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quickly. With each repeated tracing of a path is suitable, makes waxen bowls to store nectar from fl ower to fl ower, bumblebees progres- when the weather is inclement and others into sively wayfi nd more e ciently. They navigate which she lays ten to 15 eggs and then seals by the sun and landmarks from trees to swing with more wax. Her fi rst brood to emerge are sets. A bumblebee’s working memory is eight the female workers who take on the foraging, seconds long (a point we actually are better defense, and brood-rearing. The queen spends at) and can tell when a flower has already the rest of her life in the dark, laying eggs until been visited that day and the nectar thus she dies in early fall and new impregnated emptied. queens fly to dig burrows to hibernate all Bumblebees have two large compound eyes, winter. positioned more widely apart than fl ies’ eyes, A few weeks back, Tomasz found a very and also three eyes on top of their head called weak bumblebee. It was a queen, because she ocelli. The compound eyes are for vision to was so large and out so early in the season. Feral Citizen navigate obstacles, pathways, and the ultra- He gently caught her and made a beehome for violet patterns within fl owers. The ocelli note her out of parts from a honeybee hive—a large directional light such as the position of the bottom board, a hive box with some residual Eat a tomato, thank sun. The bees recognize symmetry. wax stuck on its sides, a bit of comb with both Bumblebees need 18 mg of sugar a day so pollen and honey. He covered it with a piece of will forage for up to 18 hours with favorable acrylic sheeting, confi dent she had everything a bumblebee weather conditions, and might visit 1,000 she needed—safety, warmth, and food to refu- flowers during that time. They can muscle el herself. A bee brain is vastly more effi cient than a human brain. their way into somewhat-closed fl owers that This queen found a small hole in his con- other pollinators can’t, such as the gentians, struction and promptly left. “What do I know By N K turtlehead, monkshood, blueberries, and about making bumblebee nests?” he said. huckleberries. They also do buzz pollination Tomasz is developing a game called Bom- or sonifi cation, where they uncouple buzzing bus based on bumblebee economics. It’s both ost folks don’t know a lot about nect with tiny hooks called hamuli so they can from flight muscles and vibrate to the right a strategy and educational game where one insects. Insects move fast and work as paired units. Bees are in the order frequency to cause flowers’ anthers to open starts as a queen, has to build her colony, we have some sort of phobia. We Hymenoptera along with ants and wasps. and release pollen. Tomatoes, peppers, and outmaneuver predators and severe weather, urbanized animals have a pen- Flies, mosquitoes, and gnats are in the order eggplant are buzz pollinated. Eat a tomato, develop strategies every day to find flowers chant for cultivating turf grass Diptera, as they have two wings. whether gown outside or in a hothouse, and full of nectar, and invest in more bees as a cost Mand concrete and tend not to have that many Bees and honeybees are not interchange- thank a bumblebee. of more energy. He wants the bees to look like insects around us. But the pollinator-plant able: There are 4,500 bee species in North While bumblebees are spotted early in the actual specimens and the fl owers to be actual connection (and sometimes dependency) is America (30,000 on this planet) and currently season, they are also some of the latest to species. He insists on it being made from card- real. 150 native bee species in Chicago alone. Eighty disappear. They can fl y under fairly wet con- board so people actually have to physically I recently spent some pleasant hours speak- percent of these bees are ground nesters, ditions. They can survive at temperatures just move the bumblebee game pieces from place ing with local ecologist Tomasz Przybylowicz meaning they need undisturbed ground to above freezing, partly due to their fur, but also to place. This makes me grin. about our shared love of bumblebees. I have build nests. The other 20 percent of bees nest because of their ability to vibrate or “hum” to So here’s an invitation: before this month warmed them in the palm of my hand by in wood cavities. Some native bees are solitary bring body temperatures up. This makes them ends, lie belly down in a meadow or an uncut breathing on them and have watched them and some social, semi-social, or quasi-social. adapt to high altitudes and high latitudes. weedy vacant lot and prop yourself up on your take shelter in large cupped flowers when it Some are as tiny as mosquitoes (the bee genus After the bumblebee queen emerges from elbows and watch the air bounce with tiny rains. But Tomasz studies bee neurology and Perdita) and others are large, such as carpen- hibernation in the ground in early spring, fl ying bodies as they drink morning dew from he wants to blow our minds about their minds. ter bees. Honeybees are from Europe and are she forages for nectar from open flowers— bent grass blades and dodge each other while Before that, we both agree that folks need to commercialized. They are the only bees that witch-hazel, winter aconite, snowdrops, croci, searching for nectar and pollen. v get straight on two things. produce and store evaporated and regurgitat- willow. This first foraging flight is the most All things that buzz are not bees: Bees ed nectar, or honey. dangerous time of her life. She is weak and @NanceKlehm are pollen eaters and nectar drinkers. Bees Apparently while tiny and almost a thou- must find nectar and also a nesting site for are hairy, long-antennaed, and usually sand times smaller, a bumblebee brain is her brood. Usually this is a hole of some sort: For more information about native bees check chunky-bodied. They have four wings, both vastly more e cient than our own brains and an animal burrow, an old birdhouse, or a crack out the Native Bee Awareness Initiative and two fore wings and two hind wings that con- can compute visual information 15 times as in your foundation. 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Seymour Hersh MARJORIELIPAN/FLICKR say—”Mick, did you know that Seymour Hersh reads quotes back to his sources?” Point is . . . if reading back quotes to sources is good enough for Hersh, it’s good enough for wannabe journalists at Medill. (As you can see, der, as though he’s worried some other writer there’s no statute of limitations when it comes will scoop him. to me and ancient arguments.) Not saying one style is better than the other. That brings me to a larger issue of sourcing Just saying they’re di erent. in a story. Hersh’s memoir begins on the south side in Here’s the journalistic challenge: people the 1950s, where his father ran a dry-cleaning in the know have something to say, but they business at 4507 S. Indiana. don’t want anyone to know they’re saying it. It follows him from the old City News Especially to a journalistic troublemaker. Bureau (right here in Chicago) to the South I know all about this from writing about Dakota state house (he covered politics) to Mayor Daley’s attempt to bring the Olympics Washington, D.C. (where he made his name as to Chicago. a fearless muckraker). Basically, corporate and civic Chicago There are many wonderful anecdotes. Like signed on to Daley’s foolishness because they the time he had to track down Abe Rosenthal, were too chicken to take a public stand against his editor at the New York Times, at three in the mayor. the morning with a question only Rosenthal So, they’d tell me things like— “I hope we could answer. Using the tricks of the investiga- don’t get the Olympics, but for God’s sake, tory trade, Hersh persuaded Abe’s wife to give don’t quote me.” Like getting yelled at by him the name and number of Abe’s mistress, the mayor is worse than watching the city go where the editor was spending the night. The broke paying for his vanity project. mistress wasn’t happy when Hersh woke her Back to Hersh: like any good reporter, he’s POLITICS to ask for Abe—but a reporter does what he’s always cutting deals with his sources. Once gotta do. he convinced Paul Meadlo, one of the soldiers In 1970, at the age of 33, Hersh won the Pu- who killed innocents at My Lai, to fl y to New Going to the source litzer Prize for his series in the Dispatch News York City for an on-camera interview with CBS Service about the My Lai Massacre, in which News. Seymour Hersh on the challenge of quoting the skittish hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civil- “[My publisher] had somehow convinced ians were murdered by American soldiers, led CBS . . . to pay ten thousand dollars . . . for an By BJ by Lieutenant William Calley. exclusive interview with Meadlo the night Hersh’s e orts to verify what happened at before my My Lai story was about to be My Lai make for a tale of unrelenting tenacity. published,” Hersh writes. “There was a huge n 1989, I read an article in the New Yorker At some point, I mentioned my practice to A key moment comes when Hersh confronts argument for television exposure, if Meadlo that changed my professional life—“The a class of aspiring Medill journalists and their George Latimer, Calley’s lawyer. Hersh had would agree to do an interview, but it would be Journalist and the Murderer”—Janet professor ripped me for giving too much say to interviewed Calley without Latimer’s permis- completely unethical, in the newspaper world, Malcolm’s monumental takedown of my subjects. sion and Latimer worried that Calley’s quotes to pay him to do so. You cannot pay for infor- journalists. Fast-forward all these years and I discover could be used against him. So they wound up mation that the public has a right to know. . . . IJournalists, she wrote, were con artists who, that Seymour Hersh—one of the great journal- cutting a deal—you can take the kid out of Chi- And so I asked Paul if he would do it, and also among other misdeeds, trick their subjects ists of our time—well, let’s hold o on what I cago, but you can’t take Chicago out of the kid. made clear that he could not be paid for the in- into saying things they wouldn’t ordinarily say recently discovered about Hersh. “Latimer o ered a deal,” writes Hersh. “If I terview, and that I and the Dispatch would be.” on the record. Or, as Malcolm wrote in her fi rst Suffice it to say, I’ve been up late reading would in some manner avoid saying outright Hersh talked Meadlo into doing the inter- sentence . . . Hersh’s memoir, Reporter. that Calley’s comments were made directly to view, but without taking the cash—though “Every journalist who is not too stupid I know you’re thinking—wait! Didn’t you me . . . he could go over the story, line for line, CBS did “fl y Meadlo and his wife to New York or too full of himself to notice what is going just write a column about staying up late to and correct any factual mistakes he could.” City and put them up in a good hotel.” on knows that what he does is morally read some old journalist’s memoirs? Yes, but When I read that, I was like—oh, my god, Here’s a question for Janet Malcolm: Why indefensible.” that was Working, Robert Caro’s memoir. I’m not alone! Seymour Hersh also reads back is it ethical to pay the journalist but not the Thirty years later, that’s still one helluva Actually, Hersh and Caro are as different quotes! murderer for news? lede. from each other as a hare from a tortoise. I was so excited, I almost called Mick Hersh’s memoir is an enlightening read. I After reading her article, I vowed to be up- Caro is plodding, earnest, and exacting in his Dumke, my First Tuesdays partner, the only only wish it had come out earlier. His tales of front with my subjects—reading my article to approach—dedicating years to a project, if other journalistic geek I know who could pos- dealing with lying and conniving Washington them before it was printed, if that’s what they that’s what it takes to get it exactly the way he sibly get so excited about this. officials would have come in handy for any wanted. I made that o er throughout the 90s wants. Good thing I didn’t. Man, Mick would have reporter covering the Daley/Rahm years. v to profi le subjects ranging from Bill Ayers to In contrast, Hersh is constantly racing been as grumpy as Abe Rosenthal’s mistress Norm Van Lier. toward a deadline, with one eye over his shoul- if I woke him up at four in the morning to @joravben 6 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll ll MAY - CHICA OREADER7 PRINTERSROW LITFEST.ORG NEWS & POLITICS

ON CULTURE “Professor Hill, you can’t hide! We know you want genocide!”

An article claiming Israel’s “moral Jason Hill COURTESYOFJASONDHILL right” to annex the West Bank has caused an uproar at DePaul Esteban wrote that “The university will not By DI censure Professor Hill for making unpopular statements.” That should have been the end of it, Hill says. But it wasn’t. A week later, the DePaul ast month, DePaul University phi- Faculty Council took it upon itself to pass losophy professor Jason Hill wrote (hastily, by a vote of 21 to 10) a resolution that, an opinion piece for the Federalist, a while it affirmed Hill’s right to publish his conservative online magazine, that opinions, “condemns in the strongest possible argued for Israel’s “moral right” to terms both the tone and content” of his article. Lannex the West Bank and Gaza. According to the resolution, his article mis- The article claimed that Israel won the terri- represents history, distorts facts, promotes tory in a defensive war and that its Palestinian racism, and, “counter to the DePaul mission, population, to the extent that it supports states that ‘not all cultures are indeed equal.’” organizations that “work for Israeli and Jew- The Faculty Council urged Hill “to take ish destruction,” lacks “moral authority” and cognizance of the real harm his words have constitutes “a national security threat.” caused to students and other members of our Along the way, he suggested that “not all community.” cultures are indeed equal.” And on May 15, acting provost Salma Gha- It was incendiary, and it got noticed. A De- nem also weighed in, issuing a statement on Paul student organization immediately put official letterhead that said she was “deeply together a change.org petition demanding a saddened that Professor Hill used his right public apology and asking that the adminis- to academic freedom and free speech to tration censure Hill and send him for racial disparage one group over another,” and com- sensitivity training. plimenting “the way members of the DePaul The petition, which also cites tweets community made their voices heard.” made by Hill, charges that “[h]is comments Hill didn’t attend the Faculty Council meet- create unsafe and uncomfortable spaces for ing or a university-sponsored forum that everyone, especially Palestinian and Muslim followed it. He was receiving death threats, students who now all refuse to enroll in a class he says, and didn’t want to put himself into a @PrintersRowLitFest that is taught by Professor Hill.” At press time hostile environment. But at a talk in Wilmette @PrintersRowFest it had more than 3,400 signatures. last week about his latest book, We Have @PrintersRowFest JUNE 8 & 9 DePaul, still known as the school that de- Overcome, an appreciation of America that #PRLF19 All Cooking Demos — Center Stage nied tenure to “Holocaust Industry” challeng- reflects on his own journey since his arrival er and Israel critic Norman Finkelstein in 2007 from Jamaica at the age of 20 as a Black gay (as well as subsequent incidents), responded immigrant with $120 in his pocket, he opened promptly and, it seemed, unequivocally, on the with an assessment of the situation in higher side of free speech. In an April 24 e-mail to the education. Indoctrination into cultural Marx- university community, president A. Gabriel ism, he claimed, has replaced learning in the 8 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll NEWS & POLITICS

humanities and social sciences, and a climate school professor and Faculty Council mem- of intimidation and fear suppresses First ber Mark Moller. He told me that “an o cial Amendment rights. “It’s not unique to De- statement by the faculty’s governing body Paul,” Hill said. “It’s an assault on free speech condemning [Hill’s] op-ed is, functionally, an on American campuses.” act of censure,” and that “faculty governance He says he stands by what he wrote, and bodies shouldn’t be weighing in on the op-eds that his critics are conﬂ ating something he did of individual faculty.” In a follow-up e-mail, say with something he didn’t. “I’ve always said Moller wrote: “While I was not impressed that all individuals are endowed with equal with Professor Hill’s inflammatory op-ed, intrinsic moral worth and value. But not all that op-ed is nonetheless extramural speech cultural practices are equal. What about can- on a matter of public concern and, as such, is nibalism, for example?” plainly protected against o cial censure as a He also says his own mixed heritage, matter of academic freedom.” which includes a Sephardic Jewish great- Says Hill: “I find it ironic that two weeks grandfather, has nothing to do with his advo- after the article was published, the Students cacy for Israel. for Justice in Palestine and other students are Faculty Council president Scott Paeth says, free to hold an anti-apartheid week against Is- “I wouldn’t call what we did a censure. Our rael on campus and I don’t think they felt their goal was to say, on the one hand, that his right safety was compromised in any way, and it’s I as an academic to write what he wanted was who need a security escort on campus.” something that we recognized and honored. The students had also held a demonstration But we did not want to seem to be endorsing a week after publication. Their chant made an his viewpoints. We were seeking a way to indelible impression: “Professor Hill, you can’t thread a very delicate needle.” hide! / We know you want genocide.” v Hill says he’s talking with a lawyer, which led me to seek the opinion of DePaul law @DeannaIsaacs

