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pilot in one of his public installations Chicago has been negatively ing them to use their creative voices BEST OF CHICAGO — NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity with the most impact. In Williams’ col- portrayed in the national with confidence. With an intentional lective work, he explores a conversa- spotlight thanks to the focus on Black and brown creatives 51 tion about American history and social current administration. As a ages fifteen to twenty-five, the David W. relevance. The Chicago Arts Club took lifelong resident of the South Johnson-founded organization provides notice and staged “The Black Tractor Side of Chicago, I take pride education and mentorship that expands Project,” the artist’s celebratory re- in where I am from. Black the perception of viable careers in the sponse to the largest civil rights settle- Chicago is a community creative arts. The True Chicago Confer- ment in the country against the U.S De- filled with hard-working ence is a yearly youth conference in- partment of Agriculture, Pigford v. people, strong families, cluding workshops designed to inspire Glickman, also known as “The Black incredible artists, creatives artists to challenge themselves and in- Farmers Settlement” which included and local businesses. I love vest in their local community. Through his own relatives. “I viewed the settle- the moments when we artistic practice each creative is made ment as a profound moment in Ameri- gather, whether in to understand how each person has the can history and my family’s history,” restaurants, clubs, galleries, power to illustrate stories that evoke writes the artist. His next move: an up- or even outdoor picnics and deeper meaning, become part of our coming group show with seventy local events. They are filled with culture, and give back to their commu- artists at the Museum of Contemporary positive vibes and laughter. nities—all at the same time. (Tuan Art with the agenda “to imagine a more Black Chicago is a Huynh, senior art director, Leo Burnett, equitable and interconnected world,” Community. co-artistic director, True Chicago) scheduled to open in November. (Yetta Starr) — Danielle Sanders BEST “GONE TOO SOON” contributing editor, CHICAGO ARTIST B E S T A L L-A R O U N D C R E AT I V E Chicago Defender; president, Juice WRLD Virgil Abloh, Off-White, Louis Vuitton Black Bloggers Chicago; “The party never ends” — recording artist, ”Legends Never Die” “Don’t be a victim to the statistics—you Black Widow posthumous album outro can be a kid from Chicago with the The Chicago-born native Juice WRLD, same skin tone as me and create work egist who provides high-quality and known as Jarad Anthony HiggIns, made around your circumstance,” Virgil Abloh eye-catching social media marketing con- a memorable and heavy-hitting impact said last year on the opening day of his tent for her clients. Her niche is creating in the music industry before his untime- Museum of Contemporary Art “Figures content that goes viral, yet it feels authen- ly death last December. He had just of Speech” exhibition. He should know. tic and not fluffy like many things seen on turned twenty-one. His goal as an artist By then, the kid from Rockford was on social media. (Kia Smith) wasn’t to romanticize a relationship be- top of the world: A designer, artist, DJ,   tween himself and narcotics, but to help owner and art director of RSVP Gallery, others know they weren’t alone in fighting founder of Milan-based label Off-White and BEST STREET ART their addictions. This allowed fans to con- Louis Vuitton creative director named by nect with “The Lucid Dreams” rapper on a Time as one of the one hundred most influ- “Same Ol ‘9” personal level, as he lyrically divulged his ential people. At the intersections of fashion, racing thoughts that were constantly swirl- design, music and architecture, he con- Just drive or walk down 79th between Ben- ing. Juice WRLD will be remembered for stantly reinvents himself, looks for inspira- nett and Constance. The mural speaks for his kindness and talent. As the rapper al- tion everywhere—from Chicago’s city- itself. Speaks for the city. (Bob Arthur III) ways proclaimed: Legends never die. (Kori scape, to hip-hop, to Warhol and Nichole Barnes) Duchamp—and pretty much anything he BEST CREATIVE COMMUNITY touches turns to gold—even if that’s an FOR YOUNG BIPOC BEST RESOURCE FOR MUSIC IKEA tote bag. There’s no stopping him, so NER DS (A ND R ESE A RCHERS) you should be paying attention— he could True Chicago be stepping out of his comfort zone to CBMR at Columbia College make his next big, bold move happen right It’s been an honor to be a part of True Chi- about now. (Vasia Rigou) cago’s growth as it strives to educate, ex- Founded at Columbia College Chicago in pand and energize creatives by encourag- 1983, the Center for Black Music Research BEST SOCIAL MEDIA catalogs and preserves materials from STRATEGIST Black music around the world. The CBMR collection, still at Columbia, represents Covania Washington genres from ragtime to hip-hop, calypso to salsa, gospel to opera. It’s a one-of-a-kind Founder of Bomb & Bossy, Covania Wash- research and archival repository, housing ington is a sought-after social media strat- dissertations, oral histories, music scores,

Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 — BEST OF CHICAGO STUDENTS AND TEACHING ARTISTS FROM YOUNG CHICAGO AUTHORS/PHOTO: DAVID W. JOHNSON photos, and more than 10,000 audio and along with nutrition education and cooking BEST FOOTWORKER- visual recordings, commercial and rare. lessons. (Chris Cason) STREETWEAR DESIGNER Special collections include the “The Great 3555 Ogden Lakes Experience Collection” (including Chicago’s Von Freeman) and, coming soon, Sterling “Steelo” Lofton The Chicago House Music Oral History B E S T “F I T I S N O T A G O A L, IT IS A WAY OF LIFE” Project. (John Moss) 618 S. Michigan W AY S O F L I F E Steelo, a member of The Era Footwork 52 Crew, has travelled the world performing and teaching the mesmerizing Chica- BEST ALTERNATIVE TO The Black Workout Coalition go-born street dance that has risen in na- FLAMIN’ HOT CHEETOS IN tional and international popularity over the NORTH LAWNDALE Throughout the city you will find them. On past decade. In addition to dancing, cho- the Lakefront, in old churches, emptying reographing and teaching, he designs and their cars and SUVs of workout equipment creates his own streetwear line “Stitched Farm on Ogden to set up shop in city parks from Mandrake by Steelo.” Lofton was selected as a Chi- (Henry Brown) to Eckhart (Bernard). Run- cago Dancemakers Forum 2020 Lab Artist, The Chicago Botanic Garden and Lawn- ning clubs from GumboFit to Black Chica- receiving support to develop “y,” a perfor- dale Christian Health Center opened their go Runners (who were featured in the Wall mance about fashion and dance in Black 20,000-square-foot facility in 2018 to bring Street Journal) to Malik Scott’s More Than history. (Sharon Hoyer) fresh produce to a community in dire need Fit Training to Steven Hunter’s Go With of healthy options and to generate job op- The Flow yoga to Dre Nicole-Everett’s D3 B EST A NTI-R A CISM portunities. Inside its walls are a neighbor- Boot Camp to Aaron Foster’s Cycle Ther- COMMUNITY ART PROJECT hood market, job-training center, commu- apy, Black Chi’s “get fit, get healthy” com- nity learning space and an aquaponic farm. munity is, in a word, beautiful. (Raymond Despite North Lawndale’s rich cultural his- Alexander) Nick Cave, Facility tory, many residents suffer from diet-relat- ed diseases at rates that far exceed city “As challenging as 2020 and this moment and national averages. The VeggieRx pro- have been, all has fielded me toward being gram helps residents with prescribed veg- even more purposeful with my work,” says etables to help facilitate lifestyle changes Nick Cave. “This summer, my partner Bob

Faust and I launched ‘Amends’ here at Fa- recipes and places to buy ingredients and BLACK Book” allows people to see them- BEST OF CHICAGO — NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity cility and across the street with Carl Schurz online counseling. And, yes, virtual dance selves as fine art. (Kia Smith)  High School. It was a project that collected classes. (Sharon Hoyer) 53 and aired apologies, acknowledgements B EST POST-W H and mantras toward the eradication of rac- BEST COMMUNITY-FOCUSED BLACK CAPITALISM ism. This will continue this fall with a new DESIGN STUDIO spoken-word work by J. Ivy that incorpo- Barack and Michelle Obama rates these amends,” he says. “I also just blkHaUS studios opened ‘Until,’ a project that asks if there They are building a love/hate empire that is racism in heaven, at The Momentary in Fo Wilson and Norman Teague founded many (Black Chicagoans) are having prob- Bentonville. And a virtual show titled “As blkHaUS studios in 2016 as a way to adapt lems with and loving at the same time. It’s It Was and Still Is” as well as a series of in- modernist design to create objects, spac- the price of fame at the expense of some terventions as part of ‘States of Being,’ es and experiences that can uplift or trans- who DGAF about presidential libraries, in- both at Jack Shainman Gallery.” Ready to form marginalized communities. Their creased property and neighborhood value prompt conversations about race, violence wide-ranging projects have included a and Netflix series. Symbolism v. Substance. and identity, Cave’s politically charged art- beautifully minimal community garden site As grounded (and necessary!) as both Mi- work is needed more than ever. (Vasia in Greater Grand Crossing, to make the chelle and Barack are, their recent and cur- Rigou) garden a more accessible and welcoming rent endeavors leave open the question: place, and a Commons Artist Project at the are their feet really on the concrete where BEST MODEL COACH MCA, which invited community members Black blood continues to spill? (Scoop AND PHOTOGRAPHER to share their personal collections in order Jackson) to question museum collection practices. Blake Martin (Kerry Cardoza) B E S T N E W A L L-I N C L U S I V E POP-UP Known for putting on the most cut- BEST FINE ART ARTIST ting-edge fashion shows in Chicago, A N D P H O T O G R A P H E R  Dionna and Danyelle Gray, chances are you’ve heard of Blake Martin Womanish Experience before. With high-profile celebrity clients Tyesha Moores such as Mercedes-Benz, VH1, Timberland Womanish is not just another pop-up. In- and Gucci, these days you can find Martin Hailing from the Austin area, Tyesha spired by the Gray sisters’ passion for behind the camera. Lead photographer Moores is a fine-art artist, photographer women empowerment, the immersive five- and creative director for Voodoo Photog- and creator of “The BLACK Book,” a cof- floor exhibition explores the identity and raphy, he displays his eye for detail and fee-table book that manifests the urban perspectives of women and gender pushes the bounds of creativity with each vernacular of Chicago youth. Never before non-confirming people at-large. Through of his shoots. (Kia Smith)  has our language been so vividly displayed sociopolitical installations, rooms created for the world to see, and after selling over by womxn artists and plenty of virtual con- BEST COMMUNITY HEALTH a hundred copies and counting, “The tent, the Womanish experience provides a INITIATIVE IN RESPONSE Insta-worthy safe space to connect and TO THE PANDEMIC FROM Our city gives birth to A DANCE COMPANY greatness. No matter where have fun. (Vasia Rigou) I am in the world, when I Red Clay Dance Company’s encounter Black excellence, BEST CURATOR STRIVING Dance Pamoja Challenge “I’m from Chicago” follows TO EXPAND CHICAGO’S shortly after. In Chicago, ARTISTIC ARCHIVES When the virus first shuttered live per- we’re forged by the fire. formances and in-person dance class- We are tougher than the Tempestt Hazel es, Vershawn Sanders-Ward, founding tough times that surround us. director of the Fuller Park-based Red If we survive, we often win. Along with work as a writer, curator and Clay Dance, reflected on how her Afro program officer at the Field Foundation, Contemporary company could and — Theaster Gates Tempestt Hazel is executive director of should function in a time of crisis. Sixty Inches from Center, an online Through conversations with clinical innovator, publication and archival initiative aimed pharmacist and Red Clay student Dr. installation artist, at uplifting and preserving the work of Jewel Younge and a partnership with local artists, particularly those who his- UIC and ACCESS Community Health professor torically have been left out of main- Network, Sanders-Ward created a well- stream narratives. Sixty partners with ness program for Black families on the Chicago Artists Files at the Harold South Side hit hardest by the pandem- Washington Library to document and ic, which included free COVID testing, archive contemporary artists and art blood pressure and blood-sugar mon- spaces for posterity; all Chicago artists itoring, mindfulness sessions, access are welcome to get in touch about pre- to a blog with information on healthy serving their work. (Kerry Cardoza)

