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“ICALLMY style ‘SlightFlex,’ which means doing the most and nothing at all simultane- ously,” says Corey Henderson, 29, a rapper whose stage name is Almighty Xanno. The Austin resident was photographed at the Jef- ferson Park CTA station on the way to visiting his brother in Des Plaines. Henderson breaks down the concept he created, explaining that “Slight” is for the subtleness of his out- fit, and “Flex” is the color coordination that makes a look really pop. He says his style is built from the shoes upward: here his prized 90s Nike Air Maxes are paired with pieces that echo the sneakers’ red, black, and white hues. “Everything I wear is focused around the color of the shoes,” he says. “I like dress- ing for success.” —I G ISAGIALLORENZO More strumming.
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TRANSPORTATION Breakin’ the law What should Chicago do about cyclists who don’t play by the rules? By JG
ver since my last Reader column majority-white neighborhoods. A police rep on Chicago’s mayoral election was eventually acknowledged that this was due to published, I’ve been fielding a lot officers using bike enforcement as a pretext
of complaints about lawbreaking for searches in high-crime areas. RACHALDUGGAN bicyclists. I mentioned Toni Preck- To get some di erent viewpoints on the best Ewinkle’s statement from a recent debate that policies to address unlawful cycling, I checked often choose to ignore cyclists doing Idaho Schwieterman also recommended letting many bike riders “don’t pay any attention to in with a few city agencies and transportation stops. But Ludwig said the CPD will sometimes bicyclists take an online bike safety class in the tra c laws, which is not only infuriating, experts and advocates. conduct “targeted enforcement” stings on lieu of paying a fine. “It would send a clear but also scary for drivers.” I contacted the Wisconsin-based National bike riders, staking out particular locations message about safety while lessening tension A typical comment I received on Twitter Motorists Association for the right-wing where residents or aldermen have complained with law enforcement personnel.” read, “Many, many cyclists ARE unsafe. Very windshield perspective. After all, the group’s about bike infractions, or in response to a Active Transportation Alliance advocacy self-centered, all-about-me-me-me and gen- hard-line stances against automated enforce- cyclist-involved crash. director Jim Merrell argued that sidewalk erally disrespectful.” Isn’t it great that drivers ment, lower speed limits, traffic calming, While the CPD’s job is wielding the prover- cycling is best addressed with more protected never act that way? stricter DUI rules, and even seatbelt laws bial “stick” of enforcement against hazardous lanes, neighborhood greenways, and o -street In fairness, though, hazardous and obnox- make the American Automobile Association behavior, the Chicago Department of Trans- trails. Free bike light giveaways, which have ious cycling is a thing. So I’d like to throw a look like Greenpeace. But I was pleasantly sur- portation provides “carrots” in the form of been done in the past by the Bike Ambassa- bone to the “there are a lot of reckless bikers” prised by spokeswoman Shelia Dunn’s fairly bike infrastructure, education, and encour- dors, and Streetsblog Chicago cofounder Ste- crowd with a look at what Chicago should do balanced response, which stressed that every- agement. CDOT has built dozens of miles of ven Vance’s grassroots “Get Lit!” campaign, about bicyclists who break tra c rules. one “driving, riding, or walking . . . should be physically protected bike lanes over the last can help eradicate bike ninjas. Let’s classify lawbreaking by bike riders responsible for their own safety and look out eight years, which help make less-confident Merrell doesn’t have a problem with police into three categories: for others on the road.” cyclists feel more comfortable staying o the throwing the book at riders who endanger 1. Technically illegal, but widespread and Predictably, the NMA doesn’t support legal- sidewalk. other people, especially pedestrians. “But it’s largely harmless, behavior. This includes izing the Idaho stop. Dunn argued that doing The department has also pioneered the use unclear that this behavior, while annoying and slow, cautious cycling for short distances on so would make it di cult for pedestrians and of contrafl ow bike lanes that legalize “wrong disrespectful, presents a [signifi cant] public sidewalks or against traffic on side streets. drivers to predict bicyclists’ behavior, and way” riding on otherwise-one-way stretches safety risk,” he said. “Crash data tells us that Another example is riders treating stoplights embolden cyclists to run reds and signs even of designated side-street bikeways called reckless behavior among drivers—especially like stop signs and stop signs like yield signs. when intersections aren’t clear. “neighborhood greenways.” This has made speeding, distracted and drunk driving, and This is known as the “Idaho stop” because it’s Dunn called for better and earlier mobility already-popular low-stress routes like Glen- failure to stop for people walking—is by far legal in the Gem State. education for kids, including safe walking, bik- wood, Berteau, and Wood even more useful. the greatest cause of serious injuries and 2. Lawbreaking that may be annoying, ing, and driving practices. “I lived in Germany Meanwhile, CDOT’s Bicycling and Safe fatalities, so that’s what traffic enforcement but is mostly a danger to the cyclist. This in- for a time, and my fourth-grader was required Routes Ambassadors safety outreach teams should target.” cludes riding for long distances on sidewalks to take a bicycling course in school,” she said. pedal to schools, day camps, senior centers, Merrell added that as biking becomes more or against tra c on main streets, and riding at “This would be a tremendous help.” and community events to spread the gospel. mainstream, cultural norms will shift and help night without lights. (People who do the latter I asked the Chicago Police Department The ambassadors attended 515 events and reinforce good behavior. are nicknamed “bike ninjas.”) about their cycling enforcement policies. (We directly educated more than 75,000 people Indeed, when I visited Amsterdam, Co- 3. Willfully inconsiderate or reckless rid- didn’t discuss the racial discrepancies, which in 2018, according to department spokesman penhagen, and Berlin, places with universal ing that can terrify or endanger others. This I’ve written about at length.) Spokesman How- Mike Cla ey. bike education and seamless car-free cycling includes hauling ass down crowded sidewalks; ard Ludwig said o cers are told to use discre- DePaul University transportation expert Joe routes, I was struck by how orderly and failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks; tion when writing bike tickets, di erentiating Schwieterman coauthored a 2016 study on the law-abiding the bike culture was. My impres- and mindlessly bombing red lights and stop between behavior that’s merely unlawful, and Idaho stop that found that a full two-thirds of sion was that, in these cities where biking is signs. that which is truly hazardous. For example, he Chicago cyclists proceeded through stoplights totally safe and tra c rules are logical, if you There’s a racial equity component to the said, a bike ninja on a dark side street might if there was no cross tra c, and only one out don’t comply you run the risk of being per- question of how we should deal with these get a ticket, but “a cyclist without a light in a of 25 riders came to a complete stop at stop ceived as a person with poor home training— behaviors. A 2017 Tribune investigation found well-lit commercial area might pedal away signs. The researchers endorsed legalizing the or worse, an American. v that some communities of color saw exponen- with a warning.” Idaho stop here, although they feel more study tially more tickets for bike infractions than This latitude helps explain why officers is needed. @greenfieldjohn 4 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll Lincoln Park GRAND OPENING April 5–7
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POLITICS Translating Rahm When he blasts Kim Foxx for Smollettgate you have to wonder what he’s really up to. By BJ
ne day last week I got a call from a Oh, wait, Rahm’s the mayor making those friend at an out-of-town airport, blatantly fraudulent claims in regards to the who breathlessly announced that infamous Lincoln Yards Deal. Never mind. Mayor Rahm’s big old mug was on By the way, youngsters—Ralph Metcalfe every TV screen in the terminal, rag- was the south side congressman who decided Oing with righteous indignation to Wolf Blitzer to break from the Machine and Mayor Richard over the latest travesty of justice in Chicago . . . J. Daley over the issue of police brutality. Now Influential people making blatantly false back to Rahm. statements. For the last few days, the mayor’s been I’m like—OMG, Rahm fi nally had his Ralph venting his spleen with righteous rage at Cook Metcalfe moment of realization, where he County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for hastily, awoke to discover that the mayor of Chicago and without compelling reason, dropping was giving $1.3 billion in property taxes to a charges against Jussie Smollett for allegedly well-connected developer to build upscale making up claims of a hate crime. housing in an already gentrifying ward. All in Mayor Rahm’s not alone. I haven’t seen the name of eradicating blight in poor neigh- so many people so righteously venting their borhoods and building the tax base. spleen since O.J. walked. 6 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll NEWS & POLITICS
I have two thoughts about Smollettgate. On constituency would move in. C’mon folks, the one hand—yes, it reeks. If the allegations admit it—Chris Kennedy was right when he are true, Smollett wasted our time and money said Rahm’s planning policies were intended and police resources with his phony claims of to move poor people out of town. getting mugged in the middle of the night by Or when he tearfully announced last Sep- two MAGA lovers. tember that he wasn’t running for reelection And, yes, it’s bad that the powerful and because he wanted to move on to the next well-connected—like Tina Tchen, Michelle chapter of his life. As opposed to internal polls Obama’s former chief of sta —feel it’s okay to that probably showed him losing by double get on the horn and call other well-connected digits. So community activists would never people, like Kim Foxx, on behalf of the rich and think they had an impact on what goes down famous. (Tchen called to connect Foxx with a in this town. Smollett relative who wanted the case moved In the matter of his outrage over Smollett, from the local police to the FBI.) we need a little context. Foxx was elected in The worst part is that the fallout undercuts 2016 thanks to a community uprising that oc- Foxx’s e orts to institute alternative punish- curred when Judge Valderrama ordered Rahm ments to prison time for nonviolent crimes, to release that tape. Turn do-it-yourself into like the one Smollett allegedly committed. So, Activists took to the streets demanding some poor schmuck, who has no connection to that Rahm, police chief Garry McCarthy, and DO WHAT a well-connected political player, ultimately Alvarez pay a political price. And they have. pays the price. Welcome to Chicago. Rahm fired McCarthy—throwing him under YOU WANT. On the other hand, it gives me another the bus to save his own skin (speaking of chance to play one of my favorite political par- another great episode of what’s Rahm really lor games: What’s Rahm really up to? up to). And eventually Rahm himself decided This game stems from Rahm’s habit of not to run for reelection to, as I said, forgo the Give up home maintenance for saying one thing, when it’s clear he’s actually embarrassment of losing. angling for something else. And then we try to So, he’s clearly enjoying using this “crisis” CAREFREE, INDEPENDENT SENIOR LIVING. fi gure out what he’s really up to. to make Foxx squirm. And he relishes any Schedule a visit. I know what you’re probably thinking—oh, opportunity to get on national TV. And he Ben, you’re just a typical cynical Chicago likes distancing himself from the mess—like 773-916-3625 reporter. he’s got nothing to do with it, even though Yeah, well, let me remind you that the Tchen’s a family friend. (Funny, in his rage Independent Living | Assisted Living | AL #5103988 most famous saying of the mayor you elected over Smollettgate Rahm manages to avoid 4239 North Oak Park Avenue | Chicago, IL 60634 (twice) is “never let a serious crisis go to blasting Tchen.) And he’s trying to make WWW.SENIORLIFESTYLE.COM waste.” himself look like, of all things, a criminal Which is pretty cynical in and of itself. justice reformer. Ultimately, I wouldn’t care about Rahm’s Which is almost as ridiculous as his e orts conniving if he was just, you know, some ordi- to portray himself as the savior of public edu- nary Joe in my Monday night bowling league. cation in Chicago, which survived despite his But as the mayor of Chicago, there are conse- early e orts to farm it out to private charters. RIDERS AREN’T ALWAYS IN THE RIGHT. quences for the games he plays. I’d say Rahm’s the biggest phony in Smol- BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS FRAGILE. Like when he resisted releasing the video lettgate. But that role goes to President of Jason Van Dyke shooting Laquan McDon- Trump, who’s calling for a federal investiga- ald because he said he wanted Cook County tion into Foxx’s handling of the matter. State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez to finish her I don’t think Trump should call for a federal investigation. As opposed to trying to bury investigation into anything until he releases that story until everyone forgot it ever existed the results of the federal investigation into so we never, ever got around to dealing with himself—aka, the Mueller Report, which At- the issue of police brutality. torney General William Barr says he’ll release (My guess is Alvarez would probably still one of these days. Probably after he redacts all be investigating the Van Dyke shooting had the incriminating parts. Cook County Judge Franklin Valderrama not My old friend Ken Davis predicts a day will ordered the video released.) come when I will miss Mayor Rahm’s reign.
