Thursday afternoons at the 51st Street Green Line el Station you’ll find a colorful scene: A large shuttle bus wrapped in a bright photo collage of fruits, veggies, and beaming faces, parks at the curb of Boxville, a shipping container village of 20 hyper-local small businesses. This is the last of three stops that day for the Fresh Moves Mobile Market, a produce store on wheels originally conceived by urban agriculture nonprofit Growing Power to alleviate food insecurity on the south and west sides....

Fox Rainn Wilson plays a dick on Backstrom. Over the weekend, I finished watching the second season of The Fall, a BBC2 crime drama that was picked up by Netflix. As I wrote when the first season became available back in 2013, the series is unusual for the murder-mystery genre in that the killer’s identity isn’t, nor has it ever been, a mystery. Viewers become reluctant voyeurs as Paul Spector (played by objectively handsome person Jamie Dornan) stalks and kills a series of women (and one unfortunate man) in Northern Ireland....

On March 13, Chicago’s City Council voted 38 to 8, with two abstentions, to approve a contract with mega-construction company AECOM for building an $85 million police and fire training facility in the west side neighborhood of Garfield Park. The vote came at the end of an 18-month campaign, initiated by a coalition ultimately supported by over 100 local grassroots organizations, called #NoCopAcademy. The multiracial and multigenerational coalition brought together organizations that are often siloed in Chicago organizing....

I have a way of digging in my heels. My enthusiasm for anything is usually inversely proportional to the vehemence with which somebody gets bug-eyed and lays his hand on my arm to squeal, “Oh my god—you’ve got to [see/eat/read/try] it! You just have to!” Back when Sohn was still doing brisk business at his storied restaurant, the decade-long pummeling of Oh my god, you’ve never been? was so unrelenting and clamorous that I finally succumbed....

On Tuesday, October 22, more than four months after installation of court recording equipment began in all five of the eviction courtrooms at the Daley Center, green lights were shining on the mikes but no recordings were being made. It took years of lobbying by the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and other groups to convince the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts to allocate some $370,000 to supply Chicago’s eviction courtrooms—which process about 20,000 cases every year—with microphones for creating transcripts of court hearings....

With the Chicago Blues Festival right around the corner, the two owners of Taylor Street Tap saw no better time to bring their dreams of opening their own blues bar to fruition. The doors to the club—which owner Brian Fadden says will play “host to the best blues talent in the city”—officially opened on May 15. A statement like that might make Fadden sound like a greenhorn business owner suffering from delusions of grandeur—this is in fact his first business—but he and co-owner Dylan MacWilliams have the resumés to make this work....

ARTISTS: Joel J. Hunter and Christopher Gray SHOW: Guided by Voices and Bronco at Metro on Sat 9/3 MORE INFO: halfhazardpress.com

Over the past few years, futuristic Chicago producer Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, has built a healthy Bandcamp catalog: between 2016 and the end of 2019, he released 17 full-lengths of previously unreleased compositions, demos, and archival tracks. But since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the U.S. this spring, Moss has kicked his Bandcamp release schedule into an even higher gear. Between mid-March and early August, he dropped a dozen digital albums—it wouldn’t surprise me if he puts out at least one more by the time this piece is published....

Chicago experimental electronic-pop duo Hobbyist are well suited to capture the anxiety that’s been our constant companion since the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic upended the world. Producer Marc Mozga creates a stark, austere sound from programmed percussion and synth licks, and his prickly, spacious beats and sparse melodies feel like they could raise the undead. Meanwhile the restrained vocals of front woman Holly Prindle split the difference between sinister and sultry, making her sound like a possessed lounge singer....

The Reader‘s archive is vast and varied, going back to 1971. Every day in Archive Dive, we’ll dig through and bring up some finds. By the time the Reader caught up to Campbell again in 2000, he’d moved to L.A. to pursue a career in show business and had just appeared as himself in the documentary American Pimp; he’d returned to Chicago for his 49th birthday party, which turned into an epic all-nighter attended by players, pimps, DJs, and rappers....

