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Denison on the cover of The Crisis, the offi cial magazine of the National the crowd refused to sing along. One man SIGHTSEEING Association for the Advancement of rose and said that he didn’t want “to sing that Colored People INTERNETARCHIVE song until this country is what it claims to be, ‘Sweet land of liberty.’” They thought The white press was aghast. Denison found the event to be “entirely disgraceful.” The the FBI. Its Chicago o ce identifi ed Denison protest would not be “conducive to legisla- he was an as “the chief individual agitator” of the 1919 tion to right the wrongs” against Blacks in Chicago race riot. the south. “No well-mannered colored person Born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1862, Deni- with any regard for himself and the com- ‘agitator’ son graduated with honors from Lincoln Uni- munity he lives in could afford to use such versity. In 1890, he was voted valedictorian language and rebel against a patriotic song,” Franklin A. Denison was no by his all-white class at Union College of Law, Denison told the Chicago Evening Post. rabble-rouser, but the Bureau a school a liated with Northwestern Univer- As a measure of his own patriotism, Deni- of Investigation said he sparked sity. A year later he was appointed assistant son served in the Eighth Regiment of the Il- the 1919 race riot. prosecuting attorney in Chicago, the first linois National Guard, the only all-Black unit in the country. After the unit was mobilized By J N person of color to hold that position. Once an apprentice to a carriage maker, Denison during the Spanish-American War, Denison, briefly presided over the 1908 Republican who was fluent in Spanish, was appointed National Convention. a judge of the Court of Claims in Santiago, he Victory Monument on King Drive Colonel Franklin A. Denison. Beloved by his Denison was no rabble-rouser. On March Cuba. In 1914, he earned the rank of colonel. near 35th Street honors Black Chica- troops, Denison was removed from command 27, 1892, Bethel African Methodist Church In theory, Denison and his men were equal goans who fought in France during before he could lead his men into battle. He held a packed protest meeting against south- to their white counterparts. However, Black the First World War. Nearby is a subsequently came under the attention of ern lynching. Reverend George W. Gaines guardsman frequently came under physical T plaque for their former commander, the Bureau of Investigation, the precursor of began to lead “My Country Tis of Thee,” but harassment when they went on training Because doing nothing changes nothing. chicago ideas oct 12—17
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routines in Springfi eld. The Eighth Regiment comments implied that “colored people were was mobilized to San Antonio in 1916. There, deliberately oppressed” and that the motto white soldiers refused to salute their superi- on American coins, “In God We Trust,” was o r o c e r s . disingenuous. Although Denison “occasion- DISCOVER After the American declaration of war ally” mentioned the need to buy war bonds, against Germany in April 1917, Denison the informants felt his speech had ruined worked tirelessly to bring in Black recruits. their prepared presentation. The report By August, all National Guard units had been touched on rumors that Denison had broken WHY CHICAGO drafted into the U.S. Army. Two days before under the strain in France. the regiment left for training at Camp Logan, If Denison was embittered by not being outside of Houston, Black soldiers marched with his men as they chased the German ARCHITECTURE downtown after officers from the Houston army all the way to Belgium, he didn’t show Police Department accosted a local African it in public. Writing in the Broad Ax, a Black American woman and a soldier who had tried Chicago newspaper, Braddan portrayed to intercede on her behalf. The ensuing riot Roberts as an incompetent schemer who had STARES BACK. led to 19 deaths. Nineteen Black soldiers were played up Denison’s poor health. In response, later executed. The Eighth survived Houston Colonel Roberts wrote to Military Intelli- with no major incidents. In their fi nal parade, gence, confi rming he had reported Denison’s EXPLORE THE AWESOME its chaplain, W. S. Braddan, remarked that rheumatism. He went on to label Braddan the Eighth had received not “a handclap a coward, pleading that the Black officers AND UNEXPECTED from the whites, who regarded us with sullen under his command were incompetent. silence, for never before had Houston seen Throughout the spring and summer of 1919, ON CAC’S 65 DOCENT-LED Negro Soldiers marching her streets under law o cials did little to address the epidemic arms.” of bombings of Black residences and assaults WALKING TOURS. On their voyage to France, Braddan against African Americans in white Chicago recalled telling his men that whites were neighborhoods. During a tense Independence expecting them to fail because they were Day that saw violent confrontations between led by Black o cers. Yet on the eve of their Blacks and whites, a house owned by Deni- deployment to combat, Denison was removed son was partially wrecked by a white mob. from frontline duty, replaced with Colonel While Black veterans organized themselves Thomas A. Roberts, who was white. Avoiding to defend the Black Belt during the race riot, the obvious motives for the army to remove there’s no record of Denison ever suggesting high-ranking Black officers, the Chicago that Blacks take the law into their own hands. Defender reported that Denison was on sick The federal allegations against Denison, leave for acute rheumatism. Arriving in Chi- who had returned to his job as assistant at- cago, one man at the rail station told Denison torney general for the state of Illinois, seem that he had four sons in France. “I have 3,500 to have been built around the perceptions sons ‘over there’ who are fighting for the of two white men who felt uncomfortable in American fl ag and are an honor to this nation a Black church. In addition to Denison, the and their race,” Denison replied. Chicago o ce of the Bureau of Investigation On October 8, 1918, the head of the Chicago singled out Ida B. Wells (“considered by the o ce of the Bureau of Investigation reported black population of Chicago [to] be a sort of to Washington about a speech Denison had super-woman”) and Black publications like given at Friendship Baptist Church. Two the Defender (“decidedly rabid in their atti- white war bond workers interpreted the tude toward the white people of Chicago”). By colonel’s remarks that his men were not and large, the federal analysis of the Chicago afraid of “cold steel” and that he would rather race riot regarded white violence against have taken his regiment “to hell than to take Blacks in the summer of 1919 as an under- them to Houston, Texas, but they are going standable reaction to Black encroachment on to Houston, Texas,” not as a measure of the spaces reserved for whites. determination of courageous Black soldiers It seems that Denison was not hurt by the to win the war, but rather as a coded message confi dential musings of the Bureau of Inves- that his men were “unofficially authorized tigation. At his retirement in 1922, he was by him to rise up against the whites” if elevated to brigadier general. After he died provoked. in 1932, 6,000 crowded the Eighth Regiment Taking out a French coin, Denison elabo- Armory to pay their respects. v rated on the inscription “Freedom, Equality and Fraternity.” The informants felt that his @backwards_river ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER5 NEWS & POLITICS
Mayor Lori Lightfoot at Rahm, and then-Mayor-Elect Lightfoot sort of her inauguration in May looked the other way. Even though she cam- OLIVIAOBINEME paigned against Lincoln Yards when she was running for mayor against Toni Preckwinkle. There are two contrasting opinions as to what might have happened had Lightfoot put up a fi ght against the Lincoln Yards handout. My old friend Alderman Scott Waguespack says she didn’t have the council votes to block it. My old adversary former alderman Patrick O’Connor, who was Mayor Rahm’s fl oor leader, says she did. In this instance, I agree with O’Connor over crement fi nancing, the thing I want to hear her Waguespack. Words I never thought I’d write. talk about. Or, more specifically, the lawsuit Putting that debate to the side, here’s what fi led against the Lincoln Yards TIF deal. happened next. The Grassroots Collaborative Now, I know what you’re thinking. You’re and Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Edu- thinking—damn, Ben, not another TIF column! cation—two coalitions of activists—filed a OK, you try writing a legitimate column suit challenging the Lincoln Yards deal on the about the city’s budget woes without mention- grounds that, among other things, it’s racially ing the multimillion-dollar-a-year property discriminatory. tax scam that has soaked taxpayers for about After all, it’s a massive handout for a rela- $841 million in 2019. tively well-to-do, rapidly gentrifying white A few weeks back, I unveiled a modest neighborhood that’s coming out of a program POLITICS proposal to make all of Chicago one giant TIF intended for low-income neighborhoods. I district in order to raise the money to pay o mean, you don’t have to be Earl Warren to see all of our obligations. that this deal sucks. Lori’s Gettysburg Address I made this proposal on the grounds that if With that lawsuit, Mayor Lightfoot had a Chicago taxpayers are determined to remain choice. She could either look the other way Look for the mayor to blame the budget defi cit on Rahm not Lincoln Yards. stubbornly clueless about how much they pay and let the case proceed. Or she could fi ght it. in TIF taxes, why should I spoil the party? Alas, she went with option B. In other By B J Anyway, TIFs are intended for poor neigh- words, she’s got city lawyers in court fi ghting borhoods that desperately need a shot in the the very TIF deal she originally said she didn’t arm because—but for the TIF—they would not want. get any development at all. And Lightfoot’s lawyers are putting up quite s I write this, we still have three She’ll say our budget woes are greater—no, But because of loopholes in the state TIF a fi ght, fi ling all kinds of legal gobbledygook days—and counting—until Mayor far greater—than she ever anticipated. law, virtually any neighborhood qualifi es as a about how the case should be dismissed be- Lightfoot’s much-anticipated bud- She’ll say it’s a budget crisis. But she’s con- TIF district. cause the plainti s don’t have standing to fi le get speech, to be delivered Thurs- fi dent we can solve it—because that’s how we That’s why Lincoln Yards, near the inter- it. day, August 29 at 6 PM. Live on TV! roll, Chicago. section of North and Elston on the booming A legal doctrine known as “How dare these AMan, there hasn’t been so much anticipation She’ll blame everything on her predecessor. north side, is eligible to receive a $1.3 billion peasants tell an all-powerful mayor what to do for a speech by a local pol since the Gettysburg Though she probably won’t name said prede- TIF handout. with their tax dollars!” Address. cessor. Unless she fi nds some reason to praise Basically, the city’s forking over $1.3 billion Cook County judge Neil Cohen should ren- All over town, reporters are trying to pre- him. Oh, that would be a clever way of remind- of your property tax dollars to a developer der a decision by September 11 on whether dict what Lightfoot will say, and how she will ing everyone of who she’s blaming without, named Sterling Bay to underwrite the cost of he’ll allow the case to proceed. So this TIF say it, and how much whatever she says will you know, actually blaming him. Lincoln Yards. fi ght ain’t over yet. wind up costing us in taxes, fees, or fi nes. By the way, the aforementioned predeces- I’m sure you’ll agree that the city has far Like I said, Mayor Lightfoot probably won’t Well, thanks to my City Hall sources I actu- sor is Rahm Emanuel, just in case you forgot. more pressing needs for $1.3 billion than mention any of this in Thursday’s budget ally have a copy of the fi rst draft, penned by Anyway, back to my predictions . . . another upscale development in a gentrifying speech—even though the Lincoln Yards TIF Lori on the back of an envelope as she jetted Mayor Lightfoot will tell you the things neighborhood. deal directly impacts the budget. home from her recent vacation in Maine. Don’t she’s already done to balance the budget—like Especially as Mayor Lightfoot is about to As always, the city’s o cial policy toward tell anyone you heard it from me . . . freezing new hiring. And she’ll congratulate tell you how we have hundreds of millions of TIFs is that they don’t raise taxes. So shut up “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers herself for nonbudget things she’s done, like dollars in obligations that will probably keep about them already, Ben. brought forth, on this continent . . . ” getting rid of aldermanic prerogative. her from spending money on things we want— It’s a policy Lightfoot inherited from her Oops, that’s the real Gettysburg Address. Even though it’s not clear that was a prob- like more librarians, nurses, and counselors in predecessors, whether she mentions them by All right—enough wisecracks. I will now make lem to begin with. Oh, if only our real problems our schools. name or not. v some predictions as to what Mayor Lightfoot were as easy to solve as the made-up ones. The City Council approved the Lincoln Yards will and will not say. And she won’t say one thing about tax in- TIF in April at its last meeting under Mayor @joravben 6 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll NEWS NEWS & POLITICS
Inside the Dr. Nora Rowley MICHELLEKANAAR
deny most of these claims, rejecting 65 per- world of asylum cent of cases last year, the highest denial rate since the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse began collecting data in 2001. forensic exams But asylum seekers like Oscar and his mother who undergo medical exams as part Asylum seekers who undergo of their case are more than twice as likely medical exams as part of their legal to be granted asylum as those who do not, case are more than twice as likely according to a study that compares the asy- to be granted asylum as those who lum grant rate among U.S. asylum seekers do not. from Physicians for Human Rights. Asylum By A M seekers often have to fi nd forensic evaluation providers on their own or are recommended by lawyers to evaluators who might offer n a frosty day in February, Dr. Nora Was there anything he didn’t miss from his and sought asylum in the U.S., hoping to fi nd services pro bono. By matching the stories of Rowley sat on the fl oor of the mus- old home? she asked. safety far from the gangs of their home coun- asylum seekers to the trail of evidence hidden tard-yellow playroom in the Mar- “The bad guy,” Oscar said. try. Last year, 97,000 people sought asylum on their bodies, forensic evaluators like Row- jorie Kovler Center in Rogers Park “Who is the bad guy?” Rowley asked. in the U.S., a nearly 20-fold increase from a ley are able to show judges that people have helping five-year-old Oscar* push “My daddy,” Oscar replied. “He hit mommy decade before, driven in large part by desta- endured harrowing persecution and violence Oa dump truck around the room. The boy had and me.” bilization in South and Central America. and should be allowed to stay in the U.S. recently come to the city with his mother from When Rowley examined Oscar she found The U.S. government is required by inter- Trained as an emergency room doctor, Guatemala, and Rowley asked him what he scars all over his body from being abused by national treaties to evaluate all claims of asy- the 57-year-old has sewn sutures, reset thought of his new home. Oscar said he didn’t his father, a gang member. lum to determine if they have a “well-founded broken bones, and seen all forms of physical like the wind and winter here. Oscar and his mother had fl ed the violence fear of persecution.” Immigration judges trauma. Rowley says that many of the J
