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Posted: August 31, 2013 Author: Filed under:Tags:A few things on my mind today, some of which you might want to think about too. Bakery love I’m fond of the fruits and vegetables from the farmers’ market but I’m also a superfan of good bakeries. I discovered a new one today and you should try it. It’s at 3720 N Lincoln, just north of the Addison stop on the Brown line. Street parking should be pretty easy too. I bought some delicious berry scones and an apple-brie croissant baked in a muffin cup. Lots of delicious-looking cookies and cakes too.
There’s another reason why you should visit Blue Sky Bakery. They provide employment and training for homeless and at-risk youth.
So those deliriously luscious baked goods are also helping bring about social change. CBS Channel 2 did a story on Blue Sky recently. Borders at Solti Park I about these intriguing figures earlier this week in my Art Around Town roundup. Here’s another photo.
Photo by Nancy Bishop Theater pick Simpatico by Sam Shepard runs until September 15 at A Red Orchid Theatre. It’s a terrific show with a gripping first act so get a ticket if you possibly can. That may not be easy because (1) the play has gotten four-star reviews and (2) it’s showing in the tiny A Red Orchid Theatre on Wells Street. The theater describes it like this: “High society meets low life in the slippery netherworld of thoroughbred racing. This tragic-comedy explodes when a simple phone call threatens to undo years of blackmail and false identities.” The small tough cast features Michael Shannon and Guy Van Swearingen.
It’s sold out but a standby ticket line forms one hour before each performance. Reading list The Mexican Girl by Jack Kerouac.
I confess that every once in a while I look at the obituary page if I’m reading an actual newspaper, to see if anyone interesting or important died. One day last week, there was a gem of an. The woman who inspired the character Teresa or Terry in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road died at 92.
The wonderful part is that she didn’t know the identity of the young man with whom she had a brief affair in 1947. The short story, The Mexican Girl, was excerpted from the manuscript of On the Road and first published in The Paris Review in 1955. The review paid Kerouac $50 for the story.
It was a big hit and resulted in the whole book being published by Viking Press in 1957. I thoroughly enjoyed rereading the story–it starts on page 74 of my edition of On the Road. If you can’t find yours, you can listen to an version of the story recorded in 2003. Chicago street signs Chicago has a lot of weird and amazing engineering achievements. Reversing the flow of the Chicago River, sending it downstate rather than into Lake Michigan. Raising the grade of the city and all its buildings by five feet to lift the city above the mud and sludge of the unpaved streets. My favorite bit of reengineering, however, happened in 1909, when all the streets in the city were renumbered with State and Madison as the zero point.
State Street became zero for east-west streets and Madison for north-south streets. Hear that, Manhattan? In Chicago, you know exactly where an address is going to be because you have memorized the arterial streets in each direction. Every good Chicagoan does that.
You know if you are going to the 2700 block of Halsted Street that it will be a block south of Diversey, which is 2800. In New York, you have to ask what the cross street is because streets are haphazardly numbered as they were built in centuries past.
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Did a nice story on this in the Tribune this week. The story marked the occasion of officially naming the corner of State and Madison streets as Edward Brennan Way, in honor of the private citizen who devised the plan and fought for its acceptance by the City Council. Posted: August 23, 2013 Author: Filed under:Tags:Summer in Chicago is drawing to an end, but there are great outdoor and indoor activities in my city this weekend. Festa Italiana Summer is the time for street and neighborhood festivals.
This is one of my favorites. It’s in little Italy, the old Italian neighborhood near the UIC campus. Runs through Sunday on Taylor Street between Racine and Ashland. There’s food from all the great Taylor Street restaurants and entertainment ranging from Italian-surnamed crooners to new bands such as This Must Be the Band, Acoustic Generation and my favorite band name, Inbound Kennedy. The highlight of the festival, for some, will be the meatball-eating contest. Personally, I’m grossed out by food-gorging displays. The winner will be the person who eats eight meatball-slider sandwiches in two minutes.
(That is disgusting.) Lill Street Art Festival The Lill Street Art Center (which started out on Lill Street) is its 10th year in its Ravenswood location, at the corner of Ravenswood and Montrose. The opening reception tonight will celebrate Best Served Hot: Ceramics for the Coffee Ritual, cosponsored by Intelligentsia Coffee. Saturday will include an open house and block party. Lill Street Art Center offers classes, a gallery and studio space for artists in ceramics, metalsmithing and jewelry, painting and drawing, printmaking, textiles, glass, digital arts and photography. I treasure a few pieces of ceramic jewelry from Lill Street. Movies In honor of the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington and Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, you should watch the documentary about Bayard Rustin, the strategist and activist who organized the march.
He was a key adviser to MLK until he was asked to leave (or was pushed out) because of his political past (socialist) and sexual orientation (gay). The film is Brother Outsider (available on DVD and streaming). It’s an excellent view of Rustin’s background, leadership and his activist life after 1963. President Obama will award a Presidential Medal of Freedom to Rustin posthumously. It’s bloody well time. The Huffington Post has a good on Rustin by Peter Dreier, E.P.
