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CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE | FEBRUARY | FEBRUARY CHICAGO’SFREEWEEKLYSINCE Chicago’s black An Indo-Chinese artists return eatery in Davon Clark 8 North Park Mike Sula 11 Marcus Mixx has lost his home, but he still has house His early records fetch hundreds of dollars apiece, but he just wants a space of his own to make new tracks. By LG 26 Painter Nikko the Goodman’s Washington all-woman Yolanda Perdomo 12 production Kaylen Ralph 14 THIS WEEK CHICAGOREADER | FEBRUARY | VOLUME NUMBER TR A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR - @ THE PIZZA’S ALMOST gone here in the After all, it is not so much the drama of the about Chicago: amazing people doing Reader newsroom, and you know what that campaign that matters as the fact that we amazing things with very few resources. PTB ECAEM means—election results are starting to come went through it all together. The house legend is still going strong, Leor MEPSK in. Finally! Just kidding! The drama of the campaign— Galil writes, from his makeshift offices MEDKH D EKS It’s been a long road, hasn’t it? So many who’s tied to Alderman Ed Burke, who’s in down at the Chicago Cultural Center, and C LSK memories. Someday we’ll look back on this support of the new police academy, who’s on the airwaves at CAN TV. Photographer D P JR CEAL time and pine for a text message from Paul caught on Solis’s wiretap, and whether anyone Davon Clark introduces us to a thrilling M EPM Vallas that we definitely never gave out our can outmoney Daley—this all matters a great spate of black artists upending the nar- A EJL SWDI numbers for. Nostalgic chatter will linger on deal, and we know it. rative and coming back home to Chicago. BJ M S the question of where Jerry Joyce’s wife got So play a couple more rounds of Alder- Yolanda Perdomo visits a Hyde Park ex- SWMD LG her money. We’ll chuckle upon recall of Toni mania! The Board Game while you gird hibition of painter Nikko Washington, an G DD C S MEBW Preckwinkle’s staff’s latest foibles, musing yourself for several more weeks of intensive artist member of the Save Money collec- M LC aloud about the latest Daley to emerge from election coverage. Now that Ben Joravsky is tive. And Kat Sachs previews the Gene Sis- LC SC-J F LCP F the sewers of Bridgeport. back, this time on the virtual airwaves (lives- kel Film Center’s 60-film-strong Chicago TA ECS Then one day we will stumble across the treamed and via podcast on our very own European Union Film Festival. CNB E B D CLC name Neal Sales-Gri n somewhere online and website!), we’ll be looking more closely at our Let’s face it. No artist can capture the won- M DLC SF it will spark nothing. No recognition, no plat- fi nal mayoral potentials. “That’s going to be a der of a surprise text message from Vallas sug- I GA G J H J H IH forms, no endorsements, no memories. “Ah,” race about issues,” Maya Dukmasova said as a gesting you should vote for him solely because DJ MK S K you will say to yourself. “That is someone’s Preckwinkle-Lightfoot runo started to look he’s neither Preckwinkle nor Lightfoot. But MMBMJRN M O Y P name.” And then you will move on, strapping feasible. “That will be interesting.” after tonight you’ll have to fi nd something else LP KR yourself in to Elon Musk’s new citywide jet- But that’s for next week. In the mean- to entertain you. KS BS DS K W AW pack rental device—a deal at only $780 per time, our music feature on Marcus Mixx We’ll have to order more pizza. IYY ZM minute. will remind you of what truly matters —AEM ---------------------------------------------------------------- D D JD D P IN THIS ISSUE E &P K K O M Upservesuphumorhopeand 36 SecretHistoryofChicago SNL whiskeyandyeswerecommend MusicEvanstonbornFreddie ADVERTISING MikePenceSexDream Rouletteisoneofthefewlapsteel -- - @ guitaristsintheblues C @ 36 EarlyWarningsBigThiefSunni ColónPelicanandmorejust SMPF FEATURE announcedconcerts SA R 08 CulturePhotographerDavon 36 GossipWolfTwomaster AM A R CITYLIFE Clarkintroducesustoblackartists drummersanchoraworldclasstrio LM-HNS 03 StreetViewEgyptandanime cominghometoChicago albumSacredMonstercelebrate CRMT P coexistinonewoman’sstyle anawesomenewrecordandmore NA 04 TransportationSkepticism FOOD&DRINK VM G--- aboundsoverElonMusk’sfancy 11 RestaurantReviewIndo FILM OPINION