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IN THIS ISSUE T R - CITY LIFE 12 Photo A photographer captures @ 04 Sightseeing Take our quiz on quiet moments of Black fatherhood Chicago underworld slang and fi nd out what cackleberries are P T B I E C S K K H D E K S FILM C L SK 21 Festival Cinepocalypse returns to D P J R C E AL the Music Box with a fresh crop of M E P M horror fi lms and cult classics A E J L 22 Pride The case for accurate 34 Secret History of Chicago S W D I BJ MS LGBTQ representation in movies Music Disco diva Loleatta S W M D L G 23 Review Shots focuses too Holloway got a second wind from E A SN L much on the Laquan McDonald house music G D D C S M E B W FOOD & DRINK shooting at the expense of 36 Early Warnings Ciara M L C NEWS & POLITICS 10 Restaurant Review Two McDonald himself Eyehategod SleaterKinney and S C -J 05 Joravsky | Politics Don’t give powerful new contenders on the 24 Movies of note The Dead Don’t more justannounced shows F L C P F T A E C S up on an elected school board hotfriedchicken front Die directs satirical barbs at Trump 36 Gossip Wolf Bodymilk Tapes C N B Mayor Lightfoot era racism The Last Black Man in invites a crowd of queer and D C L C I 06 Isaacs | Culture So much for San Francisco takes a poetic view trans musicians to Noise Prom II G A G KT ARTS & CULTURE H R H JH gambling of the people by the 15 Pride A ‘freaking fag of gentrifi cation and Late Night the Humanities Festival hosts a J H I H D J M people and for the people revolutionary’ remembers the early tackles sexism in the workplace discussion of Jim DeRogatis’s K S K M M years of gay liberation in Chicago with panache R Kelly book and more B M Q JRN L P K RBS D 18 Lit Indecent Advances tells S T W A W the secret history of a time when MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE OPINION ------propositioning another man was 27 Feature | The Block Beat 37 Savage Love Dan Savage off ers D D J D acceptable grounds for murder Beloved drag mom Lucy Stoole advice for a gal in need of a safe D P E & P K K 19 Magic Jeanette Andrews has uses a favorite vintage store to skilled male sex worker O M S A mastered the art of “Bottling the make a point about showing up for A A J G Impossible ” your community CLASSIFIEDS Y D 30 In Rotation Current musical 38 Jobs ADVERTISING THEATER obsessions of Teen Movie Hell 39 Apartments & Spaces -- - @ 20 Plays of note Desire in a Tinier author Mike McPadden comics 39 Marketplace C @ House is a moving queer love artist Corinne Halbert and more S D P F FEATURE storydespite the shirtlessboy 31 Shows of note Mono Rosanne V P S A M 08 Comics Pregnant? Worried? marketing Emma remains true to Cash Raja Kumari and more this O C R M TP P D G S A R Call Jane the the original week B G A H J L LM -H A R L S B W C S M W R
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while a dead one was a reformed criminal. snails, stinkers, and red lead were synonyms Bright eyes are a lookout man or woman. A for sausages, eggs, cinnamon rolls, onions, phoneman is a peddler of cheap jewelry. A and catsup is something of a mystery. It is pickpocket—also known as a buzz, a whizzy, a easy to see how other entries could confuse dip, or a wire—might roust a target (push into outsiders. Barbering is to have a conversation. a crowd to permit the picking of a pocket in the Cheaters could mean eyeglasses or marked confusion) or try reefi ng (working up the lining cards or dice. The word clout as a noun means of the pocket between the fi ngers until the de- infl uence, but the verb to clout means to steal sired article is easily reached). or to strike. Why a Chicago cop would need to know that Think you know your Chicago underworld? a rod, a gat, a biscuit, a torch, a stick, a cannon, Here’s a quiz of some of the less obvious en- a roscoe, and a heater were all slang words for tries in Penitentiary & Underworld Argot. The handguns is clear. Why a Chicago cop would correct answer is lifted word-for-word from need to know that beagles, cackleberries, the dictionary itself.
1) Clink 8) Pineapple SEANDAVIS A) Highest-ranking offi cer at a police station A) Money B) A jail B) A decoy for a confi dence game C) A successful robbery C) A bomb
Sightseeing 2) Unmugged 9) Badger game A) Not listed on police records; a criminal not A) A gambling wheel controlled by the foot of as yet identifi ed as “wanted” by the police the operator Think you know your Chicago B) “Hungover” a er a long night of drinking B) A blackmailing scheme in which the vic- C) Someone who is unaware he has been tim is taken to a room or apartment by the pickpocketed woman accomplice and there discovered by underworld slang? the “husband.” 3) Glom C) The hustling and shoving about by a pick- A quiz on some of the less obvious entries in a 1967 police-training dictionary A) To snatch; seize; grab; steal. pocket mob B) To inspect a house or store before robbing By J N C) To arrest; to apprehend 10) The School A) The Pontiac, Illinois, Penitentiary, formerly 4) Hoosier a reformatory, as referred to by prisoners in n looking at the James Stukel Towers, underworld.” With nearly 1,600 entries, the A) A locksmith the Joliet penitentiaries the spiffy University of Illinois at Chi- mimeographed dictionary has a few awkward B) A man who sells fi rearms to criminals B) United States Penitentiary, Marion, as cago dorms near the corner of Halsted defi nitions, and while it is fi lled with remark- C) An ineffi cient worker referred to by prisoners in Illinois state and Rochford, it is hard to imagine that ably crude expressions, “vulgarity in the most penitentiaries it used to be the site of the dilapidated distasteful and objectionable passages” was 5) Jit C) Gallery at the Cook County Jail where Itraining academy of the Chicago Police De- omitted “for the sake of propriety.” A) A car used for bank robberies newly arrived prisoners are housed or celled. partment. From 1960 to 1976, police recruits With entries such as jail house, mob, gang- B) A nickel trained in a decrepit school building built in ster, ex-con, hooker, bum, goofy, and nifty, C) Any strong drink 9-10 correct: A-1! You’re prepared for under- 1857, a stone’s throw from the Maxwell Street much of the Penitentiary & Underworld Argot cover work in the Chicago underworld. Market. One of the manuals from the academy, seems patronizingly obvious. (Didn’t every- 6) Yegg 7-8 correct: Bang-up job! You’re ready to walk Penitentiary & Underworld Argot, captures the one who passed the police exam know that a A) Marijuana a beat, maybe even around Maxwell Street. spirit of Maxwell Street. The 1967 dictionary is cop is another word for a police o cer?) The B) A percentage paid to a corrupt policeman 6-4 correct: Bad break. Let’s start you off on questionable, weird, hilarious, infuriating, and dictionary is also fi lled with patter we asso- for “protection” the far northwest side, rookie. enlightening. ciate with film noir: gin mill, shut your yap, C) A thief 3-0 correct: Complete fl op. There might be a Robert M. McCann, then-director of train- gumshoe, on the lam, trigger man, and fall guy. fi ling job for you somewhere, hayseed. If you ing for the Chicago Police Department, pref- Though a section of the dictionary included 7) Pigeon joint want to make it, you’ll have to brush up on aced the dictionary with an explanation that it “terms commonly used by narcotic addicts or A) A store where burglars’ tools may be your pulp crime novels. v
was not “a complete dictionary of underworld traffickers,” the dictionary feels remarkably purchased
called rowdy dowdy. rowdy called slang.” Its definitions were “obtained from light on 60s slang. B) The section of the prison where informers A 10. )
inmates of prisons, ex-convicts, thieves or of Yet alongside easy-peasy entries such as are held is mob pickpocket a by about shoving and
beat the rap, big shot, side kick, double cross, C) A graveyard hustling The wheel. gaff a is operator the A gambling wheel controlled by the foot of of foot the by controlled wheel gambling A that ilk,” with contributions from instructors (
who had “enjoyed various assignments that and nut house are expressions of the criminal B 9. C 8. A 7. C 6. B 5. C 4. A 3. A 2. B 1. brought them into ‘conversational or arrest’ tradecraft and colorful, nearly extinct turns Answers: contact with thieves or members of the of phrase. Dead bang means caught in the act, 4 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll NEWS & POLITICS
The new mayor has at least temporarily slammed the brakes on moves toward an elected school board. ERNOHANNINK/FLICKR
POLITICS School board politics Don’t give up on an elected school board, Mayor Lightfoot. By B
ow that Mayor Lightfoot has named chaired the council’s Finance Committee and her school board appointees, the wound up serving time for corruption. We’ll time has come for me to evaluate see if Burke avoids that fate. the previous mayor’s appointees. I still remember del Valle’s election-night Ugh, what’s lower than one star? smile as he giddily proclaimed to his cheering NIn contrast, Lightfoot’s appointees seem supporters: “We beat Nedza!” Obviously, he #TVKUV9TKVGT better, and they seem to come with some back- was as surprised as the rest of us. bone that the previous board rubber-stampers Anyway, Lightfoot and del Valle said all the 2GTHQTOGT! clearly lacked. right things at their press conference. She said %4'#6+8' 51.76+105 (14 There’s a community activist who spoke out she wanted a collaborative relationship with %4'#6+8' 2'12.' against Mayor Rahm’s school closings, a for- the board, “not a dictatorship.” mer CPS teacher, a specialist in child develop- And he said that neither he nor the mayor 5WRRQTVKXG #HHKTOKPI CPF )QCN ment, and Miguel del Valle, the reform-mind- wanted a “rubber-stamp” board. early &KTGEVGF 2U[EJQVJGTCR[ CPF ed former state senator from Humboldt Park. So that’s all good, except . . . *[RPQVJGTCR[ HQT #FWNVU He’ll be the board’s chair. Mayor Lightfoot’s at least temporarily warnings I’ve known del Valle for decades. I happened slammed the brakes on the movement toward /#: - 5*#2'; .%59 to be there the night in 1986 when del Valle, an elected school board, just as it seemed that never miss a show again .QECVGF KP &QYPVQYP 'XCPUVQP then a community organizer, upset state long-awaited progressive pipe dream might chicagoreader.com/early senator Edward Nedza, a key cog in former become a reality. alderman Tom Keane’s legendary 31st Ward The most recent bill, sponsored by state YYYOCZUJCRG[EQO Democratic machine. rep Robert Martwick, had passed the house. OCZUJCRG["CQNEQO Let me tell you something, kiddies—beating It seemed poised to pass the senate when NWG TQUU NWG 5JKGNF 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT Keane’s machine was no joke. Keane was Ed Lightfoot, like the great Mutombo, rose from KIPC 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT Burke before Ed Burke—a tough old coot who nowhere to swat it away. J ll JUNE - CHICA O READER5 NEWS & POLITICS continued from 5 Whatever it takes to help keep kids focused, For what it’s worth, Martwick supported motivated, and learning. Toni Preckwinkle in last month’s election. But this costs money. And there never seems More egregiously, he made the suberbad to be enough of that around, at least when it decision to show up uninvited to a Lightfoot comes to educating the poorest of the poor. campaign press conference and, essentially, Making things even worse, the last few heckle her. boards didn’t exactly have the best track re- Thus, there are three theories as to why cords when it came to managing the money Lightfoot opposed the elected school board they had. Especially during the Daley years, bill: (1) She really did think it was unwieldy when they signed on to risky loans that wound having so many districts; (2) It was her way of up costing taxpayers millions in financing letting Martwick know just what she thought costs. of him; (3) A little of both. This is particularly frustrating, given that I’m going with (3). Apparently, I’m not the the appointees included university presidents, only person in town who has a hard time get- corporate lawyers, bankers, retired CEOs, and ting over grudges. even an economics professor. In any event, Lightfoot got senate president Moreover, board members have seemed John Cullerton to put the bill on hold and, just incapable of standing up to the mayor who had like that, we’re back to square one, still the appointed them, even as the mayor diverted only municipality in the state that doesn’t hundreds of millions of dollars away from CPS elect its school board, still relying on the kind- and into the TIF slush funds. ness of mayors to pick the right appointees. In its final act of subservience to Mayor As for the previous appointees—the ones Rahm, the last board silently watched as the State legislators recently approved a Chicago-based casino. MARKMAUNO/FLICKR put there by Mayors Rahm and Daley—the mayor and City Council tag teamed to ded- best you can say is they didn’t make things too icate $2.4 billion in property tax dollars for much worse than they already were. the Lincoln Yards and 78 deals. At best, these In my opinion, not a whole lot has changed will reap more property tax dollars for CPS with Chicago Public Schools since I moved when the TIF districts end in 23 years. But that here in 1981. won’t help today’s, or tomorrow’s, students. ON CULTURE It’s still largely a top-down, overly bureau- So much for putting kids fi rst. cratic, almost-always-broke system in which Presumably the new board, with del Valle at teachers by and large do the best they can the helm, will be more likely to protest if this Games people play under di cult circumstances frequently made mayor proposes new mega-TIF deals. worse by the boneheaded decisions of the peo- Of course, presumably, Mayor Lightfoot, Despite Mayor Lightfoot’s campaign promise, Chicago’s ple in charge. who ran against such boondoggles, will have casino will be owned by a private investor a er all. In Chicago—as anywhere—the single great- enough sense not to propose one in the fi rst est predictor of academic performance is, place. We shall see. By D I more often than not, income. That is, the more In the meantime, here’s hoping Lightfoot money a student’s family has, the better those fi nds a way to forgive Martwick for his trans- students tend to do in school. I mean, duh, gressions and sign on to his bill—once it’s funny thing happened on the way This kinder, gentler casino concept, with people—we all know this. been modifi ed so everyone saves face. to state legislative approval for all the money siphoned from the poor-sap If the Chicago mayors and their board I realize there are pros and cons to electing Chicago’s very own casino last customers coming right back to them in city appointees truly wanted to bridge the gap be- a school board. Lord knows, Chicago’s voters week. services or a better-balanced city budget, tween the lowest and highest achievers, they’d don’t exactly have the best track record when For decades political leaders, has been around at least since the state move heaven and earth to fi nd the money to it comes to elections. lustingA after the easy money a casino in the legalized riverboat gambling back in 1990. make it happen. But as a general principle, I’ll take democ- nation’s third-largest city would bring, have Richard M. Daley was a proponent. So was That means hiring tutors, counselors, racy over autocracy anytime. After all, if del proposed a vision of a very special kind of Rahm Emanuel, although, oddly, neither of nurses, therapists, and art, music, and drama Valle can beat Nedza, anything’s possible. v gambling place, one that would override these powerful mayors was able to success- teachers, as well as expanding pre- and after- qualms about sucker traps that transfer cash fully propel it through the governmental school activities and vocational education. @joravben from some of the poorest and most vulnera- obstacle course in Springfi eld. And reformer ble members of the populace to the pockets Lori Lightfoot campaigned on the idea, tell- of fat-cat investors. ing Crain’s Chicago Business (and anyone The vision those leaders floated took else who asked) that “if people in Chicago the predatory investors out of the picture, want to gamble, then they should be able please recycle this paper replacing them with something much more to gamble in Chicago at a city-owned, land- beneficent: a casino that would be city based casino.” owned, with profits entirely dedicated to That’s what she’d be seeking in Spring- civic causes. fi eld: a casino of, by, and for the people. 6 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll NEWS & POLITICS
