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 Christina Preston |
Cultural Stimuli in CHI
Issue 54: prim-and-proper flavor
We're not ones to gossip, but have you noticed that casual is so, well, 2004? Perhaps the gravity of current events demands a certain seriousness and reverence — local events this week, at least, are certainly upping the formality quotient. Citizen poets are gathering at ThreeWallsSALON; the elegant Three Arts Club is hosting a discussion about the great Chicago architecture firm Holabird & Root; Oliver Twist is coming to the city's silver screens; and lo-fi troubadours like Richard Swift and Tom Brousseau are singing lilting tunes to well-heeled audiences. It's time to learn how to tie a tie, eat like a lady, and remember to mind your manners!
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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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XLR8R magazine's October issue, on shelves now, is dedicated to the wonderful city of Chicago. This jam-packed issue features a huge array of musicians and artists such as Steve Albini, Cody Hudson, DJ Funk, Galapagos 4, Hefty Records, Ron Trent, Pit Er Pat, and much more. For more on this issue, free downloads, reviews, and music videos, check out xlr8r.com. |
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Spotlight
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The Chicago Seven
The Chicago Seven are back together — the influential architects, not the '60s political activists — for a one-night-only reunion full of fire-and-brimstone opinions about architecture's future.
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| PANEL: Architecture |
Design Matters Series: Celebrating 25 Years of the Chicago Seven
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Tue 9.27 (6pm) |
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Museum of Contemporary Art (220 E Chicago Ave, 312.280.2660) map |
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Event Info | MCA |
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To modern architecture buffs, the Chicago Seven are not the political activists who disrupted the 1968 Democratic Convention, but a group of fiery young architects who, in the '70s and '80s, disrupted the city's staid architectural scene through their exhibitions and lectures. The MCA and the Chicago Architecture Club are hosting a class reunion of sorts, bringing together Thomas Beebe, Larry Booth, Stuart Cohen, James Freed, James Nagle, Stanley Tigerman, and Ben Weese for a sure-to-be spirited discussion about their past and their visions of the future of architecture. Wunderkind architect Douglas Garofalo moderates — if he can get a word in edgewise. (AF)
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| MUSIC: Brit Dream-Pop |
Doves w/ VHS or Beta
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Earlier this year, post-Britpop group Doves had to cancel a Chicago show because singer/bassist Jimi Goodwin's voice was shot. With his soaring vocals sidelined, the band's blend of aggressive, Coldplay-esque melodies and rich layers of keyboards and guitars wouldn't fly. But the band members, polite chaps that they are, have made sure to pay Chicago back in full, and then some. This is their second trip back since, and judging by their summer concert at the Vic, which was bolstered by a magnificent light display built around dynamic, anthemic tracks from their latest album, Some Cities, Jimi has recovered nicely. (PS)
Note: Plugged-in dance-punk band VHS or Beta open.
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| MUSIC: Amer-Garage-icana |
The Gossip w/ We Are Wolves
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Olympia, WA's the Gossip have uncovered the key to advancing noise-charged garage rock past the proverbial garage: go old-school. Goosing their sound by leafing through the book of Americana, the guitar, drum, and vocal trio's secret weapon is the large, bluesy growl of singer Beth Ditto. Tough when rocking and tender when the tempos wane, Ditto's soulful voice elevates the Gossip a notch above the current crop of garage-istas. Straight outta Canada are Montreal's We Are Wolves, a dancefloor-melting, analog-electro hybrid featuring three shout-prone vocalists, a wall of kraut-synth, and Canadian-bacon-thick bass riffing, which all add up to a full tank of ass-shakeage. (QH)
 Speaking of gossip — name three fashion labels from which Kate Moss was recently dropped, and why. The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| LECTURE: Design |
Jurgen Bey: Stories Told with Design Because That Is My Language
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Wed 9.28 (6pm) |
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School of the Art Institute Auditorium (280 S Columbus Dr, 312.443.3711) map |
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Thanks to gifted Netherlands-based designers like Jurgen Bey, the words "Dutch" and "design" are practically synonymous. Maybe those long, harsh, Northern European winters help crystallize unique design sensibilities. Whatever the impetus, Bey, along with contemporaries Marcel Wanders, Tord Boontje, Hella Jongerius, and the members of Droog, has carved out a design niche marked by scrappy inventiveness, wit, and a narrative bent more often associated with sculpture than furniture. Bey lectures this evening on the peculiarities of his personal Dutch design language as part of the ThickDesign05 exhibition at Betty Rymer Gallery. (AF)
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Hubbard Street Dance
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Anything goes in Hubbard Street Dance's audacious repertoire, from the duet "Kiss," which combines traditional balletic moves with acrobatic suspension cables, to "Uniformity," an all-troupe work that's a mash-up of R&B and Vivaldi rhythms. The company has built its reputation by presenting diverse works from leading choreographers around the world, featuring a wide variety of dance styles with impressive results, like the hypnotic pièce de résistance "Gnawa" — an elaborate work inspired by Moroccan mystical musician healers and set to atmospheric sounds from North Africa. (SP/AF)
Note: There are additional performances on Thur 9.29 (7:30pm), Sat 10.1 (8pm), and Sun 10.2 (8pm).
