Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago. Not only does the self-styled evangelist who goes by the name Brother Hollis habitually quote the Bible, he also dresses in accordance with scripture. His daily all-white look is inspired by a verse in Revelation 3:4: “They shall walk with me in white, for they are worthy.” “I’m trying to live righteously,” Hollis says, “and wearing white reminds me to do everything with a sincere heart....

It seems like only yesterday, but nearly ten years have passed since the day I was talking politics on a radio show and an editor from a competing paper made a confession that almost sent me to the floor.

Read Deanna Isaacs’s column on Hillel Levin and Assassination Theater here. And so it’s once more to the grassy knoll and the Zapruder film, as the two men walk us through a multimedia presentation designed to poke holes in the Warren Commission Report (the official 1964 postmortem) and propose an alternative explanation involving ruthless mob bosses arranging to have Dealey Plaza overrun with hit men. Mitchell and Ulrich are assisted by Anthony Churchill’s sophisticated media design, which incorporates a slew of archival documents and images....

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, May 31, 2017. Obama Foundation names museum director for upcoming presidential center The Obama Foundation has named Louise Bernard as museum director of the Obama Presidential Center. Bernard is currently the director of exhibitions at the New York Public Library and helped develop the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. She has a PhD in African-American Studies and American Studies from Yale University....

Something Wild In this week’s issue, J.R. Jones reviewed A Master Builder, the new movie by Jonathan Demme. Pauline Kael once wrote that “you have to feel your way through” a Demme movie, and that’s true. Visually, his films are rather plain, but they’re deceptively impressionistic, specifically in the way they evoke the emotions of their characters via competent and intentionally austere composition and staging. With Demme, he’s most profound when he’s at his least stylish, an intriguing paradox that occasionally results in some unremarkable films (Rachel Getting Married, Philadelphia, The Manchurian Candidate)....

Salvatore Di Nolfi / AP Photos Italian tennis player Fabio Fognini, shown here in September, made an obscene gesture to the crowd after a match this week—or maybe it was someone else. Good copy editing would make it clear. Thomas Friedman writing in the Wednesday New York Times: Here’s proof that no story can be too short to be confusing. Who made the obscene gesture, Fognini or Chuhan? If you think it was probably Fognini, well, so do I, but the construction of the sentence doesn’t give us a clue....

Hilariously raunchy gay rapper Big Dipper has lived in Los Angeles for years now, but the Chicago-born MC retains his hometown pride. On Friday, August 24, he’ll release his first full-length album, Late Bloomer (almost seven years after his debut single, “Drip Drop”), and among the guests who appear on it are locals such as drag star Shea Couleé (who was on season nine of RuPaul’s Drag Race) and Air Credits front man ShowYouSuck....

Roughly one in every nine acts on the Riot Fest lineup comes from Chicago, so if you circulate in Douglas Park all weekend you’re going to see some locals whether you mean to or not. But I’ll be honest: This far into festival season, I’m tired of talking about bands. So I’m going to treat these ten acts as though they were peanut butter. I’d like to see you stop me!...

Felicia Day calls herself “situationally famous,” and those situations are absurdly specific. The actor/writer/producer can walk around in most public places with anonymity intact, but the closer she gets to an epicenter of geek culture, like a comic book store or a video game convention, the higher the chance is that she’ll be mobbed by fans. There’s also a “huge barista recognition factor—75 percent,” she notes. I still feel anxiety and social awkwardness in daily life....

It’s been almost a week since Governor Rauner was outed for attending—maybe even officiating—the wedding of a gay friend. For all I know Four Weddings and a Funeral—where that poem plays a key role—is Rauner’s favorite movie of the 90s. First he supports HB 40—the abortion rights bill—and now gay marriage! What’s next, the abolition of ICE? In 2015, when he was governor of Indiana, Pence signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, an abominable attempt to legitimize discrimination against gays on the grounds that you can’t compel someone to serve someone if it violates their religious convictions....

Doctor Who 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.

Of the dozens of shows I’ll see this summer, I’ve looked forward most to this outdoor concert by Senegalese national hero Youssou N’Dour. Born in 1959 to a griot mother and a car mechanic father, he began singing publicly at age 12 and has since become the most beloved voice in Africa. As a teenager in the mid-70s, he joined Dakar’s biggest group, the Star Band, formed in 1960 to celebrate Senegal’s independence....

Dude Incredible Chicago-based postpunk trio Shellac, who play at Lincoln Hall this Sunday and Monday, have just announced details for their long-awaited new LP, Dude Incredible (no comma, “like Sir Duke or King Friday,” the Touch and Go Records website explains), their first since 2007’s Excellent Italian Greyhound. Fronted by legendary recording engineers and studio rats Steve Albini and Bob Weston, Shellac formed 22 years ago, and have since made incredibly minimal, rhythmic, aggressive art-punk on their terms alone....

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, January 24, 2016. CPD warns officers after “Make America Great Again” hat spotted in vehicle during inauguration protests A pro-President Trump “Make America Great Again” hat was spotted on the dashboard of a parked Chicago Police Department vehicle during the Inauguration Day protests Friday, even though on-duty officers are banned from participating in politics. Police leaders are reminding cops about the rules that prohibiting “participating in any partisan political campaign or activity,” according to a police spokesman....

UIC Peter Hales I was sitting in front of a Peter Hales photograph earlier this week when I came upon the Chicago Tribune obituary page and learned that he’d been killed when hit by a car while riding his bicycle.

Not long ago, TV was said to be rotting our brains, shrinking our attention spans, blunting our emotions, and alienating us from one another, even as it promised to connect us to the wide world. Today, of course, the very same concerns surround the Internet and its ubiquitous delivery methods—laptops, tablets, and, especially, mobile phones (television, meanwhile, has entered a much-ballyhooed “golden age”). West’s protagonist, whose real name is never given, is a young newspaperman in New York....

Jessica Koscielniak/Sun-Times The media know more than we do about the accusations against Dan Rutherford (pictured above). We like to think of journalism as a simple craft: snoop around, ask questions, find stuff out, and shove it out there for the public to make of it what the public will. Was this attempted extortion? Was it an attempt to settle a legitimate grievance in a way that wouldn’t embarrass Rutherford?...

Gossip Wolf wishes a happy second anniversary to the women of Party Noire, whose monthly daytime bash at the Promontory was voted the Reader‘s Best Dance Party last year. Organizers Nick Alder, Lauren Ash, and Rae Chardonnay have also produced a short film and hosted other events, among them parties in New York and a Jamila Woods record release at Double Door. On Saturday, September 9, they celebrate two years of Party Noire with an evening at the Promontory whose slate of killer DJs includes Chardonnay, Lisa Decibel, and Twelve45....