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Flavorpill CHI | NYC | SF | LA | LONDON February 6 - 12, 2007

 
 Gaëlle Denis   
Cultural Stimuli in CHI
Issue 125: armchair flavor

No one's asking, but we would've benched Rex Grossman and instructed the receivers to quit all that butter-fingered ball handling. Plus, we would've advised Prince to substitute "Batdance" for that Foo Fighters cover. We fans know, of course, that none of our Monday-morning know-it-all-isms could have changed the Bears 29-17 defeat. At least our cultural game plan for the week delivers a more satisfying outcome than Sunday's. Get off the sidelines with a mind-warping examination of gender assignment and, uh, a whole lot more as the first two installments of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle screens, or warp a Trekkie's mind by dressing like a Klingon Stormtrooper at Capricorn XXVII. Elsewhere, get a sampling of the world's finest animated shorts in The Animation Show 3; awaken to the hibernating folk melodies of Grizzly Bear; and retire "wiener" in favor of a whole new lexicon at a reading by sexual euphemist Jordan Tate. Don't wait until next season to spread it.

- Quanah Humphreys, Managing Editor

 

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Sick of all the Valentine's Day hype? Unattached and glad about it? In the week leading up to the year's most overly sentimental holiday, Altoids invites the lovesick, lovelorn and Cupid-wary of Chicago to join them at the Altoids Curious & Original Chocolate Shoppe, a sanctuary from all the romantic overtures.
 Table of Contents TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT
art Open and Shut; Scott Short; Like, Resembling, Similar; Graphic Reality: Mexican Printmaking Today and Off the Grid; Takashi Murakami: Jellyfish Eyes
arts & crafts Sewing Rebellion
convention Capricon XXVII
dj Lindstrøm; Switch
film The Animation Show 3; Cremaster 1 & 2; The Captivity Show; Fired!
lectureDominic Molon
music NOMO; Grizzly Bear; Lily Allen; The Lawrence Peters Outfit; The Hidden Hand; WNUR Phonathon Kickoff
reading The Anti-Valentine's Day Show; Jordan Tate: The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms
theatre Uncle Vanya; Radio Golf
FEAT some things in life are free SoftwareFor.org; cd review Alela Diane, The Pirate's Gospel; streams Futureboogie




Down with Love
This American Life's Ira Glass launches a pre-emptive Valentine's Day counteroffensive with No Love for Love: The Anti- Valentine's Day Show, a reading that benefits the Poetry Center and addresses love's labor's lost (and occasionally found).

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Tuesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Cremaster 1 (1996) and Cremaster 2 (1999)

when: Tue 2.6 (7:45pm)
where: Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N State St, 312.846.2600) map
price: $9
links: Event Info | Cremaster

The first installment of Matthew Barney's provocative, cryptic, and endlessly referential Cremaster Cycle series investigates the first six weeks of male fetal development (as well as a lavish, Busby Berkeley-style dance number) against the backdrop of a blue Astroturf football field. In Cremaster 2, Barney represents the fetus' development into the sexual-division phase via a story about convicted murderer Gary Gilmore. In Cremaster 3, 4, and 5, screened next week, the fetus continues to grow, encountering a cast of bizarre characters, including artist Richard Serra and a half-leopard woman. (AE)

  Which prolific author portrayed an American icon of even greater stature in Cremaster 2? The second and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this screening.



ALSO ON TUE

LECTURE
Dominic Molon: For Those About to Rock
Tue 2.6 (5pm) Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago (1240 S Peoria St, 312.996.6114) map

Gallery 400
 
The MCA's Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock 'n Roll Since 1967 exhibition won't take the stage until this September, so think of this lecture by the show's assistant curator, Dominic Molon, as a waaaaaay advance opening act. (QH)




Wednesday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
The Captivity Show

when: Wed 2.7 (7pm)
where: Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago (1240 W Harrison St, 312.996.6114) map
price:
links: Event Info

UIC visiting professor Ben Russell curates a program on the theme of incarceration, collecting experimental film and video from the '40s to the present. Hillbilly Hoosegow (1943) features a musical satire of a hillbilly jail escape; Mexican Jail Footage (1980), by Gordon Ball, depicts firsthand accounts of people who were arrested in Puerto Vallarta without valid reason; and Eva Drangsholt's Exercise #3 (2005) discusses the feelings that arise when one is constantly observed, yearning desperately for escape. (AE)




Thursday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


CONVENTION
Capricon XXVII: A Celebration of High Fantasy

when: Thur 2.8 - Sun 2.11
where: Sheraton Chicago Northwest (3400 W Euclid Ave, Arlington Heights, 847.394.2000) map
price: $70 / $40 advance
links: Event Info

