ChicagoChicagoChicago to By Pete Saunders 12 Capital of the Midwest the of Capital Welcome Welcome Welcome Is the city an island of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural, inexpensive, stultifying friendliness? Not exactly. Not stultifying friendliness? rural, inexpensive, of in a sea cosmopolitanism the city an island of Is
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IN THIS ISSUE T R - 16 Comedy Comedian Caleb FILM Parker The MakeUp and more @ Hearon on his style inspiration and 26 Preview With the mm Film 42 Early Warnings Yemi Alade Chicago’s scene Festival the Music Box once again New Order Donnie Vie and more P T B 19 Lit Submarine kangaroos and introduces modern audiences to justannounced concerts E C S K K H space pirate birthday parties An the “road show” experience 42 Gossip Wolf Fans and friends C LR H M E P M a ernoon with Poems While You help beloved DJ Teri Bristol pay TD K R Wait her hospital bills Impulsive Hearts C E B W 20 Visual Art Nearly fi ve decades celebrate a new album benefi ting A E J L S W M D L G a er her career began Vaginal Girls Rock! Chicago and more D I BJ MS Davis is now a permanent fi xture at E A S N L the Art Institute G D A H CITY LIFE OPINION L C S C -J 03 Street View A DJ and radio 22 Listings The Chicago Sex 44 Savage Love Dan Savage off ers C E B N B host takes a considered approach Workers Art Show a live recording advice to a man who wants to treat L C M DL C M to style of Lumpen Radio’s new game his throat like a Fleshlight C J F S F J H I H C M J show and more arts and culture M K S K FOOD & DRINK happenings N DL J L 04 Restaurant Review A chef 27 Movies of note The Invisible M M A M-K JRN JN M from a celebrated LA chain throws THEATER Man makes for a pacey if O M S C S down a ramen gauntlet in the north predictable reimagining of a ------suburbs classic The Banker overcomes D D J D madeforTV dialogue with a D A C W riveting plot and Greed is clunky S M C J G NEWS & POLITICS M P C 06 Joravsky | Politics Centrist confusing and unnecessary Y D Dems are using the election SS P to scare voters away from Bernie A T A MUSIC & S EC K K 08 Isaacs | Culture As the threat of pandemic looms Paul Krugman NIGHTLIFE CLASSIFIEDS ADVERTISING dissects GOP talking points that 29 Galil | Feature Local label 46 Jobs -- @ C refuse to die Chicago Research has built a 46 Apartments & Spaces - @ 23 Review Congo Square’s Day of powerful tightknit collective 46 Marketplace Absence merits historic interest of dark underground rock and 46 Reader Matches S D P F FEATURE V P S A M 12 Midwestern Is Chicago an island but needs sharper satirical chops electronic artists C R M T P of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural Kill Move Paradise imagines an 34 In Rotation Current musical S A R inexpensive stultifying friendliness? a erlife for victims of police killings obsessions of noise musician Jason L M -H L S O I A R 25 Plays of note Lucky number all Soliday sound artist Jeff Kolar and B SF S’ G M F N S seven new shows are recommended Reader music editor Philip Montoro C S M WR by our critics this week 36 Shows of note Lower Dens Jeff ARTS & CULTURE N A V M G - - - J L SB THIS WEEK ON CHICAGOREADER.COM ------D C [email protected] -- CHICAGO READER L C BP D R L T E R SJ S A- S V
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at Ramen Misoya in Mount Prospect. But in the city, chains and individual operators sub- sequently rode the tide of the national ramen obsession, and though some have distinguished themselves, it is still a bit of a challenge to fi nd a well-constructed bowl among the generalists and dilettantes—or anything unique in the ocean of tonkotsu broth. Last January, Ikehata broke away from the Tsujita group to open Tokyo Shokudo at Mitsu- wa, serving homey dishes like dry maze-soba noodles, fried cutlets, and curry. Last month he struck again, opening Chicago Ramen, the fi rst of what he says will be multiple north suburban outposts specializing in heretofore uncommon (in the midwest) ramen varieties. Here that means his own version of tsuke- men, the sauce based not on tonkotsu, but a chicken, vegetable, and pork broth emulsifi ed with a blend of Ikehata’s red and white miso pastes. There is a three-stage protocol to eating these noodles (sourced from the gold standard Sun Noodle). You’re first meant to squeeze a lime wedge over them, then mop them in the sauce and slurp them noisily in a manner that will make those sensitive to certain aural triggers see a conspiracy in the root word of misophonia. Next, alter the profi le of the broth as you go along by adding dried chili (onikasu) and raw minced garlic. When your noodles are depleted, you can always order more, but the Groundbreaking white mapo tofu ANJALI PINTO FOR CHICAGO READER dense, nutty broth, dotted with tiny amorphous blobs of molten backfat, is as rich and sedating as any tonkotsu. You’re better o requesting a RESTAURANT REVIEW “soup wari,” and your bowl will be diluted with a dose of hot chicken broth. There’s little left to do after this but fi nd a comfortable place to Chicago Ramen takes its place among the kings sleep it o . Ikehata also o ers red and white miso ramen, A chef from a celebrated LA chain throws down a gauntlet in the north suburbs. based on his individual pastes (which seem like a gauntlet thrown in front of nearby Ramen By M S Misoya), in addition to a vegetable ramen and a limpid chicken ramen. But it’s a sixth variety that truly breaks ground here. White mapo tofu ramen was born at Tsujita in sickness had descended upon my home. create a sensation in Los Angeles in 2011 with dipping sauce porkier than pork itself.” Gold LA, and it’s the White Walker of ramen varieties. The walls echoed with wheezes, hacks, the opening of the first outpost of the lauded continued to heap praise on the various Tsujita A ri on the lava-colored Sichuan mapo tofu, it Aand croaks like a chorus of spitting co ee Tokyo-based Tsujita chain. For eight years prior satellites that opened over the years, and it be- features a relatively light chicken broth, a thin- makers, while a malevolent fog of viral par- to that, Kenta Ikehata, who attended the same came a powerhouse in the ramen capital of the ner-bore Sun noodle, and a pile of soft, silky tofu ticulates hung in the air. I could feel it making Nagasaki junior high school as founder Takehiro western hemisphere. nestled within. It looks as midwestern as hot- a home in my lungs. What started as a wispy, Tsujita, had worked up from the bottom in the Meanwhile, to a less satisfying degree, Chi- dish, but for the blanket of black pepper on top scratchy tickle began to sound more like an group and joined his senior classmate in intro- cago began to experience its own ramen deluge. and the Thai chilis lurking in its depths. You can open chest wound. ducing Angelenos to tsukemen (“skee-men”), a There was a time when the only game in town customize the spice level, and if you’re battling I fl ed to the suburbs for relief, to a strip mall particular ramen variant of thick, cold noodles was in the northern suburbs, meaning the milky a viral invader I recommend you push yourself in Des Plaines where, between a vape shop and a meant to be swabbed in a side bowl fi lled with bowls of tonkotsu ramen at Santouka in the to the limit. nail salon, a new ramen-ya had opened. Chicago an ultra-concentrated broth that the late critic Mitsuwa Marketplace food court in Arlington Chicago Ramen is audaciously named for an Ramen comes from a veteran chef who’d helped Jonathan Gold described as a “syrup-dense Heights, and later the miso-based noodle soups outfit getting its start in the suburbs, but the 4 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll C R | R E. Oakton, Des Plaines - - facebook.com/chicagoramentky FOOD & DRINK
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suburbs have always been home to the kings of slurped it down, went home and slept like the Chicago ramen anyway. Based on their social dead. The next morning my cough was much media feeds, local food writers are all over it diminished, and I subdued it totally after down- right now. It’s possible the praise about to be ing the cup of wari I took home. At the very least heaped upon Ikehata will lead to a Tsujita-style Chicago Ramen should restore your faith in the obsession here, especially after he packs up his idea that there’s nothing a really good bowl of family in LA and begins to build his own empire. ramen can’t fi x. v For now the suburbs are home to a potent medicine. I loaded my tsukemen with raw garlic, @MikeSula ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 5 NEWS & POLITICS
POLITICS Panic peddlers Centrist Dems are using the 1972 election to scare voters away from Bernie. By B J
f all the panic being peddled by centrist looking over her shoulder for her deranged Democrats to scare voters out of voting for ex-boyfriend whom she can’t see because . . . OBernie Sanders, the scariest fantasy is one he’s invisible! I call Horror House. So, let me take the time to say that just like It’s the one in which Bernie’s nomination The Invisible Man, the Horror House is just the leads to utter devastation as Trump wins reelec- product of devious minds. In this case those tion, and Republicans hold on to the Senate, re- minds are James Carville, Mayor Rahm, and capture the House of Representatives, and win other old centrist fogies working on behalf of over some state legislatures for good measure. Bloomberg or Biden or anyone who might beat Just in time to gerrymander the Democratic Bernie. Party out of existence. Hey, Elizabeth Warren supporters—don’t get Just reciting that scenario has me breaking smug. They’d be using Horror House against into a sweat. I feel like the Elizabeth Moss you if she were higher in the polls. If she wins a character in The Invisible Man who’s constantly few primaries, trust me, they will. 6 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll NEWS & POLITICS
For centrist Dems, George McGovern is the denunciations of the voters in my diary, which ghost of lost elections past. WARREN K LEFFLER I will spare you from reading. You’re welcome. But in retrospect, that election wasn’t so Like any good scary movie, Horror House is bad. Even in the face of the Nixon landslide, the loosely based on something real—the presiden- Democrats held on to the House and the Senate. tial election of 1972, in which President Richard In fact, they won two extra Senate seats. Nixon trounced Senator George McGovern, his It was like a split verdict. The voters may Democratic opponent. have liked Nixon more than McGovern, but they Nixon won every state except Massachusetts didn’t want to give Nixon too much power. So and the District of Columbia, which, of course, is they voted for Democrats further down the bal- not a state. lot. Exactly the opposite of what Carville, et al. While I’m on the subject—if Democrats had say they will do in this election. any guts or sense they’d be fi ghting like hell to I know this from firsthand experience. In make the District of Columbia a state, just as 1972, I was also going door-to-door on behalf of they would be fi ghting to abolish the electoral Abner Mikva, a Democrat running for Congress. college, which always works to their disadvan- Mikva lost, but he did a lot better than Mc- tage. But, alas, my beloved Democrats have no Govern in his district. And two years later he sense or guts. They’d rather spend their time was victorious, and the Democrats have held fi ghting against Bernie. onto that seat ever since. Back to McGovern. There are some parallels You see, voters are not as stupid as Carville between McGovern and Sanders in that both are and Rahm would have you believe. At least, they taking on the party establishment. know how to split their vote. McGovern’s nomination followed a heated Put this in the current perspective. Say you’re primary season that led to a contentious con- a swing voter in Sean Casten’s 6th Congressio- vention in which the faction loyal to Mayor nal district out in the western suburbs. And say Richard J. Daley walked out. you voted for him in 2018 because you were sick It got so bad that lifelong Chicago Democrats and tired of the Republican Party’s anti-science like Alderman Vito Marzullo endorsed Nixon. ideology, or its rigid opposition to abortion The Republicans gleefully played one faction rights, or its efforts to kill Obamacare, or the of the Democratic Party against the other, overall lunacy of Trump. writing o McGovern as the leader of a move- But say you’re too middle-of-the-road to vote ment for “Amnesty, Acid, and Abortion”—far for Bernie. So—gulp—you vote for Trump. That removed from mainstream America. doesn’t mean you’ll turn around and vote to The lesson taken from the election by ambi- give Trump even more power by voting against tious young Democrats—like Bill Clinton, who Casten. worked for McGovern in Texas—was that they Especially if your choice is Jeanne Ives, who’s would never allow the party to drift too far from so ideologically to the right that she almost the center. makes Trump look like a liberal. It’s a lesson they’re trying to reinforce in No, you’re likely to vote for Casten even if you today’s campaign, even though many voters voted for Trump in order to elect one candidate weren’t even born back in 1972. to protect you from the consequences of elect- By the way, I, too, was traumatized by the ing the other. 1972 election. It haunts me to this day—which Back to McGovern. It seems that the country is why, like any boomer, I’m so vulnerable to the has embraced the three-A stereotype of his scare tactics of Rahm, Carville, and the Clintons. campaign. Think about it. Amnesty referred to Back in 1972, I was a hugely idealistic high letting draft resisters in Canada come home. school senior with posters of McGovern on my OK, Nixon didn’t do that, but his successors did. bedroom wall. As for acid—well, reefer’s legal in many I volunteered for McGovern. On election day, states, including Illinois. the campaign sent me to some north shore sub- And, yes, the Republicans are still waging urb where I went door-to-door begging people war against abortion rights. But pro-choice to vote Democratic. candidates have the upper hand in those swing As I recall, it was raining. Or maybe I just districts that fl ipped to the Dems in 2018. imagined it was raining because Nixon voters The centrists may never tire of using Mc- kept slamming their doors in my face. Or maybe Govern as their bogeyman. But in some ways, I just imagined them slamming doors in my face. McGovern actually won even while losing. v Point is—we got walloped. And as the votes came in, I wailed at the moon and wrote angry @joravben ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 7 NEWS & POLITICS
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Republicans were so concerned about during the Obama administration, but have recently “done a 180” on. The size of the debt relative to the size of the national economy looks OK to Krugman. Besides—and this is my favor- ite among his nuggets of wisdom—“from a planetary perspective, it’s just money we owe ourselves.” Krugman’s “ultimate zombie” is the idea that tax cuts for the rich are a way to stimulate the economy; he’s called the 2017 Trump tax cut, “the biggest tax scam in history,” and writes that “at least 90 percent of Americans will end up poorer” thanks to it. He’s also argued that, whoever the Demo- cratic candidate is, the issue the party should pursue is the growing financialization of the U.S. economy. Since the deregulation of the 1980s, he has written, the greatest profi ts have come, not from “running companies that actu- ally made things,” but from Wall Street trans- actions: buying and selling those companies, often loading them up with debt and resulting in job losses. Wall Street, of course, is the arena in which CULTURE Michael Bloomberg, with his pioneering computer terminals, made his fortune: “he got rich by selling equipment to destructive Zombie wars wheeler-dealers.” Elizabeth Warren, on the other hand, created the Consumer Financial Paul Krugman on undead Republican concepts and coronavirus Protection Bureau, “saving ordinary families B D I billions, until the Trump administration set about eviscerating it.” Bernie Sanders is “not actually a socialist,” Krugman maintains, but he doesn’t like Sand- ast week, as the world caught a bad from President Trump that coronavirus will Larry Kudlow to the task force. ers’s “personal branding” and fears he would case of the coronavirus and the stock miraculously disappear, we learned that all Or maybe Trump did that because the ail- waste “his political capital on unwinnable market began a major swoon, Paul future information we’ll be getting about the ment that really got his attention last week fi ghts,” like Medicare for All—“a heavy political Krugman came to town to talk about virus from our government will have to be was the nasty sell-o virus that took the stock lift” that Krugman says isn’t going to happen zombies. cleared by a new task force, headed by Vice market down 3,000 points. If he’d known this right now, no matter who’s president. LA scary, flesh-eating, indestructible force President (and major zombie concept adher- two years ago, he might not have axed the Still, what makes him angry is people who rampant in the world? Couldn’t have been ent) Mike Pence. health security team whose job it was to handle say, “Trump is bad but Bernie might raise my more apropos for the events of the next few This, apparently in response to an announce- pandemics. taxes.” To defeat Trump, “we have to set aside days. ment by the Centers for Disease Control that Krugman’s zombie concepts are a roster of that kind of self-indulgence.” Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning econ- we need to prepare for a possible pandemic. Trump-supporter talking points, so it’s no sur- On Monday morning Krugman turned up omist and New York Times columnist, drew And that it wasn’t a question of if the virus prise that, as broadcaster Steve Paulson, his in- on CNN, looking concerned. He said he was a packed Chicago Humanities Festival crowd would spread to the U.S., but when. terviewer at the Chicago Temple, noted, Trump extremely nervous about the market (given to the sanctuary of the Chicago Temple on a So Pence—still unconvinced about evolu- has tried to get him fi red from the Times. “the few tools” in the Federal Reserve’s tool blustery night to hear him talk about his new tion, and notoriously reluctant to employ a The zombies include climate change denial kit, since interest rates are already historically book, Arguing with Zombies. It’s a collection of needle exchange to head o an HIV outbreak (kept alive by the fossil fuel industry’s hired low) and about the spread of the virus. his columns, in which he takes on conservative in Indiana when he was governor—is now de- guns), and the threat that Social Security will The president had resisted warnings; he “did ideas that he says have proved false and should ciding what the nation’s top health and science run out of money. (Not to worry: it’s a payroll not want to hear that [the virus] was going to have died long ago but are still lurching around, experts can tell us. In case he needs some help, tax, not a private pension fund, and taxes—as be bad,” Krugman said. consuming human brains. Trump appointed Treasury Secretary Steven we know so well—can always be raised.) “This could turn out to be Trump’s Two days later, on the heels of assurances Mnuchin and White House economic adviser Also, the national debt crisis, which the WMD.” v 8 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll 2020 Judicial Voter Guide
