Chicago Reader: print issue of May 21, 2015 (Volume 44, Number 34)

Charles Ray on the sculpture the Art Institute declined to display outside 9 Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky organize the City Council based on the way it actually works. 8 Fury Road reimagines the world of the Mad Max films. 29 CHICAGO’S FREE WEEKLY | KICKING ASS SINCE 1971

WHEN COPS SHOOT

Since 1986 an average of more than one person a week has been shot by a

Chicago police officer. Of the 208 cases closed over the last two years,

every single shooting has been found justified. Should we be reassured?

By STEVE BOGIRA 12

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It’s like the Picasso. People objected at first.

Now you can’t imagine the city without it.

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—Charles Ray on his sculpture Huck and Jim, rejected for outdoor display at the Art Institute and New York’s Whitney Museum 9

MANAGING EDITOR JAKE MALOOLEY CREATIVE DIRECTOR PAUL JOHN HIGGINS DIGITAL CONTENT EDITOR TAL ROSENBERG FILM EDITOR J.R. JONES MUSIC EDITOR PHILIP MONTORO ASSOCIATE EDITORS KATE SCHMIDT, GWYNEDD STUART, KEVIN WARWICK SENIOR WRITERS STEVE BOGIRA, MICK DUMKE, MICHAEL MINER, MIKE SULA SENIOR THEATER CRITIC TONY ADLER STAFF WRITERS LEOR GALIL, DEANNA ISAACS, BEN JORAVSKY, AIMEE LEVITT, PETER MARGASAK, JULIA THIEL AGENDA EDITOR BRIANNA WELLEN PHOTO EDITOR ANDREA BAUER GRAPHIC DESIGNER SUE KWONG EDITORIAL ASSISTANT DREW HUNT MUSIC LISTINGS COORDINATOR LUCA CIMARUSTI INTERIM SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR RYAN SMITH CONTRIBUTING WRITERS NOAH BERLATSKY, JENA CUTIE, ANNE FORD, JUSTIN HAYFORD, JACK HELBIG, DAN JAKES, BILL MEYER, J.R. NELSON, MARISSA OBERLANDER, CHLOE RILEY, BEN SACHS, ZAC THOMPSON, DAVID WHITEIS, ALBERT WILLIAMS INTERNS PARKER BRIGHT, LUCY WANG, ZARA YOST, ROSARIO ZAVALA -------------------------------SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGER EVANGELINE MILLER SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE DAVID DINCOLO ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES GAIL BILENKO, MARISSA DAVIS, NIC DELL, GINA GAY DIRECTOR OF MARKETING KRISTEN DAVIS MARKETING AND EVENTS MANAGER BRYAN BURDA

Linda Chatman filed a federal lawsuit after her unarmed 17-year-old son was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer. PARKER BRIGHT

12 WHEN COPS SHOOT Since 1986 more than 1,600 people have been struck by bullets fired by Chicago police officers—an average of more than one person a week. Of the 208 cases closed over the last two years, every single shooting has been found justified. Should we be reassured?

By STEVE BOGIRA

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4 The Reader’s Agenda Podcast Midwest, Weird Al, Crap Beer Day, Bike the Drive, and more

11 Savage Love Should a mom buy her curious five-yearold a butt plug?

6 You Are Here This week’s Chicagoan: Baha’i follower Lucia Pane Street View: Justin Moran mixes business with leather

FOOD & DRINK 21 Review: Breakroom Brewery The new Irving Park brewpub’s food sets a low bar.

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22 Cocktail Challenge: Banana

8 Dumke and Joravsky | Politics The City Council, organized based on the way it actually works

A Publican bartender uses the ingredient to cross cultural divides.

9 Isaacs | Culture Bad boy Charles Ray’s bad boys come to the Art Institute.

10 Straight Dope How secure is data that’s stored in the cloud?

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ARTS & CULTURE 24 Theater A not-so-glowing assessment of Shining Lives: A Musical

28 Visual Arts The first major exhibit of Jean-Luc Mylayne’s work in the United States

ON THE COVER Charles Ray on the sculpture the Art Institute declined to display outside 9 Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky organize the City Council based on the way it actually works. 8 Fury Road reimagines the world of the Mad Max films. 29 CHICAGO’S FREE WEEKLY | KICKING ASS SINCE 1971

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WHEN COPS SHOOT

Since 1986 an average of more than one person a week has been shot by a

Chicago police officer. Of the 208 cases closed over the last two years,

every single shooting has been found justified. Should we be reassured?

By STEVE BOGIRA 12

Design by Paul John Higgins

28 Lit Jessica Hopper plants a flag for female rock critics.

29 Movies Fury Road reimagines the world of the Mad Max films.

33 Television Fox’s Wayward Pines should appeal to fans of Twin Peaks.

CLASSIFIEDS 34 Jobs 35 Apartments & Space 37 Music & Bands

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AGENDA

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MAY 21—MAY 27

FRI 5/22 STATION TO STATION

Preserve Your Station, a fundraiser for Comfort Station, Logan Square’s multipurpose arts space, features performances by White Mystery, Marrow, Tim Kinsella, and the Rapper Chicks featuring Psalm One. Plus there’s a photo booth courtesy of Glitter Guts and kegs full of local beer. A VIP ticket grants you into the upstairs luau, featuring tiki drinks from Land and Sea Dept., the crew behind Paul McGee’s Lost Lake. 7 PM, Logan Square Auditorium, 2539 N. Kedzie, 773-252-6179 or 866-4683401, lsachicago.com, $20, $40 VIP.

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SUN 5/24 SLIPPIN’ ON BY ON LSD

SAT 5/23 HOLY MOLE!

Bike the Drive is a cyclist’s paradise.

For one morning each year, cars are prohibited on Lake Shore Drive as bikers roam the road at their leisure.

The postride fest includes live music and breakfast. 5:30-10:15 AM, see website for starting checkpoints, bikethedrive.org, $52-$87.

At Mole de Mayo, Chicago chefs compete to create the best version of the Mexican staple.

Taste their creations; drink margaritas, micheladas, and beer; take in live music and lucha libre; and browse an open-air market of local businesses.

Noon, 18th and Ashland, $5 suggested donation.

DAVID KEEL (PRESERVE YOUR STATION); QUINN DOMBROWSKI VIA FLICKR (BIKE THE DRIVE)

For more of the best things to do every day of the week, go to chicagoreader. com/agenda.

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THU 5/21 FRIEDKIN, AWESOME

Exorcist director (and Chicago native) William Friedkin’s early 16mm documentary The People vs. Paul Crump is about a wrongly accused death row inmate. “The movie was made for Chicago TV but never aired because network executives were afraid it would stir controversy,” writes Reader film critic Ben Sachs, “however, Friedkin managed to screen the film for Illinois governor Otto Kerner, who soon commuted Crump’s sentence to life in prison.” 7 PM, Northwestern University Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 847-491-4000, blockmuseum.northwestern.edu, $6.

FRI 5/22 PAC-MAN FEVER

Celebrate Pac-Man’s 35th anniversary in a restaurant modeled after the legendary arcade game.

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Enjoy food, game-inspired cocktails, live music, and, of course, all the Pac-Man you can handle. VIP tickets include personal meet-andgreets with the game’s creator, Toru Iwatani, and Pac-Man record holder Billy Mitchell. Retro 80s outfits encouraged. 7 PM, Level 257, 2 Woodfield Mall, unit A, Schaumburg, 847-805-0257, level257.com, free, $35 VIP.

SAT 5/23 POD PEOPLE

Some of the best podcasters in the game attend Podcast Midwest to discuss the art and business of the booming digital medium. Colt Cabana of The Art of Wrestling is your keynote speaker; Erin Kahoa (WBEZ), Tricia Bobeda (Nerdette), and Mommy’s Cocktail Hour hosts Beth Round and Tawny Fineran also appear. 8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773-769-

3832, podcastmidwest.com, $99-$129.

SUN 5/24 FULL OF CRAP

On the final day of Chicago Craft Beer Week, Thalia Hall hosts Crap Beer Day, which gives the spotlight to cheap suds. Enjoy blind taste tests, $1 beers, and square-dancing lessons from the Golden Horse Ranch Band. 5 PM, Thalia Hall, 1227 W. 18th, 312-526-3851, thaliahallchicago.com, $10.

MON 5/25 “MUTUAL” ADMIRATION SOCIETY

The Art Institute and the Arts Club team up for a concurrent exhibit, “Mutual Regard,” featuring French artist Jean-Luc Mylayne’s photographs of birds. A new pavilion in Millennium Park will also display the artist’s work. See page 28 for more info. Through 8/13, 201 E. Ontario, 312-787-3997, artsclubchicago.org.

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“The best fairs and festivals in Chicago this summer” ummer” ummer —READER READER STAFF “The Chicago punk scene suffers a sudden loss of Haki” —LEOR GALIL AND J.R. NELSON

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“Here’s the Downtown Sound lineup for 2015” —PETER MARGASAK

TUE 5/26 LIFE’S A CABERNET

There’s more than just quality vino at Wine Down, a fund-raiser billed as a “ladies’ night out.” Artists’ wares, clothing, cosmetics, and spa packages are up for sale, and the proceeds benefit the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. 5:30-8 PM, Drake Hotel, 140 E. Walton, 312-7872200, winedownchicago.org, $45.

WED 5/27 DARE TO BE STUPID

“Weird Al” Yankovic hosts a screening of UHF, the 1989 cult classic he cowrote and starred in. Following the film, there’s a Q&A with Yankovic and director Jay Levey, who also helmed the videos for Al classics such as “Eat It” and “Smells Like Nirvana.” 7 and 10 PM, Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre.com, $25.

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henever I mention the Baha’i faith, people look at me like, “Um, what is that?” My two-sentence answer is: “It’s a new world religion, founded in 1844, and the founder’s name is Bahá'u'lláh. Unity, that’s our main principle.” We believe that all religions and all peoples come from the same god, so everyone is united. We also believe in equality of men and women, and the unity of science and religion.

But unity is the main deal.

God sends messengers throughout history to mankind as we need them, every 1,000 or so years. Jesus Christ came, and Muhammad came, and Bahá’u’lláh came.

He was born in Iran, which was then Persia, and he was exiled many, many times, ending in Israel.

The nicest thing about having such a recent faith is that everything was written down by Bahá’u’lláh, or dictated by him to his secretary, or people would follow him around and write down stories, so there’s a lot of written material we have. And there are photographs of him, passport photos taken during his exiles, but the only place you can view them is at the Bahá’í World Centre in Israel. The reason is that Bahá'u'lláh didn’t want people worshiping him; he wanted people to worship God. I have seen [the photos]. He didn’t look at all like how I thought he was going to look.

Baha’i don’t drink or do drugs, and we believe in waiting to have sex until marriage. Homosexuality—that’s a loaded question. It’s between that person and God, and it’s not our place to judge. I have many friends who identify themselves as being homosexual, and they are lovely people. But marriage was set up in the Baha’i

faith as being between a man and a woman.

It’s a hard question to answer.

Baha’is have a calendar made up of 19 months of 19 days. If you add that all up, it’s not 365; we have a few days left over that we call the intercalary days. Those are used for a festival called Ayyám-i-Há, held right at the end of February. We celebrate it with hospitality, charity, gift giving, kind of like Christmas. Anyway, at the beginning of every Baha’i month, we get together in people’s homes and have what’s called a feast. There’s usually food there, but it’s not like a banquet. It’s a spiritual feast. We say prayers, we read, we sing songs.

The House of Worship in Wilmette is not used for feasts; it’s used for devotional activities or holy day celebrations, and it’s also open for anyone. There’s only one Bahá’í House of Worship per continent, so we’re quite lucky to have the one for North America here in Wilmette. And we have a new welcome center, which just opened. All of the Houses of Worship have nine sides, nine gardens, nine entrances, because the numerical value of the word bahá, which means “light” or “glory,” is nine. It’s a very spiritually potent building. —AS TOLD TO ANNE FORD

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MIXING BUSINESS WITH LEATHER Moran’s look itself is a mix of vintage and more polished pieces, such as his parents’ 80s sunglasses, golden oxfords, and a biker-style leather jacket he claims to never take off. “If you look like you came from a window display or magazine editorial, you should add something that’s slightly old, worn in,” he says. “Looking new and expensive is so boring.” His “capsule wardrobe”—a term that refers to a collection of interchangeable essentials—is composed of monochromatic and minimal pieces that easily go together, allowing him to get out the door as fast as he can. “I’m actually so insane working on 10,000 projects that my own style often suffers.

I’d rather be more unassuming with a killer resumé.”

See Moran unassumingly killing it on his Instagram at @justintmoran. —ISA GIALLORENZO

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IT TOOK JUSTIN MORAN only about three years to move from working in retail to blogging about menswear in his native Minneapolis to becoming the lead fashion editor of NYC-based Bullett magazine (bullettmedia.com). But style fluency doesn’t just show up overnight; the 20-year-old Columbia College fashion business and magazine journalism student has been obsessed with the subject since he was four, when he wrote that “costume designer” would be his dream job.

The glitz and glamour of the business is not what he longs for. “The second fashion becomes about showing off your wealth, I’m not interested,” he says. “I personally live by the motto ‘Look less, be more.’ I’m not into a $3,000 Hermès bag as much as I’m into some club kid who put together an outfit on a $5 budget.”

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NEWS and influence than the Becky Carroll bunch, this group is supposed to make sure that the council occasionally listens to people other than the hedge fund operators, investment bankers, and other big-money donors who financed Chicago Forward and the mayor’s reelection. ³B MEMBERS: Pat Dowell (Third),

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Will Burns (Fourth), Leslie Hairston (Fifth), Roderick Sawyer (Sixth), Sue Sadlowski Garza (Tenth)*, Toni Foulkes (16th), David Moore (17th)*, Willie Cochran (20th), Howard Brookins Jr. (21st), Rick Munoz (22nd), Danny Solis (25th), Jason Ervin (28th), Scott Waguespack (32nd), Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th)*, Nicholas Sposato (36th), Anthony Napolitano (41st)*, John Arena (45th)

The real caucuses in the Chicago City Council What if aldermen organized themselves based on the way the council actually works?

By MICK DUMKE and BEN JORAVSKY

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s the new City Council was sworn in this week, aldermen said they were organizing themselves into five different, loosely defined blocs.

The black caucus has 18 members, the Latino caucus has 13, and the newly formed gay caucus has five. There’s also the progressive caucus, a group of self-professed reformers who regularly buck Mayor Rahm Emanuel, and the Paul Douglas Alliance, a group of self-professed reformers who regularly praise the mayor. The progressives say they’ll have 11 members, and the Douglas Alliance includes nine.

But these blocs don’t play a major role in vetting legislation on taxes, pensions, budget cuts, or tax increment financing handouts.

If aldermen formed caucuses based on how they vote and who’s calling the shots on the city’s pressing financial problems, they would look like this. (A * indicates the alderman is one of 13 council rookies, which means they can’t be blamed for the city’s fiscal woes for at least a couple more weeks.)

THE BECKY CARROLL CAUCUS: Named for the former Emanuel press aide who heads Chi-

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cago Forward, the political action committee dedicated to electing mayoral loyalists. More than half the council—26 aldermen—received funding from the PAC. Now that the election is over, these are the aldermen tapped by the mayor to chair council committees and help pass or kill legislation as he sees fit—though technically the council is a separate branch of government from the mayor’s office. ³B MEM-

THE FIRST RESPONDERS CAUCUS: One of the city’s most pressing challenges is what to do about its pension system, which is underfunded by an estimated $20 billion. This group can be counted on to fight like hell against pension cuts for firefighters and cops largely because that’s what they were before being elected. ³B MEMBERS: Police division: Ed Burke (14th), Willie Cochran (20th), Chris Taliaferro (29th)*. Firefighters: Nicholas Sposato (38th). Anthony Napolitano (41st)* only gets one vote, even though he was a cop before he became a firefighter.

THE BRUCE RAUNER CAUCUS: In a Democratic city where officials are lining up against Governor Rauner’s budget cuts and union bashing, these aldermen represent wealthy north lakefront wards where the Republican fared well in his election last November. If anyone from the Labor Caucus dares to propose a tax on the wealthy, look for this caucus to speak out in opposition, just as it did last year against the mayor’s minimum wage hike. ³B MEMBERS: Brian Hopkins (Second)*, Brendan Reilly (42nd), Michele Smith (43rd), Tom Tunney (44th)

BERS: Proco Joe Moreno (First), Brian Hopkins (Second)*, Pat Dowell (Third), Will Burns (Fourth), Leslie Hairston (Fifth), Michelle Harris (Eighth), Anthony Beale (Ninth), Patrick Daley Thompson (11th)*, Matt O’Shea (19th), Willie Cochran (20th), Howard Brookins Jr. (21st), Michael Zalewski (23rd), Danny Solis (25th), Roberto Maldonado (26th), Walter Burnett Jr. (27th), Deborah Mell (33rd), Carrie Austin (34th), Emma Mitts (37th), Margaret Laurino (39th), Patrick O’Connor (40th), Michele Smith (43rd), Tom Tunney (44th), James Cappleman (46th), Ameya Pawar (47th), Joe Moore (49th), Debra Silverstein (50th)

the whole City Council and Mayor Emanuel

THE DON’T FORGET ABOUT LABOR CAUCUS: Its members received donations from at least one of Chicago’s leading public-employee unions: SEIU, the Chicago Teachers Union, and AFSCME. Though smaller in size

THE ALL-IN-THE-FAMILY CAUCUS: This time it’s going to be different—they swear.

Aldermen are vowing to help the mayor move Chicago “forward,” “reform” the budget tricks of the past, and “right the city’s fiscal

THE MICHAEL MADIGAN CAUCUS: Everyone. And no, we’re not talking about the state house of representatives. Every alderman— including members of the Rauner caucus—is hoping that the house speaker can muscle Governor Rauner into backing off proposed cuts that would force the city to raise local taxes even higher. They could also use his help getting Chicago a casino. ³B MEMBERS:

ship.” But aldermen were also promising to do that a decade ago, and a decade before that—in many cases, the very same aldermen or their relatives. Put another way, many of the same people who led us into this mess are now promising to get us out of it. ³B MEMBERS: Roderick Sawyer (Sixth), son of a mayor; Patrick Daley Thompson (11th), nephew of one mayor and grandson of another mayor; Ed Burke (14th), son of an alderman; Howard Brookins Jr. (21st), son of a state senator; Michael Scott Jr. (24th)*, son of a mayoral adviser; Deb Mell (33rd), daughter of an alderman; Carrie Austin (34th), wife of an alderman; Margaret Laurino (39th), daughter of an alderman; Harry Osterman (48th), son of an alderman; and Debra Silverstein (50th), wife of a state senator

THE WONK CAUCUS: This is the brainy collection of both mayoral supporters and critics who have one thing in common: they actually read the tedious redevelopment agreements, privatization deals, and other complicated shell games involving taxpayer money that the mayor demands they pass. In contrast, the vast majority of aldermen rely on talking points and summary sheets from the mayor’s office, if they read anything at all. As former alderman Richard Mell put it before casting his vote for the disastrous parking meter deal: “It’s like getting your insurance policy.

It’s small print, OK?” ³B MEMBERS: Pat Dowell (Third), Will Burns (Fourth), Leslie Hairston (Fifth), Scott Waguespack (32nd), John Arena (45th), Ameya Pawar (47th)

THE BOSS CAUCUS: These are the aldermen who tell the other aldermen what the mayor wants them to do. Any questions? Too bad. ³B MEMBERS: Ed Burke (14th), Pat O’Connor (40th)

THE AYES HAVE IT CAUCUS: These aldermen will follow the lead of the mayor regardless of the issue, whether it’s selling the parking meters, closing mental health clinics, or approving whatever new deal may be on the way.

This is almost as predictable as Newton’s law of universal gravitation: during the last term 43 aldermen voted with the mayor on more than 80 percent of divided roll calls, according to poli-sci wonks at UIC. ³B MEMBERS: It’s simpler to say who’s not in the 80 percent group.

That would be Leslie Hairston (Fifth), Rick Munoz (22nd), Scott Waguespack (32nd), Nick Sposato (38th), Brendan Reilly (42nd), and John Arena (45th).

We’ll see about the 13 council rookies. v

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“CHARLES RAY: SCULPTURE, 19972014”

Through 10/4, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600, artic.edu, $23, $18 Chicago residents.

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wo of the art world’s most controversial current works are on display in the new exhibit “Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014,” which opened at the Art Institute last Friday. ¶ Boy With Frog, spotted at a distance as you enter the show, and Huck and Jim, the last work you’ll see before you exit, are giant male figures—one a nineyear-old boy, the other a youth and an adult. Everybody’s nude and painted white, and Huck is bending over, as if to scoop something up.

Both works were commissioned as public art for high-profile locations, Boy With Frog for a Venetian promontory overlooking the city, Huck and Jim for a plaza outside New York’s new Whitney Museum. And both were rejected for their intended settings.

Actually, Boy With Frog was ejected. Commissioned by luxury-brand tycoon (and Christie’s auction house owner) François Pinault, the eight-foot-tall statue was installed in Venice in 2009, replacing a 19th-century lamppost under which it was traditional for couples to kiss. A draw for tourists but a target of criticism from locals, it stood there till 2013, when the city removed it in favor of a replica of the lamppost.

Huck and Jim never made it to the Whitney at all. It was rejected before completion,

when, as Calvin Tomkins reports in a recent New Yorker profile of Ray, the Whitney curators decided it wouldn’t be appropriate to put the work in the path of the general public.

A similar issue arose with the Art Institute exhibit. According to Tomkins, an initial plan to install the fiberglass model for Huck and Jim outside the entrance of the Modern Wing was scrapped to spare passers-by the full-frontal nudity. In this case Ray, an area native who studied at the School of the Art Institute as a teenager, eventually agreed to put the piece in a gallery, a compromise he’d refused to make at the Whitney.

You can judge for yourself whether the bent young Huck and the nine-foot-tall Jim, sporting a robust phallus that meets the viewer at eye level, would have been a welcome sight

for pedestrians headed toward the lake on Monroe. What’s certain is that its scale is wrong for the gallery it’s been shoehorned into.

That’s a contrast to the exceptional breathing room given the rest of the show. Most of the exhibit’s 21 works are widely spaced across three vast rooms on the second floor of the Modern Wing. The shades there are up, and Millennium Park is the backdrop for pieces like Unpainted Sculpture, a full-size fiberglass replica of a wrecked Grand Am. “Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997-2014” covers the period in which the artist turned from abstraction to his present figurative work.

Ray, now 61, was born in Chicago, where his parents ran the Ray-Vogue School (now the Illinois Institute of Art), a commercial art school founded by his grandparents. He spent his first years in South Shore, and most of his youth in Winnetka and at a military school in Aurora, an awkward, probably dyslexic kid with a passion for sailing. After earning fine arts degrees from the University of Iowa and Rutgers, Ray wound up as a professor of art at UCLA. He’s been a performance artist and a minimalist sculptor, but now, with the help of assistants who execute his concepts, he produces computer-refined machine-cut work, mostly large-scale replicas of real people and objects. They can take as long as a decade to complete, and command prices in the millions.

There’s a lot of metal in this literally weighty show. Some of the pieces are solid steel—like the antiheroic ten-ton Horse and Rider (with the artist slouching in the saddle) you have to trek out to the South Garden to see. Most of the human figures, whether in gleaming metal or flat white paint, are eerily smooth, with eyes as blank as those of the ancient Greek statuary that Ray credits as an inspiration and nearly expressionless faces. Genitals, however, are prominent and detailed.

That’s nothing new for Ray, whose canon includes such transgressive (his word) works as Oh, Charley, Charley, Charley, a 1992 masturbation fantasy played out by eight figures of himself. In a brief interview last week he said he expects Huck and Jim will eventually find an outdoor home somewhere and once there will be “strong enough to overcome” any qualms among the populace.

“It’s like the Picasso,” he said. “People objected at first. Now you can’t imagine the city without it.” v

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The trend in computers is to store all your files “in the cloud.” That doesn’t mean they’re up in the sky; they’re in a big hard drive somewhere.

But that got me wondering: How secure is the cloud? Are we one good case of sunspots or an electromagnetic pulse away from losing it all? —RICHARD ALDRICH, NAPA, CALIFORNIA

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ll of it, no. But the situation is more complex than cloud promoters would have you believe.

The term “cloud” suggests that core computing resources—not just storage but also processors and communications infrastructure—reside in some unknowable realm, like Valhalla or the quantum foam. This is crap, as you know; the stuff lives on physical machinery. However, it’s not just “a big hard drive somewhere.” Rather, copies of your data presumably are distributed among multiple servers in widely separated locations, so no single disaster can destroy it or render it inaccessible.

But in the usual characterizations of cloud computing, one abstraction—the cloud—is expressed in terms of other abstractions, such as “pooled resources,” “rapid elasticity” (meaning resources can be scaled up or down as needs change), and “measured service.”

The metric cited most often is availability— the percentage of time the cloud is accessible.

The higher the availability, the better. But it comes at a cost.

About that machinery. I once toured a data center, commonly known as a server farm. It was cool but spooky: a vast array of dimly lit server racks. No people, no activity except blinking LEDs, no sound but a faint whir.

The place was as impregnable as human ingenuity could make it—fingerprint scanners to gain entry, on-site generators to provide instant backup in the event of blackout. Still, somebody could nuke the place. The real security of the cloud rests on there being many server farms—they can’t all go offline, can they?

Here we get back to availability. All some business types know about cloud computing is that they should demand “five nines” availability—i.e., access to data, applications, etc 99.999 percent of the time. This works out to downtime of about five minutes per year.

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It’s possible to achieve this, or anyway get close. Amazon Web Services, currently the leading provider of cloud computing, offers a service level agreement (SLA) essentially guaranteeing your data will survive any catastrophe short of the end of the world.

That means installing redundant instances of said data and related services on server farms around the globe, with 24/7 monitoring to spin up a new stack and copy everything over automatically if an old server starts to wobble.

But five nines is expensive. A cheaper option is 99.9 percent availability, in which redundant virtual servers are implemented on (say) three data centers scattered around Virginia.

This is riskier. In June 2009, lightning caused Amazon’s cloud computing service to go offline for four hours. That same year a power outage took down the Dallas data center of another such service, Rackspace. In June 2012 a storm disrupted an Amazon data center in Virginia, knocking out Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, and other sites for hours.

In these cases data wasn’t destroyed, just rendered temporarily inaccessible. But if all the data instances are in the same region, which is what many Amazon cloud customers wind up buying, they’re theoretically vulnerable to large-scale natural disasters and, yes, even sunspots and electromagnetic pulses.

