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How Chicago’s DIY community is learning to ﬁght sexual violence 21

Pizzeria Bebu turns out pie-in-the-sky good pizza. 35

In the Japanese artist’s exhibit “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,” we’re the octopus. By TAL ROSENBERG 16

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IN THIS ISSUE 15 Theater Ostensibly a comedy, Native Gardens terriﬁes.

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The Japanese artist’s exhibit “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” is a dizzying depiction of the current cultural moment. BY TAL ROSENBERG 16

4 Agenda Katie Rich and Holly Laurent at Chicago Women’s Funny Festival, Chicago Book and Paper Fair, Steve James’s new documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, and more recommended goings-on about town 7 Pride Month The best happenings from this weekend’s Pride Fest until the Pride Parade

CITY LIFE

25 Shows of note Nick Cave, Willie Nelson & Family, Dwight Yoakam, and more recommendations

8 Joravsky | Politics Mayor Rahm’s new Neighborhood Opportunity Fund throws small entrepreneurs a few crumbs—but the program is a lot of PR hokum.

35 Restaurant review: Pizzeria Bebu A couple of One Oﬀ Hospitality vets turn out pie-in-thesky good pizza. 37 Key Ingredient: Tamarillo Gabino “Bino” Ottoman of the Ruin Daily makes a beef jerky marinade using the fruit known as the tree tomato.

10 Q&A In No Is Not Enough, Canadian journalist Naomi Klein says that to beat Trump, we need more than resistance. 12 Transportation Daily traﬃc violence harms more people than vehicle attacks.

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14 Theater Steppenwolf’s Pass Over is unﬂinching on the war against young black men. 14 Dance Esoteric Dance Project’s Perspective keeps things simple, funny, and relatable.

40 Straight Dope The world is warming. How bad can we expect things to get? 41 Savage Love Dan dispenses advice for a man who’s had an “absolute hell life thus far.” 42 Early Warnings Roky Erickson, Lavender Country, Slowdive, Jamila Woods, and more upcoming shows 42 Gossip Wolf Chicago’s DIY punk scene packs a ton of its greatness into one show, and more music news.

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More at chicagoreader.com/ theater Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight Playwright Lauren Gunderson has done her part to rescue great women from that particular dustbin of history labeled “Girls.” Her list of gyno-biodramas includes one on astronomer Henrietta Leavitt, another on mathematician Ada Lovelace, and this 2009 effort dealing with the 18th-century French aristocrat of the title, who became noted for her work in physics and notorious for her affair with Voltaire. Strong performances (especially by Laura Sturm as Emilie and Joel Moses as Voltaire) go a long way toward overcoming second-act languors and some kind of inscrutable symbolic thing involving the set. What the cast of Bryan Wakefield’s Organic Theater staging can’t fix is Gunderson’s notion that chronicling Emilie means valorizing her—trying to convince us, for instance, that a fabulously wealthy woman who did pretty much as she pleased and was taken seriously by her peers somehow led a difficult life. A more honest Emilie might be more interesting. —TONY ADLER Through 7/16: Sat 3 and 8 PM through 6/17; thereafter Wed-Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM (3 PM only 7/1), Sun 3 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, greenhousetheater.org, $30. King Ubu Alfred Jarry’s proto-absurdist burlesque of Macbeth famously triggered a riot at its 1896 Paris premiere with its grotesquerie, coarse language, and rude mockery of authority. The title character—originally a parody of one of Jarry’s own teachers, who Jarry said “personified for [me] all the ugliness in the world”—is a vulgar, vain, infantile, erratic, dishonest, greedy, vindictive, cowardly narcissist who seizes the throne of Poland only to be attacked by the Russians. It’s natural that a contemporary artist could see potential for a satire of our current political personalities in this material, and the Organic Theater Company’s new production—”freely adapted” by director

Alexander Gelman—coyly tweaks the text with Trumpian references to “bigly,” “short-fingered,” and so on. But though the eight-person cast display impressive physical and vocal technique in their slapstick clowning and sexual posturing, the show never conveys the anarchic spontaneity that Jarry’s subversive humor demands—now more than ever in these dangerous times. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 7/14: Wed-Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-4047336, greenhousetheater.org, $30. Naked Boys Singing! Presumably, it was two out of the three words in this title that caused monocles to drop within the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, an organization with whom the Athenaeum Theatre—the venue originally scheduled—is affiliated. The subsequent last-minute move to Theater Wit gives an extra air of underdog scrappiness to this full-frontal, sex-positive silliness from Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, led by a gang of six handsome, mostly Helix Studios-ready twinky fellas. Book writer Robert Schrock’s risque camp and commentary on LGBT culture feel firmly planted in 1998, when the revue first appeared off-Broadway, and the cast’s voices work better as an ensemble than individually, but jokes like Danny Bradley’s “Perky Little Porn Star” and some more vulnerable numbers from Wesley Dean Tucker hold up as good, wholesome, R-rated fun. —DAN JAKES Through 7/1: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773975-8150, eclectic-theatre.com, $27, $22 students and seniors. Pilgrims Playwright Claire Kiechel takes an exhausted theatrical cliche (two emotionally wounded, temperamentally incompatible people aggravate and antagonize each other until pathological spite transforms into ferocious love), sets it in outer space, and adds a robot servant. No, really. Aboard spaceship Destiny (no, really), a taciturn, cynical soldier and a logorrheic, flighty castaway, both lugging big traumatic secrets to a new planet, get stuck sharing a room and bandying metaphors for 100 days. All the unconvincing dialogue, underdeveloped story lines, unrecognizable psychology,

Put the Nuns in Charge! Vicki Quade’s 2005 sequel to her 1993 hit Late Nite Catechism (written with Maripat Donovan), being revived here by Nuns4Fun Entertainment, so closely resembles the original it feels like an alternate draft. This time the protagonist, Mother Superior, is addressing not a catechism class but a group serving detention. Still, the feel of the two shows is very similar—both depend on constant comic interactions between the sister and her audience, and both very gently poke fun at Catholic culture without touching on subjects that might oﬀend anyone. Chicago comedy-scene veteran Kathleen Puls Andrade (who shares the role of Mother Superior with Lisa Braatz in this run) is adept, warm, likable, and very funny. —JACK HELBIG Through 7/16: Fri 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Royal George Theatre Center, 1641 N. Halsted, 312-988-9000, theroyalgeorgetheatre.com, $30.

The Water Children In 1997, playwright Wendy MacLeod cooked up a tender, paradoxical drama involving Megan (Hilary Bernius), an actress who’s had an abortion and is pro-choice, and Randall (Joe Liolos), the executive director of a pro-life group. They wind up in bed together, and it’s all uphill from there, an unplanned pregnancy being one major point of contention. It probably goes without saying that a setup this contrived requires a pair of actors who can ﬁnesse a strong sense of conviction against a lingering attraction. But you’d be surprised how delicate that balance can be. In this revival from the Cuckoo’s Theater Project, directed by Denise Smolarek, the chemistry between the leads is palpable and convincing, restrained and focused at all the right moments, lend-

ing credence to the notion that love and politics are never black and white. —MATT DE LA PEÑA Through 7/8: ThuSat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM (no show 6/25); also Sat 7/1 and 7/8, 3 PM, Collaboraction, 1579 N. Milwaukee, 312-226-9633, thecuckoostheaterproject.com, $20.

DANCE Father’s Day Dance Party Spend Father’s Day at this Beauty and the Beast -themed dance party with dear ol’ pops showing oﬀ his patented “dad dance.” Sun 6/18, 1-2:30 PM, Duet Dance Studio, 2515 W. North, #201, 312-823-8199, duetdancestudio.com, $15. Perspective Esoteric Dance Project presents three world premieres as part of a weekend-long series exploring how we interpret the world. For more see page 14. Fri 6/16-Sun 6/18, 7 PM, Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, 773-281-0824, esotericdanceproject.com, $20-$40, $15 students and seniors.

COMEDY

Chicago Women’s Funny FestiR val Four days. 80 shows. Plenty of funny women. Notable performers

include improv duo Katie Rich and Holly Laurent, stand-up comedian Dina Nina Martinez, and improv masters Susan Messing and Rachel Mason. 6/15-6/18: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 4:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, stage773.com, $15-$100. Don’t Kid Yourself: Story Time R This variety show examines the strangeness and wonder of childhood.