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Is Chicago an island of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural, inexpensive, stultifying friendliness? By P S
ou’ve done this. The commenters weren’t entirely wrong. You’ve flown out of O’Hare Chicago naturally shares a lot with our na- or Midway, and you’ve seen the tion’s largest cities. However, Chicago is as towers of the Loop in the distance. midwestern as the corn that surrounds it. You’ve seen the almost endless Even more, it’s the capital of the region. And Yflatlands beneath, covered with sprawling we should embrace it. subdivisions that slowly transform from It was clear that the Chicagoans who small lots to large lots to farms. Heading west, responded in this way to the question were the farmland becomes ranchland and later likely making a commentary on the midwest the Rocky Mountains. If you’re going south, in social, cultural, and value terms. To them, you see the farmland touch the Appalachian “midwest” evokes images of pastoral and rus- foothills; those heading north see the farms tic agricultural land dotted with small towns, become vast, rolling forests. Travelers head- or perhaps the postindustrial distressed larg- ing east can see the expanse of Lake Michigan er cities in the region. give way to more farmland, then mountains, Yes, Chicago has diverged significantly then urban areas. In all directions, you can from its troubled rust belt city peers lining sense that Chicago is intimately connected to the Great Lakes, and the small and midsize its midwestern hinterlands, a metropolis on communities scattered from Ohio to the Great the prairie. Plains. Chicago has made a pretty huge tran- Or is it? sition from its earlier position as a manufac- WBEZ’s Curious City regularly researches turing behemoth to top-tier global city that questions asked by listeners. One recent is among the world’s leaders in fi nance, food segment investigated whether Chicagoans processing, health care, professional services, are true midwesterners. Many people on the and logistics. With 36 of the Fortune 500 cor- street almost reflexively said no. Chicago’s porations headquartered in our metro area, urban, not rural; it’s no longer dominated led by pharmacy retailer Walgreens, airplane by manufacturing; it’s progressive, not pro- manufacturer Boeing, and food processing vincial; as a global city, Chicago has more in giant Archer Daniels Midland, the economy common with New York than it does with Des has signifi cantly diversifi ed over the last 40 Moines, Iowa, or even Decatur, Illinois. These years or so. people believe that the Windy City is an island Other cities in the midwest haven’t been of cosmopolitanism in a sea of rural, inexpen- as successful in the transition. Pittsburgh sive, stultifying friendliness. (technically not part of the midwest as it sits 12 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll BOBBY SIMS in the mid-Atlantic state of Pennsylvania, but But has Chicago really diverged—and re- often included in the region because of its rust covered—to the extent that it’s completely belt manufacturing bona fides) may be the shed its manufacturing legacy? You can stand only other large metro in the region that has in parts of Chicago and say it defi nitely has. rebounded as well as Chicago. Indianapolis You can stand in other parts of Chicago and and Columbus are midwestern cities that have say it absolutely has not. grown signifi cantly over the last 40 years, but hicago’s social and economic stratifi ca- they were never burdened with the loss of an tion can be considered a characteristic extensive manufacturing economy. As state Cof its midwestern-ness. capitals and homes to flagship universities, Some years ago on my blog and later on they’ve relied on a sun-belt-like approach to Twitter, I made a comment that I saw Chica- growth, promoting business friendliness and go’s social and economic makeup being “one- a ordability. Indianapolis’s focus on low taxes third San Francisco and two-thirds Detroit.” and inexpensive quality of life is a big part of That is, one-third of Chicago is a booming its appeal. Large cities like Bu alo (see Pitts- global city, and that the balance is still a burgh), Cleveland, Detroit, Saint Louis, and struggling, not-fully-recovered rust belt relic. Milwaukee have recovered from manufactur- I received a lot of pushback from Chicagoans ing’s collapse, but not to the extent witnessed when I made that statement. I still stand by it. in Chicago. This becomes clear when you analyze But if you use “midwest” as a cultural iden- Chicago via its 77 community areas, defi ned tifi er, you’re probably not thinking about our by University of Chicago researchers in the large cities. You’re probably thinking of our 1920s. Researchers of all stripes have been many midsize and small cities and the rural collecting and analyzing socioeconomic data areas that have continued to struggle. on the city using these areas since at least A recent study by the Economic Innovation 1930. This method provides great historical Group compared economic and quality of life data on the communities that make up the characteristics for several midsize midwest- city—and it’s a resource few cities in America ern metros, comparing South Bend, Indiana enjoy. (home to former Democratic presidential As a quintessential “city of neighborhoods,” candidate Pete Buttigieg, who served as Chicago is known for having neighborhood mayor from 2012 to 2020), and other similarly types that span the social and economic sized metros in the region with other metros spectrum. There are dense, walkable, and throughout the country, examining the period a¢ uent areas concentrated on the city’s north between 2007 and 2016. South Bend, Grand lakefront—think Lincoln Park, Lakeview, and Rapids, and Fort Wayne were the only metros Edgewater—and Loop. There are areas of sin- that saw slight improvements in their indica- gle family homes and bungalows with solidly tors (among others, educational attainment middle-class and working-class residents in and median household income) over the much of the northwest and southwest sides: period; other cities like Toledo, Racine, and Jefferson Park, Garfield Ridge, and Beverly Peoria continued a downward slide that began come to mind. There are also the west and well before the Great Recession. From the south sides of the city, like Austin or Engle- report’s conclusion: “Modest recoveries from wood, areas that have historically lagged in the Great Recession pale in comparison to the economic success relative to the rest of the forceful rebounds experienced across much of city. the rest of the country.” Take a slice of Chicago that extends from The Curious City piece spoke with Richard the northern edge at Rogers Park to the Near Longworth, author of Caught in the Middle: South Side, including McCormick Place and America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism, the surrounding area. Head inland from the a great book about economic decline in the lake toward the Chicago River, and include midwest. He said Chicago’s economy used to neighborhoods like Logan Square, Wicker be intimately tied to midwestern manufactur- Park/Bucktown, the Near West Side, Pilsen, ing and agriculture. The midwest’s small city Bridgeport, and Chinatown. That can be con- manufacturers once sent products to Chicago sidered Chicago’s Booming Bubble. The rest for distribution across the nation. Farmers of the city lies outside of that bubble in many determined crop prices based on futures from ways, and data bears that out. the Chicago Board of Trade. The midwest’s I collected data on Chicago at the commu- entire economy went through Chicago, but nity area level to see how the Booming Bubble globalization severed that tie. compares with the balance of the city, using ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 13 OFFICIAL INFORMATION REGARDING continued from 13 APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITIES U.S. Census American Community Survey I.B.E.W. Local 134 and the Electrical Contractors’ Association data from 2017. A distinct picture emerges. sponsor apprenticeship programs in Cook County, Illinois through Just under 1 million of the city’s 2.7 million the Electrical Joint Apprenticeship and Training Trust (EJATT). residents live in the Booming Bubble, more EJATT has permission from the U.S. Department of Labor to open than one-third of the city’s inhabitants in a registration for new applicants for its Communications Program. about one-fifth of the city’s land area. On For more information on this program, please go to our website at a per-square-mile basis, population in the www.ejatt.com. Booming Bubble exceeds 20,000 per square mile, making it one of the densest areas in the REGISTRATION INFORMATION nation outside of New York City. (New York’s density is nearly 28,000 per square mile, while Registration for the Manhattan alone is an astounding 71,000 per Communications Program square mile.) Outside of the Bubble, Chicago’s will take place at the density is about 9,800 per square mile—simi- One-third of lar to Los Angeles (8,500). IBEW-NECA Technical Institute Demographically, the Booming Bubble 6201 W. 115th Street, Alsip, Illinois di ers from the rest of the city. Whites make Chicago is up 56 percent of residents inside the Bubble; on the following dates and times Latinos comprise 18 percent, Blacks and Monday, March 23, 2020 through Friday, April 3, 2020 Asians represent around 12 percent each. That 9:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M. a booming makeup is quite di erent outside the Bubble: Blacks make up 40 percent of the population, All applicants must report in person and bring the following documents in Latinos 35 percent, whites 20 percent, and order to register: global city, Asians 3 percent. The most significant divergence between 1. Your valid Driver’s License. the Booming Bubble and the balance of the 2. Your original Social Security Card. and the city might be in terms of median household income. In 2017 the median household income You must provide copies of the following documents that will be kept by within the Bubble was $68,186, nearly equal E A o documents will be copied in our office or returned to you balance is still to that of the metro area overall and actually higher (when adjusted for cost of living) than 1. A $50.00 non-refundable registration fee (Money Order only made payable for all of San Francisco. Beyond the Bubble, to EJATT). the median household income is $43,946, 2. To prove employment eligibility you must provide a copy of your U.S. Birth a struggling, ertificate, . . assport, ertificate of . . iti enship or aturali ation, or well below the metro area’s $68,403 median Permanent Resident Alien Card. (Minimum age of 17 at registration). household income. 3. To prove High School Graduation (HS), you must provide a copy of your not-fully- How does the Booming Bubble compare transcript official or unofficial with a graduation date posted , or a copy with the nation’s superstar cities? Very well. of a iploma, or E ertificate. ollege transcripts do not satisfy this requirement. HS seniors in their last semester prior to graduation may register The Booming Bubble’s population, land area, with acceptance contingent upon graduation. recovered rust and high density are indeed comparable to 4. To prove one full year of HS level Algebra with a grade of at least “C” or San Francisco; the Bubble area has 960,000 better, or one post HS level Algebra course or higher level course with a grade residents within its 48 square miles, while of at least “C” or better, you must provide a copy of a transcript. Note: The belt relic. San Francisco overall has 880,000 residents E ath ertification does not satisfy this requirement. in its 46-square-mile span. The Booming Bubble’s demographic profi le is quite similar pon an offer of apprenticeship, you must be able to demonstrate that you to Manhattan, which has slightly fewer whites can perform the essential functions of an apprentice electrician with or without (47 percent to the Bubble’s 56 percent) and a reasonable accommodation. In addition, a drug screen, physical exam, and more Latinos (26 percent to the Bubble’s 18 background check will be required. percent). In terms of educational attainment, the EJATT will not discriminate against apprenticeship applicants or apprentices Booming Bubble again compares very fa- based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and vorably with the superstar cities. In 2017, gender identity), sexual orientation, genetic information, or because they are 57 percent of adults age 25 and up in the an individual with a disability or a person 40 years old or older. The EJATT will Booming Bubble had a bachelor’s, graduate, take affirmative action to provide equal opportunity in apprenticeship and will or professional degree. That’s equal to what’s operate the apprenticeship program as required under Title 29 of the Code of found in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Federal Regulations, Part 30.” (57 percent), and only slightly behind that of 14 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll Seattle and Manhattan (61 percent). take multiple versions of rust belt cities to As you might guess, the median household traits with its rust belt peers like Detroit and On a cost-of-living adjusted basis, the Bub- equal beyond-the-Bubble Chicago in size—it’s incomes of not-Bubble Chicago and rust Cleveland, and with rural Iowa and Indiana ble’s median household income is equivalent more than twice the size of Detroit, three belt cities compare favorably as well. The too. to San Francisco; the 2017 San Francisco times larger than Baltimore, and nearly fi ve $43,946 median household income for be- What Chicago can do to transform itself, median household income of $110,816 equals times larger than Cleveland. yond-the-Bubble Chicago is again comparable and the region it comes from, is to once again $67,509 in Chicago, just slightly below the Demographically, the beyond-the-Bubble to Philadelphia ($43,861), yet is bested by embrace its role as the economic and cultural Bubble’s $68,186. The same goes for Seattle, area makeup is more like Baltimore than the Saint Louis ($57,602), Baltimore ($50,888), leader of the midwest. In the strictest sense, where its $86,822 median household income nearby Booming Bubble. In Chicago people of and Milwaukee ($49,287). the 11 states of the midwest have nearly 57 adjusts to $66,396 in Chicago. color make up 45 percent of residents within Maybe Chicago is best understood as Phila- million residents. If western New York, west- Bottom line: Chicago’s Booming Bubble the Bubble, but 75 percent beyond it, compa- delphia, with Manhattan grafted on. ern Pennsylvania, and the Kentucky counties does indeed live, work, earn, and spend very rable to the 73 percent witnessed in Baltimore. This doesn’t diminish Chicago’s midwest- bordering the Ohio River are added, all areas much like our nation’s most successful large The Chicago city balance has a higher minori- ern character; it enhances it. Despite its that have more-than-passing similarities with cities. ty population percentage than Cleveland (67 attempts to socially and culturally detach the rest of the midwest, that number swells percent), Philadelphia and Milwaukee (65 itself from its midwestern peers, particularly to more than 65 million. Chicago remains the f Chicago has a Booming Bubble, then by percent), and Saint Louis (56 percent). among Great Lakes cities, it still has plenty in economic and cultural hub sitting at the cen- defi nition there’s an area that’s . . . not. How Educational attainment in the rest of Chica- common with them. Scratch the surface and ter of 20 percent of the nation’s population. Idoes the rest of the city compare with other go mirrors that of fellow rust belt cities. About you can see that Chicago is still defi ned by the Few cities have dominion over a region like midwest or rust belt cities? Again, very well, 27 percent of beyond-the-Bubble Chicagoans positive traits associated with the midwest— Chicago has over the midwest. Chicago should but its sheer size makes it difficult to make age 25 and up have bachelor’s, graduate, or the accent, the friendliness, a love of heaping strengthen its ties to its hinterlands and con- direct comparisons. However, trends emerge. professional degrees, similar to Baltimore portions of food. Chicago’s midwestern-ness tribute to their comeback, not retreat from it. The rest of the city beyond the Bubble holds (30 percent) and Philadelphia (28 percent). is also defi ned in not-so-positive midwestern Doing otherwise would simply mean Chicago nearly 1.8 million residents within 179 square The Chicago balance fi gure does exceed that traits—provincialism, relatively closed and is denying its essence. v miles, slightly bigger than Philadelphia (1.6 for Cleveland (17 percent) and Detroit (15 hierarchical business and social networks, million, 140 square miles). In fact, it would percent). extreme segregation. The city shares these @petesaunders3
