Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Phillip is living under a cloud, suspected of having embezzled money from work. Nothing has been proven, and he didn’t go to jail, but he’s lost his job. And his wife, Sheila, and their teenage son, Andrew, are pretty sure he’s guilty. Hence the move out of the bedroom and into the den. Now he plays the perfect househusband, buying the groceries, doing the cleaning, and trying to keep track of rebellious Andrew....
Isadora Duncan never systematically filmed her dances, though she had the opportunity to do so well before her death in 1927, at age 50. (She was famously killed while riding in a car, when her long scarf got caught in one of the wheels.) Apparently, only a five-second snippet of her performing survives, hardly enough to convey the unique intensity that made her an iconic figure of the early 20th century, as notorious for her revolutionary politics and freewheeling life as for her radical art....
Early this morning Fake Shore Drive founder Andrew Barber posted a photo of what appears to be the lineup for this year’s Lollapalooza. Barber discovered the picture—a shot of a Lollapalooza 2013 poster—on EDM Chicago’s Twitter feed, and it went viral this morning. Since then the Lolla lineup has gone from “questionable” to “legitimate.” Barber received confirmation that it’s the official bill, the Tribune‘s Greg Kot spoke with several industry insiders who verified the lineup, and I also spoke with a source who confirmed the thing as authentic....
One of James Brown‘s illegitimate daughters, LaRhonda Pettit, told news organizations last week that his body has been removed from the temporary crypt where it was awaiting permanent burial because of a conspiracy theory involving “enablers who helped cause his death.” Gossip Wolf wants to know—who turned it loose? Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Local industrial-grindcore duo Plague Bringer haven’t brought much since the 2008 release of their sophomore album, Life Songs in a Land of Death, but the band is almost finished with the follow-up, One in Two Parts, and shopping for a label for a summer release....
Mike Sula Rompecolchon, aka the “Mattress Breaker” Mariscos joints—where huge quantities of occasionally less-than-pristine seafood accommodate not just budgetary deficits, but libidinal ones—abound around town. And it’s fairly easy to spot the ones worth your time. There’s a place in my Albany Park neighborhood I can’t bear to report on, because in the year or so it’s been open I’ve never seen anyone eating inside.* It’s the places that have a consistent following of eaters who hunch over heaping platters of raw ostiones and head-on langostinos, like El Barco and Mariscos el Veneno in the Ukrainian Village, that you can depend on....
The first two singles from Owl, the collabo album from MC Qwel and producer Maker, have “leaked” (when your publicist e-mails the tracks to the press, is that really leaking?) to the interwebs. The album features cameos by Typical Cats and 2008 DMC Supremacy champ DJ SPS. It’s accompanied by a comp of remixes and rarities, entitled Remixes & Rarities, as a digital download. Both are out this week on Galapagos 4....
And sure enough, the next day I got a press release for Frontier’s llama dinner next Wednesday. It’s the latest in the series of whole-animal dinners chef Brian Jupiter’s been doing at the West Town tavern and beer garden since it opened in 2011. Reader food writer Mike Sula wrote about Jupiter’s game focus shortly after Frontier opened, but the meats he wrote about then—rabbit, elk, wild boar—seem downright tame next to some of what Jupiter’s served in the two years since, such as camel, beaver, python, and most famously, whole alligator....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Holocene, cut in New York in 2004 and in Amsterdam a year later, is an intimate trio recording with accordionist Guy Klucevsek and cellist Erik Friedlander. The group traces Moore’s gentle themes with exquisite care, stretching them carefully between from meticulously arranged passages to wide-open sections where the player carrying the melody tugs against the harmonies of the others....
Chemically Imbalanced Comedy Dinner buffet and drinks, followed by an improv show at 9 PM, followed by more drinks and food, and then short improv games at 11 PM. Champagne toast; music and dancing until 2 AM. Advance purchase required. 8 PM, Chemically Imbalanced Theater, 1420 W. Irving Park, 773-865-7731, cicomedy.com, $50, $95 per couple. 2nd Story New Year’s Eve NYE party edition of the storytelling series, with four stories, live music, and a DJ after midnight....
Northeastern Illinois University was at the center of an embarrassing kerfuffle earlier this year when word got out that it had extended tenure to a faculty member with a PhD from a California diploma mill. At the unaccredited Pacific Western University (subsequently sold, moved, and renamed), you could complete your doctorate in a quick two years for a flat fee of $2,595. Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » The Okosun incident was just one of a number of events that drove NEIU history professor Zachary Schiffman, who’d seldom been active outside his department, to initiate the senate’s extraordinary vote....