Am I warning you off the cloud? No, just trying to demystify it. Whatever the risk, the cloud is the only practical way to store data long term. Churchill famously said democracy was the worst form of government except all the others. Is it premature to talk that way about the cloud? Maybe, but that’s how it looks. v

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Yesterday I found my five-year-old son putting things up his butt in the bath. This isn’t the first time—and it’s not just a “Hey! There’s a hole here! Let’s put things in there!” kind of thing. The little dude was rocking quite the stiffy while he did it. I’m well aware of how sexual kids can be (I freaking was!), although I wasn’t quite expecting to be catching him exploring anal at this young age. I want to avoid a trip to the emergency room to extract a toy car or whatever else from his rear end, and I don’t want to see him damage himself. So do you have any suggestions of what I can give him as a butt toy? Yes, I am serious, and no, I’m not molesting him. I know he’s going to do this on his own with or without my knowing, and I want him to be safe! Just today, he proudly showed me a toy car that he stuck up his butt. I told him that it wasn’t a good idea due to the sharp bits on it, and while he may have gotten this one out, one could get stuck and then we would have to go to the hospital.

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“HISMOM has handled this really well so far, and I am impressed with her clarity and calm about this situation,” said Amy Lang, a childhood sexuality expert and educator, a public speaker, and the author of Birds + Bees + Your Kids. “But NO BUTT TOYS for fiveyear-olds! This is insane and will cause a host of problems—can you imagine if he says to his teacher, ‘Yesterday, I played with my butt plug!’ Instant CPS call!”

I’m going to break in for a second: Do NOT buy a butt toy for your five-year-old kid—if indeed you and your five-year-old kid’s butt actually exist. I’m way more than half convinced that your letter is a fake, HISMOM, something sent in by a Christian conservative out to prove that I’m the sort of degenerate who would tell a mom to buy a butt toy for a five-year-old. I’m some sort of degenerate, I’ll happily admit, but I’m not that sort.

“This clearly isn’t a safe way for her boy to explore his body for a variety of reasons,” said Lang. “His butthole is tiny, it’s an adultlike behavior, and it’s germy.”

And while adults who are into butt play are (or should be) proactive and conscientious about hygiene, grubby little five-year-olds aren’t particularly proactive or conscientious about hygiene—or anything else. You don’t

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want his hands and toys smeared with more fecal matter than is typical for the hands and toys of most five-year-olds.

“It’s also on the outer edges of ‘typical’ sexual behavior in a young kid,” said Lang.

“He may very well have discovered this sort of outlier behavior on his own, but there is a chance that someone showed him how to do this. HISMOM needs to calmly ask her son, ‘I’m curious—how did you figure out that it feels good to put things in your bum?’ Listen to what he has to say. Depending on his response, she may need to get him a professional evaluation to make sure that he’s OK and safe. She can find someone through rainn.org in her area to help. While it doesn’t sound like he’s traumatized by this—he’s so open and lighthearted about it—you never know.”

Regardless of where he picked this trick up, HISMOM, you gotta emphasize that it’s not OK to put stuff up his butt because he could seriously hurt himself. I know, I know: You are a progressive, sex-positive parent—if you exist—and you don’t wanna saddle your kid with a complex about butt stuff. But think of all the sexually active adults out there, gay and bi and straight, who have overcome standard-issue butt-stuff complexes and now safely and responsibly enjoy their assholes and the assholes of others. If you give your son a minor complex by, say, taking his toy cars away until he stops putting them in his ass, rest assured that he’ll be able to overcome that complex later in life.

“She should tell him that she totally gets that it feels good,” said Lang, “but there are other ways he can have those good feelings that are safer, like rubbing and touching his penis, and he is welcome to do that any time he wants—as long as he’s in private and alone.

You can also tell him the safest thing to put up there is his own finger. But he must wash his hands if he does that. Nothing else, finger only. And did I mention NO BUTT TOY? Seriously.”

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I’m a longtime fan, but I disagree with your advice to CIS, the lesbian who wanted to add “not into trans women” to her online dating profile. I’m a straight guy, and if I met a woman online, I would want to be sure she had female genitalia under her clothes.

It’s a requirement for me, and that doesn’t mean I’m not a trans ally. I’m not into people

who don’t have female genitalia—should I go out on a coffee date with a trans woman just to make her feel better? —NOT AN ASSHOLE

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There’s nothing about preferring—even requiring—a particular set of genitalia that will result in your being stripped of your trans ally status, NAA. The issue is adding a few words to your profile (“no trans women”) that might spare you from the horrors of having coffee with one or two trans women over the course of your dating life but that will definitely make every trans woman who sees your profile feel like shit. The world is already an intensely hostile, unwelcoming place for trans people. Why would someone who considers himself (or herself, in the case of CIS) an ally want to make the world more hostile and unwelcoming? Awkwardness and “wasted” coffee dates are built into the online-dating experience. Trans women who haven’t had bottom surgery aren’t going to spring their dicks on you—they’ll almost always disclose before it gets to that point— and you’re not obligated to sleep with anyone you don’t find attractive.

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I’m a cis straight woman. I went on dates with a lot of guys from dating websites (200+) before I got married. Just writing to say that I agreed with your advice to the lesbian dating-site user. I agree that putting negative/exclusionary notes like “no trans women” or “no Asian guys” in a dating profile is a turnoff—and not just to the excluded group but to those who find those kinds of comments to be mean-spirited and narrowminded. And are there really so many trans people out there that such a comment is even necessary? Are there really that many trans people out there causing massive confusion on dating websites? And honestly, if someone is trans and you wind up meeting them for coffee, what would be the big deal anyway? It’s just coffee! I don’t understand why this would be such a huge problem.

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My point exactly.

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When cops shoot Since 1986 more than 1,600 people have been struck by bullets fired by Chicago police officers—an average of more than one person a week. Of the 208 cases closed over the last two years, every single shooting has been found justified. Should we be reassured?

By STEVE BOGIRA

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n January 7, 2013, shortly before 2 PM, Chicago police officers Kevin Fry and Lou Toth were driving westbound on 75th Street, in a poor, African-American section of the South Shore neighborhood. They were in plainclothes in an unmarked Crown Victoria. As they approached Essex Avenue, a silver Dodge Charger, northbound on Essex, cruised through a stop sign and turned left on 75th, not far in front of the officers. The driver was alone in the car.

Fry and Toth noticed the Charger rolling through the stop sign, and also that the car had Wisconsin plates. Toth, who was driving, followed it for several blocks, while Fry ran

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its plates on a computer. The Charger came up clear: there were no records indicating it had been stolen or was connected to any crimes.

Fry and Toth were tactical officers, whose job was combating serious crime, often gang related; they weren’t generally expected to write tickets. When the Charger came up clear, Toth took a left at the next street.

Almost immediately, a call came over the officers’ radio of a battery in progress at 76th and Essex. Moments later, the call was updated to a robbery in progress. Then it was updated again, to a carjacking—involving a silver Charger.

“I think that’s the Charger we just ran,” Toth said to Fry.

The scene of a policeinvolved shooting last August in East Chatham BRIAN JACKSON/SUN-TIMES

Toth got on the radio and asked if the Charger was the vehicle taken in the carjacking.

The dispatcher said it was, and also told him it had Wisconsin plates.

Toth turned right twice, heading back to 75th. At 75th, the officers could see the Charger a couple of blocks west. Traffic was light. Toth stepped on it, and the officers soon closed the gap.

At 75th and Jeffery, the Charger was stopped at a red light, behind a van. Toth swung into the right lane and pulled up to the right of the Charger and slightly ahead of it.

He and Fry exited their car, guns drawn, and advanced on it, Toth crossing in front of it and Fry at the rear.

“Police, put your hands up!” Toth shouted to the driver as he neared his door.

The driver raised his right hand but appeared to be reaching to the floor with his left, Toth would later say. Then he jumped out of the car and dashed across 75th Street. Toth didn’t see anything in his hands. The suspect, a slight African-American teen who wore his hair in dreads, sprinted between two parked cars to the sidewalk on the south side of 75th, turned right, and raced westward, with Toth close behind.

With his Sig Sauer .45 semiautomatic pistol in his right hand, Fry began running diagonally across 75th. He was in the middle of the street, ten or 15 feet from the north-south crosswalk just east of Jeffery Boulevard, when the suspect reached the corner. Toth had lost ground and was eight to 12 feet behind him, Fry would later estimate.

A moment later the suspect, 17-year-old Cedrick Chatman, would be lying on the pavement just around the corner on Jeffery, mortally wounded by one of four bullets Fry fired.

Chatman was unarmed. What happened in that moment before he was shot is now the subject of a federal lawsuit filed by Chatman’s mother, Linda Chatman, against Fry, Toth, and the city. It’s also an issue in a murder case scheduled for a jury trial this summer.

Fatal police shootings of unarmed African-Americans have become all too familiar nationally since officer Darren Wilson killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, last August. In November, 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was holding a toy gun, was slain by a police officer outside a recreation center in Cleveland. In April, Walter Scott, 50, was killed by a police officer who shot him five times as he was fleeing after a traffic stop in North Charleston, South Carolina.

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fatally last October on Pulaski Road near 40th Street. McDonald, a ward of the state, was holding a knife and acted erratically when police arrived. He was shot 16 times, with all the bullets fired by only one of the six officers present. The shooting was captured by a police cruiser’s dashboard camera. Federal and state prosecutors are investigating the killing, and the video has yet to be released publicly, but last month the City Council voted to pay McDonald’s family $5 million to preempt a lawsuit.

The shooting of Cedrick Chatman happened before any of these police shootings— and, like most such shootings, it made headlines immediately after it occurred, and then quickly disappeared from the public eye.

Chatman is one of 118 people to have been shot fatally by Chicago police since 2008.

Since 1986, more than 1,600 people have been struck by bullets fired by Chicago police officers—an average of more than one person a week. It’s hard to know how those figures compare nationally, because law enforcement agencies aren’t required to report data to the FBI on their use of deadly force.

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edia accounts of the Chatman shooting were based mainly on statements from Pat Camden, a former Chicago police officer who since 2011 has been a spokesman for the Fraternal Order of Police.

Reporting on the Chatman incident, the Tribune said officers caught up to a Dodge Charger taken in an armed carjacking. The paper said that according to Camden, the suspect appeared to reach for something in the passenger seat before bolting from the car. The officers saw a black object in his hand; they chased him until he turned towards them and appeared to be pointing the object at them, at which time one of the officers, believing the object to be a gun, opened fire. The object turned out to be an iPhone box.

Camden told NBC Chicago that when Chatman was being chased, one of the officers saw he was holding something, and he “hollers at his partner, ‘I don’t know what it is. He’s got something in his hand.’ The guy turns. The officer, at that point, in fear of his life, thinking the object could have been a gun, fires and hits the individual.”

An officer gets “that mental image of somebody who takes a vehicle at gunpoint and later he’s reaching for something in the car,” Camden told the Sun-Times. “The picture is pretty well painted.”

But the picture Camden painted had some

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flaws. The car wasn’t taken at gunpoint, or with any weapon—nor did the radio report Fry and Toth heard describe the crime as an armed carjacking. Neither officer hollered anything about Chatman having something in his hand; nothing was said by either officer from the time Chatman fled the car until he was shot, Fry and Toth acknowledged in depositions last summer. And Chatman didn’t point anything at either officer, Fry and Toth also acknowledged. Toth said he never saw anything in Chatman’s hands. Before Fry fired, Chatman made “a body motioning toward his right side,” Toth said. Fry said he saw something dark in Chatman’s hands, assumed it was a gun, and fired when Chatman made a “slight movement” to his right.

The police would all be “singing the same tune as Camden,” says Brian Coffman, one of the lawyers representing Linda Chatman— except that the shooting was videotaped. A police department camera at the intersection captured the incident, as did cameras at a food mart on the southeast corner, but those videos are grainy, Coffman concedes. He says the clearest view of the shooting and how it unfolded came from a camera at South Shore International College Prep, which is on the southwest corner of 75th and Jeffery. That camera is several hundred feet west of the intersection where the shooting occurred, so the images are small, he allows.

The suit asserts that Chatman posed no threat to Fry, Toth, or anyone else when he was killed “with malice, willfulness, and reckless indifference.” It was filed in August 2013.

The city’s lawyers didn’t turn over the videos to Chatman’s lawyers until February 2014, and before they did, they won a court order barring the plaintiff’s lawyers from releasing the videos publicly.

The city’s motion for that order read: What the video does show clearly is an officer pointing his gun at the decedent for a short period of time and the decedent collapsing to the sidewalk. Due to the low video quality as well as a high color contrast due to the sun’s position in the sky, one cannot see the detailed movements of the decedent or discern the time when the shots were actually fired or the time of the impact injury. This paints an incomplete picture, which could be severely prejudicial to the jury pool, causing them to form conclusions without regard to a complete explanation.

Better to let the jury see the videos for the first time at trial, with “fresh eyes,” the city’s

“I was the one praying that he had something, had a gun.”

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lawyers said in their motion, and with “full context of the stories of the officers who were present and the multiple experts whom are likely to be retained in this case.”

But if the tables were turned and Chatman “had actually stopped and pointed a gun at the officers,” Coffman says, “they’d be waving that video on the news.”

He maintains that the video shows no turn toward Fry whatsoever by Chatman; it simply shows him sprinting away from the officers—and Fry acting as “judge, jury, and executioner.”

I sought to interview Fry and Toth, but the police department’s news affairs office said the officers declined. The city’s lawyers didn’t return my calls. But a report they recently gave to Chatman’s lawyers from an expert they’ve retained outlines the “full context” of the shooting as the city is likely to present it.

The expert, Emanuel Kapelsohn, has been a firearms and use of force instructor for 35 years. In February he visited the scene of the shooting with Fry, Toth, and the city’s lead lawyer on the case, Tiffany Harris. Kapelsohn has also reviewed the videos and some stillframe photos made from one of the videos.

In his report he says one still-frame photo shows Chatman “with his head and body rotated to the right, partially back toward Officers Fry and Toth . . . consistent with Officer Fry’s account of what he observed that caused him to fire.”

Coffman says the city’s lawyers have yet to provide the plaintiff’s lawyers with that photo, and that he doubts it shows what Kapelsohn claims it does.

Coffman also says the videos show a woman in a black car just around the corner on Jeffery, waiting for the light to change when the shots were fired—and that a police photo taken after the shooting depicts what appears to be a bullet hole in her passenger door. He says one of the videos captures the startled reaction of two youths walking on the sidewalk on Jeffery, approaching the corner; they immediately flee in the opposite direction, apparently upon hearing the gunshots. They nearly walked into Fry’s line of fire, Coffman says.

In Kapelsohn’s report he quotes from a landmark 1989 Supreme Court ruling, Graham v. Connor, in which the court observed that “police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving—about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation.” Kapelsohn points out that Graham also held that an

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officer may use deadly force “when he reasonably believes his life or the life of another innocent person is in danger”—and that his “reasonable belief” should be judged from the perspective of an officer at the scene “rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight.”

Kapelsohn maintains that it was reasonable for Fry and Toth to assume that the carjacking Chatman was fleeing from had been committed with a weapon; according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 74 percent of carjackings are.

He notes that the dark gray iPhone box Chatman was carrying is the color and size of many small handguns, and that suspects have been shot while holding “cell phones, pagers, black wallets, black or shiny metallic items . . . or other innocent objects” in shootings that have been deemed justified.

An officer who believes a suspect has a gun doesn’t have to wait—and shouldn’t—until the gun is pointed at him before he fires, Kapelsohn writes, because a gun pointed “well away” from an officer “can be brought to bear on the officer and fired in a quarter of a second or less.”

Fry was asked in his deposition if Chatman turned his head when he made his “slight movement” to the right. The officer didn’t recall him doing so. Chatman “rotated mostly his torso,” Fry said. It was a “subtle turn.” But because Chatman had in his hand what Fry assumed was a gun, “I was in fear of Officer Toth’s life. I was in fear of my own life. And any pedestrians in the area, I was in fear of their life as well.”

And so he did not wait: “I plant both of my feet and I take a firing position with my weapon.”

Chatman was five-foot-seven and 133 pounds. He was 11 when he was arrested for the first time, in 2007, for criminal damage to property—the first of his 14 arrests as a juvenile, for charges ranging from criminal trespass to aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon. He’d been shot once before, in the leg, at age 14. Several people he was close to had died young; his arms and neck abounded in RIP tattoos. On his left arm another tattoo read you only live once so live it up.

One of Fry’s bullets entered the back of Chatman’s right forearm and passed through it. Either the same bullet or another one entered his abdomen on the right side, fractured a lower rib, passed through his liver, diaphragm, pericardial sac, and heart, and came to rest next to his thoracic spine. He ran into the passenger side of the black car on Jeffery before falling to the street. Police said J

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continued from 15 they found the iPhone box, with the phone in it, on the sidewalk not far from his body, and that it had been stolen during the carjacking.

Fire department paramedics took Chatman to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:43 PM.

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he carjacking had occurred at about 1:45 that afternoon. The Charger was parked near 76th and Essex. Its owner, 29-year-old Christopher Rankins, and a female friend of his were in the front seat; Chatman and two other males were in the back. After a dispute between Rankins and the males in the back, Rankins was beaten and pulled from the car. Money and a cell phone were taken from him, and a jacket was taken from his friend. It’s not clear whether Chatman participated in the beating, but ultimately he drove off alone in the car.

That evening police arrested Martel Odum, 23, and Akeem Clarke, 22, and accused them of the crime. They were charged with vehicular invasion, vehicular hijacking, burglary, and robbery. And, because they “set in motion a chain of events that caused the death of Cedrick Chatman,” according to the indictment, they were also charged with his murder.

The state’s attorney’s office is “passing the buck” with the murder charges, says Caroline Glennon, the public defender representing Odum. “They don’t want to blame Cedrick’s death on a police officer.”

As in all officer-involved shootings, the Independent Police Review Authority immediately opened an investigation into the shooting of Chatman. Even if an officer’s actions ought not be reviewed “with the 20/20 vision of hindsight” for purposes of criminal or civil liability, they are reviewed administratively, to ensure that officers are not abusing their ability to use deadly force.

IPRA investigates misconduct complaints against officers as well as officer-involved shootings. Its predecessor, the Office of Professional Standards, was a unit of the Chicago Police Department that answered to the superintendent. In 2007, after police officers were caught on videotape perpetrating two barroom beatings, critics charged they were emboldened by the fact that OPS rarely found police officers guilty of misconduct. OPS also ruled almost invariably that officer-involved shootings were justified. Mayor Richard M. Daley responded to the criticism from the barroom beatings by creating IPRA, an agency independent of the police department. But many of IPRA’s investigators were former

Eric Tonson’s belt buckle, here as shown in an Independent Police Review Authority document, was one of the last things two Chicago police officers saw before shooting the unarmed 17-year-old. IPRA

OPS investigators, and like OPS, IPRA has found almost all officer-involved shootings to have been proper.

In his 11 and a half years as a police officer, Fry has had 16 misconduct complaints lodged against him, most of them accusing him of excessive force. None of these complaints have been sustained. He’s also been sued five times not counting the Chatman suit. The city settled all five suits, at least four of them with a payment to the plaintiff.

It’s hard to know what to make of this record. When a complaint isn’t sustained, it doesn’t necessarily mean the charge was untrue; it means, according to IPRA, that there was “insufficient evidence to prove or disprove the allegation.” On the other hand, an allegation is only that. Likewise with lawsuits against police officers: they’re allegations, and a cash settlement paid by the city is not an admission of guilt; it’s often a calculation that settling will be cheaper than continued litigation.

But one suit against Fry is of special note, because it centered on another shooting he was involved in, whose victim was another unarmed 17-year-old.

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ugust 23, 2007, was a stormy day in Chicago, and the evening was warm and damp. Fry was working in another poor, African-American neighborhood— this one on the west side, in Austin. He’d been a police officer just under four years, and his

two partners that evening were even less experienced: Jaysen Orkowski had been on the force three and a half years, Michael Shrake not quite two. They were assigned to the Targeted Response Unit, a citywide group whose members worked in uniform in marked cars and were deployed to crime hot spots. (This account of the incident that transpired, and the IPRA investigation that followed, is built mainly on records IPRA disclosed in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. Like Fry, Shrake and Orkowski declined to comment, according to CPD’s news affairs.)

Shortly before 10:30 PM, the officers saw three black males walking on Springfield toward Adams. One of the males had on a down jacket, which made the officers suspicious because of how warm it was, they’d note in a subsequent arrest report. The jacket was also drooping on the right side, and the person wearing it was holding that side, which made them suspect he had a gun, they’d write.

When they approached the three males for a “field interview,” all three bolted. The one in the jacket, 17-year-old Eric Tonson, dashed into a nearby schoolyard, with Shrake behind him and Fry behind Shrake. Orkowski drove around the block to head the kid off.

Tonson, five-foot-four and 120 pounds, clutched his right side throughout the chase, the officers would report, and also tossed two small plastic bags to the ground.

Orkowski pulled up in the squad car outside the far end of the schoolyard, and Shrake and

Fry were able to corner Tonson in an alcove behind the school. According to Shrake and Fry, Tonson, 15 to 20 feet away, turned toward them and pulled up his jacket with his left hand. Shrake and Fry saw something shiny.

Tonson then reached into his waistband with his right hand and extended his arm at the officers. Fearing for their lives, they fired their semiautomatics—Shrake twice, Fry once.

Tonson fell to the pavement, bleeding profusely from a bullet wound in his neck. The officers handcuffed him and discovered he was unarmed. The shiny object “was revealed to be the arrestee’s shiny belt buckle,” the officers wrote.

The bullet passed through the flesh beneath Tonson’s chin. He was hospitalized three days, but the injury wasn’t severe. Police never determined whether the bullet that hit him was fired by Shrake or Fry. Until 2010 the Chicago Police Department conducted “roundtables” after officer-involved shootings. The proceedings were neither taped nor recorded by a court reporter.

Police commanders and lieutenants, an assistant state’s attorney, and an investigator from OPS or IPRA heard from the detectives investigating the shooting, from the officer or officers involved, and sometimes from other witnesses, after which the department reassured the public that the officer’s use of deadly force had been scrutinized and, nearly always, found to have been within department policy.

If the victim of a shooting had a criminal record, his rap sheet was distributed to everyone at the roundtable. If the officer who’d shot him had a checkered history of misconduct complaints, suspensions, or even shootings, the roundtable participants would not be apprised of it. In a deposition in a civil suit in 2005, Michael Chasen, then deputy chief of detectives, was asked a hypothetical: If a shooting officer had shot eight other people in the eight weeks before the roundtable, would the roundtable participants be informed? No, Chasen said—because that information was “not germane.”

It’s not completely clear why the CPD stopped holding roundtables in 2010, but it seems related to a larger dispute between the FOP and IPRA regarding how soon, and under what circumstances, officers involved in shootings had to give statements to IPRA about the shootings. In a hearing on that matter in December 2010, an FOP officer testified that the union and the department agreed that the roundtable “had outlived its usefulness.”

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n September 20, 2007, the Illinois State Police crime lab reported that the suspect narcotics contained no narcotics. The drug possession charge against Tonson was dismissed.

Later that month IPRA investigator Shykela Carter interviewed Tonson in the presence of his father. Tonson said he was with his cousin and a friend of his cousin’s on the night in question. He’d worn the down jacket because it was hooded and it had been raining. He ran from the officers because he’d heard about police mistreating people in the neighborhood. He said he had nothing in his hands, threw nothing to the ground, and never reached for his waistband or pocket.

Tonson told Carter that when he was boxed into a corner of the schoolyard, one officer told him to put his hands in the air, and he complied; but then another officer told him to get on the ground. When he lowered his arms to do so, the first officer shot him. As he lay on the ground, he heard an officer ask the one who shot him why he’d done so, and the officer who shot him said it looked as if he was reaching into his pocket.

Tonson sued the officers in July 2008. According to the suit’s complaint, Tonson, his cousin Shaquan, and a friend of Shaquan’s named Derius, all minors, had just picked up a video game from Derius’s home and were headed to Shaquan’s home. A squad car suddenly drove up onto the sidewalk next to them, striking Shaquan in the knee.

In a May 2009 letter to the city’s lawyers before a settlement conference, Tonson’s lawyers maintained that the officers had concocted a story to justify their shooting of an unarmed minor. That’s why they claimed Tonson’s jacket was drooping on one side, the lawyers said. They added: “We know this is false because Eric did not have anything on his right side to weigh it down.” The city set-

tled the suit in August 2009 for $99,000.

IPRA still had to determine whether that shooting had been within department policy.

A 2008 report published by the Department of Justice stressed that officers involved in shootings ought to be “physically separated as soon as possible to avoid even the appearance of collusion,” and should be compelled to give audiotaped interviews by investigators “as soon as is practical and reasonable.”

But IPRA didn’t interview Shrake, Fry, or Orkowski until the summer of 2011—almost four years after Tonson was shot.

Shrake and Fry, who were accompanied by an FOP lawyer, were interviewed separately

by IPRA investigator Wilbert Neal. Shrake told Neal that right before the shooting, “I kept telling [Tonson], ‘Put your hands in the air.’” Fry told Neal, “We were both telling him to get down on the ground.”

Fry said he’d had no choice but to shoot.

When he saw the shiny object as Tonson reached for his waistband, “I was in fear for my life as well as my partner’s life.”

Orkowski told Neal that although he didn’t see the shooting, Shrake and Fry later told him about Tonson’s “big, shiny belt buckle,” and that after he reached toward his waist, he “came out with his thumb up and his finger extended like a gun.”

After Tonson was shot, Orkowski said, Shrake handcuffed him, “and officer Fry was the guard officer, and I was the one praying that he had something, had a gun.”

IPRA investigator Carter issued her final report on October 19, 2012, more than a year after the officers were interviewed. In her conclusion, Carter adopted the version of the incident given by the three officers, ignoring Tonson’s version altogether. If she was skeptical about the idea that Tonson would roll up his jacket, reach for his waist, and thrust his arm at two armed officers, she didn’t say so. Nor did she wonder how Tonson’s big, shiny belt buckle—which was two inches by two inches—could have gleamed in the dark. The officers had rightly feared for their safety, she wrote; and the allegation that the shooting was unjustified was unfounded. Fry and Shrake were cleared more than five years after Tonson was shot, and less than three months before Fry would fatally shoot Chatman.

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asked IPRA’s spokesperson, Larry Merritt, if I could talk with investigators Neal and Carter about the Tonson investigation. He told me to direct my questions to him instead. I did so, but he declined to answer most of them.

Rosenzweig allowed that IPRA had found officer-involved shootings to be out of policy in only “a handful” of cases while she was here. (The agency conducted 272 officer-involved shooting investigations from September 2007 through the end of 2012.) She wasn’t sure that officers had been disciplined even in those few cases, noting that they had several avenues for appeal. The agency was “chronically understaffed,” she said, and it was “difficult to do thorough investigations with the level of resources we had.”

That made the work of a body such as FAP all the more important, she said. “There are some officers who have a bad intent, and the role of any accountability system should be to identify such officers and remove them from the force. But the vast majority of officers don’t go out there intending to do something wrong. They just need better training and supervision.”

I called CPD’s news affairs to ask why FAP had been disbanded. The spokesperson I talked with had never heard of it. She later responded in an e-mail that “The only information I was able to obtain was that there currently is no Force Analysis Panel.”

