Kasia’s Deli Staropolska Restaurant Finalists: Podhalanka, Smak-Tak

Luella’s Southern Kitchen Pearl’s Place Restaurant Finalists: The Soul Shack, Funkenhausen

Lost Girls Kokorokoko Finalists: Tilly’s, Vintage Quest, Seek Vintage

On Monday at 7 PM, the Chicago Film Society will screen a 35-millimeter print of the Japanese drama A Scene at the Sea (1991) at the Music Box Theatre. Along with Lee Chang-dong’s Oasis (which plays from 35-millimeter at Doc Films on Sunday at 7 PM), it’s the best repertory screening in town this week—the film’s nuanced, small-scale storytelling provides a welcome antidote to the expensive bombast that’s crowding the multiplexes....

Enjoy the warm weather this week with a free movie screening at dusk, from Back to the Future in Edison Park’s Brooks Park to Creed in Bronzeville’s Ellis Park. To help you keep track of the various alfresco films—hosted by Chicago Park District’s Movies in the Parks, Millennium Park Summer Film Series, and Chicago Reading Africa—here’s a roundup of 25 playing this week: Les Demoiselles de Rochefort Tue 6/21, 8:30 PM, Kathy Osterman Beach, 5800 N....

If you’re a fan of an independent musician who’s been trying to cobble together a living without touring or gig income, or if you’re just generally concerned with artists’ well-being during the pandemic, you probably already know about Bandcamp Fridays. But just in case, here are the basics: on the first Friday of most months since last March, digital music retailer Bandcamp has been passing along its usual cut of sales to artists and labels....

Big Chicks Berlin Finalists: Sidetrack, Roscoe’s

Smyth & The Loyalist Funkenhausen Finalists: El Che Steakhouse & Grill, SafeHouse Chicago, Pizzeria Uno, Travelle at The Langham

Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers (CLLAW) Seoul Brothers Wrestling

There are few things less cool than a singing drummer. Drummers already have it bad enough; they’re typically pushed into the background, the last member of a band to get any attention or credit. The only people who really care about them are other drummers, and then only on occasion. I’m a drummer myself, so I get it. And when drummers add lead vocals from behind the kit, they somehow seem even dorkier....

To sisters Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet, cofounders of the nonprofit A Long Walk Home, the six-part documentary Surviving R.Kelly not only brought much-needed attention to the R&B singer’s alleged crimes; it helped to finally center the voices of sexual-violence survivors of color who have traditionally been left out of mainstream conversations about gender-based violence. “We provide a space for these girls to be trained as artists and activists and to address how these issues of racial and gender injustice, as well as class and inequality, impact them,” says Salamishah....

Anastasia Chatzka, one of the city’s most prolific fashion designers, will close her self-named Ukrainian Village boutique this weekend after four years. Chatzka, a Reader Best of Chicago pick in 2015 and 2016, will be selling her designs and the fixtures in her meticulously decorated storefront at 60 to 70 percent off throughout the weekend, from noon to 7 Saturday, then at a closing party from 11 AM to 4 PM Sunday, March 12, at 1001 N....

The new EP by Defcee and producer August Fanon, We Dressed the City With Our Names, ties Defcee’s history in Chicago’s rap and poetry scenes to the primordial hip-hop culture of New York graffiti artists depicted in the 1983 documentary Style Wars. The first track opens with a sample of a young graffiti writer explaining that his work is for him and other writers to see—forget the outsiders—and then Defcee raps about being animated by that same desire to leave a mark on hip-hop subculture....

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Tine DeFiore Donna Klein Finalists: Nice Guy Eddy, Patrick Comolo

Mary Stamm-Clarke Lone In a “Guest List” feature he did for Pitchfork last year, British electronic producer Lone, aka Matt Cutler, described the lo-fi artist Nite Jewel’s work as, “perfect music for that weird time between awake and being in a dream.” That’s also a pretty good description of Lone’s music. Though his music is more propulsive and energetic than Nite Jewel’s it’s nevertheless the kind of material you’d bust out at dawn, when dancers and rave kids are at the peak of blissful exhaustion....

Just a year ago the future of Chicago’s two black-owned banks—Illinois Service Federal and Seaway Bank and Trust—looked grim. Both banks were under consent orders from federal regulators to raise capital after years of shrinking income brought them to the brink of failure. They badly needed an influx of new deposits to continue making loans, and millions of dollars in investment to keep shareholders from bailing. The influx of new deposits means Seaway will be able to make more loans to individuals and businesses, which will generate the interest that becomes income for the bank....

How would Apple ensure it was helping underserved communities and schools in Chicago and not just the best and brightest? On Wednesday, the tech giant’s top executive returned for an hour-long MSNBC interview special with anchor Chris Hayes and Recode tech reporter Kara Swisher—a show that had been branded “Revolution: Apple Changing the World.” Cook sat comfortably in the center of a gymnasium turned television studio on the second floor of the selective enrollment high school as several hundred students, faculty, press, and ticketed members of the public showered him with applause every few minutes....

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