Capricon XXVII, Chicago's second-oldest science-fiction convention, kicks off its 27th year of revelry and fellowship today. Peruse the fantasy-art dealers and costume vendors, geek out at the nightly "filk" circles (fantasy-themed folk tunes, for the uninitiated), and power up your endurance at the combat-gaming BrikWars, known to last up to eight hours. Guest of honor Lois McMaster Bujold (creator of the celebrated Vorkosigan Saga series), the Windy City Wizard (teaching a class on magick), and NASA's Bryan Palaszewski are all on hand to help faeries, sorcerers, and grandmasters of every ilk "gafia" — that's fanspeak for "get away from it all." (SN)



MUSIC: Pop
Lily Allen

when: Thur 2.8 (7pm)
where: Metro (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map
price: $20
links: Event Info | Lily Allen

On January 30, Lily "Queen of MySpace" Allen released her first album, Alright, Still, in the US — although it felt like it had been around for much, much longer. Indeed, the diminutive, 21-year-old Brit's debut took root on the Internet months before even its UK release date, with bloggers and social-network rats wetting themselves over Allen's genre-hopping pop. Alright, Still carries the platinum stamp of Top 40-approved production, but its melodies and arrangements are considerably richer, wrapping elements of second-wave ska, Britpop, and hip-hop around Allen's scalding lyrical kiss-offs. Evidently the pop star of the future writes songs dissing a lover's tiny member. Who knew? (TG)

  Far away from mum and dad at 15, where did Allen spend a month scraping by with an illicit income? The first and third correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.



DJ
Lindstrøm

when: Thur 2.8 (9pm)
where: Funky Buddha Lounge (728 W Grand Ave, 312.666.1695) map
price: $10 with flyer
links: Event Info | Lindstrøm

Contrary to what most people will tell you, disco never died — at worst, it was just tragically misunderstood. On his recently released singles compilation It's a Feedelity Affair, and in his euphoric DJ sets, Norwegian producer Hans-Peter Lindstrøm sheds new light on dance music's limitless possibilities. Sometimes dubbed "space disco," Lindstrøm's tracks build across vast ambient space, resulting in a slightly disorienting expansion of the dance floor's boundaries. While other producers, like Matthew Dear, distort with acid rhythms and a jacked-up edge, Lindstrøm's vintage synths and softly bubbling beats wash over listeners. (PS)



ALSO ON THUR

MUSIC: Alt-Country
The Lawrence Peters Outfit
Thur 2.8 (9pm) The Hideout (1354 W Wabansia Ave, 773.227.4433) map $8

Event Info
 
Regulars on the Chicago music scene might recognize Lawrence Peters from any number of his other bands, including Plastic Crimewave Sound, the Wichita Shut-Ins, Velcro Lewis and His 100-Proof Band, and Hardscrabble. Tonight he stands front and center with his roots-country quartet. (QH)



MUSIC: Indie Rock
WNUR Phonathon Kickoff feat. Michael Columbia and Bird Names
Thur 2.8 (9:30pm) Bill's Blues Bar (1029 Davis St, Evanston, 847.424.9800) map $5

Event Info
 
Michael Columbia and Bird Names, two energetic local indie-rock bands with avant-garde flair and vaguely funny names, kick off WNUR 89.3 FM's annual fundraiser drive, whose admission goes directly to the venerable college radio station. (MJ)




Friday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


FILM
Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt present: The Animation Show 3

when: Fri 2.9 & Sat 2.10 (schedule)
where: Music Box Theatre (3733 N Southport Ave, 773.871.6604) map
price: $9.25
links: Event Info | The Animation Show

While 20th Century Fox's head-scratching burial of Idiocracy casts doubt on animator-turned-director Mike Judge's future in live-action, the Beavis & Butt-Head creator continues to champion his native discipline, co-curating the third installment of The Animation Show alongside Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt. The ten-piece, globe-spanning program utilizes traditional hand-drawn cells, stop-motion photography, computer animation — and often a mixture of multiple techniques all at once. The focus isn't on shock or humor (as in other animation shows), but rather on the unparalleled imaginative opportunities that animation offers. Hertzfeldt and Bill Plympton (best known for a series of interstitials for MTV way back in the day) are on hand to introduce the collection. (QH)



FILM
Fired!

when: Fri 2.9 (6:15 & 7:45pm)
where: Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N State St, 312.846.2600) map
price: $9
links: Event Info | Fired!

