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Why is the rent so damn high? Maya Dukmasova and Anjulie Rao 16
The worst hecklers are the cats Brianna Wellen 19
‘A place I can call Chicago has one of the largest Rohingya refugee populations in the home’ country. This is one survivor’s story. By E F 12 THIS WEEK CHICAGO READER | JULY | VOLUME NUMBER
IN THIS ISSUE T R - CITY LIFE populations in the country This is Scandinavian schlock Yesterday 31 The Secret History of @ 04 Sightseeing How an ambitious one survivor’s story and the idea of fi nding home Chicago Music Drummer Kahil plan for an airport in the lake failed through the Beatles El’Zabar elevates groove to a to take fl ight 23 Movies of note Before transcendent plane P T B 05 PSA Give me your tired masses Stonewall utilizes revealing 34 Early Warnings Claud E C S K K H D E K S yearning to play cornhole interviews and riveting archival Hieroglyphics Shonen Knife and C LSK footage Toni Morrison The Pieces more just announced shows D P J R That I Am is rich with insights about 34 Gossip Wolf Guitarist and C E AL NEWS & POLITICS M E P M 06 Joravsky | Politics How fear Blackness and Spider Man Far soul singer Isaiah Sharkey drops A E J L drives the opposition to single From Home provides eye popping a kaleidoscopic new album black S W D I payer health care escapism metal takes on the Fantastic Four BJ MS SW M D L G and more E A SN L G D D C S M E B W ARTS & CULTURE OPINION L C S C -J 16 Architecture A visit to the 36 Foreign Policy How Democrats F L C P F ‘Evicted’ exhibit in Milwaukee and Republicans keep us constantly TA E C S 18 Visual Art Quilts of Valor pieces engaged in confl ict C N B D C L C I together a way to honor military 37 Savage Love Dan Savage G A G KT vets off ers advice on whether having H R H JH 19 Comedy At the stand up show ‘a thing for Black guys’ makes one J H I H D J M K S K M M ‘Just Kitten Around’ the worst prejudiced B M Q JRN hecklers are the cats L P K RBS D S TTRBEA W FOOD & DRINK CLASSIFIEDS ------08 Restaurant Review A THEATER MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE 38 Jobs D D J D University Village storefront shows 20 Plays of note Flower of Hawaii 26 Feature | The Block Beat 39 Apartments & Spaces D P E &P the global versatility of the Nepali is a frothy fantasy that fi rst bloomed A er years away Chicago rapper 39 Marketplace K K dumpling in prewar Berlin for a good time and producer Omen returns to O M S A A A J G come all over the dating satire Dreamville Records’ starting Y D FEATURE Grindr the Opera lineupand to the south side park 10 Photos What does Dyke March where he learned to play ADVERTISING O P A -- - @ mean to you? FILM 29 Shows of note Combo P F P ’ C @ 12 Home Chicago has one of 21 Review Midsommar is nothing Chimbita Fee Lion Bonobo and the largest Rohingya refugee more than a dressed up piece of more this week S D P F V P S A M C R M TP S A R B G A H THIS WEEK ON CHICAGOREADER.COM J L LM -H A R L S B W C S M W R
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A Lake Michigan site for Chicago’s third major airport, 1970 CITYOFCHICAGODEPARTMENTOFPUBLICWORKS
the jobs generated by an airport on the south and potentially dangerous scheme; and en- side. The communities closest to the airport vironmentalists. Unfortunately for Daley, his would see dramatic investments in the form proposal came at a time when the public was of hotels, restaurants, and other facilities to particularly anxious about the health of the service airline tra c. Moreover, an airport in Great Lakes. “The lake is already threatened Lake Michigan would be the kind of make-no- with extinction by pollution,” as an editori- small-plans enterprise that Chicago mayors alist at WIND-AM put it. “It doesn’t need any and their constituents love—an awe-inspiring additional threats.” public works project that would pump tens of City Hall simply refused to concede any millions of dollars into the construction trades real risks in its pharaonic project. Milton and leave a heroic monument to the city’s Pikarsky, Chicago Commissioner of Public technical ingenuity. Works, claimed in May 1971 that water quality The initial report by the Hanza Engineering and aquatic life would actually improve if the Company, a Chicago fi rm renowned for design- airport were built. “All the evidence we have ing dams and other large-scale hydrological indicates we can overcome any environmental projects, considered a site due east of 35th problems,” he told the Chicago Tribune. Street, with the Stevenson Expressway four Although Pikarsky claimed fog wouldn’t be Sightseeing miles across the lake to the island airport. But an issue because takeo s and landings would in its 1970 report to the city, Hanza settled on a be automated, air controllers and pilots con- site whose center would be 8.5 miles due east tended that the airport would be vulnerable to An airport in the lake of 55th Street. Hanza envisioned that barges icing and low visibility, and judged its location would create a circular dike five miles in di- too close to O’Hare and Midway’s crowded How Mayor Richard J. Daley’s ambitious plan failed to take fl ight ameter, dumping tons of sand or rock-fi ll into airspace for it to be e cient. Nor did City Hall the lake. Over a three-month period, all the adequately address a 1969 Federal Aviation By JN water within this circle would be pumped out. Administration-commissioned report that After the diked enclosure had been fortified warned that catastrophic dike failure was still with rock quarried from below the lake bed, a modern phenomenon. The barrier protecting he next time you’re cruising on Lake it chose the lightly populated site that later the terminals, hangars, and runways would the airport could be put under stress by severe Shore Drive south of McCormick became O’Hare. Two decades later, with fears be constructed. A causeway would connect events involving weather, leakage, sabotage, Place, look to the lake and try to that O’Hare and Midway were approaching the airport to the mainland. The entire airport or accidents. imagine how di erent your commute full capacity, the city commissioned a study would be the antithesis of an artifi cial island, Critics also came with common-sense ob- might have been if Mayor Richard J. to explore the feasibility of an airport in Lake with planes fl ying into a space that had been jections that were di cult to wave away. How- TDaley had pulled o his most audacious pub- Michigan rather than in the suburbs. the very bottom of the lake. ever daring, the experimental design of the lic works plan—a major airport built in Lake An airport in the lake would solve a num- Hanza Engineering noted it had employed airport seemed vulnerable to cost overruns. Michigan, fi ve miles from shore. ber of problems for Daley. There simply was C. H. Mortimer, a widely respected limnologist American airports had several entry and exit The idea of building a major airport in the no place within the city boundaries to put a who specialized in the Great Lakes, as a con- points in case of emergency; this would have lake predated Mayor Daley. In 1928, the City major airport. It was one thing to demolish sultant on ecological matters, yet the report just one. Tra c on Lake Shore Drive could not Council approved funding to plan an airport 106 acres to make room for a Chicago campus didn’t dedicate much space to environmental handle an airport the size of O’Hare. In addi- built on an artificial island stretching from of the University of Illinois, a project largely concerns. It conceded that fi sh would be “ex- tion to how such an unprecedented project 16th to 31st Street. Seven years later, the fed- supported by Chicagoans outside of the near- pelled” from the airport zone during construc- might a ect the lake ecology, there was also eral government denied funding for an island west-side neighborhood that was destroyed. tion, but maintained the total e ect on marine the question of whether the noise of constant air station east of the Adler Planetarium, on It was another thing to clear 8,000 acres for life would “be localized and quantitatively flights might simply bounce off the lake and the grounds that the area could not cope with a third airport. Although Richard M. Daley unimportant.” Hanza was confident that all disrupt the peace with incessant jet noise. the noise, tra c, and other disruptions a big considered building an airport around Lake the wastewater produced by the airport could In the end, City Hall was unable to contain airport would bring. Downtown would get its Calumet in the early 90s, this area was still be piped to treatment plants on the mainland, opposition in Springfield or Washington. In airfi eld, but it would come in the form of Meigs dominated by smoky industries. An airport in and that aircraft emissions would not lead to May 1972, Daley told the press that he wanted Field, a single-runway facility that could not Lake Michigan could be situated close to the water pollution. to end the “emotionalism and controversy” handle large jets. all-important downtown, yet the city wouldn’t The strongest opposition to the Lake Mich- around building an airport in the lake, stating In 1945, the committee tasked with recom- have to demolish a single home or relocate a igan site came from a fairly predictable lot: he would oppose building a third airport in mending the site of a new international air- single industrial plant to build it. Hyde Parkers, who weren’t thrilled by the any location. With that, his dream airport dis- port considered sites north of Foster Avenue Unlike a “Chicago” airport built in adjoin- prospect of sharing their part of the lake with appeared as if engulfed by the lake. v (5200 North) and south of Rainbow Beach ing unincorporated DuPage or Will Counties, a gigantic airport; suburbanites, who saw in (7500 South), but due to construction costs Chicagoans would take the lion’s share of the Lake Michigan site a singularly selfish @backwards_river 4 CHICA O READER - JULY ll CITY LIFE
munity center. You can band together to make immigrants and their families feel welcome regardless of their status by making sure they are included in your community gatherings. Those looking to do a little more can also turn to organizations like the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. The coali- tion is part of a new initiative called Chicago C I Immigrant Transportation Assistance (CITA) T that supports asylum seekers leaving deten- A tion centers with their ground transportation icirr.org/fsn needs. And Centro Romero in Rogers Park is CR just one of several Chicago organizations that centroromero.org needs volunteers for family programs, teen support, and legal programs focused on our A F S C immigrant communities. Being a good neigh- afsc.org bor is a meaningful pursuit, and as the writers of the Declaration of Independence conclud- Chicago has been an official Sanctuary City since 2016. MARCOVERCH/FLICKR ed, “for the support of this Declaration, with a fi rm reliance on the protection of divine Prov- idence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.” —S C -J Public Service Announcement Learn to be a Welcoming City Give me your tired masses yearning to play cornhole $10 $15 FREE TICKETS PRESALE @DOOR 12 & UNDER THEPRODIGALS
INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND is a good Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refus- moment to reflect upon what more we can ing to pass others to encourage their migra- DUSTBOWL each do to guarantee that BBQs and corn- tions hither, and raising the conditions of new hole can be enjoyed in peace by anyone who Appropriations of Lands.” You know, just as an chooses to live in our fair city. A close read- example. REVIVAL ing of the Declaration of Independence (the Chicago is an official Sanctuary City, and AND THE BYRNE reason for the season) will bring you quickly in 2016 passed the Welcoming City Ordi- DEREK YOUNG WOLFE BROTHERS* to the quotation that is drilled into our collec- nance to help prevent undocumented resi- TONES* tive consciousness so fi ercely that one could dents from being prosecuted based solely on WARFIELD * imagine fi nding a framed needlepoint of it at their immigration status. We have policies to TUPELO the dollar store: self-evident truths, all men make sure people are taken care of but many HOUSE OF equal, life, liberty, happiness, you betcha. of our newest residents may not know about HAMILL SHANE But about the rest—it’s a position paper, a them or feel comfortable reaching out for JULY 12-14 HENNESSY* document declaring not just what the writ- help. What can longtime Chicagoans do to FRI 6pm–12am | SAT 12pm–12am * ers wanted but also what the high-spirited help our neighbors who may be facing pros- SUN 12pm–11pm | RAIN OR SHINE McPEAKE RORY MAKEM refugees who migrated to these shores did ecution? The American Friends Service Com- *DIRECT FROM IRELAND not want. “The history of the present King of mittee (AFSC) has published a great list of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries things to think about on their website includ- irishfestchicago.com and usurpations, all having in direct object ing two simple but often overlooked steps: the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over learn about the history of immigration in the #81 LAWRENCE @ KILPATRICK @ MONTROSE–BLUE LINE these States,” said the writing committee of United States (the AFSC helpfully links to a SEVEN MILES NORTH OF DOWNTOWN CHICAGO AT THE 90/94 SPLIT the Second Continental Congress. They fol- list of suggested viewing) and connect with lowed this in the document with a list of prob- the immigrant community. If you don’t feel FREE ONSITE PARKING lems the “present King” had created: “He has like you have anyone in your life that is aff ect- Irish American Heritage Center endeavoured to prevent the population of ed by this issue, look toward your community 4626 NORTH KNOX AVENUE, CHICAGO (773)282-7035 these States; for that purpose obstructing the of worship, your block club, or your local com- ll JULY - CHICA O READER5 NEWS & POLITICS
A er last week’s debate, the latest cautiousness has to do with health care. TAXREBATEORGUK/FLICKR
POLITICS Clinton conventional wisdom How fear drives the opposition to single-payer health care By BJ
f you want a reminder of the cowardly Personally, I don’t believe Biden or Obama cautiousness of mainstream Democrats, cared one way or another about gay marriage. check out this moment from the Great They were just falling in line with the prevail- Debate. ing conventional wisdom that you can’t get No, not last week’s presidential too far ahead of the voters for fear of alien- Idebates in Miami. I’m talking about the long- ating the proverbial swing vote in Virginia, forgotten vice presidential debate in which Michigan, etc. Joe Biden, then Barack Obama’s running mate, So it goes with the Nervous Nellies who took on Sarah Palin. run the Democratic Party. Always cautioning Gwen Ifill, the moderator, looked Biden candidates to move right, always ordering the in the eye and asked: “Do you support gay rank and fi le to shut up and betray their ideals. marriage?” There are plenty of examples besides gay In response to which Biden declared: “No. marriage—like marijuana. Back in 2011, when Barack Obama nor I support redefi ning from Mick Dumke and I started writing about the a civil side what constitutes marriage. We do unfairness of locking up Black people for not support that.” something that white people do all the time, Ifi ll said, It’s nice that you agree on some- we could barely fi nd any Democrats willing to thing, and they went on to another subject. publicly discuss the matter. That debate took place in 2008. But it might Generally, they’d go o the record to tell us as well have happened in another lifetime that they had nothing against reefer. In fact, as far as attitudes go. Can’t imagine anyone they may have—chuckle, chuckle—smoked remotely connected to the Democrats uttering some over the weekend. But, you know, don’t such a declaration these days. want to get too far ahead of voters. 6 CHICA O READER - JULY ll NEWS & POLITICS GREEN And so it took eight more years of penaliz- Don’t get me wrong. I realize there are peo- ing Black guys before lawmakers fi nally found ple who like their doctors or nurses or the real the courage to legalize weed in Illinois. nice receptionist who sits behind the front e l e m e n t After last week’s debate, the latest cautious- desk at the clinic. And there are those who are ness has to do with health care. But before I worried about what would happen if we went get into that, allow me to share my two expla- to a di erent system. So, yes, they’re vulnera- RESALE nations as to why Democrats are such scaredy ble to Republican scare tactics. cats. But liking the actual insurance? Man, good One, the party strategists and leaders are luck finding someone who even knows how www.big-medicine.org still following a playbook largely written by their private insurance works. You’d be sur- 6241 N. Broadway, Chicago Bill Clinton, based on lessons he learned in prised how many people are a little wobbly on 1972. the di erence between deductible and co-pay, As a political operative for George McGov- much less how much they pay for either. 773-942-6522 ern’s presidential campaign, Clinton watched But that won’t stop Democratic Nervous President Nixon roll to victory by painting the Nellies from trying to scare voters into signing Mon-Sat 11-7 Democrats as tax-and-spend, weak-on-crime, on to the current debacle on the grounds that pot-smoking commies. swing voters are frightened by “a V.A.-type Sun 12-7 Clinton’s been running to the right ever nightmare.” since, pausing to pay tribute to Martin Luther While we’re at it, for a different view on King Jr. or Bobby Kennedy in order to prove the medical service provided by the Veterans his heart is good. Administration, I turned to someone who ac- The other explanation is that Republicans tually uses it, my old friend Milo Samardzija. PLEASE have become really good at taunting and trash Back in the 60s, Milo got drafted and sent talking—scaring Democrats into running to to Vietnam. He now gets his medical service CONSIDER the right. at the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center on the That brings me to health care. Consider this near west side. ri from a recent column by Bret Stephens, a In the last several years, Milo’s had two HONORING right-wing pundit for the New York Times, major surgeries—one on his brain, the other chastising Democratic candidates for champi- on his heart. Doesn’t get more major than that. EARTH DAY oning a single-payer health care plan. All free of charge at Jesse Brown. “They don’t pay the premiums for private “To call the VA system a nightmare makes health insurance,” he wrote. “We’re supposed no sense. It’s not perfect, for sure, but it takes EVERYDAY to give up ours in exchange for some V.A.-type care of its people. They saved my life—the nightmare.” treatment was great. Great doctors. Wonder- Other pundits and strategists—Rahm ful sta . It didn’t cost me a cent. Emanuel included—are advising the Dem- “People will say, ‘Milo, you’ve got it good. ocratic candidates not to push for single You get free health care.’ I tell them, ‘Yeah, Buy reused/ payer on the grounds that voters really like well, go join the army and fuck around with the private insurance they get through their the Taliban for a couple of years, and you’ll get recycled employers. free health care too.’” Hearing this has set me on a crusade to fi nd Here’s hoping that free health care will one furniture, people who actually like their private health day be as readily accepted as gay marriage. insurance. And that none of us will have to fi ght a war to housewares, So far, I can’t fi nd anyone. But I keep trying. get it. v I’m almost at the point where I’m stopping and clothing as strangers on the street. @joravben often as possible!