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She has frequently exam- fend for themselves throughout the immi- what she’s going to do,” says Marie Shebeck, Yet in a political climate where asylum ined patients for criminal evidence collection gration process. “Not many asylum seekers a senior case manager at Kovler. seekers’ stories are being challenged, fo- in cases of rape and abuse. In 2009, during know how important the forensic medical Rowley carefully encourages her inter- rensic evaluations can make the difference a stint with Doctors Without Borders in exam is, and many cases are lost because of viewees to be specifi c and vivid. She asks for between being granted asylum and being Myanmar, Rowley was moved by witnessing the lack of evidence to support their claim. It details of their attack so she knows what to sent back home. In April, President Donald torture of Rohingya Muslims and underwent is sad but true,” Gonzalez says. look for during the exam. “Some people don’t Trump claimed that Central American asy- training from Physicians for Human Rights Most asylum seekers at Kovler make have any visible scars,” says Rowley. “Like if lum seekers arriving at the U.S. border were to document the injuries of asylum seekers. their way to the center by word-of-mouth or only one of their lateral eyebrows is thick. A making up stories of violence. “It’s a scam. In the last ten years, she has evaluated 185 through referrals from the National Immi- punch to the eye can defi nitely do that. But it It’s a hoax,” Trump said. “Our system is full.” people, ranging from children like Oscar to grant Justice Center, however, a handful of can be easily missed.” The president’s claim doesn’t match up to senior citizens seeking safety in the U.S, con- survivors have been sent directly from im- After the conversation, Rowley gives the Rowley’s experience with asylum seekers. ducting almost all of them as a volunteer. She migration court. “There are a few judges who asylum seeker a full medical exam and re- In her ten years of work evaluating nearly gets cases through the National Immigrant see that the case is being misrepresented cords any physical evidence she finds in an 200 cases, Rowley says she has only seen Justice Center in Chicago and volunteers ex- from a lack of evidence, and they’ve said, ‘You affidavit that is shared with the court. She two cases where some aspects of a person’s tensively at Kovler, a torture survivor center should get your papers together at Kovler. It’s takes photos of injuries as well, which she stories did not match their scars. But even in located in a restored former convent tucked free,’” says Gonzalez. puts in PowerPoint presentations for the those cases, she says, the trauma endured by away on a tree-lined side street in the heart The soft-spoken doctor begins each eval- judge, circling any evidence she has found. the asylum seeker may have been to blame for of Rogers Park. uation with a conversation. Interviews can The work can be overwhelming. “Within the discrepancies. Trauma can a ect an asy- Mario Gonzalez, Kovler’s senior director, last a few hours. Many asylum seekers feel my fi rst two years at Kovler, I had a woman lum seeker’s memory and make it di cult to who himself immigrated to the U.S. from immense shame and even grow upset while who had been serially raped every day for a recall things consistently in detail, according Guatemala, has been treating torture survi- recalling what happened to them in their year and a half in her captivity as a political to research published in The Journal of the prisoner,” Rowley says. “That day, after the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. evaluation, I went home, and it was an hour In March, fi ve-year-old Oscar and his moth- later I realized that I had been lying in a fetal er were summoned to Chicago’s downtown position on the couch.” immigration court at 525 W. Van Buren for Despite the difficulty of the work, Rowley their asylum hearing. Rowley was called to cannot imagine turning away from the asylum testify if needed. While she waited outside seekers she helps, especially when the need for the courtroom with Oscar, the judge asked her evaluations is so great. According to Phy- his mother and their attorney questions sicians for Human Rights, there are only two and looked over the evidence Rowley had other medical professionals trained by them prepared. in forensic evaluations for asylum seekers in After 90 minutes, the attorney called Row- Chicago, and the waiting period to get an eval- ley and Oscar inside the courtroom. Oscar uation from PHR can be up to 12 weeks. and his mother had been granted asylum and At Kovler, the waiting period depends on would be allowed to stay. the asylum seeker’s deadline for document “They were so nervous with the possibility submission. The center typically has 180 of being sent back,” Rowley says. “Now they Get Your Swag! patients per year waiting to be examined. can start to heal.” v “There are hundreds of thousands of asylum www.chicagoreader.com/shop seekers, so it is di cult for clinicians to keep *Name has been changed. up with the demand,” says Kathryn Hampton, a network program o cer with Physicians for If you are an asylum seeker looking for a fo- Human Rights. “Donors do not fund forensic rensic evaluation or a medical professional in- evaluations at the same levels as legal ser- terested in volunteering your services, contact vices provision.” Physicians for Human Rights or HealthRight The tremendous need for low-fee and International. pro bono representation of asylum seekers coupled with a backlog of nearly one million This story was reported as a part of 90 Days, asylum cases nationwide has left direct legal 90 Voices’ Asylum City series on immigration service organizations, like National Immi- and sanctuary in Chicago and made possible grant Justice Center, stretched thin. “Our thanks to support from the International ability to provide consultations for new asy- Women’s Media Foundation. lum-seeking clients is extremely limited, to the point that our asylum intake hotline has @Appy2209 8 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll K C | R W. 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ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER9 Search the Reader’s online database of thousands of Chicago-area restaurants—and add your FOOD & DRINK own review—at chicagoreader.com/food. continued from 9 The Desirs have a drink on the menu they its owner, Violette Adrien, on marketing and call My Childhood that embodies the person- advertising. Even then, though, he was some- al touch they put on classic dishes of their thing of a renaissance man. youth—literally in this case. It’s carrot, celery, He’d been a schoolteacher back in Haiti, and and beet juice blended with coconut milk, and during his training he took a culinary track. it’s the precise formula Melicia made Daniel Before all that he grew up cooking at Melicia’s drink every day as a tonic when he was young. side in rural Jacmel, in the southern part of “I used to hate it,” he says, but he’ll drink it the country, mastering the foundations of every once in awhile now—he knows it’s good the syncretic creole cuisine that predates and for him. shaped our own Louisiana creole food. Indig- The Desirs’ menu can depend on availabili- enous, African, and French infl uences, along ty—they were out of conch when I visited—but with bits of Spanish and Arabic, guided the they o er many of the essentials, like the fl aky foodways in Haiti. pu pastry paté, stu ed with beef, chicken, veg-
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etables, hard-boiled egg, or salted cod. These ing demo, rarities such as tchaka, a corn and are classic, and they are baked, so they don’t red bean soup, and mayi moulen, a cornmeal embody the serious fry game at play at Kizin porridge served with black bean sauce. the way that griyo, the national dish of Haiti, “We’re gonna have some stuff that peo- does. For this the Desirs marinate chunks of ple probably haven’t eaten for years,” says pork shoulder in epis, the foundational Haitian Desir—all the better to fuel the burning of the seasoning base of onions, garlic, bell peppers, fl oor. v green onions, garlic, tomatoes, celery, parsley, thyme, and sometimes Scotch bonnet peppers, @MikeSula then slowly braise them before deep-frying the chunks to a gentle crisp. Plated along with gold- en-fried plantains, akra (aka malanga, or taro root fritters), and patat fri (slices of fried white sweet potato), they make up a kind of Haitian fritto misto known as fritay. This only calls for a side of pikliz, the tart, RESTAURANT & BAR piercing Scotch bonnet-spiced slaw that gen- 960 W 18TH ST - PILSEN, CHICAGO erally brings this cuisine’s richness into sharp focus, as it does with ke bef, stewed oxtail, kabrit creole, stewed bone-in goat tenderized and smothered in its tomato-boosted braising liquid, or diri djondjon, deep, earthy rice pig- PARTY WITH mented with black mushrooms; but especially YOUR PUP with Patricia’s mac and cheese, a kind of baked ziti gratin bonded with melted cheddar and ON OUR sauced with whatever stew you’re having alongside it. Even the largely vegetable-based legim—a mash of eggplants, chayote, carrots, cabbage, watercress, and spinach—seems DOGFRIENDLY PATIO incomplete without pikliz. Most of the regular menu items won’t be available during the Taste of Haiti Festival. For that the Desirs are going o -menu, o ering, 312.666.8601 along with the konpa, card games, and a cook- ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER11 Changing spaces Written and photographed by K H
DOUGLASUNIONANDGRANTPARK have served as valued community centers for one weekend each year before returning to their treasured role as neighborly places- Chicago since the mid 1800s. Today, all three parks host thousands of attendees for to gather. This project explores these spaces and their inhabitants. v popular private music festivals each summer (Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash, Pitchfork Music Festival, and Lollapalooza) and take on a di erent personality for @vancityvisuals
August 13, 2019: Sophie Aleves, seven, plays soccer in Douglas Park one morning. June 30, 2019: Attendees rush to catch a surprise act during the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash.
12 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll (Opposite) August 13, 2019: Baseball fi elds on the south lawn of (Above) August 4, 2019: Baseball fi elds on the south lawn of Grant Park were home to Canadian geese. Grant Park were home to Lollapalooza attendees watching Kasey Musgraves.
August 13, 2019: A person wanders through a grove of trees in Union Park. July 21, 2019: Emily Wolniewicz, 21, and Avian Ciganko-Ford, 21, both of Minnesota, take a break under the trees while attending the Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park.
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July 13, 2019: James Rogers, 63, sits on a bench in Union Park to pass the time. Rogers was staying July 19, 2019: Attendees at the Pitchfork Music Festival rest on a bench in Union Park. at the nearby Pacifi c Garden Mission while working on fi nding employment and housing.
August 13, 2019: A light post on the north side of Grant Park with the Aon Center in the background. August 4, 2019: A man climbs a light post on the north side of Grant Park during Meek Mill’s performance at Lollapalooza.
August 13, 2019: The south lawn of Grant Park, just north of the museum campus, is empty on a recent Tuesday. August 4, 2019: Kasey Musgraves performs on the south lawn of Grant Park during Lollapalooza. v
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Into the Woods MICHAELBROSILOW coconspirators of sorts. The actors enter and exit from aisles around us, and Rapunzel (Cecilia Iole) warbles from her “tower” from rybook enhancement of them—the romantic among the audience. We’re implicated in what allure of the past (Merrily We Roll Along), the happens to them in a way that a proscenium confl ict between independence and marriage (Company), the ravages of vengeance (Swee- ney Todd), and of course, the magical promise of romance in nature (A Little Night Music). But as Gri n’s nearly note-perfect production I W R Through /: Wed-Fri : makes clear, it’s not the fracturing of the fairy PM, Sat and : PM, Sun and tales that matters. It’s what we do and who we PM (except / and /, PM become (and what we do pretty much defi nes only), Tue : PM; also Wed / and /, PM, Writers Theatre, us, for better or worse) once we know the Tudor Ct., Glencoe, --, happy ending is out of reach. “Opportunity writerstheatre.org, $-$. is not a lengthy visitor,” Cinderella (Ximone Rose) observes as she tries to decide whether or not she wants to be “caught” by the prince. And as her prince’s infi delity in the second act staging wouldn’t provide, and in a way that proves, getting what you think you want may underscores both the circularity of fate and not be the same as getting what you need. the communal assertions of the soaring “No By staging this show in the round, Griffin One Is Alone.” The three-piece band, led by (whose past Sondheim productions at Chi- pianist Charlotte Rivard-Hoster (musical di- cago Shakespeare still send disciples into rector Matt Deitchman provided new orches- rapturous reminiscence) brings us all in as trations for piano, percussion, and winds, J
REVIEW See the fairy tale characters you think you know on Into the Woods is lovely, a musical adventure you’ll never forget! dark, and deep Gary Griffi n’s staging for Writers Theatre brings out the intimacy, sorrow, and wit of Stephen Sondheim’s fairy-tale musical. By K R
n Look, I Made a Hat, the second volume stalk tossed into the mix. They then invented a of his lyrics and musings about his work, childless baker and his wife (a mundane work- Stephen Sondheim notes the unlikely ing-class couple, not unlike the Kramdens and genesis for Into the Woods: he and book Bunkers), whose quest to fulfill a scavenger writer James Lapine had concocted an hunt in order to overcome a witch’s curse on Iidea for a TV special mashing up characters their fecundity intersects with the fairy-tale TRUGLIA. BY SAVERIO PHOTO AND LUCY GODÍNEZ. BRIANNA BORGER MICHAEL MAHLER, from similar comedies (Ralph and Alice Kram- foursome. den from The Honeymooners, Archie and Edith Though the show famously cautions “Chil- Bunker from All in the Family) with characters dren Will Listen,” Gary Gri n’s in-the-round LIMITED ENGAGEMENT from various cop and medical dramas, using staging for Writers Theatre makes it clear
NOW PLAYING PICTURED: BETHANY THOMAS, a car accident as the narrative pretext for that it’s not the kids who need to be reminded bringing them all together. When that project of the unintended consequences of words Minutes from downtown Chicago on the Edens or Metra (perhaps unsurprisingly) fell apart, they de- and deeds of expedient self-interest. It’s the cided to apply the concept of colliding worlds grown-ups. WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG I 847-242-6000 to stories collected by the Brothers Grimm, As many have noted since the show’s 1987 2019/20 SEASON SPONSOR OFFICIAL LIGHTING SPONSOR MAJOR CORPORATE SPONSOR specifically Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Little Broadway premiere, Into the Woods isn’t a Red Riding Hood (here called “Little Red”) bucolic departure from Sondheim’s enduring with the English folktale of Jack and the Bean- obsessions about adult life, but a poignant sto- ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER15 T C P R Through / (possible extension to /): Sat-Sun PM, beginning and ending THEATER at Ipsento , N. Milwaukee, theatre-y.com, F (reservation required).