It's a suitably Woody Allen-like premise, inspired by the director himself. Comedienne Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a Broadway production by Allen — but instead of wallowing in her welfare-ready state, she turned her pink slip into the premise for this sweet-but-serious documentary. While fellow actors and comics submit entertaining insights about being unemployed (who knows more about the job search than young actors?), Gurwitch instead widens the focus to address laid-off Americans in all job categories. She includes pointed and illuminating interviews that scale the entire corporate ladder, from fired autoworkers to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. (PS)

  If you knew you were getting canned, how would you act up on your last day? Our two favorite responses in 50 words or less each win a pair of tickets to this screening.



READING
Jordan Tate: The Contemporary Dictionary of Sexual Euphemisms

when: Fri 2.9 (7pm)
where: Quimby's (1854 W North Ave, 773.342.0910) map
price:
links: Event Info | Jordan Tate

Sure, everyone "flogs the bishop," "munches carpet," or gives a "Dirty Sanchez" now and then (we're looking at you, Screech), but how many have "dialed the pink telephone," tried a "rusty trombone," or noshed on the ever-popular "chili dog"? A veritable rainbow of sexual euphemisms permeates popular culture, and booty-savvy writer/photographer Jordan Tate has lovingly compiled an illustrated encyclopedia of the most filthy and fabulous. Covering everything from the by-now quaint "golden shower" to the more obscure (but no less aptly named) "glass-bottom boat," the racy compendium is required reading for anyone who's trolled Wikipedia looking for gross-out terminology to impress and/or terrorize their loved ones. (SN)



MUSIC: Art-Folk
Grizzly Bear w/ Dirty Projectors

when: Fri 2.9 (10pm)
where: Subterranean (2011 W North Ave, 773.278.6600) map
price: $10
links: Event Info | Grizzly Bear | Dirty Projectors

Grizzly Bear's inauspicious lo-fi debut, Horn of Plenty, was essentially multi-instrumentalist Edward Droste's solo album, recorded in his Brooklyn apartment while "vaguely in [a] haze and depressed." For his next album, Droste decamped to his mother's Cape Cod home with musicians Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen, and Chris Taylor, leaving behind the distractions and frustrations of the city. The deeply intimate Yellow House (which topped Pitchfork and the New York Times' "Best of 2006" lists) is bathed in an incandescent glow of strange wind instruments, mother-of-pearl folk melodies, and dizzyingly complex structures. Droste and Co. perform tonight with Dirty Projectors, whose art-damaged compositions seem constantly at war with bandleader Dave Longstreth's otherworldly, keening vocals. (SN)



DJ
Switch

when: Fri 2.9 (10pm)
where: Metro (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map
price: $10
links: Event Info

Even though UK dance producer Dave Taylor, better known as Switch, is making his first Chicago appearance tonight, it's still a homecoming of sorts. Taylor conducts dance-floor alchemy, whittling bulbous club cuts into sleek rhythmic juggernauts propelled by stomping beats, and turning gold tracks into bass meddlers that owe a heavy debt to Chicago's jackin' beats. Taylor has reworked everyone from Kelis and Spank Rock to Lily Allen and is supposedly in the process of producing the next M.I.A. album, so expect a set of pure, unalloyed Switch remixery. (PS)

  In which West Yorkshire city did Switch get his start as a DJ? The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.




Saturday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


MUSIC: Afrobeat
Algernon w/ Eastern Blok and NOMO

when: Sat 2.10 (9pm)
where: Double Door (1572 N Milwaukee Ave, 773.489.3160) map
price: $7
links: Event Info | Algernon | Eastern Blok | NOMO

NOMO make dance music that energetically combines funk, Afrobeat rhythms, and an organic, free-jazz approach to song development. Touring behind their New Tones full length for Ubiquity Records, they reveal the label's secret affinity for down-home funk and soul (normally reserved for its Luv N' Haight sister label). NOMO bridge the gap between Ubiquity's beat-oriented, heavy downtempo and the live-band instrumentalism and historical influences of Luv N' Haight — all while moving booties like gangbusters. Local folksters Eastern Blok and underrated Tortoise-y post-rock outfit Algernon fill out the remainder of the evening. (MJ)

  Originating in the Sunda Islands, which percussive genre has greatly influenced NOMO band leader, Elliot Bergman? The first correct response wins a pair of all-access passes, t-shirts, and catalogues for this year's Around the Coyote Winter Festival.



ALSO ON SAT

MUSIC: Psych-Metal
The Hidden Hand w/ Minsk
Sat 2.10 (10pm) The Empty Bottle (1035 N Western Ave, 773.276.3600) map $10

Event Info
 
Old-school fans of doom metal know Scott "Wino" Weinrich from his stints in the seminal Saint Vitus and the Obsessed; his latest band, the Hidden Hand, continues the gloom tradition but also embraces the sounds (and, yes, excesses) of psychedelia. (QH)

  In the song "Travesty as Usual," who does Weinrich knock for his purported investment in Sierra Leone's brutal diamond industry? The third and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this show.