So it came as a surprise when, in the orgi- Lauren Huffman responded with a written astic last hours of the spring session of the statement that ducked the question but made Illinois General Assembly on June 2, legisla- the point that a casino “will create a new tors approved an 800-page omnibus bill that revenue stream and will allow us to shore up massively expanded gambling and fi nally gave underfunded police and fire pensions.” She Chicago its own casino—and it turned out that thought maybe I should ask the bill’s sponsors. the heart of the Chicago casino concept had In the Illinois House, that would be 28th somehow been gutted. District rep Robert Rita. His answer came Like every other casino in Illinois, the huge from spokesman Ryan Keith, who told me Rita new Chicago facility, with as many as 4,000 himself had proposed a city- or state-owned gaming positions, will be owned by private casino in the past, but, in this instance, “I investors. think they just decided it was cleanest and As explained by the bill’s sponsors, the simplest to do it the way they do all the other casino profits will be shared equally by the casinos”—that is, with private owners. city, the state, and the investor who buys the Who decided? “The negotiators,” Keith said, license. Governor J.B. Pritzker, who’s invested “representatives from all the di erent legisla- in the gaming industry himself, is expected to tive caucuses, the governor’s o ce. The city sign o on it in the next few weeks. So much obviously was involved.” for civic ownership, dispensable as chips on a Northeastern Illinois University economics roulette wheel. professor Michael Wenz, who studies gam- It was a bait and switch that didn’t get much bling as an economic development strategy, notice. says that, compared to past Illinois casino Mayor Lightfoot told the Sun-Times that a deals, the city did well. “A third of AGR [ad- city-owned casino “wasn’t going to make its justed gross revenue] is a good deal,” Wenz way through the General Assembly,” and that told me. “They can do that without having the “legislative process is about compromise.” to worry about the costs, without having And then the public discussion moved on to to worry about anything. And it’ll be wildly speculation about which of a half-dozen possi- profi table.” ble locations would be the chosen casino site, Casino revenue has been fl at or even down with the odds in favor of the old Michael Reese recently, cannibalized by the spread of video Hospital site in Bronzeville—never mind the gambling, but Wenz says it’s reasonable to objections of local residents . expect that a well-located city casino could do In the city that’s home to the world’s most three times what Rivers Casino in Des Plaines notorious parking meter deal, the question of does in volume. Figures from the Illinois Gam- how this happened was pretty much left hang- ing Board show that Rivers’s AGR in 2018 was ing. WTTW, which did ask Governor Pritzker, $441 million. reported that he said the casino will be pri- Someone in Springfield no doubt did the vately owned “at the city’s request.” math on that. v So I called Lightfoot’s office to ask for an explanation. Deputy communications director @DeannaIsaacs
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RESTAURANT REVIEW cancer. It’s he who’s behind the name “Big Boss”—growing up poor, that’s how he de- scribed a friend’s father who could a ord to Meet spring chickens Big Boss feed his family a full meal of rice each day. When Lee returned to Chicago, her family still owned the Halsted Street kitchen that and Chicken Pollo Shack serviced their suburban restaurants. It was there that she decided to focus, opening B Chicago has two powerful new contenders on the hot-fried-chicken front. B S F C to specialize in her particular mash-up of Belizean marinated By M S chicken—not sauced with ketchup, but with a molten Nashville-style chile mop. hef Jassy Lee is a living embodiment rants and served fried chicken—uhhh, BFC?— over the years are jaw-dropping. Belizean The fresh birds Lee sources for Big Boss of an international fried chicken tri- marinated in a multichile blend, battered and fried chicken was one formative infl uence on are enormous, and conjure an image of the angulation, a case study in the global fried, and draped with sweet ketchup. the recipe she later developed. But it was also impressive quantities of chile powder she a nity for spicy, battered, and crispy Back in Chicago, the family went on to open inspired by the Nashville hot-chicken craze must go through each night when she packs poultry. Born in Taishan, Guangdong, two western-suburban Chinese restaurants that’s swept the country, emanating from the and seals them tight with a blend of ghost, Cshe emigrated to the U.S. in 1991 with her they sourced from a common commissary in legendary Prince’s Hot Chicken in Nashville, habanero, serrano, and four other chiles parents, but also visited relatives in Belize, Bridgeport. A few years ago Lee left them be- where chicken is battered and fried, then before the battering and frying and the fi nal members of that country’s Chinese immigrant hind for a packaging business in Los Angeles. mopped in a magma of oil, chile, spices, and application of heat and sweetness. Lee scout- community, which is largely responsible for She remained a dedicated cook, though—the sugar. ed notable Nashville hot-chicken locations to another beloved expression of deep-fried photos she sent to me of dozens of bacchana- Lee returned to Chicago last year to help research the last step, and o ers hers in fi ve poultry. Lee’s Belizean family owned restau- lian feasts she’s cooked for family and friends care for her father, who was recovering from spice levels, the middle of which is loaded 10 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll Search the Reader’s online database of thousands of Chicago-area restaurants—and add your own review—at chicagoreader.com/food. Less scrolling. with a respectable but by no means excruci- driguez has been selling ridiculous amounts of ating amount of capsicum and encrusted in fried chicken, burning through 5,000 takeout a shatteringly crispy crust. Though most of menus in a just a few months. her business is carryout, her product is best He isn’t tied to any particular kind of region- appreciated immediately on one of the stools al variant, though there is a nod to K[orean] at the counter looking out onto Halsted, FC with the addition of gochujang to his over- where one’s enveloped in a kind of gra ti-art night buttermilk-brine marinade, along with womb that mimics the fi reworks in the mouth. sriracha, mustard, garlic, onion, and black Whole, half, and quarter birds, wings, and pepper. And that’s only after an overnight tenders are available as well, though it’s Lee’s brine with salt and bay leaf that renders the chicken sandwich that’s become something of birds explosively juicy beneath a craggy crust an Instagram celebrity: an enormous boneless, resulting from a double dredge through fl our brick-red fried thigh that dwarfs the bun it seasoned with black pepper and cardamom, comes on, the cooling coleslaw crown and raw among other seasonings. jalapeño e ectively canceling each other out CPS is mostly carryout too, though Rodri- over the fury of the chicken. guez provides a picnic table where, if you’re Lee offers a few other options: chicken playing it right, you’ll attend to this chicken curry, chicken teriyaki, chicken soup, and right away—particularly if you’re pairing it chicken salad, plus an assortment of sauces with one of his house-made sauces and dips, and fried sides. But her Belizean-Nashville familiar but signifi cantly boosted by his down- hybrid (BFC/NFC?) needs nothing more than town training. He purees both fermented and perhaps a side of ranch to tame the higher grilled habaneros for his West Side Fire sauce, spice levels. sweetened and brightened with honey and orange juice, while he whips his own aioli into s it turns out, this was a very good the buttermilk and herbs for the ranch, and spring for fried chicken. Shortly before sweetens his buffalo sauce with some of the More strumming. ALee opened Big Boss, across the city an- West Side Fire sauce and Hawaiian Punch. other chef in another once-private commercial Another sauce is critical to the sleeper at kitchen was bouncing back from a restaurant Chicken Pollo Shack. I was dazed enough by closing. the fried chicken that I was prepared to ignore For years, David Rodriguez labored in rel- Rodriguez’s grilled option until a colleague ative obscurity in kitchens such as Gibsons , told me he was so devoted to it he orders it GT Fish & Oyster, and the Kennison. Then last at least once a week. Like the fried chicken, year, he and his mother opened Xocome Anto- Rodriguez follows a two-step brine-marinade jeria in southwest-side Archer Heights, which process, the latter part employing a tart for a time became a Chicago food media dar- adobo-style medium with cilantro, bay leaf, ling for its house-made tortillas, quesadillas, cinnamon, cayenne, paprika, onion, and and tlacoyos. lemon. Once the meat hits the grill it takes on Xocome was a bit of a shooting star. After a delectable char, which Rodriguez mitigates just six months the family rented out the space with splashes of the marinade, and finishes to an employee when Rodriguez’s mom had with a mop of what he calls a “simple modi- to go to Mexico for extended visit,* and he fi ed chimichurri”—cilantro, oregano, parsley, put his attention into a small Humboldt Park lemon, black pepper, and roasted garlic—that counter-service-only fast-food joint with a puts this bird into a category by itself. Rodri- kitchen and register protected by bulletproof guez humbly says it puts him in mind of sum- glass. Rodriguez was considering removing mer. For me it’s the best chicken I’ve eaten all the protector, covering up the windows, and year. using the space to entertain potential clients And I don’t say that lightly during a season for his catering business. when there’s so much good commissary-fried Instead he tapped his extensive experience chicken to be had. One more decent CFC joint Give your digital life a break. frying chicken for staff meals and opened and it’s a trend. v C P S . Like Lee, Rodriguez Connect over music, dance & more. offers a world-beating spicy chicken sand- *More good news: Rodriguez and his mother wich, this one a double stack of fried chicken have reopened Xocome Antojeria at its orig- Anyone can play! Find your thighs served buffalo style. He also offers a inal location, 5200 S. Archer, 773-498-6679, summer class at oldtownschool.org double cheeseburger modeled on the south xocome-antojeria.business.site. side’s endemic Big Baby. But prompted by the kind of media attention Xocome received, Ro- @MikeSula ll JUNE - CHICA O READER11 Maxwell and Maxwell Jr. enjoying some quality time in a park across from their home in Woodlawn
Black Edward and Julissa out for a stroll, also in Woodlawn
fatherhood ne day during my daily Green stroller? Or he could’ve just been contemplat- Black men are rarely aff orded the luxury of being seen as Line commute, I noticed a ing what was for dinner that evening. As the nurturers and caregivers. young brother with a little girl train slowed at their stop, he snatched up the slumped in his arms wearing diaper bag on the seat next to him, unlocked Story and photos by W D F a “Daddy’s Girl” beanie. He the stroller, and exited the train. It was a beau- Oremoved her pacifi er and placed her in a pink tiful and tender moment. Thankfully I have the stroller. For what seemed like the rest of their pleasure of witnessing these moments often. ride he stared at the little girl as she slept. One Within our society there is an underlying could only imagine what he was thinking. Was belief that fatherhood is a role Black males he reflecting on his life? Thinking about his struggle to fill. The lack of Black fathers in hopes and dreams for the baby girl lying in the homes has become the knee-jerk explanation 12 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll for the ills of Black America. Even former President Obama has expressed this idea. At a Father’s Day speech in 2008, Obama claimed that there are too many Black fathers missing from too many homes and that it threatens the foundation of Black communities. But every day I see Black men engaging in acts of care. Most are not making a political statement but fulfi lling their basic human instinct. Picking up and dropping children o at school, changing diapers, and smothering babies with kisses are all signs of a loving and attentive parent, and Black men are doing all these things and more. According to a 2013 study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Pre- vention, Black men are more involved with their children than other demographics. For example, at 70 percent, Black fathers are more involved than their white and Latino counter- parts in bathing, diapering, or dressing their children daily. Due to hundreds of years of pervasive dehumanizing images of Black males and publications like the Moynihan Report, which outlined the “deep roots of Black poverty J
Kelvin Woodard taking Kelvin Jr. Datreion and Datreion Jr. in West Garfi eld Park for a bike ride
Emanuel with sons Emanuel and Lavar in Woodlawn
ll JUNE - CHICA O READER13 Antonio with Toniya and Ra’Shon in Woodlawn
continued from 13 in the United States,” Black men have not been a orded the luxury of being collectively seen as nurturers and caregivers. The stereotype that Black men are not fathers is interwoven into our collective consciousness. In spite of high unemployment rates, mass incarceration, and gun violence, so many Black men are de- termined to be fathers. It’s unfortunate that even as a Black man, I fi nd it di cult to speak to the intrinsic nature of fatherhood without it being grounded in the pain and struggle of the Black experience. I, like many Black boys, grew up with a fa- ther in my life. I know fi rsthand the physical, spiritual, and mental stress so many Black men go through just to be supporting fathers. I know fathers often go unrecognized and are not fully valued for the work they put in every day. This is not a declaration that all Black men, or all men for that matter, are perfect fathers, but there are a hell of a lot of Black men striving to figure out manhood and fa- v Darvel and Darvel Jr. therhood.
