© U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM/PHOTO BY HEINRICH HOFFMANN Hitler Election Poster, 1932 Captivate your corneas with some artistic treasures this weekend. Here’s what’s going down in visual arts. “Ten x Ten 2013” at Saki Artists are paired with musicians to explore the relationship between color and sound, resulting in a fine-art screen print and a composition for small ensemble. Today’s your final opportunity to see it. “Ghost Town” at Peanut Gallery The final day to view Sean Hernandez’s exhibit, a “narrative” about a fictional town called Howlin’ Creek that’s told through drawings, prints, and animation....

One of the most colorful and fluid rapper-singers to emerge from Chicagoland in the past few years built a foundation for his career on baseball. Tobi Adeyemi, who records and performs as Tobi Lou, started the decade as a professional ballplayer; he was an outfielder for the Joliet Slammers during their 2011 season. “I was making like $600 a month and living at my parent’s house,” he told DJ Booth earlier this year....

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Sebastian Biedron Chicago Food Social 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.

A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. “Ted Williams was a handsome man; that’s why he pops up in my art a lot. He was crazier than all get-go. He had a foul mouth. Oh, man, he had a potty mouth. He was probably a borderline personality. But he was a really good baseball player, and he was really handsome. He was really obsessed with hitting....

Baritone saxophonist Josh Sinton first played with bassist Jason Ajemian and drummer Chad Taylor in the 90s when they lived in Chicago, but they never formed a combo until recently, when they reconnected in New York. Taking their name from a slang term for a jazz cat coined decades ago by saxophonist Sidney Bechet, the trio have put out a superb debut album, Slow Learner (out Friday on Iluso), that sounds like they’ve been a band for much longer than they have....

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

Gender Breakdown, Collaboraction’s angry and absorbing ensemble piece about inequity in the theater community, is rooted in something equally dramatic, but a lot drier: a ten-month research project undertaken by Kay Kron, an actor, writer, and, currently, development associate at Chicago Children’s Theatre, as the “capstone” project for the DePaul University master’s degree in nonprofit management she’ll complete this year. Even allowing for the likely conservative tilt of the Jeff-nomination filter, those numbers are revealing: 75 percent of the plays produced in Chicago in 2015-2016 were written by men....

Ann Nessa Hal Russell Some of my greatest experiences with live music came courtesy of the eccentric multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Hal Russell, whose work with his NRG Ensemble brought gonzo wit, fierce improvisation, and boundless energy to performance after performance. During the late 80s and early 90s, the group was a fixture at the great subterranean bar Lower Links, playing madcap sets that generated laughter as much as awe. As an observer of the local free-jazz and improvised-music scene, I feel Russell’s importance to what came in his wake over the last couple of decades is undiminished....

It’s one of Chicago’s eternal complaints: food writers ignore the south side. Actually, I think the culinary coverage south of Madison Street is better than it used to be, with neighborhoods from Pilsen to Bridgeport to Chinatown now known as booming, hip dining-out neighborhoods. Little Village goals Little Village is well worth a visit—though most things there should be eaten fresh off the grill in a restaurant, not taken away. What travels best would probably be the tortas from Doña Torta....

Screening at the Wilmette Theatre and AMC River East, this eight-film series showcases recent movies from east Asia, with an emphasis on popular genres. South Korea is represented by Cold Eyes, a suspense story about a surveillance team assigned to catch a group of bank robbers; one of the country’s biggest hits of 2013, it reportedly features some fantastic chase sequences. From Hong Kong there’s Women Who Flirt, a breezy rom-com that marks a change of pace for writer-director Pang Ho-Cheung (Vulgaria), the country’s king of gross-out humor, and Lost and Love, which features superstar Andy Lau as a father in mainland China who spends 15 years searching for his abducted child (the latter film was shot by renowned cinematographer Mark Lee Ping Bing, who’s worked with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Wong Kar-Wai)....

It’s fitting that the Democratic reversal on school funding occurred on the eve of the Mayweather-McGregor bout. For the last few years, almost every Democrat in the state—especially the ones running for governor—has called for more progressivity in school funding, generally in the form of a progressive income tax, as opposed to the current flat tax. As I write this, it’s unclear what’s in the fine print, but the tax credits would amount to about $75 million a year for the next five years, or $375 million total....

Wednesday, August 30 Jazz Institute of Chicago Jazz Club Tour 6 PM till midnight, multiple venues (Andy’s, Green Mill, Jazz Showcase, Constellation, Hungry Brain, M Lounge, Old Town School of Folk Music, Norman’s Bistro, the Quarry, Rosa’s Lounge, Reggie’s Rock Club roof deck, Red Peppers Lounge, Winter’s Jazz Club, V75, Some Like It Black), jazzinchicago.org/jazzfest/jazz-club-tour, $50 ($40 for members), 21+ Thursday, August 31 Afterfest jam sessions hosted by Ira Sullivan with Marc Berner, Stu Katz, Larry Gray, and Greg Artry 9 PM, Jazz Showcase, 806 S....

Photo Courtesy of Ken Ellis, Taken by Gavin Morrison Bowie at Neo in August 1980 with Noni Martin and Noe Boudreau As much as David Bowie exuded his own charisma, he understood how fashion could be harnessed to magnify his power and presence: an Alexander McQueen Union Jack coat, faux-punk finery dotted with cigarette burns; or a black jumpsuit by Kansai Yamamoto sporting flared legs and thick grooves, making the wearer appear like some kind of anthropomorphic vinyl record....

Superb Bay Area trumpeter Darren Johnston has been a regular visitor to Chicago for nearly a decade, and over that time he’s fortified his connection to the local improvised music scene. Last year he dropped three recordings, two of them featuring Chicagoans. On Neutral Nation (Aerophonic), saxophonist Dave Rempis sparred with him and veteran Bay Area reedist Larry Ochs of the Rova Sax Quartet, unfurling high-energy improvisation in patient, gritty arcs....

If the brass behind the Grammys really wanted their Bee Gees tribute to be an uproarious sensation rather than a limp nonstory, they should have ditched Little Big Town for Detroit DJ and producer Kelli Hand, aka K-Hand. The B side of her newest 12-inch, Project 6 EP (released on her long-running Acacia Records), kicks off with an edit of Melba Moore’s version of the Bee Gees’ “You Stepped Into My Life....

It’s lucky Wale Nubi wore the same shoe size as his older brothers because, when he was a teenager growing up in Nigeria, they would send him their cast-off designer shoes from London, kick-starting his love of fashion. He was an IT consultant for Fortune 500 companies, selling shoes from the trunk of his car as his side hustle, when the timing was finally right to open his Hyde Park store, Jojayden, in 2016....

On a visit to Chicago one summer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, riding on the Dan Ryan, saw for the first time the dilapidated, high-rise public housing projects stretching beside the expressway. The projects were a “moral disaster,” he thought, not just for the residents but also for “the metropolis of commuters who drove by, each day, and with their quiet acquiescence tolerated such a thing.” Coates clearly doesn’t mince words in his stories....

ANIMATION According to the online bookmakers, the odds-on favorite to win this year’s Oscar for best animated short film is Alan Barillaro’s Piper (6 min.), an adorable frolic in which a baby sandpiper discovers the ocean as a source of food and fun. Created by Pixar, this pixel-perfect short was distributed last summer as an opening attraction for the studio’s monster hit Finding Dory, which grossed more than a billion dollars worldwide; that means Piper was seen by more than four times as many people as have seen La La Land, the top-grossing nominee for best picture....