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multiple queer characters, and it was the only ever I need to help people I believe in make thing I saw in TV or movies that looked like the their stuff. Money, resources, name recogni- life we were living besides Erin Brockovich, and tion, whatever it takes for me to say, “Here are even that was just one movie, and that’s real- the people I love in Chicago and they want to ly more a story about how corporations kill make this thing.” people. You work a lot with the comedian Holmes What did you think of Chicago growing up? Holmes, and it’s so fun to watch the two of Was it the place to go? Was it at all on your you together onstage. radar? Holmes works from a pretty erratic, frenetic I mean, my only relation to Chicago was when energy, she’s like the energizer bunny, she’s on it was mentioned in Roseanne, because they a diff erent beat. I feel like I’m more contained, were close. I was always thinking of New York. I’m not capable of the things she is. I sit on the It was always the place. Especially growing up stool and whisper. She’s bouncy. But it’s fun closeted, I was like, “You gotta go to New York. hosting with her, because we’re diff erent ener- That’s where people are gay, people get to be gies but have the same idea of how to move gay in New York.” So I was always thinking of the show along. New York, and then as I got older and got real- ly into comedy, I was still thinking New York, it’s I love stool-based comedy. I was glad to see where Saturday Night Live is, it’s where every- you sitting. thing happens, and I was fully gonna move. I I like it a lot, too, and I didn’t allow myself to was gonna move there a er school, and then physically talk and sit for so long because a few guys from my college improv team were Maron did it, and I would watch him do stand- like, “We should go to Chicago,” and I was like, up and be like, “Fuck, now he owns stools!” But “Yeah, I guess everyone I like did spend some also he owns a type of comedy that is genuine- Caleb Hearon GABY DIEMEKE time there doing comedy.” So I said, “Sure, I’ll ly how I like to perform. I like to sit, I like to talk, go to Chicago.” And it was the best decision I I like to feel comfortable with the audience. For COMEDY ever made. a long time I fought that, because I was like, “Someone is already doing that,” but that’s stu- You’ve been here for almost three years pid. You gotta do your thing. Gossiping with Caleb Hearon now. How has your relationship with the city changed? There’s a story you told about dating at your The comedian on his style, inspiration, and the Chicago comedy scene. The biggest change is that people are ask- show Caleb Says Things with Friends that I ing me what I want now. No one cared what I loved so much. By J D wanted when I moved here. I think comedi- Gay people are interesting. I think I thought, ans in Chicago, our drive is to pitch ourselves growing up, that coming out would be a giant as everything. We’re stand-ups, we’re impro- party, just spending a bunch of time with very n between acts at his comedy variety show, politicians shouldn’t be cool or hot. He’s booked visers, we’re actors, we’re on screen, we’re on interesting, intellectual people, and of course I Caleb Says Things with Friends, Caleb roles on Work in Progress and Fargo, has a very stage, you have to pitch yourself as everything would be one of those people by virtue of com- IHearon takes a seat. “Y’know, this is my funny Twitter account with more than 75,000 because there’s no legitimately big industry ing out. And then you realize that a lot of gay show. I could just sit here and talk about me followers, and has toured his shows across the here. There’s great shows that come through people are just like a lot of people of any other for the next hour,” he says. “I won’t though . . . country. town, there’s amazing casting agencies, there’s sexuality, which is to say they’re boring, and unless?” He takes a pause, raising his eyebrows I sat down to talk with Caleb about Roseanne, Second City, but in terms of the coasts, the not fully realized, and that you also are one of and theatrically looking around the room, as if his Intro to Judaism class, and the benefi ts of big money, out there you have to narrow it those people. Coming out doesn’t absolve you hoping someone will let him do it. “Haha, yeah, gossip. down and be like, “Here’s what I do.” When of the work of coming of age, of fi guring your- that’d be crazy,” he continues, “. . . right?” Paus- you start looking at going out there, the ques- self out. ing again, Caleb covers the microphone with his Did you watch TV shows that represented the tion becomes “What do you want?” When you hand, scanning the crowd, waiting for a cheer. south growing up? move to Chicago, you tell everyone you want The stories you tell about hooking up are “If anyone shouted anything at all, I’d keep Well a lot of people don’t consider Missou- everything just so you can get anything. so funny because there seems to be so going,” he laughs. ri the south. I would consider myself midwest- People are asking me a lot right now, “Where much stress involved in how you process it The 25-year-old Missouri native is a gifted ern. My favorite TV show growing up was Rose- do you see yourself in fi ve years” or “What do happening. storyteller with spot-on timing and the ability anne, and I stand by that. I don’t stand by Rose- you want, what’s your dream?” And I feel like Sex is embarrassing! Everyone should be morti- to create punchlines about anything. He’s got anne herself, she’s lost it. That show growing I’m supposed to say SNL, or supposed to say a fi ed that they’re doing it. a commanding presence on stage, compelling up was so cool and important to me, they just sitcom in my name, or a feature fi lm about this and energetic, as he walks the audience through had queer people in the middle of nowhere, one pivotal experience that I had. But I don’t I heard on a podcast you said you took an the tiny moments of embarrassment involved and they were picked on a little bit, but only in know, I want to make things with people I like. Intro to Judaism class at a synagogue in Chi- in his most recent hookup, or explains why a loving way. They were accepted, there were Long term, I’d love to have enough of what- cago. What fi rst hooked you? 16 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 17 ARTS & CULTURE
continued from 16 ers. And I think the most fun to me in comedy I have no plans to convert, but I do believe that is fi nding a little truth in how people commu- to be liberal and Jewish is correct. Every Jew- nicate. And gossip is when people are doing ish person I’ve met is so cool. The biggest thing those little things. It’s for some reason so sub- about Judaism as a faith to me is the insistence versive, it’s so taboo, we fight being people on refusing certainty and answers. My favorite who gossip, we fight being people who talk part of my Intro to Judaism class was the old about others, we fi ght negativity, we’ll be like, MARCH 18 - JUNE 7, 2020 Catholic woman who took it to disprove it. Her “I hate to talk about this person, but . . .” and it’s name is Mary, she takes it regularly, and every- like why! Talk! ictured: Luigi Sottile, Kayla Carter, Christopher Sheard and Heather Chrisler. Photo by Saverio Truglia. Saverio Photo by Christopher Sheard and Heather Chrisler. Carter, Kayla ictured: Luigi Sottile, 847-242-6000 I WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG P one is cool with it. Everyone’s like, “Mary’s here I mean I’ve been on the receiving end of to talk about Catholicism,” and they’d relegate texts about me, from friends that meant to a little time at the end of the class for her to send it to someone else. It’s a thing that hap- SEASON SPONSOR talk about it. It was the funniest thing in the pens. And I love it. I mean, it was hurtful. It’s world to me, but she was based in so much love good that you’re talking about me, because it and respect, she’d be like, “I love being here, I means you don’t hate me so much that you’re love everyone here,” but every once in a while gonna stop being my friend. You hated some- she’d be like, “In my church . . .” And they’d be thing I did and you care about me enough to like, “That’s crazy, Mary.” I think about her, I get over it with someone else so we can hang don’t know, fi ve-six times a day. out again next week. That to me is wonderful. I think gossip is so good and important and fun. One thing I’ve noticed in your videos on Twit- I think I like to play with it so much because ter is gossip, from your Hogwarts video to everyone loves it, a lot of people pretend not your Jonathan series. Is gossip a space that to, which is even funnier, and it’s just the best you feel is your wheelhouse? way to explore stories. v Well I think people are their truest and most excited selves when they’re talking about oth- @dalejondale
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Poets focus on deliberateness, typing with quent (whatever that means); our attention their pointer fi ngers and the occasional spans aren’t built anymore for the commit- middle fi nger only. JUSTINCSTALEY ment and concentration it requires. Or so the arguments go. We see and feel the poetry of across the spare topic list behind the table. A the world; we’re in love with the poetic, but few spots of crumbled earth land on my note- we’re afraid of the poem. book. The occasional drip of water or fl ower This chasm is precisely what Poems While bud falls from above. The distant rolling of the You Wait aims to bridge, to coax the public el shudders in the background. into remembering what it’s like to enjoy read- And this is all in just the fi rst fi ve minutes. ing poems, to revel in language and the way I settle in and get ready to watch the poets someone sees the world, even if only for a few from Poems While You Wait. dozen seconds. Started in 2011 by Dave Landsberger, Kath- “I don’t care about being corny: it’s magic,” leen Rooney, and Eric Plattner, Poems While Rooney says. “Everybody who came here You Wait now has two dozen poets in its stable today is like, ‘I’m going to go to the conserva- and has become a staple of Chicago events and tory, I’m going to look at plants,’ and that’s al- locales. Perhaps you’ve seen them at the Field ready kind of magical. But then you come here Museum or the Adler; the Peggy Notebaert looking at plants and on top of that suddenly Nature Museum or the Chicago Symphony you can walk up to a poet, and be like, ‘Write Orchestra; a summer festival, a street market, me a poem about plants.’ And that suddenly a book fair, a library, a theater, even a wedding. memorializes and activates and alters the It’s simple: Give them a topic and $5 and great moment you already came out to have, come back in a quarter hour to get a fresh, and I think there’s some kind of alchemy to hot-o -the-press poem written just for you. A that.” smudge, an uncorrectable error, it’s part of the There’s something generous and democrat- authenticity. ic about Poems While You Wait: there are no Normally the money goes to Rose Metal agents, no editors, no journals, no publishers. Press, a nonprofit literary publisher started There is only the writer and the reader. It is, by Rooney and Abigail Beckel, but because the according to Plattner, a “total demystifica- museum is free on this day, so are the poems. tion” of poetry and the poem, even of art: “It’s LIT People walk by and ask: How does it work? not this hermit sitting alone staring down into Are you volunteers? Do I write the poem or do this dark hole of poetic bullshit.” you? The poets occasionally stop to snack and Submarine kangaroos and The poets explain the process—often it’s apply hand sanitizer. At one point a poet’s explained by Rooney herself. Once it’s been fi nger starts to bleed (metaphor!). Antibiotic established who does what, the person gives ointment is applied, followed by a Band-Aid, space pirate birthday parties the poet a topic: family, coffee, palm trees, and the poet starts typing again. The finger emergency medicine. With the younger crowd will heal, but the poem cannot wait. An a ernoon with Poems While You Wait there’s usually some negotiation. “What do The clamor of children is noticeably less you want a poem about?” a parent will ask, intense and the list of topics dwindles to noth- By J CS and their child will shrug or blush or whisper ing. The last wave of commissioners comes something. It’s one poem per household, so by to pick up their poems. The poets stand siblings will often have to agree to a subject; up, stretch, pack up their typewriters. Eighty- or, because a poet’s creativity knows no three poems today. t’s balmy in the Children’s Garden of the sitting at a long table covered in black cloth. bounds, multiple topics can be lumped togeth- Someone asks the poet to read her poem Garfield Park Conservatory, a welcome Beside their typewriters are an array of note- er like scoops of ice cream. What does a poem aloud to him: “I want to hear it in your voice.” Irespite from the blustery chill of winter. It’s pads. They’re busy punching keys, staring at about submarine kangaroos sound like? What As they walk away, twin sisters pantomime Sweet Saturday, so visitors can sample co ee the tiny sheets of paper rolled between the about tacos and cats? A space pirate birthday their poem’s lines about how twins look at beans, lemon, papaya, and prickly pear, among platen and the paper bail, some blank, some party? No topic is too weird. each other. other edible treats, and there’s the tumult of half-fi lled, some waiting for just one more line. The group’s objective is to provide patrons A patron pulls a poet aside to talk jazz. children playing. Most of the poets type with their pointer fi n- with a “magical, unexpected, unpretentious, On the table sit unclaimed poems, common Amidst the cacophony of children at work, gers and the occasional middle fi nger only, an and decontextualized encounter with poetry.” at a free event, according to Plattner. They’re there’s another form of clatter at the back of emphasis not on speed, but on deliberateness. I recall the Czech poet Miroslav Holub’s af- orphaned children, writing sent into the void, the garden: the unmistakable sound of type- There’s yelling and the clanging of the metal fi rmation that “there is poetry in everything. like most writing. They’re also a reminder of writer keys being punched, of carriage returns grating where children play above us and That is the greatest argument against poetry.” what makes Poems While You Wait special: being zinged. wait for a twisted slide that empties right by There are other arguments against poetry, a word, a line, an answer that’s waiting for I’m facing six poets behind six typewriters the poets’ table. At one point an ant crawls too: it’s ambiguous, inaccessible, magnilo- someone to ask. v ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 19 “V D T W A ” #TVKUV9TKVGT R Through / , Sun-Tue and Sat : AM- PM, Wed-Fri : AM- PM, the Art Institute of Chicago, S. Michigan, artic.edu, $ , $ for Illinois residents, $ for Chicago residents, $ -$ 2GTHQTOGT! ARTS & CULTURE for seniors and students, members and children and under are free. %4'#6+8' 51.76+105 (14 %4'#6+8' 2'12.' directors (Woody Allen, Bruce LaBruce, and 5WRRQTVKXG #HHKTOKPI CPF )QCN Clive Barker). Each segment includes an orig- inal song and footage that centers around a &KTGEVGF 2U[EJQVJGTCR[ CPF skinhead grappling with his sexuality, resulting *[RPQVJGTCR[ HQT #FWNVU in violent hate crimes. The lo-fi video piece feels especially current. We are experiencing a /#: - 5*#2'; .%59 fl are under the current cheese-pu¥ administra- .QECVGF KP &QYPVQYP 'XCPUVQP tion similar to the queer punk revolution that sparked fi re during the Reagan era. Featuring scenes of BDSM, violence, blow jobs, religion, YYYOCZUJCRG[EQO and white supremacy, Davis incorporates dark OCZUJCRG["CQNEQO humor to explicate complex themes still rel- NWG TQUU NWG 5JKGNF 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT evant to history and society. 