Or when Rahm closed 50 schools in black Kenny D may have a point. I can’t imagine a Take the high road and give bicyclists the space they need and Hispanic communities because he said he Mayor Lightfoot or Preckwinkle being so devi- to ride safely. Check our website for more road sharing tips. wanted to improve education for poor kids. As ously entertaining. v VISIT ORTHOINFO.ORG/BIKESAFETY opposed to clearing out those communities ota.org orthoinfo.org in the hopes that a wealthier, more gentrifi ed @joravben ll AAOSPSA16_BikeSafety_Mag_6.875x4.625.indd 1 APRIL - CHICA O RE1/6/16ADER 3:51 PM7 NEWS & POLITICS
ON CULTURE ‘We can’t buy food with a tuition waiver’ UIC grad students strike for better pay. By D I
ate last year, University of Illinois at On March 19, after a year of unsuccessful Chicago Chancellor Michael Amiridis contract negotiations, UIC’s 1,500 graduate presented an ambitious update to student workers went on strike. They’re seek- the 50-year master plan for the UIC ing a salary increase and fee relief. campus. The graduate employees are currently paid LFor its current phase, over the next ten about $18,000 a year and given free tuition years, the plan calls for multiple new buildings for two semesters of 20-hour work weeks. UIC grad students on the picket line UICGEO and an emphasis on turning the fortress-like UIC Graduate Employees Organization co- environment of architect Walter Netsch’s president Jeff Schuhrke says teaching as- once-celebrated 1960s “Brutalist” design into sistants are often the primary instructors in a friendlier space. As a fi rst step, Amiridis said undergraduate classes of up to 60 students. versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is now “The whole UI system announced that they in a television interview, UIC will be getting At UIC and elsewhere, this arrangement is jus- paying $424,000 annually for a $60 million weren’t going to raise tuition again, for the rid of walls along Harrison and Halsted streets tifi ed as an apprenticeship, but it’s long been insurance policy that protects it against a drop fifth year in a row,” Smith continues. “That that isolate the campus from the city. exploited to the university’s advantage. in enrollment of business and engineering stu- sounds great. But what happens is they raise The price tag? A cool billion dollars for start- GEO is asking for a significant raise: 22.6 dents from China.) fees. The day they announced they weren’t ers, some of it to be raised through private- percent over three years. Schuhrke, who notes Then there’s the hefty “General Fee,” ap- going to raise tuition, our chancellor an- public partnerships and the sale of bonds that “we can’t pay rent or buy food with a plied to all students; it’s increasing $50 per nounced that they were going to raise fees by guaranteed, in part, by revenue from student tuition waiver,” said in an interview last week semester, to $962 for the next two-semester 3.6 percent. On top of that, most students pay, fees. that this would just bring UIC closer to the academic year. According to the university in addition to tuition and fees, a di erential. In salaries paid by other major urban research website, the General Fee supports the fixed my department [Smith teaches in the depart- universities. That’s an observation backed up costs “of operating fee-supported facilities on ment of urban planning], students pay anoth- by letters of support from faculty, noting the campus,” including housing. er $2,500 per semester, just to go to school.” #TVKUV9TKVGT increasing difficulty of recruiting talented In a statement posted on the university’s (Graduate school di erentials range next year graduate students. website on Monday, Michael Ginsburg, the from $383 to $5,147 per semester.) 2GTHQTOGT! UIC says it has o ered a raise of 11.95 per- associate vice chancellor for human resources “If they don’t raise the pay for student %4'#6+8' 51.76+105 (14 cent over three years. said, “The University cannot waive these fees workers, if they don’t raise the pay for faculty, %4'#6+8' 2'12.' In a letter to the campus community, posted because there is no source of funds which they’re going to have some nice buildings, on the fi rst day of the strike, the administra- could be used to make up for the loss of but they’re not going to have the same peo- 5WRRQTVKXG #HHKTOKPI CPF )QCN tion o ered this rationale: “When you annu- revenue.” ple teaching in them,” Smith says. “Faculty &KTGEVGF 2U[EJQVJGTCR[ CPF alize [the current salary], from 9 months to 12 According to the administration, UIC in- are thinking they might leave, and graduate *[RPQVJGTCR[ HQT #FWNVU months and equate it to full time at 40 hours tends to “continue normal operations during students are not coming to UIC because they per week, plus the value of the tuition waivers, the strike.” don’t get offered a salary that’s competitive /#: - 5*#2'; .%59 it is akin to a salary of $62,375 per year.” UIC faculty union president Janet Smith with other research I universities.” .QECVGF KP &QYPVQYP 'XCPUVQP GEO is also concerned about rising fees says that while campus improvements are “We’re fighting against the idea that grad that it says now amount to as much as $2,000 needed, there’s a question of priorities. “It’s school is some kind of hazing ritual as opposed annually. These include a fee that singles out a bigger problem than just UIC,” Smith says. to real life,” said Schuhrke in a statement YYYOCZUJCRG[EQO international students, whose visas, Schuhrke “We’re part of the University of Illinois sys- released by GEO. “We’re professionals, often OCZUJCRG["CQNEQO notes, don’t allow them to seek outside work. tem, and what we see is that the system is very with years of experience and master’s degrees. NWG TQUU NWG 5JKGNF 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT (How important are international students keen about real estate development, and not We provide essential labor for UIC.” v KIPC 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT to the finances of the University of Illinois so much about putting money into salaries or system? It was revealed last fall that the Uni- helping support students.” @DeannaIsaacs 8 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll FOOD & DRINK
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don’t start thinking about holiday specials FOOD FEATURE until the holidays are nearly upon them. Pass- over, however, presents a special challenge: in commemoration of the Israelites’ precipitous Cake jefes exodus from Egypt, which didn’t leave them enough time for their bread to rise, Jews Armed with family recipes, Masa abstain from leavened baked goods for the Madre takes on Passover. length of the entire eight-day festival. Over time, the prohibition has expanded to include By AL grains, including wheat—meaning no flour. Passover baked goods are notorious both for their density and lack of fl avor. ast week Elena Vázquez Felgueres This Passover, Masa Madre will be selling and Tamar Fasja Unikel, the own- flourless chocolate cake. Vázquez Felgueres ers and proprietors and also chief and Fasja Unikel have both come to the kitch- bakers and delivery drivers of Masa en armed with family recipes. Fasja Unikel’s Madre, which is, as far as they know, comes from her aunt, who owns a bakery in LChicago’s only Jewish-Mexican bakery, met Mexico City, where both women grew up; in Vázquez Felgueres’s kitchen in Pilsen to try Vázquez Felgueres’s comes from her grand- out recipes for Passover, three weeks away. mother, who texted her a photograph of the This is unusually early for them; most of the recipe, handwritten in a mixture of French time, their business keeps them so busy they and Spanish. J ll APRIL - CHICA O READER 9 Search the Reader’s online database of thousands of Chicago-area restaurants—and add your FOOD & DRINK own review—at chicagoreader.com/food.
Bakers Elena Vázquez continued from 9 Felgueres and Tamar Masa Madre’s business model is custom- “It’s complicated to do family recipes,” Fasja Unikel of order only. Vázquez Felgueres worked in larg- says Fasja Unikel as she reaches into the oven Masa Madre testing er bakeries when she came to Chicago and was chocolate cake to test her cakes for doneness. “They’re not recipes for Passover. appalled by how much was thrown out at the used to doing exact measurements. When ANJALIPINTO end of the day; now they only bake as much as they say cups, they mean water cups, not they need. They make all the deliveries them- measuring cups.” selves, which makes them feel more connected “Some say, ‘add puño,’ a pinch, a handful to their customers. of fl our,” adds Vázquez Felgueres. “But it de- While the cakes bake, they chat about pends on the [size of the] hand. I don’t know Fasja Unikel’s baby, due in June, and a recent why they’re like that. They probably had kids catastrophe involving a can of exploded con- and a full house and no time.” densed milk that was on its way to becoming Vázquez Felgueres and Fasja Unikel first dulce de leche, something that has never met in fashion school in Mexico City a decade happened to either of them before. (“I think ago and reunited in Chicago early in 2017 after it’s because we left your husband in charge,” Vázquez Felgueres moved here. (Fasja Uni- muses Vázquez Felgueres. “It was like a bomb kel arrived in 2011.) They established Masa went o .” They’re still trying to fi gure out how Madre that December. Business has been to get the remains o the ceiling.) Finally the growing steadily since then, mostly through moment of truth arrives: the cakes are on the word of mouth and Instagram. The bakery’s counter. calling card is its babka. Fasja Unikel learned Vázquez Felgueres’s are light, almost like a the recipe in Israel three years ago from the sou³ e, and sunken in the middle. Fasja Uni- baker Lior Mashiach. kel’s are denser, with a nutty fl avor from the “It’s the perfect balance of bread,” says ground walnuts in the batter. The two bakers Vázquez Felgueres. “Not too sweet, not too taste both with and without the ganache and light, chewy.” ing her batter. The recipe calls for only five in a Jewish neighborhood and was familiar consider. “I think I’ll have to modify the rec- They began tweaking the recipe with Mex- ingredients: butter, eggs, chocolate, sugar, with the cuisine also, although until Masa ipe,” says Vázquez Felgueres, peering at the ican flavors to make it their own: dulce de and almond meal. “It’s very simple,” she says. Madre, she wasn’t sure which pastries went crack on top of her cake. “But not bad for a leche, cinnamon churro, and a sweet chile jam. “Apparently.” with which holiday. “Tamar is a great teacher,” fi rst trial.” They expanded to other holiday treats: pan de “Hopefully,” Fasja Unikel adds. she says. As usual, they’ll cede the final decision to muerte for the Day of the Dead; rugelach and The batter comes out light and creamy. “It Vázquez Felgueres pours her batter into min- Fasja Unikel’s husband and Vázquez Felgue- sufganiyot, or fi lled doughnuts, for Hanukkah; tastes like chocolate mousse,” says Vázquez iature loaf pans and pops them into the oven res’s wife, both of whom have very similar hamentaschen, triangular jam-fi lled cookies, Felgueres. Fasja Unikel pokes a fi nger into the while Fasja Unikel stirs together melted choco- tastes. But for now, it’s time to clean up the for Purim; challah for Shabbat. (Though their bowl and licks it, and then smiles. “It’s good.” late, butter, and piloncillo to make the ganache kitchen and get ready for the next round of kitchen isn’t kosher-certifi ed, they use kosher Fasja Unikel grew up eating a combination topping for the cakes. Vázquez Felgueres adds deliveries. ingredients and have dairy-free variations of of traditional Jewish and Mexican fl avors. Her a dash of cinnamon, and Fasja Unikel makes “We’ll have to be eating chocolate cake for most of their recipes.) For Passover, they plan mother’s family is from eastern Europe and a note of the quantity. “We’re always asking another week,” says Fasja Unikel, trying to to infuse their chocolate cake with café de olla, her father is from Syria. Her paternal grand- questions,” she says. “Going to restaurants and look mournful. a blend of coffee, cinnamon, chocolate, and mother would add avocado and salsa to her co ee shops, trying babka.” Both women dream Vázquez Felgueres shrugs. “It’s a tough piloncillo, a raw dark sugar. kibbeh, while her mother’s family would serve of spending time in Mexico City with their job.” v As soon as Fasja Unikel’s cakes come out gefi lte fi sh with tomatoes, chiles, and onions. grandmothers’ recipe notebooks so they can of the oven, Vázquez Felgueres begins mix- Vázquez Felgueres, who isn’t Jewish, grew up standardize and reproduce the recipes. @aimeelevitt
10 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll A new battleground Veterans of the armed forces’ segregated past fi ght to keep their legacy alive. Story and Photos by M K
James A. Reynolds Jr. Born: 1927, Memphis, TN he Montford Point Marine Association Inducted: 1943-1945, USMC; 1950-1951, Army, Korean War Chapter Two, on the 7000 block of Staff Sergeant, Quartermaster South Vincennes, is a veterans’ orga- Reynolds Jr. was dra ed twice into segregated units. During T WWII he was sent along with black Marine recruits to train at nization whose founding members were part Montford Point, a segregated section of Camp Lejeune, North of the fi rst segregated unit of Marines during Carolina—the largest Marine base in the eastern United States— WWII. These Leathernecks were similar in im- with less than hospitable conditions. In 2012 Reynolds received portance to the Tuskegee Airmen but remain a Congressional Gold Medal of Honor along with all the other original Montford Point Marines in recognition for their role in much less known. Though MPMA has opened pulling down racial barriers in the armed forces. membership to honorably discharged veter- ans of all races, the local chapter currently has Sharon Stokes-Parry only 35 members, down from a high of more Born: 1966, Chicago than 150 decades ago. The current MPMA vet- Enlisted: 5/1985 - 5/1995, Sgt. E-5, USMC eran’s center was purchased in 1984 after a fi re Stokes-Parry said she “wanted to work to preserve legacy and destroyed its location on 75th Street in 1983. help veterans through service.” MPMA encourages people to Today it is run by a handful of volunteer mem- get in touch if they would like to donate money or time and skills, and the organization would like for more veterans in the bers, led by president Sharon Stokes-Parry. community to join as active members to help keep the memory MPMA’s mission is to provide assistance to of the original Montford Point Marines alive. veterans and continued service to the com- munity. But the organization is fighting to Harry G. Reid survive, with a tax debt of more than $73,000 Born: 1942, Chicago on the building, which is in desperate need of Enlisted: 9/1/1966 - 8/31/2002, 33rd ASG, ILNational Guard, a new roof and a new HVAC system, among Command Sgt. Major other repairs. Its story is similar to American Reid has fought for civil rights throughout his life: He Legion posts, Elks lodges, and other private participated in the Freedom Riders bus campaign, marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and was in the unique position clubs and fraternal organizations I’ve visited of serving as a National Guard military police offi cer during across the country: an American community the 1968 Chicago Riots. In 1999, Reid received the Roy Wilkins rich with history, neglected for years and fad- Renown Service Award from the NAACP. ing from public memory. (In 2017 I published a book, American Legion, about four small J ll APRIL - CHICA O READER 11 Ron Martin Born: 1939, Chicago Enlisted: 8/1959 - 8/1963, Lance Corporal, USMC, Bay of Pigs, USSWasp (CVS-18) Martin wanted to enroll at Roosevelt University but a er being rejected because the school had already reached their quota of black students he joined the Marine Corps. A er his service Martin was the fi rst black regional union director and an organizer for AFL-CIO.
Willis Whitley Born: 1959, Chicago Enlisted: 8/28/1980 - 9/30/2013, E-6, U.S. Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom Whitley joined MPMA, where he is sergeant-at-arms and housing manager, to be around other veterans. He knew Bingham and Reid from his years of service in the National Guard. “We do not have enough help,” he said. “We need to stay together, we are a family.” Although the hall rentals ended in 2014, Mr. Whitley has continued to volunteer his time keeping the hall open and said, “I’m going down with the ship, but I would like for it not to go down.” George Norman Gray Henry Cheatham Born: 1948, Chicago Born: 1943, Bentonia, MS Inducted: 3/20/1968 - 1/19/1970, SP, U.S. Army, two Tet Off ensives, Enlisted: 10/7/1963 - 10/4/1965, E-4, U.S. Army, 7th Army, Germany Vietnam Cheatham came from a military family and enlisted at the Gray joined MPMA in 1988 because his professional expertise beginning of Vietnam. He applied for the USMC but was denied as an accountant and bookkeeper was needed. He suff ers from because he had been arrested for marching without a parade cancer and PTSD. “I’m now 100 percent service connected, permit in Jackson, Mississippi. “I think we will make it,” he said. catching all kinds of physical, fi nancial, social, mental hell,” he said. “I’m under siege! Sick of all this, I’m trying to get some help.”
12 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll Arthur “Ham” Bingham Born: 1932, Port Gibson, MS Inducted: 4/15/1952 - 4/14/1955, Korean War, Sgt, U.S. Army Bingham, MPMA’s house manager, operated the fi rst black-owned TV repair service in Chicago. He knew several members of the post from when he owned a neighborhood liquor store, a grocery store, and then an ice cream parlor a er his service. Bingham was also a CPD offi cer for eight years.