Linda Chatman filed a federal lawsuit after her unarmed 17-year-old son was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer. PARKER BRIGHT

Merritt did say that the Tonson investigation had taken too long. It was assigned to an investigator with “one of the higher caseloads in the office,” he said in an e-mail.

“The delays in interviewing the officers after the initial incident, delays in the review of the case by managers, and, ultimately, the closing of the case, were of great concern.”

But those kinds of problems are history, Merritt said. The agency has made a special effort to close officer-involved shooting cases in particular, he added, noting that a combined 208 such cases were closed in 2013 and ’14.

Most of the questions I had about the Tonson investigation, however—the questions Merritt wouldn’t address—pertained not to how long it took but to whether the probe had been impartial and thorough. Why weren’t the officers ever pressed on what might’ve accounted for the distinct droop they said they saw in Tonson’s pocket? Why wasn’t Tonson’s version of the incident given more consideration? I also sought to interview IPRA’s chief administrator, Scott Ando, about whether officer-involved shooting investigations have improved since the Tonson investigation.

Ando declined to comment.

Timeliness means little if the investigations are biased. I asked Merritt how many of the 208 officer-involved shooting cases that were closed in the last two years had culminated in a finding that the shooting had been justified. All of them, he said.

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ome police shootings are “lawful but awful,” Ilana Rosenzweig said—they’re legally justifiable, because the officer had a reasonable fear of death or serious injury, but they could’ve been avoided.

Rosenzweig was working as a lawyer for the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review when Mayor Daley picked her to be IPRA’s first chief administrator in July 2007.

She led the agency until May 2013, when she moved with her family to Singapore. She told me she came to Chicago believing it was important not only to determine whether police shootings were justified, but also to study them holistically. Perhaps changes in training, policy, or supervision would reduce their incidence. She’d sat on a panel in LA that reviewed hundreds of police shootings for that purpose. Most major law enforcement agencies have such panels, she said. But Chi-

cago did not, she learned when she arrived.

If OPS found a shooting to be within policy, “the investigation was simply closed and filed away,” she told me. “No one in the CPD command structure, outside OPS, saw it.”

At Rosenzweig’s prompting, the department created a “Force Analysis Panel” in ’09, when Jody Weis was superintendent.

Beginning that March, supervisors in several CPD divisions were briefed by IPRA on police shooting cases the agency had closed, to consider larger lessons.

After its promising beginning, however, CPD had convened the panel only once in 2011 and once in ’12, Rosenzweig noted in her 2012 annual report for IPRA. Some members of the department, she told me, “felt, ‘What can you learn from IPRA? We’re the cops, they’re not.’” She said she sensed that FAP had lost support from the “higher ranks” within CPD. She’d heard that the current superintendent, Garry McCarthy, is briefed by detectives after some shootings, but there’s now “no formal systemic review, and in at least several instances the briefing was based on information that was revealed to be incomplete or inaccurate through IPRA’s further investigation.”

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he trial of Martel Odum and Akeem Clarke for robbery, vehicular hijacking, and the murder of Cedrick Chatman, is tentatively set for July 27. As noted earlier, the murder charge rests on the notion that when Odum and Clarke allegedly committed the robbery and hijacking, they “set in motion a chain of events” leading to Chatman’s death. A legal defense against that type of charge is that there was a break in the chain of events between the predicate crimes and the subsequent death. Courts have held that if the initial crime or crimes had clearly been concluded—because the offenders had reached “a place of safety”—that constitutes a break in the chain of events. Odum’s and Clarke’s lawyers noted in a pretrial motion to dismiss the murder charges that their clients were at a place of safety—Clarke’s mother’s house—when Chatman was killed.

The motion to dismiss the murder charges was unsuccessful, but the defense can still be used at trial.

The public defenders representing Odum and Clarke may also argue at trial that Fry’s shooting of Chatman—“an illegal act covered by a badge,” as Odum’s lawyer, Caroline Glennon, describes it—qualifies as a break in the chain of events.

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it shows Chatman turning in Fry’s direction.

“The only turn I see him making is to round the corner. Cedrick’s intent is clear—he’s trying to get away.”

More than two years after the shooting, IPRA still hasn’t concluded its investigation, and because the probe is still open, the agency won’t discuss it. Records disclosed in Linda Chatman’s civil suit suggest that IPRA first interviewed Fry at length last July, 18 months after the shooting. He’s still with the police force, according to CPD news affairs, but the office wouldn’t say in what capacity.

The lawyers in Linda Chatman’s lawsuit are still taking depositions. There have been settlement conferences between her lawyers and the lawyers for the city, but according to Coffman, who’s representing Chatman, the parties are far apart. The suit seeks a sum “in eight figures,” Coffman says.

“I hope we win the lawsuit, but the money don’t really matter ’cause it ain’t gonna bring my child back,” Linda Chatman told me recently.

After Cedrick was killed, she and her family moved to an apartment on 63rd Street in West Englewood. But that felt even more dangerous than South Shore: “A lot of the gangs just stand in front of your doorway. I come home from work, I gotta tell ’em, ‘Excuse me, let me get into my house.’ ” So last fall, the family moved to an apartment on Harvard Avenue in Greater Grand Crossing. She and two of her daughters and two grandchildren live on the second floor of a redbrick two-flat next to a vacant lot. Greater Grand Crossing is another poor, high-crime neighborhood, but “a lot of older people live on this block.

I definitely feel safe. I haven’t seen the summertime yet though.”

She hasn’t viewed the videos of the shooting that took Cedrick’s life, nor does she want to.

Cedrick was the youngest of the four children she raised alone. Cedrick’s father was in and out of prison and was never involved in his son’s life. Linda Chatman, who’s 40 now, got by with the help of public aid and food stamps when her children were young. Ten years ago she got her current job, as a “transporter” at O’Hare—she helps disabled people get on and off airplanes. She makes minimum wage, plus tips, and likes the job, she said, because “I love being around people.”

She said she’s not sure why Cedrick started getting in trouble at an early age. He spent time in the juvenile detention center several

times. When she’d visit him, she’d tried to talk some sense into him, she told me. He’d promise not to get in trouble again.

But trouble was never far away in the neighborhoods the family lived in. In 2010 Cedrick was shot in the leg while out playing with a friend. The bullet nicked an artery, she said, and he nearly bled to death.

Her lawsuit asserts that her son’s wrongful death has deprived her of Cedrick’s “companionship, friendship, comfort, guidance, love and affection,” and that she “will continue to suffer great loss of a personal and pecuniary nature.”

Besides contesting that Cedrick’s death was wrongful, the city’s lawyers also dispute that it represents much of a pecuniary loss.

The lawyers have retained an economist who has analyzed the “alleged economic damages” and found them to be minimal. If the death is judged to have been wrongful, that will be an issue in assessing damages.

“Studies have shown that individuals raised in situations similar to Cedrick Chatman’s tend to have less economic mobility,” the economist, Dwight Steward, wrote in his report. Steward considered the earnings support that Linda could have expected from Cedrick, and the earnings he might have contributed to his estate. The projected economic damages ranged from $46,377 to $375,028.

But Steward emphasized that Cedrick likely would have earned “only a fraction” of that, given what his background suggested about his future. Pointing to Cedrick’s 14 juvenile arrests, Steward noted that, “Social science research shows that individuals who have run-ins with the law will experience lower earnings and earnings growth.” Cedrick’s father’s history of incarceration and lack of involvement in Cedrick’s life helped create a “fractured family support structure” that also was likely to limit his earnings potential.

The high school Cedrick was attending, Hyde Park Academy, had a subpar graduation rate, and that, combined with Cedrick’s low grades and history of juvenile detention, made it doubtful that he would have graduated high school—further reducing his economic prospects, Steward observed.

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Flanigan moved on from the great work he did at the Gage and the late Henri, and while he gets his own new French-Italian restaurant in order he’s brought a Scotch egg to the menu at Breakroom Brewery. The new Irving Park brewpub is housed in the erstwhile break room of the Heineman Bar Company, a custom-bar concern that somehow managed to open this big, busy brewery and restaurant while constructing splendid wooden bars for the likes of Revolution Brewery and Old Town Social, filming a reality TV show (Epic Bar Builds) for the Discovery Channel, and fighting a breach-of-contract lawsuit filed by a former customer.

Brewery kitchens are like pitchers—there are reasons they don’t hit well. I can’t think of many around town that do food as well as they do beer. For the brief period of time John Manion was at Goose Island Brewpub, it was

good if problematic. Three Floyds Brewpub was great under Mike Sheerin. But for the most part brewery food usually exists as an afterthought to the suds.

Flanigan’s role as a consultant means he has less sway over the outcomes than an executive chef with more skin in the game. He’s put together a menu that looks intriguing on paper, so much so that a number of dishes require more than a little explanation from servers. There’s a rib eye that’s apparently sliced by a wood saw. Cut spuds are soaked overnight in beer before becoming french fries (though it’s to little discernible effect).

And “scrumpets” are what fish sticks would be if they were made with shredded lamb.

The preponderance of snacky, meaty, beer-friendly foods is practically a given, so maybe that’s how I got snookered by the Scotch egg. Had I read the menu more care-

fully, I might at least have been prepared for it. Served atop a pile of tired-looking mixed greens, the egg so dwarfed conventional ones that my sidekick wondered aloud what animal could have laid one so large. Another surprise was in store when we realized that the menu’s mysterious mention of “lentil falafel” referred to the pasty, sausageless mantle that encircled the egg. Lacto-ovo-vegetarian beer drinkers deserve Scotch eggs too, I suppose.

But it’s emblematic of other eggs laid across Breakroom’s menu. Tough cubes of pork belly are stacked with chunks of wan watermelon, which in early May seems like a forerunner of our catastrophically warmed future. Charcuterie “on wood”—the menu’s description—lacks variety, featuring only a few slices of country paté and a gob of chicken liver mousse. A jar of steak tartare has woodsmoke blown into it in an attempt to channel Alinea circa 2005.

It’s frequently a toss-up between conceptually flawed dishes such as these and executional errors from a kitchen you’d expect to be better trained. A wide-eyed runner warned me that the house-made pickles were extraordinarily hot, but they were neither spicy nor pickled, their virgin texture suggesting the

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Such disappointments abounded during my meals. Both basic fish-and-chips and chicken thighs with biscuits and sausage gravy arrived almost aggressively underseasoned. A burger ordered medium rare was cooked to battleship gray. Chicken soup, while generously loaded with shredded poultry, had extraordinarily wide noodles that were barely cooked. And the mashed potatoes were so watery you could drink them.

Perhaps the most puzzling thing about the amply portioned food at Breakroom is that while much effort is made to incorporate the brewery’s main product into the dishes, it rarely tastes that way. A large braised pork shank is served in a pool of greasy polenta said to have been made with stout, though you’d be hard-pressed to detect any. Same goes for the dry, crumbly, tough biscuits that accompany the chicken thighs—you’d never guess they’re made with spent grain. Acrossthe-board underseasoning might not be helping this situation. The one dish I was certain had been made with beer—dense, highly emulsified wild-boar-and-juniper sausages with roasted vegetables—turned out to be cooked in white wine.

These low flavor profiles might come about because the Breakroom’s beers themselves aren’t terribly distinctive. The selection changed frequently over the course of my visits, which bodes well for its freshness. But while much mention is made of International Bittering Units and the varieties of hops used from beer to beer (Breakroom does seem to be in thrall to hopheads), they’re food friendly but forgettable. The most distinctive variety, a Berlin-style weiss sour, has so little depth it’s better ordered with one of the optional fruit syrups on hand. Fortunately the beers are served in five- as well as 13-ounce portions, which allows for a quick change of direction if a poor choice is made.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about Breakroom is the space itself. Its rear windows look in on the woodshop and all the fearsome machinery within, and the massive 40-foot bar built of sapele (a sustainable alternative to mahogany) and petrified wood has its own windows with a view of the brewing tanks. But if those sights fail to move you, there are flatscreen TVs to distract your attention from the impressive design and the ever more dissipated yawping of your companions. v

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added to all kind of household products, including soap and toothpaste? The women at Radium Dial were told the radium would put a glow in their cheeks. They did their nails and eyes with paint made from the stuff.

But information isn’t drama. And after a while all this exposition feels like a shield against the very real devastation at the center of the story.

This is most palpable in the early scenes, when a lot of time is spent showing the women working and relaxing together. The shadow of death looms large here—we know all along they’re doomed— but the production barely acknowledges this. I suppose in the right hands it could be moving to watch four women grow close and find themselves even as the clock winds down, but this show never

By JACK HELBIG achieves that level of intensity. f you don’t leave this show furious you have no heart. The story alone Nor do Thebus and company seem interested should make you furious: a group of young women, full of life and hope, creating in that kind of show. Instead they brighttake the only jobs available to them and earn early deaths for their pains. ly pass over it all, creating beautiful scenes, entertaining us with sprightly, witty songs, dazThat the story is based on fact—the young women in question worked at zling us with lighting effects. Through it all the the Radium Dial Company, in Ottawa, Illinois, in the 1920s, painting the faces women at the center of the story remain bland of clocks and watches with radioactive paint, ingesting lots of radium in the and forgettable, just names on a work roster, the process and contracting deadly illnesses as a result of their exposure—makes way their bosses saw them. Even the wonderful period costumes, designed by Linda Roethke, do it all the more infuriating. little to give the characters the illusion of a third Especially when we learn the factory owners if it were a series of live-action dioramas, some dimension. used every trick at their disposal to wriggle out of of them set to songs that aren’t bad but also arPlaying Catherine Donohue, the show’s protagresponsibility. They blamed the women’s illnesses en’t particularly rousing or memorable. All of onist, a rather mousy-looking woman with enough on immorality (the first who died were accused of the scenes are packed with historically accurate grit to fight the company to the death (literally), succumbing to tertiary syphilis), they bought off costumes, believable period Johanna McKenzie Miller is the local physicians (who just prescribed aspirin furniture, and projected photos utterly unmemorable. It isn’t SHINING LIVES: A MUSICAL or denied the women were sick at all), and they from the era that set the scene. all her fault: the only thing that Through 6/14: Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 2:30 and 8 PM, fought the few women who dared take them to It might be a good supplement sets Donohue off from the other Sun 2:30 PM, Wed 1 and court, filing appeal after appeal after appeal while to a history class, but it doesn’t three women is that she’s in a 7:30 PM (check website for the victims wasted away and died. stand on its own. few more scenes and has a husvariations), North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Infuriating, yes. But also surely the stuff of great Thebus and company don’t band (also bland).

Skokie, Skokie, 847-673-6300, theater. even make it clear what story We don’t even get a good Danorthlight.org, $35-$78.

Well, not this time. they’re trying to tell or which vid-versus-Goliath tale. Thebus, And that’s another reason I left this show from characters they’re following.

Pluess, and Dehnert seem so reNorthlight Theatre furious—the opportunity A full half of the 90-minute play is devoted to luctant to assign blame here it’s as if they’re afraid wasted by Jessica Thebus, who wrote the book background: we learn a little about America in of offending anyone. Is there a descendant of the and lyrics, and Andre Pluess and Amanda Deh- the 20s, a little about radium, a little about work Radium Dial Company’s owners on the board? nert, who wrote the music. They were given the routines at the Radium Dial Company, a little In the end, that’s infuriating too. If you don’t chance to transform Melanie Marnich’s compel- about the changing status of women and the con- have the guts to tell the story you say you’re going ling drama These Shining Lives into a musical, and comitant transformation of marriage. to tell, tell a different story. There are a million of the result is a musical with no drama.

Did you know, for example, that radium was them out there. Save this one for someone who’ll Thebus, who also directs, presents the story as believed to have amazing health benefits and was tell it right. v

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Cowboy Versus Samurai Based on Cyrano de Bergerac, this romantic comedy by Michael Golamco takes a refreshing look at Asian-American issues around race, relationships, and assimilation, all rarely addressed onstage. Cary Shoda and Jin Kim bring depth and subtlety to Travis and Chester, the only Asian-Americans in small-town Wyoming. Both fall head over heels when Veronica, the town’s first Asian-American woman (played by Aja Wiltshire) moves into town, only to have their hopes dashed by her preference for white men. Rather than give up entirely, Travis, an English teacher, agrees to write her love letters from his cowboy friend Del (played by Chris Lysy). While the Cyrano ruse is timeless, this A-Squared production could be more interesting and realistic adapted for a higher-tech device. There’s the requisite happy ending, but the characterization is so thin we’re not all that invested in it. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 6/7: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Den Theatre, 1329-1333 N. Milwaukee, 773-609-2336, a-stw.org, $25.

Inana To anglophone ears the title of Michele Lowe’s 2009 drama may sound like, say, the name of a nation led by George W. Bush. But in fact it refers to the Sumerian mother goddess (aka Ishtar); Inana tells the tale of Yasin, an Iraqi archeologist doing his frantic best to protect an ancient statue of the goddess from harm during the run-up to Dubya’s 2003 gulf war. The predicament of Fertile Crescent antiquities—both then and, thanks to ISIS, now—is a crisis deserving of our passionate attention, and the story of Yasin’s idiosyncratic style of heroism has its own fascination. But neither the predicament nor the story is all that well served here. Director Kimberly Senior hasn’t figured out how to make human sense of Lowe’s coyly structured narrative. The result is a production that lacks immediacy, seeming to privilege metaphors over characters. —TONY ADLER Through 7/26: Thu 7:30, Fri 8 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Wed 7:30 PM; also Tue 6/23 and 6/30, 7:30 PM, TimeLine Theatre Company, Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ, Baird Hall Theatre, 615 W. Wellington, 773-281-8463, timelinetheatre.com, $35-$48.

Miracle! Sex-advice columnist Dan Savage wrote this exuberantly tasteless parody of The Miracle Worker, William Gibson’s community-theater chestnut (made into a 1962 movie)

THEATER about Helen Keller and her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Here, Helen is a deaf and blind drag queen who’s been spoiled rotten by her fellow performers; it falls to a determined social worker to teach her discipline and language (the first thing Helen learns to sign: v-o-d-k-a). At two hours, the show feels padded with lip-synching routines and repetitive gags. But the performances in Hell in a Handbag Productions’ staging are funny and even touching, particularly Elizabeth Lesinski’s plucky take on Annie. Steve Love supplies some hilarious physical comedy as Helen, and emcee David Cerda really knows how to work a room. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 7/10: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3:30 PM, Mary’s Attic Theatre, 5400 N. Clark, 773-7846969, handbagproductions.org, $25.

Our New Girl Irish playwright R Nancy Harris pairs a cliched scenario with a fresh one in this

2012 drama about a too-good-tobe-true nanny who moves in with a do-gooder doctor, his pregnant stayat-home wife, and their young son.

The women’s adversarial, All About Eve dynamic initially feels stale, but Harris takes the story in an unexpected direction by delving into the housewife’s profound dissatisfaction with motherhood. As the focus of the play shifts, we get an honest and bracing debunking of the myth that

all women instinctually find changing diapers fulfilling. In Joe Jahraus’s fast-paced, high-intensity staging, the excellent Sarah Chalcroft plays the unhappy mom like a trapped animal—panicky, prone to lashing out, and radiating indignation from every pore. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 6/28: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 5 and 8 PM, Sun 7 PM, Profiles Theatre, Main Stage, 4139 N. Broadway, 773-5491815, profilestheatre.org, $35-$40.

Quiz Show Repressing traumatic memories can result in debilitating psychological symptoms, even as the repression allows victims to move past the trauma. Childhood sexual abuse is bad. Also, game shows tend to be slick and vapid. Scottish playwright Rob Drummond overworks these commonplace notions as though he’s the first to have considered them. In his 2013 play, being given its American premiere

by Strawdog Theatre, he concocts an incessantly superficial game show called False!, which after 30 long minutes suddenly devolves into an expressionistic psychodrama featuring mousy, weepy contestant Sandra and her long-repressed demons. It culminates in a righteous speech that explains everything a better playwright might have dramatized. The ever-shifting rules of engagement minimize theatrical impact, a problem exacerbated by director Max Truax’s

conceptually fitful production.

—JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 6/13: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Strawdog Theatre Company, 3829 N. Broadway, 773-528-9696, strawdog.org, $28, $24 for students and seniors.

Scotland Road Sailors find a young woman floating alone on an ice floe in the north Atlantic. When asked how she came to be there, she utters just one word: “Titanic.”

Could she have survived the sinking of the famously unsinkable ship?

Well, some of the evidence points that way. Problem is, the wreck took place in 1912 and the rescue a full 80 years later, in 1992. Like all tales of the uncanny, this early one-act by Jeffrey Hatcher plays on cognitive dissonance. But sometimes it plays too hard. We not only have to deal with the central mystery but also with the notion—if anything, harder to believe—that our ice woman bypassed the usual health and social service agencies to end up in a secret facility run by an apparently wealthy nut with murky intentions.

Despite some interesting moments, Hatcher’s big fantasy gets tripped up on small realities. —TONY ADLER Through 6/14: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Heartland Studio Theatre, 7016 N. Glenwood, 773-791-2393, $20.

The Seven Secret Plays of Madame Caprice I’ve seen Silent

Theatre do much, much better but never worse than this vaguely conceived, sloppily executed attempt at whimsy. Wallowing in saccharine wisdom-of-madness cliches, this “meta-theatrical adventure” posits a mysterious and magical woman named Esteliana Caprice, who invites five joyless misfits to a party at her home, where she turns them into joyful misfits. Her project connects somehow to the mostly inscrutable “plays” of the title, which are acted out by the misfits, sometimes to narration and sometimes to songs performed by a live quartet.

Though the cast can be charming in short bursts, the general flakiness quickly becomes hard to take. And so do the seating arrangements.

Writer/director Tonika Todorova has opted for an alley staging, with three rows of chairs placed on either side of a long, narrow playing area; since there are also thick pillars on either side, big chunks of the action are lost to audience members in the second and third rows. —TONY ADLER Through 6/21: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 4 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773-769-3832, silenttheatre. com, $20-$30.

Trust Us/Screw You In Peter Bogdanovich’s 1973 film Paper Moon, there’s a great scene where Ryan O’Neil fast-talks a chatty storekeeper out of five bucks. O’Neil’s manip-

ulator is the apotheosis of con men, preying on our most evident vulnerabilities while smiling all the while.

Neo-Futurists Dan Kerr-Hobert and Phil Ridarelli, who created and star in this new work, attempt to channel that charm but end up going on long-winded historical tangents and serving up seemingly personal anecdotes of being cheated on. Perhaps most inappropriately, the two men bring strangers up from the audience and ask them to publicly relay personal information, including housing history, bank account balance, and whether or not they own a car, a palpably anxiety-filled bullying experience for both volunteers and audience. See the show if you must. You will, without a doubt, get screwed. —CHLOE RILEY Through 6/13: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, 773-275-5255, neofuturists.org, $20, $25 VIP, $10 seniors and students.

Tug of War Work, war, and immigration are the unifying themes for this hour-long program of one-act plays

by Filipino-American company Circa Pintig. The four playwrights draw on interviews with refugees and soldiers, most from the U.S. invasion of Iraq, to create parables both true and fictional, though you’d be hard put to spot the difference. Nevertheless, in Aaron Mays’s production, any meaningful or revealing connections

are obscured by abstract movement, cryptic poetry, and stilted, often didactic monologues. It’s a picture that never comes together as a whole, but a remount of Lorely Trinidad-Ontal’s Caregiver, about a Filipino hospice nurse spreading herself too thin, could start an interesting conversation. —DAN JAKES Through 6/14: Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Moooh Dulce Studio, 2602 W. Fullerton, brownpapertickets.com, $12, $10 students and seniors.

Twisted Melodies Actor-playR wright-singer-pianist Kevin Rolston Jr. stars in his own one-man

play about 1970s soul singer Donny Hathaway, whose struggle with paranoid schizophrenia led to his suicide in 1979. While Rolston delivers solid renditions of some of Hathaway’s repertoire—including “The Ghetto— Part 1,” “The Closer I Get to You,” the John Lennon ballad “Jealous Guy,” and the exquisite Tin Pan Alley standard “For All We Know”—the focus here is on Hathaway’s escalating mental illness, in particular his belief he was being persecuted by an imaginary “Machine” trying to steal “my songs and my secrets.”

Rolston’s sometimes frighteningly intense performance is supported by the work of sound designer Rick Sims, video producer Dre Robinson, and projections designer Paul Deziel, who evoke the sometimes beau- B

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THEATER/COMEDY B tiful but mostly chaotic visual and auditory hallucinations that disrupted Hathaway from his ability to create beautiful music. Congo Square Theatre’s production, directed by Samuel G. Roberson Jr., is a powerful and sometimes painful examination of the tragedy of mental illness as well as a worthy tribute to an iconic artist. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 6/14: Fri 7:30 Pm, Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773-935-6860, congosquaretheatre.org, $37, $27 students and seniors, $19.50 two-for-one matinees.

The Woman Before TwenR ty-four years ago, Frank and Romy were summer lovers. Frank’s

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moved on, marrying Claudia and raising their son, Andi. As Frank and Claudia prepare to vacate the apartment they’ve shared for 19 years, Romy shows up, insisting that Frank’s two-decades-old declaration of eternal love—made through a pop song—was a solemn promise Frank must honor. And boy, is she insistent. German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s potent, menacing 2004 farce gives director Elly Green a run for her money.

She nails the volatile love triangle at the play’s center, maintaining a precise balance between deadpan absurdity and psychological terror.

(Unsurprisingly, the tangential relationship between Andi and Romy, which Schimmelpfennig overcooks, rings false.) Joe Schermoly’s exactingly denuded set is a fever dream of grotesque banality. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 6/13: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 7 PM, Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W. Cortland, 773-384-0494, trapdoortheatre.com, $20-$25, two for one on Fridays.

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IMPROV/SKETCH The Armando Diaz Theatrical Experience & Hootennany An old standby, this weekly show originated by David Koechner, Adam McKay, and, yes, Armando Diaz during the trio’s heyday at iO Theater remains as entertaining as ever, using performer monologues as inspiration for a night of masterful long-form improv. Mon 5/25, 8 PM, iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov. com/chicago, $12.

The Best of Second City The finest sketches, songs, and improv from the company’s 50-year history. Sat 5/23, 4 PM, also Mon 5/25, 8 PM, Second City, 1616 N. Wells, 312-337-3992,

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OPENING The December Man Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co. presents a drama

by Canadian playwright Colleen Murphy, about a family attempting to recover from a tragedy. Through 6/28: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 7 PM, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, Angel Island, 731 W. Sheridan, 773871-0442, maryarrchie.com, $25, $20 students and seniors.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses Charlie Marie McGrath directs this AstonRep production. Through 6/28: Thursdays-Sundays, Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, 773-338-2177, raventheatre.com, $20.

Lunacy! Jackalope Theatre’s “cryptohistorical comedy” on the premise that the 1969 moon landing was faked. Through 6/20: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM (no show Fri 5/22), Sun 3 PM; also Tue 5/19, 7:30 PM; Sun 6/14, 7:30 PM, Broadway Armory Park, 5917 N. Broadway, 312-742-7502, jackalopetheatre.org, $15-$20.

