Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, October 31, 2016. Happy Halloween! A “rare and serious type of engine failure” caused plane fire at O’Hare American Airlines flight 383 from Chicago to Miami caught fire Friday at O’Hare International Airport because of a rare but very serious engine failure during takeoff, a federal official told the Associated Press. All of the passengers were evacuated, and 21 were injured. [Associated Press via Boston Globe]

This Monday, March 7, will mark the last show local weirdo-thrash unit Oozing Wound will play with founding drummer Kyle Reynolds. Oozing Wound was formed back in 2012 by Reynolds with former Cacaw bandmate Zack Weil on guitar and vocals and Unmanned Ship bassist Kevin Cribbin, and they’ve since been hammering out an intense, high-volume, off-kilter take on Big Four thrash-metal. With two Thrill Jockey-issued full-lengths under their belt, and a brand-new, as-of-yet-untitled third LP just in the can, the question that came to my mind when I learned about Reynolds’s departure was, “So what now?...

Psychedelic rock is too often bogged down in cliches, but Mythic Sunship’s 2018 album, Another Shape of Psychedelic Music, was a revelation. By choosing an album title that referenced Ornette Colman’s groundbreaking 1959 LP The Shape of Jazz to Come, they were either making an ironic joke or setting the bar for themselves stratospherically high—and though it turned out to be the latter, they pulled it off. The instrumental Copenhagen group had grown weary of the relatively conventional stoner rock on their first few records, and with the addition of saxophonist Søren Skov, they radically fused the realms of psychedelic music and jazz....

How do you launch an Olympic swimming team in a country that has just one public pool for a population of more than ten million people? Drowning is a leading cause of death in Haiti, according to the Haitian Federation of Aquatic Sports and Rescue. Despite it being an island nation, only 1 percent of its population knows how to swim. “That’s what this whole journey has been,” she says....

What’s better than one piece in a bold pattern? Two! April keeps mass production in check by sporting a truly hip ensemble made by her own mother. 

During the Iran-Iraq war, Baghdad-born oud master Rahim AlHaj was imprisoned and tortured by Saddam Hussein’s government for his political activism. He fled to Jordan and eventually found refuge in the U.S., settling in Albuquerque in 2000, and there he’s continued to preserve and develop the music of the oud—the pear-shaped, double-coursed string instrument at the heart of the roughly 5,000-year-old Arabic musical tradition. AlHaj became a U.S. citizen in 2008, and in 2015 he was awarded the prestigious NEA National Heritage Fellowship....

If Mayor Rahm loses next year’s election, we’ll have no need to worry about what he’ll do next—clearly, he has a great future in comedy. So if the mayor wants to keep voters from weighing in on a policy he opposes, all he has to do is command the City Council to cram the ballot with three questions he doesn’t care about. Quinn has enough obstacles trying to round up the 50,000 valid signatures by the August 6 deadline....

Album cover designed by Ron Mael! I’ve always thought of Todd Rundgren as an alternate-universe Brian Eno (not that you immediately think of Eno as being from this universe). Both Rundgren and Eno are brilliant and unusual musicians who are equally, if not more, famous for their production work and use of the recording studio as they are for their own music; both wore outlandish, colorful costumes that stood out even during the glam-rock era; and both embraced digital technology even while showing a great appreciation for classical music and doo-wop....

The Old Style Chicago Pizza Summit is serving up a steaming slice of rock ‘n’ roll to go along with all the za and beer. Raucous local rockers Twin Peaks have been announced today as the surprise hometown musical guest playing at the eat-and-drinkathon on April 22. Tickets are sold out, but Do312 is giving away a pair of tickets for some lucky folks.

I know back in February I insinuated there was only one issue left of the Chicago FoodCultura Clarion, the collaborative zine-Reader insert, launched by Barcelona born multidisciplinary food artist Antoni Miralda, University of Chicago anthropologist Stephan Palmié, and their posse of students, scholars, foodlums, and freaks. I’m glad to say I was wrong. The penultimate issue of the Clarion has been inserted in 2,700 copies of this week’s Reader print issue....

In the current edition of the Reader, I wrote on Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces (which plays at the Gene Siskel Film Center through Thursday), focusing on how Panahi has incorporated himself into his work of the 2010s. Panahi recognizes that he’s a great subject for cinema: he’s a dissident artist who continues to make movies in Iran despite being banned from doing so until 2030. While the director’s story may be extraordinary, his use of filmmaking to regard himself belongs to a well-known tradition....

The pressure to keep the force in Chicago is mounting. “Most communities around the country would love to have a new institution such as the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art open its doors within their borders. Most communities know and appreciate what a museum can deliver to a city, including jobs, educational opportunities and new tourism and other revenue. It’s a shame that some in Chicago are blind to decades of indisputable national data and may force the city to reject this tremendous gift....

Michael Gebert Chef DiGregorio with Chicken Mario Chef David DiGregorio has been in Chicago for 35 years, but he still has the broad East Coast accent of his native Rhode Island—an accent that bespeaks big family tables full of hearty Italian food. After working for several restaurants here, he’s spent the last ten years as chef-partner of Lettuce Entertain You’s Osteria Via Stato, which celebrates its tenth anniversary on Wednesday with a party benefiting the United Cerebral Palsy Foundation....

If he ever gets tired of the entertainment business, Chance the Rapper should consider a career as a fortune teller. At the moment, it looks like Emanuel’s planning to stick one in the industrial area on both sides of the Chicago River near North Avenue—one of the fastest-growing corners in town. It’s called the Cortland/Chicago River TIF District, and it would be located in the area between Webster on the north, North Avenue on the south, Clybourn on the east, and Elston Avenue on the west....

Joe Berrios was the first Latino elected to the Illinois General Assembly, at the age of 30 in 1982, and his political career has slid downhill ever since. Think of his legacy as something along the lines of a trail left by a snail. Ever a toady to Democratic Party powers that be, he sided with the Vrdolyak 29 during the so-called Council Wars, which briefly cost him the 31st Ward committeeman seat he’d won in the 80s, though he reclaimed it in the 90s after Harold Washington ally Ray Figueroa lost interest....

Rosario Zavala Luca Badetti Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Luca Badetti, L’Arche Chicago community coordinator. I think people with disabilities should be at the center of society. It’s good to live among people who are different from us. If we just stick with people who are what some might call “able-bodied” or “able-minded,” we’re missing a chance to open our hearts....

On his latest album, It’s a New Day Tonight (Wick), Montreal tunesmith Michael Rault takes a big leap forward, sharpening his pop instincts and shedding the glammy specter of Marc Bolan and T. Rex that haunted its predecessor, Living Daylight. He hasn’t exactly stepped into the present, though; nearly every crisp arrangement and irresistible hook conjures 70s AM pop-rock radio, and the sparkling production by Wayne Gordon, head engineer at New York’s Daptone studio, only sharpens the music’s bite....

Analisha Santini wants you to know she’s got attention deficit disorder (“with a dash of dyslexia”). And she’s bisexual too. And as far as she’s concerned, there’s nothing coincidental about the combination. She’s also more than happy to tell you about the time she drove her parents’ car down to Saint Louis without permission, to see a suicidal girlfriend. And about the bad patch she suffered when a lot of issues hit her all at once....

To get the right people to your party, sometimes you need to personalize the invitations. Miller and Simpson shared with me the e-mails asking them to take part. Miller’s came from a producer with Emergent Order, the production house in Austin, Texas, that’s creating the documentary. It read: We’re looking for your extensive knowledge of Illinois’ political climate and unique perspective on what’s happening with the state, particularly as it relates to Michael Madigan’s 31 years as speaker of the house....