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IN THIS ISSUE 29 Lit Sociologist Jason Orne surveys Boystown in his new book.

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4 Agenda Babes With Blades’ rendition of Henry V, Matt Damon Improv at the Annoyance, Larry Clark’s Kids series in the MCA exhibit “Eternal Youth,” Roxane Gay discusses her book Difficult Women, the film My Life As a Zucchini, and more recommended things to do

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31 Movies In Zhao Liang’s ecological documentary Behemoth, we’re the monster.

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More at chicagoreader.com/ theater American Hwangap The Korean tradition of celebrating hwangap, a 60th birthday, provides an opportunity to reflect on one’s legacy and appreciate the blessings of a life long-lived; it’s also a recipe for a postmidlife crisis.

S Chun, a Korean immigrant For Min Suk who aband abandoned his wife and three children to move back to South Korea from Texa Texas, the milestone is decidedly the latte latter. With the permission of his estran estranged wife, Chun returns to the St States for a reunion, albeit an icy one. Lloyd Suh’s heartfelt dom domestic drama is a touching, cha challenging work that makes an earnest case for giving second chances where second chances are absolutely not deserved. Helen Young’s Halcyon Theatre staging, a coproduction with A-Squared Theatre, doesn’t quite reach the emotional depths Suh’s text sug suggest, but it’s a thoughtful, upl uplifting 90 minutes. —DAN JAK Through 4/1: Thu-Sat 8 JAKES PM, Su Sun 6 PM, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3253 W. Wilson, 773478-7941, halcyontheatre.org, free-$20.

By the Apricot Trees Set in a R pri prison cell in South Africa in the mid-70s, Ntsako Mkhabela’s two-hander

is a bleak and claustrophobic work.

Based on her mother’s experiences in solitary confinement (her punishment for participating in the 1976 Soweto uprising), this searing drama tells the story of a woman pushed to the brink of insanity by isolation. Still, she finds comfort and a degree of redemption in long rambling conversations with an imaginary companion, an idealized version of her younger self. This isn’t a play for those seeking entertainment; it’s made mad of sterner stuff. Mkhabela’s words hit hard, and Kemati Janice Porter, who cod codirected along with Mkhabela, uses them the well in this powerfully staged production. Darryl Goodman’s simple but inspired sound and lighting design go a long way toward creating the look and feel of dark, dank cell.

Alicia Ali Watley and Jelani Smith are riveting eti as, respectively, the prisoner and the companion she hallucinates. —JACK HELBIG HEL Through 4/2: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, P ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 7558 755 S. South Chicago, 773-752-3955, etacreativearts.org, eta $35, $25 seniors, $15 students. stu

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The Infinite Wrench o EVAN HANOVER rooms? The initial offering from Baby Crow Productions, new arrivals from New York, takes place in director Margaret Grace Hee’s Uptown apartment.

But this production has a depth and magic that bely its minimalism, as Norma Chacon and Anthony Venturini summon each other’s ghosts in the amorphous atmosphere of a play-length dream. It’s a piece that rewards imaginative engagement—the word “suicide” is never used, the details of Venturini’s death are never elaborated, and rather than making things vague, playwright Christina Quintana’s sleight of hand enables a range of transformations and substitutions to be worked upon the bare facts of life in a manner akin to dreams. Chacon is extraordinarily nimble, with impressive range, but Venturini works at the sacred nexus of clown and shaman—his storytelling, varied and impossibly moving, sounds all the notes. —MAX MALLER Through 3/16: Sun-Mon, Thu 7 PM, Magnolia Theatre, 4742 N. Magnolia, babycrowproductions.com, $15 suggested donation.

Henry V The all-female Babes R With Blades Theatre Company delivers a smart, stirring rendition of

Shakespeare’s historical drama about England’s Henry V, the 15th-century warrior king with a commoner’s touch, and his conquest of France during the Hundred Years’ War. Hayley Rice’s bare-bones, low-budget, high-energy staging (with fight choreography by Kim Fukawa) captures the juxtaposition of rousing action, rough comedy, and poetic philosophizing that characterizes this great play, which celebrates military valor while mourning the human cost of war. Diana Coates is a charismatic, commanding Henry, ably supported by a ten-woman ensemble in multiple roles (their lightning-fast costume changes are as impressive as their wordplay and swordplay). Alison Vodnoy Wolf, a Chicago theater newcomer recently arrived from Cincinnati, is especially charming as Henry’s French bride, Catherine of Valois, in the comic bilingual courtship scene that climaxes the play. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 4/1: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, City Lit Theater, 1020 W. Bryn Mawr, 773-293-3682, babeswithblades. org, $25 ($20 in advance), $15 students

and seniors.

The Infinite Wrench Greg Allen R gave and Greg Allen took away.

On December 31, 2016, the Neo-Futur-

ists founder made good on his promise to kill off the company’s signature cult show, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, ending an unprecedented run of 28 years. The current generation of ensemble members weren’t happy.

Now they’ve pretty much reconstituted TMLMTBGB in everything but name, running on the same schedule at the same venue with the same exuberance.

Though their new baby is superficially different from the original (where before the plays were numbered, for instance, now they’re color coded), it retains the identical goal of offering 30 original short plays in 60 minutes. The performance I saw lapsed occasionally into reductive political posturing, having more to do with tribal affirmation than revelation. But it also had its share of wit, insight, emotional frankness, and dancerly physicality. —TONY ADLER Open run: Fri-Sat 11:30 PM, Sun 7 PM, Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, 773275-5255, neofuturists.org, $9 plus the roll of a die.

The Scene Theresa Rebeck’s prerecession dark comedy follows a truly miserable bunch: Charlie is a fortysomething nonacting actor who lives off his wife’s income; Stella is a show runner who

hates her fat studio audience; Clea is a home-wrecking social climber; Lewis wants sex no matter the consequences.

Kimberly Senior’s head-scratching, weirdly austere production overshoots its satirical aim and lands into territory that’s flat-out misanthropic. Its treatment of the young socialite at the center, in particular, feels like the sort of grotesque caricature favored by Million Dollar Extreme, not Writers Theatre. At every high-rise industry party, there will always be a sloppy drunk on a balcony pontificating about the wretched state of everything and the slightly better if still wretched days of yore. Senior’s production makes little case for why we should hang around to listen. —DAN JAKES Through 4/2: Wed-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 and 6 PM, Tue 7:30 PM, Writers Theatre, 325 Tudor Ct., Glencoe, 847-242-6000, writerstheatre. org, $35-$80.

Skin for Skin This Agency Theater Collective world premiere, directed

by Michael Menendian and penned by clinical psychologist Paul Pasulka, follows the unraveling world of an Iraqi-American contractor suspected of aiding al-Qaeda. Meant as a modern-day incarnation of the biblical Job, Ayyub (Steve Silver) becomes a victim of fear, paranoia, and blatant racism at the hands of the U.S. military, exposed to disturbing “enhanced interrogation” methods that grow increasingly violent under the supervision of Sergeant Lindsey (Hannah Tarr) and Private Michaels (David Goodloe). As two flawed people following orders, Lindsey and Michaels illustrate the complicated, often disastrous consequences when personal and political grievances collide in a conflict zone. But too enmeshed in biblical quotes and a cliched backstory, Ayyub is a less than fully realized and sympathetic character. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 4/2: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Rivendell Theatre, 5775 N. Ridge, 773334-7728, wearetheagency.org, $28.

Timeless Magic The palace intrigue behind Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition is alive and well in this tidy 60-minute act from magician Sean Masterson. The narrative revolves around a cryptic coin dating back to

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Larry Clark, Untitled (Kids), 1995, on display as part of “Eternal Youth” at the Museum of Contemporary Art o MICHAL RAZ-RUSSO/MCA the World’s Fair, acquired by Masterson when he was a boy. A mystery needs solving, of course, and he duly enlists the audience—mostly children—to trace the coin’s origins and the magician who may have been its source. Masterson’s delivery has a tendency to be tame; one gets the impression he’d have a stronger repertoire were the crowd a little older.

Regardless, the most enjoyable and dependable aspect of this show is the way it functions as a historical anthology, highlighting the performers and the tricks, however crude, that informed much of magic’s golden era. —MATT DE LA PEÑA Through 4/29: Sat 2 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, theaterwit.org, $18, $15 kids 17 and under.

A Wrinkle in Time This is the third time Lifeline Theatre has revived James Sie’s 1990 adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1963 kids’ book, and it isn’t hard to see why. L’Engle’s quirky characters are well drawn, and the story she tells, about a pair of plucky children who literally cross the universe (via said wrinkle) to save their father—and the world— remains a ripping yarn. In this version, directed by Elise Kauzlaric, the small stage is packed with strong performances (Naima Hebrall Kidjo is a standout as Red Eyes, the queen-bee villain of the tale) and lots of magical, mystical spectacle (Alan Donahue and Andrew Hildner share scene design credits).

The production is at times sluggish and the action sometimes unclear (I suspect those more familiar with the novel will find the narrative less confusing). Still, the show, which has appeal for both adults and children, is more fun than not. —JACK HELBIG Through 4/9: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Lifeline Theatre, 6912 N. Glenwood, 773761-4477, lifelinetheatre.com, $40.

The Year I Didn’t Go to School: R A Homemade Circus Based on the picture book by illustrator Giselle

Potter, this enchanting premiere from Chicago Children’s Theatre, adapted by Lookingglass ensemble members Heidi Stillman and Caroline Macon, appeals well beyond its target demographic. The

story follows a young family of performers as they journey to Italy for a year of adventure, most of which involves traveling from city to city in their converted truck. In typical CCT fashion, the drama is decidedly tame, but the story unfolds with mature wit, and Samantha Jenkins and Audrey Edwardsimpress as siblings Giselle and Chloe. Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi of the Actors Gymnasium mounts fresh aerial stunts, adding a nice circuslike dimension to a production that’s as wonderfully playful as its title suggests. —MATT DE LA PEÑA Through 3/19: Sat-Sun 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM, Tue-Thu 10 AM; also Sat 3/11 and 3/18, 7 PM; Fri 3/17, 10 AM, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, 312-3376543, chicagochildrenstheatre.org, $39, $28 kids.

DANCE

Full Circle After 25 years, Thodos R Dance Chicago presents its last performance as a dance ensemble. Sat 3/11, 7:30 PM, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, 312-341-2300, auditoriumtheatre.org, $29-$68.

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Malpaso Dance Company The Havana-based dance company visits Chicago for three nights of contemporary Cuban dance. Thu 3/9-Sat 3/11, 7:30 PM, Dance Center of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan, 312-369-8300, colum.edu, $30.

COMEDY

Matt Damon Improv A troupe R as well as a title, Matt Damon Improv comprises self-described women

of color who perform their weekly sets with a guest white person, called a “Matt Damon” if male and a “Lena Dunham” if female. The price of participation for the Damon/Dunhams is that they may only repeat what the regular cast members have already said, which supposedly forces them to “really listen.” The con-

ceit looks gimmicky on paper—a case of shtick masquerading as liberation. But thanks to the formidable chops of some MDIers (particularly Yazmin Ramos, Allison Reese, and Angela Oliver) and the generous rapport of the whole, improvisations quickly bypass political symbolism for truthful play—full of wit, humor, humanity, and a strong sense of the absurd. The 60-minute show also features solo comics such as Adrienne Brown, who rather decorously kicked ass the night I attended. —TONY ADLER Through 4/9: Sun 9:30 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, theannoyance.com, $8.

Pinching and Screaming Siblings Annie and Drew used to be top-notch team mascots, whipping up the fans as Surf (Annie in a lobster costume) and Turf (Drew as a gopher with a top hat). Then came the terrible Airzooka accident. Now Annie serves lattes while Drew sits at home, picking out tunes on a guitar that apparently doubles as a bong. Their world gets turned upside down yet again, though, when Annie meets Vincent Xavier (google the name), a “legendary” mascot trainer who thinks she can go all the way to the nationals. Parodying the Karate Kid/ overcome-your-demons trope while adding goofs of its own, this Schmoon show is good-natured and amusing if overlong by about 15 of its 55 minutes. It’s also a nice showcase for some endearing cast members: Ryan Morrill, Miles Potter, and particularly Jordan Mullins, sneak-upon-you funny as Annie. —TONY ADLER Through 4/9: Sun 8 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, theannoyance.com, $12.

Stuff Open Mic and Show CulR tural in Pilsen presents an open mike for POC, women, and LGBTQ performers, featuring stand-up by Estephany Guzman and music by Joslyn-Marie Alvarado. Sat 3/11, 8-11 PM, La Catrina Cafe, 1011 W. 18th, culturainpilsen.com.

Valid Historia The concept: After a brief set by an opening act, a “herstorian” takes the stage to present an even briefer talk, sketching out the life of some significant woman (Zelda Fitzgerald on the night I attended). Then the members of all-female-identifying troupe Valid Hysteria perform a longform improvisation based on the talk. I anticipated an earnest, lives-of-the-feminist-saints sort of show, but Valid Hysteria turns out to be more interested in laughs than hagiography, and what they came up with applied less to Zelda than to the generic components of her life (southern wealth, alcoholism, madness, etc). What I didn’t anticipate was VH’s failure to achieve the essential goal (and pleasure) of long-form improv, which

is to build a coherent theatrical event using spontaneously created characters and plotlines. Despite some interesting ideas, the 45 minutes went nowhere. —TONY ADLER Through 3/30: Thu 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater. com, $12.

We Watch Wrestling R Live: Podcast Recording Comedians Matt McCarthy,

Vince Averill, and Tom Sibley record a live episode of their wrestling podcast. Sat 3/11, 7 PM, Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, 773-281-4444, wewatchwrestlingpodcast.com, $20.

VISUAL ARTS Field Museum “Specimens: Unlocking the Secrets of Life,” a display drawn from the museum’s more than 30 million specimens, including rare deep-sea-dwelling creatures, fossil brains, and meteorites. 3/10-1/7/2018. Daily 9 AM-5 PM. 1400 S. Lake Shore, 312-922-9410, fieldmuseum.org, $22; $19 students and seniors; $15 kids four-11; free on the second Monday of the month.

Museum of Contemporary Art “Eternal Youth,” a group exhibition featuring works from the MCA’s collection that explore youth and how its depictions respond to evolving social, cultural, and political climates, including Eddie Peake’s Destroyed by Desire and photographs from Larry Clark’s Kids series. 3/11-7/23. Tue 10 AM-8 PM, Wed-Sun 10 AM-5 PM. 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org, $12, $7 students and seniors, free kids 12 and under and members of the military, free for Illinois residents on Tuesdays.

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Studio Oh! “Aspects of the Whole,” a group exhibition featuring work by Adam Lofbomm, Otto Rascon, Lisa Stefaniak, and Robert Tolchin. Opening reception Fri 3/10, 6-10 PM. 3/10-4/27.

Tue, Thu, and Sat, 1-6 PM. 1837 S. Halsted, 773-474-1070, art-studiooh.com.

Ukrainian National Museum “Celebrating Women of Courage,” this traveling exhibit features photography, poetry, W

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3/10-3/31. Thu-Sun 11 AM-4 PM. 2249 W. Superior, 312-421-8020, ukrainiannationalmuseum.org, $5.

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Too Much Fun, with a live reading and performance. Fri 3/10, 7 PM, Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North, 773-342-0910, quimbys.com.

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Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst. org.

Roxane Gay The writer Louder Than a Bomb: R reads from and discusses R Semi-Finals Young Chicago her book Difficult Women with Britt Authors’ Louder Than a Bomb is

Julious. An audience Q&A and signing follows. Tickets include a copy of the book. Wed 3/15, 7 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst.com, $30.

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Kelly Jensen and Mikki Kendall Editor Kelly Jensen and writer Mikki Kendall read from the anthology Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World. The book features essays, illustrations, and poems about gender, intersectionality, and more by 44 writers and artists. Thu 3/9, 7:30 PM, Women &

the largest youth poetry festival in the world, allowing young Chicago writers the opportunity to showcase their work. Join the festival in winding down during the semifinal rounds, featuring the top 16 high school teams and 16 individual poets. Sun 3/12, 10 AM and 1, 4, and 7 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, 773549-0203, youngchicagoauthors. org, $10.

Too Much Fun Too QuimR by’s celebrates the release of Too Much Fun Too, the second item in Logan Kruidenier’s comic series

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Jacqueline Woodson The R Poetry Foundation hosts the National Youth Poet Laureate

Convocation, featuring Brown Girl Dreaming author Jacqueline Woodson, who was named Young People’s Poet Laureate in 2015. Sat 3/11, 6 PM, Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior, 773-752-4381, semcoop. com.

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More at chicagoreader.com/ movies NEW REVIEWS Cock and Bull Like Pulp Fiction, this darkly comic gangster film consists of overlapping, interconnected stories, which allows director Cao Baoping to augment the larger narrative by doubling back to earlier events. In the opening episode an unassuming mechanic (Liu Ye of Dark Matter) is wrongly accused of having

murdered a quarrelsome neighbor, and the cops give him 48 hours to find a likelier suspect; the second episode follows the punk (Duan Bowen) who stole the dead man’s motorcycle, and the third involves a bumbling, nearsighted assassin (Zhang Yi) who chases both the motorcycle thief and the mechanic—the man he was hired to kill in the first place. Cao may not have Tarantino’s bravura, but he does have his own style and attitude, conveyed in inventive low-angle shots and snide jabs at modern-day robber barons. In Mandarin with subtitles. —ANDREA GRONVALL 110 min. 3/15, 7 PM. River East 21 Kong: Skull Island The giant ape returns, though this Jurassic Park knockoff takes place neither in the Depression era, which gave us the original King Kong (1933), nor in the present, when satellite

photos would surely alert us to the existence of a 100-foot gorilla.

