The festival wraps up with Paul Downs Colaizzo’s For Tomorrow, Please Prepare (Sun 7/27, 2 PM), about racial tensions at a Georgia high school after a class discussion of Huckleberry Finn, and Cocked by Sarah Gubbins (The Kid Thing), in which a lesbian couple is confronted with the issue of gun ownership (Sun 7/27, 6 PM).

But brisket isn’t exactly in line with the modern Italian cuisine that Ugo’s serves. Pizza, on the other hand, is a menu staple—so Hasson crafted a brisket pie. As a nod to the mushy carrots he remembers fishing out of the braising liquid as a child, he spread the dough with a carrot puree instead of tomato sauce. In addition to the brisket itself, he topped the Neapolitan-style crust with elements that would traditionally accompany the meat: onions (which he caramelized) and potatoes (cooked gently in duck fat, then deep-fried)....

Last Thursday, Kristen Sollée, writer, editrix of the sex-positive feminist website Slutist, and lecturer at the New School, visited the Museum of Contemporary Art to speak about her book, Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive. According to Sollée, witches are having a moment (politically, aesthetically, and spiritually), and it’s no coincidence that this comeback is happening now. Though the majority of Sollée’s talk was focused on the Anglo-European, Christian archetype of the witch, there was also discussion of the French author Maryse Condé’s 1986 novel I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and how Condé used the racism and sexism in the Puritan era to talk about racism and sexism in the 80s....

Abbi Jacobson, best known as co-creator and co-star of Broad City, did what some people wish they could do after a hard breakup: hit the road to distract herself from her pain. Only she was able to pitch her three-week solo road trip as a book titled I Might Regret This (Essays, Vulnerabilities and Other Stuff). She knows this is bizarre and privileged. At a sold-out Chicago Humanities Festival event at the Vic Theatre moderated by author Samantha Irby, Jacobson recalled her decision to drive from New York to Los Angeles after wrapping season four of Broad City....

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The titular daughters of Savanna Rae’s one-woman show—Scathach, Uathach, Deirdre, and Queen Medb—all appear in the Ulster Cycle, a collection of wild, violent, sexy, fascinating folktales set in a decidedly pagan Ireland that were transmitted orally for generations before they were written down—and modified—by medieval monks. Set during the reign of a capricious, hotheaded King Conchobar mac Nessa (circa the first century CE), the tales describe an intensely tribal warrior culture in which heroes—of which Cú Chulainn is the best known—clash constantly over land, livestock, and honor....

Julia Thiel Toby Maloney adds a dash of Angostura bitters to a Tradewinds cocktail. “If you’re a champion you should drink this in like two minutes, tops,” Violet Hour mixologist Andrew Mackey says. He’s referring to the Blushing Lady, a cocktail he’s created for the bar’s spring menu (Plymouth gin, lemon juice, grenadine, orange marmalade syrup, fig bitters, and egg white—a take on the Maiden’s Blush). It’s a Thursday afternoon in mid-March, and the Violet Hour’s 20-odd bartenders and servers have assembled to taste and discuss new additions to the menu....

Chicago Filmmakers presents a compilation of 16mm and 8mm short films by Stuart Sherman, a multitalented artist who emerged on the New York scene in the mid-70s. He wrote plays and essays, did public performance art, and made more than 40 imaginative, singular short films and videos, most of which are featured during this retrospective, two programs of which will be repeated at SAIC’s Hokin Hall. In these works, Sherman translates his trademark “spectacle” showcases—experimental “dramas” he performed alongside inanimate objects—into a cinematic medium, demonstrating his unique perception of film grammar....

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

Most music festivals have more than one stage these days, but when it comes to scale, Lollapalooza has few peers: this year it’s booked nearly 150 acts on eight stages. It’s difficult if not impossible to see more than a small fraction of the weekend-­long bill, unless you’ve got access to a jet pack or teleportation technology—the northernmost and southernmost stages are nearly a mile apart, which would be a 15-minute walk even if you didn’t have to maneuver through a crowd of 100,000 people....

Let’s say you’re at a show. It’s a small venue, or maybe it’s somebody’s basement. It’s loud and it’s crowded and there’s definitely nothing resembling a security staff. So there’s nobody you can alert when you see a guy who looks not quite sober standing over a woman and speaking to her aggressively. She also looks drunk, and she’s clearly uncomfortable. Then you realize you recognize this guy. Everybody in your scene knows this guy....

AP Photo A mother and her three-year-old daughter wait for a bus in McAllen, Texas, after leaving Honduras, which has been battered by violence. My daughter Laura lived just off the street a few doors from the private school where she taught for a year in Honduras. Whenever we Skyped, I braced for the sight of a violent stranger with a gun breaking into her room behind her. As she knew as well as we did—though we were the ones who kept bringing it up—Honduras was one of the most dangerous countries on earth....

Remember Pitchfork? The three-day blowout is just a few months past, but some of the festival’s best acts are already returning to Chicago. As with the three stages at Pitchfork, October 8 presents fans with a choice between three festival alums: piano balladeer Tobias Jesso Jr. at the Empty Bottle, beat master DJ Jamie XX at Concord Music Hall, and the infectious groove of Shamir at Lincoln Hall. On October 9, Bully perform at Lincoln Hall, putting Alicia Bognanno’s scorching lyricism on display....

On Sunday thousands of people gathered in Uptown for the 48th annual Pride Parade, but the festivities were halted for about 15 minutes at the intersection of Belmont and Halsted by a group of 40 protesters. They’d formed a circle, hand in hand, and prevented other marchers from passing. They wore bandanas that read “Black Trans Lives Matter” and held large papier-mache heads of Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and a unicorn, each affixed to a stick....

I must admit I took a little satisfaction from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s dismal showing in the Sun-Times poll released over the weekend. For once, it looks like my estimation of what’s going on at City Hall is shared by a majority of Chicagoans. Actually, I think that some of the “Don’t know” vote could be quietly for Mayor Emanuel—they’re just too ashamed to admit it. I mean, it’s hard to openly cheer for a guy who’s so unpopular that he’s booed when his face pops up on the Jumbotron at Northwestern football games....

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Rahmaan Barnes was 13 when he got into graffiti. He went from drawing comic books and airbrushing T-shirts to making magic with a spray can, the city his canvas. He says neither has happened yet. Statik chose the Caravaggio as his subject to “push the limit of what you can do with a spray can,” but also because this image, with Doubting Thomas probing Jesus’s wound to test its reality, is relevant to his experience....

I’ll give our porn star-and-Putin-loving president this: just when you think there’s no further folly of his that could surprise you, bingo! Or had he—perhaps on a slow afternoon at Mar-a-Lago—just thrown a bunch of nation names into a Make America Great Again hat and pulled out Venezuela? Could we just as easily have been plotting the invasion of Canada? Artz is a frequently compelling spokesperson for the latter theory. He says the Bolivarian Revolution was a historic event that overthrew a corrupt oligarchy and established real democracy, though most people in the United States don’t know about it....

Following two sold-out stints at the Empty Bottle earlier this year, hometown “instru-metal” heroes Russian Circles reward their local legions once more with this Metro date the day after Thanksgiving. And there’s plenty to be thankful for, as the postmetal trio put on one helluva performance. Though it’s been two years since their most recent LP, Guidance, was released on Sargent House, with six excellent albums in their catalog, the band never lack for set-building options....