A couple things I just read puzzle me. No it isn’t. It’s a sarcastic Mom with a sense of humor. “That is exactly why coaches should coach, and media/marketing people should handle media and marketing. The decision should be taken out of the coaches’ hands, just as a 5-year-old should not get the option of eating chicken nuggets at every meal.”
I first met Olivia Ortiz in the spring of 2015, which was three years after she’d accused her then-boyfriend of sexually assaulting her when she was a second-year student at the University of Chicago, and two years after she’d filed a Title IX complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights about the way the university had handed the accusation. The linchpin of Ortiz’s complaint had been that Dean Susan Art, the administrator who had handled her initial accusation, had offered to resolve the issue through an informal mediation session between Ortiz and her ex-boyfriend, after which she told Ortiz that the university didn’t consider her complaint sexual assault....
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COT/Corey DiNardo Andrew Wilkowske and Cassidy Smith in The Emperor of Atlantis This weekend, for the first time since its move from the Athenaeum to the Harris Theater a decade ago, Chicago Opera Theater is opening a subscription-season show in a different venue. The double bill of Viktor Ullmann’s The Emperor of Atlantis and Carl Orff’s The Clever One will have a four-performance run beginning Saturday (and continuing June 4, 6, and 8) at DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre....
VH1 Naked people on a date Back when I was dating, there was always one thing that kept getting in the way of my meeting and forming meaningful bonds with prospective long-term mates: clothes. The show wouldn’t be a complete piece of garbage without a happy ending: Joe picks Wee Wee because Jasmine is “not the kind of woman you bring home to mom” and Wee Wee has a better personality....
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By chance, I stumbled on the latest gentrification fight in Uptown around the time I read Walter Isaacson’s essay on the rise of the ride-share and home-share industries in the new economic order. The Uptown controversy has to do with a sign posted outside 4525 N. Kenmore, the building that was formerly Graeme Stewart School. Chicago Public Schools closed the school and sold it to a private developer who’s turning it into the Stewart School Lofts, which are being marketed shamelessly on a placard over the school’s abandoned playground as “best in the class” rentals....
Yesterday my colleague Philip Montoro shared a track from See Heat, the debut album from a new project of Brian Case and Justin Walters called Bambi Kino Duo. The pair will celebrate the release and play its first live show ever on Saturday at the Burlington. Headlining the concert is another duo, but this one has logged hundreds of performance, including many in Chicago: Asheville, North Carolina’s Ahleuchatistas. During the last visit guitarist Shane Parish and drummer Ryan Oslance made to Chicago, in August of 2014, they went into Observatory Studios with engineer David Allen, who happens to be a partner in the local label International Anthem....
“Confronting Truths: Wake Up!,” Ti-Rock Moore’s new solo exhibit at Gallery Guichard in Bronzeville, was intended to start a conversation about racism in America. Instead it’s started a controversy. Andre Guichard, one of the principals of Gallery Guichard, says the gallery, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary, focuses on the art of the African diaspora, and that race has always been part of the conversation. While he and his business partner Stephen Mitchell did expect some controversy surrounding the exhibit because of its subject matter, they were taken aback by viewers taking issue with Moore’s being Caucasian....
Q I am a liberal parent. I raised a daughter who is bi and poly. I always thought that I could accept anything that parenthood might throw at me. I knew that I could embrace my son if he were straight, gay, bi, trans, etc. If there is a controlling consciousness of the universe, it has a nasty sense of humor. Putting it bluntly: my son is sexually attracted to Pokemon....
This month I’d planned to compile my annual list of my 40 favorite albums of the previous year. After I fell behind, I figured I could just do it a bit later than usual, but ever since the inauguration it’s been hard to think about ranking records. I do know, though, that the latest album by Laura Cannell, Simultaneous Flight Movement (Brawl), would’ve landed high on that list. The Brit plays fiddle and recorders, and her exquisite solo recordings connect British folk, contemporary music, drone, and medieval music in ways that I struggle to understand....
Midwestern Cuisine A little more than a century ago nearly all the milk consumed in Chicago was produced within 60 miles of the city. Almost none of it came from Wisconsin. McHenry was the third largest milk-producing county in the country, and Kane was the fourth. This wasn’t close to the situation in places like New York and Boston, where dairy had to be shipped in from much farther away. Suburban sprawl has wiped away Illinois’s dairy industry, but the historical disparity between Chicago and other cities struck Travis Pyykkonen when he came across it in a 1910 USDA report titled “The Milk Supply of Chicago and Washington....
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Kinmont Restaurant Squid ink pasta at Kinmont Element Collective has been promising us chicken forever, but it looks like we’re getting fish first. The restaurant group behind Nellcote and Old Town Social keeps teasing us with Facebook pictures of the gay-friendly chicken sandwiches it’s been promising since Leghorn was first announced and I talked to them about it here, more than a year and a half ago. But it seems like it was easier to open a fancy fish restaurant than a little chicken stand, as Kinmont will beat it to opening on Saturday at 419 W....
When black metal reached American shores in the early 90s, it started a movement of artists trying to re-create the chilling, nihilistic sounds of their Norwegian forefathers—and it didn’t get much better than Xasthur. Formed in 1995 and operated mostly as the solo project of Malefic (aka Scott Conner), Xasthur embodied everything that was great about black metal while improving upon it. Staying completely underground and mainly sharing his massive discography via self-released tapes and CDs, Malefic appropriated the harsh, dissonant tremolo guitars and blast beats of Burzum and Dark Throne, adding personal lyrics and sweeping, mournful progressions to stir up a depth and beauty never before heard in the genre....
Last year scrappy, minimalist New York duo 75 Dollar Bill dropped their second proper album, Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock (Thin Wrist), whose awkward title serves as a list of the basic ingredients that guitarist Che Chen and percussionist Rick Brown draw on. (“Second” doesn’t count their three cassette-only titles.) Though still rooted in the visceral, cyclical grooves of North African guitar music—Chen has studied under Mauritanian guitarist Jeiche Ould Chighaly, a key member of Noura Mint Seymali’s band—75 Dollar Bill have been loosening their rustic foundations through a mix of accretion, displacement, and electronic manipulation....
Chicago has a long and illustrious alternative comics history, from the now-canonical 90s old guard like Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes to influential minicomic icons like John Porcellino and on through important current creators like Lilli Carré and Edie Fake. Quimby’s is one of the country’s top alternative comics stores, but until the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE) debuted two years ago, the city didn’t have a convention of equal stature to match....
“Autobiographical comic that is both historical and political. I also like the density of it. It made me wonder about those protests.”—Eric Kirsammer, our Comics Issue curator, on why he chose Hannah’s comic (CLICK ON AN IMAGE TO READ A COMIC)