continued from 15 nicely rendered in Christopher M. LaPorte’s sound design), are perched underneath a sur- fi erce, heartrending ode to mother love (even realist treelike structure (designed by Scott if her path to motherhood involves kidnap- Davis) interspersed with smashed keyboards ping), and whose transformation from Hallow- that suggest—perhaps a bit too obviously— een crone to glam siren in Mara Blumenfeld’s that what we’re going to hear won’t be exactly clever costumes is entrancing. Michael Mahler like past adventures in this particular patch of and Brianna Borger as the Baker and the Bak- musical-theater wilderness. er’s Wife subtly show how wistfulness curdles Most importantly, Griffin keeps the farci- into resentment in long-term relationships. cal elements of the first act and the darker Alex Benoit and Ryan McBride, the princes to existential quandaries of the second in Rapunzel and Cinders, respectively, provide balance, and we see the roots of the latter all the self-satisfied comic relief one could winding through the former. Little Red (Lucy want as upper-class twits. Godínez) has an unapologetic appetite, much There is a moment at the very end that like the Wolf (Matt Edmonds) she gleefully veers too closely to the sentimentality Gri n dispatches, but when the Giant’s Wife returns otherwise avoids in this rich and rewarding in search of Jack (Ben Barker), the slayer of production, fi lled with wise, witty, and often her husband, the notion of killing monsters wrenching reminders that the stories we tell doesn’t feel quite so satisfying, or fi nal. ourselves (never mind the ones we tell the The cast is mind-blowingly good, but spe- kids) can deceive as well as nourish. v The Camino Project JOEBARABE cial attention must be paid to Bethany Thom- as’s Witch, who turns “Our Little World” into a @kerryreid
REVIEW Sprint Works℠ for Wherever you go, there you are employees of the Theatre Y’s The Camino Project gives a secular twist to a spiritual tradition. City of Chicago. By J F Enjoy workplace benefits including saving through the Sprint Works Program.
n 2017, members of Chicago’s Theatre strangers walking, breaking bread, and expe- Y made an extraordinary excursion, riencing art creates a unique bond. These are walking across Spain’s Camino de fellow sojourners and they, along with the Santiago, a 500-mile route that fellow vibrant, welcoming cast, become friends by pilgrims have taken for centuries. the end of the day. IStarting on the French border and ending Upon fi rst arriving to experience and be an in Finisterre (or “the end of the world” in active participant in The Camino Project in a Latin), it inspired the creation of The Camino park by the 606, you fi nd a member of “The Project, a mini pilgrimage through Bucktown Bureau of Transient Affairs,” who wears a and Humboldt Park, directed by Melissa red hat and looks like a travel agent. She has Lorraine, written and conceived by Evan Hill, your passport and will check you in. Visit sprint.com/save and choreographed by Dénes Döbrei and The charismatic Tour Guide (Eric K. Rob- Be sure to mention this code. Corporate ID: GLLIL_CHI_ZZZ Heni Varga. erts) welcomes everyone and shares the his- Activ. Fee: Up to $30/line. Credit approval req. SWP Offers: Sel. SWP only. Offers avail. for eligible company/ It is a six-hour journey that involves a tory of Camino de Santiago, the 33-day trek agency employees or org. members (ongoing verification). Subject to change according to the company’s/ agency’s/org’s agreement with Sprint. Offers are avail. upon request. Other Terms: Offers and coverage not fi ve-mile trek, theatrical experiences, dance, across Spain. His insights prepare the group available everywhere or for all phones/networks. May not be combinable with other offers. Accounts that cancel movement, performance art, and snacks, for travel and set the tone for the day; daily lines within 30 days of activating on promo pricing may void savings. Restrictions apply. See store or sprint.com for details. © 2019 Sprint. All rights reserved. Sprint and the logo are trademarks of Sprint. Other marks are as well as a full meal. This is a theatrical life itself is tourism, now that the grand ad- property of their respective owners. experience unlike any other. While theater ventures are over and all the places explored; is communal, spending the better part of life has been reduced to two things, business the afternoon and evening with a group of and pleasure; and most Zen-like, you go on 16 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll THEATER
a journey in order to fi nd out why you went. a personal, internal journey as an external Roberts is a vivacious guide, keeping patrons one. At one point, Roberts makes an insightful safe by yelling “bike” whenever a cyclist sails comment that each time you say something past on the 606, or encouraging folks to yell bad or good about yourself, you are at war or “buen camino!” at passersby. peace, respectively, with yourself. All the war As the group journeys, they encounter vari- and all the peace originates in our heads. ous actors along the way. One of the joys of this Many of the performances play with per- walking performance is the reaction of people spective, movement, and the tenuousness just walking by, or sitting as the sojourners of the human body. The city becomes its walk past followed by a cast member pushing own stage, and the experience of movement a cart with loudspeakers emitting music or through it is cinematic. At one point, actors sound e ects. (This was the only downside, as ask if the audience wants to experience the frequently the volume was so loud I covered next part visually or through other senses. my ears.) Oftentimes, strangers would watch Naturally, I said the latter, and was blindfolded a particular performance all the way through and led gently by Friendship (Alanna Gerardi) from the fringes. Early on the journey, a couple on a delightful walk, touching plants and inquired as to what was going on and after catching various sounds and smells, safe in her learning it was a six-hour artistic experience, steady hands. and there was unexpectedly extra room, they The evening concludes at an artists’ collec- joined the group. Both expressed delight at the tive made up to look like a Spanish albergue end of the show that they had decided to make (hostel) where actors and audience members the spontaneous decision to embark on this enjoy dinner and kibitz. The highlight is one adventure as accidental tourists. of the hosts (Arlene Arnone) dancing and sing- While there is no clear narrative, more ing “My Way,” as well as photos of the actual than 20 cast members weave together vari- Camino de Santiago. Through camaraderie, ous experiences along their Camino journey. introspection, and an eventful journey, this There is adventure, love, even tragedy. They secular art pilgrimage reflects the spiritual explore what it means to be free, as well as goals of the original. v the thresholds and borders that we choose to cross or why we avoid them. Yet it is as much @joshua_flanders
The Camino Project JOEBARABE ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER17 THEATER CHICAGO READER OPENING OOCH PARTY Casa Valentina makes a P R demand for gray space Harvey Fierstein’s play about a cross-dressing Urban Pooch Training Catskills resort reveals schisms. & Fitness Center WEDNESDAY My favorite question as an arts journalist is “Why now?” 5400 N Damen When Harvey Fierstein’s Casa Valentina fi rst hit New Sept. 18 York stages in 2014, the answer seemed clear. Across the Free with RSVP country, states had started to legalize queer marriage le and right; it wasn’t a matter of if it would become the CHICAGOREADER.COM/POOCHPARTY 6-9pm law of the land, but when. With the white weddings and registries, however, continued the question of assimi- lation: What do we lose when we insist we’re just like Casa Valentina CODYJOLLY everyone else? Or, more importantly, whom do we lose? This beautifully acted show from Pride Films and express varying degrees of outrage at having their lives Plays, directed by Michael D. Graham, scratches at appropriated, it’s tough to invest in their ostensible pain those questions through a historic lens. Placing us in because it rings so hollow and sounds so perfunctory. 1962, and using a false hierarchy between “homosexu- The second problem is this: Instead of digging deep, Leff als” and cross-dressers—straight men who dress up as merely draws a faint outline around Mike and Emma’s conventional women—Fierstein gathers a group at a nightmarish shared past. It’s a shallow, milquetoast treat- Catskills resort established exclusively for the latter. For ment at best. Finally: it doesn’t help even a little that Leff the emphatically straight, cisgender men, it’s an escape, has created a full-on cartoon stereotype agent (Tim Lee) an Eden where they “femmepersonate” in dresses and who seems like an extra in a middle-school reading of an lipstick. They use she/her pronouns; they call each other unauthorized Entourage episode. (Non)Fiction doesn’t by their chosen names. Some of their wives are in on the end so much as it fi zzles out. Nothing is really resolved, scheme, but most have families who choose to ignore but that doesn’t really matter because nothing is par- the poorly kept secret. ticularly memorable either. —C S N But when one of the most prominent members F Through 9/14: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, of their community, Charlotte, arrives with a plot to Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773-935-6875, decriminalize cross-dressing, they hit an impasse. Part of therbp.org $25, $15 Sun BEST-IN-SHOW Charlotte’s plan involves formally denouncing homosex- uality, which would wipe away any sense of “gray” space Lost in the Star Wars COSTUME COMPETITION for the community. Prejudices are quickly revealed and Trump in Space doesn’t fi nd the right satirical schisms emerge. landing pad. CHICAGO-STYLE THEME In 2014, this was a cautionary tale about the short- comings of queer legitimacy in what felt like a newly Few things age as quickly as topical satire, especially optimistic time. In 2019, it feels like a complete disman- in an age of unrestrained Twitter bursts and 24-hour tling of the very notion of that legitimacy, an assertion news cycles. Trump in Space, a toothless political satire that accepting the vastness of sex and gender will created a couple years ago by the LA branch of Second always be impossible within the confi nes of the fi ckle City (book and lyrics by Landon Kirksey and Gillian HOSTED BY COMIC state. —KT H C V Through Bellinger, music by Sam Johnides and Tony Gonzalez) 9/29: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 5 PM, Pride Arts Center, and now revived here, is a case in point. Back in 2017, this 4139 N. Broadway, 866-811-4111, pridefilmsandplays. show won an award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. CARLY com, $30-$40, $25 students, seniors, and military (not But a lot has happened in the country since then, almost valid Sat). none of it refl ected in this local premiere, which spends BALLERINI at least as much time parodying tropes from Star Wars, Writer’s block Star Trek, and Battlestar Galactica as poking gentle fun Right Brain Project’s (Non)Fiction strains at the Trumpists and a handful of Democrats (specifi - credulity. cally Senators Sanders and Warren and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi). The satirical side of the material is much Playwright Jillian Leff ’s tale of a rookie novelist whose more timid than what you might see on Saturday Night Doggos and Agility big break depends on her ability to convert her partner’s Live or The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Most of trauma into a commercial blockbuster is an eye roller. the political humor is based on the theory that you can humans of all demos Long story short: there is so much to side-eye in the get a laugh by just mentioning the name of someone Right Brain Project’s 90-minute, four-person drama that in the news. And the sci-fi and rom-com portions of you might well leave with improved peripheral vision. the show are no deeper and no more sincere than you ages welcome! Directed by Kathi Kaity, (Non)fi ction wades toward the might see in an improv set. John Hildreth’s staging beers & preposterous before wholly diving into the deep end of features a cast of energetic, pretty good performers, what-even-is-this folderol. none of whom can wring strong, deep laughs from this bites The fi rst problem is Leff ’s premise that a young, material. The show is billed as a musical, but if there unpublished novelist would get life-changing money are trained singers in the cast, I could not tell from the for a fi rst-time book that is still in the process of being croaking performances (under the musical direction of pooch written—in longhand no less. Maybe a fairy-tale-god- Phil Caldwell) opening night —J H T mother publishing house would off er that kind of deal S Through 9/28: Sat 7:30 and 9:30 PM, Laugh portraits to, say, a Kardashian. But Stephanie (Maddy Bernhard) Out Loud Theater, 3851 N. Lincoln, 773-857-6000, is no celebrity. And while her partner, Mike (Justin laughoutloudtheater.com $20, $15 seniors, $12 students, Verstraete), and his cousin, Emma (Cristiana Barbatelli), all ages, but recommended 18+ due to language. v