BEST OF ONGOING Bad Jews A nasty-brilliant R staging of Joshua Harmon’s witty, penetrating satire. Through

6/7: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-9758150, theaterwit.org, $20-$36.

Billy Elliot Rachel Rockwell’s R adaptation of the hit musical is full of surprises. Through 6/7: Thu 1:30 and 8 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 5 and 8:45 PM, Sun 2 and 6 PM, Wed 1:30 PM, Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, 100 Drury Ln., Oakbrook Terrace,

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Blessing Blaine Swen and Susan Messing’s two-person show.

Tue 5/26, 10:30 PM, iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov.com/ chicago, $5.

630-530-0111, drurylaneoakbrook. com, $52.50-$67.50.

Blue Man Group The cobalt R zanies, at the Briar Street Theatre since 1997. Open run: Thu

8 PM, Fri 7 PM, Sat 2, 5, and 8 PM, Sun 4 and 7 PM, Briar Street Theatre, 3133 N. Halsted, 773348-4000, blueman.com/tickets/ chicago, $49-$59.

Bob: A Life in Five Acts R LiveWire’s comedy is about a everyman hero in the making.

Through 6/7: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 5 PM, Flat Iron Arts Building, 1579 N. Milwaukee, 312-335-3000, livewirechicago.com, $20.

Boobs on Endor: A Return R of the Jedi Burlesque Gorilla Tango’s latest all-female burlesque parody. Open run: Sat 10:30 PM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-598-4549, gorillatango.com, $22-$28.

La Casa de Bernarda Alba R A haunting, poetic staging of Federico García Lorca’s last work,

performed in Spanish with English supertitles. Through 6/7: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 6 PM, Aguijon Theater, 2707 N. Laramie, 773-637-5899, aguijontheater.org, $25, $15 students and seniors.

Doubt: A Parable Writers R Theatre’s site-specific production of John Patrick Shanley’s

2005 drama features Karen Janes Wodisch in an astonishing performance. Through 7/19: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 2 and 6 PM, Tue-Wed 7:30 PM, Glencoe Union Church, 263 Park, Glencoe, writerstheatre.org, $45-$65.

STAND-UP Todd Barry Fri 5/22, 7:30 R and 10 PM, SPACE, 1245 Chicago, Evanston, 847-492-8860, evanstonspace.com, $20.

Cartoon Sex Book Improv by Pat Reidy, Adam Peacock, Beth Melewski, Asher Perlman, and Kevin Sciretta. Sun 5/24, 10 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, annoyanceproductions.com, $5.

Eddie Ifft 5/21-5/22: Thu 8 PM, Fri 8 and 10 PM, Laugh Factory, 3175 N. Broadway, 773-327-3175, laughfactory.com, $17.

CIC Comedy Showcase Rainbow Deli headlines a rotating lineup of comedy teams. Sat 5/23, 10:30 PM, CIC Theater, 1422 W. Irving Park, 773-865-7731, cictheater.com, $10.

Fri 8:30 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, 773-251-1539, thelincolnlodge.com, $10.

The Improvised ShakeR speare Company Seven men in swashbuckler shirts

which spans five days and a large swath of the city. Featuring standup by John Mulaney, Kyle Kinane, and Ellie Kemper, film screenings with “Weird Al” Yankovic, panel discussions, and more. Tue 5/26Sat 5/30, times and locations vary, 26comedy.com, prices vary. v

improvise a two-act Shakespearean play based on a title suggested by the audience. Fri 5/22, 8 PM, iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, improvisedshakespeare.com, $14.

Lincoln Lodge Featuring R Dave Helem, Everything Is Terrible, Drew Frees. Open run:

Second Annual 26th AnnuR al Comedy Festival It really is the sophomore year of this fest,

THEATER/DANCE

DANCE More dance reviews and schedule info at chicagoreader. com/dance.

Ayodele West African dance class Multilevel dance class based on the traditional drum beats of West African music. Thu 5/21 6:30 PM, Sherman Park Fieldhouse, 1301 W. 52nd, 312-260-7940, ayodeledrumanddance.com, $10.

Nomi Dance For this seasonal showcase, the Chicago dance company commissions work

Fucked Up Family Reunion R Under the Gun’s crafty improv based on family stories from the audience. Open run: Thu 7:30 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

Hello and Goodbye South R African playwright Athol Fugard’s two-hander gets an

effective staging from Bluebird Arts. Through 6/6: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, 773-539-7838, propthtr.org, $22, $18 students and seniors.

The Herd Rory Kinnear’s play R features celebrated Steppenwolf ensemble elders Lois Smith and John Mahoney. Through 6/7: Tue-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat-Sun 3 and 7:30 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted, 312-335-1650, steppenwolf. org, $20-$86.

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Holy Bouncing Boobies: A Batman Burlesque Entertaining superhero burlesque from Gorilla Tango Theatre. Open run: Sat 11:59 PM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-598-4549, gorillatango.com, $28-$35.

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Late Nite Catechism A nun instructs her students—that’s you—on the dos and don’ts of dogma. Open run: Sat 5 PM, Sun 2 PM, Royal George Theatre Center, 1641 N. Halsted, 312-988-9000, theroyalgeorgetheatre.com, $30.

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The Little Foxes The Goodman’s extraordinary revival of Lillian Hellman’s prescient melodrama. Through 6/7: Wed-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Sun 6/7 at 7:30 PM; Tue 5/26, 7:30 PM, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-443-3800, goodmantheatre.org, $25-$79.

Louis and Keely “Live” at R the Sahara Musical biopic of the Vegas entertainers. Through

5/31: Tue-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Royal George Theatre Center, 1641 N.

by local performers, including Monique Haley, Stephanie Martinez (River North Dance Chicago), Joshua Blake Carter (Giordano Dance), and Nomi’s own Katie Carey. Sat 5/23, 8 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773-935-6860, nomilamaddance. com, $12-$32.

The Salts A collaboration between Erin Kilmurray and Molly Brennan, this dance performance re-creates live rock music, interpreting the sensation of “distorted guitar, driving bass lines, wild vocals and heart-thumping drum beats.” Through 5/30: Thu-Sat 8:30 PM, Collaboraction, 1579 N. Milwaukee, 312-226-9633, $10-$25. v

Halsted, 312-988-9000, theroyalgeorgetheatre.com, $64.

Melancholy Play: A ChamR ber Musical Todd Almond and Sarah Ruhl’s fun, farcical musi-

cal. Through 6/7: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Piven Theatre, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes, Evanston, 847-866-8049, piventheatre.org, $20-$35.

Million Dollar Quartet R Crowd-pleasing re-creation of a legendary 1956 jam session. Open

run: Wed 2 and 7:30 PM, Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 5 and 8 PM, Sun 3:30 and 6:30 PM, Apollo Theater, 2540 N. Lincoln, 773-935-6100, apollochicago.com, $25-$70.

No-Tell Motel Weekly burR lesque showcase with pyrotechnics and power tools. Open run:

Wed 10 PM, Debonair Social Club, 1575 N. Milwaukee, 773-227-7790, debonairsocialclub.com. F

Ring of Fire Impressive musicianship and musical direction R redeem this jukebox musical featur-

ing 32 Johnny Cash songs. Through 6/28: Wed 7:30 PM, Thu 3 and 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 3 and 7 PM, Mercury Theater, 3745 N. Southport, 773-325-1700, mercurytheaterchicago.com, $25-$65.

Sense and Sensibility Paul R Gordon’s adaptation shows that musicals and Jane Austen are

not quite incompatible. Through 6/7: Wed 1 and 7:30 PM, Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Sun 5/24, 6:30 PM; Tue 5/26 and 6/2, 7:30 PM, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand, 312-595-5600, chicagoshakes.com, $58-$88.

Soul Brother, Where Art R Thou? Second City E.T.C.’s latest sketch show is unusually poi-

gnant as well as hilarious. Through 12/19: Thu 8 PM, Fri-Sat 8 and 11 PM, Sun 7 PM, Second City E.T.C., Piper’s Alley, 1608 N. Wells, 312-337-3992, secondcity.com, $23-$48.

Alison Hixon and Tyler Young

Three Sisters Adapter-diR rector Geoff Button puts the Hypocrites’ distinctive touch on

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Chekhov. Through 6/6: Fri-Sat and Mon 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Den Theatre, 1329-1333 N. Milwaukee, 773-6092336, the-hypocrites.com, $28.

Too Much Light Makes R the Baby Go Blind The fare changes weekly in this invariably

ANOTHER KIND OF R LOVE Through 6/14: Thu-Sat

entertaining Neo-Futurists production. Open run: Fri-Sat 11:30 PM, Sun 7 PM, Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, 773-275-5255, neofuturists.org, $9 plus the roll of a die ($10-$15).

7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773-769-3832, infusiontheatre.com, $25, $20 seniors, $15 students.

Undressed Revealing R sketch revue directed by TJ Jagodowski and David Pasquesi.

Open run: Fri-Sat 8 PM, iO Theater, the Mission Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov.com/chicago, $20, $12 students.

The White Road Irish Theatre R of Chicago tells the incredible story of Ernest Shackleton’s

doomed third expedition. Through 6/13: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Den Theatre, 1329-1333 N. Milwaukee, 773-609-2336, irishtheatreofchicago.org, $26-$30.

CLOSING Anna in the Afterlife Through 5/24: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, petheatre. com, $25.

The Devilish Children (and R the Civilizing Process) Through 5/23: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Dream

Laboratory, 5026 N. Lincoln, 773552-8616, dreamtheatrecompany. com, $20.

The Grown-Up Through 5/23: R Thu-Sat 8 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, shat-

teredglobeseason.org, $15-$33.

Lifeboat Through 5/24: R Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Filament Theatre, 4041 N. Milwaukee, filamenttheatre.org, $12-$20.

The Project(s) Through 5/24: ThuFri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, American Theater Company, 1909 W. Byron, 773-409-4125, atcweb.org, $38-$48.

Red Handed Otter Through 5/24: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells, 312943-8722, aredorchidtheatre.org, $30-$35.

Side Man Through 5/24: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, greenhousetheater.org, $19-$49.

Wonderland, Alice’s Rock & R Roll Adventure Through 5/24: Sat 11 AM, Sun 11 AM and 2 PM, Ruth

Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, 312-337-6543, ruthpage. org, $38, $28 children. v

Long live punk rock whores

By CHLOE RILEY

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ife isn’t about avoiding pain but plumbing its depths and managing the results wails Another Kind of Love, a female-driven punk-rock masterpiece by Crystal Skillman, now receiving a debut production from InFusion Theatre Company. Maybe masterpiece isn’t quite the right word—it suggests something lofty and out of reach, where this play banks on raw and accessible if festering emotions.

But an artistic achievement it is.

The Brooklyn-based Skillman has previously tackled angsty relationships and paid fan-girl tributes, but this time she gives us sisters, those lovable/hateful creatures simultaneously in each other’s arms and at each other’s throats. Here there are three of them, ex-members of a Riot Grrrl-era band, now in their 30s and struggling to find a way forward. The oldest, Tanya, stayed in Seattle’s suburbia with her 15-year-old daughter, Max, while the others, Kit and Collin, cashed in on fame to varying degrees. They haven’t seen each other since the band broke up, but after urgings from Max—herself a punk rocker in the making— the sisters reunite on the anniversary of their rock-star mother’s suicide.

That’s the premise for the play Skillman started work on three years ago, which until February lacked another critical component: live music. Then she ran into composer Heidi Rodewald, who with her collaborator Stew had success with the Tony-nominated Passing Strange (2008) and last year’s Family Album, both shows about older rockers trying to navigate the wild unknowns of middle age. Rodewald’s organic, reverb-laced songs sound like they

come from someone who’s actually played in a band (she has) while still taking into account a wider audience whose relationship with grunge may not go beyond Nirvana.

Rehearsal involved a month of band practice before scene work even began.

The women of this remarkable cast are badasses, their acting as fierce as their guitar shredding. And while all the proper nods to 90s punk are in place—Cobain, Bikini Kill, Unwound—this isn’t a play about punk rock. It isn’t even a play about women, at least not according to Skillman, who maintains that the sisters represent the sheer power of discovering one’s artistic voice. In Max we have something of an anomaly: she’s an underage girl who drinks, skips school, talks openly about sex, and amazingly, this play doesn’t punish her for any of that. Max doesn’t pride herself on her relation to her mother, father, boyfriend—her greatest connection is to herself. Her pain comes not out of familial absence but out of what she’s yet to come to terms with internally. She wants fame, but more importantly she wants autonomy. We watch, praying she gets it.

Skillman jokes that while in rehearsals for her 2012 play Wild, the crew used to tally the show’s F-bombs—more than 300, they estimated. There could easily be that many and more here, another refreshing deviation from a gendered norm. The show’s fucks represent a freedom of their own—the uninhibited women who utter them don’t give one. As Bikini Kill once screamed, “Does it scare you boy that we don’t need you? Us punk rock whores don’t need you.” v

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LIT & LECTURES

“JEAN-LUC MYLAYNE: R MUTUAL REGARD” 5/22-8/23, Art Institute of

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Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600, artic.edu; 5/22-8/13, Arts Club of Chicago, 201 E. Ontario, 312787-3997, artsclubchicago. org; 5/22-12/31, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph; ; at Art Institute, $23. F

“MUTUAL REGARD,” a new exhibit of work by French photographer Jean-Luc Mylayne that opens Friday at the Art Institute, is the result of a series of collaborations: between Mylayne and his life and work partner, Mylène Mylayne; between the Art Institute and the Arts Club of Chicago, which are cosponsoring the exhibit; and between Mylayne and the birds that have been his primary subjects for the past 40 years.

“The photos look at the mutuality in nature, in spaces, and in the way Mylayne works,” says Janine Mileaf, the curator at the Arts Club. “The two institutions mirror that collaboration.” (In yet another variation on the theme of partnership, her husband, Matthew Witkovsky, is curating the exhibit at the Art Institute.)

Mylayne’s photos are the result of time and patience. He will find a location, Mileaf explains, and study the scene in order to determine the best way to frame the shot and decide where he wants the bird to be.

Then he’ll watch the birds for weeks, sometimes months, waiting for them to accept his presence and for one to alight in the right spot.

“It looks like a nature picture,” says

More visual art reviews and schedule info at chicagoreader. com/visart.

GALLERIES Arts Club of Chicago “Mutual Regard,” the Art Institute and the Arts Club team up for a concurrent exhibit of French artist Jean-Luc Mylayne’s photographs of birds. A new pavilion in Millennium Park will also display the artist’s work. (See preview above for more information.) Opening reception Fri 5/22, 6 PM. Through

Mileaf, “but it’s a philosophical, conceptual practice.”

This will be the first major exhibit of Mylayne’s work in the United States, and the Arts Club and the Art Institute will both have photos on display. There will also be a pavilion/chapel in the Lurie Garden at Millennium Park showing more of Mylayne’s pictures, including, on the ceiling, a shot of a sparrow from below, a vantage point next to impossible to achieve. (“It’s almost supernatural” Mileaf says. “Birds see something approaching from below as a predator.”) Throughout the summer, the pavilion will host a series of lectures, tours, and birding expeditions. Says Mileaf, “There are a lot of ways this can be experienced.”

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8/13. Mon-Fri 11 AM-6 PM. 201 E. Ontario, 312-787-3997, artsclubchicago.org.

Carl Hammer Gallery “Ruth,” group show featuring work from the Horwich Collection; featured artists include Ellen Lanyon, June Leaf, and Ed Paschke. Reception Thu 5/21, 5 PM. Through 7/2.

Tue-Fri 11 AM-6 PM, Sat 11 AM-5 PM. 740 N. Wells, 312-266-8512, hammergallery.com.

University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts “Trapped in Acapulco,” master’s thesis exhibition featuring student work by Carris Adams, David Lloyd, Tori

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Whitehead, and Richard Williamson. Reception Fri 5/22, 6-8 PM. Through 6/14. Mon-Sat 8 AM-10 PM, Sun 4-8 PM. 915 E. 60th, 773702-2787, arts.uchicago.edu.

David Weinberg Photography “An Invisible Hand,” group show about the experience of living with poverty. Work includes photographs, moving image and sound installations, and sculpture; featuring artists John Preus, Lisa Lindvay, Lisa Vinebaum, and Patricia Evans. Opening reception Fri 5/22, 5-8 PM. Through 7/25. Tue-Sat 10 AM-5:30 PM. 300 W. Superior, #203, 312-529-5090, d-weinberg.com. v

Jessica Hopper rocks

By KEVIN WARWICK

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uring my infancy at the Reader some seven years ago, I got to know Jessica Hopper through her writing. Although she was a regular freelancer for the paper, she was rarely if at all seen in the office. Instead, Hopper was part of a nomadic bunch of music-journo idealists who took obvious pleasure both in the freedom of the freelance life and in the writing itself.

Hopper had a very personal and distinctive style that was never alienating to her readers but actually drew them in more erdom,” which is her punk-rock comingthan here-are-the-facts reporting. Wheth- of-age story—the raw personal notes are er she was documenting a few weeks she reserved for the subjects of each piece. spent at the suburban The collection shows teenage wasteland of off Hopper’s range: it THE FIRST COLLECTION OF CRITICISM BY A Warped Tour or snarkskates from “Sweet LIVING FEMALE ROCK CRITIC ing at a soulless 20th-anThings,” a whimsical

By Jessica Hopper niversary Nirvana box open letter to Sufjan Ste(Featherproof) Reading Fri 5/29, 7 PM, set, she was happy to vens, to “Will the Stink of Quimby’s, 1854 W. North, 773muse at the anthill of the Success Ruin the Smell?,” 342-0910, quimbys.com. F music scene through a a deconstruction of the magnifying glass—and underground venue the for everyone’s enjoyment, particularly her Smell, to “You Will Ache Like I Ache: The own, she’d sometimes refract a ray of sun Oral History of Hole’s Live Through This.” here and there to scorch a hole in it.

There’s also some serious journalism. An Now settled into a senior editor position in-depth 2013 interview with Jim DeRogaat Pitchfork, Hopper has just released a tis about his coverage of the R. Kelly sexnew book, The First Collection of Criticism ual-assault scandal in the late 90s reveals by a Living Female Rock Critic. As she puts that the former Sun-Times pop-music it in a short preface, the hard-core, slightly critic still struggles with the details he tongue-in-cheek title “is about planting a uncovered in his reporting. And Hopper’s flag” and “is not meant to erase our history incredible 2009 Reader profile of Pedro the but rather to help mark the path.”

Lion’s David Bazan details a front Broken into eight parts (Chicago, man’s battle with his faith (or lack More lit reviews Real/Fake, Nostalgia, California, thereof) as he returns to perform and schedule Faith, Bad Reviews, Strictly Busiat the Christian music festival info at chicagoreader. ness, and Females), the work is Cornerstone, four years after com/lit. an aughts-era hodgepodge of rebeing exiled for getting wasted on views, escapades, oral histories, the festival grounds. investigative features, and stream-of-conThis is a collection that is long overdue, sciousness meditations from her Tumblr but for readers who have only recently page, Tinyluckgenius, that flows in a happy discovered Hopper, it shows the evolution sort of disjointedness. While Hopper often of a distinctive voice into a well-known brings her own experiences into narra- byline. v tives—as in her EMP Pop Conference paper “Louder Than Love: My Teen Grunge Pos! @kevinwarwick

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It’s a mad, mad, Mad Max world

By BEN SACHS

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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. ven after two viewings, I feel as though I’ve only scratched the surface of Mad Max: Fury Road. George Miller’s action fantasy is astonishingly dense for a big-budget spectacle, not only in its imagery and ideas but in the complex interplay between them (Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips has aptly likened the movie to a symphony). In a sense Fury Road has been gestating since the late 1970s, when Miller first envisioned the character of Mad Max and the nightmarish future Australia he inhabits. The movie builds upon motifs from Miller’s original trilogy with Mel Gibson—Mad Max

(1979), The Road Warrior (1981), and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)—though it’s not a sequel but a complete reimagining of the world in those films. Miller began planning this fourth installment as far back as 2001 and claims to have generated so much material during the unusually long preproduction phase that he already has a couple more stories ready to go.

Because of this long history (not to mention Miller’s recent experience directing the children’s animation Happy Feet and its sequel), every shot bustles with imaginative detail—the world of the film feels authentically lived in. Miller reportedly instructed his actors to devise a history for every prop they used, and many of those props appear to have been crafted by hand. Most of the film takes place over a few days, and much of the action consists of extended chase sequences (indeed

Miller originally devised the film as one continuous chase). The story of Fury Road is so simple and the details are so engrossing that one can easily lose track of the characters and just get lost in the design. In this regard it recalls another audacious big-budget fantasy, Jacques Tati’s Playtime (1967), for which the director constructed elaborate and highly detailed sets of a futuristic Paris.

Like the previous two Mad Max movies, Fury Road takes place in a postapocalyptic world of scarce natural resources. A tyrant named Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played the wicked Toe Cutter in the original Mad Max) has commandeered Australia’s last remaining source of freshwater and uses this power to rule pharaohlike over the Citadel, a mountain community that’s grown up around the water supply. In addition to hoarding most of the water for himself and

overseeing an army that protects his inter- These sequences are more intricately plotted, ests, Joe keeps several wives in captivity to evoking the visual intricacy of the Citadel. bear his children. The story kicks into gear Max and Nux learning to collaborate with when Joe’s lieutenant, Imperator Furiosa the women is presented as such a victory (Charlize Theron), liberates the women and, that the group’s triumph over Immortan Joe fleeing Joe’s soldiers, sets off with them would feel like an afterthought if Miller didn’t across the desert to a fabled all-female utopia stage the final battle so spectacularly. At the known as the Green Place. beginning of Fury Road, Max is little more Joe’s soldiers—a race of bald-headed, than an animal, a violent nomad struggling to white-painted grease monkeys known as endure amidst scavengers and War Boys. The the War Boys—are one of the movie’s most character tells us in voice-over that he went ingenious innovations. Brainwashed into de- mad after his wife and children were killed, voting their entire lives to the army, the War and that his mind is too addled to compreBoys power Joe’s fleet of military vehicles hend anything greater than his immediate literally with their own blood—in this future survival. In learning to work with others, hell, bodily fluids are used interchangeably Max reclaims his humanity—while Nux, with gasoline. (This detail suggests a comic who’s never known anything besides war and literalizing of the protest slogan “No blood death, discovers his. Played by Hoult as an for oil.”) When we meet Max (Tom Hardy, impressionable, even cheery little boy, Nux taking over for Mel Gibson), he’s in the pro- is the heart of Fury Road, which improbably cess of getting captured by a combines rousing action band of War Boys, who plan and fairy-tale idealism with MAD MAX: FURY ROAD to convert him into a human moving results. ssss Directed by George Miller. gas tank. He ends up powIf Nux is the heart of the R, 120 min. See listings for ering a vehicle that’s driven movie, then Furiosa is its venues.

by Nux (Nicholas Hoult), a soul, a hard-charging but dogmatic young man who sympathetic warrior comwants nothing more than to die in battle for mitted to finding a better world. One of the Joe. After Nux and Max get separated from big surprises of Fury Road, however, is that the army, they come to assist Furiosa and the there is no better world to be found. The women, gradually recognizing the women as Green Place turns out to be nothing more worthy peers. than a myth, so Max convinces the group Miller and cowriters Brendan McCarthy to journey back to the Citadel, overthrow and Nick Lathouris signal the end of Joe’s Immortan Joe, and establish a more humane reign—and the arrival of a more democratic system of government. By the time the charsociety—in how they structure the narrative acters get back to this marvel of production of Fury Road. For most of the movie’s first design, you might be glad they’ve returned, half, Miller divides one’s attention evenly since you have another chance to take in all between Max and Furiosa; the chase scenes the incredible-looking stuff. (I’m most partial in this portion are staged so that one worries to the band of drummers who play for Joe on about the survival of a single character (or in rotating platforms hundreds of feet off the some cases, a single vehicle) being pursued ground.) The intricate spectacle of the Citaby a murderous horde. After the men and del exists not for its own sake but for its deep women join forces, however, Miller and his thematic significance. The more invested you writers expand their focus so that one cares feel in Miller’s fantasy world—or, better yet, about the survival of the entire group. The our own real one—the more you want to see it chase scenes in the movie’s second half find saved from despots and violence. v the heroes not just fleeing, but combining ¢ @1bsachs their wits in order to outsmart their enemies.

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Thom Andersen displays himself

By J.R. JONES

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ne of the most respected film es- The documentary opens with D.W. Griffith’s sayists in America, Thom Andersen pioneering gangster movie The Musketeers is best known for his cult classic of Pig Alley (1912), and its gritty back-alley Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), an epic location promises another contemplation meditation on the town he calls home and of places and their communal meaning. Yet its deep connection to the history of the Andersen is more interested in the human movies. For nearly three hours, Andersen face—in Deleuze’s parlance, the “affeccombs through the city in search of loca- tion-image”—whose individuality gives the tions that appeared in famous (and not so cinema its extraordinary power.

The Thoughts That Once We Had takes famous) films, juxtaposing his own footage with archival clips to show how real places that sense of individuality to its logical conbecame part of our collective imagination. clusion, presenting a highly personal, willfulThe movie’s informed, deeply skeptical ly eccentric history of the movies. Deleuze’s ideas are just one ball of first-person narration— string Andersen happens written by Andersen but THE THOUGHTS THAT to have in his pockets; read in voice-over by ONCE WE HAD sss Directed by Thom Andersen. elsewhere the filmmaker an actor—comments on 108 min. Andersen attends finds time to dilate on the dreamworld of the the screening. Sat 5/23, 7 PM, the human suffering of movies as well as the city Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th, 773the Leningrad siege, surplanning that shaped LA, 702-2787, filmstudiescenter. veillance footage of Patty and the sometimes rapauchicago.edu. cious politics behind it.

Hearst sticking up a bank Like a movie, a big city is with the Symbionese Liba shared experience, and Andersen, incor- eration Army, the creative genesis of Chubporating clips from such proletarian clas- by Checker’s dance-craze hit “The Twist,” sics as The Exiles (1961) and Killer of Sheep and the onscreen rantings of the demented (1977), challenges us to do a better job of character actor Timothy Carey. By the time sharing it equally.