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here’s a lot to be said for the food—and what it evolved into: a craft Hugh Amano witnessed the golden FOOD FEATURE pleasures of cheap instant that inspires obsession among chefs age of ramen in both Japan and the U.S. ramen. In fact there’s a and eaters alike. As a kid visiting relatives in Japan, he whole genre of cookbooks You could argue that obsession says he always felt like the “big clunky Ramen quest devoted to pimping Momo- didn’t quite capture the Ameri- American,” but he still managed to Tfuku Ando’s revolutionary ﬂ ash-fried can imagination until the rise of slurp down endless bowls of noodles. An excerpt from Hugh Amano and dorm room staple. But ever since the David Chang inspired the spread of “Ramen was just a really big part of Sarah Becan’s forthcoming comic founder of Top Ramen and Cup Noo- ramen-ya—domestic and imported— my life.” But it wasn’t until he teamed cookbook Let’s Make Ramen! dles launched it in 1958, instant ramen across the country, introducing gaijin up with Abe Conlon for the pre–Fat has more or less obscured to the world to a multifaceted soupiverse rotating Rice chef’s underground dinner series outside of Japan what real ramen around base broths such as tonkotsu, X-marx that he ever attempted to make actually was: a working-class street shoyu, shio, and miso. it. “It was before I really understood

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anything other than excess and bom- ing them a cross-sected annotation of the home cook is capable of layering bast,” he says. “Pork neck, trotters, the dish unbidden. stocks, broths, seasonings, accompani- chicken feet to the max; a massive “Comics are an ideal medium for ments—even homemade noodles—to dong of umami, with little fi nesse, as a any kind of instruction,” says Becan, create bowls of extraordinary fi nesse. late-course entrée of a 20,000-calorie who clearly demonstrated the power “We wanted to make it accessible at meal.” of pictures over words with regard to the end of the day,” says Becan. —M Amano, the opening sous chef at Fat dumpling construction in the Fat Rice S Rice, went on to coauthor The Adven- cookbook. tures of Fat Rice cookbook, memorably With Let’s Make Ramen!, due out Reprinted with permission from Let’s illustrated by Sarah Becan, who came July 16 from Ten Speed Press, Amano Make Ramen! by Hugh Amano and to the chefs’ attention after eating one and Becan neatly codify the elements Sarah Becan, copyright © 2019. Pub- lished by Ten Speed Press, a division of of the restaurant’s signatures, Portu- of ramen and show that with a min- 6 guese chicken (po kok gai), and send- imum of organization and planning, Penguin Random House, Inc. ll MAY - CHICA OREADER11 matic childhood as a quiz-show prodigy. Moving from comedy to memoir was about as scary as you’d think. “It was absolutely terrifying to open myself up to that level,” says Four slices of CAKE Kupperman. “The publisher called it a graphic memoir, but I wonder if a better description Here are some of the people you’ll meet at the annual alternative comics expo. might be graphic autonoir. I followed the mystery of my father and at the end of the trail, By MP what was waiting for me was the realization of how alone I’d been my entire life. It hurt me, badly. And then I presented it as narrative. I had to feel this pain all through it in order to portray it correctly.” Post-Answers, Kupperman has been work- mong the many joys of June in Chica- ences on any given creator. Case in point: Whit ing on more humor and personal work, as well go is CAKE, the Chicago Alternative Taylor, who has been prolifi cally creating and as expanding into new areas: “I’m working AComics Expo. This annual celebration self-publishing comics since 2011. Two of her on a history of advertising, a book about the of the alternative side of comics is a place for strongest infl uences are the perpetual teens Greek gods, and some other assorted pieces marginalized voices and individual visions to of Archie Comics and botanical illustration. right now.” Besides All the Answers, CAKE at- dominate. Unlike C2E2, the other highlight of These loves—a far greater contrast than Betty tendees can pick up two exclusive Kupperman the yearly comics calendar, where the work and Veronica—feed her appreciation as both a works: a printed collection of Supervillains, often feels like a stepping-stone to a movie creator and person for the wonders of friend- a batch of bonkers comics that appeared on deal, the comics at CAKE are usually done ship and nature. the Adult Swim website; and Tork, a memoir by a single creator, and they’re as far from Taylor’s socially conscious work includes comic about Kupperman’s former neighbor, corporate infl uence as Mercury is from Pluto. webcomics from publications such as The Nib the late ex-Monkee Peter Tork. When it comes to creators and comics, CAKE and longer work, including Ghost Stories (an is a decidedly diverse lineup with a surprise imagined series of meetings with some of her at every table, including spoofs of corporate dead heroes) for Rosarium Publishing and Up culture, sprawling cosmic odysseys, New Down Clown (a look at mental health through Yorker-style single-panel cartoons, nonfi ction the unlikely perspective of a birthday clown) comics about wrestlers, memoirs in multiple for Ninth Art Press. She works in a wide vari- art styles, and more. If C2E2 is a four-pack of ety of genres and methods, maintaining a bal- Michael Kupperman Crayolas, CAKE is a box of 64,000. If you ever ance in several ways, notably by alternating thought about getting into comics, there’s no between doing the whole comic herself and MICHAEL KUPPERMANWHOSE BOOKS better gateway event. working with other artists, such as Shannon published since 2000 include Tales Designed Here are four of the many accomplished Wright and Maki Naro, who illustrated a scary to Thrizzle, Snake’N’Bacon’s Cartoon Cabaret, creators you’ll see at this year’s expo. recent piece on life before the FDA. and Mark Twain’s Autobiography 1910-2010— The comic at hand determines whether is a New York-based comic book comedian collaboration is in the cards: “Some stories, with few peers. His cartooning combines especially personal ones, make sense for a retro style reminiscent of 1960s and ’70s me to draw,” says Taylor. “Other times, I like superhero comics with a sense of humor that pairing up with creators because I think their resembles Jack Handey on bath salts, produc- style will work best for that specifi c piece. It’s ing absurdities such as Mark Twain and Albert usually quicker for me to write, so sometimes Einstein as a crime-fi ghting duo. Kupperman’s it allows me to better juggle projects.” work shows a genuine love for the comic me- Taylor does both educational nonfiction dium and a surgeon’s touch at dissecting it for comics—which fi t well with her day job as a laughs. clinical health educator—and more personal “Humor is one of the most deconstructive fictional stories. She sees no need to limit forces there is,” Kupperman says. “When you herself to one genre: “There is a place for both combine it with art it has a peculiar decon- for me. Both types of comics are challenging structive power. I like to think I’ve combined Rosemary Valero- and fun in di erent ways and add value to my them in ways nobody else has. It’s about free- practice as a cartoonist. They also appeal to dom. To me comics are the easiest and most O’Connell di erent types of readers.” direct escape there is, into a sheet of paper or Among other comics and illustrations, a computer screen.” ONE OF THE weirdest subgenres of corporate Taylor will be bringing copies of issues #1 and Kupperman’s comedic output alone would comics is the unlikely crossover. Over the Whit Taylor #2 of Fizzle, an ongoing fictional minicomic keep most creators busy, but he broadened years, fans have giggled and gaped at prepos- series about the challenges of life with a retail his range considerably in his 2018 book All the terous pairings such as Batman vs. Teenage CAKE IS A showcase of not only the diversity job and stoner boyfriend. Answers. In this gutting and honest memoir, Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers vs. G.I.

of comics creators, but the diversity of inﬂ u- Kupperman wrestles with his father’s trau- Joe, and Archie vs. Predator. Writer-artist PHOTOSCOURTESYTHEARTIST 12 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll PRIDE BLOCK PARTY Rosemary Valero-O’Connell worked on the similar series Lumberjanes/Gotham Academy in 2016, bringing together successful teen series from the creator-owned Boom! Studios with Marz and the Batman-adjacent world of DC Comics. Community Brewing Co Crossovers are natural for Valero-O’Connell, whose life and work thrive on juxtapositions. “Comics are my truest and oldest love,” Sunday says Valero-O’Connell, “but there are a lot of Pride June other creative muscles that I like to stretch if 50 years of 23, 2019 Chicago LGBTQ+ Featuring artists and organizations CAKE /-/, AM- PM, Center on Halsted, N. Halsted, cakechicago.com . F

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I’m lucky enough to get the opportunity. I love IF YOU’VE EVER been to Catholic school—or drawing more than anything, which means if you just have an appreciation for sexy nuns for better or for worse, I hardly ever say no fondling skulls and devils—you’ll say a prayer to a chance to do it, which has meant a wide of thanks for the work of Chicagoan Corrine breadth of work across different avenues. I Halbert, which includes appropriately named think if I stuck to only one or two very specifi c comics Hate Baby 666 and Naughty Nuns. types of creative output my work would start Halbert’s artistic proclivities originated to stagnate, so I’m very grateful that I get to much as you’d expect: “I was raised Catholic try new modes of working that teach me new and attended private Catholic school from techniques and skill sets.” kindergarten through fi fth grade. The brightly Valero-O’Connell’s creative résumé, which colored idols, bold church designs and psyche- includes the Eisner-nominated What is Left (a delic stained glass windows have left a per- haunting story of the sea and memory) and the manent mark on my subconscious. My erotic recently-published Laura Dean Keeps Break- horror style is a culmination of everything I ing Up With Me (a teen tale written by Mariko love aesthetically and consume on a regular Tamaki that anyone who’s been in a toxic basis, i.e. books, fi lms, music, and ephemera.” relationship should appreciate), is infl uenced Aside from the literal world of nuns and cru- by her upbringing: she was born in Minnesota, cifi xes, Halbert has been infl uenced by many Presented by raised in Spain, and returned to Minnesota as creators inside and outside comics. “Black an adult. Hole by Charles Burns is my favorite graphic 1pm to 9pm “I think growing up between two places novel and biggest infl uence as a cartoonist,” and two cultures generally means you end up she says. “Junji Ito and Al Columbia’s work doing a lot of introspection with regards to have deeply impacted me as an artist. Horror In support of The following organizations identity, belonging, community, etc.,” says and cult movies, vintage publications as well with 25% of sales Iron St Valero-O’Connell. “A lot of my work comes as an array of heavy music are constant sourc- from mining personal experience, from in- es of inspiration.” terrogating and examining my own feelings This profane and powerful set of infl uences about the world through fi ction, and growing can be seen in Halbert’s latest work, which 3630 S up in a shifting landscape provided me with will debut at CAKE: Demonophobiac: Fear of accessible a lot of rich soil to draw on in that regard. On Possession. Halbert describes this comic as an aesthetic level, I have a bit of an obsession “a meta, demonic possession horror comic In partnership with $10 with the somber and spiritual that is simulta- with threads of autobio storytelling weaved in neously gilded and intricate, and I owe that throughout the book.” sensibility completely to the art, architecture, Such sinful, sensual work is hard to resist— Wheelchair and traditions that I grew up with in Spain.” as is spending too much money at CAKE. Hey, All ages That European sensibility makes her work there’s always confession. v Plenty of stand out in the crowded field of American ChicagoReader.com/pride comics. @wordlust free parking ll MAY - CHICA OREADER13 MIKECENTENO