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I don’t have a lot of use for tilapia, which the Houston Chronicle not-famously-enough once described as “tofu with fins,” but the Momo World’s fi sh momo, stu ed with a forcemeat of the ignoble species, seasoned with lemon and masala (including cumin, cinnamon, cilantro, and onion), is so kinetically juicy that it comes close to a credible xiao long bao. At the Momo World, they’re using commer- cial dumpling wrappers, which results in a durable dumpling unlike those at Chiya Chai , the city’s other momo specialist, where the wrappers are more delicate but tend to tear, making desirable qualities like juiciness a bit of a gamble with each individual dumpling. Other varieties may not be as nicely aqueous as the Momo World’s fi sh momo, but they are consistently juicy, whether they get an assist from their saute medium, as with the choela momo, a fiery chicken- or vegetable-stuffed purse stained with chiles, Sichuan peppercorn, and pickled tomato that may be the Nashville hot chicken of the dumpling world; or dipped in one of eight sauces that accompany plain RESTAURANT REVIEW steamed dumplings such as the graceful spermatozoa-shaped paneer momo or the classic squat ziggurats fi lled with chicken or The Momo World—almost an pork. The Budhathokis also traffic in modern variations like the momo marinated in International House of Dumplings tandoori-style spices, skewered, then grilled, or the cross-cultural chipotle momo, panfried A University Village storefront shows the global versatility of the Nepali street food. in smoky chile sauce and cream and served with sour cream and cilantro. By M S One can live or die on momo alone, but dumplings aren’t everything at the Momo World. Budhathoki, who is a former partner in adhu Budhathoki knows about er-service spot the Momo World is avoiding mandu, where Budhathoki comes from, water the group behind Himalayan Restaurant and the viral urban legend known death by dumpling—that is, after eating bu alo momo are prized. And since water buf- was a cook back in Kathmandu, offers a few as the Momo challenge. A cus- too many of the twentysomething different falo is hard to come by here, the Budhathokis other Nepali dishes such as sekuwa (chunks of tomer at his University Village Nepali-style momo Budhathoki and his wife, stu dumpling wrappers with paneer, chicken, sauteed chicken, lamb, or paneer marinated in restaurant told him about the Poonam, offer. pork, vegetables, fish, and even chocolate. yogurt, chiles, Sichuan peppercorn, turmeric, Mcreepy bird lady who supposedly appears The momo is a dumpling similar in some They steam them, fry them, saute, and sauce and coriander) and the potato salad aloo ko on the screens children plant their faces respects to the Korean mandu, the Japanese them, or serve them in soup—johl achar, to be achar, with chickpeas, avocado, and yogurt. to and ultimately encourages them to kill gyoza, and the Chinese soup dumpling, or xiao specifi c, a thin, tomatoey broth with soybeans And he knows how to make a mean goat themselves. long bao. In Tibet, the momo’s ancestral home, and sesame sauce that is another specialty of biryani and other familiar northern Indian The only real challenge at his small count- they’re often stu ed with yak meat. In Kath- Budhathoki’s hometown. dishes, like chana masala and aloo gobi matar. 8 CHICA O READER - JULY ll Search the Reader’s online database of thousands of Chicago-area restaurants—and add your own review—at chicagoreader.com/food.
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C C “I think it’s incredibly important for visibility of people of all sorts of diff erent identities—gender identities, sexual identities, not necessarily the binary. I don’t identify along the binary, including sexually or genderwise, so I think it’s incredibly important to be visible, and to be out, and to be proud about those in-between identities.”
C O “This march is more inclusive and represents people like me. I’m Native American. I’m Mexican. I’m nonbinary. I like that it doesn’t have all this corporate sponsorship. So for me, this is more my style.”
A B“Dyke March gives me a space to commune with other queers like myself and see myself represented in so many other people. Right now it’s such a respite from daily fatigue, from what we see in the news, and experience day to day as queers.”
10 CHICA O READER - JULY ll Anna Kelly (center le ): “I think it’s very pivotal to highlight trans voices at Dyke March, and I’m glad it’s happening.” Ebonni Watford (center right): “Literally yesterday, my sister posted on Facebook, ‘Dykes are always hitting on me.’ Thinking about the sadness [of] being called a dyke in that moment yesterday, and then the empowerment [I feel] to call myself one today, is amazing.”
K A “It’s important for us to stand together as a community against such an oppressive government with Trump in offi ce. And Dyke March is an important alternative to the Pride Parade. We’re not here to center the corporations and capitalism. We’re here to center ourselves. We’re here cheering for ourselves, fi ghting for our lives and our rights.” v
L W “My heart’s in the revolution. My heart is for the full rights of all people. And I don’t see how that will happen under capitalism. We’re seeing examples right now how, you know, rights that were won in the 60s are now being eroded and taken away. And [I believe in] a revolution for the people.”
ll JULY - CHICA O READER11 ‘A place I can call home’ Chicago has one of the largest Rohingya refugee populations in the country. This is one survivor’s story. By E F
n September 2017, Muhammad Habib Ismail joined fellow Rohingya Muslims on a march through downtown Chicago. The march, organized by the Rohingya Cultural Center, was to protest the IMyanmar military’s campaign of rape, arson, and killing of Rohingya in northern Rakhine State, which UN investigators found to have been carried out “with genocidal intent.” In Myanmar, the Rohingya are commonly referred to as “Bengalis,” alluding to their perceived status as illegal interlopers despite having lived in the Buddhist-majority country for generations. They have been stateless since a 1982 law stripped them of citizen- ship. In August 2017, the Myanmar military launched “clearance operations” in retalia- tion against an attack on military outposts in northern Rakhine State by insurgent group the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army. An estimat- ed 730,000 Rohingya fled across the border into Bangladesh in the following months. More than 900,000 Rohingya currently live in camps in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangla- desh, which now holds the largest refugee set- tlement in the world, according to the United Nations. A further 128,000 remain in camps on the outskirts of Sittwe, the Rakhine State capital, where they have been denied freedom of movement or access to basic services since fl eeing their homes during a wave of intercom- munal violence in 2012. Ismail was born in Kelantan, Malaysia, in 1994 with no documentation other than a ref- ugee card issued through the United Nations Ismail’s family was among the fi rst Rohingya to reach Chicago in 2012. ANJALIPINTO High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). His paternal grandparents fled from Myan- 12 CHICA O READER - JULY ll ON LINCOLN AVE BETWEEN MONTROSE AND WILSON AVE JULY 12, 13, 14 2019 IN LINCOLN SQUARE, CHICAGO
mar with his father during a mass exodus of Rohingya in 1978. Ismail’s maternal grandpar- ents, who are Muslim but not Rohingya, sent his mother to Malaysia along with an aunt when she was six, in hopes that she would have better economic prospects than in Myanmar. Ismail’s parents met when his mother was 14 CHICAGO’S FAVORITE and his father 17. They married within the year SUMMER STREET and had three children. FESTIVAL supporting In Malaysia, where refugees are classified Old Town School of Folk together with undocumented immigrants, Music & Lincoln Square Ravenswood Chamber Ismail’s family did not have access to public of Commerce! services or legal employment. When he was a child, his father scraped together an income selling Islamic books door-to-door. As is cus- tomary in many Rohingya families, his father did not allow his mother to work. Ismail at- tended public school until fourth grade, when his teacher asked for his legal documentation for a fi eld trip. “That’s when they came to know I was a refugee,” he remembers. It was the end of his education in Malaysia. Only 11 years old, he started working, and over the next six years held jobs washing cars and processing chick- FOUR STAGES AND OVER 50 BANDS FROM AROUND THE WORLD: ens. Without legal authorization to work and unable to advocate for his rights, he earned SON VOLT • CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN • CRACKER less than his Malaysian coworkers—about BLOODSHOT RECORDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FEATURING $3.50 per hour—and was often denied pay. MEKONS • MURDER BY DEATH • VANDOLIERS • BLOODSHOT ALL STARS In 2008, Ismail’s father suffered a stroke THE MEDITATIONS • 47SOUL • THE WILD REEDS that rendered him barely able to speak or walk. Denied access to Malaysia’s free public BEACH SLANG • BAZURTO ALL STARS • OKKERVIL RIVER* • ANGEL D’CUBA health care and unable to a ord medical fees, SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS • IAN NOE • LOGAN LEDGER • RATBOYS • OHMME & MORE! he relied on herbal remedies. Ismail, then 14, PLUS A KIDS STAGE FEATURING became the family’s sole wage earner. With LAURA DOHERTY & THE HEARTBEATS • WIGGLEWORMS MIXTAPE LIVE! • DREAMTREE SHAKERS funds running dry, his mother traveled to FANTASTIC FOOD FROM LINCOLN SQUARE’S FAVORITE RESTAURANTS: the capital city of Kuala Lumpur to request assistance from UNHCR. Three months later, AMY’S CANDY BAR • ARTANGO BAR & STEAKHOUSE • BISTRO CAMPAGNE • BO’S CONCESSIONS • BYRON’S HOT DOGS DINKY DELIGHTS • EL CAMPEON • ESSENCE OF INDIA • FAT CHRIS’S PIZZA AND SUCH • GATHER • GREEN LEAF THAI CUISINE they were informed that they would be con- GROUNDSWELL COFFEE ROASTERS • ISLA PILIPINA • JERRY’S • LEE CONCESSIONS • LUELLA’S GOSPEL BIRD sidered for resettlement to the United States. LUELLA’S SOUTHERN KITCHEN • MIKU SUSHI • SWEET PEPPER VENEZUELAN FOOD BAR • TACO IN A BAG • THE BUDLONG HOT CHICKEN The screening process under the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program—extensive interviews, AND CRAFT BEERS FROM CHICAGO’S FINEST BREWERIES: medical and security checks—took four years. Ismail’s mother initially viewed resettle- ment with trepidation. Neither she nor her husband were literate, they didn’t have close friends or family in America, and she worried
about finding halal food and a Muslim com- *Additional ticket munity in a foreign city. She told her children required she agreed to go to give them the chance for an education. n July 2012, Ismail’s family was one of the SQUAREROOTS.ORG fi rst Rohingya families to reach Chicago. ILarger numbers began arriving in 2013 and ’14 and have since tapered off. Chicago now hosts the largest Rohingya refugee popu- EVENT EVENT MAJOR PRESENTERS: PRODUCER: SPONSORS: lation in the country, estimated at 1,500. The next-largest population is in Milwaukee, J ll JULY - CHICA O READER13 continued from 13 his eyes,” Indman says. “The boy could not with smaller clusters scattered throughout speak English, and he was just looking in the the country, according to Laura Toffenetti, teachers’ eyes, and the eyes of students, trying assistant director of the Rohingya Cultural to get some information.” Center. Struggling to grasp the basic concepts, Is- Toffenetti says that Chicago—with its mail began skipping school. By the end of the long history of welcoming immigrants and fi rst semester, he was failing all his classes. A refugees and a sizable Muslim population on warning from a Bangladeshi classmate turned Devon Street in West Ridge—is a desirable his outlook around: “If you don’t graduate, place for Rohingya to settle. The Cultural then you’ll have wasted your years here.” Is- Center, which opened in 2016 at California mail began studying at the library and staying and Devon Streets, provides social services after school to meet his teachers. By the end of and education to support refugee adjustment, the year, he had brought his grades up to Bs. and holds activities aiming to celebrate and “He was sitting in my class, a student who at preserve Rohingya language and culture. fi rst could not read or write, and he was solv- “The biggest challenges are for the teens ing problems in chemistry. It was incredible,” who arrive here with little or no education Indman says. “Nobody spoke his language, but experience and [who] are put in schools [ac- he fi gured [it] out.” cording to their] age,” says Toffenetti. She Mather, located in West Ridge, is one of Chi- adds that many parents “have no experience cago’s most diverse high schools, according to being in school, so even though they value the principal, Peter Au ant. The school’s 1,500 education, they are unable to help their chil- students speak more than 60 languages and dren” progress academically. Under these represent more than 140 countries of origin. circumstances, adolescents often drop out to “We work hard as a sta to build a community work. where everyone belongs. . . . The fact that we In their first three months in America, are all so di erent is the one thing we all have Ismail’s family received a set of core services in common,” he says. For Ismail, this diversity from their resettlement agency, Heartland enabled him to establish a community. “I was Alliance, in accordance with national refugee able to make friends from di erent countries policy and aimed at promoting self -su ciency. because I spoke broken English and they did the The services included case management, em- same,” he says. “People didn’t make fun of me.” ployment assistance, and apartment rental In a single classroom, Indman says, she and financial assistance; they received an sometimes has students who speak more additional fi ve months of social services that than 20 languages. Many, like Ismail, have Heartland Alliance funds through grants and interrupted educational backgrounds or lack donations. Heartland Alliance’s Refugee and formal education prior to enrolling in Mather. Immigrant Community Services o ce in Ra- Indman compared Ismail’s determination with venswood supports more than 300 refugees other first-generation immigrants and refu- from confl ict-a ected countries in Asia, Afri- gees, including herself—she came to America ca, and the Middle East each year. as a refugee in the 90s from the former Soviet Heartland Alliance rented the family an Union. “We are survivors,” she says. apartment on Devon Street in West Ridge and Of Ismail, she notes, “Life brought him to within three months, Ismail’s mother secured the level of adult too soon.” Nonetheless, she a job packing chicken at Tyson Foods. At was impressed with his desire to make up $10.50 per hour, it barely covered the family’s for lost time. “If he had a question, he would $740 per month rent and other living expens- always ask. He was trying to close [the] gap in “We still have people who are supporting us, who believe in equality,” Ismail says. ANJALIPINTO es, so the family’s caseworker suggested his education.” that Ismail start working as well. His mother disagreed, and Ismail enrolled in Mather High eanwhile, Ismail’s father, still unable pute turned physical, and Ismail intervened. lice o cer. “I don’t want anyone else to be in School. He was 17, and could just barely gradu- to work, remained idle at home, When his father threatened him with a kitchen the situation I was in. I want to serve and pro- ate by Illinois’s age cuto of 21. Mwhile his mother worked long shifts knife, his younger sister called the police. tect the community that I’ve been living in,” When Ismail left school in Malaysia, he at Tyson. “I think that frustrated [my father] Ismail says that the arrival of the police felt he says. His mother worries about the risks, was just learning division and multiplication the most,” Ismail says. “He would stay at home “like God had sent angels from above.” None- but she knows his mind can’t be changed. “She and had never formally studied English. At the whole day . . . He would get angry at every theless, he convinced his mother not to press always tells me, ‘If that’s what you want to do, Mather, he needed to take the subjects re- small thing. He would start yelling, he’d start criminal charges, because of the sacrifi ces his just go for it.’” quired by the state to graduate. Elena Indman, accusing you of something you didn’t do, and father had made for the family in Malaysia and In 2016, Ismail became the first person in Ismail’s English as a Second Language chem- he would become violent.” America. his family to graduate high school. “I still istry teacher, says he was the school’s first When Ismail’s mother came home late one Ismail had been fascinated by law enforce- remember my mom crying, looking at me in Rohingya student. night after working an overtime shift, his ment since childhood and has since taken the the gown,” he says. After Ismail’s graduation, “When Habib came to Mather, I remember father questioned her whereabouts. The dis- written and physical exams to be a Chicago po- his older sister, who reached Chicago a few 14 CHICA O READER - JULY ll years after him, moved to Milwaukee with her being able to fi nish my school, being able to husband and children in search of more a ord- pursue my dreams—it means a lot.” able housing and better economic prospects. When President Trump’s travel ban went Ismail’s father joined them. into effect in January 2017, suspending the Ismail enrolled at Wilbur Wright College, Refugee Admissions Program and restricting summer attending morning classes and working nights the admission of citizens from seven pre- at Wendy’s. He now works night shifts at dominantly Muslim countries, Ismail was on O’Hare International Airport as a passenger duty at the airport. At fi rst he was dismayed service agent for Frontier Airlines. He sleeps and feared that “people don’t want us in their art classes for a few hours and then does morning deliv- country.” His hope, however, was restored eries for GrubHub. Because his annual income upon seeing crowds demonstrating against for kids & adults surpasses the threshold to qualify for federal the ban at the arrival hall. “We still have student aid, Ismail paused for two years to people who are supporting us, who believe in save money, and resumed classes this month. equality,” he says. Last July, Ismail became a citizen. The While Ismail has never set foot in Myan- ceremony made him remember his childhood mar, he says he participated in the 2017 in Malaysia, when “I didn’t have any hope, demonstrations against the plight of the New classes begin the week of July 22 because I was in the country where I was born, Rohingya out of a sense of solidarity. “We and I wasn’t able to get citizenship,” he says. protested so the people who were being In March, he went back for the fi rst time. Many killed, being raped, whose houses were being of his former neighbors were still living in burned down—so that international orga- marginal conditions, struggling to fi nd work nizations would step up and do something and earn a basic living. about it,” he says. “Even though we live in a “Now I have a place I can call home,” he says. better condition now, we haven’t forgotten “Coming [to America], being able to work, those who are dying.” v
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ARCHITECTURE Why is the rent so damned high? A visit to the ‘Evicted’ exhibit in Milwaukee By M D A R
viction has become a prominent topic of academic research, public debate, journalistic investigation, and artistic expression in recent years, spurred largely by the 2016 Epublication of sociologist Matthew Desmond’s book Evicted. Set in Milwaukee, it painstaking- ly describes the lives of poor tenants and their landlords and contemplates solutions to the nation’s eviction epidemic. Since the book’s release, Desmond has opened the Eviction Lab, a research center at Princeton University, where he teaches, and spearheaded various A representation of the number of eviction fi lings by state in 2016. UWMPHOTO/ELORAHENNESSEY projects to raise public awareness of the problem. Among them is a traveling exhibition dozens of people, their kids, their families are called “Evicted,” which debuted at the Na- all there. But I wanted to see more compelling tional Building Museum in Washington, D.C., objects like the sculpture near the entrance. and recently made its way to Milwaukee. The It showed a collection of personal belong- exhibit combines audio and visual representa- ings wrapped in Saran Wrap, and it told the tion of statistics and personal stories in con- story of what it is like to be a part of an evic- junction with work by architecture students at tion. Instead of reducing eviction to a part of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Last everyday violent bureaucratic processes, the weekend we took a road trip to check it out. sculpture made me see eviction as an emo- tional trauma. M D I thought that the exhib- I also totally agree with you: the house- it was a great way to present the basic out- shaped displays are visually interesting line of this problem to an audience that has enough that you could put them in a pub- no prior engagement. The video is short but lic space. It would function beautifully and compelling. The photographs are excellent. reach a much wider audience. The informa- The data is displayed in a well-thought-out tion stands on its own, which is why I was way. But I feel like this information should not disappointed to see it connected with “solu- be squirreled away in a little exhibition space tions-oriented” architecture proposals from that’s open two days a week. Ideally this is the the students. AR The students took a class in which they A student model of an institutional building designed to provide housing kind of thing that gets installed on the Mag read Evicted and then designed model tiny and ongoing services to homeless Mile or Daley Plaza. MD Yeah, to be honest, I had a hard time tak- homes for homeless people. Then they people. UWMPHOTO/ELORAHENNESSEY ing that part of the exhibition seriously. I like designed a community of those tiny homes A R Listening to audio record- looking at little models of buildings, that’s and they fi nished the course by designing a ings from eviction court cases was impactful cute. But it just felt jarringly theoretical. Did it large-scale institutional building that provides because you got a sense of courtroom chaos: have a serious purpose? an ongoing homelessness support frame- 16 CHICA O READER - JULY ll ARTS & CULTURE
A model of a tiny house community MD There are people who are creating the AR Which is why every person can theoret- constructed by UMW problem through the choices they’re mak- ically get behind the call for “more afford- students in a course ing. The landlords are not just market or able housing”—which is, I hate to say, very taught by Allyson rational actors. They are people who oper- misleading. Nemec and Joy Peot- Shields UWMPHOTO/ ate through motivations like greed and fear. ELORAHENNESSEY We just don’t know enough about them. And MD It is, because it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re at a point now where it’s critical to know anything. People assume that it means build- more because we need to figure out what ing something, but building something is kind of solution is going to be most eff ective very expensive. And meanwhile, there’s an at dealing with the fact that the rent is way endless supply of impoverished tenants for too fucking expensive. Other than raising the housing that’s already built and it’s aff ordable minimum wage, which when it gets raised, it and would never be competing with poten- doesn’t get raised enough. tial new housing. The last I heard, there is architects isn’t being programmed to think nowhere in America where rent is aff ordable holistically about who they’re designing for. AR And when it does housing costs go up. to someone making minimum wage. I am so much less interested in How do we build more MD Even outside of designing affordable MD Right, why are the housing costs going affordable housing than I am in How do we housing, which is so hard to build, I would up? We don’t know that because we don’t curb profiteering and make existing housing imagine that architects can design solutions subject landlords to any kind of reporting aff ordable? to landlords’ building problems that would requirements. We don’t know why they’re otherwise force them to raise rents. charging what they are. Meanwhile every poli- AR That’s the question. v cy proposal targeting profi t is going to be met AR Architects are really good at translating with unqualifi ed backlash from the real estate @mdoukmas @AnjulieRao very complicated federal and state assistance people saying, “No, this is going to make into digestible actionable items. Architects things worse.” who do aff ordable housing have an intimate knowledge of federal housing policy. And if they can use that knowledge and actually point out what’s wrong with it, or inefficient about it, they should be brought to the table in those policy conversations.