BEST LINE FROM AN preneurial community. Providing HBO SERIES SHOT the tools to bring a brand to life— AROUND CHICAGO from planning and strategy, to con- sumer testing and co-creation, to “The only thing that you white branding, to communications, to women are disillusioned with is creating and activating brand ex- yourselves.” [“Lovecraft Country,” periences—opportunities to con- Episode 5] (Scoop Jackson) nect online and offline, office spac- es and art galleries, even in-house BEST SOUTH SIDE beer and coffee, BRNDHAUS HOUSING PROJECT TO PL-ZN is a creative hub Chicago BETTER BLACK didn’t know it needed. (Vasia COMMUNITIES Rigou) NBA and Own Our Own BEST ALTERNATIVE JOURNALISM “This project promises to make a The Triibe lasting impact on the neighbor- hood’s social infrastructure and help community members to As the presence of historic giants achieve greater economic like Johnson Publishing and The Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 — BEST OF CHICAGO equity.” —Robert Covington Chicago Defender have dimin- ished, The Triibe offers an outlet No one can deny the history of for younger writers to tell count- housing segregation and lack of er-stories to show what the main- Black ownership in Chicago. stream press has overlooked. The Houston Rockets forward Robert CHICAGO SINGER SONGWRITER MARCUS JOHNSON/ Triibe offers critical perspectives Covington and former Chicago PHOTO: DAVID W. JOHNSON and reported stories that articulate Bull Luol Deng partnered with the experiences of Chicago’s Black Own Our Own, an inner city-fo- citizens, especially the city’s young cused real estate fund, to combat people. The online coverage and this history in the city's South BEST STREETWEAR LABEL social media coverage keeps a Side. The project aims to build a 143-unit close eye on government officials, the lat- multifamily property in the West Pullman Fake Decent est Chicago-based artists and performers, neighborhood featuring community gar- protests and locally researched stories. dens, art projects, community resources Regular updates about resources during and an outdoor playground. It’s an invest- Sidney Britton, also known as “Uncle Tom- shelter-in-place have been invaluable. But ment that will create opportunities for my’s Son” and “Sid The Gent,” is one-third so have stories like Vee L. Harrison’s piece Black real estate ownership and empower of the Fli Nation and Fake Decent brands, about a so-called West Side “house party” future communities, as well as sustain which was created in 2017 by three friends that was actually a memorial for the at- 54 other initiatives that meet the needs of the on a mission to show Chicago’s true colors tendees’ friend, Tink Purcell. Harrison’s Black families. (Sania Blu) and make a real connection between the piece dispelled an assumption about irre- streets and streetwear. Britton says, “The sponsibility and spoke to people at the me- BEST EDITORIAL DIRECTOR things that make me stand out as a fashion morial to support that story, which is an influencer are the way I show my love for accomplishment versus media sources Parneshia Jones the city through fashion, my support for that rely on tweets and cellphone videos the local streetwear scene, my storytelling, for their stories. Co-founders Morgan Elise and my awareness of the pulse of what's Johnson and Tiffany Walden spearhead a Jones recently became editorial director of happening.” (Kia Smith) publication that offers space for millennials Northwestern University Press, but she is to craft their own narratives, but they also established as an editorial force in Chicago BEST SPACE TO BUILD A represent representation that is more just. and at the Press. After earning her MFA, BRAND FROM SCRATCH (Tara Betts) she got her start as an intern at Third World Press. As a poetry editor at Northwestern, Otis Gibson, her first acquisition went on to become BRNDHAUS PL-ZN Nikky Finney’s National Book Award-win- ning poetry collection “Head Off & Split.” She was also instrumental in establishing BRNDHAUS PL-ZN is an innovative brand the Cave Canem Northwestern University factory. Created by Otis D. Gibson and Press Poetry Prize for a second book prize Heather Knapp, the team behind creative by an African American poet as well as the agency GERTRUDE, the massive, the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. 35,000-square-foot, seven-city-lot space In her new position, Jones is now one of in the heart of Pilsen has a sole goal: to two Black women nationwide who serve foster creativity and community collabo- as university press directors. (Tara Betts) ration within the city’s creative and entre-

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BEST OF THE BOOMING went on to our shared collegiate alma ma- AND BEFORE THEM ter, the University of Illinois at Urba- DIASPORIC GENERATION na-Champaign. Along his way, young 2020-TO- George married into a family settled in South Lawndale. My beloved Ameri- can-born maternal grandmother just called INFINITY, FOR it \"The West Side, Over There.” The matriarch of that family Over There was known as Mother Henry. A woman of THE SOULS love and family and food and gospel and the baptist God. An aficionado of uplift on that electric blues part of town. How do I OF CHI FOLK explain the sound of the word \"baby\" from Mother Henry's lips? Beyond soothing, made you feel like a newborn, all fresh and reborn. Mother Henry could cook, too, BY BAYO OJIKUTU baby, fix a plate like few others. She spent a literal centennial on this bitter earth, most of it in this Home as Sweet as they sing it to be. Saw it all. To paraphrase the preach- er's eulogy at Mother Henry's funeral, the Will of Whatever Gods may be done, in Al- Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 — BEST OF CHICAGO pha to Omega. She was born in the middle of the 1919 influenza outbreak, right at the close of what they call the “Red Summer” of Race Riots, a prelude to harvest time; not even a full year post-armistice to settle the Great I have long held the impression that Chi- War. As a child, she lived through the Roar- cago overstates its debt to work and ma- ing Jazz Age and the St. Valentine's Day chines, while giving short shrift to love and Massacre and Prohibition (she would have music. Perhaps I have held this belief since been a leading teetotaler, if they called the Dawn of the Age of Gentrification. I'll women of her Delta soul skin such righ- date that market bulldozing rendering of teous names). Mother Henry saw her urban space around here to sometime be- brothers and her husband Joe and such tween the razing of the Henry Horner proj- Invisible Men off to fight in WWII and Ko- ects and the old Chicago Stadium on the rea, to save the world of some other men. \"Near\" West Side and the re-wrapping of She came up here to Chicago midway Lake Shore Drive around the front side of through the Great Migration—just as First Soldier Field, to the reopening of vehicular Wave became Second, as per the take of traffic to State Street, that Great Street, as her fellow centenarian, the great Timuel 56 it coursed through the Loop up high, at Black. I think she arrived in Chicago before least since then. Martin Kennelly and Boss Daley and the To wit, my mother's brother's mother-in- New Deal machine ground through the law passed away here in the Chi-town, Il- middle of my Grandma's South Side, bent linois during the late summer of 2020. Mid- and curved around the Loop to fashion a way through these times of COVID shelter, path through toward the north and west. I bronze statue-razing and Twitter-triggered have no idea how Mother Henry and them smolder. This is the American-born side of made it Over There before the bosses and my family, for those wondering the name. the machines paved the Dan Ryan. My mother and her brother George were From afar, she heard of the dead Ken- born here in Chicago; South Side Catholic nedys and a slain King, Minister X and kids from back in the days of doo-wop, Chairman Fred. Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop bobby socks, suspenders and color-coded went cold steel echoing the Amphitheatre. human flight. From this bitter Earth, as Di- Man-made munitions splaying magic bul- nah Washington sang it so. lets, dispatching of mythic heroes. She My mother's sole brother George grad- would have been about my current age, uated De La Salle High School, a true Me- forty-nine, in 1968. teor before his time, Class of 1961. The year Nam and Watergate she made it after Richard Daley fils, he who was re- through, too. Son-in-law George served in sponsible for sending the mighty rigs to lift the National Guard during that police ac- Lake Shore Drive from aforesaid earth and tion, just like Bush 43. No spur deferment, re-plant its path heretofore. George the Meteor finished top three in his class and C O N T I N U E D --->

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Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 — BEST OF CHICAGO DR. ADAM MURPHY CONDUCTING RESEARCH AT NORTHWESTERN FEINBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE/PHOTO: DAVID W. JOHNSON but a conscription allowance, in the terms two rich Bushes? P-lease. Mother Henry Panthers, Coach JT, Landon “Sonny” Cox, of the times. Afforded for an only son en- made it through both terms of the admin- all sitting around, listening to sacred, hap- gaged in critical studies. Civil Engineering istration of a man who worked the Gardens py, blue gospel tunes singing their Muddy in Champaign back in those days? Critical. out south named Barack. I often imagine truths. She'll wait ‘til the ditty plays through A \"Black man?\" as my father would have the Louisiana Hot Five dance my own on the Good Lord's record player and only 58 said upon meeting him, heavy Yoruba grandmother would have kicked up had then, she'll ask each of the folk, \"Can I fix tongue clicking, mind all agog at the pe- she lived long enough to see that guy elect- you a plate, baby?\" culiarities in this country of his arrival. A ed president. A Black man? In this country? nigh invisible boy? I-L-L-. Mother Henry From this city? How do you say “Sweet made plates for all of them as they com- Home” in Yoruba? Mother Henry would bated “the Menace” between their studies have called the country's forty-fourth pres- at the Armory off of old Parkway Boulevard, ident \"baby\" to his grinning face, for certain. BEST ENTANGLEMENT right before that became the Reverend Mother Henry almost made it through Doctor King's Drive. And she likely said a the 45 experience (with a lower case \"e,” prayer for Tricky Dick Nixon as he waved unlike Jimi's query. Let's just call it that and The Mayor, two-fisted peace signs from that helipad leave it be). Almost. Only to succumb in The Police Superintendent beyond the Rose Garden, baby. the times of COVID shelter, distanced from and the CPS CEO The end of colonial empires; fall of the those whom she fed and so loved? I think Warsaw Pact; redrawing of the Balkan not. No submission to a disease nor to its Three of the highest-ranking public officials map; East Africa and the Levant; the ad- pathology in that woman. Just time. She in the city don’t see eye-to-eye on every- ministrations of both Rich Daleys; Mayor lived long and prospered, indeed, by the thing. And each has to look out for them- Harold. She outlived Prince, Mike Jackson, Grace of her God, and she lives on.  selves and their jobs before they can look Whitney, Luther, James Brown the Godfa- I imagine that she is in a room without out for the other’s. It’s a soap opera waiting ther of Soul, Phyllis. Not to mention Billie, time or walls, checking up on my grand- to happen. Just wait. (Bob Arthur III) Nina, Mahalia, Bobby Womack, Nat, Dinah, mother and my father, and the son-in-laws Lou Rawls, Pops Staples and Curtis May- Meteor George and Oscar Parker, her hus- field, all of whom knew God and muses in band Joe, and all the great souls gone long their sacred and profane ways. 9/11 and before now on through these days. The