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Animals Writer-star David Dastmalchian based this gritty local drama on his own experience as a homeless heroin addict, which might explain why it feels so authoritative in many of its details. The film is most compelling when it focuses on the daily hustle of scoring money and drugs, following the protagonist and his girlfriend (Kim Shaw) as they carry out various scams; these range from the petty to the frighteningly reckless, depending on how desperate they feel on any given day. The couple’s doomed romance feels familiar from numerous other films about addiction, and the movie is downright bad whenever it aspires to visual poetry. The title refers to the couple’s affection for animals they see at the Lincoln Park Zoo, an unnecessarily precious touch that adds nothing to our understanding of the characters. Collin Schiffli directed. —BEN SACHS 86 min. Fri 5/22, 7:45 PM; Sat 5/24, 7:30 PM; Tue 5/26, 8 PM; and Thu 5/28, 8:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Good Kill With such films as Gattaca (1997), R S1m0ne (2002), and In Time (2011), writer-director Andrew Niccol has employed sci-fi premises to

comment obliquely on contemporary issues; in this docudrama he provocatively depicts drone warfare as a real-life sci-fi horror. A psychologically fragile Air Force pilot (Ethan Hawke) is assigned to operate fighter drones from a base outside Las Vegas, but the better he gets at his new job, the more he comes to feel like a machine himself. Hawke’s transformation is both upsetting and scary (you’re not sure what this terminally repressed man is capable of doing), though it doesn’t overshadow the larger horror of soldiers killing people from several thousand miles away. This is less visually inventive than Niccol’s other features, but the bold, confrontational tone commands one’s attention, and the cast–which also includes Bruce Greenwood and Zoe Kravitz—is superb. —BEN SACHS R, 102 min. Fri 5/22, 6 and 8 PM; Sat 5/23, 5:15 and 7:45 PM; Sun 5/24, 5 and 7:45 PM; Mon 5/25, 3 and 5 PM; Tue 5/26, 7:45 PM; Wed 5/27, 6 and 8 PM; and Thu 5/28, 7:45 PM, Gene Siskel Film Center; also Wilmette I’ll See You in My Dreams A nuanced lead performance by Blythe Danner anchors this better-than-average entry in the growing subgenre of light dramas about Baby Boomers learning to enjoy retirement; unlike many of the others, it doesn’t try to make the protagonist likable at every turn. Danner’s character—a sedentary Los Angeleno still mourning her husband’s death after 20 years—is very much responsible for her own unhappiness, and even when she was happy, her life wasn’t that remarkable. The story hinges on several long encounters between the heroine and a 30-ish failed musician now working as a pool cleaner (Martin Starr, who has a nice rapport with Danner); what develops between them isn’t friendship so much as shared feelings of disappointment and self-loathing. Brett Haley, directing a script he cowrote with Marc Basch, maintains a sweet tone, but this still leaves a pungent aftertaste. —BEN SACHS PG-13, 85 min. Landmark’s Century Centre The Lesson This 2014 Bulgarian drama is essentially a James M. Cain-style noir thriller dressed up as Dardenne-style social realism. Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, directing their own script, don’t have as much to say about the European Union’s ongoing

MOVIES economic crisis as they let on, but it becomes the backdrop for a classic tale of an ordinary person pushed to desperate measures. The heroine is a tightly wound schoolteacher plagued by bad luck: her deadbeat husband has secretly run her into debt, the bank is days away from auctioning off her possessions, and she still can’t identify which of her students stole her wallet weeks earlier. Things get even more dire from there, and the kinetic yet poker-faced filmmaking renders the narrative turns especially jolting.

In English and subtitled Bulgarian. —BEN SACHS 107 min. Facets Cinematheque Mad Max: Fury Road See review, page 29. R, R 121 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, City North 14, Davis, New 4o0, River East 21, Show-

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that can be appreciated by anyone. Director Pascal Plisson interweaves four stories of children in remote areas—central Kenya; Patagonia, Argentina; the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco; and the Bay of Bengal— who face tremendous physical difficulties getting to school every day. Such narrative-filmmaking elements as choreographed movement, written dialogue, and suspense sequences make the children seem less like sociological case studies than like the relatable characters one encounters in fiction. Plisson establishes such incredible empathy for his subjects that, despite the vivid impressions of their archaic lifestyles, they never feel exotic. This is a movie André Bazin would have loved, down to its absorbing deep-focus cinematography. In subtitled Arabic, broken English, Spanish, Swahili, and Tamil. —BEN SACHS 77 min. Wed 5/27, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Slow West The title might suggest a Sam Shepard parody, but this arty western from New Zealand plays like a simplified version of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man. In the late 19th century a young Scot (Kodi SmitMcPhee) crosses the Colorado territory in search of his lost love, who has emigrated to America after an unspecified scandal. Writer-director John Maclean insists at every opportunity that the American west teemed with brutality and that every positive myth about the region was built on a lie, yet he doesn’t deliver this familiar revisionist history with much force.

The problem isn’t his weak grasp of the period but his misguided decision to adopt a fairy-tale tone that amounts to needless sugarcoating. Michael Fassbender plays a solitary gunslinger who improbably takes Smit-McPhee under his wing, and Ben Mendelsohn (Animal Kingdom) plays an eccentric villain who seems to have wandered in from a Sam Peckinpah film. —BEN SACHS R, 84 min. Fri 5/22-Sun 5/24, 2, 5, 7:10, and 9:20 PM; Mon 5/25, 5, 7:10, and 9:20 PM; Tue 5/26, 5 and 9:20 PM; Wed 5/27, 7:10 and 9:20 PM; and Thu 5/28, 5, 7:10, and 9:20 PM. Music Box The Thoughts That Once We Had See review, R page 30. 108 min. Andersen attends the screening. Sat 5/23, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts

Tomorrowland Banking on the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Disney poaches another of its theme park attractions for this sci-fi adventure.

A plucky teenager (Britt Robertson) discovers an interdimensional utopia while helping a cranky scientist (George Clooney) and robot child (Raffey Cassidy) prevent Earth’s self-imposed apocalypse.

Director Brad Bird brings his vivid widescreen compositions and kitschy retro-futurism to a screenplay he co-wrote with Damon Lindleof, but his storytelling, a strong point in The Iron Giant (1999) and The Incredibles (2004), is harsh and inelegant. An aggressively optimistic script admonishes the lazy and irresolute and urges humanity to end war and save the environment; the proselytizing burdens an already onerous plot. With Hugh Laurie. —DREW HUNT PG, 130 min.

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An Honest Liar Luckily for documentary makers Justin Weinstein and Taylor Measom, the life of James Randi has three distinct acts, all of them pretty interesting. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge in 1928, Randi hoped to follow in the footsteps of Harry Houdini; by the time Randi retired from show business at age 55 (after nearly dying in a botched escape act), he’d become one of the most famous magicians in America. For the next few decades he devoted himself to debunking would-be psychics and faith healers, and after he came out as gay in his early 80s, federal authorities revealed that his partner of 25 years had been living illegally in the U.S. under a false identity.

Randi’s story suggests a modern-day footnote to Herman Melville’s novel The Confidence-Man, reflecting the strange interplay between show business, religion, and hucksterism in American life. —BEN SACHS 92 min. Sat 5/23, 7:45 PM; Sun 5/24, 3 PM; Mon 5/25, 5 PM; and Tue 5/26, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center I Am Big Bird Since 1969, Caroll Spinney has been playing Big Bird (as well as his existential antagonist, Oscar the Grouch) on Sesame Street, and for this documentary profile, directors Dave LaMattina and Chad Walker collect warm reminiscences from him, his family, and various admiring colleagues and coworkers. Behind-the-scenes footage provides some fascinating glimpses of Sesame Street being blocked, and the narrative touches on such milestones as Big Bird’s 1979 trip to China with Bob Hope and choked-up performance of “Bein’ Green” at the 1990 memorial service for Muppets mastermind Jim Henson. There are even a few intimations of friction between Spinney and other key figures on the show, though an unbearably treacly score transforms the movie into an exercise in sentimentality.

—J.R. JONES 90 min. Fri 5/22, 6 PM; Sat 5/23, 3 PM; Sun 5/24, 3 and 4:45 PM; Mon 5/25, 3 PM; Tue 5/26, 6 PM; Wed 5/27, 7:45 PM; and Thu 5/28, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Iris Documentary maker Albert Maysles (Salesman, Gimme Shelter,

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Grey Gardens) premiered this feature at the New York Film Festival in October 2014, only five months before his death at age 88.

It’s an extended puff piece on Iris Apfel, a noted interior designer who improbably became a fashion icon in her early 80s, and given her great productiveness in old age, I can see what attracted Maysles to her story. Unfortunately he provides little insight on how an artist finds inspiration in old age or about the creative process in general. Maysles simply presents lots of other designers telling Apfel how brilliant she is, their testimony interspersed with pithy accounts of her past achievements. —BEN SACHS PG-13, 83 min. Fri 5/22, 3:30, 5:30, and 7:30 PM; Sat 5/23-Sun 5/24, 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, and 7:30 PM; Mon 5/25-Tue 5/26, 5:30 and 7:30 PM; Wed 5/27, 5:30 PM; and Thu 5/28, 5:30 and 7:30 PM. Music Box; also River East 21 Lambert & Stamp First-time R documentary maker James D. Cooper looks at Kit Lambert

and Chris Stamp, the aspiring British filmmakers who, in 1964, adopted a fiery but directionless R&B band in North London and molded it into the guitar-smashing pop-art sensation we know as the Who. For years the band’s story has been defined onscreen by Jeff Stein’s raucously funny The Kids Are Alright (1979), which was completed while the original members were all alive and is less a history of the Who than a part of its legend. Lambert & Stamp is something else entirely, an engrossing business story that approaches the band as a showbiz concern, recognizing the two managers as full creative partners and probing their relationships with the fractious musicians. With Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Chris Stamp (who died in 2012), and actor Terence Stamp (Chris’s older brother).

—J.R. JONES R, 117 min. Landmark’s Century Centre Welcome to Me A woman R suffering from borderline personality disorder (Kristen

Wiig) goes off her meds, wins $86 million in the lottery, and decides to broadcast her own Oprah-style talk show, which becomes a vehicle for her petty grudges and weird obsessions. Naturally it’s a giant hit as well, elevating her from the paid-programming ghetto to an actual production deal. The premise of a lunatic becoming a media sensation dates at least as far back as Network (1975) and hardly requires another airing in our age of celebrity bloggers and viral video. But screenwriter Eliot Laurence and director Shira Piven wisely steer clear of tired social satire, focusing as narrowly on the heroine’s inner life as she does herself. They’ve also got the ideal star in Wiig, whose vacant gaze, frozen smile, and preternatural calm have always suggested a vast reservoir of madness. With James Marsden,

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Sat 5/23, 8 PM. Transistor F UHF Music video parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic stars in this satirical 1989 farce about a bumpkin who takes over a run-down TV station; after he enlists a retarded janitor (Michael Richards) to take over the kiddie show, the station’s ratings soar, but the owner of a competing station (Kevin McCarthy) tries to put him out of business. Gamely running through parodies of TV commercials and shows, not to mention Spielberg, Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Selznick, and Gandhi, this is awful by any standard—feeble, corny, and labored in script as well as direction—although the Capracorn of the basic premise occasionally manages to convey a certain sweetness. Jay Levey directed; with Victoria Jackson, David Bowie, and Stanley Brock.

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Responsibilities: - Cold-calling business owners and decision makers to set appointments - Use a consultative sales approach to identify business needs and goals - Create strategic custom solutions to meet customer needs and align our product set with their overall goals - Manage existing business and create new business to maintain a healthy sales pipeline

TELESALES! NEED EXCEPTIONAL diamond in the rough

LINE COOKS NEEDED for eve-

taining Construction Documentation, Record Contract Quantities and Process Progress Payment, Certified

by IDOT for “Documentation for Contract quantity”; preparing and maintaining Planned Vs. As Built drawings and quantities for construction projects; reviewing and processing submittal packages for construction materials to be utilized on construction projects (contractor QC plans, contractor means and method) to check compliance with construction standard and specifications. Please apply on-line at www.exp.com/careers and search for Job Code #5327.

Holland’s Terminal is hiring in Chicago!

Local & Regional Drivers wanted! Full time driver benefits include company paid health insurance, Vacation/holiday/ sick pay, 5% increase on 1st 2nd and 3rd year. Driver candidates must have 1 year or 50,000 miles experience in like-kind equipment, hazmat & tanker endorsements, no dui/owi in last 3 years and no major-preventables in the last 3 years. The Recruiter will be on site May 27,28,29 11am-6pm 8601 W. 53rd St. McCook, IL. 60525.

Find your direction at Holland!

Apply today: www.hollandregional.com/careers EEO/AAE Minorities/Females/Persons with Disabilities/Protected Veterans

Chicago 20 N. Wacker Dr. (@downtown) (312) 236-9000

Naperville 200 E. 5th Ave. (@Metra Station) (630) 536-8679

Blue Island 12840 S. Western Ave. (@Metra Station) (708) 926-9470

Midwestern Career College is approved by the Division of Private Business and Vocational Schools of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Gainful Employment information for each program is available on our website at www.mccollege.edu under program descriptions.

General Manager Wanted

Academy Award winning distributor Music Box Films/ Theatre seeks dynamic new manager/leader for its exhibition business and Chicago theater. If you have the energy, ambition and talent to be in the business of film, there is no better opportunity between LA and NY. Please send resume and cover letter to: stephanie@musicboxtheatre.com

IMBUESYS, INC. IN Rolling Meadows, IL is seeking: Database Administrators; Java Dvlprs; QA Analysts; Systems Analysts & Web Dvlprs, each pos. w/multiple openings @ Levels I, II, & III. For full details & instr. how to apply visit http://imbuesys.com/careers.php.

No travel/telecomm. Positions are proj-based @ various unanticipated sites in U.S. & relo may be required at proj. end.

Mail resumes to: Imbuesys, Inc., Attn: C. Palanisamy, 3315 Algonquin Rd., Ste 102, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008. .

OPS CORP IN Chicago, IL seeks two Operations Specialists to support operational improvement projects in automotive & clean energy industry. Requires Master’s in Eng, Ops Mgmt or rel’d field + 6 months as Eng or Ops role. Must have exp. w/ MS Office (Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Project); PTC ProEngineer; AutoCAD; RHINOCEROS; SQL; VBA; Crystal Reports; Patran; MATLAB; C++ & Java.

Up to 25% domestic travel req’d. Apply at: http://www.valorep.com/careers/ w/Job ID: VEP1 ACCOUNTANT. RESPONSIBLE FOR accounting functions

and ensure company is operating in accordance with CMS’s financial mgt regulations. Req Bachelor’s deg in Accounting or Finance + 6 months acctng. exp. in healthcare industry.

Send resume to HR, Advance Home Health Care, Ltd, 5948 N Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60646.

COMPUTER/IT:MORNING STAR, INC. (Chicago, IL) seeks En-

gineer, Application Developer w/ BS in CS + 2yrs/exp in app dvlpmnt w/n a corporate info systems environment to design/code/test CRM and financial systems for QTC process.

Apply at corporate1.morningstar.com.

No calls. EOE.

DOG WALKING POSITION M-

F. Must have a car, good work ethic and love animals. Pay $12-13/hour. If interested apply online at petandplant.com or call 312-2668689.

LIFEGUARD

POSITION

AVAILABLE! Flexible Hours Necessary. Excellent Pay! Call to make Appoitnement 4250 N. Marine Drive, 773-929-3770.

ROGERS PARK. 6930 N. Greenview. Modern elevator building.

Studios $650-$675 includes heat and gas. Close to CTA red line and Metra, Pratt Boulevard Park, lake front, restaurants, shops and more! Laundry in the building. No security deposit. $40 application fee. To schedule a showing please contact Maria 773558-6443 Hunter Properties 773477-7070 www.hunterprop.com UPTOWN! 922 W Eastwood.

Studios $625-$675 includes heat and cooking gas. Remodeled units, walking distance to grocery stores, shops, restaurants, lake Michigan, CTA bus and train, etc. Application fee $40.

No security deposit. To schedule a showing please contact Jay 773-8351864. Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com lake! $685.

Ac, no deposit. Lakeview, 3941 N Pine Grove, off Irving Park and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Nermin, 773617-0702. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/ neighborhoods/lakeview/3941npineg rove

STUDIO $700-$899 ONE BLOCK FROM

park! $805. Heat and electric included. No deposit, Lincoln Park, 530 W Arlington, off Fullerton and Clark. Elevator, carpet. Aner 773-617-6530, pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb o r h o o d s / lincolnpark/530warlingtonplace

ONE BLOCK FROM

lake! $755, heat included. No deposit! Lakeview.

420 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Ziggy, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans a t http://www.realtymortgageco.com/ neighborhoods/lakeview/420wmelro se

ONE BLOCK FROM park! $715.

No deposit. Lincoln Park, 2616 N Hampden Ct, off Diversey and Lakeview. Walk-up, carpet, ac. Al, 773617-2616. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/ neighborhoods/lincolnpark/2616nha mpden

REAL ESTATE

Ac, no deposit. Lincoln Park, 444 W St. James, off Fullerton and Lakeview. Elevator, carpet. Lela 773-6176444. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lincolnpark/444wstjames

STUDIO $500-$599

TWO BLOCKS

ROGERS PARK, 7455

N. Greenview. Studios $550-$595 including heat. It’s a newly remodeled vintage elevator building with on-site laundry, wood floors, new kitchens and baths, some units have balconies, etc. Application fee $40. No security deposit! To schedule a showing please contact Samir 773-6274894. Hunter Properties 773-4777070 www.hunterprop.com

CHICAGO BEAUTIFUL, STU-

DIO Bsmt Apt. Near 87th & Jeffrey, appls incl gas and electric heat, $525/ mo utils not incl. 773-3740787

STUDIO $600-$699

FROM park! $755. Ac, no deposit, Lincoln Park, 536 W Grant, off Webster and Lincoln, walk-up, carpet. Hassan 773617-0706. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lincolnpark/536wgrant

ONE BLOCK FROM

lake! $760.

No deposit, Lakeview, 549 W Aldine, off Belmont and Broadway. Walk-up, carpet, ac. Vee, 773-617-6527. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/549waldine

ONE BLOCK FROM

the lake! $755. No deposit. Lakeview, 544-52 W Briar, off Belmont and Broadway.

Walk-up, hardwood floor. Baya, 773617-2727. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com

EDGEWATER! 1061 W. Rose-

mont. Studio $650-$695 Utilities included. Elevator building, remodeled, wood floors, laundry onsite, walking distance to CTA red line train and bus, restaurants, shopping, walk to the lakefront beaches and bike trails, walk to Loyola University, etc. Parking available for an additional monthly fee. Application fee $40. No security deposit. For a showing please call Jay 773-835-1864 Hunter Properties 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

THREE BLOCKS FROM park!

$685. Heat and electric included. No deposit, Lakeview, 620 W Surf, off Diversey and Clark, walk-up, carpet.

Hasan 773-617-6649. Pictures and floorplans at www.realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/620wsurf

424 W OAKDALE.

$865. No security deposit! Heat included, hardwood floors, laundry, large closets, parking available. Call Anvar, 7734 9 1 - 2 3 3 7 , http://www.realtymortgageco.com

1525 WEST WINNEMAC. Stu-

dio, $735. Heat included. Call Kara, 773-895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co., 773-281-8400 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm).

4407-09 NORTH MALDEN.

$815. No security deposit! Heat included. Hardwood, laundry on site.

Call Teddy at 773-617-1026, http://www.realtymortgageco.com

AFFORDABLE NEWLY REHABBED apartments. Chicago’s

South, Southwest & West Neighborhoods. Studios-4BR $450-$1100.

Section 8 Accepted. Professional Management, Low Move-in Fees.

Some Utilities Included. Pet Friendly.

Pangea, 312-985-0556.

7022 S. SHORE DRIVE Impecca4830/4832 NORTH WOLCOTT. Huge Ravenswood 2 1/2 rm

studio! LANDLORD PAYS HEAT AND COOKING GAS! Loads of closet space! Lovely hdwd flrs, built-in china cabinets! 1 blk to Metra, Damen "EL’ stop, Mariano’s grocery store, LA Fitness!

On-site lndry/storage.

June/July 1.

(773)381-0150. www.theschirmfirm.com

ONE BLOCK FROM

ONE BLOCK FROM lake! $805.

RENTALS

STUDIO $900 AND OVER

NORTH WOLCOTT .

Ravenswood’s biggest 2 1/2 room studio! Lovely hdwd flrs, TONS of closet space! Separate Dining and Kitchen, china cabinets, on-site lndry, storage. Landlord pays heat and cooking gas! $965.Aug.1 (773) 3810150. www.theschirmfirm.com

RAVENSWOOD. N. WINCHESTER. Great studio available

9/1. $930. Beautiful courtyard building. Hardwood floors. Heat included.

Close to Lawrence Ave./great transportation. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

TWO BLOCKS FROM lake! $975

Convertible studios, heat included, No deposit. Lakeview, 649 W Oakdale, off Broadway and Belmont.

Walk-up, hardwood floors. Hasan 773-617-6649.

Pictures and floorplans at http://realtywortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/649woakdale

LINCOLN PARK. W.

ARLINGTON PL. Studio available now.

Courtyard building w/ exposed brick hallways. Oak floors, updated kitchens and baths. $1100. Heat included.

For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

ONE BLOCK FROM park! $915.

Heat included. No deposit. Lincoln Park, 1809 N Lincoln Park West, off North Armitage and North, walk-up, carpet. Hasan 773-617-0706. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com

STUDIO OTHER 1 MONTH FREE, 8216 S Maryland, 3rd Flr, 2 Bdrm w/ Large Liv & Dine Rooms,$855/Month, CALL NOW 773734-3620!!!

4BR 1BA HOME for rent near

104/Wabash - Enclosed rear porch and nice yard. Tenant pays utilities.

Sec 8 ok. 773-750-3749

1 BR UNDER $700 PARKWAYS APARTMENTS 6718 S. East End Chicago, IL 60649 Wait List Opening for one day only May 21, 2015 PHONE APPLICATIONS ONLY. Please call 773-493-7300 (TTDY 800-526-0857) Call between 8:00 am – 5:00 pm to place your name on the active waiting list for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments Professionally Managed by NHPMN Management, LP

NO CREDIT NO PROBLEM! 7100 S. Jeffery.

1BR $695/mo.

Newly dec. free heat & cooking gas, carpeted, stove/fridge, laundry room, elev & no app fee.

773-919-7102 or 312-8027301

8160 S. RACINE Section 8!

1 Bedroom, 3 rms, Heated! clean, quiet. $630, All new Linda. 773-8998816, 773-405-9361

bly Clean Highrise STUDIOS, 1 & 2 BEDROOMS Facing Lake & Park.

Laundry & Security on Premises.

Parking & Apts. Are Subject to Availability. TOWNHOUSE APARTMENTS 773-288-1030

CHICAGO 70TH & California.

QUALITY PANGEA APARTMENTS, Studios-4BR, $450-$1100.

w/ sunrm, tenant heated, big closets, quiet, secure. $675-$950/mo. No Sec. $300 Move-In. 312-789-5311

Newly rehabbed. Appliances included. Low Move-in Fees. Hardwood floors. Pangea - Chicago’s South, Southwest & West Neighborhoods.

312-985-0556

MIDWAY AREA/63RD KEDZIE Deluxe Studio 1 & 2 BRs. All 4914

73RD AND JEFFERY BLVD. 1 & 2BR apts, heated, hardwood flrs, laundry room, appls. $650 and up.

Sec 8 Welc. 773-881-3573

1, 2 & 4 bedrooms, modern kitchen & bath, hardwood flrs. Section 8 ok. $625-$1300. 847-909-1538

79TH/MORGAN LRG 1-3BRS

CHICAGO 55TH & Halsted, male

preferred. Rm for rent, share furn apt, free utils,$325- $440/mo. no security. 773-651-8824

AUBURN GRESHAM 1

modern oak floors, appliances, Security system, on site maint. clean & quiet, Nr. transp. From $445. 773582-1985 (espanol)

& 2BR avail! 1206 W 83rd, 8100 S Loomis & more. Newly remod. no pets. SEC 8 WELCOME. 773-354-3311

CHICAGO, 7727 S. Colfax, ground flr Apt., ideal for senior citizens. Secure bldng. Modern 1BR $595. Lrg 2BR, $800. Free cooking & heating gas. Free parking. 312613-4427

NO SECURITY DEPOSIT 6829 S Perry - 1BR $515/mo 1431 W. 78th. St. 2BR. $595/mo HEAT INCLUDED 773-955-5106

BRONZEVILLE, 4950-58 S. PRAIRIE. 1BR. Heat, cooking gas & appls incl., lndry on site, pkg. $650+. Sect 8 ok.

Call Z, 773-406-4841 CHICAGO - BEVERLY lrg 2 rm Studio, 1 & 2BR, Carpet, A/C, lndry, near trans $625-$940/mo. 773233-4939 CHICAGO, 7956 S.HERMITAGE 1BR with Dining Room. $600/ mo .

Newly Decor, Heat Incl.

Call 708-205-1448 CHICAGO, BEVERLY / Cal Park/ Blue Island Studio $510, 1BR $600& up, 2BR $850 & up. Heat, Appls, Balcony, Carpet, Laundry, Prkg. 708-388-0170 CHICAGO - SOUTH SHORE Large 1BR, $650/mo.

Free heat.

Near Transportation.

Section 8 Welcome. Call 708932-4582 SPRING SPECIAL $500 Toward

Rent Beautiful Studios 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR Sect. 8 Welc. Westside Loc, Must qualify.

773-287-4500 www.wjmngmt.com

Large Sunny Room w/fridge & microwave. Nr. Oak Park, Green Line, bus. 24 hour desk, parking lot. $99/week & Up. 773-3788888 CHICAGO - HYDE Park 5401 S. Ellis.

1BR. $535/mo Call 773-955-5106

SOUTH - 10538 S. Maryland, 1st flr, 1BR $595-$610 + sec dep. indiv. heat. hdwd/crpt flrs, c-fans Call btwn 10a-6p. 773-704-4153 71 E. 69TH 3- 2BR - $725

Brand new carpet, fridge, stove Lots of light & space Close to public trans. Call 773-975-7234 ext 250

CROSSROADS HOTEL SRO SINGLE RMS Private bath, PHONE,

CABLE & MAIDS. 1 Block to Orange Line 5300 S. Pulaski 773-581-1188

BIG ROOM WITH stove, fridge, bath & new floor. N. Side, by transp/shop.

Clean w/elevator. $112/wk + up. 773-561-4970 CLEAN ROOM WITH fridge and microwave. Close to Oak Park, Walmart, Buses & Metra. $105/wk & up. 773-637-5957 EDGEWATER - NICE Room with

stove, fridge & bath, by Shopping & Transp. Elevator, Lndry. $112/wk. & Up. Call 773-275-4442

CORNER

OF

68TH

and Sangamon. Clean, carpeted, 4 rms, heat incl. $635/mo. 1 mo rent and 1 mo sec req’d. 773-701-6100

1 BR $700-$799 ALBANY PARK, 4855 N. Kim-

ball. 1 bedrooms starting at $795 includes heat. Hardwood floors, laundry in the building, walking distance to grocery stores, restaurants, CTA brown line train, some apts have balcony, and more! Application fee $40.

No security deposit. For a showing please call Jay 773-835-1864 Hunter Properties Inc. 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

LARGE ONE BEDROOM near Metra and Warren Park, 6802 N Wolcott. Garden apartment. Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Laundry in building. $775/ month. Heat included. Available 7/1. Other units available 6/1 for $800-$825/ month. 773-761-4318, www.lakefrontmtg.com South Shore, 4 rooms, 1BR, 1621 E. 70th St, 3rd floor, intercom, ceiling fans, mini blinds, washing facility on premises, 1/2 block from public trans. $650 /mo. 1 mo sec + 1 mo rent.