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REVIEW specifically with regard to its underlying assumption that the subjects needed a third THE LOGAN party to document them. (There’s also the Only connect issue of Flaherty fabricating certain aspects of Eskimo life in Nanook, but that’s another Los Reyes and What You kettle of fi sh.) Still, the ethnographic approach Gonna Do When the World’s can generate insights that a firsthand docu- on Fire? take viewers deep into ment might not. An outsider’s study of a group two diff erent communities. of people can contextualize behaviors and rit- uals in universal terms; it can also have the ef- THE GOONIES By B S fect of making the subjects seem exciting and AUG 30 - SEPT 2 AT 11 PM new. As contemporary fi lmmaker Ben Russell has demonstrated in his work (Let Each One Go Where He May, Good Luck), ethnographic he history of documentary film- filmmaking techniques can seem positively making is bound up with notions avant-garde when employed imaginatively. of ethnography, the work of Robert This lesson also comes across in two artful Flaherty serving as a pioneering new documentaries screening in Chicago this and critical example. With such week, Bettina Perut and Iván Osnovikoff’s Tinfl uential fi lms as Nanook of the North (1922) Los Reyes and Roberto Minervini’s What You BACK TO SCHOOL and Moana (1926), Flaherty used cinema to Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? Both understand people unlike himself and relate films play up their outsider perspectives to SEPT 3-5 AT 10:30 PM what he’d learned to a general audience. Many provocative, sometimes beautiful results. have critiqued Flaherty’s work over the years, In Los Reyes, the feeling of being an out- J 2646 N. MILWAUKEE AVE | CHICAGO, IL | THELOGANTHEATRE.COM | 773.342.5555 ssssEXCELLENTsssGOODssAVERAGEsPOOR• WORTHLESS ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER19 R READERRECOMMENDEDb ALLAGESN NEWF FILM continued from 19 The cinematography of What You Gonna sider is e ectively doubled, as Perut and Osno- Do When the World’s on Fire? is as impressive viko consider adolescent skateboarding cul- as that of Los Reyes. Shot in stark black and ture in Santiago, Chile, from the point of view white, the film feels like something old and of two homeless dogs who live at a skate park. recently recovered even though it’s all about The movie is as much about being a dog as it is contemporary American society. This sense about being a skateboarder, as the fi lmmakers of recovery is fi tting, as several of the subjects present the latter as they may be perceived make a point of exhuming the past. One of by the former. Nearly all the conversations the film’s three narrative threads concerns in the fi lm take place o screen; when people the New Black Panther Party of New Orleans, converse, the directors present close-ups of which resurrects the politics and activities of the canine subjects or what they imagine the Black radicals of the 1960s and ’70s to confront dogs are looking at, like stray tennis balls or systemic racism and classism in present-day crawling insects. Similarly, the fi lm’s sense of America. Some of the most memorable scenes time is organized around what people might of What You Gonna Do show the Panthers consider minor events but which are clearly delivering meals to the city’s homeless pop- important to dogs (playing fetch, fi nding new ulation and comforting a family whose home objects to chew). The Parque de los Reyes has been defaced by members of the KKK— comes to seem like a paradise for animals; the passages of kindness that generate sympathy movie demonstrates a sense of wonder that with the subjects. Aquarela dogs might experience during playtime. The Minervini alternates scenes of the Panthers human subjects, on the other hand, generally with portraits of a woman named Judy Hill, an NOW PLAYING seem unhappy: some of the teenage boys we ex-convict who’s recently opened a bar, and NBrittany Runs a Marathon overhear talk about getting kicked out of their two boys named Ronaldo and Titus, school- NAquarela This Audience Award winner at the 2019 Sundance family homes, while others sound as if they’re aged brothers who are learning to navigate A breathtaking and off ensive documentary in the vein Film Festival centers on a rudderless, nearly 30-year- of Werner Herzog’s Lessons of Darkness (1992), Viktor old New Yorker (Jillian Bell) who, a er a disappointing happy only when they’re stoned. Yet the dogs playtime and familial responsibilities in a Kossakovsky’s fi lm about fl oods, melting ice caps, and doctor’s appointment, decides to ditch her unhealthy and people share an appreciation of the park dangerous neighborhood. Like Los Reyes, the extreme weather also continues a recent trend of habits and run the New York City Marathon. Turns and a sense of community with the skate- structure of Minervini’s film feels intuitive nonfi ction features (Behemoth, Anthropocene: The out, shedding 40 pounds and getting fi t are the easier boarders who congregate there. and poetic; the progression doesn’t feel tied to Human Epoch) that fi nd visual beauty in environmental legs of her journey, while fi xing what’s inside—distrust Los Reyes is a charming, calming fi lm, though events so much as to the spirit of lower-class crisis. Kossakovsky presents scenes of scientifi c crews of others and dislike of herself, primarily—takes time. working on the tenuous frozen surface of Russia’s Writer-director Paul Downs Colaizzo based the titular it’s also somewhat one-note; the filmmakers Black New Orleans. That spirit is communal in Lake Baikal, arctic ice mountains breaking apart, and character on his roommate, and I imagine this Brittany capture the dogs’ experience so evocatively in nature, as What You Gonna Do shows repeat- Hurricane Irma ravaging Miami, forgoing narration or is a lovely, inspiring person. Movie Brittany, however, the opening scenes that the remaining passag- edly how the subjects rely on one another for talking heads that might explain these phenomena. is frequently rude and dismissive, sometimes cruel, es feel like vamping on a theme. At the same moral support. The movie is essentially an art-house spectacle, with and even the knowledge that her attitude stems from handsome big-screen imagery and a heavy-metal her insecurity and other personal issues doesn’t make time, their meditative approach teases out an Minervini is a white Italian fi lmmaker who’s score (by Eicca Toppinen of the band Apocalyptica) rooting for her any easier. Many of the side characters, array of interesting metaphysical questions. lived in Texas for a number of years, and while that makes a considerable visceral impact. Yet apart including a slacker love interest (Utkarsh Ambudkar), To what extent does location shape behavior? the subjects in What You Gonna Do are open from some vague ideas about the power of nature, also register as more irritating than funny or endear- What does happiness mean to an animal? Is and sincere, the director’s point of view, on the Kossakovsky doesn’t communicate anything one can ing. Brittany’s brother-in-law (Lil Rel Howery) and really think about—he seems to be inviting viewers neighbor-turned-running buddy (Michaela Watkins) there a sense of liberty that comes with home- whole, feels detached. The actions presented to sit back and enjoy the devastation of our planet. generate some warmth in their constructive interac- lessness? Chola and Football, the two canine here seem less like the will of the subjects In English and subtitled Russian and Spanish. —B tions with the protagonist, but overall the fi lm does protagonists of Los Reyes, are charismatic than like rituals or socially defi ned behaviors. S PG, 89 min. Fri 8/30-Thu 9/5, 1:30, 3:3o, 5:30, not feel good to watch. Judging by the smattering of fi gures on which to hang these questions. Com- Sometimes Minervini’s slant adds to one’s 7:30, and 9:30 PM. Music Box strained ha’s in my theater at laugh lines, it appears that viewers want to like these characters because municating a range of emotions, they keep the sense of the community under consideration; Back to School the story suggests they should, and they feel they’re fi lm from feeling too studious. Perut and Osno- the scenes of people singing in groups are es- Rodney Dangerfi eld as an amiably crass, nouveau supposed to, yet they have to push themselves to get viko , for their part, employ a range of devices pecially moving, as they point to a shared cul- riche businessman (he owns a chain of “tall and fat” there. I too admire Colaizzo’s eff ort, but in the end to connect viewers to the dogs’ perspective and tural experience that holds the people togeth- shops) who joins his son (Keith Gordon) at a midwest- found myself ruminating on why I was expected to render it consistently surprising. The directors’ er. At other times, the charisma of Minervini’s ern university to get the college degree he never had cheer at the fi nish line. —L P R, 103 min. time for (1986). It’s a good character for Dangerfi eld, Fri 8/30-Mon 9/2, 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, and 9:50 PM; Tue use of extreme close-ups can be disarming; subjects is powerful enough to cut through the one that veers him away from the “I don’t get no 9/3-Thu 9/5, 2, 4:30, 7:10, and 9:50 PM. River East 21 sometimes they fi ll the entire frame with a paw ethnographic vibe, as when Judy comforts a respect” pathos that comes too easily to him, and or nostril to convey how content the dogs are victim of sexual violence by sharing her own enough attention is paid to the minimal plot to inte- NThe Case of Hana & Alice to be alive. Other impressive images include a history of abuse or when Ronaldo searches grate Dangerfi eld’s classically constructed one-liners Celebrated Japanese director Shunji Iwai (Love Let- into something like a dramatic situation. This is what ter; New York, I Love You) turns to animation in this frantically for his younger brother in a freight mud-caked tennis ball and spiders crawling on they mean by “a good vehicle.” With Sally Kellerman lilting, piquant 2015 prequel to his 2004 live-action blades of grass. Much like the way the dogs’ yard when the latter disappears for too long (as Dangerfi eld’s improbable love interest, she’s more high school rom-com Hana and Alice, opting for happiness provides counterpoint to the human during a game of hide-and-seek. Moments like human than she’s seemed in years), Adrienne Barbeau rotoscoping rather than the ubiquitous anime style of subjects’ frustration, these rapturous and con- these suggest the fruits of an ethnographic (who seems to have turned into Agnes Moorehead wide-eyed waifs that derives from manga. The mode when no one was looking), Burt Young, Ned Beatty, not only enhances his closely observed psychological templative shots o set the unfeeling coldness approach: that out of a spirit of academic and Robert Downey Jr. —D K PG-13, 96 min. portraits of two overly imaginative middle-school of the construction sites and high-rises sur- curiosity a genuine human connection might Tue 9/3-Thu 9/5, 10:30 PM. Logan misfi ts who become best friends, it also allows for rounding the park. form. v 20 CHICA O READER -AUGUST ll Get showtimes and see reviews of everything playing this week at chicagoreader.com/movies. FILM
the stars of his original, Anne Suzuki and Yû Aoi, to off on a mission to not only solve the case but attempt plausibly reprise their roles. Alice (Yû), the only child to prevent the murder from happening in Ashley’s time NChicagoland Shorts Vol. 5 NSquadron 303 of divorced parents, moves with her author mom to a line. The fi lm eff ectively builds on the suspense from An annual curated selection of local fi lms. Represented Denis Delić directed this Polish-UK fi lm about a squad- remote small town where she fears terminal boredom the mysterious phone calls and alternate time lines, but fi lmmakers in this fi h edition include Jennifer Boles, ron of Polish pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain until school bullies become allies and rope her into a it fails to bring nuance and depth to any of the other Jiayi Chen and Cameron Worden, Lonnie Edwards, Mer- during World War II. In English and subtitled Polish. mystery surrounding the rumored murder of a missing scenes or revelations in the fi lm, like the identity of the edith Leich, Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Ashley Thompson, 104 min. Fri 9/30, 7:30 PM; Sat 8/31, 5 and 7:30 PM; Sun former classmate. Soon Alice’s shut-in neighbor, school murderer or the strained relationship between Jack and and Marisa Tolomeo. 78 min. Wed 9/4, 7:30 PM. Beverly 9/1, 2:30 and 5 PM; Mon 9/2-Thu 9/5, 7:30 PM. Facets dropout Hana (Suzuki), takes an active interest in the his brother, a drug dealer. Nonetheless, for genre fans Arts Center Cinematheque case. Chief among the many lyrical sequences are those not yet burnt out by time-travel spectacles, Don’t Let in which Alice befriends an elderly company man; their Go might be worth the watch. —M D L C NGags the Clown Two Irenes poignant exchange on a park swing set recalls the great R, 103 min. ArcLight, Block 37, Chatham 14, Showplace Adam Krause directed this comedy-horror fi lm about Fabio Meira directed this 2017 Brazilian drama about a Takashi Shimura in Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic Ikiru. In ICON a mysterious clown who starts roaming the streets of teen who discovers that her father has a second secret Japanese with subtitles. —A G 99 min. Green Bay, Wisconsin. 89 min. Krause attends the Friday family, including a daughter her own age who shares Fri 8/30, 4 and 8 PM; Sat 8/31, 2 PM; Sun 9/1, 4 PM; Mon The Queen and Tuesday screenings. Fri 8/30-Sat 8/31, midnight; and her name. In Portuguese with subtitles. 89 min. Wed 9/4, 9/2, 5 PM; Tue 9/3, 6 PM; Wed 9/4, 7:45 PM; and Thu 9/5, Frank Simon’s 1968 cinema-verite documentary chroni- Tue 9/3, 8 PM. Music Box 6:30 PM. Chicago Cultural Center F v 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center cling the Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant held in New York City in February 1967 is more interesting Counsellor at Law in some ways for its period fl avor—as a zoom-happy, R John Barrymore plays a Jewish lawyer with an all-over-the-place 60s document—than for its depiction unfaithful wife and a faithful mistress in Elmer Rice’s 1933 of the drag event, though both aspects have some value. adaptation of his own play. It’s one of Barrymore’s best —J R 68 min. Fri 8/30, 5:45 PM; Sat performances, and William Wyler’s direction of this brisk 8/31-Mon 9/2, 11:30 AM; Tue 9/3, 7:30 PM; Wed 9/4-Thu comedy-drama is exemplary. With Bebe Daniels, Doris 9/5, 3:30 PM. Music Box Kenyon, and Melvyn Douglas. —J R 82 min. 35 mm. Wed 9/4, 7:30 PM. Northeastern Illinois Shadow of a Doubt SEPTEMBER LINEUP University R Alfred Hitchcock’s fi rst indisputable master- Filmmaker appearances, events & more! piece (1943). Joseph Cotten is Uncle Charlie, aka the Dark Victory Merry Widow Murderer, who returns to his hometown WAR AND PEACE Aug. 31 & Sept. 1 R This 1939 drama is exactly what people mean to visit his niece and namesake, played by Teresa Wright. when they refer to a “Bette Davis movie.” She stars as Hitchcock’s discovery of darkness within the heart of Japanese anime THE CASE OF HANA & Aug. 30 - Sept. 5 a spoiled Long Island socialite who, having discovered small-town America remains one of his most harrowing ALICE she’s dying of a brain tumor, takes her stableman’s fi lms, a peek behind the facade of security that reveals LOS REYES Aug. 30 - Sept. 5 advice and packs a lifetime into one glorious summer. loneliness, despair, and death. Thornton Wilder collab- Humphrey Bogart is the stableman, and George Brent is orated on the script; it’s Our Town turned inside out. MARIANNE & LEONARD: WORDS OF LOVE Aug. 30 - Sept. 5 her surgeon husband. This is the defi nitive Davis display, —D K PG, 108 min. 35 mm. Film critic and artist not to be missed. Edmund Goulding directed. —D Fred Camper lectures at the Tuesday screening. Fri 8/30, PARIS IS BURNING Aug. 30 - Sept. 4 D 106 min. 35 mm. Sat 8/31-Mon 9/2, 11:30 AM. 4 PM, and Tue 9/3, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center New restoration! THE RETURN OF MARTIN Music Box Sept. 1, 2 & 5 ALSO PLAYING GUERRE NDon’t Let Go Abbas Kiarostami Retrospective Writer and director Jacob Estes (The Details) is back All Creatures Here Below Sept. 6 - Oct. 30 with Don’t Let Go, a new fi lm that’s part thriller and part A desperate young couple at the end of their fi nancial Morgan Spurlock’s SUPER SIZE ME 2: mystery and follows Los Angeles detective Jack Radcliff rope fl ee across country a er the wife abducts an infant. HOLY CHICKEN! Sept. 6 - 19 (David Oyelowo) as he investigates the murder of his Collin Schiffl i directed. 91 min. Showing as part of the brother, sister-in-law, and beloved niece, Ashley (bril- Midwest Independent Film Festival’s monthly event. BUÑUEL IN THE LABYRINTH OF THE liantly played by Storm Reid). Things intensify when he Preceded by a reception and a panel at 6 PM. Tue 9/3, TURTLES Sept. 6 - 12 starts receiving phone calls from Ashley, who says she’s 7:30 PM. Landmark’s Century Centre NO SMALL MATTER Sept. 6 - 12 calling several days before the murder. This sends Jack AMERICAN HERETICS: THE POLITICS OF THE GOSPEL Sept. 6, 8, 14, 21 & 30 COOKED Sept. 13 - 19 Yukut drama ÁGA Sept. 13 - 19 JAY MYSELF Sept. 20 - 26 PIRANHAS Sept. 20 - 26 All female crew sails the Whitbread Around the World Race in MAIDEN Sept. 20 - 26 A FAITHFUL MAN Sept. 27 - Oct. 3 Jeff Goldblum & Tye Sheridan inTHE MOUNTAIN Sept. 27 - Oct. 3