BEST GRIOT/TEACHER/ BEST ARCHIVE OF BLACK Hughes has launched a national lecture S C H O L A R / P O E T/ L I V I N G FEMALE ARCHITECTS— initiative to highlight the noteworthy ac- HISTORY OF BLACK CHICAGO A N D T H E O N LY O N E  complishments of these women. Lecture platforms at National Organization of Mi- Haki Madhubuti First 500 nority Architects (NOMA), American Insti- tute of Architects (AIA) and universities An architect of the Black Arts Movement, They’re at 493, so far. The First 500—li- and high schools feature the achievements BEST OF CHICAGO — NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity Haki Madhubuti has used both pen and censed African-American Women Archi- of Black women in creative professions. institution building to express his unflinch- tects—is the national research brainchild Hughes, a senior urban designer at SOM, ing love for Black people. A poet and es- of Tiara Hughes, working to assemble an says that “the lectures have inspired Black sayist, author of over thirty titles and accessible database of archival profiles. girls interested in design to pursue a career founder of Third World Press, Madhubuti With less than one percent holding licen- and those studying to continue their jour- has fought over five decades to keep this sure in America, this group is significantly ney.” (Yetta Starr) home for Black authors and thought alive underrepresented in the industry, creating and thriving. He also founded the Gwen- a cultural imbalance in our built communi- BEST LONG-OVERDUE dolyn Brooks Center for Black Literature ties. With substantial industry support, RENAMINGS and Creative Writing at Chicago State University, the Interna- Community + Influence + Frederick Douglass Park tional Literary Hall of Fame for Music + Dance + Sports = and Ida B. Wells Drive Writers of African Descent, and Unparalleled Black Chicago. co-founded the Institute of Pos- Black Chicago encompasses A change is gonna come. For far too long, itive Education, New Concept a unique and authentic sense monuments, street names and other land- Development Center, and the of community to its natives marks honoring the names of historic op- Betty Shabazz International and transplants. Black pressors were the norm. What took years Charter Schools. At seven- Chicago is unique because as of activism from West Side youth resulted ty-eight years young, he shows soon as one is asked the in a notorious slavery advocate having his no sign of stopping. His newest million dollar question “what name stripped from the park and being re- offering is “Taught By Women: high school did you go to?” named after the Black abolitionist. And it Poems as Resistance Lan- the response immediately was only right that the first major street in guage,” a collection of new and provides context and the city to carry the name of an Afri- classic poems that honor background for the can-American woman be named after civil women who have raised, chal- conversation and almost rights leader Ida B. Wells. The expressway lenged or inspired him. Without always leads to a “did you pays greater homage than the demolished apology I inherited his deep re- housing projects that first bore her name. spect for Blackness, woman- (Chris Cason) hood and the written word. And for this I am forever grateful. BEST OVERLOOKED (Laini Madhubuti, grants pro- BLACK MEDIEVALIST gram manager, writer, daugh- ter) Georgiana Simpson BEST REASON TO know…?” In most cases, the Georgiana Simpson became the first Black 59 MAYBE JUDGE A MOVIE answer is yes because woman in the United States to earn a doc- BY ITS TITLE everyone knows everyone torate, with a 1921 dissertation on the phi- losopher Herder written at the University The Trial of the and if not, you can guarantee of Chicago. A recent bronze bust on cam- Chicago 7 they know someone who pus memorializes her achievement, as well does. Black Chicago provides as the university’s racist housing practices that slowed her time to degree. Less well- \"Anyone who calls us the Chica- an unparalleled sense of known is her medieval expertise; like a go Seven is a racist. Because community not only locally handful of other important Black women you're discrediting Bobby but also globally. It’s the in the 1920s, Simpson specialized in me- Seale.” Jerry Rubin’s words can birthplace of House music, dieval literature, studying German philolo- now be placed at the soul of steppin’, countless gy and writing her master’s thesis on a dif- Aaron Sorkin’s Netflix film—or professional athletes and ficult eleventh-century poem. After leaving at the very least the film’s title— musical legends. Oh and let’s Chicago, she turned her attention to the that acknowledges Seale not forget, Chicago was Haitian Revolution and was politically ac- (played by Yahya Abdul-Ma- founded by a Black man. tive in Washington, D.C. Her thesis remains teen II), but blatantly ignores one of the few Anglophone treatments of the historical and racial state- — Joy Glover the Early Middle High German poem, ment Rubin was expressing in “Merigarto.” (Luke A. Fidler) the legendary quote. (Scoop Jackson) founder, EnJoy LLC

BEST CHICAGO VERZUZ BEST BATTLE TO TELL es, victims to the power of “19.” But none HAROLD WASHINGTON’S STORY hit so hard as the permanent closing of R. Kelly V. Kanye West Kenwood Liquors on Stony Island. The “Punch 9” and news of Kenwood’s closing traveled The best of our worst. The fact that we “The Greatest Good”  through the South Side faster than cars have to walk around this city and still claim driving down side streets with no speed both of these misrepresenters as our own Between Joseph Michael Chopin’s script- bumps. Some people even left flowers on is insufferable and odious at best. If there ed narrative (with Denzel Washington pos- the curb in front of the store. COVID can’t were two mofos from Chi that Black Chi- sibly in the lead) to the documentary pro- be the full blame for Kenwood’s demise: cago wish we didn’t have to speak for—it’d duced by Raymond Lambert (“Maya the vandalism that totaled the store during be these two. But they’re ours. For worse Angelou: And Still I Rise”), the story of the this summer sealed the beloved institu- and worser. Because there is no “better” single most significant Black politician in tion’s fate. (Bob Arthur III) when it comes to either of them. (Scoop the city’s history (sorry, Barack) will be told Jackson) in the form of film in 2021. At least, that’s BEST “I TOLD YOU the hope. And if nothing else, especially MUTHAFUCKAS ‘I’M BEST THIRD PLACE MOMMA when it comes to Harold, Chicago has the L I K E T H AT!’” LEAVING CHICAGO audacity to do just that: Hope… for both. To further document his amazing legacy Anthony Davis, World The Legendary “Momma Lou” and meaning. (Scoop Jackson) Champion Los Angeles Laker Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 — BEST OF CHICAGO For generations, Louise Dixon Harp- BEST REASON TO LISTEN Oh, we've known! The individual success er—“Momma Lou” to regulars—held down TO G.C. CAMERON’S “COOLEY is unmistakable. Seven All-Star nods, four Lawndale’s New Pine Valley Restaurant, HIGH”-VERSION OF ‘IT’S All-NBA selections... but those accom- which served as the “third place”—after SO HARD TO SAY GOODBYE plishments seemed to go overlooked home and work—for mostly the neighbor- TO YESTERDAY” during his first seven years in New Orleans. hood. She also served her food to Presi- He wanted the opportunity to play on the dent Clinton and Reverend Dr. King, but The Closing of game's biggest stage consistently to re- after sixty years on the job—the only job Kenwood Liquors mind pundits never to forget the mention she ever had or likely wanted to have— of his name when discussions of the she’s taking her well-deserved leave, due COVID got the best of so many business- game's best are had. He's been ready for partly to the recent passing of her son and es. Many closings of many legendary plac- the moment. The stars just needed to align. partly to the pandemic. (David Ham- They did! Similar to the ones on mond) 1600 S. Pulaski the flag that rep his home city. Now, every muthafucka knows BEST UNKNOWN MONUMENT TO There is a misconception that he's like that! (Chris Cason) THE GREAT MIGRATION there is a disconnect in the BEST OF HE WHO Central Station Fragments Black community in Chicago REPRESENTS US… AND HOW HE BECOMES ALL OF west of Metra Tracks and because of the violence and OUR RESPONSIBILITIES north of East Roosevelt 60 Road, Grant Park  disaccord that is heavily The Short Story communicated throughout Many know and see Alison Saar’s giant the media. But for me being of Tymel Dunlap bronze statue at 26th and Martin Luther someone actually born and Tymel Dunlap is twenty-eight King Drive. Depicting a man with a worn raised in the city and years old. He’s from Lower Cha- suitcase facing north, it is Chicago’s of- ficial monument to The Great Migration. someone who has spent all of tham. You know how he came up. But in Grant Park there is another, less- my life really connecting with Brain Dead crew, 82nd St. Noodle er-known tribute to the African Ameri- the real, authentic people of Knockas. Tossing up signs. cans who traveled north to Chicago. Lowkey rep’n. Weeded out. Smart. There rest two cornices of Milford gran- Chicago, I feel love! We rise Could be out here with a bullhorn ite that were taken from the Illinois Cen- above the misunderstandings and a BLM T-shirt, could be throw- tral Railroad Company’s station. These and the mixed emotions. In ing a brick through Macy’s’ win- ornate granite blocks were part of an the bigger picture of Black dow. Could be both. We don’t arch under which hundreds of thou- know. All of Tymel’s crew, dead or sands of African American Southerners, Chicago we connect as a dying that slow jail death. Yet. who escaped Jim Crow between World unit, one unit, to bring a Somehow. Someway. Tymel sur- War I and 1960, passed. Chicago cultur- better environment for vived. How? Again, we don’t know. al historian Tim Samuelson says that for Tymel is one of the best of us, be- many Blacks “catching sight of Central Chicago and humanity. cause he still can breathe. Be- Station was similar to the first glimpse cause he’s trying. Because he still— of the Statue of Liberty that European — Don C with us not giving up on him—has immigrants saw when landing in New a chance. (Scoop Jackson) York Harbor.” (David Witter) fashion designer, Just Don

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Art “When we asked ourselves how a young museum housed in a Gilded Age mansion could offer a way to connect past and present, we found the answer in the legacy of the Nickerson family, through their intentions, and the art and design embedded on the walls of their 1883 home,” said Anna Musci, the museum’s interim executive director, during a live-streamed event for the show’s opening. The Nickersons rose to prominence with the national banking industry, at one point owning more stock than anyone in the United States. The family spared no expense on the aesthetics of their three-story Near North Side mansion, which was designed by Edward J. Burling of Burling and Whitehouse. The exhibition is part of the museum’s contemporary art initiative to add context to the space to bring out “both the glorious and the difficult narratives tethered to this era,” according to a press statement. During the September 26 opening, the artists joined curator Kekeli Sumah, Jane Addams Hull House curatorial manager Ross Jordan and Ann Lui, assistant professor of practice in architecture at the University of Michigan and founding principal of Future Firm, in a panel discussion to discuss the work as well as the house’s legacy. “A house that’s preserved feels like it has one narrative that’s presented, but in both [Young and Horibuchi’s] works it seems there’s space to call out narratives that aren’t part of the primary history,” Lui said. “That started to make me think, ‘This wood that’s on the wall, where’s that wood coming from?’” Newcity NOVEMBER 2020\"A Tale of Today\" installation view, Driehaus Museum 2020/Photo: Michael Tropea. Horibuchi says both she and Young relish in the labor of craft-making. “We both work with A Complex History traditional materials that haven’t changed much over time, and I think that’s a nice thread Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi Bring Their Labor to the throughout the two separate exhibitions.” Forefront at Driehaus Museum Exhibition Horibuchi uses mimicry and playful deception By Jenn Stanley to question existing historical narratives. She says her work poses questions about The Richard H. Driehaus Museum invites mansion and museum can check out the representation, ownership and authorship, art and architecture lovers to shift their exhibition, featuring two contemporary particularly within the context of museum warped and worn perception of time with the Chicago-based artists—Nate Young and didactics. In one series, she uses trompe l’oeil second iteration of its \"Tale of Today\" Mika Horibuchi—who’ve created site-specific to simulate photographs of objects from the contemporary art initiative. Through the end works responding to the complex history of Nickerson’s collection of artifacts from Japan of January, visitors to the Gilded Age the building. and China, accompanied by grayed-out blocks where text would be. 64 “I wanted to approach the works for this exhibition examining the two main characteris- tics of this space which are one, a house, and another, a museum,” Horibuchi says. She highlights the more residential aspects of