Performers include Adam Burke, whose wry wit and iconoclastic worldview place him in the upper echelon of Chicago stand-up comedians. Fri 6/16, 8 PM, Volumes Bookcafe, 1474 N. Milwaukee, 773-697-8066, volumesbooks.com, $10 suggested donation. Red Lobster Comedy Red Lobster Comedy aspires to more than providing stage time for unﬁltered, odd stand-

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with depictions of real testimonials and surreal, abstract imagery onscreen. The ﬁlms have been curated by futurists Erin Christovale and Amir George. Thu 6/15, 5 PM, Art Institute of Chicago, 11 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600, artinstituteofchicago.org. DePaul Art Museum Guggenheim fellow and SAIC professor Nora A. Taylor discusses the contemporary art of the Vietnamese diaspora. Thu 6/15, 5:30 PM, 935 W. Fullerton, 773-325-7506, museums. depaul.edu.

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up comics. Creator Chris Condren, a Chicago staple known for songs that go nowhere, and his 34 producers serve hot dogs and have sent a cease-and-desist letter to Red Lobster for infringing on their “brand.” Don’t be surprised if the lawsuit actually goes through, a performing comic ﬂops spectacularly, or the show moves to the Red Lobster in Midway Airport—the original venue of choice. Open run: third Monday of each month, 9:30 PM, L&L Tavern, 3207 N. Clark, 773-528-1303. Snubfest Jilted stand-ups who’ve R been rejected from other comedy festivals ﬁnd their home at Snubfest.

Performers include Daniel Crescimanno, Fumi Abe, and Tyler Korso. The sketch portion of the festival takes place at Under the Gun Theater (956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440) on Fri 6/23 at 9 PM. Wed 6/21, 8 PM, Zanies, 1548 N. Wells, 312-3374027, zanies.com/chicago, $20-$35.

The Summer Solstice SpectacR ular Comedy Hour An evening of sketches, stand-up, improv, and music hosted by the dynamic pairing of Katie Rich and Holly Laurent. Tue 6/20, 8 PM, iO Theater, the Mission Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov.com/chicago, $12.

That’s Weird, Grandma: Attack R of the Phantom of the BBQ Using stories written by Chicago Public

School students, theater company Barrel of Monkeys presents a humorous, surreal, and often heartfelt variety show. 6/197/17: Mon 8 PM, Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, 773-275-5255, neofuturists.org, $12, $6 for children under 12.

Stony Island Arts Bank “Future People,” this exhibit features Derrick Adams’s multimedia work mimicking the windows and control center of a spacecraft, complete with a live DJ-set component. Through 9/18. Tue-Sat noon7 PM. 6760 S. Stony Island, 312-857-5561, rebuild-foundation.org/site/stony-islandarts-bank. Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art “Night Train,” Chicago artist Marcos Raya’s semiautobiographical exhibit featuring paintings, collages, and found-object works. Through 7/30. WedSun noon-4 PM. 2320 W. Chicago, 773227-5522, uima-chicago.org, $5 suggested donation. Northwestern University Block Museum of Art “We Are Revolutionaries: The Wall of Respect and Chicago’s Mural Movement,” a student-curated exhibit inspired by the guerrilla-style mural The Wall of Respect. Through 6/18. Wed-Fri 10 AM-8 PM, Sat-Sun noon-5 PM. 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston, 847-491-4000, blockmuseum.northwestern.edu.

LIT & LECTURES

Architect Talk: Weiss/Manfredi R and the Magic of Urban Transformation The cure for the common

abandoned urban space is a beautiful piece of architecture—placing something marvelous where there once was nothing. Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, known for marrying public spaces with unexpected architecture, will share their experience with the process and discuss

W. Kamau Bell W. Kamau Bell uses his expansive political and social knowledge to carefully lay out his iconoclastic view of the world in this curiosity-driven evening of stand-up. Fri 16, 8 PM, Park West, 322 W. Armitage, 773-929-5959, parkwestchicago.com, $28-$56.

Chicago Book and Paper Fair Snag vintage copies of your favorite novels at this West Loop fair. Or, if you’re not into “reading,” music and art books are also available. Sat 6/17, 10 AM-5 PM, Plumbers Hall, 1340 W. Washington, 312-421-1010, plumberslu130ua.org/site/ section/7/108, $6. Chicago Literary Hall of Fame R honors Eugene Field The 19th-century author and humorist is hon-

ored for his contributions to literature, most notably his children’s poetry. Wed 6/21, 7 PM, Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior, 312-787-7070, poetryfoundation. org.

Essay Fiesta: Garﬁeld Celebrate R 39 years of Garﬁeld with essays honoring the lasagna-loving, Monday-hating, original grumpy cat himself. Performers includes author David Stuart MacLean, comedian Sameena Mustafa, and speechwriter William Horstman. Odie and Jon (who has nothing better to do, ever) will not be present. Mon 6/19, 7 PM, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, 773-293-2665, bookcellarinc.com.

Matter in the Margins: Gwendolyn Brooks at 100 An exhibition celebrating works by Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, from prose she composed as a child to her later exuberant manuscripts. Fri 6/16, 6 PM, Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior, 312-787-7070, poetryfoundation. org. Sharon Solwitz The author R discusses her new novel, Once in Lourdes, the story of four teenage girls

who make a life-altering pact. Joining Solwitz is local author S. L. Wisenberg. Fri 6/16, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenﬁrst.com. You’re Being Ridiculous This R edition of the storytelling show features performers sharing tales

inspired by the theme “pride” as part of Steppenwolf Theatre’s LookOut series. Through 6/21: Wed 8 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted, 312-335-1650, yourebeingridiculous.com, $20.

MOVIES

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail R Abacus Federal Savings Bank holds the distinction of being the only

VISUAL ARTS Black Radical Imagination Using the medium of ﬁlm, this exhibit and screening tackles the issues of African identity

the impact their designs have had on distressed city landscapes. Thu 6/15, 6 PM, Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan, 312-922-3432, architecture.org, $15.

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ﬁnancial institution prosecuted as a result of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, though as this engrossing documentary by Steve James suggests, it may have been a sacriﬁcial lamb. A family-owned business, Abacus provides home loans to immigrants in New York’s Chinatown (James, laying it on

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a bit thick, stresses the bank’s civicmindedness with clips from It’s a Wonderful Life). Yet good intentions weren’t enough to protect Abacus after New York prosecutors indicted 19 employees and accused the bank of having purposely sold hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent loans to the Federal National Mortgage Association. James focuses on Thomas Sung, the septuagenarian founder of Abacus, and his grown daughters, several of whom are executives at the bank (and one of whom, ironically, worked in the DA’s office when the indictment came down). The family drama adds an emotional dimension to the strictly legal narrative, in which the Sungs’ attorneys try to prove that the wrongdoing was confined to a handful of loan officers. —J.R. JONES 88 min. James and producer Mark Mitten attend selected screenings; for more information visit siskelfilmcenter.org. Fri 6/16-Thu 6/22. Gene Siskel Film Center Band Aid Zoe Lister-Jones wrote, coproduced, directed, stars in, and dominates nearly every scene of this hipster comedy about a feuding married couple, played by her and Adam Pally, who begin turning their frustrations into three-chord indie rock as a form of therapy and wind up fronting a popular band. Their glib, zinger-laden bickering is more wearisome than funny and never adds up to a believable relationship on the rocks, so when they start turning their spats about dirty dishes into call-and-response tunes, the collaboration seems more cute than credible. Lister-Jones’s relentless overplaying is thrown into stark relief whenever Fred Armisen sidles into a scene as the duo’s soft-spoken but bizarre next-door neighbor, who becomes the drummer for their power trio. In true romantic fashion, the couple’s problem turns out to be buried trauma rather than the personal differences that typically dissolve marriages (and bands). —J.R. JONES R, 91 min. Fri 6/16-Thu 6/22, 2:45, 5, 7:15, and 9:30 PM. Music Box Beatriz at Dinner Salma Hayek brings depth and feeling to the title character, an occupational therapist in Los Angeles whose car breaks down at the home of a superrich client (Connie Britton). Invited to stay for a dinner party, Beatriz meets a boorish real estate mogul (John Lithgow), plainly modeled on Donald Trump, and grows depressed when she realizes her sensitivity, idealism, and altruism mean nothing to him. Screenwriter Mike White (The School of Rock, Year of the Dog) aims for social satire but doesn’t have much to say about the erosion of kindness in the Trump era; he seems W