In how many states, and in how many countries has the prestigious Hubbard Street company performed? The first five correct responses each win a pair of tickets to the Wed 9.28 performance, and the second five each win a pair of tickets to the Thur 9.29 performance.
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| ROADTRIP: Six-String Samurais |
Wall to Wall Guitar Festival
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The guitar's ubiquity in music of all colors and shapes, both in America and around the world, is something worth celebrating. The four-day Wall to Wall Guitar Festival encompasses the wide reach of this simple stringed instrument with a slew of concerts, classes, and special events. Axe-wielding artists like jazzman Bill Frisell, the Police's Andy Summers, Brazilian experimentalist Vinicius Cantuária, and nylon-string virtuoso Odair Assad perform, and a variety of special media projects are incorporated into the festivities, including podcast performer interviews and the John Lennon Bus, a mobile recording studio. Also, be prepared for someone to "turn it up to 11," because, inevitably, that's what guitar players do. (PS)
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M.I.A.
Wed 9.28 (9pm) Metro (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map $18.50
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At the end of a recent show, the audience cheered M.I.A. back for so many encores that she had to remind them that she only has one album out. Get your tickets now. (GM)
 
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| DISCUSSION |
History Where It Happened: The Architecture of Holabird & Root
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Following its inception 124 years ago, Holabird & Roche helped usher in a new architectural age in the taut, technically ambitious style of the Chicago School with such landmarks as the Marquette Building, the Chicago Building, and the Old Colony Building. Forty years and a name change later, Holabird & Root went on to design such iconic Art Deco structures as the Chicago Board of Trade and the Palmolive Building, as well as the muscular McCormick Building. In the elegant Three Arts Club, principal James Baird and now-retired John Holabird Jr. (grandson of the original founder) recall a bygone age when architects worldwide looked to Chicago for innovation and inspiration, and give perspective on the present and future of the firm. (JP)
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| DISCUSSION |
ThreeWallsSALON: "How Can We Be Citizen Poets?"
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Thur 9.29 (7:30-9pm) |
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ThreeWalls (119 North Peoria St, #2A, 312.432.3972) map |
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Time was, salons were known as fashionable gatherings of intelligent individuals engaging in scintillating conversation about cultural events — not places to get hair extensions or blowouts. ThreeWalls, a scrappy, young, not-for-profit art organization, is doing its best to reinvigorate the term's original meaning by hosting quarterly discussions about art, politics, and other relevant social issues, in its West Loop gallery space. Dani Leventhal, ThreeWalls' current resident artist, moderates tonight's salon, "How Can We Be Citizen Poets?," which examines the socio-political imperatives of art-making. She is joined by fellow artist Georgina Valverde, and Merlin Camozzi, a staff member of Northwestern's Journal of International Human Rights. (AF)
Note: Dani Leventhal returns to ThreeWalls on Fri 9.30 (4pm) to give an artist talk followed by a closing reception for her exhibition, Justos Sobre La Tierra (Just Above Ground).