continued from 11 973 on the north side, who was interested in posts.) MPMA raised more than $30,000 with seeing if there was anything he or the Tattler a GoFundMe campaign, and in late January could do to help out. The meeting began and former mayoral candidate Susana Mendoza closed with a prayer, with members bowing “purged” herself of $141,550 in campaign their heads and holding hands in a room with contributions that were associated with 25th a leaky drop ceiling, 1980s mirrored wall, and Ward alderman Danny Solis by making a pub- single space heater. After the meeting we hung lic donation to MPMA. An exploratory com- out at the bar; it was a Sunday and the crowd mittee is currently weighing possible options: had come out for one of the final football repair the building and rent out space again; games of the season. In subsequent visits to merge with another veterans’ organization; the post I brought sound recording specialist sell the building and meet regularly at another David Obermeyer to assist me in document- location. All these options include paying the ing members; he has returned many times tax debt in full. since and photographed members on Friday On my first visit to the hall I attended a nights. v meeting with Ray Doeksen, a service officer from the American Legion’s Tattler Post @MariahKarson
Paul K. Knox Jr. Born: 1946, Chicago Enlisted: 9/13/1964 - 9/13/1968, E-5, USMC, Vietnam Knox Jr. never used to speak about his service in Vietnam. “I kept it in,” he said. He was diagnosed with PTSD in 2015. He fi nds comaraderie at MPMA, where he is vice president. “You have to have lived it to realize it.” ll APRIL - CHICA O READER 13 Access the Bodewadmimwen/English dictionary and online language classes for both adults and children at potawatomidictionary.com and ARTS & CULTURE potawatomiheritage.com/#language
Justin Neely teaches Bodewadmimwen at Wanette High School in Wanette, Oklahoma; Neely dances during the Grand Entry of the 2014 Citizen Potawatomi Nation Family Reunion Festival. CLINTONSINCLAIRBOAPITZ
ilate than to take away the children and raise some of our history and culture, but didn’t LIT them in boarding schools, teaching them the know our language. One day when I was about dominant culture, devoid of our language and 18 years old, I attended a meeting where an old cultural ways? Our elders had to overcome man stood and prayed in the language. Once Gneshnabem ne? countless struggles to maintain our language.” I heard the language, I was hooked. I always The dictionary features more than 8,500 told people I was Potawatomi and was proud Citizen Potawatomi Nation produces its fi rst dictionary. words, their defi nitions and pronunciations, of this fact but wondered, how could I truly as well as audio recordings so you can hear say I was Potawatomi when I couldn’t even By A B exactly how each word is pronounced by a speak our language?” native speaker and video clips that highlight Neely dedicated himself to learning Bode- their cultural signifi cance. Click on bezgwabo- wadmimwen. “The language is a living, breath- neshnabem ne? Do you speak The Potawatomi—who call themselves te, maple syrup, for example, and you’ll be ing thing. Once it gets ahold of you, it moves Bodewadmimwen? Bodéwadmi, or keepers of the fi re—migrated directed to a video showcasing the traditional you. It takes you places you never thought Once widely spoken in the Great to the Chicago region from what’s now Niag- process of tapping trees for the sweet sap; tap you would go. It lead me to interactions with Lakes region, Bodewadmimwen, ara Falls in the late 1600s, settling along the winagé and you’ll hear a traditional story cen- numerous fluent traditional people. It took the language of the Potawatomi Na- Calumet, Chicago, and Des Plaines Rivers. At tered upon a wily buzzard. me to the Hannahville Potawatomi Commu- Gtion, is slowly inching away from the brink of the start of the 18th century, their territory “The ultimate goal is to make the language nity, located in the heart of Michigan’s Upper extinction thanks to new learning initiatives— stretched westward from Lake Michigan to the accessible to everyone,” says Neely. “We creat- Peninsula, where I taught Potawatomi for two including an interactive dictionary, the fi rst of Fox River Valley and south all the way to Lake ed this as a tool for helping folks to learn and school years at Nah tah Wahsh Indian school. its kind. Peoria. start using our language.” I’ve now been teaching my language for over Chances are you already know a few words Andrew Jackson’s Indian Removal Act of Adds Jennifer Bell, director of public in- 16 years and have been actively learning my of this 1,000-plus-year-old language. 1830, followed by the Chicago Treaty of 1833, formation for Citizen Potawatomi Nation, language for over half my life.” Pecan means nut. Kibmosabe—a common ultimately removed thousands of Potawatomi “People who are not of Potawatomi heritage Neely hopes that this dictionary will help expression used by the character Tonto from from their homes and forced them onto the can learn the language to learn more about the resurrect Bodewadmimwen, one of the first The Lone Ranger, identifi ed in some stories as “Trail of Death” from the Great Lakes region culture and history of the tribe. By learning languages spoken around the Great Lakes. “It’s a member of the Potawatomi Nation—trans- to reservations beyond the Mississippi, in Mis- the language they can help preserve a part of through our language we see what was im- lates to “Take a quick look!” Chicago is “place souri, Iowa, and Kansas. Citizen Potawatomi not just Potawatomi history, but the history portant to our ancestors and what continues of wild garlic” for the abundant, yet fragrant Nation is now based in Shawnee, Oklahoma. of North America. I think it’s a way to enrich to be important. The language is like a portal Allium tricoccum that grew along Lake Michi- Today, only ten native fluent speakers of their lives.” into the past and at the same time a portal into gan and on the banks of the Chicago River. Bodewadmimwen remain. They are all over 70 The dictionary will be continuously updated the future. It’s who we are, it’s who we were, Last month the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s and most of them live in Wisconsin. with new words, images, and audio and video and it’s who we will become. Our language is language department released a pair of tools “After taking our lands the government clips. The CPN language department team is thousands of years old. We were not allowed to help preserve its highly-endangered lan- began a policy of forced assimilation,” ex- also hoping to create an app. to speak our language for many years but still guage: an online searchable dictionary and plains Justin Neely, Citizen Potawatomi Na- Neely himself didn’t learn his ancestral lan- our language continues. It’s the language of a series of free online, self-paced Bodewad- tion’s language department director and the guage until he was an adult. the earth.” v mimwen language courses for both adults and force behind the new interactive dictionary. “Growing up [in Kansas City, Missouri],” he children. “What better way to force a people to assim- says, “I always knew I was Potawatomi. I knew @amybizzarri 14 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll R READERRECOMMENDEDb ALLAGESF A A S L D C R By Alex Kotlowitz (Nan A. Talese). Appearance on The Interview Show with Mark Bazer. Fri /, : PM, The Hideout, W. Wabansia, --, hideoutchicago.com, $ . ARTS & CULTURE
LIT forces that contribute to violence in the city. Economic instability, addiction, racism, and the collapse of familial structures all play a Erasing the line part. Kotlowitz has no prescriptive cures. He’s not a polemicist, but rather a keenly empathetic witness. He prefers to describe between us and them the conditions that trouble him (and should trouble every citizen of Chicago), rather LIT In An American Summer, Alex Kotlowitz creates a than o er answers. “Many parents take out portrait of a city battling intractable ills. life insurance policies on their children, not because they’re looking to profi t o a child’s By D S Meltdown at death but rather they are assured of having funds for their funeral,” he muses after a par- ticularly wrenching interview. Pitchfork It’s a heartfelt and, at times, surprisingly ’m not afraid of dying. What I’m that makes the fi re that killed half his family hopeful portrait of a city battling intracta- An excerpt from Music to My Eyes afraid of is losing my mother, when he was a child melt from his conscious- ble ills. By giving each and every person he of being in prison, of being a ness. An A student fights the impulse to talks to the time and respect to tell his or her By D S failure. I’m afraid of living,” a commit robberies with his childhood friends. story, Kotlowitz evokes fully dimensional resident of a halfway house on Each chapter carefully delineates the oppos- human beings rather than the statistics or “Ithe West Side tells Alex Kotlowitz in his new ing forces within people forever changed by caricatures most of us are used to in reports book An American Summer. It is but one of violence. on “bad” neighborhoods. The fear that makes the countless heartrending insights the au- Perhaps the central insight of the book is children avoid blocks ruled by rival gangs is thor gleaned from interviews with some 200 that repeated exposure to violence does not the same fear that makes “south side” and crime victims and perpetrators, their loved desensitize, as is often assumed. The people “west side” synonymous with “murder and ones, and observers of violence on the streets Kotlowitz interviews are not numbed to the mayhem” to certain segments of the popula- of Chicago in the summer of 2013. The result death and trauma around them. The horrifi c tion. In fact, as this book demonstrates over he day before Protomartyr played is a crazy-quilt portrait of life in a city at war events they describe are never far from their and over again, these neighborhoods are at Schubas, I had a meltdown at the with itself. By giving voices and faces to those consciousness. They may survive and move filled with all kinds of people, with names Pitchfork Music Festival. touched by violence, Kotlowitz makes the on, but they are never truly “over it.” No and unique personalities, and all the same The publisher of my second book reader bear witness in a way news headlines matter how hard they try to blot them out aspirations as might be found among the in- had generously offered me table and academic studies cannot. He erases the via drugs or mental gymnastics, the things habitants of the toniest suburb. It’s a simple Tspace to hawk books, prints, and art at the line between us and them. they’ve witnessed become part of their and perhaps obvious insight, but a necessary Book Fort for no charge. I was also scheduled The narrative begins in May of 2013 and waking and sleeping life. Kotlowitz isn’t shy one at a time when this city and country seem to do a reading that afternoon. But I barely ends in September of the same year, but often about criticizing failed strategies to stop the as divided as they’ve ever been. v lasted two hours of the three-day festival. fl ashes back decades or a couple of years for- violence, such as the one proposed by former It was a crazy hot morning when I got there ward. It’s a structure that allows Kotlowitz Illinois senator Mark Kirk to eradicate gangs that Friday. There were already lines of kids to make connections not only between his (Kirk had proposed locking up every member waiting for drinks, food, free silkscreened interviewees’ pasts and futures, but also to of the Gangster Disciples). With gang lead- T-shirts, and merch. I watched all the happy those of their loved ones and to the city as a ers long behind bars, their former empires young people milling about and thought whole. In a few instances, he follows a single fractured into tiny cliques that war over in- nothing but horrible things. Why was I here? person’s story through the summer. Thus, dividual city blocks rather than entire neigh- Why were they? What was I thinking, wanting although the book is a patchwork of episodes, borhoods. The Chicago Police Department to sell my crap to these people? Why would I connections and larger themes emerge. has a gang database that has been criticized want to sell anything to anybody at all? The Sometimes the protagonist of one chapter as inaccurate and out of date. Thus, locking relentless sun was no help. I don’t respond appears as a bit player in another. Even when up everyone with a gang affiliation would well to heat under the best circumstances, but Kotlowitz’s subjects don’t know one another, be untenable and likely ineffective, further combined with being in a place I didn’t want they’re part of an ecosystem with the same splintering already-fragile communities. to be, it made for a cocktail of impenetrable recurring issues. If one were to base one’s view of Chicago’s darkness inside my head. A high schooler does the right thing by African-American and Latinx communities I mumbled some likely incomprehensible naming the shooter he witnessed, but gets solely on news reports, the picture would be apology, packed up my things, and got the hell harassed and ultimately killed for testify- of a war zone populated by roaming gang- out of there. I was gone before the fi rst band ing. An overnight reporter’s work covering sters and cowering victims. Kotlowitz’s work played a note. the city’s murders takes its toll on his own over several books, as well as the documen- I had a ticket to see Ex Hex at the Bottle well-being. A middle-aged man battles hero- tary The Interrupters , which he coproduced, that night but was too thrown by what had in addiction—but the drug is the only thing weaves a much more complex tapestry of the happened earlier to want to leave the J ll APRIL - CHICA O READER 15 M E ARTS & CULTURE By Dmitry Samarov DMITRYSAMAROV
continued from 15 ation was laid plain: I was a weird forty-fi ve- America’s Hidden Stories: The General Was Female? COURTESYSMITHSONIANCHANNEL house. Protomartyr was to play the next day at year-old in a club full of much younger people the festival, then go across town to Schubas. I who had probably followed these bands from made myself go back outside to see them. Union Park after roasting all day in the sun. There’s a gauntlet to run when seeing shows They were sunburned, sweaty, and woozy HISTORY at Schubas. That gauntlet is the bro bar one from booze and whatever else they’d ingested, must traverse to get to the music room in the but mostly they were drunk on music. At least back. Every time I’ve ever been there the front we had that in common. Was Casimir Pulaski intersex? and the back seem like separate ecosystems. When I got home, I scanned the sketches Rowdy Cubbie fans dominate the bar no mat- and uploaded them to my website. Then I A new documentary gives the general a coming-out party 240 years a er ter the season, while the type of people in the looked up the bands’ websites and emailed his death. music room depends entirely on what band is them their drawings. After a decade, starting playing. It’s an odd, sometimes uncomfortable with MySpace around 2005, there would be By N L negotiation getting from one world to the no common area for me to share this work other. anymore. I would now have to address each Before I got to Schubas, I had deleted and every subject of my sketches personally if asimir Pulaski is getting a coming- identity was dropped due to insu cient DNA Instagram from my iPhone. It was the last I wanted them to look. out party almost three centuries evidence, it was reopened four years ago. social network I belonged to. I’d signed up In the weeks that followed I got several late. The Polish nobleman and Virginia Hutton Estabrook, a professor of a few months earlier, just before I’d deleted e-mails from social media acquaintances Revolutionary War hero who saved anthropology at Georgia Southern Universi- my Twitter account, which I’d used compul- worried about my sanity. I found out quickly George Washington’s life was inter- ty, and graduate student Lisa Powell combed sively for the previous seven years. I fi gured just how few actual friends I have. Without the Csex, according to a soon-to-air documentary. through old bone samples and notes left Instagram might be more manageable and less convenience of a shared platform most of my The revelation’s origins date back to 1996, behind from 19 years earlier. all-consuming, but it turned out not to quell “friends” don’t want to bother. Meanwhile life when researchers in Savannah, Georgia, What they uncovered was startling. The any of the cravings, while delivering little goes on. began investigating skeletal remains depos- facial bone structure matches 18th-century of the rush which Twitter’s pellet-sized but I go and sketch at more shows than ever, ited in the city’s Casimir Pulaski Monument. portraits of Pulaski, which, in turn, have a never-ending updates gave. (Instagram was even though the instant gratifi cation/approval During the 19th century, the bones had startling similarity to medical diagrams of methadone to Twitter’s heroin.) After I made of Twitter and Instagram is gone. I’ve found been moved to the 54-foot obelisk in Mon- individuals with congenital adrenal hyper- a sketch of the opener, Bully, I reached for my out I don’t need it. Every now and again some- terey Square from an unmarked grave on a plasia (CAH), a condition frequently asso- phone to snap a pic and post it before realizing one at a show will notice me sketching and ask rundown plantation. Study of the fi ndings, ciated with intersex variation. Individuals there was nowhere to post it to. to take a picture. Sometimes these photos end however, raised intriguing questions. The born with CAH often produce excess testos- Protomartyr came on and I made another up on social media and I’ll come across them skeleton’s wide pelvis suggested that the terone, which may lead to genitalia that do drawing. This time I just scanned the packed sometime later. But they’re like rumors from a deceased was a woman. not correspond with typically male or female room afterwards and realized I likely didn’t faraway town, rather than news from my own. Two decades of research have determined traits in people with XX chromosomes. know a soul here. I’ve never gone back to Pitchfork either, and the remains were, indeed, Pulaski’s. After the Although CAH is among the most common Without the veil of social media my situ- have no plans to ever do so again. v original investigation into the deceased’s causes of intersex variations, it’s not the sole 16 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll A ’ H S T G W F ? Mon /, PM, Smithsonian Channel ARTS & CULTURE Never miss a show determinant of whether a child will be born Salvo cites the example of Albert Cashier, Hopkins says it no longer performs