DesignTheDefiantOnesCircus Magazine Wants ItsPlace at the (Coffee) TableBy Tracy MontesNot too long ago, walking home late atnight, a girl wearing a bordeaux-colored jacketwith a white “1994” inscription caught myattention. Running over to her to say, “Hey, doyou mind if we walk together?” she turned andsaid, “No problem.” I learned her name isBianca Betancourt, and she told me of a projectof hers, Circus Magazine, that she has beenworking on for the past five years. Betancourt isthe magazine's founder and editor.Circus aims to bring together art, communityand artists sharing an empowering message,showcasing the defiant artist, the trendingand the undiscovered through style, fashion,design and culture at large. Recently, Circusheld a release party in Los Angeles, hostedevents in Chicago and celebrated thepublication of its first print issue.“When I had the idea [for Circus], I was Bianca Betancourt/Photo: Lyndon French in Chicago, which can be such a segregated JUNE 2017 Newcity eighteen and a freshman in college,\" and segmented place.\" Betancourt says. \"I’ve always been an avid Betancourt began working on what would magazine reader and became obsessed become Circus to address what she saw as a Betancourt emphasizes that Circus is not a with how writers, photographers and editors lack of honest content—and excessive ads— magazine for “minority artists”; rather, it is a came together to tell a story. When I came to in magazine culture. Hannah Black, graphic magazine that highlights artists who are Chicago for college I realized how little content designer, wardrobe stylist and creative director consistently doing amazing things. It is those I was getting, and realized that all this time I of The IN Mag has collaborated with Circus artists who give content to the pieces featured. was mostly just looking at ads. This is when I and stresses how important it is for artists to “At Circus, we ask ourselves who are the more got into indie magazines and delved into have, “a beautiful, well-curated platform that is interesting artists right now, and it just so Cherry Bombe, Kinfolk, Gentlewoman, etc.; not for any one type of artist.\" Black says of happens that the great majority of those artists in short beautiful publications with beautiful Circus that, \"All are welcomed with open arms stories and visuals.” and that energy is definitely felt and necessary Betancourt kept developing her voice through journalism studies, yet she came to realize how shallow the media industry is. “I was a very young writer and was not sure what my voice was as a writer, but I knew I was inspired by Chicago and I wanted Circus to reflect that,\" she says. 51
Newcity JUNE 2017 are minorities DESIGN TOP 5 and women,” she says. 1 NeoCon 2017. Merchandise Mart. Liz Fang, a The annual preeminent event of the fashion commercial design industry takes over the photographer Merchandise Mart for three days of non-stop and visual artist tactile and visual stimulation. June 12-14 who has photographed 2 NeoCon Keynote: Jessica Green. fashion stories Merchandise Mart. Make a special for Circus, adds NeoCon trip and catch a scientist with equal \"Circus Magazine focus on design, sustainability, and yes, manages to bacteria. June 13 remain objective and evaluate 3 Fleek Market. Sassy Thrifters takes artists based on Bronzeville over with its vintage wares the unique market, as well as offering spaces for quality and donations for clothes and collectibles. June 11 direction of their Photo: Lyndon French work. The 4 Charnley-Persky House. See your city. magazine features 'defiant' designers who openly resist our normative This oft-forgotten Gold Coast home was society and are using art as a political tool to discuss difficult topics designed by Louis Sullivan with an assist from a including: violence, racism, sexism and genderism. Circus Magazine young Frank Lloyd Wright. Free tours happen gives these artists a platform to voice their beliefs.” every Wednesday at noon. Circus aims to translate that platform from the written word—be it printed or digital—into physical reality, with the development of an 5 Beyond Branding: Crafting Unified interactive space that is scheduled to open later this year. The studio Visual Branding for your Creative will function as part office, gallery and retail space in an effort to interact Business. SPACE. What is visual storytelling? with the design, art and fashion community, while offering a space for How do you do it? This 101-level course artists to gather and show their work. “I want to break the segregation provides a platform for aspiring designers and and politics here in the art world in Chicago,\" Betancourt says. \"I want beyond. June 7 artists from Chicago to be on par with New York, Los Angeles, UK artists. We have amazing artists here in Chicago who tend to leave, [so] opening the studio is part of my effort to keep them here.” 52
D&iDnirningking DINING & DRINKING Fresh Off the Boat TOP 5 Sitka Salmon Shares and the Concept of Community-Supported Fisheries Marsh Skeele and his sister, Nora 1 Global Kitchen: Food, By David Hammond / Photo: Kelly Jordan Photography Nature, Culture. Milwaukee Public Museum. A traveling exhibit, organized by the American Museum of Natural History, examining complex systems that bring us what we like to eat. Through July 9 2 Taste of Little Village: Flavors of Mexico. Little Village, 26th and California. Food, music and dance from Mexico. Attendance is a form of resistance to our President’s inane xenophobia. June 2-4 3 Ribfest Chicago. Lincoln/ Damen/Irving Park. You’ll never guess what cut of meat is being featured at this annual event. Of course, there will be music. June 9-11Community-supported agricultural Sitka Salmon Shares in their 2014 listing of 