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Decasia (2002) turned decomposing film stock into the stuff of avante-garde reverie, returns with another staggering journey into the past. In 1978 a construction crew in Dawson City, Yukon, uncovered hundreds of reels of silent film that were used as landfill after a local theater switched over to talkies in the 1930s. Drawing on these materials as well as archival photos and other movie clips, Morrison reconstructs the history of the frontier town from its gold-rush heyday to the present, even as he connects it to the emergence of the American cinema. The movie honors the silent-film aesthetic with a majestic score and the narration in onscreen titles, though composer Alex Somers cuts loose with a little electronic noise whenever Morrison presents one of his abstract studies in peeling emulsion. Included is rare footage of the Chicago “Black Sox” playing the infamous 1919 World Series. —J.R. JONES 120 min. Fri 6/16, 6 PM; Sun 6/18, 5:15 PM; and Wed 6/21, 7:45 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Hero Who else but Sam R Elliott, the cinema’s last surviving cowboy, could have pulled

oﬀ this soapy tale about an elderly western star silently wrestling with a grim cancer diagnosis? The movie opens with his character endlessly intoning a tagline for barbecue sauce as he scrapes by doing voiceover work, and Elliott, who’s spent much of his own career trapped under a ten-gallon hat, makes the scene a study in actorly resignation and dignity. Screenwriters Brett Haley and Marc Basch resort to cliche (the actor’s damaged relationship with his grown daughter, played by Krysten Ritter) and contrivance (for the 100th time in recent memory, the story turns on the eruption of a viral video), but Elliott invests his character with such authority that the movie resounds like a pair of bootheels. Haley directed; with Laura Prepon, Nick Oﬀerman, and Katharine Ross. —J.R. JONES R, 97 min. Landmark’s Century Centre

The Mummy How ﬁtting that the makers of this action-adventure movie about tomb raiders plunder the Universal Pictures vault, from the 1932 and 1999 versions of The Mummy to An American Werewolf in London (1981) and the Abbott and Costello monster fests. Tom Cruise and Jake Johnson are the

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail bickering, bumbling grave robbers who revive an embalmed Egyptian princess, unleashing 5,000 years of her pent-up wrath. The vengeful mummy, played by Sofia Boutella, sashays like a runway model in designer grunge, and Russell Crowe camps it up as Dr. Jekyll. Transformers veteran Alex Kurtzman directed, trading in gibberish and explosive violence. —ANDREA GRONVALL PG-13, 107 min. ArcLight, Chatham 14, City North 14, Harper, Logan, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Webster Place Raising Bertie Director Margaret Byrne started out making a documentary about the Hive, an alternative school in predominantly black Bertie County, North Carolina, but the school ran out of funds and shut down, so she decided to follow three male students as they returned to the public high school. Things are rough for them there: they’re all two or three grades behind, dealing with poverty and family dysfunction, and as Byrne tracks their progress over five years, their career prospects in the rural area settle at the level of barbering, landscaping, harvesting, and serving up fast food. Byrne wanted to call attention to the poor education afforded these young men, and her best evidence is her own subjects: one needs his mother to fill out his job applications for him, and another is still playing for the football team as he struggles to graduate at age 21. Near the end of the documentary the Hive reopens as a small community-resource center, which highlights the need for more social services in the boondocks but also reminds you that the original school played its part in leaving these young men unprepared. —J.R. JONES 2016, 105 min. Byrne attends the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday screenings. Chatham 14 A Woman’s Life Guy de Maupassant’s first novel, about a trusting French noblewoman who follows her husband and then her grown son into financial ruin, gets a slow,

sensual, impressionistic treatment from director Stéphane Brizé (The Measure of a Man, Not Here to Be Loved). His domestic scenes are steeped in the details of 19th-century life—the planting of a garden, the playing of a board game—and the soundtrack sizzles and snaps with the sound of wood-burning fires. The protagonist (Judith Chemla) is a bourgeois tragic heroine, anticipating Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina but without even their limited agency; suffering the sexual infidelities of her smoothtalking husband (Swann Arlaud) and the self-pitying tirades of her spoiled son (Finnegan Oldfield), she seems to wilt as the years pass. With Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Yolande Moreau. In French with subtitles. —J.R. JONES 119 min. Fri 6/16-Thu 6/22. Gene Siskel Film Center The Women’s Balcony R This comic drama from Israel offers a rare glimpse of an

Orthodox community in Jerusalem, whose relaxed form of traditional Judaism is losing ground to ultra-Orthodox fundamentalism. The beauty of Shlomit Nehama’s screenplay lies in its warmth and magnanimity: no one is demonized, not even the hard-line young rabbi (Aviv Alush) who gradually takes over a synagogue after its women’s balcony collapses, its elderly rabbi falls ill, and its congregation slips into disarray. The new rabbi soon marginalizes the female worshippers, triggering conﬂicts between spouses and friends that rapidly escalate. With an eye for artful detail, director Emil Ben-Shimon orchestrates a resolution both plausible and jubilant. In Hebrew with subtitles. —ANDREA GRONVALL 96 min. Fri 6/16-Thu 6/22, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center SPECIAL EVENTS Queer Bits Film Festival The local organization Pride Films and Plays presents its latest biannual collection of LGBT-themed short works. 107 min. Sat 6/17, 7:30 PM. Pride Films and Plays v

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NOH8 Open Photo Shoot R Get your photo taken by Adam Bouska, founder of the

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Our current political climate is, to put it mildly, a clusterfuck. Which means this month’s events celebrating the LGBTQIA community—from queer-driven stage shows and dance parties to the annual Pride Parade and Dyke March—also function as critical hubs of opposition to the policies of the Trump administration. See more Pride Month recommendations at chicagoreader.com. 30 Queer Plays in 60 R Straight Minutes This special edition of the Neo-Futurists’

new show The Inﬁnite Wrench celebrates diﬀerence while crushing traditional gender roles. All proceeds go toward YEPP (Youth Empowerment Performance Project), an organization that seeks to create safe environments for homeless LGBTQ youth. Fri 6/23, 11:30 PM, Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, 773-275-5255, neofuturists.org, $25.

Back Lot Bash Head outdoors to this women’s festival aiming to establish an inclusive, fun environment. Features performances by Catﬁght, DJ Goodboy, and Dev. 6/24-6/25: Sat 4-11 PM, Sun 4-10 PM, Cheetah Gym, 5248 N. Clark, backlotbashchicago.com, $20-$100. Chicago Dyke March This R annual march continues to commemorate the resilience of

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Chicago Pride Fest This R two-day street fest is a warm-up for the Pride Parade on Sunday, June 25. The Boystown takeover kicks oﬀ with a Pride

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Rahm’s fantasy land of opportunity

The mayor’s new Neighborhood Opportunity Fund throws small entrepreneurs a few crumbs— but the program is a lot of PR hokum. By BEN JORAVSKY

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n the category of fake news having nothing to do with Donald Trump, Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently released his list of victors in the city’s downtown development game. And the winners are . . . Not the big-time movers and shakers who’re actually cashing in on the booming real estate markets that’ve been fortified with ample property tax assistance from city taxpayers. Instead, in a June 7 speech at the City Club, the mayor chose to highlight nine relatively small south- and west-side businesses that have received a total of $2.3 million in grants, relative crumbs compared to the $55 million that was thrown at a Marriott hotel in one dreadfully bad South Loop deal. OK, so it’s not fake news on the scale of, say, Trump swearing up and down that he’s got proof that Barack Obama was born in another country. At least what the mayor says is true. This situation could be more appropriately categorized as classic Rahm spin—specifically an attempt by the mayor to undercut a proposal by aldermen Rod Sawyer and Gilbert Villegas for more meaningful neighborhood assistance. The day after his City Club speech, the mayor sent out a press release announcing that a “Chatham vegan restaurant, a North Lawndale plant nursery and a West Humboldt Park art gallery are among 32 initial businesses to receive investments from the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund.” The fund is a pool of money the city collects from developers in exchange for letting them build more units on their property than zoning law would

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normally allow. The more units the developers get to build, the more money they make—and I’m sure their profits are a lot more than $2.3 million. So it’s not like this is charity. “These investments are going to directly support neighborhood entrepreneurs on Chicago’s south, southwest and west sides,” Emanuel said in the release. “By linking growth downtown directly to growth in our neighborhoods we can ensure the entire city of Chicago thrives for generations to come.” As President Nixon used to say, let’s be perfectly clear about this: I’m not hating here. I tip my hat to those entrepreneurs who’re getting the grants. I hope you get more—take old Rahm for everything you can get. It’s about time he did something for someone other than the city’s 1 percent! But don’t be fooled: the booming development deals in and around downtown—including the North Branch of the Chicago River— are a by-product of planning strategies going back to the days of old man Daley. Rahm’s just following the playbook: move the poor out of the city center, subsidize the ensuing developments with public money, and let gentrification go to work. This strategy is not now and has never been about supporting “neighborhood entrepreneurs.” The $2.3 million in grants is certainly a pittance compared to the public money that’ll be thrown around to help develop many of these properties. The Emanuel administration has already indicated it will spent tens of millions of dollars, taken from the tax increment financing program, to pay for the redevelopment of the

old Michael Reese Hospital in Bronzeville. The mayor also is working with developers to shape Rezkoville, the vacant 62-acre site just south of the Loop, as well as the Old Main Post Office—though he’s not yet suggested how much those projects will cost taxpayers. He’s also not said how much it’ll cost in public dollars to clear the way for the transformation of the North Branch property on both sides of the Chicago River roughly between Kinzie Street and Fullerton Avenue. The real estate boom in this area was accelerated by the demolition of the Cabrini-Green housing project—an enormously expensive public venture—just east of the river. By demolishing Cabrini, the city ignited a real estate boom that has made the riverfront land too expensive for industry that’s existed there for decades. And so the city will spend tens of millions more, relocating businesses and clearing away the land. Yes, it was Rahm’s predecessor, the second Mayor Daley, who demolished Cabrini. But Emanuel has accelerated the transformation by moving the city’s Fleet & Facilities Management headquarters—a complex where the city parks its garbage trucks, snowplows, police cars, firetrucks, and other vehicles— from an 18-acre site along the North Branch of the river to Englewood. Thus he opens up more north-side land for commercial and retail development. So the south side gets the garbage trucks, and the north side gets the housing and shopping malls and the influx of money to flow into its TIF districts. That’s something you’ll never see the mayor mention in a press release.

