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Flavorpill CHI | NYC | SF | LA | LONDON October 23 - 29, 2007

 
 Tara Donovan   
Cultural Stimuli in CHI
Issue 162: decadent flavor

The strict definition of "decadence" is not "excess," but "a state of decay," which seems appropriate this week. Lament the decline of civilization with Naomi Wolf as she discusses her new book, The End of America, or at the Chicago Humanities Festival with a two-week schedule of events centered on climate change. Meanwhile, South Korean monsters, psychopathic pornographers, '50s fearmongers, and Transylvanian transvestites revel in our imminent destruction. The Apocalypse needs a soundtrack, of course: consider brooding melancholy metal from Jesu or thrash-influenced classical guitar by Rodrigo y Gabriela. Hitch a ride with the Four Horsemen — and spread it!

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 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Beate Gütschow; Lynn Geesaman; James Westwater
dance Dance for the Camera
discussionThe Chicago L; Contemporary Art's New Faces
festival Chicago Calling Arts Festival; Chicago Humanities Festival
film The Rocky Horror Picture Show; At the Heart of a Sparrow; Lola; The Host; The Last House on Dead End Street; You've Been Warned: A Tribute to Sid Davis
music Rodrigo y Gabriela; PRE; The Thermals; Jesu; Zelienople; Deer Tick; Hideout Halloween Show
reading Eileen Myles, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, and Matthew Eck; Naomi Wolf
theatre No Child...
workshopDay of the Dead Sugar Skull Workshop
FEAT art for everyone Art21 on PBS; cd review Ricardo Villalobos, Fabric 36; media Beats in Space




One More Deer Band
With gloriously plodding ballads that draw on an entire genealogy of singer/ songwriters, Deer Tick could turn heads in any Memphis dive, but Monday night, he brings his stoic bellowing to the Bottle.

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


READING
Bookslut presents Eileen Myles, Pia Z. Ehrhardt, and Matthew Eck

when: Tue 10.23 (7:30pm)
where: The Hopleaf Bar (5148 N Clark St, 773.334.9851) map
price:
links: Event Info

Bookslut is faithful to no book. Five years ago, Jessa Crispin started the literary blog on a whim. Now, it's packed with reviews and author interviews, and Crispin has become a veritable celeb. (She was even named one of Wired's sexiest geeks in 2005.) Since she's based here, Chicagoans get to reap the benefits of Bookslut's monthly readings. Tonight features Eileen Myles (Sorry, Tree), Pia Z. Ehrhardt (Famous Fathers and Other Stories) and Matthew Eck (The Farther Shore). Also note that if you've never been to the Hopleaf, the beer list itself is worth the visit. (EW)

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READING
Naomi Wolf: The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot

when: Tue 10.23 (7:30pm)
where: Women & Children First (5233 N Clark St, 773.769.9299) map
price:
links: Event Info

Like many third-wave feminist stalwarts, Naomi Wolf (best-selling author of The Beauty Myth and Promiscuities) has long thinned the line between the personal and political. The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot is chiefly the latter, fortified with Wolf's meticulous research, robust arguments, and agile, engaging prose. Tonight, she discusses the new book's key conceit: the 20th century's most disgraceful aspects, particularly the ascent of fascist dictatorships, are being repeated now in a series of familiar tropes, including the invocation of a threatening enemy, secret prisons, and domestic surveillance. (AMM)

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Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Lola (1961)

when: Wed 10.24 (6pm)
where: Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N State St, 312.846.2600) map
price: $9
links: Event Info

French New Wave director Jacques Demy called this whimsically filmed work "a musical without music," paying homage to Marlene Dietrich's classic Der blaue Engel. (She set a gender-bending, super sexy standard by playing a tux-clad, top-hat-wearing performer named Lola Lola who smoked cigarettes and flirted with the ladies.) Demy's Lola, also a performer, ignites a similar spark as Dietrich in the men she entertains, but she pines away for a man who left her pregnant seven years ago. Demy plays with his audience by anticipating its expectations, based on standard cues in classic cinema, and violating them. Each scene in Lola seems ready to break into song — but don't worry, it never happens. (EW)



DANCE
Dance for the Camera

when: Wed 10.24 & Thur 10.25 (6:30pm)
where: Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater (78 E Washington Ave, 312.744.6630) map
price:
links: Event Info

