Micco Caporale

Chicago

Features Writer at Freelance

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The complicated genesis of ‘homosexual’ - Chicago Reader

3 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Is heterosexuality natural? In his 1995 book The Invention of Heterosexuality, sexuality scholar Jonathan Ned Katz established the idea of “heterosexual” as a historically recent concept. First entered into the lexicon in the late 19th century, “heterosexual” served a very specific social and political function: “Heterosexuality is not identical to the reproductive intercourse of the sexes,” he writes.
Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe come to Ravinia with a summer celebration of Black and gender liberation

3 weeks ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Grace Jones and Janelle Monáe’s coheadlining summer tour is an intergenerational celebration of gender-expansive Black women for the ages. Monaé has been a pop-culture fixture for nearly two decades. Since they broke out with their trailblazing debut studio full-length, 2010’s The ArcAndroid, they’ve Rubik’s Cubed elements of reggae, funk, R&B, hip-hop, soul, pop-punk, and jazz to build on a rich Black history of Afrofuturism and speculative fiction.
Problems’ freaky electronic sounds drip with sincerity

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Darren Keen has been making freak music from the heartland for longer than there’s been a TSA. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and based in Chicago, he’s been weaving through midwestern music scenes since the late 90s, talking shit on Conor Oberst and writing material for freewheeling bands and solo projects that tells ridiculous tales of middle-American boredom and depravity.
Illinois police, retailers don’t want you to mask up

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

In February, state representative Hoan Huynh introduced a bill that would protect the right to wear a medical mask in public. It seems like a slam dunk piece of legislation, so why has it stalled in the Illinois General Assembly? Last October, Care Not COVID Chicagoland teamed up with other disability rights advocates to draft the proposed House Bill 3853, better known as the Protective Medical Equipment Freedom Act.
Grizzy Mack, rapper and half of pop promoters Citypill

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Brendan Carmack is the teddy bear of Chicago’s underground pop scene. The Oak Park native has been making hip-hop as Grizzy Mack since high school. Now 31, he keeps busy with music, and performing is just a small part of that. While earning a psychology degree at Knox College in Galesburg, he helped run the school’s radio station, worked as a sound engineer, and cofounded a collective of local artists and producers called Thirty Radio, with whom he still works today.
Vol. 54 No. 33 Archives

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Alaa “Al” Darhamda of Bridgeview’s Al Manakeesh slices a bagel sandwich, using the more traditional ka’ak version of the bagel. On the cover: Bridgeview’s Al Manakeesh bakes Arabic fl atbread and ‘bagels’ 1,001 ways Before there were pizza and bagels, Arabs ate manakeesh and ka’ak. by Mike Sula, p. 6Dilla’s Chicago: Catholics, by Shermann “Dilla” Thomas, p. 5Chicagoans of Note: Grizzy Mack, by Micco Caporale, p. 14
Cincinnati trio the Serfs shake up midwestern postpunk

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Controversial music opinion: Right now the most exciting, forward-thinking bands in the evolving landscape of postpunk and EBM aren’t coming from Chicago. They’re clamoring out of smaller midwestern metropolises. Need proof? Look no further than Cincinnati, where the Serfs—whose name captures the truly medieval state of today’s underclass—are making songs that pulse with the tension between dance music’s lust for abandon and industrial music’s fascination with decay.
Reader Bites: Tonkotsu ramen at Alice & Friends' Vegan Kitchen

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Reader Bites celebrates dishes, drinks, and atmospheres from the Chicagoland food scene. Have you had a recent food or drink experience that you can’t stop thinking about? Share it with us at [email protected]. Tonkotsu ramen is a Western favorite of Japanese cuisine because it’s peak East-meets-West comfort food.
Sapphopalooza stuns at the Music Box Theatre

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale |Savannah Ray Hugueley |Taryn McFadden |J. Patrick Patterson

It’s a great time for sapphics in Chicago—maybe not as good as it was five months ago, when there were more federal protections and resources allocated for women, nonbinary people, and the LGBTQ+ community. But it’s a better time than when homosexuality was pathologized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, women needed a male signatory to open a bank account, and most public trans women wanted husbands, never wives or girlfriends.
Bartees Strange reflects on the lingering pain of alienation on Horror

1 month ago | chicagoreader.com | Micco Caporale

Bartees Strange is one of several high-profile musicians who’ve recently adopted a goth visual aesthetic, but his sound remains grounded in indie rock, neosoul, and hip-hop. On his latest album, Horror (4AD), which dropped on Valentine’s Day, Strange mines the existential dread that’s haunted him for most of his life. Born in England in 1989, he moved all over the world as his parents changed jobs, but when he was 12 years old, the family settled in Mustang, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City.