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ll MAY - CHICA OREADER15 at first, the art director’s attitude changes The book delves into social matters that when she hears of some of the artists who have plague disadvantaged communities of color moved to the area. Suddenly the Bottomyards across the nation by being direct about the is- becomes desirable and seen as a crazy yet sues at hand. Daniels and Passmore are based alluring place that she must visit, no longer in Los Angeles and New Orleans respectively, one that must be avoided. and say they, too, have had to interrogate “I think there’s a lot of common experiences with people feeling like their neighborhoods are judged in this way,” Passmore says. “Or sort of like measured as exotic and dangerous BF By Ezra Claytan Daniels places.” and Ben Passmore While on the surface this Afrofuturistic tale (Fantagraphics Books) is a satirical take on gentrification, Daniels says that he constructed the arc of the story around cultural appropriation. He notes that he had a few stages of colonization in mind themselves about gentrifi cation and cultural while writing the story as well. “You fear appropriation as they’ve moved from place something, you covet something, you take to place. Daniels moved to Chicago when he something, and then you abandon it,” he says. was 24 and lived here for a decade. For him Specifi cally, he built the story and its charac- living in cheap Chicago neighborhoods “even ters within and around the world of hip-hop. as a person of color, is something that I had to “Darla and Cynthia [Darla’s rich white best reconcile with.” friend] are kind of stand-ins for a Nicki Minaj/ Through Daniels’s words and Passmore’s Started from the Iggy Azalea type of confl ict,” he says. “Then visuals, the two effectively convey Darla’s there’s another character who represents a internal confl icts. She’s a multifaceted badass, record label exec who doesn’t really under- and Daniels says that her plight was inspired Bottomyards, now stand the culture but sees that there’s a way by his own experiences, as well as those of to monetize it. There’s another character of close friends and family members. the afi cionado who also does not understand The story ends on what Daniels says was we’re gentrified the culture but is trying to bring all these con- “not a happy or sad note, but a realistic note.” spiracy theories and background stories on Through writing BTTM FDRS, he says that he A hyper-colored, Afrofuturistic graphic novel captures something that don’t really exist, but they try found the ways in which gentrification and how white privilege feeds on Black neighborhoods. to force it into it.” cultural appropriation mirror each other The news media in the story (whom Dan- enlightening, and also frightening. Daniels By TN T iels named after WGN-TV newscasters) take says that the problem will only get worse as Darla’s experience and present it as if Cynthia “the disparity between classes gets wider and were the one to go through it, a not-so-subtle wider.” Which makes the horror of the book all n the graphic novel BTTM FDRS, Ezra “One of my goals with BTTM FDRS was nod to the ways in which white people are the more real. v Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore cap- to bring these issues up in a candy-coated, granted access to co-opt Black experiences ture the horrors of gentrification in a hyper-color, fun graphic novel that will try to and narratives, ultimately to their own benefi t. @vivatyra Chicago neighborhood through a Tech- instigate these conversations with people that nicolor lens. The book follows Darla, a might be living in a situation where it’s rele- Iyoung Black artist and Chicago native, as she vant for them to be thinking and talking about grapples with the colonization of the Bottom- it, but they’re not,” Daniels says. yards, the fi ctional south side neighborhood The encounters Darla has with people from that she was born and raised in. She comes to the Bottomyards present the sad realities of the frightening realization that there has been Black folks being pushed out of communities something living in the walls of her apartment they’ve called home for decades. Meanwhile, building, a monster that will take her body the experiences Darla has with those whom over from the inside out. Passmore refers to as “colonizers” show how The story articulates what gentrification privilege can distort how a person views urban means in a way that expands beyond Chicago communities. and can be felt around the nation. BTTM FDRS An example of this ignorance is displayed is palatable thanks to the medium of delivery: when Darla presents some clothes she’s de- 295 pages of brightly hued, visually com- signed to an art director who has never been pelling panels. “I specifically wanted to use to the Bottomyards. This woman’s opinion really bright colors, but colors that are also of the community has been shaped by the unnatural,” Passmore says. “And I wanted to demeaning views of others and hearsay from play with just sort of giving people a feeling of her friends. She says she knew someone who uneasiness.” Shades of yellow, green, red, and “drove through once and said it was crazy!” Erza Claytan Daniels Ben Passmore violet provide an electrifying feel to each page. Obviously apprehensive of the neighborhood COURTESYFANTAGRAPHICSBOOKS COURTESYFANTAGRAPHICSBOOKS 16 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll MHW The Belew, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Power by Naomi Alderman, City Power: Urban Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Governance in a Global Age by Richard Schrag- Gertner, Trampoline: An Illustrated Novel by Chicago’s ger, Market Cities, People Cities: The Shape Robert Gipe, The Queen: The Forgotten Life of Our Urban Future by Kevin T. Smiley and Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin, Down summer Michael Oluf Emerson Girl: The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne SH -W& NYM CF Emergency Con- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Liber- reading tact by Mary H.K. Choi, Patsy by Nicole Den- ated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the nis-Benn, Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Global Politics of Soul by Tanisha C. Ford, We asked you (via Twitter) Jenkins Reid, Three Women by Lisa Taddeo, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an whose lists you wanted to see. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean American Myth by Josh Levin, There There by And then we asked them. Vuong Tommy Orange, Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora by Emily By R GJ N - Raboteau Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey, Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes, Searching JRNGW- for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok M B Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest by Hanif Abdu- BM -B C rraqib, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means DM Total Destruction of of Ascent by Robert A. Caro, Last Days at Hot the National Museum of Anthropology by Edu- Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin ardo Abaroa, Conditioner by Liz Barr, The Hun- edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder, dreds by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart, Rag: Stories by Maryse Meijer, Citizen Illegal The Undying: A Meditation on Modern Illness by José Olivarez by Anne Boyer, Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros, The January Children by Safia Elhillo, 1919 BS N by Eve L. Ewing, Film Food Footnotes by U American Sonnets for My Past Filmfront, Ley Lines #18: One & Three by W.T. and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes, Let’s Frick, Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Play Two: The Legend of Mr. Cub, the Life of Laymon, A History of America in Ten Strikes Ernie Banks by Ron Rapoport, The World is by Erik Loomis, The Undercommons: Fugitive Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten, Mom and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood by Carlo Zine #1 and #2 by Kim Nguyen, Living in Deni- Rotella

RYANSEGEDIBOOKSCOURTESYWOMEN&CHILDRENFIRST al: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life by Kari Marie Norgaard, Care Work: L S U - Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi C P Lady in the Lake FA Pet by @CPA T Da Piepzna-Samarasinha, Trick Mirror by Jia by Laura Lippman, Underland: A Deep Time Akwaeke Emezi, Odes to Lithium by Shira Erli- Bears! How the 1985 Monsters of the Midway Tolentino, The Mushroom at the End of the Journey by Robert Macfarlane, Beast and Man chman, 1919 by Eve L. Ewing, On Earth We’re Became the Greatest Team in NFL History by World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist by Mary Midgely, novels and stories by Craig Briefl y Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Steve Delsohn, In Life, First You Kick Ass: Re- Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Sour Heart Rice, The Small House at Allington by Anthony fl ections on the 1985 Bears and Wisdom from by Jenny Zhang Trollope BA The Death and Life of the Da Coach by Mike Ditka, The St. Valentine’s Great Lakes by Dan Egan, Ordinary People by Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gang- N M The N T Diana Evans, Patriot Number One by Lauren land Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan, 1919 by Eve R/W L Emergent Strategy: Hilgers, Angels by Denis Johnson, Zora and by William J. Helmer and Arthur J. Bilek, Bad L. Ewing, How to Hide an Empire: A History of Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adri- Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betray- As I Wanna Be by Dennis Rodman, Crazy from the Greater United States by Daniel Immer- enne maree brown, The Battle of Lincoln Park: al by Yuval Taylor, Sing, Unburied, Sing by the Heat by David Lee Roth, Chicago’s Best wahr, An American Summer: Love and Death in Urban Renewal and Gentrifi cation in Chicago Jesmyn Ward Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Windy Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz, We Cast a Shadow by Daniel Kay Hertz, Subject to Change: Trans City by Jonathan Stockton by Maurice Carlos Ru n Poetry and Conversation edited by H. Melt MB High Ris- ers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American JC HM Time Is the B X Sweaty Palms Public Housing by Ben Austen, Pleasure Activ- Tell Them of Battles, Thing a Body Moves Through by T Fleis- Vol 2: The Anthology About Anxiety edited by ism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne Kings, & Elephants by Mathias Énard, Keith chmann, On Earth We’re Briefl y Gorgeous by Sage Co ey, My Solo Exchange Diary by Naga- maree brown, Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago Rowe: The Room Extended by Brian Olew- Ocean Vuong ta Kabi, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking up With and the Great West by William Cronon, Circe nick, Ideal Suggestions: Essays on Divinatory Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero- by Madeline Miller, The Unsettlers: In Search Poetics by Selah Saterstrom, Astral Weeks: A W M O’Connell, Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten, of the Good Life in Today’s America by Mark Secret History of 1968 by Ryan H. Walsh, Songs Bring the War Home: The White Power Move- Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Sundeen for Schizoid Siblings by Lionel Ziprin ment and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Xu v ll MAY - CHICA OREADER17 hen I stepped o the Loyola el nue Bookshop, among others. Stuart Brent had station in the summer of 1992, the irascible Stuart Brent himself, a bookseller it was oh so very hot. who once told me, “You’re not too pretentious It was my fi rst visit to Chi- for someone a liated with the University of cago, and I was trying to get Chicago.” The Savvy Traveller had a special Wmy bearings with only the official 1992 CTA section for “Urban Adventures.” And Prairie map. My goal was the nearby youth hostel on Avenue Bookshop had a tiny space dedicated North Winthrop. I was completely lost, despite to campus planning. It’s where I fi rst encoun- Chicago’s celebrated grid system. tered the Princeton Architectural Press’s Cam- I walked north to a two-story building that pus Guides and their detailed, peripatetic yet contained a hodgepodge of tiny retailers. I no- scholarly traipses through Vassar, Harvard, ticed a sign for a bookstore on the second fl oor and the University of Cincinnati. and made my way upstairs, carefully navigat- And guess what? There were no algorithms ing neatly stacked piles of old Life magazines. getting between you and those precious Once within, I felt at home. tomes. You had to come in and stay awhile and I hadn’t come in to purchase a book, but see what serendipitous browsing brought. does anyone ever enter a bookstore just to Sure, books are commercial products, but at purchase a book? I wanted to meet the owner, least you didn’t have to worry about “suggest- to see if there was a cat curled up on a pile of ed products” popping up in front of you via a co ee-table books, and maybe fi nd out if they suggestive hologram. (Jesus, maybe that’s the had a special section for urban studies. Before next frontier in bricks-and-mortar shopping.) I had a chance to look for felines, a bookseller While once the casual visitor could make his appeared and asked if I had any questions. or her way through over a dozen independent I got my map out and explained my predica- bookstores within a mile radius, there are now ment. She laid out the map on the only surface just a few. Rising rents and real estate invest- in the store that appeared to be clear of any ment in the Loop and its immediate environs printed material and deftly drew a series of have made operating a bookstore while not directional arrows that would lead me to the owning the entire building outright an in- hostel. She also informed me that there was no creasingly untenable proposition. better food than Chicago diner food and drew The brightest development in recent years a star around Standee’s on Granville Avenue is The Dial Bookshop, which maintains a and said, “It’s open all the time. And try the well-lit space on the second fl oor of the Fine francheezie.” Arts Building formerly occupied by Selected I did try the francheezie, and it was a greasy Works, a used bookstore. It’s quite possible, of and gorgeous introduction to Chicago diner course, that this much-more-modest assem- food. blage of printed material may be only a pass- As I initially contemplated my 25-plus-year ing moment. After all, bookstores have always personal history with Chicago’s bookstores, come and gone from the Loop and every other I found myself taking a sharp turn into a neighborhood in Chicago with regularity. morass of nostalgia, pining for the refined What remains to be seen is whether they will environment of the Rizzoli Bookstore in Water maintain even this greatly reduced presence. Tower Place, the tall and well-ordered shelves One of the reasons I still go to bookstores of O’Gara & Wilson in Hyde Park, and, inexpli- is that I like to talk with other people about

ROBERTANDREGREGORIO cably, the Borders on State Street that Great books. I also like to hear what other people Street, which, to its credit, had remarkably think about the books that we have read in real clean bathrooms. time and face-to-face. One of the best places Mere nostalgia will not su ce, so here’s a to do this in all of Chicago is the Harold Wash- modest set of meditations on what I’ve seen ington Library Center, which o ers more free “Does anyone ever enter transpire amidst our shared shelves. book-related events than any other institution In the mid-1990s, there was much in the city, more than 300 a year, in addition to hand-wringing about what the rise of Borders events at the 81 neighborhood branches. a bookstore just to and Barnes & Noble would do to independent The Harold Washington Library Center is bookstores in the Loop and beyond. They a public treasure that is open to everyone. came, they (mostly) conquered, and for one Its programming reflects Chicago’s diverse purchase a book?” brief moment they stayed at the top of the population, something that could not always bookselling heap. Until Amazon. be said about older and more established A writer surveys the transformation of Chicago’s literary landscape. The carnage wrought by this one-two punch bookstores. Where else could you ﬁ nd a talk included the demise of Kroch’s & Brentano’s on on Rafael Torch’s posthumous memoir The By MG Wabash (once billed as the “World’s Largest Garcia Boy, an artists’ entrepreneurship class, Bookstore”), Stuart Brent Books on Michigan and a hands-on musical instructional class for Avenue, The Savvy Traveller, and Prairie Ave- toddlers on the same day?

18 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll Bookstores have always had competition generally curious as well as individuals with get practical information about gardening in for time and money, including movies, highly specifi c interests. an age of climate change. concerts, and television. In the past decade What strikes me as the most compelling As for the original bookstore I fi rst visited in or so, they’ve competed against mobile de- thing about bookstores like Volumes Bookcafe Rogers Park? It’s gone and the entire building vices that function as personal appendages, in Wicker Park and Women & Children First was demolished for a CTA expansion project a alongside an exposition of entertainment in Andersonville is that they see themselves number of years back. The hostel is also gone, and shopping options that are by turns ex- increasingly as spaces for community gather- demolished as part of Loyola University’s on- hilarating and completely exhausting. And ings, trivia nights, listening sessions, and plac- going campus expansion. And Standee’s is no of course, I’d be remiss if I didn’t note that es for people to enjoy each other’s company. longer a fi xture a few feet from the Granville while bookstores and libraries do operate Sure, they want to sell books and other el station, so you’ll have to go elsewhere for a with a blush of overlap in their general mis- accoutrements as a function of their business, francheezie. sion, there certainly can be a bit of friction at but they also see themselves, much like librar- But even though I am caught at a loss for times. ies, as valuable gathering spaces. They are the bookstore’s name, which I can’t find in As I look over this bookish landscape, I fi nd much more than the books they sell because the Tribune archives or any of my Chicago that more bookstores are adopting the diverse they o er conversations that enhance and en- guidebooks, I will not forget that face-to-face range of programs that one fi nds at institutions liven the ideas contained within those books. encounter given to me by an interlocutor who like the Chicago Public Library. They have to be One can fi nd a place for meditations on Afrofu- set me on my way through Chicago. v wide-ranging as they continue to expand their turist zines, informal dialogues about gentrifi - tents with programs that make room for the cation that avoid pedantic planning argot, and @theurbanologist A portrait of the artist

THIS PHOTO OF Harold Green and his handwritten answer to the question “What is it like to be a writer?” is an extension of my ongoing portrait project “Do you see me?” While you could label Harold a poet he is so much more. He is the creator of albums, videos, plays, and the architect and curator of “Flowers for the living” on July 14, an annual project with some of the best singers and musicians in Chicago. —MR

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PRIDE more-public rituals: the gathering of beloved a copy of this book. I first encountered this communities, sweet displays of affection, graphic novel as an undergrad out in Iowa, Five memoirs that the heated arguments against the politics of and I reread it every January—it’s literature homo-capitalism. We’re sad, we’re angry, that grows with me, mostly because of Ali- made me the pansexual we’re joyful. It’s a lot. son Bechdel’s delicate recollection of her late On a personal level, this June will also mark father, who lived his life in the closet, and the freak I am today both the second anniversary of my queer di- hesitant empathy she holds for him. vorce and my second trip down the aisle, this Essential reading for Pride Month time with a straight, white man—two things How to Grow Up: A Memoir by Michelle Tea I swore I’d never do again. A genderqueer Michelle Tea is a goth kid turned punk By KTH second wife, I know that my pansexuality is house-dweller turned outlaw literature hero. under the purple petticoat I’m wearing to my Her bald-faced memoir roams through all the wedding, but I’m suddenly grappling with the dirty nooks and crannies, sweeping her past During every week this Pride Month, we’ll ask erasure that comes with a straight-passing into a powerful pile of personal history. It’s a one of our contrubutors to compile a list of relationship. I used to turn to memoir when I guidebook from the older sister you wish you essential queer works of art. We start with was fi guring out my identity and community, had, off ering advice on everything from sobri- books. and now I come back when my queer identity ety to queer babymaking. It’s brave and reas- needs company. suring, the fi rst book I pull down when I need ll months have their periods of high solace. emotion, but they are merely rehearsals Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Acompared to the chest-punching power Bechdel All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks ballad of Pride Month. Of course, there are the My death plan includes being cremated with There is no such thing as love without justice, and we all have to unlearn the oppressive dys- function—and abuse—that our families teach FROM DAVID CROMER, THE us. In this book, part memoir, part manifesto, TONY-WINNING DIRECTOR hooks calls for a new love paradigm drawn from activism. I always give my engaged OF BROADWAY’S THE BAND’S VISIT! friends a copy, but you defi nitely don’t have to be in love to pull from this one. Hooks makes a case for the importance of nonromantic love, the kind o en felt during Pride Month.