ART TOP 5 \"A Tale of Today\" installation view, Driehaus Museum 2020/Photo: Michael Tropea. 1 The Long Dream. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. the space in Samuel Nickerson’s former His intricate cabinets hide ghostly objects This impressive group show, a veritable who's-who of Chicago bedroom, where she uses oil on linen and that don’t quite belong. Holograms of horse artists, spans mediums and approaches, though all invite the panel to create the effect that her paintings are bones that disappear as visitors approach viewer to imagine a more evoke Young’s previous work, and are part connected, more just future. objects that have been in the room for Opens November 7 decades. A painted portrait of Mr. Nickerson of an ongoing project exploring his great-grandfather’s journey from North 2 19 in 2021: A Drone's that mimics the style of a portrait of Lucius Eye View. Chuquimarca. George Fisher (the mansion’s second owner) Carolina to Chicago at the beginning of the Artist Nat Pyper's sci-fi Great Migration. serial publication of the same by Ralph Clarkson in the Smoking Room on name is reimagined for the web, alongside a virtual group show. the first floor, for example, is placed alongside Through November 20 the mansion’s original artifacts, leaving it up to “Our presence makes them more difficult to see,” Young says. “Our own being, as we 3 You Be My Ally. University the viewer to decide what’s authentic. of Chicago. Jenny Holzer's approach it, as we go through life, it’s not first augmented-reality work in this multi-part project that's part app, “I wanted to create the space for a new author that we become fully aware of who we are. part public art, part nonpartisan We maybe become less aware because by get-out-the-vote campaign. to create a new historical piece of fiction,” Through November 22 Horibuchi says. But unlike the people who built the time we find out who we are we’ve already changed.” 4 Noé Martínez: Las the mansion one-hundred years ago, the presencias dormidas. Patron. In photographs and artists aren’t distanced from their labor, Curator Kekeli Sumah believes that Young sculptural assemblages, the Mexico City-based artist shows something both artists explore. and Horibuchi’s installations provide much how colonization shapes our present. Through November 8 “Often the laborer doesn’t have the agency,” needed contemporary perspectives to the 5 Deborah Kass: Painting Young says. “They’re hired to produce the well-preserved historic space, challenging and Sculpture. Kavi Gupta. NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity Take a virtual tour of this dynamic thing for the other person who, because of narratives that have been taken for granted solo exhibition, full of blindingly bright Pop works that sound the their economic and social status, has the and shining a light on those that have been alarm on the many emergencies the country is facing. agency.” overlooked. “To make conversations about Through February 28 the Gilded Age relevant to today’s society, it A multidisciplinary artist who often employs is important to have contemporary crafts like furniture-making in his installations, emerging voices from the city join the Young was immediately drawn to the mansion’s conversation.” exquisite woodwork. He wanted to create \"A Tale of Today: Nate Young and Mika pieces that could stand on their own in the Horibuchi,\" Driehaus Museum, 40 East space while feeling like they belonged there, Erie, through January 17, 2021. highlighting the craftsmanship most of all. 65

EXHIBITIONS THE ARTS CLUB OF CHICAGO DEPAUL ART MUSEUM 201 East Ontario Street At DePaul University 312 787 3997 935 W. Fullerton Avenue [email protected] / www.artsclubchicago.org 773 325 7506 Tues–Fri 10-1 | 2-6, Sat 11-3 [email protected] / artmuseum.depaul.edu (subject to change due to COVID-19) Viewing available online @artsclubchicago or www.artsclubchicago.org October 8–December 28 Ayanah Moor: for you October 16–March 20 Upkeep: Elliott Jerome Brown, Jr., September 7–December 20 DPAM Window Installation by Kathryn Lenka Clayton, Sara Cwynar, Bronwyn Katz, Andrews: Victoria Woodhull, Belva Ann Lockwood, Abigail Scott Duniway, Laura Clay, Chancellor Maxwell, Lily van der Stokker Cora Wilson Stewart, Gracie Allen, Anna Millburn, Ellen Linea Jensen, Mary Kennery, THE BLOCK MUSEUM OF ART Agnes Waters, Margaret Chase Smith, Fay T. Carpenter Swain, Charlene Mitchell, Shirley Chisholm, Linda Jenness, Evelyn Reed, Bella Savitzky Abzug, Patsy Takamoto Mink, At Northwestern University Margaret Wright, Barbara Jordan, Ellen McCormack, Deirdre Griswold, Koryne Kaneski 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL Horbal, Maureen Smith, Alice Tripp, Gavrielle Holmes, Sonia Johnson, Martha Kirland, 847 491 4000 Tonie Nathan, Mary Ruwart, Wynonia Burke, Lenora Fulani, Willa Kenoyer, Mamie Moore, [email protected] / www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu Patricia Schroeder, Georgiana Doerschuck, Helen Halyard, Caroline Killeen, Gloria La Riva, Visit our website and follow us on social @nublockmuseum for online cinema, Isabell Masters, Tennie Rogers, Susan Gaii Ducey, Elvena Lloyd-Duffie, Marsha Feinland, programs, tours, and resources for teaching and learning with art. Dr. Heather Anne Harder, Mary Cal Hollis, Jo Jorgensen, Mary “France” Letulle, Monica Search our newly launched collection database of over 6,000 artworks. Moorehead, Diane Beall Templin, Cathy Gordon Brown, Angel Joy Chavis Rocker, Elizabeth https://blockmuseum.emuseum.com/collections Dole, Dorian Yeager, Katherine Bateman, Joanne Bier Beeman, Sheila Bilyeu, Carol Moseley Braun, Jeanne Chebib, Mildred T. Glover, Millie Howard, Carol A. Miller, Lorna CARL HAMMER GALLERY Salzman, Florence Walker, Elaine Brown, Hillary Clinton, Nan Garrett, Cynthia McKinney, Mary Ruwart, Christine Smith, Kat Swift, Roseanne Barr, Peta Lindsay, Jill Stein, Michele 740 N. Wells Street Bachmann, Khadijah Jacob-Fambro, Carly Fiorina, Alyson Kennedy, Lynn S. Kahn, Cherie 312 266 8512 Deville, Souraya Faas, Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, [email protected] / www.carlhammergallery.com Kim Ruff, Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson Tues–Sat 11-5:30 (subject to change due to COVID-19) September 12–November 28 Sincerely . . . an exhibition of works GRAHAM FOUNDATION by H.C. Westermann and Ray Johnson 4 W. Burton Place 312 787 4071 DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS [email protected] / www.grahamfoundation.org AND LOGAN CENTER EXHIBITIONS Visit our website and follow us on social media @grahamfoundation At the Reva and David Logan Center Artist-in-residence: Anna Martine Whitehead, FORCE! 915 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637 773 702 2787 an opera in three acts [email protected] / arts.uchicago.edu/logan/gallery Tues–Sat 9-9 (subject to change due to COVID-19) GRAY November 13–December 20 2020 MFA Thesis Exhibition Richard Gray Gallery, Hancock: 875 N. Michigan Avenue, 38th Floor By appointment, Mon–Fri 10-5:30 Gray Warehouse, 2044 W. Carroll Avenue By appointment, Wed–Fri 10-5, Sat 11-5 312 642 8877 [email protected] / www.richardgraygallery.com November 13–January 9 Jaume Plensa: Nocturne (Gray Warehouse)

KAVI GUPTA GALLERY POETRY FOUNDATION Kavi Gupta | Washington Blvd., 835 W. Washington Boulevard 61 W. Superior Street Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St., 219 N. Elizabeth Street 312 787 7070 By appointment only, email [email protected] to arrange [email protected] / www.poetryfoundation.org 312 432 0708 Check poetryfoundation.org/visit for updates on our [email protected] / www.kavigupta.com current exhibition and hours. Visit online at https://website-kavigupta.artlogic.net/ Roger Brown: Hyperframe (Washington Blvd.) RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY September 10–December 26 Deborah Kass: Painting and Sculpture 1711 W. Chicago Avenue (Elizabeth St.) By appointment only, email [email protected] 312 455 1990 to arrange [email protected] / www.rhoffmangallery.com Tues–Fri 10:30-5:30, Sat 11-5 MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY Please schedule an appointment through Tock: exploretock.com/rhonahoffmangallery 451 N. Paulina Street November 6–December 19 Amanda Williams 312 243 2129 [email protected] / www.moniquemeloche.com SMART MUSEUM OF ART Open by appointment November 7–December 19 Kajahl: Royal Specter At the University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY 773 702 0200 PHOTOGRAPHY [email protected] / www.smartmuseum.uchicago.edu Open by reservation, Thurs–Sun 11-4 At Columbia College Chicago Through March 21 Take Care 600 S. Michigan Avenue Through December 13 Claudia Wieser: Generations 312 663 5554 [email protected] / www.mocp.org WRIGHTWOOD 659 Mon–Wed 10-5, Thurs 10-8, Fri–Sat 10-5 (subject to change due to COVID-19) 659 W. Wrightwood Avenue October 1–December 23 What Does Democracy Look Like? 773 437 6601 Subject to change. Please visit mocp.org for up-to-date information [email protected] / wrightwood659.org and to reserve a free ticket. Thurs–Sat by reservation only. $15 tickets only available online. Through December 12 Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture THE NEUBAUER COLLEGIUM FOR CULTURE AND SOCIETY for the People (closed Thanksgiving day) At the University of Chicago 5701 South Woodlawn Avenue 773 795 2329 [email protected] / neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu Open by appointment Through December 21 Apsáalooke Women and Warriors

DesignPhoto: Chaka Khan. Courtesy of Michael White. pay for the outfit, White had a long conversa- tion with him about politics and \"some radical shit.\" \"I was there, in the middle of the smoke, and I was like 'yeah, yeah, yeah,'\" White recounts, laughing. A similar thing happened with Miles Davis, his first notorious client—and a childhood idol: \"I would be in the audience at the Fillmore West wearing all these incredible clothes, and I'd see Miles eyeballing me from the stage. He'd be blowing with his band, and he'd be looking at me, and I'd be like, standing next to Carlos Santana. Miles would come down from the performance, and he would look at me but never say anything. And I thought to myself, I'm going to catch this guy.\" And catch he did. Due to his extraordinary garb, White was granted access to Davis' dressing room, and he gifted Davis a \"dream belt,\" made with fur, fringes and beads. \"He loved it,\" White says. \"It was in the vein of, say, Native American with a little bit of my Afrocentric Black things. My style hasn't changed since then. I still do the same kinds of things, but elevated, elevated, elevated. Always with that strong, viable ethnicity to it in one way or another.\" After that, Davis had White make him a deerskin leather vest. From Earth to Miles White always had a passion for fashion, and found inspiration right at home. \"Good taste Michael White's Fashion Journey was always a high point—we were Black snobs,\" he says of his family. \"I remember the By Isa Giallorenzo first time I really saw something that stood out, it was one of my aunts. She was getting Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Chaka Khan, Neil That's how Bob Marley found out about ready to go to work—because we all lived in Armstrong, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Ross, The White's designs: \"We went backstage [at one a big house together—and this was in the Brothers Johnson—the list of Michael White's of Marley's shows], and he eyeballs me up fifties. She had on this beautiful tapestry famous clients goes on and on and on. A and down and I ask, 'Do you like it?' and he floral-printed full-circle skirt, and she swirled case of the right style at the right time, White, says 'Yeah, man!',\" remembers White. Marley around and it smacked me in the brains born and raised on the West Side of Chicago, invited White to come and see him at his when I saw it. And it never left me. I just love saw his creations catapulted into the limelight hotel the next day, and proceeded to buy beautiful things.\" He grew up \"sketching like concert after concert at the height of that same outfit—an ensemble made of a crazy,\" and as a teenager he got his first job Haight-Ashbury. When opportunity hit on his patchwork of repurposed denim and Vietnam in the industry at Kuppenheimer, a menswear door, he was ready and dressed for it— uniforms, which Marley wore on the cover of company in Chicago where he worked decked out in his own creations, like a walking an issue of Melody Maker in 1976. While part-time as a bundler. In 1968, he decided ad for his own work. waiting for Marley's assistant to get cash to to go to school and learn how to sew. Since he heard the School of the Art Institute of Chicago didn't teach their students how to sew at the time, White moved to San Francisco to study at the Pacific Fashion Institute. He ended up leaving a month before his graduation, since he already had a lot going professionally. \"If you don't have a degree, it doesn't mean that you didn't really work hard. You know what you know,\" he says. 68