4 Celebration of Peruvian Street Food. Tantaoperations, or CSAs, enable consumers “Top Food Artisans in America.” Chicago. Chef Gaston Acurio hosts an event to benefit theto buy “shares” of a local farmer’s products Pachacútec Culinary Institute in Peru, which helps underprivilegedand then have them delivered to their door Sitka Salmon Share founders Marsh Skeele children find kitchen careers. Drink Pisco sours, nibble world-or a local drop-off point. Building on the and Nicolaas Mink, like many farmers in the class bites, bask in the glow of your effortless good deeds.CSA business model, Sitka Salmon Shares CSAs, want to be as transparent as possible ($125). June 13is a CSF, a community-supported fishery. about where their food is coming from. TheyFor $99 per month, you buy shares of a want consumers to feel like they have aseasonal catch and then receive a monthly close relationship with multi-generationalsupply of blast-frozen, high-quality salmon fishing families, the men and women withand other seafood sourced directly from salt water in their blood who go out on thefisheries in Alaska. In addition, there’s boats and catch the fish themselves. “Whenusually a Sitka Salmon Shares table set up you have a stronger connection to yourat the Logan Square Farmers’ Market and producer, you’re just going to have a betterother markets where a la carte purchasing product,” Skeele says. “It’s the same thingis an option. with any kind of ingredient. Eggs, meat and vegetables all taste better when it’s coming 5 Chicago Food Truck Fest. South Loop.Sitka Salmon Shares makes sense to from a smaller farmer who takes the time to Defeating the whole concept of trucks that bring food to you, thisconsumers who are seeking better-quality ensure that they’re grown well, rather than a fest is a collection of trucks that JUNE 2017 Newcity you go to. Still, should be fun.seafood, and that better quality depends large-scale farm that’s just seeking profit. June 24-25upon where it’s caught and how it’s handled. With Sitka, you know we’re using the mostEven if the seafood starts out pristine, it’s ecologically sound practices, so you can feellikely somewhat deteriorated by the time it better about your purchase.”reaches the consumer’s kitchen. Deliveringhigh-quality fish is part of the rationale Aside from the feel-good aspects ofbehind Sitka Salmon Shares, which adopts working with Sitka Salmon Shares, trans-a more traditional, hands-on approach to parency means you’re also more likely tosourcing seafood. Food & Wine included be getting the fish you want and that won’t 53
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Film Lyra Hill in Jerzy Rose’s “Neighborhood Food Drive”A Discovery ChannelChicago Underground at Twenty-FourBy Ray PrideThe Chicago Underground Film Festival is almost a quarter- Features and shorts from CUFF 22, two years ago, are still JUNE 2017 Newcitycentury old in 2017, and its substantial influence in getting films into trickling into larger distribution and onto the cultural radar.the cultural bloodstream of national film appreciation remains impres- Is that a good feeling, that you’re paying attention tosive: movies programmed in 2015 and 2016 are still finding wider promising filmmakers and finding films sooner than otherreleases in art-house and online, months after their introduction in fests and events?Chicago. The world’s oldest underground film festival intends to be That is the best feeling. I love seeing people who we discoveredaround Chicago for years to come. We caught up with co-founder establish themselves on the wider festival circuit and eventually findand artistic director and programmer Bryan Wendorf a few weeks ago distribution. Last year, Anna Biller’s “The Love Witch” was a huge hit foras final preparations were getting into gear. CUFF and went on to do extremely well on the festival circuit and then had a theatrical release through Oscilloscope on 35mm. We showedWhat’s the breakdown of programming? How much of Anna’s debut feature, “Viva,” at the festival back in 2007 and beforeCUFF 24 would you say is part of a community the festival that, in 2002, her short, “A Visit from The Incubus.” It’s great to see herhas created or nurtured and supported, how much is local? getting recognition now but also to remember that we recognized herHow many left-field discoveries am I going to preview in the potential over a decade ago.next few weeks?This year, about twenty-five percent of the films we selected are the CUFF is a small-ish festival, but do you sense it having thework of Chicago-area filmmakers. Four of the twelve features we picked profile of a larger festival?are from local filmmakers. We don’t have any quota, but we’re in a really It’s true, CUFF isn’t a huge festival, but I’m constantly reminded that ourgood period for Chicago filmmaking. We’re very loyal to our alumni. reputation on the festival circuit is much bigger than our modest size.We programmed work by these people because we thought it was Filmmakers frequently tell me that screening at CUFF was a longtimegood and it’s the kind of work we have to support. goal of theirs and programmers from other, often much larger festivals, are aware of us and constantly tell me that they admire the quality ofI’m always thrilled to welcome people back as their careers grow over our programming. Still, I would like to see CUFF grow some more,the years. Both Jennifer Reeder and Usama Alshaibi have shown films especially if it allowed us to have repeat showings. But I wouldn’t everat CUFF since the nineties and have stayed loyal even as their budgets want the festival to become too large. I don’t want to feel pressure toand ambitions have grown. This year, we welcome back Michael program more commercial work to fill