Filmed dance offers angles and environments that a stage can not — outdoor settings and close-ups, for example. Divided between two programs, these nine films are a solid primer on the genre, as well as representative of Chicago's own respectable scene. Showing Wednesday is British group DV8's lauded latest, The Cost of Living, as well as Chicago/UK group Goat Island's It's Aching Like Birds. Thursday pairs an intriguing portrait of the minotaur by France's Compagnie Cave Canem with a darkly comic take on Lady Macbeth by Marianne Kim. (ZW)



MUSIC: Indie Punk
The Thermals w/ Chin Up Chin Up and Reporter

when: Wed 10.24 (8:30pm)
where: Logan Square Auditorium (2539 N Kedzie Ave, 773.252.6179) map
price: $14 / $12 advance
links: Event Info | The Thermals | Chin Up Chin Up | Reporter

Everyone loves the Thermals. And everyone loved them even more when word spread last year that the headstrong pop-punk outfit had thumbed their noses at Corporate America by turning down a $50K offer from Hummer for the rights to one of their songs. The hard-rocking Oregonians have never been shy about their politics — 2006's The Body, The Blood, The Machine was an emphatic, high-strung indictment of the religious right — but it was still kind of thrilling to hear of a band remaining true to their DIY roots. Tonight, the scrappy trio (who sold out Subterranean twice this year!) bring their hyper-melodic guitar riffs, razor-sharp hooks, and yelps to the much larger LSA. (SN)

  If the Thermals' Hutch Harris had $50,000, what would he spend it on? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 10.24.



Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FESTIVAL
Chicago Calling Arts Festival

when: Wed 10.24 - Sat 10.27 (schedule)
where: Various locations (312.543.7027)
price: Free-$10
links: Event Info

Collaboration is the preferred technique at the Calling Arts Festival, as Chicago artists agree to play nice with other artists from as far away as Africa. Picture a dancer in Chicago performing to live music being piped in from New York, and you've got the basic format. During the 24-hour event, artists tag-team their way through a variety of media, including music, painting, photography, poetry, and dance. Organized by the Department of Cultural Affairs as part of Chicago Artists' Month, the event appropriately peaks with performances and screenings on October 25th, Pablo Picasso's birthday. (CN)



ART: Opening
Beate Gütschow: LS/S

when: Thur 10.25 (5-8pm)
where: Museum of Contemporary Photography (600 S Michigan Ave, 312.663.5554) map
price:
links: Event Info

While photography might bear a close resemblance to real life, it can be just as tricky as painting or drawing. German artist Beate Gütschow draws attention to this trompe l'oeil feature of the medium with two separate series, LS and S, which signify landscape and city. Her carefully constructed photographs appear to be taken of actual sites, but are instead digitally composed from many smaller pictures. Columbia College's photography department kicks off the exhibition with a lecture from the artist. (EW)

Note: This exhibition continues through Thur 1.10.08 (Mon-Fri: 10am-5pm / Thur: 10am-8pm / Sat: 10am-5pm / Sun: 12-5pm).



FILM
At the Heart of a Sparrow: Videos by Barry Doupé

when: Thur 10.25 (6pm)
where: Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N State St, 312.846.2600) map
price: $9
links: Event Info

Animator Barry Doupé compares his anxiety-prone, loosely rendered videos to a still-life — no discernable plot, no tangible characters, just transfixing images. A member of the acclaimed, collaborative drawing group, the Lions, who are known for their disconcerting representation of social space and blurry character portraits, Doupé's shorts feature rudimentary computer animation, shifting landscapes, and a perplexing sense of time and distance. Tonight, the artists screens and discusses Boy On a Dock Blowing His Nose, Distraught Mother Reunited With Her Children and the spooky At the Heart of a Sparrow. Viewers will also get a sneak peek at Doupé's untitled work-in-progress, due out in December. (SN)



ALSO ON THUR

DISCUSSION
Greg Borzo: The Chicago L
Thur 10.25 (7:30pm) Harold Washington Library, Auditorium (400 S State St, 312.747.4050) map

Event Info
 
Greg Borzo's new book chronicles 120 years of train tracks on stilts, inspiring us to appreciate our perennially doomed transit system, as well as to be thankful that the days of open-air train windows during flu season are long gone. (ZW)



Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
The Host

when: Fri 10.26 (6:30, 9 & 11:30pm)
where: Doc Films (1212 E 59th St, 773.702.8574) map
price: $5
links: Event Info