773-288-6243

CHICAGO, 519 W. 103RD, newly remodeled, 1BR, quiet area, $625 /mo. Seniors Welcome. Call 773-717-6092

BRONZEVILLE - LARGE 1BR

CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE Beauti-

ful Studios, 1,2,3 & 4 BR’s, Sec 8 ok. $500 gift certificate for Sec 8 tenants. 773-287-9999/312-446-3333

KEDZIE AT GRACE, 2.5 rooms, heat, appliances, dining room, $645.00. Credit check, sec. deposit, lease. Leave message 847-566-1597.

CHATHAM, 742 E. 81ST (Evans), 400 E. 81st (King Dr.) 1st floor, 1BR, $650/mo + security.

Call Mr. Joe at 708-870-4801

1 BR $800-$899

SPECIAL SPRING OFFER: Calumet Park Deluxe Apts. 1BR $700 & 2BR $800. Heat, appls & parking included. 312-593-8205.

ROYALTON HOTEL, Kitchenette $125 & up wk. 1810 W. Jackson 312-226-4678

ROGERS PARK, 7665-7715 N. Sheridan. 1 bedrooms starting at $895 includes heat & cooking gas!

Rogers Park/ Evanston! 1/2 block to park & beach, east of Sheridan Rd, pristine vintage courtyard building, close to Evanston Northwestern University, storage lockers, remodeled kitchen & baths, hardwood floors, free wifi, cats ok, small dogs upon approval, walking distance to CTA train, etc. $40 application fee. No security deposit! For a showing please call Samir 773-627-4894 Hunter Properties 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

Bsmt apt, near IIT & transportion, Free heat and all utils and appls incl. $750/mo + sec. 312-771-0683

ROGERS PARK! 1623-33

W. Lunt. Courtyard building must see! 1 bedrooms at $850, heat included!

Hardwood floors, laundry room on site, bicycle storage room, close to transportation and the lake! $40 application fee. No security deposit. To schedule a showing please contact Fatima 773-732-8436 Hunter Properties 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

OLD IRVING 4130 N. Keystone

one bedroom starting at $825 heat & gas included. Wood floors & carpet, laundry in the building, 2 blocks to Irving Metra train & blue line train, restaurants, shops, and more! Application fee $40. No security deposit. To schedule a viewing please contact Saida 773-407-6452. Hunter Properties 773-477-7070. www.hunterprop.com

LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $825-$895 include heat and gas, laundry in building. Great view! Close to CTA Red Line, bus, stores, restaurants, lake, etc. to schedule a showing please contact Celio 773-3961575, Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com

ONE BLOCK FROM lake! $1025.

Heat and electric included. No deposit. Lakeview, 3616 N Pine Grove, off Addison and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Marilena 773-517-3312.

Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/3616npinegrove

ONE BLOCK FROM

lake! $1045.

Heat included. No deposit, Lakeview, 440 W Barry, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Mrs Papa 773-619-0288.

Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/440wbarry

ONE BLOCK FROM

lake! $975.

Ac, no deposit. Lakeview, 3941 N Pine Grove, off Irving Park and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Nermin, 773617-0702. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/ neighborhoods/lakeview/3941npineg rove

PULASKI/ LAWRENCE. ONE

bedroom, large apartment, new kitchen/ bath, totally renovated, hwfl, laundry, dishwasher, parking, el, shopping, Northeastern University. $950, heat/ hot water included. NO DOGS. 773-520-0928, 773-981-1809.

ONE BLOCK FROM

HYDE PARK WEST Apts.

5325 S. Cottage Grove Ave. Renovated spacious apartments in landscaped gated community. Off street parking availabl E. 4BR town home available Visit or call

773 324-0280. M-F: 9am-5pm or apply online- www.hydeparkwest.com.

Managed by Metroplex, Inc

F O S T E R / K I M B A L L . 5200N/

3400W. Spacious 2 Bedroom 945.970. Hardwood/carpeted floors.

Near el. University, parks. Heat included. Laundry in building. Quality Real Estate Management. Call 773-463-3800

F O S T E R / K I M B A L L . 5200N/ 3400W. Spacious 1 Bedroom 765.840. Hardwood/carpeted floors.

Near el. University, parks. Heat included. Laundry in building. Quality Real Estate Management. Call 773-463-3800 LARGE ONE BEDROOM near Red Line. 6828 N Wayne. Courtyard building. Hardwood floors. Pets OK. Laundry in building,. $850/ month.

Heat included. Available 7/1. 773-7614318, www.lakefrontmtg.com

lake! $1035.

No deposit, Lakeview, 549 W Aldine, off Belmont and Broadway. Walk-up, carpet, ac. Vee, 773-617-6527. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/549waldine

ONE BLOCK FROM lake! $1045.

No deposit. Lakeview, 525 W Cornelia, off Addison and Lake Shore.

Walk-up, carpet. Mario, 312-9331660. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com 2252 WEST AINSLIE. 1 bed-

room, $900 monthly. Heat included.

Call Kara, 773-895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co., 773-281-8400 (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.)

4407-09 NORTH MALDEN.

$1025. No security deposit! Heat included. Hardwood, laundry on site.

Call Teddy at 773-617-1026, http://www.realtymortgageco.com

517-25 W BROMPTON. $1060.

No security deposit! Heat included, hardwood floors, laundry. Call Jacob, 7 7 3 - 4 9 1 - 2 3 4 8 . http://www.realtymortgageco.com

1341 W ESTES.

Large one bedroom apartment near Loyola Park.

Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Laundry in building. $850/ month. Heat included. Available 7/1. 773-761-4318, www.lakefront mtg.com

1 BR $900-$1099 EVANSTON CHURCH/ RIDGE,

1 Bedrooms Available now, 7/1, 9/1.

From $1085. Beautiful vintage building with up-to-date facilities. Near Northwestern, Evanston shops, restaurants, movies and transportation.

Large kitchen, hardwood floors and laundry on premises. Heat included.

For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

ONE BLOCK FROM lake! $975, heat included. No deposit! Lakeview.

420 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Ziggy, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans a t http://www.realtymortgageco.com/ neighborhoods/lakeview/420wmelro se EVANSTON CENTRAL STREET. Great 1 bedrooms availa-

ble now and 9/1. From $1040. Beautiful courtyard building. Hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

ROSCOE/ DAMEN. ONE bedroom, four rooms. Nonsmoking. Cats OK. Lots of storage. Ceiling fans. Ac. $1050 plus heat and security. Laundry additional. 773-563-5205. Good credit.

1918 WEST AINSLIE.TOP floor of coach house! Enclosed sunporch overlooks professionally landscaped garden! Perfect for summer dining!

Lovely hdwd flrs, remodeled Kitchen, pantry, bonus room! Only 2 blks to Metra, Brown line! July 1. $1150, heat i n c l . ( 7 7 3 ) 3 8 1 - 0 1 5 0 . www.theschirmfirm.com

3548 N. LAWNDALE 1 Bdrm, $800.00 Heat Included. Call Kara 773-895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400. (Mon-Fri. 9-5) 3144 N. SEMINARY 3 Bdrm

$1775.00, Water included. Call Kara 773-895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400.( Mon-Fri. 9-5)

1 BR $1100 AND OVER EVANSTON CAMPUS 1 BED-

ROOM! 1125 Davis. Large 3½ room/ 1 bedroom. Available 9/1. $1230 per month. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

42371/2 NORTH HERMITAGE.

Fantastic 1 bdrm in English Tudor courtyard building. Lovely hdwd flrs, built-in bookshelves and china cabinet! Only 2 blks to Irving Park "El".

Onsite lndry/storage. August 1, $1135.00, heat incl.(773)381-0150. www.theschirmfirm.com

EVANSTON. FOREST AVE.

Large 1 bedrooms available 6/1, 7/1.

From $1200. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

LINCOLN PARK. ADDISON.

Available 7/1. 4 room/ 1 bedroom $1320. Magnificent apartment w/ beautiful courtyard. Steps from the lake, transportation, shopping and recreation. Heat included. Resident engineer. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

DEPAUL AREA. MONTANA/

RACINE. Available 7/1. Relax in the charm of a terrific neighborhood.

Great building w/ large rooms, nice kitchens and baths. 1 bedroom $1550. Heat included. Easy transportation to the Loop. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

EVANSTON MAPLE/ NOYES.

1 bedrooms available 6/1, 7/1, 9/1.

From $1275.

Near Northwestern, shopping and "L." Large kitchen, hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

EVANSTON. NOYES/ SHERMAN. 1 bedrooms available 8/1.

From $1375.

Near Northwestern, shopping and "L." Large kitchen, hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

EVANSTON

NEAR

LAKE

MICHIGAN. 615 SHERIDAN. 4 Room/ 1 Bedrooms Available 7/1. $1240. 4 rooms, hardwood floors, bright, airy and one block to the lake! Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30PM, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

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LINCOLN PARK/ DEPAUL.

W. GEORGE & N. SEMINARY. 1 Bedrooms available 6/1, 8/1, 9/1. From $1240. Hardwood floors, heat included. Great location for DePaul and transportation. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

ONE BLOCK FROM park! $1145.

Heat and electric included. No deposit. Lincoln Park, 500 W Fullerton, off Fullerton and Clark. Elevator, carpet. Suzana, 773-617-6500. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lincolnpark/500wfullertonp arkway

ONE BLOCK FROM

lake! $1385, heat included. No deposit!

Lakeview. 451 W Melrose, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Ziggy, 773-617-6451. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com/ neighborhoods/lakeview/451wmelro se

ONE BLOCK FROM park! $1305,

heat included. No deposit. Lincoln Park, 523-31 W Fullerton, off Fullerton and Clark. Walk-up, hardwood floor. Suzana 773-617-6500. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lincolnpark/52331wfullertonparkway

ONE BLOCK FROM

park! $1425. Heat and electric included. No deposit, Lincoln Park, 530 W Arlington, off Fullerton and Clark. Elevator, carpet. Aner 773-617-6530, pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb o r h o o d s / lincolnpark/530warlingtonplace

EVANSTON 2218-22 SHERMAN. 1 bedroom available 7/1,

9/1. From $1310. Near Northwestern, shopping, “L.” Large kitchens, hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

Dauphin will be accepting applications on 5/18-6/8 for the Section 8 waiting lists for 1br, 2br &3 br at 9200 S. Dauphin in the Mgmt. Off. from 2-4:30. Units include appliances, heating, on-site laundry facilities and off-street parking.

To be considered for occupancy, applicants must have income at or below HUD income guidelines.

Applicants are screened and must meet the tenant selection criteria.

On 6/30/15 the waiting list will be closed.

SECTION 8 AFFORDABLE Housing Waiting List is now open!!

1, 2, & 3 Bdrms 2443 W. Dugdale Rd Waukegan, IL 60085

APPLY NOW!!! You must apply in person & all adults must be present.

ID, Social Security Card & Birth Certificate REQUIRED Contact: Management Office 847-336-4400

APTS. FOR RENT Park Management & Investment Ltd. SPRING IS HERE & IT’S MOVING TIME! Most Include...

HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $445.00 1BR From $550.00 2BR From $745.00 3BR/2Bath From $1175 *1-773-476-6000* CALL FOR DETAILS!!!

GORGEOUS NEW REHAB, Appls & Heat Incl. ** 73/Jeffery, 1BR $600 **79/Escanaba, 1BR $600, 2BR $725, 3BR $875 ** 72/Eberhart, Studio $525 ** 64th/Loomis 2BR $750 ** 76th/Aberdeen, 1BR $650. Section 8 ok ** 773.430.0050 LOVELY 1 BEDROOM Apt .

Lovely one bedroom apartment in Lincoln Square; heat included. Close to shopping, transportation and Brown line. Pets allowed. Call (312) 790-0695.

SEVERAL BLOCKS FROM

the lake! $1145. No deposit. Lakeview.

727 W Briar, off Belmont and Halsted. Walkup, hardwood floors.

Baya 773-617-2727. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/727wbriarplace

DEPAUL AREA. BELDEN/ SHEF-

FIELD. Great one bedroom available 8/1. $1355. Beautiful courtyard building. Hardwood floors. Heat included.

For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

424 W OAKDALE. $1180. No security deposit! Heat included, hardwood floors, laundry, large closets, parking available. Call Anvar, 7734 9 1 - 2 3 3 7 , http://www.realtymortgageco.com

1 BR OTHER WAITING LIST!

Harrison Courts Apartments is opening its wait list and accepting applications beginning May 20, 2015 until June 20, 2015 from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Applications will be available in the lobby of the Harrison Courts Apartments building located 2910 W. Harrison.

Chicago, Illinois.

All applicants must be 18 years of age or older, have valid state identification, provide proof of income and must not exceed the current HUD income guidelines.

For more information call (773) 722-3231.

CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** CHATHAM, 1BR APT, $675/mo, no pets. Morgan Park 4BR House, newly remod, 2 car garage. Sect 8 Welc. Avail Now! 773-981-8208 CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708-868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms

Hotel, 5316 S. Harper, maid, phone, cable ready, fridge, private facilities, laundry avail. $165/wk Call 773-4933500

CHICAGO - 78TH/S. Shore & 6943-51 S. Cornell Ave Apts Starting at $550. NO DEPOSIT! HURRY! Call Phyllis 773.495.4133

Chicago, 6905 S. Campbell, 1BR Apartment, gas & heat included. Must see to appreciate.

Call For More Info: 773-842-7590 WEST HUMBOLDT PARK - 1 B R Apts, spacious, oak wood flrs, huge closets. heat incl, re-habbed, $745. 847-866-7234

CHICAGO - CLEAN, NEWLY remod, 1BR, 1st flr Apts, Ready Now! . 722 E. 89th St. FREE HEAT 708-951-2889 75TH AND PHILLIPS. Large 3BR, 2BA Apt, heat included, no pets, nr University of Chicago Bus. $1050/mo. Denise. 630-715-6373

NEWLY REMOD HUGE Units!

1-3BR’s. Hdwd & appls, LR, DR. Section 8 OK. 773-865-5051 7957 S. Ellis

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CHATHAM- 718 E. 81st St. Newly

AUSTIN

MOVE IN SPECIAL!!!

B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-1122

5636 S. THROOP, 2BR, 1st floor in 2 floor bldng with Private access to bsmt. 2BA, newly painted, $875/mo. Call 815-210-3725

HAMMOND, INDIANA. 1 -2 B R TANGLEWOOD APTS. Security Deposit $250. 219-8442100

65th and St. Lawrence. Modern, tenant heated 2BR, $725/mo and up. No security deposit. Agent owned. 312671-3795

2 BR UNDER $900

Section 8 Ready!! BIG CLEAN ROOMS,1bedroom, 3 rooms, $600 MO, 6959 S. May 773-8998816, 773-405-9361,

remodeled 1BR, 1 BA, Dining room, Living room, hdwd flrs, appliances. & heat included. Call 847-533-5463

CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK

HOMES. Spac 2 - 3 BR Townhomes, Inclu: Prvt entry, full bsmt, lndry hook-ups. Ample prkg. Close to trans & schls. Starts at $816/mo. www.ppkhomes.com;773-264-3005

80TH/ASHLAND - BEAUTIFUL, newly remod, 2BR Apt

w/office, 1BA. Near schools & transp. $800/mo, tenant pays all utils. $500 move in fee. Avail Now. 773-7754458

CHGO LAWN - 2520 W. 70th St, 2BR, htd, new wnds & decor, hdwd flrs, c-fans, blinds. Sect 8 ok. $750 & up. Mr. Whitehead, 312-406-

9668

7202 S Michigan: 1 BR apartment, updated & rehabbed, $695/heat inc, hrdwd flrs, No SD, stove and fridge inc, 312.208.1771 or 773.957.8739 CHICAGO 70TH & Aberdeen.

2BR, $695. Spacious, newly remodeled. Heat incl., lndry rm. 1 mo rent + 1 mo sec. 773-6518673.

AVAIL JUNE 1ST. A Must newly remod, large Heat, stove & fridge $875/mo + 1 mo sec.

651-2939 / 773-255-8577

See, 2BR. incl.

773-

CHICAGO SOUTH. 11419 S. Throop, 1st flr Garden Apt. New Rehab 2BR. Sec 8 ok. $800/mo + sec. No pets. Call Neal, 773419-8770 76 & SAGINAW 1 brm, $615-

$680, 2 brm $690-$770, 3 brm $1020. Decorated hdwd fl’s near trans, w/ heat & app’s, no security 773-445-0329

CHICAGO SOUTHSIDE BRAND new 2, 3 & 4BR apts. Excel-

lent neighborhood, nr trans & schools, Sect 8 Welc., Call 708-7742473

AUSTIN: 632 N. Lorel Ave. apt 1, Spac 2BR, LR, DR, full kitchen, hdwd, 1st flr, $825 + utils & sec.

Ms Archie, 773.379.2519 BURNHAM - 14500 S. Torrence

Beautiful 2 BR in a class of it’s own, tile floors, appls, balcony, lndry room, heat incl. 773-731-5010

CHICAGO, Augusta & Springfield, 5 rooms, 2BR, $700/month + security. Tenant pays heat. Call 312-401-3799 BELLWOOD 2BR APT newly

decorated, electric and gas not incl. $775/mo + 1 mo sec. 708-593-3951 Call between 6pm-9pm.

1BR

APARTMENT,

heat incl, $650/mo + deposit. 5215 W. Augusta Blvd. Also 2BR. $850$900. Call 773-251-6652

GLENWOOD - LARGE 2BR Con-

do, balc, C/A, appls, Appls, heat, water/gas incl. 2 Pkg, lndry. $920 /mo. H/F High Schl. 708-268-3762.

NEAR 73rd. KING Drive New 2BR, Heat included, $700 (773) 353-8788

2 BR $900-$1099 NEW APTS. HEAT INCL

6157 S King Dr 2/3 Bdrm.

7649 S. Phillips Ave 2/4 Bdrm.

8129 S. Ingleside. 4 Bdrm Duplex Stainless Steel Appliances, hdwd flrs, marble bath, laundry on site.

Sec 8 OK. 773- 404- 8926

Evanston Deluxe 3/BR; Sunny 1500 sq ft, $1450 heated. New kit, SS appl, gleaming oak floors, new windows, spacious closets, blinds.

Appointment only: 773-743-4141 www.urbanequities.com HUMBOLDT PARK, NEAR North & Homan, huge 6 rooms 2.5BR! Newly remodeled, no pets. $1050 /mo + deposit. Call 312-914-0110 PK FOREST LUXURY 2BR Condo 2 baths, carpet, balcony, dining room, dishwasher, metra, A/C, $980 FREE HEAT! 312-305-3362 MATTESON COZY 2BR Townhouse, hdwd flrs & laundry area, appls incl, $1050/mo. Seniors Welcome! 708-752-3065 75TH/S. E. YATES - 2 BR, Fam

Rm, 1.5ba, LR, DR, EIK, 2nd flr apt in 3 flat. Tenant pays heat. $950.

No Increase. 773-375-8068

OLD IRVING PARK! 4146 N. Avers. 2 bedroom $1195 includes heat & gas. Remodeling just completed!

New kitchen/ bath, dishwasher, hardwood floors, walking distance to grocery store, restaurants, CTA blue line and Metra train is on Irving Park Rd, 90/94 highway on Irving Park Rd, laundry in the building, etc. Application fee $40. No security deposit!

For a showing please call Saida 773407-6452.

Hunter Properties Inc. 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

lake! $1435.

Heat included. No deposit, Lakeview, 440 W Barry, off Belmont and Lake Shore. Elevator, carpet. Mrs Papa 773-619-0288.

Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com/neighb orhoods/lakeview/440wbarry

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

EVANSTON CAMPUS 2 BED-

ROOM! Ridge/ Davis. Large 5 room/ 2 bedroom. Available 9/1. From $1505 per month. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets, 2 bathrooms. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

ONE BLOCK

FROM lake! Two bedroom plus den! $2050. Heat included. No deposit. Lakeview, 525 W Cornelia, off Addison and Lake Shore. Walk-up, carpet. Mario, 312933-1660. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com

ONE BLOCK FROM

lake! $1685. Heat included. No deposit.

Lakeview, 527-37 W Aldine. Off Belmont and Broadway. Courtyard building. Hardwood. Vee, 773-6176527. Pictures and floorplans at http://realtymortgageco.com

CONDO FOR RENT. Lovely open floor plan hi rise condo. 24 hr doorman, pool, exercise room, balcony. Heat and cable included. Parking available $250/ mo. 630-969-6249, joycedomen@hotmail.com LAKEVIEW APARTMENT FOR

curity deposit! 2 baths, central air, hardwood, dw, 2 baths, laundry on site. Call Eric at 773-593-1147. www.realtymortgageco.com

2 BR OTHER SOUTH SHORE, 78TH & Ridgeland, 6 lrg lovely rooms, newly decorated, wall to wall carpet, blinds, heated, $850/mo + security. 773568-1718

LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.

remodeled , private house, 1 bathroom, carpeted, washer and dryer , central heat/air $1100 utilities not included, 773-908-2597

6250 S. WESTERN 2 Bed, Hard-

3BR 2BA home w/fin bsmt and all new appls. 92nd Place. $1350/mo 312-752-5508.

ONE BLOCK FROM

3733 N JANSSEN. $2135. No se-

2716 N. WESTERN, 2BR , newly

CHATHAM: ALL new rehabbed

2 bedrooms available 7/1. From $1495. Near Northwestern, shopping and “L.” Large kitchen, hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

2 BR $1100-$1299

CHICAGO

wood, Sec. 8 welcome, updated kit, new bathroom, new appliances. $690.00. Call 312.208.1771

EVANSTON MAPLE/ NOYES.

ful 2BR, 1.5BA, SS appl, hdwd flrs. $995/mo. heat inl. Section 8 ok. Call Kasia 773-282-2222

Chicago, Large 2 BR Apt, newly remodeled, hdwd flrs, near transportation, $745/mo. Section 8 Welcome. Call 773-733-8944

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

BRIAR PLACE. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a 2nd bedroom. Available , 8/1. From $1435. Small high-rise with super-sized rooms. Carpeted and air conditioned. Heat included.

For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

rent . Beautiful remodeled 2 bedroom. 1 block from redline and 3 blocks from Wrigley. $1750.00 includes electric. Text Ralph at 773552-5622.

CHICAGO 6629 S Drexel. Beauti-

BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 4-5 room/ 2 bedrooms with full dining room, oak floors. Available 7/1, 8/1. From $1270. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

7600 S Essex 2BR

LINCOLN PARK. W.

2 BR $1300-$1499 4407-09 NORTH MALDEN.

$1415. No security deposit! Heat included. Hardwood, laundry on site.

Call Teddy at 773-617-1026, http://www.realtymortgageco.com

SOUTH SHORE AREA, 2 & 3BR Apts. hardwood flrs, large picture windows, appliances, heat not incl, $750 & $800/mo. 773-664-9238 CHICAGO - 7008 S. MORGAN, 3BR, $750/mo.

1 mo sec + 1 mo rent. Tenant pays all utilities. Call Dee, 773-8183340 NO MOVE-IN FEE! No Dep! Sec 8

ok. 2 Bdrms. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe. Stacey 773-8740100

SPACIOUS 2BR UNITS for Rent. Dolton, Lincoln/Cottage Grove. Please Contact Us For More Info @ 773-423-5727

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200

HARVEY, SECTION 8 Welc. $0

Merrionette Park: 1300sqft w/outside deck (630sqft), 3BR, 2BA apt, lrg LR, lrg Kitc w/area for table & chrs. Heat, hot water & cooking gas incl. $1500/mo + $1600 security. 708-389-4160.

65TH AND CARPENTER 4BR,

Security for Section 8. $500 cash back. 4BR, $1500/mo. Fine cond.

ADT Alarm. 708-715-0034

HARVEY - 15544 Turlington, 3BR, 1st floor, central A/C, hardwood floors, new windows/kitchen cabinets. $850/mo. 708-692-9177 SOUTHSIDE - 112TH & NORMAL. Very large, newly decorated 1st flr apt. 2.5BR, LR, DR, appls incl.

Only $750/mo plus utils. No pets.

Seniors welcome. 708-702-5439 CHICAGO, 3BR, 6148 S. Rhodes, living room, dining room, enclosed porch, appliances, laundry, new kitchen, bath, carpet. 312-504-2008 NO SECURITY DEPOSIT. 76th and Parnell. Newly remodeled 3BR, $900-$950/mo, appls, C/A, alarm, & parking incl. Call 773-690-1870

CHICAGO Beautifully rehabbed apt. w/lovely hdwd floors, close to U of Chicago. Near metro, near hwy, near bus station. 708-2569323 Harvey- 3BR,1BA. fenced yard, finished basement, 2 car garage, newly remodeled $1150/month + 1 month sec.

Call 708-927-1950

AUBURN/GRESHAM

SPA-

CIOUS 3BR 1BA, section 8 ok, HW floors, quiet building. Please call 708269-7669 5647 SOUTH CALUMET

6 rooms, 3BR, spacious, newly remodeled, hardwood floors. $850$1150/mo. 312-961-6046

SOUTH

SHORE: TWO 3 B R rehabbed apts. 1st & 2nd floors, laundry facilities. Available immediately. $875/mo. Call 312-683-5284

77TH AND RIDGELAND. Newly Decorated 3BR, heat incl. $850/mo. Section 8 Welcome. 773874-9637 or 773-493-5359

HARVEY - 4 bedrooms, 2 bath.

15020 South Marshfield, on quiet block. $1100/mo. 1 month security.

Sect 8 welcome! 773-501-0503 80th & Phillips, Beautiful, large 3BR, 1.5BA, quiet, hdwd floors, appls incl. $900 & up. 773-6557515 CHICAGO HOUSES FOR rent.

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

312-446-3333 or 708-752-3812

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499 Bronzeville Amazing Beautiful mini

mansion. 3BR, 4BA, full fin. bsmt, granite countertops, stainless steel appls, ac, beautiful hdwd flrs, $2100/mo. 46th/St. Lawrence. 312752-5508

REDEVELOPED HOMES ready to rent provided by rentMACK. 3-4 bedrooms $1300-$1600/mo.

Call 855-544-6225 rentmack.com OFF STONEY ISLAND. 3BR, enclosed back porch, Free Heat, hdwd flrs, nr transportation and school. $1300/mo + sec. 773-493-9804 CHATHAM RENO 2BR+, newly refinished

hdwd flrs, $1400/mo. + 1 mo sec.

Sec 8 Ok. Lve msg 773-704-2423

11339 S. CALUMET. 3BR, 2nd flr,

fully carpeted, brand new ceramic tile bath, new kit w/tile & counter, elec incl. $1200/mo. 773-519-7011

2BA, carpeted, heat & appls incl, 2 months free rent (with Sec 8). No Sec Dep. $1275/mo. 773-684-1166

AUSTIN AREA 3/4BR, 1.5/2BA, Newly Rehabed, Garage Parking.

