COURTESY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CHICAGO Chicago, 1972 by Kenneth Josephson Are your eyes bleary from staring at a computer all week? Well, wake them up by taking a gander at some exciting art. Here’s what’s going down in visual arts this weekend. “Mixed Bag” at 33 Collective Gallery The opening day of an exhibit with multidisciplinary work by Steve Sherrell, including oil and acrylic pieces. Reception 7-10 PM....
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My dog, Abby, lives an orderly life that hews to a regular routine. She gets up at the same time, takes the same walk most days, eats the same kibbles for breakfast and dinner. I don’t think she minds it, but I’ve also observed that, like anybody, she enjoys variations. Why else would she squeal like a teenybopper the second she realizes we’re on our way to Montrose Dog Beach? Fido to Go, Chicago’s first food truck for dogs, is the best sort of variation, a mix of serendipity and a reminder to live in the moment (like a dog)....
It’s possible that the food writers of Chicago are running out of ways to heckle Billy Dec, who serves as carnival barker and C.E.Bro of Rockit Ranch Productions. That won’t stop us from trying, but with Bottlefork, the new restaurant that rose from the ashes of Dragon Ranch, he’s bought himself some credibility. That would come in the form of chef Kevin Hickey, who previously took the stuffy fine-dining restaurant at the Four Seasons and transformed it into Allium, a very good, casual, creative, and personal restaurant that was just a bit hamstrung by its institutional environment....
Chance the Rapper wears many hats in addition to his omnipresent “3” ball cap: Grammy Award winning musician, community organizer—and now, believe it or not, state budget negotiator. Chance also saved a dash of saltiness for the media before walking out of the building. Hear from @chancetherapper about his meeting with Gov Rauner A post shared by Mary Ann Ahern (@ahernnbc5) on Mar 3, 2017 at 10:26am PST “And you know, I’m a human being, I get a little emotional sometimes,” Rauner told the Tribune editorial board....
Rabble-rousing rapper Warhol.SS is one of a small clutch of locals tied to Lyrical Lemonade, a Chicago hip-hop blog that’s also known for presenting concerts, selling clothes, and making music videos (directed by site founder Cole Bennett). As I wrote in a recent Reader feature, Lyrical Lemonade’s renown has grown in the past year because Bennett has started collaborating with so-called Soundcloud rappers from around the country—usually underground, sometimes rowdy, and often lo-fi, they’re unified more by their choice of online platform than by a common musical style....
“Once one of my door guys said, ‘The greatest thing about the Mutiny is that anyone can play here,'” says Mutiny owner Ed Mroz. “‘The worst thing about the Mutiny is that anyone can play here.'” “I remember at a (Lone) Wolf & Cub show there, someone was just tearing track lighting down from the ceiling,” says artist and musician Ryan Duggan. Destroying part or all of the Mutiny’s ceiling became something of a tradition—at a show there I played with the Catburglars more than a decade ago, in the middle of a song I saw someone pull down a drop-ceiling tile and take a bite out of it....
Chandler West/For Sun-Times Media Mayor Emanuel announces plans for Obama College Prep. The mayor’s office has declined to answer questions about the selection of the Near North Side as the site for the school. “Rahm Emanuel is no friend of democracy,” historian Rick Perlstein wrote in Rolling Stone in 2012. The mayor was “obsessed with finding ways to expand his executive power” and worked “underhandedly and opaquely,” Perlstein charged....
In keeping with my Young Widows-themed 12 O’Clock Tracks this week, today’s is the first single from the Louisville trio’s upcoming Easy Pain , their fourth full-length, out 5/13 via Temporary Residence. “Kerosene Girl” is a driving, relentless posthardcore track so tinny and overblown that the rhythm section practically borders on industrial at times. Front man Evan Patterson is more comfortable than ever, exploring territory well beyond his usual dark drawl, letting loose with the yowls and yelps when the times are right....
The dailies measure Dustin Johnson’s chances at this week’s British Open . . . The Sun-Times: ” . . . In his favor is his great bunker play and superb putting.” The Tribune: ” . . . Tee to green, he’s a legend. Green to hole, he’s a disaster.”
Food Patriots Rogue chickens on the loose in Northbrook When Jeff and Jennifer Spitz’s son got sick from eating contaminated processed chicken, the first thing they did was spend more than a month growing increasingly frustrated and scared as he fought the antibiotic-resistant bug the chicken had given him. My son Sam went out to lunch with his friends after school, when he was in high school, and he got a chicken Caesar salad, thinking he was doing the healthy thing....
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You know that special item that makes strangers approach you in the street? No, I’m not talking about a baby or a puppy—nothing whose poop you have to clean up. This is something that requires a lot less work. Bucketfeet cofounders Aaron Firestein and Raaja Nemani first hatched their concept after Firestein designed a pair of artsy sneakers for Nemani during their backpacking days in Argentina. When Nemani’s shoes kept turning heads, he decided to start a business with Firestein that would allow other artists to get their designs out on the street....
This show is part of what Carl Weathersby is calling his “I’m Back Again” tour. That said, the bluesman hasn’t really been absent—he’s recently been heard and seen as part of Pierre Lacocque’s Mississippi Heat. All the same, considering that his last album under his own name, I’m Still Standing Here, was released eight years ago, this could be viewed as something of a comeback. Like several blues performers active since the 70s, Weathersby shows the influence of Albert King—during the latter’s years on the Stax label, he had a way of mixing straight blues with soulish rhythms that seems to have affected everybody from Son Seals on down the line....
Musicals are notoriously expensive to produce, especially shows with large casts and a decent-size live orchestra. Joe Kinosian and Kellen Blair’s two-person murder-mystery musical (performed sans orchestra—the actors accompany themselves) is tailor-made for theaters on a budget. (And who isn’t?) Which may be one reason the show, after premiering in 2011 at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, has gone on to be produced around the world, in both English and in translation (Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean)....
