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Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest styles seen in Chicago.

If a teenager truly believes he’s the center of the universe, the very core of that world is his bedroom. The bedroom is the teen’s domain, a safe space for self-expression, a place where identities can be explored, constructed, and put on semi-public display. Last year, the Toronto filmmaker and nascent artist decided, with the help of collaborator Joseph Clement, to meticulously reconstruct Ferris’s bedroom. They scoured Craigslist and Ebay, crowdsourced items that were particularly hard to find, borrowed pieces from project supporters, and recreated materials that proved impossible to track down....

Few spoken-word artists working the posthip-hop landscape can match the intensity, precision, and metaphoric power of Philadelphia’s Moor Mother (aka Camae Ayewa); I’ve seen her twice this year, and both times she had total control of the audience by the end of the set. She’s involved with several collaborative projects, and one of the most exciting, Irreversible Entanglements, recently dropped its self-titled debut album, a joint release of Chicago’s International Anthem and New Jersey’s Don Giovanni....

Our grocery store is our coolers,” says Danny Sweis, executive chef of BellyQ, Bill Kim’s Korean-barbecue-oriented Asian fusion spot in the West Loop. “Our seasoning [for family meal] is what we use to season the [menu] dishes with. So instead of throwing salt on something, we may use fish sauce. It’s a good way to get our staff familiar with the flavors that we’re serving.” That doesn’t quite explain the big tub of Froot Loops on the table he’s setting....

The Daily Show on Thursday finished out the week in Chicago in far better form than the hapless Cubs. For four days at the Athanaeum Theatre, Trevor Noah hosted an “undesked” version of his Comedy Central show that played for the most part as a stand-up showcase interlaced with news clips. Performing amid scenic design that suggested an alley beneath a stretch of elevated train tracks, Noah and Daily Show senior correspondent Hasan Minhaj rarely passed up an opportunity to indulge the hometown crowd, which obediently laughed and applauded on command....

Al Podgorski/Sun-Times Patrick D. Thompson—the D is for Daley—embraces his uncle, county commissioner John Daley, after joining the water reclamation district board in 2012. Patrick D. Thompson’s campaign website has a page labeled FAMILY that describes how he grew up at 35th and Lowe in Bridgeport around the family of his mother, Patricia Daley. Thompson insists that’s not the case. “I am not running away from my Daley name at all....

About a year after Aaron Lippelt and Mary Gibbons opened Pilsen Community Books on 18th Street, things finally started to fall into place. They had a solid customer base, who were starting to make the store feel homey. They had no plans to open up a second bookstore. Lippelt and Gibbons took over the four-room space in June and started renovating. The old bookshelves, which Peterson had brought from Selected Works’s previous location in Lakeview, were rickety and had to go....

Alex Wong/Getty Images Bernie Sanders throws his hat in the ring. Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us. • About how segregation led inevitably to the injustices in Baltimore, Ferguson, and throughout the nation? —Steve Bogira • About “frexting,” otherwise known as platonic sexting? —Drew Hunt

Update on Friday, April 19, at 4:30 PM: Papa M is no longer on the bill for the Friday show. Sunn O))) will play at 9 PM. Papa M is still scheduled for the Monday show. If you’ve ever heard the music of dark-hooded dronemeisters Sunn O))), you may have reached the conclusion that its core members, Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, have a different sense of time than the rest of us....

Eviction has become a prominent topic of academic research, public debate, journalistic investigation, and artistic expression in recent years, spurred largely by the 2016 publication of sociologist Matthew Desmond’s book Evicted. Set in Milwaukee, it painstakingly describes the lives of poor tenants and their landlords and contemplates solutions to the nation’s eviction epidemic. Since the book’s release, Desmond has opened the Eviction Lab, a research center at Princeton University, where he teaches, and spearheaded various projects to raise public awareness of the problem....