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| MUSIC: Art-Rap/Rock |
Princess w/ Far Rad and KK Rampage
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The great thing about using "art" as a musical prefix (e.g., "Princess plays a sweaty mash-up of art-rock and art-rap") is that you don't have to admit you can't define what you're listening to — or that poor old Wal-Mart wouldn't know where to file the CD. What is definable: Princess throws rapid-fire rhymes in a run-on fashion, employing a small arsenal of alt-instrumentation, all grafted onto low-end, booty-friendly beats. KK Rampage warm up the house with free-range noise-skronk alongside electronic duo Far Rad, playing quirky pop, complete with bleeps and whirs. (QH)
What is the ultimate goal in the Milton Bradley board game Pretty Pretty Princess? The third and fourth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Ellen Allien w/ Audion
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Bewitching Bpitch Control label boss Ellen Allien wants it both ways: while her latest album, Thrills, is an icy blast of spacious, dark electro, her live sets build heat like a pressure cooker, thanks to fierce, eclectic selections. Under his Audion alias, domestic wunderkind Matthew Dear forsakes his usually exquisite productions for rough, bruising techno — track titles such as "Your Place or Mine" and "Just Fucking" off his new LP Suckfish only hint at the analog pummeling he has in mind for tonight. (TW)
If you had an extraterrestrial DJ as a pet, what would you name it? Our favorite four responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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FUNDRAISER
Hurricane Katrina Aftermath Fundraiser
Thur 9.29 (10pm) SmartBar (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map $8 donation
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Support an exceedingly worthy cause while reaping the benefits of fresh entertainment. DJ Skinny, Atomly, and smc are just a few to hit the decks and band together in an effort to raise cash for the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts — and move a few booties in the process. (MH)
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| FILM: Opening |
Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist
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Opens Fri 9.30 |
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Loews 600 North Michigan (600 N Michigan Ave, 312.255.9347) map |
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In all probability, your experience with Oliver Twist involves either a) singing ragamuffins and dancing milkmaids, or b) a high school summer reading list. So, if you aren't fond of musicals or 19th-century tomes, you've probably never found the tale terribly intriguing. But acclaimed director Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist breathes new life into Dickens' work, tapping silverscreen heavyweight Sir Ben Kingsley and gathering creative collaborators from the director's previous films. Given Polanski's knack for blending neo-noir and the fantastic, this tale of underworld life is bound to leave you desperately asking for more. (EJ)
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Bob Mould Band
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Fri 9.30 (8pm) |
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Metro (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map |
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Wear that Hüsker Dü t-shirt with pride, contemporary indie kid! Sure, you were still in single digits when Zen Arcade blew eardrums with its mix of speed, volume, and hooks. Sure, you think Flip Your Wig is a hairpiece boutique. But back in elementary school, when you were first blasting Dookie, you were unwittingly indebted to Messrs. Bob Mould, Grant Hart, and Greg Norton, whose pop-punk pioneering ways your shirt now pays tattered tribute. Mould's had a solid career since his Dü-days (teehee), and his new Body of Song is a searing mix of guitar squall and house beats belying his nascent DJ persona. That said, it might be best to leave the t-shirt at home when you see Mould at the Metro — seriously, don't be that guy. (TG)
How long did it take Hüsker Dü to record Zen Arcade? The fifth and seventh correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| MUSIC: Alt-Hip-Hop |
Lyrics Born w/ Pigeon John
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This here's a serious West Side showing, minus the cursing, Compton shout-outs, and hydraulic cars. Lyrics Born is one of the original artists on the Solesides roster, the notable Bay Area label that introduced the world to DJ Shadow and Blackalicious. Lyrics Born's first EP (as Asia Born) launched the label, and the gravel-voiced MC has been honing his silken flow since then. Notorious underground rapper Pigeon John, a member of the LA Symphony hip-hop collective, drops quirky, self-effacing rhymes with subtle Christian themes (but in a good way, natch), from this year's Pigeon John Sings the Blues. (PS)
In "Always Fine Tuning," what is Lyrics Born "constantly improving every aspect" of? The first two correct responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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Demon Days feat. Carl Craig, Gamall, and Jerome Darradji
Fri 9.30 (10pm) SmartBar (3730 N Clark St, 773.549.0203) map $10 before midnight / $12 after midnight
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Formerly of Rude Movements, Gamall Awad kicks off his new party featuring electronic music visionary Carl Craig. The ongoing residency will alternate between Chicago and New York, and feature Craig's signature, jazz-informed techno sound. (CJN)
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Intuit Show of Folk and Outsider Art
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Sat 10.1 (11am-6pm) & Sun 10.2 (11am-5pm) |
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847 W Jackson Blvd, 2nd Fl (312.243.9088) map |
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Henry Darger, a Chicago janitor described as an obsessive oddball by his neighbors, spent most of his solitary life creating a 15,000-page, lavishly illustrated epic novel. A violent story about lost little girls (who, incidentally, were sometimes depicted as hermaphrodites), it was discovered in his cluttered apartment upon his death in 1973. Darger is now a megastar, such as it is, in the world of outsider art — a loose term to describe work made by artists without formal training or access to artistic traditions — and is just one of the savants showcased at this event. Intuit, a nonprofit dedicated to exhibiting and archiving the work of self-taught artists like Darger, hosts of this annual fundraiser, a fair featuring over 40 folk- and outsider-art dealers selling their gloriously weird and wonderful creations. (AM)
