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Rootstock Wine & Beer Bar City Winery Finalists: Travelle at Langham, Funkenhausen, Joe’s Imports

Music, comedy, and Bill Murray’s marriage of the two dominate this week’s best events. Here’s some of what we recommend: Tue 10/10: For many years, Michael Palascak joked about living at home, delivering lines with a sort of “aw shucks” tone of endearment. He’s since moved out of his childhood home, but his genial humor remains. See him on his first of a six-day run at Zanies (1548 N. Wells). 8:30 PM, $25 plus two-item minimumWed 10/11: Sleight-of-hand master Ricky Jay speaks about his long career as a magician and his newfound love of acting....

A look back at black voters in Chicago

Mayra Carranza at the Stockyard Coffeehouse

Ward Eight wardeight.com Bourbon, Fernet, chartreuse, and a splash of cava? Gin, maple syrup, amaro, and sparkling white wine? A slurpee mixed with turtle’s blood and Bulleit rye? Stop, I want to get off! After drinking so many outrageous half-dozen-ingredient concoctions, sometimes I just want someone to serve me a fucking drink. Evanston’s unimpeachable Ward Eight does some gimmicky craft-cocktail stuff: they host a tiki night on Tuesdays and typically feature a couple multicomponent libations on their chalkboard....

Chicago International Film Festival 30 E. Adams 312-683-0121 chicagofilmfestival.com Runner-Up (tie): Chicago International Movies & Music Festival Chicago Underground Film Festival

Eve Studnicka Melva Jarvis Finalists: Mark Steuer, Jeff Vucko, Brian Bruns

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Al Podgorski/Sun-Times As he faces a runoff election, 46th Ward alderman James Cappleman has been mum about a proposed TIF-funded development near the Uptown lakefront. Last year around this time, a group of Uptown activists were busy protesting 46th Ward alderman James Cappleman’s support for a pair of high-rise residential towers along the lakefront—a project that would use $14 million in tax increment financing (TIF) dollars, though only 10 percent of the units will be set aside as “affordable....

There’s been a tsunami of theater news over the past couple of weeks. Steppenwolf named ensemble members Glenn Davis and Audrey Francis as co-artistic directors, replacing Anna Shapiro, who announced in May that she’d be leaving at the end of her six-year contract this summer. Ann Filmer announced that she’s leaving her post as artistic director at 16th Street Theater in Berwyn, which she founded 14 years ago. (Almost two years ago, Filmer faced charges of mismanagement and racial insensitivity from the creative team of Loy Webb‘s His Shadow....

c/o Toni Foulkes 15th Ward Alderman Toni Foulkes poses with her parents. Foulkes, who’s campaigning to be alderman of the 16th Ward, posted this photo to a friend’s Instagram account in an attempt to clear up what she says has been confusion around her ethnicity. While out knocking on doors recently in her campaign to be the new 16th Ward alderman, Toni Foulkes encountered an African-American woman who said Foulkes wouldn’t be getting her vote because she isn’t black....

Michael Schmidt/Sun-Times Media Stevie Wonder not pictured Having dutifully slogged through the editorial endorsements of Mayor Rahm by the Tribune and Sun-Times—yes, my beloved Bright One drank the Kool-Aid, too—I realize it’s fallen to me to offer an alternative point of view. Furthermore, Mayor Daley is endorsing Mayor Rahm—though Mayor Daley has for the moment refrained from blaming himself for all of Chicago’s ills. It’s also because he hasn’t been a very—oh, how to delicately phrase this?...

The members of Lucky Plush Productions jokingly call themselves the “keep it real dance company.” They abandon the pretentiousness that’s often associated with dance performance, instead balancing formal technical elements with a casual, relaxed perspective. This makes their productions feel spontaneous and improvised, even though the ensemble works within a tight framework. “The shows are very choreographed and scripted,” says Lucky Plush artistic director Julia Rhoads. “The performers are not actively creating the show in real time, but there’s the feeling because we try to have that practice of really listening to each other....

Lillstreet Art Center Hyde Park Arts Center Finalists: Marwen, Laura Mueller Art Classes

Corner Stores Though only 25 minutes long, this incisive documentary (which screened last year as part of the Chicago Palestine Film Festival) says a good deal about inner-city America in general and Englewood in particular, and it delivers a moving character portrait to boot. Director Amina Waheed, an Indian-Canadian immigrant who’s worked on Frontline and Al-Jazeera’s America Tonight, profiles Falah Farhoudeh (aka “Abu Muhammad”), a Palestinian emigre in his late 60s who’s operated a convenience store in the south-side neighborhood for more than a decade....

Maggie Daley Park Indian Boundary Park

Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.

Nonprofit literary and visual arts group Chicago Publishers Resource Center is displaying an exhibit called “Flyerside: A Chicago Punk Scene Exhibition” that includes zines, posters, set lists, flyers, stickers, and other ephemera from the city’s storied punk past. You can visit “Flyerside” at CHI PRC during normal hours—Sundays from noon till 5 PM—or at the CHI PRC events complementing it. On Saturday, November 19, punk label HeWhoCorrupts Inc. hosts a “record and zine grab” from noon till 3 PM, and your $5 donation goes to CHI PRC and Young Chicago Authors; that same day Brown and Proud Press holds a POC zine workshop at 4 PM....

February is packed with activity, both online and off. Here are some events and things to do that I didn’t get to mention in the last PSA. Hope to see you out there! Most evenings through February: Are there people in your house that you’d like to get away from for a few hours? FitzGerald’s in Berwyn is offering patrons the opportunity to rent their spaces for some limited-capacity “let’s go out” time....

This week, we’re featuring a recent poster by Jay Ryan imploring you to support local restaurants that are still doing pickup or delivery. Ryan just released the 18th volume in his Mistakes Book series, an annual hand-bound collection of misprinted posters—this year’s is calledTime Moves When You Do. The Reader is still accepting submissions of Fantasy Gig Posters to be featured in this column. Send us an original design or drawing!...