heart sunk the first time I walked into Roister and saw a line stretch ahead of me from the door to the host stand, filled with ticket holders glumly staring at the packed dining room like it was prime time at the Cheesecake Factory (it was 8:30). Through Kokonas’s Tock system, you pay $10 a head for tickets to Roister (the cost is credited toward your bill), but that doesn’t mean you won’t stand watching everyone eat for 30 minutes. To keep the torches and pitchforks at bay and ease the wait, servers offer cocktails, beer, and cider.

Roister’s chef is Andrew Brochu, an Alinea alum who came back into the fold at the Aviary but who’s performed astonishing things in the interim in kitchens as varied as Pops for Champagne, Graham Elliot, Kith & Kin, the Monarch, and El Ideas. According to Kokonas, Brochu is the one who suggested the name Roister, meaning “to enjoy oneself or celebrate in a noisy or boisterous way.” It’s a concept that’s often at-

tempted but seldom nailed: open kitchen, party vibe, chefs cooking as much for themselves as they are for guests. Brochu’s had experience with that sort of crowd at El Ideas, but there it’s an epic prix fixe meal that’s expensive and choreographed. At Roister, they hand control back to the diner—unless you opt for the $85 chef’s tasting at the kitchen counter. (I didn’t.)

Menu sections aren’t even given headings, discouraging the idea that any specific strategy needs to be followed. From servers there’s no “chef says,” no “my name is,” no acting the BFF, no menu expositions, anecdotes, or upselling.

Just a simple and, in the end, justified 20 percent charge added to your bill in exchange for near perfect service. A utility pouch with knife, spoon, three forks, and chopsticks lands on the table, and what follows should dispel any lingering resentment for any wait.

The very first dish I ate at Roister was something I generally hate every time I talk myself into it. When I see it on a menu I hear a GM at a staff meeting saying, “Push the goddamn crudo. It’s got the best margins!” and I’m frequently confronted with tiny slivers of fish

with fussily arranged microgreens garnished with precious dribs and drabs of scented oils.

But at Roister the crudo is a masterpiece.

Huge chunks of sweet scallop in a shallow bath of sharply sweet and tart, effervescent passion-fruit medium, with slabs of strongly pickled and charred daikon radish sprinkled with mustard seed and dried scallop, reduced to the molluscan version of crunchy bacon bits.

Fascinating and crystal clear in intent, it’s the first of many overstimulating dishes I would eat over my visits. (It was also my first hint that Brochu knew there was a critic in the house, since it came out unbidden, along with a few others throughout that particular evening.)

This crudo, like most dishes on the menu, is of substantial, shareable size, which facilitates the conviviality Roister’s MO implies.

Same goes for the pasta and clams, which is composed of large macaroni soaking in a buttery sauce brightened with all sorts of complementary green things (chiles, lime, mint, tobiko) and fortified with firm, briny jumbo bivalves. Like many pairings you might stumble across here, this dish seems to have an obvious affinity for another. Its rich, fatty brightness is a natural for thick grilled asparagus with puffed rice and fennel, draped in a macadamia nut dressing—like spring still bundled in its winter sweater. Order the “aged cabbage,” fermented napa leaves layered with slices of roasted pineapple and sectioned Fresno chiles—and be sure to get it with the hunk of braised pork butt with a Dark and Stormy glaze (rum and ginger ale), red peas, and peanuts. Both dishes hint at Asian flavors, the cabbage with its fizzy ferment recalling Korean kimchi absent the funk, while the pork is at once southern and Japanese. Together they make perfect sense.

Then take what seems to be Roister’s signature dish: a whole chicken, thighs boned and fried, breasts poached and roasted, the rest folded into chicken salad, served with chamomile flowers and a creamy, eye-rollingly delicious sunchoke sauce that mimics a J

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classic country gravy. Eat this family style with an order of the fat, soy-dusted Yukon fries, served with a creamy tofu-based mayo and topped with shimmering bonito flakes, and you realize that the fried chicken wars that have raged through the city in recent years have been decisively won.

Other dishes are more singularly exceptional. “Beef broth” is a misnomer for a ramenlike bowl: fat, hollow bucatini-like noodles along with thin slices of beef tongue and cheek and a gooey soft-cooked egg luxuriate in a shallow pool of thick, meaty concentrate halfway between a sauce and a soup. Asian flavors show up again in a surprising way in a Carolina Gold risotto, loose and creamy enough to please the most discriminating Milanese, stirred with dried mushroom and whole roasted carrots and topped with a bouquet of Vietnamese herbs straight from the garnish tray at your favorite pho joint.