intersex again. intersex. Overall, estimates suggest there are a transgender Civil War soldier whose iden- surgery , yet the procedure remain common. up to 5.5 million intersex people in the United tity was uncovered after his death in 1915. Pulaski was born before such medical inter- States today—a population that’s roughly the People like Cashier, who was born in 1843, ventions became an option. Had he been alive size of Minnesota’s. were forced to live in secrecy. According to two centuries later, his life could have been Many people are unaware of their intersex Salvo, they “didn’t leave written manifestos” very di erent. As a woman, Pulaski wouldn’t status, but the evidence surrounding Pulaski’s because it was “effectively confessing to a have had the opportunity to volunteer for the is extremely compelling. His baptismal re- crime.” The nation’s first ban on individuals Continental Army and aid in the reform of the cords claim the ceremony had to be performed wearing “dress not belonging to his or her sex” American cavalry. He wouldn’t have led Wash- at home due to ob debilitatis causam, signify- in public places was instituted in 1848. ington through an escape route at the Battle of ing an unspecifi ed deformity. Examination of “You’re talking about an entire class of Brandywine, when he otherwise would have EARLY the skull revealed an atypically large pituitary people whose only hope for being left to live faced certain death. gland, which is responsible for the release of in peace was to erase evidence of their own Without an intersex person at the front lines WARNINGS hormones in the body. And after comparing existence,” Salvo says in a phone interview. living as themselves, Chicago-based intersex a femur found in the Pulaski monument to a “Because of that, [LGBTQ and intersex people] activist Pidgeon Pagonis says, the reality is Find a concert, buy a tooth belonging to his maternal great grand- have been literally redacted out of history.” that America “would still be a colony.” ticket, and sign up to niece, a mitochondrial DNA match proved the The Smithsonian special is well-timed for “The father of the American cavalry was not remains were Pulaski’s. Illinois, where Pulaski’s memory holds tre- even male by our scientifi c defi nition,” Viloria get advance notice The 23-year investigation is the subject of mendous weight. In honor of Chicago’s Polish adds. “It’s a powerful testament to the fact that of Chicago’s essential a 50-minute documentary special set to air community, former Mayor Harold Washington biology doesn’t dictate who we are in terms of on the Smithsonian Channel Monday night as designated the fi rst Monday in March as Casi- our lived gender, our perceived gender, and music shows at part of its “America’s Hidden Stories” series. mir Pulaski Day back in 1986. our ability to thrive as any gender.” v chicagoreader.com/early. Hida Viloria, an intersex activist and writer In March, the Illinois House passed a bill interviewed in the program, says the fi ndings requiring public schools to teach LGBTQ histo- @Nico_Lang are nothing short of a “dream come true.” ry. Should the state senate and Governor J.B. “The discovery that Casimir Pulaski was Pritzker approve the legislation, Pulaski could intersex is something that I never thought soon be taught as part of that curriculum. I’d be able to see [in my lifetime] because it’s Israel Wright, former executive director of RECORD STORE DAY DISCOUNT! not often that you have a chance to excavate the LGBT Hall of Fame at the Chicago History someone’s remains and run an autopsy,” says Museum, says Pulaski could help fill gaps in Viloria, author of Born Both: An Intersex Life local history where the lives of intersex people and founding director of the Intersex Cam- should be. The Hall of Fame, which was found- JOIN RATTLEBACK RECORDS & paign for Equality, in a phone interview. “I ed in 1991, has yet to induct an intersex person. CESCAS MARGARITA BAR & GRILL was always aware that given our population While nearly 50 trans individuals have been numbers, we have ancestors. I was sad about honored in the decades since, the original the thought that we would never know what class of inductees was entirely made up of cis amazing people have been intersex through- people. SATURDAY | APRIL 13 | 10AM - 7PM out history.” Wright says that having someone with Pulaski joins an extremely exclusive club Pulaski’s significance represent the intersex We’ll have a DJ Spinning on Cescas Patio of historical figures identified as intersex. community is “remarkable.” Herculine Barbin, born in 19th century France, “It acknowledges and embraces a seg- with Raffle Prizes and Giveaways won the right to be legally classifi ed as male ment of the community by saying ‘Yes, you after being assigned female at birth. 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The snow whirls in lacy eddies in Russia; the trees THEATER are fl ush with eff ulgent masses of blooms in France; all of Europe races by, meadows rising up and receding as ‘No one ever wrote a fairy tale a skeleton trolley of a train rattles along; unfathomable wealth, summarized by ball gowns, jewels, and waltzes; about polyamory!’ the streets of Paris. If you’re craving a Broadway musical Despite the legally mandated nudity, there’s no as pretty as a pastry, Anastasia does the trick. —I happily-ever-a er in A erglow. H A Through 4/7: Wed 2 and 7:30 PM, Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Ned- Inclusion of full and frequent nudity is so vital to the gay erlander Theatre, 24 W. Randolph, 312-977-1700, throuple drama A erglow that, according to playwright broadwayinchicago.com, $27-$123. S. Asher Gelman, a production’s failure to include it “will result in legal action.” In the case of Pride Films & Father and son(s) Plays’s current staging, Gelman should feel comfortable R Writers Theatre strips down A Number to putting that cease and desist letter back in his drawer. its absorbing essentials. Be it silently bathing in the background, laying on a mas- sage table, or sitting around a bed postcoital, director Logging in at a little more than an hour, Writers The- David Zak’s handsome cast spends almost as much time atre’s production of Caryl Churchill’s 2002 two-hander onstage stripped down to their skivvies as not. From the is a brief and thought-provoking meditation on human tonal self-seriousness of Gelman’s fl imsy relationship- character and identity. Set in the near future, at a time study dialogue, though, I don’t know if he’d call them when the cloning of human beings is medically possible Yen MICHAELBROSILOW nude—rather, they’re the far-more-dramatic bare. though not yet socially accepted, the play consists of lence in the age of Black Lives Matter, it takes on more Husbands Alex (Jacob Barnes) and Josh (Rich a series of conversations between a father and son, all urgency and clarity. The dynamic between RjW Mays’s Holton), both thirtysomething New Yorkers, invite Dari- concerned with the son’s discovery that he is just one stolid Sergeant Pellner, sent to liquidate a mysterious us (Jesse James Montoya), a younger single guy getting of “a number” of clones. To reveal more would spoil rogue colonel, and his eager-to-please-but-fearful assis- In addition to shedding much-needed light on post- his footing in the city, into their open relationship for this taut, twisty, tightly written tale. The beauty of the tant, Stefan Dorsch (Brittani Yawn) jackknifes between partum anxiety and depression, the story provides a new friendship and—as much as it exists—platonic sex. Pre- play is how much Churchill is able to pack into a mere small humorous interludes and growing clammy des- perspective on trust, trauma, and women’s ability to li dictably, the couple’s ground rules are broken, romantic 65 minutes. peration. one another up and tear one another down. —M feelings present complications, and, with straight faces, Robin Witt’s lean and somber production emphasiz- This is a show that works better in pieces than as O T W M W the men yell cringy lines like “No one wrote a fairy tale es everything that is sleek in Churchill’s stripped-down a whole. Some of the discursive moments distract just Through 5/4: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 6 PM; no perfor- about polyamory!” and “You know why there’s no Pretty script. Her two actors, William Brown and Nate Burg- as we feel we’re getting to, well, the heart of the dark mance Sun 4/21, Christ Lutheran Church, 4541 N. Woman II?” at one another as if they were devastating er, deliver perfectly cra ed performances, sometimes matter. But Martin mostly knows how to ratchet up the Spaulding, halcyontheatre.org, 773-413-0454, $20 truths penned by Tennessee Williams. underplaying their delivery to make the audience lean tension eff ectively. By the end, we’re overwhelmed with in advance or free at the door. A erglow’s eff orts to have it both ways—like in a closer to the action. Brown’s performance is especially a barrage of images and sounds that leave us question- peculiar, ceremonious opening movement/strip number nuanced: he can do a lot with the smallest gesture or ing the very nature of justice itself. —K R T Lost boys set to a cheesy R&B song—somehow manages to be less the slightest shi in the tone of his voice, qualities you R D Through 4/28: Thu-Sat 8 R Yen shows two neglected teenagers lascivious yet more uncomfortable than the unambig- need in a play as packed with laconic lines as this one. PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 struggling to grow up. uous, sex-positive boy-lesque shows it aims to elevate The script is dry, and even witty at times, though the N. Lincoln, 773-871-3000, victorygardens.org, $20- itself from. —D J A Through 5/5: director and her actors downplay the comic turns. That $30, $15 students and seniors. What happens when people are truly le to their own Wed-Sat 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Pride Arts Center, 4147 is just as well, because the somber audience who saw devices? The fi rst minutes of Anna Jordan’s 2015 play N. Broadway, 773-857-0222, pridefilmsandplays. the show with me was in no mood for laughter. No loss. Mean moms about two brothers raising themselves on a diet of porn, com, $30-$40, $25 students, seniors, and military The play is just as absorbing when it’s played straight. R Who’s The Worst Mother in the World? video games, and junk food in a garbage-laden London (except Sat). Courtney O’Neill’s set—consisting of little more than council estate fl at are abrasive and over the top. It takes a few chairs, a table, and a lamp in a simple room with The world premiere of Kari Bentley-Quinn’s one-act some time to suspend one’s disbelief enough to buy Pretty as a pastry bland walls—is almost as sparse as Churchill’s dialogue. marks Halcyon Theatre’s last production under Tony that two young men are portraying a 16- and 13-year-old. Anastasia recreates the animated feature with —J H A N Through 6/9: Wed-Fri Adams’s artistic direction and presents a fi tting repre- But as more and more details of their lives emerge, it fewer animals and more Bolsheviks. 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 and 6 PM, Tue sentation of the theater’s commitment to diversity and becomes a devastating portrait of the eff ects of neglect, 7:30 PM; no performance Sun 4/21, 6 PM, Writers inclusion in storytelling. Simply, it’s a story about mommy building to a violent but inevitable climax. It starts as Fox gave Disney a run for its money when it released the Theatre, 325 Tudor Ct., Glencoe, 847-242-6000, issues, but the suspenseful script and all-female cast grotesque comedy but ends in tragedy. 1997 animated feature fi lm Anastasia, about an amnesiac writerstheatre.org, $50-$80. work together to create a portrait of three complicated, A dog named Taliban—never seen, but o en heard orphan who might be the lost daughter of the last czar sometimes awful, sometimes sympathetic women. growling and barking from the fi lthy bedroom the of Russia. With a winning formula of cute animal side- The horror! The horror! Nina, played by Susaan Jamshidi with guts and boys have ceded to it—is a four-legged embodiment of kicks, catchy musical numbers, and a quest for identity, Into the heart of The Ridiculous Darkness authenticity, is stuck in a pit of despair a er the birth of their existence: abandoned, underfed, but desperately Anastasia tapped into every girl’s presumed desire to her son. Her supportive husband isn’t helping matters longing for love. When a neighbor girl enters their be a princess and fi nd romance. The 2017 musical, with Wolfram Lotz’s fractured take on Joseph Conrad’s with his relentless energy and happiness (a plot line that world—initially drawn by the dog’s cries—the boys are book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty, Heart of Darkness (and its famous cinematic version, could use some additional exploration), and Nina fi nds forced to try to grow up, and the results are traumatic and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, nixes the sidekicks and Apocalypse Now) started out as a radio script, inspired herself in the offi ce of Bonnie, her therapist, seeking for everyone involved. turns up the Russian revolutionary history a notch for a by the 2010 trial of Somali pirates in Hamburg. In Side- answers and relief from her nightmares, depression, The cast’s four talented actors not only pull off con- visually stunning family-friendly show with few surprises. show Theatre Company’s hallucinatory staging of Lotz’s and anxiety. vincing British accents but also manage to make their Anya (Lila Coogan), a sweeper scrapping on the script (translated by Daniel Brunet and adapted by Bonnie (Jenn Adams in a multilayered and capti- sometimes repugnant characters lovable. Their ugliness streets of Leningrad, meets Dmitry (Stephen Brower) director Ian Damont Martin), we’re thrust into a disjoint- vating performance) reveals herself to be a therapist is real and can’t be helped. The evocative set and and Vlad (Edward Staudenmayer) just as they are ed world that moves between “Oaktown” (aka Oakland, who struggles to fi nd her off switch, especially when lighting, by Joe Schermoly and Claire Chrzan respec- auditioning women to pose as the lost grand duchess. California), where a young pirate (Meagan Dilworth) confronted by the return of her prodigal daughter, Mary tively, creates a recurring nightmare of a little world. They want reward money, she wants exit papers, and faces trial and off ers a meandering explanation to the (Kianna Rose), who has big news. Bonnie reacts poorly, Its inhabitants snipe at each other in feral attempts to they strike a deal—only to fi nd that Anya recalls more court, and a dark river journey straight out of Conrad. playing the martyr and calling herself an “emotional connect. They can’t help the way they are. They’re still than what they’ve fed her. Now they only have to worry With a combination of physical theater and dance, hostage” to Mary’s years of poor decisions and bad human, but just barely. Elly Green directed. —D about the Bolsheviks, who want to fi nish exterminating projections, sound, and a nimble ensemble playing a behavior. Once Nina meets Mary, everything spirals as S Y Through 5/5: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3:30 the ruling class, and securing the approval of a dowager variety of roles, Martin’s staging keeps us off balance all three women struggle to be honest with one another PM, Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, 773-338-2177, empress sick of having her heart broken by gold-digging and occasionally befuddled. But as Lotz’s story becomes and themselves while maintaining critical personal and $43-$46, $38-$41 seniors and teachers, $15 students frauds. less about piracy and more about state-sanctioned vio- professional boundaries. and military. v
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Go Back to China sian American” is a difficult homage to in its 24th Annual Asian American identity to define. Culturally Showcase. A mix of shorts, documentaries, speaking, the term “Asian and feature films round out the 12-day pro- American” is tasked with gram, with meditations on self, home, and the near-impossible job of belonging providing a unifying undercurrent “Arepresenting people with origins in nations throughout. as disparate as India and South Korea, who The festival opens with Go Back to China, speak languages ranging from Japanese to Ta- a feature film directed by Emily Ting about galog. Routes of immigration to the U.S. vary a Chinese American socialite who, as pun- widely among Asian Americans: some came ishment for spending half her trust fund, is to this country as refugees of the Vietnam forced to leave behind her cushy life in L.A war, while others can trace their history back and return to China to help run her father’s to the building of the Central Pacifi c Railroad toy factory. YouTuber Anna Akana plays said in the 1860s. Demographically speaking, socialite with sardonic aplomb, while veteran FESTIVAL PREVIEW Asian Americans are extremely diverse, part Hong Kong comedic actor Richard Ng adds of both the wealthiest 10 percent and poor- complications to the father fi gure, giving him est 10 percent of this country. Some occupy depth beyond being a simple nag. Light and What does it mean to be positions of immense privilege while others airy, the film plays like a rom-com without face deportation, arrest, and mistreatment. romance, brushing over issues of identity and The fastest-growing minority population in self without seriously engaging them, effec- Asian American? the U.S. according to the 2010 census, Asian tively acting as an aperitif for the rest of the Americans represent a motley monolith, with showcase. The 24th Asian American Showcase attempts to fi nd out. no one easy narrative or descriptor. Next on the schedule is Origin Story, a It’s this population that the Foundation documentary by Laotian American comedian, By N LC for Asian American Independent Media pays actress, and writer Kulap Vilaysack. At the J
