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June 13, 1986 - Rosemont, Illinois, USA - Rosemont Horizon

MLK, Pride (In The Name Of Love), New Year's Day, Sunday Bloody Sunday, Maggie's Farm, Help, Bad, Sun City. Encore(s): I Shall Be Released.

Amnesty International's 'Conspiracy Of Hope' Tour stops into the Chicagoland area. After being played at the end of The Police's set at the previous show, Sun City (with Lou Reed) returns to the end of U2's set. Bono joins The Police for Invisible Sun. I Shall Be Released is played as an All-Star Finale.

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Chicago Tribune, June 15, 1986

If Music Was the Message, Amnesty Got It Across Loud & Clear

by Lynn Van Matre

The traveling all-star musical marathon billed as "A Conspiracy of Hope" rolled into the Rosemont Horizon Friday night with a twofold purpose: to make people aware of Amnesty International, a human rights organization which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and to make some good rock and roll.

It's hard to know just how much consciousness-raising was accomplished Friday, but the quality (and quantity) of the music was never in doubt. Nearly five hours of rock and roll produced several standout performances and a couple of surprises.

Sting, for instance, was billed as a solo act, but when he took the stage to close out the evening's entertainment lineup, he was accompanied by his old Police mates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland. Lou Reed, who had done a set of his own earlier in the show, returned to the stage during U2's set to joined Bono and the rest of the band in the anti-apartheid song, "Sun City." And comedian Robin Williams turned up unexpectedly to do a number of manic jokes (none of them particularly funny) about dictators, TV evangelists and giving birth.

Dick Gregory also stopped by to offer a few words about the work of Amnesty International, and a dozen or so other celebs did their bit via videos which were shown during set changes. It's hard to argue with most of the group's goals: to work to free those who have been persecuted and imprisoned for their beliefs ("prisoners of conscience," as Amnesty International refers to them). But according to one of the celebs on video, Amnesty International also opposes the death penalty anytime, anywhere, a philosophical stand that plenty of people might have serious problems accepting.

The music, however, sometimes spoke as loud or louder than the messages Friday night. One of the concert's most memorable moments came when singer Peter Gabriel ended his set with "Biko," a haunting tribute to slain South African poet and activist Steven Biko.

The show, featuring Sting, U2, Gabriel, Reed, Bryan Adams, Joan Baez and the Neville Brothers (with concert producer Bill Graham as master of ceremonies), opened with a brief, two-song set by the Nevilles. The New Orleans group is currently trying to widen the audience for their musical gumbo of funk, blues, jazz and Mardi Gras sounds, but there wasn't much opportunity for them to strut their stuff in the limited time alloted them. Next up was Joan Baez, who performed "The Times They Are A-Changin"' a cappella and talked about torture chambers, then teamed up with the Nevilles for a few numbers including "AmazingGrace."

With Baez, the obligatory "do-gooder," out of the way, the crowd was happy to move on to some rock and roll ably provided by Lou Reed. One of rock's genuine originals, Reed and his band performed "I Love You, Suzanne," "Turn to Me," and "Walk on the Wild Side" to the crowd's appreciative cries of "Loooooooo."

Reed was followed by Gabriel, whose synth-driven rock sound has recently reached the mainstream via his current hit single, "Sledgehammer." That song and "Shock the Monkey" were crowd pleasers Friday, but Gabriel's somber "Biko" was what brought down the house. A short intermission followed Gabriel's set, with the second half of the concert consisting of Adams, U2 and Sting. Adams reprised his Top 40 hits, including "Straight from the Heart" and "Summer of '69," and drew a particularly strong response from the crowd. But the biggest reception of the evening was accorded U2, featuring lead vocalist Bono and a guitarist known as The Edge. The band's anthemic sound has never sounded better, and Bono was in particularly good spirits.

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With a formal party and a Frank Sinatra concert, the Windy City celebrated the rebirth of one of its entertainment crown jewels Wednesday night, reopening the refurbished Chicago theater.

At the black-tie opening, Sinatra returned to the theater’s stage for the first time in 40 years.