Among high-ticket shareable items, seven ounces of A5-grade Japanese Wagyu beef slathered in sea urchin butter is among the most sensorily overwhelming things I’ve ever ingested, each bite tender beyond belief, a symphony of fat and salt nullifying all external stimuli. Served on a sizzling-hot stone slab, it gets better as time elapses and the butter browns, developing even more depth of flavor.

Not every dish will change your life. A sourdough pancake with mussels and the spring’s first peas might be a stunner if it came off the line a little crispier. Duck confit with a steamed pecan-blueberry pudding would be a delicious dessert, but might not be something you’d

want to start a meal with. Still, only one dish at Roister made no sense to me: a leg of lamb served with dill pickles atop a pile of creamed spinach seasoned with so much white pepper that it seems like a hostile act.

There’s no way to go wrong at dessert.

The foie gras candy bar, a riff on the Aviary’s celebrated “Snickers bar,” is a cool chocolatecovered torchon with a layer of marshmallow, lent texture by black walnut and pretzel bits.

The whipped honey cake is an intellectual exercise served in an earthenware bowl: mellifluous sponge floated atop a thin layer of rhubarb puree alongside three bowls of garnish—granola, whipped sheep’s milk yogurt (whipped cream with a backbone), and micro rhubarb greens providing bitter astringency to cut through the sweetness of the cake.

Finally “strawberries & milk”—a billowing, creamy structure dusted with powdered shortcake, gummies, and fruity deposits of granita—resembles something like a Korean patbingsoo. Perhaps the most Alinea-like dish on the menu, it’s a reminder that the assertively rustic food at Roister has modernist roots.

Overall Roister accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do, presenting soulful, indulgent, nostalgic food that’s superbly executed without calling attention to itself. It’s a pleasure to encounter plates that are precise without being overwrought, in a setting that’s noisy but not distracting, celebratory but still firmly on the rails. Roister sincerely wants to get you drunk, feed your face, and get you to second base on the first date. v

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CORRECTED NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT: BIL-MAR MANAGEMENT, LLC AND MARTHA MORAN If you entered into a lease or lease renewal with Bil-Mar Management, LLC or Martha Moran for any residential property in Chicago from October 14, 2012 through December 31, 2014, a class action settlement may affect your rights.

In March, 2016, a Notice of Class Action Settlement (“Class Notice”) was published in the Chicago Reader in this case and it inaccurately stated that (1) you were required to submit a claim form to participate as a class member and (2) the release you would grant as a class member would be for conduct through December 31, 2014.

This Corrected Notice is intended to let you know that (1) you are not required to submit any claim form in order to participate as a Class Member and (2) the release you would grant as a class member would be for conduct through the Effective Date of the settlement, as defined in the Stipulation and Agreement to Settle Individual and Class Action Claims (the “Settlement Agreement”). If you have already notified Class Counsel that you would like to participate in the Class Action Settlement, you do not need to do anything unless you no longer wish to participate; in such case you need to contact Class Counsel to be excluded. If you have already notified Class Counsel you wish to be excluded from the Class Action Settlement, you do not need to do anything unless you now wish to participate; in such case you need to contact Class Counsel.

WHAT THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IS ABOUT A settlement has been proposed in a class action lawsuit against Bil-Mar Management, LLC (“Bil-Mar”) and Martha Moran (“Moran”) (collectively, the “Defendants”). The lawsuit, VanGelderen v. Bil-Mar, et. al, 2014-CH16464, alleges Defendants violated the Chicago Residential Landlord Tenant Ordinance (“RLTO”) by: failing to attach the RLTO summary to leases; failing to pay interest on security deposit within 30 days after the end of a twelve (12) month rental period; and failing to provide certified copies of receipts for security deposit deductions.

You are receiving this Notice because Defendants’ records reflect that you entered into a lease or lease renewal with Defendants between October 14, 2012 and December 30, 2014, and are therefore a Class Member. The Defendants have agreed to settle this action, and you are entitled to a share of the settlement amount. The Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, Chancery Division (the “Court”) has authorized this Notice.

