But in Nenette et Boni, you see Colin masturbate, you hear him recite his fantasies about the baker’s wife. . . . You’d think a female filmmaker would present this behavior critically, yet Denis doesn’t. There’s a vitality to all of it—even in that early scene when Boni’s hanging out with his friends and they’re getting into this . . . Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Both of the title characters possess what you might call “unmanageable youth....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » The not for-profit, pro-sustainability farmland preservation organization The Land Connection is holding it’s third annual RampFest benefit Friday night at Prairie Production, 1314 W. Randolph. There’s a silent auction hosted by local organic farmer Larry Wettstein, and a menu featuring dishes made with Illinois’ native wild leek by Timo’s John Bubala, Mike Sheerin of Blackbird, Jason Hammel and Lea Tschilds of Lula, and more....

At the end of the game, when the Wildcats had completed the upset on the way to their first Rose Bowl trip in four decades, he turned to me and offered a handshake. Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » This did not happen a few years ago when I visited Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, where even after the Cats suffered a 41-9 beatdown, a series of Badger fans got in my face to belittle my team and whatever loose woman must have birthed me....

Guy and Howard Lawrence are the brothers behind Disclosure, the British electronic-music duo whose popularity has surged in the past year. Their remix of Jessie Ware’s “Running” was what first caused dance-music fans to take notice, but praise continued to build with a steady stream of singles, peaking with “White Noise,” which dropped in February and eventually climbed to number two on the UK Singles charts. “White Noise” is one of 2013’s best singles, a savvy and fluid combination of R&B, UK garage, and house music, but the anticipation for the duo’s debut LP Settle (which comes out Tuesday, June 3) has only increased with each new track that’s leaked off the album....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » It’s hard to remember a time when Somalia was mentioned in reference to something other than bloody civil war, greedy warlords, harsh Islamic fundamentalism, and open seas piracy, but ever since the days of the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, when rebels shot down a U.S. helicopter (aka Black Hawk Down), that has seemed like the only context for information about the east African country....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » The last time we heard from El-P he was messing around with new technology that let him legally (or at least apparently legally) throw Rush’s “Tom Sawyer” underneath a remix of his own “Drones Over BKLYN.” Now he’s produced an album for perennially underrated Atlanta rapper Killer Mike, due May 15 on Williams Street Records, which is basically an outlet that lets the people behind Adult Swim’s original programming hype music they like....

This is the third installment in our occasional series on poverty and segregation in Chicago’s schools. The Chicago Public Schools system is often disparaged, but there’s little evidence that the district is worse than others at educating schoolchildren. What CPS struggles with is educating poor kids. As does everyone else. CPS just has many more of them. On the Illinois Standards Achievement Test, given to children in grades three through eight, 59 percent met or exceeded standards in reading statewide, compared with 48 percent of CPS students....

In Chicago we know them as the members of landscaping crews or restaurant staffs, hotel workers, paleta vendors, the scavengers we see heading through alleys in rickety, high-sided pickup trucks, hunting for salvage. Legal or otherwise, Mexican immigrants seem self-contained, foreign, and anonymous. We debate their origins endlessly, yet haven’t the first notion who they might be. Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » But when their travels led them to Corinth, King Creon offered Jason his daughter, Glauce....

Downstate emo men Braid are getting a deluxe reissue this week, courtesy of their longtime label Polyvinyl. Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five and The Age of Octeen, both out of print for the last decade, are coming out on 180-gram white and blue vinyl in a limited edition of 700; both were remastered by John Golden. Movie Music Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, which compile their singles and compilation tracks respectively, are also being rereleased on limited-edition vinyl; Vol....

“Please leave a message; at our convenience, we’ll ignore it.” My god, this city loves its political bosses. We certainly did. On February 22, Rahm Emanuel won the mayoral contest, and a bunch of people won for aldermen. Chandler and Dixon made it to the runoff not because they were so outstanding but because they were the only names voters recognized. As I see it there are three basic reasons politicians don’t return calls: One, they’re sulking over some ancient grudge....

The Reader’s Choice: Mic Terror Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » “Swagger” has to be the most overused word in hip-hop today—your mom’s probably waiting for a good moment to drop it into conversation—and even after it goes out of style, the ineffable combination of skill, style, and braggadocio will remain the single most crucial quality of a good MC. Mic Terror has swagger to spare....