The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir by Ariel PICTURED: DAVID SCHLUMPF, KEELY VASQUEZ, LIAM OH VASQUEZ, KEELY SCHLUMPF, PICTURED: DAVID AND KYRIE COURTER. PHOTO BY SAVERIO TRUGLIA. Levy LIMITED ENGAGEMENT My mom always says, “You can have it all, just THROUGH JUNE 16 ONLY not all at once.” Levy, an accomplished journalist, takes a raw approach to interrogat- 847-242-6000 | WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG ing this idea, recalling her pathway to a solid career and queer marriage followed by the despair of a tragic miscarriage and subsequent divorce—which she famously document- ed in her essay “Thanksgiving in Mongolia .”

Role Models by John Waters Everyone needs a chosen grandpa, and I pick John Waters (though he would probably hate that). I listened to this memoir during a lonely car ride across Iowa, and the coziness of Waters’s honesty and descriptions oﬀ ered an intimacy that isn’t available in his ﬁ lms. I also have mad respect for the work he does in prisons—check this one out if you’re looking for a way to negotiate the personal and the political. v

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REVIEW e ects of these di ering motivations as well as each woman’s ability to navigate or fall prey Soul sisters to the challenges of being an African American Style & Grace pays tribute to Lena Horne woman in a manipulative industry run by and Nancy Wilson. white men. Self-determination is a running theme By MO throughout, with Horne’s mother, Edna, telling her, “Nobody can own you for life” after she breaks her exploitative Cotton Club ena Horne and Nancy Wilson were two ing live band sets the tone, warming up the with biographical facts and comparisons be- contract. Both women’s activism is hinted at, iconic voices, separated by a generation, crowd for the string of classic hits to come. tween Horne and Wilson’s life choices; there especially Horne’s e orts to change the way Ldivergent upbringings, and dramatically Then the Lenas and Nancys are introduced— are some goofy meta moments (bickering African American characters were portrayed di erent perceptions of their own talent and young Lena (Aeriel Williams) and mature Lena among all four women) that could be trimmed. in Hollywood, but where we see them truly self-worth. What ties them together are their (Chantee Joy) kick things off with a perfor- We learn that after an unstable childhood, break the barriers of time, space, and society soulful style, deep connection with their audi- mance of Fats Waller’s “Honeysuckle Rose,” Horne was pushed into show business by her is the vocal performances. Although more co- ences, and strength in the face of an industry followed by young Nancy (Jayla Williams mother, a failed actress, and had little conﬁ - hesive mannerisms could help with character that didn’t evolve quickly enough to give them Craig) and mature Nancy (Rhonda Preston) dence in her abilities or her place on larger consistency, Williams and Joy shine in emo- the respect and compensation they deserved. singing Duke Ellington’s “Satin Doll.” These stages. Wilson, on the other hand, had a tive songs like “Stormy Weather” and “Believe This rousing production is Black Ensemble early songs give a taste of the outstanding middle-class childhood and an innate sense in Yourself,” respectively. Craig and Preston Theater’s new associate director Kylah Frye’s vocal performances to come, which are punc- of her own talent, demonstrating it to wide are pure diva in Wilson’s songs—Craig with debut as writer and director, and it packs a tuated by narration that could use some work. audiences by age 15 on a local TV station in her a twinkle in her eye during “Guess Who I Saw musical punch, going heavy on music and Co-hosts Vincent Jordan and Kelvin Davis native Ohio. There could be more exploration Today” and Preston bringing down the house lighter on story and historical facts. A rollick- are responsible for driving the story forward here, especially in act two, of the long-term during “You Don’t Know How Glad I Am.” v

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snubbed by his highness, and all the better for it; a Václav Havel, playwright peppy number from Katherine Howard (Anna Uzele) Organic Theater takes a bold stab at the former that takes a powerful and unfortunately relevant turn; Czech president’s absurdist satire, The Memo. and a perky ditty from everyone’s favorite unapologetic bad girl Anne Boleyn (Andrea Macasaet) with riff s and Despite having one of the most radical and inspiring runs for days. This candy-coated confection is one of biographies of any theater artist, playwright-turned- the must-see shows of 2019. #SorryNotSorry —S prisoner-turned-Czech president Václav Havel hasn’t F S Through 6/30: Wed-Fri 7:45 PM, Sat seen much time on Chicago stages over the years. The 6 and 8:30 PM, Sun 3 and 6 PM, Tue 7:45 PM; no last time I recall watching a translation of one of his performance Sun 6/9, 6 PM, Chicago Shakespeare, works was in 2012 at Trap Door, a company that has main- 800 E. Grand, 312-595-5600, chicagoshakes.com, tained a reputation for masterfully interpreting esoteric $32-$62. and deeply political plays, many of them of Slavic origin, for 25 years. So it’s refreshing to see a young company Step right up like Organic Theater tackle such dramaturgically rich R Volta brings back the full death-defying territory, even if the result feels more like an academic Cirque du Soleil experience. exercise than impactful satire. The director of a vague, militantly bureaucratic Volta is Cirque du Soleil’s 41st production since 1983 organization (Tricia Rogers) receives a memo typed and, like all the others before it, struggles mightily to be in Ptydepe, an inscrutable language that her deputy unique. The show’s imagineers (reportedly 16 in all under director (Joel Moses) is hell-bent on making the offi cial the guidance of “director of creation” Jean Guibert) written correspondence of government and business. have fabricated another Cirque wonder, bursting with Unlike the “mother tongue,” he notes, Ptydepe’s lin- gorgeous costumes, carefully cra ed spectacles, and guistic rules and tightly regulated translations make virtuosic displays of acrobatic prowess, all performed it immune to evolution by the proletariat. When the under a retro big top fi lled with perfectly calibrated experiment becomes a failed, absurdist disaster, party state-of-the-art machines of joy. elites turn on one another in a self-defeating circle of As in past shows, there is a story, or at least the hint For Services Rendered MICHAELBROSILOW obfuscation, paranoia, and blame. of a story: Waz, an athletic young man with blue hair and At nearly two-and-a-half hours, many of the broad an evocative name, fi nds himself in an almost inexpress- comedic choices in Bryan Wakefi eld’s production rob ible psychological/spiritual crisis—indicated by music, OPENING griffintheatre.com , $37, $32 students, seniors, and the material of any bite—the decision to portray a lighting eff ects, and choreography—and is overwhelmed veterans. language instructor (Nick Bryant) as a classic American with images of his past (riding bikes with his friends, Memorial Day charismatic preacher, for instance, limits the character going to the beach). Each dazzling circus act that follows R For Services Rendered explores the Theatrical alchemy to a one-note joke that barely sustains comedic energy represents, more or less, an episode in his life. ongoing trauma of World War I. R In Life on Paper, Jackalope once again in a three-minute sketch, let alone a two-act play. I did The circus acts are dazzling, and dangerous. How turns straw into gold. get a kick, though, out of Mary Mikva as a meek admin dangerous? In 2018 aerialist Yann Arnaud fell to his When W. Somerset Maugham’s British war drama For assistant who is far more concerned about lunch than death during a performance of Volta in Tampa, Florida. Services Rendered premiered in 1932, it off ered unpre- Playwright Kenneth Lin’s got nothing on Frank Capra. the infi ghting of executive overlords. —DJ T It’s surprising there aren’t more mishaps. All of pared audiences a stark exploration of the enduring In this gauzy, diagrammatic new play, given its world M Through 6/16: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 the acts in Volta push things to the extreme. The consequences of the First World War and a critique premiere by Jackalope Theatre, two forensic econo- PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, show abounds in performers leaping on trampolines, of a political system that off ered no protection for mists descend upon the a ermath of a plane crash that 773-404-7336, organictheater.org, $30, $21 students, rebounding on bungee cords, being li ed high off the those who fought for its honor. In its Chicago premiere, took the life of Hank Baylor, 63rd richest man in the seniors, and industry. ground by only their hair; acrobats somersault through presented by the Griffi n Theatre Company and directed world. Cynical Mitch (Joel Ewing), hired by the airline, ever-higher and smaller hoops; a squad of BMX bikers by ensemble member Robin Witt, this message feels is a once-heralded math genius who’s now designing Divorced, beheaded, died . . . careens up and down huge ramps, threatening always to contemporary and urgent. algorithms to calculate the value of lives snuff ed out R Things didn’t go well for most of Henry fl y out into the audience. The ever-present danger is as The postwar plight of the Ardsley family, whose in accidents. Unjaded Ida (Mary Williamson), slogging VIII’s wives, but in Six they’re back as pop divas. much a part of a Cirque show as the spectacle. But if it members are attempting to create normalcy amid dev- through a marital breakup, works for the small-town wasn’t death-defying, it wouldn’t be the Cirque. —J astation, is at the center of the play. The family’s com- savings and loan that Baylor promised $50 million before History hasn’t been this much fun since Hamilton. With H VThrough 7/6: Wed-Thu 8 PM, Fri-Sat posed facade is quickly broken as, through the Ardsley his death. Thus Mitch must push Baylor’s life value down, its high-energy score, stadium lighting, and angular, 4:30 and 8 PM, Sun 1:30 and 5 PM; also Tue 6/4, children and their acquaintances, we are given insight and Ida must push it up—a tidy setup they each explain bedazzled Tudor costumes that evoke a set of futuristic 6/18, and 7/2, 8 PM, Soldier Field, 461 E. 18th Dr., 877- into the health and fi nancial circumstances of those to the audience more than once. When they meet, playing cards, Six, now in its North American premiere 924-7783, cirquedusoleil.com, $49-$275. v who fought, and the ways in which society has forgotten sparks, romance, and complications fl y, o en so speedily at Chicago Shakespeare, is more concert than musical. them now that their services are no longer needed. the plot runs well ahead of its own logic. Writers Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (who also Equally important are those who were le behind, Remarkably, director Gus Menary transforms the codirected with Jamie Armitage) kick the standard particularly the women whose marriage prospects, mechanical script into a warm, nuanced, deeply felt “marginalized women reclaiming their narrative” plot identities, and societal roles have been shattered by the production. He’s assembled a cast who sublimate their into overdrive with a crisp, electric book and a score war. They must navigate a new way of living in order to every emotion and intention, creating intrigue where Lin that magically makes clunky plot summary uproariously WIN rise above their circumstances at home. off ers illustration. They even manage to make expository hilarious. Each of the wives of Henry VIII sings the story FREE Witt’s 12-person ensemble uses every word of the dialogue sound natural. The approach is particularly of her—in most cases tragic—fate (divorced, behead- classic script to its collective advantage, carefully play- helpful in act two, when Lin largely abandons the duel- ed, died; divorced, beheaded, survived) and each is TICKETS ing up the ironic comedy and the implicit vulnerability ing economist story in favor of exploring the inner lives inspired by a pop diva, ranging from Beyoncé to RiRi to behind each earnest confession. This, along with their of ancillary characters. They’re the best scenes in the Britney. 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Despite the size of is another reminder that you don’t see better acting on is a triple threat; dancing, singing, and slaying the entire the ensemble, no player feels insignifi cant, a testament any Chicago stage than Jackalope’s. —J H audience into laughter for the hardest-working 80- VISIT CHICAGOREADER.COM/WIN to each actor’s fi rm grip on their character’s role in L P Through 6/22: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 minutes-no intermission show now onstage in Chicago. for your chance to win! advancing the play’s narrative and its moral. —K PM; also Mon 6/3 and 6/17, 8 PM, Broadway Armory Every actor is top-notch with megawatt person- P F S R Through 7/6: Park, 5917 N. Broadway, jackalopetheatre.org, $30, alities and voices fi t for The Voice. A tiny sampling of Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM; no performance 7/4, $20 students and seniors. the numerous standout moments include a delightfully Den Theatre, 1331 N. Milwaukee, 773-697-3830, magnetic and funny Anna of Cleves (Brittney Mack),