Before any money is paid, the Court will hold a hearing to consider the fairness of the proposed settlement and to decide whether to issue a final approval of the settlement. At the hearing, the Court will be available to hear any objections and arguments concerning the fairness of the proposed settlement, including the amount of the attorneys’ fee awarded. The hearing will take place before the Honorable David Atkins on July 20, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2102 of the Richard J Daley Center, Chicago, IL 60602. YOU DO NOT NEED TO ATTEND THIS HEARING BUT MAY DO SO IF YOU PLAN TO OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT. THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT Class Members. Class Members who do not exclude themselves shall receive a cash payment from Defendants of $85.00 mailed by check to that Class Member’s last known address, or address as updated by the Class Member in response to this Class Notice. All co-tenants on a single lease are treated as a single Member of the Class for purposes of determining entitlements to participate in the Settlement and each Class Member is entitled to only one recovery. Class members who do not exclude themselves will release all claims against Defendants relating to the RLTO through the Effective Date of the settlement, as defined in the Settlement Agreement.

Recovery to Plaintiffs: Subject to Court approval, Plaintiffs, Benjamin Vangelderen and Arica Vangelderen, shall receive an incentive award of $3,700.00.

Attorney’s Fees & Costs: Class Counsel Mark Silverman Law Office Ltd. has requested that the Court award it attorneys’ fees payable by Defendants in the amount of $28,000.00, and the costs administering the case to be determined.

Representation By Class Counsel – Or Your Own Attorney: As a member of the Class, your interests will be represented by the attorneys for Plaintiff without any additional charge to you. If you wish to participate on your own or through your attorney, an appearance must be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Chancery Division,

by June 8, 2016. If you participate through your own attorney, it will be at your expense.

What If The Settlement Is Not Approved? If the settlement is not approved, the case will proceed as if no settlement had been reached. There can be no assurance that, if the settlement is not approved, the Class will recover more than is provided in the settlement or, indeed, anything at all.

What Are My Options?

You Do Not Need To Do Anything To Receive Payment. If you wish to obtain the benefits of the Settlement, and you are a Class Member, then you do not need to do anything and a settlement check will be forwarded to you at the latest address on file with Bil-Mar or as provided to Class Counsel in response to this Class Notice. Please submit any updated address information by U.S. mail, fax, or email, to Class Counsel, Mark Silverman Law Office Ltd., 225 W. Washington Street, Suite 2200, Chicago, IL 60606 or mark@depositlaw.com.

You Must Exclude Yourself If You Do Not Wish To Be Legally Bound By the Settlement. You have the right to exclude yourself from both the Class and the settlement by submitting a written request for exclusion to Class Counsel postmarked (or by fax or email) on or before June 8, 2016. Your request for exclusion must state your name, address, and the name and number of the case. If you previously requested to be excluded, you do not need to do anything to remain excluded. If you no longer wish to be excluded, please contact Class Counsel.

You May Object To The Settlement. If you object to the settlement and do not wish to exclude yourself from the class action, you must submit your objection in writing to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, Richard J Daley Center, Chicago, IL 60602. The objection must be mailed to the Clerk of the Circuit Court postmarked on or before June 8, 2016. Your objection must include the name and case number. On the same date that you mail your objections to the Clerk of the Court, you must also mail copies of that objection to Class Counsel and to the attorney for Defendant, as follows: Class Counsel: Mark Silverman Law Office, Ltd. 225 W. Washington St., Suite 2200, Chicago, IL 60606 Email: mark@depositlaw.com Defense Counsel: Ms. Madeleine Milan Mr. Stephen Meinertzhagen Burke, Warren, MacKay & Serritella, P.C. 330 N. Wabash, Suite 2100, Chicago, Illinois 60611 email: mmilan@burkelaw.com smeinertzhagen@burkelaw.com Your written objections must include detailed reasons explaining why you contend that the settlement should not be approved. It is not sufficient to simply state that you object. If you submit a written objection, you may also appear at the fairness hearing.

Additional Information. For more information regarding this case and the proceedings thus far, you may visit the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, Richard J Daley Center, Chicago, IL 60602, Room 802, where you may inspect and/or copy the court file for this case at your own expense.

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2 BR UNDER $900 2 SPRING SPECIALS 773-4154970 2BD w/hdwd floors, bonus room & cherry kit cabs, ten. pays heat, 5816 Sangamon & 2BD w/ carpet, cherry kit cabinets & Kolher prod, ten. pays heat, 8632 Escanaba, each $600 + security 773-415-4970 82ND/BISHOP. 2 flat Building.

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Call 773-238-7203

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773-497-9687 CHATHAM - 79TH and Calumet. 2BR 1BA, 2nd floor, updated. Near public trans. $820/ month. Credit check required.