I understand that neighborhoods, like all things, change. And, yes, a healthy downtown is vital to the stability of any city. But these changes didn’t just happen by themselves. Furthermore, healthy neighborhoods are vital to the stability of any downtown. So unless the mayor plans to move every poor person out to Harvey or Iowa, he’s got to do a much better job of using the downtown real estate boom to help working-class residents and their neighborhoods. And here’s where the Sawyer-Villegas proposal comes in. Last month, after the mayor announced plans to develop the North Branch, the aldermen proposed that roughly 66 percent of the contracts and jobs be given to blacks and Hispanics, since blacks and Hispanics make up roughly two-thirds of the city. I think they should go even further. They should demand that all the jobs and contracts go to residents of Chicago. Hell, make the developers move to Chicago—just like cops, firefighters, and teachers. If they have to live here, they’ll shop here, pay property taxes here, and maybe even send their kids to public schools. Let’s have the money we pay them circulate back into our city for once. It’s basically the same argument that the first Mayor Daley used to justify making city workers live in the city. “You know what they say—a rising tide lifts all boats,” Sawyer says. “Well, let’s make sure all the boats get lifted.” Even Mayor Rahm would have a hard time arguing against that. v

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Naomi Klein resists the resistance By RYAN SMITH

hile on a recent overseas trip, President Donald Trump was pictured gripping a glowing orb in a shadowy room with Middle Eastern heads of state— for some the photo suggested the Legion of Doom summoning some dark force in a plot to destroy the world. The image spread quickly on social media in part because it served as a perfect visual metaphor for those who consider themselves part of the resistance to Trump: He’s not just a billionaire reality-TV host with bad ideas, he’s a supervillain whom they must defeat to save democracy. But for all of Trump’s many offenses and transgressions, he’s no real-life Lex Luthor single-handedly creating a dystopia—he’s the orange-faced apotheosis of long-standing terrible trends in American culture and politics. Many of these have been documented by Canadian journalist and author Naomi Klein for the past two decades, in manifestos like No Logo and The Shock Doctrine: politics as theater, the consolidation of vast wealth and resources into the hands of a few, the privatization of the public sphere, the emergence of brands, and the destruction of the environment, which lines the pockets of fossil-fuel companies.

In other words, the toxic cloud of white male entitlement, naked corruption, and corporate domination popularly deemed “Trumpism” is deeply ingrained in our institutions. That’s why Klein believes we need more than sheer resistance to his presidency and policies. We need a bold new alternative, a vision of the future to say yes to, not just a nightmare to say no to. And most importantly, we need this plan immediately. That’s why Klein has spent the few months since Inauguration Day on overdrive. She furiously wrote No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Haymarket), a timely treatise that was released on June 13. Klein recently spoke over the phone about Trump, the inﬁghting among leftists and Democrats, and why progressives need to build a new movement.

No Is Not Enough sometimes feels like a 300-page op-ed that could appear in today’s paper. I had this vision of you frantically writing it up until the last minute. That vision is accurate. It was a very diﬀerent kind of writing process for me than in previous books, which generally I’ve had years to write and months to edit. This one felt like a race against time because one of my main motivations for it is that I’m quite concerned about what [Trump] would do if there was a major crisis. There was even a section where you mentioned the possibility of Trump breaking the Paris climate accord. The day I read that, the news came out that he was actually going to do it. Does America’s withdrawal from the agreement represent the worst-case scenario for the environment? It depends on how the rest of the world reacts. There’s enough understanding of the urgency of this issue by the majority of large

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economies now. And the people can put pressure on governments, which could very well lead to tougher commitments. In Canada our government is perfectly happy to coast because everyone looks good compared to Trump. He’s lowered the bar so much that everybody looks like a progressive next to him. But regular people understand that this is all the more reason why our government can’t build new tar sands pipelines. It’s not good news. But it’s not necessarily the end of the world. In many ways, this book reads like the ﬁnal chapter of books you’ve already written. Trump or Trumpism embodies the problems of neoliberalism, the vacuousness of reality TV and personal branding, climate change denial, et cetera. He does feel like the Frankenstein monster of all these trends. My main goal in writing this book was to say that we are at our least effective and least intelligent when we feel like we’re in new territory without any kind of political, economic, and cultural context. We’ve never seen a figure exactly like Trump before, but he doesn’t come from outer space—he’s very much a made-in-

America phenomenon. I think tracing the various roots of Trumpism helps remind people that we know quite a bit of what produced him and helps us go beyond the idea that we can just impeach the bastard and everything will be fine. We need to see the conditions that produced this disaster and then ask how we change those underlying conditions. In The Shock Doctrine, you laid out the case about how the right effectively exploits disasters to install extreme procorporate and neoliberal policies. Is Trump too clumsy an instrument of so-called shock therapy to pull this oﬀ? He’s got this tendency to provoke so much reaction and resistance. We have to remember that we’re seeing Trump without a real crisis to exploit. The only crisis he’s able to exploit is the crisis of himself; the shock that he is the president and the daily shock of his insane behavior and the various scandals surrounding his administration. That endless show is eating up something like 90 percent of U.S. media coverage, and then there’s not much time left over to talk about what the Goldman [Sachs] guys are doing. In a very methodical way, they’re advancing an extremely procorporate agenda that’s sys-

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CITY LIFE tematically redistributing wealth upwards, and that kind of thing is getting a fraction of the coverage because it’s not as sensational. In lots of ways he’s clumsy and incompetent, but if his administration pulls off what they say they want to do economically it would represent the biggest advance for the corporatist project in the United States since Reagan. And then there’s a city like Chicago. In the last few decades, we’ve been run by Democratic mayors like Daley and Rahm who’ve turned to neoliberal projects of privatization, charter schools, redistribution to the wealthy, while turning a blind eye to police problems. Exactly, and that’s a big thing in this book— why the colonization of the Democratic Party by the neoliberal project made them unable to defeat Trump. That has to be the biggest lesson of this election. That’s part of the problem with the relentless obsession over Russia and Comey—it lets Democrats off the hook. They say they didn’t lose the election, it was stolen. Any real self-examination or internal revolt in the Democratic Party is put on hold in the name of unifying against this terrible aberration that is Donald Trump. Or they’re too busy looking for the next Superman. Obama, Trudeau in Canada, Macron in France—a lot of liberals just want to elect these charismatic, handsome, well-spoken politicians to save us from Trumpism. Yeah, Trudeau is very much a brand who uses tools of corporate branding very deftly, just as Obama did. Liberals are just as willing to look the other way and not examine the actual policies behind the imagery—just as Trump voters are. One thing Trump has really clariﬁed for me is how incredibly toxic the colonization of branding logic is to political life. I’m trying to extend that beyond Trump. The use of tools of branding by Obama or George W. Bush helped till the ground for an actual commercial brand to run for president. It’s been oﬀ-putting to see Obama do Wall Street speeches for $400,000 and focus on his foundation and chill with Richard Branson . . . Those were the first pictures after his presidency. But at the same time, Bernie Sand-

ers is the most popular politician in the United States. It’s really interesting to see what’s going on in the UK with Jeremy Corbyn. He’s very much an antipolitician, with none of the charisma of Sanders, yet he’s surged in the polls. There’s something about the lack of packaging that’s appealing to millennials. They don’t want to be sold politicians like they’re iPhones. They want authenticity. Your book is called No Is Not Enough. What do we say “yes” to? What are the alternatives? A huge piece of it has to be an accelerated transition oﬀ of fossil fuels. We’re on a deadline—we have to transform our economy because it’s just completely unsustainable ecologically. We’ve wasted 25 years negotiating if we were going to do anything about climate change while we allowed emissions to increase by more than 60 percent. Now we’re out of time and have to do this very, very quickly. It’s an incredible opportunity to build a fairer economy. If you’re going to have change your energy grid anyway, if you’re going to have to rebuild your transportation system, why not also seize this opportunity? To build a more fair economy at this time of unprecedented inequality with so many people systematically excluded from the formal economy, facing mass incarceration and militarized police. We have multiple crises and don’t have time to solve them in sequence. We need integrated solutions that simultaneously bring down emissions and bring down inequality and win racial justice. There are challenges, many of which you talk about in the book. We’ve seen this division among the left and liberals, often embodied in Hillary versus Bernie, phrased as identity politics versus a focus on economics or class. How do people get past that and build a coalition that incorporates all of the above? I feel hopeful about it because what we saw with the Sanders campaign was a tremendous appetite for transformative change. We’ve been told for so long that only the most incremental changes are sellable to the American public. That turns out not to be true. What Bernie’s weaknesses were: race and gender. I think there needs to be a much more integrated story told about how extreme capitalism has advanced since the beginning of the United States on the backs of racial politics.