Section 8 Okay. Tenant Pays Utils. $1,300-$1,450/mo. 312-217-3301

EVANSTON.

1703

RIDGE.

Available 7/1, 9/1. From $2595. Vintage building with up-to-date facilities. Near Northwestern, downtown Evanston. Large 6-7 rooms/ 4 bedrooms, hardwood floors, 1.5-2 bathrooms. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

3 BR OR MORE OTHER

3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799 EVANSTON. FOREST AVE.

Large 6 room/ 3 BR, 2 bath available 6/1. $1580. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

109TH/GREEN, NEWLY RENOV, Brick Georgian. 4BR, 2.5BA, 2 car gar, fin bsmt, LR, DR, fam rm, hdwd flrs, nice quiet blk. $1500. 847-322-2243

3 BR OR MORE $1800-$2499 GREAT EVANSTON CAMPUS

4 BEDROOMS! Ridge/ Davis. Large 6½-7 rooms/ 4 bedrooms/ 2 bathrooms. Available 6/1, 7/1 and 9/1.

From $2395. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets, 2 bathrooms. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

GREAT EVANSTON CAMPUS

3 BEDROOM! 1125 Davis. Large 5 room/ 3 bedroom. Available 9/1. $2125. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LINCOLN PARK. BELMONT/

HUDSON. Beautiful, 6 room/ 3 BR. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Available 6/1. Large kitchen, full dining room, oak floors. $2150. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am2pm.

LARGE THREE BEDROOM

apartment near Wrigley Field. 3820 N Fremont. Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Laundry in building. Available 7/1. $1900/ month. Single parking space available for $150/ month.

Tandem parking space available for $250/ month.

773-761-4318, www.lakefrontmtg.com

1300 W 73RD ST., 4BR, 2BA, clean home.

Garage, concrete patio, stove incl. $1050/mo. Sec is 1.5 mo rent + $50 crdt chck. 773-4562061 SUBURBS, RENT TO O W N !

Buy with No closing costs and get help with your credit.

Call 708-868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com CALUMET CITY, 3-4BR, fully rehab w/ gorgeous finishes w/ hardwood flroos, Section 8 OK. $1100-$1275/mo. Call 510-7357171 72ND AND ABERDEEN, Newly rehab 5BR, 1.5BA, new kitchen, cabinets, granite, carpet & windows. Sect 8 OK. 773-407-0005 4, 5, 6 & 7BR, loc in Washington

Heights , W Pullman & Englewood. Newly rehabbed, all orig. hdwd flrs. 773-270-3253

FOR SALE BANK OWNED ON-SITE

REAL ESTATE AUCTION Frankfort Single Family Home 20609 Frankfort Square Rd 3BR, 1.5BA, 1692 Sq. Ft. Sale Date, Sat, 6/27, Noon.

FREE COLOR BROCHURE 1-800-260-5846 auctionservicesintl.com 5% Buyers Premium Josh Orland, Auctioneer Lic. 471.006701 FM.444000425

MILLER BEACH. COTTAGE

style luxury w/ open concept, 3 BR, 2 BA, fireplace, 9’ceilings, deluxe whole house audio system, automated home interior lighting system, granite counters, all w/ direct access to beach path 60’ away. $293,900 Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com.

MILLER BEACH-CHARMING

Cape Cod home is just two blocks from Lake Michigan. Delightfully and thoroughly remodeled including high end kitchen and two full baths. $149,900. Ayers Realtors, 219-9381188. See Virtual Tour and Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com

MILLER BEACH. BEAUTIFULLY remodeled classic home with

surprise second floor space. 4 BR. 1.5 BA, full basement, garage and much more.

Just 2 blocks to beach. $179,900 Ayers Realtors, 219-9381188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com.

ONE BLOCK FROM lake! $2050.

No deposit. Lakeview, 525 W Cornelia, off Addison and Lake Shore.

Walk-up, carpet. Mario, 312-9331660. Pictures and floorplans at http://www.realtymortgageco.com

3 BR OR MORE $2500 AND OVER EVANSTON CAMPUS 5 BED-

ROOMS 1603 Ridge. Large 7-1/2 room/ 5 bedroom/ 3 bathrooms.

Available 9/1. From $3100. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets, 2 bathrooms. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

MILLER BEACH. MILLER’S

most magnificent example of MidCentury architecture w/ 18 foot ceilings, 3 fireplaces, indoor barbeque, 3 BR, 2.5 BA. $289,900 Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com.

Kenwood (4900S) Deluxe 1BR; New kitc. w/deck overlooking fenced yard, new appls, grand formal DR gleaming oak flrs, new windows, $895/heated. Cats only 773-743-4141 http://www.urbanequities.com

Rogers Pk 3 1/2 rm Studio: Full kitchen w/dining area, oak flrs, huge windows, spac. closets.

Close to Red Line & beach $735 heated NO DEPOSIT 773-743-4141 http://www.urbanequities.com

20 ACRES $0 Down, $128/mo.

Owner Financing. Money Back Guarantee! Near El Paso, TX. Beautiful Mountain Views. FREE Color Brochure. 1-800-343-9444

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN

Newly Rehabbed 2/3 Bed, 1 Bath Apartment!

Section 8 Welcome!

Hardwood, Large. 312-401-6689.

4519 S LAPORTE: 4BR ranch, 1BA. FR, no bsmt, Move in cond. 2car gar., cac, close to Midway & I-55. $145,000. Call 773-206-7685.

I AM RENTING out a beautiful

3BR 2BA apartment Location is Narraganset&Irving Park Call 773 983-5696 for more info $1300/mo

non-residential

Ground level: Fantastic office space available July 1! Terrific location!

Newly remodeled! Large reception area, 4 separate offices, conference room, Kitchenette, excellent storage!

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MUSIC ON THE B SIDE In Rotation Songs the Cramps taught us, Bo Diddley’s leather-man LP, wallowing in the new Sufjan Stevens album, and more B4 Soundboard Torres, Lex Luger, Chain & the Gang, Avishai Cohen’s Triveni, Invisible Things, and other shows this week B9

Haley Fohr bursts her own bubble in

Circuit des Yeux On the new In Plain Speech, the local singer-songwriter opens her hermetic music to the outside world—and brings on a bigger, more colorful cast of collaborators than ever before.

By SASHA GEFFEN

B5

Cover photo of Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux by Julia Dretel

GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene

AFTER THE FCC opened up the nation’s airwaves to what the law calls “low power broadcast radio stations” in 2013, all sorts of groups jumped at the chance to apply— among them the folks behind Chicago’s Public Media Institute, who include Ed Marszewski, mastermind behind longrunning political freak rag Lumpen, the annual Version multimedia festival, Marz Community Brewing, and other groovy projects. Early in 2014, PMI received a permit to build an LPFM station in Bridgeport. WLPN (aka Lumpen Radio) is already broadcasting on the Web, and last week it fired up a Kickstarter to help finance the equipment to air an ambitious around-the-clock radio schedule at 105.5 FM, which will include DJ sets and “live talk and documentary programming” from “podcasters, record labels, ham operators, musicians, librarians, and art critics.” Among the campaign’s pledge rewards are pins and T-shirts, a “YouTube Karaoke Freak Out Party” hosted by Marszewski at Maria’s, and control of a full day of WLPN programming.

Sadly, pop revivalists the Ye-Ye’s are breaking up, and this wolf will miss their charming covers of 60s favorites—which they translated into French if they weren’t written that way. Bassist-vocalist Heather Perry is moving to Berlin (not Paris), and the Ye-Ye’s play a farewell show at Subterranean on Fri 5/22. Perry says they’ll also release a couple new songs soon! Make sure to get your paws on a Ye-Ye’s button— and get there early for openers Rachele Eve, Rambos, and Fee Lion. The show starts at 8:30 PM and costs $5.

Last week Jim Magas, Gossip Wolf’s favorite one-man electro army who’s also scored an Asia Argento movie, announced the launch of his label Midwich. He aims to release a broad spectrum of electronic music digitally and on vinyl. The first two records—Moon Pool and Dead Band’s MEQ and Magas’s EP Heads Plus—drop Tue 7/14.

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B4 In Rotation Current obsessions of noise artist and Blood Rhythms leader Arvo Zylo, WZRD DJ Sarah Moskowitz, and the Reader’s Leor Galil B5 Haley Fohr bursts her own bubble

in Circuit des Yeux

On the new In Plain Speech, the local singersongwriter opens her hermetic music to the outside world—and brings on a bigger, more colorful cast of collaborators than ever before.

B9 Soundboard Lex Luger, Torres, Chain & the Gang, Shelby Lynne, Invisible Things, Essa-Pekka Salonen leads the CSO in Messiaen’s TurangalÎlaSymphonie, and other worthy shows this week B17 Early Warnings Autopsy, Lupe Fiasco, Jenny Hval, Active Child, Dwele, the Very Best, the Bill Frisell Trio, and other shows in the weeks to come B18 Reader Bar Guide: 4 AM bars Look down your nose if you want, but where do you expect people who work at 2 AM bars to get together for drinks?

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IN ROTATION A READER STAFFER SHARES THREE MUSICAL OBSESSIONS, THEN ASKS SOMEONE (WHO ASKS SOMEONE ELSE) TO TAKE A TURN.

Yannick Dauby recording in Estonia JOHN GRZINICH

LEOR GALIL

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Noise musician, leader of Blood Rhythms, founder of No Part of It

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Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck I’ve suffered from Nirvana fatigue for at least a decade, so I never expected to like—or even watch— this new documentary on the life of Kurt Cobain. I gave it a shot after realizing it was the work of Brett Morgen, who codirected The Kid Stays in the Picture; he avoids hagiography and makes Nirvana’s rise feel improbable instead of inevitable.

Coil Coil’s 20-year career weaves a magnificent web of carefully sculpted, occultinfused experimental electronic music. I’ve read everything in their Web archive, which at one point hadn’t changed since 2010.

In November, I loaded it to see an update about two new art books—it was like witnessing an eclipse. One of the books, from Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson, includes his photos of the Sex Pistols, COUM Transmissions (pre-Throbbing Gristle), schoolyard brawls, and staged death scenes. They painted their windows black. My kinda guys.

Yannick Dauby I grew up in a place where the loudest noises at night came from crickets, frogs, foxes, our old farmhouse settling, and my own breathing—all combining to create a piece of musique concrete way too fascinating and terrifying for sleep. It was an apt primer for the work of Taiwan-based French electroacoustic composer Yannick Dauby, who weaves field recordings into electronic environments. The result is often dark, but it’s softened by the appearance of a treefrog’s call or a bird’s. Maybe Herzog was right and they’re only the sounds of creatures crying out in pain, but to my ears, reduced again to an eight-year-old’s, they’re like greetings from old friends.

Dennis Larsson, History of Damage I became mildly obsessed with this record more than a year ago, after I fell down an Internet rabbit hole that led me to an old WFMU playlist stream featuring Larsson’s chipper, demented folk-pop jam “Holly.”

Larsson self-financed and self-released this charming, oddball pop-rock record in 1980—it didn’t get much love in its time or in Larsson’s hometown of Minot, North Dakota. Earlier this year, my fixation on “Holly” drove me to find History of Damage’s producer, who helped fill in some of the blanks about the record; I also spent an irresponsible amount of money on a copy of the LP, and I have no regrets.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell For the first week I had Sufjan’s new record, I wound up wiping tears from my eyes every time I listened to it—and I listened to Carrie & Lowell a lot. For a couple weeks, even thinking about the harrowing “Fourth of July” would start the waterworks. I can’t remember the last time I spent this much time with a Sufjan album.

Lux & Ivy’s Favorites The Cramps have a huge legacy as record collectors, and fans have dug up songs the band mentioned in interviews for the 17 volumes of these Favorites comps, which overflow with oddball bravado. Cramps interviews tended to treat self-promotion as an afterthought—you’d be more likely to hear how Poison Ivy would lose her mind as a kid anytime someone put the Ran-Dells’ “Martian Hop” on the turntable. My copy of the Musical Linn Twins’ 1958 single “Rockin’ Out the Blues” does that too.

Taki Pantos About five years ago, I saw this charming man perform to a modest crowd at Simon’s. Once a month, Taki Pantos (pronounced “tie-key”) left his nursing home to play haunting, Gypsy-flavored 60s-style tunes on accordion, singing in a childlike, creaky, unassuming voice. Recently I went to Simon’s to find his CD-R, and I’m left with the imprint of what I call Midnight Cowboy Death Valley Sunshine Pop. RIP, Taki.

Danielle Dax Danielle Dax is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist from the UK who was most active (musically at least) in the 1980s.

Listen to one of her albums (recently I’ve been enjoying Pop-Eyes and Dark Adapted Eye) and ruminate on the fact that she’s playing most everything you can hear.

Experimental music for pop fans, pop music for experimental fans . . . who gives a shit; either way it’s wonderful.

Bo Diddley, The Black Gladiator When my buddy RT showed me the cover of this 1970 LP, I thought it had to be a joke. Bo Diddley in full S&M leather-man glory and cokebottle glasses? But what fun this album is!

Suddenly I’m singing and dancing along to songs called “Shut Up, Woman” and “If the Bible’s Right.” Put it on when you need to please a crowd.

MAY 21, 2015 • CHICAGO READER B5

Haley Fohr bursts her own bubble in Circuit des Yeux On the new In Plain Speech, the local singersongwriter opens her hermetic music to the outside world—and brings on a bigger, more colorful cast of collaborators than ever before.

By SASHA GEFFEN

JULIA DRATEL

L

ast December, in the barely lit chapel at Bohemian National Cemetery, Haley Fohr hunched over a spread of effects pedals and howled into a microphone as a looped phrase from her acoustic guitar rang and mingled with feedback. The howl turned into a cackle as she rocked back and forth on her knees. Her face was in shadow, her hair draped over her eyes, and a full moon glowed in the cold night outside.

Fohr, 26, has been performing as Circuit des Yeux since she was a teenager in Lafayette, Indiana. She moved to Chicago in 2012, and since then she’s played in a confounding variety of venues with an equally wide range of artists. She’s shared a bill at the University of Chicago’s Bond Chapel with experimental pop group Pillars & Tongues and drone-folk singer the Humminbird, for instance, and she’s opened for heady singer-songwriter Bill Callahan at Alhambra Palace, a Middle Eastern restaurant in the West Loop that looks like something out of Las Vegas. She warmed up for experimental electronic musicians Tim Hecker and Oneohtrix Point Never at Lincoln Hall during the 2014 edition of Tomorrow Never Knows, and at that Bohemian National Cemetery show, she was followed by pastoral guitarist Ryley Walker and chamber-doom orchestra Wrekmeister Harmonies.

The disorderliness of that list speaks to the difficulty of categorizing Fohr’s music. She sings and plays 12-string guitar, making it easy to mistake her for a folkie at first glance, and a distant twang of Americana reverberates through her droning songs. But she also uses pedals to turn her voice and guitar into gothic phantasmagoria, and she washes her music in distorted noise to chilling, atmospheric effect. Live sound engineers often don’t know what to do with her. “I do think

there’s something about being a woman with an acoustic guitar when I sound check,” she says. “The sound guy is always like, ‘Oh, this is going to be easy. Just put a mike in front.’

And I’m like, well, I have these four overdrive pedals I have to go through. I need the monitor to be in a certain place so I can do feedback manipulation.”

Fohr sits across from me on the back patio of a coffee shop in Ukrainian Village. Though I’ve seen her perform twice, I haven’t gotten a good look at her face before. Onstage, her presence is fearless and opaque, as though she’s being projected into the venue from somewhere impossibly distant. She seems different in the sunlight, and as we talk, I feel

like we’re both occupying the same space for the first time.

This week, Fohr releases In Plain Speech, the first Circuit des Yeux album on venerable experimental label Thrill Jockey. She’s been putting out tapes since she was 17—her 2013 full-length Overdue earned overdue praise from Pitchfork, which called it “intoxicating, and even life-affirming”—and the new record is her most fully realized yet. She assembled a roster of collaborators, all good friends from other Chicago groups, to augment her own layers of voice, guitar, synth, bass, electronics, and piano. Cooper Crain contributes keyboard and drums to a few tracks, and Rob Frye, his bandmate in Cave and Bitchin J

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Bajas, plays flute and bass clarinet on a couple more. Whitney Johnson of Verma adds viola and a bit of extra piano, Adam Luksetich of Foul Tip plays bass and drums, and Kathleen Baird of Spires That in the Sunset Rise chips in with flute, mbira, and backup vocals.

This diverse cast lends texture and depth to the winding, clouded album, thanks in part to the presence of instruments new to the Circuit des Yeux palette, among them the viola and flute. Rob Sevier of the Numero Group is even credited with “bicycle” on one song.

“Collaborating was tricky. Everyone that I play music with is a dear friend of mine. It’s not some hired person—it’s an evolving relationship,” Fohr says. “You let go and you let someone else take it from there. Sometimes something really amazing happens that is beyond what either of you could produce individually. When you’re just one person, you can overdub and overdub, and that’s fine, but there’s an energy about playing music with other people that I’m very into right now. It’s a really intimate thing to do.”

As she’s done with every prior Circuit des Yeux release, Fohr produced In Plain Speech with no budget to speak of, recording mostly on the road or in a home studio. Several songs germinated during a three-day artist’s residency at last September’s Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City, during which she recorded their skeletons at Flat Black Studios with Lukesitch and Baird. Fohr says she tracked “about a third” of the album at her home studio and the rest at Chicago’s Minbal studio, in both cases joined by Crain.

“All the vocals I retracked in my bedroom.

It certainly wasn’t ideal,” she says. “My whole ethos and my whole vibe has this DIY nature. I think that’s just because I’ve never had much money to put into it. But out of that comes innovation.”

Fohr moved to Chicago in 2012 from Bloomington, where she’d gone to college.

By 2013, she and Crain had built the first incarnation of her studio, using salvaged materials such as cardboard avocado-packing forms, old clothes, and thrift-store blankets to soundproof it. The two of them split the cost of a used Otari eight-track tape machine and “borrowed” a tube preamp from Guitar Center—they bought it, recorded with it, and then brought it back before the end of the store’s 60-day return window, a scheme Fohr described as “a great victory” in a 2013 interview with Dinosaur Mahaffey for Terminal Boredom. “[I] built a priceless creative space out of other people’s trash,” she wrote on her blog in December of that year.

The cover of the new In Plain Speech by Circuit des Yeux

The whimsically named USA Studios didn’t last long in that location, but before starting work on In Plain Speech Fohr set up USA Studios 2.0 in what Thrill Jockey calls a “collective living space.” The album was recorded in fits and starts between tours over the last half of 2014, but compared to the claustrophobic Overdue it flows organically—in part because Fohr was rarely the only person in the room for the sessions.

Fohr’s voice, which provides the heart of the new arrangements, remains the most striking feature of Circuit des Yeux. She sings in an unusually low range, rounding the trailing edges of her syllables with a lush vibrato—she took lessons for years as a kid in Lafayette, first at Tecumseh Junior High School and then at Jefferson High. In school choirs, she was often given men’s tenor parts. “My range has always been lower than most women,” she says. “There’s always been a bit of a challenge to find pieces for me to sing. I can sing Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, a lot of low-registered women. But they reverted to me singing guy parts, basically.

Which is all right.”

Androgyny sometimes kept Fohr from fitting in as a teen, but now it’s a fertile space for her, both personally and musically. “I never felt stereotypically female in a way that I enjoy going shopping or wearing pink—all these silly, cartoony women things,” she says. Though she doesn’t present herself as masculine—she wears her hair long, and at our meeting she’s wearing red lipstick— her singing voice often confuses audience members who can’t clearly see her. “I’ve had people come up to me and look at me and be like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t know if you were a woman or a man up there.’” She smiles. “I get excited when that happens. I’ve embraced it,” she says. “The homogenization of men and women is something that should happen, and anything I can do to make it happen faster, I’m willing to do. It’s a conversation that I’m meant to add to, and that’s great.”

Fohr tours extensively—last year she was on the road for about seven months, two of them in Europe—and not every new audience is receptive to the way she sings. Last September, she mentioned on her blog that strangers sometimes mimic her voice while

she performs. “The first few times it happens, it sucks,” she says now. “You drove nine hours and you’re opening a gig and no one gives a shit about what you’re doing, and on top of it all someone’s singing over you singing. It’s like a flashback to high school—it’s a bully situation.”

Frustrated by the fight to capture an audience’s attention and worn out from traveling alone, Fohr sometimes fought back in ways that hurt her music, raising her voice to a yell or cranking up the distortion on her guitar. “I must leave behind trying to dominate a room with just my voice and guitar,” she wrote in September. “A sea of people will always overpower one woman, and I can’t afford to be slaughtered night after night. I no longer want my guitar to be used as a weapon.” These days, she feels better equipped to handle unsolicited sing-alongs. “I never acknowledge it onstage,” she says. “Now I feel like I’ve got a little more confidence. If that’s happening, then I think it’s a sign that I’m doing something interesting. I’m pushing people’s ideas; I’m making them think about something. As long as there’s a strong, emotive reaction, then I’m doing my job.”

When she was growing up, Fohr imagined that music would help her see the world. “At a young age, like, 19, it was really important for me to get out of Lafayette, Indiana, and see other cultures. It was a complete shock at first,” she says. Since then she’s not only moved to Chicago but toured overseas, and the world outside the midwest seems smaller than it used to. “It doesn’t matter where I am.

People might eat different food and have nap times during the day, which is awesome, but it’s pretty much the same,” she says. “I don’t want to sound like a total stuck-up asshole, but Paris is just like Chicago. If I have friends in Paris, I’ll hang out with them, and that’s a great time, but if I don’t know anyone in Paris, it’s kind of dismal and dirty. It’s a big city.”

Fohr still loves traveling, especially when touring Circuit des Yeux with a band—it’s helped her feel less alienated than she used to. When she was 18, she dropped out of college, moved back into her parents’ house, and retreated inside herself. She says her family still call it her “lost year.” At the time she was already making music as Circuit des Yeux, and for years her songs came from a place of profound solitude. “My last few records have been completely my own world—me trying to create a world,” she says. “I was living in my own illusions, which can be great, but is also terrifying and isolating.”

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“This is me, in my personal life and within my music, opening up, trying to be a part of society,” Fohr says. “It’s very deliberate. All the lyrics are directed at you, the listener. It’s not about me. I mean, it is about me as well, of course. In Plain Speech. It’s about dialogue.”

Dialogue about what?

“I don’t want to be this protest artist, but I do think there are a lot of issues in the world,” she replies. “But you can attack them with a positive mind-set. It’s not all about me against the world, which I was feeling for a really long time. I think it’s just part of growing up. My worldview is wide open now.”

Fohr’s long struggle to open herself up to dialogue—to all sorts of social interaction, really—kicked into high gear when she moved to Chicago. She’d left a place where she could walk everywhere and recognize everybody for a huge city where neither was remotely possible. Her shyness mutated into full-blown social anxiety. “It was kind of sink or swim,” she says of the transition. “I’m trying to swim. It feels really uncomfortable sometimes. I feel like I’m in overdrive—I feel like I’m meeting people at a rate that I don’t

normally. Conversations with people have always been a challenge for me. But I’m learning that as long as you feel uncomfortable, you’re probably making progress.”

Fohr feels more at home in Chicago now than she ever has. “You can be a musician and sustain yourself here, but it’s not closed off and cliquey in the way New York might be,” she says. “It’s not very competitive in that way. People are really inviting.” She’s proud to come home from tour, and feels that she and her music belong here.

That said, she’s also excited to travel with the musicians who helped her record In Plain Speech and share the new songs with new people. On Tuesday, May 19, Fohr plays a release concert at the U. of C.’s Rockefeller Chapel with Johnson, Luksetich, Matt Jencik of Implodes on bass and synth, and Whitney Allen of Toupee on flute and percussion; in early June, Circuit des Yeux will go on tour again. “When I’m at home, I’m very hermetic.

But when you’re touring with people, it’s awesome. Rolling through a new town with your crew, you’ve got people onstage to back you up, and you’re all on this trip together,” she says.

“I think it’s definitely a turn. It feels like a whole new me. A new stage of life, completely untied to my past,” Fohr continues. “I mean, it’s not. It took me all those albums to get here. But it’s like a weight has been lifted.

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NO PRODUCER HAS HELD HIP-HOP in his hands quite like Lex Luger (aka Lexus Lewis) did at the onset of the 2010s.