The ornate 3,800-seat theater, on State Street at the gateway to the city’s Loop shopping strip, has been restored to its 1921 movie palace splendor at a cost of $4 million, in the hope that it will serve as the anchor for a new downtown theater district to draw suburban residents into the central city. Several smaller movie houses nearby are expected to become legitimate theaters in the near future with corporate and foundation backing.

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“This marks the rebirth of America’s second great White Way,” declared Ira Kaufman, chairman of Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, which waged an 11th-hour campaign to raise $10 million to save both the theater and the adjoining cast-iron Page Building from the wrecker’s ball.

The 65-year-old theater, second in size to New York’s Radio City Music Hall, is considered one of the best examples of the extravagance the entertainment industry lavished on its showcases. Once the flagship of the Balaban & Katz entertainment empire, it endured two insensitive “remodelings” and has withstood infestations of mice, cockroaches and pickpockets, who filled its ventilation shafts with empty wallets and discarded purses.

The restoration of The Chicago theater is the latest example of a trend that has already saved old movie palaces in places as diverse as Cleveland and Joliet, Ill.; Oakland, Calif., and Louisville, Ky.

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The theater, a marble, terra cotta, plaster and mirrored monument to Hollywood, was designed by Chicago architects Cornelius and George Rapp, who later became designers-in-residence for both Balaban & Katz and the Paramount-Publix circuit. The State Street facade is based on the Arch of Triumph in Paris. The interior is a miniature Palace of Versailles with a few Moorish details thrown in for understatement.

The ceiling and walls are decorated with floral designs, cherubs and mythical creatures of every kind. Apollo stands guard in a giant oval mural over the stage.

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Good afternoon, Chicago. ✶

Chicago culture: There’s no one way to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Many films have missed the mark. Talking heads on TV can’t get it right. Countless voices on social media misunderstand us entirely. That’s all right — we get what we’re about.

In today’s newsletter, we zoom in on Chicago’s thriving drag scene, which has become a refuge from legislative and culture battles for performers and fans alike.

Plus, we take you to the Rathole Music Fest, rank the best Chicago TV shows — and catch up on the community news you need to know below. 👇

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How chicago became a safe haven for the drag performers who call it home, reporting by kaitlin washburn.

Sense of belonging : Kylie Lefever and her drag persona, Kylee Hunter, moved to Chicago from Florida in 2022. The vitriol and legislation targeting drag performers and the larger LGBTQ+ community in that state had become too much for her, she said. Chicago is not only a premier stage to practice the art; it’s become a haven for drag queens, several performers told the Sun-Times.

A rich history : Drag in Chicago dates to at least the late 19th century. After the 1893 World’s Fair, people from around the city would gather in places like the Dill Pickle Club on the Near North Side to see performers. From political fundraisers to cabarets, the scene grew in the decades that followed. As for the mainstream, many credit the competition show “RuPaul’s Drag Race” for this once-underground culture exploding worldwide.

Schools of drag : With more acceptance came more ways to practice the art. Drag styles come in seemingly limitless options: pageant queens, comedy queens, camp queens, punk queens, avant-garde queens, bearded queens. Chicago has emerged as a creative hub for drag, with legendary performers like the late JoJo Baby blazing the trail.

Where to see queens : These days, there are ample ways to watch a drag performance in Chicago, said Matthew Harvat, who performs as CircuitMOM. Venues like Roscoe’s, Hydrate and Sidetrack boast regular shows. Even the Walnut Room, the posh restaurant on the top floor of Macy’s on State Street, hosts drag brunches. “You can’t swing a lace front wig in this town and not hit a drag queen,” Harvat says.

Key quote : “Chicago is a safe haven, and it’s the land of opportunity,” says Anthony Taylor, who performs as the Vixen. “There’s enough room for a new queen to come in and make space.”