A South Korean film about a mutant monster (an outsized gecko reshaped by vagina dentata, essentially) that ravages a river community, The Host brandishes an appealingly absurdist flair even while it spearheads big questions about the international impact of US environmental imperialism and scares the living bejeezus out of its audience. Director Bong Joon-ho reasserts his knack for shifting effortlessly between pathos and tongue-in-cheek bathos via the wonderfully well-cast Park family — his daffy, oddly noble protagonists who bear the brunt of the creature's assaults. Not since Shaun of the Dead (2004) has a film so deftly tread that all-too-elusive line between horror and satire. (LR)



MUSIC: Punk
PRE w/ KK Rampage, Tusker, and Slutbarf

when: Fri 10.26 (8pm)
where: Reggie's (2105 S State St, 312.949.0120) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | PRE | KK Rampage | Tusker | Slutbarf

At first glance, these Londoners may look like a bunch of grown-up art kids starved for attention, and that's pretty much true. But along with that comes good, fast music. Part punk band, part performance art collective, PRE offers an ultramodern twist on the usual rock show. Between the rigid guitar sound and lead singer Keeks Matsuura's shrieking vocals, the comparison to the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs draws itself. PRE's live show sets them apart, though, with an experimental, impromptu quality that keeps the audience guessing. (SN)



FILM
The Last House on Dead End Street (1977)

when: Fri 10.26 & Sat 10.27 (midnight)
where: Music Box Theatre (3733 N Southport Ave, 773.871.6607) map
price: $9.25
links: Event Info

The '70s was the golden age for over-the-top exploitation films, and there's nary a cult offering from that era that doesn't claim to be the most extreme and tasteless. The Last House on Dead End Street stars director Roger Watkins as a pornographer who exacts revenge on a couple of back-stabbing swingers by casting them in a snuff film. Whether or not the film exceeds Zombi 2 (1979) or I Spit on Your Grave (1978) in its brutality is debatable — but the fact that Watkins didn't know that his film had made it to the theaters until someone recognized him as "the guy from that movie that was throwing animal guts around" is pretty awesome. (GM)



FILM
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

when: Fri 10.26 & Sat 10.27 (midnight)
where: Music Box Theatre (3733 N Southport Ave, 773.871.6607) map
price: $9.25
links: Event Info

Most urbanites have at some point seen a line of freakily dressed folk waiting for a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the most frequently re-released movie in film history. The musical comedy parodies traditional horror films, playing up all the campy conventions of tense terror and over-sexed screamers. Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick play a lost couple who seek shelter from a storm in a castle housing the Annual Transylvanian Convention. Be forewarned — the film's got quite a cult following, which can be a terror in its own right. They will likely sing along and come in costume — the most appropriate atmosphere for your first or sixteenth viewing. (EW)



Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Acoustic Metal
Rodrigo y Gabriela w/ Ian Ball

when: Sat 10.27 (7:30pm)
where: Riviera Theatre (4746 N Racine Ave, 773.275.6800) map
price: $25
links: Event Info | Rodrigo y Gabriela | Ian Ball

Rodrigo y Gabriela may play classical guitars, but don't you dare call them flamenco. Gabriela Quintero's breakneck rhythms and Rodrigo Sanchez's intricate leads reflect their backgrounds in bombastic heavy metal — the two honed their musical chops playing thrash in their native Mexico City, and the blinding speed of their music is as conducive to headbanging as it is to dancing. The duo, now based in Dublin, achieved national hero status after its debut album hit #1 on the Irish album charts, and the two metalheads have since won an army of fans around the world. (GM)



MUSIC: Shoegaze Metal
Jesu w/ Torche and Fog

when: Sat 10.27 (10pm)
where: The Empty Bottle (1035 N Western Ave, 773.276.3600) map
price: $12
links: Event Info | Jesu | Torche | Fog

The newest poster boy for brooding baroque metal, Justin Broadrick of Jesu, once described the band's emotionally crushing, thunderous slowcore epics as an attempt to "make something so melancholic that it would become the ultimate wrist-slashing experience." Well, the prolific music vet — whose previous work with Napalm Death, stoner rogues Head of David, and the ruthless, industrial outfit Godflesh made him a minor star in the metal community — has yet to inspire mass suicide. But Jesu's euphonious, shoegazing anthems and shimmering guitar meditations have won Broadrick an acclaim that eluded him during his more "extreme" days. Tonight, Jesu hit up the Bottle in support of their newly released Lifeline EP. (SN)



FESTIVAL
18th Annual Chicago Humanities Festival

when: Sat 10.27 - Wed 11.14 (schedule)
where: Various locations (312.494.9509)
price: Various prices
links: Event Info