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2 BR,Lrg LR,Mod Kit/Bath, Hdwd ,Free Pkng, NrSchls,Shops,C.T.A. $650+ Sec. Brown Rlty 773-239-9400 No Pets 7701 S. South Shore Dr. 2 BDs with 1.5 Baths, Large Combo Living-Dining Rm, FREE Heat & cking gas. Prkng extra. $785-$850, Kalabich Mgmt (708)424-4216

RIVERDALE APT for rent, 2 bedroom, newly decorated heat included $800/mo. plus security.

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Penance for porn Two charities benefiting sex workers. Plus: a pop overshares, a poly problem Q : Over the years, I have

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Is there a Dan Savage– approved charity relating to the adult film industry to which I could donate?

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A : “Porn performers almost

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“The Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC) (apac-usa.com) is the largest performer-based organization in the world, and its membership is made up entirely of performers,” said Habib. Habib also recommended donating money to the Sex Workers Outreach Project (swopusa.org).

“This isn’t a porn-specific organization,” said Habib, “but it works to protect and fight for the rights of all sex workers.”

Q : I didn’t talk to my nearly 70-year-old dad for most of my 20s. Now that I’m back trying to maintain

relationships with my parents, I am struggling.

My dad is the king of the overshare. He makes creepy comments about women who are about 30 to 40 years younger than him— including women who were kids when he met them but are now grown-ups. If he were a person at work, I would be able to stand up for myself and say, “That is not appropriate.” But when he says creepy stuff, Dan, I’m a deer in the headlights.

Besides, bringing up things that anger me causes him to act overly sorry, and that routine is annoying too. Any suggestions on what to say?

— SEEKING HELP REGARDING UNPLEASANT GUY

A : “Dad! It creeps me out

when you make comments about women you wanna fuck. I realize you’re a sexual person, and I honor that, and blah de blah blah blah. But these are thoughts you share with friends, Dad, not with your adult children. There’s no need to go into your oh-so-sorry routine, Dad, we just need to change the subject.”

Q : My husband and I

have been married for 16 years and polyamorous for the last five. We are a bit mismatched sexually in many ways. Polyamory was our solution. For much of this time, my husband had a girlfriend. Before I go on, let me say that I adore my husband in all ways except sex. We are raising a child together and are a good fit otherwise. I just no longer have any desire to have sex with my husband. Whenever we would have sex in the past, I would get anxious and try to avoid it. Being a poly woman dating in my 40s has been incredibly empowering and sexy. But

my husband’s experiences have been different. He is frustrated because it is hard for him to meet women, and his frustration is made worse by the fact that I don’t want sex with him either. When he had a girlfriend, our sex life wasn’t as much of an issue. What should I do?

He’s unhappy. I’m frustrated.

Neither of us wants to divorce. Should I force myself? —LADY IN BALTIMORE ISN’T DESIRING OBLIGATORY SEX

A : It is a truth universally

acknowledged—in the poly universe anyway—that a married poly woman will have an easier time finding sex partners than a married poly man. Some men in open/ poly relationships present themselves as dishonest cheaters rather than honest nonmonogamists because women would rather fuck a married man who’s cheating on his wife than a married man who isn’t cheating on his wife. Go figure.

Anyway, LIBIDOS, the answer to your question depends on your answer to this question: How badly do you want to avoid divorce?

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NEW Alexander Jean 7/9, 6:30 PM, Schubas b Bad Boy Family Reunion with Puff Daddy, Lil’ Kim, Mase, Faith Evans, and more 8/27, 8 PM, United Center, on sale Fri 5/20, noon Billy Bragg, Joe Henry 10/18, 7:30 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Marc Broussard Acoustic Duo 7/31, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/19, noon b Junior Brown 8/23, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Richard Buckner 8/3, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Buckwheat Zydeco 8/28, 7 and 9:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Bun E. Carlos 7/9, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Cloud Nothings 7/9, 9 PM, Empty Bottle, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Zella Day 6/24, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall b Howie Day 8/17, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Justin Townes Earle 8/2, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 5/20, 11 AM b Empress Of 7/16, 11 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Mary Fahl 9/11, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/19, noon b The Faint, Gang of Four 9/30, 9 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM, 18+ Robert Fripp & the Chamber Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists 6/4, 8 PM, Harvest Bible Chapel b Guantanamo Baywatch 6/12, 9 PM, Empty Bottle, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Trevor Hall 7/14, 8 PM, Park West, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM, 18+