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The Case of Hana & Alice ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER21 The Mystick Krewe of Laff and the Big Shoulders Brass Band lead a second-line procession at the 2018 Chicago Jazz Festival. COURTESYDCASE
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satellite shows (which starts the Friday before guard scene via sets by bassist Anton Hatwich, the fest) is better distributed around Chicago, multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay, and The Reader’s guide to the 2019 especially on the south side, thanks to a diver- drummer Jeremy Cunningham—plus a couple sity of partnerships on the ground. North-side of concerts honoring the AACM, including mainstays Constellation and Elastic Arts are one featuring the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Chicago Jazz Festival joined by the Association for the Advance- which for its 50th anniversary has expanded ment of Creative Musicians, Ernest Dawkins’s from the quintet that became world famous in Live the Spirit Residency, Transition East, the the 1960s and ’70s to become a 13-piece band South Side Jazz Coalition, and the late Fred stocked with exciting players. Its sprawling cross section of the genre includes Anderson’s Birdhouse nonprofi t. The Reader’s preview coverage takes a world-changing explorers the Art Ensemble of Chicago, But the Chicago Jazz Festival lacks one close look at seven acts on the bill, the Art trad band the Fat Babies, venerable guitarist George thing that other major American jazz festivals Ensemble among them. Aside from trumpeter Freeman, and restless experimenter Rob Mazurek. have: a ticketed entrance. Here’s a slap to wake Russ Johnson, who moved from New York us out of our complacency—this festival is to Wisconsin in 2012, they’re all current or By J C B M J P free. Every bit of it. That’s a rare luxury I’m former Chicagoans: restless and prolifi c multi- not sure Chicago appreciates enough. Anyone instrumentalist Rob Mazurek, trad band the who wants to (and can a ord bus or train fare Fat Babies, linchpin saxophonist Dave Rempis, n old pair of shoes, the United vised music and the historical jazz continuum. downtown) can come spend an afternoon me- venerable guitarist George Freeman in a col- States Postal Service, a loving The organizers also remain diligent in their andering among stages, catching heavy stars laboration with blues harmonica master Billy spouse—when things have attention to the local scene, making this the such as bassist Christian McBride and trum- Branch, and drummer Mike Reed celebrating been around awhile, it’s all too weightiest anchor in the city’s array of big peter Ambrose Akinmusire and killer-dillers the 50th year of the Jazz Institute of Chicago easy to take them for granted. summer festivals. from across the Latin-jazz spectrum, among with an all-star band. —J C AThe Chicago Jazz Festival has been with us Many similar events stumble when it comes them pianist Eddie Palmieri and the super- for more than four decades—its 2019 incarna- to sound quality, but the Chicago Jazz Festival group Latino-America Unida (which includes tion will be its 41st. It’s a world-class festival, is uniformly excellent on that score. The lake- Miguel Zenon, Antonio Sanchez, Melissa and has been since it began in 1979. This year front setting couldn’t be more picturesque, Aldana, and David Virelles). You can pack a The complete schedule of the Chicago Jazz Festival, may not be its pinnacle, but it’s no exception and since the fest moved to Millennium Park picnic and get serenaded by marquee vocalists as well as a roundup to that status either—the stellar lineup draws in 2017, it’s perfected the side-stage situa- such as Cécile McLorin Salvant, Freddy Cole, of satellite shows and musicians from the entire astronomical map tion—what used to feel almost like a street and Ben Sidran. You can check out some of the aftersets, can be found at chicagoreader.com. of jazz styles, exploring a wonderfully diverse fair is now a proper setting to hear such great city’s musical youth in the Young Jazz Lions cross section of approaches to creative impro- music. And this year the city’s strong slate of series, or peer in on Chicago’s vibrant van- 22 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll M R’ T C W Y Thu /, :-: WITH CHICAGO SINFONIETTA PM, Jay Pritzker Pavilion A Live Symphonic Experience KENWEISS
Mike Reed honors the modern golden age of Chicago jazz
The bandleader and drummer assembles an ensemble of composer-performers from The City Was Yellow, a “real book” documenting 30 years of the city’s jazz scene. September 21 @ 7:30PM By B M With Guest Conductor & erhaps best known as the founding di- (Full disclosure: I contributed four bios to Score Composer Michael Abels rector of the Pitchfork Music Festival, the project.) Now, on the occasion of the Jazz Mike Reed is also programming chair of Institute of Chicago’s 50th anniversary, Reed P Jordan Peele’s Academy the Chicago Jazz Festival—and the drummer, has partnered with the institute to publish the Award-nominated film, composer, and bandleader is no stranger to its book. Proceeds from sales will go to the JIC’s stages either. In projects such as People, Plac- educational programs. brought to life by the nation’s es & Things, which explores forgotten postbop At last year’s Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Reed most diverse orchestra. from mid-50s Chicago, he has examined the led a band of younger players through selec- city’s musical past through the lens of contem- tions from The City Was Yellow. That concert porary developments and techniques. demonstrated that tunes such as “Four in COPYRIGHT © 2017 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS. More recently Reed has been addressing the Evening” (by guitarist Jeff Parker) and the milieu he encountered in the 1980s, when “Nairobi Transit” (by reedist Geof Bradfi eld) he was first checking out the jazz scene and didn’t necessarily need their composers on TICKETS ON SALE NOW! learning how to play the music. Recognizing the bandstand to sound great. For this pro- that his peers and the musicians who men- gram, Reed has convened a band of musicians AuditoriumTheatre.org :: 312.341.2300 tored them had written dozens of great tunes whose compositions are featured in the book: that weren’t collected anywhere, he set about in addition to Reed, Bradfield, and Parker, assembling a “real book”—a volume of sheet the lineup consists of tenor saxophonist Ari music that serves as a performance resource Brown, flutist Nicole Mitchell, cornetist and 50 E Ida B Wells Dr | Chicago, IL for musicians and as a guide to let them know piccolo trumpeter Rob Mazurek, trombonist who and what they ought to check out. The Steve Berry, and bassist Matt Ulery. Though City Was Yellow, which takes its name from this group was assembled especially for this Chicago Sinfonietta Season Sponsors Auditorium Theatre 2019–20 Season Sponsors the color of the sodium-vapor street lamps event, some of its members have been playing that used to illuminate Chicago at night, together since the 1990s—we’re likely to hear covers music made here between 1980 and not just collegial mutual respect but also the
2010, and includes 53 compositions and brief sparks that fl y when musicians who know and Official Hotel Partner biographies of the artists who wrote them. trust one another get together. v ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER23 R M’ D E V Fri /, - PM, Von Freeman Pavilion
try during intensive rehearsals that preceded the August 2018 unveiling of the quartet at the fi rst iteration of a three-day annual multidisci- plinary art event, also named Desert Encrypts, in Mazurek’s current home base of Marfa. Located in the high desert an hour from Mexico and three hours from the nearest air- port, Marfa nurtures an artistic community out of all proportion with its size (population 1,772) and remoteness. It’s home to two major art foundations and a permanent installation
MICHAELJACKSON by minimalist artist Donald Judd. “The whole atmosphere is based on art,” Mazurek says. “Some of the most interesting artists, thinkers, and makers in the world live and work here full- and part-time. The com- Rob Mazurek refracts munity in general is very accepting. They want to know what you’re doing, and it’s easier than melody and groove through in a million-person city, where sometimes it’s harder to make those personal connections.” cosmic complexity It’s just the kind of place for Mazurek to get things done. “I wake up in the morning and I make a morning sound—morning drones is what I call them—on my synthesizer in the The trumpeter and polymath returns to his old hometown music room,” he says. “Then I make the cof- with the adventurous quartet Desert Encrypts Vol. 1. fee. Then I’ll practice for a couple hours; then I’ll go out to the painting studio for a couple By B M hours, work on paintings that I’m working on or sculptures. Then I’ll come back in and compose for a couple hours.” Because cosmic ho says you can’t come home ternoon he’ll perform a set with one of his own themes loom large in Mazurek’s compositions, again? Though he currently lives in newest groups, Desert Encrypts Vol. 1. he especially appreciates the desert sky. “You WTexas, Rob Mazurek remains close- “Flamingos Dancing on Luminescent Moon- also have a designated black-sky area, so you ly identified with Chicago. The 54-year-old beams,” which appears on the City Was Yellow see the Milky Way every night,” he says. “The Est.Est.1954 1954 Celebrating over multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, project’s set list, is the second track on the Chi- sky goes on forever, and the sunrises and sun- 6165 years of service service and multimedia artist grew up in Naperville cago Underground’s 1998 debut, Playground. sets are so spectacular every day.” to Chicago! 1800 W. DIVISION and right out of high school moved into the On that album Mazurek fi rst broke loose from Desert Encrypts Vol. 1 belongs to a trilogy (773) 486-9862 city, where he attended the Bloom School of his early grounding in mid-20th-century of records released this summer that refl ect Jazz and learned on the bandstand from local modern jazz, and the infl uence of fi gures such Mazurek’s wide-ranging interests. Love Waves Come enjoy one of luminaries such as Jodie Christian and Lin as Art Farmer is evident in the piece’s lyrical Ecstatic Charge is a set of explosive electronic Chicago’s finest beer gardens! Halliday. Since the mid-1990s he has main- cornet melody and loose, sauntering groove. music, some of which was used in Lee Anne FEBRUARYSEPTEMBERJAAUGUSTNUARY 11...... 29 20 23 ...... MIKEDA EMBASSIESVID QUINN FLABBY FELTEN HOFFMAN SHOW 8PM SEPTEMBERJA NUARY 12...... 21 .....WAGNERTHE PURCELLS AMERICAN& MORSE DRAFT tained the Chicago Underground Duo with Those features periodically recur on 2019’s Schmitt’s The Farnsworth Scores, an experi- FEBRUARYSEPTEMBERAUGUST 30 22 24 .....THE ..... FIRSTDADYRKNAMOS WARDROOM PROBLEMS MEN JAAUGUSTNUARY 13...... 31 JOE LANASA DJ SKID & LICIOUSSOMEBODY’S SINS drummer Chad Taylor, and they’ve kept the Desert Encrypts Vol. 1 (Astral Spirits), the mental fi lm about an extraordinary Mies van SEPTEMBERJA NUARY 14...... 23 ....WHOLESOMERADIOFOSTERWHITEWOLFSONICPRINCESSTO &NY HIGGINS DO DJRO NIGHTSARIO GROUP MURPHYDAMOJO FOTUNADOS THOMPSON 49 9:30PM Chicago Underground name (sometimes as a self-titled debut by Mazurek’s latest quartet, der Rohe house in Plano, Illinois, that renego- JASEPTEMBERNUARY 17...... 1 MIKE THOMAS FELTENJAMIE A MATECKIWAGNER BAND & FRIENDS 10PM JA NUARY 18...... ANDREW MIKE D HUBER FELTON 8PM FEBRUARYSEPTEMBER 25 2 .....WHOLESOMERADIOTHE JON RON RARICK AND RACHEL NONET SHOW 7PM DJ NIGHT trio, quartet, or orchestra) even though Taylor but they emerge from elaborate, interlocking tiates the relationship between interior struc- SEPTEMBERJASEPTEMBERNUARY 19...... 24 .....RC4 MORSE BIG BAND SITU & WAGNER 7PMATION DAV 5:30PMID SEPTEMBER 6 BIRDGANGS KING RABBITMAXLIELLIAM 9:30PM ANNA long ago moved to the east coast and Mazurek structures and passages of protean free im- tures and the outside environment. The third FEBRUARYSEPTEMBER 26 7 .....RC SMILIN’ BIG BOBBYBAND AND 7PM THE CLEMTONES JA NUARY 20...... TITTY5,000,000 CITTY FIRST YEARSWARD TO PROBLEMS EARTH spent eight years in Brazil. provisation, and they share space with spacey album, Psychotropic Electric Eel Dreams IV, FEBRUARYJA NUARY 21...... 28 .....PETERDUDEBREAKIN’ SAMETO CASANONY UP DO A DOGFIGHTROVASARIOQUARTET GROUP 8PM SEPTEMBERJASEPTEMBERNUARY 22...... 26 .....PETER8 HEISENBERG CASANOVA RC BIG QUARTETUNCERTAINTYBAND 7PM PLAYERS 7PM The city is encoded in Mazurek’s musical soundscapes and cosmic poetry. is an eerily atmospheric long-form work that MARCHSEPTEMBERSEPTEMBER 1...... SMILIN’ 27 .....DORIAN9 RC BIGTA JBANDBOBBY 7PM AND THE CLEMTONES JASEPTEMBERNUARY 24...... 10 FLABBY PETER HOFFMAN CASONO SHOWVA QUARTET 8PM DNA, and he’ll celebrate his early achieve- The musicians on the album—Taylor on combines synthetic sounds with recordings of SEPTEMBERJASEPTEMBERNUARY 25...... 28 .....11 TO ELIZABETH’SURS THE WICK CRAZY LITTLE THING MARCH 2...... 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They refi ned their chemis- Festival. v 24 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll George Freeman and Billy Branch PAULCHEN