MD Presenting eviction with evictees at the center, like the exhibition does is, on the one hand, necessary so people understand just how bad this is as a phenomenon. Yet it makes it seem like a natural disaster. But you can’t ignore the fi lthy lucre and the very real exploitation that happens in the rental mar- “Instead of reducing eviction to a part of ket. Desmond’s book makes sure that you’re everyday violent bureaucratic processes, thinking about the landlord throughout, but [this] sculpture made me see eviction as an the part of the exhibition that was about land- emotional trauma.” MAYADUKMASOVA lords didn’t go as far. Did you see that 37 per- cent of the real estate transactions in 2016 work. All were on display; none were thought- were homes sold to people who weren’t living In PREVIEWS: ful. None of them read to me as high-quality in them? I just feel like that’s the central ten- July 10 – 11 housing. sion here. We know very little about how land- Opening night The student work demonstrates that when lords operate, what kind of money they make. architects are asked to address eviction, Desmond has this podcast now with On the is July 12 they immediately design for homelessness. Media about eviction, and in it he phrases it And I think that exercise removes architects’ very eloquently: How much is enough profi t? responsibility to advocate for housing poli- Where do we draw the line on “reasonable” cy change. When we use design to address landlord income? And if there is no ceiling on a population that has been traumatized, we profi t, then is housing something that should have to ask if that design is meant to serve be subject to that kind of logic? that population or serve the fi eld of architec- ture itself. Seeing the UWM project scares me AR Which is why it’s so painful to see realtors a lot because it means the next generation of call the homes that they are selling “product.” ll JULY - CHICA O READER17 Q V - Sat /, noon- PM, National Veterans Art Museum, ARTS & CULTURE N. Milwaukee, --, nvam.org. F
leg in Iraq and was recuperating at Walter VISUAL ART Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda, Mary- land, received the fi rst quilt. Since then, more than 200,000 quilts have Blue stars been donated in all 50 states. The organiza- tion’s reach has extended to Canada, the UK, Quilts of Valor pieces together and Australia. a way to honor military vets. The Chicago group currently has about ten members “crafting with a purpose,” Holtz By E M T says. They meet monthly, traveling from various parts of the city to the museum, where they set up sewing machines and cut- ting boards among the exhibits. sewing machine whirrs and an iron In May the quilters focused on creating kits pumps out steam. A small band of ironed precut fabrics to make quilt blocks of women sorts a pile of donated of a pattern called Ohio Stars. The kits will fabrics into reds, whites, blues, and go to quilters who may pass through during a golds of varying shades, removing sew-in or who don’t have time to meet at the Apinks, greens, and purples. Then this group, museum. joined by an occasional man on ironing duty, This year, Holtz says, the Chicago chapter will sew the patriotic fabrics into quilts for has made a dozen quilt tops to be fi nished by American veterans and service members at other Illinois members with long-arm sewing monthly Quilts of Valor sew-ins at the National machines. Veterans Art Museum in Portage Park. Some of the Chicago women who joined the George Holtz poses for a portrait with his Quilt of Valor in his Bloomingdale, Illinois, Morgan Holtz, the founder of the Chicago group have made direct connections with ser- home on June 1, 2019. EMILYMCTAVISH group, discovered Quilts of Valor (QOV) on vice members. Renee Stuedemann found the Facebook in early 2018 and requested a quilt monthly sew-ins after volunteering with the for her father, George. George had joined organization from home for fi ve years. the air force in 1962 at age 19, and during the “I fi gured this was perfect for me because Vietnam war he served as a mechanic based in I like doing the piecing,” Stuedemann says. South Korea. “And of course, I love supporting veterans George’s quilt—made of muted creams, while doing something I love.” blues, and reds in a Roman Stripes pattern— Seeing the veterans react to the quilts can was a surprise for him a year after he su ered be quite moving. Stuedemann herself became a stroke and lost most of his mobility and choked up as she presented a quilt to army speech. Holtz has been his primary caretaker veteran Charles E. Thomas, a fellow member with help from her brother and a certified of Pilgrim Lutheran Church in North Center, nursing assistant. earlier this spring. Their situation is different from that of During his 16 years in the service, Thomas other families, Holtz says, but being part of was sent on tours in Iraq and Kuwait. He often QOV has deepened her pride in her father’s thinks of the other servicemen and -women service and her gratitude for other veterans. before him. “Many of these veterans feel alone, and to “Sometimes I wish I could go wake those have strangers reach out and thank them is World War I veterans up and tell them what powerful,” Holtz says. they missed,” he says. While researching QOV, Holtz found the Holtz said her next project is to start anoth- nearest chapter was in suburban Aurora, er chapter in the Elmhurst area, accessible to which inspired her to form a city group in the quilters between Chicago and Aurora. August 2018. “It’s fun to see everyone collaborating, and The organization, though, has been around I think that’s why people are coming back,” for more than 15 years. Catherine Roberts of Holtz says. “It’s as much about the purpose of Renee Stuedemann rolls up fabric for the binding of a quilt during a sew-in for the Chicago Seaford, Delaware, started QOV after her son doing the quilt as it is being in the community Quilts of Valor chapter on May 18, 2019 at the National Museum of Veterans Art. EMILYMCTAVISH was deployed to Iraq in 2003. She wanted to that enjoys the craft.” v give thanks and honor service members with handmade quilts. A soldier who had lost his @EmMcT 18 CHICA O READER - JULY ll “JK A” Sat /, : PM, Windy Kitty Cat Cafe, W. North, windykittychicago.com , $. ARTS & CULTURE
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COMEDY The toughest audience in town At the stand-up show ‘Just t’s pretty hard to impress a cat. They are The monthly comedy show “Just Kitten Kitten Around,’ the worst notoriously apathetic and play by their Around” at Windy Kitty Cat Cafe in Bucktown hecklers are the cats. Iown rules. Only something as complex as is technically geared toward humans—guests a laser or as simple as a can of tuna will keep have 30 minutes to play with the cats before By B W their attention, and even that is fleeting. So the stand-up begins. But during the June show what happens when a group of stand-ups try nearly every comic who went up had some- to perform comedy to a room full of cats? thing to say to or about the cats. Host Alex J
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continued from 19 curve. “One time I was playing the piano and Grindr the Opera HEATHERMALL Collyard gave a PowerPoint presentation I had a cat jump, graze my ear like it was a OPENING about what cats are made of (small rocks, bullet, and then land on my piano while I was goop, fi lth). Megan Hosack sang about being a playing and doing the show,” Collyard says. Aloha! Folks Operetta revives Flower of Hawaii, a frothy cat lady. And Luis Arevalo confronted a partic- They soon learned to pitch some of their Who’s your daddy? fantasy that fi rst bloomed in prewar Berlin. For a good time, come all over the dating satire ularly grumpy-looking gray cat sitting in the more involved bits, like singing a song about Grindr the Opera. front row. every cat with live accompaniment, and to This operetta by composer Paul Abrahám and librettists Collyard and Elsie How started “Just Kit- keep it simple. “It’s enough to just be in a Alfred Grünwald, Fritz Löhner-Beda, and Emmerich Looking for a good time? One night of fun that you ten Around” as a fund-raiser for the Catcade room full of cats and telling jokes,” How says. Földes (translated here by Gerald Frantzen) was a big hit will likely soon forget? NSA? Some BDSM and possible in 1931 Berlin. The far-fetched story, set in Hawaii, then VBD? Then come all over Grindr the Opera at Pride cat cafe in Lakeview in February 2018. Last While the cats are an obvious distraction a U.S. territory, concerns a romantic triangle tinged with Films and Plays, a comedic skewering of the modern month they moved the show to Windy Kitty, to the crowd, Collyard and How say that political tension. A plan to restore Hawaiian sovereignty gay-dating scene. This well-written, over-the-top musical home of the city’s very fi rst kitten nursery. having them in the room actually makes revolves around the imminent arrival of Princess Laya, by Erik Ransom stars Grindr (Bruno Rivera), an operatic The cats at both venues are up for adoption, people better audience members. Everyone heir to the Hawaiian throne, who has been living in exile siren who lures four gay archetypes as her afi cionados: in Paris. Laya (Marisa Buchheit) shows up disguised as a Devon (Justin Cavazos), the starry-eyed idealist; Tom and anyone can make a reservation to spend is immediately relaxed, ready to have a good French cabaret star, accompanied by American jazz sing- (Ben Broughton), the experienced skeptic; Jack (Evan time with the cats playing, petting, or squeal- time, and extremely respectful. er Jimmy Fox (Trent Oldham). Laya has been betrothed Wilhelm), the adventurous twink; and Don (director ing because they’re just so cute. “The cats are maybe the biggest hecklers,” since childhood to the Hawaiian prince Lilo-Taro (Rodell John Cardone), the in-the-closet daddy. Their dating Both Collyard and How are cat lovers Collyard says, “and you know what? We love Rosel), and Hawaiian nationalists hope their marriage lives all intersect in funny and o en destructive ways. will inspire resistance to American imperialism. But Laya The 90-minute show moves at a fi rm pace, utilizing but not cat owners, and saw the show as an them for it.” v has fallen in love with Captain Reginald Stone (Nick every rhyme for male genitalia and sex acts while both opportunity to spend more time with some Pulikowski), commander of the American military vessel celebrating the freedom off ered by the dating app and feline friends. There was a bit of a learning @BriannaWellen that brought her back to her homeland; if she marries lamenting its downsides. These include the expression Lilo-Taro, it will be Stone’s duty to arrest her. of male sexuality, gay or straight, through the metaphors Folks Operetta, a company dedicated to reviv- of hunting and conquering, and the emotional impact of ing long-neglected works by Jewish writers whose infi delity even amid rampant promiscuity. careers—and sometimes lives—were cut short by the Each song gets extensive choreography, a delightful rise of Nazism, delivers an elaborate and ambitious highlight not always present in many black-box theaters, production of this frothy fantasy, written just two years though the execution is loose and scattered. The before Hitler’s rise to power forced the Hungarian humorous moments, including exaggerated simulated Jewish composer Abrahám to fl ee Germany. The show’s sex, enhance the dance numbers. Rivera is a powerful main draw is its tuneful, catchy score, packed with sen- soprano (the only real “opera”-level performance), and timental waltzes, jaunty fox trots, rousing marches, and both Cavazos and Broughton as the romantic liaisons A cat hangs out syncopated jazz. The excellent 19-piece orchestra led have wonderful voices. While their relationship explores in front of the by conductor Anthony Barrese features the evocative poignant issues of monogamy and love, it’s Wilhelm’s window. sounds of Hawaiian guitar and ragtime piano. 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Midsommar their grief to draw favors out of others; it also has little to do with what follows. The remainder of Midsommar plays like a high-toned version of Eli Roth’s xenophobic gorefests Hostel (2005) and The Green Inferno (2013), following the American tourists (and a couple of British students they meet along the way) as they come to realize that Pelle’s seemingly peaceful commune is really a death- obsessed cult. Aster prolongs this revelation for as long as he can, drawing out the story with observations of folk rituals and more moody camerawork. Some of his set pieces are e ective, in particular the sequence that occurs when the Americans fi rst arrive at the commune and take psychedelic mushrooms. Aster employs subtle special e ects to convey the mushrooms’ disorienting e ects on Dani, who freaks out and becomes suspicious of everyone around her. This sequence also has REVIEW crutch, but he can’t bring himself to break up little to do with what follows, apart from rais- with Dani—understandably, he doesn’t want ing the belabored level of dread that Aster has to be perceived as a bad guy. Aster establishes already conjured. Things that go bump in the the couple’s relationship naturally, portraying One of the more interesting things about both sides sympathetically, though he reduces Midsommar is that, because it takes place in Dani’s sister (who never appears onscreen) to northern Sweden during the summer, the hor- midnight sun something of a bogeyman, a narrative catalyst ror generally occurs under bright skies. This for the troubled romance. The weakness of this strategy inverts the standard horror-movie Midsommar is nothing more than a dressed-up piece of Scandinavian schlock. characterization becomes more pronounced trope of having scary things happen in the when the sister murders her parents, then dark and, as a result, makes one regard sun- By BS commits suicide, intensifying Dani’s mental light with suspicion, something I’ve rarely instability nearly to the point of psychosis. encountered in the genre. Still, I didn’t fi nd the ri Aster’s Hereditary (2018) was a been losing its power for years, yet Aster em- Aster then jumps ahead several months to fi lm particularly unsettling. For all the clev- promising debut feature, with sug- ploys it in nearly every scene of Midsommar. summer. Christian, who’s working toward a erness with which Aster and company realize gestive atmosphere, compelling Beyond suggesting a failure of imagination, PhD in anthropology and who lives with three the commune (Henrik Svensson’s production performances, and (for a horror the monotonous aesthetic works against its other anthropology students, does little more design is especially praiseworthy), the setting fi lm) sensitive observations about own intentions, calling attention to its own than get high and complain about how unhap- never really induces terror—it’s simply too theA nature of grief. But on the basis of Aster’s hollow artistry instead of any suspense inher- py he is with Dani, who remains traumatized pretty. Moreover, Aster renders the commu- second feature, Midsommar, I’m inclined to ent in the drama. The drama comes across as by the sordid events of the past winter. One nards and their rituals too alien for them to say that promise is all the writer-director has hollow too, as Aster simply bangs away on the of Christian’s roommates, a Swede named get under one’s skin. Once Midsommar intro- to o er. Midsommar recycles the memorable grief theme he established in Hereditary; this Pelle (Vilhelm Blomgren), invites Christian duces the idea that something strange is afoot qualities of Hereditary, but to no meaningful suggests it’s the only way he knows how to and their two other friends on a trip to the at the commune, the fi lm idles until the unusu- end. Aster simply employs them to generate a access his characters’ feelings. commune in northern Sweden where he grew al behavior turns grotesque and violent. Aster sense of gravitas, which he dashes as soon as Aster defines the heroine of Midsommar, up. Pelle wants his friends to experience an introduces a subplot about Christian and Midsommar transforms into a full-blown hor- Dani (Florence Pugh), by her grief fairly early ancient midsummer festival that his com- Josh’s academic rivalry, but this doesn’t do ror movie. The film operates as an extended on, and this quickly becomes the only means mune celebrates; one of the roommates, Josh anything but maintain the fl imsy illusion that bait-and-switch game, as Aster establishes the by which the audience can understand her. (William Jackson Harper), especially likes the fi lmmaker is interested in his characters veneer of an art movie only to draw viewers Dani is a psychology student at an unspecifi ed the idea because he wants to write his thesis beyond their victimhood. When Dani’s grief, into what is essentially exploitation fare. university. When the movie opens, she’s shown on European folk rituals. Christian intends which had motored the drama of the film’s That veneer, moreover, is pretty thin. As to be in frequent contact with her mentally ill to go without telling Dani about it, but when fi rst half, stops being a factor in the narrative, a director Aster has only a few tricks up his sister, who often sends her text messages that she finds out about his plan, she guilt-trips it becomes clear where Aster’s interests lie. sleeve, the most prominent being a slow Stea- threaten she’s about to have a nervous break- him into inviting her along. This narrative de- A dressed-up piece of schlock, Midsommar dicam shot meant to instill an air of dread into down. Dani has trouble handling the stressful velopment (which lasts so long as to feel like might have been compelling in its pretense if the scene no matter what’s happening. This situation, and she relies heavily on her boy- a short fi lm in itself) allows Aster to demon- Aster weren’t such a one-note storyteller. v device, familiar from numerous recent Amer- friend, Christian (Jack Reynor), for emotional strate his understanding of troubled romantic ican horror films (not just Hereditary), has support. Christian is tired of being used as a relationships and how individuals can exploit @1bsachs