Instead—and for no reason I can fathom, except perhaps the classic-rock tunes desired for the soundtrack—the story takes place in 1973, when the Vietnam war is winding down and President Nixon is being driven from office.

Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson, John Goodman, and Samuel L. Jackson are among the explorers tramping around the Pacific island where Kong lives, and John C. Reilly plays a bearded, shambling U.S. soldier who’s been stranded there since World War II. Inexplicably, this hopeless goofball gets a flag-waving end-credits vignette in which stirring music plays as he returns home to his wife and grown son.

Where are the hungry dinosaurs when you need them? —J.R. JONES PG-13, 118 min. Block 37, ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero

14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Webster Place The Last Word Shirley MacLaine stars as a wealthy old curmudgeon who leverages her ownership stake in the local newspaper to supervise her own obituary, researched and written by cub reporter Amanda Seyfried. The younger woman’s exasperation and resentment turn to grudging admiration and finally love as she learns what the older one endured as a female business executive a half century earlier; once they latch onto a potty-mouthed black girl from the projects (whom the MacLaine character befriends in search of a human-interest angle), we’re in for some serious girl power. Paul Weitz’s Grandma (2015), with Lily

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Logos on the go FLOREAN FAUNE IVES describes her personal style as “activity based.” “I was running around all day, thus I chose to wear clothes that were influenced by transportation,” says the biochemistry student and fashion marketing consultant, wearing a Ferrari sweatshirt she received during a New York Fashion Week modeling gig and carrying a retrolooking Pan Am purse she was surprised to find a decade ago in the company’s online store. “The products whose logos I wear typically are companies that I pay homage to for their craftsmanship.

Faced with the exterior or interior of a Ferrari, you truly know the essence of thoughtfulness in every moving part,” she says. “And when I think about the history of air transportation, Pan Am sticks out as a airline that defined an iconic aesthetic for its flight attendants. I don’t recall any other airline in history that created such a definitive aesthetic for its employees.” —ISA GIALLORENZO See more Chicago street style on Giallorenzo’s blog chicagolooks. blogspot.com.

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8 PM, Uncommon Ground, 3800 N. Clark, 773-929-3680, uncommonground.com, $10.

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· 2 0th Anniversar y of Buff y Celebrate 20 years of feminist themes and forbidden vampire love with screenings of classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes, along with shots of “slayer’s blood.” 8:30-11 PM, Bucket o’ Blood Books and Records, 3182 N. Elston, 312-890-3860, bucketoblood.com. F

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♀ Fe minist Ha ppy Hour Celebrate Women’s History Month with comedy by Becca Brown, Sarah Squirm, and Carly Ballerini, as well as music

by Lakshmi Ramgopal and reflections on the Women’s March from Chloe Riley. Mon 3/13, 6-8:30 PM, Whistler, 2421 N. Milwaukee, 773-2273530, wearesluttalk.com.

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· Sharknado Sharknado writer Thunder Levin discusses the science behind his film with Kevin Feldheim, the A. Watson III manager of the Pritzker Laboratory for Molecular Systematics and Evolution, as part of the Field Trip series. 7 PM, Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, 773871-6604, musicboxtheatre.com, $11.

Murder and May hem in Chicago Chicago mystery and crime writers host this festival of panel discussions with headlining speakers Sara Paretsky (Brush Back) and William Kent Krueger (Ordinary Grace). 9:15 AM-4:15 PM, Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan, 312-341-3719, murdermayhemchicago. com, $65.

½ Chicago’s Cre ati ve Identi ty: Getting Weird Wi th Jo i Ito The MIT Media Lab director discusses Chicago’s place in the growth of culture, art, experimentation, and technology. A meet-up with Ito follows at 7:30 PM at the GMan Tavern (3740 N. Clark). 6:30 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, 773549-0203, chicagoideas. org.

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Space

Almost paradise Tiki collectors David and Amy Carter carved out a basement bar that is South Pacific specific.

IF YOU’VE EVER toured a well-preserved American home built from the mid-1940s to the 1960s, you may have stumbled on a tiki bar, or the remnants thereof, tucked into a basement nook. Though “tiki” technically refers to a wooden or stone carving in humanoid form—often used in Oceanic cultures to represent deified ancestors and mark sites of sacred significance—in the Western world, it has come to be applied to just about anything Polynesian themed. Home tiki bars began popping up in the U.S. during the prosperous postwar period, evocative of leisurely times and warmer climes.

“It was common for people to have luau parties,” says tiki fanatic David Carter, who with his wife Amy deals midcentury-modern

furniture under the name Pegboard Modern.

“We go to estate sales and period homes all the time, and they’re often tiki to some degree or another. Some are just a rec room with a fake palm tree in the corner.”

The Carters take the concept of a home tiki bar to another extreme. The entire lower level of their California modern-style home in Munster, Indiana, is a South Seas fantasy: thatched walls, bamboo wainscoting, bamboo furniture, hula girl lamps, framed Polynesian prints, tikis large and small, and a massive vintage mug collection, much of which is featured in their book, Tiki Quest: Collecting the Exotic Past (published in 2003 under David’s tiki-collector pseudonym, Duke Carter). They call the basement the Tabu Tiki Room, the result of a long-shared ob-

session with tiki culture, especially its visually rich architecture and graphic design.

David met Amy on some enchanted evening in 1996, shortly after he moved to Chicago.

“We were hanging out at her friend’s art opening, and she said, ‘Do you like tiki bars?’ And I said, ‘Yes!’” For their first date, Amy brought him to Hala Kahiki, the storied lounge in River Grove.

“Later when I saw her apartment, she had the exact same stuff I did,” David recalls. “She had a tiki collection, a modest one—so did I. And a small collection of midcentury-modern furniture—so did I. We knew it was meant to be. The collecting just kind of snowballed from there.”

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and flea markets,” Amy says. “Back in the day, it was pretty easy to find good tiki.” Every menu, matchbook, postcard, and ceramic mug—among the cheapest and easiest ephemera to collect—tells a story of some Polynesian-themed establishment past or present: Kona Kai at the Marriott O’Hare (where the couple was married), Aku-Tiki in Kewanee, Illinois, formerly located inside a remote farm restaurant, and many others.

“You kind of turn into an urban archaeologist, looking for remnants or evidence of places” that no longer exist, David says.

When it comes to actual tikis, not every idol or totem in the Carters’ basement is carved from wood; some are woodlike but in fact made of urethane foam by a former Chicago company

called Universal Statuary, which churned out tikis as a marketing premium for clients like United Airlines (once one of the only airlines that offered flights to Hawaii). Others were sourced from auctions or a California company called Oceanic Arts, which outfitted many of the original tiki bars and restaurants.

For the couple and their two sons, the Tabu Tiki Room is a low-key spot to hang out.

“It’s also the warmest room in our house,” Amy says. “So we spend a lot of time down there in the winter.”

It’s not just the aesthetic that draws them, but the escapist element as well. “In the midwest,” David says, “we deserve tiki and need tiki more than other places in other parts of the country.” —LAURA PEARSON

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Chance the Rescuer

How the rapper forced Governor Rauner to “do his job”

By BEN JORAVSKY

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s I write this, it’s been less than a week since Chance the Rapper first demanded that Governor Bruce Rauner send more state aid to Chicago’s dead-broke public schools. I don’t want to say anything that might deter his mission, but it seems like Chance is looking to Rauner for something our governor doesn’t have—a conscience.

As a follow-up to his March 3 meeting with Rauner, Chance held a press conference on March 6 to announce his plan to donate more than $1 million to fund art programs in Chicago Public Schools.

Every little bit helps, and I commend Chance for his generosity. But unfortunately, his donation is only a drop in the bucket for a system that’s borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars to pay its basic bills.

Rauner, of course, could take a giant step

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toward eradicating the problem by upping state aid to CPS, but he won’t. And to understand his intransigence, you need to know something about the difference between the two men at the center of this drama.

Chance was born and raised in Chicago.

His father, Ken Bennett, was a political aide to Mayor Harold Washington and Barack Obama. (He also worked for Mayor Rahm, but hey, no one’s perfect.)

A public school graduate himself, Chance clearly appreciates the contributions of the teachers and principals who are the middle-class anchors of many south-side communities, including Chatham, where he grew up.

Chance also seems to realizes that if the schools go bankrupt, it would only cause more chaos and turmoil for low-income kids from high-crime areas. So, it’s like, duh, peo-

ple—bankruptcy shouldn’t be an option.

Rauner doesn’t see it that way. A Republican who grew up in wealthy north-suburban Deerfield, Rauner made his fortune running a private equity firm that managed pension funds and specialized in buying up companies for relatively cheap, then selling them for a profit.

From the start of his political career, Rauner’s made it clear that one of his primary objectives is annihilating the Chicago Teachers Union. And anything that helped him achieve that goal—including bankruptcy—was a means to an end.

In Rauner’s world, the CTU is the root of all that ails Chicago’s public schools—as though crime, segregation, and poverty had nothing to do with it.

And as Rauner sees it, sending more state aid to CPS is a waste. “Half of teachers are

virtually illiterate,” he wrote in a 2011 e-mail to Mayor Emanuel’s aides. And “50% of principals are managerially incompetent.”

Clearly, he doesn’t appreciate those teachers who live in Chatham and elsewhere half as much as Chance does. Though his feelings haven’t stopped him from making millions managing their pension funds.

Over the last few years, Rauner’s also been a key contributor to the charter school movement, which funds nonunion schools that also receive public funding. In effect, by funding charters, Rauner’s undercutting the teachers’ union.

In appreciation for Rauner’s contributions, the local Noble network of charters named one of its schools after him. So it’s beyond ironic that last week teachers from Noble announced they were starting a drive to organize a union.

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Until Chance spoke out, Rauner had seemed impervious to pleas from ordinary Chicagoans.

Sometimes it seems Rauner goes out of his way to steer money away from CPS. Last year, for instance, he vowed not to send more state aid to Chicago, just as Rahm was in New York City, trying to assure Wall Street lenders that this same state aid would help pay for the new contract with the teachers’ union. Before all was said and done, CPS had to spend an extra $110 million in borrowing costs, in part because Rauner’s comments undercut the city’s credibility with lenders. That’s $110 million that will never get spent where it’s needed the most—in the classroom.

And CPS still isn’t out of the woods, even with all that money borrowed at exorbitant rates. This year’s CPS budget was dependent on $215 million in state aid that was passed by the Democratic state legislature.

But in December Rauner vetoed that bill in order to force Mayor Rahm to demand more

pension concessions from teachers.

As I’ve mentioned before, the state supreme court already ruled that such concessions are unconstitutional. So Rauner’s asking Rahm to do something he can’t do.

This is what Chance was getting at when, in the March 6 press conference, he said: “[Rauner] broke his promise to Chicago’s children. Our kids should not be held hostage because of political positions.”

Chance was chastising Rauner for holding back on the state aid unless Rahm caved on pensions and other issues. In short, Rauner has been pitting the children of Chicago against their teachers in the hopes of using the outcries from the former to force concessions from the latter. Anything to avoid raising taxes on the state’s wealthiest citizens to adequately fund public education.

Until Chance spoke out, Rauner had seemed impervious to pleas from ordinary Chicagoans. His political base lies outside of Chicago, so his key voters won’t be directly affected if CPS goes bankrupt. And he basically owns the state legislature’s Republicans, having purchased their loyalty with his campaign donations. The Democrats, meanwhile, can’t find any Republicans to give them the votes they need to override Rauner’s veto. So we’re apparently incapable of keeping Rauner in check. And you thought the situation in Washington with Trump was bad.

Curiously enough, Rauner does seem eager to connect with Chance. Not sure why.

Maybe he thinks it will help him win the millennial vote.

Whatever his reasons, it was in the aftermath of the March 3 meeting with Chance that Rauner stole a page from yours truly by calling on Rahm to compensate for the $215 million by raiding the city’s TIF funds.

Rauner likely felt compelled to make some kind of PR gesture, but I really didn’t see that one coming.

Better late than never to the TIF fight, governor. I’ll get into the ins and outs of TIFs and school funding another time, but for the moment, let me say that we need to raid the TIF funds and send in more state aid to fend off bankruptcy for CPS. So please keep up the pressure, Chance.

Call in your friends—Common, Kanye, whomever. Hell, go to New York and bring in Beyonce and Jay Z for your next news conference if you have to. Chicago’s public school students need all the help they can get. v

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Colombia college

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ast month I visited Bogotá, Colombia, a destination that’s been on my bucket list for a long time. During my stay in the city nicknamed the South American Athens, I was impressed by its many excellent museums, centuries-old Spanish Colonial architecture, and impressive Andean setting, as well as the hospitality of its residents.

And while riding taxis through Bogotá’s clogged streets was a frustrating experience, the city now also has a global reputation for progressive transportation policies, including ideas that Chicago would be wise to imitate.

Specifically, the extensive TransMilenio bus rapid transit system and the Sunday Ciclovía or “cycleway” program, which opens a roughly 75mile network of streets for car-free recreation and draws some two million people each week.

Progressive mayor Enrique Peñalosa launched TransMilenio in 2000 to combat traffic congestion and make it easier for low-income people to access jobs. The system includes 12 bus lines with 70 miles of dedicated lanes, serving 147 subway-style stations and carrying up to 2.2 million passengers a day. Peñalosa also greatly expanded the

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Ciclovía, which started out as a grassroots event staged by bike aficionados and has since spread to dozens of other cities around Latin America and the U.S. These Bogotá initiatives have inspired Chicago transportation advocates since 2001, when Peñalosa gave a talk at a sustainable transportation symposium here. But Chicago still has a ways to go to fully realize the vision already being implemented in Bogotá.

When I rode TransMilenio during my Bogotá visit, I was wowed by the system’s efficiency. Unlike Chicago’s downtown Loop Link corridor, TransMilenio features prepaid boarding and extralong buses with multiple doors, which means there’s little “dwell time” at the stations, and there are curbs to keep private vehicles out of the bus-only lanes.

Although I’m told conditions during rush hour are beyond sardinelike, TransMilenio makes a strong argument for following through with Chicago’s plan for robust BRT on Ashland Avenue. That proposal was back-burnered a few years ago after fierce opposition from residents and merchants who feared reallocating street space from autos to buses would lead to carmageddon.

I was also impressed by the Sunday Ciclovía.

My partner and I biked part of the route with Carlosfelipe Pardo, director of Despacio, or “Slowly,” an organization that promotes livable cities. We rode down a series of multilane thoroughfares where car traffic had been banished to the other side of a grassy median.

Cyclists of all ages and proclivities—from families with kids in baby seats and on training wheels to middle-aged roadies in Lycra to youthful seniors on vintage cruisers—made their way down the boulevard. Pedestrians walking dogs, pushing baby carriages, roller skating, and skateboarding took advantage of the closed roads too, while folks relaxing on the medians and in plazas enjoyed the high-altitude sunshine. And the presence of many independent vendors selling food and drink— especially fresh-squeezed juices—made the economic benefits of the event obvious. (I recommend the lulada, a tangy punch made from the indigenous lulo fruit.)

Although each Ciclovía requires a significant investment in traffic control by the city, Pardo says the expense is worth it.

“When you do the math per person, it’s the cheapest public health initiative in the world,” he says. “You can really get recreation along the entire city with a minimum expenditure.”

Between 2008 and 2013, Active Trans tried to establish a regularly occurring Ciclovía in Chicago called Open Streets. Unfortunately, since City Hall declined to help fund and organize the event, the advocacy group was forced to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for the program. Most of that money went towards paying the police officers and traffic control aides the city required. The sporadic events never had a chance to catch on with residents, so Active Trans finally gave up on the idea three years ago.

While political support from the city government has been key to the success of Bogotá’s Ciclovía, that doesn’t mean the event has been free of controversy. During our ride Pardo and I met up with a group of local transportation planners and advocates, including Andrés Felipe Vergara, who works in the city’s office of mobility. Vergara told me that, back in 2007, a local congressman wanted to change the Ciclovía times so that cars could take over

the streets again by noon and he could drive to his club for lunch in peace.

Vergara was supposed to testify against the politician’s proposal at a congressional hearing. But before he had a chance, the congressman dropped dead from a heart attack in the middle his tirade.

“So we won,” he says, “but in a sad way.”

There’s also another political battle brewing over expanding TransMilenio. The system is currently too popular for its own good, Vergara told me, resulting in the aforementioned claustrophobic rush-hour conditions. The city hopes to alleviate congestion and grow the bus network to about 240 miles of dedicated lanes by 2031. Although TransMilenio is especially beneficial for working people, much of the opposition to reallocating roadway space comes from lower-income residents who moved to Bogotá within the last 15 years after fleeing

“They don’t remember how bad traffic was before TransMilenio.

But to make room for the buses, you have to take space away from cars. People are afraid of change.”

— Andrés Felipe Vergara, Bogotá office of mobility

Colombia’s civil war, according to Vergara.

“They don’t remember how bad traffic was before TransMilenio,” he explains. “But to make room for the buses, you have to take space away from cars. People are afraid of change.”

That sounds a lot like the Ashland Avenue stalemate. But a major lesson from Bogotá’s past successes with bus rapid transit and the Ciclovía seems to be that, when it comes to making positive improvements to a city, fortune favors the bold. v

John Greenfield edits the transportation news website Streetsblog Chicago. ß @greenfieldjohn

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Brewery Tours

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The craft beer boom of the past several years has gifted Chicago with much more than some really fine suds.