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Vaginal Davis, The White to Be Angry, 1999. THEARTINSTITUTEOFCHICAGO©VAGINALDAVIS she famously told José Esteban Muñoz in the book The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. “They didn’t understand it. I wasn’t really trying to alter myself to look like a real woman. VISUAL ARTS I didn’t wear false eyelashes or fake breasts. It wasn’t about the realness of traditional drag— Vaginal Davis steps into the mainstream the perfect fl awless makeup. I just put on a little lipstick, a little eyeshadow and a wig and went Nearly fi ve decades a er her career began, the pioneer performance artist, there.” Muñoz, a queer writer and critic, was musician, and activist is now a permanent fi xture at the Art Institute. the fi rst to coin the term “terrorist drag,” which B S N L was used to describe Davis’s work in particular. Davis focuses on the repulsive, the undesirable, the revolting reality of society and mirrors that he goddess of queer punk Vaginal Davis from Idaho. She even wore a ZZ Top beard. in her performances as well. burst onto the Los Angeles performance Davis’s first solo exhibition didn’t happen Viewers of The White to be Angry are meant Tscene in the late 1970s as the front woman until 2012 and commercial gallery representa- to feel discomfort, either from their own prej- for the art-punk band Afro Sisters, then became tion didn’t open up for the artist until 2013. The udices or the abhorrent honesty portrayed an integral infl uence in drag performance and Art Institute of Chicago is the fi rst museum to in the scenes. Images with Confederate flags, a matriarch for performance artists. Born in- collect Davis’s video work in a permanent col- discussions using intolerant racist language, Find hundreds tersex during a time when doctors performed lection. Davis told Dazed in a recent interview, and crimes against the LGBTQ community are medical interventions in order to assign gen- “For someone who’s sort of an outsider artist thrust onto the viewer. A young mother sitting of Reader- der, Davis’s mother refused. While her birth . . . well, it’s a big deal for somebody like me. A next to me in the gallery softly left the space recommended certifi cate stated male, her family used she/her funky, funky person like me!” with her stroller midway through the video. A pronouns. Honing in on her German, Jewish, Davis was a member of the subculture group man giving a blow job fl ashed across the screen restaurants, Mexican, and French-creole heritage, she would Homocore, which hosted a queer punk night in as she rounded the corner towards the exit. The exclusive video go on to create fictional characters that were the mid-90s that infl uenced the Riot Grrrl move- couple to my left shifted uncomfortably in their “multiracial and maxi-gendered.” ment and featured bands including Sleater-Kin- seats. The roughness in the film is contextual features, and sign up Davis has played a pivotal role in critiquing ney, Los Crudos, Tribe 8, Bikini Kill, the Butchies, but also applies to scenes cut from cable televi- politics, white supremacy, identity, and sexu- and more. The decade-long monthly queer night sion coupled with the editing style that give this for weekly news at ality. In her 1999 video piece, The White to be expanded to cities like Detriot, Minneapolis, piece a “home project” feel that celebrates the chicagoreader.com/ Angry, Davis is particularly focused on these and New York, and fi nally ended with Le Tigre’s weird, perverse, DIY, and outsider aesthetics. themes. The 19-minute capsule of found footage, Chicago debut in 2000. Davis was closely tied to Davis’s voice, presence, and art have the unwav- food. 90s commercials, and montages of televangelist the Queercore zine movement, where she pub- ering power of remaining relevant for nearly Robert Tilton is on view in the modern wing of lished Fertile La Toyah Jackson from 1982 to five decades. Being born in the underground the Art Institute of Chicago. The video is set to 1991, which she turned into a video performance clubs of LA and traversing esteemed museums a soundtrack by Davis’s band Pedro, Muriel & project. At Homocore events, Davis would share across the globe, Davis has proven that being Esther (PME), which recorded their first full- zines, present lo-fi fi lms, and perform poetry. your bona fide self is still the most punk rock length album, also titled The White to be Angry, The White to be Angry, shot on a Hi8 cam- thing you can do. v in the mid-90s in Chicago. While in PME, Davis corder with virtually no budget, acts as a visual performed as Clarence, a white supremacist album for PME, following songs that reference @snicolelane 20 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll Save the date for Chicago’s own Spring Break! presents:
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Things to do S. Lake Park, hydeparkhistory.org. F Jacob Tobia COMEDY The author celebrates their new book, Sissy: A Com- ing-of-Gender Story, with a reading and book signing. Kate O’Connor Presents: Pee is Registration for this event is required. Thu 3/5, 7 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, womenandchil- Stored in the Balls drenfi rst.com. F Stand-up Kate O'Connor presents a night of comedy and some of the things on the Internet that keep her up PODCAST at night, complete with her own hot takes. Sat 3/7, 7 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, hideoutchicago.com, $8. Quiz-O Live! Greg-O and crew members will be playing Lumpen Stop Playing Games Babes Only Radio’s new game show, Quiz-O, live. Apply online to be a Quiz-O contestant. Sun 3/8, 7 PM, Pleasant House Pub, Comedy Show 2119 S. Halsted, lumpenradio.com. F Sarah Alo hosts this variety show with comedy from Adrienne Brandyburg, Hannah Murphy, and Meg Indurti VISUAL ARTS plus music by Cami Soul and Sun Blvd. Donations from the night will benefi t Salt & Light Coalition. Mon 3/9, 8 Chicago Sex Workers Art Show PM, Emporium Wicker Park, 1366 N. Milwaukee, facebook. com/babesonlyinfo. F 2020 A dozen local sex-working artists showcase their work at DANCE the SWOP-Chicago exhibition. Opening reception Fri 3/7, 6-10 PM. 3/7-3/28, Mon 6-9 PM, Tue-Wed 6-7 PM, Thu-Fri Sweet Tap Chicago 5-8 PM, Agitator Gallery, 1112 N. Ashland, agitatorgallery. Chicago Tap Theatre celebrates Chicago musicians in com. F this show, accompanied by a live jazz sextet featuring rapper-singer-host Taylor Mallory and JC Brooks. Some “The Funk Machine” of the musicians covered include Chaka Khan, Curtis This group exhibition looks at 17 Midwest artists who Mayfi eld, and the Smashing Pumpkins. Sun 3/8, 2 and explore all forms of media—from painting to sculpture. 5 PM, Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse, chicagotaptheatre. Opening reception Fri 3/6, 6-10 PM. 3/6-5/10, Mon-Sat 11 BUY TICKETS AT CHICAGOSINFONIETTA.ORG com, $30-$40. AM-8 PM, Sun 11 AM-7 PM, Jackson Junge Gallery, 1389 N. Milwaukee, j2gallery.com. F OR CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT 312-284-1554 LIT “Honey & Smoke” Hyde Park’s Bonnie & Clyde David Heo present his exhibition focusing on a series of Larry Baran will tell the story of his mother, Flo Baran, who paintings that represent bars and nightclubs. Opening ived in Hyde Park under a life of crime, and how it all came reception 3/7, 6-9 PM. 3/7-3/28, Tue-Sat 11 AM-6 PM, Sun- to an end. Books of The Housewife Loved a Bandit will be Mon by appointment, Vertical Gallery, 1016 N. Western, on sale. Sat 3/6, 2-4 PM, Hyde Park Historical Society, 5529 verticalgallery.com. F v
22 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll R READER RECOMMENDED b ALL AGES F THEATER
Day of Absence JAZMYNE FOUNTAIN
in 1965, even after Ralph Ellison’s pivotal 1958 essay “Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke” condemned blackface; so the use of whiteface at that time was clever, and even slightly subtle. Today, though, we recognize blackface as a punch in the nose, while whiteface is just makeup. To the extent that it comments on white people at all, it’s a joke played on people who have no need for defense. The idea of a day of absence remains vibrant. Women in Mexico are currently organizing one to highlight the government’s indi erence to violence against women, and it was an annual event for many years at Evergreen State Col- lege in Washington, where students of color stayed o campus to discuss issues of equity and inclusion. The tradition came to an end in 2017 when it fi nally succeeded in its purpose of making white people uncomfortable: the non- white organizers announced that to observe the day that year, whites would be excluded from campus. In protesting this decision, one faculty member wrote, “There is a huge difference between a group or coalition de- ciding to voluntarily absent themselves from a shared space in order to highlight their vital and underappreciated roles . . . and a group encouraging another group to go away. The fi rst is a forceful call to consciousness, which REVIEW is, of course, crippling to the logic of oppres- sion. The second is a show of force, and an act of oppression in and of itself.” The professor One joke, two audiences did not address what should happen when the “forceful call to consciousness” loses its force. Congo Square’s Day of Absence merits historic interest, but could use sharper satirical chops. All the actors, under the direction of An- thony Irons, do a fine job with the agitprop By K K script, which includes signifi cant updating— references to “POCs,” pronounced “pox,” and allusions to Latinos, including jokes about ay of Absence is a show with one joke and atre Company’s press opening of the show, the to dismiss the portraits of white people as ICE. I would have preferred if Ann Joseph, as two audiences. The joke is revealed in the predictable jokes—white people don’t know well-deserved comeuppance for those other the Mayor, had varied her delivery more: when Dtitle: one day, all the people of color dis- how to comfort their own babies; white people white people—the ones named Clem, with you start out yelling, there’s really no place appear from a Southern town. This provides can’t drive themselves or throw out their own southern accents and MAGA hats—and remain to go but louder. But her speech to the absen- an occasion for some rather gentle satire of garbage; white people are confounded by an comfortably sure that we are the exception. tees—including an embarrassing anecdote African American woman’s having short hair The play just isn’t harsh enough to evoke any- about her “Mam-nanny”—is a tour de force. today and long hair tomorrow—are riotous. thing else. And when the white people have a complete D A Through / : Fri PM, Sat and It must be pleasant to see people who’ve ridi- There’s another layer of joke beyond the meltdown and start picketing, there are two PM, Sun PM, Victory Gardens culed you be ridiculed in turn; but “pleasant” central conceit: every white character (that’s sides to every sign: “Come back and we’ll Theater, N. Lincoln, - - is not the same as “funny.” all but one in the play) is played by a person stop” [reverse] “AND FRISK.” Kudos to Sydney , victorygardens.org, $ , $ students and seniors. The second audience is white people, for of color in whiteface; author Douglas Turner Lynne Thomas for her scenic and property whom the show is intended as a mirror into Ward called Day of Absence “a reverse min- design. our own ugliness. White audience members strel-show.” But whiteface fails as commen- But Day of Absence, at least in this itera- white people’s helplessness and cluelessness are supposed to be made uncomfortable. Per- tary on the disgrace of blackface: the latter tion, is less a condemnation of racism than a once they lose their entire heretofore invisible haps at its debut in 1965, the show performed is insulting, and intended to be, a joke played historical artifact. I’m glad to have seen it, but support structure. For a Black audience, at its function; but for a reasonably liberal au- on people who couldn’t defend themselves. it hasn’t changed the way I look at the world— least the audience at the Congo Square The- dience in Chicago 55 years later, it’s too easy This was a point still struggling to be heard and I know it was supposed to. v ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 23 THEATER
Kill Move Paradise LARA GOETSCH
REVIEW Black lives, white lies Kill Move Paradise creates an assaultive purgatory for Black victims of police killings. By C S
f all the inescapable truths that James indispensable. The skate park-like set (by Ryan Ijames bombards his audience with in Emens) is a netherworld limbo for three Black OKill Move Paradise, the biggest one is men and a Black child who have been murdered found in the mirror he holds up to the audience. by cops. The actors don’t enter so much as they There are few things more dismaying, or more are hurled like crash test dummies across the apt to generate a knee-jerk, fear-based, totally half-pipe, down into an assaultive purgatory of ignorant defensiveness, than being forced buzzing lights and throbbing noises. to confront the worst parts of yourself. And Isa (Kai A. Ealy) has been there the longest. that’s precisely what Kill Move Paradise does, It falls to him to help newcomers, including at least for the melanin-redacted people in the Grif (Cage Sebastian Pierre), Daz (Charles audience. With surgical precision, Ijames lays Andrew Gardner), and 12-year-old Tiny (Trent down the facts of living in a country founded by Davis), get oriented. The others, for example, and—for most of its 200+ year history—run by are initially confused by the endless spew of white supremacists. Ijames knows that if you sheets from a downstage dot matrix printer. It’s are white, you are part of the problem, so long a list of names that Isa reads aloud—hundreds of them, all Black people killed by law enforce- K M P ment. In Isa’s utterance, the names become R Through / : Wed-Thu : an indictment of history and a demand for PM, Fri PM, Sat and PM, reckoning. “Jesus,” says Grif in the shattered Sun PM; also Wed /, PM; no performance Fri /; TimeLine silence that follows. “They got his ass, too,” Isa Theatre, W. Wellington, -- responds. , timelinetheatre.com, $ Wed- Throughout, the actors move purposefully Fri, $ Sat evenings, $ Sat and Sun matinees, % off for students, $ through the audience, demanding prolonged military, veterans, and first responders. eye contact, puzzling over these creatures who “like to watch.” Grif: “They have a name?” Isa: “America.” as the system designed to favor white people Intimacy and violence director Rachel remains intact. If you fi nd yourself wanting to Flesher makes the violence visited on these look away or giggling nervously, that says more young men so wincingly realistic, it’s tempt- about you than anything else. ing to avert your eyes. Which, again, points Directed by Wardell Julius Clark with to the problems Kill Move Paradise so vividly brutal, beautiful, haunting choreography by underscores. v Breon Arzell, Kill Move Paradise stands at the unicorn-rare intersection of mesmerizing and @CateySullivan 24 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll THEATER
are doing their own thing. We watch, weirded out with pick up a cargo of human beings. of Franz Ka a. In a totalitarian dictatorship such as he OPENING joy. —MM H L H Through 3/28: What transpires is a battle for Rutherford’s soul and was in, the resemblance of recent child murders to the Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Mon identity. Is he one with the white crew, who plot to take themes of his writing has been taken as practical proof Hedda sings 3/23, 8 PM (industry night), Rivendell Theatre, 5775 control of the ship? Does race, if not tribal affi liation, of his guilt. “We like executing writers. . . . You execute R TUTA gives us a 2020 Ibsen heroine. N. Ridge, 312-219-4140, interrobangtheatreproject. require him to help the Allmuseri, the group of captured a writer, it sends out a signal, y’know?” says good com, $32, $16 students. Africans planning their own revolt? Or should he play cop Tupolski (Cyd Blakewell). Bad cop Ariel (Gregory Lauren Demerath rages, leers, screams, fl irts, and, best both sides against the middle and serve as spy to Patrick Fenner) is less concerned with messaging than with the of all, sings her way through an unforgettable turn in The ties that tear Blashill’s Captain Falcon? noble use of excessive force, an obsession pegged to his the title role of Jacqueline Stone’s unique new musical R A Mexican American teenager A mix of the historic and the swashbuckling with a “problem childhood.” adaptation of the 1891 Henrik Ibsen play, Hedda Gabler: confronts grief and growth. scosh of magical realism, this production captures what Amid the interrogation and torture, the theme of A Play With Live Music. A newly-married woman returns is most arresting about Johnson’s original story. Morrow Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman (2003) is storytell- from a honeymoon abroad already bored with her There is a moment in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican is splendid as the callow Rutherford forced to grow up ing itself—what we write, and why, and what happens milquetoast academic of a husband (Huy Nguyen) and Daughter where Amá (Charín Alvarez), mother of pro- and (in one mystical segment) confront literal ghosts of when the sense we make of senseless things like loss plots to wreak havoc in the lives of acquaintances and tagonist Julia, deliberately rips pages from her daugh- his past. If he sometimes seems like a cipher in the mix becomes the trap of a fl awed existence, rather than an old loves just to feel alive. ter’s prized journal in half. It’s an act of desecration that of larger-than-life characters surrounding him, that too escape from it. Under Laura Alcalá Baker’s direction, Hedda Gabler is a selfi sh schemer but it is impossible makes us gasp. But as Julia learns, her mother has had is a refl ection of how a Black man must negotiate what Gi Theatre’s production tensely renders the darkness to not feel sympathy for her situation. She’s a woman who so much torn apart in her own life as a working-class to reveal and what to hide about himself for the sake of and the wonder of McDonagh’s brilliant nightmare. Katu- is chafi ng under the constraints of a staid conventional Mexican immigrant that the symbolic lashing out may his life and liberty. —K R M P rian’s relationship with his abused brother Michal (Jay society and justifi ably enraged (from