Q My husband and I have been married for just a year, but we dated for ten years prior to that. I thought we had a very understanding, open relationship, but in the last couple of days I found out that he has a serious obsession with females wearing running shoes. He had in the past hinted at the fact that it turns him on, but I had no idea of the scope of this obsession....
Check out our photos of the bands who played on Sunday, plus a recap of the whole festival. See our previews of acts playing on: Friday ·Saturday Riot Fest main » I’ll be looking to NYC-based Japanese punk trio Peelander-Z to give me a late-fest energy boost. Everything about the band—its bratty, sugar-high anthems about ninja high schools and tacos, its outer=space superhero shtick, its Power Rangers-type costumes, each in a single color to match stage names such as “Peelander Yellow”—is geared toward its goofy, peppy performances....
While I’m always grateful to receive a mention in the column of fellow media critic Michael Miner, I’d like to make clear that I did not suggest in a recent column of my own at beachwoodreporter.com that Sun-Times publisher John Cruickshank and editor Michael Cooke resign [Hot Type, March 23]. Rather, I suggested (or meant to suggest) that they come clean to their readers about their knowledge and participation about editorial abuses that occurred at the paper during the Conrad Black-David Radler years, and/or face removal by the post-Black management team of the paper’s parent company....
The “JUBA!” shows that close Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s 23rd annual “Rhythm World” fest begin with a bang. Next Monday, in an intimate cabaret setting, eight nationally and internationally renowned tap-dancers, plus unnamed guests, join the Greg Spero Trio for . . . whatever develops. But you know it will be good with the likes of Jason Janas, Jumaane Taylor, Lisa LaTouche, and Starinah Dixon on tap. The three Brazilian visitors that night include Leonardo Sandoval, a skinny youngster who a few years ago was dancing on the street for change....
Guitarist Scott “Wino” Weinrich would be an underground-metal legend if his CV ended with 80s doom progenitors the Obsessed and Saint Vitus. But he also led Spirit Caravan for six years, did a stint in Place of Skulls, and even teamed up with Rob Halford, Bill Ward, and Geezer Butler on a Black Sabbath tribute album for a good thrashing of “The Wizard,” a song he was born to play. In the Hidden Hand, a power trio of revolving membership, Weinrich channels his hard-earned expertise into a classic-sounding (if effects-laden) strain of dinosaurs-in-outer-space metal, full of heavy hair-swinging riffs and long-form structure shifts a la late-period Sabbath....
saturday26 Saturday26 Robbie FulksMaggot TwatUnicycle Loves You Sunday27 Jimmy Bennington’s Colour and Sound Featuring Perry Robinson Monday28 Perry Robinson & Jimmy Bennington Tuesday29 CzarThe Good LifeRoy Hargrove Wednesday30 Josh Berman’s Old IdeaFiery FurnacesRoy HargroveYoahn John Kwon MAGGOT TWAT Spam and Pizzer Manwhat (aka brothers Pete and Dan Manzella, both formerly of Hurtlocker) are the sentient members of this Chicago trash-thrash outfit, handling all the playing, programming, and vocals. “Drummer” Dick Pancakes is literally a dummy, propped up onstage and used as an all-purpose punch line and abuse receptacle—you can see a fair amount of such foolishness on Maggot Twat’s 2005 DVD The Morons That Ruined Heavy Metal....
thursday23 Thursday23 FenneszGrass WidowRudresh Mahanthappa Quartet Friday24 FoalsRudresh Mahanthappa QuartetSonny & the Sunsets Saturday25 Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet Sunday26 Lawrence EnglishRudresh Mahanthappa QuartetNymphVan Dyke Parks Monday27 Women Tuesday28 Bonnie “Prince” Billy & the Cairo GangStrange Boys Wednesday29 Bonnie “Prince” Billy & the Cairo GangRoberto Plano!!! Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA QUARTET This year alto saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa has released two small-band records with fellow alto players, but despite their unusual instrumental format neither is merely a blowing session....
A House With No Walls Timeline Theatre Company The irony of a symbol of liberty standing on an artifact of oppression isn’t lost on Gibbons. But ultimately his dramatization of the furor has more to do with competing approaches to history. On the one hand we have Salif Camara, an activist of the generation that came of age in the civil rights movement. He speaks movingly of Washington’s “nine specimens of human property” and vents his justified wrath over American racism....
When the jazz ends in Grant Park, it’s usually just starting somewhere else in the city. This year’s afterfest offerings aren’t as rich as they often have been in the past, but there are plenty of worthwhile options each night, from loose jam sessions to full-blown concerts. There are of course more jazz shows in town this weekend than I’m listing here; I’ve restricted myself to events that have some connection to the festival....