The 18th Annual Chicago Humanities Festival adopts a very particular tone this year as it tackles its theme, "the Climate of Concern." Over a fortnight, discussions, readings, screenings, and exhibits provide insight into how we can turn our concerns about global warming into decisive action. Activities include a discussion with Kevin Coval on faith-based responses to climate change, a work of video-art called Arctic that combines footage and sounds from the region, as well as a workshop on combating this global crisis, one day at a time. (VG)



ALSO ON SAT

DISCUSSION
Contemporary Art's New Faces
Sat 10.27 (1pm) Museum of Contemporary Art (220 E Chicago Ave, 312.280.2660) map

Event Info
 
NBC entertainment reporter Leann Trotter and TimeOut Chicago Art & Design editor Ruth Lopez discuss current trends in the art world with prolific local superstars Ken Fandell and Laura Mosquera, both of whom have work in the MCA's permanent collection. (AMM)



FILM
You've Been Warned: A Tribute to Sid Davis
Sat 10.27 (8pm) Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N Clark St, 2nd Fl, 773.293.1447) map $8

Event Info
 
With the subtlety of an anvil and a worldview drenched in suspicion, Sid Davis tried to spook an entire generation away from sex, drugs, gays, and open scissors. It's promised that only the "bleakest and funniest" of almost 200 films will be shown in tribute to the dropout who made The Dropout (1962). (ZW)



MUSIC: Indie Rock
Hideout Halloween Show feat. Mr. Rudy Day and Big Buildings
Sat 10.27 (9pm) The Hideout (1354 W Wabansia Ave, 773.227.4433) map $8

Event Info
 
Mr. Rudy Day celebrate All Hallow's Eve with indie-rock ballads that border on speed metal. Made up of Grimble Grumble and Card Catalog members, the threesome begins a month-long residency at the Hideout tonight. (CN)



Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Experimental
Yellow Swans w/ Zelienople and Burial Hex

when: Sun 10.28 (8pm)
where: AV-erie (2000 W Fulton St, 312.738.2140) map
price: $8
links: Event Info | Zelienople | Yellow Swans | Burial Hex

Deftly balanced between bleak and exhilarating, Zelienople have taken delayed gratification to its logical extreme. Beginning their lengthy jams with lovely but cripplingly depressing slowcore introductions (think Múm's most frigid sonic wastelands or Codeine's heart-trampling dirges), the trio's indecipherable vocals and lazily strummed guitars seem to last for centuries. It's almost too much sadness and navel-gazing for a person to bear, but patient listeners will be duly rewarded when the shoegazing trio explodes its dainty melodies into crash 'n burn distortion, percussive flourishes, and jaw-dropping guitar riffs. (SN)

  What does Yellow Swans' Pete Swanson eat for breakfast? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 10.24.



ALSO ON SUN

WORKSHOP
Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Workshop
Sun 10.28 (1-6pm) Adobo Grill (1610 N Wells St, 773.252.9990) map $16-30

Event Info
 
El Día de los Muertos celebrates the lives of those who have passed on before us, and the Adobo Grill maintains the tradition with a specially prepared menu of holiday dishes. Artist Miguel Angel Quintana demonstrates how to prepare sugar skulls at this Sunday workshop. (CN)



Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Folk Pop
Tunng w/ Castanets and Deer Tick

when: Mon 10.29 (9pm)
where: The Empty Bottle (1035 N Western Ave, 773.276.3600) map
price: $12 / $10 advance
links: Event Info | Tunng | Castanets | Deer Tick

Avoiding the often-haphazard pastiche of his twang-tinged indie-rock peers, Deer Tick mastermind John McCauley's moans are like paved-over gravel — their slicked surface a thin cover for the jagged edges below. His latest release War Elephant includes rollicking tunes that pair noodly riffs with train-track percussion, ghostly backing yaws, slippery slide guitar, and road-weary vocal ruminations. Swinging by their record label's hometown, UK's Tunng headline the night with an alchemical mix of slide guitar and electronic pop. (JW/AP)

  What's the best tongue twister you've got? The two most awesomely alliterative responses in 50 words or less each receive a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 10.24.