It’s completely inseparable. Even if you think about the horriﬁc killings in Portland [recently], the attacker was saying to those young women “Get off the bus, and get out of the country because you don’t pay taxes here.” It’s so important to understand exactly what he said and how it’s the integration of racism, xenophobia, and white supremacy used to justify attacks on the public sphere. You’re exploiting the system! That is always how neoliberalism has been sold in the United States. That’s what Reagan did when he said welfare queens were exploiting the system—they’ve got their Cadillacs waiting outside while they collect their welfare checks. But that doesn’t mean I believe in trickledown diversity either; you change the faces on the top and everybody wins. That’s not true. But I think it’s a complete copout to accept the premise that they are in competition. What we don’t have is enough political leaders that can make the connection. If those connections could be made in a way that would resonate with people, the progressive majority is out there. Then there’s the question of power—that if the left wants to make a real difference in the world they’ll have to seek it. Conservatives aren’t afraid of power, they thirst for it. Liberals have all sorts of cultural power, but they often distrust political power. Yes, but I see a shift in this generation. When we were in the streets in Seattle with the free-trade wars and antiglobalization movement, there was absolutely an allergy to engaging in electoral politics. Looking at the young people engaged with the Sanders campaign and the Corbyn campaign in the UK and now running candidates on every level, I think there’s a healthy understanding that it takes both—it takes protests in the streets and social movements and engagement in the electoral system. But there’s no doubt that if you have an authoritarian worldview, which people on the right tend to have, it’s easier to organize—you just follow orders. Whereas if your politics are about questioning power at every level, you’re also going to question it in your own organizations, which can slow you down. I’m not sure that’s all bad. v R NO IS NOT ENOUGH: RESISTING TRUMP’S SHOCK POLITICS AND WINNING THE WORLD WE NEED By Naomi Klein (Haymarket Books)

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ver the last year we’ve looked on with horror at a half-dozen cases in Europe and New York City in which assailants have used trucks and cars as deadly weapons to intentionally injure and kill large numbers of innocent people on foot. In the wake of these awful events, it makes sense to reduce the chance of this kind of attack happening in Chicago. In the past, city, county, state, and federal authorities installed vehicle-resistant barriers around buildings and plazas that could be targets, and after a truck assault on a Berlin Christmas market last December, the Chicago police staked out the Christkindlmarket in Daley Plaza. But as decision makers implement such safeguards, it’s also important not to lose sight of the lower-proﬁle but more pressing issue of common traffic violence. Each day dozens of people are injured in crashes in Chicago, and every year more than 100 lives are lost in such incidents. A disproportionate number of the victims are pedestrians. The city should start treating this more routine form of carnage as the public health crisis it is, and take aggressive action to lower these tragic numbers. Obviously the authorities should still view the recent rash of people using vehicles to kill for ideology, or out of senseless rage, as a crisis that has to be addressed. The series of attacks in Europe—all of which the Islamic State inspired or claimed responsibility for— began last July, when a man drove a 19-ton cargo truck into crowds celebrating Bastille Day on a promenade in Nice, France, killing 86 people and injuring 434. That nightmare was followed in December by the Berlin attack, which killed 12 people and injured 56. On April 7 of this year another assailant drove a truck into crowds on a Stockholm pedestrian street, killing ﬁve and injuring 15. London was the site this year of two different vehicle attacks at Thames River bridges.

On March 22 an assailant drove a car into pedestrians on the south side of Westminster Bridge, murdering four people and injuring more than 50 before fatally stabbing a police officer. And on June 3 a van driver struck people walking on London Bridge before he and his two passengers ran to a nearby nightlife strip to attack bystanders with knives, resulting in eight deaths and 48 injuries. Closer to home, on May 18, 26-year-old navy veteran Richard Rojas drove his car down a Times Square sidewalk for three blocks, mowing down pedestrians in what appeared to be an act of sociopathic fury before the vehicle made a fiery crash into metal bollards and came to a stop. Alyssa Elsman, an 18-year-old tourist from Michigan, was killed and 22 others were injured. Police said Rojas, who has a history of mental illness and drunk driving, was under the inﬂuence of drugs at the time, but terrorism is not suspected. Taking steps to prevent intentional vehicle assaults such as these is nothing new in Chicago. In the wake of 9/11, authorities installed steel, concrete, and stone bollards, planters, and benches around government and financial centers including the Daley Center, the Kluczynski Federal Building, and the Chicago Board of Trade. In the case of the Christkindlmarket intervention, CPD parked trucks at the corner of the square and patrolled the area on bikes. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, in a statement on Twitter, said “while there is no threat to the city or the greater area,” CPD was beefing up security at the plaza with extra patrols. “We continue to work closely with the Cook County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of Emergency Management and Communications as well as with federal partners to ensure an optimal level of public safety throughout the holiday season.” Asked about more recent city initiatives to prevent rampages by drivers in the wake of this year’s attacks, spokespersons from the

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police department and the Chicago Department of Transportation declined to comment, referring me to OEMC, which did not provide a response by press time. One law enforcement official said it was unlikely that the city would provide much information to the media, for fear of “giving away the playbook” to would-be assailants. Adding police patrols to Chicago’s public spaces after terrorist incidents in other cities makes some sense. Installing permanent, attractive bollards and planters to all of the city’s plazas and other outdoor gathering places to protect pedestrians from being struck by drivers, whether intentionally or not, is deﬁnitely a good idea. But as horrible as the Times Square carnage was, “the same human toll occurs on a daily basis on NYC streets—it’s just dispersed across the city,” Streetsblog New York pointed out. The post noted that through the end of April, motorists had injured 3,411 pedestrians in New York City, an average of 28 people a day. New York has about three times the population of Chicago and a higher percentage of trips made on foot, so Chicago’s injury and fatality numbers aren’t nearly as high, but they’re still extremely troubling. In 2015, the latest year for which the Illinois Department of Transportation has released data, 21,667 people were injured in Chicago crashes, or about 59 people a day. Among those injured, 2,814 were walking. That’s about eight pedestrian injuries a day. There have been at least three cases of drivers killing people on sidewalks or in buildings in Chicago this year. Moreover, out of the 119 total Chicago traffic collision fatalities in 2015, 43 of the victims (or 36 percent) were on foot. That percentage has risen fairly steadily since 2010, when people on foot made up only about

22 percent of the deaths. So while the total number of local crash deaths has fallen in the past decade (due to factors such as vehicle design improvements and less driving during the recession), pedestrians haven’t been seeing the same safety beneﬁts as car occupants, and more needs to be done to protect them. A half hour after Rojas’s attack, New York governor Andrew Cuomo arrived at Times Square, and an hour after that Mayor Bill de Blasio held a press conference there. The NYPD soon installed low concrete barriers and metal fences along Seventh Avenue that, as Streetsblog New York noted, blocked the bike lane on that street, ironically making cyclists less safe. Given the prominent location and the recent European attacks, it’s understandable that the Rojas case drew so much attention. But Streetsblog New York acknowledged, “The right response to this high-profile rampage isn’t a highly visible spree of security theater. It’s the politically brave and often thankless work of reshaping streets across the city with narrower roadways, wider sidewalks, and other measures that make high-speed car travel unthinkable.” Likewise, in Chicago, it’s crucial to combat everyday traffic violence even if through often unpopular strategies like “road diets,” lower speed limits, speed and red light cameras that discourage potentially deadly driving, and streets restricted to pedestrian, bus, and bike use. City officials deserve credit for pursuing most of these initiatives, but they have to pick up the pace. For example, while New York and other peer cities released “Vision Zero” plans years ago and have since been pursuing the goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities within a decade or two, Chicago has dragged its feet on publishing such a blueprint for change, ﬁnally releasing the Chicago Vision Zero Action Plan only this week, on June 12. While vehicular attacks are terrifying, the city and other local authorities shouldn’t let such incidents divert their focus from the bigger problem of daily carnage on Chicago’s streets. MSNBC host Christopher Hayes got it right in a tweet after the New York tragedy: “This horrible event in Times Square looks like DWI, which kills *thousands of more people a year than terrorism* so [the media] can ignore it.” v