A dizzying number of new breweries have become the creative homes of brewers who’re taking a kind of auteurist approach to making inspired, sometimes unconventional beers using recipes that seem limited only by their creators’ imaginations. Over two dozen of those breweries in and around the city offer regular tours, giving the public the chance to drink in the distinctive culture around each brewery—and an excuse to drink lots of freshly made beer.

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×××× Best for: joining the new temperance movement The name of this congenial taproom and brewery in a onetime Montgomery Ward distribution center is an homage to Evanston’s status as a formerly dry city and home to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

Founder Josh Gilbert, who led the one-hour, threebeer tour when I took it, says the city still doesn’t issue straight tavern licenses, so food service is a necessity, though the snacks are so limited you’re free to BYO or order in. We imbibed a stout redolent of s’mores, an IPA, and a licorice-and-chicory-flavored porter from the taps while Gilbert showed off the big, shiny cylinders and contraptions with which 80 barrels of water, hops, malt, and yeast are boiled, fermented, chilled, and (in some cases) canned, every week. —DEANNA ISAACS

2000 Dempster St., Evanston, 847-864-1000, temperancebeer.com. Second Saturdays, 1 PM. 60 minutes. $10, includes about 18 ounces of beer; book tickets online. é &

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Tasting notes: There are nine trillion yeast cells in a typical batch of Sketchbook beer.

Sketchbook Brewing Co. ×××× Best for: a DIY feel “Where do hops come from?” asked a woman on my tour of Sketchbook in Evanston. “I mean, they don’t just grow in the ground.” In fact, that’s exactly what they do, which brewer and co-owner Cesar Marron

patiently explained without missing a beat. He also informed us that while most hops are grown on the east or west coast, Sketchbook uses Wisconsin-grown hops, along with grain malted in Michigan. The nanobrewery was best known for its alleyway entrance when it first opened three years ago, but as of last April, there’s a cozy taproom in an actual storefront on Chicago Avenue where you can sit down for a pint after the tour (in fact, it’s included in the price).

—JULIA THIEL

821 Chicago Ave., Evanston, 847-859-9051, sketchbookbrewing.com/ tours. Second Saturdays, 3 PM. 60 minutes. $10, includes 24 ounces of beer during the tour and afterward a 16-ounce pour in the tasting room and a Belgian glass; sign up on location. é

Metropolitan Metropolitan Brewing’s public tours (which have always been sporadic) are currently on hold while the brewery moves into a much larger space in Avondale. Plans for the new location, expected to open later this year, include a taproom and tours. metrobrewing.com

Empirical Brewery ××× Best for: beer geeks who’re also cat lovers

Empirical’s impressive 30-barrel brewing system was made in Wisconsin. I remember this fact in particular because my tour happened to also be attended by a pack of bachelor-party bros from Milwaukee who loudly cheered and chugged their beers at every mention of their home state. A friend and I made a similar ruckus at another stop: the cat tower, located in a storage area that, with a dart board and a couch, doubles as the brewers’ break room. Empirical is home to three feral cats (Egon, Ray, and Venkman) who help keep rodents out of the grains. Don’t worry: the cats have no interest in the ingredients. In fact, they spend most of their time sleeping in an attempt to ignore the loud beer guzzlers who invade their home on Saturdays. The brewery’s motto is “exploring the science of beer.” On a pair of whiteboards, brewers map out the chemistry behind their beer and experimental formulas to come.

At least one new beer is served in the taproom every week. —BRIANNA WELLEN

1801 W. Foster, 773-654-3104, empiricalbrewery.com/ tours. Saturdays 12:30 and 2 PM. 45 minutes. $10, includes 16 ounces of beer and a pub glass; sign-up for 20 spots begins in taproom at noon. é

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Tasting notes: The enzyme Two Brothers uses to make Prairie Path gluten free is also an ingredient in several of its other beers, which means they also likely have a reduced gluten content. But the brewery hasn’t paid to have those brews certified and tested, so it can’t advertise them as being suitable for people with a gluten sensitivity.

Two Brothers ××× Best for: gluten-intolerant cyclists The Prairie Path is the bikeable gravel trail that leads 40 or so miles west from suburban Forest Park almost directly to Two Brothers Tap House in Warrenville, Illinois. Prairie Path is also the name of what is arguably the best (only?) locally made gluten-free beer.

Two Brothers bills Prairie Path as “crafted to remove

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gluten,” a process further explained on a tour of the brewery: After fermentation, brewers add an enzyme to clarify beer turned cloudy by yeast. According to the guide, brewers discovered that this unnamed enzyme also ate away gluten, producing a golden ale with undetectable levels of the wheat, barley, and ryederived protein. Three free samples are served after the tour; if you’re gluten sensitive, you’ll have to stick to the Prairie Path. Still, while celiac sufferers are a niche market within a niche market, bike-riding beer lovers with a gluten sensitivity have much to celebrate here. —ROBIN AMER

30W315 Calumet Ave. W., Warrenville, 630-3934800, twobrothersbrewing.com. Saturdays 1, 2, and 3 PM; Sundays 1:30 PM. 45 minutes. Free, includes 12 ounces of beer. é &

Half Acre’s newer, larger Balmoral facility (where the Daisy Cutter gets made) is not yet open to the public, but the original North Center brewery has transitioned into an experimental facility focusing on new and unusual methods, everything from decoction mashing to wild fermentation to barrel aging, as well as collaborations with other breweries and classic micro styles. The three-hour tour covers brewery history, method, and the future. Afterward you can suck on a Vallejo while shopping for hoodies and money clips in the retail shop, or chase one of chef Nick Lacasse’s burritos with an Akari Shogun American wheat ale. —MIKE SULA

Tasting notes: Every few days a dairy farmer from Indiana named Ed picks up tens of thousands of pounds of Half Acre’s spent grain to use as supplemental feed for his cows.

4257 N. Lincoln, 773-248-4038, halfacrebeer.com/ lincoln-tours. Saturdays 11 AM. 180 minutes. $10, includes 48 ounces of beer and a pint glass; arrive by 10:15 AM to wait in line. é &

Lake Effect Brewing Company ××× Best for: home brewers with a dream Lake Effect Brewing is a home-brewing operation that grew a little too large and got kicked out of the house into an industrial space next to a costume shop near the Kennedy Expressway. The tour has the same sort of homemade feel. While brewer Clint Bautz goes about his business making beer, Ken Leja (billed on the company website as “master fixer and all-around handyman”) shows off various tanks and tubs and barrels and outlines the brewing process. Despite the low-key setup, Lake Effect offers a broad and sophisticated range of stouts and ales, and you can sample as much as you like.

(Our favorite was the Arbor Oak Amber, made with oats from the Morton Arboretum.) For a more formal tasting from real glasses, the brewery suggests heading over to Sidekicks half a mile east on Montrose. —AIMEE LEVITT

4727 W. Montrose, 312-523-5141, lakeeffectbrewing.com.

Saturdays at 2, 3:30, and 5 PM. 30 minutes. Free; reserve online in advance up to an hour before tour.

Tasting notes: If you stop by often enough and Lake Effect’s staff take a liking to you, you may be invited to join in the semiregular bottling parties, wherein they bottle the beer and stick on the labels all by hand. (They agree this is work a child would enjoy, but labor laws prevent that.)

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Tasting notes: Dovetail has a 110-year-old copper kettle from Munich that was originally part of the pilot system for Weihenstephan, the oldest brewery in the world.

Dovetail Brewery ×××× Best for: experts who think they’ve seen it all Dovetail’s German-style beers are particularly appealing to beer nerds, but plenty approachable for the layperson.

The same can be said of its brewery tour: one of the owners—either Hagen Dost or Bill Wesselink—details what sets Dovetail apart from other breweries, like its coolship and open fermentation vessels. But even if

Greenstar Brewing ×× Best for: locavores scared of GMOs

those terms mean nothing to you, other parts of the tour are interactive and easy to understand. A water tasting lets you compare Chicago tap water with versions that have been filtered through charcoal or treated with a reverse-osmosis system; there are also opportunities to smell hops pellets and taste different varieties of malted barley. You can see the lambic-style beers bubbling out the tops of their barrels. And the beer samples—three ten-ounce pours—come fast enough that we often ended up double fisting. The only people likely to be disappointed are those who have their heart set on drinking IPA (which the brewery doesn’t make). —JULIA THIEL

1800 W. Belle Plaine, 773683-1414, dovetailbrewery. com/events. Saturdays at 11 AM and 1 PM. 60 minutes. $15, includes 30 ounces of beer; sign up on location. é &

As the first certified organic brewery in Illinois (and one of only two in the state today), Greenstar serves up some of the most unadulterated beer in Chicago.

Alas, there are only two ways to get a taste of Greenstar beer: on a tour of the brewery or while on a visit to its sister restaurants, Uncommon Ground, all of which are owned by Michael and Helen Cameron. The beer is brewed near Uncommon Ground’s Wrigleyville location with locally sourced ingredients and piped directly to that restaurant’s taps. (It gets to the Edgewater location in kegs.) While the tour of the production facility—seven steel tanks in a 1,200-square-foot storefront—is rather brief, it’s led by Greenstar brewmaster Martin Coad with an air of both authority and levity. Between detailing the sobering realities and dark secrets of macrobreweries, Coad also instructed tour attendees to take a swig every time he said the word “beer.” We obliged. —MAYA DUKMASOVA

3800 N. Clark, 773-9293680, uncommonground. com/greenstar-brewing.

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Begyle Brewing Company ×××× Best for: dad jokes

Begyle’s tour of its converted factory north of the Irving Park stop of the Brown Line is a blast because it includes three beers and the guides—Tony Thompson and Ethan Link—are a couple of jokesters. Sample quip: “If you’re a microbiologist, does that mean you only know a little bit about science?” You’d be surprised how funny things like that sound after three beers at one o’clock in the afternoon! I’m no beer expert, but I took my home-brewer pal Tim, who favored an American pale ale called Free Bird. Susan, who was also on my tour, swears by the Neighborly Stout, a smooth-drinking dry stout. Conveniently, the Timber Lanes bowling alley is around the corner on Irving Park, so you can bowl off a few calories after the tour.

—BEN JORAVSKY

1800 W. Cuyler, 1E, 773-661-6963, begylebrewing.com.

90 minutes. $10, includes 24 ounces of beer and a glass; book in advance on eventbrite.com. é

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Tasting notes: Revolution’s canning system was once used by RC Cola; it produces 300 cans per minute.

Revolution Brewing Kedzie production facility ×××× Best for: chilling out Before the start of the tour of Revolution Brewing’s 90,000-square-foot Kedzie Avenue production facility—a mile and a half north of its Logan Square brewpub—Janet Jackson was blasting on the stereo,

Off Color Brewing ××× Best for: appreciators of smart-assery

Speed was playing on a pair of TVs, and all of the tourgoers received a can of the Belgian-style pale ale A Little Crazy. We even briefly met the man pictured on the can, Matt, one of the company’s brewers. Revolution may come across as loose and fun, but the tour makes clear it’s also serious about sustainability. It relies partly on solar-panel energy, most of its hops are sourced from Wisconsin and Michigan, and it sends spent grain to farmers who use it for animal feed and soil. It’s refreshing to see that kind of commitment to the environment from a beer company. —DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS

3340 N. Kedzie, 773588-2267, revbrew.com.

Wednesday-Friday 6 and 7 PM, Saturday 3, 4, 5, and 6 PM, Sunday 2, 3, and 4 PM. 40 minutes.

Free, includes 12 ounces of beer; show up early and sign in with a bartender in the taproom. é

Taking a brewery tour at an operation like Off Color—a utilitarian workspace, with no accommodations for the public beyond a tiny bottle shop near the front door—is a little like watching backstage footage of a great band.

Because you already love the music (or in this case, the beer), the mundane, behind-the-scenes business of the people who make it becomes compelling—it’s fun to pick up on their quirks and feel like you understand why they approach their work in the way they do. The Off Color folks don’t allow their professionalism to get in the way of their self-effacing, smart-assed wit or their big goofy hearts: on this tour, you can find a tacked-up holiday card of the crew in animal onesies (they’re especially fond of dinosaurs) and walk among beer tanks named after dearly departed pets (including Pixel, Bubba, and Waffles). —PHILIP MONTORO

Tasting notes: One dollar from the sale of every bottle of Off Color’s Class War, a new large-format Gotlandsdricka that was released on inauguration day, will be donated to the ACLU. It’s available for $10 in the brewery’s bottle shop.

3925 W. Dickens, 773-687-8245, offcolorbrewing.com/tours.

Saturdays at 1 and 3 PM. 60 minutes. $10, includes 18 ounces of beer; buy online in advance up to an hour before tour.

Hopewell Brewing Company ×××× Best for: keeping things short and sweet

It doesn’t take long to see Hopewell’s brewery: all the brewing equipment is contained in one room, visible from the tasting area through a large window. After handing out cups of Swift, Hopewell’s flagship IPA, our chipper, engaging tour guide led us around the 20barrel brewhouse, noting that when the tanks arrived they turned out to be just a bit too tall to fit into the room (a problem solved by cutting the feet off the tanks). In addition to a brief overview of the year-old company, which employs a grand total of seven people, she offered one of the most concise explanations of brewing I’ve ever heard: starch releases sugar, and sugar plus yeast spits out alcohol. After covering the essentials, she finished up with a couple of stories illustrating how supportive the craft brewing community is, concluding: “Beer people are happy people.

Who’s ready for more beer?” —JULIA THIEL

2760 N. Milwaukee, 773-698-6178, hopewellbrewing. com/tours-2. Saturdays at 5 PM, Sundays at 3 PM. 30 minutes. $10, includes 28 ounces of beer; sign up at the bar in the tasting room. é

Tasting notes: Instead of filtering the beer, Hopewell has a centrifuge (as the tour guide called it, a “fancy-ass piece of equipment”), which is really unusual for a brewery of its size.

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Tasting notes: Goose Island’s 143,000-square-foot barrel warehouse currently holds 120,000 barrels of beer and is the largest barrel-aging system in the world.

On Tour Brewing Company Goose Island Beer Company ××× Best for: experiencing awe If you want to feel small, go to Goose Island’s production brewery and crane your neck up until the tops of the shiny stainless steel fermenters soaring above are visible. Then wait for your tour guide to tell you that those aren’t even the big ones: the largest fermenters, each of which hold 460 barrels of beer (nearly 12,000 gallons), don’t fit inside the brewery— they extend past

the ceiling to the open air above. The tour includes plenty of other impressive facts, along with a history of Goose Island that starts with the company’s founding in 1988 and highlights its pioneering use of bourbon barrels to age beer back in 1992, but skips right over its 2011 sale to Anheuser-Busch InBev, the largest brewing company in the world. Many of the taproom offerings, though, are decidedly noncorporate: there are several wild sour ales, a Belgian-style saison brewed with peppercorns, and a cask of Belgian-style quad. The company’s Clybourn brewpub is currently undergoing renovations but will also offer tours when it reopens this summer.

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1800 W. Fulton, 800-4667363, gooseisland.com/fulton-wood. Thursdays 3, 4, 5, and 6 PM; Fridays 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 PM; Saturdays 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 PM; Sundays 1, 2, 3, and 4 PM. 60 minutes. $12, includes 12 ounces of beer and a pint glass; book online in advance. é

××× Best for: Phish heads In the wake of Chicago’s brewery gold rush of the last five to seven years, what’s so refreshing now ain't the added hops. Nope—it’s a lack of pretension. As some breweries attempt to outdo one another with sours infused with guava and dark chocolate and triple IPAs brewed with moon rocks, On Tour, as founder Mark Legenza will tell you, just wants to make good, solid beer devoid of gaudy flair. The On Tour tour, much like the industrial West Town building in which it’s conducted, is low-key and laid-back. As we snaked around the brewery’s five tanks, Legenza broke down the history of the building—for about a quarter century, it housed the Hudson Boiler and Tank Co.—and passed around cups of grains to gnaw on and hops to huff. The tour began and ended with mini lectures in the brewery’s open but cozy boardroom, with attendees asking questions between sipping on complimentary beers. —KEVIN WARWICK

1725 W. Hubbard, 312-796-3119, ontourbrewing.com. First and third Saturdays, 1 PM. 45 minutes. $10, includes about 16 ounces of beer; book in advance on eventbrite.com.

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Tasting notes: The brewery’s name comes from the fact that founder Mark Legenza and his friends have been known to travel around the country following Phish and other bands on tour.

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Tasting notes: Haymarket brewmaster Pete Crowley is part of a group of former Rock Bottom brewers who’ve dubbed themselves the Order of the Black Phoenix.

Other notable breweries headed up by members of the order include Gigantic, Solemn Oath, Sun King, Surly, and Three Floyds.

Cruz Blanca Cerveceria ×××

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As with each of his culinary endeavors, Rick Bayless logged years of research in Mexico before opening Cruz Blanca, his cerveceria and Oaxaca-inspired taqueria, last May. The chef ’s studied approach to food, beer, and the pairing of the two was skillfully communicated on a recent tour of the gleaming Randolph Row building’s relatively modest production facilities. The brewery’s namesake, it turns out, was founded in Mexico City in 1869 by Alsatian immigrant Emil Dercher, who was renowned for using local ingredients and botanicals in his bottle-conditioned beers.