DESIGN TOP 5 Inset: A playboy centerfold model wearing a pair of 1 Intersect Chicago. online. Michael White's recycled denim pants while being SOFA Chicago becomes photographed by Sammy Davis Jr. Intersect: a virtual art fair that spans Above: Louis and George Johnson from The Brothers media—glass, ceramics, wood, fiber, Johnson. Louis is wearing a deerskin and recycled denim jewelry, metal, sculpture. jacket by Michael White. Courtesy of Michael White November 6-12 From there he went on to have a steady job He describes his creations as \"easy, relaxed, 2 Claudia Wieser: Generations. NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity designing at Gunne Sax Company—run by soft dressing.\" \"I'm always harking back to Smart Museum of Art. Ceramics, legendary Jessica McClintock—moved on, my good old days running up and down in sculptures and site-specific made some costumes for Larry Graham (the the Haight-Ashbury. Refining and taking from wallpapers informed by art history, bass player of Sly and the Family Stone), the sixties, I am a child of the sixties,\" he design, architecture and pop culture. then got tired of the \"hippie thing\" and went says. \"[My style is] from the Earth. And Through December 13 to live in an adobe house with no electricity in versatility is set into it because I've always the Santa Fe area, then got tired of having no been into upcycling denim. I've always had a 3 Balkrishna Doshi: electricity and moved to L.A. In L.A. he got thrift-store sensibility. Engagingly funky— Architecture for the People. one of his patchwork denim suits in the haute, haute funk.\" Even though White keeps Wrightwood 659. Sixty years of window of Chequer West, a hip boutique at things low-key now, he still designs for artists work by the first Indian architect to the time. Actress Ann-Margret saw the suit such as Jamila Woods, and runs his artisanal receive the Pritzker Prize. Through and wanted to buy it. The suit didn't fit her, production from a studio in Pilsen, making December 12 but fortunately it fit Diana Ross, who then limited editions of his pieces. \"Bel Air, Beverly snatched it. Diana Ross was married to Bob Hills, Malibu, Venice Beach, Bali, Haiti, San 4 Luftwerk & Normal: Color Ellis at the time, and after seeing the suit, Ellis Francisco, New York, Miami. I've done it, Code. Elmhurst Art Museum. connected White with one of the artists he been there, and it's all the same. I am so Visualizing SOS, the international managed, Tony Maiden—the lead singer and happy to be right here in Chicago, my distress signal, as colored flags guitar player from the band Rufus. Ellis had hometown. I couldn't think of another city I instead of Morse code. Through White make that same suit for Maiden. For want to live in right now except for here. I November 3 some reason, Ellis didn't want to connect think we have a good thing going if we could White with the band's star, Chaka Khan. But just get it polished right.\" He looks back at 5 A Space Problem: Organized White ended up meeting her through his his eventful life with pride: \"It's all experience, by David Salkin. Elmhurst Art nephew, Gavin Christopher, who wrote and it's all in me, and it feels so good. It's Museum. Mid-century furnishings and \"Once You Get Started,\" one of Rufus' hits. It more than just designing clothes; it's using design objects coexist with work by was in the cards: Michael White and Chaka that as a tool to design a life.\" local artists and architects. Through Khan then struck a long collaboration, with November 15 White designing costumes for many of her Michael White's designs sold by appointment. shows. More information at equatoriacouture.com 69

D&rDininkiinngg DINING & DRINKING TOP 5 Christopher LeMark, photo Sarahlynn Pablo 1 Sunday Dinner Club. A Cup of Vulnerability Honey Butter Fried Chicken. During their startup phase, the Coffee, Hip Hop & Mental Health has a Mission folks behind Honey Butter Fried Chicken did Sunday dinners at By Sarahlynn Pablo their house; now, you can enjoy their three-course dinners in your Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 Bronzeville’s Coffee, Hip Hop & Mental With our collective grief and anxiety over the house. Health (CHHMH), founded by Christopher loss of life and our forced physical separation LeMark, is making the conversation about from family and friends, it's not surprising that 2 Dia De Los Muertos. mental health as easy as ordering a cup of emotional wellness and mental health are an Tzuco. Carlos Gaytán joe. The goal of CHHMH, as described on important part of the national conversation. celebrates Day of the Dead with their site, is “to normalize therapy by bridging Public health has expanded to far more than an amazing lineup of leading the gap between communities and mental face coverings, distancing by six feet and women in Mexican Cuisine, health leaders. To do this, we work to tackle washing hands for twenty seconds. including Chicago’s own Diana issues of poor mental health, systemic Davila Boldin and chefs from racism, social injustice and the overall welfare Through CHHMH, a kind of traveling support Oaxaca and Puebla, creating a of our community. Our intentions are to group, LeMark reaches out to his community traditional five-course menu. educate, inspire and empower men, women and the people he hopes to serve through November 1-2 and children to live to their greatest potential.” coffee and music. 3 Thanksgiving Dinner from Alinea. Alinea. The Thanksgiving dinner of your dreams. Our order is in. That is all. November 23-25 4 Thanksgiving Dinner from Beatrix. Beatrix, Streeterville. Highly regarded for its non- carnivorous options, Beatrix is serving up the bird but also offering non-meat options such as salmon, to upgrade your day of epic eating. November 25 5 Thanksgiving Dinner from Shaw’s Crab House. Hubbard Street location. Shrimp cocktail is how we begin Thanksgiving, and you can too. Plus, a lot more fish and, somewhere in there, a turkey. P.S. The third course is Alaskan king crab legs. November 26 70

Hip-hop music kickstarted LeMark’s CHHMH pivoted their activities quickly once Providing protection is what CHHMH is about, self-proclaimed “messy” healing journey. A the pandemic began. They raised money, both physically through food distribution and seasoned MC, his love for the performing formed philanthropic partnerships, called out psychologically through therapeutic arts started when he was a kid growing up in for individual volunteers and distributed food encounters with psychologists and other Englewood.  “It wasn’t just hip-hop,” says directly to families on the South Side, going professionals, people who can help heal the LeMark. “I loved all kinds of performers— door-to-door armed with boxes of groceries. wounds of poverty, many of which have Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Frank In June, CHHMH delivered a week’s worth of gotten worse during the pandemic. Sinatra. I just wanted to be onstage.” food to a hundred families, and one month later they did the same for 1,000 families; in A five-day popup, Cafe CHHMH, is sched- LeMark is candid about his own childhood August, with over 300 volunteers, a week’s uled for late October in Boxville (332 East and the family trauma he endured. In a recent worth of groceries went out to 1,500 families, 51st), a street-food market built of refurbished Instagram post, he talked about his abuse, and in October it was projected that 2,000 shipping containers. In addition to specialty being locked up in dark basements by his families will receive help. blended coffee drinks, there will be live music, guardians and in closets by his teachers at DJ sets and forty-five-minute free group school for “acting out.” With unemployment at staggering highs, therapy sessions led by licensed profession- LeMark recognized that basic, physical needs als. In the works is also a two-day farmers’ “I wasn’t getting the love at home,” LeMark had to be met before mental health could market, “It’s Harvest Time,” to provide dinner, remembers, “the attention I needed, so, of even be addressed. LeMark knew this acutely, seasonal vegetables and dry goods to 2,000 course, I was the class clown.” as he experienced a six-month period of families. under-housing. A big motivator toward CHHMH was LeMark’s Moving into winter, and an anticipated interest in giving others—children as well as Following a breakup with his partner in second wave, the work of LeMark and adults—the attention they need. CHHMH, January, LeMark chose to live between CHHMH will be even more critically which LeMark began in 2018, collaborated Airbnbs in Chicago, staying the course, important to the lives of people in under- often with independent coffee shops like Sip & building his organization and their mission-fo- served communities. Services are available Savor in Hyde Park, Bronzeville and Roseland.  cused brand instead of moving back in with to help those undergoing psychological Coffee shops are spaces where exposing family. In late May, a friend who is also a stress during these times, but to motivate one’s own vulnerabilities over coffee and realtor offered LeMark a three-bedroom place. people to seek out such services, the talk discussing therapeutic options could take “My community got me through this,” says a around therapy needs to be normalized. place on a regular basis and without shame or grateful LeMark, “and so I had no choice but CHMMH is working toward that goal, one stigma in a casual atmosphere. to protect them back.” cup of coffee at a time. Live at The Book Cellar Mike Puican Marisel Vera “Central Air” “Taste of Sugar” in conversation with in conversation with Rosellen Brown Alyssa Vera Ramos November 11, 7pm CST November 18, 7pm CST Witty Women Writers Virtual Wine Tasting 14.0: Zoom Edition with Head of Sotheby’s with Jen Lancaster, Stacey Wine Jamie Ritchie, Ballis, Claire Zulkey, Wendy “The New Sotheby’s McClure and Amy Guth Wine Encyclopedia” November 12, 7pm CST November 19, 7pm CST Murder & Mayhem Michael Riedel a one-day event featuring “Singular Sensation: some of Chicago’s top The Triumph of Broadway” mystery/crime writers in conversation with November 14, 9am-4:30pm Chris Jones Glitter Extravaganza November 23, 7pm CST NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity meet and greet with Sara Shacter, “Just So Willow” and Alex Willan, “Unicorns Are the Worst” November 14, 1pm Go to our website for virtual event details, 71 book clubs and more! Your Independent Book Store in Lincoln Square! 4736-38 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago 773.293.2665 • bookcellarinc.com

Film Rickey Hendon loses his temper after attempting to withdraw his challenge to Neal Sales-Griffin at a signature challenge hearing. Chicago Stories McDonald killing emerged and the man who shot him was taken to trial. So many stories. An Epic City So Real Class, race, geography. So many desires, hope, fear, rivalries, love, so many aspirants, By Ray Pride so many bullshitters; so much bloodsport in politics and real estate and faith, too: in Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 Roger Ebert’s best advice to writers was and the ten-and-a-half-hour “America to Me,” community and the possibility of change. about flow: don’t preen, don’t vamp, don’t would present themselves. overwrite, don’t clear your throat when you tell If you were to adequately describe the the story: from start to finish, tell it like a story After all, James and his crew were graced felicity of small moments and the grace of you’d tell at the tavern on the corner, to a these many years ago on “Hoop Dreams” the larger movements in “City So Real,” you friend or a stranger, jump right in, don't let (1994) by catching sight of two of their key would have in hand a lyrical novella atop a them go, stop when you’ve said enough. protagonists on one of the earliest days of steely framework. Lines of poetry, stanzas of scouting. “America to Me,” a year in the life of beauty. (I have about sixty of them pinned to Steve James’ films flow. With recurrent Oak Park and River Forest High School, had a a page like so many exclamation points.) Or, collaborators like producer Zak Piper and central location with largely predetermined you would have this supremely confident David Simpson, who co-edited the masterful rituals, but a city is a city is a city and Chicago epic, two tempestuous years of Chicago’s five-part, five-and-a-half-hour series “City So is Chicago. life caught in less than six hours. James’ Real” (subtitled in its first episode as “The craft is quiet like a river, but with a mighty American City at a Crossroads”), James and “City So Real” could not be a snapshot, it source: patient observation, sharply seen his crew take the 2019 Chicago mayoral would have to be a mosaic, a weave of and cleanly displayed. On the surface, you election as an armature to drape a teeming many neighborhoods and thousands of could bask in the illusion of elevated telling of a twenty-first-century American city. faces, of twenty-one mayoral aspirants after journeyman work: the frames are taut and The stories, as within the seemingly effortless Rahm Emanuel ran from office after details telling, angles apt. But there are turns, current of earlier work like “The Interrupters” that had been withheld about the Laquan echoes, subterranean rhythms, always. (And lingo and swears.) 72