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Transit visa. As an elderly fellow refugee with a pro- seille. Georg befriends the deceased man’s nounced sense of gallows humor explains, “My deaf-mute North African widow and young son, it’s all because each country is afraid that son; so well do they all get along it’s almost as instead of just traveling through, we’ll want to though he has found a second home. But he is stay. A transit visa—that gives you permission also drawn to Weidel’s widow (Paula Beer of to travel through a country with the stipula- Frantz and Never Look Away), and Georg is action that you don’t plan to stay.” The trick, the tively trying to arrange her escape as well, so old-timer explains, is juggling the different he leaves his new surrogate family for a time. visas so that one doesn’t expire before you Later in the fi lm, when he looks for them again, can use another. It’s an absurdity worthy of a he fi nds that, left without any protector, they play by Beckett or a novel by Sartre, with its have departed for the hills and their fl at is now existential dread of no escape, even as the pos- occupied by a large number of new arrivals sibility of escape is capriciously dangled. from Africa. To explain just how complex that visa tangle Then there are all the other refugees seek- could get, you need look no further than the ing visas, including the elegant Jew who is historic case of German-Jewish writer Hannah guaranteed a home in the U.S. only because Arendt, who in her monumental volume The she has been entrusted with an American Origins of Totalitarianism explained how the couple’s show dogs that accompany her almost Nazis eradicated millions of Jews during the everywhere, and the conductor who has a Holocaust by fi rst reducing them to stateless heart attack in a consulate before he can leave the physical setting: spray-painted wall gra - persons. When someone is deprived of rights for his new position with a South American REVIEW ti, modern architecture and vehicles, and riot of citizenship, he or she becomes persona orchestra. The wealth of observational details police in SWAT team gear instead of swastikas non grata, increasingly invisible, as Arendt reflects Seghers’s own life experiences of announce that this is the present day. It’s a discovered when she fl ed Germany—without statelessness. A German Jew who joined the Life, liberty, daring stylistic move, one which frequently identifi cation papers—for Czechoslovakia and Communist Party in 1928 and settled in Paris in keeps the viewer as disoriented as the story’s Switzerland, before landing in Paris in 1933. 1933, she fl ed, after the Nazis invaded France in desperate characters and helps make the fi lm After escaping the Gurs internment camp in 1940, to Mexico on a ship out of Marseille; her and the pursuit a profound meditation on the dehumanizing 1940, she hastily planned her departure from fellow passengers included André Breton and condition of statelessness. France. According to Stephanie DeGooyer, Claude Lévi-Strauss. After the war, still a Com- Franz Rogowski (Happy End) stars as Alastair Hunt, Lida Maxwell, and Samuel munist, she returned to Europe, moving fi rst to of happiness Georg, a German camp escapee of no partic- Moyn’s introduction to their 2018 book The West Berlin and then to East Berlin, where her ular religious or political bent who arrives in Right to Have Rights, “Through a combination career fl ourished. She was nominated for the Transit follows a group of refugees in Paris, where he runs into a fellow refugee who of sheer luck, quick thinking, and assistance Nobel Prize in 1967 and died in 1983. Marseille hoping for a better life. But entrusts him with an errand: deliver two let- from several individuals, including an Amer- If Petzold so thoroughly captures the nuanc- is it 1944 or 2019? ters to Weidel, an important writer in hiding, ican diplomat prepared to defy his govern- es of her novel while putting his own stamp on documents that will allow the great man to ment’s directives, Arendt was able to secure the story, that’s because he has lived with it for By AG leave the country. Upon arriving at the writer’s a Nansen passport, a French exit visa, Spanish so long. He and his longtime mentor, collabo- hotel, Georg learns that Weidel has committed and Portuguese transit visas, and a U.S. emer- rator, and close friend, the late documentary erman filmmakers have, of late, been suicide, and the hotelier, anxious to avoid any gency visa. These documents allowed her to and experimental filmmaker Harun Farocki, revisiting the 20th century, exploring trouble with the occupying authorities, foists travel, in 1941, to the United States, where she were such big fans of Transit that over the Gtheir nation’s tortured record under the the author’s belongings on Georg. Through was granted asylum as a refugee.” In 1951, she course of 15 years they would meet annually Nazis and, later, Communism. On the heels of a series of events and misunderstandings, ended 18 years of statelessness when she be- to reread and discuss the novel. That kind of his fi ne two previous features, Barbara (2012), Georg, already something of a cipher, becomes came a U.S. citizen. Eighteen years. devotion not only shows how compelling and about an East Berlin dissident physician’s ban- even more so when he assumes the dead man’s If it was that di cult for a connected intel- sustaining a work of literary art can be; it also, ishment to the provinces, and Phoenix (2014), identity, further erasing his own. His subter- lectual like Arendt to get out of World War II as in the case of this deeply humanistic fi lm, in which a Jewish Holocaust concentration fuge will send him on a journey through bewil- Europe and start over again, how hard must can build a bridge across time, between the camp survivor, newly remodeled by plastic dering diplomatic channels as he navigates all it be for disenfranchised migrants today—the victims of global strife in the mid-20th centu- surgery, returns to Berlin to confront the lover the impediments facing refugees in their quest millions fl eeing war, or persecution, or famine, ry, and those beleaguered displaced persons who informed on her, writer-director Chris- to obtain visas. drought, fl oods, earthquakes or other natural in our 21st century. If we all would only learn tian Petzold turns his gaze to France under There’s a passage early in the novel that disasters around the globe—to gain entrance a few lessons from history and art and act ac- Germany’s wartime occupation. Adapting concisely illustrates this nightmarish scenario to a country, any country, where they can actu- cordingly and compassionately, maybe some Anna Seghers’s eponymous 1944 novel about as Georg learns that even though Mexico has ally remain alive? The movie Transit implicitly of today’s wanderers in search of a better life hordes of refugees fl ocking to 1942 Marseille o ered Weidel (whom he will soon be imper- asks this question in sequences where Georg might find one. In at least one corner of the to keep one step ahead of Hitler’s advancing sonating) a haven and safe passage, he can’t seeks out the family of one of his colleagues, world, the rights to life, liberty, and the pur- armies, Petzold sticks fairly closely to the leave France without an exit visa, and can’t an injured man who died aboard the boxcar suit of happiness are still rights; at least they author’s plot, but he introduces a time shift in reach his point of departure without a transit in which he and Georg were heading to Mar- were the last time I looked. v

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and infl uential American fi lms of the 60s. —J by a motorcyclist who may be the nephew, mysteriously R 130 min. 35mm. Wed 6/5, 7:30 PM. North- grown to adulthood. This looping shot, refl ecting a eastern Illinois University Buddhist view of the universe as an endless cycle of life, death, and reincarnation, adds to the fi lm’s hallucinatory NFerrante Fever aura, as does a trippy, ethereal score by Lim Giong (a Anyone eager to know the identity of the author known frequent collaborator of Jia Zhangke and Hou Hsiao- as Elena Ferrante might be disappointed by this docu- hsien). Bi Gan directed this boldly original debut fea- mentary, which respects the writer’s professed desire to ture. In Mandarin with subtitles. —AG remain anonymous. This is a noble choice by fi lmmaker 113 min. Thu 6/6, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Giacomo Durzi, though his other choices are largely dissatisfying. The movie overfl ows with adulation for Last Year at Marienbad Ferrante’s work, focusing on her fans and, in particular, R This radical experiment in fi lm form by director the New York City literati that turned Ferrante’s books Alain Resnais and screenwriter Alain Robbe-Grillet was into statement pieces found in many a hip reader’s tote a surprising commercial success in 1961, even in the bag. Talking heads include Ann Goldstein, who has U.S., and it’s been a rallying point for the possibilities of translated several of Ferrante’s novels from their original formal fi lmmaking ever since. A highly seductive parable Italian into English, and contemporary authors like Eliza- about seduction, it’s set in and around a baroque Euro- beth Strout and Jonathan Franzen, who relish in peeling pean chateau/hotel, where the nameless hero (Giorgio back the layers of Ferrante’s rich sentences, characters, Albertazzi) tries to persuade the nameless heroine and themes. Their comments are worthwhile, though (Delphine Seyrig) that they met the previous year. Shot Ferrante Fever Durzi off ers little reason why they should exist in a cine- by Sacha Vierny in otherworldly black-and-white ’Scope, NOW PLAYING matic medium. He keeps his subject at a long, shadowy it oscillates ambiguously between past, present, and distance, using scribbly animation and bland B-roll of various conditional tenses, mixing memory and fantasy, Agents of Change The Color of Pomegranates New York City to fi ll in gaps between interviews. Mostly, fear and desire. The overall tone is poker-faced parody Subtitled “Black Students and the Transformation of the R The late Sergei Paradjanov’s greatest fi lm, a the fi lm inspires in the viewer an urge to read the books of lush Hollywood melodrama, yet the fi lm’s dreamlike American University,” this 2016 documentary traces the mystical and historical mosaic about the life, work, and instead. In English and Italian with subtitles. —L cadences, frozen tableaux, and distilled surrealist poetry rise in black activism at American universities from 1957, inner world of the 18th-century Armenian poet Sayat P 72 min. Sat 6/1, 5 PM, and Wed 6/5, 6:15 PM. are too eerie, too terrifying even, to be shaken off as when Little Rock High School was integrated, through Nova, was previously available only in the ethnically “dry- Gene Siskel Film Center camp. For all its notoriety, this masterpiece among 1969, when African-American students notoriously took cleaned” Russian version—recut and somewhat reorga- masterpieces has never really received its due. In French up arms to occupy the student union building at Cornell nized by Sergei Yutkevich, with chapter headings added Fight Club with subtitles. —JR 93 min. Fri 5/31, University. Though directors Frank Dawson and Abby to clarify the content for Russian viewers. This superior R This exercise in mainstream masochism, macho 4 and 8 PM; Sat 6/1, 3 PM; Sun 6/2, 5 PM; Mon 6/3, 8 PM; Ginzberg collect some revealing testimony from former 1969 version of the fi lm, found in an Armenian studio in posturing, and designer-grunge fascism (1999) is border- Tue 6/4, 6 PM; Wed 6/5, 8 PM; and Thu 6/6, 6 PM. Gene activists at Cornell and at San Francisco State University the early 90s, shouldn’t be regarded as defi nitive (some line ridiculous. But it also happens to be David Fincher’s Siskel Film Center (including actor Danny Glover), the fi lmmakers never of the material from the Yutkevich cut is missing), but richest movie—not only because it combines the others really deliver on their stated intention to connect the it’s certainly the fi nest we have and may ever have: some (Alien 3, Seven, The Game) with chunks of Performance, The Middleman events of the 60s to today’s black student activism, shots and sequences are new, some are positioned but also because it keeps topping its own giddy excess- R A moving story about a sincere college gradu- except in the most cursory fashion. This works fi ne as diff erently, and, of particular advantage to Western es. Adapted by Jim Uhls from Chuck Palahniuk’s novel, ate (Pradip Mukherjee) in Calcutta who gradually enters a TV history lesson, but don’t expect any insight into viewers, much more of the poetry is subtitled. (Oddly this has something—but only something—to do with a a life of corruption, made by Satyajit Ray in 1975 and the current agendas of college activists or how today’s enough, it’s hard to tell why the “new” shots were cen- bored Edward Norton encountering a nihilistic doppel- adapted by Ray from Sankar’s novel Jana Aranya. It has well-protected campus protests relate either to 60s sored.) In both versions the striking use of tableaulike ganger (Brad Pitt) who teaches him that getting your the best performances of any Ray fi lm I’ve seen and a activism or to the riskier street-based agitation of Black frames recalls the shallow space of movies made roughly brains bashed out is fun. Though you’re barely allowed milieu that may remind you of both Billy Wilder’s The Lives Matter. —JR J 66 min. A discussion will a century ago, while the gorgeous uses of color and the to disagree with him, your jaw is supposed to drop with Apartment and John Cassavetes’s Faces. With Satya follow the screening. Sat 6/1, 4 PM. Stony Island Arts wild poetic conceits seem to derive from some utopian admiring disbelief at the provocation, and the overall Banerjee, Dipankar Dey, and Rabi Ghosh; the eff ec- Bank F cinema of the future, at once “diffi cult” and immedi- impression of complexity might easily be mistaken for tive score is by Ray himself. In Bengali with subtitles. ate, cryptic and ravishing. This is essential viewing. the genuine article. In other words, this is American —JR 131 min. 35mm archival print. Black Panther —J R 79 min. Outdoor screening. self-absorption at its fi nest. With Helena Bonham Carter, Wed 6/5, 7 and 9:30 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films The fi rst black superhero in mainstream American Tue 6/4, 8:30 PM. Comfort Station F Meat Loaf, and Jared Leto. —JR R, comics, Marvel’s Black Panther came with an African 139 min. 35mm. Fri 5/31-Sat 6/1, 9:15 and 11:59 PM; Sun 6/2 Mulholland Dr. pedigree: in real life he’s the ancestral king of a small, Faces and Mon 6/3, 9:15 PM; Tue 6/4, 9 PM; and Thu 6/6, 9:15 R I’m still trying to decide if this piece of hocus-po- impoverished sub-Saharan nation that conceals a secret R John Cassavetes’s galvanic 1968 drama about PM. Music Box cus (2001) is David Lynch’s best feature between Eraser- empire, the whole operation empowered by an asteroid one long night in the lives of an estranged well-to-do head and Inland Empire. In any case, it’s immensely from outer space. That premise provides most of the fun married couple (John Marley and Lynn Carlin) and their The General more likable than his other stabs at neonoir (Blue in this big-screen adaptation, particularly in the form of temporary lovers (Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel) R Buster Keaton may have made more signifi cant Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway), perhaps because the Dora Milaje, the king’s security team, who are badass was the fi rst of his independent features to become a fi lms, but The General (1926) stands as an almost perfect it likes its characters and avoids sentimentalizing or women with shaved heads, neck rings, and fl aming-red hit, and it’s not hard to see why. It remains one of the entertainment. Keaton is a locomotive engineer in the sneering at them (the sort of thing that limited Twin uniforms. Chadwick Boseman is appropriately noble and only American fi lms to take the middle class seriously, Civil War south whose train is hijacked by Union spies; Peaks). Originally conceived and rejected as a TV pilot, dull as the title character, and director Ryan Coogler depicting the compulsive, embarrassed laughter of his attempts to bring it back become a strangely moving then expanded a er some French producers stepped (Creed, Fruitvale Station) brings along the compelling people facing their own sexual longing and some of the and very funny account of man’s love for machine. Mar- in, it has the benefi t of Lynch’s own observations about Michael B. Jordan, his frequent collaborator, to play emotional devastation brought about by the so-called ion Mack is the girl, who can’t quite compete. —D Hollywood, which were fresher at this point than his the Panther’s philosophical antagonist. As in the recent sexual revolution. (Interestingly, Cassavetes set out to K 80 min. Showing with Keaton’s 1921 short The Goat. puritanical notations on small towns in the American Warner Bros./DC Comics outing Wonder Woman, the make a trenchant critique of the middle class, but his Fri 5/31, 7 PM; Sun 6/2, 4:30 PM; Tue 6/4, 4:30 PM; and heartland. The best-known actors (Ann Miller, Robert identity politics provide a fresh spin to the genre’s characteristic empathy for all of his characters makes Thu 6/6, 2:30 PM. Music Box Forster, Dan Hedaya) wound up relatively marginal- increasingly tedious narrative formula (like the fake this a far cry from simple satire.) Shot in 16-millimeter ized, while the lesser-known talents (in particular the climax three quarters through, which has you looking black and white with a good many close-ups, this o en Kaili Blues remarkable Naomi Watts and the glamorous Laura for your coat before you realize there’s a half hour to takes an unsparing yet compassionate “documentary” R Dreams of the dead weave through this enig- Elena Harring) were invited to take over the movie (and go). With Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, look at emotions most movies prefer to gloss over or matic drama (2016) about a widowed physician who have a fi eld day doing so). The plot slides along agree- Daniel Kaluuya, and welcome cameos from Angela Bas- cover up. Adroitly written and directed, and superbly journeys from the Chinese provincial city of Kaili to ably as a tantalizing mystery before becoming almost sett and Forest Whitaker. —JRJ PG-13, 134 min. acted—the leads and Val Avery are all uncommonly good distant Zhenyuan to fi nd his missing young nephew and completely inexplicable, though no less thrilling, in the Outdoor screening. Tue 6/4, 6:30 PM. Pritzker Pavilion, (and the astonishing Lynn Carlin was a nonprofessional deliver a gi to the dying friend of a coworker. En route closing stretches—but that’s what Lynch is famous for. Millennium Park F discovered by Cassavetes, working at the time as Rob- the doctor reaches the village of Dang Mai, and in one —JR R, 146 min. 35mm. Sat 6/1-Sun ert Altman’s secretary)—this is one of the most powerful bravura 41-minute tracking shot he’s driven around town 6/2, 11:30 AM. Music Box