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Chicago Critics on Chicago Art
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Sat 10.1 (3pm) |
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Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater (78 E Randolph St, 312.744.6630) map |
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The Chicago Arts Critics Association — alright, finish giggling about the acronym before you continue — was founded by a collective of cultural scribes hoping to give back to the city's rich art scene. It's a little ironic that the association began on Valentine's Day of 1998, as art critics don't always feel the proverbial love, routinely suffering through negative feedback and outright criticism from readers and the artists they cover. This series of critic-curated slide shows, focused on local luminaries like poster artist Jay Ryan and sculptor Jeff Carter, showcases good critics doing what they do best: passing on their expertise and enjoyment of art to fans. That's a combination that's hard not to love. (PS)
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Reverence: The Films of Owen Land (formerly known as George Landow)
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Sat 10.1 (8pm) |
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Chicago Filmmakers (5243 N Clark St, 2nd Fl, 773.294.1447) map |
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Owen Land's films are shown in any modern cinema class worth its celluloid canisters, even if much of his early output is filed under "L" for Landow, George (his birthname, used until the 1980s). The darling of the '60s and '70s international experimental film scene, Land/Landow is one of the pioneers of self-reflexive filmmaking, often drawing attention to the physical qualities of film (sprocket holes, stubborn dust mites), as well as the illusory nature of a film's creation. Chicago is the first US stop in this year-long, international tour, featuring 14 newly restored films, and accompanied by the long-awaited first book on the filmmaker, Two Films by Owen Land, by Mark Webber. (AF)
Note: Tonight's program features two classic Land films, Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1965-66) and On the Marriage Broker Joke (1977-79). Not-to-miss films from Program Two, screening Sat 10.8 (8pm), include Wide Angle Saxon (1975) and The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter (1968).
What's the running time and title of the longest film that Owen Land directed? The ninth and tenth correct responses each win a pair of tickets to a screening.
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| MUSIC: Guitorture |
Keith Rowe
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Burning your guitar or smashing it post-performance is so passé — venerable musical manipulator Keith Rowe, co-founder of the groundbreaking '60s British experimental collective AMM, uses a different technique. Harnessing his penchant for unorthodox performances, Rowe developed a new style for extracting a maximum number of sounds from a solitary electric six-string. Manipulating a tabletop-mounted guitar with a variety of implements (including contact microphones, radios, electric fans, and various metal tools), Rowe coaxes strange vibrations from the quivering metal strings in a Hendrix-baffling show of pure guitar voodoo. (PS)
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| MUSIC: Free(k) Folk |
Spires That in the Sunset Rise w/ Barbez
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If the new free-folk scene shares some aesthetic traits with the '60s hippie era, then Spires That in the Sunset Rise must be the bad trip of the bunch. Not because the music is lame — quite the opposite — but because the four female multi-instrumentalists comprising the local band have an uncanny ability to convey a powerful sense of dread when they perform. Their recent album, Four Winds the Walker, is a haunting example of macabre, otherworldly sounds executed with devastating conviction. Completing the bill is Barbez, a thrilling Brooklyn chamber group that manages to combine Residents covers with expert theremin playing. (PS)
What is your favorite exceedingly long band name? The two most eyestrain-inducing responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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| MUSIC: Sad Pop |
Earlimart w/ Richard Swift
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If Earlimart's whispy acoustic guitars, fragile vocals, and expert songcraft sound a little familiar — say, a bit like the late, great Elliott Smith — there's no need to cry foul. It's the most loving kind of theft: Earlimart's lead scruffmeister Aaron Espinoza was a close friend of Smith's, and often co-wrote with him. The loss of a dear friend, especially one with a gift for sublime acoustic pop, infuses Espinoza's keening melodies on Treble & Tremble, Earlimart's fourth and sweetest album. Lo-fi troubadour Richard Swift opens with a more nostalgic brand of melancholy; his recent release, comprising both his Victrola-pop debut, The Novelist, and its '70s-styled, lite-rock follow-up, Walking Without Effort, evokes the sounds of yore in hazy, sepia-toned hindsight. (TG)
In what state is the town Earlimart located? The fourth correct response wins a pair of tickets to this event.
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Fluffgirl Burlesque Society
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Countless dubious Canadian exports have made it past customs over the years — Avril Lavigne, Howie Mandel, Rush — but considering that the latest is a troupe of scantily clad girls bumping and grinding, all previous NAFTA abuses can be forgiven (though we would still prefer to hold Ms. Lavigne for questioning). Fluffgirl Burlesque founder Cecila Bravo has been twirling pasties since 1996, and she's since taken her burlesque-revival juggernaut on a transatlatic tour, teasing the UK, Germany, and Switzerland to much acclaim and titillation (apparently the Swiss are politically neutral, but au naturel-positive). This US safari of Canuck-flavored fan-dancing features performers Angela Ryan, Chica Boom, and Tyler Fyre, as well as head Fluff, Cecila. (QH)
In your opinion, what profession is most in need of a burlesque-style makeover? Our two favorite responses each win a pair of tickets to this event.