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me, when I am reminded of all that I love about It was summer, and so our windows were this City of the Big Shoulders, it is the Beatles rolled down to better see the lit-up signs. that act as chorus. Usually, there’d be some traffic, but this When my family fi rst moved to the United suited us as George Harrison’s ethereal States in 2000, we landed in a rural, all- “Something” warbled. The point of these white area of Illinois. As a seven-year-old Abbey Road car rides was to be enraptured half-Japanese, half-white girl, I had just left by our jewellike neighborhood. Maxwell’s the homogeneity of Japan, where I’d been silver hammer came down as I gawked at alienated for being mixed race, only to find the glittering showcase of fi nery in a display that the community where we had planted window, the headless mannequins wearing ourselves in the U.S. was similarly monotone, bell-shaped quinceañera dresses. My sister with microaggressions and isolation to match. and I would bellow along to “Oh! Darling,” The fi rst years of my life here were hard ones, taking care not to close our eyes too long marked by anxiety and sorrow spurred by the in our fi ts of emotional singing so as not to belief that I was not as human as my white miss the cozy glow of diners in the pupuse- peers. After four years of trying (and failing) ria. To the rakish piano of “You Never Give to make it work in the all-white cornfi elds, my Me Your Money,” we marveled at blankets parents made the decision to move our family emblazoned with wolf faces spread out for to Albany Park. eager shoppers. The pastel enticement of Immediately, it was apparent to me that our the paleteria accompanied “Polythene Pam,” Yesterday new home was different. Orthodox Jews in the stoicism of the river slid past to “Golden ESSAY their raven-colored hats threaded the street, Slumbers.” At the end of the night, as we sharing sidewalks with Muslims in their hijabs tumbled out of the car, my sister and I would and white taqiyahs. Two Swedish American sing “Her Majesty” to each other, alternating Abbey Road on Lawrence Avenue shops stood side by side on Foster where blond, lines as my parents turned the key in the lock. blue-eyed descendants of earlier immigrants The Beatles ushered us night after night into The Beatles, Yesterday, and fi nding home cheerfully ordered open-faced meatball sand- a reverie of gratitude, from the fi rst sounds wiches dressed in doe-colored gravy. On our of Abbey Road to its closing, acting as the By N L C block, kids shouted in Spanish as they chased hymn for our feverish thankfulness that we after the paleta man, the bells on his cart a now lived in Chicago. (Later I asked my dad n Danny Boyle’s new film Yesterday , ering just where he ought to be. In Yesterday, gleeful jangle, so much more inviting than the why we listened to Abbey Road. It turned out a struggling musician named Jack the music of the Beatles acts as a guiding light, droning loop of “Turkey in the Straw” played there was no reason at all.) (Himesh Patel) wakes up after being hit an auditory pathway toward a semblance of by the ice cream truck. The public library on Those nights are why when I think about by a bus during a 12-second global black- home. the corner had a dedicated room for Kore- this city, the album that plays in the back- out to discover he is the only person in Though Yesterday struggles with an un- an-language books, a room where I would later ground of my mind is always Abbey Road. Ithe world who remembers the Beatles. After wieldy, fablelike plot and ultimately neglects spend countless hours fl ipping through thick It’s why last night when I watched Jack race a brief will-he-won’t-he, Jack relaunches his an interesting premise for tired rom-com glossy magazines, each page slick and cool to up a street in Suffolk to record his rendition failing career to stunning success by claiming tropes, the idea of the Beatles and their the touch, marveling at how easily I could now of “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” I was remind- the songs of Lennon and McCartney as his own. connection to home was something that res- fi nd published photos of Asian women. ed of listening to that song while riding my But the success isn’t enough for Jack, who onated with me. When I think about my fi rst At nighttime—at least for the fi rst few awe- bicycle up Kedzie in high school, thinking was listless and unmoored even before his days in Chicago, and how it became a place fi lled weeks—my family would pile wordlessly feverishly of the dark-haired boy I so hoped musical triumph, trying to figure out just where I felt I belonged, the soundtrack that into our silver Honda CRV. In my childish rec- would ask me to dance at the Back to School where and how he belonged. The film offers plays is one by John, Paul, George, and Ringo. ollection, this memory is touched with magic, Dance. Or why when Jack played “In My a sideways solution, peppering a narrative I realize this seems completely nonsensical; as if we are all drawn into the car by some Life” for a local talk show, I was immediately about rock stardom with scenes in intimate, the Beatles were Liverpudlians from across invisible force, my dad in the driver’s seat, transported back to my wedding, dancing domestic settings: a conversation with Ed the pond. They heralded the British Invasion my mother in the passenger’s, my sister and to the harpsichord solo with my father like Sheeran (played by none other than Ed of the 1960s with their flippant bowl cuts I sitting behind them. My dad would turn the lunatics. In some ways, this is just what good Sheeran) in Jack’s parents’ quotidian kitchen, and wide, shallow vowels. Geographically key in the ignition, slide a CD into the player, music does: it attaches itself to something, impassioned rehearsals in a cluttered adoles- speaking, there’s no reason for the Beatles to and as the car pulled away from its spot for someone, some place, some feeling in our cent bedroom, the mundane dreariness of a be at all associated with Chicago, though they our nightly drives down Lawrence Avenue, lives, and shows us something true. In Yes- local grocery store where Jack initially works did perform here in 1964, 1965, and 1966 to a the percussive shoop of “Come Together” terday, that music is by the Beatles, and the part-time. All these scenes juxtaposing Jack’s total audience of more than 150,000 people. would come through the speakers, followed by true thing it eventually shows is where one restlessness with images of people who are They counted American artists like Chuck McCartney’s insistent bass and Lennon’s sur- finds home. For me, it was the same music, static and anchored, at home in themselves as Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis as infl uences, realist lyrics. We would pull onto Lawrence as but the home it cast a light on was this at much as in their own living rooms, underscore but their sound had no real ties to the Chicago the moody timbre broke open into the messi- times broken, always beautiful saving grace the theme of home going. As Jack’s renditions sounds of blues and jazz. New York, with its anic chorus—“Come together, right now, over of a city. v of globally beloved Beatles classics play, they worldly glamour and direct link to Lennon’s me”—everyone in the car silent as we glided intermingle with our hero’s journey in discov- later years, seems a more apt fi t. And yet, for down the street. @nlcoomes 22 CHICA O READER - JULY ll R READERRECOMMENDEDb ALLAGESN NEWF
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sung narration, which he periodically shows being performed with drum accompaniment before a contem- Escape From New York porary audience. This is one of those masterpieces that It’s a rare fi lm that has so many ideas and yet fails so would qualify as a musical if Hollywood propagandists consistently to make use of them. John Carpenter has hadn’t claimed the genre as their personal property. A marshaled a warehouseful of surefi re action concepts in must-see. In Korean with subtitles. —JR- this futuristic adventure (1981) about one man’s attempt R, 120 min. 35 mm. Fri 7/5, 7 and 9:30 PM. Univ. of to rescue the president, who’s crash-landed in the Chicago Doc Films middle of Manhattan, now a prison complex. The movie is never less than entertaining, but it fails to satisfy—it Coraline gives us too little of too much. Oddly, much of its plea- Tim Burton, who wrote the story for The Nightmare sure is in the acting, which up to this point hadn’t been Before Christmas (1993), has since topped it with anoth- Carpenter’s strong suit: Donald Pleasence, Adrienne er animated chiller, Corpse Bride (2005), while Henry Barbeau, and Harry Dean Stanton off er excellent turns. Selick, who directed Nightmare, has been struggling It’s less than you’d expect from Carpenter, but what the to better it ever since. Like his James and the Giant hell: Who else ever knew how to light Lee Van Cleef? Peach (1996), this is adapted from a popular children’s With Kurt Russell, Ernest Borgnine, and Isaac Hayes. fantasy—Neil Gaiman’s 2002 horror novella Coraline, —D K R, 99 min. Music Box which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. The intrepid Coraline, frustrated with her parents a er they move Hard Boiled her to a new town, discovers a portal to an alternate R John Woo’s violent crime thriller (1992) stars universe where everyone has buttons sewn over their Chow Yun-fat as a tough Hong Kong cop who loses his eyes. It’s the fi rst stop-motion feature fi lmed entirely best friend and partner in a teahouse shoot-out and Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am in stereoscopic 3-D, and the technique makes Selick’s joins forces with a hired killer (Tony Leung) who appears artwork even more wondrously creepy. The problem is to operate on both sides of the law. Choreographically Gaiman’s story, which keeps accumulating otherworldly stunning like most of Woo’s work, especially before he mythology but doesn’t establish a clear line of action in headed west. In Cantonese with subtitles. —J the home stretch (2009). Among the voice talent are R R, 128 min. 35 mm. Sat 7/6, 7 and 9:30 PM. Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman, and Ian Univ. of Chicago Doc Films McShane. —JRJ PG, 100 min. Wed 7/10, 7:30 PM. Beverly Arts Center NOW PLAYING from the “twilight world” of the demimonde into the light of the broader social sphere. Their collective strug- gle for acceptance and equality, replete with indignities that seem to chase every hard-won fi ght, continues with Ball of Fire the current generation. —L P 87 min. UIC R Howard Hawks’s 1941 version of “Snow White professor and adviser to the fi lm John D’Emilio and activ- and the Seven Dwarfs” is a delight, as showgirl Barbara ist Marge Summit attend the Sunday screening. Fri 7/5, 2 THIS WEEK AT Stanwyck moves in with seven prissy professors (headed and 8:30 PM; Sat 7/6, 8:15 PM; Sun 7/7, 5:15 PM; Mon 7/8, by Gary Cooper) who are compiling a dictionary of 6 PM; and Wed 7/10, 8:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center slang. Far superior to Hawks’s 1948 remake, A Song Is Born. Written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder; with Bottle Rocket Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, S.Z. Sakall, R Wes Anderson’s 1996 fi rst feature (before Rush- THE LOGAN Richard Haydn, and Gene Krupa. —DD 111 min. more and The Royal Tenenbaums) is fresh, character 16 mm. Thu 7/11, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films driven, o en funny, and unfashionably upbeat (as well as o eat). And it doesn’t beat you over the head—which Before Stonewall: The made it a hard sell in industry terms and explains why R Making of a Gay and Lesbian it was almost completely ignored upon release. But I found its Kerouac-like goofi ness both charming and Community sustaining. Owen Wilson, his brother Luke, and Robert Joining Paris Is Burning (1990) and How to Survive a Musgrave play three young, immature friends and aspir- Plague (2012) in the top tier of documentaries concern- ing thieves in Texas; another Wilson brother, Andrew, ing LGBTQ+ history and culture, this 1984 fi lm relays also appears, and the fi lm benefi ts from its relaxed cast MORTAL KOMBAT queer experiences in the half millennium preceding the consisting largely of friends and siblings. (The presence Stonewall uprising of 1969, an event many recognize of such producer godparents as Polly Platt, James L. JULY 5-8 AT 11 PM as the public debut of the gay rights movement in the Brooks, Monte Hellman, and L.M. Kit Carson probably United States. Codirectors Greta Schiller and Robert helped as well.) Written by Anderson and Owen Wilson; Rosenberg utilize revealing interviews with gay elders with James Caan and Lumi Cavazos (Like Water for and riveting archival footage to recount an essential Chocolate). —JR R, 91 min. Tue 7/9- story about a once secret and scattered group living on Wed 7/10, 11 PM; and Thu 7/11, 10:30 PM. Logan the fringes of heteronormative society. Political activist Harry Hay describes how gay men cruised each other in Chunhyang staff ! the 1920s and ’30s—wearing a red necktie, for example, R Set in the late 18th century, this dazzling epic so that a similarly inclined man might approach and ask a by Im Kwon-taek (Fly High Run Far) concerns the BOTTLE ROCKET coded question like “Do you have a match?”—while fem- love between a prostitute’s daughter and the son of a inist writer and civil rights activist Audre Lorde calls out provincial governor, who marry in secret but are then JULY 9-11 AT 10:30 PM white lesbians for empathizing with her in private but driven apart. Im is Korea’s most prestigious fi lmmaker never standing up for her in public. The documentary (with about 100 features to his credit), and his stirring probes these intersections and prioritizes the stories of 2000 drama is both historically resonant and strikingly ordinary citizens alongside gay icons such as Lorde and modern, remarkable for its de and spellbinding narra- Allen Ginsberg to illuminate a subculture during its push tive, its breathtaking color, and above all its traditional 2646 N. MILWAUKEE AVE | CHICAGO, IL | THELOGANTHEATRE.COM | 773.342.5555 ll JULY - CHICA O READER23 FILM Get showtimes at chicagoreader.com/movies.