programming slots or acceptGalinsky and Suki Hawley with their latest documentary feature “All work that we can’t stand behind.The Rage.” CUFF has screened almost every feature they’ve made,along with a handful of shorts, since their low-budget indie-rock You were on a Slamdance jury in Park City, Utah, this year.comedy “Half-Cocked” back in 1995. What did that weeklong immersion give you or the festival? This was my second time at Slamdance, but the first time since 2000.Finding discoveries is the part of programming that stays exciting, I’ve known the Slamdance founders since right after they held theirespecially those left-field films that other festivals might be inclined first DIY event. They’ve all told me that CUFF was an inspiration thatto pass on. In recent years we had the world premieres of films like showed them that doing a guerrilla festival on a shoestring budget wasStephen Graves’ personal documentary “A Body Without Organs” viable. I would even consider Slamdance a sort of sister festival to CUFF.and Adrian Briscoe’s documentary-fiction hybrid “Dream Town.” Bothof these films had difficulty getting into more mainstream festivals, but I did wind up programming a greater number of Slamdance films forwere embraced by both audiences and the juries at CUFF. Winning CUFF this year. Some of those, like Charles Fairbanks’ “The Modernawards and receiving good press at CUFF helped those films find Jungle” and Jerzy Rose’s “Neighborhood Food Drive” are films made byacceptance at other festivals and cinemas. CUFF alumni who were accepted into Slamdance, while others like Joji 55
Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s “Kuro” and that fits. A steel-haired, middle-aged, Frauke Havemann’s “Weather House” world-weary gambler comes up with FILM TOP 5 are Slamdance discoveries that also the grandest con of his day while 1 Jean-Pierre Melville: Criminal Codes. Siskel. A breathtaking have the experimental and boundary- cruising the nightspots and fleshpots array of eleven exemplars of the French master’s astringently gorgeous work, pushing qualities we look for at CUFF. of backstreet Montmartre, but his including “Le Samouraï,” “The Red Circle,” “Bob The Gambler,” “Army of moment of deepest melancholy comes Shadows” and an extended digital restoration of “Léon Morin, Priest.” How many screeners do you have from a single gaze upon the bare back I know where I’m going to be eleven before you make the final cut? nights in June. of a young girl he’s sheltered as she 2 It Comes At Night. Opens Friday, This year we had 2,025 total submis- sleeps with his young protégé. A bald, June 9. Two families make uneasy peace in brooding post-apocalyptic sions. I personally watched a little over stocky Jewish Frenchman, wearing a horror from Trey Edward Shults, director of 2015’s family tempest “Krisha.” 500. That’s slightly fewer than I looked Stetson and sunglasses at night, With Joel Edgerton, Riley Keough, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo. at in 2016 because we had a larger barrels his Cadillac convertible down 3 Baby Driver. Opens Wednesday, group of pre-screeners filtering films. the Champs-Élysées in search of June 28. Master of comic pop purees Edgar Wright plays homage to diversion. Alain Delon in “Le Samouraï,” Walter Hill’s “The Driver” among other race-to-ruin action movies while also Is that central location in Logan Roger Duchesne in “Bob the Gambler,” providing a jukebox musical: its young getaway driver scores each job to a Square essential to making a the great filmmaker of action and propulsive soundtrack. festival work and not just sprawl? attitude Jean-Pierre Melville in life. 4 I, Daniel Blake. Music Box, Opens Friday, June 2. Ken Loach For most of CUFF’s history we had retired from fiction filmmaking, but returned for his deeply moving, struggled to find the right home for us. In June, with “Jean-Pierre Melville: Cannes-prized melodrama about a middle-aged worker’s humiliation by the We’ve converted non-theatrical spaces Criminal Codes” and eleven of his British health service after a heart attack. into screening venues, we’ve been at thirteen poetic, sometimes breathtaking 5 The 24th Chicago Underground Film Festival. great theaters like the Music Box, the features, the Siskel Film Center is Logan, May 31-June 4. The world’s longest-lasting underground film festival Landmark Century and the Gene Siskel mounting the kind of revival Melville’s returns to the Logan with dizzying and daunting dispatches from the bright and Film Center, which all had strong points magisterial movies get only once a burning fringes of modern media. as well as weaknesses for us. The decade. Many of his films are available Logan has been the best venue we’ve via Criterion, but the exquisitely been at, for five years now. We’ve seen measured, distillate beauty of movies steady growth over the last four years, like “Le Cercle Rouge,” “Army of and I hope the Logan will be our home Shadows,” “Le Silence de la Mer” and for years to come. “Le Doulos,” are must-sees on a larger screen. You’ll recognize the elegance of How important is your partnership his filmmaking from other directors who with IFP? How does that work now? followed in his big boots, not limited to We aren’t just partners with IFP Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” Chicago, they actually own the festival. and the slow-burn male-bonding This has been essential to the festival’s operatics of Michael Mann’s “Heat.” long-term growth and even survival. Nicole Bernardi-Reis, the executive Melville, an unapologetic admirer and director of IFP/C has been supportive collector of Americana and American of the festival for the last twenty years crime movies, took his ethos from and believes in our mission and