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Cultural Stimuli in CHI
Issue 156: oratorical flavor
Sweaty palms, a lump in your throat, and the distinct feeling that you've left your fly open — if there's anything worse than public speaking, it's already been outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. Some folks (sadists we call them) enjoy performing in front of an audience, and this week we say more power to 'em; we'll be sitting in the crowd, just glad it ain't us onstage. Chicago improv ex-pats Upright Citizens Brigade found fame in New York, set up an outpost in Los Angeles, and have now returned home with a new weekly residency at the Lakeshore Theater. The voice actors behind Family Guy step out from the sound booth and onto the Chicago Theatre's stage for a reading of a classic episode. After 12 months of embarrassing diary entries, crash 'n burn love notes, and teenage poetry best left forgotten, Mortified Chicago's cringe-fest celebrates its one-year anniversary. Also, don't forget that, in just one week, Flavorpill Chicago celebrates its three-year anniversary, too (we won't ask you to make a speech). Master that elocution and spread it.
- Quanah Humphreys, Managing Editor
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Flavorpill CHI is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art, and cultural events — delivered each Tuesday afternoon.
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Upright Improv
After forming in Chicago, improv-assassins Upright Citizens Brigade relocated to New York, where members landed on SNL and Comedy Central. The sketchmasters now return home, kicking off a weekly residency at the Lakeshore Theater with their signature show, ASSSSCAT.
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| READING |
George Saunders
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Tue 9.11 (12:30pm) |
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Borders Books and Music (150 N State St, 312.606.0750) map |
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The wonderfully vicious wit of George Saunders' imaginative, irreverent fiction has long been an antidote to the absurdities of modern life — leading the MacArthur folks to officially classify the author as a genius. In his first work of nonfiction, The Braindead Megaphone, Saunders finds himself running into a number of curious people and situations, from Dubai's luxury-laden hotels and Nepal's Buddha Boy cult to Mexico's Minutemen. This collection of essays perfects the stranger-in-a-strange-land voice that has distinguished so much of his work. (TW)
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| DISCUSSION |
Why Do We Care? Pop Culture and the Media
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Tue 9.11 (6:30-8pm) |
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Chicago History Museum (1601 N Clark St, 312.642.4600) map |
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You may not admit to following the bed-hopping, panty-dropping, and drunk-driving antics of Lohan, Spears, and Hilton, but chances are you're at least casually familiar with the exploits of young Hollywood. With their bawdy headlines ("Britney to Kids: 'You Were Both Mistakes!'") splashed across gossip rags and traditional news outlets alike, it's almost impossible to ignore the trials and travails of our most troubled stars. Tonight, join local Fox News veteran Walter Jacobson and Tribune film critic Mark Caro as they discuss our never-ending (and, apparently, centuries-old) hunger for scandal and gossip. (SN)
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| IMPROV |
Upright Citizens Brigade presents ASSSSCAT
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Tue 9.11 (7:30 & 9:30pm) |
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Lakeshore Theater (3175 N Broadway St, 773.472.3492) map |
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Many misguided people categorically prefer sketch comedy to improv, maintaining that a joke written in advance is more likely to elicit laughs and ignoring the fact that a thousand lousy sketches are written every day. Elite improvisation is as safe a bet as the best sketch, but more thrilling for its immediacy. The Upright Citizens Brigade are the Roger Federers of improvisation — reigning masters with an absurd success rate. They tore through Chicago in the '90s before founding an eponymous theater and training center in NYC. ASSSSCAT, their Sunday night all-star showcase, is consistently top-tier stuff, replete with Conan and SNL regulars riffing at the top of their game. Tonight, they bring it home to remind Chicago they've still got it. (BB)
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| READING |
Bookslut presents Kate Christensen, Phil LaMarche, and Lara Santoro
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Bookslut, Chicago's smash-hit literary blog and one of the most popular websites of its kind, combines books and beer with the September installment of its monthly reading series. Jessa Crispin — creator of the website and herself a licentious literary buff — will host the event, offering more than 30 beers on tap and three guest writers. With so many choices, it shouldn't be too hard to find a satisfying combination. Kate Christensen reads from her recent novel The Great Man, which follows two biographers as they scrape and claw for the posthumous details of a New York painter's scandalous life. Phil LaMarch (American Youth) and Lara Santoro (Mercy) also read. (EL)
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| MUSIC: Hip-Hop |
Aesop Rock
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Thur 9.13 (6:30pm) |
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Metro (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map |
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Unlike a lot of hip-hop artists, Aesop Rock's confidence never interferes with his delivery. Cutting through huge bass lines and shelling out diverse rhymes, the gravel-voiced performer has made five solid albums of hard work seem effortless, and it's easy to tell he's still having a good time onstage. Fans of Definitive Jux labelmates RJD2 and El-P (no strangers to Chicago, either) are in store for a grittier and more playful vibe. (CN)
 Aesop Rock contributed music to the DVD extras of which groundbreaking
documentary? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive a pair of
tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.12.