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Michigan and Chicago Avenues. Then, instead of dispersing as we had originally planned, we impulsively headed south on Michigan into the Loop, chanting “Out of the closets and into the streets!” as we wended our way through throngs of Mag Mile shoppers. The march ended with another rally in Civic Center Plaza (now Daley Plaza), where the event culminat- ed in a joyous circle dance around the Picasso statue. Between 150 and 300 people (depending on which account you read) showed up to celebrate what our fl yer promoting the event declared (in all capital letters) was: “ , , , - .” That flyer is on display as part of “Out of the Closets & Into the Streets: Power, Pride & Resistance in Chicago’s Gay Liberation Move- ment,” a new exhibit at Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, the midwest’s largest LGBTQ library and research center. Conceived by the library’s director, Wil Brant, and curated by a team of young volunteers including profes- sional librarians Chase Ollis and James Con- ley and designer Kurt Conley, the display is drawn from Gerber/Hart’s extensive archival collection. The march marked the fi rst anniversary of a PRIDE riot in New York City on June 28, 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a gay nightclub in Greenwich Village owned by the Genovese ‘Out of the closets and into the streets’ crime family, reacted violently to what had begun as a routine police raid. That event, A ‘freaking fag revolutionary’ remembers the early years of gay liberation in Chicago and the events leading up to and following it, are well covered in a new book, The Stonewall By A W Riots: A Documentary History by Marc Stein (NYU Press). But that fi rst Stonewall anniversary march hen the annual Pride Parade I was a teenaged member of Chicago Gay to walk on the sidewalks but not in the streets. wasn’t the fi rst activity of Chicago Gay Libera- steps o from the intersection Liberation, the loose-knit, short-lived group There were no fl oats, no cars, no politicians, tion, which started up in fall 1970 after Univer- of Broadway and Montrose at that organized the fi rst pride parade on Satur- no crowds, no corporate sponsors pitching sity of Chicago grad student Henry Wiemho noon on Sunday, June 30—with day, June 27, 1970. Most of our group thought their brands to onlookers. The last thing on placed an ad in the Chicago Maroon student Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s first of ourselves, proudly if irreverently, as our minds was the possibility of any mayor, newspaper seeking a gay roommate. Not only Wopenly gay mayor, serving as honorary grand members of the “freaking fag revolution”—to let alone an openly gay one, leading the way; did he get a roommate—a female taxicab driv- marshal—it will represent a very different borrow the phrase used by Thomas Aquinas we were happy the city’s then-mayor, “Boss” er named Michal Brody—he got a discussion mind-set from the event that launched the Foran, the U.S. attorney who had prosecuted Richard J. Daley, didn’t set his cops on us. group. We met in Wiemho and Brody’s Hyde pride parade tradition. This year’s parade is the so-called “Chicago Seven” anti-war activ- The day began at noon with a rally in Wash- Park apartment and then, as our numbers expected to draw more than a million partic- ists charged with conspiracy and incitement ington Square Park across the street from grew, began to gather at the Blue Gargoyle, ipants and onlookers to celebrate the 50th to riot as a result of their protests at the 1968 the Newberry Library—known as “Bughouse a community center and coffeehouse in the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion of June Democratic National Convention. Square” because of its storied history as a multicultural, nondenominational University 28 and 29, 1969. Thus the theme Stonewall 50: The first parade wasn’t even a parade. It free-speech forum. From there we walked to Church on the University of Chicago campus. Millions of Moments of Pride. was a march, which meant we were allowed the historic Water Tower at the intersection of Talking soon led to action. The first J ll JUNE - CHICA O READER15 “O C & I E " Sat /, AM- PM, Gerber/Hart Library and Archives, ARTS & CULTURE N. Clark, --, gerberhart.org. F continued from 15 1968 o -Broadway stage hit. Our aim was not public Gay Lib event I participated in was a to boycott the movie—which used waspish protest four months before the Stonewall humor to illustrate the pathological, self-hat- march, on the snowy afternoon of Wednesday, ing behavior of a group of gay New York February 25, 1970, outside the Loop head- men—but to use it as a teaching opportunity. quarters of the Women’s Bar Association of We handed out flyers on the street outside Illinois. The group was hosting a program on the Carnegie Theatre on Rush Street (where “Youthful O enders” with a Chicago police of- Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse is now), which read fi cer, Sergeant John Manley, as guest speaker. in part: “The pain and cruelty typifi ed by The But for us, the o ender was Manley himself. Boys in the Band should be understood as the The blond, muscular cop was notorious for en- expression of human lives damaged by an trapping gay men in Lincoln Park restrooms; environment of condemnation, suspicion, job wearing street clothes, he would pretend to discrimination, and legal harrassment [sic].” solicit guys for sex and then arrest them if Gay Liberation also organized dances, they responded to his invitation. Mattachine which drew large crowds from around the Midwest , an established “homophile” orga- city. Though same-sex dancing wasn’t illegal, nization in town, published Manley’s picture it was forbidden in the mob-owned gay bars in its mimeographed monthly newsletter and in Boss Daley’s Chicago, where periodic police mockingly suggested Manley himself was a raids were a given. The fi rst two Gay Lib danc- closet case: “If I were gay and I didn’t want es were held in the protected environs of the CHASEOLLIS
anybody to know, and I felt very, very guilty, I University of Chicago campus, where music think I might get a job where I could cruise in was provided by the Siegel-Schwall Band, then the public interest,” wrote David Stienecker, one of Chicago’s hottest blues-rock bands. (It he Gerber/Hart exhibit includes copies of conquerable. In 1973, Robinson had relocated the newsletter’s editor. On February 7, 1970, inspired other LGBTQ student groups to hold the mimeographed newsletters that Gay to San Francisco, where he became the speech- Manley made an early morning appearance at their own dances at the University of Illinois at TLib used to spread its message in those writer for a camera store owner and activist Stienecker’s third-floor apartment to arrest Chicago Circle—now UIC—and Northwestern long-ago pre-Internet days. Also on display is with aspirations to a political career—Harvey him for criminal defamation. University.) a copy of the Chicago Seed, the city’s hippie/ Milk . But by then the city had its fi rst (more or “After I unsuccessfully attempted to make a When the university demanded that CGL radical underground paper, which published less) regularly published newspaper, the Chi- phone call, Manley called for a police van and move its dances off campus because the an eight-page Gay Liberation supplement in cago Gay Crusader, edited by activist Michael I was escorted from my apartment in hand- crowds were getting too big, we booked the one issue. There’s also a well-deserved tribute Bergeron with copy editing supervision by his cu s,” Stienecker now recalls. “Upon arriving Coliseum, located on South Wabash between to the late Frank Robinson, who gave Chicago’s lover Bill Kelley. at the precinct house, Manley suggested that 14th and 16th Streets, a huge venue that had LGBTQ community the first professional- if I just pleaded guilty the judge would only hosted several Republican presidential con- quality publications we could call our own. he success of the June 1970 Stonewall give me a slap on the wrist.” But Stienecker, ventions, sports events, rock concerts, and, Robinson was a closeted middle-aged editor anniversary march (no one got arrested!) represented by the diligent and fi erce lesbian a few weeks previously, a congress of Black for Playboy magazine; unable to come out for Tencouraged members of Gay Liberation attorney Renee Hanover, fought the charges. Muslims. As historian Timothy Stewart- our demonstrations, he devoted himself to to start developing a larger agenda. Inevitably, After several court appearances, most of Winter, author of Queer Clout: Chicago and behind-the-scenes messaging. After publish- there were conflicts. Some wanted to merge which Manley missed, the case was thrown the Rise of Gay Politics (University of Pennsyl- ing a one time “Gay Pride” paper to promote Gay Lib into a broader leftist coalition; others out of court, but Stienecker lost his job as an vania Press), recounts in a 2016 Slate article the 1971 Pride Parade (which by then had preferred to keep the focus on LGBTQ issues. editor at World Book Encyclopedia due to the titled “Beyond Stonewall: How Gay History been relocated to the Lincoln Park/Lakeview GL’s women’s and Black caucuses went o in ensuing publicity—there then being no legal Looks Di erent From Chicago” : area on the north side), Robinson put out their own directions; the Black caucus turned protection against employment discrimina- “[T]here was a problem: The venue required two editions of The Paper, a 1972 tabloid that into Third World Gay Revolutionaries, led by tion on the basis of sexual orientation. an insurance policy, and every insurance agent covered local LGBTQ arts and politics. The Ortez Alderson, who went to prison for de- Manley later rose to the rank of captain in the organizers approached said the risk was Paper ran interviews with local countercul- stroying draft records in downstate Pontiac. the police force, but his career crashed and too great that the police would raid the dance, ture celebrities such as painter Ed Paschke, And in September 1970, as reported in a CGL burned in the mid-1990s when he was fired cart the attendees off to jail, and levy fines. lesbian singer-songwriter Linda Shear, female newsletter displayed in the Gerber/Hart exhib- for sexually harassing female officers under Only on the day before the dance did the activ- impersonators Roby Landers and Wanda Lust, it, “Tensions that had been brewing for some his supervision. Some 20 years later, his name ists fi nd a broker who’d sell them a policy—a and stage director Gary Tucker, aka “Eleven,” weeks fi nally came to a head . . . with the result popped up in the news again when he was tick- black man whose company had insured the whose gender-bending Godzilla Rainbow that the group su ered a schism and a large eted for, of all things, impersonating a govern- Nation of Islam’s annual convention at the Troupe was then running its hit production number of members announced they were ment o cial after he posed as a U.S. Maritime same venue.” of Charles Ludlam and Bill Vehr’s outrageous forming a new group—not a new caucus—to Service “special agent” to avoid a parking About 2,000 people showed up at the Coli- Turds in Hell. A copy of The Paper on display be called ‘The Chicago Gay Alliance.’ . . . ticket. Stienecker, who went on to a successful seum to dance for liberation on April 18, 1970. at Gerber/Hart shows a photo from another Though there . . . were moments of acrimony, career writing educational books for children, So did the police. But when the cops entered landmark of Chicago’s fl edgling o -Loop the- the parting was amicable. . . . All present ex- is credited as a program supporter of Gerber/ the hall and came face to face with a phalanx ater movement, the Organic Theater’s sci-fi pressed a desire to avoid the infi ghting of com- Hart’s “Out of the Closets” exhibit. of attorneys—including the formidable Renee epic Warp!, featuring André De Shields (who petitive groups in other cities”—a reference In March 1970, we responded to the release Hanover—primed to document any civil liber- just won a Tony for his performance in the to the internecine turf wars that tore at the of The Boys in the Band , the fi lm version of the ties violations, they shrugged and went away. Broadway hit Hadestown) as Xander the Un- fabric of New York’s gay community around 16 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll A dart board bearing the image of Anita Bryant’s face, sold in response to her anti- gay campaign CHASEOLLIS ARTS & CULTURE
the same time. reported that 20th Ward alderman Cli Kelley, rassing failure. By then, it was thought, the The debut issue of the CGA newsletter in working with a group called Illinois Gays for activist energy of the early 1970s had waned, November 1970 explained: “The Chicago Gay Legislative Action, had introduced legisla- and the only time queers turned out en masse Alliance is actively interested in alleviating tion in the Chicago City Council to prohibit was for the Pride Parade. But a spontaneous, the ghetto (whether spiritual or physical) discrimination in jobs, housing, and public unexpected turnout of 3,000 to 5,000 (depend- conditions of homosexuals, in dispelling the accommodations based on sexual orientation. ing on whom you ask) proved the naysayers psychological and sociological mythology that It took 15 years for the City Council to fi nally wrong. has grown up about the subject of homosexu- vote an LGBTQ-inclusive Chicago Human Chicago Gay Liberation, the Chicago Gay ality, in providing referral services to homo- Rights Ordinance into law on December 21, Alliance, and the other groups that sprang up sexuals, in helping homosexuals ‘coming out’ 1988. in the wake of Stonewall ran out of steam by develop a sense of pride in who they are and The Old Town community center paved the the end of the decade, but the sense of empow- courage in facing the generally hostile outside way for today’s gleaming Center on Halsted. erment they gave the community—and the world, to provide additional social outlets The Gay Crusader was succeeded by the lessons we learned from their successes and so that homosexuals can meet each other as weekly newspaper GayLife, founded in 1975 setbacks—guided us into the 1980s, when the human beings, to change repressive laws and by the late Grant Ford, and then by Windy City AIDS epidemic and the struggle for civil rights end police and political harassment, and to Times, cofounded in 1985 by Tracy Baim, now at the city, county, and state level drove a new improve communications between the homo- publisher of the Reader, and still publishing at the historic Medinah Temple at Wabash activist spirit. “The fl ame that burns twice as sexual and the heterosexual communities.” in print and online 34 years later. (I served as and Ohio (it’s now a Bloomingdale’s home bright burns half as long,” notes Gerber/Hart’s In 1971 CGA gave Chicago its first LGBTQ editor of both GayLife and WCT in the ’80s.) furniture store). The concert had been booked James Conley. “As transformative as those community center, a ramshackle red-brick The Gerber/Hart exhibit’s narrative arc before Bryant achieved national notoriety groups were, they were temporary. But the im- two-story rented house on an Old Town side climaxes with a major event from 1977, chron- as leader of an anti-LGBTQ initiative in Dade pact they had in their short span of existence street at 171 W. Elm. By 1973 the center had icled in an issue of GayLife on display. On June County, Florida. LGBTQ activists, including was monumental and lasting.” v closed for lack of fi nancial support, and CGA 14 of that year, singer, orange-juice industry me, picketed the Bryant concert in Chicago, ceased operations. But the activism continued. spokeswoman . . . and former Miss America despite being cautioned by gay establishment Special thanks to Amber Lewis at Columbia A July 1973 issue of the Chicago Gay Crusader Anita Bryant arrived in Chicago for a concert leaders that our action would be an embar- College Chicago
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ll JUNE - CHICA O READER17 I A AH R HT C P B S ARTS & CULTURE By James Polchin (Counterpoint Press)