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Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College. Anna Karenina, the gorgeous Joe Wright version of Tolstoy’s tragic novel with a script by Tom Stoppard, is showing occasionally on HBO right now. If you haven’t seen it, do. It’s creatively staged–and staged is the right word because much of it is set in an old theater. The railroad scenes, as ice-encased trains arrive in Moscow or St. Petersburg, are not to be missed. Eats Have you been to?
It’s a fine place to stop for a fish taco, a fried oyster or shrimp po’ boy (my favorite) and many varieties of burger and sandwich choices. Also foie gras & fries or truffle fries. Big & Little’s is at 860 N Orleans, just north of Chicago Avenue. There’s a tiny parking lot and you can sit inside or outside (as I did today) or carry out. It’s been featured on the Food Network’s Triple-D ( Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives) and on Chicago’s Best on WGN and on Check Please on WTTW.
Wish I was at the Jersey Shore I often wish that and I occasionally to that neighborhood we call Springsteenville: Freehold, Asbury Park and West Long Branch, New Jersey. This is one of those weekends.
There’s a Bruce Noir Film Festival in Asbury Park. The five films being shown are those he’s mentioned in interviews or in songs. Since I can’t be there, I’ll find another way to watch them.
Posted: August 17, 2013 Author: Filed under:It’s Air and Water Show weekend I can hear the airplane acrobats flying very very close to my roof. If you come to the lakefront for the show, take public transportation. Traffic will be bad before and horrible after the show each day. And parking is impossible in that neighborhood. It’s my neighborhood and I know.
Photo by Runaway Wind from thechicagoist.com. For five reasons to go even without the Blue Angels, see. Movies The Act of Killing.This is a new documentary about the genocide in Indonesia in the late 1960s. It’s not your standard-issue genocide doc.
But it’s a very surreal, gripping film — I’ll write more about it later. It’s showing at the Music Box for a few days.
This film will generate lots of buzz, heated conversation, and certain award nominations Twenty Feet from Stardom.This great music doc about female backup singers is showing at Landmark Century Centre for at least another week. I wrote about it. It’s a grand, joyful story about these terrific performers whose voices made all the difference for many big-name musicians. But they never really got the credit or success they deserved. This film showcases their personalities and their voices. Picasso Baby.
Another plug for this intriguing performance by Jay Z. It will only take 12 minutes of your time to find it and view it. And it will make you think about performance art and celebrity. Theater Invasion is showing at Silk Road Rising in the Methodist Temple building on Washington and Clark. It’s an imperfect but thought-provoking play about Arab-American identity and assimilation. Reading Don’t miss the Peter Maass article on Edward Snowden and how documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras “helped Snowden spill his secrets.” As she went about her work, she was subjected to incredible surveillance by the US government.
The article is in tomorrow’s New York Times Magazine and has been available online for several days. It’s an excellent article with examples of how journalists are pressured by their own governments. Poitras has been working with Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Snowden story in The Guardian.
Posted: August 15, 2013 Author: Filed under:Two music documentaries made me very happy lately. Twenty Feet From Stardom will appeal to a broad range of movie and music fans.
The Springsteen film is more for music fans. I’ll also add a lagniappe: a 10-minute performance art video from Jay Z. Springsteen and I Springsteen and I is a crowdsourced film, composed mostly of home videos contributed by Springsteen fans who describe what the music of Bruce Springsteen has meant to them. The director, Baillie Walsh, a British music video and film director, apparently isn’t a Springsteen fan. These facts promised something less than a satisfying film experience. Ridley Scott was listed as a producer, however, which made me feel a little more confident.
I didn’t have high expectations for this film, but as a Springsteen obsessive, I could hardly miss it. It turned out to be a fun and interesting film with many delightful film clips, punctuated by concert footage, and finished off with a mini-concert. At the end of the film, we learn that Bruce has seen the film and invited a small group of contributors to meet before a concert.
Since he has seen their film statements, he knows who each person is and he comments to each of them about their experiences when they arrive. Springsteen is a performer of magical qualities, but he is not a slick, eloquent speaker. He often stumbles a bit and has a silly giggle. So it’s fun to see him struggle to tell his fans how much their stories mean to him. The film is full of funny and poignant stories. A woman sitting in her car asks, “See all these CDs?” (25 or 30 of them are lined up across visors on both sides of car.) “These are all Bruce Springsteen CDs. When my three boys are in the car, they know we’re going to listen to Bruce Springsteen and nothing else.
And my proudest moments are when they sing along with me – because they know the words too.” A couple sitting on a park bench remember when he, an Elvis impersonator, was invited up on stage from the pit section. Elvis takes the microphone for not one, but two, songs and was starting on a third when Bruce gives him the evil eye and he hands the mic back. Bruce thanks him by saying “Philly Elvis!
