In July chef Chris Pandel (the Bristol, Balena) told Chicago magazine of the Boka Restaurant Group steak house he’ll helm come October: “We don’t want to change the steak house. We want to elevate it.” So far, though, the place has been defined by change. Originally the restaurant was going to be called Armour & Swift, a name meant to honor Chicago’s meatpacking legacy, but Armour, which is still an active brand of meat, threatened to file suit....

Chuck Prophet has been pursuing his vision as a solo artist for so long that his earlier band, Green on Red, is almost an asterisk in his bio. Not that the famed psych-country group, which gained traction in the 80s, doesn’t deserve its shine, but Prophet’s discography has moved far beyond it. While his music falls under the umbrella of Americana, his definition of America isn’t trapped under glass—not the case with everybody in this genre....

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, May 24, 2017. A police officer shot a suspect who allegedly rammed him with a stolen car on the west side A Chicago police officer shot a suspect who allegedly rammed him with a stolen car on the west side Wednesday morning, according to the Tribune. Authorities say the suspect suffered serious injuries but is “OK at this time,” while the officer suffered “severe damage to his right leg” after being pinned between two cars....

Young Reckless Hearts A couple of years ago Oakland-based glammy-garage rock band Bare Wires called it a day, and front man Matthew Melton immediately started up Warm Soda, whose second record, Young Reckless Hearts, is due out on Castle Face Records in March. The glam-rock spirit of Bare Wires is still present in Warm Soda, but the lo-fi vibe and behind-the-beat swagger is gone, and in its place is slick, clean production and a straightforward power-pop energy....

On November 13, 11th Ward alderman James Balcer introduced a City Council resolution calling for a hearing to consider renaming the Chicago Cultural Center. According to the resolution, in February 1972, when the building was threatened with destruction and her husband, Mayor Richard J. Daley, had just appointed a committee to study its future, Sis made “a rare public comment.” She responded to a reporter’s question by saying that she was “for restoring and keeping all the beautiful buildings in Chicago....

3733 N. Southport 773-871-6604 musicboxtheatre.com Runner-Up Logan Theatre

Son of a Gun Valentine’s Day is Friday, but even if hokey lovey-dovey cliches about romance aren’t your thing, there’s still fun to be had this week. Just take a look at the concert calendar. “Garrett Luczak of Chicago band Son of a Gun seems to have figured out how to get around that eternal conundrum ‘Ars longa, vita brevis,’” writes Brian Costello. “It’s the same solution arrived at by your Reatards, Dwyers, and Segalls: get your songs recorded on that four-track now, don’t worry whether they’re ‘finished’ just yet, and then find the band to play them....

Q: I am a 26-year-old heterosexual European man. I have been for four years in a monogamous relationship with my girlfriend. Recently she cheated on me. When she told me what she did, I felt a very strong pain, even stronger than I expected. After a few days of pain, however, I found that the sexual attraction for my girlfriend, instead of decreasing, increased after her adventure. In particular, I am now having a cuckold fantasy....

Genre-bending California five-piece band Deafheaven have just about perfectly mastered the art of harnessing metal ferocity to a shimmering, shifting, rolling sound that’s perversely relaxing and soothing, at least as much as anything with howling and blastbeats can get. The band’s fourth full-length, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love (Anti-), is a sweeping, epic master class in what could be called shoegaze only if the shoes in question were the otherwordly stomping boots of the gods....

3501 N. Lincoln 773-248-6272 paulinameatmarket.com Runner-Up The Butcher & Larder

1885 N. Clybourn 773-248-8180 jaysonhome.com Runner-Up Humboldt House

Laurie’s Planet of Sound 4639 N. Linoln Runner-Up Reckless Records

The 27th Polish Film Festival in America runs Friday, November 6, through Sunday, November 22, at Facets Cinematheque, 1517 W. Fullerton; Rosemont 18, 9701 Bryn Mawr, Rosemont; and Society for Arts, 1112 N. Milwaukee. Tickets are $15, and a festival pass, good for seven screenings, is $75; for more information call 773-486-9612 or pffamerica.com. These Daughters of Mine Two sisters—the older a bitchy TV star (Agata Kulesza), the younger a fragile underachiever (Gabriela Muskala)—lock horns after their mother is left comatose by a stroke and their father is diagnosed with a brain tumor....

The explosion of American independent filmmaking in the 1960s and ’70s was largely an all-male affair (surprise), but a few talented women also got their hand in during this vital and changing period. The Chicago Film Society is showing one such effort, Juleen Compton’s 1966 rarity The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean, which has been recently rediscovered and restored, on Wednesday, August 15. We’ve selected another five diverse titles below....

One day while researching a mixed-income housing development in the south-side neighborhood of Oakland, I wound up on the 4100 block of South Berkeley Avenue—a quiet residential street lined on the east side by colorful two-story cottages and capped at the north end by a garden filled with whimsical wooden sculptures. “I call it Sesame Street for adults,” says musician Lloyd King, who lives in one of the cottages.

Lone Survivor In the movie section of this week’s Reader, we spotlight three high-profile new releases: the star-studded movie version of Tracy Letts’s play August: Osage County; The Past, the French-language debut of Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi (A Separation); and Lone Survivor, Peter Berg’s dramatization of a 2005 Navy SEAL mission in Afghanistan. Survivor is the subject of this week’s long review, which argues that Berg’s depiction of the U....

When cartoonist Scott Stantis makes fun of Donald Trump he hears from angry readers who want to know why he never makes fun of the Democrats. The fact he does—he repeatedly whacked Hillary Clinton before last November’s election—makes no difference to these readers. Yesterday doesn’t peddle much influence in American politics. I got to know Stantis in 2001 when I wrote a column about the ways editorial cartoonists responded to 9/11....

I have a review in the pipe for Pharrell‘s new album G I R L (Columbia) for our next record review roundup, so you can wait until then to get my full take on the album. For now I’ll just point out that for all the talk about the producer-singer-songwriter’s recent success—with “Get Lucky,” “Blurred Lines,” and “Happy”—it’s worth pointing out that Pharrell had his formula down just fine more than a decade ago, when he released the enduring summer jam “Frontin’” as a single off the Neptunes’ Clones compilation....