had begun to incorporate gay panic as well. people were born queer and not made caused LIT James Polchin’s new book Indecent Advances: investigators to confl ate criminals and queers. A Hidden History of True Crime and Preju- As Harding crusaded for social purity, the dice Before Stonewall (Counterpoint Press) mainstream press reported what conveniently Gay sex panic! explores some of these early writings and seemed to be both true and easy to sell. Both the paranoia they inspired—which continues the tabloids and the mainstream press sold Indecent Advances tells the today. many papers by featuring stories based on secret history of a time when Polchin begins with the 1920 murder of a the terrifying suspicion that anyone could be propositioning another man was man named Leeds Vaughn Waters, who was homosexual, and that involvement in this vice acceptable grounds for murder. found in his Manhattan hotel room. The case would surely get you killed. played out on the front pages of the New York was “expensively dressed,” while the killer Polchin recounts the cases as a series of By D C Daily News for nearly six months. After an- “wore shabby clothes.” After reporting that short thrillers organized by decade through other man was seen fl eeing the crime scene, there were valuables left at the scene of the the 20th century. These true stories remain the press initially speculated about Waters’s crime, the paper concluded, “riches and idle- suspenseful episodes of surprising brutal- rue-crime storytelling began in Vic- character. What business would two men have ness are shown as powerful infl uences toward ity and sensationalized press. Polchin pays torian America. Newspapers eager together in a hotel room? his tragic end.” A similar murder just three scholarly attention to the politics of each era, to captivate their audiences relied The Daily News reported every detail of Wa- weeks later barely made the papers, as neither and tales that were once grisly exploitation of on the same tools TV shows and pod- ters’s life, drawing salacious conclusions from the murderer nor the victim was wealthy. In- murder victims become tense examinations of casts still use today: sex, suggestion, details about his family, college, hobbies, and terclass crime drew an audience. journalism and detective work. Tand fright. By the 1920s, true-crime narratives haunts. A hotel clerk noted that the dead man The Waters case was still selling papers Many of the cases Polchin describes have a when a witness came forward to report that common thread: defendants justifying their the victim was seen getting into a cab with a attacks because of “indecent advances.” This, “swarthy,” “dark-skinned man.” Suddenly, like the details omitted from the newspapers, a twist. If the valuables were left behind, the implied that some queer behavior was too paper and police speculated, then perhaps rob- disgusting to define and so vile that some bery was not the intent. Perhaps the murder journalists called violent reactions to them was the act of a crazed immigrant. This was “honor slaying.” These reports were how the year of Warren G. Harding’s presidential most people learned about homosexuals. The campaign on a platform promising a “Return press described certain men as “refi ned” and to Normalcy” after World War I. Harding’s “slender,” casting doubts on their masculini- promise of an America that barred immigrants ty—and implying homosexuality. Journalists and denied aid to foreign countries pandered noted one man’s “young face,” in order to draw to the nostalgia of voters who longed for a contrast between his innocence and the sexual leader who, as the Daily News reported, put deviance of the man who made those indecent “America fi rst and Europe afterward.” advances. Who is the real victim, they asked: Describing the suspect’s social class and The preyed-upon twentysomething or the race incited the same brazen xenophobia dead homosexual? The press, the new Federal as Harding’s unexpectedly successful presi- Bureau of Investigation, and juries all declared dential campaign that had included rhetoric “indecent advances” acceptable justifi cation against working-class immigrants, criminali- for murder. ty, and sexual vice. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Polchin’s book ends with the Stonewall riots reported, “This was clearly the work of a and a new era of gay politics in which activists person with an abnormal mind.” When a white campaigned against flawed journalism and sailor from Milwaukee fi nally came forward as police work, but the “gay panic” defense, as Waters’s killer, the media concluded the tale it has come to be called, still exists, used as with a fi nal twist: he’d only killed Waters after recently as 2018, in a case in Texas . While the wealthy man insulted him. The insult, too fewer gay men are killed in hate crimes today, ghastly for the paper to print, left their audi- approximately 28 trans women were mur- ence to speculate what one man might’ve said dered in 2018 —and all but one were women of to another in the privacy of a hotel room. The color. Under the current presidential admin- sailor was found not guilty. istration, which promised its own “return to Polchin’s exploration of 20th-century cases normalcy,” there are still victims of rhetoric cites detective work based on criminologist that is less of a dog whistle and more of a call Cesare Lombroso’s 1876 book Criminal Man, to action against the “indecent.” Polchin’s which proposed that criminals were born, book reminds us that this piece of history, like not made. Polchin argues that sexologist so many others, repeats itself. v Magnus Hirschfeld’s fi ndings in the late 19th century that homosexuals and transgender @devlyncamp 18 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll 3 DAYS \\ 5 COMMUNITIES \\ 8 EVENTS ”B I ” Thu / and Sat /, location revealed with RSVP, jeanetteandrews.com, sold 6.28 out; wait list spots available. THEATER - 6.30
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MAGIC At the center of the performance are four impossible bottles modeled after the works MORENXXX BOOGIE MISTER WALLACE Magic wands for the of magician and teacher Harry Eng . But where Eng would somehow fi t blocks of wood, packs scientifically minded of cards, locks, and scissors inside small- Jeanette Andrews has mastered the necked bottles, Andrews, whose work often art of “Bottling the Impossible.” explores the magical possibilities of smell, fi t ROY KINSEY CHA$E LORA BRANCH perfume bottles inside instead. By P D It took Andrews a year to build them, as Eng’s methods died with him in 1996. A 6.29.19 SATURDAY SATURDAY he envelope arrived about a week after research librarian at the Conjuring Arts Re- CONFIRMED ARTISTS the online request was made. It con- search Center, an appointment-only magic AFTER PARTIES Ttained a smaller envelope sealed with archive in New York, found Andrews a line black wax stamped “J.” Inside were a mirrored in an old article that gave a clue—just one SOLARIS IDE Presents: coin and a card which, when scratched, gave clue—to Eng’s technique. From there it took The Promontory | 9:30pm - Until THE SOUTH SIDE o a faint whi of password. nine months to puzzle out the rest of how MINI-BALL Collectives join together to curate And that’s just how you register for tickets to hand-build four impossible bottles of her a one of a kind party. Global Girls Inc | 9:30pm - Until for “Bottling the Impossible,” the latest show own. from Chicago magician Jeanette Andrews . “There were times where I was not leaving Small groups will watch Andrews’s perfor- my house for days,” she says. “It was hundreds SHE PROUD LEGENDS; GROWN mance in an undisclosed location in an inti- of hours.” The Breathing Room | 9:30pm - Until FOLK ONLY mate, conversational space that the magician She cracked the case without cracking the Celebrate w/ unapologetically queer Jeffrey’s Pub | 9:30pm - Until and woman and femme. designed based on influences ranging from glass. Her four impossible bottles—“magic Dance all night for the Legends. cognition theory to the Rothko Chapel in wands for the scientifi cally minded,” to para- Houston. phrase one of her magical mentors, Simon Sending the Eventbrite registration pass- Aronson —serve as centerpiece, sculpture, BEACHNIC; QUEERING IN THE PARKS word via scratch-and-sniff (the name of the transition between acts, and glass-in-glass South Shore Cultural Center Park | 6:00-9:00pm smell was also printed under a scratch-o sec- symbolism. We’ll enjoy music and the setting of the sun as tion of the card for the olfactorily challenged) It’s the same reason Andrews works with SUNDAY 6.30.19 we close an amazing weekend with amazing friends. was a strategy to create a sense of “mystery, her sleeves rolled up, and why she uses clear wonder, and anticipation” weeks before the plastic tables, chairs, and music stands. It’s RSVP TODAY! show, Andrews explains, but it was also a wax- about transparency in magic—not in terms sealed pushback against impersonal mailers of revealing tricks of the trade, but in terms WWW.PRIDESOUTHSIDE.COM and evites. You’re Andrews’s guest, and she of the collaboration between amazed and wants you there. amazer: “It’s trying to be a little bit more open OUR “Personally, something very important to about the process in terms of ‘You do this and SPONSORS me in the work that I do is that every single you do this and I’ll do this and then something person feels important and their physically incredible happens at the end.’” v being there really matters,” the 29-year-old magician says. @LuigiDNapla ll JUNE - CHICA O READER19 THEATER
asking actors to share roles; Mr. Weston, for example, is OPENING played over the course of the evening by four diff erent actors. This choice adds a childlike playfulness to the Ignore the hype production that in no way takes away from an adaptation R Desire in a Tinier House is a poetic queer that remains true to the spirit, if not the letter, of the love story—despite the shirtless-boy marketing. original. —J H E Through 7/14: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Lifeline Theatre, I was hesitant as I walked into Pride Films and Plays on 6912 N. Glenwood, 773-761-4477, lifelinetheatre.com , Friday night. Though the theater’s shows themselves $40, $30 seniors and military, $20 students. off er powerfully human takes on queer identities, PFP’s work is o en overshadowed by a shirtless-boy market- Firmly anchored ing shtick. In terms of queer representation, the image R Grace, or the Art of Climbing re-creates of sweaty, hairless white men is so pervasive and so the tension and power of rock climbing. limiting, a visual language favoring a singular type of transgressive sex and body. L M Feldman’s Grace, or the Art of Climbing is a character- Ryan Oliveira’s Desire in a Tinier House is another driven exploration of the world of competitive rock gorgeous example of this dissonance at work. This new climbing that seeks to apply a vital rule of the sport to show manages to address both the mundane and the life: there is no shame in falling so long as you never sensational embedded in queer love stories. It’s a two- let go. man piece on a simple set, a poetic drama that closely Alex Molnar stars in the show’s midwest premiere, follows the long-term relationship between Argentine presented by Brown Paper Box Co., as Emm, a young Desire in a Tinier House ELIASRIOS American Trevin (Rolando Serrano) and Brazilian Amer- woman who decides to train as a rock climber in the face ican Carlos (Carlos Wagener-Sobrero), using magical of her struggle with depression and the deterioration of that most likely came from the performers’ closets—this Samantha deserves more attention to her own story realism and dystopian tropes to explore the tender risks important relationships in her life. Through her direct loose, bumpy, self-conscious aff air feels very much like and complicated relationship with her deceased parents of falling in love at the end of the world. Its sensibilities address to the audience and both real and imagined a haphazard a erthought following too many hours and the environment around her. As she says, “parents defy the typical “Homos! They’re just like us!” plotlines interactions with her father, her former partner, her rolling dice and racking up experience points. It’s easy to aren’t disposable,” whether they are still around or gone and instead embed questions of urgency, violence, and friends, and her trainer, Emm’s interiority drives the dismiss the whole thing as a scattershot muddle enacted too soon. —M O S T isolation, creating a truly queer domestic space. play forward. Her struggle with heartbreak and dis- by a small mob of enthusiastic amateurs who mostly lack R Through 6/30: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 This isn’t typically something we see onstage, connection is as poignant as her mission to advance the chops to make sense of Elizabethan verse. PM, Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee, 773-697-3830, but this play does an excellent job of balancing the as a climber. But thanks to Molnar’s careful approach Or you could enjoy the unique experience of watch- artemisiatheatre.org, $25. intimate—and occasionally claustrophobic—tedium of to delineating Emm’s strengths and vulnerabilities and ing a highly idiosyncratic production steeped in quirky cohabitation and the visible spectacle of gay aff ection, the nuances in her interactions with the highly skilled earnestness. The show is raw, candid, and endearing Holy fools beginning with a casual encounter and then unraveling supporting cast, the script’s analogies never feel too in ways that no amount of professionalism can match. R We Are Pussy Riot (or) Everything Is P.R. into total surrealism. The show’s remaining question is overt. When the signifi cance behind her physical and While it well overstays its two-hour running time, the questions the role of spectators in protest art. a hell of a lot truer than PFP’s marketing strategy: How emotional journey becomes fully realized in the play’s genuinely oddball evening is true to the spirit that can something be so instinctual and so fragile all at fi nal moments, the catharsis is stunning and well earned. has inspired gamers for decades. —J H The YouTube video of Pussy Riot’s brief provocation— once? —KT H D T H Evan Frank’s set design represents the climbing L ’ & L ’ Through 6/23: Fri-Sat 7 PM, about 48 seconds—at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ Through 6/29: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3:30 PM, Pride gym where Emm trains with enough realism to present Sun 2 PM, Otherworld Theatre, 3914 N. Clark, the Savior on February 21, 2012, makes their actions Arts Center, 4139 N. Broadway, 866-811-4111, pride- a physical challenge for the actors but enough imagi- 773-857-2116, otherworldtheatre.org, suggested seem almost anodyne by comparison to, say, Act Up’s filmsandplays.com, $30-$40, $25 students, seniors, nation to support the show’s whimsical nature. Despite donation $10. protests at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City and military (not valid Sat). the limitations of a black-box theater, there is authentic 30 years ago. Yet the price paid by the women arrested tension and power behind Emm’s triumphs and failures Home to mama that day, two of whom served 21 months in prison for Handsome, clever, and rich as a climber thanks to director Erin Shea Brady’s staging A great performance from Molly Lyons can’t save “hooliganism,” resonates through Barbara Hammond’s R Lifeline’s Emma takes some liberties but and the company’s meticulous interactions with the Sweet Texas Reckoning. kaleidoscopic and chaotic We Are Pussy Riot (or) Every- remains true to the playful spirit of the original. space. —K P G A thing Is P.R., now in a thrashing, unapologetically messy C Through 7/7: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 Traci Godfrey’s dramedy, now in its midwest premiere at production at Red Tape under Kate Hendrickson’s Phil Timberlake’s new dramatization of Jane Austen’s PM; also Mon 6/17 and Thu 6/20 and 6/27, 7:30 PM; Artemisia Theatre directed by Julie Proudfoot, begins direction. 1816 masterpiece, written especially for Lifeline Theatre, and Sat 6/22, 2:30 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, with Ellie (Molly Lyons) pulling her secret stash of Though Hammond’s script uses actual trial tran- is neither a word-for-word transposition from page to 773-327-5252, brownpaperbox.org , $25. booze out of a cowboy boot. That perfect snapshot of a scripts (revealing that kangaroos had the run of the stage nor a modernization (a la Amy Heckerling’s 1995 gesture hints at the comedy and drama to come, though court) and other original sources for some of the dia- movie Clueless). Instead, Timberlake and director Elise Thou art dungeon master neither prove integrated enough in the proceedings logue, this decidedly isn’t a docudrama. It’s a pastiche Kauzlaric (both members of Lifeline’s ensemble) fi nd a The D&D-Shakespeare mash-up Love’s & Labour’s to enhance each other’s impact. Ellie is the small-town, of satirical interludes, historical tidbits about Russian middle ground that both playfully theatricalizes Austen’s is raw, messy—and endearing. bigoted, and generally drunk mother of Kate (Scottie autocrats past and present, and performance art aiming tale of “handsome, clever, and rich” Emma Woodhouse Caldwell), who has grudgingly returned home to Texas to turn the performers into an updated Orthodox and her misguided but comic attempts to fi nd a suit- Dungeons & Dragons’ 45-year history has had its volatile from New York City for a visit. While Ellie hopes this is troupe of yurodivy, or holy fools, who challenged norms able husband for her likable but considerably less moments. Remember the 1980s moral panic when the a chance for Kate to reconnect with childhood fl ame in the name of a higher religious calling. well-connected friend Harriet Smith, yet also remains role-playing game was widely criticized for encouraging Alan John (John Wehrman), she gets the shock of More is more in Hammond’s telling, so we veer from fi rmly rooted in the original novel’s setting (the fi ctional suicide (not to mention witchcra , murder, rape, homo- her life when she meets Kate’s African American wife, Casey Chapman’s oily Vladimir Putin to William Rose English village of Highbury and surrounding estates) sexuality, insanity, and cannibalism, at least according Samantha (Anita Kavuu-Ng’ang’a). Framing the fi rst act II’s Sergei, a professor imprisoned for protesting Putin and tone (witty, understated, highly literate). to the international activist group Bothered About around these revelations leads to moments of slapstick who goes on a life-threatening hunger strike—without The most interesting element of this production is Dungeons and Dragons)? Through all the turmoil, one and camp that mitigate the eff ects of the emotional arcs the benefi t of the international attention Pussy Riot the decision to have all of the parts in Austen’s character- stereotype has remained constant: D&D players are to follow in the second act. received. (The “P.R.” in the title carries a double mean- rich novel played by only fi ve actors. Throughout the oddballs and misfi ts holed up in their parents’ base- As Ellie, Lyons shows off the chops of a veteran ing here.) It’s sometimes overwhelming and occasionally play performers must transform themselves from one ments letting their nerd fl ags fl y free and proud. actress comfortable sitting in a fallible character with hard to track, but this bold scattershot approach ulti- character to another in full view of the audience, Odd’s Bodkins, in this original mash-up of Shake- self-defeating habits and a limited worldview. She draws mately asks us to choose between passive reception of o en with just a quick change in posture or tone of speare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost and D&D, embraces the hatred and sympathy from the audience in one breath, protest-art-as-entertainment and being our own agents voice. (Only Emma Sipora Tyler, delightful as the title stereotype unapologetically. Two dungeon masters set punctuating the heaviest moments with dry wit. How- of acting up for justice. —K R W A P character, plays a single role throughout.) This has been two teams in motion, acting out Shakespeare’s tale of ever, while all four characters evolve in the second RE IPR Through July 6: Fri- done before (see Charles Ludlam’s two-person multiple- forestalled love as though stuck in the cellar. With an act, there aren’t enough grounding details for us to Sat 8 PM, Sun 7 PM, Mon 8 PM, Red Tape Theatre, character 1984 tour de farce The Mystery of Irma Vep). unabashedly slapdash design—a couple of hand-painted invest in them as complex, multifaceted personalities. 4546 N. Western, redtapetheatre.org, free, but But Timberlake and Kauzlaric do Ludlam one better by screens, strung-up see-through curtains, and costumes As the catalyst for the confl ict and eventual catharsis, reservations suggested. v
