Did you notice that we live in an age of outrage? There was a book by that name published in 2008, and another book called Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage published five years later. Google just fetched up a couple of intriguing, recent, zeitgeisty headlines: “Comedy in the age of outrage: When jokes go too far” was one; “The Age of Outrage is Ruining Worthwhile Debates” was another....

Neighbors started talking about Rogers Park’s leopard-print residence soon after co-owner Michael O’Reilly painted it 11 years ago. And it didn’t take long for a rep from the alderman’s office to come knocking; Matt Gleeman Long, who owns the house with O’Reilly, assured the official that they weren’t running some sort of exotic petting zoo. “I keep threatening the next time I paint the house, it’s going to be Burberry plaid, because that’s more conservative....

Mike Sula Quesadillas I generally resort to eating quesadillas only when there’s nothing but cheese and tortillas around. I’m not saying they’re useless, but if you have anything more interesting at your disposal why wouldn’t you just make tacos? Or grilled cheese? It’s difficult to imagine ordering quesadillas out anywhere, particularly if you happen to be on 25th Street in Little Village, where La Chapparita #1 beckons with its irresistible assortment of tacos de fritangas....

Day two of Riot Fest saw a range of acts from hometown, garage pop wonders Twin Peaks to iconic Elvis Costello. Check out the highlights of the Saturday performances from photographer Danny O’Donnell. Riot Fest 2018 Saturday 15 slides Riot Fest 2018 Saturday Click to View 15 slides

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

Celebrating Rome in all its decay, this florid comedy by Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo, This Must Be the Place) opens with a hyperbolically gaudy party honoring a celebrity journalist (Toni Servillo) on his 65th birthday. Once a promising literary talent, he now skates by as a columnist for a slick magazine, cheerfully savoring his failure and encouraging his rich, sodden friends to embrace their own. When someone asks him what he loves most in the world, he replies, “The smell of old people’s houses,” before musing that the expected answer must have been pussy; the line not only exposes him personally but nicely encapsulates the erotic spell cast by an ancient city....

I’ve become bored by rock reunions. Well, less the actual reunion than the cottage industry that’s convinced any musician who once recorded something a small crowd called influential to get the old band back together—or worse, hire a team of young guns to play songs they never had a hand in and tour as the allegedly reunified band. These days reunions are like encores; an act bands once partook in because the feeling moved them, it’s now an event fans expect will happen....

Waffle Gang leader Shawn Childress, aka rapper-producer Awdazcate, is in the middle of putting the final touches on the “Summer Jam Edition” of Waffle Fest, a bash that pays tribute to local hip-hop and Childress’s favorite breakfast treat. Last night, in the midst of all his fest-related planning, Childress dropped “FRFR,” a woozy number featuring frequent collaborator Pugs Atomz. As a producer Childress has an ear for turning funk instrumentals into narcotizing hooks....

As an obsessed follower of the investigation into President Trump’s alleged ties to Russia, I was glued to my computer watching last Tuesday’s House Intelligence Committee hearings when I was hit with an unexpected jolt of hometown boosterism. That was back in 1998, when U.S. rep Henry Hyde, a DuPage County Republican, led the charge to impeach President Clinton for, among other things, not telling the truth when he said “I did not have sexual relations with that woman....

1 White God Could Hungary be the new Romania? Next month Chicagoans will get a look at László Nemes’s debut feature, Son of Saul, a Holocaust drama like no other, and earlier this year the Gene Siskel Film Center presented the local debut of Kornél Mundruczó’s arresting, dreamlike White God. A child could follow its story, about a spirited schoolgirl who scours the city in search of her big old mixed-breed dog, but that child would be in psychotherapy for years if he saw the climax, in which hundreds of shelter dogs tear through city streets on a deadly rampage....

Philip Glass’s 2013 opera about Walt Disney is based on a 2001 novel by Peter Stephan Jungk. Focused on the last three months of Disney’s life, The Perfect American imagines what might have passed through the mind of the flawed visionary as he lay in the hospital dying, including outlandish visits with Andy Warhol and an animatronic Abe Lincoln. This production, directed by Kevin Newbury, is coproduced by Chicago Opera Theater and Long Beach Opera, where it opened last month....

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Regular readers already know that saxophonist JD Allen has one my favorite jazz artists for nearly a decade, thanks largely to his limber, madly swinging trio with bassist Gregg August and drummer Rudy Royston. On a remarkable series of albums over the past decade—and a searing set at the 2016 Chicago Jazz Festival—this group has braided together motific improvisation and outward-bound searching, giving both an inexorable sense of propulsion and buoyancy....

“The future is now!” Jim Carrey shouts prophetically in a scene toward the end of the 1996 movie The Cable Guy. “Soon every American will integrate their television, phone, and computer. You’ll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam. There’s no end to the possibilities!” Tsui’s doc zeroes in on the arcade era of Midway’s existence, as opposed to the home-console period....

With the Pitchfork Music Festival behind us (see all our coverage from the weekend), set your sights on the week ahead. Here’s some of what we recommend: Wed 7/19: Women Employed, a Chicago-based nonprofit seeking economic equality for working women, details active steps we can all take to get everyone, regardless of gender, on the same playing field. The event is part of a new activism series at Women & Children First (5233 N....

Michael Gebert Like a rhinestone cow, boy The official photographer looked a little miffed that I kept taking photographs of the photographers, especially with my $100 pocket camera, but I got a kick out of it. The most amusing thing, though, was the idea of being lined up in front of a repeating background to have my picture taken with people who’ve been on TV and stuff. I tried to strike a modest pose off to one side, and let the spotlight fall to more naturally beautiful people like Top Chef/The Chew’s Carla Hall (who feels tall as a giraffe when your troll self is standing next to her), Jeff Mauro (who clearly understood that becoming the Sandwich King called for hiring a really good personal trainer), Bon Appetit editor Adam Rapoport (who’s somehow as thin as an exclamation point), and River Roast chef John Hogan—OK, him I might look like, but he has the porkpie hat look going for him....