There are many great city symphonies, but young, the very young and the younger still.) James leaned upon a single filmic predecessor, from 1963, by French filmmaker Chris Marker. The title is credited to co-executive producer “We were inspired by ‘Le Joli Mai’’s serendipi- Alex Kotlowitz’s slim 2004 “Never A City So Real: A Walk in Chicago,” which hails from a tous approach to capturing the city,” James notorious Nelson Algren fistful: “Yet once says. “We made a commitment to being as ONE you've come to be part of this particular patch, RECOMMENDATION open as we could be to where the story—or even a given day’s shooting—would lead us.” you'll never love another. Like loving a woman While he had long wanted to make a film like with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” Kotlowitz Marker’s classic, it was this moment of adds, “An imperfect place, Chicago is upheaval, with the possibility of generational change that kicked into relief. Marker’s film “is America’s city: it dreams America’s dream.” Festivaling and Films set in Paris in 1962, as the French were just getting out of the war in Algeria. There was a Do dreams flow like rivers or rivers flow like dreams? The montage of James' work is the There’s no static status quo with lot of political turmoil in the air. I was blown how films will be shown and away by the way in which Marker, who’s really galvanic force, its urgent flow that cannot be seen on any given day, let alone a cinematic poet, went about making this film. taken for granted. Look here, look there, and the months ahead. Stock-stan- here we are. dard for now is the range of It was an eclectic mix of interviews and “virtual cinema” platforms that allow brick-and-mortar arthous- beautiful images of Paris, very much in the A Tribune critic at a “salon” dinner at Christie es like Siskel, the Music Box and Facets to offer the movies they spirit of Cartier-Bresson photographs.” Hefner’s high-rise aerie looks at the raking might have shown in close, dark spaces in a parallel place instead James has always tended to the longitudinal, rows of glistening light that tail off to dim of this sunken one. Similar in duration of observation and in the length of horizon, that indelible, lavish view. “You look platforms keep film festivals out the windows of this beautiful apartment, afloat, with fewer films and the finished work. But with “America to Me” almost no festival, except for you say, okay, is this city going to live up to its sometimes-prerecorded “Holly- and “City So Real,” he has arrived at his wood Squares”-styled telecon- métier: what Mike Leigh described as “a piece destiny?” A dramatic, hopeful note that is ferenced Q&As. In Chicago, of string.“ The great British writer-director said dashed by another guest, an elderly former drive-in spaces have featured he never knew more than an impulse of what bank president who crashes with a Cassandra Music Box and Facets features, chorus: “Look, I don’t want to offend anybody as well as events by local film his narratives would become as he accrued festivals, which in November at the table and I really don’t wanna go back include the delayed-from-June bits of behavior in long discussions with his Chicago Underground Film actors. Ideally, they would attain feature-length, to the days when Harold Washington was Festival, at twenty-seven the mayor. Maybe some people do, I don’t know… world’s longest-running of its but Leigh cautions his backers “A piece of kind, and the Chicago Interna- You could even get to anarchy and I don’t tional Children’s Film Festival, at string is as long as a piece of string.“ thirty-seven, the oldest and one wanna see that.” of only two Oscar-qualifying children’s film festivals in the The most trying snip of string in “City So Real” world. Keep up with films now in follows weeks of hardball wrangling between But the editing is richly roundabout rather than safety, alone, so there will be puzzle-pieced. James moves from that festivaling, again, together. candidates’ seconds and the electoral bureaucracy, going signature by signature on statement to developments in the trial of the ballot petitions, a prickly process of drudgery man who shot Laquan McDonald. “City So and absurdity: process is process yet there are Real” returns to the streets and street corners. rewards by the end. But it becomes a central Talk-talk-talk. The talk is talked. Some people think talk will bring Chicagoans together. element, aggravating like a stone in a shoe. The obstinacy and antiquated idiocy of the “You always try to educate people into civic governance of Chicago is captured in compliance,” Lightfoot says of a sudden toe-to-toe, head-to-head disputes over the sunny day that broke bright directly after veracity of signatures and even the very lockdown. “No amount of talking was going identity of citizen after citizen. to change behavior, so the next day we shut “City So Real” had its first public exposure at down the Lakefront.” Of protests near her Sundance, a James custom that is followed Logan Square house, Lightfoot says, “My by a return to the editing room for fine-tuning. family didn’t sign up for that. People can protest... they can come to any publicly But in this case, nips, tucks and niceties led available meeting or gathering that I’m at but to much more than a coda: a further eighty it feels very different when it’s your home. My minutes, which locked picture only in mid- daughter is old enough now that it’s October, dropped right into the lap of now. impossible to shield her from everything, but I The fourth hour ends on election night, with a never want my daughter to be afraid in our few seconds as Lori Lightfoot wins the runoff, house, our house has to be a sanctuary for followed by a shot of a Fullerton bus, heaving us all.” James moves back to the youth- elephantine in the bruised light of early night, quaked street; no pause to savor, or even to underline the clangorous irony of Lightfoot's leaving behind dim outlines of a neighbor- NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity hood corner and storefront neon as doubting presumed privilege. CUFF: cuff.org, voices chorus doubts about the governability “City So Real” is a feat of observation, but also November 9-22, including November 12-13 at the drive-in of the city. of listening. It expects you to listen, too: very What comes after that genteel, inconclusive closely. Listen to the great city. Listen to this conclusion? 2020 is what comes. A spring and great film. summer of pandemic, the shooting death of All five episodes of \"City So Real\" have a Children’s International: festival.facets.org George Floyd, unrest, protest, a faltering commercial-free debut on National Geo- November 13-22 economy, failing businesses, and the figures and faces of the previous hours, present and graphic Channel on October 29, and stream persisting. (And so many hopeful faces of the on Hulu from October 30. 73

Lit influencing the design or just seeing the buttons? It's a striking image to see those sometimes-opposing powers aligned.  That was the crew at Princeton Architectural Press who decided to showcase those buttons in that way. Ted and I had many different groupings of button-y items to potentially use as splash pages. The editors and designer of this book are all super-clev- er—they also came up with the title. Ted and I had another one in mind, but agree that \"Button Power\" is perfect. I mean, the whole book shows how buttons have historically covered so much—politics, commerce, fashion, grassroots efforts, personal identity. That's powerful for such a small item! The Power of Buttons You mention in the introduction that the book only includes a fraction of the An Interview with Christen Carter buttons that you've encountered. Please describe some of the buttons that you By Tara Betts wanted to include in the book, but couldn't. Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 Christen Carter has been one of the how the devices shape and document There's a small button of Luna Park, a Coney main people at Busy Beaver Button Co. since politics and history with \"Button Power: Island amusement park, from 1905, that was it was established in 1995. In addition to 125 Years of Saying It With Buttons.\" In our just too detailed for the book. It's an actual buttons for bands and everyday clients, the brief exchange, Carter talked about some of photograph that was drawn over and Chicago company has made buttons for the the unique buttons in the book and her hand-colored of the main thoroughfare of the likes of Dunkin' Donuts, Sub Pop records collection, as well as what's next with Busy park. The detail is amazing. Within the and the Women's March. To expand upon a Beaver and the Button Museum, which she spectacle of the park itself, you can see many love and appreciation for the love of buttons co-founded with Joel Carter. people dining, a horse show, even a tightrope that graced shirts, denim jackets and walker! Since Ted and I are serious collectors backpacks, Carter partnered with fellow How did you and Ted arrive at the circle and like going in deep, I'd love to share more button collector Ted Hake to share a visual of buttons describing different types of of the nitty-gritty stuff; the backstories and history of the pin-back button that explores power? Was it a matter of the title context of the buttons and more about the manufacturers. That might be more interesting to collectors, but we have photographs of about 2,500 buttons that didn't make this book. Either way, we have another book in us!  Which buttons did you absolutely have to feature in \"Button Power\"?  So many had to make it. We included some of our personal favorites in the \"About the Authors\" page. My very first button had to be featured, it's of Snoopy and Woodstock on a unicycle while juggling. It's kinda what started my attraction to buttons. Also, Roney's Boys had to make it, they are the first band buttons ever, from 1903. A man from Chicago, Henry B. Roney, would teach wayward kids hymns and they would tour the country. Many groups would be on tour at the same time, playing parties, for inmates and even at the White House. You started the Button Museum in Chicago in 2010. Can you tell us about some of the rare buttons and Chica- 74

LIT TOP 5 go-specific buttons in the collection? to graphically represent the idea in a way 1 A Ritchie Boy by Linda Kass. NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity The museum has a couple of pre-buttons, that is quick to understand and compelling City Lit Books. A historically meaning wearable messages that are part of to wear. And then have them made, and based spy novel, set in 1938 in the lineage getting us to the patent of the pin- distribute the buttons to potential wearers. war-torn Europe. The Ritchie Boys back button in 1896. One is from George The wearer is spreading the message by were young men who served as Washington's inauguration and another from literally standing behind it. Then this item undercover intelligence to help the Abraham Lincoln's 1864 campaign. One of serves as a memento of the time and their Allies during World War II. Linda Kass the most valuable buttons we have features feelings about this idea. Sometimes we get will be in conversation with novelist Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It's rare and more donations at the button museum. It is such Kristin Harmel in a Zoom event. sought after since he's an early Walt Disney a huge honor to learn about what was November 5, 6:30pm character. We had two of the Oswalds, so we important to that person during their life. sold one and bought both the Washington Once, a nun from Detroit who was a social 2 Margaret Atwood: Dearly. and Lincoln pre-buttons with that money. justice activist from the 1960s to 1990s, Chicago Humanities Festival. donated her collection to the museum. Margaret Atwood began her writing Are there buttons that have been elusive Listening to her talk about what they all career as an award-winning poet. Her that you wish you had or could find?  meant was so moving and connecting. latest book, “Dearly,” is a collection of I'd like more suffrage buttons. They made a poems. Atwood reads her poetry and variety of beautifully illustrated buttons that What are you planning next for will be in conversation with Alison are green and purple and while the museum Busy Beaver, the Button Museum Cuddy. This is a ticketed event that has a few great suffrage buttons, none of and \"Button Power?\" will stream on YouTube. this variety. Great question! It's such an odd time to November 8, 6pm make plans, so it feels more like attempts to One compelling aspect of \"Button feel out a plan. At Busy Beaver, we are 3 Lift Every Voice: African Power\" is how it offers accessible digging into our communities more than American Poetry. American insights into American history, and it ever to see how we can help each other out Writers Museum. Celebrate an subtly points out how buttons serve as or just help. These conversations are so anthology edited by Schomburg propaganda to support causes as well meaningful to me right now. Since the Center director Kevin Young with as function as wearable art that reflects physical museum is closed right now, we poets Kevin Young, Billy Branch, the times in which they are created. are adding more and more buttons and Pemon Rami, Roy Kinsey, avery r. Could you talk about that thread?  articles to the website, buttonmuseum.org, young, Emily Hooper Lansana and Buttons allow us to show our values in a where we're up to almost 9,000 buttons. Eve L. Ewing on Chicago Public meaningful, inexpensive way. It's a With the book, I'm curious to see how the Library’s YouTube channel. considered effort for a person or organiza- world receives it after it comes out. I want to November 12, 6pm tion to share ideas to build community. They talk about it with everyone, so hopefully have to come up with a succinct message more of that! 4 Celebrate People’s History! Women and Children First. Josh MacPhee edited a collection of posters arraying visual artists across decades and continents. MacPhee will appear in a virtual author panel. November 12, 7pm 5 American Gun: A Poem by 100 Chicagoans. Guild Complex. An anthology in the form of a book-length pantoum written by a diverse range of Chicago poets addresses gun violence. The event includes editor Chris Green, Nile Lansana, Brenda Cardenas, Jacob Saenz and Julie Parson Nesbitt. November 20, 6pm 75