I’ve prioritized that skill as an integral part of my style.” He’s also quick to praise Freeman’s skills: “I’ve always admired George, a very astute, sensible, gracious musician and soul. He’s a bluesman at heart, which he has said in his own words.” One of Freeman’s first influences was T-Bone Walker, an acrobatic blues guitarist with a jazzy sense of swing. When Freeman fi rst encountered him, he says, “He was play- ing guitar behind his back at the Rhumboogie Cafe [a short-lived nightclub on East 55th in the early 1940s]. They had chorus girls and a band, and T-Bone would come out playing the G F blues. I wasn’t too impressed by that, because B B Fri /, :- PM, I didn’t see what that had to do with playing Jay Pritzker Pavilion guitar. But all the girls loved it! Then my broth- er brought home a Charlie Christian record, and that was the end!” Branch, for his part, has added the occa- sional jazz standard to his set, such as Benny at the Jazz Festival by bassist John Devlin, Golson’s “Killer Joe” or Miles Davis’s “All drummer Luis Ewerling, vocalist Joanie Pal- Blues.” On occasion, he says, he’s sensed a mild Two Chicago institutions latto, and pianist Bradley Parker-Sparrow. bias from the jazz side of the street (“If looks The two veteran musicians fi rst encountered could kill,” he adds wryly). “I experienced, bridge jazz and blues each other years ago in Chicago’s South Shore quite a few times, instances where the jazz neighborhood, at a club where Branch would players had an aversion to the blues, almost stop by to jam with Freeman. Pretty soon Free- like a class or caste system. We use a term in Guitarist George Freeman and harmonica man was coming by Branch’s gigs in return. African American vernacular—jazz is bougie, player Billy Branch demonstrate the common “He’s got good rhythm,” says Freeman. “He blues is low-class,” he laughs. “But the real roots of the sounds they love. can make the harmonica talk and is able to cats didn’t—Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, support me. I tease him sometimes: ‘You make Coltrane. George gets it. Von Freeman got By J P the harmonica sound like it’s crying!’” Free- it. They understand that jazz evolved from man knows the importance of a good rhythm blues. They will tell you that you can’t play lues and jazz have been intertwined both on Freeman’s latest album, George the player. Back in the day, he says, “There were jazz unless you could play blues. The blues is since the beginning, and this collabora- Bomb! (Southport), which dropped in April so many piano players that could comp. And the foundation. It’s why I’m comfortable in all Btion between two Chicago institutions and features Branch on three cuts, including then the beboppers came, and they could tell musical settings, whether I’m playing Chicago shows the power of their convergence. Jazz the title track. Branch has a new record of his stories and comp.” blues or funk or reggae or soul or R&B or rock. guitarist George Freeman, 92, is part of a fa- own with his band the Sons of Blues, Roots & Says Branch, “I view [comping] as import- Because the blues roots allow you to express milial dynasty that includes his late brother, Branches: The Songs of Little Walter (Alliga- ant as soloing because it’s a challenge. A lot of yourself.” tenor saxophonist Von; harmonica player Billy tor). Both men know exactly where blues and harmonica players, they only look at the solo Together these two masters may not bridge Branch, 67, is one of the most lyrical musicians jazz meet. aspect. But to be able to enhance the rhythm the gap between jazz and blues so much as on the city’s blues scene. You can hear them Freeman and Branch will be accompanied section or the soloist is an art form in itself. close it. v
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TICKETS AND INFO AT WWW.LH-ST.COM ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER25 Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye, cofounders of the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s famous quintet lineup in the late 1960s, seated before members of the current AEC big band BARBARABAREFIELD
in ’69), and they often dressed in costume— Jarman, Favors, and Moye favored dramatic face paint and pan-African garb, while Bowie often wore a white lab coat. The Art Ensemble epitomized the AACM motto “Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future.” In the years to come, though, diverging pri- orities slowed the group down, and mortality took a toll. By the early 1980s, the Art Ensem- ble had scaled back their e orts as each mem- ber spent more time making music in other settings. Bowie died in 1999, Favors in 2004. Jarman left the group twice, once in 1993 to devote himself to the study and practice of Zen Buddhism (he returned in 2003) and then again to deal with the illness that ultimately killed him in early 2019. The Art Ensemble performed rarely, and they did not record at all between 2004 and 2018. Last year the surviving founders, Moye and Mitchell, broke that silence in grand fash- ion. They expanded the Art Ensemble to an 18-strong big band (complete with brass and A E string sections, African drummers, and vocal- C ists) for We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniver- Fri /, :- PM, sary Celebration (Pi), a double album recorded Jay Pritzker Pavilion in the studio and at last year’s Edgefest in Ann Arbor. The group perform a couple vintage pieces, “Tutankhamun” and “Odwalla,” but the album is dominated by new compositions: Moye’s material uses massed percussion of Mitchell and Joseph Jarman on reeds and and spacey electronics to project the group’s other woodwinds, Lester Bowie on trumpet, pan-African vibe into the future, while Mitch- The Art Ensemble of Chicago Malachi Favors Maghostut on bass, and every- ell’s contributions (some of which feature one on the handheld percussion they’d dubbed classical tenor Rodolfo Cordova-Lebron) celebrate 50 years of pushing “little instruments”; drummer Famoudou Don sound more like the music he composes for Moye, who was already in Paris, became a orchestras on his own time. Another vocalist, great Black music into the future member of the ensemble there. Camae Ayewa (aka Moor Mother), provides During their fi rst decades, the Art Ensemble some of the record’s most powerful moments, recorded a stack of hugely infl uential albums invoking the history of African American that combined free jazz with pan-African struggle against oppression and bringing it up Surviving cofounders Roscoe Mitchell and Famoudou Don Moye percussion, recitations of poetry, satirical to the present. Unfortunately, Ayewa won’t be expand the group into an 18-piece big band with the likes of Nicole genre exercises, and anything else that took with the Art Ensemble tonight, but the 18 mu- Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, Jaribu Shahid, and Fred Berry. their fancy. They became the highest-profi le sicians who are performing include Cordova- ambassadors of the Association for the Ad- Lebron, cellist Tomeka Reid, flutist Nicole By B M vancement of Creative Musicians, formed in Mitchell, trumpeters Hugh Ragin and Fred Chicago in 1965 to help Black creative music Berry, and bassists Junius Paul, Jaribu Shahid, he Art Ensemble of Chicago have temporarily to Paris. They’d already dropped support itself. In their theatrical performanc- and Silvia Bolognesi. This set promises a rare always been in it for the long haul. Mitchell’s name to emphasize their evolving es, the group navigated their various modes opportunity to experience a group using their TFounded in 1967 as the Roscoe Mitchell collective approach, and they added “of Chi- on a stage crammed with horns, drums, bells, 50th anniversary not just to look back on what Art Ensemble, they adopted their current han- cago” after a French promoter billed them chimes, toys, and other noisemakers (they they’ve already done but also to deal with dle 50 years ago this summer, upon relocating that way. At the time their lineup consisted used around 500 instruments while in Europe where music and humanity are going. v 26 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Trumpeter Russ Johnson dances along a fine line
The Wisconsin composer and bandleader strikes a perfect balance between mainstream and vanguard. By J C
uss Johnson walks the line. playing—the crisp, ringing tone, the dart- “There’s a saying: ‘Too in for ing melodies, the thoughtful and complex REBECCACIPRUS Rthe out crowd, too out for the in understanding of rhythm, the harmonic so- crowd,’” says the Wisconsin-based trum- phistication of his improvising—and you’ll peter. “In some respects, this describes my hear what he gleaned. You might start with career.” any of the records he’s appeared on with For certain listeners, I suppose that may heavies such as Lee Konitz and Steve Swal- be true. But to my ears, Johnson’s music is low, but his discography is large, varied, and The Fat Babies wring the a perfect melding of the mainstream and consistently solid. the vanguard. Like Baby Bear’s bed—not too Something complicated Johnson’s main- kitsch out of trad jazz soft, not too hard, it sounds just right. stream jazz upbringing, though. “In my later In the mid-1980s, having just left Berklee 20s, I became interested in the free-music College of Music, the young Johnson dug scenes,” he says. “I realized I loved this music into traditional jazz, working hard to mas- as much as straight-ahead jazz, and worked The vitality and commitment of these hardworking Chicago ter its rudiments and conventions. He did very diligently on studying and developing preservationists make antique songs feel brand-new. everything right: he moved to New York, de- vocabulary that works in this context.” A veloped a network, gigged incessantly, and glance at Johnson’s credits as a sideman By J P established himself as a go-to session player confi rms this commitment to the “out” side and sideman. He even finished his studies, of the equation: he’s recorded with the Jazz earning a bachelor’s degree at Manhattan Passengers, Kris Davis, Jenny Scheinman, School of Music in 1997 and following it with and Tom Varner, among dozens of other hen the Fat Babies began their their commitment to traditional jazz, and the a master’s a few years later. One listen to his established fi gures in improvised music. J residency at the Green Mill in 2012, most recent, Uptown, came out earlier this Wthey very nearly started the same month. Like any old-timey genre, trad jazz is so kind of furor that the Mighty Blue Kings did frequently reinterpreted as kitsch that less-in- with their 90s gigs at that club. Granted, the formed audiences only know the bastardized R J Q Sun /, :-: PM, Kings kicked o a craze for jump blues in the version, but the sophisticated arrangements Von Freeman Pavilion Windy City, and the Fat Babies haven’t done the same thing for traditional jazz from the 20s and 30s. But they undoubtedly know the F B music well—their original tunes are almost Fri /, PM, SPACE, indistinguishable from the vintage numbers Chicago Ave., Evanston, $, all ages they re-create. The Fat Babies were founded in 2010 by Sat /, :-: PM, bassist Beau Sample, who’d worked in a vari- Von Freeman Pavilion ety of roots-music genres (rockabilly, blues, et cetera) in Austin, Texas, before coming to Chicago in 2007 and playing with the likes of and committed performances on Uptown don’t Jimmy Sutton’s Four Charms and Devil in a sound like jokes at anybody’s expense. And Woodpile. The same dexterity he’s displayed in judging by the crowds on the dance fl oor for other groups also animates the Fat Babies, giv- the Fat Babies’ Tuesday nights at the Mill (and ing them a solid foundation and the necessary their successful recent residency at Honky COURTESYTHEARTIST
bottom end. They have four albums under their Tonk BBQ), they’ve done a great job of righting own name for the Delmark label, which shares wrongs by exposing the roots of this music. v ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER27 continued from 27 focus on composing,” he says. “In the past, “The bottom line is that I love both of those I’ve written long, through-composed pieces musics and didn’t ‘make a decision’ to go one that take a lot of rehearsal. These pieces are way or another,” he explains. “I found I worked shorter in length. I’m trying to get to the cen- best in music that fi ts in the spaces of both of tral idea of the tune and then let these master those worlds.” improvisers do their thing.” Johnson reconciled these supposedly Johnson describes Ward as “one of the dichotomous realms during the 23 years he baddest musicians on the planet” and says he lived and worked in New York. In 2010, though has “a fully formed, unique improvisational he felt no particular desire to transplant him- language, incredible rhythmic fl exibility, and self, he unexpectedly landed a teaching gig a beautiful sound.” Their pairing nods to the as director of jazz studies at the University great lineage of trumpet-alto front lines in of Wisconsin-Parkside; the following year he post-chordal jazz—think Ornette Coleman uprooted his family and settled in Milwaukee. and Don Cherry, Eric Dolphy and Booker The deciding factor was a better school situ- Little—but as Johnson enthuses about the ation for his daughter, but the move also put potential of this personnel, he comes back Johnson back in the state of his youth—he’d to the yin and yang of inside/outside. “Clark grown up in Racine, and as soon as he had a Sommers and Dana Hall can play anything! driver’s license, he’d started to venture to Chi- They are incredibly creative,” he says. “I often cago for gigs. compose tunes that have ‘open’ sections or When Johnson came back to Wisconsin as contain subtle cues to move from one area an adult, he was already aware of Chicago’s to another. Clark and Dana make these tran- burgeoning jazz and improvised-music com- sitions in such a way that the listener has no munity. Other than perhaps the New York idea we’ve moved from one zone to another. scene, it’s the one most perfectly suited to his The music I compose will only work if there inside/outside mind-set. “When you’re living is trust that the musicians can make these in New York, you can feel like that is the only seamless transitions.” place to be, but I quickly realized there are Odds are they will. All of these players have some heavy cats in the Chicago community,” made the choice to exist in a liminal place he says. “When we had to make a decision that’s neither totally in nor totally out, and regarding my future at Parkside, the commu- they’ve magnified their power as a result. nity of Chicago musicians made that choice Sommers demonstrates it on the adventurous extremely easy.” 2013 record Ba(SH), and Hall—who’ll go down Chicago has embraced Johnson just as as one of the all-time great Chicago musicians, warmly. For nearly a decade now, he’s regu- period—has proved it with every one of the larly made the hour-and-a-half drive south, zillion projects he’s accomplished in recent working with musicians from across the years, including his duets with saxophonist scene—among them brilliant alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella and the overdue record from Greg Ward, who took a suggestion from drum- his midsize ensemble Spring. mer and impresario Mike Reed and tapped Inside/outside. East coast/midwest. No Johnson for his 2016 project 10 Tongues. John- problem—Johnson walks the line. And col- son and Ward subsequently joined a nonet laborating with people this strong makes him led by saxophonist Geof Bradfi eld, along with feel good about having made his big move. He bassist Clark Sommers and drummer Dana can still work with his New York posse, like Hall—and when Johnson was invited to partic- he does on his 2014 CD of Dolphy tunes, Still ipate in this year’s Chicago Jazz Festival, the Out to Lunch. And he can invite Chicagoans, players he assembled were Ward, Sommers, like he does on quartet record Meeting Point, and Hall. He’d already been pondering that released the same year. “I have absolutely no quartet lineup for a few years, and he’s created regrets about leaving New York,” Johnson a book of new pieces for it with a slightly dif- says. “My musical life is very full, and I am ferent idea. “My goal for this project is to set extremely happy to be a part of the Chicago up di erent zones for improvising rather than community.” v 28 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Less scrolling.
