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CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE | JULY | JULY CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE The most colo ul pa ies in the city are Noire Nick Alder and Rae Chardonnay Taylor of Party Noire get to fun by going through respect, safety, community, and empowerment. By MH26 Museum of Streetwear Matt Harvey 18 LGBT asylum seekers Justin Arelo 10 Pitchfork’s Perfect Consumer J.R. Nelson 30 THIS WEEK CHICAGOREADER | JULY | VOLUME NUMBER IN THIS ISSUE T R - CITYLIFE thestagefortheChicagoMagic ofMakoSicabassistBrent @ 03 StreetViewHowtobecooland Lounge Fuscaldoguitaristandsound “havesomethingwhereyoucanput 21 PlaysofnoteGhostQuartet experimenterMarkShippyandthe yourphone”atPitchfork takesfourfriendsonashape Reader’sJamieLudwig PTB 04 SightseeingLettershomefrom shi ingjourneythroughtimeand 34 ShowsofnoteDavila ECSKKH DEKS twoWWIsoldiersexplainthe musicTeatroZinZanniserves WeirdAlNilüferYanyaandmore CLSK raceriotsaswellasanyhistory LoveChaos&Dinnerand 39 EarlyWarningsBilalKinky D P JR book SteepTheatre’sPomonaplantsa FriedmanLilbootycallandmore CEAL M EP M FOOD&DRINK dystopiangardenofevil justannouncedconcerts TD KR 13 RestaurantReviewA 39 GossipWolfCityofDjinn A EJL descendantofaNewOrleans wedpsychedelicdronerock SWDI FILM BJ MS sausageminichainsurfacesin 23 ReviewOnceUponaTime toArabictraditionGoodKids SWMD L G LoganSquare inHollywoodindulgesthefantasy MadCitythrowabeachpartyto EA SN L ofmoviehistorywhenitcouldbe commemoratetheraceriots G D D C S MEBW FEATURE questioningit andmore L CS C -J 10 ProofHowimmigrationcourtis 24 MoviesofnoteBarbara F L CPF especiallychallengingforLGBTQ RubinandtheExplodingNY CN B OPINION D C LCI asylumseekers Undergroundisasmucha 40 ComicDoTrumpsupporters G AG KT 15 PhotoWoodlawnresidentsshare celebrationasitisadocumentary haveanyconceptofracismle ? 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P C IL advocating on behalf of people with marched in downtown Chicago A C RR disabilities. on July 13 to protest the Trump RR T® administration’s immigration policies. 2 CHICAOREADER - JULY ll CITY LIFE LOOKING STYLISH while faced with extreme heat In her view, it’s all about “utility, and having fun and possible thunderstorms can be tough, but these dressing for the occasion. Right now, maximalism, Pitchfork festivalgoers rose to the challenge. Here’s neon, bold patterns, and colors are really trendy for Street View how. festivals.” —IG “I try to think what’s gonna be the most com- Pitch4k fashion rules fortable,” says Joshua Madrid, le . “But I also like See more street style at the Chicago Looks blog. Be cool and “have something where to stand out a bit.” When the 35-year-old saw that you can put your phone.” Balenciaga made a platform pair of Crocs, “I fell super in love with them” and “bought mine for $30 on sale from a website called YRU” (the originals are $800). From there, “I wanted to wear a little mesh since it is so hot today.” At right, pictured on the le , Sal Yvat, 24, says a good festival outfi t is “all about comfort and having something where you can put your phone in.” In this case, “I really wanted to wear this skirt (which is actually a dress). I was going for an Afro-chic-boho vibe. I found this wicker hat at a thri store, and I just love yellow right now, so it all worked together.” Her friend Don W., also 24, says, “I wanted to be kinda trendy for the festival, but I also wanted to be very breezy, so I went with the oversize tee with the shorts underneath. The T-shirt has little holes in it, so I put a bikini top underneath, which also gives it a ISAGIALLORENZO pop of color. The hat was practical, because I wanted to cover my hair up in case I sweat it out.” ISAGIALLORENZO ll JULY - CHICAOREADER3 CITY LIFE Recipients of the Croix de Guerre from the am a northerner or a southerner; whether I am 370th Infantry, 1919 NATIONALARCHIVES COLLEGEPARK a native-born Negro or a foreigner; whether I live among beautiful surroundings or in the squalor of the ‘black belt.’” Once whites were “willing to take off the goggles of race prejudice and to study the Negro with the naked eye of fairness, and to treat him with justice and equity,” Norvell contended, “he will come to the conclusion that the Negro has ‘arrived’ and then voila, you ing its war-ridden condition, an infinitely have the solution to the problem.” The Black more agreeable place for me to live in than man, Norvell argued, “had become tired of my own country.” Norvell subsequently won equal rights. He wants the same rights. He is the Croix de Guerre for commanding a ma- tired of equal accommodations. He wants [the] chine-gun company through a ten-day action same accommodations. He is tired of equal after all its officers were killed or wounded. opportunity. He wants the same opportunity.” When Norvell and his comrades returned By November 1919, Norvell had partially to Chicago on February 19, 1919, they were retreated in his rhetoric. “We need a leader greeted by a thunderous welcome in a massive who will teach us that there is opportunity in parade in the South Loop. every atom of atmosphere, in every grain of There is no record of what Charles L. dust, in every blade of grass,” he wrote Sears, Samson or Stanley B. Norvell did during the Roebuck & Co. president Julius Rosenwald, a Chicago race riots. Given the raw ugliness philanthropist who had given millions to Black of Samson’s letters, it is easy to imagine the educational institutions. “We need a leader lieutenant being one of the hundreds of armed who will teach us how to make money out of whites taking to the streets or, perhaps, being the things that our more fortunate neighbors Sightseeing like the Beverly garage owner who, miles away overlook and discard.” Norvell admitted that from the riot zone, told a light-skinned black when he was almost ready to surrender, his lawyer that the unrest would be over “only thoughts turned to “the many times when on A tale of two soldiers when the whites kill o two or three hundred hard toilsome ‘hikes’ in France when I was of the n----s.” We can’t say where he was, but weak with hunger and suffering with cold a Letters home from two WWI soldiers, one white, one Black, his worldview was shared by the rioters: the dogged spirit of stick-to-it sustained me then explain the 1919 Chicago race riot as well as any history book. end result of the war could not be one in which and that same spirit is sustaining me now.” Black men and women could imagine the same Norvell admitted that he had found it hard By JN rank in society as whites. to return to the life he had left behind in Likewise, it is tempting to think that Nor- Chicago. “Blackening boots, running eleva- f you want to understand race in Chi- worker as I ever encountered.” He believed vell’s experience was similar to that of the tors, waiting table, chau euring and the like cago in the months after the end of the their efficiency could be credited to fellow artist Archibald Motley, who also lived in an seemed rather incongruous to me, and I found First World War, the letters written white o cers who “do not fraternize with the all-white neighborhood in Englewood. Men- the readjustment very difficult indeed,” he by two soldiers from the south side men and hence have no compunction about aced by angry mobs, the Motleys were helped wrote Rosenwald. Stanley B. Norvell subse- are illuminative. Throughout the war, pushing them.” by friendly white neighbors. Archibald guard- quently married and moved from Englewood ILieutenant Charles L. Samson wrote his wife, From the time he was a teenager, Stanley ed the house with a shotgun. However,

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