Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.

Five women storm the stage. Over the loudspeaker Philadelphia-bred rapper Khia sings of her neck and her back and two specific parts of her nether regions while the ladies hump the air and pound the walls—one even does a handstand. They’re Super Human, and before they even get to the improv they’re amazing. Every show is different, and every sketch within it is informed by either the theme or an audience suggestion—and sometimes by both....

Access to Chicago’s lakefront Museum Campus has been dreadful forever. Isolated by the no-man’s-land of Lake Shore Drive, the campus’s three great museums—the Adler, the Field, and the Shedd—sit apart from the city, remote as castles across a dangerous moat. It’s an inconvenience we’ve tolerated, like the weather. It hasn’t been the city’s most pressing problem. This caught the attention of Friends of the Parks, which has opposed putting the Lucas Museum on the campus....

Michael Gebert Don Curry and the Southern Pitch food truck Don Curry hands me a business card from MacCormac College, a business college in the Loop where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship. Frankly, though, his commitment to the idea of entrepreneurship, especially for African-Americans in Chicago, was already pretty apparent—as unmissable as the 25-foot-long food truck he’s standing in front of, decorated with images of Negro League players like Satchel Paige and Rube Foster and old newspaper stories about long-ago games....

After a drought of more than a year, today Andersonville has a record store once again. Sure, you can buy music at Transistor, as well as at several of the resale shops in the area, but Rattleback Records (located at 5405 N. Clark) is the first dedicated record store in the neighborhood since Borderline Music closed its storefront and went online-only in July 2017. Contrary to popular belief (OK, contrary to my belief), the store’s name has nothing to do with rattlesnakes....

Courtesy the artist Mikel Patrick Avery Mikel Patrick Avery is one of Chicago’s more talented and curious jazz percussionists, a musician who frequently departs from his mainstream foundations to participate in all kinds of unusual projects—whether playing the homemade instruments built by repurposing carpenter and sculptor John Preus or contributing to the single-chord drones of Joshua Abrams’s Natural Information Society. One of his most interesting and entertaining projects emerged earlier this year—something he calls “Music for ½ Size Piano....

With Detroit, her latest feature, director Kathryn Bigelow has done something unusual: she’s made a film that fits all the criteria for what a “Kathryn Bigelow movie” should be, yet one that doesn’t much feel like a “Kathryn Bigelow movie.” Like several of Bigelow’s other feature-length efforts, Detroit is a critique of both institutional corruption and law enforcement as well as an examination of masculinity. But tonally and structurally the work feels like the product of a different director—until the credits rolled and the onscreen text read “Directed by Kathryn Bigelow,” I wondered whether I was seeing something helmed by someone else entirely....

The Romanian New Wave—encompassing such minimalist, socially rigorous dramas as The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005); 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007); and Police, Adjective (2009)—has put Romanian cinema on the map. But as this three-day interdisciplinary festival suggests, that’s not all the country has to offer cinephiles. Presented by Facets Cinematheque and the nonprofit Romanian Cultural Exchange, the marathon includes four recent Romanian features, as well as a cocktail party, various talks, two theater performances in Romanian, and a program of short videos by local artists....

Last June New York pianist Matthew Shipp played a rare trio concert in Chicago, delivering a scorching, tightly coiled set at Constellation with bassist Michael Bisio and drummer Whit Dickey. He’s been a semiregular presence in the city as a solo artist, but a rhythm section brings out a different side of his playing—more propulsive and springy. The context gives a lift to his jagged lines and dense harmonies—they seem to take flight—while the extra harmonic muscle of a bassist lends a richness to his dark chords and glassy runs....

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, July 24, 2017. Chris Kennedy discusses Kennedy family history with gun violence Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Kennedy opened up about his family’s history with gun violence while introducing policy proposals Saturday. Kennedy is the son of former U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy and the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who were both tragically assassinated by gunmen in the 1960s. One of the Kennedy’s proposals is to add 2,000 new Chicago police officers, and he says the increased safety is worth a tax increase....