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White folks! Prepare to squirm! By TONY ADLER

art of my job as a critic is to watch myself watch things. During the world premiere of Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over at Steppenwolf Theatre, I watched myself squirm. Paying homage to Waiting for Godot by rewriting it, Nwandu replaces Godot’s Didi and Gogo with a couple of homeless young black men called Moses and Kitch. Where the originals massage their aching feet under a tree in the middle of nowhere, these two hang out beneath a streetlamp on a ghetto corner in an unnamed city, Moses using a deﬂated basketball as a pillow. They’re every bit as bewildered, beleaguered, and bleakly funny as their progenitors, though. Every bit as hungry when they share an old crust of pizza. Every bit as hopeful when they talk about ﬁnally getting off the corner and passing over into some kind of good life. Every bit as vulnerable too. Like Didi and Gogo, Moses and Kitch consider it a decent night when they don’t get roughed up. Or they would, if such a night ever occurred. But here’s the crucial difference: Didi and Gogo are held in place by a promise, the unseen Godot sending a messenger every day to inform them that he’ll certainly show up

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tomorrow. The reinforcement for Moses and Kitch, on the other hand, is shockingly negative. Every time the pair work up the courage to take a step off their curb in search of the alternate world Jon Michael Hill’s Moses drily calls “full potential,” we hear the pop-pop of gunﬁre from the unseen po-po—police, with an uncanny knowledge of their intentions. Paralysis, here, is ballistically enforced. Nwandu, it turns out, has an agenda that doesn’t at all jibe with Godot’s genteel philosophical pessimism. A white cop shows up in all his sociopathic glory to threaten, harass, and demean Moses and Kitch. They also get a visit from a white man in a white suit and a white panama hat (he took a wrong turn somehow on his way mom’s house), bearing the comically appropriate surname of “Master” and toting a supersize picnic basket full of all the culinary blessings of the American dream, from hamburgers and dim sum to collard greens in a silver salver and, of course, apple pie—sort of like Satan setting a feast before Jesus in the wilderness. Though, as the play’s title suggests, the more appropriate religious reference is Old Testament rather than New. Before she’s done, Nwandu’s absurdist pastiche has mu-

tated into a latter-day reenactment of the exodus-from-Egypt story, and from there into pure protest: guerrilla-theater reductive (there are no exceptions made for “good” whites), but also guerrilla-theater powerful. Nwandu has written a true heart’s cry of a play about what she’s not alone in seeing as a deadly, racist national campaign against all our Moseses and Kitches. And, yes, it made me squirm. Parts of me, anyway. The suburb-raised white part, for sure. But also the sentimental American part that gets misty over a tune from Oklahoma and wants to believe, with Walt Whitman, that “there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.” The part that wants to think all our sorrows are just convulsions toward a greater, fairer nation, on the verge of arriving any day now. The part that just wants somebody to say it ain’t so, even though it clearly is. People will inevitably argue that black-on-black crime is the real scourge, and cops the ﬁrst line of defense against it. But gangbangers didn’t kill Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald, Alton Sterling, or Eric Garner. Or Fred Hampton, for that matter. Nwandu has the authority of our shared experience behind her, and she doesn’t ﬂinch from rubbing our faces in it. Last week I wrote about Parade, the paradoxically charming musical about a lynching, currently at Writers Theatre. Pass Over has surprising charms as well, for a play about race war. Danya Taymor’s staging retains the sharp flavor of Beckettian patter while updating Beckettian vaudeville with a more modern, idiomatic physicality. Julian Parker is particularly vivid, continuing a string of hit-’em-where-they-ain’t performances. Two autumns ago, for instance, in Charm, he built a great character on nearly inaudible mumbles; this time around, as Kitch, he defies hard-guy stereotypes with an occasionally girlish flirtatiousness. Under the circumstances, Hill’s Moss ends up being the pole he dances around. Ryan Hallahan runs from slyly amusing to brutal in the thankless white roles. v R PASS OVER Through 7/9: Tue-Fri 7:30 PM (no show 7/4), Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halstead, 312335-1650, steppenwolf.org, $30-$89.

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Relatable perspectives DESCRIBING ESOTERIC DANCE Project’s new program, Perspective, company coartistic director Brenna Pierson-Tucker points to a conference she attended a couple years ago: “One of the discussions was about what makes people come to one show versus another,” she says. “A lot of it boiled down to, people are afraid of not understanding [what’s onstage].” So this weekend’s world premieres from Pierson-Tucker, coartistic director Christopher Tucker, and a third from Kelleigh Harman McIntosh, who’s in the company’s choreographer mentoring program, attempt to keep things simple, funny, and relatable. Pierson-Tucker’s Infinite Silhouettes works with “unseen lines”—the arc of an arm or leg and the imaginary boundary that exists from one point to the next. The dancers use what Pierson-Tucker describes as a stretchy material to make the connection. “We like to call [the cloth bands] their boyfriends,” she jokes. “Sometimes they’re working with them, and sometimes they’re ﬁghting.” Tucker’s piece, A Superfluity of Movement, is a departure from his past work. He describes it as “silly, ridiculous, and quirky,” with parts loosely inspired by Monty Python’s “Ministry of Silly Walks” skit. McIntosh’s Momentum of Being, set to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, draws from her experiences traveling abroad, juxtaposing cultures that emphasize quality of living with those that emphasize quantity. “We just want people to start looking at things in diﬀerent ways,” Tucker says. “Hopefully people will come away with a different perspective on everyday life.” v PERSPECTIVE Fri 6/16-Sun 6/18, 7 PM, Links Hall at Con-

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Border disputes By MAX MALLER

e’re living through a period of intense cultural whiplash on the question of compromise. Written at the tail end of the Obama years and set against the upheaval in values that has occurred since, Karen Zacarias’s comedy Native Gardens—about a caustic disagreement centering on a narrow strip of lucrative Beltway property between the yards of two neighboring couples—takes on a deeper set of implications, though perhaps not the ones she intended. For Zacarias and Marti Lyons, directing for Victory Gardens, this is a border dispute. The middle-aged Butleys are white. Frank (the excellent Patrick Clear), a preening pink flamingo of a man armed with insecticide, sprays, cultivates, and primly manicures his formal English ﬂower garden, nurturing hopes of winning a long-coveted first-place prize from the Potomac Horticultural Society. Their new neighbors, the Del Valles, are young, upwardly mobile, and Latinx. Doctoral candidate Tania (Paloma Nozicka), whose pregnancy is almost to term, wants an organic, native garden, the very idea of which induces Frank and his defense-contractor wife, Virginia (Janet Ulrich Brooks), to make it rain nervous faux pas at their first meeting. Frank, welcoming compromise, says he gets it—the nature stuff is all part of the Del Valles’ “rich Mexican heritage.” But when Tania and Pablo (Gabriel

Ruiz), a rising star at his new law ﬁrm (and not Mexican but Chilean), discover that the survey of their land includes two feet of the Butleys’ backyard, a hell of hostility breaks loose. The result, though occasionally funny, is a genuine display of ugliness on both sides, and everyone involved spends the play alternating between excitement and contrition over how far off the deep end they’re planned to plunge for these two feet of dirt. Turning a squabble over a property line into something more profound is for Zacarias a matter of making the land stand for something. By the end, the Butleys have become frantic and unwitting imperialists who have stolen something valuable from the rightfully entitled if somewhat sharklike Del Valles. But the play doesn’t require that. To me it shows the failings inherent in the whole notion of compromise between antagonistic parties that characterized the Obama era. People want different, irreconcilable things. Frank movingly and credibly loves his flowers. Tania has a head full of the latest jargon in identity politics to spew at uninterested and intractable Virginia. Pablo, in a moment of honesty, admits he doesn’t see why his happiness should hinge on “some old people we don’t even know.” Nobody wants to give an inch. It’s terrifying. In the end, a beautiful fence is the answer, which feels like a lie. v NATIVE GARDENS Through 7/2: Wed-Fri 7:30 PM (no show Thu 6/29), Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Tue 6/27, 7:30 PM, Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, 773-871-3000, victorygardens. org, $20-$60.