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| ART: Opening |
Spaces Into Places
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Fri 9.14 (6-10pm) |
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Lloyd Dobler Gallery (1545 W Division St, 2nd fl, 312.961.8706) map |
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Inspired by Wicker Park's for-better-or-worse transformation from working-class industrial to boutique-and-boîte chic, gallerists Patricia Courson and Rachel Adams assemble a group of artists whose work responds to gentrification, decay, and other facets of urban change. Highlights include work by Detroit-based collective Object Orange, who paint abandoned houses guerrilla-style in an effort to expose their city's deterioration, and Caroline Voagen Nelson's photomontage juxtaposition of demolished Cabrini Green housing projects with nearby Gold Coast real estate. (AM)
Note: This exhibition continues through Sat 10.20 (Tue-Thur: 5-9pm).
 Before getting your gallery-crawl allotment of pinot and Swiss cheese, check out Artkrush, Flavorpill's mailer devoted to visual art.
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| MUSIC: Dream Folk |
Bill Callahan w/ Sir Richard Bishop
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When artists reinvent themselves, sometimes they crash and burn (see: Garth Brooks' ill-fated foray into pop), and sometimes they blossom into maturity (see: Low or OutKast). For bleak, no-fi crooner Bill Callahan, his recent transition from slightly self-obsessed experimental music — released for almost two decades under the impenetrably enigmatic Smog moniker — to a more upbeat, straightforward sound is a welcome relief. Having shrugged off his opaque, plodding melancholy in favor of dreamy folk ballads adorned with delicate country and gospel flourishes, the prolific singer/songwriter's talent is finally able to shine through. Legendary guitarist Sir Richard Bishop from the avant-cowpunk free jazz trio Sun City Girls opens with a solo acoustic set. (SN)
Which environmental phenomenon results from massive amounts of coal
burning in a given area? Two randomly drawn correct responses each receive
a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.12.
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| MUSIC |
OM w/ Circle and Endless Boogie
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Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius of OM — both founding members of quintessential stoner metal outfit Sleep, whose throbbing, hour-long "magnum opus to marijuana" Jerusalem is widely considered an example par excellence of the genre — have developed the bare-minimum formula for full-fledged rock: one bass guitar and a battered drum kit. Their two prior efforts, Variations on a Theme and Conference of the Birds, achieve an achingly sublime minimalist sludge through trance-like bass, mystical vocals, and whirlwinds of cymbal-heavy drum fills. Tonight, the reclusive twosome return to Chicago in support of their new LP, Pilgrimage, which is due out in October. (SN)
Which popular band emerged from Kyuss, another stoner-metal juggernaut? The first randomly drawn correct response receives a pair of tickets to this show. Entries
close at 6pm on Wed 9.12.
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PARTY
Threadless Grand Opening
Fri 9.14 (6:30) Metro (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map
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Threadless, the Chicago-based t-shirt design community, celebrates the opening of its new retail store with a full night of live music, featuring Hey Mercedes, Anathallo, Freer, Office, White Hot Knife, and the Assembly. (CN)
Note: This party is open for all ages from 6:30-10pm.