May the 4th Be With You Lightsaber Battle Chicago Jedi and EDGE Theatre (MacSith) held a “Lightsaber Freeze Mob” Wednesday night on annual Star Wars Day—a series of posed faux battles between good and evil from a galaxy not so far away.

The taste level is high in his modest two-story home, which he bought in 1988 and has slowly renovated by hand (“everything except the drywall”). Each room is impeccably furnished with modernist treasures sourced from all over Chicago, the midwest, and beyond. As a collector—and one of the administrators of the popular Mid Century Modern Chicago Facebook group, which currently has close to 7,000 members—he’s not about to divulge his sources....

Hali Palombo, 29, is a composer and sound artist who works in found and lost audio and media, frequently including shortwave radio, and creates visual art and video installations from slow-scan television. Her January release Cylinder Loops collages audio from antique wax cylinders, and in March she launched an intermittent podcast, Unknown America, that delves into historical oddities and obscurities. She’s been making field recordings of Wisconsin tourist attraction the House on the Rock (“It’s terrifying—I’m very inspired by it”), which she plans to use for a seven-inch coming out this summer via local label Ballast....

Parker Bright “Chicagoans” is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Jaime Queroz, commercial garbage man. “There are so many things that can go wrong, and they do go wrong. Sometimes the Dumpster wheels get frozen in the ice or snow, and they’re hard to maneuver. And then the mechanics of the garbage truck weren’t manufactured for this type of weather, so the brake lines freeze....

Scott Olson / Getty Images Cook County state’s attorney Anita Alvarez says her office will start dropping charges against people caught with less than an ounce of pot. Cook County state’s attorney Anita Alvarez says she’s not encouraging anyone to toke up. In 2014 her office prosecuted nearly than 15,000 misdemeanor cannabis possession cases, according to the court clerk’s office. About 2,000 cases ended in convictions, while the rest were dropped or dismissed....

The Seattle-based Twitter feed Dockless Bike Fail hilariously showcases the downside of dockless bike sharing, one of the newest developments in the shared-mobility boom. With this technology, customers can use a cell phone app to locate and access cycles distributed around a city and secured with built-in locks. Unlike traditional bike-share systems like Chicago’s Divvy, there’s no need to install expensive docking stations, and users can leave the cycles right at their destinations....

Welcome to autumn and all of its gorgeous chill! Even though many of us are still trying to observe a measure of caution while socializing and traveling through public spaces, the world keeps turning and there’s a bevy of events and exhibitions scheduled for the coming weeks. One way to feel good about going out is making sure that you’re taking health precautions as you need to, and one path to health is getting tested for the presence of COVID-19....

“Graphic Novels and Identity” Sat 4/28, 1 PM, Studebaker Theater, 410 S. Michigan, chicagohumanities.org, $20, $15 members, $10 students and teachers. I teach in an MFA in Comics program now [at California College of the Arts], and it is the worst thing when someone brand-new to the medium wants to embark on a really big, long project. I tell people: It’s possible, clearly, but you have to be a little crazy....

This wolf has been a big fan of the intense sound of Chicago rock four-piece Haki ever since catching wind of ’em, and on Fri 1/9 they’ll drop the provisionally titled Haki’s Big New E.P., their first new music since the self-­released LP Positive in April 2014. The Reader described that album as veering “from mellow dub hypnosis to feral punk that teeters on the edge of noisy chaos,” and Haki guitarist Yusuf Muhammad tells Gossip Wolf that the EP is “the most punk-rock thing we will ever make....

Update: To help slow the spread of COVID-19, this show has been postponed to a date to be determined in the future. Ticket holders should check with their point of purchase for refund or exchange information. It’s only March, but this lineup will be hard for any other heavy rock show in 2020 to beat. Sleep bassist-vocalist Al Cisneros and drummer Chris Hakius founded deep stoner trance outfit Om in 2003, and in 2008 Emil Amos took over for Hakius (who retired from music entirely the following year)....