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MUSIC: Alt-Country
Tom Brousseau
Mon 10.3 (8pm) Schubas (3159 N Southport Ave, 773.525.2508) map $6
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This North Dakota-born, LA-based folk singer brings his charming sounds to a familiar stage, performing unvarnished indie Americana with the help of his guitar, harmonica, and the occasional keys. (MG)
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Siebren Versteeg: determination
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Now through Sat 10.8 (Tue-Fri: 10am-5:30pm / Sat: 11am-5:30pm) |
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery (118 N Peoria St, 312.455.1990) map |
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Siebren Versteeg is a lovable techie with a skeptical side, both reveling in and critiquing the thrill of the new. Enjoying Uncertainty, 2002-2005, is a plasma-screen image of the artist posing with an ever-changing record album (the superimposed LP covers are on continuous download from Amazon.com's inventory). In Flash, he covers a wall with photos culled from a Google search for the term "flash": a weird mélange of snapshots arranged according to brightness of exposure, the installation itself mimics a camera flash. The exhibition explores digital portraits of other kinds as well — Versteeg's father's MP3 collection, a makeshift "digital camera" made of an LCD screen duct-taped to a battered beige CPU, and an animated red-and-blue map of the United States — representing an unrestrained vision of a mixed-media future. (AM)
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| FESTIVAL: Eastern Jazz |
The 10th Annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival
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Sat 10.1 - Sat 10.22 |
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A guiding hand in the Bay Area's Asian improvisation scene, saxophonist Frances Wong fuses jazz with traditional Japanese and Chinese music. The result, part Sonny Rollins and part guqin, underscores the universality of jazz and sheds light on the ten-year anniversary of the Asian American Jazz Festival. Taking place over the next three weeks at the MCA, HotHouse, Cultural Center, and Links Hall, this celebration of Asian tradition and complex instrumental music also features Chicago jazz luminaries Steve Hashimoto and Jazz Me Blues' Yoko Noge. (SB)
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SUBMIT TO IT: Rockstar Upload Games 4 |
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For most of the gadget-crazed masses, mention of Rockstar Games means only
one thing: the impending release of GTA Liberty City Stories for the
PSP. But savvy Flavorpill readers know to keep an closer eye on this year's
Rockstar Games Upload. For the fourth year in a row, the gaming moguls
invite dilettantes and industry pros alike to submit short films and
stories, multimedia designs, and DJ mixes to compete for cash prizes of up
to $5,000. Winners and runners-up are chosen in each category by a panel
of three expert judges. With the September 30 submission deadline looming,
would-be Rockstars are advised to get the lead out. (IB)
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CD REVIEW: Broadcast, Tender Buttons |
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Warp
Released September 2005
$14.99 (Insound)
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Broadcast garnered a sometimes fanatical fan base by creating traditional
pop songs held hostage by rabid Moogs. Their Nico-meets-Neu! sci-fi sound peaked with 2003's ambitious Ha Ha Sound, and after its release most of the band departed — leaving only singer Trish Keenan and bassist James Cargill. The new album, Tender Buttons,
favors uncluttered psychedelia, electro-sensual synth hooks, and Keenan's
haunting vocals placed front and center — where they've always
belonged. Tender Buttons won't send you directly to the dance floor,
but "Michael A Grammar" is a perfect pre-clubbing anthem, and the first single, "America's Boy," is primed for every fall iTunes playlist. The future hasn't
sounded this good since 1982. (KB)
 What do you think the future will sound like? Our two favorite responses in 50 words or less each win a copy of Tender Buttons.
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Formed in 2003 as a nonprofit group, NYC's East Village Radio provides a creative forum not only for the inhabitants in the immediate neighborhood of its streetside studio on First Avenue, but also the world — thanks to its newly archived online streams. The station has been stepping up its game lately with a recent in-studio session from UK grime artists Ears, Double D, and Jammer (appearing on the FADER crew's "The Let Out" broadcast), but there's no exclusive programming focus. As evidence of such, check nick ac's minimal-techno set, Veronica Vasicka's collection of coldwave/post-punk rarities and the Misshapes kids breaking new music from Goldfrapp and Arctic Monkeys, along with a great new Kills remix. (CJN)
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Nick AC: "RobotRadio" mix (Minimal techno)
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Veronica Vasicka: "Minimal-Electronik Plus" mix (Coldwave/post-punk)
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Misshapes: EVR mix (Indie rock)
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