Last July, in the middle of a violent year, Cook County commissioner Richard Boykin gathered Austin residents at the west-side neighborhood’s By the Hand Club for Kids. For three and a half hours, around 100 community members, civic leaders, and elected officials met to discuss what was needed to end the violence in Austin. In 2016, 88 of the city’s 783 shootings, or 11 percent, occurred there. As a result of the summit, a $1 million job training program is now in the works, thanks to money set aside in the 2017 county budget....

The Age of the Earth Starting in two weeks Facets Multimedia will host a weeklong series of films about Brazil’s indigenous population. The lineup contains some impressive-sounding documentaries (including the 1983 short Box of Treasures by local professor and Kartemquin Films board member Judy Hoffman), though if there’s one unmissable film here, it’s the rarely revived The Age of the Earth (1980), which screens Saturday 6/21 at 8:30 PM. Earth is the final work by Glauber Rocha, one of the most important and controversial of all Brazilian filmmakers....

Thirty years ago, Bruce Rauner and Carl Thoma were two of four partners in the private equity firm GTCR, which Thoma had cofounded in 1980. They were pioneers in venture capital and leveraged business buyouts, and profited mightily before the partnership broke up in 1998. The Foundation, with assets of $156 million, also provides financial support for research, publication, exhibitions, and educational programs in its areas of interest, and lends works from its collection to other institutions....

QI’m 25, I’m virgin, and I find it quite difficult to relate with girls. My main problem is I can’t accept my sexuality. I’m into fetish SM. But it seems like there are two parts of me. The first part of me wants to lick women’s feet and be humiliated. The second part of me can’t accept the first part and only wants to love and be loved by a girl....

Panelists includes Rodney Williams, founder of the Cincinnati-based Bluetooth-disrupting sound technology company Lisnr; Dawn Dickenson, whose Miami company Flat Out of Heels makes rollable ballet flats that can be purchased online or from a vending machine; and Jason Caston, founder of digital strategy company Caston Digital, based in Frisco, Texas. Stovall said the panelists have also been asked to address “pattern matching,” an unconscious bias that can cause investors to identify and support entrepreneurs who share similar traits to established entrepreneurs—traits such as gender, race, or educational background—to the detriment of anyone who doesn’t share those traits....

Bane This might be your last chance of the summer to take it easy, because while the first half of this week is a slow one for live music, things are blowing up for the rest of the season. And, sure, it’s not totally happening over the next couple of days, but that doesn’t mean this town is a total desert. After the jump there are a couple of awesome Soundboard pics to keep keep things exciting during the relaxing holiday week....

Feverishly inventive and wildly curious, percussionist Ben Hall is pretty catholic in his creative pursuits—he also co-owns a restaurant in his native Detroit and is an accomplished visual artist. A former student of singular percussionist Milford Graves and one of the final collaborators with trumpeter Bill Dixon, Hall also led the gloriously chaotic free-noise combo Graveyards with Wolf Eyes founder John Olson. His playing makes room for barrages of furious, surging-and-receding energy along with drone-oriented bowing and rubbing, whether deafening or pin-drop quiet....

Courtesy Two Piece Fest’s Facebook page On the surface Two Piece Fest Midwest looks like it’s been designed to appeal to music fans with a thing for numbers. The daylong DIY event is a celebration of bands with only two members, and it takes place on Saturday, which is 2/22, and there are 22 bands on the bill. In reality Two Piece Fest wasn’t created just for this weekend, and it’s got a bit of a history: Philadelphia punk dudes Peter Helmis (of Algernon Cadwallader) and Craig Woods (of Towers and Hot Bagels) started it years ago as a way to celebrate their own two-piece band, Peter & Craig; last weekend they put on the seventh installment of the Philly fest....

Written by Jessie Nelson, composed by Sara Bareilles, and based on the 2007 movie starring Keri Russell, Waitress is a sweet-as-pie musical about domestic abuse and adultery. Jenna works at Joe’s Pie Diner someplace in the southern-drawl belt, where she waits tables and serves as the resident pie genius, producing baked works of art that express her inner state on any given day. She’s unhappily married to Earl, a classic prole ne’er-do-well who puts her down, confiscates her pay, and conveys the promise of violence with his love....

Aimee Levitt A pe, or vodou altar Before we go any further, it should be made clear that the name of the Field Museum’s new exhibit is pronounced “voh-DOO.” Also, vodouists don’t make those little cloth dolls to curse their enemies; they use them to carry messages to their ancestors and other deceased loved ones. And finally, oungan and manbo, vodou priests and priestesses, cannot raise the dead. A zonbi is not a reanimated corpse, but a body that’s been robbed of its soul and enslaved by a master—and given the history of both vodou and Haiti, which are inextricably intertwined, that’s about the worst thing that can happen to anybody....