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of geometric progression” from the number seven. The Navigator Adapted from a stage-bound play by David Belasco, it THE LOGAN R Buster Keaton’s 1924 fi lm is about a rich young takes off into the stratosphere only at the climax, but couple, who have never needed to look out for them- that outlandish chase sequence alone is well worth the selves, cast adri on a deserted ocean liner. The ordi- price of admission. —J R 57 min. nary diffi culties of existence are magnifi ed by the fact Showing with Keaton’s 1922 short Cops. Sat 6/1, 4:30 PM; that all the facilities are intended not for individual Mon 6/3, 2:30 PM; and Tue 6/4, 7 PM. Music Box needs but to cater to a thousand people. The situation is perfectly suited to Keaton’s natural sense of surrealism— Sherlock Jr. staff ! everything is too big, too full, and too much. Keaton and R This 1924 comedy fi nds Buster Keaton antici- his girlfriend (Kathryn McGuire) become two innocents pating most of the American avant-garde of the 70s: he lost in a threatening, mechanistic Eden, alone in their plays a projectionist who falls asleep during the showing SPACE JAM oversized world. A masterpiece, and very, very funny. of a detective thriller and projects himself into the —D K 59 min. Showing with Keaton’s 1922 short action. Keaton’s appreciation of the formal paradoxes MAY 31 - JUNE 3 AT 11 PM The Paleface. Sun 6/2, 2:30 PM; Wed 6/5, 2:30 PM; and of the medium is astounding; his observations on the Thu 6/6, 7 PM. Music Box relationship between fi lm and the subconscious are groundbreaking and profound. And it’s a laugh riot, too. 9 to 5 —D K 45 min. Showing with the Keaton shorts Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton are working The Playhouse (1921) and The Frozen North (1922). Fri women conspiring to turn the tables on nightmare boss 5/31, 2:30 PM; Sat 6/1, 7 PM; Mon 6/3, 4:30 PM; and Tue Dabney Coleman. Colin Higgins wrote and directed this 6/4, 2:30 PM. Music Box entertaining 1980 revenge comedy, a zeitgeist hit upon its release. —JRJ PG, 110 min. Wed 6/5, 7 PM. Space Jam Northwestern University Block Museum of Art F R From the producers of Ghostbusters comes this THE BENCHWARMERS 1996 comic fantasy combining live action and animation, One-Eyed Jacks featuring Michael Jordan and the major Looney Tunes JUNE 4-6 AT 10:30 PM Marlon Brando’s only directorial eff ort was this eccentric characters (Bugs Bunny is the only one who gets costar 1961 western about an outlaw (Brando) who revenges status, but they’re all in evidence). Simpler and cruder himself on a former partner (Karl Malden) by seducing than Who Framed Roger Rabbit in terms of story and his daughter. 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Fri 5/31-Mon 6/3, 11 PM. Logan 35mm. Fri 5/31, 7 and 9:30 PM; and Sun 6/2, 1:30 PM. JOIN US JUNE 11 Univ. of Chicago Doc Films NThe Third Wife R This debut feature by writer-director Ash May- NRocketman fair is surprisingly becalmed given its upsetting subject The SPOTLIGHT SERIES at the This fantastical take on musician Elton John is closer to matter. Set in late 19th-century Vietnam, it follows a 2019 Kennedy Forum Annual JUST ANNOUNCED! the unconventional Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There than 14-year-old girl (based on the director’s great-grand- Meeting will illuminate the a straightforward chronicle, which is undoubtedly how mother) who’s sold into marriage to a wealthy landown- the unconventional artist at its center wanted it to be. er. Mayfair doesn’t shy away from details of the heroine’s challenges, personal victories, and The story reshuffl es reality, especially time and facts, sexual servitude to her much older husband, but she perseverance of those living — and the fi lm is more enjoyable for it. In lieu of painting displays greater interest in the girl’s relationships with and working — with mental health by numbers, director Dexter Fletcher (Eddie the Eagle) the landowner’s other two wives, which provide her and substance use disorders. and screenwriter Lee Hall (Billy Elliot) draw outside the with feelings of safety and belonging. The interpersonal lines, zigzagging through the memories of John (Taron drama is generally hushed (indeed, this doesn’t contain The evening features Egerton) as he attempts to make sense of them during a any dialogue for its fi rst ten minutes or so), allowing Grammy-nominated singer 1990 stint in rehab. With his cavalcade of hit songs serv- for the setting to become something of a character in Elle King, author & blogger ing as narrative fl ash points, the movie feels much like a its own right. The landowner’s estate comes to evoke Heather Armstrong, NBC senior screen adaptation of a fl amboyant stage musical. This both confi nement and familial warmth, and this ties into correspondent Kate Snow, the Gina makes sense on multiple thematic levels and from a cre- the fi lm’s complex depiction of Vietnam’s feudal past. In Hiplet Ballerinas, and more. Rodriguez ative standpoint: Hall also penned the book and lyrics Vietnamese with subtitles. —B S R, 96 min. Fri for Billy Elliot the Musical, while John wrote the music. 5/31, 4 and 8 PM; Sat 6/1, 5 PM; Sun 6/2, 3 PM; Mon 6/3, Like John’s best-known earworms, the fi lm is over-the- 8 PM; Tue 6/4, 6 PM; Wed 6/5, 6 PM; and Thu 6/6, 8 PM. 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Unfortu- Sarmiento, complete the project, assembling the scenes nately, the closer the fi lmmakers get to the present, the NÇiçero into this current form. The sequences hold together less politically adventurous they are. They’re graphic Serdar Akar directed this Turkish drama about the quite well in spite of the fi lm’s sketchbook nature, but and powerful on this country’s slaughter of innocent real-life Ilyas Bazna, who worked as a Nazi spy while even if they didn’t, this would still be essential viewing Vietnamese (which, rightly or wrongly, motivated the employed at the British Embassy in Turkey. In English for fans of South American cinema and Ruiz’s cerebral Weathermen’s terrorism) but are completely silent and subtitled Turkish and German. 126 min. Sat 6/1 and absurdism. The fi lm hits on all of the director’s favorite about the recent and ongoing slaughter of innocents in Tue 6/4, 8 PM. 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26 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll inger-songwriter Johari Noelle lives in a South Shore apartment that’s filled with art. Colorful paintings—slices of nature, simple human fi gures, abstract symbols— Johari Noelle packs Scover the wall between her kitchen and living room, most of them her own work. They’re complemented on the adjoining wall by an years of soul into array of black-and-white photos and several photography backdrops, courtesy of her boyfriend and manager, James McCarter. Noelle’s her fi rst fi ve songs resumé includes acting, musical theater, and reality TV, but for the past 18 months, the The Chicago native’s polished debut EP benefi ts from 23-year-old Chicago native has focused less years of choir and theater, half a season on reality TV, on bringing other people’s visions to life and and nearly 18 months in the studio. more on creating a musical statement of her own. Her resulting debut release, due May 31, By J R is the sleekly produced EP Things You Can’t Say Out Loud, whose fi ve soulful songs dissect relationships with conversational ease. Born Johari Noelle Dodd, Noelle developed an early understanding of pop history while growing up in South Shore, thanks to her parents’ mammoth vinyl collection—a by-product of her father’s college DJ career. “It was very important for him to make sure that we knew who people were, and knew where stu comes from,” Noelle says. “Because you hear new music, and you’re like, ‘Oh, this is amazing. This person invented this sound.’ He was very big on making sure we know—‘No, it started here.’” Noelle and her twin sister, Jamila, are the oldest of her family’s four children, all daughters. Her parents enrolled them in a smorgasbord of activities beginning at an early age—including choir, dance, and gym- nastics. “They literally put us in everything you can think of,” Noelle says. “What stuck to me most was musical theater and choir.” She discovered a gift for performing, and refi ned her talents throughout elementary and high school—though she stresses that she’s had no formal vocal training aside from what she got through these extracurriculars. She further developed her acting and public speaking

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skills by competing in speech tournaments, and during her senior year she capped her student theater career by playing the lead role of Scheherazade in Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s production of The Arabian Nights. After graduating from high school in 2013, Johari Noelle DANNYXPHOTO Noelle studied corporate communications J ll MAY - CHICA OREADER27 continued from 27 for a spot in the final group and learning at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, from famed choreographers Frank Gatson Jr., hoping to parlay her speaking abilities into JaQuel Knight, and Chris Grant. “It was really a career asset. But at the same time, she was cool to learn from all of them, and just be a also working on her own earliest songs. “I was sponge,” she says. Though she was eliminated young, so the things that I was talking about, from the show five episodes into its ten- none of it was super serious,” she says. She episode run, Noelle appreciated the grueling collaborated and performed with other mem- rehearsals, which typically ran from 10 PM to bers of NIU’s artistic community, including fel- 4 AM six days per week. They taught her the low Chicagoan Matt Muse, who’s since become importance of preparation, and she emerged a rapper and producer as well as a teaching more confident in her own talents. “Being artist with Young Chicago Authors. Noelle also picked out of all those girls—and they’re all so demonstrated her range with vocal covers, talented—I often had this feeling of, like, ‘Why which she shared on YouTube and Instagram. did you pick me? I’m just starting. I’m not Though most have since been scrubbed from classically trained. I just sing because I love the internet, a few traces remain—including a to,’” she says. “It really taught me to recognize dead link to a cover of Lana Del Rey’s “Young that I have my own gift, and I have my own and Beautiful” that Noelle posted on Del Rey’s message, and that’s what makes me special.”

Facebook page six years ago. Things You Can’t Say Out Loud is the fi rst it- DANNYXPHOTO During her junior year at NIU, Noelle got eration of that message. Noelle uses her lyrics a message from someone claiming to be a to unpack the emotional nuances of navigating them. “They’re both hopeful. The first one smile every time I hear it. It’s very authentic producer who’d noticed her through one such a romantic relationship, focusing on individu- is like, I’m hoping that I’m not crazy enough to her. Very beautiful sounding and warm and cover. The alleged producer complimented her al drops from a stream of consciousness: the to kill you. The second one is, I’m hoping mellow, something that I don’t hear a lot— sound and invited her to audition for a group moment you suspect you’re being cheated on, that you’re not crazy enough to make a mis- from not only new, local, young talents, but that Destiny’s Child alum Kelly Rowland was for instance, or the moment you muster the take that could make me kill you,” she says, across the national scope,” he says. “Her voice assembling. Noelle was initially skeptical. courage to tell your partner exactly what you laughing. sounds much more seasoned and mature than “I thought it was a big scam, and I was like, want. The arresting background vocals on Things it should be for the years that she has on her.” whatever,” she says. She was convinced only Noelle is the sole songwriter on the EP, add- You Can’t Say Out Loud were arranged by local Hennessy offered Noelle time at his own after hearing from multiple people a liated ing her words and melodies to instrumental musician Manasseh Croft, though Noelle over- facility, VSOP Studios in Noble Square, which with the project, who sent her information tracks from several di erent producers. She’s dubbed them herself (except on “Release,” has also hosted the likes of G Herbo, the and forms for setting up an audition. direct and conversational, and she always which uses both their voices). Croft recalls O’My’s, and Jamila Woods. Hennessy acted as Noelle flew to Atlanta, where she learned addresses a “you”—it’s a simple, e ective way his thought process while working on “Crazy- executive producer, helping select the best of that she was trying out for the BET reality se- for her to convey her personality in each song. Lonely”: “If the conversation of the song was a Noelle’s demos to develop further and mixing ries Chasing Destiny, a Making the Band-style Her favorite songwriters are either behind- hallway, what would you hear walking through each of the fi ve fi nal tracks. “CrazyLonely” is competition with Rowland in the Sean Combs the-scenes fi gures from the pop-R&B industry that hallway?” He picked up a “spooky” vibe his favorite, because of the way the two-part role. (The fi ve-piece girl group Rowland even- (Tayla Parx, James Fauntleroy, Kevin Garrett, from the song’s second half, and decided to arrangement “chops and screws itself.” tually put together is called June’s Diary.) Priscilla Renea) or stars who also excel at writ- draw on the horror-film trope of off-screen Noelle began recording her debut in earnest Noelle was one of 60 singers called back for ing for others (Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, singing by creepy, wispy children’s voices. in late 2017. VSOP has five studios, and she a second day of auditions, where she tried to James Blake, Bruno Mars, Terius “The-Dream” “It’s like in scary movies when you walk down used one of the smaller complexes so that she break Rowland’s poker face—she sang solo, Nash). the hallway and it’s like, ‘One, two, buckle my could take the time to ri and write over in- delivering a cover she’d prepared of Monica’s Opening track “CrazyLonely” uses a trick shoe.’” strumentals. She didn’t want friends dropping “Love All Over Me,” and in a randomly as- straight from Ocean’s 2016 album, Blonde: it’s Noelle met Croft by chance, after fi lming on in and going live on Instagram, so when she signed group that worked up an arrangement two dramatically di erent songs stitched to- Chasing Destiny had wrapped and she’d re- worked, she was joined only by VSOP engineer of the Whitney Houston hit “I Will Always gether. In the fi rst section, busy drums knock turned to Chicago. She was holding down a day Sheepman (who also contributed production Love You.” There were 30 singers left standing and bump under piercing synth smears, but job, but she was also working hard to immerse to “CrazyLonely”). “I don’t want any distrac- at the end of the audition, Noelle among them, in the second, reverberating guitar arpeggios herself in the local music scene—and in May tions or to be thinking about, ‘Oh, this person’s and she traveled back to Chicago to await fi nal dominate an arrangement that moves at half 2017, Chicago rapper L.A. VanGogh invited her in the room,’” she says. “I’m very protective word from Rowland. “I’m pins and needles the the tempo. The beat switch mirrors a shift in to a recording session for his song “& E ect” of my music, so I’m like, ‘I don’t want you to next three weeks,” she says. perspective: The fi rst part is about how “we at Fort Knox Studios. He’d invited Croft too, record my recording session.’” Noelle got the good news two days before let our thoughts get the best of us,” Noelle and the two of them hit it o right away. “We Noelle most often writes to prerecorded in- Christmas 2015, when Rowland FaceTimed explains. “You may see something on your became arrangement buddies,” Noelle says. strumentals, building songs around beats. She her to invite her to Los Angeles for fi lming. “I partner’s phone, and your mind just starts to “I instantly just loved her because she’s so put together “Regrets” while home with strep of course screenshot it,” Noelle says, laughing. wonder. So much festers because you don’t say sweet,” says Croft. “I said, ‘Ooh, on this song, throat, and was so taken with the result that “She was like, ‘I hope you’re a team player. I anything.” The second section is about hoping we should make you sound like a 90s girl.’ I she went to VSOP to record her initial takes would love for you to come out.’” Noelle’s par- your partner stays true in a long-distance re- started putting together these di erent layers while still sick. When an engineer wondered ents were enthusiastic too, even though she’d lationship. “I hope that you don’t do anything for her to sing, and the fi nished product was why she didn’t wait, she replied, “Just let me have to leave college to join the show. “My crazy just because you’re lonely. Don’t go and amazing.” get this idea out.” parents were like, ‘What are you still doing call up the girl off Instagram just because Chicago engineer Matt Hennessy, who Hennessy guesses that Noelle spent a here? Go.’” you’re lonely,” she says. mixed the VanGogh session, was similarly year writing her debut. Because she had no Noelle spent the first six weeks of 2016 in The two halves began as distinct songs, but impressed. “There’s something about her deadline she hadn’t given herself, she could Los Angeles, competing with 17 other women Noelle found a thematic thread to connect smoky, low-mid register that just makes me accumulate ideas organically and revise songs 28 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll ®