Music for the Mexican chicken of the trees), played “abusive organ tones” with the now defunct avant-indie rock iconoclasts oh my god, formed his band Them vs. Them with JQ of the Q Brothers, and following that, the synth-fueled Software Giant. He formed “garage cabaret” band The Claudettes in 2010 as an instrumental duo with drummer Michael Caskey (who plays drums and percussion on seven of these twelve tracks), but their last three albums have been as a four-piece, with the addition of Berit Ulseth singing and Zach Verdoorn singing and playing bass. In addition to Junior Wells, Johnny Iguana has also played with a who’s-who of blues legends including Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, James Cotton, Carey Bell, Eddy Clearwater, Lurrie Bell and Billy Branch; he’s played music all over Europe, North and South America, Australia and New Zealand, Indonesia, Japan and the Middle East. Buoyant Blues Iguana has played on Grammy-nominated albums by Wells, “Chicago Blues: A Living Johnny Iguana’s Boogie-Woogie Piano History” and the Muddy Waters 100 Band, Makes Chicago Spectacular and he played all the piano on the 2018 “Chicago Plays the Stones” album. Aside from By Craig Bechtel Wells, he includes in his “major musical inspirations” Otis Spann, Jay McShann, Ray Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 The blues seem custom-fit for 2020, like Chicago Spectacular!” released this August Charles, Mose Allison, Bobby Timmons, Mike a closely tailored suit, measured perfectly, but on Delmark, was recorded in January 2019. Watt, Bob Mould, Joe Strummer and Captain destined to be seen only once, before the It’s hard to imagine Johnny Iguana and his Beefheart. pallbearers close the lid on the casket and ensemble getting such a rich and dynamic lower your coffin six feet under. “live” sound in the 2020 milieu of home On his solo debut, you can best hear his recordings and the digital trading of parts. dexterous piano runs on the instrumentals But rather than a dirge of death and loss, he composed and which positively rock, blues music can be a celebration of the good Although he was born and raised in and his sense of humor is obvious from times and the bad times, the sweet with the Philadelphia as Brian Berkowitz, pianist titles like “Hammer and Tickle,” “Land Of bitter, the crazy, clichéd runaway train that is Johnny Iguana became obsessed with Precisely Three Dances,” “Big Easy Women” life, at one moment a scenic vista sailing Chicago blues at age fifteen, playing all night and “Motorhome.” smoothly on well-oiled wheels and at the next at Philly blues clubs armed with little more moment like a sonic fucking rollercoaster than a fake ID, an ill-fitting sports coat and Yet my favorite tracks feature veteran threatening to fly off the rails and toss you in his fast-moving fingers. He later spent three bluesmen on lead vocals, kicking off with the the middle of cracked concrete rectangles, years touring and recording with Chicago ominous “44 Blues,” a Roosevelt Sykes neglected landscaping and ramshackle legend Junior Wells. composition sung by John Primer. Primer machinery sheds. also sings lead and contributes guitar to Iguana has called Chicago home since 1994, Willie Dixon’s “Down In The Bottom”—novice If you’ve been thinking that the cure for 2020 playing with Stevie Lizard & His All-Reptile blues listeners will recognize lots of Led would be a boogie-woogie blues piano Orchestra in the late nineties (possibly the Zeppelin DNA in the double helix of this one. revival, then you’re not alone, although it’s source of his herpetologically inspired instructive to note that “Johnny Iguana’s moniker, and not illustrative of his fondness Billy Boy Arnold provides vocals and harmoni- ca on Sonny Boy Williamson’s “You’re An Old Lady” and closes the record with “Hot Dog Woman,” originally done by “Big Bill” Broonzy (a founding faculty member of Old Town School of Folk Music). I’m not sure if Arnold chose these or Iguana asked him to perform on them, but between the dismissive “Old Lady” and the worshipful ode to the married “Hot Dog Woman,” whoever came up with this 76

MUSIC TOP 5 idea should page the ghost of Dr. Freud, stat. undergirding the affair like lapping flames. 1 Smashing Pumpkins “Cyr”. Subject matter notwithstanding, both numbers Conversely, his boogie-woogie take on The band’s eleventh studio groove along in old-school blues fashion, and Elmore James’ “Shake Your Moneymaker” release is a massive twenty-track, hops and skips and lurches so much the double-album bonanza. If the title are highlights. single is any indication, expect whole record could derail, much like that defiantly old-school synth-pop. Available November 27 This seems like a good juncture to mention out-of-control roller coaster, but a heckuva lot 2 The Flat Five. “Another that men don’t have a monopoly on the blues, more fun. World”. The beloved five-member supergroup brings but they do on this record. It would have been their often tongue-in-cheek, but great to get a local legend like Mavis Staples or Another Sonny Boy Williamson composition, always earnestly gorgeous, a rising star like Shemekia Copeland (or even the standard “Stop Breaking Down,” gets the harmonies to a new platter of Berit Ulseth of The Claudettes) to sing lead on lead vocal and harmonica treatment from kinda-sorta throwback goodness. Chicago blues veteran Matthew Skoller, with Available November 13 a number originally done by Koko Taylor or Billie Holiday or another female blues legend, Billy Flynn pitching in with an echoing guitar 3 Rob Mazurek & Exploding but perhaps that omission can be addressed part that knows its place (one of his three Star Orchestra. “Dimensional appearances), and Kenny Smith dynamically Stardust\". The legendary cornetist- on Iguana’s next record as a bandleader. composer’s latest is billed by drums (he plays on the five cuts where Chicago label International Anthem as a “potentially career-defining” A local up-and-comer gets a turn leading Gil Caskey doesn’t). album, and features A-list collaborators like hometown Scott-Heron’s “Lady Day And John Col- stalwart Damon Locks. Available trane”—“dive bar soul” singer (and nephew of The blues clearly runs in the Skoller family, as November 20 B.B. King) Phillip-Michael Scales could be the Matthew’s brother, Larry Skoller, a three-time next Ben Harper, if not the next John Legend, Grammy-nominated producer, does a 4 Chris Greene Quartet. masterful balancing job of what could be a “misSPACEd”. A follow-up and his smooth yet soulful lead vocals to the jazz ensemble’s acclaimed NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity mishmash of chaos, were the components 2019 release, “SPACE,” which was demonstrate his passion and talent. On a recorded live at Evanston’s venue record of real “old school” blues this might be placed in less talented hands. As Skoller of that name, this EP features three the most twenty-first-century perspective, but writes in the producer’s notes, although there tracks from the same session. are many traditional blues components, and it Available now it’s still a high point, to the credit of the bare bones trio on this cut—just Iguana on keys, “is a blues album from top to bottom… 5 Rich Kreuger. “The Troth Caskey on percussion and Scales singing and compelling evidence that blues today is vital, Sessions”. A voice and a and still evolving.” It is a welcome sign that guitar—you can’t distill the playing rhythm guitar. alchemical appeal of music much even in 2020, the blues, this language of beyond that; and it’s a formula the pandemic can’t touch. Folk Lil’ Ed’s (of The Blues Imperials) vocals and lament, is still alive and evolving into balladeer Kreuger weaves an astonishing tapestry of story, guitar on Otis Spann’s “Burning Fire” are slow, something celebratory, and provide such a texture and melody on his latest rollicking good time. full-length. Available now simmering and fiery, with Iguana’s piano 77

Stage Jenn Freeman, aka Po'Chop, in \"LITANY\" Ritual and Legacy work, she articulates something I wasn’t able to articulate; she connects the erotic and Burlesque Artist Jenn Freeman|Po'Chop Explores Black spirituality and that they’re one in the same. Femininity and Spirituality in Dance Film \"LITANY\" The erotic can be a source of knowledge and intellect and a compass on how to make By Sharon Hoyer decisions in our life. Once I connected with her, I realized I wanted to create a church Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 Conceptions of sex, spirituality, Blackness The church is a big influence on your that used her work as sacred text. and gender are interrogated, toyed with, and work. Can you talk about how spirituality overturned in the performances and writings and burlesque meet for you? In the last couple years I’ve become of burlesque artist Jenn Freeman, also known The first time I choreographed something was obsessed with a few threads in my work. by the stage name Po'Chop. Like many, for church. My original intention when I Audre Lorde is one of them. When I was Freeman's artistic explorations moved from moved to Chicago was to use dance to developing The People’s Church and the stage to screen during quarantine, taking the become a minister. At the time I was People’s Church of the G.H.E.T.T.O. [at Blanc shape of a five-part dance film collaboration, Christian. Later on, through exploring and Gallery in Bronzeville, September 2019], I \"LITANY,\" in collaboartion with Jordan Phelps reading, I fell away from Christianity, but was focused on using Audre Lorde’s life and and VAM Studio. spirituality was something I needed. work to illuminate other Black women’s life Burlesque helped me create ritual in that way. and work who were rooted in Chicago, One seven-to-ten-minute film Is scheduled to I’m instantly thinking of performance as a specifically Bronzeville. [Cartoonist] Jackie be released each month from August to spiritual exchange. I dance to connect with Ormes was one of those women. Her December, with a culminating presentation in my higher self. aesthetic, her comics and dolls correlated for early 2021. Freeman spoke with us about the me to burlesque. Her aesthetic, particularly genesis of \"LITANY\" and her ongoing creative One of my biggest influences is Audre Lorde, Torchy Brown, is very much vintage, pinup, obsessions. and her essay \"Uses of the Erotic.\" In that curvaceous shape—a lot of the images we see in burlesque. But it struck me that she 78 was presenting Black femininity which a lot of