also gangsters and brooding tough guys in believes in having that mission make Hollywood pictures of the 1930s and sense to broader audiences, sponsors, 1940s. Melville characters, like Melville, and to fit within the whole of everything mutter sour-sweet epigrams about trust the group does for the Chicago film and loyalty, like “If there are two of you, community. Chicago is different from one will betray.” In the book-length bigger film production centers like Los interview “Melville on Melville,” one of Angeles and New York. The “under- the most amusing of filmmaker ground” and the mainstream industry self-portraits, Melville mused, “What is are much closer to each other, and IFP friendship? It’s telephoning a friend at Chicago is a big tent that encompass- night to say, ‘Be a pal, get your gun es the whole of independent filmmaking and come over quickly’– and hearing in the Midwest. the reply, ‘O.K., be right there.'”Newcity JUNE 2017 The 24th Chicago Underground Film Working with and against genre Festival runs May 31-June 4 at the conventions, Melville’s movies are Logan Theatre. For the fifth year, hushed, deadpan abstractions of Newcity film editor Ray Pride will space and gesture, restrained, refined, moderate four “bar talks” with visiting a palette reduced to essential colors filmmakers and festival attendees. and compositions, and his blunt, efficient cutting of shootout scenes are Reviews among the glories of machine-tooled filmmaking. And his characters, often A Retrospective of the Films smoking, pensive, contemplative, each of Jean-Pierre Melville gesture graced with effortless panache, The handsomest Frenchman on earth, move through dreamy landscapes and swaddled in an outsize yet epaulet-per- interiors, somehow ascetic and glossy fect trenchcoat, hiding deep blue pools at once. They’re too cool to live, and of blankness under the brim of a fedora, most will die. Among his great fans are stares into Parisian drizzle through a filmmakers: John Woo worships rain-blurred windshield, inserting keys Melville, and for years nurtured the from a huge ring until he finds the one notion of a remake of “Le Cercle Rouge.”56
Working outside of French studio auspices, one more go-round. (“That was a rash thing to children, and they pool resources against a building his own facilities, often shooting on the fly on locations, Melville also inspired the have said,” Loach joked recently. “There are so society more prepared to shame than to lift. nouvelle vague, and before that, as he often insisted, Robert Bresson nabbed his ascetic many stories to tell.”) The tenor of “I, Daniel Blake” isn’t quite style. (“I say Bresson is Melvillian, not the other way around.”) Melville’s own movies Dickensian, but it’s certain Loachian in its don’t have to answer for their sources or what they inspired. They’re simply great—sublime At the age of eighty, Loach has made one of concerns and its bracingly blunt dramatics. acts of artifice that manage to entertain as storytelling and edify as witty expressions of his most refined of his later features, “I, Daniel existential philosophy. Blake,” about a sardonic Newcastle widower After winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and a In Godard’s “Breathless,” which homages“Bob the Gambler,” there’s also a cameo by who finds himself up against an indifferent British release that inspired activism across Melville, as a pretentious novelist, asked by Jean Seberg, “What is your greatest ambition state when suddenly in need, swept up by that tiny nation, “I, Daniel Blake” played the in life?” “To become immortal,” Melville’s character answers. “And then die.” For a what Loach describes as “the use of New York Film Festival and then got lost on its month, Melville lives again, or at least for the eleven nights I’m set to again savor electric bureaucracy, the intentional inefficiency of way to American movie houses. The timeliness cool. (Ray Pride) bureaucracy, as a political weapon: ‘This is of its Chicago release could be hardly more See siskelfilmcenter.org for complete showtimes. what happens if you don’t work; if you don’t fitting, a few months after a new administration I, Daniel Blake find work you will suffer.’ The anger at that was began to develop bullet-pointed wish lists of After completing a documentary a few years back, Ken Loach claimed that was it, he was the motive behind the film.” That ire, that fire, how to eradicate the kind of programs that done, after almost twenty-five fiction features he’d had his say. But admirers of his lovingly makes what could be rough going into an help disadvantaged Americans in temporary photographed, progressively inclined, actor-embracing raft of features can be unsentimental, angering, but greatly moving straits like our man Dan. grateful that he changed his mind for at least melodrama about essentials like how to be a good person in modern times. Paul Laverty’s screenplay is incisive and cheekily profane, as with most of his long Dan, played with keen wit and with fierce partnership with Loach, while Johns’ witty presence by stand-up comic Dave Johns, is a habitation of Dan builds to emotional carpenter in his late fifties who has a heart crescendos that shake with great dramatic attack on the job, but it’s the damage done to force. In the end, “I, Daniel Blake” is most his dignity by form-filling employment political in its insistence that the smallest “I” bureaucrats that nearly does him in. We’re in matters, but as in his best work like his 1990s the thick straightaway: on black under the work, “Raining Stones” and “Ladybird, main titles, we hear the prim, domineering Ladybird,” Loach’s film is about empathy, a voice of a worker for an American company portrait of ordinary people, blunt, bracing yet paid to press on dozens of small questions loving and far, far from mere polemic. 100m. about his fitness to work, but never see her, (Ray Pride) arriving finally at Dan’s face, a ripe concoction of incredulity and offense. Dan meets a single “I, Daniel Blake” opens Friday, June 2 at the mother, Katie (Hayley Squires) with two young Music Box. JUNE 2017 Newcity 57