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Saxophonist Dave Rempis builds a band with the stamina for deep dives
D R / I H The lively quartet this Chicago mainstay F /A R J B Q brings to the festival fi nds the meditative Sun /, :- PM, heart of free improvisation. Jay Pritzker Pavilion By J C Give your digital life a break. n my idiosyncratic personal dictionary, one who not only pursues an interest in many the current defi nition of the word “omni- di erent approaches to playing music but also Connect over music, dance & more. Imusician” is a little di erent from the one takes a multifarious role behind the scenes. you might’ve found there ten years ago. At For these folks, a whole batch of whom now Anyone can play! Find your that point, it would’ve meant someone who live and breathe as if there were never any summer class at oldtownschool.org plays all kinds of creative music—free, com- other way, making music also requires making posed, conducted, acoustic, electronic. Now music possible. And documenting it. the term applies to a di erent kind of fi gure, Dave Rempis has been on the Chicago J ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER29 chicagoreader.com/VOTE continued from 29 felt like a logical continuation of the work we scene for more than 20 years. I vividly recall were already doing as a trio, that furthered the his fi rst gigs as a member of the Vandermark band’s dialogue while continuing the conver- 5, where in 1998 he’d replaced Mars Williams sation, rather than starting a completely new as second saxophonist to bandleader Ken Van- one.” dermark. Rempis was just 22 when he shifted Baker is the ultimate wild card. He’s the from studying jazz and ethnomusicology at unexpected turn, the twist in the story, the Northwestern to vying for a spot in the Chica- surprise witness. Whatever you think he’ll go creative-music pantheon. He was crackling do, think again. On ARP synth or on piano, hot. With some bop licks still to shake out of Baker is one of Chicago’s true originals, his his system and a bright, searing tone on alto greatness rarely hailed as loudly as it should and tenor, he spent years diligently shaping be. And in this group, true to form, he adds his sound and learning the ropes of free music, mystery and humor and intrigue to the action, crafting a musical persona unique to him. It’s complicating the groove, interrogating the been beautiful to follow. motifs, eavesdropping on the ensemble’s ESP. From very early on, Rempis wasn’t satisfi ed “Jim’s one of my favorite improvisers because to sit and wait for the phone to ring—he knew, he actually improvises every time and doesn’t as he started to organize and lead his own just do his shtick,” says Rempis. “All three of ensembles, that he’d need to hustle. Further, them have ridiculous ears, and the ways in he knew that the hustling wouldn’t always be which we’re able to anticipate one another’s on his own behalf—he’d need to help fertilize decisions are pretty astounding at times. In and nurture the improvised-music community the fi rst 30 seconds of the new record, I hit a as a whole. So in 2002, he began booking a tonic and then immediately jump up an octave weekly series through the nonprofit Elastic to the fl at ninth, which is somewhat of a weird Arts Foundation. In his subsequent 17 years of choice. But Jim beats me to the punch by a service (he’s now president of Elastic’s board), split second, hitting the same fl at ninth.” 2019 Rempis has added countless seminal gigs to Rempis is talking about a 30-second stretch, Chicago’s improvised-music history, provid- but don’t expect short stories from this band— Notables: Best Restaurant, Best Dance Party, ing a consistent outlet as other venues came they work in book-length pieces, digging in and Best Podcast and went. rather than holding back. “I just find that The call of DIY resounds loudly for Rempis. usually my idea of how music develops isn’t New: Best Italian Beef, Best Medical Cannabis In 2013, he added the record label Aerophon- based on the pop-music model that so many Dispensary, and Best Block Club ic to his roster of projects, and since then folks seem to want to hear, even in jazz, with he’s put out more than 20 CDs as well as fi ve short clear tunes and not much exploration,” digital-only downloads, all of them document- he says. “In terms of human musical culture ing his work with great care and precision. around the world and across history, this idea Meanwhile, as a player and leader, he’s been that music should be limited to three-minute challenging himself, pushing his music to new or even eight-minute chunks is unusual. And I places, exploring new partnerships, and form- fi nd that trying to reach the type of meditative ing fresh ensembles. depth in the music that we’re going for takes Rempis has known bassist Joshua Abrams some time. Personally I think it’s where it’s at, since they were at Northwestern together in if you’re trying to arrive at something deeper the mid-90s. In 2012, wanting to play more than a fun bass line or a pop hook.” regularly with his old friend, Rempis formed The Rempis/Abrams/Ra + Baker confi gura- a trio with Abrams and drummer Avreeayl Ra. tion has now released two CDs—the most re- Abrams and Ra had already worked together cent, Apsis, is brand-new. Rempis doesn’t seem extensively in various contexts, and the three at any risk of exhausting his chemistry with of them clicked immediately. I saw one of their these musicians. “What I like most about them fi rst gigs, and something about it reminded me all is that each of them is both opinionated of John Surman’s 1970s band the Trio, with and stubborn in what they do,” he says. “They bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Stu Mar- all have very detailed and thoughtful philos- We know you love Chicago, now tin—irrepressible grooves, free motifs, a sense ophies on their approach to music, and more of boundlessness and joy. Aerophonic released particularly to free-improvised music. And yet tell us why! Vote for your favorite the trio’s debut, Aphelion, in 2014. they’re all willing to budge when someone else places, people, and things to do in A couple years later, with the trio’s vibe fully presents an equally strong vision.” this city, and they could be featured developed, they added keyboardist Jim Baker For the occasion of the Jazz Festival, in the Reader’s special Best Of as a fourth voice—though they retained their Abrams is away touring in Europe, but he’ll Chicago issue this November. status as a trio and attached Baker’s name be replaced by another bassist Rempis has with a “+,” suggesting his status as an invitee. worked with frequently: Norwegian power- “We added Jim just because we all have pret- house and onetime Chicago resident Ingebrigt ty long histories with him, including a trio Håker Flaten. The change promises to shift the formation with those three,” says Rempis. “It group’s dynamic in interesting ways. v
30 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Recommended and notable shows and critics’ insights for the week of August 29
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PICK OF THE WEEK Polo G brings the north-side projects of his youth vividly to life on Die a Legend
RAPPERTAURUSBARTLETT, aka Polo G, grew up in Old Town’s Marshall Field Gar- den Apartments, and he’s channeled the resilience he learned as kid into one of the most durable hip-hop tracks of the year. On “Pop Out” he delivers a vivid hook that indicts the poverty and mayhem in Black communities, but his plaintive, melodic rap-singing can instill lyrics about su ering with a triumphant sense of pride. The song has had serious staying power: released in January, in June it went platinum and reached a new peak at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. That same month Polo G dropped his fi rst full-length, Die a Legend (Columbia), which hit number six on the Billboard 200, making it one of the most successful debut LPs from any Chicago artist in recent memory. By drawing on violent street-rap tropes, syrupy pop songwriting, and hyperlocal history, he’s created a resonant, a ecting album. On “Finer Things,” he details the long-term e ects of poor public- housing man- agement and lack of opportunity on young Black kids like him. He directly refers to the Cabrini-Green projects, where much of his family used to live: “Hardhead- ed, I grew up resilient / It wasn’t no heroes, so we looked up to the villains / For generations, bitch, my side of town been drillin’ / We been at war ever since them red buildings.” In June, he told Pitchfork about seeing buildings he thought of as home get demolished: “Imagine if you was somewhere all your life then out of the blue your family has to move to some place they know nothing about just so they
LVTRKEVIN could put new people where you used to live. It’s like you ain’t good enough to live P G L K in your own neighborhood.” Through his heart-wrenching music, Polo G shares Thu 8/29, 7 PM, the Vic, 3145 N. Sheffield, $27-$87. b that world with anyone who can hear. —L G
by drummer and producer Alex Agresti). The band only by McDermott’s self-deprecating, lackadaisical nation of dirty swagger and bluesman showman- THURSDAY29 found a pocket of success among fans of east-coast drawl. This show is Bay Faction’s second in Chica- ship was a revelation. If you weren’t on board for emo (especially in the r/emo subreddit) for their go this year, and they’re on a solidly indie-rock bill Spencer during this era, it’s probably because you Polo G See Pick of the Week above. Luh Kel 2014 self-titled debut EP, which has a sound akin with local groups Girl K and Mt. Pocono—but since didn’t appreciate (or didn’t know about) the crazy opens. 7 PM, the Vic, 3145 N. Sheffi eld, $27-$87. b to contemporaries such as Modern Baseball and the band are prone to changing things up, next time damaged garage rock of Spencer’s previous band, Glocca Morra. By their second album, last year’s around they might come back with a completely dif- Pussy Galore—which walked the line between auda- Florida Guilt, Bay Faction began to reinvent them- ferent sound. —M H cious and disastrous, notably on a skull-rattling 1986 selves, pulling their early songs off streaming sites reimagining of the entirety of the Rolling Stones’ FRIDAY30 (though you can still find some on YouTube) and Exile on Main St. With his latest band, Jon Spen- tinkering with a new indie-pop sound. Shortly a er Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers Demolition cer & the Hitmakers, Spencer returns to those art- Bay Faction Girl K and Mt. Pocono open. they released the record, McDermott came out as Doll Rods open. 9 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. punk roots with some of his best and most experi- 7 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, sold out. b bisexual, and throughout the album he explores his Southport, $25. 21+ mental bandmates from over the years. The lineup lived experience through lyrics that address sexu- includes bassist Sam Coomes of Quasi and drum- Bay Faction are a band with roots in cyberspace. In ality, youth, and self-image: on “Sopping” he sings, I remember a time in the 90s when certain critics mer M. Sord, who backed Spencer on the fuzzed- 2013, lead singer James McDermott was studying at “I’m quiet, not cute when I laugh / Forbid I’m rec- just didn’t believe that Jon Spencer’s impassioned out 2018 solo release Spencer Sings the Hits (In the Berklee College of Music in Boston when he post- ognized for that.” Florida Guilt oscillates between retro-rock stage presence wasn’t some sort of ridic- Red), as well as longtime avant-rock hero Bob Bert, ed a call for bandmates on a Facebook page for Bay Faction’s recent poppy sound and their more ulous gimmick. Though some derided his band the who drummed with Spencer in Pussy Galore a er local musicians. The only replies came from two fel- methodical, bass-heavy beginnings; “$1k” relies on a Blues Explosion as a second-rate mimic of Canned two stints with Sonic Youth. Using claw hammers for low Berklee students, bassist Kris Roman and drum- quick tempo, synths, and electronic chimes, in con- Heat fronted by a white guy with Mr. Dynamite-era drumsticks, Bert transforms assorted detritus (a gas mer Connor Godfrey (later replaced in Bay Faction trast to the title track, which at times is anchored James Brown aspirations, for others his combi- tank, a garbage can) into instruments that push J ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER31 In honor of the Aug 29 - Sept. 1 2019 MUSIC Chicago Jazz Festival
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North Carolina singer-songwriter Caroline White Saint Louis-born rapper-singer Smino taps two records gentle guitar folk under the name Infi nity MCs from his Chicago-based Zero Fatigue collec- Crush. She’s cited poets Li-Young Lee and Dorianne tive, Bari and Jay2, for “Z4L,” the best song on his Laux as inspirations, and given those cues, you 2018 album, Noir. Jay2 appears at the end, caress- could be forgiven for thinking that she’d be singing ing the track’s minimal, sexually suggestive instru- nothing but elevated songs about nature and love. mental with his fi rm fl ow and supple voice. He needs To be fair, she does do plenty of that; in “Through all of his well-earned self-assurance to handle the From joy to heartache and the Ashes” she compares herself to a bird and to the clusters of beats and unstable synths employed Half-Price every feeling in between, sun, and uses imagery of falling snow. But beneath by Zero Fatigue producer Monte Booker, who also Chicago theatre provides the demure Vashti Bunyan twee there throbs an produced the majority of Jay2’s new EP, 4 Tha Wait exhilarating experiences that unexpected Liz Phair horniness. The opening track (Zero Fatigue/Downtown/Interscope). The young Theatre make audiences come alive. on her 2019 Virtual Heaven (Joy Void), “Misbehav- rapper likewise sounds at home with the slight- ing,” starts with ethereal meditation before spiral- ly bent production there, which Booker splits with ing quickly into lust. “Spin me ’round forever baby / Prodvxzn: on the latter’s “King Louis,” Jay2 uses Book your Endless summer, misbehaving / I wanna be good serene, half-sung verses and taut, rapid raps to next show Tickets but you make me crazy / Touching my thigh in the carve a groove in the wafting synth melody and today! Stretch your dollars. Ignite your soul. back seat baby.” On “Lunar Pull” she uses the inevi- peripatetic percussion, sounding both constantly in powered by table force of gravitation to describe not True Love fl ux and completely in control. —L G Forever but a repeated hookup. The catchy, up-tem- po “Drive Thru” could almost pass for a Taylor Swi Chicago’s best theatre deals: song, if Taylor Swi ’s empowerment anthems includ- Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas The Cell HOTTIX.ORG ed explicit descriptions of girl on top. The juxtaposi- Phones open. 9 PM, Sleeping Village, 3734 W. tion of fl owery poetic conceits and frank concupis- Belmont, $16. 21+ cence wasn’t new even when James Joyce or Prince did it, but White’s sweetly earthy odes to desire Blessed with a dusky wail and a gi for raw, soulful manage to feel unexpected, smart, funny, and exhil- phrasing, Jessica Hernandez has been serving up 32 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Find more music listings at chicagoreader.com/soundboard. MUSIC