our contemporary be one of the few ways she has to channel her own Through 4/5: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Worthington) roams from protection to disillusionment, viewpoint, anyway) to be losing her maiden name, and, grief and rage. And though the relationships here are Sun 4 PM, Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood, 773- sometimes burdened by and sometimes made divine thus, her own identity. Her complicating others’ lives as ruptured and cannot be put back together as they were, 761-4477, lifelinetheatre.com, $45, $35 seniors, $20 by love, representing the best and worst of characters a way of fi ghting the prospect of becoming an invisible there is always a chance for a child to later reconstruct students and rush. who never lose touch with their human qualities in a appendage to a dull man’s life may be wrong but it is also the parts of their parents’ story that can’t always be world with no happy endings. Inspired use of puppetry completely understandable. seen clearly through the emotional haze and hormones Shavian showdown (designed by Daniel Dempsey) brings Katurian’s stories, Kevin V. Smith nearly matches Demerath’s intensity as of adolescence. R A daughter confronts the source of her which structure the work, to life. —I H T one of Hedda’s old suitors, but this is Demerath’s show. Adapted by Isaac Gómez from Erika L. Sánchez’s best- mother’s wealth in Mrs. Warren’s Profession. P Through 3/29: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun Her best allies are the versatile trio of musicians, led by selling young adult novel, this Steppenwolf for Young 2:30 PM, Gift Theatre, 4802 N. Milwaukee, 773-283- the production’s composer, Wain Parham. They play in Adults off ering (directed by Sandra Marquez) packs a lot To get an idea of just how convoluted the legal and 7071, thegiftheatre.org, $40-$50. eerie white death masks for much of the running time, of hard truths into its 90-minute running time. Anchored moral attitudes toward sex work are in the United but emerge to the forefront once the inevitable tragic by a breathtakingly vulnerable performance from Karen States—the self-professed global leader of civil liber- A meaty offering end nears. Ibsen’s original intent might have been to Rodriguez (an acting muse to Gómez for several years ties—consider the 2017 trial of Jeff rey Hurant. Under R Haven’s take on the Bard is bloody good explore mental illness, but in this evocative reframing, now) as Julia, it’s alternately funny and heartbreaking, arrest for his role as CEO of RentBoy.com, Hurant stood stuff . it is the story of a woman fi ghting just to have her voice harsh and compassionate. before a judge in federal district court, who praised his heard. It is a story which is sadly all too familiar in 2020. Julia tries to fi gure out the secrets le behind by her contributions to the queer community, namely, providing Titus Andronicus is a bloody tale about the illusion of —D S H G A P W seemingly perfect now-dead older sister, Olga (Dyllan a safer avenue for escorts to manage their own business. peacetime. Despite being a child of the Clinton adminis- L MThrough 3/29: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 Rodrigues-Miller) and deal with her growing attraction Then, the judge sentenced him to six months in prison. tration, I didn’t realize it until I sat through Haven’s latest PM, Strawdog Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice, tutathe- to Connor (Harrison Wegner), a wealthy white boy from Having premiered in London at the turn of the 20th production at the Den, directed by Ian Damont Martin. atre.org, $25-$40. Evanston. With the help of her friends and a sympathetic century, George Bernard Shaw’s two-act family dramedy But that’s exactly what keeps the show relevant. Haven teacher, she also learns to trust her voice as a writer. A about a daughter coming to terms with the source of handily rises to that occasion, loading the show with A huckster’s tale trip to her family’s small hometown in Mexico throws a her family’s wealth is a prescient and holistic exploration contemporary commentary about race, gender, legacy, R Here Lies Henry muddies the waters of blinding light on the sacrifi ces her parents made. of capitalism, exploitation, self-empowerment, gender and violence that expands the Bard’s work in rebellious what’s true and false. The entire cast is terrifi c, but ultimately it’s the moth- dynamics, and the hypocrisy of “polite” society. Ironi- form. Here, I saw the tragedy of liberal politics, the er-daughter relationship that resonates strongest here. cally, the fact Mrs. Warren’s Profession is so layered and failures of political reconciliation without institutional Interrobang Theatre Project presents a revival of Daniel Alvarez and Rodriguez bring bruising anger and galva- thoughtfully written is likely what led to its initial ban and change. MacIvor’s daringly strange one-person show, Here Lies nizing grace to their performances. It may well make its subsequently halted performances by censors—there’s In this rendition, an artful and highly choreographed Henry, starring Scott Sawa in the title role, directed by you weep —K R I A N Y P something to provoke and challenge audiences from battle between the Romans and Goths kicks off the Elana Elyce. Suspenders, jitters, throwback mustache M D Through 3/21: Fri 7:30 PM, every viewpoint. story, which leads victorious Titus (Colin Jones) back to and all, Sawa delivers a bravura performance as either Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Michael D. Graham’s production of Melanie Spewock’s Rome and the emergence of Saturninus’s (Christopher the worst inspirational comic of all time; a soul in Halsted, 312-335-1650, steppenwolf.org, $20-$30, $15 adaptation includes plenty of the costumey, English Wayland Jones) rules. The rest of the juicy plot follows purgatory who keeps blurting out unsavory disclosures students. Department-style foppishness o en featured by Pro- an ever-growing cycle of vengeance verging on Grand involving past awkwardness and possible murder; a methean Theatre, but at its core is a biting, whirlwind Guignol. pathological liar; or some fi ercely winning jumble of Rutherford’s dilemma performance by Elaine Carlson in the title role. Carlson’s From Sarah Espinoza’s gorgeous and brassy sound all three. You have to hand it to Henry. To be sure, his R Lifeline off ers a rollicking and arresting read on Mrs. Warren’s larger-than-life personality, humor, design to Gabrielle Lott-Rogers’s brutal, brilliant per- impromptu eight-part treatise on the art of lying is take on Middle Passage. righteousness, and ultimate disillusionment exemplifi es formance as Marcus, this adaptation blows it out of the cogent. His dance rendition of Britney Spears’s “Toxic” is the proscenium-sized grandiosity of Shaw’s best charac- water. This is truly an intricate and tight take. From the graceful. His aff ection towards the “mother” (a word he Lighting out for the territory, as Huck Finn put it, may ters—even in cozy blackbox. —DJ M W - top, costume designer Lilly Walls’s use of color in the can’t pronounce without giggling uncontrollably) strikes be central to the American dream of liberty, but it’s ’ P Through 3/29: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, show is apparent: the Romans are Black actors donning us as genuine. But he’s for sure not well. This becomes also a false narrative of freedom. We see that clearly Sun 2:30 PM; also Mon 3/16, 7:30 PM, Otherworld elaborate black costumes; the surviving Goths—all white all too apparent, if it wasn’t already, by the fourth or fi h in Ilesa Duncan and David Barr III’s Middle Passage, Theatre, 3914 N. Clark, prometheantheatre.org, $30, actors—are in blood-soaked white tatters. It’s a smart time he screams out, leering with his entire face, “This adapted from Charles Johnson’s 1990 National Book $25 seniors $25, $15 students and military personnel. reversal of the harmful tradition that treats whiteness is fun!” What is? Talking into the void? Brazen negative Award-winning novel, which hit the boards with Pegasus as “pure” and Blackness as “dirty.” The gendering of the pathos? Acting itself? a few years ago under the title Rutherford’s Travels. It’s Smothering fears roles is also defi ant and chaotic, complicating Shake- As with many solo pieces, the destabilizing eff ects of now back under the original moniker at Lifeline under R The Pillowman off ers a dark look at why spearian masculinity in profound ways. The revenge solitude are front and center here. It’s hard to believe in Duncan’s direction. we write. might be served in piping-hot pie crusts, but this produc- story or dramatic tension when you’re the only person in Rutherford Calhoun (Michael Morrow), a freed slave tion’s ability to draw out classic bleak humor while off er- the universe. Luckily, there is such a thing as putting on from Illinois in 1829, follows his licentious bliss to New Once upon a time, in a room that looked like a fi h- ing fresh themes really brings the heat. —KTH a show. By the 75th straight minute of staring into Sawa’s Orleans, where he meets a governess, Isadora (Shelby grade classroom a er a fi rebombing followed by an T A Through 3/14: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, unbelievably expressive face, you realize what this play Lynn Bias) who wants to make an honest man out of him. era of mildew, a man named Katurian (Martel Manning) Sun 3 PM; also Sat 3/14, 3 PM (no 7:30 PM perfor- is truly about. Henry, a huckster without wares, dead or Escaping both Isadora and his debts lands him on a ship, was being questioned. Katurian was a writer of stories mance this date), Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee, alive, phantom or fl esh, is an actor. His mouth and body the symbolically named Republic, bound for Africa to that felt like Edward Gorey had infi ltrated the dreams 773-697-3830, havenchi.org, $35. v ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 25 T M B F F R / - / , various times, Music Box Theatre, N. Southport, musicboxtheatre. com, $ for full festival pass, $ for full festival pass for members, $ per screening, FILM $ for seniors and children and under, $ for members.
a novelty for cinema goers—they only happen when an infl uential director such as Quentin Tarantino or Christopher Nolan uses their pull to fi lm in the 70mm gauge or have their fi lm blown up. The Music Box festival began in 2012 and has had sporadic iterations since. “Because it’s a lot of work, it’s not annual,” Antos says. MAR. 5 @ North Bar “It ends up being about every 18 months or so. THU We fi nd a spot in the calendar where it makes Natasha Pearl Hansen sense—for example, if there is a new 70mm re- MAR. 8 @ Mozzarella Store Pizza & Caffe lease coming up, we’ll try to tie it in with that.” SUN Planning a fi lm festival is inherently di cult Pizza Making Class (weekly on Sundays!) for any venue, Antos noted, because curators @ North Bar must plan, check for title availability, and co- WED MAR. 11 Small Stature, HUGE LAUGHTER ordinate print tra c. But working with 70mm titles is even more complicated. MAR. 12 @ North Bar “You’re dealing with a range of different THU Amy Miller prints,” he says. “There are some that are brand new, archival, and super nice, that you @ BottlesUp know will have no problems. There are others FRI MAR. 13 St Pattys Cupcake Class w/ Intoxicakes that you spend a day inspecting, getting ready to show. Everything comes in all at once, so MAR. 20 @ North Bar you have this two-week period where the FRI Hello Dolly Celestial Music booth is fl ooded with dozens of cans.” Curators only have 100 or so 70mm titles to @ The Lincoln Lodge FRI MAR. 20 choose from these days. As such, Music Box Late Night 5 PREVIEW programs some regular titles, such as West Side Story and 2001—the theater owns its own @ Rebuilding Exchange SAT MAR. 21 print of the latter. Antos and his colleagues Make It Take It: Hanging Bike Rack The 70mm Film Festival is back also try to include titles with which contem- porary audiences might be less familiar; for @ North Bar THU MAR. 26 The Music Box once again introduces modern audiences to the “road show” 2020, they’ve included the 1966 historical We See You Comedy moviegoing experience. drama Khartoum, and the 1930 early-wide- screen western The Big Trail, which will be @ Rebuilding Exchange MON MAR. 30 By M S shown in a 35mm reduction because no 70mm Creative Open Shop: Art Making prints of it still exist. “A lot of these prints are really one of a APR. 2 @ North Bar THU ccording to Music Box Theatre Techni- throughout the 50s and 60s. Those movies kind,” said Antos. “In many cases, we’re run- Dave Stone cal Director Julian Antos, 70mm films would often include overtures and intermis- ning the only circulating print of something. APR. 19 @ District Brew Yards Ahistorically had “a heightened sense of sions—and higher-priced tickets—so audienc- I really like thinking about where the prints SUN being ‘a big thing.’ They were probably mov- es would equate the fi lm with a “legitimate” have been, and what venues they’ve screened Cheers with Beers Cupcake Class ies that cost a bunch of money to make, had theater performance that could lure them at. I’m sure that print of West Side Story has @ North Bar big casts and beautiful landscapes. All these away from their then-new televisions. screened all around the world. I think it’s MON APR. 20 Monday Night Munchies: A 420 Comedy Show pieces were making a more special, more the- Though the road-show format died out, about 15 years old, and still going strong, and atrical experience than ‘non-prestige’ fi lms.” various 70mm showings continued through still kicking ass.” @ Laugh Factory Music Box’s 70mm Film Festival kicks o the the 70s and 80s, usually reserved for high-end Antos emphasized that Music Box remains SAT MAY 9 Head Talks with Shane Mauss & Sophia Rokhlin evening of March 5 and lasts through March exhibitions of blockbusters such as Star Wars, committed to programs utilizing all fi lm-pro- 19, with features ranging from sci-fi classics Superman, and Alien, which were filmed in jection formats—from Super 8 all the way to like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Tron 35mm and blown up. As movie exhibition stan- digital-video—even as mainstream cinema (1982) to musicals such as Hello, Dolly! (1969) dards deteriorated over the decades, Antos exhibition has largely shifted to video projec- and West Side Story (1961) and dramas, in- says, “70mm was a way of assuring quality tion. “The great thing about analog fi lm is that TO ADD YOUR EVENT cluding Roma (2018) and Once Upon a Time in control, because it is more di cult to run, and it can, even in its smaller iterations, reproduce TO TIXREADER COM Hollywood (2019). more care has to be taken.” colors, and with much nicer contrast than any SEND AN EMAIL TO The widescreen 70mm gauge was often The frequency of 70mm showings dissipat- digital formats,” Antos says. “We are main- [email protected] utilized for “road show” film presentations ed, and now—when even a 35mm exhibition is taining 70 years’ worth of technology.” v [email protected]
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NOW PLAYING for her design sketches. It’s all formulaic, but within that formula, Ting cra s a story that is genuinely moving. The Banker Crucially, she avoids any cheap sentiment. Sasha’s jour- R Between the Trump family and Wall Street ney is easy to invest in, and in the end, you’ll be rooting corruption, it can be hard for modern moviegoers to for her. Akana makes her someone you’ll empathize with, imagine real estate moguls and bankers as heroes in any $1,500 statement jacket and all. Go Back to China also setting. But The Banker might change your mind. The does an impactful job exploring the economically driven fi lm is based on the real-life story of Bernard Garrett cultural diff erences between worlds. Ting touches on (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson), the dire impact of China’s “one child” policy and the two 1950s Black entrepreneurs who hired a white man to reality of factory workers attempting to support over- front their business in order to circumvent racist lending seas families they can only aff ord to see once a year. practices, and built an empire while eroding housing Ting’s keen eye for fashion and visual detail makes the segregation in California, one building at a time. Not movie pop visually—even when you know what’s coming, content to sit on their laurels, they expanded into bank- you can’t wait to see how Go Back to China will illustrate ing in Jim Crow-era Texas to help Blacks attain loans it. Like the champagne Sasha and her LA friends guzzle and develop wealth—until their identities were exposed. with abandon, Go Back to China is fun, eff ervescent, and Though some of the dialog feels more made for TV than goes down easy. —C S 95 min. 3/5-3/12, for silver screen, the story itself is riveting. With its look Facets Cinematheque into 20th-century discrimination that still casts a shadow on communities today, and stellar performances from Greed Mackie and Jackson, The Banker is worth watching with Just in case you haven’t gotten enough obvious cinemat- the whole family. —J L R, 120 min. Stream- ic critiques of wealth inequality—see Parasite—Michael ing on AppleTV+. Screening at Harper Theater Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, The Trip) is here with yet another one. Not to be confused with Erich von Go Back to China Stroheim’s silent masterpiece of the same name, Win- R Go Back to China is as predictable as it is terbottom’s limp satire follows a billionaire fast-fashion enjoyable—largely, on both counts. Writer-director Emily mogul (Steve Coogan) as he, his entitled family, and Ting’s reportedly autobiographical tale centers on Sasha his beleaguered staff prepare for his lavish, gladia- (Anna Akana), whose trust fund allows her to blow tor-themed 60th birthday party. Accompanying him in $1,500 for a trendy jacket and $2,000 at a club on any all this is a writer (David Mitchell) who’s been hired to given night, despite the fact that her degree in fashion pen a biography of the tycoon and who thus serves as an hasn’t led to a job. When her Chinese father Teddy audience identifi cation fi gure. The fi lm’s criticisms of the (Richard Ng) cuts her off , Sasha is forced to go back fast-fashion industry are valid, and its emphasis on the to China to work at his factory. You know where this is experiences of workers and refugees is commendable. going: Initially, Sasha pouts that her life is over. Slowly, But while it has a good cast and is occasionally humor- chicagoreader.com/donate her heart and mind are opened to the plight of the ous, it’s also clunky, confusing, and ultimately unnec- “workers” whose annual income is generally less than essary. With Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfi eld, and Shirley her one-night club tab. And—wait for it—Sasha learns to Henderson. —K S R, 104 min. Screening We Couldn't Be Free Without You— love her diffi cult, tyrannical father and the family she’s at Landmark’s Renaissance Place Cinema Support Community Journalism been estranged from for years. She even fi nds an outlet ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 27 FILM
