Estrella Morente Did you make it through all of the Empty Bottle’s outdoor festival Saturday without losing a single toe to the cold? Still in the mood to check out some live music? Well, you’re in luck, because there are plenty of shows worth seeing this week. Peter Margasak writes that Estrella Morente has been carrying on the legacy of her late father, iconoclastic flamenco singer Enrique Morente. “On the cover of her most recent album, 2012’s Autorretrato (Parlophone Spain), he’s pictured standing behind her, and he duets with her on the closing track, ‘Adagio,’” Margasak writes....

Five activists were arrested and charged with trespassing Monday morning after chaining themselves together and blocking the entrance to a KCBX Terminals Co. petroleum coke facility on Chicago’s southeast side. These efforts represent an escalation of tactics in a more than two-year struggle to force pet coke out of Chicago. The protesters were released Monday afternoon. All five are scheduled to appear in Cook County Court on December 23. In a statement, KCBX spokesman Jake Reint said the company has “always sought to operate our facility with the utmost respect for our neighbors and the environment, and that remains the case today....

courtesy of Chris Jones Chris Jones Last year bluegrass singer and guitarist Chris Jones released Lonely Comes Easy (Rebel), the first album of new recordings he’d made with his band the Night Drivers in four years. Jones, who along with the band’s banjo player, Ned Luberecki, hosts the Sirius XM program Bluegrass Junction, got his start in the business as the vocalist for Chicago institution Special Consensus in the early 80s, but in recent years he’s emerged as a major figure....

Ward Robinson Dub Thompson At the heart of Dub Thompson—the Agoura Hills-based jam/slacker indie-rock band—are Matt Pulos and Evan Laffer, a pair of friends who met in high school and have been playing together ever since (they’re 19 now, by the by). Throughout that time, they’ve seemingly been digging deeper into the backs of their brains, discovering new genre hybrids. Today’s 12 O’Clock Track, “Dograces,” is a jerky, almost tribal track that maintains a heavy, druggy groove throughout—or at least until the track disintegrates into a noisy wildout, eventually transforming into a dark and bizarre amusement park ditty....

The stinkbugs that Kim bought were frozen, and while it was easy to imagine a wiggle from a leg or antenna, they were decidedly deceased. He first tasted them frozen, and discovered that their flavor was almost nonexistent. “It kind of tasted like nothing, with a little bit of awfulness behind that, and then a touch of cinnamon coming in after that,” Kim says. Combine all ingredients, mime shake, then shake hard with ice....

Ava Luna’s Electric Balloon On its second album, Electric Balloon (Western Vinyl), the split-personality New York band Ava Luna continues to ricochet between dissonant, hard-hitting funk inspired by the glory days of No Wave and elaborate adaptations of modern R&B, with many stops in between. “Sears Roebuck M&Ms” sounds like Thin White Duke-era Bowie shorn of any polish and luxury, “Daydream” suggest a less antisocial James Chance, and “Crown” contains traces of Dirty Projects—a band Ava Luna is often compared to—with falsetto singing closer to Jeff Buckley and David Longstreth....

“When I came out of my coma, I didn’t realize I was paralyzed, because it wasn’t like TV paralysis, where you can’t feel anything below your waist. I could feel everything the same as before. But then different medical teams kept coming by and being fascinated that I could wiggle my toes. After a few days of that, I was like, ‘OK, wiggling my toes—why is this amazing? Do I not walk?...

The clouds in Close Encounters of the Third Kind mark Squires’s first contribution to Hollywood movies. A few weeks ago I was flattered to find that a blog post of mine about computer-generated imagery had elicited a comment from Scott Squires, a longtime visual effects supervisor whose credits include Willow, The Mask, and Starship Troopers. Squires politely took me to task for suggesting that the failure of so many recent Hollywood productions can be blamed on overabundant computer graphics....

You could be forgiven for expecting Arca’s set at the Pitchfork Music Festival to be a somber one. The Venezuelan producer’s recent self-titled album plays like a dirge for a faintly remembered lover. It’s the first Arca project to feature prominent vocals, which often take the shape of wails and jagged gasps or carry the rich inflections of the Venezuelan folk songs called tonadas. The album Arca conjures profound desire and profound suffering, but the producer’s show on the festival’s Blue Stage on Friday pushed aside that weight in favor of play, camp, and welcome confusion....

1865 N. Milwaukee 773-252-5687 irazuchicago.com Runner-Up Tango Sur

Empty Bottle 1035 N. Western Runner-Up Simon’s Tavern

Lillstreet Loft 4437 N. Ravenswood

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Greek Islands 200 S. Halsted

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Q: I’m a woman in a straight relationship. I woke up this morning, and my BF wasn’t in bed with me. He felt ill in the middle of the night and went to sleep in the spare room—where he found a condom in its wrapper behind the nightstand. Now my BF thinks I’m cheating on him. I haven’t cheated on him and have no desire to. I have an IUD and we are monogamous, so we don’t use condoms....

Tool have long been notorious for operating at a glacial pace, but those once-familiar five-year gaps between full-lengths today seem like insignificant stretches when you consider that their last full-length, 10,000 Days, came out more than 11 years ago. Now members of the band are saying that 2017 could be the year we actually get some new material—though they’ve also been saying that LP number five is coming out “pretty soon” since 2013....

It makes no sense to adapt a beloved novel for the theater. In fact, it’s absurd—basically the same as saying, “I’m going to take this thing you enjoyed, throw out the parts I can’t use, rearrange the rest, maybe add a bunch of other stuff I made up myself, pour it all into a completely different format, and invite you to go see the results out of respect for what it was before I started slapping it around....

Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.