Motown-infused, retro-tropical sass with her band preview new material on this tour. Also on the bill the Deltas since 2008. The group’s grooves create are rising Louisville stars Jaye Jayle, who make an unlikely hybrid of fl avors from Detroit, Havana, visionary Americana with strains of trippy minimal- and Mexico City, but Hernandez comes by that mix ism. Front man Evan Patterson (also of Young Wid- naturally: her dad is from Havana, and her mom is ows) lends his dark, intimate vocals to eerily gothic a Detroit-born Mexican American (together they Infi nity Crush songs with elements of space rock and drone. Their own a restaurant and bakery on the city’s southwest COURTESY newly released “Soline,” an outtake from the ses- side). The result is a surprisingly satisfying mix of TERRORBIRD sions for last year’s No Trail and Other Unholy Paths, Motor City grit, surfy psychedelic cumbia, and Latin is a thing of beauty—part shoegaze trance and part rock, with a touch of punk cabaret that refl ects Her- crooned incantation, it evokes the tender side of nandez’s passion for photography, drawing, fashion, David Lynch. —M K and theater. A er the Deltas’ 2014 debut, Secret Evil (which includes a killer cover of Le Tigre’s “Decep- tacon”), Hernandez more deeply explored her Lati- na heritage on their 2017 sophomore album, Tele- TUESDAY3 phone/Teléfono, writing English and Spanish ver- sions of the songs—she took pains to ensure that Ceremony Choir Boy and Glitterer open. 7 PM, each one could stand on its own, and some of the Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, $16. b lyrics aren’t word-for-word or even thought-for- thought translations. Her recent single “Baby,” Northern California punk outfit Ceremony have written with her husband, guitarist Kyle Straka, is tet, fronted by singer-songwriter David Eugene been a vital part of the modern-day hardcore scene a carefree retro disco-funk tune dedicated to their Edwards (who previously led the singularly great since their 2005 inception, but they’ve spent much one-year-old daughter, Stella. The video matches SUNDAY1 country-gothic roots-rock band 16 Horsepower), of their career pushing as hard as possible to sound the song’s vintage feel, with Hernandez dressed to play with a tent-revival fervor that’ll have your hair like anything but a hardcore band. Their earliest the nines in glammy, glittery 70s fashion—and Stella Wovenhand, Jaye Jayle God Damn Your standing on end—you’ll be ready to believe Edwards stuff was super aggressive, powerviolence-inspired makes a cameo appearance while her mom sings, “I Eyes opens. 8 PM, Martyrs’. 3855 N. Lincoln, just got done hallucinating in the desert for 40 days hardcore, but by the early 2010s they’d begun mak- feel diff erently, I’ve got my baby by my side.” Driv- $23. 21+ and 40 nights. Mysterious to the last, they play ing detours, diving into grimy, Stooges-style garage en by Hernandez’s audacious charisma and potent their cards close to their chest, but they’ve nearly rock on 2012’s Zoo and making Joy Division-fl avored vocals, the Deltas’ high-energy performances cast If you’ve never experienced Wovenhand live, I fi nished their ninth studio album, the follow-up to postpunk a focal point on 2015’s The L-Shaped an unbreakable spell. —C M J highly recommend taking this opportunity to rem- 2016’s Star Treatment (a short video posted to Face- Man. On the brand-new In the Spirit World Now edy that. This Colorado-based roots-rock quar- book hints at something spectacular), and they’ll (Relapse), Ceremony move farther away from J
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER PM Chicago singer-songwriter Jess Shoman started her folk-leaning project Tenci in her bedroom a little Tracy Grammer more than a year ago. Spencer Radcliff e & Everyone with special guest Heather Styka • In Szold Hall Else, who opened Tenci’s fi rst show last December at the Hungry Brain, had helped her get the proj- SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER PM ect out of the house. Before that gig, Everyone Else vocalist Tina Scarpello had joined Shoman’s bur- Phil Ochs Song Night geoning band as a bassist and brought early demos featuring Greg Greenway, Pat Wictor, Reggie of the songs to Radcliff e, who eventually produced Harris, and Tom Prasada-Rao • In Szold Hall and played guitar, sax, and piano on Tenci’s debut album, the new My Heart Is an Open Field (Hob- bies). Shoman’s languid, skeletal full-band compo- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER PM sitions provide a spacious stage for her disarming, tender vibrato, and even a subtle shi in her voice In Szold Hall Bush Tetras (such as on the gentle “Joy”) can give you shivers. “Blue Spring” ends with a voice-mail recording from SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER PM her maternal grandmother, whose name is Tenci— her loving message, like the rest of the album, hints Delbert McClinton at a lifetime of memories beneath the surface of the with special guest Gerald Dowd music. This show is a release party for My Heart Is an Open Field. —L G SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER PM Amy Speace In Szold Hall WEDNESDAY4 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER PM Barns Courtney Hunna opens. 7 PM, Park Crash Test Dummies West, 322 W. Armitage, $22-$125. b with special guest Port Cities After Dave Grohl broke his leg early in the Foo Fighters’ 2015 tour, he performed the rest of the WORLD MUSIC dates with his leg in a cast, sitting on a throne of FESTIVAL CHICAGO his own design. Singer-songwriter Barns Court- N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL FREE TO ALL! ney took Grohl’s shtick up a notch after break- ing his foot jumping from the stage at Milwaukee’s Jeremy Dutcher / Summerfest in 2017: he performed while sitting on The Englewood/Soweto Exchange a gurney wearing a hospital gown while a “nurse” The Gurdjieff Ensemble / pushed him around. Courtney is back in hospital HaitiDansCo garb in the video for “Hollow,” a guitar-and-synth jam off his second studio album, 404 (out Sep- doing odd jobs before landing an audition for a Pure Prarie League 8 PM, City Winery, 1200 ACROSS THE STREET IN SZOLD HALL tember 6 on Virgin/EMI). The 28-year-old Court- record producer in the bar of London’s Ace Hotel. W. Randolph, $38-55. b N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL ney says that “Hollow” and 404 (a reference to the The song he played—a gospel-tinged number called Global Dance Party: error message for a missing Web page) both signify “Fire”—wound up on the soundtrack of the 2015 As I get older, I warm up more and more to laid- Jimmy Träskelin and Tallari emptiness and how people lose themselves as they Bradley Cooper movie Burnt, and later became back Americana, delving far beyond the tunes of age—we can follow the links to our pasts, but there’s the kickoff track of Courtney’s major-label debut, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark, and Townes Van Zandt WORLD MUSIC WEDNESDAY SERIES nothing there. The British-born singer-songwriter 2017’s The Attractions of Youth. On 404 he offers that I revered as a wee lad. I’ve sought out vin- FREE WEEKLY CONCERTS, LINCOLN SQUARE (full name: Barnaby George Courtney) moved to up ten melodic, psychedelic, and sometimes dance- tage practitioners of acoustic twang such as Coun- Mames Babegenush the Seattle area at age four and back to England worthy tunes, infusing each of them with his deep, try Funk, Uncle Jim’s Music, and Hearts & Flow- Subrata Bhattacharya & Abhisek at 15, where he dug into the British indie scene. His rich voice, which is reminiscent of Iggy Pop and ers, who are just as good but a bit more obscure— Lahiri / Lucio Feuillet band Dive Bella Dive signed to Island Records when David Bowie. Courtney’s live shows can be sweaty though of course, each band imploded after an he was just out of high school, and when the label affairs—he goes all-out when he performs, often album or two. Pure Prairie League fall fi rmly on the dropped them three years later without releasing ending up shirtless or even pantsless—but I wouldn’t more mainstream end of the Americana spectrum, OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG an album, Courtney found himself with no skills or expect him to leap off the stage again anytime soon. and while many people assume they’re a one-hit work experience. He spent the next three years —K L wonder thanks to the 1973 single release of “Amie” 34 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Find more music listings at chicagoreader.com/soundboard. MUSIC 3730 N. CLARK ST METROCHICAGO.COM @ METROCHICAGO
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: I’m a straight woman and have been sexually active for about six years. I’m in my mid-20s now and about ready to become a “man-hating feminist.” I feel like I can fi gure out what a guy wants in bed pretty easily. I cannot remember a single time when I’ve had sex with a guy that he has not had an orgasm. I, on the other hand, have never had an orgasm. Quite the opposite! I’ve barely even been aroused lately when I am having sex because it’s easy to tell when the guy I’m with just wants to come and that is the only thing on his mind. This makes me want to just get it over with. I’ve become really angry with the male population and their lack of care for pleasing a woman. Will it take a Women’s Pleasure Revolution for men to realize that their female counterparts have needs too? Granted, I’ve had sex with only fi ve guys—but in my mind, Dan, that’s fi ve too many. I also have girlfriends in the same boat. Men skip foreplay, they don’t return the favor when it comes to oral, and they’re so eager to get their penises in my vagina, they barely touch me before doing so! THIS MAKES ME FEEL USED. I’m a giving woman by nature, but I feel like men just take. I don’t hate men. I REAL PEOPLE actually really like men. In fact, I was madly in love with one of the fi ve. —R E / REAL DESIRE V O L T REAL FUN.
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All welcome, Type: Name Change from Date 10/28/2019. 50 W. be held at 83rd & Halsted Paul Baker, long-time shopping & Parks. (08/29) I can’t wait to share my story Frederick Charles Romano, Washington St., Chicago, IL Self Storage, Inc., located Northside resident, passed and learn about yours. Jr. to Landon Theodoros in Courtroom #1704 Case # at 8316 S. Birkhoff Ave, away on Aug. 19 at the age Peter Saunders #B–00118 Alexatos. Case Initiation 2019CONC001088 (09/12) Chicago, IL 60620, to sell of 88. 2600 N. Brinton Avenue Date 08/16/2019 Court Date the following articles held He was born on Jan. 9, Dixon, Illinois 61021 (08/29) 10/16/2019 at 9:30am 50 W. This letter is to notify that within said storage units 1931 and raised in Carollton, Applications being accepted Washington St., Chicago, IL on September 25, 2019 at to enforce a lien existing Missouri, served in the Navy for Section 8 eligible tenants. LEGAL NOTICES in Courtroom #1706 Case # 9:00 a.m. an auction will under the laws of the be held at South Shore state of Illinois. and lived and worked most East Lake Management 2019CONC001062 (09/05) of his adult life in Chicago. Group, Inc.: LUTHER STATE OF ILLINOIS, Self Storage, Inc., located TERRACE, 4747 S. Martin Notice is hereby given, at 7843 S. Exchange Ave, 1. 498 Willie Smith He enjoyed travel, took cruises yearly and just last PUBLICATION NOTICE 2. 140 Kristen Blackman year walked the Great Wall of China. He served for Luther King Jr. Dr., Chicago, OF COURT DATE FOR pursuant to “An Act in Chicago, IL 60649, to sell 60615, (O): 773-373-7733 or relation to the use of an the following articles held 3. 250 Carl Childress decades as president of the Boardwalk Condominium REQUEST FOR NAME 4. 116 Akyeam Hanley board of directors, where he was the heart and soul 34. Please apply in person on CHANGE. Location Cook Assumed Business Name in within said storage units Tuesday, Sept. 17, from 9 am the conduct or transaction to enforce a lien existing 5. 130 Deshawn Williams of the Boardwalk community. He was an avid reader, County - County Division - 6. 145 Edgar Williams traveler and exercise enthusiast, walking to classes at to 3pm. Spacious 1-Bdrm, Case Type: Name Change of Business in the State, under the laws of the 2-Bdrm and Studio units “as amended, that a state of Illinois. 7. 221 Antonite Knox Weiss Hospital several times a week including the last from Lenise Lani Aguilar to 8. 322 Reginald Wilson week of his life. available. Access is available Lenise Lani. Case Initiation certification was registered to laundry & off-street by the undersigned with 1. 574 Latrice Garrett 9. 475 Natalie Bennett He was preceded in death by his father Paul Baker, Date 07/02/2019 Court 10. 313 Lekeyia Collins parking. Conveniently located Date 10/03/2019, 50 W. the County Clerk of Cook 2. N008 Nicole Watson his mother Lucille Baker, his brother James Baker and in historic Bronzeville near County, Registration Number: 3. 360 Kendal Thurman many friends. Washington St., Chicago, IL This letter is to notify public transportation & the Case # 2019CONC000850 Y19002000 on the August 16, 4. 447 Trena Ousley He is survived by nieces Kyle Baker and Kim. He is Harold Washington Cultural 2019. Under the Assumed 5. 105 Gino Cook that on September 25, mourned by friends including Doris Sidney, Nancy Poore Assigned to Judge Calendar, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. an Center. (08/29) 4 (09/05) Name of MIDWEST GREEN 6. N018 Wintry Simmons and Jean Albright who will forever miss his friendship PROPERTIES with the 7. 461 Larissa Johnson auction will be held at and gentlemanly presence. Hyde Park Self Storage, STATE OF ILLINOIS, business located at 6208 8. 226 Victoria Harden Paul Baker was a supporter of the Center on Halsted. S. INDIANA AVE. UNIT 2, 9. 229 Deevivian Salomon Inc., located at 5155 Donations can be made to the Center in remembrance PUBLICATION NOTICE S. Cottage Grove Ave, OF COURT DATE FOR CHICAGO, IL 60637. The 10. S017 Arthur Yancy of him. true and real full name(s) 11. 607 Denise Swift Chicago, IL 60615, to sell REQUEST FOR NAME the following articles held Contact: [email protected] CHANGE. Location: District and residence address of MARKETPLACE the owners(s)/partner(s) is: This letter is to notify that within said storage units 4 Court, Cook County, to enforce a lien existing GENERAL IL - County Division - Case Owner/Partner Full Name: on September 25, 2019 RASHAD GLOVER Complete at 9:00 a.m. an auction under the laws of the Type: Name Change from state of Illinois. Valerie Anne Guerra to Address: 6208 S. INDIANA will be held at Aaron Bros. ADULT SERVICES AVE. UNIT 2, CHICAGO, IL Self-Storage, Inc., located Valerie Anne Strattan 1.205 Kathy Webb Guerra. Case Initiation Date 60637, USA and TASHEENA at 4034 S. Michigan Ave, Danielle’s Lip Service, Erotic STEWART, 6208 S. INDIANA Chicago, IL 60653, to sell 2. 427 Thomas McElroy Phone Chat. 24/7. Must be 08/15/2019 Court Date 3. 371 Darryl G. Fairley 10/18/2019 at 10:30am, 50 AVE. UNIT 2, CHICAGO, IL the following articles held 21+. Credit/Debit Cards 60637, USA (09/05) within said storage units 4. 135 George Kagan Accepted. All Fetishes and W. Washington St., Chicago, 5. 468 Jeff rey D. Cade IL in Courtroom #1707 Case to enforce a lien existing Fantasies Are Welcomed. STATE OF ILLINOIS, under the laws of the state 6. V334 Shareeka T. Moon Personal, Private and # 2019CONC001055 Judge: 7.10120 Thomas Murton Calendar, 12 (09/05) PUBLICATION NOTICE of Illinois. Discrete. 773-935-4995 OF COURT DATE FOR 8. 435 Ernestine Gilliam please recycle (08/29) 1. 2000 Nina Powell 9.10121 Michael B. Weaver STATE OF ILLINOIS, REQUEST FOR NAME PERSONALS CHANGE. Location Cook 2. 509 Ebony Davis 10.278 Phyllis A. Robinson PUBLICATION NOTICE 3. 218 Rod Miller OF COURT DATE FOR County - County Division - this paper 52 year old incarcerated REQUEST FOR NAME Case Type: Name Change Black/Italian male seeks from Katherine Collins
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