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from marginalized and first-time directors Paul Verhoeven’s violent sci-fi masterpiece and lesser-known cult classics. Total Recall will be shown in 70 mm with actor One of those first-time directors is Glenn Michael Ironside in attendance. Joel Schum- Danzig, the horror-punk legend who founded acher’s Flatliners, starring an incredibly the Misfits and Danzig. The fest opens with 90s-looking Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Bacon, Verotika, an anthology film that combines and Julia Roberts, will also be shown in 70 Danzig’s fascination with the occult and his mm. The festival will premiere a new 4K resto- career in comic book publishing. ration of Peter Markle’s Hot Dog . . . The Movie “I grew up listening to Danzig and the for the fi lm’s 35th anniversary. Misfi ts,” says Goldbloom. “The fact that he’s Tammy and the T-Rex, the unconventionally trusting us with his world premiere is pretty campy sci-fi fl ick about a girl whose boyfriend goddamn great.” gets his brain implanted into a dinosaur, will The festival also includes six feature fi lms be shown in its original R-rated gore cut on 35 directed by women—each speaking to di er- mm. Michael Lehmann’s Airheads will close ent elements of the genre. the festival, celebrating its 25th anniversary in Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic is a dark a rare 35-mm screening. comedy about a pizza delivery driver who en- “When I look at the festival fi rst and fore- counters a group of Satanists who want to use most, I look at it as how can we create a good her as a virgin sacrifi ce. Pollyanna McIntosh’s time for everyone?” says Goldbloom. “[At] a Darlin’ FESTIVAL Darlin’ is a bloody coming-of-age fi lm, a sequel lot of fi lm festivals . . . there’s pretension, and of sorts to Lucky McKee’s The Woman. [pressure] to be this prestigious festival—we Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s psycho- can’t touch movies like Airheads.” Scary stories to watch logical slow burn The Lodge features Alicia For Goldbloom and the rest of the program- Silverstone as a woman who is snowed in at ming team, searching for these rare prints was a remote cabin with her future stepchildren. the most exciting part of the job. in the dark Sara Summa’s The Last to See Them follows an “If you go on Google and type in ‘Airheads isolated family on the last day of their lives. 35 mm screening,’ nothing comes up,” says Cinepocalypse returns to the Music Box with a fresh In order for horror to maintain relevance Goldbloom. “You have to move away from the crop of horror fi lms and cult classics. beyond demographics, though, filmmakers Internet and you go back into reality and track have to adapt to the times we are living in. these things down. . . . That’s exciting for us By C C “Horror has always been ahead of the game, because we get to put on these private detec- going back to George Romero’s Night of the tive hats and go, ‘OK—how the fuck do we go ho said that October was Music Box. Living Dead,” says Goldbloom. “Whether it’s out and fi nd these movies?’” the only month of the year “The beauty of the space at the Music Box political fears, technological fears—horror Putting together this year’s fest let Gold- for watching scary movies? Theatre is that it’s kind of like a cinematic fi lms often are not what they seem. There’s an bloom and the rest of the team explore real- Cinepocalypse, now in its third church,” says Goldbloom. “It’s such a fun play- underlying theme, there’s a commentary.” life film communities and societies across year at the Music Box Theatre, ground for a programmer to come into and Several fi lms in this year’s fest characterize the country. The rare prints of Airheads and Wproves that Chicago’s biggest horror fans want design a festival. From a format standpoint, the universal fears that come with living in the Tammy and the T-Rex were found at the Acad- blood, guts, and terror in June too. 35 mm, 70 mm . . . there’s really nothing you modern world—from politics to social media. emy Film Archive, the fi lm preservation and Since 2017, Cinepocalypse has been the can’t do.” In Culture Shock, Gigi Saul Guerrero’s contri- restoration division of the Academy of Motion city’s premier horror and genre fi lm festival. Goldbloom took the seemingly unlimited bution to Blumhouse’s Into the Dark modern Picture Arts and Sciences in LA. Over the course of eight days, the Music screening possibilities at the Music Box and horror anthology series, a young Mexican “Analog is kind of long forgotten, and so Box will run 40 screenings, including world ran with them. What makes a genre fest so woman crosses the border to seek the Amer- there’s a treasure trove of material that’s premieres of feature-length fi lms, short fi lm exciting, he says, is that there’s a breadth of ican dream with dire consequences. Caryn out there waiting to be discovered,” says programs, and special 35-mm and 70-mm great material out there—you just have to fi nd Waechter’s Deadcon is an Internet ghost story Goldbloom. screenings of genre staples and forgotten it and show it to the world. told through the eyes of YouTube stars and Goldbloom advises going to the fest with treasures. “Every independent project, if it’s put in Instagram infl uencers. open eyes (but maybe not an empty stomach). “I think there’s a punk-rock ethos to genre front of you on paper, looks impossible,” “I think there is this deep-rooted fear in He hopes that there’s something for everyone film,” says festival programmer Josh Gold- says Goldbloom. “I love that filmmakers are everybody of what they don’t know,” says at Cinepocalypse. If nothing else, it fosters a bloom. “The beauty of genre fi lms is that there able to push those boundaries. Artistically, Goldbloom. “Things that are tangible are no space for Chicago’s biggest genre fi lm fans to are no rules.” that’s where I kind of connect to genre film. longer tangible, they live in the cloud.” both look back and look forward—and find Goldbloom, a Philadelphia native, started The beauty in it for me is it’s the one medi- While there are truly terrifying socially con- some new things to be scared of along the way. his career programming Awesome Fest, a um [where] we’re able to hear voices from scious features, that doesn’t mean there isn’t “The beauty in a horror movie is that it now-suspended outdoor independent cinema everybody.” fun to be had at Cinepocalypse. taps into a fear that every single person has,” festival, and Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film As long as it has that DIY spirit and a little In addition to some of the more lightheart- says Goldbloom. “Everybody is afraid of Festival, which evolved into Cinepocalypse. bit of grime, a fi lm can fi nd a home at Cinepoc- ed or comedic horror films, the real show- something.” v While searching for new festival venues, Gold- alypse—and with this philosophy, Goldbloom stoppers are the restorations of several cult bloom fell in love with both Chicago and the was able to fi ll the festival program with fi lms classics. @dykediscourse ll JUNE - CHICA O READER21 FILM
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JUNE 13 — 20, 2019 Queers behaving badly The case for accurate LGBTQ representation in the movies GLENN DANZIG | GWAR By C C MICHAEL IRONSIDE TOTAL RECALL | AIRHEADS TAMMY AND THE T-REX POLLYANNA MCINTOSH | LUCKY MCKEE JOE BOB BRIGGS | GIGI SAUL GUERRO e are living in a golden age of queer Bad Education HOT DOG: THE MOVIE | FLATLINERS cinema. Now more than ever, films VILLAINS | THE LODGE | SATANIC PANIC Wabout, starring, and made by queer people are taking up space in Hollywood. But BELZEBUTH | PUNTA MUERTO | THE MUTE sometimes the discourse surrounding queer MOPE | DEADCON | THE SWERVE representation in media is exhausting— especially since the media play such a power- BLISS | ATTACK OF THE DEMONS ful role in shaping how marginalized groups WHY DON’T YOU JUST DIE? are perceived by society. THE LURKER | THE LAST TO SEE THEM For much of film history, queer and trans characters have been depicted as villainous. Bound (1996) directed by Lana and Lilly Bad Education (2004) directed by Pedro GHOST KILLERS VS BLOODY MARY If we overcorrect and show only queer charac- Wachowski Almodóvar ACHOURA ters who are perfect and polished, they are no Step aside, Ocean’s 8—the Wachowski sisters It’s hard to talk about Bad Education without longer interesting. True representation is a re- beat you to the punch by more than 20 years spoiling it—but the fi lm is more rewarding the fl ection of our fl awed reality. Queer people are with this decadent lesbian heist fl ick. Bound is less you know going into it. A er decades of messy, we make mistakes, we’re problematic, a masterful debut that’s both a thrilling crime estrangement, fi rst loves Ignacio (a captivat- TICKETS AND FESTIVAL PASSES ON SALE and we do things we regret. Here’s a collection film and a sensual tale of queer desire. Vio- ing Gael García Bernal) and Enrique (Fele CINEPOCALYPSEGENREFEST.COM of fi lms that feature dynamic queer characters let (Jennifer Tilly) and Corky (Gina Gershon) Martínez) reconnect and make a film about who are anything but squeaky-clean. manipulate everyone around them in order to the abuse Ignacio experienced in the Catho- get what they want—and Bound fl ips the script lic Church. But some things just aren’t adding on tired stereotypes in femme-butch rela- up and not everyone is who they say they are. JUNE 14 - 20 tionships. It’s a fi lm that champions the sub- This fi lm is a technical marvel in nearly every $12 GENERAL | $7 STUDENTS | $6 MEMBERS missive, feminine underdog and introduces a aspect—and its nonnarrative style will keep MOVIE HOTLINE: 312.846.2800 queer femme fatale. you guessing until the very end.
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16 Shots COURTESYOFSHOWTIME shows former Fraternal Order of Police pres- ident Dean Angelo complaining, “I don’t see anyone willing to admit that what we have to do is go after that monster, the guy that swift responses from several quarters that doesn’t belong on the street with you, with followed. Chief among the talking heads is my wife, with my daughter. This is not an Ivy local independent journalist Jamie Kalven League college kid we’re talking; we’re not (also one of the film’s producers), who ob- talking to an Oxford scholar.” I hate to break tained McDonald’s autopsy report through the it to Mr. Angelo, but I’ve known several edu- Freedom of Information Act and revealed in a cated, well-heeled drug addicts, most of them February 2015 article for Slate that the actual white, at least one with a $50,000-a-year coke cause of death was 16 bullets discharged into habit, and none of them ever got murdered for McDonald, riddling his body from his head using. McDonald may have been a drug user to his upper legs, front and back—news that and dealer, but might not the greater crime contradicted the o cial CPD report that the be the cultural and institutional racism that teen was felled by a shot to the chest. Kalven, boxes young Black men in, and then sets them a soulful eminence grise with a natural screen up for target practice? presence, gives 16 Shots much of its authority, Another problem the film has is its sug- as well as its (for the most part) measured gestion as if it were fact that Rahm Eman- tone; this is a fi lm that opts for eloquence over uel decided not to run for reelection due to stridency. mounting pressure from outraged community Which is not to say that it is completely bal- activists. He made his announcement one day REVIEW anced. Although Rowley gives su cient cam- before Officer Van Dyke’s trial was to start, era time to community organizers Charlene which was almost three years after the dash- Carruthers and William Calloway, he gives an cam video showing Van Dyke killing McDonald Code of silence inordinate amount to former Fraternal Order was released. But let’s not forget Rahm’s of Police spokesman Pat Camden, who right earlier less-than-stellar performance during 16 Shots focuses too much on the Laquan McDonald at the top says he’s very loyal to the CPD and, his two terms in office, as Ben Joravsky has shooting at the expense of McDonald himself. although retired, still feels as if he’s part of the written in these pages. Emanuel is made of force; for the rest of the fi lm, he keeps toeing Tefl on; it’s more likely he jumped, rather than By A G that party line. He’s a fl ack—what else would was pushed out. Like many a politician he has anyone really expect him to say? spent his career yo-yoing between public ser- any Americans are extremely termed “code of silence” because the problem Some of his screen time would have been vice and the lucrative corporate private sector, reluctant to talk publicly about doesn’t stop with cover-ups. better spent fleshing out a picture of who and he already has landed new gigs as a pundit race, a topic made all the more 16 Shots is not without merit; in its chron- Laquan McDonald, the man, not just the mur- for ABC News and the Atlantic and will open a inflammatory by the lack of icle of justice served it’s on the right side of der victim, was. In 16 Shots there’s very little Chicago o ce for the Wall Street investment honest conversation. Race is history, getting the word out about events of McDonald’s personal history on o er: a few fi rm Centerview Partners LLC. Mthe elephant in the room we wish would that may not be as familiar to the rest of the childhood photos of him early in the fi lm, and One last quibble I have is a missing statistic: disappear, even when—or sometimes, per- country as they are to Chicagoans. Rowley is later on some brief mentions of his troubles the number of upstanding, heroic Chicago haps, because—the media are saturated with a director committed to serious issues whose with drugs. A stronger sense of who he was policemen who lose their lives each year harrowing stories about hate crimes, civil credits include two Frontline documentaries can be found in Christy Gutowski and Jeremy protecting others. That would have helped rights violations, education inequities, voter for PBS, Documenting Hate: Charlottesville Gorner’s lengthy December 11, 2015, article for explain Van Dyke’s purported fear of being disenfranchisement, redlining, gentrifi cation, (2018) and Terror in Little Saigon (2015), the Chicago Tribune, which details his trou- bodily harmed by the knife-wielding McDon- and racial profiling by law enforcement. In and the Oscar-nominated feature Dirty Wars bled family life, abuse as a ward of the state, ald. It would have put the loyalty that cops addressing the last of these issues in the new (2013), in which he followed the investigative problems in school, psychiatric hospitaliza- have for each other in the context not just of Showtime documentary 16 Shots, about the journalist and award-winning author Jeremy tions, drug use, and drug dealing. Were the corruption (although corruption certainly October 2014 murder of Chicago west-side Scahill as he reported an exposé of covert U.S. filmmakers concerned that inclusion of this does exist), but in the deeper, wider context Black teenager Laquan McDonald and the trial military operations. information would disrupt their narrative? of men who have one of the most dangerous of his killer, white Chicago Police Department Dirty Wars, shot in a gritty, man-on-the- To me, this background only makes him more jobs imaginable and so watch each other’s officer and Hinsdale native Jason Van Dyke, street style, was cowritten, produced, and human, more than another shooting statistic. backs. A measure of justice has been served writer-director Rick Rowley pulls back the narrated by Scahill, who is on camera much The fact that the circumstances of his up- by Van Dyke’s conviction for second-degree curtain on an institution noted for closing of the time; that fi lm perforce has a very dif- bringing match those of so many other young murder. But no amount of posthumous justice ranks. But by focusing primarily on the crime ferent dynamic than 16 Shots, which relies on Black men in Chicago adds to, not detracts will bring his victim back. Laquan McDonald and its explosive aftermath and very little on archival footage and well-lit, artful composi- from, a forthright conversation about race. deserved a better life, and he deserved a better McDonald himself, the fi lmmaker doesn’t go tions of various interview subjects to unravel Having some knowledge of McDonald’s life memorial than a dashcam video, or, for that far enough in his indictment of the CPD’s so- a tangle of malfeasance and tragedy and the makes it all the more horrific when the film matter, 16 Shots. v