continued from 27 harsh realities of marriage, parenting, and adolescence; instead she emphasizes the complexities of these stages The Invisible Man of life. She also incorporates classical, modern, and R A modern-day adaptation of H.G. Wells’s novel contemporary art (Mario, a civil servant, is an unlikely of the same name, The Invisible Man (writer-director art buff ) to emotional results. One subplot considers Leigh Whannell) is a largely eff ective science-fi ction a local theater production of an avant-garde play that horror fi lm. Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) escapes an features Mario; Burger has remarked that she wanted to abusive relationship with wealthy tech-guy scientist portray art as being needed by the middle-class in order Adrian Griffi n (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). A few days later, to face life. In French with subtitles. —K S Cecilia is relieved to learn of the alleged suicide of 98 min. Screening as part of the Chicago European Adrian and surprised to learn she is being willed sev- Union Film Festival. Sun 3/8, 3 PM and Thu 3/12, 6 eral million dollars of his fortune. A series of disturbing PM, Gene Siskel Film Center events occur, leading Cecilia to the conclusion that Adri- an faked his own death and has somehow developed a The Tree of Life means to torment her unseen, leading those around her, R A masterpiece, this fi h feature by Terrence including her sister Emily (Harriet Dyer) and close friend Malick manages to reconcile the emotional force of his James (Aldis Hodge), to question her seemingly rapidly 70s classics, Badlands and Days of Heaven, with the epic deteriorating sanity. Moss skillfully navigates through naturalism of his more recent comeback fi lms, The Thin the majority of the fi lm, accomplishing a praiseworthy Red Line (1998) and The New World (2005). Brad Pitt performance in a series of scenes largely absent of gives an impressively sober, tight-lipped performance other actors. Narratively, Whannell uses the fi lm’s prem- as the rigid 1950s patriarch of a little family in Waco, ise to compellingly capture the trauma infl icted through Texas, a decent but angry man whose strict treatment gaslighting and emotional and physical abuse. Most of of his three young sons is countered by the love and the tension comes through jump-scares, though there Christian grace of his ethereal wife (Jessica Chastain). is a steady thrill in attempting to spot subtle-shi s in Interspersed with this humble family confl ict are scenes the frame indicating the presence of our antagonist. of the world’s creation that Malick concocted with the Ultimately, The Invisible Man makes for a pacey, if mostly legendary special eff ects artist Douglas Trumbull (2001: predictable, reimagining of a classic Hollywood horror A Space Odyssey). These audacious sequences can’t terror. —A M-K R, 124 min. Now play- help but evoke the metaphysical questing of 2001, ing in wide release, including Davis Theater, Harper and in fact The Tree of Life o en feels like a religious Theater, and Logan Theatre response to Stanley Kubrick’s cold, cerebral view of our place in the universe. Not to be missed. —J R J Love & Basketball PG-13, 138 min. Tue 3/10, 7 PM. Doc Films R A girl who wants to play professional basketball THIS WEEK AT is in love with the boy next door, who also wants to ALSO PLAYING play professional basketball. When they grow up her career seems as important as his—until this idea is Chicago European Union Film put to the test. Told largely from the point of view of the woman, this career-versus-love story (2000) still Festival THE LOGAN develops the perspective of the man persuasively, as For the 23rd year Gene Siskel hosts this month-long Sanaa Lathan and Omar Epps reveal their characters’ festival that features Chicago premieres representing motives with nuances of expression that transcend the all 28 EU member nations. Opening night (Fri 3/6, 6 PM) dialogue. The lush, emotional scenes are enhanced by is hosted by Sanja Laković, Consul General of Croatia in the soundtrack—especially when the characters can hear Chicago and includes a screening of the Croatian com- it too. Written and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood; edy Comic Sans. Go to siskelfi lmcenter.org/ceuff 2020 with Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, and Debbi Mor- for the complete schedule. 3/6-4/2. Gene Siskel Film gan. —L A PG-13, 124 min. Fri 3/6-Mon Center 3/9, 11 PM. Logan Theatre One Earth Film Festival LOVE & BASKETBALL North by Northwest The 2020 edition of this festival devoted to movies R Cary Grant, a martini-sodden advertisin direc- about environmental issues features more than 30 fi lms MAR 6-9 AT 11 PM tor, awakes from a middle-class daydream into an under- screening at various Chicago and suburban venues. world nihtmare when he’s mistaken for a secret aent Visit oneearthfi lmfest.org for the complete schedule. (1959). A reat fi lm, and certainly one of the most enter- 3/6-3/15. Various locations tainin movies ever made, directed by Alfred Hitchcock at his peak. With Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Leo 90-Second Newbery Film Festival G. Carroll. —D K 136 min. Mon 3/9, 2 and 7 PM. The ninth annual children’s video contest features short Landmark’s Renaissance Place Cinema fi lms created by kids that tell the stories of New- bery-winning books like Charlotte’s Web, A Wrinkle in Real Love Time, and more. Sun 3/8, 1:45 PM. Harold Washington R Writer-director Claire Burger (who cowrote and Library, Pritzker Auditorium codirected the 2014 feature Party Girl) pulls off an emo- NOW & THEN tional balancing act with her fi rst solo directorial eff ort. South Side Irish Parade Film Fest The fi lm follows a middle-aged man, Mario (Bouli Lan- For the fi h year, this festival celebrates Irish fi lm. The MAR 10-12 AT 10:30 PM ners), and his two teenage daughters a er Mario sepa- day includes a screening of The Secret of Kelis at 3 PM rates from his wife; 17-year-old Niki is eager for indepen- and a screening of Odd Man Out at 7 PM. In between dence, while 14-year-old Frida is coming to terms with and a er the evening screening there will be traditional her sexuality. Both struggle, in their own ways, with their Irish music, drinks, and dancing. Sat 3/7, 3 and 7 PM. 2646 N. MILWAUKEE AVE | CHICAGO, IL | THELOGANTHEATRE.COM | 773.342.5555 parents’ separation. Burger doesn’t sentimentalize the Beverly Arts Center v
28 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll MUSIC Chicago postpunk gets its Wu-Tang Clan Local label Chicago Research has built a powerful, tight-knit collective of dark underground rock and electronic artists. By L G
he first thing Blake Karlson did to promote his record label Chicago Re- search was head to what he calls “the most haunted cemetery in the United States.” Hidden in Rubio Woods Forest TPreserve in the southwest suburbs, Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery has been a nexus for spooky apparitions since at least the 1950s, accord- ing to Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski’s 1999 book, Graveyards of Chicago. Witnesses have reported seeing flashing lights, a house that Chicago Research founder Blake Karlson (le ) and his roommate Cesar Robles, who helps design the label’s releases. The two of them have released music through Chicago Research as members of Product KF; Karlson has also recorded for the label with Civic Center and as Lily the Fields, Robles with Bruised would appear and disappear without a trace, and Conjunto Primitivo. COURTESY CHICAGO RESEARCH a man with two heads, mysterious hooded fi g- 9th Annual March 6-15 26 Films, 48 Events Chicago | Elmhurst Lake Forest | Grayslake Oak Park | Park Ridge River Forest Waukegan | Wilmette Meet filmmakers, topic experts oneearthfilmfest.org Learn how to take action NOW ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 29 MOBILIZE MUSIC A series of political engagement events as curated by
Indivisible IL9 Recognition Organizing for Salon – Education: Delayed: The Plastics Alternatives Where Do The Contributions of March 10 Candidates Stand? African American 7pm - 8:30pm March 5 Suffragists and Sulzer Regional Library, Chicago Public Library 6:30pm - 8pm Why Their Stories 4455 North Lincoln Ave. Sulzer Regional Library, Matter March 8 Chicago Public Library Citizenship/DACA 4455 N. Lincoln Ave. 1pm - 3:30pm UIC Richard J. Daley Library Renewal Workshop March 14 801 S. Morgan St. March Hyde Park 9am - 12pm 1st Floor Conference Room Rent Control Morton College Action 3801 S. Central Ave. Activism Evening – March 6 Cicero, IL Postcards, Texting, 2pm - 4pm Phonebanking Nichols Park Documentary & March 9 1355 E. 53rd St. Discussion: Period. 6:30pm - 8:30pm End of Sentence. Unity Lutheran March 15 African American Church of Berwyn 3pm - 4:30pm Women & The 6720 31st St. Northbrook Public Library Cesar Robles (foreground) fronts Bruised at the release party for the LP edition of their debut album, Vote: A Centennial Berwyn, IL 1201 Cedar Ln. Rotten Codex, in summer 2019. COURTESY CHICAGO RESEARCH Review Northbrook, IL March 6 2020 Candidate 5:30pm - 8pm Night Joan Esposito Election continued from 29 stürzende Neubauten. “We were just trying to Chicago Public Library March 9 Night Coverage and ures, and a woman cloaked in white. The satan- make some weird video to put out, but it ended 400 S. State St. 7pm - 9pm Meetup! ic panic even came early to Bachelor’s Grove: up being a little goofy,” Karlson says. “I tried March 17 Zoe’s Patio though fears of shadowy devil-worshipping to make it less goofy, but I still like it.” 2pm - 9pm The Personal 5518 S. Archer Ave. cults didn’t become widespread in the U.S. till The only other things on the label’s website Gino’s East Rosemont the 80s, similar anxieties gripped the commu- are links to Bandcamp. Chicago Research is Political: 9501 W. Devon Ave. Storytelling & LWV Presents: nities around the cemetery in the 70s, after launched with two releases in February 2019: Natural History Reproductive Illinois Fair Tax Training Class for vandals dug up graves and left animal remains , a compilation of deranged, Justice Q&A Introverted Activists scattered around. distorted electro-punk from a solo project One year ago, Karlson took a camera and a called Understudy, and CR001, a label sampler March 7 March 10 March 18 friend (who records as the Arno) to Bachelor’s that features synth-pop artist Death Valley, 1pm - 4pm 6:30pm - 8:30pm 7pm - 9pm Grove. He already knew that he wanted Chica- rowdy postpunks Bruised, noise hypnotist Location TBA Downers Grove Lorraine H. Morton go Research to focus on postpunk, industrial, Hen of the Woods, industrial surrealists Civic Fire Station 2 Civic Center and eccentric electronic music, and the sub- Center, and Joy Division worshippers Product 5420 Main St. 2100 Ridge Ave. limely eerie sounds he loves made a perfect KF. Since then, the Chicago Research catalog Downers Grove, IL Evanston, IL match for a graveyard that’s frightened Illi- has ballooned rapidly: its total number of For more information of listed events please visit persistlist.org noisans for nearly a century. releases hit 23 last month, when EBM act Club A silent loop of the footage, so pixelated Music released the digital version of Beyond that it sometimes degenerates into a gray and New Beat. When I visit Karlson at his Hum- sponsored by MOBILIZE brown haze, was the centerpiece of the front boldt Park home on Wednesday, February 13, page of the label’s website, which Karlson about a week after the album’s release, he’s GREEN retired last week (the video can still be seen getting ready to dub it onto 100 pink cassettes e l e m e n t at the @chicago_research Instagram page, he’d received that day. RESALE where it’s the first post). The Arno skulks The large, shabby house that Karlson www.big-medicine.org through the desolate cemetery in a black shares with a crowd of roommates doubles as trench coat, sometimes hitting a large metal Chicago Research’s headquarters. He records spring with a rod—it looks like a cryptid musicians in his bedroom, using his closet as hunter’s footage of the lost member of Ein- a vocal booth. In the second-fl oor living room, 30 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll MUSIC
he and his collaborators make fl yers or assem- punk—all those things that I love—that was ble cassettes for mail orders. In the basement what drew me to it,” he says. He’s since booked Karlson stores his supply of cardboard record a few Chicago Research artists for Hot on mailers, which he also uses to sell used records the Heels, the outre electronics monthly he’s online (the closest thing he has to a day job). hosted at Danny’s for 14 years; Understudy Including the people in the coach house out performed in May, and last month the Arno back, he has eight roommates, and some of played a live set while Karlson spun records. them pitch in with Chicago Research work. “Their enthusiasm makes me an enthusiast One of them, Cesar Robles, helps design the as well,” Wanzer says. “They’re obviously label’s releases, fronts Bruised, and plays in younger than me—they’re just starting out— EBM outfit Conjunto Primitivo; before Karl- and with the amount of stu they’ve already son’s group Product KF went on hiatus, he released within just a year, I’m just really played guitar with them too. happy that they’re pushing, pushing, pushing. Karlson makes the curatorial decisions for It makes me very proud to have a Chicago label Chicago Research, and he carries the fi nancial that has really contributed a lot to the scene.” Karlson guesses that a Chicago Research A D R artist performs somewhere in town at least F once per month, but March is shaping up to M J R C C I be especially busy. Civic Center are part of an Wed 3/4, 9:30 PM, the Hideout, 1354 American Dreams Records showcase at the W. Wabansia, $8, 21+ Hideout on Wednesday, March 4, and Club A F L C Music opens for Montreal darkwave duo Auto- M melodi at Sleeping Village on Sunday, March 8. Sun 3/8, 9 PM, Sleeping Village, 3734 On Friday, March 13, Chicago Research hosts a W. Belmont, $12, $10 in advance, 21+ fi rst-anniversary showcase at a DIY space with C R - fi ve acts who’ve each released at least one song C M on the label. The concert doubles as a birthday CP A party for Karlson, who turns 26 that day. B O DJD C “Chicago Research, the label, gave us a E-mail chicagoresearchrecords@ point that we could all coalesce around and all gmail.com for location. Fri 3/13, 8 PM, deposit our energies into,” says the Arno. The donations accepted, all ages label’s artists invest in their connections to the collective, not just in their individual projects. burden of running it. But in many other ways, Karlson has been critical to making the en- the label is a collective—the main factor that deavor work, encouraging his friends to focus unifies the sonically disparate acts that it’s on their music while he handles the logistics. released, aside from their shared antagonistic “A lot of our crew is left-brained and insane aesthetic, is that they’re all part of the same people,” the Arno says. “It’s nice to have a friend circle. daddy shepherding the whole thing along.” These connections preexist the label too. A few years ago, Karlson played in synth-punk arlson grew up in Aurora, and his dad band Plastic with Macklin Reed (of Bruised and brought him to his fi rst punk shows when Product KF) and Ariel Motto (aka Death Valley Khe was in third grade. “He took me to see and Club Music). Between them, Karlson, Reed, Rancid and NoFX and stu ,” Karlson says. “He and Motto have contributed to 14 Chicago Re- was big on those bands in the early 2000s.” search releases so far. “The main goal is just to Once Karlson got acquainted with the DIY document what’s going on,” Karlson says. “I’m scene, he’d take the Metra into Chicago to see just doing this for us, for the people here.” shows. “When I was 18, I would come down Chicago Research releases have hardly been here to see bands like Culo,” he says. “That’s burning up the charts, but the label’s prolifi c when I really started becoming active.” release schedule and range of unusual sounds In the early 2010s, Karlson started his fi rst have made lots of fans in the local under- band, a short-lived hardcore outfi t that fi zzled ground electronic scene. Cult producer Beau out after self-releasing a couple cassettes. Wanzer got hooked after stumbling