Filling our tasting glasses along the way, the guide offered a sweeping history of Mexico—conquest, invasion, European influence—in order to explain how the beer styles head brewer Jacob Sembrano is focused on, from bières de garde to Vienna lagers, ended up in the country. It was enough to make even the common act of drinking a beer suddenly seem miraculous. —JAKE MALOOLEY

Best for: bros who appreciate a good belgian IPA My tour experience at Haymarket was remarkably disorganized. Though I’d made a reservation in advance, there was no record of it—which turned out not to be a problem, since there was only one other

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person on the tour. Our guide looked terrified, stammering his way through an explanation of the tiny 15-barrel system on which all of the brewery’s beer is made. He did take plenty of time to sit with us for the beer tasting that followed—but somehow we never got the full pints that are supposed to be included in the tour price. The silver lining is that Haymarket makes excellent beer, some of which, we learned, will soon be available outside the brewpub at retail for the first time ever: a second location opening in Michigan means that before long Haymarket will have the capacity to package and distribute several of its creations in Chicago. —JULIA THIEL

737 W. Randolph, 312-6380700, haymarketbrewing. com/events. 90 minutes. $15, includes 28 ounces of beer; call for reservations. é &

904 W. Randolph, 312-733-1975, app.anyguide.com/tours/ cruz-blanca-brewery-tour-chicago. Saturdays at 1, 2:30, and 4 PM. 60 minutes. $10, includes about 18 ounces of beer; book online in advance. é &

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Saturday, April 8

Go behind the scenes of four craft breweries Transportation between breweries and lunch provided Purchase tickets at chicagoreader.com/brewerytour Must be 21+

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Tasting notes: When Three Floyds started selling its flagship beer, Alpha King, in 1996, Indiana residents were so used to the watered-down lagers of domestic macrobreweries that they couldn’t take the hoppiness of what is now considered a mildly hoppy beer, so many tried to return it.

Lagunitas Brewing Company ××××

Three Floyds Brewing Company ×× Best for: finding a reason to visit eastern Indiana Beer geeks remain so devoted to Three Floyds’ curious combination of comic art, heavy metal, and hopforward brews that the wait for a table at the brewpub in the middle of an unassuming industrial park

Moody Tongue ×××× Best for: culinarians

in a small Indiana town on a Saturday afternoon can stretch in excess of 90 minutes. The primary utility of a tour of the sizable production facility next door is to ease the boredom of hanging around in the drab parking lot until the host texts you. The 30-minute behind-the-scenes jaunt is somewhat lacking in frills (no beer samples) and rather casual in tone—the equivalent of shooting the shit with Three Floyds’ hard-core hop heads about the secrets of their beloved craft beer while you work up your appetite for the boozy main event. —RYAN SMITH

9750 Indiana Pkwy., Munster, Indiana, 219-9224425, 3floyds.com. Saturdays at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, and 5:30 PM. 30 minutes. Free; sign up on first-come-first-served basis in the brewpub. é &

Head brewer Brian Musinski identified himself at the tour’s outset as a “sous chef.” The designation came into focus as he described the so-called “culinary brewing philosophy” of Jared Rouben, the brewmaster who brings his education from the Culinary Institute of America to bear on beer: concocting recipes, sourcing and incorporating ingredients, and balancing the flavors of his brews as if he were a chef creating a dish. Tourgoers shuffled along with a complimentary Moody Tongue-branded glass in hand and blue disposable shoe covers to keep unwanted germs out of the production areas. A swing through the barrel aging room allowed the group to try one of the limited-availability beers, the bourbon-barrel-aged chocolate barleywine. It had enough vanilla and cocoa notes to serve as dessert, and still I couldn’t leave without first trying Rouben’s lauded 12-layer German chocolate cake, which alongside the oysters is one of only two food items served in the taproom. —SUE KWONG

2136 S. Peoria, 312-6005111, moodytongue.com.

Saturdays and Sundays 1:30, 3, and 4:30 PM; private tours also available. 50 minutes. $20, includes 15.5 ounces of beer and a beer glass; make reservations in tasting room.

Best for: hedge-fund hippies

An ongoing debate among beer enthusiasts concerns whether or not the ever-expanding Lagunitas empire has a legitimate claim to being a craft beer company— especially since Heineken acquired a 50 percent stake in Lagunitas in 2015 that expanded the Californiabased brewery’s operations into Europe. But take the free tasting tour at the local outpost in Lawndale and it’s clear founder Tony Magee and his minions still perceive themselves as a 420-friendly, gives-no-fucks kind of outfit. The first half of the tasting tour—not to be confused with the more frequent tasting-free tours—consists of sipping on four samples of hopforward brews in an area the employees have dubbed the Purple Party Palace that looks like a cross between a college rec room and a San Francisco head shop.

Then you grab a beer to drink while an enthusiastic guide takes you around a catwalk two stories above the buzzing brewery floor and gives a quick rundown of what makes the massive 300,000-square-foot facility tick—and the off-the-wall stories behind beers such as Undercover Investigation Shut-Down. —RYAN SMITH

2607 W. 17th, 773-522-2097, lagunitas.com/taprooms/chicago. Tasting tours Monday-Thursday 1 and 3 PM, Friday 1 PM. 60 minutes. Free, includes 44 ounces of beer. é &

Tasting notes: Many of the facility's beer tanks are named after employees’ dead dogs or are Cheech and Chong references.

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Baderbräu ×× Best for: art gazing Baderbräu’s South Loop taproom greets visitors with exposed brick, wooden beams, and a colorful mural by local street artist Brain Killer. The bartender serving beer before the tour began—alas, no complimentary drinks here—would be our guide. Although he was familiar

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with the brewing process and the building’s history, he admitted that he was new and not the usual docent. His inexperience showed in the rushed pacing as we cruised by the brewing tanks and through the refrigerator room, and he skated over more substantive information about what makes Baderbräu’s approach to beer distinctive.

The showstopper award goes to the immense canning machine—tourgoers pleaded with the guide to power up the beast but to no avail. The tour ends in the gallery, across from the taproom, which turns over its art exhibit every three months. —SUE KWONG

As brewery tours go, the very friendly and informative one offered by Argus drips history: the building was a stable for horse-drawn Schlitz carts circa 1910 and was part of “Schlitz Row,” which offered laborers in dry Pullman every form of vice the working man could want. (At one point a law was passed outlawing drinking on the sidewalk, so a worker would carry a pail of fresh Schlitz to his house.) From the historical overview it’s straight to the tasting room, where there are seven or eight choices on tap, often including formulas Argus is playing around with, like barrel-aged ales. Taste as much as you like and be sure to offer your feedback, as that helps determine what goes into production. —MICHAEL GEBERT

11314 S. Front, 773-941-4050, argusbrewery.com. Most Saturdays 12:30, 2, and 3:30 PM. 90 minutes. $15, includes a generous variety of pours and a pint glass; purchase tickets online.

2515 S. Wabash, 312-8902728, baderbrau.com.

Saturdays 1, 3, and 5 PM. 20 minutes. Free; arrive before the tour begins. é

5 Rabbit Cerveceria ××× Best for: those looking to spice things up The tour of the production facility, located in a remote industrial park, started off awkwardly in the taproom.

A ticket entitles you to a beer, but only the 5 Rabbit brews you see in supermarkets, not the more interesting taproom-only offerings. Hurried into ordering a full pint, I saw people getting flights after it was too late for me to take advantage of that more interesting option. Once the tour got going, we learned a lot about 5 Rabbit’s devotion to making beers with flavorings of Central and South America, and how problematic those ingredients can be. The brewer giving our tour talked about the quirks of working with everything ranging from chiles to chapulines (grasshoppers), and having to cook 5,000 pounds of plantains on a small kitchen stove for one brew. —MICHAEL GEBERT

6398 W. 74th, Bedford Park, 312-895-9591, 5rabbitbrewery.com. Saturdays at 3 PM. 35 minutes. $10, includes 16 ounces of beer and a pint glass. é

Tasting notes: Using specialty ingredients to make Latin-flavored beer has presented 5 Rabbit’s brewers with difficulties. For instance, in a beer modeled on arroz con leche, getting rice (which has no hull and gets gummy) to go through the pipes turned a one-hour transfer process into seven-hour slog.

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Chicago Shamrock Crawl This is the place to be if you want to throw on a green tutu and throw back more green beer than you should. Stops along the way include Wrigleyville bars like Casey Moran’s, Full Shilling, and Sluggers.

Sat 3/11, 8 AM-1 PM, John Barleycorn, 3524 N. Clark, 773-549-6000, chicagoshamrockcrawl.com, $40.

Stepdancers, the Dooley Brothers, Fitz & the Celts, and more. Sat 3/18, 1 PM, FitzGerald’s, 6615 Roosevelt, Berwyn, 708-788-2118, fitzgeraldsnightclub.com, $15.

Eat, Drink, and Be Irish Start your day with a traditional Irish breakfast of Guinness, Bloody Marys, mimosas, and green beer. Oh, and there will be food too. Sat 3/11, 9 AM-1 PM, Tavern on Little Fort, 4128 N. Lincoln, 773-360-1869, littleforttavern.com, $20.

Luck o’ the Irish Chef Ronak Patel guides students through a cooking class celebrating Saint Patrick’s Day, complete with mussels in garlic cream sauce, beef and Guinness stew with colcannon, and oatmeal baked apples. Fri 3/10, 6:30-9:30 PM, Read It and Eat, 2142 N. Halsted, 773-661-6158, readitandeatstore. com, $85.

Fitzgerald’s Saint Patrick’s Day Festival A full day of traditional Irish food and drink plus live music and dance from the Mayer School

Gaelic Storm Fri 3/10-Sat 3/11, 9 PM, House of Blues, 329 N. Dearborn, 312-923-2000, houseofblues. com/chicago, $36.

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Sixteen ways to celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day

formances and dancing with music from Spice Boy and La Spacer. Thu 3/16, 10 PM-4 AM, Berlin, 954 W. Belmont, 773-348-4975, berlinchicago.com, $10.

comedy show goes green with Saint Patrick’s Day-themed sketches. 3/15-3/18: Wed 8 PM, Thu-Sat 11 PM, Cornservatory, 4210 N. Lincoln, 773-650-1331, cornservatory.org, $10-$15.

Northwest Side Irish Parade Celebrate Saint Patrick’s Day weekend at the 14th annual Northwest Side Irish Parade, beginning at 6634 N. Raven, running south down Neola Avenue to Northwest Highway, and north to Harlem Avenue. Sun 3/12, noon, 6633 W. Raven, northwestsideirish.org.

Saint Patrick’s Day at Drumbar This booze-centric celebration features stout beers, a whiskey tasting, and specialty cocktails like frozen Irish coffee and an Irish old-fashioned. Sat 3/11, 1-5 PM, Drumbar, 201 E. Delaware, 312-943-5000, drumbar.com, $69.

Off the Paddy Wagon The theater’s signature drinking-game

Saint Patrick’s Day River Crawl Begins at Boss Bar and includes

stops at five more River North drinking establishments, including Henry’s, Joy District, and Moe’s Cantina. Guests collect $20 in gift cards along the way. Sat 3/11, 8 AM-noon, Boss Bar, 420 N. Clark, 312-527-1203, chicagorivercrawl. com, $50.

Saint Patrick’s Day With Bootycandy A special holiday performance of Robert O’Hara’s play about growing up queer and black features complimentary green Jell-O shots and a special Irish cocktail available at the bar. Fri 3/17, 8 PM, Windy City Playhouse, 3014 W. Irving Park, 312-374-3196, windycityplayhouse.com, $25-$45.

South Side Irish Parade A celebration of all things Irish starting at West 103rd and Western and finishing at West 115th. Sun 3/12, noon, Western between W. 103rd and W. 115th, southsideirishparade. org.

Saint Patrick’s Day Parade The traditional celebration includes the great dyeing of the river at 9 AM

and a parade up Columbus Drive at noon. Sat 3/11, 9 AM, Balbo and Columbus, chicagostpatricksdayparade.org.

Saint Patrick’s Day Ping-Pong Party Tickets include three drink tokens, a breakfast buffet, prizes, live music, and, of course, ping-pong. Sat 3/11, 8 AM-noon, Spin Chicago, 344 N. State, 773635-9999, chicago.wearespin.com, $30-$45.

Saint Patrick’s Festival This holiday festival includes vendors selling gifts and refreshments, traditional Irish music and dance, and Irish language workshops. Sat 3/11, noon11:55 PM, Irish American Heritage Center, 4626 N. Knox, 773-282-7035, irish-american.org, $12.

Saint Pat’s Brunch Buffet The Pony Inn kicks off Saint Patrick’s Day weekend with a brunch buffet featuring eggs, bacon, doughnuts, green beer, and more. Sat 3/11, 9 AM-1 PM, the Pony, 1638 W. Belmont, 773-828-5055, theponychicago.com, $30. v

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In the devil’s snare

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f you’re a regular theatergoer, you’ll be forgiven for thinking Chicago’s theater scene is a godless place. In a community overflowing with playwrights eager to write about Big Issues—police violence, gender inequity, mental illness, cyber bullying, addiction, homelessness, trauma, Alzheimer’s, gentrification, and seemingly every nuance of identity politics—it’s the rare scribe who tackles faith, the issue that has overwhelmed, mystified, and tormented several millennia’s worth of great thinkers.

Certainly there’s no shortage of theatrical spirituality on local stages, often echoing the overearnest musings of New Age devotees.

And you can hardly make it through a theater season without encountering numerous characters crafted to display a problematic religiosity. But finding a protagonist sincerely grappling with his or her faith over the course of two acts is a bit like hunting the snark.

Which makes Chicago playwright Samantha Beach’s new drama The Snare a welcome oddity. While Beach’s uncertain structure and light tone prevent her thoughtful, provocative story from building to a meaningful conclu-

sion—a problem even this powerfully acted, intelligently directed Jackalope Theatre premiere can’t overcome—The Snare is the rare play that asks an audience to accept, without a trace of irony, that faith truly matters to “ordinary” people.

Beach sets her play in an unnamed midwestern town where Abigail, a preternaturally patient, understanding mother to teenagers Ruth and Caleb, has just been promoted to pastor at their local church. It’s a plum position; the place sees some 4,000 parishioners thrice weekly and is one of the most influential in the country, at least according to her levelheaded schoolteacher husband, David. It’s also unaccountably conservative for a nondenominational church; Abigail will be its first female pastor, driving some well-heeled members to defect.

With only a few days to go before Abigail’s debut in the pulpit, eighth-grader Ruth mentions, almost in passing, that “the devil tells me to do things.” As Ruth’s behavior grows increasingly unpredictable—she insists on sleeping in a fort she builds in the living room, goes to violent extremes in an effort to be

named captain of her school basketball team, drops a massive F-bomb on her mother—it becomes less and less likely the teenager’s just going through a phase. Still, Abigail’s convinced her daughter’s driven not by a demon but by some underlying psychological ache she can’t express. Ruth, meanwhile, just wants her troubling faith to be taken as seriously as her mother’s. After all, if everyone believes Abigail can hear God’s voice guiding her in her daily life, why can’t anyone believe Ruth hears the devil’s?

Beach sets in motion what should be a tumultuous family drama that plunges into religious and epistemological dark alleys.

And there’s no shortage of meaty scenes in the two-hour show, especially as Abigail’s faith, which has guided her since childhood, begins to waver while Ruth’s grows more impregnable. But Beach struggles to let the action progress and the tension escalate.

That’s partly because she doesn’t prioritize her characters’ dilemmas, focusing almost as much attention on Caleb’s efforts to emerge from his introverted shell, for example, as on David’s efforts to understand his daughter’s possible demonic possession. But it’s also because she consistently creates seemingly pivotal moments—Ruth’s assaulting a fellow player in a basketball game, for example—that rarely produce significant consequences. It’s as though she resets the play after each scene, at least through the first act. Things seldom get as serious as the facts would indicate.

Still, she’s got the core of something exceptional here: a mother-daughter struggle to understand fundamental religious truths and to find guidance in the face of debilitating doubt.

It’s enough to make for a worthwhile evening.

Director Elana Boulos steers Cyd Blakewell as Abigail and Caroline Heffernan as Ruth through the script’s emotional rapids with unflagging confidence. Blakewell and Heffernan show just how powerful The Snare might be if it were more consistently and strategically focused on them. v R THE SNARE Through 4/1: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Broadway Armory Park, 5917 N. Broadway, 312-742-7502, jackalopetheatre. org, $25.

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s a teenager, comedian Brittany Meyer (who prefers the gender-neutral plural pronoun) was four foot four and 140 pounds, and their mother put them on an experimental growth hormone in the hopes that they would “stretch out.” While Meyer did grow more than a foot, they still continued putting on weight. A phrase from their mother has stuck with them ever since: “You need to grow up, not out.”

“I didn’t know I wasn’t attractive until people told me as a teenager—otherwise I thought I was going to be a model,” Meyer says. “People had to kind of tear me down. When I would see a model in a magazine I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, look at how thin she is.’ I was like, ‘Oh look, she’s showing off her butt. I also have a butt— that’s cool!’ I didn’t think anything of it.”

Meyer rediscovered a love for their body as a nude model and by discussing their own struggles with weight and beauty expectations in their comedy act. A little more than a year ago they started Strip Joker, a monthly standup showcase that promotes body positivity by encouraging performers to show as much (or as little) of their bodies as they want—and in a safe and encouraging environment. Artist Matthew Hoffman, who’s known for his stickers and public works of art that read you aRE BEAUTIFUL, donated a custom sign to serve as the backdrop to the stage.

“It was really appealing to me to make a show that celebrated all of the things people dislike about themselves,” says Whitney Wasson, a coproducer for Strip Joker. “We agreed not to do anything that was raunchy, negative, or mean-spirited, which is really different

from other comedy shows. Nudity in other realms of comedy is usually played for a mean laugh.”

The lineups prioritize people of color, members of the LGBTQ community, and women or female-identified performers—groups who are most often scrutinized for their looks.