 
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READING
Joe Meno, Micky Hess, and Gretchen Kalwinski
Fri 9.14 (7pm) Quimby's (1854 W North Ave, 773.342.0910) map
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Local lit is in the air tonight as indie-publishing hot shot Joe Meno reads from his rambling 1999 debut novel, Tender as Hellfire, to commemorate the re-issuing of his story about two boys making sense of their random and fantastic trailer-park lives. (CN)
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ART: Opening
Jen Stark: Little by Little
Fri 9.14 (7pm) Heaven Gallery (1550 North Milwaukee, 2nd fl, 773.342.4597) map
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Jen Stark's work hints at what a trip to Office Max might be like on acid.
The artist uses card stock to create layered cyclone-like sculptures with
awe-inspiring detail. (CN)
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| CITY GEM |
Chicago Canine Rescue presents the 4th Annual Mutt Strut
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Sat 9.15 (8:30am-1pm) |
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Lincoln Park Savings Bank (3234 N Damen Ave, 773.294.9305) map |
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It might be a little less glam than the Westminster Kennel Club's show of perfect breeds, but the Chicago Canine Rescue throws together this rain-or-shine event every year in the name of the pooch. The day includes a fundraising walk, live music, and complimentary food from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. If you've got money to spend, you'll find choice doggie treats and toys, as well as spa-style grooming for dogs. Lonely pups available for adoption will also be there — sad, scraggly, and downright adorable. Don't think about having to walk them in winter, just take one home. (EW)
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| LECTURE |
Richard Misrach: On the Beach
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Sat 9.15 (12pm) |
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The Art Institute of Chicago (111 S Michigan Ave, 312.443.3600) map |
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Arguably one of the greatest living American photographers, Richard Misrach's best-known work is Desert Cantos, a series he began in 1979 that examines human interaction with (and destruction of) the southwestern American landscape in heartbreaking detail. Today the artist discusses his recent project On the Beach, a lush series of large-scale, aerial views of the sea and shoreline. These works underscore the insignificance of human figures in relation to the immense landscape, evoking a sinister melancholy, despite Misrach's measured compositions of glimmering sand and blue waters. (AM)
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Renegade Craft Fair
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Sat 9.15 (12pm) |
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Division St (between Damen Ave and Wood St) map |
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You hate to admit it, but your wardrobe is severely lacking in limited-edition t-shirts, your vision has been begging for some wooden eyeglasses, and you're just itchin' to get your hands on some stitchin'. Luckily, this weekend is your chance to stock up on handmade crafts, boutique apparel, and all sorts of ReadyMade-approved knick knacks with the yearly Renegade Craft Fair. This year the DIY-fest partners up with the Do Division Street Fest and moves from the relaxed atmosphere of Wicker Park to the hustle 'n bustle of Division Street — promising an interesting clash of styles between the festivals' two audiences. (QH)
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Family Guy Live
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Sat 9.15 (7 & 10pm) |
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The Chicago Theatre (175 N State St, 312.902.1500) map |
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$42-72 |
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Possibly the most dazzling event since Jerry Springer — The Opera, Family Guy Live stars the regular cast (Mila Kunis, Seth Green, Mike Henry, Alex Borstein, and creator Seth MacFarlane) performing a classic episode, a compilation of musical numbers from the past six seasons, and a sneak preview of the upcoming one-hour Star Wars-themed season seven premiere. After the antics, Family Guy devotees will get a chance to pose all the trivial questions they've been hoarding since the series debuted in 1999. (NS)
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| MUSIC: Indie Pop |
Rilo Kiley
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Not unexpectedly, Rilo Kiley's first album since 2004 and the first with Warner Bros., Under the Blacklight, is a departure from their first three albums. Two years of solo projects, including singer/songwriter Jenny Lewis' Rabbit Fur Coat, gave band members freedom to create beat-driven gems with pop nods that span decades and allow Lewis' sharp wit and vocals room to soar. So forget blogosphere blather that it's a pop sellout, and who really cares whether the songs are about Lewis and Sennett's romantic split — get your "Moneymaker" down to the Riv and decide for yourself. (PG)
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Diplo w/ Switch
Sat 9.15 (11pm) Metro (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map $20 / $18 advance
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Having remixed everyone from Gwen Stefani to Nirvana, it's hard to know what Diplo will pick from his Rolodex of sources for tonight's appearance at Metro. (CN)