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• Training the next generation of workers : The Chicago-based 548 Foundation’s clean energy training program offers skill-based courses to help students land jobs in the state’s burgeoning solar industry.
• Assault weapons ban stands : The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to hear a set of challenges to Illinois’ assault weapons ban, but Justice Clarence Thomas said the court should take up the issue later, after lower courts are finished considering the controversial law.
• Unfunded pension debt rises : For the second year in a row, the city’s unfunded pension liability rose by more than 5% in 2023 — to $37.2 billion. It compounds a longstanding crisis as city pension funds for firefighters, laborers, police and municipal employees edge toward bankruptcy.
• Jelly Belly plant closes : The candy company will close its plant in North Chicago around Oct. 11 and lay off 65 employees, according to its Chicago-based parent company Ferrara Candy.
• CTA wants your feedback : The Chicago Transit Authority is seeking input from riders via a new online survey to help improve the bus network.

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Cops, docs and Dy-no-mite! The 10 best Chicago-set TV shows ever

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When Carmen “Carmy” Berzatto encountered a bear on a rain-soaked Clark Street Bridge in the opening sequence of “The Bear” in June of 2021, we had no inkling we were about to experience Chicago television greatness in the making.

In light of “The Bear” making its return , it’s time to rank the best Chicago-set TV shows of all time.

1. ‘ER’ (1994-2009) : Set in the fictional Cook County General Hospital, “ER” remains arguably the greatest and most influential medical drama of all time, with Michael Crichton and John Wells creating must-see TV for an astonishing 15 seasons.

2. ‘The Bear’ (2021-) : Even with the impact of “ER,” it can be argued that no Chicago-set show has made as big an impact on popular culture as “The Bear.” Think: articles about where to buy cookware on the show, the increased popularity of restaurants featured on the series , rabid fans posting about filming locations, a “Bear"-inspired food tour — we could go on.

3. ‘Crime Story’ (1986-1988) : At a time when most TV series followed the episodic format, the criminally (sorry) short-lived “Crime Story” was the ongoing saga of a cop and a mobster who were obsessed with destroying one another. It was a richly layered, gritty and authentic series.

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Saturday’s Rathole Music Fest in Wicker Park began as an online joke.

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Rathole Music Fest makes an impression on Wicker Park

Reporting by erica thompson.

Back in January, at the peak of Chicago rat hole-mania, people were making pilgrimages to a rodent-shaped indentation in a Roscoe Village sidewalk.

Some left coins and candles; others even got engaged and married at the attraction, in the 1900 block of West Roscoe Street. The only thing left to do was host a music festival at the site.

Though it began as a joke six months ago, the “Rathole Music Fest” was held Saturday, a few miles away at Bourbon on Division in Wicker Park.

Outside the venue, a giant inflatable rat greeted attendees, who paid about $25 to see several local bands, including Malört & Savior and the King of Mars. As the bands played upstairs, a poet known as Kro, the Traveling Typist, read rat-inspired poetry on the first floor. The event’s official mascot was spotted in a rubber rat mask.

Multiple attendees were happy to celebrate the Chicago rat hole, which the city removed in April, with promises that it would be preserved. On Saturday, there was no trace of the indentation at its former site — only a few blocks of new sidewalk, along with new fencing and planters.

“I love how ridiculous Chicago is,” said Molly Lartz, 38, of Ukrainian Village, who attended the fest with her partner, Josh McKinley. “I think the rat hole is fun. It’s kinda like Chance the Snapper. We just latch on to these silly things.”

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The first weekend day of the Festival was the busiest yet. Bright and early, people of all ages joined members of Hawaiian classical dance group Hālau o Kekuhi at the Family Activities tent for a workshop on stamping, where they could recreate the patterns and symbols on hula dancers’ skirts, including hinaholo, which represents the goddess of the tidal currents and wa‘a kaulua, which represents the Hawaiian tradition of voyaging.

Temperatures rose twofold in the Ceramics Tent, where Oaxacan studio Taller Ruiz Lopez fired up the kiln to finish the pottery that has been formed so far this week. In the afternoon, our accessibility staff led a visual description tour of the Festival, allowing blind and low-vision visitors to interact with artists and have tactile experiences with their wares.