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Lit Photo: Kirsten Jennings Butt Stuff for Middle-Aged Idiots Samantha Irby discusses “We are Never Meeting in Real Life” By Toni Nealie Essayist Samantha Irby writes, “I am boring and terrible. Your persona is “bah, humbug” but you have these little JUNE 2017 Newcity My funny runs out, my cute runs out, my smart sometimes hiccups, moments of recognizing the good in (some) everyday people. my sexy wakes up with uncontrollable diarrhea.” Following her popular Have you got softer? Is this an age thing or are you in adebut collection “Meaty” and her popular blog “Bitches Gotta Eat,” different head space? Irby’s new collection needs a may-induce-whiplash warning. “We Are If you meet me on the street I’m the nicest person alive. I’m never rude, Never Meeting in Real Life” is designed to make readers throw their and my self-consciousness typically translates into a deference a lot of heads back laughing, sob loudly into tissues, roar with laughter again people don’t deserve. I am uncomfortable in the world, but I wouldand repeat. Irby tells of scattering her father’s ashes in a Tennessee never ruin your day with it. My writing helps me process those feelings. river, witnessing a Civil War reenactment, having panic attacks, suffering I’ve been on the receiving end of a lot of kindness in my life; I have from Crohn’s disease and being a person with “a sharp edge!” received a lot of help from people who weren’t required to help me and I feel like I’ve been gracious to those people. In general, though, moving Last time I interviewed you, you characterized your work as around the world? A lot of people are inconsiderate trash. And I write“butt stuff for idiots.” You seem to have broadened your comedy, and “This really nice young man carried my cat litter to the car” themes—how would you describe it now? doesn’t make for good material. I don’t think I’m softer, I mean, I said BUTT STUFF FOR MIDDLE-AGED IDIOTS. those dudes were boring meatheads who couldn’t finish college. Maybe you’re the one who’s softening up?Your style has changed. Is that because your process is different,or because you are being pushed by an editor or a progression? I read the essay about the strap-on which I’d previously heard I think I’m just getting older and, dare I say, maturing a little bit? you read at Women and Children First—it’s a different experi- ence reading it than hearing it. Do you write or revise differently Where did you write this collection? I know you live in Michigan for the page than for live delivery? now. Does place influence your writing? Domestic bliss? When I’m reading something I always feed off the audience. If people I wrote seventy-five percent of it in Chicago before I moved. So, a lot of laugh really hard at a particular part I’ll stop and acknowledge it, or I’ll it is still very much me sitting at my desk in the corner scowling at all ad lib and add anecdotes from other parts of my life. I use a lot of long, the city noise and smells outside my window. Where I write doesn’t winding, run-on sentences when I write, so before I read something matter since I can never get out of my own head long enough to really new I definitely have to rehearse it and make notes about where toappreciate anything happening around me. And LOL WHAT BLISS. breathe or how to stress a sentence while reading it aloud.In the essay about going to college, getting diarrhea in the Do you view the world as absurd when you are in the moment,snow, I’m struck by the kindness of the bros helping you. or does that come when writing? 59
Oh, no I think everything is uncomfortable and irresistible and insisted I do it. “Meaty” did LIT TOP 5 terrible all the time, especially as it is happen- pretty well and got itself in front of a few fancy ing. I am embarrassed and horrified one-hun- eyeballs. One day I got an email from my 1 Brooks Day@Nite. dred percent of the time. This is going to now-agent asking if I had representation. We Reva and David Logan sound ridiculous coming from me, but I’m had one phone conversation and I loved him Center for the Arts. Celebrating a pretty good-natured person; meaning: I can immediately. He asked what goals I had for my Gwendolyn Brooks’ one laugh about most anything given a little time writing and I told him that I honestly had none, hundredth birthday. Featuring and perspective. Sometimes a bad thing will and he suggested pitching another collection. Angela Jackson, Patricia Smith, happen and even through the initial horror I didn’t want to waste his time after all the Kevin Coval, Nate Marshall, and/or rage I can find the joke in it. Other contracts and conversation, so I said we Quraysh Ali Lansana, Tara times it might take a while, but I always circle should. I wrote an outline and four of the Betts, Peter Kahn and many back around to whatever humor I can mine essays in this collection for the pitch, there more. June 7, 6pm from the situation. was a bidding war that of course I had no part of because I don’t know anything, then we 2 Printers Row Lit Fest. When I was in Los Angeles, I took a pic of went with Vintage because I had connected Printers Row. Featuring a guy wearing a “Meaty” t-shirt. Do you so well with Andrea Robinson, the editor who Rita Dove, Cory Doctorow, have fans all over? acquired the collection there. Amy Dickinson, Scott Turow, I feel like I have fans