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| FILM |
And This Is Free (1964)
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Sun 9.16 (1:30pm) |
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Chicago History Museum (1601 N Clark St, 312.642.4600) map |
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During its heyday in the '50s and '60s — before UIC demolished most of the neighborhood to make way for expansion — the Maxwell Street Market was a vibrant, bustling bazaar renowned for its eclectic merchandise and street-side performances by blues masters like Muddy Waters. While that once thriving, soul-filled community is long gone, And This Is Free offers a loving snapshot of the outdoor market at its peak. Filmed in the summer of '64, this exhilarating, exceedingly rare film features impromptu music performances, dickering vendors hawking everything from socks to suits to soap to toys, and some of the most free-spirited dancing ever captured on celluloid. Columbia College film professor Ron Falzone is on hand for an after-film discussion. (SN)
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| ART: Opening |
Steve McQueen
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Sun 9.16 (4pm) |
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The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (5811 S Ellis Ave, 773.702.8670) map |
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Turner Prize-winning film- and video-installation artist Steve McQueen (not to be confused with the late, turtleneck-rocking movie star of the '60s and '70s) first presented these two short films at the 52nd Venice Biennale this summer. Gradually unfolding in a series of static shots, the 17-minute Gravesend is an abstract portrait of the coltan industry in the Congo (where 80% of this mineral used in cell phones and computers is mined) and in Nottingham, England, where it's refined. This is accompanied by the 54-second film Unexploded, shot during a trip to Basra, Iraq. (AM)
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| DISCUSSION |
Stephen Holmes: The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror
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Mon 9.17 (6pm) |
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Harold Washington Library, Cindy Pritzker Auditorium (400 S State St, 312.747.4050) map |
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Though he's been a respected political scholar for more than two decades, NYU law
professor Stephen Holmes didn't garner much attention outside of legal circles until
last
year, when he published a trenchant critique of the Bush administration in The Nation.
Holmes assailed the secret Justice Department memos that flaunted the Geneva
Conventions, approved the wiretapping program, and authorized almost limitless
presidential powers during wartime. Tonight, Holmes discusses his new collection of essays, The
Matador's
Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror — the title is an allusion to Osama bin
Laden's boast that 9/11 was designed to provoke the US into reckless action — which
argues that if the "war on terror" is going to succeed, it must be conducted within
the rule
of law. (SN)
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| PARTY |
Flavorpill Anniversary Series feat. Simian Mobile Disco w/ Telefon Tel Aviv, JDH & Dave P, and the Prairie Cartel
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Flavorpill's parents are out of town, we're throwing a party, and you don't have to help with the cleanup. In recognition of our third anniversary in the magnificent Windy City, we've conscripted one of our international favorites, Simian Mobile Disco, and fortified the fete with local all-stars Telefon Tel Aviv. If you're not familiar with the former, Daft Punk fans ought to take note of SMD; they're known for their minimalist approach to thumping, noisy, and dance-friendly electronic music, set to stellar light shows. Meanwhile Telefon Tel Aviv produce multilayered techno with classical flares, JDH and Dave P offer up indie electro excellence, and a DJ set by locals the Prairie Cartel completes the lineup. Three is tantamount to fifty in Internet years, and we're rolling out all the ripe fruits of our old age — just don't expect the Flavorpill staff to match the acts with worthy dance moves. (CN/JW)
Note: This event is donate-what-you-can, with all cash taken going straight to charity: water. Every donation of $20 or more gets a free one-year subscription to GOOD magazine.
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| COMEDY |
Mortified Chicago Yearbook 1-Year Anniversary feat. Blue Ribbon Glee Club
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Mortified Live operates on the theory of reclamation as portal to
solace — own up to the agonizingly melodramatic pen of your adolescent diary, admit that you're an idiot, and move on by making fun of your former self. In public. Just like Melanie did in seventh grade. The people at Mortified weave a story from the fodder of old journals, poems, and love letters, and the original author performs it. Get excited for stories of botched handjobs and failed cheerleading squad tryouts. This week is the yearbook show and features Chicago's punk-rock choral group the Blue Ribbon Glee Club. (EW)
What would you say to yourself ten years ago? The most mature response in 50 words or less receives a pair of tickets to this show. Entries close at 6pm on Wed 9.12.