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Takashi Murakami’s “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a dizzying depiction of the current cultural moment. By TAL ROSENBERG

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n 2008 I was lucky enough to see “© Murakami,” a signiﬁcant retrospective of Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s work, at the Brooklyn Museum (the show had opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which organized it). The exhibit was very much of that moment in time, visualizing and addressing the symptoms and aesthetics of mid- to late2000s capitalism, right before the housing market was about to collapse the global economy. So when the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced “Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,” which opened last week, my first question was how that artwork would appear now, a decade later, after Obama’s election, the recession, Kimye, drones, advances in smartphone technology, Trump’s election, et cetera. The MCA’s approach to this question is shrewd: it has bookended the moment in time. “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” contains some of the same pieces that appeared in “© Murakami,” but they make up a little less than half of the exhibit. One room is dedicated to some of Murakami’s earliest paintings, which hardly ever appear in major exhibitions of his work, and the rest is devoted to what Murakami has produced since 2008, some of which was made speciﬁcally for “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” and none of which has been seen in the United States before. “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” is just as revelatory and insightful as “© Murakami,” the former saying as much about our own present moment as the latter did in its era. “© Murakami” arrived when the artist was arguably at the peak of his fame. Part of this celebrity was due to his association with Kanye West—Murakami had created the cover for the 2007 album Graduation as well as the iconic “Kanye bear” that’s featured on the cover. Another factor was Murakami’s work for Louis Vuitton, especially the “Multicolore Monogram” design, a rainbow-on-white pattern that became a trademark of luxury wear during the mid-2000s. Murakami’s collaborations with West and Louis Vuitton manifested

aesthetic and cultural trends of the mid2000s: bright colors, gaudy accessories, and a nonsensical kind of conviviality. Despite the Iraq war, Afghanistan, the fallout from 9/11, and an impending financial disaster, the mood in the United States was weirdly upbeat, even celebratory. Graduation is remembered now as West’s brightest and most jubilant album, full of zapping major-key synths and lyrics that were more self-assured and optimistic than on any of West’s albums before or since. If you were really attuned to the times, however—Children of Men, The Wire, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Burial, M.I.A., Roberto Bolaño—things seemed very grim. Part of what made “© Murakami” such a timely and brilliant show was the wink of irony that infused every piece (after all, the title of the exhibition has a copyright tag in it). The most memorable portion of “© Murakami” was a fully operational Louis Vuitton shop that was located in the museum. The store resembled a Louis Vuitton outpost in Beverly Hills or Manhattan and had a staff that worked temporarily for the shop—they weren’t artist’s assistants or Brooklyn Museum employees. Was this a tongue-in-cheek commentary on contemporary capitalism, or a blatant act of commerce masquerading as “fine art”? To Murakami, there really isn’t all that much of a difference. He’s most famous for pioneering Superflat, a Japanese art movement predicated on the idea that the boundaries that separate artistic and commercial production have been flattened. Murakami has said in many places that he sees no distinction between something like Flower Ball 2, a circular acrylic work that resembles a ball of cartoon daisies with open-mouthed smiley faces at the center of each flower, and a mass-produced key chain of one of those daisies. But the morbid humor of some of his artworks and his deep knowledge of art history mean that Murakami’s lack of differentiation between art and commerce is just as much of a punch line as a theory, a grand joke on the art world. How else to look at My Lonesome Cowboy, a statue that was part of “© Murakami”? It’s J

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continued from 16 an eight-foot-tall naked male manga character with spiky blonde hair, holding his ejaculating erect penis with one hand and with the other wrangling the ejaculate like a lasso. In 2008, Sotheby’s sold it for $15.1 million. Visitors to “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” who also viewed “© Murakami” will recognize the multiple artworks featuring Mr. Dob, a cartoon mouse that was the subject of many of Murakami’s pieces during the 90s and early 2000s. A maniacal take on Mickey Mouse, Mr. Dob appears in simpler form in early works such as ZuZaZaZaZaZa (1994), a five-foottall painting in which he is depicted leaping in midair against a red backdrop, a stream of white liquid trailing beneath him. But by 2002’s Tan Tan Bo Puking—aka Gero Tan, Mr. Dob is a grotesque monstrosity, painted onto four nearly 12-foot-tall panels and filled with fluorescent whorls and stains, looking like Godzilla seen through the eyes of someone who just ingested an unhealthy amount of psilocybin mushrooms. Most of the pieces from this time period are heavily informed by manga, which Murakami acknowledges as a major influence, along with otaku, a term commonly associated with diehard anime fandom. Murakami in fact first wanted to be an animator, but the manga elements of his work belie his impressive arthistory background. He attended the Tokyo University of the Arts and received a PhD in Nihonga, a traditional style of Japanese painting that’s created with specific techniques and materials. But Murakami was more excited about contemporary art, especially Anselm Kiefer, the German neo-Expressionist painter who often uses substances other than paint in his pieces. Kiefer’s considerable impact on the young Murakami is obvious in the early contributions that appear in “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg.” Nuclear Power Picture (1988) is a hazy

nighttime painting of three shadowy ﬁgures standing in front of cooling towers pumping out smoke. Made with straw, cardboard, silver, and gold pigment, the piece is a blatant rip-off of Kiefer’s aesthetic—its nonpaint materials extrude from the surface of the canvas. But Nuclear Power Picture signals the undertones of horror in Murakami’s artwork, foretelling the unsavory elements of even his most buoyant pieces. During an artist talk that took place a few days before the June 6 opening of “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,” Murakami told curator Michael Darling that the latter had chosen “my superembarrassing paintings.” But later Murakami explained how Kiefer informed his own eureka moment as an artist, in an unexpected yet apt parallel with Jeff Koons. Both Kiefer and Koons use contemporary modes of their countries’ means of artistic production to address their nation’s history and social climate. Murakami does the same: he employs many craftsmen, like a manga studio, to create artworks that fuse traditional Japanese art with modern Japanese culture. And his work functions as a continuous commentary on both Japanese society and the rest of an increasingly interconnected civilization. The sections of “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” that showcase Murakami’s efforts from the past decade signal that his commentary is bleak. Instead of Mr. Dob there’s Embodiment of “A” and Embodiment of “Um” (both 2014), 14-foot-tall statues of hellish demons, one red and one blue, holding humongous clubs, standing on top of multicolored daises that look like the game Simon. In place of cute cartoon characters there’s 100 Arhats (2013)—ten nearly ten-foot-tall panels depicting hideous, deformed, geriatric human beings and mutants with crooked noses, festering sores, and drooping faces and limbs. The ﬁgures in 100 Arhats reappear in Isle of the Dead (2014); both paintings reference the 2011 earthquake

ARTS & CULTURE and tsunami in Japan and the resultant Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. But these monstrous beings aren’t meant to represent people who’ve been disfigured by catastrophe—“arhats” are legendary Buddhist monks who aided the sick. In other words, though the second half of “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” seems more extreme than Murakami’s pre-2008 output, the new material actually reflects a gentler, more mellow direction and a reengagement with Japanese history. Some of the contributions wouldn’t be terribly out of place in the Art Institute’s collection of 19th-century Japanese art. Korin: Tranquility and Korin: The Golden River (both 2015) are circular acrylic pieces, one gold and one silver, with colorful flowers overlaid on a rippling, electric river. Dragon in Clouds—Indigo Blue (2010) is daunting and awe-inspiring, even for Murakami. Over ten feet tall and more than 50 feet long, it’s a multipanel artwork with a goofy-looking dragon resting his chin amid branches and leaves, all painted in blue on cream-colored surfaces. However, because of how gigantic Dragon in Clouds is, up close the patterns look like swirls and elegant brushstrokes. It’s the loveliest and most serene artwork by Murakami I’ve ever seen. The final room, which showcases artworks Murakami created specifically for “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg,” boasts busy, enormous, and remarkably intricate pieces. They’re similarly applied to panels or round canvases, with fluorescent colors and detailed linear patterns. Kraken in Another Dimension is a turquoise extraterrestrial cephalopod that resembles the alien baby Will Smith delivers from a parked car in Men in Black. In North Equatorial Current and the Dragon, a rainbow-coated half dragon-half fish crashes into water that’s the color of a candy store, an LSD-addled approach to 18th-century Japanese art. And in the middle of the room is Chakras Open and I Drown Under the Waterfall of Life, a collaboration with graffiti artists Madsaki and Snipe1 that’s nearly 20 feet tall and made out of Styrofoam, water-based urethane, wood, iron, and acrylic paint. Its placement is jarring, surrounded by the gentler art on the walls—it resembles a spray-painted column that’s been removed from a building in early-1980s Manhattan, or a set piece from Blade Runner. Chakras Open once again recalls Fukushima—Murakami says it’s supposed to be a water spout—and the various components of “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” are explicit references to traditional Japanese art.