Armed with a laptop and a copy of digital-studio program Fruity Loops, the Virginia beat maker helped make trap a pop phenomenon, in the process injecting hip-hop with the kind of fast-acting muscle-building supplements that latenight telemarketers can only dream of selling. Luger’s hulking, swirling instrumentals provided the perfect platform for the larger-than-life personas of Waka Flocka Flame and Rick Ross—former Reader critic Miles Raymer poignantly describes one of Luger’s production trademarks as “powerup noises from a video game,” and it gives his tracks an extra shot of bombast every time it pops up. After getting tapped by Kanye West for the 2010 opus My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and then coproducing one of the better tracks from West and Jay Z’s Watch the Throne (“H.A.M.”),

THURSDAY21 ESSA-PEKKA SALONEN LEADS THE CSO in Messiaen’s TurangalÎla-symphonie A three-week residency by conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen concludes this week with performances of Olivier Messiaen’s larger-than-life Turangalîla-Symphonie (1946-’48), the work Salonen says made him want to write music. Commissioned

by Serge Koussevitzky for the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1945, the ten-movement tour de force was largely savaged after its 1949 premiere (conducted by Leonard Bernstein), but time has allowed for its reappraisal. Inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde and meant to explore love from both male and female perspectives, Turangalîla finds Messiaen ditching traditional symphonic structures, though there are four central themes recurring throughout. As a newcomer to modern classical music I was drawn to the piece by the

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Virginia hip-hop producer Lex Luger all but single-handedly brought trap into the pop mainstream

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Luger commanded space in megastar Rolodexes. Now no longer the “It” producer—Chicago’s Young Chop came into view with drill in 2012, and LA ratchet master DJ Mustard had a grip on the Billboard 200 last year—Luger is still hustling and still evolving. On his recent collaborative mixtape with Alabama rapper King Kuma, Gas-o-Holic 2, he tosses down percussion hailstorms and thundering synth stabs,

presence of the early electronic keyboard called the ondes Martenot, whose otherworldly parts expand the sonorous strings with eerie glissandos and piercing tones. Then over time I became more enamored of the epic’s extremes in volume and tone, which are tempered with a sure-handed sense of motion and drama. Messiaen’s maximalist masterpiece is a parade of shifting moods and timbres, moving from ebullient triumph to romantic reverie to stormy uncertainty. There are moments when the contrapuntal winds, brass, and strings unite in a fury as well as passages of comparative austerity—like the several extended piano solos, played here by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. I rediscovered the work last year thanks to a searing rendition for Ondine Records by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, featuring Valérie HartmannClaverie on ondes Martenot; she’ll join the CSO for these special performances. —PETER MARGASAK See also Friday and Saturday. 8 PM, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan, $29-$216. A

and he molds big production to fit the mood—sinister, grandiose, and in the case of “Bubba,” a little romantic. Even when the MC’s flow fails to spark, Luger can keep a track moving forward on his own. And when the pair do click, as they do on “Loft,” he manages to make something as seemingly innocuous as wall decorations in a new loft seem giant. —LEOR GALIL

Chain & the Gang Aside from the highfalutin’ mop of hair, the sassafrassy falsetto vocals, and the forever-underrated stylistic bravado he reps so very hard, impeccably dressed front man (and published author) Ian Svenonius remains distinctive for his loyalty to the bare bones of punk rock. This has become increasingly evident with his current project, Chain & the Gang, which instead of the noisy bombast of Nation of Ulysses or the dancy jaggedness of the Make-Up features Svenonius basking in a dusty lo-fi vibe that’s somehow more conducive to his proselytizing than either of the aforementioned D.C. bands he’s famous for having fronted. Chain & the Gang create deserts of space in which Svenonius can writhe around. And on last year’s Minimum Rock N Roll (Radical Elite) the proof is not only in the album’s title but also in a soulful, airy jam like “I’m a Choice (Not a Child)” or the strutting “Got to Have It Everyday,” which is mostly based around a single snarling, tinny gui-

tar lick (“Fairy Dust,” the stripped-down instrumental that follows, is an easy-to-miss highlight too). Fortunately the awesome Katie Alice Greer (also of the rising Priests) returns to contribute backing vocals, but make no mistake, Chain & the Gang is still all about the swagger of Svenonius—and lord knows that never gets old to watch live. —KEVIN WARWICK Blizzard Babies open. 10 PM, the Owl, 2521 N. Milwaukee. F Lazer/Wulf I’ll be honest, I’ve been ignoring Lazer/Wulf for a pretty dumb reason: based on their name, I’d pegged them as the kind of irritating yahoos who wear ironic gimme caps and get tattoos of pizza. But if their old promo photos are anything to go by, they’re more likely to wrap their heads in packing tape. These Georgia goofballs—Sean Peiffer, Bryan Aiken, and Brad Rice, who credit themselves with “lead bass,” “lead guitar,” and “lead drums,” respectively—play knotty, intricate prog B

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Lazer/Wulf’s most recent album, The Beast of Left and Right (out last summer via Retro Futurist), displays such casually gymnastic virtuosity that if it were played strictly on expensive acoustic instruments older than your grandparents, you might listen to it sitting on a blanket in a park with a bottle of wine—that is, if it weren’t for the music’s taut, hurtling momentum, etched-glass electronic distortion, volleys of double kick drum, and occasional cryptic, faraway vocals. The band supposedly wrote the album as a palindrome, but its two halves don’t map onto each other precisely. The symmetry is more abstract: the first and last tracks, for instance, share certain chords, riffs, and drum patterns, but one is major and the other minor, and the first is more than twice as long. As with most labyrinths, where you start and which direction you go don’t have much effect on the experience. —PHILIP MONTORO Today Is the Day headline. Lazer/Wulf and Czar open. 8 PM, Double Door, 1551 N. Damen, $12, $10 in advance.

Frank Rosaly Percussionist Frank Rosaly’s versatility goes hand in hand with his ubiquity. Since moving to Chicago in 2001 he has swung buoyantly with saxophonist Nick Mazzarella’s trio, shuffled quietly with Ryley Walker, rocked hard behind Health & Beauty, run the gamut of improvisational possibilities with Fast Citizens and Rempis Percussion Quartet, and folded electric jazz into Puerto Rican roots music in ¡Todos de Pie! But the stylistic, sonic, and technical possibilities increase exponentially when he performs solo. Not only does Rosaly permit himself to range from focused explorations of one piece of his drum kit to elaborate combinations of fragmented rhythms, he transforms the sounds of his instruments with electronic processing. Sometimes familiar drum sounds battle their way through coarse bursts of shortwave-like static; at other moments he subjects his beats to distortion and reverb. Tonight’s concert kicks off a varied series of improvised solo performances that Elastic will host over the next couple months. —BILL MEYER Rooms Trio headline. 9 PM, Elastic, 3429 W. Diversey, $10 suggested donation. A

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Jordan 9 PM, Jerry’s Judas Priest, Saxon 7:30 PM, Rosemont Theater A Stephen Kellogg 9 PM, Hideout, sold out Leeloo Dallas, Sausage Brain 8 PM, Red Line Tap The Lonely Wild, In Tall Buildings, North by North 8 PM, Schubas Marc Martel, August Hotel 7:30 PM, SPACE A Matt & Kim, Waters 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, sold out A Meg Myers, Wild Party 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, sold out A Passerines, Mori Mente, Jellies, Volutes 9 PM, Quenchers Saloon Roger This, Fue, Miranda Wood, the Waves 9 PM, the Abbey, 17+ Secret Colours, Soft Speaker, Van Goghs, Bad Bad Meow 8 PM, Martyrs’ Touched by Ghoul, Redgrave, We Are Hex 9 PM, Burlington Vaudevileins, Anna Soltys & the Familiar, Brendan & the Black Jackets 8 PM, Fizz Bar & Grill

HIP-HOP White Gzus, Reem, Hood Geekz, 5th Bandits, Super Fresh Bros 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+

Chain & the Gang MICHAEL ANDRADE Torres Adopted at birth by a Baptist family in Georgia, Mackenzie Scott (aka Torres) now lives in Brooklyn, and at 24 she’s already fled her faith and turned back toward it—a tug-of-war that consumes most of her sophomore album, the new Sprinter (Partisan). Her band consists of coproducers Robert Ellis (bass) and Adrian Utley (guitar, synth) and drummer Ian Olliver; Ellis and Olliver played on PJ Harvey’s Dry, while Utley is in Portishead, and both pedigrees show: the album’s wiry, toothy rock is sometimes grafted to an electronic pulse or dialed back to a guitar tick-tock and ominous, swelling synths. (For this tour Scott is accompanied by Dominic Cipolla of the Phantom Family Halo on drums, Cameron Kapoor on guitar, and Erin Manning on keyboard, key bass, and backing vocals.) Scott’s voice can be delicate and lovely or imperious and commanding, and at moments of high emotion—anger, grief, longing, love—it bursts through its own skin with a crackle of torn edges. On the title track she attempts to atone for her eagerness to rush to judgment as a teenager, when she partook of the cruel certainty that the evangelical cultural bubble can foster in believers. “If there’s still time to choose the sun,” she sings, “I’ll choose the sun.” And “Strange Hellos” addresses the Christian

DANCE imperative to love one’s enemies: atop lonely guitar plunks like stones dropped into a well, her vocals barely above a whisper, Scott tries to forgive someone she hates who’s lost her mother to mental illness. Then after the band crashes in, she snarls, “What’s mine isn’t really yours / But I hope you find what you’re looking for,” finally landing on an acidic “I love you all the same.” As a fellow former southerner and an extremely lapsed Christian, I’m happy to see a follower of the Big J (albeit no longer a churchgoer) wrestling with the injunction to live a Christlike life—it beats fighting to take away poor people’s health care or telling homosexuals they’re going to hell. —PHILIP MONTORO Aero Flynn and Landmarks open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $12, $10 in advance.

FOLK & COUNTRY Devil in a Woodpile 6 PM, Hideout

BLUES, GOSPEL, AND R&B Joanna Connor, Mississippi Heat 9:30 PM, Kingston Mines

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ROCK, POP, ETC Advance Base, Lisa/Liza 7:30 PM, Comfort Station A Jeff Beck, Billy Raffoul 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre Chasing Greys, North of Eight, Black Comedy, Frequencies, Nathan Weber 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Ellis Clark & the Big Parade, Coyote Union, Mainstays, Skippin’ Rocks, Hannah Frank Group 7:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ B Forrest, Jude Shuma, Mos Scocious 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F

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“Lore” is less meditative and more demonstrative, with slaloming guitar lines bathing the tintinnabulation of bells, while the dampened guitar lines on “Broom” summon a kind of Krautrock ferocity.

The mesmerizing qualities are undiminished—in fact, the sharper focus works to thicken the hypnosis, as improvised passages flow in and out of imperturbable grooves. This performance comes at the end of a U.S. tour, so I expect tonight’s terrific lineup—Abrams, Kelly, Boye, harmonium player Lisa Alvarado, and drummers Frank Rosaly and Mikel Avery—to reach deep inside the material and find loads of fresh possibilities. —PETER MARGASAK 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+ Avishai Cohen’s Triveni Israeli trumpeter Avishai Cohen—not to be confused with the Israeli bassist of the same name—has been on a tear in recent years, making pitch-perfect contributions to Mark Turner’s elegant, carefully modulated postbop quartet and Omer Avital’s ebullient, soulful foursome. But nothing gets my heart racing like Triveni, Cohen’s nimble trio with Avital and drummer Nasheet Waits. On the group’s albums the leader displays remarkable versatility, seamlessly blending ideas from jazz’s history so that endless melodic and rhythmic variations emerge as opposite sides of the same coin. On last year’s fantastic Dark Nights (Anzic) Cohen incorporates surprising, electronically enhanced overdubs into the trio’s live tracks, adding a spacey, almost dublike expansiveness to the title track without disrupting the group’s gritty organic feel.

Most of the album is composed of pithy originals marked by a nice low-end heft and a strong dose of blues, but the trumpeter mixes things up nicely by adding a knockout take of the Mingus classic “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” his malleable horn conveying the orchestral sweep of the original. On his spare solo reading of the standard “I Fall in Love Too Easily” he’s joined by pianist Gerald Clayton and singer Keren Ann, who imparts a fragile Chet Baker-ish grace. Cohen wields his full-bodied, gorgeous tone with a swagger that in no way impinges on his sensitive lyricism—he practically forces the listener to forget how hard it is to lead a trio with such an unforgiving instrument. Tonight he’s joined by Waits and terrific bassist Linda Oh. —PETER MARGASAK 8 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town

School of Folk Music, 4545 N. Lincoln, $28, $26 members. A ESSA-PEKKA SALONEN LEADS THE CSO in Messiaen’s TurangalÎla-symphonie See Thursday. 1:30 PM, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan, $29-$216. A Superheaven Last year music blog Stuff You Will Hate—which fills its pages with tongue-incheek coverage of bands largely popular among the Warped Tour set—decided to test its soothsaying skills and predict the forthcoming rise of “soft grunge,” its term for musicians blending the “Seattle sound” with 90s midwestern emo. At this blip, the forecast appears dead-on—and I hope more groups copping that style take notes from Pennsylvania four-piece Superheaven. Bands that worship at the Temple of the Dog love to act as though 1994 never arrived, but Superheaven play like the entire decade never even happened.

Their new sophomore album, Ours Is Chrome (SideOneDummy), shrugs off the burden of living up to grunge greats, and even when the guitars give off a whiff of “Teen Spirit,” Superheaven make the sound their own. They mine emo’s volatile catharsis and sweet melodies to produce clean, precise examples of “soft grunge,” and tracks such as “Leach” and “Gushin’ Blood” move with a heavy somberness while managing to hit all the right euphoric pop notes. —LEOR GALIL Diamond Youth, Rozwell Kid, and Churchkey open.

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MONDAY25 Jason Eady & Courtney Patton Brocountry radio is fixated on party-hearty good times, filled with booze, hot babes, and cheery anthemic hooks. Jason Eady harks back to a country tradition focused on broken hearts, broken spirits, and bleary eyes—the desperate flip side to all that sunny, des-

perate glee. On “Lonesome, Down and Out” his gentle vocal twang digs deep into wry loss—the kind experienced by all the Hanks and Leftys and Willies before him—as he sings, “I started runnin’ after the stayin’ failed to work / Got used to livin’ a little heart broke and hurt.” That song is from Daylight & Dark (Old Guitar), the nearly unheralded but nonetheless best country album of 2014. Eady’s made fine music before, but this, his second collaboration with producer Kevin Welch, is his quiet masterpiece. It’s not all solemn and down-tempo, but even a honkytonk stepper such as “We Might Just Miss Each Other” (which features a great assist from vocalist Courtney Patton) is drenched in loss: “Here I sit outside with that old feeling / And a fear of seeing you and what I’d find.” There isn’t a joyful reconciliation; the hope never wins out over the fear. The track, about adult longing and adult grief, is an ode to country music’s past—and remains too painful for country radio. Patton joins Eady for these two sets.

—NOAH BERLATSKY Sets at noon and 2 PM. Bub City, 435 N. Clark. F A Invisible Things On Time as One Axis (New Atlantis) Invisible Things, the wild duo of Chicago guitarist Mark Shippy (ex-U.S. Maple) and Philadelphia drummer Jim Sykes (ex-Parts & Labor), deftly expand and improve upon the sprawling racket of their chaotic 2012 debut, Home Is the Sun. Produced by Martin Bisi, the brand-new album begins like a detonated bomb, with screaming and feverish slide-guitar noise spazzing all over hyperactive beats, and though there’s a loose structure at work on opener “Rockets,” the pair seem intent on obliterating it. On the seven pieces that follow one can really hear how the group have refined their sound—or rather their loudness and rudeness. Storming workouts service the hazy melodies Shippy sings in a kind of distant, numb howl, and at times Invisible Things sound like a vicious math-rock combo, with a complexity that would do Mick Barr proud. But what makes the project rewarding to hear are moments when the B

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ROCK, POP, ETC Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience 7 PM, also Sun 5/24, 8 PM, Arcada Theatre, Saint Charles A Joe Ely Duo, Rosie Flores & Lucette 2 PM, City Winery A Francis Wreck, the Sure, Skin Dance 9 PM, Burlington Palehound, Coaster, Bedroom Sons 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+

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TUESDAY26 Shelby Lynne Shelby Lynne hits the road to join the classic-album circuit, performing her 2000 breakthrough I Am Shelby Lynne in its entirety (Rounder reissued the album in a deluxe edition last fall). The Bill Bottrell-produced effort marked a formal break from her time in Nashville, which yielded five albums but little success. The B Come enjoy one of Chicago’s finest!

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B record also brought out the blue-eyed soul that had long lurked in the voice of the native Alabaman, and it touches on Dusty Springfield’s classic Dusty in Memphis as well as 70s soft rock and soul-pop in its mixture of seductive strings, low-tech drum machines, husky harmony vocals, and bluesy raunch. Since then Lynne has released a string of relatively consistent albums, none quite as good but nearly all worthwhile. Nostalgia fiends who bought tickets for tonight (or tomorrow) will also hear tunes from Lynne’s solid new record, I Can’t Imagine (Rounder). Cut with her working band, the personable, self-produced effort mines more rustic terrain without ditching the soul accents, and rather than falling back on the anger that seethes from I Am Shelby Lynne, it draws on a broader range of songwriting ideas. “Back Door Front Porch” is a lovely meditation on leaving home that features pangs of both hesitation and sadness; “Sold the Devil (Sunshine)” is a Dusty-ish embrace of life’s unpredictability; and “Following You,” one of the album’s most gripping tunes, starts with a young narrator following her father’s lead before realizing the path seems to lead to destructive behavior.

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NEW Active Child, Matt Ulery’s In the Ivory 6/22, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Antibalas 7/2, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Autopsy 10/23-24, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Andrew Belle, Birds of Chicago 6/8, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Hayes Carll, Mother Falcon 6/18, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Richard Cheese & Lounge Against the Machine 7/8, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Choctaw Wildfire 6/7, 8 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn, on sale Fri 5/22, 11 AM Dengue Fever 9/7, 9 PM, Empty Bottle, on sale Fri 5/22, 10 AM Dick Diver, CoCoComa 7/1, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Disentomb 7/1, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Dwele 8/1, 7:30 and 10:30 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/21, noon A Elston Avenue Sausage & Music Fest with the Heartless Bastards, Andrew Jackson Jihad, FIlligar, and more 6/27-28, noon, Elston between St. Louis and Grace A Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) 7/15, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Fortunate Youth 10/10, 9 PM, Subterranean, on sale Fri 5/22, 10 AM, 17+ Fountainsun, Wrekmeister Harmonies 7/2, 7 PM, Bohemian National Cemetery, on sale Fri 5/22, 10 AM Bill Frisell Trio 6/21, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/21, noon A From Indian Lakes 6/27, 11:15 PM, the Abbey, 17+ Heartless Bastards, Alberta Cross 9/23, 8:30 PM, Metro, 18+

Hot Stove Cool Music 7/9, 8 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 5/22, noon, 18+ Jenny Hval, Briana Marela 9/3, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ In This Moment 7/7, 7:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Nick Jonas 9/14, 8 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 5/22, 10 AM, 17+ Judah & the Lion 7/9, 8 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Kem 7/26, 7 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino, Hammond King Sunny Ade, Mathew Tembo 7/6, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Leo Kottke 8/26-27, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/21, noon A Kyng 7/17, 9 PM, Double Door, on sale Fri 5/22, noon Langhorne Slim & the Law 8/18, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 5/22, 10 AM A London Souls, Eggnoise 6/11, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Los Cojolites, David Wax Museum 7/23, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Lupe Fiasco 6/1, 9 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Mighty Diamonds, Charley Organaire 6/15, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Murder by Death, Banditos 7/20, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Ivan Neville, Papa Mali, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux 7/2, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ New Orleans Swamp Donkeys 6/17, 8:30 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn, on sale Fri 5/22, 11 AM Northlane 8/13, 6:30 PM, Double Door A Ondatropica, Helado Negro 7/16, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Poi Dog Pondering, Caroline Smith 6/29, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA

Psycroptic 7/17, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Rasputina 8/21, 9 PM, Double Door, 18+ San Fermin, So Percussion 6/1, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Screaming Females, Vacation 7/28, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Wadada Leo Smith, Douglas Ewart, and Mike Reed 6/26-27, 8:30 PM, Constellation Chris Smither 10/16, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/21, noon A Snarky Puppy, Third Coast Percussion 6/25, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Matthew Sweet, In Tall Buildings 7/13, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA KT Tunstall 8/23-24, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 5/21, noon A The Very Best, Glass Lux 6/4, 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park FA Witchtrap 10/17, 9 PM, Cobra Lounge

UPDATED Bad Religion, Plague Vendor 6/22-23, 7:30 PM, Metro, 6/22 is sold out, 18+

UPCOMING Aborted 6/3, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Peter Bradley Adams 6/20, 7:30 PM, Schubas Bryan Adams 7/25, 8 PM, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion Ginger Baker’s Jazz Confusion 6/14, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Fever the Ghost 6/1, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen Brandon Flowers 9/11, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ John Fogerty 7/8, 8 PM, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion Jethro Tull 11/1, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre Diana Krall 8/9, 7 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Leftover Salmon 7/2, 8 PM, Park West, 18+ Gedeon Luke & the People 6/24, 8 PM, Schubas Mac McCaughan 7/23, 9 PM, Schubas James Vincent McMorrow 8/26, 8 PM, Thalia Hall A Miami Horror 6/30, 8 PM, Schubas, 18+ Ingrid Michaelson, Jukebox the Ghost 6/24, 7 PM, Chicago Theatre Bette Midler 6/18, 8 PM, United Center Damien Rice, Iron & Wine 6/21, 7 PM, Pritzker Pavilion A Ride 9/25, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ Ringo Deathstarr 7/26, 9 PM, Empty Bottle

Rise Against, Killswitch Engage 7/17, 7 PM, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion Roadkill Ghost Choir 6/23, 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Eric Roberson 7/15-16, 8 PM, City Winery A Rich Robinson 6/18, 8 PM, City Winery A Josh Rouse, Walter Martin 6/6, 8 PM, Thalia Hall A Royal Thunder 6/22, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Ximena Sariñana 6/25, 9 PM, Schubas, 18+ Savoy Brown 5/29, 7 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Bob Schneider 7/25, 8 PM, Thalia Hall Jackson Scott 6/3, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen Sebadoh 5/29, 9 PM, Schubas Secret Sisters, Striking Matches 6/3, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston A Seinabo Sey 6/2, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Shabazz Palaces 6/7, 9:30 PM, the Shrine Shadowboxers 6/13, 10 PM, Schubas Michael Shannon and friends 6/6, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston A Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros 7/3-4, 10 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Billy Joe Shaver 5/30, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston A Ed Sheeran 9/16, 7 PM, First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park Steve Smith & Vital Information NYC Edition 6/7, 8 PM, Martyrs’ Snarky Puppy 6/23-24, 8 PM, City Winery A Social Distortion 8/9, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin 6/27, 9 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Son Lux 6/18, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall Songhoy Blues 6/5, 8 PM, Thalia Hall A Sonny & the Sunsets 7/27, 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ SonReal 7/22, 7 PM, Schubas A Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes 6/28, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Colin Stetson 7/28, 8 PM, Schubas Laura Stevenson 6/5, 9 PM, the Abbey, 17+ Sticky Fingers 7/16, 10:30 PM, Schubas Lindsey Stirling 6/5, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre Straight No Chaser 12/19, 3 and 8 PM, Civic Opera House A Sublime with Rome, Pepper 8/20, 6 PM, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion A Sudden Suspension 7/17, 6 PM, Beat Kitchen A Sugar Ray, Better Than Ezra, Uncle Kracker 8/18, 6:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park

Emi Sunshine 8/14, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston A Bryan Sutton Band 8/12, 8 PM, City Winery A Suuns, Jerusalem in My Heart 6/15, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Matthew Sweet 7/14, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston A Taylor Swift 7/18-19, 7 PM, Soldier Field Taake 6/20, 9:30 PM, Cobra Lounge Third Eye Blind, Dashboard Confessional 6/26, 7 PM, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion A This Will Destroy You 7/27, 9 PM, Subterranean, 17+ X 7/26-28, 8 PM, City Winery A Zoltars 6/9, 8 PM, Schubas ZZ Top 8/27, 8 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park

SOLD OUT AC/DC 9/15, 7 PM, Wrigley Field A Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 6/26-27, 8 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park A Black Mountain 5/30, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox 6/4, 8 PM, the Vic A Built to Spill 5/30, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Harry Connick Jr. 8/7, 8 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Darkest Hour 6/28, 6 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Dead Moon 7/10, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Death Grips 6/30, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Foo Fighters, Cheap Trick, Naked Raygun, Urge Overkill 8/29, Wrigley Field A Grateful Dead 7/3-5, 7 PM, Soldier Field Lalah Hathaway 6/12, 9:30 PM, the Shrine Hozier, Dawes 6/10, 7 PM, Pritzker Pavilion A Mark Knopfler 10/2, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Mekons 7/11, 9 PM, Hideout Melvins 7/8, 8 PM, Double Door Menzingers 6/6, 8:30 PM, the Abbey, 17+ Mumford & Sons 6/17, 6 PM, Montrose Beach A Refused 5/31, 6:30 PM, Double Door Royal Blood 6/3, 7:30 PM, Metro A The Script, Mary Lambert 6/6, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre A Ty Segall 6/27, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Sleeping With Sirens, Summer Set 6/12, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge Temples 5/30, 10:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Vance Joy 5/29, 8 PM, Metro A Steven Wilson 6/4-5, 7:30 PM, Park West, 18+ “Weird Al” Yankovic 6/27, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre v

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ALICE’S LOUNGE | AVONDALE One of the best worst decisions you can make on a Saturday night at 3 AM, Alice’s is quite probably the city’s best late-night karaoke spot.

Filled with laser lights, fog, and the clever and off-color quips of karaoke keeper Fred Wood, the “stage” is often surrounded by a host of locals swigging domestics and singing along to every lyric of “Sussudio.” The weekends will get bonkers, but the bartenders (Alice included) are efficient and pleasant, and the door guy rules if you lay off the guff. On packed nights you’ll likely only get to sing once, so cozy up to one of the many baskets of snack mix and do some shots of Malort.

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THE CONTINENTAL HUMBOLDT PARK The 4 AM bar of choice for fashionable Chicago scenesters since it launched in 2006, this lonely outpost of hipsterdom on a vacant stretch of Chicago Ave. has such a reputation for late-night shenanigans that it’s widely known by the quasi-affectionate nickname “Mistakes.” The place to see and be seen (in double).

—MILES RAYMER 2801 W. Chicago, 773-292-1200.

THE FLAT IRON | WICKER PARK A cavernous, no-frills venue for drinking until the wee hours. There aren’t any bands or DJs, but there’s plenty of entertainment to be had in watching the place turn into a punk-rocker meat market after enough shots are collectively consumed. Figure out a way to run off duplicates from the photo booth and you could make a nice living in blackmail.

The people playing pool tend to be real serious about it, and during the day the window seats are prime people-watching spots. —MILES RAYMER 1565 N. Milwaukee, 773-489-0011, theflatironchicago.com.

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JOE E’S UNFORGETTABLE LOUNGE IRVING PARK The only 4 AM bar on Irving Park Road has a strong relationship with the Illinois Lottery, with a behind-the-bar ticket machine and a self-serve on the floor. In operation since the 50s, it’s now run by the second-generation Joe E. and his wife. A

refuge for stool warmers in daylight hours and the walking dead in the wee ones, the lounge also has a bus shelter out front where you can sleep off the interminable five hours it’s closed every day.

—MIKE SULA 4206 W. Irving Park, 773-283-3422, unforgettablelounge.com.

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KINGSTON MINES LINCOLN PARK This legendary blues bar hosts blues acts with decades of experience on its two stages every night, and the nonstop live music is worth the cover charge. Drink specials seem to largely cater to the neighborhood’s college crowd (most old-school blues fans aren’t downing the $2.50 “sweet tart” shots), but the rotation of classic domestics at $15-$20 a bucket is exactly what you’d hope to find in a place like this. The music keeps playing every night of the week until well past 2 AM, offering a more appealing and lively alternative to the typical 4 AM spot. —BRIANNA WELLEN 2548 N. Halsted, 773-477-4646, kingstonmines.com.

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OLD TOWN ALE HOUSE | OLD TOWN Basically, the bar that Second City players go to after a performance (for proof, check out the caricatures on the walls: look familiar?). Filling pitchers of Old Style until 5 AM on Saturday, this is one of the liveliest dives in town, noisy, narrow, and frequently packed. —TAL ROSENBERG 219 W. North, 312-944-7020, theoldtownalehouse.com.

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THE OWL | LOGAN SQUARE There’s a waterfall behind the bar—that’s definitely something. Fortunately, though, the 4 AM spot brought to Logan Square by the people behind Estelle’s, Easy Bar, and Alive One has a handful of other amenities, including a solid rotation of beers on tap and a decor posh enough that your bad decisions will appear almost glamorous.

—KEVIN WARWICK 2521 N. Milwaukee, 773-2355300, owlbarchicago.com.

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SMART BAR | LAKEVIEW The club tucked beneath the Metro Cabaret is also the most popular dance destination in the city, booking cutting-edge DJs locally and internationally. The interior’s a bit clubby, but the dance floor is pretty big, and the sound is unbelievable.

—TAL ROSENBERG 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-4140, smartbarchicago.com. v

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