Sunday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


ARTS & CRAFTS
Sewing Rebellion

when: Sun 2.11 (1-5pm)
where: Mess Hall (6932 N Glenwood Ave, 773.465.4033) map
price:
links: Event Info

Join Frau Fiber (an artist and activist with stitching inclinations) for a DIY sewing workshop series that empowers the citizenry to take control of its clothing and create original fashions free from designer-price tyranny. Frau Fiber's background as a former textile worker taught her the trade secrets that she now gladly shares in her workshops. This week, the good Frau teaches participants how to make armless, legless, headless versions of themselves in "Building Your Own Dress Form." The three-and-a-half-month Sewing Rebellion series culminates in mid-May with an independent fashion show on the street. (AE)




Monday TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


READING
No Love for Love: The Anti-Valentine's Day Show feat. Ira Glass

when: Mon 2.12 (8pm)
where: Apollo Theater (2540 N Lincoln Ave, 773.935.6100) map
price: $20
links: Event Info

In a universally beloved episode of This American Life, radio host Ira Glass discusses recovering from a breakup: "One of the rules of getting over it is you cannot choose the time and place. You cannot will it to happen... It can come like a thief in the night." Let the heart-mending process begin at tonight's Anti-Valentine's Day reading as Glass, joined by fellow lonely hearts Jonathan Messenger and Megan Stielstra, waxes eloquent on doomed love affairs, bad breakups, and lovesick heartache aplenty. Proceeds benefit the Poetry Center, while a silent auction of prizes that celebrate "singleness" benefits your poor, lovelorn soul. (SN)




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


THEATRE
Uncle Vanya

when: Now through Sun 2.11 (schedule)
where: Museum of Contemporary Art (220 E Chicago Ave, 312.280.2660) map
price: $36-54
links: Event Info

Graceful gymnastics, nonchalant soliloquies, minimalist sets, and bursts of laughter don't usually make one think, "Anton Chekhov." That is, unless you're Charles Newell, Court Theatre's visionary artistic director. Newell delivers a daring, exuberant production of Uncle Vanya, the story of a Russian country estate thrown into chaos by a returning patriarch and his beautiful young wife. The vibrant new translation restores Chekhov's humor and spirit, while architect Leigh Breslau's towering, multi-tiered set gives space and support to the characters' fevered wrestlings with love, failure, and uncertainty. (PG)



ART
Open and Shut

when: Now through Sat 2.17 (Tue-Fri: 11am-6pm / Sat: 5-8pm)
where: Skestos Gabriele Gallery (212 N Peoria St, 312.243.1112) map
price:
links: Event Info

This group exhibition explores the use of text in contemporary art — whether it's literary, correspondence-based, or conversational. Allen Ruppersberg's Fishing Is Fun is a 1,000-piece, two-sided, wooden jigsaw puzzle that urges visitors to piece together an image of the artist's overstuffed library/studio; Petrova Giberson's The object and the space around the object... is a ghostly white cast of books; and Alejandro Cesarco's Index (a Novel) evokes a narrative by displaying only the index of a fictional book. Perhaps the most absorbing work is Joseph Grigely's massive Blueberry Surprise, a text-only poster on which random, often-hilarious phrases are strung together in alternating colors to create an undulating pattern. (AM)



ART
Scott Short

when: Now through Sun 2.18 (Tue-Fri: 10am-5pm / Sat & Sun: 12-5pm)
where: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (5811 S Ellis Ave, 773.702.8670) map
price:
links: Event Info

Scott Short's black, white, and gray abstract paintings are created through an arduous process of photocopying and re-photocopying pieces of colored construction paper until the result is many times removed from the original, taking slide-photographs of selected results, and then painstakingly reproducing these images in paint. The finished products, often titled after the color of the original paper, are alternately sharp, pixilated, grainy, and fuzzy experiments in tonal differentiation. Conceptually, they contribute to the ongoing dialogue about artistic authorship in the modern age. (AM)



ART
Graphic Reality: Mexican Printmaking Today and Off the Grid

when: Now through Sat 2.24 (Mon-Sat: 10am-6pm)
where: Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts (1104 S Wabash Ave, 312.344.6630) map
price:
links: Event Info