everywhere, but maybe Luvvie Ajayi, Christian Picciolini that’s just an illusion the internet helps to What is the experience of working with a and many more. June 10-11, perpetuate? I’m doing a tour this summer and bigger publisher like? 10am-6pm I am fully prepared to have my bubble burst. It’s surreal. I have a whole team of people who are actively invested in this work. Which is 3 Arundhati Roy. What do your readers respond to most? weird because writing is such a solitary thing Francis W. Parker School. Is there a downside with critics? and my writing in particular is super personal. The author of the Booker I think there are a lot of people who don’t It felt bananas at first to take someone else’s Prize-winning novel “The God necessarily take to my frankness, but I always thoughts about what I am working on into of Small Things” discusses her maintain that those aren’t people whom my consideration while I’m still working on it. I’d second novel, “The Ministry of writing is for. I don’t listen to criticism from never worked with an editor before. But once I Utmost Happiness.” June 23, anyone other than my agent and my editor. got used to it being a collaborative effort, it 7pm, $10-$15 I really don’t care what a regular person on the was amazing. My editor is so funny and smart street hates about my work. I don’t have a and I’m super grateful to have someone in my 4 Roxane Gay. Francis W. comment section online because I refuse to corner, who isn’t as emotionally connected to Parker School. “Hunger” host a forum in which people can throw dirt my stuff as I am, stand back and say, “What is a memoir of food, weight and on my shit, and I am one-hundred percent are you trying to say with this?” Writing in a self-image. June 19, 7pm uninterested in ever reading a review of my vacuum can be dangerous, because of course work. Even the positive ones. I am happy just I’m a genius and everything makes sense and 5 Dave Levitan. Volumes to know in my heart that the people I write I don’t repeat the same joke too many times. Bookcafe. Science for enjoy it, I don’t need to wade through a Having both an editor and a copyeditor this journalist Dave Levitan swamp of misspelled one-star Amazon time around was a godsend. My writing is discusses his book “Not a reviews to find the occasional ego boost. stronger for it. Scientist: How Politicians That shit stays with you, and I have enough of Mistake, Misrepresent and my own self-hatred and negative thinking What is happening with the TV show? Utterly Mangle Science.” banging around my brain, I don’t need to add Abbi Jacobson, Jessi Klein and I came up with June 1, 7pm the opinions of people who don’t even know the story. Jessi and I just edited and finished me to the din. the pilot and sent it off to FX. And now we wait. What authors do you like to read? Who Can we still claim you as part of Chicago are you reading currently? What is a book or are you done with us? that makes you want to shout to everyone Oh no, I could never claim all this fresh air to pick it up now? and these fruit trees as my home. Plus, I could I mostly read fiction; I read a lot of literature, never willfully claim to be part of a place that I guess?, but I also read a lot of horror, doesn’t know what goes on a hot dog. suspense and YA. Right now I am reading advance review copies of both “Hunger” by What’s next or anything you want to add? Roxane Gay and “Sour Heart” by Jenny Zhang. “Meaty” the book is getting a tummy tuck I just finished “Startup” by Doree Shafrir, and and a facelift. I’m writing some new things to “Sympathy” by Olivia Sudjic is on the nightstand make it all shiny and new. And “Meaty” the for me to start next. I have an online bookclub television show will hopefully be coming to a on my blog and this month’s selection was borrowed cable log-in near you sometime in “The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas, which I the future. Also, I just got a new gig as the read in a day and loved. But the book I’d tell book reviewer for Marie Claire magazine, so everyone to read is “The Mothers” by Brit starting with the September issue I will be inNewcity JUNE 2017 Bennett. I read it last fall and I still think about your mailbox or on your newsstand every it all the time. single month. Life is so wild. How did you go from small independent “We Are Never Meeting In Real Life” By publisher to Random House? Samantha Irby, Vintage, 288 pages, $15.95 I didn’t have an agent for “Meaty.” I was lucky Samantha Irby’s book launch features enough to have met a bunch of people in the conversation, a reading, Q & A and book Chicago indie publishing scene because I was signing on June 8, 7pm at Wilson Abby, 935 doing so much live lit and kind of fell into West Wilson, $20 including book. She appears putting out a book because Lauryn Allison is at the Printers Row Lit Fest, June 10-11.60
Music Photo: Jeremy Franklin MUSIC TOP 5A Radio Stationof the Future 1 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. AuditoriumChicago’s Air Credits Goes Dystopian Theatre. The lord of catharsis and loss tours his stunningBy Craig Bechtel new album, “Skeleton Tree,” recorded in the wake ofAir Credits is “music from the not-too- SLV, respectively). They first worked together personal tragedy. June 16 JUNE 2017 Newcitydistant future, when the planet’s water when Show guested on a cut on The Hoodsupply has all but ceased,” and where radio Internet’s “FEAT” record that dropped in 2012, 2 Common. Ravinia.stations are “climate-controlled compounds, but once they got together to rehearse for the The hip-hop superstarguarded heavily by their surrounding communi- tour dates last year, they realized they wanted veers his 2017 tour hometies not only to maintain communique with the to collaborate, not