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continued from 19 if an insightful fable for our own troubling age of 14, Vilaysack discovered during a fam- times. ily argument that the man who’d raised her Ulam: Main Dish, a documentary directed was not in fact her biological father. Twenty by Alexandra Cuerdo, highlights various years after that painful revelation, she sets Filipino American chefs and their endeavor out in search of her birth father, ultimately to share the tastes of Filipino cuisine. Beau- traveling to Laos to meet him. Vilaysack’s tifully shot in a style reminiscent of Netfl ix’s documentary is searingly honest; her exam- Chef’s Table, Cuerdo doesn’t limit the ination of her biological parent’s very real documentary’s scope to simple food porn, failures is unflinching, as is the on-camera but instead contextualizes Filipino cuisine exploration of her own pain and hurt. As one in histories of diaspora and cultures that of several fi lms that feature an Asian Amer- emphasize family, sustenance, and sharing. Ash Is Purest White ican returning to Asia to learn something (A side note: if you get hungry after watching about themselves, Origin Story distinguishes Ulam, I suggest heading to Merla’s Kitchen REVIEW itself by being critical and self-aware, acting on Kimball for your own Filipino fi x.) Nailed as a much-needed breath of fresh air among It, another documentary, this one directed the other selections. by Adele Free Pham, takes up the nail salon Prisoners of the universe The short film program, titled “Asian and its seeming ubiquity, attempting to American Dreams,” feels like a jewelry box, understand just how it was that Vietnam- With Ash Is Purest White, Jia Zhang-ke remains the master of displacement. each short fi lm a gem of drama, whimsy, and ese Americans became so enmeshed in the imagination. Among them are A.M. Lukas’s American nail industry. She uncovers a mov- By BS poignant One Cambodian Family Please ing story that weaves together accounts of For My Pleasure, starring Emily Mortimer refugee resettlement, the need to provide for bout two-thirds of the way into Ash placement, the unifying theme of the writer- as a Czechoslovakian woman who, in 1981, family, and, very unexpectedly, Tippi Hedren Is Purest White, the latest triumph director’s formidable fi lmography. Jia’s char- writes to a refugee resettlement agency of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. Pham’s doc- Aby Chinese master Jia Zhang-ke, the acters are regularly displaced, whether by the in order to sponsor a Cambodian family in umentary also touches on the relationship heroine, Qiao (Zhao Tao, Jia’s regular leading powers of history (as in Platform, his saga of Fargo, North Dakota. Kim Chi, directed by between the black American and Vietnamese lady), meets a strange man on a train heading the rise of individualist culture in the 1980s), Jackson Kiyoshi Segars, explores the ten- American communities within the nail salon, north from the central province of Hubei. globalization (as in The World, his look at mul- sions between a Korean American family but curiously, it shies away from directly Qiao was recently released from prison after tinational workers at a Beijing theme park), and their daughter’s Japanese American commenting on recent conflicts between serving a fi ve-year term; after tracking down government (as in Still Life , which took place fi ancee, commenting on the distinctly Asian Asian American nail salon workers in Brook- her boyfriend, who didn’t bother to meet her in Fengjie before national agencies would American experience of how cultures once lyn and their black customers. upon her release, she discovered that he had fl ood the city to make way for the Three Gorg- in confl ict can now converge. Jingjing Tian’s The festival ends with Fiction and taken up with another woman while Qiao was es Dam), or corruption (as in A Touch of Sin , Cowboy Joe shows us a Chinese American Other Realities, a feature film directed by in jail. Qiao intends to return to her hometown his anthology fi lm about Chinese social ills). cowboy ambling through an electric Man- Steve Lee and Bobby Choy about a Korean of Datong, though she’s not sure what she’ll In this passage of Ash Is Purest White, a sense hattan, while Youthana Yous’s Bu alo Nick- American man who returns to Korea as a do there. Feeling rudderless, she listens to the of displacement overwhelms the fi lm entirely, el gives us wistful hilarity in its portrayal roadie on his (truly terrible, very mean, and strange man with rapt attention, as if looking suggesting that Jia can no longer direct the of an Indian American woman’s run-in with racist) white friend’s band’s tour. There, for a sign for what to do with her life. He says course of his own story. Few movies convey social media. he meets what can only be described as he’s headed to an area near the border with rootlessness so palpably. The standout among the feature length the Korean version of a manic pixie dream Inner Mongolia, where he plans to set up a Ash spans a period of roughly 17 years, and fi lms is Seadrift. Directed by Tim Tsai, this girl, whereupon he decides to stay past tourism company that will take people to one of the more compelling things about the documentary follows the resettlement of his planned short visit to discover him- places where others have claimed to see UFOs. film is how you can never predict when Jia Vietnamese refugees to a majority-white self, among other things. This montage- Qiao lies and claims that she’s seen a flying will flash forward in time. It’s one of those Texan town on the Gulf Coast, telling the heavy fi lm underscores a tension that can be saucer herself, perhaps to earn the stranger’s movies (like Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together story of gradually building racial tension observed across almost all of the o erings trust. He concludes the spiel about his pro- or Kent Jones’s forthcoming Diane) in which that culminates in the fatal shooting of of the Asian American Showcase: caught spective business by saying, “The bottom line time exists as an autonomous force; neither a white resident; this ultimately attracts between being American and being Asian, is, we’re all prisoners of the universe.” the characters nor even the fi lmmaker can do the attention and arrival of the KKK. Tsai Asian Americans are perpetual foreigners Qiao ditches her plans and joins the strange much about it. Ironically this sense of feeling is careful in his exposition of a convoluted wherever they go. For Lee and Choy, the man (the fi lm never reveals his name), board- adrift in time makes the characters feel chron- situation, deftly coaxing stories from white answer to this conundrum is oscillating and ing a train at the next station for Urumqi. ically stuck—“prisoners of the universe” is as and Vietnamese residents alike, teasing out unclear. For the Showcase itself, it seems it is This unexpected development—which makes good a term for it as any—and their awareness themes of nationalism and unexpected for- an open-ended question with many pluripo- one feel as if the narrative could now go any- of their entrapment gives Ash its tragic heft. giveness. Though the film ostensibly deals tent outcomes for the audience to ponder as where—is one of the strongest expressions The fi lm is above all a sad one, following two with an isolated incident in a tiny town that the credits roll. v to date in Jia’s work of the feeling of dis- people as they gradually lose control over occurred 40 years ago, this story feels at once immediately salient and universal, as @nlcoomes ssssEXCELLENTsssGOODssAVERAGEsPOOR• WORTHLESS 20 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll A P W ssss R READERRECOMMENDEDb ALLAGESN NEWF Directed by Jia Zhang-ke. In Mandarin with subtitles. min. Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema. FILM
their lives. One could read their story as an the heroine’s fi ve-year sentence to just a few allegory about how China’s market-driven scenes, then shuttles the fi lm forward to the society, with its absence of a social safety net, next major passage, when the newly released denies citizens a sense of security. Yet the fi lm Qiao goes to Fengjie to look for Bin, who got also succeeds on a purely dramatic level, as Jia out of jail four years earlier. crafts complex characters with rich emotional Qiao’s misadventures in Fengjie deliber- lives who are capable of surprising you with ately recall the events of Jia’s Still Life, which their actions. was made around the time these scenes take As in many tragedies, the principal charac- place. As in the earlier film, Zhao Tao plays ters of Ash are happy when the story begins. an emotionally vulnerable woman looking The film opens in 2001, when Qiao is the to reconnect with a missing lover; what’s pampered girlfriend of a gangster named Guo di erent is that her character here has fewer Bin (Liao Fan). Bin’s crime family is thriving, resources at her disposal to guide her journey. and the “brothers” throw around money with A grifter steals her wallet on her way to fi nd heedless pleasure (that is, when they have to Bin, and her quest leads her to the knowledge spend it—the family wields so much power that her old boyfriend has left the criminal in their community that people frequently underworld and has found a new girlfriend in o er to provide them with services for free). the white-collar sector. Qiao relies on her old Styx Jia presents their lives seductively. Working confi dence and ingenuity to scam some men with the great French cinematographer Eric out of money and get in touch with Bin, but NOW PLAYING terpiece for which terms like simplicity and profundity Gautier, he keeps the camera moving almost her e orts leave her unhappy. Jia stages the seem inadequate. In Bengali with subtitles. —J constantly, as if eager to take in as much of old lovers’ reunion in one of the longest single Aparajito R 113 min. 35mm archival print. Wed 4/10, 7 their activity as possible, and lights many of takes of Ash Is Purest White, in a lonely hotel R The second part of Satyajit Ray’s Apu trilogy and 9:30 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films (1956), fully comprehensible on its own terms, suff ers at the early scenes under a romantic neon green. room that conveys the characters’ emotional times from its episodic plot, which follows Apu from age Big Night One can get absorbed in the confi dence with distance from one another. (Jia and Gautier ten in the holy city of Benares to his early adulthood in R A movie about two Italian immigrant brothers which Qiao and Bin go through their daily lives hearken back to the earlier scenes by light- Calcutta. But this is my favorite fi lm in the trilogy, and (Tony Shalhoub and Stanley Tucci, both in fi ne form) who (the way Qiao takes Bin’s cigarette to inhale a ing the room with neon-green light, which the reported favorite of Ray’s fellow Bengali directors open a New Jersey restaurant called the Paradise; Shal- Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. Its treatment of death—of houb plays the artistic and temperamental chef, Tucci drag o it is a sight to behold), and indeed the stands out after the yellow palette of the other Apu’s father toward the beginning of the fi lm and of the more practical-minded manager (1996). Tucci wrote characters seem absorbed in their own cool Fengjie-set scenes.) his mother near the end—is among the most beautiful, the script with his cousin, Joseph Tropiano, and directed themselves. Qiao is apathetic when she hears The reunion signals another shift in tone, mystical, and precise handlings of that subject in all of it with one of his costars, Campbell Scott. Apart from reports that local miners are getting laid o this time to melodrama. The remaining third cinema, worthy of Mizoguchi; in a way the fi lm is little off ering what may well be the best advertisement for more than a careful contextualizing of these two aston- Italian cooking in movies, this little picture charms by and that many workers are being displaced to of Ash trades in heightened emotions, not ishing sequences. An adaptation of roughly the last fi h virtue of its cra and patience; it moves at times more another city to learn to drill for oil. She also only when Qiao makes the bold decision to of Bibhutibhusan Banerjee’s novel Pather Panchali and like a European movie than an American one, allowing looks down on her father for trying to expose take off with the strange man she meets on the fi rst third of his subsequent novel Aparajito, this its characterizations to grow on us, and the eff ort pays the corruption of the village leader. Qiao is the train, but when she reunites with Bin once benefi ts as much as the rest of the trilogy from the rav- off . It also succeeds as a story about art and idealism so wrapped up in being a gangster’s moll that more in 2017. Their relationship, now based in ishing “commentary” of Ravi Shankar’s music. It’s a mas- and cultural assimilation. Others in the cast include B she disregards what’s going on around her— enmity and distrust, feels like something out unfortunately for her, she will come to pay for of a Rainer Werner Fassbinder fi lm, as the two her apathy. characters, both broken by the vicissitudes of 164 North State Street Soon a rising crime syndicate starts to an unjust economic system, view one another $12 GENERAL | $7 STUDENTS | $6 MEMBERS stake out turf in Bin’s region, killing his boss as memories of better times and thus as causes MOVIE HOTLINE: 312.846.2800 and sending armed thugs to attack Bin and for resentment. What registers most strongly, his brothers. Just when things seem to be however, is how much both characters have STYX THE going poorly for Bin and Qiao, they get even changed since the start of the fi lm. Viewed now GOSPEL OF worse. One night a group of men armed with under cold, clear light, Qiao and Bin are visibly “A blunt, breathless, blunt objects stop Bin and Qiao’s car, pull Bin older. One notices their wrinkles and faded and astoundingly unsentimental morality EUREKA out, and try to beat him to death. Qiao, having hair, and even their body language is markedly play that’s told with the LGBTQ meets been taught to fi re a gun a few scenes earlier, di erent. The two leads (but especially Zhao, intensity of a the Bible ticking-clock thriller.” steps out, fires Bin’s weapon in the air, and who’s incredible throughout) manage these --David Ehrlich, Indiewire APRIL 5 - 11 chases the assailants away. In the next scene, physical changes expertly, making sure not Fri 4/5 @ 2:15 & 6:15 pm Qiao is in handcuffs, being interrogated by to let them overwhelm the headstrong confi - APRIL 5 - 11 Sat 4/6 @ 3 & 6:30 pm; police. She refuses to admit that the gun was dence that defi ned their characters at the start Fri 4/5 @ 2 & 6:15 pm; Sat 4/6 @ 4:30 & 8:15 pm; Sun 4/7 @ 5:15 pm; Sun 4/7 @ 3:15 pm; Mon 4/8 @ 6 pm; Bin’s, effectively taking the rap for his pos- of the fi lm. The way these two cling to their Mon 4/8 @ 6:15 pm; Tue 4/9 @ 8:30 pm; Wed 4/10 @ 6 pm; Wed 4/10 @ 8 pm; Thu 4/11 @ 8:15 pm session of a weapon. Jia then cuts abruptly identities, in spite of how fate has tossed them Thu 4/11 @ 8:30 pm
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B Isabella Rossellini, Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Marc stretch it’s become bloated, mechanical, and tiresome. NSpider-Man: Into the Spider- Anthony, and Allison Janney. —J R NThe Gospel of Eureka —J R R, 136 min. 35mm. Tue 4/9, R, 109 min. Wed 4/10, 7:30 PM. Beverly Arts Center Eureka Springs, Arkansas, is a town full of dualities, 9:30 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Verse at least as depicted by directors Donal Mosher and Phil Lord—one half of the duo responsible for The Lego Birds of Passage Michael Palmieri. They show one man practicing his lines Pulse Movie and 22 Jump Street—cowrote this animated Mar- R Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego’s follow-up to for a dramatic play about Jesus Christ while another Japanese chillers like Ringu and Ju-on rejuvenated the vel Comics adaptation, and like the fi lms he codirected, their 2015 gem Embrace of the Serpent is a stunner, from gets ready for a drag performance at a local gay bar. In horror genre by emphasizing mood over monsters, it exhibits a free-for-all wackiness reminiscent of 1930s the bookend device of a blind bard who spins the tale Gospel of Eureka, these are not polar opposites, though, but this 2001 feature by Kiyoshi Kurosawa carries the Looney Tunes. Set in a parallel universe, the story of a legend at once local and universal (echoing antique but rather two sides of the same coin. There is a shared aesthetic to a tedious extreme. The sluggish story has follows a mixed-race teenage boy who transforms into roots in Homer and The Illiad) to the division of this performance and theatricality to devout religious prac- something to do with ghosts taking up residence on the Spider-Man a er some baddies kill the original Spidey, Colombian drama’s narrative into fi ve cantos, or songs, tices and queer subcultures—especially when those Internet, where they peer silently from the dim recesses Peter Parker. Those same villains have also opened up which are distant cousins to the burgeoning narcocorri- identities intersect. Mosher and Palmieri’s documentary of webcam shots. As in many J-horror fi lms, the visual a portal to alternate realities, and soon enough, the do Mexican musical genre and tie this drug-smuggling fl ips between these two narratives in order to come to austerity contributes to the overall creepiness, and young hero fi nds himself fi ghting crime alongside every tale, circa 1968-1980, to the present. What at fi rst seems a sense of understanding—which is emphasized when an there are some hair-raising set pieces. But the big scare iteration of Spider-Man in the Marvel canon. Main- like an ethnographic chronicle of an old Wayuu tribal anti-transgender bathroom bill is proposed in Eureka. scenes seem particularly isolated here, supported by taining a breathless pace, the fi lmmakers pile up sci-fi mating ritual—an exotic dance where a marriageable In an ambitious quest to fi nd middle ground, Gospel neither the fl at characters nor the vague plot. In Japa- conceits, one-liners, and a melange of animation styles; young woman (Natalia Reyes) simulates a fi ery bird to be of Eureka demonstrates that a Bible Belt town can be nese with subtitles. —JRJ 118 min. 35mm. Sun 4/7, as opposed to lots of other comic book adaptations, this captured—soon becomes a saga about the costs that her in touch with its faith and also be on the brink of great 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films actually captures the sensation of getting absorbed in a suitor (José Acosta) shoulders in order to win over her change. —C C 75 min. Fri 4/5, 2:15 and 6:15 comic book. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney mother, the clan’s revered matriarch (Carmiña Martinez). PM; Sat 4/6, 3 and 6:30 PM; Sun 4/7, 5:15 PM; Mon 4/8, Quadrophenia Rothman directed. —BS PG, 117 min. Sat 4/6, 7 The swain labors hard for the required dowry, but he’s 6:15 PM; Wed 4/10, 8 PM; and Thu 4/11, 8:30 PM. Gene R Franc Roddam’s 1979 fi lm of the Who’s rock and 9:30 PM; and Sun 4/7, 4 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc smart and impatient, so when he stumbles upon a group Siskel Film Center opera aligns sociological observation and romantic Films of hippie Peace Corps volunteers who preach anti- fantasy to create an extravagant, involving teenpic with communism but are also looking for weed, his solution, Johnny Guitar a responsible intellectual grounding. The dark, grimy NStorm Boy in its capitalist supply-and-demand paradigm, seems R Nicholas Ray’s great sur-western (1954), in visual style meets the Who’s naive plotting straight on to A variation on the classic boy-and-his-dog (or a girl-and- obvious. The alliance he enters with his relatives who which, as Francois Truff aut put it, the cowboys circle create a kind of mythic realism, stirring, archetypal situ- her-horse) stories, this Australian family drama centers farm the marijuana whose market he soon corners will and die like ballerinas. For all its violence, this is ations clothed in pseudodocumentary grit. The hero, a on a kid and his pelicans. In a framing device with a threaten the family traditions he vowed to uphold. In a surpassingly tender, sensitive fi lm, Ray’s gentlest jumpy young mod played with commanding intensity by strong environmentalist theme, Geoff rey Rush plays a Wayuu and Spanish with subtitles. —A G statement of his outsider theme. Joan Crawford, with Phil Daniels, achieves one moment of perfect bliss and retired businessman whose clashes with his workaholic 125 min. Fri 4/5, 3:45 and 7:45 PM; Sat 4/6, 5 PM; Sun 4/7, a mature, refl ective quality she never recaptured, is the then self-destructs, a motif straight out of 19th-century son over a wildlife sanctuary send the old-timer fl ashing 3 PM; Mon 4/8, 7:45 PM; Tue 4/9, 6 PM; Wed 4/10, 8 PM; owner of a small-town saloon; Sterling Hayden is the romantic fi ction. —D K R, 115 min. 35mm. Thu 4/11, back to childhood. As a youth (Finn Little) he lived in an and Thu 4/11, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center enigmatic gunfi ghter who comes to her aid when the 9:30 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films isolated shack with his widowed fi sherman father (Jai townspeople turn on her. Filmed in the short-lived (but Courtney); their nearest neighbor was an Aboriginal Chimes at Midnight well-preserved) Trucolor process, its hues are pastel NShazam! beachcomber wise in the ways of nature (Trevor Jamie- R Orson Welles’s 1965 version of the Falstaff story, and boldly deployed, and the use of space is equally Comic book buff s know that the DC superhero Shazam son). A er three pelican chicks are orphaned, the boy assembled from Shakespearean bits and pieces, is the daring and expressive. With Mercedes McCambridge, was originally named Captain Marvel when he was a adopts them, and much cuteness ensues as they waddle one Welles fi lm that deserves to be called lovely; there is unforgettable as Crawford’s butch nemesis, as well as mid-20th century top-selling brand for Fawcett Pub- and cavort toward maturity. Director Shawn Seet is not also a rising tide of opinion that proclaims it his master- Ernest Borgnine, Scott Brady, John Carradine, Royal lications, which was forced to retire the character in quite up to the more complex challenges of Justin Mon- piece. Restrained and even serene (down to its memora- Dano, Ward Bond, and Ben Cooper. —D K 110 1954 a er a lengthy copyright infringement case based jo’s script (the second fi lm adaptation of Colin Thiele’s bly muddy battle scene), it shows Welles working largely min. Fri 4/5, 7 and 9:30 PM; and Sun 4/7, 1:30 PM. Univ. on charges of plagiarizing Superman. The history helps children’s book), such as the father’s improbable rescue without his technical fl ourishes—and for those who have of Chicago Doc Films explain part of the retro appeal of this wide-screen from drowning, and scenes where Rush revisits his never seen beyond his surface fl ash, it is ample proof adaptation about a geeky foster teen, Billy Batson younger self, inhabiting the screen at the same time as of how sensitive and subtle an artist he was. With Keith The Little Shop of Horrors (Asher Angel), who assumes the alter ego and super- Little, but the movie is still a serviceable entertainment Baxter, John Gielgud, Margaret Rutherford, and Jeanne The key fi lm (1960) in the Roger Corman legend. Shot powers of a thirtyish hunk in red-hot tights (Zachary for wee ones. —A G PG, 109 min. AMC Moreau. —D K 115 min. Former Reader fi lm critic in two days on an invisible budget, it’s one of the most Levi), thanks to a powerful wizard (Djimon Hounsou). Streets of Woodfi eld Jonathan Rosenbaum lectures at the Tuesday screening. grotesque and extreme of black comedies, the story Like the early Superman, Shazam harks back to a more Fri 4/5, 4 PM, and Tue 4/9, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center of a poor schlub whose pet plant develops an appetite innocent time—the gleeful sense of wonder Levi brings NStyx for human blood, crooning “Feed me! Feeeeed me!” as to the character is endearingly goofy, as though daring This thought-provoking moral drama opens with a ter- Good Men Good Women our hero goes out in search of fresh victims. Not for all rescues and crime prevention were the headiest thrills rifying car crash, then shows how the heroine (Susanne R This 1995 feature completes Hou Hsiao-hsien’s tastes (and probably not for tasteful people at all), it’s imaginable. The movie generally avoids showing graphic Wolff ), a level-headed doctor, assuredly leads a team trilogy about 20th-century Taiwan. Like its predeces- still a grungy wonder. Jack Nicholson makes an early deaths, except in a jarring boardroom sequence where of EMTs to treat a man injured in the accident. The sors, it focuses on a specifi c period (in this case 1949 to appearance in a bit as a masochistic dental patient. the villainous Dr. Thaddeus Sivana (a curiously wooden scene—which director Wolfgang Fischer presents in a ’95) and art form (cinema itself). An actress prepares to —D K 72 min. 35mm archival print. Followed by a Mark Strong) takes ghoulish revenge on his hated cool, objective style that seems to off er up each image play a real-life anti-Japanese guerrilla in 40s China who panel discussion. Mon 4/8, 7 PM. Music Box brother, father, and their corporate cronies (although as though it were a piece of evidence—introduces the was arrested as a subversive a er returning to Taiwan even this might be considered mild, given the extreme theme of acting in life-and-death situations and pre- in the 50s. Images evoked by the actress’s past as a The Matrix violence of video games). Adults might appreciate the pares viewers for the complicated scenario that follows. drug-addicted barmaid alternate with her imaginative The Wachowskis turn their attention to metaphysical SF: nostalgic carnival atmosphere; children are more likely Picking up with the doctor some time later, the story projections of the fi lm about to be shot. Despite the Keanu Reeves discovers that the universe (i.e., Amer- to identify with Angel and the other irrepressible foster fi nds her sailing on a small yacht off the northern coast complexity of the haunting structure, which suggests ica and environs) is run by computers that use human family youngsters, led by the impish Jack Dylan Grazer. of Africa; she encounters a boat full of refugees that’s three interwoven tenses—present, past, and a curious beings as batteries for bioelectrical energy, and that he’s It’s an interesting departure for Swedish horror director sinking into the ocean. The doctor, acting on instinct, blend of future conditional and speculative past—this is living not in 1999 but roughly two centuries later; Lau- David F. Sandberg (Annabelle: Creation, Lights Out), tries to help the passengers, even a er the coast guard the shortest and most direct fi lm of the trilogy, and the rence Fishburne enlists Reeves to lead a revolt staff ed who proves he has more tricks up his sleeve than just offi cer communicating with her via radio tells her not visual mastery is stunning. Reproaching contemporary by a small multinational crew (including kick-ass heroine things that go bump in the night. —A G to get involved. Fischer doesn’t suggest whether the Taiwan politically by praising the courage of an earlier Carrie-Anne Moss). This is simpleminded fun for roughly PG-13, 132 min. AMC Dine-in Block 37, ArcLight, Century doctor is right or wrong, but rather leaves it up to the generation, this fi lm was controversial in its home coun- the fi rst hour, until the movie becomes overwhelmed by 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, City North 14, Ford City, audience to decide for themselves. In English and subti- try, but it’s probably the most artistically accomplished its many sources—Blade Runner (rainy and trash-laden Harper Theater, River East 21, Rosemont 18, Showplace tled German. —BS 91 min. Fri 4/5, 2 and 6:15 PM; feature I saw that year. In Mandarin with subtitles. streets), Men in Black (men in dark suits with shades), 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Mich- Sat 4/6, 4:30 and 8:15 PM; Sun 4/7, 3:15 PM; Mon 4/8, 6 —J R 108 min. 35mm archival print. Star Wars for mythology, Die Hard for skyscrapers, Alien igan, Webster Place 11 PM; Tue 4/9, 8:30 PM; Wed 4/10, 6 PM; and Thu 4/11, 8:15 Thu 4/11, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films for secondary characters and decor, Superman and True PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Lies for stunts, and Videodrome for paranoia. There’s not much humor to keep it all life-size, and by the fi nal
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ALSO PLAYING In Search of Margo-Go NThe Best of Enemies Begun in 1994, this queer punk fi lm about NYC club Civil rights activist Ann Atwater (Taraji P. Henson) culture was fi nally completed by director Jill Reiter in and KKK leader C.P. Ellis (Sam Rockwell) fi ght over 2015. With Kathleen Hanna. 45 min. Reiter and Bradford school integration in 1971 North Carolina in this histor- Nordeen, founder and programmer of the LA-based ical drama. Robin Bissell directed. PG-13, 133 min. AMC queer screening series Dirty Looks, attend the screening. Dine-in Block 37, ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Showing with Reiter’s 1993 short fi lms Frenzy and Birth- Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, Ford City, River East day Party. Sun 4/7, 7:30 PM. Music Box 21, Webster Place 11 NKnife+Heart Between the Lines Yann Gonzalez directed this French thriller about a SCOTT PILGRIM Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) directed this 1977 series of murders and romantic intrigue on the set of a vS the world comedy-drama about the professional and personal gay porn production in 1979 Paris. In French and Spanish APR 5-8 AT 11 PM lives of the staff of an independent Boston newspaper with subtitles. 110 min. At Music Box Theatre. Visit music- about to be taken over by a larger publication. With boxtheatre.com for showtimes. John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, and Jeff Goldblum. 101 min. Reader publisher Tracy Baim leads a discussion at McQ the Wednesday screening. Sat 4/6, 3 PM; Mon 4/8, 8 PM; John Wayne stars as a Seattle cop battling police cor- and Wed 4/10, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center ruption and investigating the killing of his partner. John Sturges directed this 1974 drama. PG, 111 min. Tue 4/9, 7 Body + Camera 2019 Chicago: The PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Un/Certain Body Videos by Tabita Razaire A day-long festival of dance, movement, and perfor- A program of three experimental videos (2016-17) pro- mance related fi lms. F duced in South Africa by the French Guiana-based new media artist. 60 min. Razaire attends the screening. Thu machete NThe Brink 4/11, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center APR 9-11 AT 10:30 PM Alison Klayman directed this documentary about former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. 91 TV on Film 2 min. The Chicago Film Society programmed this four-hour For showtimes and advance tickets, visit long evening of television shows, commercials, infomer- thelogantheatre.com Chicago Latino Film Festival cials, and other broadcast miscellany, all screening as The 35th annual Chicago Latino Film Festival concludes 16mm prints from their own holdings and from private with another week of Spanish-language fi lms from South collectors. Sat 4/6, 6 PM. Chicago Filmmakers and Central America and Spain, including Rodrigo Triana’s comedy El Reality (Colombia). Through Thu 4/11. UIC MFA Thesis Screening Full schedule at chicagolatinofi lmfest.org. River East 21 A program of work (2016-19) by MFA students at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Showing with UIC grad NCombat Obscura Jesse McLean’s 2011 experimental video Remote. 64 min. Miles Lagoze directed this documentary comprised of Fri 4/5, 7 PM. Nightingale F please recycle his own footage as a combat photographer in Afghani- stan and of others’ footage, to provide a look at the daily Wanderers of the Desert this paper behind-the-scenes life of Marines. 70 min. Nacer Khemir directed this 1984 Tunisian/French fi lm about a teacher in a desert village where there are Dirty Looks LA: Eight Years rumors of a hidden treasure and a curse overhangs the A selection of short fi lms and videos (1966-2017) that lives of the children. In Arabic with subtitles. 95 min. have shown as part of the Los Angeles-based queer Wed 4/10, 7 PM. Northwestern University Block Museum screening series Dirty Looks. Included are works by of Art F Warren Sonbert, Brontez Purnell, Michael Robinson, Mariah Garnett, Jill Reiter, and others. 84 min. Dirty NWe Are Columbine Check out the latest Looks’ founder/programmer Bradford Nordeen attends Laura Farber directed this documentary refl ecting on the screening. Fri 4/5, 7 PM. Northwestern University the 1999 mass shooting through the stories and memo- giveaways to win tickets Block Museum of Art F ries of four survivors (Ferber herself is also a survivor of the tragedy). 79 min. Farber attends the screening. Tue to live theater, concerts, Doc10 Film Festival 4/9, 7 PM. Music Box The 2019 edition of the Doc10 Film Festival opens on and much more. April 11 with Rachel Lears’s Knock Down the House, NThe Wind about the 2018 Congressional campaigns of Alexandria Emma Tammi directed this supernatural western about a WIN Ocasio-Cortez and three other female candidates. Addi- woman living in the remote 19th-century American plains tional fi lms showing include Avi Belkin’s Mike Wallace tormented by an unseen force. 86 min. Fri 4/5-Sat 4/6, FREE VISIT Is Here, about the famed newsman; Cristina Ibarra and midnight. Music Box Alex Rivera’s The Infi ltrators, about anti-ICE activists; CHICAGOREADER.COM/WIN and Penny Lane’s Hail Satan?, about the Satanic Temple. NWrestle TICKETS Thu 4/11-Sun 4/14. Full schedule at doc10.org. Davis Lauren Belfer and Suzannah Herbert directed this for your chance to win! documentary about the on- and off -the-mat experiences Hump! Film Festival of high school wrestlers in Huntsville, Alabama, as Amateur porn, courtesy of Dan Savage and his annual they pursue the state championship. 96 min. 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Theare infl uential hiding experimental composer’s in largest plain archive lives in a librarysight at Northwestern—and it goes a lot deeper than its famous Beatles lyric sheets. By J C
reg MacAyeal fi rst encountered John Cage while studying music composition in the late 80s as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois at Urbana- GChampaign. Arguably America’s most infl uen- tial experimental composer, Cage is famous for his 1952 “silent piece” 4’33”, and in the 1950s and ’60s he’d pushed the envelope musically by composing works incorporating silence, indeterminacy, and electronics. He’d taught and researched at UIUC two decades before, from 1967 until ’69, spending most of his time John Cage in 1987 SUSANSCHWARTZENBERG/THEEXPLORATORIUM cocreating a mammoth computer-music piece called HPSCHD that premiered in May 1969. Cage’s music didn’t leave the university when he did, of course. In 1987, UIUC compo- sition professor William Brooks, who’d partic- ipated in the HPSCHD premiere, staged a per- From le to right: three of formance of Cage’s 1976 piece Lecture on the Cage’s letters, written to Yoko Weather, which incorporates words and draw- Ono (with Cage’s partner ings by Henry David Thoreau and was inspired Merce Cunningham) the day a er John Lennon’s murder, in part by haiku form. A composer as playful as to a high school student he was profound, Cage had stipulated that the who’d asked him about his piece be performed by 12 “preferably Ameri- famous piece 4’33”, and to Northwestern music librarian can men who have become Canadian citizens,” Don L. Roberts to prepare for but Brooks just needed willing musicians. So a 1974 campus visit. he got MacAyeal involved to read excerpts ©THEJOHNCAGETRUST from texts such as Walden and “Civil Disobedi- ence,” chosen through chance operations. Thus MacAyeal’s fascination with Cage began. “It’s hard to get away from Cage, as a composer or anybody that’s interested in Ayeal says. “It was really weird to encounter manizes a composer who continues to divide folders and dozens of boxes in Deering Library new music since 1945,” he says. “Whether you myself in this archival collection. Like, ‘Oh, scholars with his challenges to the defi nition on the Northwestern campus. Researchers can agree with him or not, you can’t not respond to that’s it, that’s the concert in October of ’87.’” of music. schedule appointments to view specifi c pieces him in one way or another.” Wesleyan University holds documents That said, not many Chicagoans know this from the collection in the library’s Special Col- MacAyeal certainly hasn’t gotten away from related to most of Cage’s books, the New York archive exists—and if they do, they’ve proba- lections Reading Room. Cage. Since 2015 he’s served as curator of Public Library holds most of Cage’s music bly heard of it only because of its Beatles lyric One of the archive’s two main sections, the Northwestern University’s music library, and manuscripts, and the University of California, sheets, which have been a perennial magnet Notations Project Collection, includes scores as part of the job he manages the university’s Santa Cruz, holds Cage’s materials related for local media coverage. The John Cage Col- that Cage collected for his book Notations, an John Cage Collection, which the composer es- to mycology (the study of fungi). But the col- lection isn’t housed in a tourist destination ambitious anthology documenting how com- tablished with an initial gift in 1976 and added lection at Northwestern is the largest single like a museum, and in fact it’s a couple miles posers wrote music in the 60s, published 50 to repeatedly until his death in 1992. “I was concentration of Cage materials anywhere in outside Chicago. Very little of it is on public years ago by the avant-garde Something Else going through a poster collection, and I found the world—it not only surveys modern musi- view. Primarily a research destination for ac- Press. The other main section, the Correspon- a poster for the concert I performed in,” Mac- cal composition during the 1960s but also hu- ademics, the collection is kept in hundreds of dence Collection, consists of letters and other 24 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG . .
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materials from throughout Cage’s life (not taking over after Roberts retired. During his he best-known materials in the Cage SATURDAY, APRIL PM just those he received but also those he sent, tenure, students and faculty cited the presence Collection—framed copies hang in the thanks to the carbon-copy Note-o-Grams he of the Cage Collection in calling for the school Tmusic library on public view—are lyric Erwin Helfer / wrote on), with the exception of letters relat- to increase its commitment to new music, sheets from the Beatles. Yoko Ono, a friend Elsa Harris / ed to acquiring the scores for Notations. The and in 2012 this led to the establishment of of Cage’s, wanted to introduce him to the Pastor Donald Gay archive also contains unprocessed ephemera, the Institute for New Music. “I don’t mean to work of the Beatles, who shared his interest plus a special fi lm screening of an interview such as nine scrapbooks documenting Cage’s say that if not for the library none of this stu in silence, chance, and tape music. For the and performance between Erwin Helfer & childhood and early tours. would’ve happened,” Hoek says, “but I know Notations book, she got him “scores” for Mama Yancey • In Szold Hall In 1973 Cage wrote to Don L. Roberts, then that because of the library it sure helped.” seven of their songs—the Beatles didn’t write SUNDAY, APRIL PM Northwestern’s music librarian, because he In 2013 Northwestern hired Ryan Dohoney, notated music, something Ono had to explain was interested in “the problem of where to go an assistant musicology professor who teach- to Cage in a letter, so the scores were simply May Flower In Szold Hall to study manuscripts of contemporary music” es on Cage, his New York School collaborators, lyrics. John Lennon gave her six manuscripts and he wanted his own materials to be “safer and experimentalism in music at large. (Full from Revolver, including “Eleanor Rigby” and WEDNESDAY, MAY PM and better kept.” At the time, few institutions disclosure: I’m a junior at NU, and I’ve taken “Yellow Submarine,” and Ono later convinced From the Buena Vista Social Club took “new music” seriously, but Roberts had two of Dohoney’s classes. He also advised a Paul McCartney to give her the colorful man- begun amassing one of the largest academic grant-funded research project of mine last uscript for “The Word” (from Rubber Soul). Omara Portuondo Last Kiss / Ultimo Beso collections of it (it may even have been the summer.) One of his courses focuses specifi - Cage included a black-and-white scan of “The only such collection in 1973). Today, North- cally on Cage, his relationships with collabora- Word” in Notations, the book’s only piece of ACROSS THE STREET IN SZOLD HALL western’s music library is a hub for scholarly tors, and performances of his works—it draws pop music by any standard. N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL research into Cage as well as into experimen- from materials in the collection, and according Hoek, who’s researched the lyric sheets, Global Dance Party: Cajun Vagabonds tal performance more broadly. The library’s to Dohoney the music library’s sta has been presents them to visiting alumni and commu- Global Dance Party: infl uence reverberates throughout the univer- integral to making it happen. “They’re so open nity organizations to demonstrate the value Carpacho y Su Super Combo sity’s Bienen School of Music, which contains to me having people dig through it—students in keeping manuscripts. “It’s trying to get as WORLD MUSIC WEDNESDAY SERIES the Institute for New Music and o ers courses who don’t know anything about a) archival re- close as we can to that moment where some- FREE WEEKLY CONCERTS, LINCOLN SQUARE on experimental and new music. search or b) John Cage,” he says. “It’s this way body has an idea and they pick up a pen or a Mn'JAM Experiment D.J. Hoek, currently Northwestern’s asso- to orient them to real research with some of pencil and they take a shot at writing it down,” Clarice and Sérgio Assad ciate university librarian for research and the most rewarding materials of 20th-century he says. engagement, ran the music library (and thus music.” Pierre Boulez, a favorite correspondence OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG the John Cage Collection) from 2004 till 2015, partner for Cage, sent him the manuscript J ll APRIL - CHICA O READER 25 continued from 25 for the landmark Second Piano Sonata, a behemoth solo piece that the French serialist composer wrote in 1947 and ’48. The collection contains Boulez’s notes for the piece, a draft with whole measures crossed out and notes moved, the “fair copy” (which is sent to the publisher) for the second and third movements covered by instructions in Boulez’s tiny hand- writing, and the eventual published version. It’s one of MacAyeal’s favorites in the Cage Collection. “Within this one folder, you’ve got this entire genesis of this work—just this hugely important work,” he says. The Notations Project Collection includes Philip Corner’s 1954 piece Mississippi River South of Memphis, also part of John Cage’s Notations project, asks performers to “read” a traced map of the titular river as though it were sheet music. Horizontal lines indicate pitch; vertical lines, time. PRINTEDBYPERMISSIONOFTHECOMPOSER scores to many other compositions revered as technical achievements, such as Steve Reich’s 1967 Piano Phase, his fi rst major piece for live to employ indeterminate methods in its com- indications of time and pitch. Yet many other n contrast to the Notations side of the col- instruments that employs the technique of position—his original copy rests in a book- works in Notations challenge those conven- lection, which brims with the sort of puck- “phasing”—two pianists play a simple, rapid shaped box, black on the top and bottom and tions, to put it mildly. The “score” for the piece Iish musical unorthodoxy that Cage found fi gure in sync, and then one speeds up slight- red on the sides, with each page separately Danger Musik for Dick Higgins, by Fluxus art- fascinating, the Correspondence Collection ly, causing them to slip out of alignment and laminated. ist Nam June Paik, consists entirely of a single more fully expresses the composer’s ordinary, eventually back into a new one. Cage’s close All these pieces, no matter how experi- handwritten sheet instructing the performer relatable humanity. As MacAyeal says, he contemporary Morton Feldman sent in 1964’s mental, retain some connection to traditional to “Creep into the VAGINA of a living WHALE.” was “a man who had likes and dislikes and The King of Denmark, his fi rst graphic score. ideas of how notated music looks—even Feld- Robert Moran, known for his operas, made friendships and felt pain and felt joy and had And Cage’s own contribution, the 1951 piano man’s abstract graphic score is read like sheet the collaged Sketch for a Tragic One-Act setbacks and successes.” piece Music of Changes, was one of the first music, in bars from left to right, with some Opera in 1965 specifically for Notations. Its The letter Cage and his partner, choreo- single large square of cardstock is scattered grapher Merce Cunningham, sent to Yoko Ono with irregular cutouts from magazine articles after John Lennon’s murder conveys deep and sheet music, the largest group clustered emotion in just two sentences: “Dear Yoko, around a taped-down Gillette razor blade. if there’s anything we can do for you, let us Though it shares the general layout of a know. We send our love.” It struck Hoek from conductor’s score—the various instruments the fi rst time he saw it. “When we were pro- called for are listed in a loose column down cessing that collection, I came across that and the left side of the page—there are no clear I’m like, whoa,” he says. “It’s a really powerful, divisions between parts. “Nothing I can say emblematic example of how these letters, they about the work other than it was created just capture a moment.” for John’s collection,” Moran confirms in an Cage wrote to many well-known figures, e-mail. including Ono, Boulez, architect Buckminster Falling somewhere between the contri- Fuller, and philosopher Marshall McLuhan. butions from Boulez, Paik, and Moran is But he also kept the letters he sent to everyday Mississippi River South of Memphis, a 1954 people, such as the student who wrote to ask ensemble piece by Fluxus artist and composer about “3:33.” Cage’s reply doesn’t stop with Philip Corner. The piece’s score consists of correcting her about the name of the piece a traced map of the southern portion of the (“4 minutes or feet, 33 inches or seconds”) but Mississippi River, which the performers orient goes on to distill his intentions in composing horizontally and overlay with two transparent it. “I became interested in silence as a way of sheets, one marked with horizontal lines and changing the mind, letting it be more open and the other with vertical; two of the lines should accepting, rather than closed and choosing,” intersect at a particular place on the map, such he writes. as the performance site. The horizontal lines To MacAyeal, this simple, lucid explanation indicate pitch; the vertical, time. Performers enriches our understanding of an enigmatic play along the river from left to right, “moving piece. “For all the things that people have said over even fl ow,” according to Corner’s instruc- and all the weird things that he’s said about tions. He encourages individual performers 4’33”, that one letter is the most brilliant, to “go on to tributaries, to follow parallel cur- explanatory thing I’ve read about it,” he says. rents or a jump to an ox-bow lake.” “And he just wrote it as a reply to this high “It’s probably the most remarkable example school kid in the mid-70s who probably didn’t of graphic notation,” Hoek says. “Maybe my even know who he was.” favorite ever.” Correspondence such as this can open J 26 CHICA O READER - APRIL ll LIVE MUSIC IN URBAN WINE COUNTRY 1200 W RANDOLPH ST, CHICAGO, IL 60607 | 312.733.WINE
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Hoek and MacAyeal have worked with The library at Northwestern has helped many scholars from disciplines outside music, that happen by acquiring separate archives studying a wide range of interconnected sub- by performers and artists adjacent to Cage, in jects: Cage’s friendships with artists, dance hopes that they can work in conversation. A performances of his works, his relationship collection from musician, performance artist, with technology. and avant-garde festival organizer Charlotte John Green, a PhD candidate in musicology Moorman (who became notorious as “the at the University of Rochester, knows some- topless cellist” after a midperformance ar- thing about the possibilities the collection rest for indecent exposure in 1967) served contains. His dissertation research focuses as the basis for the 2016 exhibition “A Feast on four of Cage’s broadcast pieces, three of of Astonishments” at Northwestern’s Block which—his music for Kenneth Patchen’s 1942 Museum of Art. Other collections include American radio play The City Wears a Slouch correspondence from Fluxus artist Dick Hig- Hat, the 1979 West German radio performance gins, founder of Something Else Press, and Roaratorio, and his performance in Nam from Something Else editor Jan Herman; the June Paik’s 1984 international satellite-TV library also has unprocessed archives from simulcast Good Morning, Mr. Orwell—figure several experimental composers, which have extensively in the Correspondence Collection. yet to be catalogued and thus aren’t publicly Green won Northwestern’s $3,000 John Cage accessible. Research Grant in 2017, which funded a visit to Scott Krafft, who manages much of this the collection. He found letters from listeners material as curator of Northwestern’s special responding to Slouch Hat, Cage’s letters re- collections, says building such a network questing sound recordings for Roaratorio, and of archives aids researchers who might be letters between Cage and Paik planning for Mr. able to draw from many at one time. “I think Orwell. it just makes sense,” he says. “It gives our “They’re really correspondence-based be- library a bit of individuality and cachet to cause broadcast, that my dissertation focuses have these strong, what you’d call ‘destination on, is a collaborative kind of effort,” Green collections.’” says. “It’s usually something that you can trace When Northwestern was beginning to de- in the documents in the archives there.” When velop its archive of 20th-century avant-garde he couldn’t find correspondence in the col- music, Cage engaged with the university in lection on the fourth subject of his research, more ways than donating his materials. He Cage’s 1959 performance of Water Walk on visited the university twice during Roberts’s Italian TV, he had to adopt a more subjective tenure as music librarian: once in 1975 for a approach. “That’s my interpretation, whereas talk and performance and once in 1992, shortly these other chapters, I’m almost like an eth- before his death, for a scholarly celebration of nographer—I’m almost like following the lead his 80th birthday. Northwestern held a sim- of the evidence,” he explains. ilar celebration in 2012 for Cage’s centennial. Dohoney has also used the collection for MacAyeal worked on the accompanying ex- his own research, specifi cally on Morton Feld- hibition, “Sound & Silence,” and interviewed man’s 1971 composition for the Rothko Chapel Brooks, the professor who’d introduced him in Houston. In his forthcoming book, Saving to Cage 25 years earlier. During their conver- Abstraction, a 1966 letter from Feldman to sation, MacAyeal asked a long-standing ques- Cage illuminates Feldman’s dismal financial tion: “What makes Cage relevant today?” condition before arts patrons John and Dom- Brooks replied that Cage asks questions inique de Menil commissioned him to write a about control—having it, lacking it, respond- piece for the chapel they’d founded. No copy ing to it—that remain consequential. of the letter exists in Feldman’s own archive “That’s a very abstracted way of thinking at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Switzerland. about some aspects of Cage, but I think he’s Dohoney sees this approach—using Cage’s right in the point he’s making that that ques- archive to research someone else entirely—as tion is never going to be irrelevant to any- potentially representing a turning point in body,” MacAyeal says. “He’ll always remain “Cage studies.” important, he’ll always remain relevant, and “We kind of know everything we need to we’ve got this gigantic collection of stu that know about Cage, more or less,” he says of his people need to use.” v