Any media outlet referencing west-side native Mykele Deville should be required to include a brief of his CV, partially because he’s established himself as proficient in several roles: poet, actor, educator, and rapper. And with the remarkable growth he shows on his new seven-song album, Maintain (on local DIY label No Trend), I imagine Deville’s name will be on even more people’s lips soon. He sounds so confident on the mike it’s as if he’d dropped his debut mixtape, 2016’s Super Predator, three decades ago instead of barely three years ago....

In the Heights, the new Jon M. Chu film adapted from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hit musical, is the movie of the summer, largely thanks to its massive musical numbers and impressive cast. One member of that cast is Corey Hawkins; best known for theater and projects like Straight Outta Compton and 24: Legacy, Hawkins shines in this film as Benny, the friendly radio dispatcher and Washington Heights homebody. Meant to be!...

Editor’s Note: The National Museum of Mexican Art announced that all performances of La Tía Mariela have been canceled, due to the U.S. Department of Citizenship Immigration Services denying touring visas for the cast and crew. Refunds for tickets purchased in advance are available through clata.org Destinos will also feature the final version of UrbanTheater Company’s Back in the Day: An ‘80s House Music Dancesical. The play, initially a work in progress, ran in previews over the summer, and the creative team incorporated feedback from those performances in preparation for the October 10 opening....

Maya Dukmasova The violence happened elsewhere. Forces of nature and laws of physics had converged to fling the one-ton gray Lexus so hard against a tree or a pole that the car was pinched from the passenger side with the ease of origami paper. I came across the wreckage on Wednesday evening, the first full week of the coronavirus quarantine. It was jarring to see this mangled vehicle sitting abandoned, out of context, in the deserted parking lot of Foster Avenue beach....

Youth offender population in Illinois has declined Though the number of juvenile offenders in Illinois has been going down since 1999, the Department of Juvenile Justice has continued to dramatically cut the youth population in recent years. As part of reform efforts, the department now only accepts youths posing a significant public safety risk or those for whom community placement is not an option. This story was originally published by ProPublica Illinois....

Prolific Chicago music photographer Bobby Talamine, whose work has frequently graced the Reader (you might remember his vibrant shots of Cheap Trick, Gary Numan, or Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment with Chance the Rapper), was assaulted after Radiohead’s set at Lollapalooza—and the bastards made off with his camera too. Talamine’s buddy Brett Widmann has set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to cover the cost of new gear, which quickly met its initial goal....

If you’re going to put out your first solo album in 13 years, you’ll probably want to make sure it includes a few songs that will appeal to your longtime fans. What country audiences want is obviously a moving target—country has been shifting toward including independently minded crossover pop artists such as Kacey Musgraves, so that it’s harder to define what a “true” country star should sound like—but Pam Tillis has a long history of gently pushing the envelope without alienating mainstream listeners....

Crazy Doberman are an Indiana free-improvisation and jazz collective created in 2016 as an offshoot of the group Doberman, started three years before. Core members, including Tim Gick and Doberman cofounder Drew Davis, appear on many recordings, but Crazy Doberman’s lineup is loose—it varies on each of the band’s 40-plus albums and has featured dozens of musicians, among them Wolf Eyes’ John Olson and percussionist Tyler Damon. While different albums have different flavors—This Land God Has Abandoned is all brooding mystique, while — / Haunted, Non / Haunted features some of their most acerbic electronics—there’s a tightness and sustained energy on every recording....

A woman’s search for her missing sister becomes a twisted fable of money, violence, sex, death, and Dungeons and Dragons in Alistair McDowall’s creepy Pomona. Once a Victorian rural retreat lush with apple orchards and wildflowers that was developed into the Royal Pomona Palace—a concert hall four times the size of London’s Royal Albert Hall, surrounded by magnificent gardens—the island of Pomona declined after an 1887 factory explosion into a wasteland of ruins, weeds, and deserted docks in the Manchester Ship Canal....

Another 90s Party: Wet Hot American Summer Edition Beauty Bar hosts this all-American installment of its Another 90s Party series. Get down to some throwback tunes, summer camp-style. Sat 6/30, 9 PM, Beauty Bar, 1444 W. Chicago, 312-226-8828, thebeautybar.com/home-chicago, $5. Fourth of July Kickoff Party Hopsmith Tavern hosts a patriotic rager, complete with drink specials, giant games, barbecue, and a live DJ. Prizes are awarded for best outfits; don’t hold back on the red, white, and blue....