As evening fell, our spirits did not. Two featured concerts—Kaqchikel singer Sara Curruchich in the Rasmuson Theater and Arctic music and dance group Pamyua on Four Directions Stage—brought the energy into the end of Day Four.

The Festival starts early on Sunday, June 30, with Morning on the Mall , an accessible, sensory-friendly program at 9:30 a.m. Later in the day, listen to Indigenous hip-hop with performances from MISK’I and K’achamosita as well as Waikil and Ketrafe , watch skaters practice their tricks at the Skate Jams, learn about the volcanic traditions of Hawai‘i , and more.

The forecast suggests stormy weather on Sunday, so be sure to check the schedule for updates before your visit. Don’t miss the final two days of the 2024 Festival!

Molly Szymanski is a media intern with the 2024 Folklife Festival. They are from Baltimore and currently live in College Park, Maryland. Elisa Hough is the editor and web content manager for the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Chloe E.W. Levine is the social media coordinator for the 2024 Folklife Festival. The city she has most recently called home is Somerville, Massachusetts.

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Kinky Friedman, Texas songwriter, satirist and folk hero, dies at 79

He showcased his outlandish humor in songs like “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore.” In 2006, he ran for Texas governor as an independent, coming in fourth.

Kinky Friedman, who became a Texas folk hero as a flamboyant singer-songwriter, satirist, raconteur and would-be politician, running for governor in 2006 while jokingly declaring that he was neither pro-life nor pro-choice, but instead “pro-football,” died June 26 at Echo Hill, his ranch outside Medina, Tex. He was 79.

The cause was Parkinson’s disease, said his sister, Marcie Friedman.

“The Kinkster,” as he sometimes called himself, brought an outlaw spirit and vaudeville showmanship to politics, books and music, pushing the bounds of good taste while chomping on a cigar and donning a black cowboy hat — an accessory that barely concealed the curly dark hair that inspired his nickname. “With a name like Kinky,” he once told a reporter , “you should be famous, or else it’s a social embarrassment.”

Beginning in the early 1970s, he performed with a satirical country band called Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, releasing songs such as “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” and “We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to You.” He toured with Bob Dylan, played chess with Willie Nelson and palled around with presidents from both parties, befriending Bill Clinton as well as George W. Bush. When he visited the White House for a gala dinner in 1997, he brought a Cuban cigar as a gift.

“Mr. President,” he recalled telling Clinton , “don’t think of it as supporting their economy — think of it as burning their fields.”

When he tired of touring and performing, Mr. Friedman turned to writing. He had a long-running column in Texas Monthly and cast a fictional version of himself as the detective hero of novels including “Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Cola” (1993), “Armadillos and Old Lace” (1994) and “God Bless John Wayne” (1995). Like the real Mr. Friedman, the books’ protagonist lived in Greenwich Village for a time, moving back and forth between New York City and his family ranch in Texas.

The character is unsure which place to call home. Eventually, he hopes to “find the answer to the grand and troubling question that has haunted mankind through the ages: What is it that I really want out of life — horsemanure or pigeon [excrement]?”

In his own life, Mr. Friedman decided on the manure. Living off his ranch, he became a beloved figure for a certain brand of independent-minded Texan, with former governor Ann Richards, a Democrat, calling him “one of Texas’s great natural resources.”

Mr. Friedman was resolutely independent in his politics, resisting party labels even as he tended toward the libertarian side of the spectrum. He first ran for office in 1986, mounting a quixotic campaign for justice of the peace in Kerrville, near his ranch, and launched his long-shot bid for governor nearly three decades later, while calling for the legalization of gambling, marijuana and same-sex marriage. “I support gay marriage,” he explained , “because I believe they have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us.”

His candidacy was initially treated as a joke, in part because Mr. Friedman seemed to treat it that way himself. He campaigned on one-liners: “How hard could it be?,” “He ain’t Kinky, he’s my governor,” “I’ll sign anything but bad legislation,” “If you elect me the first Jewish governor of the state of Texas,” he declared, “I’ll reduce the speed limit to 54.95.”