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and stylistically pedestrian as director John Sayles’s market), and the two begin squatting there, symbolically other fi lms, and a mite overlong to boot. Sayles seems reclaiming a neighborhood that once was predomi- more comfortable with the ballplayers than with the nantly Black but has long since priced out most of its gangsters; his handling of the narrative is more dutiful Black residents. Talbot structures the fi lm like a piece than inspired. On the whole this is well-intentioned to of music; this proceeds gracefully from one observation the point of tedium. Sayles adapted Eliot Asinof’s 1963 to the next, emphasizing the characters’ way of life over book of the same title; the competent cast includes John narrative development. (The diverse soundtrack, which Cusack, Cli on James, Michael Lerner, Christopher ranges from contemporary classical to Joni Mitchell, Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, adds greatly to the fi lm’s aff ecting impact.) It sometimes D.B. Sweeney, Richard Edson, Kevin Tighe, Barbara feels as if Talbot is overplaying his hand—his use of Garrick, Studs Terkel enjoying himself as journalist Hugh slow-motion, for instance, feels needlessly arty—but one Fullerton, and Sayles himself playing Fullerton’s pal Ring can’t deny the seriousness of his concerns or his emo- Lardner. —J R PG, 119 min. Wed tional investment in the material. With Jonathan Majors, 6/19, 7:30 PM. Beverly Arts Center Mike Epps, and Danny Glover. —B S R, 120 min. N5B Century Centre, Century 12 and CineArts 6 Not all heroes wear capes—some, in fact, wear scrubs. NLate Night This straightforward documentary illuminates the his- R Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling shine in tory of the nation’s fi rst AIDS ward, which opened at this comedy about Katherine Newbury (Thompson)—the San Francisco General Hospital in 1983, when the AIDS fi rst and only woman, in this fi ctional world, to helm crisis was in the beginning stages. Its heroes are the a long-running late-night network talk show—and her medical workers—specifi cally several nurses and a few unlikely protege, Molly Patel (Kaling), a former chem- dedicated volunteers—who championed standards of ical-plant employee who’s yearned to work in comedy. care that prioritized compassion toward the patients. When Katherine is set to be replaced by a young Through interviews with staff , patients, and activists, as male comedian, she and her team, among them Molly well as visceral fi lm and photographic documentation, (hired to fi ll a quota) and several white male writers The Last Black Man in San Francisco viewers, especially those who may not remember or may who resent her presence, set out to shake things up. not have even been alive at the time, will get a sense of Kaling wrote the script, and Nisha Ganatra (Chutney NOW PLAYING works as a horror fi lm, yet his laid-back humor remains a the heartbreak and tenacity that defi ned a generation. Popcorn) directed. Kaling’s biggest fl aw as a creator is charming alternative to the bombast of most American Helmed by Crash director Paul Haggis and documen- a wild unevenness that mars even her best work, but NBeing Frank movie comedy. The star-studded ensemble cast—which tary fi lmmaker Dan Krauss, its simplicity is in service of her undeniable charisma and tenacious vulnerability, In some ways, the 90s are the best decade in which features numerous Jarmusch veterans, among them its eff ectiveness. —K S 82 min. Block 37, combined with her prodigious sense of humor, compen- to set a complex family tale: many of its conveniences Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Chloë Sevigny, Tilda Swinton, Century 12 and CineArts 6 sate for that. Heightened by an impressive performance and cultural touchstones remain, and there’s no need to Steve Buscemi, and Tom Waits—seems to be having from Thompson, it’s a fun movie that tackles a variety of navigate the impact of social media and smartphones loads of fun, which adds to the ingratiating vibe. —B High Life issues, including sexism in the workplace, with panache. on domestic life. That’s even more convenient when S R, 103 min. ArcLight, Century Centre, Century 12 R One reason why every Claire Denis fi lm With John Lithgow, Hugh Dancy, and Amy Ryan. —K - plotlines center around secrets, and Being Frank has a and CineArts 6, River East 21 requires multiple viewings to reveal its true nature S R, 102 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, City big one: Frank (Jim Gaffi gan) is balancing two families, is that the French writer-director refuses to repeat North 14, Lake Theatre, River East 21 neither of which knows the other exists until he’s bust- NDiamantino herself—her movies may share certain ideas and stylistic ed by his fl annel-wearing musician son—again, it’s the The title character of this Portuguese comedy is a tendencies, but each one is elusive in its own way. This Love, Simon 90s—Philip (Logan Miller). Gaffi gan works to humanize dim-witted soccer star who likes to imagine his oppo- English-language sci-fi drama is no exception. The This beguiling romantic comedy off ers a fresh take Frank, but because he never plays it superdark, the nents on the fi eld are giant puppies. A er he fails plot moves freely between sequences of an astronaut on the familiar premise of a high-schooler trying to character comes across even worse: he rationalizes and to make a penalty kick and loses the World Cup for (Robert Pattinson) caring for a baby girl on an empty fi t in. Nick Robinson (Jurassic World) plays the title conspires rather than coming clean and making amends. Portugal, he decides to redeem himself by adopting an space station, fl ashbacks depicting the astronaut’s rela- character, a well-adjusted senior with a great family and For his part, Philip channels his feelings of bitterness African refugee, unaware that the “boy” is actually an tionships with his crewmates (who are seen dead at the wonderful friends, none of whom suspect that he’s gay. and rejection into an attempt to blackmail Frank for undercover female government agent investigating his beginning of the fi lm), and fl ashes of the characters’ A er his online courtship of another closeted student is out-of-state tuition. But his need for dad’s approval is so family’s ties to a money-laundering operation. Mean- lives on earth. As usual Denis circles around her themes discovered by the class loudmouth (Logan Miller), Simon strong that he goes to great lengths to help keep up the while, Diamantino’s twin sisters sell out the hero to a (in this case, imprisonment, sexuality, and parenthood) hopes to avoid being outed by welcoming this character charade—at the expense of his mother, sister, and half far-right organization with designs of getting Portugal without connecting them in a readily legible manner, into his social circle and even fi xing him up with a family. Sure, there are some laughs in this dark comedy, to leave the EU. There are also developments involving forcing viewers to sculpt the poetic associations into lovely but vulnerable pal (Alexandra Shipp). Greg Ber- but frankly it’s a story about an ordinary man who lies cloning, experimental psychotherapy, and a motorcycle- a coherent narrative shape. Yet those associations are lanti directed, adapting Becky Albertalli’s young adult to the people he loves and teaches his son to do the riding nun. The plot may suggest an early Pedro Alm- exciting, beguiling, and sometimes quite moving. Not novel Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda. —A same. —J L 109 min. At Century Centre. Visit odóvar farce, but directors Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel surprisingly, Denis cites Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) G PG-13, 110 min. Outdoor screening. Tue 6/18, landmarktheatres.com for showtimes. Schmidt (who previously made the underground feature as one of the science-fi ction fi lms that inspired her. With 6:30 PM. Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park F Palaces of Pity) avoid big laughs, underplaying every- Juliette Binoche, Mia Goth, and André Benjamin. —B NThe Dead Don’t Die thing with the aim of making viewers marvel at how S R, 110 min. Fri 6/14, 2 and 6 PM; Sat 6/15, 8 PM; Loving Vincent R Jim Jarmusch’s most mainstream eff ort to date weird it all is. The strategy smacks of false modesty, Sun 6/16, 3 PM; Mon 6/17, 6 PM; Wed 6/19, 8:15 PM; Thu R In 2011, Gregory White Smith and Steven Naifeh is also his most topical, directing satirical barbs at since the fi lm isn’t really all that weird—it’s too cannily 6/20, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center published Van Gogh: The Life, an acclaimed biography Trump-era American racism and pending environmen- plotted and self-aware to achieve the sort of gonzo arguing, among other things, that the Dutch painter’s tal catastrophe. It’s also a loving tribute to the work energy one associates with genuine cult items. In Portu- NThe Last Black Man in San gunshot death in July 1890, in the French town of of George A. Romero, another trailblazing American guese with subtitles. —B S 92 min. Fri 6/14, 6 PM; R Francisco Auvers-sur-Oise, was no suicide, as scholars had agreed independent fi lmmaker who mixed aff ectionate portraits Sat 6/15, 7:45 PM; Sun 6/16, 3 PM; Mon 6/17, 8:15 PM; Tue for years, but homicide at the hands of a local bully. Lov- of blue-collar types with angry social critique. Clearly 6/18, 8:15 PM; Wed 6/19, 7:45 PM; and Thu 6/20, 6 PM. Lifelong San Francisco resident Jimmie Fails plays a ing Vincent, the fi rst Van Gogh biopic since the homicide inspired by Romero’s “Living Dead” cycle, this horror Gene Siskel Film Center fi ctionalized version of himself in Joe Talbot’s ambitious theory surfaced, dives into the mystery surrounding the comedy takes place in a small Pennsylvania town called debut feature, which takes a poetic view of gentri- painter’s death. This extraordinary animation, created Centerville (named a er the setting of Frank Zappa’s Eight Men Out fi cation, underemployment, and other issues facing by a team of 115 artists who hand-painted every one 200 Motels), where the dead rise from their graves to This 1988 feature recounts the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, the city’s Black population. The episodic story centers of its 65,000 frames, brings to life many of the people prey on the living a er the earth gets thrown off its in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were on Fails’s eff orts to rehabilitate an old mansion that Van Gogh painted during his last years in France—fore- rotational axis as a result of American energy companies persuaded by gamblers to throw the World Series to once belonged to his grandfather. When the home’s most among them young Armand Roulin, whose family fracking the polar ice caps. For all his talents, Jarmusch the Cincinnati Reds. Baseball fans might fi nd this mar- most recent owners move out, Fails breaks in with his befriended Van Gogh during his yearlong stay in Arles. has never excelled at suspense, which is why this never ginally absorbing; for anyone else it’s as conscientious best friend (an aspiring playwright who works in a fi sh One year a er the artist’s death, Armand is recruited by
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his father, Joseph, to track down Van Gogh’s brother, others who reported on the act, insincere, self-serving, Theo, and place in his hands an unsent letter from and odious. Yet this work also is a fi ne example of how Vincent that has just turned up. Armand’s journey leads one can dislike the fi lmmaker and like the fi lm. Magid, him to Paris, where he learns that Theo has died too, and similar to the architect she reveres, knows the power then to nearby Auvers, where he questions the towns- of a good story and how to poetically construct one. people about Vincent and, from their variously colored —L P 86 min. Fri 6/14, 4:15 and 8:15 PM; Sat memories, tries to reconstruct how and why the artist 6/15, 5:15 PM; Sun 6/16, 5 PM; Mon 6/17, 6 PM; and Wed died. —JR J PG-13, 95 min. Showing as a double 6/19, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center OLD SCHOOL feature with Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream (see separate listing). Fri 6/14, 2 PM; Sat 6/15, 2 PM; and Tue Rosetta JUNE 18-20 AT 10:30 PM 6/18, 6:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center R From its opening seconds, this feature from Belgian brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (La Old School Promesse), winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1999 Cannes “I probably laughed harder at this collection of college fi lm festival, has to be the most visceral fi lmgoing expe- 2646 N. MILWAUKEE AVE | CHICAGO, IL | THELOGANTHEATRE.COM | 773.342.5555 slapstick sketches than I ever have at a fi lm I didn’t really rience of the 90s, including all of Hollywood’s explosions like,” Dave Kehr once wrote in this paper about Animal and special-eff ects extravaganzas. It concerns the des- House, and that’s pretty much my reaction to Old School perate eff orts of the 18-year-old title heroine (played by (2003). Directed, cowritten, and coproduced by Todd Émilie Dequenne, a remarkable nonprofessional), who Phillips, this cheerfully vulgar low-comedy tale of three lives in a trailer park with her alcoholic mother and suf- out-of-sorts 30ish blowhards (Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, fers from stomach cramps, to fi nd a steady job; she par- Vince Vaughn) trying to rekindle the spark of their ticularly hopes to work at a waffl e stand whose current college days by setting up a frat house starts out silly, employee has romantic designs on her. This may sound gets sillier by the minute, and frequently had me and like the grimmest sort of neorealism, but the Dardennes most of the people around me in stitches. Don’t expect keep the story so ruthlessly unsentimental and physical clever plotting or witty dialogue, but credit Phillips’s it would be a disservice to describe it as neo anything. easy way with actors and his sharp sense of how to use You feel it in your nervous system before you get a or avoid pathos. (The fi lm also shows the paw prints chance to refl ect on its meaning—it’s almost as if the of Animal House producer Ivan Reitman.) With Ellen Dardennes were intent on converting an immediate Pompeo, Juliette Lewis, Leah Remini, and Jeremy Piven. experience of the contemporary world into a breathless —J R R, 91 min. Tue 6/18-Thu 6/20, theme-park ride—and it makes just about every other 10:30 PM. Logan form of movie “realism” look like trivial escapism. It’s certainly not devoid of psychological nuance either, and NThe Proposal it’s had such an impact in Belgium that a wage law for Questions of who can own and access another person’s teenagers, which passed in November 1999, is known as artwork, literally and fi guratively, as well as whether art “the Rosetta plan.” In French with subtitles. —J can be owned in any sense, drive conceptual artist and R R, 95 min. Screening in conjunction with the writer Jill Magid’s dreamlike account of artistic posses- publication of Luc Dardenne’s journals. University of Chi- sion and obsession. She wants to access the professional cago professor Robert B. Pippin leads a postscreening archives of the late Mexican architect Luis Barragán for discussion. Sun 6/16, 2 PM. Facets Cinematheque F an exhibition she’s mounting, but another woman, whose husband bought the massive collection and the rights to NShaft Barragán’s work purportedly as an engagement gi for The franchise that began with Gordon Parks’s ground- her, declines Magid’s repeated requests through hon- breaking 1971 blaxploitation hit starring Richard eyed letters they exchange over three years. The fi lm Roundtree as ultracool private detective John Sha itself is lush and lovingly photographed, and the premise gets an appealing reboot in this lively action comedy of two women fi ghting for the heart of an unknowable that unites three generations of NYC crime fi ghters out man stirs an emotional minefi eld. “I imagine the archive to bust some murderous drug dealers and settle some TAZZEKA is her lover, held tightly, to the point of being smoth- personal scores. Roundtree, now perhaps one of the hip- ered,” Magid says of her rival in a measured voice-over pest graybeards ever, resurfaces in the last third of the 2 that controls the narrative. Meanwhile, Magid sleeps in fi lm, a er his son, the louche but street-smart John Sha a room at Barragán’s home in Mexico that she is assured II (Samuel L. Jackson, who starred in John Singleton’s all of his girlfriends used; she fi nds out which cookies he 2000 version), links up with his own estranged off spring, liked best and consumes them. Ultimately, she makes an JJ, a tight-assed FBI data analyst (Jessie T. Usher), to off er to the other woman that is, in my mind and to many solve the murder of JJ’s best friend and permanently FACETS.org ll JUNE - CHICA O READER25 FILM