from session to session—in one case, she cut was backed by just a guitarist. “It’s really great out Manasseh’s backing-vocal arrangement feedback to have an unbiased audience that to leave more space for the lead. “You’ll hear doesn’t know you. They don’t know you from something later, and you’re like, ‘OK, This was Adam,” she says. These performances also cool in January, and in March I want it clean,’” gave her the opportunity to return to covering Friday she says. “I appreciate his patience of that, songs made famous by other artists, such as because I’m like that with a lot of things.” Amy Winehouse and Erykah Badu. June 7 Lead single “Show Me” was one of the last She’s relieved that the months of revision Vic things Noelle recorded, but she insisted it are over and that Things You Can’t Say Out Theatre be released fi rst. The song makes for a great Loud is mixed and mastered—she’s been introduction to the EP, as the narrator lays forced to let go of her impulse to continue her cards on the table: “Fluent in your native tweaking the songs. “I can be really indeci- tongue / I wanna be the only one / Whether sive as an individual, anyway, and I own that we’re forever or not / I wanna give it all that wholeheartedly,” she says. “Add music to that, I got.” Noelle cites “love languages” as inspi- and just being a critical artist, and it’s like, I’m ration. “There’s so many di erent ways that losing it. So I can’t tell you how happy I am people connect romantically,” she says. “I feel to be done, and not be able to kink or change like the best way to really keep it strong and anything.” keep it going is to learn, and you’re constantly Noelle is a full-time musician now, and has learning.” turned her attention to rehearsing for her “Release” is a classic slow jam. It’s about record-release show at the Promontory on opening up to emotional and sexual intimacy, Wednesday, June 5. She’ll lead a five-piece and Noelle’s voice cycles through a tension- group, with Croft singing backup. “It’s a family building tune, accompanied by sticky, sensu- a air,” he says. al 6/8 guitar lines. Croft contributed relatively Croft is happy that Noelle shows o so much minimal backing vocals: “The empty spaces in “vocal shine” on the EP. “Sometimes you’ll get the song actually allow the song to breathe,” a project, and you’ll have to pick through the he says. He was pleasantly surprised that music to really hear the vocals, but on this Noelle didn’t replace his voice with hers in the project, you’ll be able to hear her vocals and fi nal mix. what she’s doing and what she’s capable of at Not every song was inspired by romantic this point in her career,” he says. “Of course, relationships. “Regrets” arose from a platonic this isn’t the fi nal stop for her.” form of FOMO—that is, being sick and missing Hennessy is similarly pleased with Things out on work and time with friends. And “Too You Can’t Say Out Loud. “It’s the best thing Much” arose from Noelle’s frustration with a in this business when you get to see an artist manager she’d had while working at a south- really stretch out into their own space and side gym. “One day, we had a really bad falling- become what you hoped that they could be- Sunday, June 9 • Park West out, and she was like, ‘If you want to quit, you come,” he says. “From the fi rst song when she can quit,’” she says. “When she said that, I came to the studio to where we are now with was like, ‘Oh, I should really think about this, this release, I feel like she really did that.” because this woman is really trying to bring Noelle already has her eyes on goals further this demon out.’” down the road. She hopes to play festivals Noelle developed the melody for “Too locally and collaborate with more musicians, Much” on the way to the studio, stuck in and she’s started learning piano to help her tra c and seething. She estimates she pieced writing process. “It would be cool to just be together the fi nal song in an hour. “Everyone able to arrange my own melodies,” she says. has had a crappy boss, but it also speaks “Just becoming more independent, as far as to just encountering someone who’s got a my creative process.” She dreams of creating really crappy energy. If you put up with it a song entirely at home, without relying on an long enough, it starts to create that feeling of, outside producer. She’d also like to tour. like, I have to address this,” she says. “Healthy “I want to have traveled and brought my confrontation.” The video for “Too Much,” re- music to different cities and groups,” No- Friday, November 29 leased May 10, is Noelle’s fi rst. It’s directed by elle says. Last year, she points out, she was Riviera Theatre Bradley Murray of Chicago company Square56 working a day job and didn’t have any music On Sale This Productions. released. “This year, I’m releasing a proj- Friday at 10am! Noelle looked outside the studio for feed- ect, and I released my first video,” she says. back as she worked on Things You Can’t Say “That growth itself has been great. So that’s Out Loud. Once she had recordings to work- my big goal—to constantly be growing and BUY shop, she turned every visit with friends into evolving.” v TICKETS AT an impromptu listening party. She also tested new ideas at Sofar Sounds shows, where she @jackriedy ll MAY - CHICA OREADER29 A Reader staff er shares three musical obsessions, then asks IN ROTATION someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn. N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG ..

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Son jarocho is a industrial beats, sinister psychedelic fuck- regional folk style from the Mexican state of FRIDAY, JUNE PM ery, and icy, sneering vocals—they transcend- Veracruz that fuses elements of indigenous, ed their adolescent fi xation on depravity and African, and Spanish cultures. Besides taking Craig Finn & The evil. I’ll stick up for “The Basement,” “Shallow audiences there and back again each month Hole,” and “Daughter of Chaos” any day. and staying true to the roots of the music, the Uptown Controllers band’s members are also activists and educa- SATURDAY, JUNE & :PM MusicRepublic: World Traditional Music tors (and play in Sones de Mexico, Dos San- From LPS and Cassettes The anonymous tos, and other projects). Barcelona Gipsy founder of this amazing blog aims to “highlight the great diversity of our traditional Voices of the Peruvian Rainforest This hum- BalKan Orchestra music heritage, to bring rare and little-known The Morphagene synthesizer module bling listen into the sonic world of the Ama- recordings to the music-loving public, and to COURTESYMAKENOISE zon, recorded mainly by Ted Parker and SATURDAY, JUNE PM off er a doorway for people who have an inter- released in 1985, is available for free through est but don’t know where to begin.” In the Xenakis is one of the quintessential examples the National Audubon Society. A legendary Finn Andrews past two months, MusicRepublic’s posts have or early sound art employing the technique of ornithologist, Parker developed the Rapid (of The Veils) In Szold Hall included 1930s Indian recordings on sitar, “microsound.” Using only the noise of burn- Assessment Program to document threat- surbahar, and sursaptak; a 1970s album by a ing charcoal on analog tape, Xenakis splices, ened species in the tropics—and around 35-member trans- ethnic Malian ensemble; loops, and transposes recordings to create a 10,000 of the sounds in the Macaulay Library ACROSS THE STREET IN SZOLD HALL N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL and a 1960s Mexican split LP of indigenous granular cloud that transforms and modulates are his contributions. Global Dance Party: and mestizo music. I hope they never stop. throughout the composition. The texture and Tablao Flamenco density of the sounds are absolutely beautiful. Sylvia Hallett I learned about this British vio- Shows in conservatories Last year I saw Concret PH debuted at the Brussels World’s linist and composer from Tom Relleen of UK WORLD MUSIC WEDNESDAY SERIES Lykanthea perform in the Lincoln Park Con- Fair in 1958, projected through an 11-channel duo Tomaga. He mentioned her work because FREE WEEKLY CONCERTS, LINCOLN SQUARE servatory twice, and a couple weeks ago I system over 425 loudspeakers. of her use of bicycle wheel. On Hallett’s Hadar Noiberg & caught Mulatu Astatke and Angel Bat Dawid 2001 album, White Fog, she bows a wheel, Chano Domínguez Duet at the one in Garfi eld Park. I think I’m ready Curtis Roads, Microsound This seminal 2004 an eerie-sounding technique that brilliantly Kaleta & Super Yamba Band to say: more live music in places that actually book by Curtis Roads covers the history, theo- complements voice, violin, and tape collage. smell good, please. ry, and compositional practice of microsound— A supporter of experimental music since the OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG which not only dissolved the familiar build- mid-70s via the London Musicians Collective, ing blocks of music but also laid the ground- she improvises regularly and collaborates work for what we now call granular synthesis. with loads of other top-notch musicians, the- Son Volt Roads lays out meticulous recipes for explor- aters, and dance troupes. Camper Van ing the realm of sound particles briefer than Beethoven one-tenth of a second—a kind of Cracker quantum sonic world. Bloodshot Records Make Noise Morphagene It’s Join us for 3 days 25th Anniversary rare that a single piece of gear of summer fun! Celebration can completely change the featuring: Mekons course of my output as a sound Murder by Death and surprise guests artist. The Morphagene by JULY Make Noise is one such piece. 12 13 14 The Wild Reeds • The Meditations Okkervil River (Additional Ticket Required) The mad scientists at Make IN LINCOLN 47 Soul • Ratboys • Ivan Barrios SQUARE Royal Wood • Vandoliers The Pain Teens released Born in Blood Noise have created a sound Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ in 1990. sampler/granular synthesizer Boogie • Andy Bassford OHMME • Ian Noe that’s inspired by the musique and many more! AI Head engineer at concrète and microsound com- Experimental Sound Studio position of the 1950s but seam- LINEUP, MENUS, BEER LISTS AND MORE AT lessly fi ts into a modern music- Iannis Xenakis, Concret PH This 1958 com- production workfl ow. 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PICK OF THE WEEK IN A INTERVIEW for Lewis Univer- sity’s online arts journal, Jet Fuel Review, Polymath Damon Locks Chicago polymath Damon Locks spoke about running into celebrated artist Kerry honors Black culture James Marshall in a local comic book store. Locks, a vocalist, musician, and visual and and resistance on Where video artist, was gratiﬁ ed to discover that they share the habit of checking out the Future Unfolds comics, but that’s not the only thing they have in common. Both men have used their art to challenge stereotypical represen- tations of Blackness by creating nuanced depictions of the diversity and complexity of the African-American communities in which they live. With his 80s/90s band Trenchmouth and its still-active spinoff, the Eternals, Locks has embedded those messages within music that combines punk, dub, Afrobeat, 70s Brazilian pop, and other influences from around the world. But on the new Where Future Unfolds (In-

ternational Anthem), the debut LP by his Juice Wrld COURTESYTHEARTIST Black Monument Ensemble, Locks works entirely within an African-American tradition that understands artistic and political endeavors as complementary tools in the THURSDAY30 fight for self-definition, self-affirmation, and survival. The ensemble includes an Juice WRLD Ski Mask the Slump God opens. 6:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom, 1106 W. Lawrence, instrumental quartet (Locks on electronics $105. b and bells, alongside clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid, drummer Dana Hall, and percus- My girlfriend has a Spotify playlist called “Emotional Bangers,” and it’s made up entirely of too-earnest, sionist Arif Smith), five singers (plus an heart-on-the-sleeve hip-hop jams. Though it leans appearance by Rayna Golding on “Rebuild pretty heavily on Drake and the Weeknd, Chica- a Nation”), and a dance troupe. Samples go native Juice Wrld is a major presence as well. To hear him tell it, Juice Wrld has a lot of feelings; from speeches from the civil rights move- Juice Wrld also has lots of weed and pills. Though ment remind listeners of the never-ending he’s only 20, he’s spent the past couple years rede- struggle, while the presence onstage of fining what’s possible in chart-busting hip-hop, evolving past not only its traditional hard-hitting dancers from youth company Move Me beats and acrobatic wordplay but also the woozy Soul and alumni of the Chicago Children’s trap of recent years. On his two albums, the aston- Choir show why it’s important to keep ishingly good 2018 debut Goodbye & Good Rid- dance and its slightly less solid follow-up, March’s pushing. And even if you don’t tune in to Death Race for Love, he sings some of the catchi- the message, you can let the BME’s joyous- est, deepest melodies ever put to tape over airy, ly uplifting mix of sounds—which includes melancholy backing tracks that border on minor-key pop. His lyrics address depression, addiction, and spiritual-jazz sonorities, hip-hop grooves, isolation, and their realness is enough to make you gospel harmonies, and sampled field re- uncomfortable. At the same time, you could catch a CHRISHERSHMAN cordings of African folk music—carry you contact high from his glazed-eyed, mumbling deliv- DL B M E ery. If his songs were a little less preoccupied with Sun 6/2, 3:30 PM, Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Yates Gallery, 78 E. Washington b F away. —BM illicit substances, Juice could be the world’s next biggest pop star—but drugged-up and sad is what we get, and it’s perfect. —L C J ll MAY - CHICA OREADER31 MUSIC Less scrolling. continued from 31 FRIDAY31 Chicago Doomed and Stoned Festival See also Saturday. Torche headline; Forming the Void, Frayle, High Priest, Starless, and Uncouth open. 6 PM Reggies’ Rock Club, 2105 S. State, $25-$35. 17+