just share a stage. What for a night on one of thedeclining population, but to preserve music began as three or four songs written together Chicago area’s favoritenew and old.” At least that’s according to the evolved into a full-length album, “Broadcasted,” summer stages. June 24Chicago trio’s website. But when you talk to which was self-released last October.one member, rapper ShowYouSuck, you 3 Red Hot Chili Peppers.discover there’s a lot more behind the band. Working with Brink and Reidell in this fashion United Center. Never was a unique experience for Show for several has a music-industry moneyShow (born Clinton Sandifer) says Air Credits reasons. For one thing, it was kind of a “back- machine so credibly andwas born when he booked some live concert to-front” experience: he says “that this is the consistently conveyeddates in 2016 with some fellow Chicagoans: first time for me personally working on an zero-fucks-to-give. June 30electronic duo The Hood Internet, Aaron Brink album through the course of a year and and July 1and Steve Reidell (who go by ABX and STV performing it from the beginning, so we were 4 Evan Dando. Lincoln Hall. In the nineties, the Lemonheads’ suave front man was as famous for his face as for his voice. Both have held up disarmingly well. June 20 5 Marc Broussard. SPACE. The rhythm- and-bayou-blues troubadour’s voice has gained in texture, depth and sheer hair-raising gorgeousness. June 28 61
steadily recording songs and then and say hey, this is a song thattesting them live on the road right was archived from the 1970s.away, before they were even It’s still an Air Credits songfinished. It was a really rad because we made it, but we canexperience.” It is, he continues, make any genre of music that we“still a process that we do this to want to,” because you’re listeningthis day, even if you come to an to a radio station in the future, andAir Credits show now, we’re on the radio, songs from differentstarting to play songs that will be decades can play next to eachon the next record, even though it other. “There’s definitely a concept,won’t come out until 2018.” there’s an idea, but it’s more of a sandbox, this is more of a universeHe hastens to add that there’s to play in. That’s how I’ve alwaysmore music to come from the trio made art, I make these rules atbetween now and then. At the first and then I break them,” heend of April their remix of Maggie says with a laugh, “but I can doHorn’s “They All Say” came out, that because it’s art, it’s cool, butnew material is included in their it’ll make sense in terms of story.Factory Session recorded by It takes people on a ride if youCHIRP Radio and an eighteen- really pay attention.”minute continuous mix of new AirCredits music should be out in ShowYouSuck may have madeMay. In the fall they’ll release a his name as a rapper, but hiscollaborative album with rapper hip-hop path was more fashionedSims, a member of Minneapolis’ by environment and necessity thanDoomtree collective. Show says by his original inclinations. Showthis features Sims rapping at his describes himself as “a punk kidbest, and adds that there’s “a lot first and foremost,” though heavyof trading raps going back and metal was the gateway to hisforth, there’s some singing; it kind interest in punk. “I was raised byof goes across the board like MTV, so naturally ‘Headbangers‘Broadcasted.’” The subject matter Ball’ was everything… I grew updives further into this future world on Slayer and Megadeth andthey’ve created, and will cover Metallica, and it led me to Badmore about its authority figures, Brains and Black Flag.”what the underground clubs areand many other different aspects. But Show didn’t grow up aroundHe also promises, somewhat anyone else interested in punk.enigmatically, that they’ll “be “I’m from the West Side of Chicagomaking some cool things that will so, especially being a young blackcome out with the album as well.” male, R&B and rap music is put to you first before other genres…ShowYouSuck also describes this I started rapping because it wasAir Credits project as a unique really easy to start, because youexperience for him, since he’s don’t need to buy anything,always been a solo artist. He’s because you don’t need rapreleased too may mixtapes to members to start rapping, butcount, many thematically geared you kind of need band memberstoward his obsession with pizza, to start a band, and I couldn’tbut he says that, while he’s still a find that. With Air Credits, this isfountain of pop-culture references, the first instance where I’m like,with this dystopian, post-apocalyp- ‘Oh, I’m in a band.’”tic environment they’ve createdhe can also harness his love for His enthusiasm for his partners,science fiction, B movies and Brink and Reidell, is palpable:comics. Even though that’s the “They’re amazing, they do not getcase, he doesn’t worry that the enough credit, there’s so muchconceit could be too limiting, growth from the ‘Feat’ album togiven that this “music of the future” this album in their production.is being played on future radio, I can’t wait for you to hear theand thus can play music from stuff we’re working on now, it’sall genres and time periods. so cool… I’m finally making the music that I’ve been a fan of for“The cool thing about the universe so long… I’m literally making thethat we’re creating,” which Show music that has always been insays was only briefly played with my head, and those dudes areon “Broadcasted,” is “the idea of making it happen.”parallels, you know, universes andtime travel, so I feel like with those Air Credits plays the Logan Squareparameters it opens us up to make Arts Festival, June 23-25. Forit whatever we want to make it. scheduling information see theWe can make a surf-style song festival’s website.