B retire the narcotics kingpin (Isaach De Bankolé) who ALSO PLAYING Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin decades ago put out a contract on Sha II. All the actors are game for the tongue-in-cheek screenplay by Kenya Dear Fredy Barris (Girls Trip, TV’s Black-ish) and Alex Barnow (TV’s Rubi Gat directed this 2017 Israeli documentary about Family Guy, The Goldbergs), with Jackson and Usher Fredy Hirsch, a gay Jewish POW who was placed in notably riffi ng on mismatched-cop-buddies tropes. charge of the children in the concentration camps he Nobody milks laughs from profanity and innuendo as was held in during World War II. In English and subtitled knowingly as Jackson, and the frequently not-PC ethnic, Hebrew and Czech. 74 min. Free with museum admission, fi lmic, and pop culture references pile up so quickly that but RSVP required at ilholocaustmuseum.org. Thu 6/20, one joke o en steps on another—which is fi ne, because 6:30 PM. Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center the sketchy plot is really just a coat peg on which to hang all the rest. But for a breezy summer movie, this The Forcing one’s hard to beat; hopefully director Tim Story (the Lydia Moyer directed this experimental work about Ride Along and Think Like a Man franchises) will be back the “turbulence of contemporary American life.” 46 for the next installment. With Regina Hall, Alexandra min. Showing with Latham Zearfoss’s short video White Shipp, Matt Lauria, and Luna Lauren Velez. —A Balance. Moyer and Zearfoss attend the screening. Sat G R, 111 min. ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts 6/15, 7 PM. Nightingale 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Ford directed this entry in the sci-fi franchise. PG-13, Block 37, Pose City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Free Fall ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, City A screening of episodes of the recent FX television Showplace ICON, Webster Place 11 Stephan Lacant directed this 2013 German drama about North 14, Ford City, Lake Theatre, Navy Pier IMAX, River series Pose will be followed by a discussion and a vogue a straight married police offi cer who falls for his gay East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace workshop. Fri 6/14, 6 PM. Stony Island Arts Bank F The Spanish Prisoner colleague. In German with subtitles. 100 min. Fri 6/14, 7 ICON, 600 N. Michigan, Webster Place 11 As in House of Games, David Mamet tries his hand at a PM. Chicago Filmmakers The Sandlot Hitchcockian thriller, this time exploring the chase fi lm The Monster A comedy set in 1962, about a new boy in town (Tom rather than obsessive behavior. The eff ect is altogether Golden Sting Lon Chaney stars in this 1925 silent comedy-horror fi lm Guiry) who joins a baseball team. The team’s leader lighter—a souffl e that periodically threatens to fl oat Radim Spacek directed this Czech Republic/Slovak about odd happenings at a mental sanitarium. Roland (Mike Vitar) becomes a legend a er facing down a away. Campbell Scott plays the inventor of something drama about the intersection of a Czech basketball West directed. 86 min. Outdoor screening. Echo Haus “beast” that lurks in a yard behind le fi eld. The grown- called the “Process” (Mamet’s MacGuffi n), a top-secret team and post-World War II eastern-European history. In provides live accompaniment. Wed 6/19, 8:30 PM. Com- ups in this picture include Karen Allen and James Earl formula his company expects to clean up on. About the Czech with subtitles. 106 min. Sun 6/16, 5:15 PM and Mon fort Station F Jones; David Mickey Evans directed this 1993 feature time that he’s befriended by a mysterious businessman 6/17, 7:45 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center from a script he coauthored with Robert Gunter. PG, 101 (Steve Martin), he starts to worry that he might be NMurder Mystery min. Fri 6/14-Mon 6/17, 11 PM. Logan cheated out of a share of the profi ts. The conspiracies Films by Laura Harrison and An American police offi cer and his wife (Adam Sandler come fast and thick, but because Mamet’s interest—male and Jennifer Aniston) become suspects in the murder NSay My Name gamesmanship and competition—is pretty distant from Benjamin Capps of a billionaire while on vacation in Europe. Kyle Newa- Jay Stern directed this UK comedy about a couple’s Hitchcock’s usual turf, the spectator winds up feeling A program of dark-themed animated shorts (2013-’18) check directed this comedy-mystery fi lm. PG-13, attempts to regain their belongings a er they are less invested in the plot and characters. But this 1998 by Benjamin Capps and Laura Harrison. 62 min. Capps robbed during a one-night stand. 83 min. Facets Cine- feature is fun if you’re looking mainly for light entertain- and Harrison attend the screening. Fri 6/14, 7:30 PM. NNo Small Matter matheque ment. With Ben Gazzara, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Ricky Nightingale A documentary that explores the benefi ts of early Jay. —J R PG, 110 min. 35 mm. Sat childhood education. Daniel Alpert, Greg Jacobs, and A Singing Stream: A Black 6/15, 3 PM and Tue 6/18, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Heavy Water Jon Siskel directed. 74 min. The fi lmmakers attend the A 2015 surfi ng documentary directed by Michael Oblow- screening. Thu 6/20, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Family Chronicle NWorlds of Ursula K. Le itz. 84 min. City North 14 and River East 21 A documentary (1986) about a family of gospel singers R Guin NNU Docs Program 3: from North Carolina and their cross-generational adjust- Jan Palach ments to success and change; Tom Davenport directed. This 2018 American documentary by Arwen Curry off ers A dramatization of the fi nal months of a young philos- Structures 57 min. Sat 6/15, 2 PM. DuSable Museum of African a pensive refl ection on the life, work, and philosophy of ophy student who became a national hero when he A screening of documentary shorts by students in American History American novelist Ursula K. Le Guin. Intertwining inter- immolated himself in protest of the Soviet invasion of Northwestern’s MFA program, with work by Will Klein, views with notable fantasy, science fi ction, and fi ction Czechoslovakia in 1968. Robert Sedlácek directed. In Jiayu Yang, Ziyi Yang, and Jessica Scott. 65 min. The fi lm- Films by JP Somersaulter, Lillian writers such as Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, and Michael Czech with subtitles. 124 min. Fri 6/14, 8 PM, and Thu makers attend the screening. Preceded by a reception at Chabon, the fi lm exhibits an orchestral quality: it’s less 6/20, 7:45 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center 6:15 PM. Fri 6/14, 7 PM. Northwestern University Block Somersaulter Moats, and Michael interested in a clear narrative arc than in providing an Museum of Art F Moats impression of a lifetime, accented by original footage The Lavender Scare of Le Guin before her death in 2018. It becomes rapidly Josh Howard directed this 2017 documentary about One of Our Aircraft Is Missing A program of animated shorts (1973-’89) by JP Somer- clear just how universal Le Guin’s work was as the fi lm President Eisenhower’s directive to fi re all gay and One of Michael Powell’s highly individualist wartime saulter, Lillian Somersaulter Moats, and Michael Moats. explores its incredible ideological breadth, ranging from lesbian individuals in government employ, and the propaganda fi lms (The Lion Has Wings, The Invaders, 71 min. 16 mm. The fi lmmakers attend the screening. Sat her writing inspired by anarchist utopias to her reckon- lasting ramifi cations of that order. 77 min. Followed by a The Volunteer). A British bomber crashes behind enemy 6/15, 7 PM. Chicago Filmmakers ing with the atrocities committed against Native peoples discussion. Sat 6/15, 2 PM. Chicago Cultural Center F lines, and the crew tries to make it back to England with by white folks to the eventual emergence of feminism the help of the Dutch resistance (1942). With Godfrey Tongues Untied in the Earthsea series she is perhaps best known for. In Loving Vincent: The Impossible Tearle, Eric Portman, and Hugh Williams. —D K Marlon Riggs’s 1989 documentary/essay fi lm about gay the documentary, Le Guin describes her work as one of 102 min. 35 mm archival print. Preceded by Owen Black male identity features a mixture of rap, poetry, “holding doors or windows open” for people; this fi lm Dream Crump’s 1952 short They Fly Through the Air (35 mm). song, dance, humor, and personal testimony. 55 min. Sun does just that, opening an intimate window onto the Miki Wecel directed this documentary about the mak- Wed 6/19, 7:30 PM. Northeastern Illinois University 6/16, 2 PM. Stony Island Arts Bank F tender interiority and expansive curiosity of Le Guin’s ing of the 2017 animated fi lm Loving Vincent. 60 min. mind. —N L C 69 min. Science-fi ction author Showing as a double feature with Loving Vincent (see NPassing Summer The Unicorn and UIC professor Mary Anne Mohanraj participates in separate listing). Fri 6/14, 2 PM; Sat 6/15, 2 PM; and Tue Sungkyu Cho directed this South Korean fi lm about A documentary about musician Peter Grudzien, who a panel discussion at the Saturday screening and leads 6/18, 6:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center the romances of four people staying at a guesthouse. recorded the fi rst openly gay country album. Isabelle an audience discussion at the Wednesday screening. In Korean with subtitles. 93 min. Wed 6/19, 6:30 PM. Dupuis and Tim Geraghty directed. 92 min. Dupuis and Sat 6/15, 5:15 PM and Wed 6/19, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film NMen in Black: International Chicago Cultural Center F Geraghty attend the Friday and Saturday screenings. Center Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson star as two Men Fri 6/14, 7 and 9 PM; Sat 6/15, 3, 5, 7, and 9 PM; Sun in Black agents who must fi nd a spy in the organization 6/16, 7 PM; and Mon 6/17-Thu 6/20, 7 and 9 PM. Facets of unwanted extraterrestrial hunters. F. Gary Gray Cinematheque v
26 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll Lucy Stoole: a good look for Chicago The city’s beloved drag mom uses a favorite vintage store to make a point about showing up for your community. Written A E H II Photography D G Shot S V W C
liding down the sidewalk in a neon- green wig, gold ball gown, and heels, Lucy Stoole cuts through the gray and gloom of a rainy May afternoon like a knife. As she gets closer, you can see Gwhat’s perhaps the most notable piece of her ensemble—the one on her face. She wears a robust, immaculately trimmed black beard. Lucy isn’t the fi rst drag queen to do so, of course—in the 1970s, for instance, a fl amboy- ant performer known as the Bearded Lady regularly appeared at a River North club called Dugan’s Bistro—but bearded queens have never been more than a small minority. Lucy has had to overcome a great deal of resistance, because many drag fans and performers are reluctant to accept what they see as a de- parture from female impersonation. RuPaul famously doesn’t allow bearded queens on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Lucy is no stranger to resistance, though. “A lot of my drag persona has come from feeling somewhat discarded, or being on the outside,” she says. Despite the obstacles and naysayers, she’s amassed a devoted following. Born Tyrell Huey in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1985, she’s now one of Chicago’s best-known queens. As she speaks, Lucy is in a vintage shop, sur- rounded by clothes, jewelry, and furniture that were once cast aside and have been given new life. The symbolism isn’t lost on her. “I took what was left for me in the drag com- munity and turned it into something beauti- ful,” she says. “And that’s kind of what you can do with a lot of the items in this store—take it and turn it into something completely T S C’S P N R P B P C I D F di erent.” S WERK Live music, DJ sets, and more—including With Lucy Stoole, Raja, Candis Cayne, The store is Seek Vintage in Noble Square, A new all-queer variety show hosted by Lucy Lucy Stoole and an intergenerational cast Spikey Van Dykey, and others. Fri /, Stoole. Through /: Tue-Wed PM, Up of queens and kings teaching a drag history - PM, Cheetah Gym parking lot, N. and Lucy has been shopping there since it Comedy Club at Second City, W. North, lesson. Sun /, - PM, Marz Community Clark, $, + opened in 2010. Owner Chris Hunt is an old $-$, + Brewing, S. Iron, $, all ages friend of hers, and for a couple years he J ll JUNE - CHICA O READER27 continued from 27 “He was doing drag up here and living his the support she needed to grow after years was even her boss. In 2016 and ’17, before drag fabulous gay life, and I just remember seeing of being shut out and torn down by people paid her bills, Lucy picked up shifts at Seek— that community and seeing something I had unable or unwilling to see her beauty. “Chris and she isn’t the only one who’s knocked on never seen before in it,” Lucy recalls. pushed me to be even more creative in my the shop’s door in times of need. Though Lucy began performing not long drag and to sometimes see things that I might “Not only just being, like, one of the best after she arrived here, her drag persona wasn’t not go for—looks that I might not think would clothing shops in the city, it has also helped a yet fully formed. Her time with Hunt at Seek, resonate with Lucy that, um, ended up turning lot of the girls through various sorts of what- both as a customer and as an employee, would into her.” ever is happening in their life,” Lucy says. “If eventually mold her into the queen that fans Tyrell Huey’s journey to the fi lthy glam of it was an outfi t or if it was being able to work a recognize today, but in 2007, she began with a Lucy Stoole has helped others reconnect with shift, Seek is that little spot in the community.” di erent persona—Estuary Palomino. Looking the beauty in themselves—especially Black Lucy’s face still lights up when she walks back, Lucy sees those early efforts as un- and Brown queer folks in Chicago. To many in the door. It’s hard to say what excites her inspired; she was going through the motions, of them, Lucy is an icon, a role model, and a more—the inventory on the wall or the sight of just starting out, doing what she thought she maternal fi gure—a “drag mom.” She also uses Hunt, who’s already pouring celebratory shots was supposed to do. Back then she didn’t wear the platform she’s built in drag to address of whiskey. As Lucy tours the store, inspecting her beard, and her persona didn’t capture her issues that matter to her community. Lucy has his newest additions, the two of them crack unique style and personality—which she de- gotten loud about the legalization of cannabis, jokes and occasionally stop to examine a piece. scribes as “fi lthy glamour.” about the steep ticket prices and straight Lucy moved here from Pella, a town of about “It goes from having those very glamorous headliners at the new Pride in the Park event, 10,000 people in Iowa, a year after her fi rst trip moments to, you know, sometimes just wear- and about the persistent problem of racism to Chicago. On that initial visit, back in 2006, ing bondage looks and stuff,” she says. “But in Boystown—she’s been a public part of the she stayed with one of her former fraternity that’s all a part of what encompasses what backlash against Progress Bar’s recent at- brothers, who was performing as a drag queen Lucy Stoole is in drag.” tempt to ban rap. DARIUSGRIFFIN named Sophia Sapphire. That experience set Lucy refi ned that style at Seek—and found As a very visible Black, bearded queen, She’s one of several regular hosts at Smart Tyrell Huey on the path to becoming Lucy the space necessary to rediscover herself. The Lucy has helped normalize queens who might Bar’s weekly Queen! parties, which since 2012 Stoole. community nurtured by the shop gave her otherwise have been confi ned to the margins. have been celebrating house music and drag— and bringing in crowds that span all sorts of demographics. “That’s been the dopest thing, to see that this entire drag community and some of the queer community has been changed by some of the stu that I’ve done,” Lucy says. She knows she owes a lot to Seek, where some of Lucy’s fi rst looks originated. She still plucks from the racks from time to time, look- ing for something to breathe new life into. “I just bought a beautiful Christian Dior jacket from here that’s part of my drag persona now,” she says. “I love being able to bring vintage stu into the looks that I do. So this is like the perfect place for it.” Lucy is a full-time drag queen these days, and she’s always on the move, whether DJing, bartending, hosting, or performing. Her schedule never seems to let up, and for Pride Month she’s even busier than usual. On top of the three remaining installments of Queen! in June, she has several big events lined up. On Friday, June 28, she’ll appear at the Chicago Is a Drag Festival, and every Tuesday and Wednesday night she’ll host the new all-queer variety show The Second City’s Salute to Pride (Not Safe for WERK). Last but not least, on Sunday, June 23, she’ll emcee a variety show about the history of Chicago drag as part of the Reader’s fi rst-ever Pride Block Party. v
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JUST ADDED ON SALE THIS FRIDAY! World Music Wednesday: OKAN M M P Author of Teen age maniac. So naturally I went to a million Tribute to Mercedes Sosa Movie Hell and Heavy Metal Movies concerts with my friends, who were all older. Crash Test Dummies Town Mountain We’d wait by the tour buses a erward, hop- FOR TICKETS, VISIT OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG The ungodly live overwhelm of Metz I’m late ing to meet our favorite musicians. My crown- to Canadian noise lords Metz . That shame is ing moment was meeting Dave Brockie, aka mine, as is the danger to my eardrums going Oderus Urungus of Gwar, outside the Palla- SATURDAY, JUNE PM forward. Last month, I got caught up when dium in Worcester, Massachusetts. He still Finn Andrews they opened for Mudhoney. In four decades had makeup smeared on his face and was so of concert consumption, I’ve experienced incredibly nice to me, I’ll never forget it. RIP, (of The Veils) In Szold Hall some pantheon-great power trios at peak you wonderful maggot-fi lled monster, you. potency—Rush in ’84, Hüsker Dü in ’85, Big TUESDAY, JUNE PM Black in ’87, Nirvana in ’91. Alas, they all sound- Big Business About four months a er my hus- ed puny next to the sense-annihilating sonic band and I started dating in 2015, we took a Rosanne Cash bombast I just barely survived at Lincoln Hall. trip to the Wisconsin Dells. He reintroduced and Ry Cooder me to Big Business and what would become Cash & Cooder on Cash: The Music of Johnny Cash my absolute favorite album, 2007’s Here at the Chicago Theatre, 175 N State St. Come the Waterworks. We probably listened to it ten-plus times while driving up and back. SUNDAY, JUNE PM Their new release, The Beast You Are, main- tains their heavy low-end sound but is much Peter Asher Jennifer Williams drew this T-shirt of defunct mellower in long stretches. I guess we’re all Swiss postpunk band Kleenex. JENNIFERWILLIAMS & Jeremy Clyde getting older, and hopefully more chilled out.