One of America’s greatest filmmakers, Debra Granik finds her stories on the margins of a wealthy society. Her potent debut feature, Down to the Bone (2004), gave Vera Farmiga a breakout role as a working-class mom fighting cocaine addiction in upstate New York, her rocky personal situation aggravated by the family’s nickeled-and-dimed existence. Granik’s sophomore effort, Winter’s Bone (2010), brought critical acclaim to TV actress Jennifer Lawrence for her flinty performance as an impoverished 17-year-old girl fending for herself and her younger siblings in the Ozarks....

Here’s the final installment of the year-end countdown of my favorite albums from 2015. Read about numbers 40 through 31, 30 through 21, and 20 through 11. Josh Berman Trio, A Dance and a Hop (Delmark) Cornetist Josh Berman seems to have found himself leading this deft, agile trio with bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Frank Rosaly. The group’s music balances an investment in sound for its own sake against conversational phrasing and limber, precise rhythms....

I grew up to understand that slavery was horrendous and the Civil War a slaughter house, and one of the most noble moments in American history occurred when Grant said to Lee, “Keep your sword.” The bloodletting was done with, the slaves were freed, and the task ahead was to reconcile north and south, which meant the white people who’d hated each other. And so America did. In the decades ahead, the battles pitting Blue forces against Gray would be college all-star football games....

AP Photo/Paul Beaty Against the Tigers on Saturday, Adam Dunn gave Jose Abreu’s back a high-ten as he made sure he didn’t miss the plate after hitting his final homer as a White Sox. If you just got back to town after the Labor Day weekend, you may have noticed something missing: Adam Dunn. Dunn is a one-tool player. He had a few escapades in the field here, but mostly DH’d....

Julia Thiel Strawberry-allspice-quassia purl Analogue, the new Logan Square cocktail bar and restaurant from Violet Hour vets Robert Haynes and Henry Prendergast, has been open for about a month now, but I didn’t make it there until last Friday. It’s a modern, minimalist joint, almost as well hidden as the Violet Hour: there’s no sign outside, and the windows are painted black, making it look a lot like an abandoned storefront....

You’ve probably never heard of any of the artists whose work appears in “Forbidden Art,” a traveling exhibit that just arrived at the Polish Museum of America, but given the circumstances under which their work was created, it’s close to miraculous that anyone knows their names at all. The 20 paintings, drawings, and sculptures were created by prisoners—both Jewish and Christian—in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Buchenwald concentration camps during World War II....

Klara Källström & Thobias Fäldt Wildbirds & Peacedrums Swedish couple Mariam Wallentin and Andreas Werliin have to rate as one of music’s most dynamic forces, both together and on their own. Wallentin, a singer, released a fantastic solo album last year under the name Mariam the Believer, and her voice has turned up on projects and recordings by artists as disparate as art-pop singer Lykke Li, experimentalist Ben Frost, and jazz bassist Anders Jormin....

October 9-23, cinemachicago.org This year marks the festival’s 50th edition, and in honor of the milestone, presenting organization Cinema/Chicago is giving away the best possible party favors: repeat screenings of notable films that have played at the fest over the years. Back in January, WTTW kicked off a monthly series of revivals with Tod Lending’s Chicago-centric documentary Legacy (2000), followed by such rarely broadcast titles as Mike Leigh’s Bleak Moments (1971), Rebecca Camisa and Rob Frutchman’s Sister Helen (2002), and Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s A Screaming Man (2010); the series continues through October, when the festival takes place....

If you haven’t yet seen James Gray’s The Immigrant, make a beeline for the Gene Siskel Film Center next week, when it returns to Chicago for its second run. One of the major achievements of recent American movies, Gray’s immersive period piece channels the raw emotionalism of silent melodramas and Italian opera without coming off as nostalgic or studied. Despite the film’s impeccable artistry—not to mention the rave reviews it received at the Cannes Film Festival and during its commercial run in France last fall—its U....

MC-producer Frank Leone has a penchant for minimal, sometimes-sleepy instrumentals and his composed, effortless flow can coax you into his moody soundscapes. Leone’s fleshed-out, flexible, and durable aesthetic is a great Trojan horse for the MC to neatly slip whatever ideas he likes into his music—the largely tranquil instrumental to February’s “Bump in the Night” belies Leone’s emotive lyrics about senseless street violence. Leone’s been working away on a mixtape called Enter Wild, which is set to drop before winter....