What happens onstage varies, from fully clothed comics doing material about their bodies to a regular stand-up set in which the performer strips down to full nudity. Recently Meyer hosted while wearing only items of clothing that they wore during hookups, and would remove the material relevant to the story of what happened on each particular night.

Molly Kearney, another coproducer and frequent performer on the show, remembers being completely terrified when she initially went onstage. The first night she took very little off, but since then she’s learned to use her body as a tool for her comedy, doing things like writing “carnage” on her bare thigh and then doing a bit about female fight clubs.

“Doing stand-up is scary enough to begin with, but taking off your clothes, it’s like a whole other level,” Kearney says. “But it was liberating. You’ve got to put on your brave pants, then take them off.”

Meyer emphasizes that Strip Joker isn’t just a novelty nudity show. They hope this is a chance for both the audience and the performers to explore their personal issues with their bodies and learn to love them through comedy.

“Seeing other people naked and admiring their flaws and insecurities, that helped me love my own even more,” Meyers says. “Strip Joker’s given me an even greater empowerment of my own body than I ever even knew I had.” v R STRIP JOKER: THICK THIGHS SAVE LIVES Fri 3/10, 8 PM, Uptown Underground, 4707 N. Broadway, facebook.com/stripjoker, $20.

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hen Trina Robbins was around 11 or 12 years old, her mother, a schoolteacher, would bring home reams of paper and lots of number-two pencils. After carefully folding the sheets in half (and diligently gnawing away at the pencils’ erasers) Robbins would draw herself four-page comics.

She remembers one that was inspired by her fascination with the “goddess” behind green goddess dressing. “Why,” she remembers her heroine exclaiming upon discovering the goddess’s temple, “she’s green!”

As an adult, Robbins barreled through the world of comics when it was at its most masculine and misogynist: she created It Ain’t Me, Babe Comix, the first all-women comic book.

She started the anthology Wimmen’s Comix, which ran for 20 years. She was Wonder Woman’s first cartoonist. She designed Vampirella. More recently, she has been writing histories—or rather, herstories—devoted to women cartoonists. Now she comes to lecture at the Art Institute on Wednesday, March 15, and at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum on Thursday, March 16.

Robbins lost interest in comics as a high school student when her mother, who insisted on giving up her daughter’s comics collection, said, “You’re a teenager now—comics are kids’ stuff.” So Trina grew up, grew into the rock scene in LA, designed clothes for her fellow rockers, and wrote articles for the LA Free Press.

And suddenly, she says, “Hippies were interested in comics!” Robbins started reading comics again, especially enjoying the mystical Doctor Strange and Thor. She tried to draw a few of her own, “but all I could think of at the time were buff superhero comics,” she says.

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But one fateful day in 1966, someone handed Robbins a copy of the Lower East Side’s underground paper, the East Village Other. “And it blew my mind, to use the expression of the time,” she says. “It had comics in it—hippie comics! These comics were about my lifestyle, not about guys in skintight underwear, big chins, and thick necks punching each other out.” She was particularly enamored with one psychedelic comic, Gentle’s Trip Out, signed by someone named “Panzika” (aka underground-comics artist Nancy Burton). “I saw that, and I thought, ‘This is what I want to do,’” Robbins says. “Two years later, I found out that Panzika was a woman. Cool, huh? My inspiration to finally draw comics was a woman!”

While she was reading comics strictly as a fan, “It never occurred me to think, ‘Gosh, where are the women?’” Robbins says. “It really wasn’t until I started drawing comics myself that I finally noticed that the guys had their own club.” In the tiny world of underground comics, she remembers being excluded from participating in exhibitions, contributing to comic books, and socializing at parties. “I remember beginning to think, ‘Oh, I’m the only woman here,” Robbins says. “They’re all guys, and they don’t like me. Maybe they don’t like women. Maybe they don’t really believe I’m a cartoonist because I’m a girl.’ This might sound silly, but that was when I really knew that I was a woman and they were men.”

“It wasn’t that the guys would say, ‘Go away, we don’t want you,’” Robbins clarifies. “Rather they would just ignore me.” But she held on to her gnawed number-two pencil. “I simply did not stop,” she says. “I didn’t stop because it seemed like they wanted me to stop. I didn’t stop because it seemed like they would be happier if I had not existed.”

Robbins found a respite in underground papers, particularly the new women’s liberation newspaper, It Ain’t Me, Babe. “Of course, it came out of Berkeley,” she says. Robbins started drawing for them after a fruitful meeting during a be-in at Golden Gate Park. “Because I was drawing for It Ain’t Me, Babe, I felt braver: I had them now. It wasn’t just me.”

Robbins didn’t stop, and she’s more prolific than ever: she has four books coming out this year. “I have a strong Judeo-Christian work ethic, she says, “but even for me four books is a bit silly.” The new releases include her memoir Last Girl Standing; A Minyen Yidn, a collaboration between 12 different cartoonists in an adaptation inspired by her father’s Yiddish short stories, each one a snapshot of the Belarusian village he grew up in; and Babes in Arms, a prose work in she which celebrates four women who drew comics during World War II. “My God, feminism is strong!” Robbins says. “We have Donald Trump to thank for that, don’t we? It’s because of you, Donald, that I have this cute little pussy hat.” Robbins went to the March on Washington, grinning in a sea of cute hats and Wonder Woman protest signs. “Only women would say, ‘Let’s have a big protest march and all wear cute, pink hats!’” she says. “All those women at the march were so wonderful. And we are: we’re all strong and wonderful and all over the country now, because of Donald Trump!” v Robbins appears for a lecture Wed 3/15, 5 PM, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Neiman Hall, 37 S. Wabash, 312-629-6100, saic.edu, and Thu 3/16, 6 PM, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, 800 S. Halsted, 312-413-5353, hullhousemuseum.org. F

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owadays, it’s strange to remember that it wasn’t that long ago when gay men who wanted to be out and proud—who wanted to dance and flirt and fuck without facing violence or death threats or worse from the straight community—had to seek safety in numbers and hide out in their own rainbowcolored ghettos. But we live in a kinder age, where Lady Gaga can sing “Born This Way” during the Super Bowl halftime show, samesex couples can get married, and even straight boys can dance at Roscoe’s. We should be past the need for “gayborhoods,” as Amin Ghaziani argued in his influential 2014 book There Goes the Gayborhood. Don’t areas like Boystown, fun as they are, only remind us of the bad old days?

Nope, they’re still necessary, sociologist Jason Orne argues in his new book, also called Boystown, and for one very important reason: sex.

W hat d i st i n g u ishes Boystow n f rom Wrigleyville or Logan Square or any other gentrifying neighborhood with good nightlife is its sense of what Orne calls “sexy community,” defined as “a network of people, bound together through sexual intimacy.”

He believes that open sexuality should be embraced and encouraged: straight people should be adopting queer habits, not the other way around. “By shedding its queer elements,” he writes, “Boystown trades sexuality for normalcy. It trades queer sexual connection for legal equality.”

In other words, it would be a damned shame if the men of Boystown stopped hooking up on the dance floor or disappearing into certain basements for sex. And it’s hard to do those things when you’re surrounded by gawking tourists and straight women celebrating bachelorette parties—although the neighbor-

hood’s bars and clubs rely on straight money to stay open. Orne also acknowledges that the bachelorettes have their own reasons for going out on Halsted instead of Clark, namely that they’re not interested in straight bros hitting and grinding on them when they just want to go out and dance and have a good time.

Throughout Boystown, Orne explores the neighborhood’s various fault lines: race, class, gender, queer culture versus gay culture versus straight culture, hookup apps. He’s a responsible sociologist, faithfully taking field notes even when he’s out clubbing, and he’s transparent about his methodology, but he’s by no means an impartial guide. He shares his nicknames for various factions—the wealthy “plastics” who hang out at Minibar and on boats off Hollywood Beach, the “good gays” who disapprove of promiscuity and want to meet nice boys in the real world and settle down like straight people—and his various prejudices, not just political, but also personal. For instance: “I fucking love brunch. I don’t care if it makes me a basic bitch.”

Asides like that, by the way, are part of what makes the book so much fun to read, even for nonsociologists. (And have no fear: Orne frequently pauses to explain academic terminology and theories.) Boystown is an engaging portrait of a neighborhood in flux, where different communities are trying to work out a way to inhabit the same spaces, and the questions Orne raises about identity and privilege are relevant far beyond the boundaries of North Halsted. v R BOYSTOWN: SEX AND COMMUNITY By Jason Orne (University of Chicago) Orne will read from Boystown, Thu 3/9, 7 PM, Unabridged Bookstore, 3251 N. Broadway, 773-883-9119, unabridgedbookstore.com. F

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My Life as a Zucchini ZucR chini, a lonely and fatherless boy, accidentally kills his drunken

mother and lands in an orphanage, where he’s accepted into a little clique of abused and abandoned kids. Adapted from a novel by Gilles Paris, this French puppet animation feels magical but takes place in the real world, where children can be damaged beyond repair. The kids’ loyalty toward each other springs directly from their shared suffering: Bea’s mother was deported to Africa, Ahmed’s father held up a gas station, Jujube’s mother lost her mind, and Alice’s father, as one boy explains, did “creepy things to her, disgusting stuff.” The movie can be funny and heartbreaking at once—Zucchini’s only keepsake of his mother is an empty beer can—though in the end what registers most is the children’s resilience when “there’s nobody left to love us.” Claude Barras directed. In French with subtitles.

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Slack Bay Cannibalism may not be everyone’s idea of funny, but French director Bruno Dumont (L’Humanité, Hadewijch) elevates it to ghoulish camp in this slapstick skewering of the French bourgeoisie. Fabrice Luchini and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi play fatuous aristocratic wannabes summering on the Channel coast in 1910; they enjoy the “beauty” of the local fisherfolk, who in turn view tourists as their next plat du jour. Adding a surrealistic dimension are Didier Després as a rotund detective and Cyril Rigaux as his shrimpy sidekick—clad in black suits and bowlers, they’re Laurel and Hardy by way of Magritte. Dumont tips his hat to Luis Buñuel’s The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, but this fanciful satire lacks Buñuel’s bite.

With Juliette Binoche, hamming it up as the Luchini character’s imperious sister. In French with subtitles. —ANDREA GRONVALL 122 min. Screening as part of the European Union Film Festival; for a full schedule visit siskelfilmcenter. org. Sat 3/11, 4 PM, and Thu 3/16, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

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Table 19 In this flimsy, mildly enjoyable farce, the maid of honor for a glitzy Manhattan wedding (Anna Kendrick) gets dumped by her boyfriend, the best man, and shows up at the event to find herself seated at the misfit table of dateless guests (Craig Robinson, June Squibb, and Lisa Kudrow, to name a few). Kendrick is funny and effervescent as usual, but the other actors struggle to land their jokes, most of which are weaker than her zingy, tailor-made one-liners. Written and directed by Jeffrey Blitz (Rocket Science, which also starred Kendrick) from a story by Jay and Mark Duplass, the film has a clever premise that probably would have worked as a half-hour TV episode but fails to sustain a feature-length comedy. —LEAH PICKETT PG-13, 87 min. Landmark’s Century Centre, River East 21

SPECIAL EVENTS Deconstructing the Beatles: The White Album Composer and producer Scott Freiman provides a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Beatles’ 1968 LP. 91 min. Thu 3/16, 7 PM. Music Box Peace on Earth Film Festival This festival of films devoted to “nonviolence, tolerance, social justice, and environmental recoveries” runs Friday, March 10, through Sunday, March 12. For a full schedule, visit musicboxtheatre.com. Fri 3/10-Sun 3/12. Music Box Re-framings: Stitched & Collages Five experimental shorts that view “cinema as process, movement as mechanics, [and] image as collage.”

74 min. Fri 3/10, 7 PM. Logan Center for the Arts 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green Every Chicagoan should see this documentary about the history of the Chicago Housing Authority and the controversial

destruction of Cabrini-Green Homes on the north side to make way for a 21st-century model based on mixed-income housing. Filming over 15 years, director Ronit Bezalel tracks three longtime Cabrini residents as the hellish high-rises come down and new town houses go up lodging an uneasy mix of lower-class blacks with government subsidies and middle-class whites paying market rates. As Bezalel reports, many more of the project’s original residents were screened out due to negative drug tests and criminal-record checks and shunted off to the south and west sides. “I stay in it, I play in it, I live in it, and it’s home to me,” declares young Raymond McDonald, one of the voices that animate this story of a community in transition.

But for those at the bottom of the economic ladder, home is wherever the city says. —J.R. JONES 53 min.

Wed 3/15, 6 PM. Garfield Park Conservatory Stella Maris Mary Pickford plays dual leads in this 1918 film, directed by her former costar Marshall Neilan. As Stella Maris, a rich but handicapped orphan whose parents raise her in complete ignorance of the world’s cruelties, Pickford is characteristically lovely; as Unity Blake, an adoptee abused by her alcoholic mother, she’s stunningly plain, her face effectively registering her painful situation.

The contrast between the two performances is striking, but its point is obscured by the typically convoluted melodrama, in which Stella’s suitor is also Unity’s adoptive father. Neilan’s imagery is largely theatrical—he seldom cuts meaningfully within scenes, he treats his locations almost as stage sets, and his idea of subtle lighting is using a narrow bar of light to illuminate the eyes of a murderess. —FRED CAMPER 84 min. Jay Warren provides live organ accompaniment. Fri 3/10, 8 PM. Filament Theatre v

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y the time you read this, Donald Trump may already have announced our withdrawal from the Paris climate change agreement. Last week the New York Times reported that the president, prodded by his senior adviser Steve Bannon and the conservative Institute for Energy Research, plans to issue an executive order scrapping the Obama administration’s regulations on coal-burning power plants, a building block to the Paris agreement. There’s a special place in hell for those who play political games with the fate of humanity—as Chinese director-cinematographer Zhao Liang might attest. His 2015 feature Behemoth, screening this week at Facets Cinematheque, invokes Dante’s Inferno as a metaphor for the human and ecological ravages of coal mining and other industries in ssss EXCELLENT

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Inner Mongolia. Straddling the line between art film and documentary, Behemoth takes as its ostensible subject the pollution of the planet—but it also explores the pollution of the soul.

Zhao was already on location, shooting images of a tiered open-pit coal mine, when producer-coscreenwriter Sylvie Blum, noting his frequent comparison of the place to hell, asked him if he’d ever read the Divine Comedy. “I found the description of hell—going down level by level—so similar to the mines I saw,” Zhao told writer Kelsey Bosch. The epic poem provides Zhao with some much-needed structure for what might otherwise have been a rambling pictorial study. Early in the film he introduces a man carrying a large mirror on his back, who leads us through Inner Mongolia just as Virgil the poet guides Dante

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through hell, purgatory, and heaven. In the film’s second half, Dante’s Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso provide the framework for a trio of vignettes that fade in, respectively, from screens of pure red, gray, or blue. Even more than structure, the Comedy gives Zhao a spiritual lens through which to record a temporal crisis. Many ecological documentaries exhibit a sense of outrage—not so many a sense of sin.

The Inferno may get its own vignette, but in fact the entire first half of Behemoth seems like hell on earth. Zhao opens with an extreme long shot of a mining crater, its horizon capped by a cool blue sky; one section of the crater erupts into a storm of black earth, immediately shrouded in billowing gray and red smoke.

Later Zhao surveys a pit after the blast as steam shovels scoop up loose coal and deposit it into the dump trucks that snake through the crater. “Ridge after ridge, descending with my guide, I see the monster’s playthings carrying out invisible orders,” declares a voice-over narrator, the film’s lone speaker. Panoramic long shots make up much of the film, with gorgeous images of the unnatural landscape.

Touring an ironworks, Zhao captures a rich blue sky nicked in a lower corner by flickering

orange flame, then cuts to an image of a giant furnace flame casting a muddy brown glow in the night sky. This is a beautiful film about ugly things, the sort of film you might feel guilty enjoying.

Zhao breaks from the landscape only to visit with the migrant workers who feed the beast, though his gaze is no less penetrating.

There are no talking-head interviews, just long takes of these poor bastards puttering around their bare-bulb living spaces: stained walls, metal bunk beds, a folding chair, an ancient TV set, extension cords running this way and that. Many of the workers are plagued by pneumoconiosis, better known as black lung disease; the focus of the purgatory segment is a treatment facility where workers lie in bed, photographed in close-up as they stare at the camera and fight for breath. In a nearby operating room, a doctor and nurse use a suction hose to transfer gray fluid from a patient to a large bottle on the floor. “Step by step, I behold many living beings enduring the agony of toil,” the narrator says, sounding very much like Dante as he descends the nine circles of hell.

Not surprisingly, Behemoth got a cold welcome in China, the world’s worst polluter, where it has barely been screened at all. Interviewed by Slant, Zhao claimed that the film was disappeared from the Chinese Internet after being chosen to compete at the Venice film festival, and that none of the 100-odd Chinese reporters at the festival interviewed him. Behemoth implicates every one of us in the fossil-fuel economy—there’s a reason the guide carries a mirror on his back—and if Dante was correct, we can look forward to eternal damnation in the fourth circle, where the greedy drag heavy weights around. But farther down lies the eighth circle, offering even greater torments for the Trumps and Bannons of the world: the evil counselors, whose souls are wrapped in flames; the sowers of discord, who are constantly mutilated by a sword-wielding demon; and the falsifiers, who are consumed by pestilence and frenziedly claw off their own scabs. That’s why they call it a comedy. v BEHEMOTH sss Directed by Zhao Liang. Fri 3/10-Thu 3/16, Facets Cinematheque, 1517 W. Fullerton, 773-281-4114, facets.org, $10.