But he became a rare independent to make it on the ballot — another independent, Carole Keeton Strayhorn, also got enough signatures to qualify — after touting himself as a populist, truth-telling alternative to tired old politicians. He was joined on the trail by Jesse Ventura, the former pro wrestler whose successful run for Minnesota governor offered inspiration for Mr. Friedman.

Taking on Republican incumbent Rick Perry, who later served as energy secretary during the Trump administration, Mr. Friedman finished fourth, with 12 percent of the vote. If the result wasn’t quite what he wanted, he still seemed happy with the publicity. “I won that election,” he often said, “everywhere but Texas.”

Richard Samet Friedman was born in Chicago on Nov. 1, 1944, although he preferred to celebrate his birthday a day earlier, on Halloween. The oldest of three children, he grew up in Houston and at Echo Hill Ranch, which his parents bought and ran in the Texas Hill Country.

Mr. Friedman’s father had sold potatoes from a pushcart before serving as a bomber navigator during World War II. He became a psychology professor at the University of Texas, and Mr. Friedman’s mother worked as one of the first speech therapists in Houston public schools.

While his parents weren’t musical, they supported their older son’s idiosyncratic interests, taking him to play chess with Samuel Reshevsky when the Polish-born grandmaster was passing through Houston on a tour. (Mr. Friedman, who was 7, said that he let Reshevsky win “so as not to hurt his feelings.”) His sister said they were also tolerant when Mr. Friedman was assigned to write a newspaper article about a high school football game, then turned in a story that was written entirely in Latin, “which pleased two people and irritated many others.”

After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied psychology and marched against segregated lunch counters in his spare time, Mr. Friedman went to Borneo in 1966, serving for two years with the Peace Corps. He played guitar, wrote country songs and returned home to form Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, a riff on the western swing group Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

Performing at small-town bars as well as Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry, Mr. Friedman released more than a dozen albums, beginning with “Sold American” (1973). The record featured many of his best-known songs, including “Ride ’Em Jewboy,” a country tribute to the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, and “Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed,” a controversial country ditty in which he called on women “to occupy the kitchen, liberate the sink.”

“Sometimes, Friedman’s songs lampooned small-minded bigotry; sometimes, those songs embodied that bigotry so fully that the line between parody and seriousness became meaningless; and sometimes, those songs used a veneer of humorous irony and satire to traffic in edgy intolerance,” Rolling Stone journalist Jonathan Bernstein wrote in 2018 .

Mr. Friedman often recalled a 1973 concert in Buffalo, where he said he and the band were attacked onstage by “a group of cranked-up lesbians” that reacted angrily to “Get Your Biscuits.” “Later that year, I received the National Organization for Women’s male chauvinist pig award,” he told the Buffalo News. “It’s an award I’m still proud of.”

During the 1980s, Mr. Friedman struggled with cocaine use while living in New York, where he played weekly at the Lone Star Cafe before moving back to Texas. “I’m a big believer in meeting demons and conquering them,” he told the New York Times in 1995. “I gave them up because I had lots of friends ‘going to Jesus’ in rapid succession. I was totally depressed.”

“Coming back to Texas and the ranch saved my life,” he added.

Mr. Friedman returned to politics late in life, unsuccessfully running for state agriculture commissioner in 2010 and 2014. He also continued to write music, according to his sister, who said he had just completed a record, “The Poet of Motel 6,” composed of songs he wrote in the past year.

In addition to his sister, survivors include a brother, Roger.

A few years ago, Mr. Friedman and his sister turned their family ranch into a camp for the children of Gold Star families, who lost a parent while serving in the military or working as a first responder. Mr. Friedman also ran an animal shelter on the property, hosting a Thanksgiving feast for lost and abandoned dogs who offered a howling, tail-wagging accompaniment to his guitar playing.

“I’m married to the wind,” he once wrote, “and my children are my animals and the books I’ve written, and I love them all.”

A previous version of this obituary incorrectly described chess grandmaster Samuel Reshevsky as Polish. He was born in Poland but spent most of his life in the United States, which he represented in chess tournaments. The article has been corrected.

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