on the la- His most prominent band in that scene was a bel’s Bandcamp page in early 2019. “The com- lumbering unit called 86 Gemini, which also bination of experimental, industrial, noise, featured Macklin Reed. In 2017 they issued a ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 31 MUSIC Rattleback RECORDS continued from 31 started recording solo darkwave material as Product KF pretty much had an album. It’s ne- self-titled seven-inch on High Fashion Indus- Death Valley. In April 2017, she released two cessity—no one’s gonna put out our record, so RATTLEBACK tries, a DIY label run by Eric Frankel of heavy singles on Bandcamp. “Blake was really sup- we might as well.” RECORDS IS A hitters Rash. “He’s probably got a lot of those portive from day one,” Motto says. “He said, Karlson arrived at this conclusion in Decem- left,” Karlson says. ‘If I was doing a record label, I would want to ber 2018 and wasted no time setting up his UNIQUE MUSIC Karlson played a critical role in Chicago release the single as a seven-inch.’” new label. He derived the name from Manhat- STORE OFFERING A hardcore as a recording engineer. He learned tan Research, a technology company founded MYRIAD SELECTION the basics while in high school, at a west arlson actually was running a label at the by infl uential composer and electronics pio- OF NEW AND USED suburban church his family attended—but time, but it stuck mainly to reissues—its neer Raymond Scott. Karlson asked Robles to he’s forgotten the name of the church and the only original release was Plastic 2.0. He design a black-and-white logo that stylized VINYL, CDS, K name of the person who showed him the ropes. called it Animated Music (the same name he the sunbeams shining through the windows of CASSETTES, AND “He would send me home with textbooks on now uses to sell used records online), and he Union Station’s Great Hall, reimagining them MORE. EQing,” Karlson says. “I’d go to church every ran it from 2016 till 2018. Its three reissues as long spikes. Sunday, ’cause he taught me for free.” At Har- included a jaunty 1981 synth-pop single that “I honestly didn’t really like that image at old Washington College (one of four schools former Gary Numan keyboardist Chris Payne fi rst,” Robles says. “But it’s grown on me a lot. he attended) he took an elective on Pro Tools, had recorded as the Electronic Circus. I’m glad he insisted on that. He knows what which he still uses to record bands. Animated Music’s biggest project was also he likes.” Robles and Karlson later realized In July 2014, Karlson posted to the Face- its biggest headache: a double LP of a 2008 that the Union Station windows appear in the NOW OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! book group DIY Chicago with an offer to re- cult album by Houston rapper Viper entitled artwork for a touchstone of the coldwave and MON-SAT: 11-7 | SUN: 11-5 cord bands for free. “So stupid—I was young,” You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack. “We synth-pop scenes: Ministry’s 1981 debut sin- 5405 N. Clark Street, Chicago he says. He recorded a streak of Chicagoland had the contract, and then this other label gle, “I’m Falling” b/w “Cold Life.” 773-944-0188 hardcore acts, including Scary & the Scrapers, announced a reissue of it at the same time,” Karlson has a strong and specifi c aesthetic, www.rattlebackrecords.com the Wrong, and Tigress (he worked on their and he often makes it felt in the music his 2016 self-titled seven-inch, which came out on friends make for Chicago Research—espe- critical local punk label Not Normal). Karlson’s cially on the releases he records, such as post also reached Robles, who’d been looking the Arno’s debut cassette, April’s Ways of for someone to record Bruised. “He’s been Perfection. “In some ways we wrote a lot of recording us ever since, everything we’ve put that music together, or at least he helped me out,” Robles says. make editorial decisions,” the Arno says. At fi rst Robles didn’t spend much time with “I would make this noise or that noise, and Karlson outside of Bruised recording sessions. we’d constantly be having this dialogue of, But in 2016, they got to know each other better ‘Do you like this? Do you not like this? Is this after Robles joined 86 Gemini on guitar—they too weird? Is this not weird enough? Should I especially bonded on a west-coast tour. “I push this more? Let me push this more. Let me spent a lot of time in the van with him,” Robles The Chicago Research logo uses a stylized make this more fucked-up.’ Sitting in his tiny says. “I think we became pretty close friends image of the windows in Union Station. little cubicle bedroom, recording this stu§ , I after that.” About a year later, Robles moved ILLUSTRATION BY CESAR ROBLES think it fostered a really strong, collaborative into Karlson’s house. relationship.” Also in 2016, Reed and Karlson were looking Karlson says. “I’m trying to work out how me Chicago Research also helped convince for a new synth player for their other band, and the other label can both sell 500 records, Motto to move back to Chicago. Karlson told the Screamers-inspired outfit Plastic. They and then Viper announces a reissue of his own. her about the label after she booked Product reached out to Ariel Motto, who’d played synth So now I’m thinking there’s gonna be three KF and Understudy for a show at her Bloom- in the live lineup of Mark Plant’s postpunk pressings, and I’m like, ‘Holy shit, I’m gonna ington house. “It felt like an opportune time to band Military Police and a Devo-influenced be $8,000 in the hole—how am I gonna move come here, write and record a lot of music, and Northwest Indiana group called Manneqin. any of this stu§ ?’” The Animated reissue took play a lot of shows alongside similarly minded Karlson and Reed wanted Plastic to tour a lot, a year of work, but once it came out in Septem- friends,” Motto says. “There were definitely and Motto was on board. “That’s the most re- ber 2018, it sold out quickly. opportunities to collaborate on the table, and warding part of being a musician—getting to Despite that success, Karlson stopped doing do and create a lot of great things.” perform a lot and getting the opportunity to reissues after You’ll Cowards. He found the Motto moved back to Chicago about a year tour,” she says. “I just didn’t have a lot going process too transactional and emotionally ago, and since then she’s spent a lot of time on; I needed something to fi ll my time. I wasn’t cold, and besides, his friends were making recording in her apartment—she’s released working—it was a really dull summer.” vital new music that nobody else seemed three Club Music cassettes since August. She Plastic lasted another year and a half, during to want to release. “We spent almost a year prefers to handle every aspect of the recording which time Saint Louis punk label Lumpy recording a Bruised album, and then the label process herself, but she credits Karlson with Records reissued their 2016 debut, Plastic 2.0. that was gonna put it out was like, ‘Ehh,’” providing crucial moral support. “Blake has a Motto moved to Bloomington, Indiana, and Karlson says. “Ariel Motto had some stu§ , and knack for pushing his friends creatively, and 32 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll MUSIC
3~14 MURDER 3~18 LEO DAN 3~20 POLIÇA 3~15 wilsen pushing them to do the things that they want n a recent trip to New York City, Wan- BY DEATH to do and take their projects to the next level— zer stopped by boutique record shop he’s done that for me,” Motto says. “I was sort O2 Bridges and spotted a spread of Chicago of stagnating creatively for a while—this was Research cassettes. “I was like, ‘Oh, this is before I started recording as Club Music, and I great—I’m really excited that there are people still was focusing on Death Valley. I was feeling paying attention to Chicago underground kind of lost, and I was unsure of what direc- music,’” Wanzer says. “In terms of national 3~24 DAL NIENTE 3~26 AVI KAPLAN 3~27 DIRTY + KEN VANDERMARK paper wings PROJECTORS tion I wanted to take that project, or if I even attention in general, I feel like Chicago’s still wanted to keep doing it at all. If it weren’t for under the radar, more or less.” his encouragement, I don’t know if I would’ve Karlson has also heard from nonlocals 3~6 THEO KATZMAN 3~19 THE DISTRICTS 3~30 TINDERSTICKS released the music.” attracted to Chicago Research’s bizarre Karlson has released his own music on electronic sounds, some of whom apparently 3~7 ANDY SHAUF 3~22 GALLI 4~2 STEPHEN Chicago Research not just in Product KF but haven’t picked up on the label’s premise and LUCHA LIBRE MALKMUS also with Civic Center and as Lily the Fields. ask him to release their music. “I had a guy He started Civic Center, a trio project with from Japan hit me up—he had some techno 3~11 BEST COAST 3~25 BLACK PUMAS 4~3 JOHN the solo musicians who record as Understudy stu ,” Karlson says. “I was like, ‘This is good, MORELAND and Hen of the Woods, around the same time but sorry, I’m only doing Chicago stu .’ Maybe 3~12 DURAND JONES & 3~28 COLIN HAY 4~4 THE he started Chicago Research, and they’ve put far in the future I would venture, but right now THE INDICATIONS LONE BELLOW out three tapes and a double-cassette compila- I’ve got enough on my plate in Chicago.” 3~13 ANDREW 3~29 THE MUSIC OF 4~8 KURT VILE & tion so far. “It worked out really well—we can Drew Ryan, who’s booked Chicago Research GRATEFUL churn out albums pretty quick, it turns out,” acts at the Owl for his monthly experimental SANTINO DEAD FOR KIDS CATE LE BON Karlson says. series Neobeat, sees the label’s strength as its
This summer, Civic Center will release an community. “It’s nice to see someone’s taking THALIA HALL | 1807 S. ALLPORT ST. PILSEN, USA | THALIAHALLCHICAGO.COM album through American Dreams Records, the time to put something out there, to give the experimental label of musician and Reader it an identity and give it a home to live in,” contributor Jordan Reyes. He discovered Chi- Ryan says. “There’s more of a sense of culture cago Research after seeing Product KF open and the people behind it, rather than if Hen for French coldwave group Trisomie 21 at of the Woods or Civic Center were just to put the Empty Bottle in March 2019. The more he out a record by themselves on Bandcamp or MAR MAR MAR learned about Karlson and Chicago Research, something that didn’t really feel like part of 10 11 13 the more impressed he was. this mass. Chicago Research gives it a little bit DEVIN THE DUDE “There was a clear aesthetic and dedication more weight.” to the music, and so much of it came from The label releases cassettes and records trusting his friends to fulfi ll creative obliga- sporadically, usually in groups of two or tions,” Reyes says. He likens Chicago Research three. Since September it has also run a more to a family operation. “I think that that’s opti- or less weekly mix series, posting material THE MOTH: SAM ROBINSON THE NOTATIONS mal for creativity,” he says. “They’re not Wu- from members of the collective to Mixcloud. STORYSLAM QUINTET Tang Clan, but it reminds me of Wu-Tang Clan, Karlson never wants Chicago Research to fall MAR MAR MAR the way that it was done—allowing there to be silent for long, because he knows how easy it is 19 25 31 these centralized organizations, and then also to lose an audience’s attention. “If you’re not giving people the opportunity to do their own churning stuff out now, in a month no one’s thing. I thought that was just really cool.” gonna give a shit—if you’re not reminding Reyes later wrote a profile of the label, people that you’re here,” he says. “There’s just which Bandcamp Daily published in August so much stu everywhere.” 100% EVENING WITH under the headline “Chicago Research is Build- For now at least, nobody in the city’s ex- SUN BLVD REGINALD STEPHEN MARLEY “LINK IN BIO” ANNIVERSARY HANDSOMEROBINSON STRANGERS ing a New Home for Industrial Music in the perimental electronic and industrial scenes ACOUSTIC SOUL PLAY ON SUNDAY Midwest.” After the story ran, Karlson asked is likely to forget about Chicago Research. mar mar WITH THE BUSINESS mar 06 LIV WARFIELD 08 14 AFRO SOCA LOVE Reyes about releasing a Civic Center album on The musicians involved take up a lot of space, PARTNERS & BODY A DAY IN GH: American Dreams; the band met with Reyes at especially given the way they work together. mar mar RHYTHM & BOOZE 13: mar HYDE PARK 07 GHANA INDEPEDENCE 13 KISS ME, I’M ______15 HANDMADE Falafel & Grill in Wicker Park to talk it over. “Now that we’ve kind of established the sound DAY PARTY HPJS PRESENTS mar AFRO FUSION mar INTONATION mar “A couple of the other cats from the Chicago and the visual language, I’d like to see who else GHANA INDEPENDENCE 14 DEE ALEXANDER 07 DAY EDITION SHOWCASE 15 WITH JOHN MCLEAN Research crew came too,” Reyes says. “You also fits into that or is interested in being a mar HPJS PRESENTS mar LUCKY YOU: mar MAMBO MAYHEM: sign someone, it’s like a marriage—you get to part of it,” Robles says. “You know, outside my CURTIS ROBINSON ST PATTY’S SOUTH SIDE SALSA 08 14 DAY PARTY 16 be a part of the family. Everyone’s involved. friends.” v BODY, EVERY SUNDAY It’s a really interesting thing to feel, even more the promontory | 5311 s. lake park w. drive chicago | promontorychicago.com than it is to see.” @imLeor ll MARCH - CHICAOREADER 33 A Reader staff er shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn. N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL IN ROTATION OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG . .
JUST ADDED ON SALE THIS FRIDAY! Tom Ryan "For Years" Album Release with special guest Dan Holohan Band P M probably pick Ohne, the short-lived quar- rectify—I was fl oored by the variety of sounds Uncovered: Disco Reader music editor tet of Daniel Löwenbrück, Reto Mäder, Dave Lee can coax from a voice and a microphone. Global Dance Party: Las Salseras con Carpacho Phillips, and Tom Smith. The absurd actionist It’s a humbling reminder for this electronics FOR TICKETS, VISIT OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG musique concrète on their album Ohne 1 has obsessive: you don’t need a pile of knobs and everything I love about noise: it jump-cuts wires to create a compelling sound world. SUNDAY, MARCH & PM from crisp electric sizzle to surreal tape col- lage to jarring squall to piano-and- accordion Ladysmith Black skronk, and it’s all somehow both adept and JK Sound artist, composer, Mambazo ham- fisted. Between tense silences, it splic- founder and director of Radius es in vocal barks, belches, laughs, and ampli- SUNDAY, MARCH PM fied apple chewing—and over the top floats Jen Kutler, Disembodied The most intriguing Smith’s disconcerting yet compelling croon. release of 2019 was Jen Kutler’s Disembodied, Roberto Fonseca It’s chaos, but it fl ows incredibly well due to an album generated by vibrations and move- In Armitage Hall, W. Armitage Ave tight editing and de improvisational skills. ments captured with an electronic ring worn on the fi nger by a series of feminine- spectrum FRIDAY, MARCH PM Co-dependent A few times per month, Co- people bringing themselves to orgasm. In dependent releases an album with a color- what Kutler calls a “de- sexualization exper- David Wilcox In Szold Hall Horse Lords AUDREYGATEWOOD gradient circle for a cover, titled with CODE iment,” data transmitted from the ring is plus a three-digit number. Each contains con- transformed into MIDI fi les that activate pure SATURDAY, MARCH & PM Horse Lords, The Common Task This instru- temporary electronic and computer music, tones, fi eld recordings, and granular synthe- mental Baltimore four-piece combine explo- covering a wide spectrum: rhythmic dance- sis; these voices are then edited into lush Lúnasa sive joy with ferocious rhythmic discipline. The fl oor pulses, deep drones, knots of generative drones, complex harmonies, and engrossing baffling metrical ambiguity in their swams of noise. It’s the musical equivalent of a gumball- textures. FRIDAY, MARCH PM morphing and overlapping ostinatos means machine egg: you never know what you’re Martin Hayes Quartet that when this stuff is danceable—and it o en going to get, and if you don’t like it, there’s is—you can choose any one of three or four dif- another surprise coming. Current favorites SUNDAY, MARCH PM ferent beats. The songs on their new album, include RM Francis’s squiggling pulsar syn- The Common Task, can sound like overcaff ein- thesis on CODE889 and 333’s enigmatic sine- Tony Trischka In Szold Hall ated Tuareg “desert blues,” like 17 robots all wave transmissions on CODE333. trying to get into the same elevator, or like a FRIDAY, APRIL PM reggaeton beat in a clothes dryer. And despite the avant-garde and academic infl uences that Carrie Newcomer inform Horse Lords’ music, their live show isn’t a chin-stroking music- appreciation exercise—it FRIDAY, APRIL PM boils over with the rowdy energy they get back Graham Parker from the crowd. Sugar Shack, “You’re a Freak” Houston FRIDAY, APRIL PM garage band Sugar Shack released this corny Tom Ryan "For Years" stomper in 1992, during their ersatz grunge Eartheater, aka Alexandra Drewchin phase, and my smartass college buddies SAMANTHAWEST Album Release adopted it as a theme song: “You’re a freak with special guest Dan Holohan Band and you don’t even know it / We’re all freaks In Szold Hall and we’re not afraid to show it.” RIP to guitarist Eartheater, Trinity Raw power. Trinity is the Austin Thomerson, killed in November while third studio album from multi-instrumentalist, SATURDAY, APRIL PM trying to foil a pawnshop robbery. composer, and vocalist Eartheater , aka Alex- andra Drewchin. It’s slippery with electronic- Stephen Wade Hot Snakes, “Suicide Invoice” The Great- oriented dance swells and multi-octave vocal A Storyteller's Story est Living Posthardcore Band played this cold crashes. The track “High Tide,” produced by knife of an earworm at Music Frozen Dancing. AceMo, absolutely crushes. Drewchin’s set WEDNESDAY, APRIL PM The next day, I learned that Jeff VanderMeer last year at the Hideout’s beloved Resonance Vagabon with special guest (of Annihilation fame) had used its lyrics as an Series proved her total mastery of the cra . Angelica Garcia epigram for his new novel, Dead Astronauts: “And when I dream / I keep my promises to Beyond/Below mix series Drop out and tune WORLD MUSIC WEDNESDAY SERIES you / I really do.” Both the book and the song in to Beyond/Below, an ambient mix series FREE WEEKLY CONCERTS, LINCOLN SQUARE Charmaine Lee PETERGANNUSHKIN are improved by the association. run by Chicago’s Hi-Vis (who curates the Flamenco Eñe Series • José del Dreamtone label and organizes Neon Falls Tomate Group • Plaza Vieja The Revelers • In Szold Hall events with Sold). It features new internation- Akalé Wubé & Girma Bèyènè JS Charmaine Lee at the Kitchen, 11/20/2018 al artists with a focus on deep listening. The Electronic musician and noise maker I wasn’t familiar with vocal improviser Char- mixes include psychedelic electronics, halluci- maine Lee before stumbling across this You- natory dream states, and voyages of warped OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG Ohne If forced to claim a favorite band, I’d Tube video, but that’s something I’ll need to time. And every one has a track list. v