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| THEATRE |
Paradise Lost
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Now through Sun 10.21 (schedule) |
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TimeLine Theatre (615 W Wellington Ave, 773.281.8463) map |
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Clifford Odets' rarely produced 1935 play Paradise Lost remains surprisingly relevant to the current state of affairs. Political partitions, economic stagnation, and a sense of disorder overwhelm the play's Depression-era family, as director Louis Contey strums the similarities with a deft touch — toning down the socialist themes and mining the inherent humor and hope in Odets' streetwise dialogue. Janet Ulrich Brooks stands out in a pitch-perfect cast as the family's no-nonsense matriarch, Clara, whose fierce determination and wry humor communicates America's staunch determination against hard times. (NS)
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Terry Evans: Steel
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Now through Sat 11.3 (Tue-Sat: 10am-5:30pm) |
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Catherine Edelman Gallery (300 W Superior St, 312.266.2350) map |
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Terry Evans dazzled us with her long-term aerial photography project, Revealing Chicago, which illuminated the "urban prairie" landscape of our area with bird's-eye portraits of everything from Loop skyscrapers to suburban tracts and abandoned quarries. While working on that project, Evans visited the Indiana Harbor steel mill and embarked on this series, which also includes shots from facilities in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Retaining the same sense of awe-inspiring scope and elegant restraint, Evans' lens reveals the colossal piles of raw material, fiery furnaces, and dark, monstrous machinery of steel production — sights we rarely see, but which are integral to our lives. (AM)
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| ALSO ONGOING/UPCOMING |
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Charles LaBelle: Fieldworks
Now through Sat 11.3 (Wed-Sat: 11am-5pm) Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery (119 N Peoria St, 312.492.7261) map
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Like a modern day flâneur, Charles LaBelle's eye-popping "compound photographs" contain thousands of square-inch images of the ground beneath the artist's feet, hand-assembled into large abstract compositions. (AM)
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MESSAGE IN A BOX: The Thing |
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Here's a twist on the old media/new media struggle: a publication that doesn't involve pages and yet is still shipped through the mail. "Editors" John Herschend and Will Rogan communicate through objects for their quarterly publication, The Thing. For each issue, a selected artist, writer, musician, or filmmaker creates a household object incorporating text. The object is then hand-wrapped in brown paper and string by Herschend and Rogan and shipped via post. While the yearly subscription is steep ($120), the tantalizing list of artists includes Anne Walsh, Kota Ezawa, and Trisha Donnelly. Miranda July took a break from hawking her handwritten apologies on eBay to handle the inaugural issue. (LH)
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CD REVIEW: Deer Tick, War Elephant |
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Feow! Records
Released September 2007
$12 (Feow! Records) / $9.99 (iTunes)
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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. War Elephant's more rollicking tunes ("Ashamed," "Diamond Rings 2007," and
"Baltimore Blues No. 1") pair noodly riffs with train-track percussion, ghostly backing yaws, slippery
slide guitar, and road-weary vocal ruminations. Betraying McCauley's age (he's only 21), "Standing at
the Threshold" and "Not So Dense" tread off the trad-country trail with light distortion and Axl
Rose anthemry, while "Christ Jesus" gives avant grunge an inspired go. "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
returns to the record's roots with a lilting, Patsy Cline-style croon, ushering the album out the same
way it began — a worthy, true-blue addition to the oeuvre. (AP)
 LISTEN to Deer Tick
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Gearing up for a busy autumn (what band isn't releasing something?), the BBC Collective kicks off the always-exciting season early, offering an exclusive interview and studio session with Icelandic indie blippers Múm. The band performs two live tracks and talks about the inspirations behind new record Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, as well as some of the unorthodox locations where it was recorded. Elsewhere, check out a new Thurston Moore interview and a mini-mix from on-the-rise UK turntablist DJ IQ. And don't miss the Collective's ever-reliable weekly playlist — this week promises new cuts from Fog, Murcof, and Susanna. (CJN)
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