Although it sounds like it yet another expensive sneaker shop, this boutique-gallery hybrid is actually a showcase for the work of local designer Robin Kyle, who once had a line at Henri Bendel and used to create pieces for Ultimo’s house label. She puts together a collection of one-of-a-kind hand-sewn designs based on a theme and displays them against a backdrop of work by an artist chosen in collaboration with Lauren Pacheco and Peter Kepha of the Bridgeport art gallery 32nd & Urban....
The cultural complexity of Devon Avenue is told by its honorary street names. A brown sign declares Devon from Ravenswood to be Honorary Sheikh Mujib Way, after the founder of Bangladesh; from Damen to Western, it’s Mohammed Ali Jinnah Way, after the founder of Pakistan. From Western to California, it’s Gandhi Marg. And from California to Kedzie, it’s Golda Meier Boulevard. Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Rosenblum’s opened, as Rosenblum’s Hebrew Bookstore, in the early 1940s....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » That mission is written on the bottom of the menu. That mission is to “apply our passions toward the connections, laughter, and delight kindled when joining family and friends at the table.” The aforementioned menu is seasonal, comprised of local ingredients, the purveyors of which are mentioned by name. Range’s idea of a joke is the sign outside, which is made of Astroturf....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Creative Control, a comedy-and-variety show hosted and produced by local comic Joe McAdam, shakes down tonight at Saki. The show starts up at 8 PM, and its scheduled performers include Marty DeRosa, Cameron Gillette, Timmy Brochu, and Cullen Crawford. Creative Control is free, but donations are accepted and encouraged. Envisioning Bob Saget’s Danny Tanner as anything other than dad of the year may seem damn-near impossible, but in Attend the Tale of Danny Tanner: A Full House Musical , showing tonight at Gorilla Tango Theatre, you get to see him portrayed as a homicidal maniac....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Filmmakers Richard Parry and Vaughan Smith had 15 years to polish the story of Blood Trail; the two British correspondents first met their subject, American war photographer Robert King, in Sarajevo in 1993. At that time King was a charming but naive art school graduate inspired by Robert Capa and determined to bag a Pulitzer. Parry, Smith, and the rest of the press corps thought he wouldn’t last, but King survived his learning curve and, working several continents, gradually earned respect for his tenacity, resourcefulness, and uncanny knack for being in the right war zone at the right time....
Cealed Kasket, Modern Day Savage, Awesome Car Funmaker, Central Standard, Politicians INFO 773-489-3160 or 312-559-1212 PRICE $19 “Usually we have a booth that’s five feet taller than all of the other ones,” says lead singer Mortal Death, aka Josh Shenk, who’s wearing a long black wig, crude corpse makeup, a denim vest over a fishnet shirt, platform combat boots, fingerless gloves, and sunglasses. “They have panini,” exclaims drummer Scott Jackson, who’s in a pageboy wig and an overcoat-robe thing that’s part priest and part 19th-century Russian soldier....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Though summer doesn’t technically wrap up for a few more weeks, most of us know to put away the white pants after Labor Day. There will be lots of opportunities to take in outdoor concerts all the way into early fall, but this weekend’s unofficial end of summer is fittingly accompanied by a bonanza of festival action. To name just a few, you’ve got the North Coast Music Festival in Union Park, which collides dance music, hip-hop, jam bands, and indie rock; the grandaddy of the city’s free lakefront music fests, the Chicago Jazz Festival; and on the south side, the always eclectic African Festival of the Arts....
Regarding Ben Joravsky’s article on Lane’s students (along with other Chicago high schools) practicing in the hallways [The Works, April 20], perhaps he’d like further supportive information: Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » My son is on Lane’s sophomore baseball team. All the public schools we’ve played have been on Chicago Park District fields, mostly dirt infields. All the Chicago Catholic schools we’ve played have been on their own well-constructed and well-kept fields–all grass infields....
Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Just when you thought the season for outdoor music and food was over, the Empty Bottle announces its very first block party. Music, Friendly, Food Trucks (a take on the “Music Friendly Dancing” slogan on the venue’s awning) celebrates local food, beer, and music on Sun 10/21 from 11 AM till 5 PM on Cortez just east of Western (at the Bottle’s corner, basically)....
OEDIPUS COMPLEX GOODMAN THEATRE WHEN Through 6/3: Wed 7:30 PM, Thu 2 and 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM Ion Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » The Goodman Theatre’s riveting Oedipus Complex and a fine storefront revival of Doolittle’s neglected adaptation of Euripides’ Ion both focus on the need to confront the conflicted relationship with one’s parents and one’s god–the people who gave us life and the force that guides destiny and death....