holeintheground Chinesefoodescapesfromthe 20 MoviesAuteursandunknowns 37 SavageLoveDanSavageoff ers JL SB suburbsatWokNChop marktheChicagoEuropean adviceforbifolksoncomingoutof ---------------------------------------------------------------- UnionFilmFestivalCapernaum thecloset DC [email protected] ARTS&CULTURE examinesrefugeesinBeirutwitha -- 12 VisualArtNikkoWashington’s neorealisticlens CLASSIFIEDS STM READER LLC HydeParksoloshowisjustblocks 23 MoviesofnoteBirdsof 37 Jobs BPDRL fromwherehegrewup PassagestunsInAnotherCountry 37 Apartments&Spaces TER 13 LitBookrecommendationsfor pairsHongSangsoowithIsabelle 37 Marketplace S J S S V talkingaboutraceandgender HuppertandTaleoftheSeaisan A- 14 Theater TwilightBowlisall elegyfordepartedIranianartists COMICSSERIALS CCEB femaleonstageandbehindthe 39 ComicsJohnPorcellinoMelissa ---------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS&POLITICS scenesLookingglass’sActsof MUSIC&NIGHTLIFE MendesandMikeCentenocharm R ISSN- 05 Joravsky|PoliticsOurpolitical Godwouldbebetterasasitcom 26 Galil|FeatureChicagohouse thrillanddisgustyouinweekly STMR LLC writergetsthehappyendinghe 17 DanceAkramKhanandthe legendMarcusMixxwantsaplace installments SM SC IL -- deservesjustintimeforrunoff and EnglishNationalBalletbring tocallhome recountseason! Giselleintothestcentury 32 ShowsofnoteRobynMikeKrol C ©C R O PA P C IL 06 Dukmasova|NewsWhythe 18 Playsofnote GrossIndecency KahilEl’Zabar’sEthnicHeritage MLFMC’ SCOTUSdecisiononcivilasset TheThreeTrialsofOscarWildeis Ensembleandotherexcellent A C R R forfeiturewon’tendtheproblem incandescentMaytheRoadRise showsthisweek RR T ® 2 CHICAOREADER - FEBRUARY ll CITY LIFE Less scrolling. Street View Walk like a Pokémon trainer Egypt and anime come together in one woman’s style. FROM AN EARLY AGE Ariel Couzan was fas- cinated by the ancient Egyptians, whose skin was the same shade of brown as hers. The 27-year-old Loop transplant smiles and rat- tles off stories about gods and goddesses and their legendary adventures. Couzan incorpo- rates elements of this obsession into her style with feline earmuff s and a Cleopatra -like bob with gold dreadlock cuff s, topped with a hat whose brim is adorned with a hieroglyphs- inspired design; her zip-up windbreaker has a sphinx face. An aspiring actress and model by day, Couzan is also a diehard anime fan who cosplays often. On this day, she’s equipped with a Pikachu backpack for a downtown adventure of her own: a game of Pokémon More strumming. Go on her phone. Couzan says she’s going for the look of the warrior goddess Sekhmet—if Sekhmet were also a Pokémon trainer. Cou- zan’s catlike eyes are a piercing yellow and red. “My contact lenses represent the fi erce fi re in my soul,” she says. “It burns bright like the sun.” She adds that her contacts do have a ISAGIALLORENZO prescription. —IG Do you want to QUIt using CRACk or coCAINE? 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By JG ast June, Mayor Rahm Emanuel an- nounced that the city had selected tech guru Elon Musk’s Jetsons-esque scheme to build and operate the O’Hare Express, an airport transit The current administration is hoping to ink Model X electric car instead of the autono- of dollars a year in taxpayer funds. He added Lsystem employing high-speed electric pods as its contract with the Boring Company before mous pods Musk had promised prior to the that initial ridership projections for Denver’s a faster, cushier alternative to the Blue Line. Emanuel leaves o ce in May, although there unveiling. And rather than using next-level A-Line airport train, which currently costs The inventor says his Boring Company will could be resistance from aldermen to voting tunneling technology, the company had $10.50, were also overly optimistic. use proprietary digging technology to tunnel to approve the deal before the next mayor excavated the 12-foot-wide passage with an Sriraj said that a much more sensible strat- some 18 miles from Block 37 to O’Hare at a takes over. Last week Jennifer Martinez, old tunnel boring machine (a machine with egy would be to simply convert two lanes fraction of the cost and time of conventional spokesperson for the Chicago Infrastructure a circular cross section that can dig through of the Kennedy Expressway to car-free bus methods. Then, he says, he’ll shoot customers Trust, which is representing