There’s still time to catch “The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics” at Columbia College’s Museum of Contemporary Photography. But not a lot of time: the show of seldom-seen work by this black gay artist and educator whose collages captured the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s closes December 21. Unfinished Collage, in the first of the two galleries the exhibit occupies, is unmissable, in part because it’s a suspended triptych....

Marisol Opened 9/8 Wouldn’t it be a rich reward to cook at the Museum of Contemporary Art? That’s what’s happening to chef Jason Hammel, who’s been rewarding his guests at Logan Square pioneer Lula Cafe since 1999. The new space will be designed by Chris Ofili, an artist best known for painting with elephant poo; whatever he does to it, Marisol will be an intellectually exercising place to eat. Hammel’s food will “incorporate vibrant vegetables and handmade pastas, alongside meticulously sourced meat and seafood,” according to an anonymous source on the restaurant’s landing page....

Not everything is about roses and candy hearts this week. If you’re looking for some non-Valentine’s things to do, here’s some of what we recommend:

The Bow Moebius, the newest film from controversial South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, is currently screening at Facets Cinematheque, and J.R. Jones has a capsule review in this week’s paper. In his review, Jones writes “the content is audacious, to be sure, but so is the form; the entire story transpires without a single word of dialogue, and this strategy isolates and heightens the ugly physical urges at work. This is not for the faint of heart, but to Kim’s credit, it’s not for the faint of mind either....

Osteria Langhe, the Piemontese restaurant in Logan Square where David McCabe tends bar, has been serving snails in pastry shells with beurre blanc since it opened in 2014. Until recently, though, McCabe had little to do with the gastropods, leaving them to the restaurant’s chefs. But when Christopher Marty of Best Intentions challenged him to create a cocktail with escargot (or lumache, as they’re called in Italian), McCabe had some planning to do....

Sam Long Son of a Gun Looking for something to do today? Agenda‘s got you covered. For more on these events and others, check out the Reader‘s daily Agenda page.

These days there seems to be a bottomless well of young guitarists exploring the paths blazed by American Primitive master John Fahey and his adherents, who included Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, and Peter Walker. Recent reissues of old private-press recordings suggest there were even more folks following Fahey’s lead in the 60s and 70s than listeners might’ve known, but I still think it’s safe to say we’re in the midst of a second golden era of fingerstyle guitar....

Vocalist Sir Charles Jones is one of the leading lights in contemporary southern soul-blues. He comports himself well in the dance-floor workouts and celebrations of down-home cultural identity that are typical of the genre (2008’s “I Came to Party” and 2012’s “Good Old Country Boy” are good examples), but his true metier is the pleading, lovelorn ballad. His latest album, The Masterpiece, which he self-released on his Southern King Entertainment label, contains a few run-of-the-mill hoochie-man boasts, such as “Wherever I Lay My Bone,” but he redeems them with some of the finest ballads he’s ever recorded, including “Destiny,” which features a neo-Barry White, sex-machine-with-a-heart-of-gold spoken narration, and “Squeeze Me,” a broken-hearted plea from an unsatisfied lover....

The Hunting Accident by David L. Carlson and Landis Blair The Hunting Accident is the story of how Charlie Rizzo uncovered the story of his father Matt’s friendship with his Stateville Prison cellmate Nathan Leopold, of Leopold and Loeb infamy. Carlson wrote that story down, and Blair illustrated it, and now it’s a handsome doorstop of a graphic novel that Mary Schmich will help introduce to the world. Tue 9/19, 7 PM, Unabridged Bookstore, 3251 N....

Now in its fourth year, the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events’ OnEdge series returns with a month of experimental theater and dance shows that examine the intersections of identity, history, psychology, and more, all through an unconventional lens. OnEdge kicks off on February 23 with Swiss choreographer Marie-Caroline Hominal’s dance performance The Triumph of Fame, running through February 25 at Dfbrl8r Gallery. Rather than showing the piece before a traditional audience, Hominal pulls one spectator to the stage for 20 minutes at a time, from 5 to 10 PM, for an intimate one-on-one performance....