Gapers Block recently published an article and video about Chicago’s street vendors, many of whom can be found on the sidewalks of Little Village selling elotes (corn with mayo, cheese, and chili powder), chicharrones (pork rinds), and other cheap, delicious snacks. It’s currently illegal to sell food that’s been prepared at a street cart in Chicago, and the Little Village-based Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes (AVA) is lobbying the city to create a new license that would allow them to do so. You can read more about the issue in an In These Times article by CW writer Robin Peterson.

This Saturday, monochrome Canadian noisemaker the dead are those who have died headlines at the Mortville loft, and he’s bringing festive but equally abrasive pal Ptarmigan. Both share two major influences—the hoary-but-revered members of the noise canon like Boredoms, DNA, and the Dead C, and the young, fresh, and New York Times-approved acts like AIDS Wolf, Hair Police, and Black Dice. The weirdest bearded members of the noise-connoisseur message board chondriticsound.com aren’t fans, but I hear the kids like it. Also on the all-noise bill: Chicagoans piss piss piss moan moan moan.