I don’t know where the f.k he came from.” A woman in Denmark talks about how she was touched by seeing Bruce and his wife Patti perform together. Her favorite song is “Red-Headed Woman,” which Bruce wrote about his wife. I’ve never heard it sung live, but I have it on a bootleg.
In this case, the director inserts a music clip where Bruce introduces the song with a little lesson on the performance of a certain sex act. I don’t think that’s what the Danish fan intended, but you can find the lyrics. A Londoner who is not a fan accompanies his hardcore fan wife to concerts all over Europe. He pleads with Bruce to play shorter concerts. John, a groundskeeper at the Copenhagen stadium where the band will play, speaks movingly and in a rough-around-the edges style (and in excellent English) about how important Springsteen’s music has been to his life. He’s one of the fans who meets Bruce at the stadium.
Bruce recognizes him when he walks in and he takes a leather cuff off his wrist and puts it on John’s. “This a sign of brotherhood,” he says. My friends asked why I didn’t submit my own video. I did bare my soul about what his music means to me. About the time the film was playing in Chicago, Springsteen appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. He was named first in the 50 Greatest Live Acts in 2013.
I could have written that myself, after having seen 30-some live concerts. He is an amazing performer and this film gives you a real sense of how that affects his fans. Twenty Feet from Stardom. Darlene Love If you’re having a bad day, this would be a great movie to see. And if you’re having a fine day, this will make it even better.
Twenty Feet From Stardom is the story of the backup singers who provided the essential background sound for some of the greatest acts in rock and roll history. The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, the Talking Heads, Michael Jackson, Elton John. Several of the singers are profiled in the film and there are many interview clips from the stars they worked with. You’ll see Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Claudia Lennear, Lisa Fischer and Tata Vega, among others. Most of the backup singers did not succeed as solo acts, despite the incredible quality of their singing voices and performance style. One of them, Darlene Love, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011, probably the highest level of success for any of them.
Despite the disappointments of the “20 feet” distance, this is a joyous film. You see the stars performing in their younger days and today when they still love what they do. Most of them came from families with strong church and gospel singing backgrounds and that celebratory sound comes through in every note. This 90-minute film is playing right now and continues through next week at the Landmark Century Centre in Chicago and at one cinema in Highland Park. (Screen shots above by Nancy Bishop.) Picasso Baby This is my lagniappe.
It’s an 11-minute video of a song from Jay Z’s new album, Magna Carta Holy Grail. Don’t tell me you don’t like hip hop or Jay Z. This is a mini concert in which you can see his charm and charisma up close. In the short intro to the film, he talks about a concert being performance art. The smaller the venue, the more the audience affects the performance.
This performance was filmed at Pace Gallery in New York’s Chelsea district. Photo copyright Uptown Magazine. The video is about five minutes of Jay Z singing and interacting with a few dozen artists, musicians and fans (only cool-looking fans), one at a time.
The first part of the song references art, artists, museums and celebrity but the second, angrier, part talks about crime and punishment. The rest of the film features final comments from the participants, who are identified on screen as they speak or move.
Participants include actor Alan Cumming, filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, actor Adam Driver, artist Andres Serrano, performance artist Marina Abramovic, writer Judd Apatow, actors Jemima Kirke and Rosie Perez, and many other familiar faces. Abramovic is the artist who performed “The Artist Is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art. People waited in line for hours to sit in a room with her, while she stared at them. She has an intense, mesmerizing stare, so I can see that this worked.
The song ends with this line: “What’s it gon take for you to see, I’m the modern day Pablo, Picasso, baby.” Watch Picasso Baby. Posted: August 10, 2013 Author: Filed under:Tags: What’s better than a gorgeous summer weekend? Here are some things I’m checking out and you can too. Farmers markets on Saturday.
Corn, tomatoes and peaches, yes. Lots of things in theaters, but if you’re staying home, I strongly recommend two political films that are streaming on Netflix and Amazon. Brother Outsider: The Story of Bayard Rustin, is a biopic about the little-known civil rights and gay activist who was a force in organizing the MLK 1963 March on Washington.
Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing still holds up as a story about race relations and attitudes in Brooklyn. My film group discussed it this week (Hi, CFLXers!) and found it still very potent. Community events.
At Midwest Buddhist Temple. Japanese food (grilled teriyaki chicken is a specialty), artisans and entertainers (taiko drummers, classical and folk dance). Saturday and Sunday. I recommend Slow Girl at Steppenwolf — a thought-provoking, quiet play with terrific performances by William Petersen and Rae Gray. Also Inventing Van Gogh at Strange Bedfellows. Here’s my of the latter.
And I recommend Rooms: A Rock Romance at Broken Nose Theatre. I don’t recommend Belleville at Steppenwolf. I know it got great reviews, but to me it was tedious. And the knife thing? That was Chekhovian overkill.
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