Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Wednesday, March 22, 2017. Police search for men who allegedly gang-raped teen girl on Facebook Live The Chicago Police Department is searching for a group of men who allegedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl and streamed it on Facebook Live, according to USA Today. One suspect is in custody, and police believe the attackers are minors who knew the victim, alderman Michael Scott Jr....

On Saturday, July 15, the Silver Room Block Party turned 53rd Street in Hyde Park into a giant outdoor festival, overflowing with live music, pop-up art exhibits, spontaneous dance parties, and vendors selling food, books, clothes, and tchotchkes. Now in its 14th year (and its second year on the south side, after relocating from Wicker Park), the block party had something for everyone. Photographer April Alonso and videographer Morgan Elise Johnson went to Hyde Park to soak up the fun, and they’ve shared their views of this day filled with joy....

Dogville Lars von Trier’s two-part epic Nymphomaniac can finally be viewed in proper now that both volumes are in theaters and on VOD. As is usually the case with a new Von Trier movie, the film’s reputation preceded it, arousing controversy for the unsimulated and graphic sex that was to take place onscreen. (And who could forget about this guy?) As the conclusion to his supposed “Depression Trilogy,” which also includes Antichrist and Melancholia, the film is yet another patented Von Trier provocation, the latest in a long line of films that concurrently infuriate and fascinate audiences and critics....

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi follows his masterful A Separation (2011) with another elaborate moral puzzle, though as his first film to be shot in France, this is notably devoid of the Islamic fundamentalism that figured so heavily in the earlier drama. Patient, empathetic Samir (Tahar Rahim) travels from Tehran to Paris to finalize his divorce from short-tempered Marie (Berenice Bejo); after lodging in her home, he gets pulled into an anguished drama involving her and her new fiance, Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa), as well as the man’s resentful young son and Marie’s angry teenage daughter....

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

Update: The photographer whose work is featured in “To Perform, To Conceal” is anonymous no longer—she’s been identified as the digital artist Molly Soda. Still, the more Young pored over the collection, the more he felt that something ought to be done with it. Coincidentally, Crowded House, a new gallery in Lincoln Square, had reached out to him about curating a show. He took it as a challenge. Reception Sat 2/8, 7-10 PM Through 2/28 Crowded House Gallery 4919 N....

On a recent episode of the improv podcast Spontaneanation with Paul F. Tompkins, comedian Tawny Newsome aired some grievances about her time at Second City in Chicago. She said that up until at least 2012, the final year she was a part of the ensemble, female performers were required to wear dresses. That was difficult because improv is all about moving around, losing yourself in a scene, not worrying if a skirt will fly up, showing off bits you might not want to show off....

Deanna Isaacs Erika Rothenberg, Greetings IV, 1992 (detail) The art may be pricey, but the humor was free at Expo Chicago—and the more than 30,000 people who attended this year saw plenty of it. Among the notables: onetime University of Chicago student Erika Rothenberg’s fearlessly sardonic “greeting cards,” at the Zolla/Lieberman Gallery booth. Created in the 1990s and still relevant, they go for about $4,000 each (framed), so you probably won’t be mailing them off to casual friends on birthdays....

A first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. “I had to tell the daughter, ‘I don’t think your mom should be driving.’ And you could see in the mother’s eyes that it just killed her. It’s taking away her freedom. But I would rather see her mad at me than going out there and getting killed or killing somebody.

AP Photo/M. Spencer Green Governor Pat Quinn pushed for tax hikes despite the political risks. “Bigger government means more corruption,” Bruce Rauner says. Rauner’s not as clever, but he certainly endorses the Reagan sentiment. Which is: government—bad. Illinois has another major problem besides its budget: great and growing wealth inequality. A report earlier this year by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities showed that the average household income for the wealthiest 20 percent in Illinois is more than eight times the income for the poorest 20 percent, tying the state for the eighth worst disparity nationally....

This post has been updated. Later Monday, 26-year-old Rogers Park resident Milton Anderson and a neighbor he knew through work presented themselves at 49th Ward alderman Joe Moore’s office. Anderson confessed to the robbery (but not to the assault), and Moore escorted him to the Area One police station at Belmont and Western, where Anderson turned himself in. On Tuesday police charged Anderson with two felony counts, one for robbery and one for sexual assault, both with a firearm, and Moore posted the story on his website....

The cold open of With Bob and David contains a line that reminds us to rid ourselves of all expectation: “This ain’t no show, mister.” But as Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’s four-episode Netflix sketch special continues, it’s hard to shake the warm, fuzzy feeling that Mr. Show is indeed back. From the cast of past featured players to the absurd concepts to the seamless transitions, it’s everything we loved from Bob and David when they first appeared onscreen together 20 years ago....

When the Swedish American Museum’s leaky water tank had to be removed from the institution’s roof in late March, the city’s historically Swedish enclave lost its blue-and-yellow beacon; the museum, meanwhile, lost its sprinkler system’s water source in addition to its parking lot. Dominated by the bulky wood tub trimmed with caution tape, the lot has been closed to vehicles as SAM tries to pull together the necessary funds to repair the tank and return it to the rooftop perch, where, though not functioning, it would serve as a sign....

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In what will surely be an affront to certain species of indiscriminate eaters, there is no dolphin, baby seal, or mermaid meat on the menu at Kinmont. For the rest of us it’s comforting to know that the Element Collective’s new fish house serves only sea creatures that aren’t (yet) about to go the way of the coelacanth. That the folks behind Old Town Social and Nellcote would choose this moment to open a seafood restaurant is no surprise....

I doubt the media and the American public will ever see eye to eye on what journalists do and why they do it. The Pew Research Center just released results of a national survey into what the public makes of the Trump-media relationship. Most Americans think it’s unhealthy. I don’t think that would have been my answer. Current tensions have made the relationship between Trump administration and the U.S. news media generally UNHEALTHY Let me put it another way: Would you call the relationship between a parent and a tantrum-throwing two-year-old healthy if the parent acted as the kid’s enabler?...

Steve James has directed two of the most lauded nonfiction films of the past 20 years (Hoop Dreams and the CeaseFire portrait The Interrupters); two formally ambitious masterworks (Stevie, about his ongoing relationship with an emotionally disturbed young man he met through the Big Brothers program; and the PBS series The New Americans, which chronicled several different immigrant families); and several exceptional documentaries on a range of subjects. His latest movie, Life Itself (which opens this week at Landmark’s Century Centre), is a biography of beloved Chicago film critic Roger Ebert....

QI’m a 28-year-old pan-curious married guy from the midwest about to move to San Francisco. I’ve been with my wife for ten years (married four), and we’ve started to explore being monogamish. I’m also reexploring my bi attractions. I’ve been thinking a lot about the opportunities for reinvention that our cross-country move might provide. My wife is GGG and fully supportive, but I still feel apprehensive about getting back out there....