Logan Square’s L’Patron is one of the best Mexican restaurants on the north side, and this top-notch taco joint comes with an added bonus: it’s open into the wee hours, which pretty much makes it the best place in town to stop at after an epic beer sesh. They serve up your standard late-night hangover protection—think giant steak burritos, salty chorizo tacos, and rich al pastor tortas—but they offer a few less-than-standard options as well, like tacos stuffed with fried shrimp and spicy serrano aioli and gooey, meaty quesadillas featuring thick, house-made tortillas....

Part of the Bronzeville Cultural Festival, this two-day event includes screenings Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16, at Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, 700 E. Oakwood, and McCormick Tribune Campus Center, 3201 S. State. All screenings are free and by DVD projection; for more information call 773-651-0700 or visit bronzefest.com. Portraits of Black Chicago Cinematographer Bobby Sengstacke will introduce this documentary profiling 12 Chicagoans. a McCormick Tribune Campus Center, 4:30 PM....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Go back to Game 1 in Tampa. On the surface, their lines aren’t terribly uneven: 7 IP, 2 ER, 5 K, 2 BB and the win for Hamels; 6 IP, 3 ER, 4 K, 4 BB and the loss for Kazmir. Then, though, take into account that Hamels faced fewer batters and threw fewer pitches in his seven innings than Kazmir in six....

Veggie Bite “It was pretty depressing,” says Watycha. “But after we were in the neighborhood for a while, a lot of those same people started coming back,” albeit cautiously: “People ordered, like, the smallest thing on the menu.” Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Now, though, Watycha and her fiance, Moshe Shalom, say they’ve made some larger inroads in the traditionally Irish Catholic area. Some of the neighborhood traffic comes from people trying to lose weight–a veggie burger here has about 120 calories, compared to a Big Mac’s 560–while others, initially dragged in by vegan or vegetarian friends, seem to have developed a taste for the veggie dogs, “chick-free” nuggets, and other menu items, none of which contain dairy, meat, or other animal products and all of which are meant to appeal to carnivores....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » As the ax fell and fell again at the Tribune Wednesday, a message to all hands was issued by Randy Michaels, chief operating officer of the Tribune Company, and Gerald Spector, executive vice president and chief administration officer. At the bottom of the message was word of $13 million in “incentive payments” that — bankruptcy court willing — will be paid to some 700 directors, managers, and others for their work last year....

How much and what did I give? After a break-up people start having realizations about what they took from or got out of a relationship. Did I give too little? Too much? And, more importantly, why is this keeping me up at night? Either way, thinking starts and moments are relived. It’s a weird struggle for balance. It’s over, it’s time to move on and figure out how far back to go and where to start rebuilding....

QWhat is your stance on maintenance sex? I’d never thought about the issue until reading Amy Poehler’s new memoir. I didn’t find anything she said controversial, and was surprised when this quote blew up in the feminist blogosphere: “You have to have sex with your husband occasionally, even though you’re exhausted. Sorry.” I’d never realized many people firmly believe one should have sex with one’s partner only when in the mood!...

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » I hate camping. If the good Lord intended for us to sleep on dirt she’d have outfitted us with thick furry hides and a natural immunity to Lyme disease. That said, I’m not above indulging in the occasional apocalyptic fantasy in which the dwindling survivors of the human race are forced to elude roving squads of cannibal zombies in a world without tenderness, mercy, and electricity....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » In the Film section of this week’s Reader, we spotlight the 19th annual Black Harvest Film Festival and Bruno Dumont’s Outside Satan, both of which screen at the Gene Siskel Film Center; we also have a medium-length review of Woody Allen’s latest, Blue Jasmine, which opens today at River East 21 and the Landmark Century. All three are worth checking out, but if you have time for only one screening this week, make it Sisters of Gion (1936), which screens at Doc Films tomorrow at 7 and 9 PM....

The European Union Film Festival continues through Thursday, March 28, at Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, 312-846-2800. Tickets are $11, $7 for students, and $6 for Film Center members. Following are selected films screening through Thursday, March 14; for a compete schedule see siskelfilmcenter.org. Gulf Stream Under the Iceberg Inspired by the writings of Anatole France and the myth of Lilith, this Latvian feature tells three stories, set in the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries, about artists undone by mysterious temptresses....