Stage Mom Jokes Are So Much Better Than Dad Jokes The Mom-Com Movement Finds Humor In Struggle By Zach FreemanKristin Hensley and Jen Smedley of “#IMOMSO- HARD” / Photo: Joanna DeGeneres Newcity JUNE 2017Until recently, the de facto way to talk about parenting in public mistakes. It’s okay to laugh at the things, the thoughts, that you have inwas to gush about how fulfilling it was. Expressing frustration, confusion your head that you don’t want to admit to anybody that you think aboutor even a lack of enthusiasm for any of the duties that go with caring for being a parent. It does not mean that you’re a bad parent, it just means that you’re a human.”your offspring was a sign of weakness and—even worse—being aterrible, horrible, no good, very bad parent. #IMOMSOHARD’s Kristin Hensley says that she and Jen Smedley feltThe parenting industrial complex has cashed in on parental anxieties for driven to create their show for similar reasons. “We felt overwhelmed by this need to be perfect,” she says. “It felt like, ‘This can’t be the way itdecades, glossy magazines flaunt celebrity moms back to theirpre-pregnancy bodies in six weeks and women feel increasingly judged is!’ My friends don’t feel like that. I don’t expect that from other women, not by a long shot.”whether they decide to go back to work or stay home with their kids.It’s a lot to deal with. None of these struggles and feelings of inadequacy are new—thoughAs comedian Ali Wong said in her stand-up special “Baby Cobra”— social media cultivating and “have it all” messaging are certainly addedfilmed last year while she was seven months pregnant—“I don’t want to stressors—but until recently mom-centric stories acknowledging that there is no such thing as the impeccably polished mothering experience‘Lean In’ okay? I want to Lie Down.” of lore have been lacking from the mainstream motherhood narrative.Along with Wong, a growing number of women are seeking to tear And it’s not just new moms who are connecting with this newfounddown that facade and present motherhood in its raw, un- openness.Photoshopped glory. The box office success of last year’s mom-com“Bad Moms” is evidence of this trend. And if the shows hitting Chicago’s “We have grandmothers and great-grandmothers who message us andstages are any indication, a proper mommy movement has been born. say, ‘We had the same thing going on back then—I wish we’d had you then,’” says Smedley.In April “The Pump and Dump Show,” an interactive comedy and musicshow created and performed by comedians Shayna Ferm and Tracey The ability to fess up to and laugh about their own flaws is a common thread throughout these shows. Shared experience is a big part of theTee, came through Chicago for the fourth time. In early May theAthenaeum Theatre hosted the sixth—and final—season of the Chicago draw for beleaguered mothers who are doing their best to be the best but are looking for an outlet and a little validation.chapter of “Listen To Your Mother,” a national project dedicated to“giving voice to motherhood.” And in July, Kristin Hensley and Jen Shayna Ferm says they hear a lot about validation after their shows.Smedley, the ladies from the popular webshow “#IMOMSOHARD,”have two shows lined up at The Vic as part of their first national tour. “The response we get is very much, ‘Now I can go back and do what I need to do every day because I’ve let some of this out and I don’t feelIf maternal angst is what ails you, maybe laughter is the best medicine. so alone anymore and I feel validated,’” she says.Tracey Tee from “The Pump and Dump Show” definitely sees levity as Melisa Wells, co-producer of Chicago’s “Listen To Your Mother” show,an antidote to the unavoidable tensions of parenthood. “It’s okay to says this is central to the objective of their productions as well. “Welaugh at your mistakes,” she says. “It’s okay to laugh at your friend’s have something we call our ‘Me Too’ moments,” she says. “As the 63
Stage audience is leaving, usually when stories the wrong one. There’s a lot to laugh about. the audience. (In fact, at “The Pump and resonate they will see people in the lobby and There’s a lot that everyone has in common: Dump Show” all men get a free shot “just for seek that person out to tell them, ‘That could Everyone has poop under their fingernails. making it through all that estrogen.”) have been my story with just a few Everyone gets spit-up in their mouth. I mean adjustments!’ It’s a huge thing with both the these are things that are fucked up that If there’s one central conceit that these audience member and the cast member everyone can laugh at.” shows—and perhaps all types of productions getting that connection.” that make up the mommy movement in Connection general—have in common, the thing that drew Connection is key. Parenthood, especially in is key... these artists to create their projects in the first the early months and years, can be a stressful place and helped them grow their audiences and sometimes lonely adventure. Like with any As a side note to the era of inclusivity we so quickly and organically, it’s a goal of challenging experience, commiserating with currently find ourselves in—and a reminder providing comfort, affirmation and solidarity to others who are going or have gone through that you don’t have to be a mom to enjoy anxious mothers everywhere, letting women the same thing can be cathartic. And being these shows—all of the women I spoke to know that despite what parenting books or able to acknowledge and even joke about the made it very clear that though their content social media or their own parents may tell most trying—and potentially embarrassing— may be extremely mom-focused, their shows them, they don’t have to be perfect to be times is a huge help. are for everyone and they love having men in good at this.“You do feel isolated as a mom or a dad, Hensley puts it a bit more concisely: “I just especially with new kids,” says Tee. “You’re think that if we’re all okay with being a seven… just sort of terrified all the time and just that’s a day to celebrate.” convinced that every decision you’re making is STACY KEACH IS ERNEST HEMINGWAY BY JIM McGRATH DIRECTED BY ROBERT FALLS MAY 19 – JUNE 18THE ELIZABETH F. THE GLASSER AND THE HAROLD AND 312.443.3800 | GoodmanTheatre.orgCHENEY FOUNDATION ROSENTHAL FAMILY MIMI STEINBERGMajor Support CHARITABLE TRUST GROUPS OF 10+ ONLY: 312.443.3820 Lead Support of New Play Support of New Work Development Development
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