March 2024 Issue: Supper Clubs (Digital Edition)

A conversation with Selva Aparicio
"Chicago-based artist Selva Aparicio uses careful preservation of discarded or displaced things in her artworks to question and celebrate memories contained within them. Aparicio’s upcoming solo exhibition 'In Memory Of' at DePaul Art Museum will be the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date. Aparicio, like many contemporary artists, works with a broad range of different processes and materials. In one artwork she painstakingly sews cicada wings together; in another she cements thousands of dandelion seeds to the surface of discarded objects."  (Frank Geiser)

"Back in the early years of the non-Equity storefront theater company known as Theo—which began as Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre—it was pretty much founder and artistic director Fred Anzevino’s show. And done on a very short shoestring. 'I did it all, you know?' says Anzevino. 'I was living with my friend Brian, he was a furniture mover. Back in the day, we had voice machines, remember those? That was our box office. You’d call the number to get a ticket and get a real deep voice, "Hi, this is Brian. If you’re calling to get your furniture moved, please leave your name and number. If you’re calling for a ticket to Fred’s show, leave your name and number." That was our box office!'" (Dennis Polkow)

How the Marienthal Brothers brought class to Rush Street

"Once a month they are young again, these accomplished supper club musicians, raconteurs and playful misfits. They call themselves ROMEO, not to be confused with the Shakespearian tragedy of love although there has surely been some of that along the way. ROMEO stands for ' Retired Old Men Eating Out.' Or sometimes 'Retired Old Musicians Eating Out'.” (Dave Hoekstra)

Art: Finding wonder in the off-the-beaten-path studio of Frank Zirbel

Dance: LaTasha Barnes brings The Jazz Continuum to Chicago

Design: Norman Teague designs with “A Love Supreme”

Dining & Drinking: Finding wow in the tastes of Cariño

Film: The EU Film Fest goes all Belgium

Lit: Ben Tanzer talks about "The Missing"

Music: Brigitte Calls Me Baby jumps through musical eras with joy

Stage: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins rethinks the "Purpose" of family

The culture is flourishing

Poetry

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