has some decent music and charismatic performances, than a fresh take, like a singular visual style or inventive adaptations): it’s movie size, with powerful imagery and B It Happened One Night and it provides some insights into the Western aspira- storytelling mode. Though it’s refreshing to see the strong contrasts, a subject both theatrical and intimate. R Reporter Clark Gable chases spoiled heir- tions of Soviet youth culture. In Russian with subtitles. angry men of Hamlet fi ltered through a female gaze, Sjöström’s remains the defi nitive eff ort. With Lars Han- ess Claudette Colbert across most of the eastern —BS 126 min. Fri 7/5, 6 PM; Sat 7/6, 7:30 PM; Sun director Claire McCarthy and screenwriter Semi Challas son, Karl Dane, and Henry B. Walthall. —D K 100 seaboard, pausing long enough between wisecracks to 7/7, 3 PM; Mon 7/8, 7:45 PM; Tue 7/9, 8 PM; Wed 7/10, 6 play it safe with the fi lm’s rather conventional aesthetic, min. 35 mm archival print. Dennis Scott provides live set the defi nitive tone of 30s screwball comedy. Frank PM; and Thu 7/11, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center setting, structure, and tone. Bursts of cheekiness and accompaniment. Sat 7/6, 11:30 AM. Music Box Capra’s 1934 fi lm won all fi ve of the top Oscars, but it’s even some silliness are welcome when they arrive, still pretty good. This is Capra at his best, very funny and Mortal Kombat but overall, the picture is nowhere near as memorable NSpider-Man: Far From Home very light, with a minimum of populist posturing. —D I haven’t seen it, but the title, designer misspelling as other more controversial twists on misunderstood There are worse ways to spend two hours than watching K 105 min. Fri 7/5, 4 PM; Sat 7/6, 2:30 PM; and Thu and all, should tell you all you need to know about this women of history and fi ction, or a combination of the Spider-Man save the world again. At the very least, 7/11, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center blood-and-guts SF action adventure, complete with evil two. Take for example, Sofi a Coppola’s eye-catching and Spider-Man: Far From Home provides precisely the sort sorcerer, special eff ects, and gory tournaments (1995). heart-pummeling satire Marie Antoinette (2006), which of eye-popping escapism that’s endemic to summer Klute Paul Anderson directed Kevin Droney’s script, and contains individual shots that hit harder than anything movies. We enter the latest chapter in the Marvel-verse R As close to a classic as anything New Holly- the cast includes Linden Ashby, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, conjured here. —LP PG-13, 106 min. Fri 7/5, as Peter Parker/Spider-Man (Tom Holland) and his wood produced, Alan Pakula’s 1971 fi lm tells of a small- Robin Shou, Bridgette Wilson, Talisa Soto, Trevor God- 3:45 and 7:45 PM; Sat 7/6, 3 and 5:15 PM; Sun 7/7, 5:30 adolescent peers (including Jacob Batalon as a sassy/ town detective who comes to New York in search of a dard, and Christopher Lambert. —R PG-13, PM; Mon 7/8, 7:45 PM; Tue 7/9, 6 PM; Wed 7/10, 8 PM; wise sidekick and Zendaya as Peter’s love interest MJ) friend’s killer. The trail leads to a tough-minded hooker 101 min. Fri 7/5-Mon 7/8, 11 PM. Logan and Thu 7/11 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center are preparing for a transoceanic class trip, a setup who can’t understand the cop’s determination. Donald that provides plenty of opportunities for the most Sutherland works small and subtly, balancing Jane Fon- My Man Godfrey Poetic Justice spectacularly scenic devastation this side of the Notre da’s fl ashy virtuoso technique. —D K R, 114 min. R Gregory La Cava’s improvisational style Though it’s not unlikable, John Singleton’s 1993 second Dame fi re. Director Jon Watts checks all the boxes: 35 mm. Nathan Holmes, author of Welcome to Fear City: received its highest critical acclaim for this 1936 fi lm, a feature (Boyz N the Hood was his fi rst) is an unholy mess tons of stuff blows up and monsters made of towering Crime Film, Crisis and the Urban Imagination, attends marginally Marxist exercise in class confusion during in almost every respect. There’s a line in the fi nal credits infernos and Poseidon-worthy water spouts threaten the screening. Mon 7/8, 7 PM. Music Box the Depression. Carole Lombard is the bubbleheaded saying that, for the purposes of copyright, Columbia our teen hero. There’s a twist involving Mysterio (Jake heiress who needs an oppressed proletarian to round Pictures is the author of this fi lm, so maybe Columbia Gyllenhaal) that’s entertaining even though you’ll totally NLeto out a scavenger hunt; she picks up tramp William Powell and not Singleton should be held accountable for the see it coming. There’s a grand fi nale smackdown when I can understand why writer-director Kirill Serebren- and lets him stay on to be her butler. Meanwhile, mad meandering and badly told (if occasionally suggestive) evil is trounced, but not completely enough to rule out nikov—who was banned from making movies in Russia poet Mischa Auer assumes the role of the intelligentsia love story about a hairdresser-poet (Janet Jackson) and a sequel. The best part of Far From Home is Samuel L. a er his incendiary satire The Student (2016)—wanted to under late capitalism by imitating a gorilla. With Alice a postman (Tupac Shakur) from South Central LA who Jackson, whose Nick Fury single-handedly elevates the make a fi lm about Leningrad’s underground rock scene Brady, Eugene Pallette, and Gail Patrick. —D K take a trip up to Oakland in a mail truck with another movie from a C to a B+. And for those mourning the in the fi nal years of the Soviet Union; he probably felt 94 min. 35 mm. Sat 7/6, 4:30 PM, and Tue 7/9, 6 PM. Gene couple, bringing all their ghetto-bred problems with loss of Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) in Avengers: End- a sense of kinship with the artists of that movement, Siskel Film Center them. The title comes from the poet’s name, Justice, game, know that he is not wholly gone and neither are who used their medium to communicate dissatisfaction and though Jackson shows a lot of charm in the role, it’s his special superpower spectacles. —C S with the dominant social order. Given Serebrennikov’s NOphelia o en hard to relate the poetry she’s supposed to have PG-13, 129 min. Dine-in Block 37, ArcLight, Century 12 sincere investment in the material and the liveliness One facet of Shakespeare’s mostly timeless Hamlet has written (which is read mainly off -screen) to her character. and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City of his fi lmmaking here, I wish I liked the movie more. not aged well, and that is the fuzzy, underwritten role of (In fact, the poems are by Maya Angelou, who’s around North 14, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake Theatre, Navy But I couldn’t get past how egregiously this cribs from Ophelia, the doomed lover of the titular Danish prince. to play a bit part.) A er a deceptively funny and o eat Pier IMAX, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Gale- two fi lms about British underground rock, Michael The lacunae in her story have long ached to be fi lled, beginning, the movie keeps restarting; each new start wood Crossings, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan, Winterbottom’s 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Anton which makes this reimagining of the classic tale from shows some promise, and Singleton’s talent never really Webster Place 11 Corbijn’s Control (2007). Serebrennikov rips off the Ophelia’s perspective fi rst and foremost an overdue deserts him—but the parts don’t come together to cre- former fi lm by having characters break the fourth wall to curiosity. The fi lm itself, on its hazily lit surface, is as ate a unifi ed story. With Regina King, Joe Torry, Roger The Taking of Pelham One Two acknowledge when the story draws from rumors instead beautiful and shrewd as its heroine (Daisy Ridley) and Guenveur Smith, and Tyra Ferrell. —JR- of confi rmed fact; the infl uence of the latter can be felt the queen she serves (Naomi Watts). But when each new R, 109 min. Fri 7/5-Sat 7/6, midnight. Music Box Three in the high-contrast black-and-white widescreen cinema- year brings at least one new Shakespeare adaptation to A superior exercise in urban paranoia (1974). The superb tography. If you can disregard the derivativeness, this the stage or screen, it helps to off er something more Rosewood location work of director Joseph Sargent goes a long Ving Rhames plays Mann, a rootless veteran who hap- way toward tempering the artifi cialities of the plot, pens to hit town the day a rumor spreads that a Black which concerns an attempt to hold a subway train Spider-Man: Far From Home convict has escaped from a nearby prison, in this 1997 for ransom. With Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, and melodrama based on a real-life massacre in the predom- Martin Balsam. —D K R, 104 min. 35 mm. Nathan inantly Black Florida town of Rosewood. Larger than life, Holmes, author of Welcome to Fear City: Crime Film, Mann is emotionally inaccessible—we’re not entirely sure Crisis and the Urban Imagination, attends the screening. he’s who he says he is—and the motivation of most of Mon 7/8, 9:15 PM. Music Box the Black characters is one-note, ultimately preventing the story from providing much perspective on the 10 Things I Hate About You devastating piece of history it exploits. Directed by John Larisa Oleynik plays a popular teenage girl forbidden Singleton (Boyz N the Hood). —L A R, 140 to date until her shrewish older sister (Julia Stiles) fi nds min. 35 mm. Tue 7/9, 7 PM. Music Box a boyfriend; so she and her potential beau (Andrew Keegan) set about fi nding sis a match. Actually, this Satan Met a Lady isn’t nearly as bad as it sounds; Karen McCullah Lutz An inferior and unacknowledged adaptation of Dashiell and Kirsten Smith’s script has its witty moments, and Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, with a ram’s horn replac- some of the secondary characters—such as Larry Miller ing the falcon. William Dieterle directed this 1936 as the father and Daryl “Chill” Mitchell as an irritable feature; with Bette Davis, Warren William, and Alison teacher—are every bit as quirky as the leads. Gil Junger Skipworth. —J R 74 min. 35 mm directed this 1999 Disney comedy derived from The archival print. Sun 7/7, 11:30 AM. Music Box Taming of the Shrew; though the connections are fairly loose, this is arguably closer to Shakespeare in its The Scarlet Letter overall sense of character and even in its sprightly use R Lillian Gish gives a landmark performance in of music than Shakespeare in Love. Others in the cast this 1926 version of the Hawthorne novel, directed include Heath Ledger, Joseph-Gordon Levitt, and David by emigrant Swede Victor Sjöström (with whom Gish Krumholtz. —J R PG-13, 97 min. made the superior The Wind in 1927). Something in the Outdoor screening. Tue 7/9, 6:30 PM. Pritzker Pavilion, Hawthorne lends itself to fi lm (there have been a dozen Millennium Park F
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NToni Morrison: The Pieces R I Am This American Masters documentary about one of our country’s greatest novelists is rich with insights about Blackness in general and the experience of working Black women in particular. The fi lm is most compelling when it addresses Morrison’s life in the 1970s, when she juggled writing, teaching, an editing career (in which she worked with, among others, Angela Davis and Muham- mad Ali), and parenthood. Yet there are numerous lessons to be gained from the sections on Morrison’s childhood in working-class Ohio (which inspired much of her fi ction) and the popular reception of her books (which speaks to how Black women are regarded in the American public sphere). The interviewees—including Morrison, Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Walter Mosley, and New Yorker critic Hilton Als—are consistently thoughtful and eloquent; at times they convey the musicality and intellectual density of Morrison’s prose. The tone is gen- erally celebratory and, given Morrison’s extraordinary impact on American letters, deservedly so. Timothy Greenfi eld-Sanders directed. —BS 120 min. Fri 7/5-Thu 7/11, 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, and 9:40 PM. Music Box
Ophelia ALSO PLAYING vision series Cosmos and a selection of NASA-related waitress (Irene Dunne). 90 min. 35 mm. Wed 7/10, 7:30 Bad Black / Who Killed Captain short fi lms. Outdoor screening. Wed 7/10, 8:30 PM. PM. Northeastern Illinois University F Alex? Comfort Station The Widowed Witch A double feature of two very low-budget Ugandan No Vietnamese Ever Called Me A 2017 Chinese drama about a rural widow who attempts action fi lms (2016 and 2010) by Nabwana I.G.G., each just to support herself and her child by pretending to be a over an hour long. The fi rst has a street-smart ghetto Nigger shaman. Cai Chengjie directed. In Mandarin with sub- kid teaching a doctor how to fi ght; the second is a mafi a A 1968 documentary on racism, activism, and the war in titles. 120 min. Fri 7/5, 7 PM; Sat 7/6, 2, 4, and 7:30 PM; story about a man investigating his brother’s death. 132 Southeast Asia, fi lmed at the 1967 Harlem Fall Mobiliza- Sun 7/7, 3:30 and 6 PM; Mon 7/8-Thu 7/11, 7 PM. Facets min. Coproducer and actor Alan Hofmanis attends the tion March. David Weiss directed. An abridged 68-min- Cinémathèque v screening. Thu 7/11, 7 PM. Music Box ute version is showing. Screening with Kent Garrett’s 1971 Black Journal television episode “The Black G.I.” The Biggest Little Farm (54 min.). Followed by a discussion. Sat 7/6, 4 PM. Stony John Chester directed this documentary about his and Island Arts Bank F his wife’s attempt to establish a small sustainable farm near Los Angeles. PG, 91 min. Fri 7/5, 2 and 6 PM; Sat Pictures of Susan 7/6, 6:30 PM; Sun 7/7, 3:15 PM; Mon 7/8, 6 PM; Tue 7/9, A 2012 documentary about New Zealand outsider artist 8 PM; Wed 7/10, 6 PM; and Thu 7/11, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Susan King, who stopped talking at age four and Film Center expressed herself through her art. Dan Salmon directed. The Cure: Anniversary 1978-2018 86 min. Thu 7/11, 7 PM. Intuit Tour de France Live in Hyde Park Rachid Djaidani directed this 2016 French drama about a Tim Pope directed this music documentary of a 2018 young rapper who has to leave Paris suddenly and ends London concert by the Cure to mark their 40th anniver- up accompanying his producer’s father, who is touring sary. 137 min. Thu 7/11, 10 PM. Music Box the ports of France. In French, Russian, and Basque with subtitles. 95 min. Wed 7/10, 6:30 PM. Chicago Cultural Deconstructing the Beatles: Center F Magical Mystery Tour Short Films by Agnès Varda— Beatles expert Scott Freiman explores the music of the band’s 1967 fi lm Magical Mystery Tour and its accom- Program I panying album. Sean Gallagher and Justin Drobinski A program of short narrative and documentary fi lms directed. 98 min. Sun 7/7, 11:30 AM, and Wed 7/10, 7 PM. (1958-83) by French director Agnès Varda, including Du Music Box Côté de la Côte, L’Opera Mouff e, Uncle Yanco, Reponse des Femmes, and Ulysse. 96 min. 16 mm and 35 mm. Thu NASA Moon Landing 50th 7/11, 7 PM. Block F Anniversary When Tomorrow Comes A program celebrating the 50th anniversary of the fi rst John M. Stahl directed this 1939 romantic melodrama moon landing that includes an episode of the 1980 tele- about a married concert pianist (Charles Boyer) and a ll JULY - CHICA O READER25 Omen gets back in the game A er years away, the Chicago rapper and producer returns to Dreamville Records’ active list—and to the south-side park where he learned to play. Written by AEH II Photography by T P Shot at NK C PE
ou a hooper?” asks the boy, cocking his head. He’s one of several kids at Nat King Cole Park in Chatham, and they all seem to have similar questions “Yabout what Damon Coleman is doing there. A half-melted popsicle in the boy’s hand drips onto the court and his shoes, but he doesn’t seem to notice. Coleman is six foot four, so it’s easy to see why he might look like a ballplayer. But in his SB Dunk High Dog Walkers, camo pants, and Dreamville sweatshirt, he’s hardly dressed for the court. He’s 37, and though he moved back to Chicago a few years ago, this is the fi rst time he’s been to Cole Park in ages. He looks down at the kid and shakes his head, smiling. “Naw,” he says. “I used to be.” These days, Coleman explains, he’s a rapper and producer, and he goes by Omen. Since 2015, he’s been signed to Dreamville Records, the label founded by his longtime friend J. Cole. Except for his production on “BMO,” a sin- gle from Ari Lennox’s new Shea Butter Baby, fans haven’t heard from Omen for almost four years—not since December 2015, when he con- tributed fan favorites “48 Laws” and “Caged Bird” to the Dreamville label compilation Revenge of the Dreamers II. But last month Dreamville gave fans their first taste of J 26 CHICA O READER - JULY ll 3730 N. CLARK ST METROCHICAGO.COM @ METROCHICAGO