For its second year, the first with new partners Empire Productions, the two-day Chicago Doomed and Stoned Festival has scored some big names: on Friday the headliners are Florida heavy legends Torche, warming up for the July arrival of their new album, Admission; on Saturday, they’re occult-rock primogenitors Coven, who formed in Chicago in the late 60s, and eerie flute-wielding Canadian witch rockers Blood Ceremony. Led by front woman Alia O’Brien, Blood Ceremony work their penchant for folk-magic aesthetics and their obvious Jethro Tull Blood Ceremony play the Chicago infl uence into a distinctively sparse, primitive fairy- Doomed and Stoned Festival on Saturday. land sound. In January the group released a mel- COURTESYRISEABOVERECORDS ancholy new single, “Lolly Willows” on Rise Above (the B side is a cover of the Who’s “Heaven and Hell”), a tight, compact song within which O’Brien and performer as he’s settled into his 30s. On the fl uidly transitions between tranced-out oracle and somber “My Employer,” he sings about his work- soul-hunting banshee. Make sure to come early and aholism and the pain it’s caused him and his loved invest the time to savor all 15 bands, because this ones, his infl ection suggesting a wealth of compli- is also a great showcase for up-and-comers: to my cated emotions behind his self-confessed bad hab- More strumming. ears the standouts are Louisiana’s stormy, trippy its. Green and Gray displays Pile’s command of a Forming the Void, twisted Vegas-based apocalyp- nuanced dynamic range—they can be just as heavy tic doom creepers Demon Lung, local thrash- and in their most intimate passages as in their most punk-influenced riffmeisters Uncouth, and Ashe- explosive. —LG ville’s superheavy Americana-inflected mountain- man sludgelords Bask, but there’s not a weak link in the chain. —M K SATURDAY1 Do Division Street Fest See also Saturday Chicago Doomed and Stoned Festival and Sunday, when Why? and the Meat Puppets See Friday. Coven headline; Blood Ceremony, headline, respectively. Russian Circles headline Demon Lung, Bask, Witch Ripper, Wolf Blood, the East Stage, and the Skatalites headline Wizzerd, Somnuri, and Snow Burial open. 3 PM, the West Stage; the bill also includes Void Reggies’ Rock Club, 2105 S. State, $25-$35. 17+ of Sabbath, Bumpus, Rezn, and Green Room Rockers. 6:15 PM-10 PM, Division and Damen, $10 donation requested. b Do Division Street Fest See also Sunday, when the Meat Puppets headline the West Stage at 8:30 PM. Why? headline the West Stage Pile C.H.E.W. and Blacker Face open. 8 PM, tonight, and the Cool Kids headline the East Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $15. 21+ Stage; the bill also includes Kari Faux, Makaya McCraven, Brittany Campbell, Paul Cherry, Few contemporary indie-rock bands deliver as con- State Champion, and Pile. Noon-10 PM (Why? sistently as Boston’s Pile. Roughly every other year at 8:30 PM), Division and Damen, $10 donation since 2007, they’ve dropped a collection of pum- requested. b meling, direct songs executed with posthardcore aggression and postrock grandeur, their lyrics car- Weeks before the offi cial start of summer, Do Divi- rying a twinge of subversive indignation. Their sev- sion helps Chicago kick off music-festival season. enth studio album, May’s Green and Gray (Explod- Empty Bottle Presents and Subterranean pro- ing in Sound), arrives following a time of transition. grammed its East and West stages, respectively, Give your digital life a break. Guitarist Matt Becker and bassist Matt Connery with a lively mix of bands and DJs from Friday night le the band a er 2017’s A Hairshirt of Purpose, and through Sunday evening. Among this year’s notable Connect over music, dance & more. front man Rick Maguire moved to Nashville, where acts are two groups that have recently celebrated he was joined by two new members, former tour- career milestones: Cincinnati indie-rock and alterna- ing guitarist Chappy Hull and bassist Alex Molini. tive hip-hop band Why? and southwestern alt-rock Anyone can play! Find your spring class (Drummer Kriss Kuss stayed in Boston.) The songs giants the Meat Puppets (now based in Phoenix and at oldtownschool.org on Green and Gray refl ect some of these changes, Austin). Last year Why?’s groundbreaking second and Maguire—long a wry and impressionistic lyri- album, Alopecia, turned ten, and the group marked cist—has become an even more penetrating writer the occasion with an anniversary reissue on Joyful

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Noise and a tour where they played it in full at each been celebrated with the production of a power- show. Alopecia remains relevant in part for its intri- ful four-part documentary series, Wu-Tang Clan: cate production, which fuses the slick grooviness of Of Mics and Men, fi rst broadcast on Showtime this programmed hip-hop beats with the freshness of month. It dives into the group’s roots in the ghet- live-tracked acoustic instruments, creating an eclec- tos of New York and their rise to international fame, tic sound that’s complemented by front man Yoni while highlighting the importance of brotherhood, Wolf and his rambling but fi nely cra ed collages of gratitude, and individualism. The series also fea- witty metaphors and slippery memories. Even today, tures footage of some of the rawest, most incredi- you can discover something new every time you lis- ble hip-hop performances of all time—demonstrat- ten to it. In March, the Meat Puppets released their ing where the Clan got the energy and passion that 15th studio album, Dusty Notes (Megaforce), the fi rst they can still tap into, even as some members close to include all three members of their original lineup in on their 50s. —L C since 1995’s No Joke!—though the band is now fi lled out by guitarist Elmo Kirkwood (son of front man Curt Kirkwood) and keyboardist Ron Stabinsky. The Meat Puppets’ signature overdriven instruments SUNDAY2 and endearing vocals are there, along with healthy doses of acoustic guitar and banjo and a newfound Do Division Street Fest See Saturday, sense of calmness and restraint. Whether this line- when Why? headlines the West Stage at 8:30 PM. up will continue past the shows planned around this The Meat Puppets headline the West Stage record remains to be seen, but as long as they con- tonight, and Mikal Cronin headlines the East tinue to surpass the reunion hype, I’m more than Stage; the bill also includes Lowdown Brass Band, ready to hear what further growth a fourth decade Ryley Walker, Manwolves, Sam Coff ey & the Iron of the Meat Puppets will bring. Both bands headline Lungs, Habibi, and JJUUJJUU. Noon-10 PM (the the West Stage at Do Division, Why? on Saturday Meat Puppets at 8:30 PM), Division and Damen, and the Meat Puppets on Sunday, but don’t ignore $10 donation requested. b the rest of the bill—this year’s diverse bookings include chill pop-rock whiz Paul Cherry and jazz explorer Makaya McCraven. —IY Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble See Pick of the Week, page 31. 3:30 PM, Chicago Cultural Center, Sidney R. Wu-Tang Clan Reignwolf and the Soul Rebels Yates Gallery, 78 E. Washington. b F open. 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom, 1106 W. Lawrence, $79.50. 17+ Malci Little Church headlines; Jordanna and Every few years, the always-active, always-killing-it Malci open. 8 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, Wu-Tang Clan explode out of the trenches and back $12. 18+ onto the front page of the zeitgeist. In 2015, they released the one-copy-only double LP Once Upon a In 2017, Chicago rapper-producer Malci dropped Time in Shaolin, which was infamously bought for $2 his impressive third album, Do You Know Your- million by pharma douche Martin Shkreli (and later self, smoothing cacophonous shards of samples seized by a federal court). Over the past year or so, into outre-pop songs with an oddball charm. Malci the Clan have been thrust back into the spotlight has plenty of comrades in the local scene, some of for a far better reason: 2018 was the 25th anniver- whom he’s turned into collaborators too: he pro- sary of their debut record, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 duced almost half of Mykele Deville’s February Chambers). Arguably the greatest hip-hop album record, Maintain, and he appears on Ruby Watson’s of all time, it showcases and celebrates the Stat- April album, Balance, on the group cut “Royalty” en Island crew’s larger-than-life personalities and (along with MVK3R, Rich Jones, Davis of Udababy, mind-bending eccentricities. The anniversary has Rahim Salaam of Sex No Babies, and Watson’s J

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Teen Daze M. Sage and Shazmatic open. Ariana Grande COURTESYOFREPUBLICRECORDS 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western. 21+ F

Canadian producer Jamison Isaak, who began releasing music as Teen Daze in 2010, emerged as part of a loosely defined scene specializing in the studio: in August she released her fourth studio hushed, woozy, and intimate electronic songs, which album, Sweetener, and in February she followed up felt like bedroom recordings even when their cre- with a darker-toned full-length, Thank U, Next. On ators used more robust studios. The ironic poet lau- the hip-hop-infl uenced hit single from that record, reate of late-aughties indie culture, Hipster Runoff “7 Rings,” a haunting sample of “My Favorite Things” founder Carles, dubbed this style “chillwave.” The from The Sound of Music provides the backdrop for trend crashed a year or two later, and Isaak is one lyrics about a grim spending spree, with Grande of a handful of chillwave veterans who’s continued singing that “happiness is the same price as red to explore the boundaries of the aesthetic. His sixth bottoms.” Though authenticity o en feels mutually album, April’s Bioluminescence (Flora), is conspicu- exclusive with commercial pop, Grande confi dently ous in its earth-positive consciousness. Even if the rules this empire built on her own trauma, and due name doesn’t clue you in, you’re likely to pick up on in part to her rapid release schedule, her music has the warmth of his fi eld recordings, which of course the honesty that comes with producing art while include the sound of waves breaking on the shore. still dealing with that trauma. She also provides a Natural and computerized sounds not only coexist moment of optimism in Sweetener’s “Pete David- in Isaak’s music but blur together, and the best cuts son,” which at 1:12 is almost as long as her relation- on Bioluminescence—including the gentle deep- ship with the comedian—and that’s part of its charm! house epic “Ocean Floor”—use this synthesis to The song embraces the unabashed naivete of new summon hypnotic bliss. —LG love, ending with a fade-out on a simple promise: “Gonna be happy, happy, yeah.” —M K

TUESDAY4 Dwight Yoakam Desure opens. 7:30 PM, Arcada Theatre, 105 E. Main, St. Charles, $59- Ariana Grande See also Wednesday. $125. b Normani and Social House open. 8 PM, United Center, 1901 W. Madison, $144.95-$249. b Dwight Yoakam’s most recent single sounds like it could’ve been found in a jukebox of obscure 45s at Ariana Grande has dominated TMZ headlines and a 1960s California honky-tonk, despite having been pop charts this year—the latter with a series of con- written and released (on Reprise) last year. “Pretty fessional singles whose lyric sheets could be pages Horses” has a steady backbeat shuffl e, and Yoakam from her diary. And Grande has had a lot to process peppers his smooth tone with twangy fl ourishes. He lately. In 2017, she survived a deadly terrorist attack leans into his high notes hard, almost turning them at her concert at Britain’s Manchester Arena. In into pitch bends, and gives an occasional yelp— 2018, her long-term love and ex-boyfriend Mac Mill- though they’re usually masked by driving drums er died of an overdose. Soon a er, her engagement or dropped into organ solos. The song simultane- to Saturday Night Live It Boy Pete Davidson fell ously fits in with modern roots music and classic apart under intense media scrutiny. Grande knows Bakersfi eld country, and thankfully lacks the Nash- people are paying attention to her every move, and ville slickness that Yoakam has avoided for much she’s been harnessing the power of her celebrity in of his 35-year career. The B side, “Then Here Came 34 CHICA OREADER - MAY ll Find more music listings at chicagoreader.com/soundboard. MUSIC METROCHICAGO.COM @ METROCHICAGO

Monday,” is a heartbreaker with beaten-down, love- beneath a satisfyingly fi erce black-metal buzz. Folk gone-wrong lyrics a la Merle Haggard: “Friday’s infl uences in black metal are hardly new, but where BONOBO BONOBO never long / It feels real easy / Till Saturday winds some bands deploy retro melodies to suggest a PRESENTS PRESENTS up just Friday’s fool.” Yoakam continues to cham- pure, implicitly xenophobic ethnic volk, Dawn Ray’d OUTLIER OUTLIER pion the music that inspires his work, not only by are more in line with Woody Guthrie or Sinead AT LAKEFRONT GREEN AT LAKEFRONT GREEN hosting his Bakersfield Beat channel on SiriusXM O’Connor—using folk styles to evoke community SAT JUL 06 SAT JUL 06 but also by sprinkling his concerts with covers of his and provide a springboard for resistance. If fascism heroes, including Haggard and Buck Owens. At this in politics—or in black metal—fi lls you with raw, enor- show, you can also look forward to seeing Yoakam mous rage, you’ll want to get to this show. —N break out his trademark one-man line-dance boo- B BONOBO BONOBO gie when he gets transported by the beat. —S PRESENTS PRESENTS C-J OUTLIER OUTLIER AT LAKEFRONT GREEN AT LAKEFRONT GREEN Johari NOelle See the story on page 27 SAT JUL 06 SAT JUL 06 for more on Johari Noelle. Christian JaLon and Krystal Metcalfe open. 7 PM, the Promontory, WEDNESDAY5 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. West, $7. b Ariana Grande See Tuesday. Normani and Few artists want to be called “neosoul,” partly Social House open. 8 PM, United Center, 1901 W. due to the perception that the genre is inauthen- Madison, $144.95-$249. b tic or a short-lived trend. Singer Jaguar Wright was so forthright in her distaste for the term that she named her 2005 album Divorcing Neo 2 Marry Dawn Ray’d Lifes open. 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, Soul, which seemed to nod to fans who couldn’t 1035 N. Western, $10. 21+ deal with plasticky R&B sounds in the Top 40 but didn’t want their organic, 70s-influenced soul to Black metal has long been contaminated with bands sound like an out-and-out throwback. Chicago that embrace fascist politics, but the genre has a native Johari Noelle hits that exact sweet spot on le -wing tradition as well, which includes the anti- her new debut, the EP Things You Can’t Say Out war themes of 2001’s The Haunted House by South Loud, proving that neosoul isn’t dead and isn’t Korea’s Pyha, the pro-union slant of Panopticon’s necessarily an insult. Noelle fi rst came to nation- bluegrass-laced 2012 album Kentucky, and the rad- al attention on a 2016 BET reality series, Chasing ical environmentalism of Botanist. To that list you Destiny, where Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child can add anarchist, antifascist UK trio Dawn Ray’d. auditioned members for a new girl group, June’s On their 2017 album, The Unlawful Assembly (Pros- Diary. Noelle didn’t make the final cut, but that thetic), the band imagine revolution in the first might’ve been a blessing for all of us—if she had, track, “Fire Sermon,” and spit bile at those who seek she might never have finished the slow, simmer- control through scapegoating and fearmongering ing grooves of this EP. She’s also played small roles (which implicitly includes Trump and Brexit propo- on Empire and Proven Innocent, but despite her nents) in the wonderfully named “A Litany to Cow- time in the spotlight, her songs are strikingly inti- ards.” On that song, vocalist Simon B indulges in mate and personal. Things You Can’t Say Out Loud clean vocals to ensure his message will be intelligi- is far from faddish dance music, and I’d absolute- ble: “The lies, they might be diff erent / The senti- ly recommend checking it out if you like Wright, ment’s the same / You chose the weakest / To shoul- Leela James, Anthony Hamilton, D’Angelo, or any der all the blame,” he sings, before launching into a other contemporary soul artist of the past 15 years Renaissance Faire-esque violin solo. Celtic touch- who isn’t ruled by the drum machine. —J v es run throughout the album, but most are buried P SATURDAY JUL 06 Metro & smartbar welcome BONOBO PRESENTS OUTLIER AT LAKEFRONT GREEN

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