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Nashville singer Nikki Lane uses her soulful wail as a poppy equalizer

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FOR HER RECENTLY released third album, Highway Queen (New West), Nashville singer Nikki Lane reveals a new level of self-awareness, on the title track counting the miles she’s logged on the road while also reflecting on the mixture of hard work and posturing required to find success. Later, on “700,000 Rednecks,” she seems to apply both themes to the motivation afforded by her hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, and the red-meat hokum the country industry feeds upon. She coproduced the new record with Jonathan Tyler, who helped it feel less schizophrenic than the Dan Auerbach-produced All or Nothin’ (2014). Lane bridges the divide between hard-rocking twang and post-Bobbie Gentry sass, using her soulful wail as a poppy equalizer. And her writing has never been sharper; the album-closing breakup song “Forever Lasts Forever” lays her sentiments bare as she laments, “Now I know, forever lasts forever / ’Til forever becomes never again.” —PETER MARGASAK

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THURSDAY9 Ro James Kevin Ross opens. 8 PM, the Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park, $37-$47. 18+ Before releasing his 2016 debut studio album, Eldorado (ByStorm Entertainment/RCA), singer-songwriter Ronnie James linked up with a musician he met through MySpace to cowrite one of the best R&B tracks of the decade. It’s not easy to pinpoint exactly what James gave his friend Miguel for “Use Me,” but the slithering metallic bump of that track from the latter’s second album, Kaleidoscope Dream, courses through Eldorado. James approaches his role as an R&B singer like he’s the T-1000 from Terminator 2: his sumptuous performances have a liquid flow, he appears approachably human but can turn superhuman at the drop of a hat, and he’s deadly accurate. On his hit single “Permission,” James samples the lilting guitar melody from Willie Hutch’s “Brother’s Gonna Work It Out,” which has become a familiar presence in hip-hop through recent appearances in Chance the Rapper’s “Lost,” Chief Keef’s “Nobody,” and ASAP Mob’s “Put That on My Set.” But only James matches Hutch’s tender touch when he busts out a gilded falsetto.

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Dehd Bunny and Coffin Ships open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $8.

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In 2014 beloved Nashville garage label Infinity Cat launched a cassette series that has since gone on to release tapes by a fascinating array of underground rock purveyors, including art-rock freaks Guerilla Toss, lo-fi pop whiz Colleen Green, and emo-tinged power poppers Rozwell Kid. Last month the label and series announced it had tapped Chicago act Dehd, the trio cofronted by Ne-Hi’s Jason Balla and Emily Kempf of Heavy Dreams. While on their 2016 self-titled album (Maximum Pelt/Fire Talk) Dehd dole out minimal, droning melodies, the easygoing simplicity of their beguiling material belying an expert sense of atmosphere, their grasp of the world around them is more evident on the Infinity Cat cassette, Fire of Love. On it Dehd dive into watery shoegaze and chilly postpunk that feels like it blew in from northern England. —LEOR GALIL

Expire Homewrecker, Cross Me, Mal Intent, and Backbone open. 7 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $15, $13 in advance. 17+ Milwaukee’s best breakdown-hardcore band Expire were up-front about their intent to pretty much call it a circle pit following, first, the release of last September’s With Regret (Bridge Nine) and, second, some requisite so-long tours. And here we are: Expire’s last Chicago show (two days prior to their final good-bye in Milwaukee). Though their swan-song record is certainly a sculpted mix of groove-heavy collapses and Zach Dear’s guitar chugging in time with the kick pedal—sliced and diced by the heavy rasp of front man Josh Kelting—it’s way more than hamfisted paint-by-numbers hardcore rife with path after path to the all-

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in group vocal. Don’t worry, there’s plenty of that— and no doubt plenty of opportunities tonight to swarm the stage and have the mike shoved somewhere near your face—but Expire are nimble in how they rotate rhythms, sometimes shifting from full gallop to a hammering breakdown via a simple swooping bend from Dear. It’s a shame to see such a surefire juggernaut say farewell—especially one that lives only 90 miles north—but I’m sure they’ll properly abuse Subterranean tonight in celebration. —KEVIN WARWICK

Nicky Siano 11 PM, Disco, 111 W. Hubbard. F

David Mancuso’s the Loft, an invite-only event hosted at various spaces throughout downtown Manhattan, was the supreme underground-dance party in New York City during the early 1970s, and Nicky Siano was one of its biggest fans. Mancuso had the best sound system and DJ equipment, which made the records he played—everything from Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” to Manu Dibango’s “Soul Makossa”—pop and resonate like never before.

When Siano opened the Gallery, a club deeply inspired by the Loft, he reinterpreted Mancuso’s aesthetic to match his own sound: one more indebted to soul and funk, harder edged and faster paced.

The Gallery was so popular that it attracted diehard fans—two of them, Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan, both worked at the venue and were mentored there before going on to become the godfathers of house and disco, respectively. Your best bet for approaching Siano’s style is the slick 2004 compilation Nicky Siano’s Legendary ‘The Gallery’: The Original New York Disco 1973-1977 (Soul Jazz), which is unmixed but sequenced to approximate the Gallery experience. —TAL ROSENBERG J

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Saxophonist Miguel Zenon opens his new quartet album Típico (Miel Music) with the hyperactive original “Academia,” which was inspired by his experiences teaching jazz at the New England Conservatory. He built the tune from exercises he developed for students, and between the tune’s breakneck pace and its harmonic jujitsu he seems keen on challenging not only his pupils but also his bandmates— pianist Luis Perdomo, bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Henry Cole—who chew up the changes and tempo shifts like a berserk Pac-Man. After using his last few albums to elaborate on the musical folklore of his native Puerto Rico, Zenon designed Típico without a conceptual framework, instead opting to simply show off what it means when a band locks in and fires on all cylinders. Luckily the quartet cools down after its high-octane, muscle-flexing opener— while the following track, “Cantor,” eventually picks up a real head of steam, it begins with the sort of lyric tenderness and rhythmic elasticity redolent in the writing of its inspiration, Argentine composer and keyboardist Guillermo Klein. For this record Zenon has written pieces geared to the strengths of his band, whether the ballad “Corteza,” which was built from a transcription of an older bass solo

by Glawischnig, or “Entre Las Raices,” which combines pianist Perdomo’s predilection for free playing with his skill at navigating tricky melodic turns. All eight pieces are tricky in their own way, but in the end Zenon proves his point: his technical dexterity and virtuosic flash never undermine the fiery group interplay. —PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Bryan Doherty 9 PM, Whistler F Fred Eaglesmith, Heather Styka 8 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b B Forrest, Josh Griffin Trio, Heazza 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F Nick Hakim, Solo Woods 9 PM, Schubas Horrible/Beaut, Samson the Aviator 8 PM, Martyrs’ Liam Kazar, Marrow, Ryan Packard 7 PM, Comfort Station b Jens Lekman, Lisa/Liza 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Nnamdi Ogbonnaya, Sammus, Izzy True, Mother Nature 9 PM, Hideout Rotten Mouth, Flounder, Lever 9 PM, Burlington

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FRIDAY10 Castle King Buffalo, Ladies of Leisure and Satan’s Hallow open. 8 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint, 2105 S. State, $10, $8 in advance.

I’ve always loved these heavy riffers. What began as the duo of Mat Davis and Elizabeth Blackwell has expanded to include drummer Al McCartney, and as a trio Castle continue to possess an eerie and uncanny ability to tap into the late-60s/early-70s occult-rock vibe made famous by Black Sabbath—but also represented by Pentagram and the likes of Coven and Black Widow (whose “Come to the Sabbat” remains a goosebump-raising earworm). As far as contemporaries go, maybe only the original Witch Mountain comes close in the same way. Castle’s fourth full-length, last summer’s Welcome to the Graveyard (Van), doesn’t disappoint.

The tonal potion is brewed to perfection: the big, warm, thick-riffing sound easily fluctuates from stoner lope to classic-metal gallop. And there’s loving attention devoted to Elizabeth Blackwell’s witchy vocals as she gives the eerie neo-folkish “Natural Parallel” an otherworldly elegance and nails down “Hammer and the Cross,” which sounds like something Dio-era Sabbath might have written.

—MONICA KENDRICK

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practically hear slow-grinding feedback and monster power chords being crushed beneath toppling rhythms. That doesn’t quite describe the actual Slothrust, though. The trio does have a heavy grunge snarl a la Mudhoney or Soundgarden, but it’s leavened by Leah Wellbaum’s winsome vocals and the indie-rock song structures lurking under the murk.

Their second album, Everyone Else (Dangerbird), released last October, is a fuzzed-out slab of classic and alternative rock—half swagger, half stagger.

The first instrumental track, “Surf Goth,” touches on Dick Dale before getting weighed down in distortion and bad vibes. Solthrust aren’t as mercurial as the Pixies, but there’s a bit of a deranged/ sweet sneer on “Pseudo Culture” when Wellbaum sings “Pseudo culture fucks me all the time” before launching into harmonized girl-group-like ooohs.

“The Last Time I Saw My Horse” locks into a blues vamp as the drums make a sloppy thud and Wellbaum hazily declares, “I heard a rumor you were frozen underwater / Molecules, clusterfuck.” On “Horseshoe Crab” her vocals rise to the level of a latter-day Grace Slick: “Sometimes I think that I’m a seahorse / Sometimes I think that I’m a horseshoe crab.” Not metal, quite, but a reminder that the hippies invented metal, in all its woozy, heavy, spacedout glory. —NOAH BERLATSKY

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SATURDAY11 Nikki Lane, Brent Cobb Nikki Lane headlines (see Pick of the Week on page 33); Brent Cobb and Jonathan Tyler open. 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, $18. 18+ On his debut album, Shine on Rainy Day (Low Country Sound/Elektra), Georgian Brent Cobb evokes a very mellow 70s vibe, sweetly singing folk-rock originals that split the difference between soft rock and country. At his most toothless, as on the opener “Solving Problems,” he reminds me of a very sentimental Jim Croce at his most sentimental, but as the album unfolds the substance and depth increases. Part of the credit belongs to his cousin Dave Cobb—the unflashy, de rigueur Nashville producer behind successes like Jamie Johnson, Sturgill Simpson, and Jason Isbell—but Brent’s easygoing voice is eminently inviting, and the nifty, sun-dappled, flanged-out guitar work across ballads and mid-tempo ramblers is just just as hard to resist.

—PETER MARGASAK

Spektral Quartet 6 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, sold out. b Last year I produced a concert in which fantastic Denver pianist R. Andrew Lee performed November, a masterpiece of minimalist solo piano composed by Dennis Johnson. What made it such an event was exactly what made attending it so daunting: duration. Never mind the effort required to make structural sense of a piece of music that’s nearly five hours long; there are also more quotidian distractions—thirst, bathroom breaks, stretching.

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terpiece of lapidary beauty, hypnotic repetition, and ghostly harmonies. Feldman was obsessed with the art of Turkish rugs, where subtle variations in color and shape creep into patterns, a quality that made its way into his compositions. The composer allowed performers of the epic to dictate the number of repetitions per pattern—thus, the 1999 premiere by Kronos Quartet clocked in at a mere four and a half hours, while the definitive 2003 recording by Flux Quartet lasts six hours and 15 minutes. Obviously, performing the piece places wild demands on the musicians, who aren’t afforded the luxury of zoning out or relaxing their muscles. The music is exquisitely quiet, so while string players don’t have to exert great pressure on their instruments, they hold their bows for what must feel like an eternity during long tones, which are only occasionally interrupted by pizzicato plucks. With recently enlisted violinist Maeve Feinberg joining Doyle Armbrust, Russell Rolen, and Clara Lyon, Chicago’s Spektral Quartet will provide the long overdue local premiere of the quartet in conjunction with the current Merce Cunningham exhibition “Common Time” (Feldman was one of many brilliant 20th-century composers who collaborated with the choreographer). They’ll play the work on the fourth floor of the MCA, just outside the exhibition. I’d suggest bringing a pillow and settling in. —PETER MARGASAK

Volvox Part of Daphne 2017. Jane Fitz headlines; Volvox and Kiddo open. 10 PM, Smart Bar, 3730 N. Clark, $20, $13 in advance, $15 before midnight.

Thus far Discwoman’s Volvox has stuck to DJing, with none of the same production releases that fellow collective members Umfang or DJ Haram have used to make their names. Still, she’s built an unmistakable identity via her mixes. She mostly opts for straight-ahead techno that’s seemingly impenetrable up to the point at which it becomes just a bit off-kilter. And every once in a while her Berlin-style barrage opens up into something ever-so-slightly spiritual. Sometimes that transformation is explicit, as when her cavernous and icy ululating vocals dot her recent Resident Advisor mix—imagine a Gregorian chant with an admixture of goth. Oftentimes, though, Volvox’s spirituality is more subtle, expressed through passages that are austere with- J

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out scanning as overly conceptual. Her loyalty to the grinding punishment of industrial and EBM can be found at the harder edges of her sound, like in the confrontational middle section of her mix for Beats in Space. Volvox’s selections take strange, postmodern forms of techno and assemble them into a floating, transportive whole, dedicated to the groove in both what it symbolizes to its creator and how it moves a dance floor.

—AUSTIN BROWN

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SUNDAY12 Miguel Zenon See Friday. 4, 8, and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth, $25-$30.

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MONDAY13 Carpenter Brut Magic Sword, Le Matos, and Replicant open. 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, $30-35, $25 in advance. 17+ Mysterious French electronic artist Franck Hueso writes and records under the moniker Carpenter Brut, a pretty blatant homage to the visionary who serves as his musical inspiration. Carpenter Brut’s three EPs, released in 2015 as a single package called Trilogy, comprise creepy instrumental John Carpenter worship full of cinematic, sweeping retro-futuristic synths and eerie, dark atmospherics. Unlike fellow 80s-horror-soundtrack disciples Survive, Carpenter Brut brings in a high-energy funk element, at times reminiscent of Daft Punk or Justice—though Hueso’s samples and song titles focus on crime, violence, and the occult.

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WEDNESDAY15 Pieta Brown Bo Ramsey opens. 7:30 PM, SPACE, 1245 Chicago, Evanston, $15-$22. b For her atmospheric new album Postcards (Lustre) folk-pop singer Pieta Brown enlisted a wide variety of colleagues to help flesh out arrangements.

She didn’t convene the disparate crew in a single recording studio, but instead sent out loose husks of her new material, inviting collaborators to finish off her ten songs. Some tracks are rustic, others nicely polished. “Stopped My Horse,” with singer-songwriter Carrie Rodriguez, conveys a rural drag with poky banjo and languid fiddle arcs, “Station Blues” shuffles along thanks to drumming from Chad Cromwell, and “All the Roads,” featuring help from the Pines, is rich with a kind of ambient twang.

What’s remarkable in the end is how cohesive Postcards sounds, considering that even more help is provided by Calexico, guitarists David Lindley and Mark Knopfler, and steel-guitar whiz Eric Heywood with singer Caitlin Canty. Brown sings her tunes with a fragile intimacy, as if she’s whispering into your ear, but also with a full-toned, aspirated drawl that feels both seductive and wounded. She performs with her husband and main musical collaborator, Bo Ramsey. —PETER MARGASAK

Noam Pikelny 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, $27, $25 members. b As a member of virtuosic progressive bluegrass outfit the Punch Brothers, banjo whiz Noam Pikelny long ago established his technical chops, fitting superbly into the band’s ambitious arrangements and elaborate compositional gambits. He’s used his solo recordings to chronicle an interest in more traditional modes, whether essaying the music of Bill Monroe or veering into 70s-style newgrass turf.

The brand-new Universal Favorite (Rounder) casts his playing in another new light, because unlike his previous solo records there’s no one complementing his fleet picking—though he does often step up as a low-key vocalist. Pikelny has catholic taste, so it’s no surprise that the album—beautifully and sparsely produced by fellow Punch Broth-

er Gabe Witcher—toggles between classic material, originals, and songs of recent vintage, such as Josh Ritter’s “Folk Bloodbath,” a kind of murder-ballad mashup where bodies pile up with each passing verse. The heart of the album, though, is its original tunes, on which Pikelny’s delicate fingerwork generates gorgeous webs of sound that are sometimes brittle, sometimes glowing. The album credits list the five different instruments he plays—including guitar on a couple of tunes and a resophonic National four-string banjo on which three metal cones function as the soundboard. Without the warmth and facility of his playing that might all sound like geek talk, but the performances feel more fragile, heartfelt, and honest than anything he’s previously done on his own.

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RESTAURANT AND PUB | $$ R KITSUNE 4229 N. Lincoln, kitsunerestaurant.com

NEW REVIEW

Iliana Regan’s Kitsune conjures another world

The small North Center spot is an izakaya drawing on the midwestern larder.

By MIKE SULA

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Top to bottom: Gomae, tonkatsu ramen, okonomiyaki (aka Japanese pizza), seared scallops, uni, shio kogi bread and pickles o JIAYUE YU

itsune, the new restaurant from Elizabeth chef Iliana Regan, could be a set piece from The Man in the High Castle, the 1962 Phillip K. Dick alternate history in which the Axis powers have won World War II and rule over a colonized United States. (Amazon has given the novel a respectably brain-bending television adaptation, soon to enter its third season.)

Kitsune is Regan’s expression of what it would be like to open a restaurant if the Japanese had occupied Chicago for the last 70 years. It’s a place where virtually none of the servers and cooks are Asian, but where they’re serving technically faithful adaptations of Japanese bar snacks with overwhelmingly midwestern ingredients.

Close your eyes, imagine the chairs filled with sake-swilling Kempetai and Japanese Imperial bureaucrats chopsticking bowls of donburi and ramen, and you’re there.