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In 1974, they had album’s release date was just announced as a minor hit single, “Remember the Rain?” Friday, July 5, and this week two more songs Omen’s mother was an aspiring singer, and dropped: “Lambo Truck” (with Cozz, Reason, his stepfather not only sang but also played and Childish Major) and “Costa Rica” (whose piano, bass, and guitar. “Creativity was big in long list of credits includes Guapdad 4000, my family,” Omen remembers. “Just naturally Reese LaFlare, Smokepurpp, Buddy, and Ski I was surrounded by it.” Mask the Slump God). Omen started playing piano very young, but Omen put the ball down years ago, but in a music wasn’t a priority for him yet. He had Omen fi rst started way he’s still playing the game. When Dream- hoop dreams. In grammar school, after class going to Cole Park in grammar school, and ville put out the fi rst Revenge of the Dreamers he’d head straight to Cole Park, where he and it’s still a magnet for in 2014, it included two songs he’d written his friends would get on the court and hoop. kids who need a place and produced: “Motion Picture” and “Henny The park taught him important lessons. “A to play basketball. Flow” testify to his artistry as an introspec- sense of camaraderie—I feel like I got that THOUGHTPOET tive lyricist and versatile producer. And even from being here,” Omen says. As part of the then, Omen was no rookie: he already had the tight-knit Dreamville roster, he knows that the mixtapes Delayed (2010) and Afraid of Heights ability to collaborate is essential. (2011) and the EP A Glorious Cool (2012) under While in high school at Kenwood Academy, his belt. Omen started a rap group with friends called The 2015 studio album Elephant Eyes, Area 51, but he didn’t take it seriously. He still Omen’s official debut with Dreamville, was wanted to be like Mike. snatched from streaming services due to “So obviously, Jordan was my favorite, sample-clearance issues. “It defi nitely a ect- favorite player, but I didn’t feel like I played ed me and changed me, you know, because it like him,” he says. “I felt more like a Penny was like—my trajectory, I felt, after working Hardaway or like Allen Iverson.” For an artist so hard and putting so much in, was headed in Omen’s position, those are symbolic choic- look at basketball as almost like a blessing. Dreamville’s parent label and distributor. He’s upward,” he explains. “I felt blindsided.” es: though he’s not as successful as some of It’s like a reminder,” he says. “You gave up also featured in Revenge: A Dreamville Film, a Since then, Omen has been hard at work the other Dreamers, he’s had an undeniable once before. Now you’ve got something really documentary about the January 2019 sessions on his second album, not yet titled, which he impact on the label. tangible, something you’ve been working hard for ROTD III that dropped Tuesday, July 2. hopes to release later this year. But fi rst comes One thing Omen did have in common with at—something you enjoy. Don’t take it for Omen is now a full-time rapper and produc- ROTD III. “That will be my reintroduction into Jordan, though, was a fiercely competitive granted.” er, but he remembers working three jobs at the world,” he says. nature. “I was mellow until someone started In 2004, as a senior at UIUC, Omen per- once in 2010, early in his New York years—the The music industry, like any game, has rules. talking,” he says. He recalls one particular formed as part of the Cotton Club, an annual Gap, a tennis club, and a telemarketing call And natural talent will only get you so far— game of fi ve-on-fi ve at Cole Park: “I get on a Black variety show in Champaign. After five center. He also hasn’t forgotten that the road greatness demands dedication. In grammar fast break, and basically I dunked on this guy years spent juggling the desire to make art to Dreamville took him through Cole Park. school, at Nat King Cole Park, Omen learned who was just talking crazy,” he remembers. and the need to pay bills, he appeared on After a hiatus of almost four years, he has how to play. Cole Park has two courts—one for “He actually went to high school with me. He “The Badness,” a track from J. Cole’s 2009 the ball back in his court. ROTD III and his children and one for serious ballplayers. never forgot that, and the people that was debut mixtape, The Warm Up. He’d moved to long-awaited second solo album will give him “So on the big court, it was a privilege to there never forgot that.” New York and was working closely with Cole, the chance to cement his position in the game. even get on that court,” he says. “And you had Omen kept playing until his sophomore and his own career started to warm up too. It His previous work with Dreamville has earned to basically win so you can stay on.” For Omen, year at the University of Illinois at Urbana- was the culmination of a friendship that had him admission to the big court; now he has to who hasn’t yet achieved the star status of Champaign, where he majored in creative begun Omen’s sophomore year at Kenwood: show the world that he deserves to stay on. label mate J. Cole, the parallels to the industry writing. It was then that he came to terms with back then Cole was still living in North Car- “The biggest influence Cole Park proba- couldn’t be more clear. a hard truth: he wasn’t going to the NBA. olina, and the two high-schoolers, both fans bly had on me is just giving me a lot of fi ght, The sky promises rain on this muggy after- “I think I had the desire and I had some of of Jamaican- born rapper Canibus, met on a you know? A lot of integrity. I think a lot of noon, but the rules of Cole Park still reign. The the talent, but the other ingredient is basically fansite. the qualities that Chicago is known for in teenagers are playing 21 on the big court, and the work ethic,” Omen says. Back then, he Omen has been involved with Dreamville general, I learned them at this park,” Omen the younger kids are shooting around on the says, his mentality was “childlike.” He failed to Records since its inception in 2007, but it says. “I learned how to deal with real life out smaller one. understand that chasing a dream isn’t always wasn’t until the release of Elephant Eyes that here.” v Since Cole Park opened in 1967, many leg- fun. “All of the things that I’m using now, in he officially became part of its roster. This ends have graced those courts. Derrick Rose this career, is what I had to learn.” year, he formally signed with Interscope, @TheTRiiBE played on them in the early 2000s, back when The decision to stop playing basketball the annual Cole Park Classic tournament and would shape the rest of Omen’s life. He clinic was still happening. Rumor has it even immediately dedicated himself to music, a The Block Beat multimedia series is a collaboration with the TRiiBE (thetriibe.com) that roots Michael Jordan passed through. passion he realized had been there from the Chicago musicians in places and neighborhoods that matter to them. Video accompanies this “I heard Quentin Richardson was up here start, hidden in the background. “So I really story at chicagoreader.com. 28 CHICA O READER - JULY ll Recommended and notable shows and critics’ insights for the week of July 4
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PICK OF THE WEEK On Blood Sisters, Chicago’s Fee Lion brings slasher scares to the dance floor
ON HER LATEST self-released EP, April’s Blood Sisters, Chicago synth-pop artist Justina Kairyte, aka Fee Lion, threads together the sinister and the seductive with razor wire. In the spring, she told Paper magazine that writing the cho- rus for the slow-burning “My Man” crystallized for her what became the EP’s theme: “a mysterious murderess slaughtering her lover in order to step back into her own light.” Kairyte understands the magnetic rhythmic pull that makes industrial music and the harder strains of dance so powerful, and Blood Sisters demonstrates it throughout. The lunging tracks trigger your adrenal glands like a slasher fl ick, their shadowy synths pulsing like a runaway heart beneath her polished but disquietingly chilly vocals. Darkness hangs in every song, but Kairyte can use even bright, major-key pop to create menace—the sparse, sweet synth BENJIMORINO FL melody that enters halfway through “Re(Visit)” makes it all the more unsettling. Part of West Fest (see page 33). Fri 7/5, 5:30 PM (gates at 5 PM), Main Stage, Chicago —LG between Damen and Wood, $5 suggested donation b
Julian Leal Band The Mentally Ill and Jollys Tommy Keene, and 20/20 while retaining his own 1977 and also including Alan King and Williams’s FRIDAY5 open. 9 PM, Reed’s Local, 3017 W. Belmont, $5. 21+ distinct voice. The best showcase for Leal’s sugary, stepbrother, Jesse Saunders, the Chosen Few rockin’ hooks is his lone LP, fi rst released in 1985 and became important players in house music’s earliest Eneferens Crimson Moonlight, Vukari, and If the 80s had been a perfect decade for music, now being reissued (with bonus tracks) by HoZac, days and helped establish the culture among young Tvær open. 8 PM, Reggies’ Music Joint, 2105 S. we wouldn’t have the overproduced, radio-friendly which calls him “the King of Roller Skate Rock.” This people of color on Chicago’s south side. As the State, $10. 21+ power pop of Eddie Money or Bryan Adams still show is a release party for the reissue, and there’s Chosen Few returned to the Hatchett family barbe- getting pumped over the airwaves—instead, we’d no better time to discover Leal’s feel-good tunes cue year a er year, they attracted larger and larger In 2018, Jori Apedaile moved his one-man atmo- have the fun, catchy anthems of Julian Leal. The than now. Also, as a rare treat, infamous local punk audiences; by the mid-2000s, attendance was in the spheric metal project, Eneferens, to Minneapolis Romeoville native, who now lives in Plainfi eld, never band the Mentally Ill (whose 1979 seven-inch “Gacy’s thousands, and the party outgrew its home behind from Montana, and he’ll soon be moving back. But reached the mainstream heights he deserved, prob- Place” comes up in You Weren’t There, with Steve the museum. A er a brief stint on the Midway Plai- for what he lost in isolation and scenic landscapes ably because he never had management or a regu- Albini calling it “the best record ever”) will be rock- sance, in 2008 the Chosen Few Picnic settled in during his time in Minnesota, he gained in solidify- lar band and his singles were as DIY as they come. in’ at Reed’s alongside the incendiary Julian Leal Jackson Park, which has so far managed to con- ing his sound. Last fall he released his third album But he did have brushes with fame: his second sin- Band. —S K tain the crowds—which have recently ballooned to under the Eneferens name, The Bleakness of Our gle, “Get Away,” got good ratings from the kids on nearly 50,000. For 2016 and 2017, the Chosen Few Constant (Nordvis), whose nearly nine-minute American Bandstand; he appeared as an extra in expanded to a two-day festival, though it’s been one “Weight of the Mind’s Periapt” summons its dreamy the 1987 rock fi lm Light of Day, starring Michael J. day again since last year. The Chosen Few (whose clean vocals and e thereal harmonies from within a Fox and Joan Jett; and he made a fan out of Bomp! SATURDAY6 ranks now include Terry Hunter and Mike Dunn) maelstrom of growls and riffs, leaving the album’s mogul Greg Shaw, who at least considered putting perform throughout the day, and as usual the crew title phrase floating in the ether and fading into out Leal’s music. And he sure had the tunes: Leal’s Chosen Few Picnic & House Music has recruited some ace guests: they include New the oceanic intro of “11:34.” It’s a gorgeous, medita- 1986 debut single, “Mad About You,” is just as infec- Festival Featuring David Morales, Thelma York producer and remixer David Morales, disco hit tive record that holds back on raw power to reveal tious as the Go-Go’s song of the same name, and Houston, Lori Branch, Taana Gardner, Lady Alma, maker Thelma Houston, and Chicago house DJ Lori a sweeter albeit no less heavy type of metal. If you “Get Away” has such a monster hook that it surely the Chosen Few DJs, and more. 8 AM-9 PM, Branch, who was among the first of the very few do want some raw power, though, make sure to could’ve conquered the charts. Years later, that tune Jackson Park, 63rd at Hayes, $50, kids 12 and women involved in shaping the genre as it was born. get to Reggies’ in time to catch local band Vukari, helped revive Leal’s career after superfan Frank- under free. b As always, attendees are welcome to barbecue, who’ve dropped a couple demo tracks from their ie Smith helped get it onto the 2012 Numero com- though I wouldn’t blame anyone who doesn’t want forthcoming full-length, Aevum (Vendetta), that feel pilation Buttons: From Champaign to Chicago and If you’ve ever wished that more music festivals were to cut into their dancing time by tending a grill. like spiraling swirls of howling majesty from the void. assembled a new band for Leal. The group includes like family picnics, then you need to go to this Jack- —LG —M K Smith on guitar, Eric Ottens on keys, Christmas son Park house-music blowout. In the late 80s, DJs Woods (Smith’s wild former bandmate in heavy and brothers Tony and Andre Hatchett and their glamsters Mickey) on drums, and Renaissance man families began hosting an annual Fourth of July Daniel Knox 9 PM, Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Fee Lion See Pick of the Week above. Part of Joe Losurdo (who codirected 2009 Chicago punk reunion barbecue behind the Museum of Science Belmont, $10. 21+ West Fest (see page 33). 5:30 PM (gates at 5 PM), doc You Weren’t There) on bass. With this band, and Industry. For the 1990 gathering, they decided Main Stage, Chicago between Damen and Wood, Leal has played with the likes of garage icons the to treat their relatives to a day full of DJ sets with Chicago singer-songwriter Daniel Knox knows how $5 donation. b Gories, and he sounds as urgent and blistering help from the three other members of their crew, to write a heartbreaker—which in his case could as ever, channeling the best of the Raspberries, the Chosen Few. 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continued from 29 bright-toned yet mournful lead by Nina Nastasia. a lover’s chest cavity to pinch off an artery. The This winter Knox toured to support Chasescene title track from his new album, Chasescene (H.P. in Europe, where he has a robust following, and Johnson Presents), kicks off with an uneasy senti- tonight’s show is his local record release. He’ll ment: “Darling, I love you by the neck / In this hope- play an extended set with local collaborators Paul less broken wreck / I love you by the neck.” Which Parts, Joshua Fitzgerald Klocek, and Jim Cooper, is promptly followed by an even darker declara- and he’ll have plenty of vinyl for sale, including tion: “I love you in the ground / You’re naked and Chasescene and his latest seven-inch, “Die Hard/ you can’t make a sound / I love you in the ground.” Die Harder.” —S C -J The icing on Knox’s cake of creepiness is his vocal delivery: he sounds like Tom Waits after adenoid surgery, with bursts of chesty volume and a bit of Outlier at Lakefront Green Bonobo gravel left over, and his trills and flourishes recall (DJ set) headlines; Derrick Carter, DJ Boring, the dramatic phrasing of Judy Garland (if she sang Quantic (DJ set), Juan MacLean (DJ set), and in Johnny Hartman’s range). Chasescene is the last Machinedrum open. 2 PM, Lakefront Green at installment in a trilogy of releases that includes Theatre on the Lake, 2401 N. Lake Shore Dr., 2007’s Disaster and 2011’s Evryman for Himself. $55. 21+ Each album explores desperate, sometimes devi- Carly Rae Jepsen COURTESYOFRECORDS ant relationships, and the orchestrations on Chase- Since 1999, British producer Bonobo (aka Simon scene give the songs an over-the-top cinematic fl a- Green) has been perfecting a serene downtempo vor. On two tracks, Knox hands the microphone to electronic sound with porous borders. His most a slave to a particular style, Callahan changes his equally dramatic guest vocalists: “Capitol” features recent album, 2017’s Migration (Ninja Tune), features SUNDAY7 sound to suit his material, and here he’s replaced dark and sometimes whispered lines by British sing- contributions from precious R&B band Rhye, Nicole the phased guitars, echo-soaked flute, and lay- er Jarvis Cocker, and “The Poisoner” showcases a Miglis of moody art-rockers Hundred Waters, and Bill Callahan Bill MacKay opens. 8:30 PM, ered grooves of Dream River with predominantly New York-based group Innov Gnawa, Moroccan Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, $22. 17+ acoustic instrumentation that enhances the songs’ natives whose hypnotic music is rooted in centu- intimacy. Accompanying him on this tour are three ries-old Gnawa traditions. Migration features a Bill Callahan’s recent Shepherd in a Sheepskin Vest musicians who played on Shepherd in a Sheepskin track titled “Outlier,” and Bonobo has also adopt- (Drag City) contains the singer- songwriter’s fi rst set Vest: guitarist Matt Kinsey, drummer Adam Jones, ed that name for his occasional program on Inter- of new songs in six years. That’s a long time for a and bassist-producer Brian Beattie. —B M net radio station NTS, for his Spotify playlist, and guy who made 15 LPs in the 23 years between Sewn for his concert series. In North America, Bono- to the Sea, his fi rst full-length as Smog, and Dream bo has so far hosted Outlier events only in NYC, River, which came out in 2013 (followed by a dub Combo Chimbita See also Monday. Part of but this summer he’s bringing the series to four companion, Have Fun With God, the next year). But West Fest (see page 33). 5:30 PM (gates at noon), other cities, including Chicago—specifi cally Lincoln during a series of major life events—marriage, the Main Stage, Chicago between Damen and Wood, Park’s Lakefront Green. The only local act on the birth of a son, the loss of a parent—Callahan expe- $5 donation. b Chicago date is house legend Derrick Carter, a rienced a long dry stretch. The songs he’s written wise choice that adds extra credibility to an already since the drought ended are much more nakedly The members of this Colombia-rooted, New York interesting lineup: it includes Bonobo’s headlin- personal than anything he’s recorded before: “What City-based quartet—vocalist and percussion- ing DJ set, of course, as well as crucial DFA artist Comes After Certainty” embraces the pursuit of ist Carolina Oliveros, drummer Dilemastronauta, Juan Maclean, lo-fi house darling DJ Boring, global- happiness, “747” tries to see the world through a guitarist Niño Lento, and bassist- keyboardist Prince ly minded dance producer Quantic, and energetic, new child’s eyes, and “Writing” celebrates the end of Queens—have been pursuing what they call genre-splicing beat maker Machinedrum (who’s col- of his writer’s block (while “Son of the Sea” consid- “tropical futurism” since 2015. Combo Chimbita’s laborated with Chicago crew Teklife). Outlier should ers the part that new parenthood had in temporarily magical, trippy rhythms are potent dance- inducing do well here given Chicago’s rich dance-music histo- stopping his creative fl ow). The new Bill serves up potions that build upon an extensive variety ry—though I wish the organizers hadn’t booked it for straightforward advice about accepting responsibil- of beats from the global south, including Afro- the same day as the Chosen Few’s 29th annual pic- ity and coping with the cycles of life, but he hasn’t Colombian cumbia and champeta, Caribbean nic in Jackson Park. Festival season includes so few entirely let go of the absurdity and bone-dry humor calypso, and Haitian kompa. The group imbue their dance-centric events that it’s a shame to make fans that animated old songs such as “I Am Star Wars” experimental jams with Afro-indigenous mysticism pick between two superstrong bills. —LG and “Ex-Con.” For example, “The Ballad of the Hulk” and spirituality as well as the fi erce energy of punk Daniel Knox MRKING tells a story about relinquishing toxic ways within a and metal, and propel them into the 21st century tall tale about knowing Bruce Banner’s tailor. Never with dub and electro. Their third album, Ahomale
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Give your digital (Anti-), takes its title from a Yoruba word for a being who can commune with the ancestors; it offers a life a break. musical homage to the feminine warrior spirit and a TUESDAY9 vision of communicating ancestral wisdom through Connect over music. That energy shines through in Combo Glassing Den headline; Glassing, Dead Sun, Chimbita’s performances, where Oliveros drives DJ B-Trip (Ben Billington), and DJ 420 Web music, dance & powerfully cathartic grooves with her transcendent MD open. 9:30 PM, Sleeping Village, 3734 W. vocals and rapid-fi re playing on a percussive scraper Belmont, $5. 21+ more. called a guacharaca. Combo Chimbita’s self-made psychedelic videos and futuristic Afro-indigenous Austin band Glassing have a pretty deep Chicago Anyone can play! apparel promise to make their show a visual feast connection: drummer Jason Camacho spent years as well as a sonic one. —C M J here as a major part of our underground harsh- Find your new class at noise and experimental-rock scenes. After arriv- oldtownschool.org ing from Texas nearly a decade ago, he and a few other Lone Star State transplants opened Logan MONDAY8 Square DIY venue the Mopery—a lawless, window- less warehouse whose inhabitants lived in tents Combo Chimbita See Sunday. 8:30 PM, Empty and hosted legendary shows by bands as varied Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $12. 21+ as Screaming Females, Bloodyminded, and Litur- gy. The Mopery also nurtured local music, and J ll JULY - CHICA O READER31 MUSIC