TUESDAY, JUNE PM S C-J King Crimson At the top of my must-listen Reader listings coordinator list, forever, has been legendary band King Mykal Rose Crimson. Snippets of their psychedelic, pro- Footage of Judas Priest smacking the south gressive weirdness have surely slithered with Sly & Robbie side around on their 1981 World Wide Blitz between my temples without me knowing, Toronto noise-rock band Metz NICHOLASSAYERS Tour I o en pass the former site of the Inter- and the artist in me has been dying to learn WORLD MUSIC WEDNESDAY SERIES national Amphitheatre at 42nd and Halsted. what secrets hide behind the iconic scream- FREE WEEKLY CONCERTS, LINCOLN SQUARE I was too young to see Judas Priest rocking ing red face on their 1969 debut. This hole in Les Poules à Colin the arena in 1981, but a wonderful YouTuber Pussy Galore, Exile on Main St. (1986) The my music knowledge is my secret shame, so uploaded digitized eight-millimeter footage scales fell from my brain in early 1987 when I it feels good to get it off my chest. For the OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG of this show, and though it’s a little VHS shaky, pressed play on a cassette copy of a cassette next few weeks, I’ll be held in contempt In the it’s still a treat. I love the great version of “Vic- copy of Pussy Galore ’s cassette-only cover Court of the Crimson King! tim of Changes,” which ends with an absolute- of the Rolling Stones’ masterwork. I was still ly inspired Halford high-note scream. in my fi rst year of college, but Julia Cafritz’s introductory snarl alone—“Hello, I hate your JULY Jennifer Williams’s hand-drawn T-shirts and fucking guts! I hate this fucking machine! I’m 12 13 14 totes Jennifer Williams is a Philadelphia art- gonna make my own fucking music!”—hit me ist who loves musicians. She’s done drawings like an instant graduation to beautiful new IN LINCOLN SQUARE of bands she’s imagined, like the all-girl Raven realms of ugly possibilities. Call (“the greatest rock & roll band in the tri- state area”), and her newest pieces are hand- The Pirate Movie: The Original Soundtrack Join us for 3 days of summer fun! drawn shirts and bags with loving portraits From the Motion Picture (1982) Among early- of bands we know. She imagines Van Halen 80s movie-musical soundtracks, you already Son Volt happily hanging out on roller skates or Way- know the biggest (Xanadu, Streets of Fire), lon Jennings with a cigarette and a rose. Even and you should know the best (Forbidden Camper Van Beethoven FKA Twigs and Swiss postpunks Kleenex get Zone, Shock Treatment). Launch a cannonball Cracker the Jennifer Williams treatment. too for The Pirate Movie, an aff ably botched Bloodshot Records MTV-style attempt to cash in on the Broadway 25th Anniversary Celebration WZRD’s playlist tweets Our local free-form success of The Pirates of Penzance. While the radio station, WZRD 88.3 FM, is a reliable show featured Linda Ronstadt belting Gilbert featuring: Mekons, Murder by Death, way to discover music both weirdo and pro- and Sullivan, the movie boasts Kristy McNich- Vandoliers, and secret surprise guests found. It has a Twitter account devoted to ol warbling “Pumpin’ and Blowin’.” Pick which- The Wild Reeds • The Meditations • tweeting out playlists, and it sometimes just ever seems more fun and set sail, ye mateys! Okkervil River (Additional Ticket Required) 47 Soul • Ratboys • Ivan Barrios • Royal Wood posts names of songs and acts, with no links, Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie hashtags, or emoji, making for concrete tweet Andy Bassford • OHMME • Ian Noe & more! poetry. This feed ensures that I’ll get the C H occasional nudge to pull out that Amon Duul Chicago painter and comics artist LINEUP, MENUS, BEER LISTS AND MORE AT II record or research Amadou Balaké. It’s like getting suggestions from a gentle friend with Oderus Urungus from Gwar In the late 90s Rest in peace, Oderus Urungus. RYANPOLLACK SQUAREROOTS.ORG a better record collection than you. and early aughts, I was an angst-ridden teen-
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THURSDAY13 Dead Meadow Dommengang and Tombstone Eyes open. 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $15. 21+
This heavy-psych band from Washington, D.C., caused a stir when they released their self-titled debut album in 2000: they seemed to have tapped a vein of blues-based trippy rock from the early 70s that had lingered underground in its purest form while the genre was mined and embellished by innovators such as Deep Purple, Hawkwind, and Uriah Heep. Dead Meadow had a successful stint on Matador Records, releasing pitch-perfect instant museum pieces Old Growth and Shivering King and Others (and others), before founding their own label, Xemu, in 2010. Since rock trends are so CHIGIKANBE cyclical, sometimes retro is prescient—and through- M E R R D out every change in label or lineup, Dead Meadow Sat 6/15, 6 PM, Bohemian National Cemetery, 5255 N. Pulaski, $25, all ages have rammed on through the waves like a very stub- born ghost ship out of the past sailing a straight line through a sea of bongwater. Last year’s The Noth- MONO HAVE BEEN MAKING dramatic, orchestral, largely and glassy guitar; once Cipolla enters, his grandiose beat follows ing They Need (Xemu) was a reunion of sorts, bring- ing back all the former members (at various times, instrumental experimental rock for 20 years, and in that time the main riff steadily until the song abruptly vanishes into a they’ve had three or four) to orbit the core duo of they’ve played in nearly 60 countries and released ten full- haze of guitar distortion and keyboard noises. On the title track, guitarist Jason Simon and bassist Steve Kille. Dead length albums. Their latest, January’s Nowhere Now Here (Tem- which runs more than ten minutes, guitarists Takaakira “Taka” Meadow’s streamlined riff y shuffl e has a melancholy bite throughout all the album’s leisurely tracks—but porary Residence), is arguably their best yet. It almost feels Goto and Hideki “Yoda” Suematsu do the heavy lifting, pushing in their hash den, some of the pillows have spikes, like a reunion record: Mono took a break in 2017 after founding into your brain with fuzzy orchestral maneuvers. Nowhere Now and in their space-truckin’ travels, sometimes drummer Yasunori Takada left the band, their first lineup Here is also the fi rst Mono album with vocals. Bass and synth rogue black holes go on the prowl to devour the unwary. —M K change since forming in 1999. Mono returned to the stage and player Tamaki Kunishi complements the band’s stark sound studio in August 2018 with new drummer Dahm Majuri Cipolla, with her gentle and pleasantly airy singing on the aptly titled and taking a year to fi nd him proved to be a good move. Cipolla’s “Breathe”—which sounds like a sigh of relief after two decades Raja Kumari 8 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, $12. b drumming is insistent but respectful; he makes room for him- of hard work. Live and loud is the best way to experience Mono, self at the table but mostly lets the OGs have the spotlight. The and the venue for this show, Bohemian National Cemetery, o ers Hip-hop has drawn from Bollywood and bhangra album’s second track, “After You Comes the Flood,” gradually them the perfect chance to see whether it’s actually possible to beats for years: Erik Sermon sampled Asha Bhosle back in 2002, and M.I.A. has spent much of her announces its presence with a mounting trickle of foggy synth wake the dead. —S C-J J ll JUNE - CHICA O READER31 ® MUSIC
continued from 31 bly know about the starry-eyed shredding of San career fi nding diff erent ways to make South Asian Francisco’s most beloved quasi-homeless acid music and Western rap go together. In that context, casualty? Sure, the Dead’s music is bubbly on the Bloodline (Epic), the new EP by Indian-American surface, but Garcia was a dark dude, and that ener- songwriter and rapper Raja Kumari, sounds less like gy flowed strongly beneath the band’s four-part a merging of two disparate traditions than a natural harmonies and dueling solos for piano and gui- extension of a conversation that’s already in prog- tar. All skepticism aside, though, Mayer has proved ress. Her rasta-ranting rhyme of the words “Hanu- himself a worthy stand-in. His soulful voice beauti- man” and “Ramadan” on the track “Karma” closes fully complements the Dead’s classics and deep the distance between Kingston and Mumbai, and cuts, and while his bouncy, lyrical, buttery-smooth the chanting that winds through “Shook” echoes guitar playing doesn’t exactly replicate Garcia’s, it sinuous Timbaland beats as Kumari challenges the feels like it comes from a place of love and respect listener: “Fucker test your luck,” she raps, “When’s for the source material. Most important—much like the last time you seen a Hindustani stunt?” The in the Dead’s best 70s live performances—no one fl oating, transcendent Bollywood sample on “Robin in Dead & Company steps on anyone else’s toes. Friday, June 21 • Park West Hood” contrasts with its materialist lyrics (“We need Though Mayer is the lead guitarist, he never hogs the money, money money on the dot”) in a dynam- the spotlight, which gives the band’s elders plenty ic that’s reminiscent of Truth Hurts’s 2002 single of space to demonstrate over and over what makes “Addictive” (though Truth Hurts didn’t pay for her them living legends. Dead & Company shows are Lata Mangeshkar sample till she got sued). Kumari always the party of the year. Whether you love the SPECIAL GUEST points to a more aboveboard global bash, in which Dead or have never listened to them (no one who RAYE East and West bang and grind and spit together, gives them an honest-to-goodness chance ever ZARAGOZA just like they were meant to do. —N B ends up disliking them), these two concerts are not to be missed. —L C Saturday, June 29 Park West FRIDAY14 Powder Kiddo & Sassmouth and Taylor Bratches open. 10 PM, Smartbar, 3730 N. Clark, Dead & Company See also Saturday. 6:30 PM, $15-$20. 21+ Wrigley Field, 1060 W. Addison, $52-$177. b In fall 1999, NYU freshman Tim Sweeney launched And now for a statement I never thought that I, a a late-night dance show called Beats in Space on grown adult man, would ever put on the record: the college’s radio station. The show attracted fans Leslie Jones John Mayer rips. I know, I know, but bear with me from throughout the city’s dance community, and here. For the past four years, three of the four sur- Sweeney became enmeshed in the scene, intern- Thursday, August 15 • Vic Theatre viving founding members of the Grateful Dead— ing for DFA and occasionally DJing the city’s infa- drummer Bill Kreutzmann, drummer and percus- mously wild Motherfucker party. He still hosts On Sale This Friday at 10am! sionist Mickey Hart, and rhythm guitarist and singer Beats in Space on WNYU today, and since 2011 he’s Bob Weir—have been touring the world as Dead & run a label with the same name. In February the Company and playing from the greatest songbook Beats in Space label ushered in its new mix series in American history. And they’ve brought along with Powder in Space by Japanese DJ Momoko Mayer, of all people, to fill in for the late Jerry Goto, who produces and performs as Powder. Her Garcia, one of the most cosmically skilled guitar- immersive mix plucks from the serene parts of ists of all time. Even the most forgiving Deadhead house and techno, even bordering on ambient in might have questioned the decision. A er all, what its gauzy version of “Release” by Berlin producer could the east-coast pretty-boy pop star possi- Acid Pauli. Goto also contributes a couple of her
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own tracks: the outre, uptempo “New Tribe” and diverse playlist that swings from DaBaby’s hard- the gleaming “Gi ,” which is built on dainty, cycling edged raps to Kehlani’s swooning R&B ballads. And bell-like loops and a gently humming synth line. the minimalist, seductive “Real,” with its nimble funk And though Goto can draw listeners in with calm bass line and lightly clattering percussion, might sounds, she’s also prone to nudging them toward inspire you to put it on repeat as a one-song playlist extremes. The same mix includes “Ton 10” by Euro- of its own. —L G pean duo Karamika, which borders on aggressive— it combines dronelike synth wash with severe, mili- tant percussion that seems to dictate a more regi- Mono See Pick of the Week, page 31. Emma mented form of movement than dancing. But Goto Ruth Rundle and Dim open. 6 PM, Bohemian shows that it can blend with looser tracks—it comes National Cemetery, 5255 N. Pulaski, $25. b right a er the funky, downtempo “Roy Brooks” by Tiago, for instance. Considering the reputation of Beats in Space, you’d expect its mix series to make Muqata’a Jeff Host and Jordan Zawideh open. a big entrance, and Powder in Space delivers in 11:59 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, $10. 21+ spades. —L G Palestinian producer and rapper Muqata’a is the godfather of Ramallah’s underground hip-hop scene. In 2007, while recording under the name SATURDAY15 Boikutt, he cofounded hip-hop collective Ramal- lah Underground, which lasted just two years but Dead & Company See Friday. 6:30 PM, toured internationally and collaborated with the Wrigley Field, 1060 W. Addison, $52-$177. b Kronos Quartet (“Tashweesh” on Kronos’s 2009 album Floodplain). Since then, he’s been pushing hip-hop to its transgressive fringes as Muqata’a, Iris Temple Elton Aura opens. 7:30 PM, which roughly translates to “disrupt.” His Novem- Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $15. b ber instrumental album, Inkanakuntu (Souk/Dis- crepant), shares as much with outre dance music Producer Quinn Cochran and singer Quinn Barlow, and rhythm-focused experimental compositions who make evanescent indie-pop songs as Iris Tem- as it does with oddball beat-scene productions. As ple, met at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy he told the Guardian last year, he makes his tracks in Kansas City, Missouri. They became friends in from samples of Arabic classical music and field band class—Cochran played guitar, Barlow trom- recordings he captures walking around Ramallah bone—and after graduating in 2014, they came to (occasionally at Israeli military checkpoints). This Chicago for college. Barlow almost immediately process allows him to honor his Palestinian her- returned to Kansas City, but in 2015 they began col- itage while building a modern artistic language laborating long-distance, with Barlow rapping over that confronts the injustices endured by his peo- beats Cochran sent him. By August of that year, Iris ple. The effect is empowering and aggressive, Temple had grown legs, and Barlow moved back as befits someone trying to make himself heard to Chicago. The duo quickly became ensconced above the din of oppression; it’s also refl ective and in the city’s hip-hop scene, collaborating with local hopeful. But on Inkanakuntu, any one sound is a rappers such as Banks the Genius and Appleby. Iris tiny fragment in a larger kaleidoscope. On the tri- Temple’s music fits into that gray area where hip- umphant “Taqamus Muqawim,” which feels like it hop shades into R&B and soul. Any track picked at could surprise you at any moment, Muqata’a inter- random from the duo’s new self-released EP, The cuts an aggressive fi eld-recorded vocal with rocket- Ones We Love, could serve as glue for a radically powered bass drops, hard-as-nails drums, a J ll JUNE - CHICA O READER33 Est.Est.1954 1954 Celebrating over 6165 years of service service to Chicago! 1800 W. DIVISION (773) 486-9862 MUSIC Come enjoy one of Chicago’s finest beer gardens! FEBRUARYSEPTEMBERJAJUNENUARY 13 11...... 20 23 ...... MIKEDA FLABBYVID QUINN FLABBY FELTEN HOFFMAN HOFFMAN SHOW SHOW 8PM 8PM continued from 33 SEPTEMBERJAJUNENUARY 14 12...... 21 .....WAGNER THE JETSTAR AMERICAN& MORSE 88S DRAFT woozily distended synth loop, and animated shards FEBRUARYSEPTEMBER 22 24 .....THE ..... RANDALLDADYRKNAMOSRO PIKEOM MEN JAJUNENUARY 15 13...... THE ACOUSTIPUNKS DJ SKID LICIOUS of samples. 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Sizzy Rocket—the self-proclaimed “royalty of the punks and the letdowns”—is a perpetual motion machine. The LA pop star is a near constant pres- ence on social media, tours frequently, and has released a steady stream of singles and EPs since dropping her debut full-length, Thrills, in 2016. This month, she’s embarking on her fi rst headlining tour to celebrate the release of her second album, Grrrl. The title track is a shimmery neon-drenched love letter to the 80s, complete with massive chorus- es and a music video loaded with faux VHS eff ects. Discovering mutual queer lust with a close friend never sounded better than on the single “Bestie,” an urgently horny ode to crossing into sexual territory with a platonic friend that’s anchored by dance-fl oor-fi lling synths and fi nger snaps. Rocket has expanded her musical palette since those days; on 2017’s Hot Summer mixtape she incorporates the brashness of early Kesha along with the rock ’n’ roll attitude of Joan Jett and the Runaways (referenced on the title track), and on this spring’s “Dang” she de ly croons over a trap beat. While Rocket’s music is a mix of pop strains, her inspirations are pure punk: she makes cut-and-paste zines, the title of Grrrl is an obvious nod to the riot-grrrl movement, and lead single “Sid Vicious” is a piano-heavy paean to falling for military-jacket-wearing bad boys (e.g., the bass player of the Sex Pistols). Rocket manag- es to blend the urgency and nihilism of 70s punk into modern pop without seeming like a tourist, and her shows are still small enough that the stage is on LP by Feeding Tube), they sound like a bed- debut. They plan to play some solo compositions barely a divider between performer and audience— room-based singer-songwriter who honed their and songs as well as some narrative, text-based they’re communal experiences, just masses of kids vocal chops singing along with Robert Wyatt and pieces that reflect their interest in poetry. —B all screaming along with the songs. —E B Caetano Veloso records. And on the instrumen- M tal power-trio recording The Machinic Unconscious (Tzadik), where they’re joined by drummer Ches Smith and bassist Trevor Dunn, they sound like Nels MONDAY17 Cline mashing up the Melvins and harmolodic jazz. TUESDAY18 Late last year Eisenberg released a solo acous- Wendy Eisenberg 7:30 PM, Experimental tic album called Its Shape Is Your Touch (VDSQ), Rosanne Cash & Ry Cooder 8 PM, Sound Studio, 5925 N. Ravenswood, $10. b where they play winding, melodic compositions, but Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, $35-$125. b their newest LP, Nervous Systems (Versus), made Massachusetts guitarist Wendy Eisenberg has only with Ahleuchatistas guitarist Shane Parish, is full From the mid-80s till the mid-90s, country music been releasing music under their own name for two of jagged improvisations that expand and contract went through what Robbie Fulks calls an “integrity years, but they have already amassed a discogra- like animated fractals. Eisenberg has played Chi- explosion.” As if to make up for the middle-of-the- phy so diverse that no genre can claim them. On cago with various bands, most recently the Flying road Urban Cowboy era directly preceding those their debut, Time Machine (HEC Tapes, reissued Luttenbachers, but this concert is their local solo years, a bunch of traditionalists and iconoclasts 34 CHICA O READER - JUNE ll Find more music listings at chicagoreader.com/soundboard. MUSIC 3730 N. CLARK ST METROCHICAGO.COM @ METROCHICAGO
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