In the 550-some pages of his memoir, Crusade in Europe, Dwight D. Eisenhower uses the word warrior once—in describing Winston Churchill. Ulysses S. Grant managed to write an equally long memoir without ever putting the word to use. I wonder why. Did the two victorious generals, each commanding a huge conscript army, believe it would be tone-deaf to recall the blood baths they’d emerged from in the imagery of Homer?...

Over the years the Chicago jazz scene has displayed amazing resilience, withstanding not just the defection of musicians to other cities but the loss of important venues. This time last year Joe Segal’s venerable JAZZ SHOWCASE was still in search of a new location, but late this spring he reopened in Dearborn Station, and the club will once again host its famous afterfest shows, which typically draw many of the festival’s best and most notable mainstream players....

Thursday17 Tinariwen Friday18 Shemekia CopelandMillie Jackson PostponedKings Go ForthLocksMGMTWreckless Eric & Amy Rigby Saturday19 EyehategodScotland Yard Gospel ChoirTinariwen Sunday20 Eyehategod Monday21 Jeff the Brotherhood Tuesday22 DM StithWooden Wand Wednesday23 Devin Hoff, Kent Kessler, Nate McBride, and Jason Roebke friday18 Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » MILLIE JACKSON This show has been postponed till October. Da Brat has called Millie Jackson the “mother of hip-hop,” and her brash persona, legendarily risque stage shows, and profanity-laden novelty songs—all part of a style she’d developed by the early 70s—do seem to foreshadow rap in certain ways....

FOR A BETTER AMERICA: THE NEW DEAL ON FILM Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Son of a West Virginia publisher, Lorentz had already established himself as a writer and film critic when The Roosevelt Year: 1933, his photographic book documenting the social dislocations of the Depression, won him an assignment from the Resettlement Administration to make a movie about the Dust Bowl. To the RA’s surprise, The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936, 29 minutes) became a modest hit, and Lorentz’s follow-up, The River (1938, 32 minutes), was hailed by audiences and critics alike....

Mike Sula cevapcici and lepinya, Kiko’s The quiet ubiquity of cevapcici on the north side is something I’ve been meaning to address for years. These stubby, unencased ground-meat sausages are nearly as common as hamburgers in some neighborhoods, but are generally only served in the Balkan restaurants that began to open in the early to mid-90s in the wake of the breakup of Yugoslavia—restaurants frequented almost exclusively by folks who came from there....

While most eyes—and TV cameras—are focused on the president-elect and inauguration prep … Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » It’s always a good time to leverage the feds for some money. A week ago I heard Mayor Daley tell people at a ribbon cutting in Rogers Park that the economy stinks, Chicago’s out of money, and we need the Obama administration to send us some cash right away....

Al Capone owned Chicago in the roaring 1920s. On Wednesday we’ll see who owns Capone. Johnson’s papers—several boxes’ worth— were the property of Johnson’s son George “Gene” E.Q. Johnson Jr. For most of the last few years they were in the possession of Chicago author Jonathan Eig, who drew from the documents to write his recent history of the gangland chief’s rise and fall, Get Capone. As Eig completed his book, Gene Johnson became ill, and the family decided to do what they’d always intended to do—donate the papers to the Chicago History Museum....

Dave Greising makes some solid points in his column Friday, about the renaming of the Sears Tower.True enough, the Sears Tower was never iconic in quite the same way the John Hancock is — at least not locally. (I’m going to guess that globally, a lot more people cared about the world’ tallest building than Chicago’s third largest.) And granted, the Sears name is beaten and battered. And yes, Sears moved out and the Willis Group moved in....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » When Americans get a chance to hear live music from Africa, there’s usually a disconnect: we don’t understand the lyrics, we don’t know how a style developed or from what, and in the case of traditional sounds we don’t know the ritual function of the music. Once in a while a performer will offer a brief and necessarily vague bit of background or explanation from the stage, but I rarely feel like my listening experience is as rich as it would be if I knew the full complex context of what I was hearing....

When Dale Levitski’s new Lakeview bistro, Frog N Snail, opened without a liquor license this spring, he and his GM/beverage director, Briar Brackney (who filled the same roles at Sprout), put their heads together. In search of an alternative to “Pepsi and Diet Pepsi,” as Brackney puts it—and in keeping with the restaurant’s seasonal emphasis—they turned to the farmers’ market for rhubarb and strawberries, which they preserved with the Moroccan spice blend ras el hanout....