STAGE TOP 5 times you don’t see in pinup culture. I had Dancemakers Forum. One of the things we 1 We Still Dream: The 5th NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity never seen it before, so when I first saw it, I did was map resources in the city. That Annual Peacebook and literally cried. I think it’s another reason why in activity opened my eyes to the lack of 19th Annual Utopian Ball. my burlesque I stayed away from this vintage resources and venues on the South Side. I Collaboraction's annual fall festival portrayal because I thought it wasn’t for me. wanted to be a part of the solution and not offers ten new plays, monologues, It was important for me to shine light on perpetuate a problem. As well as, honestly, interviews and dance pieces  in two Black women who are overlooked.w wanting to be surrounded by majority Black online programs, on themes of people. I moved to Bronzeville and about the peace and social change. \"LITANY\" is a culmination of my work up and same time was introduced to the book Through November 14 to this point. \"Torchy’s Togs\" [the first chapter “Lifting as They Climbed,” a self-guided tour of \"LITANY\"] was created between 2017 to book that highlights Black women whose 2 It Can't Happen Here. 2019 and the other sections are past works legacies are tied to buildings on Chicago’s Berkeley Rep partners with I’ve revisited and reimagined to make sense South Side, which is how I found Jackie nearly a hundred theater companies for film. And the title \"LITANY\" is a huge Ormes. nationwide to present a free shoutout to a poem of Audre Lorde’s called radio-play adaptation of Sinclair “A Litany For Survival.” We use that poem in I'd like to ask you about working on film. Lewis' prescient 1935 novel about a the church as a prayer. In burlesque—and ministry—the demagogue rising to the highest feedback is direct. Of course film is very office in the United States. Can you talk about your relationship to different. How has working in this Through November 8 your chosen materials, brown paper medium been for you? and burlap? To premiere work this way where there isn’t 3 LITANY. Burlesque artist Jenn I was drawn to burlap initially because in any feedback, it’s been good for me. It forces Freeman, aka Po'Chop, along burlesque materials are super-important and me to validate myself. It forces me to reflect with Jordan Phelps of VAM Studios, the initial impression they make. There’s an on why I created the film and refill my own takes inspiration from Audre Lorde, expectation of rhinestones and glamor. Out well. Filming \"LITANY\" was the easy part, in historic Black women who called the gate I hated it. Folks don’t understand some ways. Jordan Phelps and I filmed about Bronzeville home, and an ongoing that each of those stones are put on by hand. a month into quarantine, it was just me and exploration of queerness, Blackness For something to be encrusted in rhinestones him, no crew, and we could work at our own and spirituality in a five-part dance it’s a huge sign of money and labor. For me it pace. One thing is that it’s tiring. I’m used to film, with new chapters each month pulls the audience out of the moment and giving 120 percent in front of a live audience. through the end of 2020. creates an illusion of something I’m not In live theater, you get one shot. In film it’s like, Through January 2021 interested in doing. For me burlap was the \"we gotta do that a few more times.\" That was opposite of that. Brown paper came into play hard, doing multiple takes. 4 A War of the Worlds. with my artistic process, which begins with Theatre in the Dark relocates thought bubbles and maps and jotting things What can we expect to see in the next H.G. Wells' famous tale of space down. I think it’s also a reflection of how I chapters of \"LITANY\"? invaders to twenty-first century grew up in a rural, middle-class environment. They’re the same things I’ve been exploring Chicago in an audio drama that pays Those materials are pretty accessible. for months: spirituality, femininity, space, homage to Orson Welles' legendary, connection, legacy. Each of the dates the panic-inducing 1938 broadcast. You mentioned the importance of the films are released are connected to some Through November 21  Bronzeville neighborhood and Black sort of important personal or historical dates. women who call Bronzeville home. And The first chapter was released the date 5 Cerqua Rivera Dance you also call Bronzeville home. Torchy Brown was printed for the first time. Theatre Fall Concert. I’ve lived in Chicago since 2003. Up until five The contemporary dance and years ago I lived only on the North Side. Then All chapters of \"LITANY\" can be streamed original jazz performance company I attended the Regional Dance Development for free as they are released at itspochop. livestreams a concert of timely and Initiative hosted by the Chicago com/litany. topical short works touching on immigration, community, gender identity and the pandemic. November 5-7 79

Reviews Malangatana Ngwenya. “Do You Remember Those Who Entered Bleeding (Lembras-te daqueles que entravam a sangrar),” 1974/75. Malangatana Valente Ngwenya Foundation, Maputo, Mozambique

Art drawings Malangatana made while as its national and historical context, Reviews The Art of Emancipation imprisoned in 1965, accused of charting his path as an artist alongside A Review of Malangatana at the Art Institute involvement with the Mozambique developments in Mozambican history as This fall, visitors can encounter, perhaps Liberation Front (FRELIMO). The they directly appear in his life and work. for the first time, the visually striking and politically charged paintings of Mozambi- pen-and-pencil drawings are some of “Malangatana: Mozambique Modern” is a can artist Malangatana Ngwenya strong and eye-opening display of an (1936–2011), a central figure in modern the exhibition’s most haunting works, African arts, although not widely known depicting the treatment of men confined artist at the intersection of visual abroad. Malangatana’s works are experimentation and colonial emancipa- transfixing; at once recognizable, in the state prison. Leading to and recalling the visual languages of modern tion. (Cecília Resende Santos) avant-gardes, and intensely original, accompanying the drawings are two developing local themes and narratives in a wholly idiosyncratic style. “Malanga- poems written by Malangatana, another tana: Mozambique Modern” is the highlight of the show. The first appears “Malangatana: Mozambique Modern” artist’s first solo show in a major is on view at the Art Institute of American museum, presenting works in a copy of the influential pan-African from 1960 to 1975, the year of Mozam- Chicago, 111 South Michigan, bique’s independence.Much of the literary journal “Black Orpheus,” sug- exhibition focuses on how circumstanc- through November 16. es in colonial Mozambique, and then the gesting Malangatana’s connections to liberation movement, appear in Malan- gatana’s life and work. (The artist was broader currents in the region. For the Continuously Becoming commonly known by his first name.) The show traces his career from early searching eye, these links appear A Review of Nine Lives at the paintings, often featuring narrative scenarios permeated by the social throughout the exhibition, in the institutions and material symbols of mentions of the Mozambican poet José Renaissance Society Mozambican society, to increasingly dense and graphically composed works Craveirinha, the artist’s supporters in dealing directly with the struggle for Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), and I thought I knew what to expect when independence. But the exhibition entering “Nine Lives” at The Renais- generally avoids reducing the artist to his the role of FRELIMO leader Eduardo context; the selection of works and the sance Society, one exhibition of many text emphasize the development of his Mondlane in divulging his work. distinct style and his judicious view of life that have opened around the country as and culture in colonial Mozambique. The show’s structure is rather traditional, an The prison drawings also prefigure a part of the Feminist Art Coalition. I understandable choice considering the unfamiliarity of the themes and the poor transformation in Malangatana’s looked forward to seeing a collection of representation of modern African artists in major American museums. paintings toward tighter, more graphic works that were by all female or The exhibition starts with a set of compositions, merging foreground and non-binary artists, or that perhaps paintings depicting a secret exchange of background onto a single pictorial plane. embodied a feminist ideology, which letters from a woman to her lover via her they did. It was much more than that, as husband’s hat (“Story of the Letter in the The latest works on view show wide- Hat I–IV,” 1960). The set exemplifies the eyed faces and entanglements of human each piece was so varied in its message, qualities of Malangatana’s early work: each artist putting forth an experience beguiling pictures that seem almost and nonhuman bodies, alternately oneiric, appearing to encode real both singular and authentic. No two structures and events within fictional, suggesting violence, camaraderie and surreal or abstracted scenes. This melancholy in the events leading up to experiences are alike, and these diverse interpretation of reality through a highly independence. Crowning the exhibition’s works, each a window into a specific personal and allegorical perspective identity, reveals to us an intersectional continues throughout his career. narrative arc, “The Cry of Freedom” Although in some instances the exhibi- (1973) is a monumental, dense arrange- feminism, one that acknowledges the tion text appears to reach for symbolic needs and differences that come with political meaning, it generally resists ment of vividly colored monsters, simplistic interpretations, leaving room animals, people and weapons, the kind different identities. for uncertainty and ambivalence in Malangatana’s depiction of colonial of work one can examine for hours in All of the works in the exhibition, structures and of local native or tradition- al practices. search of meanings and historical whether video, installation, painting or The transition to explicit anticolonial interpretations. While often referring poetry, function like a portrait; they themes is embodied in a series of explicitly to moments in the liberation portray a person’s identity and experi- struggle, with titles such as “25 of ence—some more literally than others. September II” (1968), the paintings preserve the sense of psychological and Toyin Ojih Odutola’s “In the Drawing symbolic charge of Malangatana’s early Room” is the first piece you encounter: a moody, intimate portrait of a Black work. The result is enthralling. I was woman, her head resting on her hand in particularly captivated by “Do You a worried posture. Nearby, Elle Pérez’s Remember Those Who Entered Bleeding” (1974/75), a compact plane of photograph “Mae (three days after)” sinuous anthropomorphic figures who, shows a close up of Mae, who pulls back a scarf to reveal a scar on their embracing each other, look out with a neck and faded bruising around the mix of loss, stupor and sorrow. eyes. Although the viewer does not have As full and compelling as it is, and as further context, we can assume that this satisfying its progression, the exhibit’s photo was taken post-gender-reassign- conclusion at independence leaves you ment surgery. Just beyond these works wanting more. What was Malangatana is a large-scale painting of a woman up to between 1975 and his passing in lying on the ground. In Aliza Nisen- 2011? The wall text mentions his work baum’s “Kayhan Reading the New York on state-funded murals, his roles in the Times (Resistance Begins at Home),” the woman looks despondent, eyes NOVEMBER 2020 Newcity new government and international organizations, and his legacy in Mozam- glazed over as she attempts to read one bican arts and culture, but it would have of many newspapers that surround her been interesting to see images of works on the floor—as overwhelmed by the news as we are today. What do these from the almost forty years after the pieces have in common except for a liberation. figure as their subjects? The takeaway: Ultimately, the exhibition’s focused look why look for the similarities? We must into the first fifteen years of Malangata- take into consideration the elements na’s career succeeds in introducing both that form each individual, like race and his original style and perspective as well gender identity, which shape their 81

Reviews experiences in the world—and note that again in the work of Huong Ngô. Ngô’s race, gender identity, sexual orientation identifying as female changes things still. work, “It was her handwriting that and the differently abled body. A ultimately gave her away,” covers an multitude of factors inform who we are, Contrasting the figurative works were entire wall with pieces of paper, some all of which change throughout time and many rooted in text. Across from with text from letters written by Vietnam- depend on our surroundings. We are not “Kayhan Reading” is a pile of physical ese anti-colonial activist Nguyên Thi the same person in every situation. newspapers that visitors can take with Minh, and others with text written in Sometimes we code-switch to assimi- them. These newspapers, titled invisible ink. A stunning, largely mono- late to our environment, other times we “American Ledger no. 3,” by Raven chromatic installation, the work gor- tone down a part of ourselves for our Chacon, include the headline “LYNCH geously interprets the aesthetics of own safety. We are at the same time LAW AND THE COLOR LINE.” Here, the censorship and correspondence. How singular and many, reinventing ourselves artist has written a new musical score does one visualize a conversation and continuously becoming. Even along with words from anti-lynching between two people? How can standing amongst the works in “Nine activist and suffragist Ida B. Wells, thoughts and notes within pieces of Lives,” the subjects become someone originally published in 1893. A smart and historical research, such as the letters else to me and I become someone else challenging piece, Chacon brings forth and books of Thi Minh, be shown? As in relation to them. Together, the artists histories that are difficult to confront and Chacon’s piece aims to realize contest- in the exhibition have recognized the rarely taught, multiplying the power of ed history through the production of individual experience of each subject these words by printing them hundreds words, Ngô erased the words, compel- while at the same time acknowledging of times in these stacked newspapers. ling us to give careful attention to what that their identities are elusive, transient Perhaps the more these words are read, has been hidden from us. and evolutionary. (Christina Nafziger) the less this history will be ignored. Language and its aesthetics are The works in “Nine Lives” embody Nine Lives, through November 14 at the reconfigured in Chacon’s work and female experiences that are shaped by Renaissance Society, 5811 South Ellis. COLLABORATIVE | PRENUPTIAL FAMILY | DIVORCE | MEDIATION Strategic support, creative guidance, effective leadership: these are the qualities Newcity NOVEMBER 2020 we offer our clients as they work PHONE through their challenges. AND VIDEO CONSULTATIONS AVA I L A B L E . CALL CHICAGO & EVANSTON TODAY. 847-733-0933 | [email protected] BrigitteBell.com | BrigitteSchmidtBellPC 82

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