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PICK OF THE WEEK SATURDAY7 Baltimore indie group Lower Dens use synths to navigate a Lanzón 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, complex world on The Competition $15. 18+ Jim Becker and Joe Adamik are resolute sidemen and longtime fi xtures of Chicago’s live-music scene. The former often plays fiddle, guitar, and banjo in rootsy settings, both straight and twisted, while the latter appears most o en these days drumming with jazz and improvisational combos. Their partner- ship began in 2000, when they were both members of polymorphous rock band Califone, and carried on when Iron & Wine recruited most of Califone in 2010. They started playing together as a duo while on tour with those projects, during the downtime that’s an inescapable part of life on the road. In 2014 they began taking the stage as Lanzón, and they started recording shortly afterward—but it’s taken them until now to release their self-titled debut LP. The record’s six tracks display their stylistic reach as well as the full range of their multi-instrumental- ism. Each man plays electric keyboards, electron- ic eff ects, and percussion; Adamik proves himself a more than adequate guitarist on the rustic “Mesca- lina” and the bristling, funky “Arc Minute,” and his reeds confer melancholic dignity upon album closer “Lhasa.” On the album, Adamik and Becker played all the instruments themselves, but they’ll be joined onstage by drummer Glenn Kotche, bassist Matt Lux, clarinetist Asher Waldron, and trumpet and fl ugelhorn player Katie Samavoa. —B M
Jeff Lescher with Green, Joy Poppers 8 PM, Gman Tavern, 3740 N. Clark, $15. 21+
When I contacted Jeff Lescher of legendary mod/ glam/punk/power-pop band Green to fi nd out what his set would be like for this special gig, he respond- ed quickly and kindly, but added, “One ‘angle’ that I hope you’ll avoid in your reportage is the over- worked and untrue ‘Green was a group that should have been big but never were.’” I’ve gotta admit it’s hard to not go there, as it’s a bit of a head- scratcher Jana Hunter of Lower Dens TORSO to me that Chicago bands such as Veruca Salt, Urge Overkill, and Local H got signed to major labels while the beloved Green didn’t (in 1991 the Read- er’s Bill Wyman dubbed them “Chicago’s Great Green Hope”). However, we’ll shi focus here, per L D Lescher’s request. It’s worth noting that Green pre- Mon 3/9, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, $18. 18+ dated the 90s Chicago alterna-rock explosion (and all the aforementioned bands). They released their fi rst EP in 1984 and their self-titled debut LP in ’86, both on their own Ganggreen label. Lescher con- tinually reinvented the band with an influx of new LOWER DENS EMERGED out of Baltimore’s fertile underground pronouns. The band re-emerged with a newly streamlined lineup, musicians, and Green’s brilliant second album, 1987’s music scene in 2010, and they’ve since built a catalog of immersive, slimming down from the fi ve musicians involved in Escape From Evil Anglophilic Elaine MacKenzie (Pravda), featured slow-boiling indie rock elevated by Jana Hunter’s inviting, resonant to a duo of Hunter and drummer Nate Nelson on The Competition. The their second and perhaps most crucial lineup: bass- ist Ken Kurson (of Circles and later the Lilacs) and vocals. During the fi rst half of the 2010s, they dropped three albums, album’s dreamy songs employ a battery of synths that gives them a drummer Rich Clifton. The raw, jangly 1989 album which makes the four-year gap between 2015’s Escape From Evil new-wave sparkle, while Hunter dishes out lyrical dissections of White Soul and 1992’s gooey, hook-filled The Pop and last year’s The Competition (Ribbon Music) feel like an eternity. the current socioeconomic hellscape. When Hunter sings about im- Tarts were stellar too, and Green released their sev- enth and most recent LP, The Planets, in 2009. The Just before releasing Escape From Evil, Hunter wrote a Tumblr post pending societal collapse under capitalism atop an ersatz symphony band have soldiered on since then, at varying levels identifying as genderfl uid and discussing their history of struggling of grand synths on “Empire Sundown,” their sharp, defiant vocals of activity, and Lescher has pursued a solo career as to fi t into the gender binary; in the ensuing years, they underwent suggest that we can fi nd solace in one another—and that we’ll have well. In November he dropped his fi rst solo album, All Is Grace—a wildly varied aff air that includes mel- testosterone therapy, and Hunter now uses they/them and him/his to. —L G low acoustic ditties as well as full-on punky glam 36 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll ® MUSIC
SPECIAL GUESTS This Friday! March 6 OLD SALT UNION Park West This Saturday! March 7 Vic Theatre
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rock. At this gig, Lescher will focus mostly on solo stint leading the Make-Up, which formed in 1995. material, but he says there will also be a “proverbi- Though they’ve played a handful of reunion shows al ‘smattering’ of Green songs, and a cover or two,” since breaking up in 2000, Svenonius recently resur- with Clay Tomasek on bass, Jason Mosher on guitar, rected that posse, which in the late 90s rethought John Holoman on drums, Preston Pisellini on keys, what it meant to be an underground, politically and Mark Durante (formerly of KMFDM and Revolt- charged punk band. The Make-Up’s stripped-clean, ing Cocks) on pedal steel. Opening the show are lo-fi sound leans hard into gospel and soul, preach- the similarly underrated Joy Poppers, who’ve been es much more than it snarls, and ultimately paved a at their brand of sticky-sweet pop since 1993. Their path for a glut of early-2000s imitators who aimed sound recalls power-pop greats such as Big Star, to smash the state in three-piece suits. Today their Badfi nger, Piper, and Todd Rundgren, and the core records, such as 1997’s Sound Verite and 1999’s Save This Saturday! of the group is lead songwriter Tom Szidon (who’s Yourself (both released on K), continue to sound with Special March 7 also played with Scott Lucas of Local H fame in his modern thanks in part to Svenonius’s own resil- Guests band the Married Men, to come full circle) and bril- ience. The Make-Up will hold up live because he Riviera Theatre liant percussionist, singer, and guitarist Jason Batch- won’t let his vintage vision—and, by proxy, his vision ko (who’s played with Lucas, Jonny Polonsky, Caviar, of the band—die. And we should all feel blessed that and others). The duo will be joined for this show by he’s keeping on, regardless of the project, new or Marc Sloboda (guitar) and Dani Malloy (bass), and will focus on the 25-year-old Zoomar! album. It’s a rare treat for these near pop legends to be play- Est.Est.1954 1954 Celebrating over ing at all, let alone playing a mix of new material 6165 years of service service and classics, so this intimate gig is not to be missed. to Chicago! —S K 1800 W. DIVISION (773) 486-9862 THE Make-Up Deadbeat Beat opens. 10 PM, Come enjoy one of Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, sold out. 21+ Chicago’s finest beer gardens!
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continued from 37 this concert is a rare opportunity to witness the van- old. —K W guard of 21st-century Afro-Cuban jazz. —C M J
SUNDAY8 Free Nationals 9 PM, Chop Shop, 2033 W. North, sold out. 18+ Roberto Fonseca 7 PM, Old Town School of Folk Music, Armitage Concert Hall, 909 W. Best known as Anderson .Paak’s backing band, the Armitage, $23-$25. b Free Nationals are masters of fusion, with the ability to blend various strains of pop music past and pres- I had a chance to see Roberto Fonseca play at the ent into mellifl uous tracks that dependably set a chill 2015 Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, mood. On their 2019 self-titled debut (released by in a duo collaboration with Malian singer Fatouma- OBE/Empire), they refashion modern funk, boogie, ta Diawara. In his thrilling, visceral performance, the and yacht rock into a backdrop for a revolving door Havana-born musician, composer, and bandleader of popular rappers and vocalists, including .Paak, embodied the multifarious musicality of Cuba’s best Syd of the Internet, Daniel Caesar, Mac Miller, Kali jazz pianists. Blessed with access to the island’s cus- Uchis, T.I., Conway, and Westside Gunn. Too o en, tomary classical music training, which o en begins Free Nationals feels like it’s aimed at listeners who’d in elementary school, Fonseca began playing jazz prefer to hear the band back their favorite MC rath- festivals at age 15 and later obtained a master’s in er than take center stage—but the group’s refi ned composition from Havana’s prestigious Instituto recontextualization of retro and underground pop SMARTBARCHICAGO.COM Superior de Arte. He’s well-versed in Cuban folklor- styles deserves a real shot on its own terms. The 3730 N CLARK ST | 21+ ic styles such as rumba as well as its dance genres, Free Nationals showcase their versatility throughout including mambo, timba, and reggaeton. His heady, the album, but usually they mold their sound to fi t masterful compositions are enlivened by his musi- the personalities of the guest vocalists rather than cal prowess, his precision, and his ability to create foregrounding their own talents and tastes. Even unendingly varied ripples of notes. He accompanies within these self- imposed limitations, though, they his playing with wordless vocals and chants, influ- can crank out electric performances—particularly enced by his mother, Mercedes Cortes Alfaro, a when they aim to make the suavest sounds imagin- SAT MAR 14 renowned bolero singer who was once a dancer at able. On the blue-eyed soul number “Apartment,” the legendary Tropicana Club in Havana. Fonseca featuring the gently lilting vocals of Dutch pop artist is currently on tour supporting his ninth solo album, Benny Sings, the Free Nationals’ easygoing, luscious Yesun (Mack Avenue), whose title blends the names melodies create a heartening glow. —L G of two Yoruban deities: Yemaya, the goddess of the sea, fertility, and maternity, and Oxun, the god of the 35/25 with... river. Throughout Yesun , his pieces transition from Jeff Parker & the New Breed See also one style to another, fl owing freely in a kaleidoscope Monday. 8 PM and 11 PM, Dorian’s, 1939 W. North, of progressive, dynamic Cuban musical forms; as he $15, early show sold out. 21+ LADY D B2B PSYCHO-BITCH put it in a 2019 interview with Jazz Times, his songs are a call to “a party so nice it will fi ll your soul com- Chicago music remains interesting and vital partly (ALL NIGHT) pletely.” Fonseca will perform with bassist Yandy because of how local subcultures overlap and inter- Martínez Rodríguez and drummer Raúl Herrera, with sect. The city has plenty of tight communities of whom he recorded Yesun and with whom he plays musicians focused on specifi c sounds, but the bor- TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA METRO + SMARTBAR WEBSITES + METRO BOX OFFICE. NO SERVICE FEES AT BOX OFFICE! weekly gigs at Havana club La Zorro y el Cuervo; ders around those communities are porous; impro- 38 CHICA O READER - MARCH ll Find more music listings at chicagoreader.com/soundboard. MUSIC Less scrolling.
J e ff P a r k e r JIMNEWBERRY More strumming. vising multi-instrumentalists collaborate with rap- 7:30 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, sold out. b pers, hip-hop producers take in jazz gigs, and rock musicians immerse themselves in hardware-centric Paloma Rocío Castillo Astorga, better known as underground dance scenes. This cross-pollinating Paloma Mami, was only 18 when she released her ecosystem owes its continued existence to fi gures debut single, 2018’s “Not Steady.” Lugubrious and such as Jeff Parker. He’s famous as a jazz guitarist, resoundingly confident, the song made clear she a member of Tortoise, an in-demand sideman, and a wasn’t callow: “I don’t change for no dick,” she free improviser, but he also has less well-publicized declares over a soft-edged dancehall beat whose talents: his DJ sets at defunct Wicker Park club nocturnal aura sets the tone for a night spent wise- Rodan attracted jazz fiends and arty hip-hop pro- ly (yet sadly) alone. The Chilean-American artist was ducers who’ve since built up Chicago’s blossoming signed by Sony Latin on the strength of that one sin- beat scene. Parker moved to Los Angeles in 2013, gle, and since then she’s gained worldwide popular- but he’s kept Chicago close to his heart. In Jan- ity. Castillo decided to pursue music seriously a er uary, he put out Suite for Max Brown, his second watching reggaeton superstar Bad Bunny perform solo album for celebrated local label International live, and the stage name she chose was inspired by Anthem (in partnership with indie heavy Nonesuch). Drake’s Instagram handle, @champagnepapi. Palo- As he did for 2016’s The New Breed, Parker shaped ma Mami shares those artists’ love for woozy, mel- the new album’s songs by experimenting with hip- ancholy atmospheres, but she has no use for their hop production and synth hardware, fleshing out querulous and self-loathing attitudes: On “Fingías,” his early demos into lush recordings that retain the she rails against an ex-lover over a moody reggaeton electricity and feel of a dusty, eccentric vinyl sam- beat, her breathless delivery conveying a melange ple hiccuping through a hip-hop cut. Parker han- of bitterness, despondency, and longing. Then on dles much of the instrumentation on Suite for Max “Mami” she plays the role of femme fatale, declaring Brown himself—he plays guitar, piano, drums, and a that she’s “more powerful than two Nefertitis” and semi-modular Korg synthesizer on the whimsical- commanding her lover to keep calling her “mami.” Give your digital ly unsteady “Build a Nest,” which sounds complete Though she’s only released a handful of singles so thanks to the surefooted vocals of emerging Chica- far, Paloma Mami has already proved herself one of life a break. go talent Ruby Parker (who’s also his daughter). On reggaeton’s brightest new stars—and at her Chica- other tracks, he taps into his extensive network of go debut, she’ll be able to win over a new audience. Connect over musician friends to bring his material home; drum- —J M K mer Makaya McCraven and bassist Paul Bryan help music, dance & give “Go Away” its thrilling combination of slinky riffs, bustling rhythms, and mesmerizing atmo- Jeff Parker & the New Breed See Sunday. more. sphere. —L G 8 PM and 11 PM, Dorian’s, 1939 W. North, $15, early show sold out. 21+ New group classes forming now. oldtownschool.org MONDAY9 TUESDAY10 Lower Dens See Pick of the Week, page 36. :3lon opens. 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, Best Coast See also Wednesday. Mannequin $18. 18+ Pussy opens. 8 PM, SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston, sold out. b
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in the band, and no member has capitalized on Bob Weir & Wolf Bros Also Thu 3/12 at the it more than Weir. That year he joined Hart and same time and venue. 7 PM, Chicago Theatre, the group’s other longtime drummer, Bill Kreutz- 175 N. State, $60-$415. b mann, to found the unstoppable Dead & Compa- ny (fronted by Weir and John Mayer), and in 2016 Every member of the Grateful Dead played a vital he released his fi rst solo studio album since 1978, role in the band: Jerry Garcia was the spaced-out Blue Mountain. Over the past couple of years leader, Mickey Hart was the shamanic spiritual he’s assembled a new trio, the Wolf Bros, with Les guide, and Phil Lesh was the giant brain. Rhythm Claypool cohort Jay Lane on drums and rock pro- guitarist and vocalist Bob Weir—the spry young- ducer Don Was on bass. They’re a stripped-down est member—was the group’s heart and soul. His group, especially compared to early-70s itera- obtuse, jazzy chord structures drove the Dead’s tions of the Dead—which at times had up to eight most mind-expanding jams, and his infectious members onstage—but they can tear through rock enthusiasm and joyful playing brought out the standards and Dead classics. As he settles into his freewheeling spirit of their best material. The 2015 70s, Weir is shining in his late-career renaissance. reunion of the Grateful Dead revitalized interest —L C v
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