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

I’m a junkie for newspaper dramas, from Park Row to All the President’s Men to Shattered Glass, and Spotlight promises to be a good or even a great one, with a gifted writer-director and a powerhouse cast. Thomas McCarthy—whose dramas The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), and Win Win (2011) mark him as one of the more original voices in American indie cinema—focuses on the Boston Globe‘s “Spotlight” investigative team, whose January 2002 series “Abuse in the Catholic Church” exposed the Boston archdiocese’s harboring of pedophile priests....

Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago. Some of the opening’s attendees did dress to the nines, including the event’s organizer, Kristen Kaza of No Small Plans Productions and a Siskel Center council member, who was decked out in a gorgeous vintage jumpsuit herself. Another style maven was Darlene Schuff, pictured above. Part of the Advanced Style entourage—she showed me proof on her iPhone—Darlene looked like she was plucked right from the movie....

Scoring some big stars, year five of the two-day Moonrunners Festival is a packed affair that will showcase alt-country, rockabilly, bluegrass, outlaw country, and every other nook of Americana and roots music—all of it soaked with a beardy, tattooed flavor. Friday headliner the Legendary Shack Shakers have now been around long enough to justify their name—even as age has left them undimmed—while Saturday brings Shooter Jennings, son of Waylon, who’s an actor and a historian as well as a restless musician who won’t stick to one genre....

As an employee of a print publication I feel it’s my duty to keep a close eye on the industry. Why did so-and-so magazine become an online-only read? How does such-and-such newspaper keep producing a daily edition? Is print really dying? 

QTwo questions, Dan. Most gay men don’t mind seeing girls with their straight boyfriends in gay dance/party bars and clubs, BROS, but girls and unavailable/apprehensive straight boys ruin the vibe in darker, sleazier gay pickup joints. So stick to the party palaces (dance floors and drag shows), avoid the pickup joints (hard rock and trough urinals), and you’ll be fine. A Bodybuilders grease themselves up with baby oil—which gets all over everything and requires frequent reapplication....

When I read about the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare with what we may as well start calling “Trumpcare,” I called Sandy, my good friend who lives in New York City. In other words, as bad as things are with Obamacare, he’s pretty sure Trump will only make them worse. The most sensible plan for America to adopt would be a single-payer system, where the federal government acts like a middleman, collecting premiums from patients in the form of taxes and paying out bills to health-care providers....

Sun-Times Media Forty-seventh Ward alderman Ameya Pawar wants you to know that he’s going to vote to raise your taxes. The morning after the city’s pension “reform” bill became a done deal, 47th Ward alderman Ameya Pawar walked into a North Center cafe wanting breakfast. Some strategic thinking was also in order, because Chicago is in a bit of a fix. Pawar counts himself as a supporter of the mayor’s—as well as his alderman, since Emanuel lives in the 47th Ward—and he backs the pension plan....

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

Efrim Manuel Menuck is a founding member of the anti-capitalist symphonic rock ensemble Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the equally outraged Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra. In both of those groups, his muscular guitar is part of a vast sonic corpus of strings, tape loops, and pounding rhythm section. But on his recent solo LP, Pissing Stars (Constellation), Menuck’s anguished voice looms large over blasted, mostly electronic soundscapes. The songs on the album exorcise a preoccupation Menuck’s carried for 30 years; the affair between Entertainment Tonight hostess Mary Hart and playboy Mohammed Khashoggi, the son of arms dealer and Iran-Contra figure Adnan Khashoggi....

They held signs on rooftops, their arms stretched to the sky. They called on first responders, news helicopters, a higher source—anyone—for help. Yet in a flash, the single most powerful elected official who could’ve sat with them and shared their grief, who could’ve extended consolation, concern, and a commitment to full restoration, made a decision that characterized his entire tenure in office: he gazed down at the suffering, soaring above from the relative comfort of Air Force One, as a king might look upon the poor—with insincere pity....

The power couple: Eleanor Spiess-Ferris, 72, and Umberto Tosi, 76Years together: Three and a halfOccupations: Eleanor’s a painter; Umberto is a writer. Eleanor: A quick summation of who is on the other side of the handshake tells me just how I will introduce Umberto. For some older folks, my “partner” will do. To the young married folks, I like “my lover.” To the stranger who is taking info at the doctor’s office or emergency room, he becomes my husband and I his wife....

AP Photos Yes, the coaches are overpaid and the athletes are exploited—but college football offers campuses something real. Universities get no love. Perhaps they earn none. To outsiders they’re a fen of infantilized students who can’t wait to leave and intriguing faculty too insecure to, places where everyone is less concerned with spreading knowledge and maturity than with writing rules to make sure no one’s feelings ever get hurt. (See trigger warnings; see commencement speakers disinvited....

If you’ve been plugged into local hip-hop over the past year, you’ve no doubt listened to Phoelix, whether or not you recognize his name. The vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer met Chicago rapper-producer Saba in fall 2015. The two hit it off, and last summer they decamped to an AirBnB in Los Angeles with Chicago rapper Noname for roughly a month, where they worked on two of the best hip-hop releases to come out of any city in 2016....

Much of the action during this week’s 36th annual International Mr. Leather—the bootblack competition; the extensive leather market; the role-playing event Woof Camp, in which men take on the parts of submissive puppies or dominant handlers—goes down at the Marriott Hotel on the Mag Mile. IML’s titular contest, which rewards a participant’s pecs as well as his personality, happens at the Harris Theater. Both venues are miles away from what is, for the rest of the year, a major hub of Chicago’s BDSM community: the Leather Archives & Museum at 6418 N....

GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Rockin’ Record Bazaar and Beer Blowout 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.

Celebrity chef Stephanie Izard will try her hand at Chinese at her Boka group collaboration Duck Duck Goat, slated to open in November in the West Loop. For Izard it’s home cooking, conjuring early aromatic memories of making moo shu pork with her late mother. Brave ingredients and bold flavors have been Izard’s calling card at Girl & the Goat and Little Goat, and her sense of culinary adventure fits the cuisine....

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

​Like more than a few Chicagoans, I am the child of a refugee. Near the end of World War II, my late father, then in his early 20s, was plucked out of his village in western Ukraine by Nazi soldiers and forced into labor in Germany. He ran away from the farm he was assigned to, was captured and reassigned, ran away again, and then joined UPA, the Ukrainian underground army....