I approached Entente, a new “casual fine dining” restaurant from Arami owner Ty Fujimura, with a bit of trepidation. With a website featuring little more than an inscrutable, cursory menu, a reservation system that requires a credit card number, and $20-per-person penalty for no-shows, I worried it had a touch of the user-unfriendliness you might encounter trying to get a table at, say, Schwa. And that’s not just because Fujimura’s chef is Brian Fisher, a four-year veteran of that closet-size crucible of fuck-you fine dining....

Happy valentine’s Day! To celebrate our love for you, we got you a LOT of stories about aldermanic campaigns. Our election coverage has been so much fun that even our die-hard music staffers want in on it. Alongside Maya Dukmasova’s look at the 46th Ward, we’re excited to present Leor Galil’s look at the rapper-turned-socialist challenger to alderman Pat O’Connor in the 40th—plus a three-page comics journalism feature from Anya Davidson on what’s going down in the 25th Ward that isn’t an uncomfortable text message from Danny Solis....

Let me tell you about the movie in my mind. The plot’s ancient but it never gets old. A mysterious stranger saunters into a town run by upright, God-fearin’ folk, men of the rectitude of, oh, a Ted Cruz or a Governor Pence. Let’s call the town Gopville. The man’s loud and profane and a sneer curls his lips; he leers at the local women. Oh, he’s a bad one, all right....

The Antique and Resale Shoppe antiqueandresale.com If you travel on Harlem Avenue so far north that you’re practically in Niles, you’re likely to notice Nick’s Drive-In, with its mural of a stern-looking Uncle Sam instructing you to try the “best homemade gyros in America.” However, you might not spot the place right next door, the Antique and Resale Shoppe, a totally unassuming storefront, until you get close enough that the elaborate seasonal window display comes into view....

Since ten women came forward last month to accuse Northwestern journalism professor Alec Klein of misconduct ranging from sexual comments to unwanted kissing, 19 more women have reached out to them with their stories. In a new open letter released Thursday, the Medill Me Too group has published new allegations about Klein from the new accusers, including diary entries some of the women provided. “We’re encouraged thus far by Northwestern’s broad investigation into Alec Klein’s behavior,” Flowers says....

ARTIST: Crystal Zapata SHOW: Bricktown Sound Dance Party featuring Excursions at the Hungry Brain on Sat 7/27 MORE INFO: crystalzapata.com

Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, June 14, 2016. McDonald’s makes its reported West Loop headquarters relocation official One American icon will take over the building formerly occupied by another when McDonald’s moves its corporate headquarters into Oprah Winfrey’s former Harper Studios. The move from Oak Brook to the fashionable West Loop is the latest example of a huge corporation leaving its suburban headquarters behind to attract millennials, who are increasingly moving to cities....

“House music has always been New York, Chicago, and Detroit, maybe as far as D.C. and Philadelphia,” Atlanta producer Kai Alcé told Red Bull Music Academy in 2016. “Under what we could call the Mason-Dixon line, house music hasn’t had that history.” Alcé, who was born in New York and raised in Detroit, has helped foster a house community in Atlanta since he moved there in the early 90s. In 2005 he cofounded the annual outdoor party House in the Park, which now draws between 10,000 and 20,000 attendees....

Glitter Creeps “I would have killed for a rock ‘n’ roll-themed gay night when I was 21!” says Donnie Moore, front man of local punk band Absolutely Not and founder of Glitter Creeps, a monthly LGBTQ night at the Empty Bottle that hosts some of Chicago’s best underground acts. Taking place on the third Wednesday of every month, Glitter Creeps has a simple concept, according to Moore: “I try to feature at least one band per bill with an LGBTQ member, and then find other bands that sonically match said band, and are also at least supportive of the LGBTQ community....

Before I came to Chicago, I knew about the Commercial Club’s 1909 Plan of Chicago. I picked up a reprinted edition at the Seattle Public Library and pored over its luminous illustrations by Jules Guérin and magisterial prose by architects Daniel H. Burnham and Edward H. Bennett promising a greatly improved system of parks and highways, and a grand civic center where all governmental matters would be addressed efficiently and professionally....

Carol Barreto comes from a country that is supposedly a “racial democracy”, but anyone who’s spent a considerable amount of time in Brazil realizes this reputation is just a facade. I was born there, and I know how little social and economic mobility people of darker skin color have in Brazilian society. And it’s all about appearances, since most Brazilians carry African and Native American genes. Last year Barreto—who is a gender studies professor, a women’s studies researcher, and a culture and society PhD student at the Federal University of Bahia—presented her “Vozes” collection at Black Fashion Week in Paris....

I think it’s safe to assume that nobody in Chicago’s theater community had a worse 2016 than Darrell Cox and Joe Jahraus. Or deserved it more. Decades of bad behavior caught up with them in June, when the Reader published an exhaustive report by Aimee Levitt and Christopher Piatt, detailing physical and psychological abuse carried out by Cox (with Jahraus in the role of enabling sidekick) at their off-Loop home, Profiles Theatre....

Halloween is Gossip Wolf’s favorite holiday—when else can you see Chicago bands pretend to be even better bands? Almost never! All hypotheticals aside, this wolf hears that a slew of local rockers will don costumes at Cole’s this weekend. The Chicago Singles Club presents a show on Friday, October 28, with ersatz versions of AC/DC (members of Meat Wave, Bleach Party, and Rad Payoff), Weezer (members of Strawberry Jacuzzi, Sheep Numbers, and Soddy Daisy), the Kinks (New Drugs), and Daft Punk (Sophagus and friends)....

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