Mexico has a long history of innovative graphic art, perhaps best exemplified by the broadsides of José Posada, whose skeleton-filled prints were widely reproduced by the newspapers of the late 1800s. Today's new wave of Mexican printmakers links the traditional processes of Posada's era with next-generation techniques and styles enabled by digital technology. Off the Grid applies a mixture of methods old and new to prints composed mostly of text and letter-forms, the rawest of materials used by designers. The seven graphic artists showcased demonstrate that even though the technology may change, the immediacy of print remains as powerful as ever. (QH)



THEATRE
Radio Golf

when: Now through Sun 2.25 (schedule)
where: The Goodman Theatre (170 N Dearborn St, 312.443.3800) map
price: $30-68
links: Event Info

Radio Golf is the final installment of August Wilson's ten-play cycle about the African-American experience in America, with each play narrating a decade of the 20th century. Set in 1997 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, Radio Golf centers around two businessmen on the verge of realizing the American Dream when the spiritual legacy of their past (embodied by a dilapidated house on their redevelopment site) becomes a moral dilemma. The house in question was the home of the late Aunt Ester, a mystical character who is the repository of all black tradition. On the surface, the battle that emerges is about the Hill District's future, but the underlying battle is for men's souls — or what's left of them. (NS)



ART
Like, Resembling, Similar

when: Now through Wed 2.28 (Wednesdays: 6-9pm)
where: Duchess (1043 W Grand Ave, 4th Fl) map
price:
links: Event Info | Luke Stettner | Ryan McLaughlin

This three-person show is an experiment in reclaiming, recovering, and re-creating events, people, or places. Christine Frerichs brings a series of graphite renderings of her mother, drawn from memory every few months and changing with the passage of time, while Ryan McLaughlin's bold ink-on-paper works use bulky brushes to distill the essence of the cityscape into a gestural, abstract form. Several enigmatic projects by Luke Stettner include a cassette recorder, encased in a soundproof acrylic box, that plays his father's last words on an endless loop, as well as a piece of carpet on which Stettner once placed a box of his father's belongings. The box's impression is barely perceptible as the weight slowly leaves the carpet's fibers. (AM)



ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING

ART
Takashi Murakami: Jellyfish Eyes
Now through January 2008 Museum of Contemporary Art (220 E Chicago Ave, 312.280.2660) map

Event Info
 
From a distance, it looks like thousands of bubbles on a candy-pink field; then it emerges as a pattern of thick-lashed, disembodied cartoon eyes. Takashi Murakami's anime-inspired wallpaper exemplifies his concept of "superflat" — contemporary Japanese art's mash-up of graphic design, high art, and pop culture. (AM)




Features TUE   WED   THUR   FRI   SAT   SUN   MON   ONG   FEAT


  SOME THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE: SoftwareFor.org  

To chip away at the rising cost of higher education, SoftwareFor.org has grouped free software for undergrads (as well as post-grads and everyone else) to download from a time-saving single page, in lieu of begging, borrowing, and bootlegging. Programs including 3D rendering tool Blender, Mozilla's Firefox browser, and a multiplatform, multilingual office suite are either open-source or distributed with permission from the publisher, so you can dismiss any worries about illegal piracy. SoftwareFor.org aims for federal nonprofit status, so if you can afford to donate some cash to cover the company's costs, that helps to keep the freebies coming for those who need it. (IB)



 


  CD REVIEW: Alela Diane, The Pirate's Gospel  

Holocene Music
Released October 2006
$15.98 (Amazon)

Over the course of her full-length debut, The Pirate's Gospel, Alela Diane utilizes the vocal talents of children and even some deep baritone from what could be the actual, titular pirate. The vibe is mostly dark, but the songs move briskly and easily, somewhere between a strut and a lope. Repetition of numbers, wordless syllables, and rhythmic guitar phrases all mesh together in mantric fashion. In contrast with fellow Nevada City alum Joanna Newsom, the arrangements are simple and the lyrics earthbound, but the world she creates is equally bewitching. (NC)


 


  STREAMS: Futureboogie  

A jack of all trades, Futureboogie advances jazz-oriented dance music with a booking agency, design collective, and, most notably, a rock-solid radio show. Also an online outpost for the group's Bristol-based club night, the website features revolving updates and a vast archive of past sets. This week, Tru Thoughts/Ubiquity artist Quantic drops jazz and deep funk in Bristol and Berlin-based Jazzanova delights with a mixtape featuring cuts from International Pony, on-the-rise UK producer and remixer Jesse Rose, and drum 'n bass don Marcus Intalex. For a fresh weekly fix, be sure to catch Futureboogie's radio broadcast, live in the UK and archived on the site, which comes complete with detailed tracklists for cratediggers and hardcore heads. (CJN)



 



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