Actually, in our version of reality the oppressors haven’t discovered Kitsune (yet), so the tiny, angular corner storefront is a tight squeeze full of a more representative selection of Chicagoans, occasionally weathering gusts of wind when the front door swings open.

Like Elizabeth, and the late, great Bunny, the Microbakery, Kitsune is a wee Regan joint of singularly enjoyable weirdness. Even though the studied and occasionally menacing woodland twee is dialed back, it’s still J

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continued from 43 lurking in the shadows waiting for the right moment to surprise you. A mural depicting the restaurant’s namesake magical fox twines around the restroom wa l l s, wh i le sma l ler, t h reed i men sion a l representat ion s o f s a id c a n i d—a s e d u c t i ve shape-shifter in Japanese folklore—dispense soy sauce at the table. Tiny ceramic rabbits hold your chopsticks as President Obama, who now seems a distant character from one of our ow n fair y

tales, benignly smiles down from a framed portrait hanging above the bar.

There’s not much else to distract from the real heart of Regan’s project—an exploration of the intersection of Japanese culinary technique and kitchen canon, with midwestern ingredients and guided by her own idiosyncratic sensibility.

The place where that intersection comes into clearest focus is in fer mented foods.

With the assistance of chef Justin Beh lke, bread, miso, vinegar, yogurt, and garum have all been put to rot in the service of good dishes. A selection of pickles— burdock root, mushroom, red ca rrot, a n d d a i ko n—h a s

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been preserved with a variety of techniques, each aged into distinctly pleasurable facets of funk. So too with the thick, spongy slabs of wild rice bread, its dough kneaded with shio kogi—the fermented, mold-inoculated rice used to make sake—smeared with a pat of matcha-dusted cultured butter shaped like a fox head. A small bowl of English pea miso (peaso?) soup gently interrupts the purity of raw ribbons of hamachi laid among rubylike salmon roe in a bowl of alabaster Carolina Gold rice. On other occasions the soup might be made from fermented great northern beans, mushrooms, corn, or adzuki beans.

The spirit of experimentation is encouraged in the kitchen at Kitsune, but it’s born of necessity, according to Regan; in this case the necessity of avoiding GMO soybeans.

Kitsune is about as midwestern as it gets.

So the dashi infused with black garlic is the liquid medium for a gob of “tofu” made from soft milk curd, along with butternut squash poached in calamansi vinegar. Instead of snappy, translucent green strips of wakame, Kitsune’s landlocked version of seaweed salad features tendrils of rutabaga, celeriac, and carrot with bits of chewy dried squid to lend the necessary oceanic spirit. The wilted spinach dish gomae, along with Chinese broccoli, is dressed with nutty sunflower paste rather than the traditional sesame, amped as you please with fresh ginger and bonito flake to the side. The “mother and child,” a scramble of soft, wet egg and chicken thigh, is laid over chewy Minnesota wild rice rather

than absorbent short white grains, one of the few cross-culinary pollinations I didn’t think quite hit the mark. That’s not to suggest I wouldn’t eat it again.

It’s inevitable that entrenched Western expectations of Japanese food will lead to some items getting lost in translation. Regan explained in an e-mail how she’s had some complaints about her okonomiyaki, the savory street pancake that we food writers refer to as “Japanese pizza” when we’re feeling lazy.

Some object to the custardy texture of the just-underset batter, or the fishiness of the gently shimmering bonito flakes on top. Bollocks. This gooey, savory-sweet batter bomb, laced with Kewpie mayo and pickled ginger and griddled with crunchy cabbage, leeks, and bok choy, is a textually perfect drinking food, both absorbent and substantial, and hits all the necessary pleasure centers.

Rich, buttery seared scallops drizzled in lily-gilding soy hollandaise bring about the same involuntarily joyful paralysis, as does a small bowl of naked sea urchin gonads, just kissed with yuzu, tasting like sweet, fatty sea foam.

Regan addresses the mass ramen obsession with typical fearlessness, producing two bowls—tonkotsu and vegan—of arrestingly gothic appearance, the latter built on a scorched miso broth, with black, housemade chitarra-like noodles kneaded with ash produced from the restaurant’s leftover vegetable scraps. It’s a deeply flavorful bowl that would stand out on any other menu but

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All hail the Not My President, an orange-tinted cocktail made with powdered cheese

By JULIA THIEL

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somehow pales in comparison to the tonkotsu, infused before straining with charred aromatics such as leeks, ginger, garlic, and scallions, resulting in a kind of caramelized pork demi-glace thick enough to coat your spoon, along with molten egg, charred pork belly, chile paste, and leek oil.

For dessert, there’s a whiskey-glazed doughnut that compares favorably to an original Krispy Kreme; a seasonal sorbet (huckleberry at the moment) with a peculiar, almost tannic mouthfeel; and what I’m convinced will be one of the most original desserts of the year. It’s a bowl of foamy, yuzu-spiked goat’s milk yogurt topped with a satsuma mandarin orange granita sweetened with miso caramel, all concealing chewy nuggets of candied sweet potato.

An izakaya is primarily a place to drink, and Kitsune’s recently approved liquor license led to a list nearly as focused as the food menu, including a couple Japanese whiskeys, seven sakes, and a more eclectic selection of beers and wines. It isn’t quite as engaging and curious as the hybrid cuisine. How could it be? As always Regan and her team make food that fucks with expectations and forces one to expand the idea of the way things are supposed to be. I lamented the death of Regan’s Bunny, a budget-friendly entry into the chef’s otherworldly imagination. Kitsune is another opportunity to throw yourself with abandon into an alternate dimension. v

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CABOT CHEDDAR SHAKE is “a dehydrated cheese product made of the finest northeastern cheddar cheese,” says PAUL “PK” KIM, a bartender at CAFE MARIE-JEANNE. He’d never heard of the cheese powder before Jacob Huelster of Watershed challenged him to create a cocktail with it. “But I wanted to show respect to it, because I know it’s an ingredient that’s near and dear to Jacob’s heart,” he says.

Kim describes the powdered cheese as salty, delicious, and perfect for popcorn.

“Everything’s better with cheese,” he says.

Well—maybe not absolutely everything.

Getting Cheddar Shake into a form that Kim could incorporate into a cocktail was diffi-

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cult, he says. He first tried mixing the cheese powder with room-temperature water. “It looked pretty gross,” he says. “I found it clumped up.”

The solution was to make a kind of simple syrup with the powder. He combined sugar and hot water, added Cheddar Shake, and then put the mixture in the blender before straining it to eliminate the “powdery chunks.”

The texture issue solved, Kim moved on to flavor. He experimented unsuccessfully with promotional bottles from the cafe’s back bar, including Fireball and several spiced rums. “It does not go well with cake-flavored vodka,” he reports. So he turned to the

book The Flavor Bible, which lists apples as a good pairing for cheddar cheese.

Kim figured that apple pie with cheddar is a “weird but traditional American thing” and went with it. He added apple cider, Calvados apple brandy, and lemon juice to his Cheddar Shake simple syrup, along with an egg white for extra body. “Also—when you see opaque drinks, people accept it when it’s egg white,” he says. “Not when it’s cheese.”

He named his orange-tinted drink Not My President. “It has the essence of apple, a hint of sweetness, but it’s a savory cocktail,” he says. “I wanted to focus on the ingredient.”

NOT MY PRESIDENT

ONE EGG WHITE .75 OZ APPLE CIDER .75 OZ FRESH-SQUEEZED LEMON JUICE .75 OZ CABOT CHEDDAR SHAKE SIMPLE SYRUP 1.5 OZ DOMAINE DUPONT CALVADOS Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker and dry shake. Add ice, shake again, and strain into a glass.

WHO’S NEXT:

Kim has challenged NICOLE BRUDD OF THE REVEL ROOM to create a cocktail with Off Color Brewing’s Troublesome, a gose-style beer. v

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Brementowne Manor Apartments Tinley Park Affordable Senior Living ∂Age 62 or Older or Mobility Impaired ∂One Bedroom Apartments ∂Convenient Location ∂Carpeted ∂Mini-Blinds ∂On-Site Laundromat

Rent Assistance Available to Qualified Applicants

Application Information Available (waiting list only) Tuesday, March 21, 2017 708-429-4088 16130 S Oak Park Ave., Tinley Park, IL Office Open: Mon. thru Fri., 10am-4pm Equal Housing Opportunity

2nd Penthouse Condo. Floor to ceiling windows and amazing views of the city and the lake. Wood floors and granite bathroom and kitchen countertops. 24/7 Doorman. Parking available. Call Matt 312-593-5963 $1,950/mo.

LINCOLN SQUARE Beautiful unit in nice neighborhood, owner occupied, 1 bedroom, 2nd floor, central air & heat, private deck, total rehab, great neighborhood, washer/ dryer in unit. Modern kitchen & bath in old Victorian home. Close to Andersonville & Lincoln Square. $1500 + utilities. 773-506-1125

We are pleased to announce that Mark Twain at 111 W. Division and the Covent at 2653 N. Clark are now accepting rental applications.

With rents starting at $500.

00 per month, make our SRO’s your new home!

Requests for pre-applications can be completed on site. If you would like to receive an application via email or fax please reach out to 312-3374000. Pre-applications will be accepted between the hours of 9:00am - 6:00pm, Monday - Friday: --------------------------------------------To complete a preapplication visit the sites below.

Mark Twain: 111 W. Division, Chicago, IL 60610 Covent: 2653 N. Clark, Chicago, IL 60614

OPEN WAITING LIST - New 1BR subsidized apts seniors 62 yrs& older.

Must meet HUD income guidelines and our tenant screening and selection criteria. Pre-apps taken by phone at 773-234-0342 M-F 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Equal Housing Opportunity.

ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar Villas is accepting applications for subsidized 1BR apts. for seniors 62 years or older and the disabled.

Rent is based on 30% of annual income. For details, call us at 847-546-1899 ∫

WHITECHAPEL APARTMENTS is pleased to announce the opening of its wait list for two and three bedroom apartments to individuals and families.

Whitechapel is a professionally managed, affordable rental property with attractive floor plans, laundry and onsite parking.

Whitechapel will accept requests for applications by USPS mail only beginning March 11, 2017 and continuing until March 19, 2017. All requests postmarked after March 19, 2017 will not be accepted. To receive an application, send this form to: Whitechapel Apartments, 4910 N. Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60640. An application will be mailed to you.

Completed applications must be returned by USPS mail and postmarked no later than March 19, 2017. Applications received after March 19, 2017 will NOT be accepted. Applications cannot be obtained at Whitechapel Apartments. No walk-ins or phone calls.

Applicant Name: ______________ Date of Birth:_________________

HUGE CORNER 1BR Gold Coast

SINGLE ROOM OCCUPANCY (SRO)

Income Limits: $26,950.00 One person $30,800.00 Two persons

To request an application please completer the information below and mail to: Whitechapel Apartments 4910 N. Sheridan Rd Chicago, IL 60640

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NEWLY REMOD 1BR & Studios starting at $500. No sec dep, move in fee or app fee. Free heat/ hot water. 1155 W. 83rd St., 773619-0204

1 BR OTHER

AUBURN GRESHAM: 79TH &

CLEAN ROOM W/FRIDGE & micro, Near Oak Park, Food -4Less, Walmart, Walgreens, Buses & Metra, Laundry. $115/wk & up.

773-637-5957

6829 S. Perry.

Studio/1BR. $465-$520/mo.

1431 W. 78th St. 2BR. $605/mo.

HEAT INCL 773-955-5106

1 BR OTHER

Address: ____________________ City _________________ State: ______ Zip Code:________ Phone: ___________________ Cell: _______________________ Email: ______________________ Number of Bedrooms Requested: ____________________________ Number of Household Members: ____________________________ Whitechapel Apartments does not discriminate on the basis of disability in the admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its government assisted programs and activities.

ONE OF THE BEST M & N MGMT, 1BR, 7727 Colfax ** 2 Lrg BR, 6754 Crandon ** 2 & 3BR, 2BA, 6216 Eberhart ** Completely rehabbed.

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CHICAGO -VICINITY 111TH/ King Dr xtra lrg 2BR, 1st flr, newly remod, Clean/quiet/well maint bldg. $800-$950/mo. Sect 8 ok 773-510-9290

CHICAGO - 78TH & Loomis, large newly rehab 1BR garden apt.

Clean/quiet/well maint bldg. $700-850/mo, heat & all utils incl.

Sec 8 ok 773-510-9290

7701 S. South Shore Dr. 2 BDs with 1.5 Baths, Large Combo Living-Dining Rm, FREE Heat & cking gas. Prkng extra. $785-$850, Kalabich Mgmt (708)424-4216

7000 S. Merrill 2BR, hdwd flrs, lrg FR/sunrm, new remod., cable ready, lndry, O’keefe Elem, $800/ mo. Section 8 welcome. 708-3081509, 773-493-3500 CHICAGO

7600 S Essex 2BR

$599, 3BR $699, 4BR $799 w/apprvd credit, no sec dep. Sect 8 Ok! 773287-9999 /312-446-3333

CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 ***

3227 W. MAYPOLE. Newly remod 5 rooms, 2BR Apt in family building, hdwd flrs, tile kitchen. $800/mo. 7773-696-0025 2BR W/ NEW CARPET, cherry

SOUTH SIDE, Beautiful, rehab 1 or 2 BR Apts, marble bath, jacuzzi, laundry in building.

Section 8 welcome. Call 773517-9622

kit cabinets & Kolher prod., tenant pays heat, 8632 Escanaba, $650/mo + security. Call 773-415-4970

2408 E. 77TH St(77th & Yates).

Sunny 2BR, free heat, appls, glistening hrwd flrs, c-fans, mini blinds, clean & quiet. $750. 312-479-5502

LANSING, 1BR CONDO, a v a ilable now, new appliances, off street parking, $750/month.

Call Mr. Jackson, 708-8469734

CHATHAM CHARM , Vintage, newly rehab, 1 BR, h/w flrs, sec alarm, heat & hot water incl, laundry, Sec 8 & Seniors Welc. Call for appt (773)418-9908

Chicago - Beverly, large 2 room Studio & 1BR Apts. Carpet, A/C, laundry, near transportation, $650-$770/mo. Call 773-2334939

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2 BR $900-$1099 GLENWOOD - LARGE 2BR CONDO, H/F High School. Balc, C/A, appls, heat, water incl. 2 parking, lndry. $975/mo. Call 708-2683762

CHICAGO, 5015-25 W. Iowa Ave. Augusta & Cicero. Newly Rehab, 2 & 3BR, $1000+/mo.

Section 8 OK. David, 773-6639488 8943 S. ADA. Safe, secure 2BR, separate heating, school & metra 1 blk away, $875/mo. Section 8 wel-

4010 S. KING DR. 3BR, heat incl, $1025. 1535 W. 79th St. 4BR, 1.5BA Apt ($925) & resturant for rent, 708-421-7630 / 773-899-9529 CHICAGO, 90TH & Laflin, 3BR, heated, decorated, formal dining room, carpet & hardwood. $1075/mo + sec. 312-946-0130

ALL NEW APTS, 5 BR, 2BA, 1st fl & 3BR, 1BA, 2nd fl, hdwd flrs, granite countertops, Section 8 Welcome 773-616-3615 NEWLY REHABBED 1BR Apt. $750. 3 & 5BR single family homes w/ 2BA. $1200-$1500. Sect 8 Welc.

847-962-0408 or 224-800-4480 NEAR BEVERLY Huge 2BR apt, with bonus room.

Sect 8 Welc 312.809.6068

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200 SECTION 8 WELCOME Dolton 3BR, 1BA, no basement, no garage, side driveway. $1100/mo. Appls incl and sec dep req. Call 773-447-1990

S. SHORE - NEAR 80th & Paxton: deluxe 7 rms. 3BR, heat incl., newly decorated. Stove, refrig, hdwd flrs, $985/mo + move-in fee. 773551-3448

3BR, 5729 S. MICHIGAN, $950 + sec. 3BR, 5723 S. Michigan, $900 + sec.

2BR Grdn 720 W 61st St $800+sec.

Ten pays utils. Call 773-858-3163

CALUMET CITY, 3-4BR, 2 BA 2 car gar, fully rehab w/ gorgeous finishes & hdwd flrs. Beautiful bkyd. Sec 8 ok $1175-1375/mo.

510-735-7171

86TH COLFAX 3BDRM 2ba Newly Remodeled. $1000 mo Section 8 welcomed 773.995.7209

SECTION 8 WELCOME. No Security Deposit. 7721 S Peoria, 3BR apt, appls incl. $1050/mo.

708-288-4510 SECTION 8 WELCOME. NO SECURITY DEPOSIT. 340 W 58th St., 5BR, 2BA house, appls incl., $1300/mo. CALL 708-288-4510 SECTION 8 WELCOME. NO SECURITY DEPOSIT. 1311 E 69th St. 5BR, 2BA house, appls incl., $1300/mo. Call 708-288-4510

ALSIP: Large 3BR , 1.5BA $1075/mo. Balcony, appliances, laundry, parking & storage.

Call 708-268-3762

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499 NEAR ARMITAGE/CENTRAL 5BR, 2BA, fin bsmt, hdwd flrs, 2 car parking, convenient location. Sec 8 Welcome. $1450/ mo. 847-401-4574 5939 W. RICE, Newly Remod 3BR, tile kit & jacuzzi tub, SS appls incl., new hdwd flrs, c-fans, $1200+. S ection 8 Welc.

773-474-3266

E. GARFIELD PK Adams/ California 3BR, 2BA + Den, A/C, tenant pays heat. garage avail.

Avail 3/1. $1350. Credit check req.