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EVERY TUESDAY (EXCEPT 2ND) AT 8PM In the real world, alas, folks at Moo & Oink EVERYOPEN MIC TUESD HOSTEDAY (EXCEPT BY MIKE 2ND) &AT MIKE8PM OPEN MIC HOSTED BY JIMIJON AMERICA generally didn’t do so much dancing. This brutal, clarifying, and deeply empathetic JD R Artist, educator, ON TUESDAY EVENINGS (EXCEPT 2ND) 2019 documentary gave me the opportunity performs with Latham in Glist! S C -J to adress my own complicity with rape culture Reader music listings coordinator and the dehumanization-via-deification that Yoko Ono, “What a Mess” What do you hear we visit upon celebrities. The two survivors when you become open to the messages the Minutemen, “Acoustic Blow-Out” Some- and the filmmaker have given us a real gift. universe is sending you? This week, when I times you listen to a CD so much it cracks in Rarely are we aff orded such a gracious oppor- played my freshly auto-updated Favorites half in the player—RIP my fi rst copy of Minute- tunity to fully understand the eff ects of look- Mix, the first song was “What a Mess” from men’s Double Nickels on the Dime. D. Boon, a ing the other way. If you are or ever were an Yoko Ono ’s 1973 double album Approximately member of the fatal “27 club,” packed in a lot MJ fan, this is required viewing. Infi nite Universe. It’s an upbeat, pleasure-fi lled of life before the car crash that took his life, rant on fi ghting for social justice and equity and supposedly this “Acoustic Blow-Out” was Solange Knowles, When I Get Home This is while under the powerful forces of systemic made for Los Angeles public access cable in one of those albums that will age incredibly oppression. Each verse touches on these chal- 1985, only months before he died. I have no well, even if it’s le some folks underwhelmed lenges, followed by the three laments: What a idea why they’re all sitting on the fl oor, or why now. Sure, When I Get Home doesn’t have waste. What a drag. What a mess. George Hurley is playing bongos. the magnifi cent melancholy of A Seat at the Table, but Solange’s latest is a loosely con- Stevie Nicks, “Outside the Rain” The emo- DJ Dame Luz at NYC’s Nola Darling in 2016 ceptual attempt to decenter her own voice—a tional exhaustion of “What a Mess” carries Philly-based DJ Dame Luz rarely spins here, revolutionary proposition for pop royalty. The over perfectly into the moody exasperation but thankfully she recorded this stellar hour- result is a bleep-blooping river of joining and of “Outside the Rain,” which came up next long live set. It’s undergirded by a relentless, disjointed voices, of shi ing subjectivity. on my playlist. The tone shi s from collective soldiers-getting-ready soca beat and at one struggle to the intimate battles of partner- point topped with Gregorian chant, steel ships. This frustrated ballad moves through drums, and all kinds of dark electronic arts. the pain of being with an She also deconstructs the Tropkillaz single undedicated partner, as Nicks “Desabafo” (itself a reworking of 1973’s “Deixa sings, “I am tired of trying.” eu Dizer” by Brazilian singer Claudia), with In the soft ether of Stevie’s sped-up vocals imploring us in Portuguese to world, you hear background “Let me, let me, let me / Tell you what I think vocals repeat the words that about life / I really need to get this out.” we hope follow all nightmares: “It’s only a dream.” The best Moo & Oink commercial ever I cherish my memories of driving to Moo & The Smiths, “Heaven Knows Oink with my grandparents to pick up slabs I’m Miserable Now” The of meat. By the time this TV spot started its playlist then breaks into the seemingly endless local run in the 80s, I was Smiths’ ode to drudgery and too old to believe that people would be danc- disillusionment. This song is a ing in the aisles and waving for catfi sh, but a reminder that we often have girl can dream. The music is by legendary Chi- more agency than we think— cago DJ Richard Pegue (with lyrics by Moo & we don’t have to commit our Oink employee-poet Lillian Bassett). The time and lives to people or stores are no more, but we still have this. work that cause us to suf- fer. An alternate title for this Favorites Mix could easily be L Z Visual and sonic “Let Go and Move On.” I can’t artist, cofounder of Chances Dances wait to hear what messages I receive in next week’s person- Xina Xurner merch This LA-via-Chicago Solange Knowles released When I Get Home last month. al algorithm-fueled playlist. queer punk-techno band has the most amaz- ll APRIL - CHICA O READER 29 Recommended and notable shows and critics’ insights for the week of April 4 MUSIC b ALLAGESF THURSDAY4 PICK OF THE WEEK Adrian Belew 8 PM, Old Town School of Folk Futuristic J-pop trio Perfume breathe Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, sold out. b When it comes to conversations about the best fresh air into the U.S. tour circuit guitar players of all time, rock fans typically men- tion the likes of Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix long before the thought of little old Adrian Belew crosses their minds. That’s a shame, because the unassuming shredder has one of the most mind-bending discog- raphies in music history. Belew shared the stage and studio with icons such as Frank Zappa, David Bowie, and the Talking Heads, frying minds with his next-level alien dexterity—and that was all before he joined up with Robert Fripp in 1980 to front newly re-formed progressive-rock pioneers King Crimson. Belew-era Crimson produced some of the most frantic, boundary-pushing rock music the world has ever seen; the nine albums they released showcase Belew and Fripp’s complicated rhythms and crys- talline guitar interplay, which provide a foundation for Belew’s idiosyncratic vocals. This legacy alone would be enough to satisfy the hungriest prog-head, but it really only scratches the surface of Belew’s credits, which also include contributions to albums by Nine Inch Nails, Paul Simon, and Mike Oldfi eld. On top of all of this are his 20 solo LPs, including the brand-new Pop-Sided, which features his signature wide-eyed take on shred-pop. Live, Belew pulls from all eras of his career with a heavy emphasis on his untouchable Crimson run. —L C
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Singer-songwriter Meg Duff y started the intimate Hand Habits project in their native upstate New COURTESYTHEARTIST York in the early 2010s, but largely put the project P on pause a er moving to Los Angeles and linking Fri 4/5, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, $49.50-$98.50. b up with Kevin Morby as a session and touring gui- tarist. Taking a break seemed to serve Duff y well, or at least help them get to a place where they could emerge with an indie-rock album as tender and taut as March’s Placeholder (Saddle Creek). Duff y PERFUMEHAVEBEEN at the top of the Japanese pop scene for more aesthetic and tendency toward pop experimentation are both partly recently told NPR that relationships play a key role in their worldview and songwriting, and that comes than a decade, so it’s easy to forget that the trio, which formed in due to their long-term producer and composer, Yasutaka Nakata. The across clearly throughout the album. On the single Hiroshima in 2000, had been on the verge of quitting after a number intense synchronicity of this collaboration has been one of the rea- “Can’t Calm Down,” Duffy reflects on their roots of their mid-aughts singles didn’t perform up to the expectations of sons they’ve excelled above their peers. When Forbes asked Perfume’s with melancholy and a defined ache, as they sing about their concerns of not living up to familial their record label. But in 2007, they caught a lucky break when they Kashiyuka what she meant by describing a song as “very Perfume,” heroes; Duff y off ers no concrete answers, but sug- were selected by Japan’s public broadcasting network (NHK) to per- she explained what she sees as the essence of the Perfume aesthetic: gests deep thinking brings the first steps toward form in a high-profi le public service announcement for a national re- “Persistence. Synchronization. It might look mechanical, but there’s a clarity. —LG cycling campaign. The song from that PSA, “Polyrhythm,” is a catchy sense of human warmth in what we do.” That’s also a canny appraisal but stunningly complicated synth-pop jam that took the group from of their appeal: Perfume are known for their heavily processed vocals Mdou Moctar TALsounds and DJ Matt Jencik regional favorites to national icons. And a year after “Polyrhythm” and inhumanly precise choreography, but the trio excel at finding open. 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $18. 21+ was featured in the Cars 2 soundtrack in 2011, Perfume began kick- small moments to express their humanity, such as the slight and sub- starting e orts to appeal to international audiences as well. Since tle variations each member brings to their dancing. The U.S. venues The story of Mdou Moctar’s early years reads like then, they’ve had numerous number one hits in Japan, toured around they’ve booked are smaller than the arenas they’re known to play in show-business boilerplate. Growing up in a conser- vative rural town in central Niger, he had neither the world, branded their own clothing, and (of course) released a Japan and elsewhere, so it will be interesting to see how they adapt money nor parental permission to buy a guitar, so line of fragrances. This spring they’re touring the States, and the their notoriously cutting-edge performances, which include elaborate he scavenged items such as bits of wood and bicy- dates include an appearance at Coachella—they’ll be the fi rst J-pop backgrounds and moving platforms. Regardless, this is a rare chance cle brake cables until he had enough parts to build his own. Moctar had to leave town to make his band to ever perform at the west-coast festival. Perfume’s futuristic to see one of pop’s most consistently thrilling live acts. —EB
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debut recording, and though it didn’t even get a (aka “the heartbeat of Pink Floyd”) might be more proper release, the Auto-Tune-soaked song “Tahoul- your cup of tea. He’s currently touring as the lead- tine” became a regional hit as people across the er of a quintet billed as Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Sahel swapped it from cell phone to cell phone. Secrets, which includes Spandau Ballet guitar- That’s how Christopher Kirkley, the American pro- ist Gary Kemp, longtime Pink Floyd touring bass- prietor of the U.S.-based Sahel Sounds label, fi rst ist Guy Pratt, guitarist Lee Harris, and keyboard- heard his music. Nowadays Moctar tours the world ist Dom Beken. Mason, who cofounded Pink Floyd and has several albums under his belt—fi ve of them with Waters, keyboardist Richard Wright, and gui- on Sahel Sounds—and he isn’t playing brake cables tarist Syd Barrett in 1965, shaped the group with or computerized eff ects anymore. Every one of his his jazz and big-band influences and remained a records is diff erent from the last, and the newest, constant from their prog-rock beginnings through Ilana: The Creator, elaborates upon the incendiary their mainstream success (with some lineup chang- live sound that Moctar has brought to internation- es) in the 80s and beyond. He also cowrote some al stages over the past couple years. It was record- of the band’s best-known songs, such as “Time,” ed in Detroit last year with Moctar’s touring band, from 1973’s Dark Side of the Moon. But though he which includes drummer Souleymane Ibrahim, bass- released music without his Pink Floyd bandmates, ist Mikey Coltun, and rhythm guitarist Ahmoudou including a handful of collaborative projects and a SMARTBARCHICAGO.COM Madassane (a recording artist in his own right, solo outing called Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports in 3730 N CLARK ST | 21+ whose soundtrack for the movie Zerzura sounds 1981, Mason had never toured without Pink Floyd like a Tuareg riposte to Neil Young’s work on Dead until last year. (In fact, outside of a Floyd reunion Man). Their grooves drive Moctar’s dry, earnest set at London’s Live 8 concert in 2005, Mason spent singing at a clip that leaves the earlier generation about 25 years playing out only sporadically while Lake Effect presents of African desert guitarists, such as Ali Farka Touré pursuing passions such as piloting helicopters and and the members of Tinariwen, in the dust—and racing sports cars.) Unlike Waters and Gilmour, who Moctar himself has turned into an unabashed shred- tend to stick to post–Dark Side of the Moon materi- DJ Heather’s der of a lead guitarist. —B M al in their solo shows, Saucerful of Secrets focuses on Floyd material from 1967 to 1972—some of which Big Birthday Mason hadn’t played live in 40 years when he start- Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets ed the band. This means he’s dishing up ditties from Bidness 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, $39.50- albums such as The Piper at the Gates of Dawn $157.50. b and Obscured by Clouds, as well as—you guessed it—A Saucerful of Secrets. The set list spotlights Mark Farina If you’re a fan of Pink Floyd’s most iconic albums, Mason’s drum work and allows him to fi nally bang such as Animals and The Wall, you may have the gong on “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Diz plunked down some cash to see Roger Waters in Sun”—a bit of theatricality that Waters used to per- Saturday his solo show or caught David Gilmour the last time form in live shows. Though the light show remains, DJ Heather April 13 he was in town. But if you’ve got an appetite for the quintet has eschewed the stadium-size venues Floyd’s early trippy material, drummer Nick Mason and over-the-top spectacle that marked Floyd J TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA METRO + SMARTBAR WEBSITES + METRO BOX OFFICE. NO SERVICE FEES AT BOX OFFICE! ll APRIL - CHICA O READER 31 Find more music listings at MUSIC chicagoreader.com/soundboard.
continued from 31 Perfume See Pick of the Week, page 30. 8 PM, can be pigeonholed as “conscious hip-hop,” but concerts (translation: don’t expect any fl ying pigs) in Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, $49.50-$98.50. b anyone who’d expect him to regurgitate east-coast favor of relatively intimate settings. Hard-core fans boom-bap and a selection of preapproved lyrical may wonder whether Mason can still hit the skins subjects would miss the full power of his music. at age 75, but the reviews have been stellar since Since Negus, he’s released just a few singles, includ- the tour kicked off last September, so anyone who SATURDAY6 ing this year’s raw, striking “Deadass,” which merges can nab some tickets should leave feeling satisfi ed. jazz and funk via a limber upright-bass melody. With —KL Kemba Brittney Carter, Calid B., DJ RTC, and his confi dent, dry delivery, Kemba negotiates riot- DJ Cash Era open. 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 ous energy and restrained focus, emerging with a N. Western, $10. 21+ performance that transcends any defi ned subgenre. —LG FRIDAY5 Bronx rapper Kemba opens his self-released 2016 album, Negus, with a plea: “Don’t call it political / Hand Habits See Thursday. 9 PM, Hideout, Please don’t deem this lyrical / These are negro Goddamn Gallows Scott H. Biram, Urban 1354 W. Wabansia, sold out, $12. 21+ spirituals.” Kemba, who’d previously recorded and Pioneers, and Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones open. performed under the name YC the Cynic, under- 7 PM, Reggies, 2109 S. State, $15. 17+ stands how easily his patient, contemplative songs Born in Michigan and raised on the road, the God- damn Gallows had a four-year gap between The Maker and last year’s The Trial. The somewhat nomadic existence of this raw and boisterous band might account for that—they’ve moved from Michi- gan to Portland to California, and their members are currently scattered in cities all over the country (including Chicago) like empty bottles. But what- ever the reason for the delay, The Trial was worth the wait. The album showcases the group’s melodic sensibility and road-honed tightness, herding their and elaborate instrumentation—banjos, fi ddles, man- dolins, and accordions share time with raw distort- ed guitars and growling metal vocals—into a glori- ous attack formation. The Goddamn Gallows’ style has been described as “hobocore,” and they draw from diverse influences—Americana, bluegrass, punk, metal, cabaret, Celtic punk, sea shanties, and more—to create a sound that’s both new and nos- talgically familiar. The overall vibe is like an eternal hangover, like a pint swung in cheer so hard some- body near the drinker loses teeth, or like a murder story in which the victim sees death coming (and is royally pissed off about it). Live, the Goddamn Gal- lows spark an energy that blurs the line between clogging circles and mosh pits, and on this tour, they coheadline with rootsy one-man band Scott H. Biram—a kindred spirit if ever there was one. Biram’s latest album, 2017’s The Bad Testament (Bloodshot), is a masterpiece of heavy honky-tonkin’ and battle blues. —M K
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Visual art and multimedia—album covers, music videos, merch designs, stage productions—are a big part of Animal Collective’s distinct flavor, so it makes sense that for his new solo album, Cows on Hourglass Pond, core member Avey Tare (the pseudonym of David Michael Portner) would incor- porate some extramusical creative flourishes. By the album’s release on March 22, he’d already released two contrasting videos, the audio-only sin- gle “Taken Boy,” and a short story in both text and audio forms—in the latter the words are enhanced with multiple effects, including dripping slapback delay over sprawling, airy loop-based soundscapes. These pieces enrich the intricate world that Animal Collective and its off shoots have created, which has foundations in immersive multisensory experiences and nostalgia—and in the idea that childlike won-
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