Stu Hamm Band 7/12, 7 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Heartsfield 6/4, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Highasakite 9/10, 10 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Olivia Holt 8/16, 7 PM, Park West, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b I Prevail, White Noise 7/20, 6:30 PM, Bottom Lounge, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM John Jorgenson Bluegrass Band 8/17, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/19, noon b Kansas 11/4, 7 PM, Copernicus Center b Kitten 7/13, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM, 17+ Krewella 10/8, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall b Luna 7/7, 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM, 17+ Mannheim Steamroller 12/17, 8 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Delbert McClinton 8/27, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Okkervil River 10/14, 9 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 5/20, noon Pentatonix, Us the Duo 10/27, 8 PM, Allstate Arena, Rosemont, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Ponys, Goblins, Earring 6/8, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Prinze George 8/9, 9 PM, Empty Bottle, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Raging Fyah 7/18, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Remix Chicago with Cults, Moving Units, Shannon & the Clams, and more 6/11-12, Milwaukee between Fullerton and California b Russian Circles, Cloakroom 9/9, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Phoebe Ryan 7/9, 10 PM, Schubas, 18+ Secret Keeper 9/23, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Sia, Miguel 10/16, 7 PM, United Center, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Troye Sivan 11/1, 7:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b

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Solas 9/9, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/19, noon b John Splithoff 7/21, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, on sale Fri 5/20, noon Barbra Streisand 8/9, 8 PM, United Center, on sale Wed 5/25, 10 AM Suffers 10/7, 10 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Switchfoot, Reliant K 9/30-10/1, 6 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 5/20, 9 AM b Temper Trap 9/28, 7:30 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Devin Townsend Project, Between the Buried & Me 9/23, 6:30 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM b Tribulation 9/3, 9 PM, Subterranean, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM, 17+ Violent Femmes 7/13, 8 PM, the Vic, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM, 18+ VNV Nation 10/23, 8 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM, 18+ Whitney 7/15, 10 PM, Empty Bottle, on sale Fri 5/20, 10 AM Yes 8/20, 8 PM, Copernicus Center b YG 6/8, 9 PM, Metro, 18+

UPDATED Joey Purp 6/10, 7 PM, Metro, rescheduled from 5/27 b Billy Joe Shaver 6/20, 8 PM, City Winery, rescheduled from 5/26 b

UPCOMING Acceptance 7/23, 9:30 PM, Metro, 18+ Adult Mom 5/27, 8:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ And the Kids 6/23, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Angelcorpse 7/14, 5 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Anti-Nowhere League 6/16, 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Barenaked Ladies, OMD 6/9, 6:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park

CHICAGO SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IN THE WEEKS TO COME

b Martin Barre 9/30, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club Black Milk & Nat Turner 7/9, 9 PM, Subterranean, 17+ B.O.B., Scotty ATL 6/3, 8:30 PM, Double Door, 18+ Bodeans, Martin Sexton 6/17, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park The Body 6/4, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band, Huey Lewis & the News 6/25, 7 PM, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park Built to Spill 6/17, 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Bully 7/8, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Eric Burdon & the Animals 9/26 and 9/28, 8 PM, City Winery b Sam Bush 6/9, 8 PM, City Winery b Busta Rhymes, Warren G 7/23, 7:30 PM, Portage Theater, 18+ Cage the Elephant 6/7, 7 PM, UIC Pavilion Cam’ron, Underachievers, G Herbo 6/29, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall b Terri Clark 7/8, 7:30 PM, City Winery b Brandy Clark 7/30, 8 PM, City Winery b Benjamin Clementine 6/13, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall Chris Cohen 6/9, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Coldplay 7/23, 8 PM, Soldier Field Domo Genesis 6/24, 6 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club Doomtree 6/3, 10:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Dope 10/4, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Neil Finn, Guster 7/7, 6:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Five for Fighting 6/14-15, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b 5 Seconds of Summer 7/30, 7:30 PM, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park b Flag, Off With Their Heads 6/8, 7 PM, Double Door, 17+ Flat Earth Society 6/29, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Flat Five 6/17-18, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Hillbenders 6/3, 7 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Hillsong United 7/30, 7 PM, United Center Hush Sound 8/10, 7:30 PM, Thalia Hall b Robby Krieger 6/3, 7:30 PM, City Winery b Kublai Khan 9/1, 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Patti LaBelle, Commodores 6/23, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Lacuna Coil 5/31, 7:30 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Laid Back Festival with Gregg Allman 7/16, 4 PM, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion b MSTRKRFT 6/4, 8 PM, Double Door Mudcrutch 5/28, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ Murder Junkies 5/29, 8 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint

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Murs 7/15, 9 PM, Subterranean Mutual Benefit 5/31, 8 PM, Schubas Marissa Nadler 7/12, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Nails, Full of Hell 6/17, 9 PM, Empty Bottle 6/17, 2 PM, Beat Kitchen b Dan Navarro 8/14, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Needtobreathe, Mat Kearney 10/30, 6 PM, Aragon Ballroom b Aaron Neville Duo 7/14-15, 8 PM, City Winery b New Madrid 8/5, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Nneka, Gina Chavez 6/16, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park Fb Notations 6/10, 8 PM, The Promontory b Nothing 6/10, 9 PM, Subterranean, 17+ O.A.R. 9/4, 7 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Old Crow Medicine Show 7/18, 7:30 PM, Thalia Hall b Ott & the All-Seeing I 6/2, 9 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Ought 7/25, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Over the Rhine 7/15-16, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Oxford & Co. 6/9, 8 PM, Schubas Pack A.D. 6/13, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra, Ecos del Pacifico 6/27, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park Fb Maceo Parker 6/22, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Rakim 5/26, 8 PM, Park West, 18+ Raq, Particle 6/24, 11 PM, Metro Rascal Flatts 8/7, 7:30 PM, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, Tinley Park Rdgldgrn, Skints 6/22, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall Red Elvises 6/10, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 5/26, 7:30 PM, Wire, Berwyn b Haley Reinhart 6/14, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Res 6/4, 10 PM, the Promontory Reuben & the Dark 6/11, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen Revelers 7/8, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Reverend Horton Heat & Dale Watson 7/20, 7:30 PM, City Winery b Reverend Horton Heat, Nashville Pussy 6/25, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Cathy Richardson 5/27, 8 PM, City Winery b Riot 7/8, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Rites of Thy Degringolade, Polyptych 10/14, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Hot Rize 8/21, 7:30 PM, City Winery b

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Eric Roberson 8/25-27, 8 PM, City Winery b Rich Robinson Band 7/22, 8 PM, City Winery b Pete Rock 5/28, 10 PM, the Promontory Kenny Rogers 7/24, 7 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Rogue Wave 5/26, 8 PM, Thalia Hall b Roosevelts 5/27, 10 PM, Schubas Buffy Sainte-Marie 8/24, 8 PM, City Winery b Thumbscrew 6/4, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Tobacco 9/30, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall Toys That Kill 7/28, 9 PM, Quenchers Saloon Train, Andy Grammer 8/26-27, 7 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Meghan Trainor, Hailee Steinfeld 8/10, 7 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont b Travelin’ McCourys 7/29, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Turnover 6/26, 5:30 PM, Subterranean b Twilight Sad 6/9, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Steven Tyler 8/13, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Urinals 5/26, 9 PM, Hideout Julieta Venegas 5/27, 11:30 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Carl Verheyen 6/5, 6 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Violent Femmes 7/12, 8:30 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Wheeler Walker Jr. 6/4, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Wye Oak 8/3, 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ X 8/19, 8 PM, Metro, 18+ Yarn 6/22, 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen Yemen Blues 6/2, 7 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Yonatan Gat 6/2, 9 PM, Hideout

SOLD OUT Alabama Shakes 7/19, 7:30 PM, Civic Opera House and 7/20, 7:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom b Taylor Bennett 5/28, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club b Borns 7/21-22, 7:30 PM, Metro b The Cure, Twilight Sad 6/10-11, 7:30 PM, UIC Pavilion b Discharge, Eyehategod 5/31, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Drake, Future 7/26-27, 7 PM, United Center Lush 9/18, 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Pearl Jam 8/20 and 8/22, 7:30 PM, Wrigley Field Pierce the Veil, I the Mighty 6/10, 7:30 PM, House of Blues Pvris 6/2, 6 PM, House of Blues b Rocket From the Crypt 7/23, 10 PM, Subterranean Paul Simon 6/18, 8 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Sturgill Simpson 6/3, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ Thrice 6/23, 6:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Wombats 7/13, 7:30 PM, Metro b v

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Special thanks are due to The Gordon Parks Foundation.

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