In this week’s issue Ben Sachs has four stars for Andre Techine’s In the Name of My Daughter, which explores the wild life and mysterious disappearance of French casino heiress Agnes Le Roux. But Drew Hunt can’t get it up for Staten Island Summer, a lame attempt to resurrect the 80s teen sex comedy. Southpaw The Navigator Horror of Dracula

In April, about a month before he released his second Domino album, Rocket, Philadelphia experimental rocker Alexander Giannascoli altered the stage name he’d used since 2010, adding “(Sandy)” to “Alex G,” the parenthetical a reference to the first song he posted on Bandcamp way back in June 2011. As Spin magazine discovered, LA musician Alexandra Gronlund had put a trademark on “Alex G” in late 2015, forcing Giannascoli to make an awkward adjustment just as he was about to take a big step in his career....

Two of Europe’s extreme-metal influencers, Poland’s Behemoth and Sweden’s At the Gates, represent a relative rarity in heavy music: beloved 90s veterans who are churning out some of their best work nearly 30 years after they formed. With its 11th album, I Loved You at Your Darkest (released in October on Metal Blade), Behemoth continues imbuing its blazing-fast blackened death metal with a sharp sense of dynamics and symphonic accompaniment. The results are just as sinister and blasphemous as on previous albums, but the band’s evolving songcraft is also on full display in the moderate tempos and the melodic passages supported by a 17-piece orchestra and a children’s choir....

Andersonville Runner-Up Lincoln Square

Fried Chicken Sandwich, Parson’s Chicken & Fish 2952 W. Armitage Runner-Up Bari

Pat Kepic Mark Turner Quartet The first half of this week has a load of great shows, but a bunch of them—like Ty Segall, Sam Smith, and Clean Bandit—are already sold out. But there are still some great ones happening that you can see: there’s Paul Collins Beat at Cobra Lounge and Black Cobra at Reggie’s on Tue 9/23, and Spray Paint at the Empty Bottle on Wed 9/24. And if those don’t do it for you, there are a few more great picks for this week below....

Shemekia Copeland Last night the Tomorrow Never Knows festival kicked off with a couple of shows, but things go full swing tonight and through the weekend with shows from some great bands, including Mutual Benefit, Darkside, San Fermin, and Roomrunner. Grammy-winning pianist Robert Glasper has been spending the past few years blending the lines between R&B and jazz. Peter Margasak says of his 2012 release Black Radio, “There wasn’t a whole lot that anyone would recognize as jazz on that record; Glasper brought in an impressive collection of A-list singers and rappers, and most of the songs feature one of each....

Chicago surfers just have to make do with what’s nearby—which means Lake Michigan is their best option for carving waves. Unlike ocean surfing, where waves are built by weather that might be brewing far off the coast, lake surfing occurs in the fetch, with the very wind that creates the waves still overhead. Local surfer/photographer Mike Killion, like other nine-to-fivers, is part of the community’s dawn patrol, often heading to the beach before the sun peeks over the horizon....

Earlier this year, Marble and Crown Tap Room, two beloved dive bars in adjacent northwest-side neighborhoods, closed their doors to loyal customers to make improvements that would help them better fulfill the desires of the area’s changing demographics. Change scares people, especially when it threatens to turn their corner watering hole into another Logan Square madhouse packed with recent college grads finding themselves through craft cocktails and creative facial hair....

Over the past week I and the rest of the staff at the Reader have been working on our bar issue, which will appear online in the near future. Over the course of reviewing our Neighborhood Bar Guide, I came across a place that I recalled reading about in former Reader staffer Edward McClelland‘s Morning News story “Right Here Waiting,” the Lighthouse Tavern. I decided to go check it out last Friday, and it is indeed as special a bar as McClelland describes in his article....

Discontent is the constant companion of investigative reporters. They set out on their campaigns because a wrong needs to be righted, and when the campaign ends it’s rarely been righted enough. In January 2011, Novak and his colleague Chris Fusco submitted a Freedom of Information request for the police files of Koschman’s death. It turned out the police had never closed the case, even though they weren’t working it, giving them an excuse not to hand anything over....

2744 W. 63rd, 773-434-4626, imancentral.org/services/health-clinic The south-side Chicago Lawn neighborhood is suffering from poverty and rampant foreclosures, but its residents at least have an accessible, affordable health-care option. For seven years now, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network has operated a clinic in a former bank. A medical director, a nurse practitioner, a lab tech, and a rotating roster of volunteer doctors, nurses, and medical students provide treatment for 85 patients a week—free for those eligible for charity care....

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Mystery—never being able to completely comprehend that which has captured your heart—is an important component of falling in love. Chicago’s immigrant past and present may well be why no one can quite figure this city out. But if you’ve ever been struck by a sense of wonderment in Chicago, there’s probably an immigrant story behind it, perhaps even one about how this stubborn city “invited them, accepted them, and made them free of the place....

The B-Series returns to the Dance Center at Columbia College with B-Free, a festival that spotlights hip-hop artists and street dancers who are blurring boundaries between the foundational forms of the art. The B in “B-Series” stands for many things, says assistant professor Kelsa Robinson, who has curated the program since its inception in 2013. Originally it meant the “break” in funk and soul records where a drum solo would occur....

Steven Senne/AP PHOTOS James Foley Michael Lev didn’t know James Foley, but he knows the business Foley was in. A former foreign correspondent now an editorial writer for the Tribune, Lev published a story Friday called “The dangers of being a war correspondent.” Lev was in Pakistan and Afghanistan after 9/11. You want to stay safe, he explains, but “you are there to get the story.” He gave me a link to a story Thursday by Martin Chulov in the Guardian....