See our reviews of the bands playing on Friday & Sunday Get prepared for every hour of Pitchfork with ourfive Saturday itineraries, compiled by staff, contributors, comrades, and readers. Have a look at tonight’s afterparties, counterfests, and more. Have a listen to what you’ll be seeing today, with digital content editor Tal Rosenberg’s Spotify playlist: 1:55 Lotus Plaza When Lockett Pundt isn’t playing guitar for Deerhunter, he’s fronting this bleary, stratospheric guitar-pop group....
British playwright Peter Barnes’s pitch-black 1968 comedy, which eerily prefigured the Charles Manson case, concerns a hippie aristocrat, Jack Gurney, who inherits a title and a fortune after his father’s untimely demise during a ritual of autoerotic asphyxiation. Problem is, Jack’s mad as a hatter: he thinks he’s Jesus Christ, and his gospel of universal love threatens the class system he’s duty-bound to uphold. It’s up to his family to shock him out of his delusion–with gruesome results....
They’re 12 years into their recording career, but it’s still impossible to predict what Trans Am are going to sound like from one album to the next. They’ve done freakishly good Krautrock, convincing retro-electro synth pop, ironic boy-band pap, and even some dead-serious (I think) paranoid surveillance-society rock. Sex Change’s title and cold, abstract cover art (which could easily package a bottle of cheap 80s cologne) indicate a return to the winking techno irony of 1999’s Computerworld and 2002’s TA, but the music sounds less like a celebration of faux decadence than a serious (I think) embrace of retro utopianism....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Out of Sight (Steven Soderbergh, 1998) Although it’s flashy and stylish in a way that doesn’t exactly befit Leonard’s style, this comedy warrants inclusion simply because it’s one of Soderbergh’s better films. As is typical of the director’s earlier work, the film has a heightened sense of artifice, both visually and thematically. The famous “trunk scene,” in which George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez misquote famous movies and wax poetic on Bonnie and Clyde while extraneously bathed in red light, justifiably stands as one of Soderbergh’s most beloved sequences....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » “Every election is different. Each has its own rhythm, its peculiar melody, its unpredictable barks and squeaks. But in one respect every election is the same: the press coverage. It’s always an embarrassment, and always in exactly the same way. Politicians learn from their mistakes, sometimes. We just go on repeating ours. “We can’t help ourselves, it seems. After every election we retire, defeated, to our newsroom post-mortems, and each time we vow: never again....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Last October I saw a duo from Austin, Texas, called Yellow Fever at the Empty Bottle. I’d never heard of the band (aka Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones), but they were opening for Wild Flag, who I’d come out for, and they made me glad I’d showed up early. Moore, who switches between guitar and organ, is a quirky singer, and Yellow Fever’s songs remind me of female-fronted acts from the early days of Rough Trade, such as Essential Logic and Liliput, albeit with more polish and hooks....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Kate Jacobsen, the woman behind Shibuy Hada, a longtime presence on the local fashion scene, recently moved her studio from the Gold Coast to the West Loop and took the opportunity to reinvent her aesthetic as well. She’s ditching the Shibuy Hada moniker (which refers to the concepts of subtle beauty and the image we project to the public) and transitioning to her own name....
Joel Fisher “Together We’re Fucked” Kierkegaard wrote that it was Aristotle who asked “How should we live?”—the “should” implying that we have a choice. One of the great consolations of philosophy is the concept of human will: the ability to make choices and through those choices, create ourselves. Will entails far more than deciding to turn right when the sign points left, or to opt for an apple over a slice of cake....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » No, the dog books I enjoy are the ones that explain the biology of dogs, how they evolved away from wolves to become Man’s Best Friend, how their minds work (dogs are the only animals who respond when a human points at an object), and about their amazing sensory organs (for instance, their hearing range goes up to 60,000 Hz while humans’ bombs out at a mere 20,000, and they have a second smelling organ behind the nose especially for processing the scents of other dogs; each dog, by the way, has a unique scent, produced by a gland beneath his or her tail, which is why dogs are always sniffing one another’s butts)....
Back in the 80s, when J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum published the book Midnight Movies, people went to the late show for weirdo cult cinema like Freaks, Eraserhead, Mondo Trasho, and Glen or Glenda? Now there’s more late-night programming than ever before, with Friday- and Saturday-night shows at the Music Box, the Logan, the Patio, and Landmark’s Century Centre, yet the offerings have become much more mainstream. (Landmark recently booked Love Actually, which I can only hope was a joke....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Guthman died Sunday at the age of 89. Knowing about him only what the obituaries tell me, I envy him his career. But there is one period of it — or should I say one breach of it? — that deserves a teaching moment. In 1956, the LA Times obit tells us, Guthman was investigating the Teamsters union and he was introduced to Robert Kennedy, the staff attorney to a Senate subcommittee about to launch an inquiry into labor corruption....