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romantic who can always find new angles from continued from 31 which to explore love. On the new album she show- a handful of excellent bands blossomed out of its cases an expanded sonic palette: the slinky disco community, notably free-jazz freaks Tiger Hatch- of “Julien,” the euphoric abandon of “Want You ery and noise-rock maniacs Lechuguillas, for whom in My Room” (reminiscent of Whitney Houston’s Camacho played drums. He’s since returned to best dance tunes), and most impressively the one- Texas, where he became part of brutal trio Glassing, two punch of “I’ll Be Your Girl” (a baroque almost- and their brand-new Spotted Horse (Brutal Panda) is waltz, anchored by twangy guitar and shimmering a real doozy. The album blends frenetic noise rock, harpsichord- esque keyboards) and “Too Much” frigid black metal, tortured screamo, and sweeping (which features Jepsen’s most vulnerable vocal 1035 N WESTERN AVE CHICAGO IL 773.276.3600 WWW.EMPTYBOTTLE.COM postrock into something as beautiful and epic as it performance, accompanied only by sparse synths). is punishing and intense. Everyone in Glassing abso- She’s touched on jealousy in the past, most notably FREE lutely fucking rips, but a huge tip of the hat goes to on 2012’s “This Kiss,” but she’s never gone as far as THU TEDDY & THE ROUGH RIDERS MON THE CURLS Camacho—he’s always been a beastly drummer, and the simmering resentment and claws-out vicious- 6/27 EMILY NENNI • MODERN SHAG 7/1 SPIRITS HAVING FUN (RECORD RELEASE) his playing has grown even more mammoth, intri- ness of “I’ll Be Your Girl.” She fi nds the fl ip side of THE HECKS • SEWINGNEEDLE cate, and dizzingly complex. —L C that song’s explosive emotion on “Too Much,” where HARD COUNTRY HONKY TONK WITH she sings about being awash in doubt and uncer- 5PM-FREE THE HOYLE BROTHERS 312UNES PRESENTS tainty. Dedicated fully realizes the complexity that FRI TUE 6/28 MOON KING 7/2 KEDR LIVANSKIY Carly Rae Jepsen Mansionair opens. 8 PM, Jepsen only approached on her previous record, FAMILY OF GENIUSES • SMALL TINES BORN DAYS • JENNY PULSE Chicago Theatre, 175 N. State, $56-279. b 2015’s Emotion. With her expanded mastery of pop and her plastic blade, the Queen of Everything At the start of 2018, Tumblr user swordlesbian- seems poised to conquer the world. —EB 1PM ROOT DOWN: FREE A POP-UP PLANT SHOP W/ BITE & BOTTLE WED opinions posted, “Petition to give Carly Rae 7/3 MATTSON 2 SAT FEMINIST HAPPY HOUR CAMPDOGZZ Jepsen a sword. I like her and think she should 6/29 6PM 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY $5 W/ RSVP have one.” From this, the Canadian pop star’s fans WINDY CITY SOUL CLUB JOHN MAUS launched a social-media campaign that culminated WEDNESDAY10 THU SPACES OF DISAPPEARANCE at Lollapalooza 2018, when someone hurled an 11AM 7/4 inflatable sword onstage during Jepsen’s perfor- Diana Ross 8 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. FREE BLEAK BRUNCH 11PM FREE BOY HARSHER (DJ SET) mance of “Cut to the Feeling.” She brandished the State, $81-$101. b 3PM EMPTY BOTTLE BOOK CLUB DISCUSSES weapon, and Twitter exploded in rapture. Jepsen is SUN FREE THE THREE-BODY PROBLEM BY CIXIN LIU 6/30 no stranger to viral fame; in 2011, she was propelled This year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival FRI from relative obscurity to the front pages of inter- seemed beset by bad juju: the Rolling Stones BENCH 7/5 STEF CHURA KNEELING IN PISS • THE ARNO FRENCH VANILLA • SEAN GREEN national pop culture when Justin Bieber tweeted begged off due to Mick Jagger’s heart surgery, about the catchiness of her breakout hit (her big- and Bob Seger bowed out, blaming a scheduling gest hit to date), “Call Me Maybe.” But no matter conflict. But Diana Ross, fresh off her “Diamond 7/5-7/7 @ CHICAGO & DAMEN: WEST FEST CHICAGO 2019 (5PM/12PM), 7/6: PHILLY PEROXIDE DJs BOTTLE BRUNCH (11AM-FREE), 7/6: FOXWARREN, how many memes she’s inspired—for which her Diana” residency in Vegas, showed up in a big way. 7/7: LOS CAMPESINOS!, 7/8: COMBO CHIMBITA, 7/9: GABBY’S WORLD • BELLOWS, 7/10: ONO, 7/11: GLITTER MONEYYY (RECORD fans have dubbed her “Queen of Everything”—they In the fi rst Jazz Fest performance of her six-decade RELEASE), 7/12: IMELDA MARCOS (RECORD RELEASE), 7/13: GOLDEN VESSEL, 7/14: BEACH SLANG, 7/15: JACKIE MENDOZA (FREE), all come a distant second to her supernatural abil- career, she absolutely killed it, holding the audience 7/16: IMMORTAL BIRD (RECORD RELEASE), 7/16 @ THE INTL MUSEUM OF SURGICAL SCIENCE: MICHAEL MORLEY [DEAD C. / GATE] ity to churn out weapons-grade dance-fl oor fi llers. in her thrall as she ran through 90 minutes of her -THE NEVER QUARTET PROJECT (7PM), 7/17: A NIGHT OF MODULAR SYNTHESIS, 7/18: KYLE CRAFT & SHOWBOAT HONEY Though her fourth album, this spring’s Dedicated , hits. Though some of the Generation Z set might be NEW ON SALE: 8/7: SURFBORT, 8/8: THROWAWAY, 8/19: BLACK TAFFY, 8/25: THE FIELD, 9/13: LUKE TEMPLE [OF traffics in similar themes of adoration and heart- more familiar with two of Ross’s children, Black-ish HERE WE GO MAGIC], 9/20: DREAMGIRL, 9/24-9/25: ALDOUS HARDING, 9/26: BLANCK MASS, 10/2: DRAHLA break as her previous work, Jepsen is a savvy star Tracee Ellis Ross and actor-musician Evan Ross,
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Diana Ross is inarguably one of the most iconic art- FRIDAY, JULY PM ists in music history. The velvety-voiced Detroit- born singer-actor famously exemplifi ed the Motown FESTIVALS Okkervil River sound in the 60s as a member of the Supremes, and with special guest Lip Talk since 1970 she’s led a prolifi c solo career, racking up even more Top 40 hits. With her talent and charis- Celebrate freedom, SATURDAY, JULY PM ma, Ross has collected awards and accolades like SUNDAY, JULY PM jewels in a crown, including a Tony in 1977 for her diversity, and ribs Broadway show, an Oscar nomination in 1973 for her Jake Shimabukuro portrayal of jazz singer Billie Holiday in Lady Sings this Fourth of July the Blues, an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER PM of Fame (as part of the Supremes), a Kennedy Cen- weekend ter Honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and not one but several lifetime achievement awards Sun Kil Moon for her contributions to culture. Though Ross hasn’t released a studio album since 2006’s I Love You African/Caribbean International WORLD MUSIC WEDNESDAY SERIES FREE WEEKLY CONCERTS, LINCOLN SQUARE (EMI), she’s still out on the road—as she said in a Festival of Life video montage celebrating her Lifetime Achieve- The International Festival of Life is among OKAN ment Award at the 2017 American Music Awards, “There’s nothing more magical [than] the energy the city’s most diverse, with acts from Af- onstage.” To see how masterfully she holds sway rica, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the OLDTOWNSCHOOL.ORG over an audience, check out her legendary 1983 United States. The 27th edition is dubbed performance in New York’s Central Park, when she “TheReggae50” to celebrate the birth of sang to nearly 400,000 people during a downpour. When the skies opened up, Ross simply switched to the genre in 1968, and it’s being held in con- a cordless mike and urged the crowd to stay calm. junction with the Chicago Music Awards JULY As her Jazz Fest set proved, more than 35 years (which take place on Fri 7/5). Live music 12 13 14 since that rainy night, she’s still got the power to includes sets from Elephant Man, Nadia unite an audience and lead them in blissful sing- IN LINCOLN along reverie. Her stop at the Chicago Theatre is Batson, Busy Signal, and Mr. Vegas. Thu SQUARE part of her 75th birthday tour. —K L 7/4 through Sun 7/7, noon, Washington Park, E. 58th at Cottage Grove, $25 per day (seniors Join us for 3 days of summer fun! $15, kids 12 and under free), all ages FEATURING Chosen Few Picnic & House Music SON VOLT Festival CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN See page 29. Sat 7/6, 8 AM-9 PM, Jackson Park, 63rd at Hayes, $50 (kids 12 and under CRACKER free), all ages BLOODSHOT RECORDS 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FEATURING Windy City Ribfest MEKONS MURDER BY DEATH You know what goes great with live music? VANDOLIERS Ribs. This family-friendly north-side BLOODSHOT ALLSTARS street fest o ers plenty of both, with fi ve THE MEDITATIONS 47SOUL rib vendors from Chicago and beyond and THE WILD REEDS sets from Martha Davis & the Hotels, Linda BEACH SLANG BAZURTO ALL STARS Cli ord, LowDown Brass Band, and others. SIOBHAN WILSON OKKERVIL RIVER* Napkins welcome but not required. Thu 7/4, ANGEL D'CUBA 2:30 PM, Fri 7/5 and Sat 7/6, 3 PM, 4800 N. SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS IAN NOE Broadway, $5 suggested donation, all ages LOGAN LEDGER RATBOYS OHMME GENO DELAFOSE & FRENCH ROCKIN' BOOGIE West Fest *SEPARATE TICKET REQUIRED This staple street fest features a mix of early local and touring faves on two stages, one CRAFT BEER FROM dedicated to electronic music and another warnings where anything goes. This year, practically every artist is a highlight: Combo Chimbita never miss a show again (see page 30), John Maus, Boy Harsher, chicagoreader.com/early Oozing Wound, Fee Lion (see Pick of the PLUS LIVE MUSIC FOR KIDS, Week, page 29), Nnamdi Ogbannaya, Ex LOCAL RESTAURANTS, UNIQUE VENDORS AND MUCH MORE! Hex, Mark Farina, Derrick Carter, and many more. Fri 7/5, 5 PM, Sat 7/6 and Sun 7/7, noon, Diana Ross COURTESYTHEARTIST Chicago between Damen and Wood, $5 sug- SQUAREROOTS.ORG gested donation, all ages v ll JULY - CHICA O READER33 CHICAGO SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IN THE WEEKS TO COME
EARLY WARNINGS b ALLAGESF WOLFBYKEITHHERZIK Jake Shimabukuro 7/27, 8 PM; 7/28, 7 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, Never miss 7/27 sold out b a show again. Shonen Knife 10/1, 8 PM, Sub- Sign up for the terranean Slowthai 9/13, 8 PM, Subterra- newsletter at GOSSIP nean, 17+ chicagoreader. Slum Village 8/6, 8 PM, City com/early Winery, on sale Fri 7/5 b WOLF Static-X, Devildriver, Dope, Wednesday13, Raven Black A furry ear to the ground of 12/2, 6:30 PM, House of Alice Cooper, Halestorm 7/21, Blues, 17+ 7 PM, Hollywood Casino the local music scene Sunset Rollercoaster, Paul Amphitheatre, Tinley Park Cherry 10/18, 9 PM, Empty Shemekia Copeland 10/11, IN DECEMBER Gossip Wolf caught up Bottle 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Super Doppler, Hustle 9/13, Matt Corby 10/9, 7:30 PM, Park with local guitarist and soul singer Isaiah 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ West, 18+ Sharkey , who mentioned he was work- Surabhi Ensemble 8/21, 8 PM, Crystal Method 8/17, 9 PM, ing on Love Is the Key (The Cancerian City Winery b Bottom Lounge, 17+ Theme), which “refl ects funk, jazz, classic Think No Think, Evictions 8 /4 , Mykele Deville, Absolutely 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle Not, Avantist 8/10, 9 PM, R&B, hip-hop, and other genres that’ve 3Teeth, Author & Punisher, Thalia Hall, 18+ influenced me throughout my journey.” Gost 7/24, 6:30 PM, Reggies’ Glitter Moneyyy, Showyou- The album dropped Friday, June 21, and Phum Viphurit COURTESYTHEARTIST Rock Club, 17+ suck, J Bambii 7/11, 8:30 PM, Sharkey wasn’t exaggerating about its Tyler the Creator, Jaden Empty Bottle Smith, Goldlink 9/4, 7 PM, God Is an Astronaut 9/25, kaleidoscopic sound! This wolf especial- Commonheart, Joel Crouse Khruangbin (DJ set), Title Credit Union 1 Arena at 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ ly digs the string-laden “Love Is the Key,” NEW 11/14, 8 PM, Schubas, 18+ TK 7/21, 10:30 PM, Sleeping UIC b Golden Vessel, Instupendo which recalls early-70s Curtis Mayfield, Agnostic Front, Prong, Ugly- Consider the Source, Pneu- Village Um, Sumthin Sumthin 8/16, 9 7/13, 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle and the wah-wah pyrotechnics of “Amen.” bones 9/19, 7 PM, Reggies’ matic Transit 9/27, 8 PM, Kikagaku Moyo 11/21, 8:30 PM, PM, Chop Shop, 18+ John Gorka 8/31, 8 PM, City Rock Club, 17+ Reggies’ Music Joint Thalia Hall, 17+ Valee, Kami, Qari 7/18, 8:30 Winery b On Saturday, July 6, Sharkey opens for Laith Al-Saadi 9/12, 8 PM, City Cybertronic Spree 8/2, 8 PM, Kindness 11/8, 10 PM, Sleeping PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Herbie Hancock, Kamasi Michael McDonald & Chaka Khan at Winery b Beat Kitchen, 17+ Village Phum Viphurit 9/24, 8 PM, Washington 8/10, 6:30 PM, Ravinia . Hit those lawn seats early! Allday, Mallrat 9/18, 6:30 PM, Dababy 8/8, 8:30 PM, Riviera Jake La Botz 7/13, 10 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Huntington Bank Pavilion b If you’ve ever watched a Marvel movie Subterranean b Theatre, 17+ Schubas, 18+ Mike Watt & the Missingmen Hepcat, Deals Gone Bad 7/27, Amen Dunes, Sasami 7/20, Kyle Dion 8/5, 7:30 PM, Jonny Lang, JJ Grey, Mofro 10/2, 8 PM, Schubas 10 PM, Subterranean and thought, “This would be cooler with 10 PM, Sleeping Village Schubas b 8/10, 8 PM, House of Blues, Jamila Woods 7/21, 7 PM, Art Joyryde 8/24, 8 PM, Concord a black-metal song on the soundtrack,” Amigo the Devil, King Dude, Nicole Dollanganger, Infi nity 17+ Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Music Hall, 18+ then you should listen to Annihilus right Twin Temple 11/22, 8 PM, Crush 8/30, 6:30 PM, Beat Man Man, Grlwood 9/20, 9 PM, Auditorium b Judah & the Lion, Band Cami- now! Reader contributor Luca Cimarusti Metro, 18+ Kitchen b Sleeping Village no 8/2, 11 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Aristocrats, Travis Larson Dua Saleh, Ché, Moth- Messenger Birds, Honeystone Avi Kaplan 8/18, 7:30 PM, recently launched this solo project, taking Band 7/20, 8 PM, Reggies’ er Nature, DJ Bonita 7/25, 8 PM, Subterranean, 17+ UPDATED Thalia Hall b the name Annihilus from a main antago- Rock Club, 17+ Appleblunt 7/20, 9 PM, Molly Parden, Carriers, Vend- Marc Rebillet 10/8-10/9, 8 PM, K.Flay 9/19, 7:30 PM, Riviera nist of the Fantastic Four, a fl ying armored Jocelyn & Chris Arndt, Phillip Empty Bottle er & the Cobras 7/24, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 10/9 show sold Theatre b alien from the Negative Zone who’s hell- Michael Scales 8/29, 9 PM, Faux Furrs, Liam Kazar, Lane Schubas, 18+ out; 10/8 added, 18+ Steve Lehman Trio 9/21, Schubas, 18+ Beckstrom 8/14, 9:30 PM, Möngöl Hörde, War on 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ bent on eradicating humanity—“Pretty Bantu Fest 2019 . Syleena Sleeping Village Women, Rebuilder 12/8, Lennon Stella 7/31, 7:30 PM, freaky dude, I’d say,” Cimarusti told Occult Johnson, Dee Alexander, Frankie & the Witch Fingers 7:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ UPCOMING Lincoln Hall b Black Metal Zine in May. Ukrainian label and more 7/27-7/28, Midway 8/25, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen Monolord, Blackwater Holy- Allah-Lahs, Tim Hill 8/16, Luke Temple, Meernaa 9/13, Depressive Illusions just dropped the Plaisance Park b Furious Bongos 11/17, 7:30 PM, light 11/20, 7 PM, Reggies’ 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle 9 PM, Empty Bottle Bitchin Bajas 9/12, 8:30 PM, Reggies’ Rock Club, 17+ Rock Club, 17+ Alma Afrobeat Ensemble, Lula Wiles 9/25, 8 PM, Hideout Annihilus cassette Fire & Life, which pairs Constellation, 18+ Ghostly 20 with Ciel (DJ), Moon Duo 11/20, 8:30 PM, Esso, Seres de Luz 7/26, Mahalia 9/23, 8 PM, Lincoln a new EP with the April demo originally Block Party 2019 . Damon Galcher Lustwerk (DJ), JTC, Thalia Hall, 17+ 9 PM, Martyrs’ Hall, 18+ released by UK label Corpse Torture. Locks & Ben LaMar Gay, Shigeto & Charles Trees (DJ) Mush, Lili Trifi lio, Jupiter Black Pumas, Los Coast 7/19, Marina 9/23, 7:30 PM, Aragon When Frank Rosaly packed his drums Andy Slater & Tommy 10/19, 10 PM, Smart Bar Styles 8/23, 7 PM, Beat 9 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Ballroom, 17+ Carroll, Avery R. Young 7/21, Ghostly 20 with Tobacco, Kitchen b Boy & Bear 9/23, 8 PM, Bottom Sick Gazelle, Spiral Galaxy, and moved to Amsterdam in 2016, one of 10:30 AM, Art Institute of Shigeto, Drama, Steve Ninja Sex Party, Planet Booty, Lounge, 17+ Potions x Flux Bikes, CC the many fine ensembles he left on hia- Chicago b Hauschildt, SV4 10/19, 8 PM, Twerp 10/12, 8 PM, Credit Boy Jr., Natalie Grace Alford, Crain 7/22, 8:30 PM, Empty tus was the Nick Mazzarella Trio, which Jonathan Bree 10/27, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Union 1 Arena at UIC b Ava Lake 7/19, 7:30 PM, GMan Bottle F includes two Chicagoans, saxophonist Sleeping Village Giuda 9/10, 8:30 PM, Empty Onuka 10/18, 8 PM, Concord Tavern Sigrid, Houses 8/1, 11 PM, Bring Me the Horizon, Des Bottle Music Hall b Broke Royals, Molehill, King of Thalia Hall, 17+ Mazzarella and bassist Anton Hatwich. Rocs 8/1, 11 PM, House of Halima, Myquale, Sarob, Orange Goblin, Weedeater, Mars 8/10, 9 PM, Martyrs’ JD Simo 8/15, 8 PM, FitzGer- During a Rosaly visit in January 2018, the Blues, 17+ Shego Turbo 7/21, 7:30 PM, The Skull 8/29, 8:30 PM, Ronnie Baker Brooks 9/20, ald’s, Berwyn trio recorded six new Mazzarella compo- Building, Heather Woods Subterranean, 17+ Thalia Hall, 17+ 8 PM, City Winery b Summer Salt, Dante Ele- sitions live at Co-Prosperity Sphere. Last Broderick 11/3, 9 PM, Sleep- Albert Hammond 9/9, 8 PM, Pagan Altar, High Spirits, Cau- Captain Coopersmith, One phante, Motel Radio 7/30, ing Village City Winery, on sale Fri 7/5 b chemar 8/31, 8 PM, Reggies’ More Moon, Doomerang 7/12, 6:30 PM, Bottom Lounge b week, local label Spacetone (run by drum- Toronzo Cannon, Rick King’s Jason Hawk Harris 9/21, 7 PM, Music Joint 8:30 PM, GMan Tavern Sun Kil Moon 9/14, 8 PM, Maur- mer Quin Kirchner) and Texas label Astral Royal Hustle 7/27, 9:30 PM, Hideout Polo G, Lul Kel 8/29, 7 PM, the Captain UFO, Violet Suns, er Hall, Old Town School of Spirits released them as the LP Counter- Buddy Guy’s Legends Hermitude 9/19, 7 PM, Chop Vic b Lathes 7/11, 8:30 PM, Hideout Folk Music b balance, and on Saturday, July 6, the trio Celebrity Hostages, John San Shop b Daniel Romano 9/17, 9 PM, Edie Carey, Anna Ash 10/6, Spencer Sutherland 8/17, 6 PM, Juan 7/18, 8 PM, GMan Tavern Hieroglyphics 8/16, 9 PM, Sleeping Village 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Beat Kitchen b celebrates at the Hideout. Kirchner will fi ll Chnnll, Small Tines, To Do List Metro, 18+ Sam Russo, Damien Christian Mary Chapin Carpenter & Webb Wilder & the Beatnecks in for Rosaly; Tim Daisy opens with a solo 7/22, 8 PM, Schubas F Illenium 11/8, 8 PM, Credit 8/23, 8 PM, GMan Tavern Shawn Colvin 10/18, 8 PM, 7/27, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston set, and Damon Locks DJs. —JRN Claud 11/18, 7:30 PM, Union 1 Arena at UIC b San Fermin 10/25, 9 PM, Thalia Athenaeum Theatre b b LG Schubas b Josiah Johnson 9/10, 8 PM, Hall, 17+ Chai, Varsity, James Swanberg Ric Wilson 7/19, 11 PM, Schubas, Paula Cole 10/6, 7 PM, City Schubas, 18+ Screeching Weasel, Queers, 7/19, 9 PM, Empty Bottle 18+ Winery b Kazu 10/12, 8:30 PM, Constel- Bigwig 7/27, 8 PM, House of Chelou 9/19, 9 PM, Sleeping Yungblud, Missio 10/4, 7:30 Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail Collection 10/9, 8 PM, Schubas lation, 18+ Blues b Village PM, the Vic b v [email protected].