847-951-2515

**near** AUSTIN & LAKE , newly renov 3BR!!! $1450.

SS kit, gran c-tops, dw & mic, hdwd flrs, laund, blinds, air! heat incl 773.256.2070

75 S.E. YATES - R e n o v a t e d 2BR Apt, Family Room, 1.

5BA, LR, DR, Eat in Kitchen, 3 flat, tenant heated, $950/ mo. Call 773-375-8068

HARVEY 4BR, 2BA, newly decorated, LR, DR, water included $1125/mo Sec 8 Welcome.

708-703-7077

NO SECURITY DEPOSIT NO MOVE IN FEE 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APTS (773) 874-1122

ACACIA SRO HOTEL Men Preferred! Rooms for Rent. Weekly & Monthly Rates. 312-421-4597

ette $135 & up wk. Free WiFi. 1810 W. Jackson 312-226-4678

2 BR UNDER $900 69TH/CALIFORNIA 4rms, 2BR ($820/mo) & 3rms, 1BR ($710/mo) owner heated, coin laundry, off str pkng, nr Holy Cross Hospital.1.5 mo sec dep.

O’Brien Family Realty 773-5817883 Agent owned

AFFORDABLE 2 & 3BRS FROM $575.

Newly decorated, heated/ unheated. 1 Month Free for qualified tenants.

CRS (312) 782-4041

CHICAGO 1048 W. 81st St. Newly Decor 2BR, stove, fridge, carpet, c-fans, tenant pays heat.

Sec 8 Welc. 312-608-7622 Call 10a-5p

5BA. Heat, C/A, appls & parking spot incl. Near trans. $1300/mo + 1 mo sec. 773-671-3826

HARVEY Sec 8 Welcome $500 cash back . $0 Security for Sec 8. 3BR, $1300/mo. Fine condition. ADT Alarm. 708-715-0034 SOUTHSIDE:

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS, 4BR, 2BA, hardwood floors, new kitchen, $1750/mo. 17480 Eastgate.

Call 708-752-3065

Beautifully renovated 3-5BR Single Family Homes, new kit, fridge & stove incl, hdwd flrs, cash & Sec 8 Wel 708-557-0644

rent $1300 available now. Near 77th Pulaski call 312-202-2237

CHICAGO HOUSES FOR rent.

Section 8 Ok, w/app credit $500 gift certificate 3, 4 & 5 BR houses avail.

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3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799 330 W 107TH ST. 5BR, 2BA, fenced -in yard, hrdwd flrs, stove, refrig & micro incld. $1500/mo. No Sec. Sec 8 welcome. Tenant pays utils. 773-221-0061.

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GENERAL ROGERS PARK – 1700 W Juneway, 414-394-2350. 3BR $1000, SPIRITUAL PSYCHIC READER TELLS you past, present and future, helps with all problems, could do where others have failed. Call now for FREE consultation 630-408-4789

76TH/SAGINAW 1BR. $635$660. 2BR. $750-$775. Updates, appliances incl and Sec 8 Approved. 773-818-9346

HUMBOLDT PARK 1st flr, 3BR Apt, newly remodeled, hardwood flrs throughout, in-unit laundry, pets ok. $1500/mo. 773-276-4066

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CHICAGO - South Side 54th & May & Racine, 3BR, stove, fridge incl, sec 8 wel Tess 773925-1188 or Judy 773-206-9269

3 BR OR MORE $2500 AND OVER

95 S. YALE, Loving 4BR. LR, DR, 1BA, stove/fridge, bsmt w/ storage. Lndry rm w/ hkup. C/A, alarm optinl. 2 car gar. $1375/ mo. 847-343-9405

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1 WEEK FREE. 96th & Halsted & other locations. Large Rooms, shared kitchen & bath. $100/week and up.

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4BR $1175. Free heat. No deposit.

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MARQUETTE PARK 7313 S Artesian, beaut rehab 3BR/2BA house, granite ctrs, SS appls, whirlpl tub, fin bsmt, 2-car gar. $1575. 708-288-4510

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HEALTH & WELLNESS State, to share with a senior, $125 a week, references required.

773-629-6105

CHICAGO: 68TH AND JEFFREY 4BR, 2BA Stove & Fridge Incl. $1400/ month + 1 Mo Deposit Section 8 Welcome. 773-667-6304

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773-721-6086

ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar Villas is accepting applications for Subsidized 2 and 3 bedroom apt waiting list. Rent is based on 30% of annual income for qualified applicants. Contact us at 847-546-1899 for details

T W O locations to serve you. All units fully heated and humidity controlled with ac available. North: Knox Avenue.

773-685-6868.

South: Pershing Avenue. 773-523-6868.

FOR SALE 2 9-UNIT BLDGS, near Mid-way, $600,000 each; 1 2-sty bldg w/2 apts & 2 store fronts, W. 71st St.; $125,000; Lansing 24-unit bldng, $1.2 million 773-925-0065 or c.sassoc@ att.net

dle male English Bulldog looking for his furever home! This boy is 6 months old, carries chocolate and blue. He will make someone a very good pet or stud! He has a mean mug but is a real sweetheart! Please contact Cheryl for more info. 773-416-7210 call or text

CLASSICS WANTED ANY CLASSIC CARS IN ANY CONDITION. ’20S, ’30S, ’40S, ’50S, ’60S & ’70S. HOTRODS & EXOTICS! TOP DOLLAR PAID! COLLECTOR. CALL JAMES, 630-201-8122

MASSAGE TABLES, NEW and

LYNWOOD, 2BR, 1BA, c-fans, heat, appls, A/C, new cabs. cer flrs, new crpt, balc. $1200.

CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK HOMES. Spacious 2-3 BR Townhomes, Inclu: Prvt entry, full bsmt, lndry hook-ups. Ample prkg. Close to trans & schls. Starts at $844/ mo. w w w . p p k h o m e s . com;773-264-3005

SELF-STORAGE

/Dining rm. hdwd flrs. high ceilings, enclosed porch, pantry, bsmnt, Sec 8 OK 708-612-1732

GARY NSA ACCEPTING applications for studio, 1 & 2 bedroom SUBSIDIZED apartments. Apply Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 1pm ONLY at 1735 W 5th Ave. Applications are to be filled out on site. Adult applicants must provide a current picture ID and SS card.

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5614 W. Division, 2nd flr, new decor, 1BA, marble kitch, wood flrs. $1395 + sec. Sec 8 OK. 708-369-6791

come. Call 708-465-6573

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By Cecil Adams Q : Can you tell me about the role

bacteria play in our lives? I read once about a woman who got a fecal transplant from her obese daughter. Talk about unintended consequences: the woman became obese. Is that possible? —ART ERICKSON

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A : The role bacteria play in our lives? More

like the role we play in theirs. The human body is made up of ten trillion cells governed by about 23,000 genes; the microorganisms that reside within it, mainly in the digestive tract, account for 100 trillion cells and about three million genes—we’re mightily outnumbered in our own innards. This gut microbiota, as they’re collectively known, doesn’t present a unified front, though: its constituent species compete for resources, and you may be seeing the results of those skirmishes every time you step on the scale.

As science searches for direct ways to help people lose weight, scrutiny has turned to those critters deep inside you that affect digestion and fat storage. Or, more frequently, the equivalent critters deep inside mice. Among the key players in gut bacteria research are “germ-free” mice, bred and raised in hermetic isolation to have no microbiota at all. Compared to normal germy mice, germ-free mice have to eat 30 percent more calories to maintain the same body weight, and they don’t gain weight even on high-calorie, high-fat diets. A 2004 study found that conventional mice had 42 percent more body fat than their GF peers; when gut microbiota from conventional mice were transplanted into GFs, their body fat jumped up by 60 percent in ten days. When GF mice receive bacteria transplants from obese mice, they grow obese, while transplanting bacteria from lean mice keeps them lean.

So the microbiota sure seems to be doing something weightwise, and it’s been suspected for a while that the balance of bacterial species may be a key factor in this. Around 90 percent of the bacteria in the human gut hail from one of two phyla, Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes. The proportional size of each population varies widely, however, and a number of studies suggest that metabolic issues often turn up in tandem with a high ratio of Firmicutes to Bacteroidetes. Obese mice have more Firmicutes and fewer Bacteroidetes, but if you put put those mice on a fat- or carbohydrate-restricted diet for a year, the Bacteroidetes take over. And researchers who mea-

sured the energy left over in human poop (by burning it—and you complain about your job) found that a 20 percent increase in the Firmicutes-Bacteroidetes ratio meant an extra 150 calories got absorbed from food daily.

Though the F-B balance doesn’t correlate consistently with obesity itself, there’s a stronger association with other obesity-related health problems like type 2 diabetes and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and it could be the root cause for the increase in cancers— especially liver cancer—that disproportionately strike the obese. But tinkering with this stuff can lead to other trouble: a 2015 Austrian paper found that attempts to manipulate the microbiota balance via fasting could cause degradation of the intestinal mucus, aka the stuff that keeps waste matter out of your bloodstream.

OK, OK: so how do you alter your gut-bacteria demographics to shed some pounds?

The most extreme option for obese folks is a fecal microbiota transplant from a leaner donor, a therapy still in its experimental stages. As discussed here in a 2014 column on probiotics, introducing bacteria from the stool of a healthy volunteer has worked wonders with patients suffering from certain serious digestive-tract issues. But though studies are under way, researchers haven’t yet been able to induce weight loss through the same procedure—and in fact, as Art reports above, there has indeed been a case where a woman’s body mass index jumped into the obese range following a fecal transplant from her daughter.

There are, of course, less drastic methods.

For now, you could always just ditch highly processed foods—a more natural diet means more nutrients get digested in the large intestine, where the “good” bacteria can do their thing more readily. That might take a little discipline, but until the crap-transplant people get their act together, it’s probably your best bet. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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By Dan Savage

How not to string someone—cis or trans—along Level with her, already. Plus: “fucked-up” marital mementos, the “cumspringa” Q : I’m a straight-identified

guy in my early 30s. I’m married, but my wife lives in another part of the country and we’re doing an open relationship until she moves to live with me. Last weekend, I met a girl at a bar who ended up coming home with me, and she turned out to be a pre-op trans woman. I’d never been with a trans person before, so I decided to just roll with it and ended up having a pretty good time. Over the course of the weekend, I started to get the sense that she really liked me and maybe even considered me boyfriend material. I want to see her again, but I’m not really available for a serious relationship. Knowing the kind of unbelievable shit trans people have to deal with, I feel like it would be unfair to string her along.

She is not aware of my marital status. What should I do? —CAN’T THINK OF FUNNY ACRONYM

A : O brave new world that

has such straight-identified guys in it.

Anyway, CTOFA, here’s what you should do: Get in a time machine and go be completely—what’s the word?— oh right, go be completely straight with this woman before you take her home from that bar. You’re married and doing the LDR thing and the marriage is open and you’re available for fun but nothing more.

No time machine? Then handle it the same way you would if you’d deceived some cis woman—excuse me, if you’d accidentally gotten some cis woman’s hopes up by failing to mention the wife. Level with her—you’re married—and let the nips fall where they may. She might be angry or she might not give a wet squart (she may

not be as interested as you think she is).

Finally, CTOFA, you say it would “be unfair to string her along” because of the “unbelievable shit trans people have to deal with.” It would be unfair—it would be wrong—to string a cis woman along too. Stringing people along is wrong, period.

Q : I got divorced five

years ago after a 15-year marriage that produced two children who are now 13 and six. When their mother moved out, she left pretty much everything. I took the wedding mementos— dress, video, photo albums—and threw them in a trunk. I haven’t looked at them since. Last night, my girlfriend of almost a year told me she thinks it is “really fucked-up” that I still have this stuff. Is it? —BOX OF MEMENTOS BOTHERS

A : It’s not, BOMB. Your

marriage is a part of your past, and your children are a product of that marriage.

Even if you never looked at those items again, even if they held no sentimental value for you (and it’s fine if they do), one day your children might want to see those pictures or watch that video or handle that dress.

And any attempt to erase your first marriage could be interpreted by your children as evidence that you would have erased them too, if you could have.

Your girlfriend is free to think it’s fucked-up that you still have those wedding mementos, of course, but it’s ultimately none of her business, and she needs to STFU about it.

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I grew up in a conservative town and got a late start exploring my sexuality. I

lost my virginity at 26, but I lacked the confidence to really allow myself to enjoy sex until a couple of months ago. Now the floodgates have opened—I get on Grindr and have sex up to three times a week. I feel in my gut that this isn’t a compulsion so much as an exploration, and something I need to get out of my system while I search for a monogamous relationship. As long as I’m safe, do you see any problem with me fucking around for a while? —PLEASE DON’T USE MY NAME

A : You’re on your

cumspringa, PDUMN. Most gay men have at least one.

Be safe, get on PrEP, use condoms, enjoy yourself, and be kind to the guys you meet on your cumspringa (even those you don’t expect to see again). And if a monogamous relationship is what you ultimately want, telling yourself that sexual adventures are something you have to get out of your system first is a mistake.

People who convince themselves that serious commitment means the death of sexual adventures will either avoid commitment entirely or murder the ones they make so they can have sexual adventures again.

I’m not saying you have to be nonmonogamous, PDUMN. I’m saying a couple can be exclusive and sexually adventurous at the same time. I’m also saying the person you are now—a person who enjoys sexual adventures—is the person you’re likely to be after your cumspringa is over and you’re ready to make a commitment. v Send letters to mail@ savagelove.net. Download the Savage Lovecast every Tuesday at savagelovecast. com. ß @fakedansavage

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Face to Face 6/10, 9 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Robben Ford 6/9, 7 and 10 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM b Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan 7/1, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM b Girlpool 6/2, 9 PM, Empty Bottle, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM Gucci Mane 4/12, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Daryl Hall & John Oates, Tears for Fears 5/15, 7:30 PM, Allstate Arena, Rosemont, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM Ari Hest 6/10, 10 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM b Greg Howe 8/15, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Jenny Hval 3/30, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ JMSN 5/21, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 18+ Tommy Keene 4/27, 9 PM, Hideout Hal Ketchum 4/26, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 3/9, noon b Kikagaku Moyo, Mind Over Mirrors 5/12, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Emily King 4/13, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 3/9, noon b Pokey LaFarge 6/16, 9 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM, 18+ Lil Peep 4/9, 7:30 PM, Subterranean b Sarah Louise 4/8, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Mamby on the Beach ith MGMT, Walk the Moon, Local Natives, Flying Lotus, Misterwives, Miike Snow, and more 6/24-25, noon, Oakwood Beach, 17+ JD McPherson 6/11, 7 PM, Subterranean, on sale Fri 3/10, noon

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Mothership, Black Pussy, Speedfreak 3/31, 8 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Murder City Devils 5/22, 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM, 17+ Panama Wedding 4/29, 10 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 3/10, noon, 18+ Ellis Paul 6/10, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM b Pert Near Sandstone 5/19, 8 PM, Schubas Piebald 7/29, 9 PM, Subterranean, on sale Fri 3/10, noon, 17+ Jean-Luc Ponty 6/20, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 3/9, noon b Chris Pureka 5/22, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM b CJ Ramone 5/11, 7 PM, Cobra Lounge, on sale Fri 3/10, noon, 17+ Rancid, Dropkick Murphys, Bouncing Souls 8/8, 6:30 PM, Huntington Bank Pavilion, on sale Fri 3/10, 10 AM Jerry Rivera 7/8, 6:30 PM, Portage Theater b Marc Scibilia 4/21, 6 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 3/10, noon b Joan Shelley 6/3, 8 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, on sale Fri 3/10, 8 AM b Trout Steak Revival 5/10, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 3/9, noon b Doug Tuttle 5/12, 9 PM, Hideout Jeff Tweedy 4/21-22, 8 PM, the Vic Unwed Sailor 4/28, 7 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 3/10, noon, 18+ Wavves 5/23, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge b

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GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene THE FINE FOLKS at Bric-a-Brac Records have a knack for booking great bands in their cozy Avondale shop. From time to time they take over other venues for even bigger gigs—such as this Sunday, March 12, when Bric-a-Brac puts on not one but two shows headlined by Irish punk legends Protex. Formed in 1978, the Belfast band fizzled out in 1980, shelving a Polydor full-length. Protex reunited after stateside reissue label Sing Sing rescued the recordings and released them as Strange Obsessions in 2010. Now the group is touring behind a new album, Tightrope.

They play a sold-out show with Muff Divers and Pinheads at Crown Liquors, then a $5 late set at East Room with Mystery Actions and Buttzz!

After a stream of rumors, Gossip Wolf finally has some solid details on Chicago weirdo-punk supergroup Wet Piss, who don’t play too darned often! (And please don’t google “wet piss”—leave the hard work to the professionals!) The new quartet features Lil Tits drummer and Eye Vybe Records honcho Karissa Talanian, Ego members Fumo Stromboli and Magic Ian (also known for running Wally’s World and Maximum Pelt Records), and Dillon Kelley of Coaster. On Saturday, March 11, they’ll take aim at Cafe Mustache with Nashville punks Spodee Boy and Kalamazoo loner-rock specialist Erik Nervous.

Redgrave singer-guitarist Angie Mead—also a hilarious scene-stealer in Joe Swanberg’s series Easy—tells Gossip Wolf that she and Empty Bottle talent buyer Michael Gebel have organized a benefit for the ACLU at the club on Wednesday, March 29, to fight Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Right on! This wolf also hears the show has a secret big-time local garage-rock headliner—an act that usually just plays festivals these days. So you should probably nab a ticket now! In other Redgrave news, the band will drop an as-yet-untitled single, their first in two years, on Lovitt Records later this month.

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