Ongoing / Upcoming TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


THEATRE
No Child...

when: Now through Sun 11.11 (schedule)
where: Lookingglass Theatre (821 N Michigan Ave, 312.337.0665) map
price: $25-55
links: Event Info

In No Child..., veteran solo performer Nilaja Sun takes audiences where few would otherwise go — a struggling New York City public school. Drawing from her own experience as an artist-in-residence at a downtrodden Bronx high school, Sun portrays students, teachers, parents, administrators, and janitors in an era of ill-conceived educational reform, alluded to in the play's title. A self-contained bubble, guarded by metal detectors and armed guards, the school leaves students more often detained and controlled than educated. Despite this, Sun remains determined to reach her students through theater and instill hope that a better world awaits them. The show visits Chicago after a successful off-Broadway run and an award-winning stint in Aspen at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival. (BB)



ART
Lynn Geesaman: Hazy Lights and Shadows

when: Now through Sat 11.24 (Tue-Sun: 10am-5:30pm)
where: Catherine Edelman Gallery (300 W Superior St, 312.266.2350) map
price:
links: Event Info

Born in 1938, photographer Lynn Geesaman studied physics at Wellesley before developing a keen interest in gardens. What began as a hobby turned into a passion, and in the late '80s, Geesaman traveled to Europe to experience the world's great horticultural masterpieces firsthand. This lyrical exhibition from Geesaman's latest series coincides with an eponymous book, which depicts the magical landscapes of Damme, Belgium; Parc de Sceaux, France; Andalucia, Spain; and American locales such as Avery Island in Louisiana and our own Botanic Garden. Attuned to its pastoral subject matter, each print glows with a painterly quality and a soft-focus, misty dreaminess. (AMM)



ART
James Westwater: Plywood Chateaux

when: Now through Sat 11.24 (Tue-Sat: 12-6pm)
where: Navta Schulz Gallery (1039 W Lake St, 312.421.5506) map
price:
links: Event Info

The light boxes and diorama-like plywood cases in Brazilian artist James Westwater's Plywood Chateaux contain images of opulent spaces — garages full of antique limousines, bedrooms and dining rooms that could be from Versailles, and views of nameless courtyards in idyllic, rural Mediterranean paradises — interrupted by a single, ubiquitous, abstract shape (a head? a hole?) that becomes inexorably paired with the images around it. Even when appearing alone in white space, the shape retains these associations, in the same way that a logo summons up the meaning attached to it by branding. (GM)



Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  ART FOR EVERYONE: Art21 on PBS  

The premier television show devoted to contemporary art, Art:21 — Art in the Twenty-First Century is launching its fourth season. Airing on PBS on October 28th, November 4th, 11th, and 18th at 10pm, the new shows spotlight the work of 17 artists, including Nancy Spero, Robert Adams, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Lari Pittman, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle. The program's website has a listing of current exhibits by the featured artists, as well as info on previous seasons, which are available on DVD. The Art:21 blog, meanwhile, lists the current and upcoming activities of featured artists alongside nationwide previews of upcoming seasons at major cultural institutions. (BR)



 


  CD REVIEW: Ricardo Villalobos, Fabric 36  

Fabric
Released October 2007
$13.99 (Amazon)

Few mixes have arrived with as much mystery as Chilean/German showman Ricardo Villalobos' entry into Fabric's showcase series. Even its unique format — a seamlessly arranged slate of Villalobos' original productions, all hitherto unreleased — has raised speculation as to just how game-changing it is. Rest assured, it's a true time bomb in a steel tin. The quiet, textured ticks of opener "Groove 1880" melt into the jazzy hi-hat hiccups of "Perc and Drums" before building into tech-oriented rhythm patterns — a simple lesson in just how colorful minimal can be. The hypnotic "4 Wheel Drive" leads into a disarming set of grand hallucinatory grooves, including "Andruic & Japan," an unhinged vocal rant framed by booming, Japanese-style percussion. In the Ableton era, Villalobos has transformed the mix into something more organic — a more complete aesthetic statement than the standard curatorial exercise. (PCS)

This review originally appeared in our sister publication, Earplug.

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  MEDIA: Beats in Space  

Seven years since its inception, Tim Sweeney's Beats in Space has grown from a small student-run radio show to one the most popular dance-music programs on the Internet (and that's saying something). While the show's archives are full of cameos from big-name DJs, the past few installments have featured on-the-rise producers of particular interest: Andy Butler, from new DFA-signees Hercules and Love Affair, lays down a groove-disco-infused set, while Berlin-based Macro label boss, Stefan Goldmann, drops house and deep techno cuts. Also, don't miss Brooklyn's own Runaway duo, whose original cuts reimagine samples and textures from old records for the modern dance floor. (CJN)



 


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