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The perpetual war machine is a bipartisan creation, fed by Republicans and The perpetual war machine is a bipartisan Democrats alike. MARIAOSWALT/UNSPLASH creation, fed by Republicans and Democrats alike. It is the inevitable result of a capitalist system that lets private companies profit by Iraqi soldiers. Years later, it was quietly from killing and war coupled with a political reported that the incubator story was a lie system that allows our national leaders to told by a member of the Kuwaiti royal fam- take campaign checks from these same war ily who’d been coached by the PR firm Hill merchants. The result is a vicious cycle of & Knowlton. Corporate media sanitized its wars that can never end because they are coverage of the war, known as Desert Storm, designed to spread violence and chaos. Then almost entirely ignoring the human cost. later, more military spending and war are re- The campaign of lies and propaganda that quired to deal with the new dangers created got us into the second war against Iraq in by the past wars. 2003 is well known. Besides false reporting Under this dysfunctional system, the main about mobile chemical weapons labs and job of a commander in chief is to maintain shipments of uranium from Africa, we were enough conflict zones around the globe to fed more reports of brutality, rape, and tor- keep the war machine funded to the tune of ture by Saddam’s sons Uday and Qusay. about a trillion dollars annually. On June 19, The two Iraq wars combined were respon- the Democratic-controlled House of Repre- sible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands sentatives passed a nearly $1 trillion appro- of Iraqi troops and civilians, and thousands priations bill, the vast majority of which was of American soldiers. for defense funding. The same pattern was repeated in 2011 by Trump deserves credit for at least ac- FOREIGN POLICY PERSPECTIVE the Obama administration to get us geared knowledging the influence of the for-profit up for the NATO war in Libya. There, the war industry on his foreign policy. “Don’t kid o cial lies were that Muammar Gaddafi was yourself,” Trump told Fox News, “you do have supplying his troops with Viagra to encour- a military industrial complex. They do like Deconstructing the perpetual age mass rape, and that he was planning to war.” massacre civilians in Benghazi. The NATO As an example, why are we helping Saudi bombing plunged Libya into a humanitarian Arabia and its murderous Crown Prince Mo- war machine disaster, killing thousands of people and dis- hammed bin Salman fi ght its cruel and brutal How Democrats and Republicans keep us constantly engaged in confl ict placing hundreds of thousands more, trans- war in Yemen, targeting civilians, bombing forming Libya from the African country with hospitals, factories, mosques, schools, By LCG the highest standard of living into a war-torn using starvation and disease as weapons of failed state. war? Trump will tell you why. We do it for Today, Democrats are raising questions the weapons contracts with the Saudis. But know it’s bad form to say anything pos- be correct—the downed drone was not worth about Trump’s authority to bomb Iran with- Obama, the president who got us into the itive about President Donald Trump. 150 lives and a potential new war in the Mid- out getting authorization from Congress. In war in Yemen, while he also negotiated huge But his decision to call o a planned air east. Yet the New York Times editorial board response, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo weapons contracts with the Saudis, never strike against Iran last month should be expressed concern with Trump’s “chaotic says that Trump can use the 2001 AUMF— o ered any coherent explanation. applauded. decision-making process,” fi nding it “strange the Authorization for Use of Military Force Accepting that you have a problem is the IThe decision was made, according to the and disturbing” that Trump would have con- passed after 9/11—as justifi cation for a new first step to changing course. Remember, New York Times, with planes already in the sidered the “possible death toll only at the war with Iran. Trump won the White House promising a air and targets picked out. John Bolton, last minute.” Democrats dispute Trump’s reading of the noninterventionist foreign policy. “Look, I Trump’s national security adviser, urged the While I don’t endorse chaotic thinking AUMF, which only authorizes attacks against said I want to get out of these endless wars, strike to retaliate against Iran for shooting about foreign policy, it is worth recalling the terrorists who attacked us on September I campaigned on that, I want to get out,” he down an American surveillance drone. The what normal-thinking foreign policy looks 11, 2001. But their position is weakened by the told reporters in the Oval O ce on June 20. easy thing for Trump to do would have been like. Past wars in the Mideast were profes- fact that President Obama used the AUMF 19 Normal thinking about foreign policy has to let the generals blow things up and kill sionally sold to the American people with times to justify new bombing campaigns in produced a cycle of endless wars for corpo- people. massive propaganda campaigns run through Pakistan, Yemen, Syria, Libya, and Somalia, rate profi t. Chaotic thinking may be what it Trump explained in a tweet thread that he the press. Normal presidents fi rst dehuman- all without any action by Congress. Obama takes to break that cycle. v canceled the planned attack after being in- ize the enemy, then ignore civilian casualties. even used the AUMF to justify the killing of formed by a general that roughly 150 people In 1990, when Iraqi troops led by Saddam a U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, in Yemen in @GoodmanLen would die in the assault. He decided that the Hussein invaded Kuwait, a PR campaign was September 2011. Then ten days later, another possible loss of life was “not . . . proportionate launched to convince Americans to send our drone strike killed al-Awlaki’s 16-year-old Leonard C. Goodman is a Chicago crimi- to shooting down an unmanned drone.” troops halfway around the world to defend son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, also an Amer- nal defense attorney and co-owner of the In the corporate press, there was some the oil-rich fi efdom. We were told again and ican citizen. No justification has ever been newly independent Reader. recognition that Trump’s calculation might again about babies torn from incubators given for the attack on the boy. 36 CHICA O READER - JULY ll OPINION
SAVAGE LOVE Does having ‘a thing for Black guys’ make one prejudiced? How to check that shit. Plus: A room with a view, outside and in. B DS
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But he was a with the requirements of Vail Systems (Chicago, IL) authorizing this Continuation our Italian joint venture Statement is continued that group as things—and in a narrow street in a large white guy, DANGLE, and seeks Linux System Ad- company; Performance ministrator for implement- for the additional period a society that dehumanizes city. My only window faces considering all the ways of internal audits of the provided by applicable ing/maintaining/monitoring/ company’s U.S. and foreign designing & securing sys- law PARTY INFORMATION Black people, white people the street. A er showering, African American men are tax reporting activities; CHANGE: Debtor ADD tems & voice platforms with Performance of audits of the can easily come to see Black and whenever I’m home, targeted by the police, I feel the strong high-availability name ORGANIZATION’S company’s internal fi nancial NAME IMPERIAL requirements of a carri- reports in accordance people as objects. I’m naked. A young white obligated to warn you about er-grade hosting environ- VALLEY PROPERTIES, with GAAP standards LLC CHANGED OR As for her comment about couple moved in across the something you already know: ment. Position is based out and the requirements of of Chicago, IL offi ce but may ADDED INFORMATION our Chinese suppliers IMPERIAL VALLEY your Korean friend: Prevail- street, and they have an cops are always looking require occ. work from the and our joint venture Deerfield, IL office. Submit PROPERTIES,LLC 375 E. ing beauty standards shape unobstructed view into my for an excuse to arrest or processing plant in Italy in COMMERCIAL AVENUE, resumes to mattrecruiter@ order to meet European vailsys.com, reference Job EL CENTRO CA 92243 USA our ideas about attractive- apartment. At fi rst I noticed harass a Black man, and your and Chinese accounting COLLATERAL CHANGE/ ID: Linux System Administra- requirements; Performance ness, and those standards are the woman standing at the exhibitionism could attract tor in the subject line. (07/04) ADD COLLATERAL Debtor of internal reviews of the arises out of want of company’s foreign exchange shaped by our rabidly racist window looking my way as I the attention not just of Job Title: Metal Artist consideration. In Lieu of CLASSIFIEDS transactions to ensure Job Description: Seaton consideration Secured culture. A person socialized toweled off . Then the male as horny neighbors, but also compliance with GAAP Party consents and pledges Scarff Studio seeks a standards, and to monitor to only recognize the beauty well. And when I masturbate, the authorities. 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But if site locations throughout Spec of Name or SECURED Who: Consumers and PARTY OF RECORD ally find Asian guys hot, but More than once she has run they’re staring into your U.S. Foreign equivalency Providers of mental health accepted. (07/04) AUTHORIZING THIS services AMENDMENT Goss, Shelly your Korean friend is attrac- her hand up the inside of apartment while you walk What: Workshop to REAL Associate Editor. Middle Linette THE FOLLOWING tive,” rather than rethinking her thigh as she’s watching. around naked and throwing promote the use of improv in DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE East Cultural and mental health settings. Charitable Society, Inc. SITUATED IN THE COUNTY their assumptions about their Also I’ve noticed that their open the curtains so you can ESTATE Where: Bughouse Theater OF COOK IN THE STATE Chicago, Illinois at 1910 W. 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Keep that first process, but you will not VACATED ALLEYS AND Review proposals and drafts be required to disclose any ROOMATES for possible publication. VACATED PARTS TO people react defensively in sure the woman knows that convo light, neighborly, and personal info. SOUTH CLYDE AVENUE, Read copy or proof to detect Contact: Bughouse website the moment and then keep I want her—and the male nonsexual, and see where and correct errors in spelling, SOUTH PAXTON AVENUE, (www.bughousetheater.com) EAST 96TH STREET, EAST punctuation, and syntax. or call Dr. Kristin Krueger at thinking about it. My advice: seems to be exhibiting bi it leads. But if during that Verify facts, dates, and 96TH PLACE. EAST 97TH MARKET- (312) 883-2358. 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CERTIFICATE Debtor is a Transmitting Utility obtained by contacting our MERRILL AVE, CHICAGO, No. 112-54-635216: ALTERNATIVE DESIGNATION custodian of records, please IL 60617 THIS FINANCING SECURITY AGREEMENT (if applicable) Bailee/Bailor contact: Clary Document STATEMENT AMENDMENT No. LL 201804-SA: LL- ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR Management, 5600 Pioneer COVERS TIMBER TO BE CUT POWER OF ATTORNEY (ITEM 4 Collateral): All Creek Drive, Minneapolis, MN LIVE MUSIC (07/18) No.:LL-201803 POA: HOLDS property, proceeds products, 55359 phone: 763.548.1320 HARMLESS INDEMNITY accounts, baggage, effects fax: 763.548.1325 email: UCC FINANCING AGREEMENT NO.LL fixtures, sureties, bonds, [email protected] for listening or STATEMENT AMENDMENT 2018HHIA: COMMON LAW orders, titles, and interests (07/18) CERTIFIED MAIL# COPYRIGHT No.:LL-201802 therein, is released to the 70180680000133077533 CLC: DESCRIPTION OF Debtor. Adjustments of this background Filing Number: OWNER’S PROPERTY: filing id from HJR - 192 of 1042139900032 Date: PARCEL 1: UNIT 105 IN THE June 5, 1933, and UCC 10/29/2018 STATE OF RENAISSANCE PLACE AT 1-104, 10-104, and 3-419. REAL for events MINNESOTA Linell- HYDE PARK CONDOMINIUM The orders therefrom are Elena:Leach c/o 9838 South AS DECLINED ON A SURVEY hereby released to the Debtor, ESTATE Merrill Avenue Chicago, Illinois OF THE FOLLOWING to include all signature, RENTALS (60617) near (cf.60617cf.) DESCRIBED REAL ESTATE: endorsements, facsimiles, Acoustic piano or Non-Domestic Without A PORTION OF LOT 29 copyrights, printed, typed, the U.S. ORGANIZATION IN RENAISSANCE PLACE or photocopies of Record BEDROOM synthesizer/keyboard NAME: LINELL ELENA HYDE PARK SUBDIVISION Owner’s Name and Title. Large one bedroom LEACH, CESTUI QUE BEING A SUBDIVISION IN Record Owner is not Grantor apartment near Loyola Park. TRUST/TRADENAME/ EGANDALE. A SUBDIVISION to any other accounts by 1335 W. Estes. Hardwood TRADEMARK-DEBTOR OF THE EAST 118 ACRES explicit reservation without floors. Cats OK, Laundry 9838 SOUTH MERRILL OF THE SOUTHWEST 1/4 prejudice, UCC 1-308. in building. $1025/month. Classical, jazz, AVENUE, CHICAGO, IL OF SECTION OF SECTION Total value of instruments Heat included. Available 7/1 60617 U.S ORGANIZATION 11. TOWNSHIP 38 NORTH, in this filing FIFTY MILLION & Larger unit available 8/1 NAME: LINELL ELENA RANGE 14 EAST OF UNITED STATES DOLLARS for $1050/month. (773)761- standards, and ’60s, LEACH, ORGANIZATION/ THE THIRD PRINCIPAL (50,000,000.00 USD). All 4318. www.lakefrontinet.com TRADENAME/TRADEMARK- MERIDIAN, WHICH SURVEY of Debtor’s interest in said (07/04) DEBTOR 9838 SOUTH IS ATTACHED “C” TO as sets, land and personal ’70s and ’80s MERRILL AVENUE, THE DECLARATION OF property now owned and Large one bedroom CHICAGO, IL 60617 U.S CONDOMINIUM RECORDED hereafter acquired, now apartment near Loyola Park. SECURED PARTY’S NAME: AS DOCUMENT NUMBER existing, and hereafter arising, 1335 W. Estes. Hardwood Leach, Linell Elena 9838 South 0009447 AS AMENDED AND and wherever located in (5A), floors. Cats OK, Laundry “ ... excellent, and his performance is joyous.” Merrill Avenue, Chicago, IL SUPPLEMENTED FROM Dated the Twenty Fifth day in building. $1025/month. 60617 U.S COLLATERAL: TIME TO of October, in the year of Heat included. Available 7/1 -Chicago Magazine This financing statement TIME. TOGETHER WITH ITS our Creator, Yahweh, Two & Larger unit available 8/1 covers the following UNDIVIDED PERCENTAGE Thousand Eighteen (07/18) for $1050/month. (773)761- collateral The following is INTEREST IN THE COMMON 4318. www.lakefrontinet.com herewith registered in the ELEMENTS, ALL IN COOK Balancing Point Center for (07/04) Commercial Registry: The COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Wellness 4753 N. Broadway [email protected] Debtor and Secured Party’s SOCIAL SECURITY NO. St, STE 101 Chicago, IL property as follows; BIRTH -- C73207908/ Cert.# 60640. As of 8/17/2019, Book me! CERTIFICATE as Recorded 5391063; EXEMPTION Balancing Point Center for JeffManuelPianist.com by the COUNTY OF COOK, IDENTIFICATION No. – and all Wellness will close due to
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