Rahm Emanuel Runners-up Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Heather Kenny Ron Huberman Ozzie Guillen Ronnie Woo Woo Michael Miner Hillary Clinton Danny Miller Joe Moore Mike Ditka Bruce Wayne Tom Allen Scott Lee Cohen John Kass Joel Quenneville Tim Tuten John A. Canning Jr. ABD His father Dick Simpson Jello Biafra William Ayers Kevin Coval Christine Conley Brian Costello Damien Johnson God Joe Lake Chuck (Club Foot) A sock puppet Tony Peraica (sp?...

Circular but true: when you buy a home it’s yours. There’s no landlord to blame for the Disney-theme flocked wallpaper (Pluto’s got fur!) or the conversation pit upholstered in Mayfair plaid leather. It’s your taste, energy, skill, and cold hard cash that determine what goes in, and on, your house. Essentially, it’s you. The people profiled here have taken that fact to heart. An architect and contractor have turned a modest bungalow into a lab for their professional creativity....

TIGER PRAWN: THE MOUNTAIN MOVER | CHICAGO DANCE CRASH WHEN Through 7/15: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM WHERE Storefront Theater, 66 E. Randolph PRICE $15-$20 INFO 312-742-8497 Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » But as the Crash’s Tiger Prawn: The Mountain Mover proves, dance theater needs a strong theatrical backbone–a suspenseful tale, interesting characters, plot development–to succeed. The company typically combines classic Western forms like ballet and modern dance with moves from martial arts and hip-hop–and the choreography here, by new artistic director Kyle Vincent Terry, is adept and expertly performed....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Of all the screenings to be excited about this weekend (such as Block Cinema’s invaluable revival of Love Streams), the one I’m anticipating most is the double feature that kicks off Doc Films’s Yilmaz Güney series on Saturday afternoon. One of the key figures in the history of Turkish cinema, Güney was a successful movie star (he acted in over 100 films), one of the first Turkish directors to be celebrated abroad (his penultimate work, Yol—which plays in Doc’s series on February 23—shared the top prize at Cannes in 1982), and his far-left politics made him a polarizing cultural figure....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » A repertoire of serious percussion music didn’t really begin to develop until the 1930s, with the emergence of folks like Henry Cowell, Edgard Varese, William Russell, Amadeo Roldán, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. Or so writes composer David Peter Garland in his liner notes for Five American Percussion Pieces (Poon Village), a stunning vinyl-only album by the wonderfully unpredictable Bay Area percussionist William Winant, who was not only a founding member of LA’s Oingo Boingo but a regular collaborator of Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Mike Patton’s Mr....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » What Wright has been doing for his whole career is speaking in a prophetic voice. This voice is as old as the Bible and as hallowed in our tradition as Abraham Lincoln. It calls the nation to account, reminds us of our sins, and offers hope borne of correction and new life. Jeremiah Wright seems to have the crazy notion that our national sins involve economic and racial injustice rather than, say, too many gay people in New Orleans or too many lesbians and ACLU members in New York, but it’s all a matter of emphasis....

courtesy Loyola Athletics Captain Jerry Harkness holds the NCAA championship trophy after Loyola nipped Cincinnati on March 23, 1963. To his left, coach George Ireland. With time expiring and his team down two, Jerry Harkness took a short jumper. This was on a March evening 50 years ago, in Louisville’s Freedom Hall; the game was the NCAA championship. Harkness was the captain and leading scorer for Chicago’s Loyola Ramblers, who were trying to upend the Cincinnati Bearcats, the champions the previous two years....

If that encourages you to buy the book, more power to the copywriter. You won’t be sorry you did. We at the Reader are as proud of Lee Sandlin as we are of any writer whom we feel we can say we introduced. The Distancers is Sandlin’s third book from a commercial press since 2010, and the first that originated in our pages. But what he actually has to say about family is how strange it is....

Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Maybe people have figured out it’s possible to buy a public office, or maybe the cost of public service is going up like the price of bread and gas. It could be that lots of people have decided they’d really like to spend their extra thousands on campaign mailings, or perhaps they’ve just realized their biggest fans are themselves....