The takeaway is that Murakami has reached some kind of chaotic harmony, presently preoccupied by a fusion of antiquated styles and contemporary forms of expression. “In general, fine art people perceive someone just sitting down and focusing on creativity and production as really good,” Murakami said in an interview with GQ Style, “and if there’s a big boom or too much hype around something it seems like, Oh it’s too commercial, but in fact from the creative side to be pushed to that kind of chaotic level with the boom—when you have to keep producing and you don’t even know what you’re doing, what you’re creating—in that state sometimes you can achieve that purity that’s otherwise not possible . . . ” He says in wall text in the last room that the title of the exhibit invokes a Japanese folktale about an octopus who eats its own leg to survive, knowing the tentacle will regenerate. Murakami is the octopus: he consumes the history, culture, and even his own oeuvre to persevere as an artist. What’s notable about this stage in Murakami’s practice is how closely it mirrors Kanye West’s. Last year’s The Life of Pablo was a messy, fractured, sometimes vulgar, ambitious, and occasionally brilliant album about the trappings of success and the challenges of artistic creation. It featured a bevy of samples, guest appearances, coproducers, and shifts in mood—an unfiltered, haphazard release that can only be understood by the internal logic of its creator. It’s no coincidence that “Real Friends,” a cut off of The Life of Pablo about how fame makes genuine friendship impossible, so closely mirrors in sound and delivery “Good Morning,” the opening track of Graduation, a triumphant declaration of professional and financial achievement. Eight years later, Kanye’s elation has curdled into paranoia and isolation. Another way of viewing “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” is that each one of us is the octopus, consuming information and then using it to maintain our own creative survival. Murakami indicated as much during his artist talk. At one moment Darling brought onstage Marc Ecko, the creator of the Ecko clothing line and Complex Media. Ecko discussed Complexcon, his convention for “creatives,” and how Murakami had influenced his work, and how art and fashion could help save the world. Basically, he said a bunch of bullshit. Someone in the audience asked Ecko the most obvious question: Aren’t fashion and goods just commerce, not art? Murakami helped address this, with J

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the aid of a translator, and his answer was thoughtful. He said that the Internet has changed art comprehension—everyone understands everything about art because of Wikipedia and Google. He mentioned a retrospective at the MCA of Dan Flavin’s work in 2005; he pointed out, as relayed to him by Darling, that people didn’t understand how Flavin’s fluorescent light sculptures were art. Now, thanks to smartphones, anyone can read criticism and commentary on art as soon as he or she has seen it. At Complexcon, he saw how the Internet has collapsed the distinction between streetwear and contemporary art, flattened the boundaries between merchandise and the art market. In other words, the Internet is the medium everyone operates in now, and it’s equalized everything, high, low, and sideways. Ecko may have been putting on a fair of neoliberal fantasies, but Murakami saw something else—how people will perceive artistic creation in the future. I’m still not sure that Murakami really answered the audience member’s question. The Internet may be a new global marketplace that everyone can access, but not everyone has equal footing in that marketplace. “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” advances the logical and amplified version of Superflat, not just a flattening of artistic mediums but a flattening of history, nations, commerce, and even biography. But there are two ways of looking at its message. On one hand, the future of the art world is a utopian landscape where all creative pursuits are treated equally, so that skateboarding and video games and comic books are accorded the same prestige as fine arts, filmmaking, and literature; the octopus eats itself knowing that its leg will regenerate. The alternative perspective is that supporting oneself creatively is only available to the wealthiest people on earth; those without the means to become professional artists are also eating their own limbs, but there’s no guarantee they’ll grow back. v R “TAKASHI MURAKAMI: THE OCTOPUS EATS ITS OWN LEG” Through 9/24: Tue 10 AM-8 PM, Wed-Sun 10 AM-5 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org, $12, $7 students and seniors, free kids 12 and under and members of the military, free for Illinois residents on Tuesdays.

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It Comes at Night

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It Comes at Night is undone by its selfimportance By BEN SACHS

arely have I been so ticked off by an American horror feature as I was by It Comes at Night, an arty new film written and directed by Trey Edward Shults. Shults’s script is undercooked and his direction is needlessly mannered; moreover, neither the writing or the visual approach is interesting enough to transcend the familiarity of the story, about a middle-class family’s efforts to survive in a postapocalyptic United States. But after reading some positive reviews of It Comes at Night (in particular, A.O. Scott’s in the New York Times), I was ready to reconsider it. On a return viewing, perhaps I could look past Shults’s distracting style and appreciate his psychological approach to character and his consideration of social control. I did find some things to admire when I saw It Comes at Night for a second time. I was particularly impressed by Shults’s characterization of Joel Edgerton’s character, Paul. The film is so effective at drawing viewers into the mysteries surrounding this man that it succeeds as a character study where it largely fails as a horror movie. Paul is a husband and father living in a woodland home after some vaguely deﬁned event has caused civilization to collapse. He’s vigilant, armed to the teeth, and quietly obsessed with maintaining order, keeping his family under a strict schedule so they can remain productive during this chaotic time. Paul is shockingly good at protecting them and rationing their resources. As It Comes at Night proceeds, you may wonder if he hadn’t been preparing for societal breakdown for years before it actually happened. There are no monsters in It Comes at Night (despite a few suggestions that the woods may be full of the walking dead), but Paul

comes close—his mania for order makes him a frightening patriarch, and one can sense the psychological toll his behavior has exerted on his wife and teenage son. One first recognizes the extent of Paul’s mania when he responds to the situation of a stranger entering his home early in It Comes at Night. He awakens when he hears someone trying to open a locked door to the building. Paul then holds the man at gunpoint, takes him outside, and ties him to a tree with a bag over his head for the next day. While the other man writhes in agony, Paul stakes out the area like a hunter to see if there are any others coming his way. He performs these actions with cold impassion, much like he maintains order at home. Edgerton plays the character with eerie restraint, conveying how certain Paul is in his ways. Shults raises the possibility that Paul may be overreacting to the situation and taking sadistic pleasure in his treatment of the stranger, though Edgerton is careful not to betray much emotion. Perhaps his actions are necessary precautions in a lawless world. When Paul determines that the stranger, Will, doesn’t pose a threat, he agrees to take in the other man and his family. Shults depicts the transformation of the two men’s relationship in a complicated long take that marks one of the film’s most pretentious moments. Beginning with a slow, semicircular move around the back of Paul’s head, the scene progresses with the camera moving back and forth between Paul and Will, ultimately putting both men in medium shot as they call a truce and agree to trust each other. Edgerton and Christopher Abbott, who plays Will, maintain a fascinating sense of tension as the men negotiate their relationship, yet the camera movement draws atten-

tion away from the drama. It’s as though the camera is playing its own role in the scene, one divorced from the story. (Indeed I was too distracted by the filmmaking on a first viewing to appreciate the performances or even what was going on.) This sequence sums up the basic conflict between form and content that comes to overwhelm It Comes at Night. The conflict wouldn’t feel so prominent if the film’s story gave viewers more to chew on, but Shults’s minimalist narrative only teases at ideas. The second half of It Comes at Night centers on the tension that arises in Paul’s home after Will and his family move in. The two families attempt to trust each other, but Paul is so cold that no real sense of camaraderie blossoms. Paul’s son, Travis, develops a rapport with the new family, and one senses that Paul might feel jealous over this, but Shults doesn’t provide enough detail for us to be certain. This isn’t the only thing that the writer-director stays vague about. It isn’t clear what caused society to collapse, what the world is like beyond the woods where the characters live, or what happens exactly to characters who catch the deadly disease that everyone’s so afraid of. One could argue that the movie’s ambiguities serve to foreground the characterization of Paul and the interpersonal dynamics among the other characters. Yet they also have the effect of making the horror elements feel like mere window dressing on a half-baked narrative. Without any precise sense of the film’s fictional world, Shults has only mood to generate suspense, and the mood isn’t all that interesting. Shults indulges in lots of slow-moving shots like the one described above; most of them call attention to themselves in the same fashion as that one does. Cinematographer Drew Daniels does some impressive work with minimal lighting sources, invoking a world where it’s always nighttime. Yet the action within this world remains vague, and the monotonously somber line readings prevent the dialogue from achieving any sense of dynamism. These stylistic flourishes have the effect of saying to the audience “Stop and think about this” regardless of whether It Comes at Night provides much to think about. I was still bothered by its sense of self-importance on a second viewing, and I don’t think that Edgerton’s performance or Shults’s observations of patriarchal control are enough to justify it. v IT COMES AT NIGHT Directed by Trey Edward Shults. R, 91 min. See chicagoreader.com for listings.

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The F12 Network ﬁght sexual violence by delegating This volunteer group want to teach their tactics to Chicago’s DIY community—because the hard work of preventing and healing from harassment and assault won’t get done unless everyone shares it. By AIMEE LEVITT

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et’s say you’re at a show. It’s a small venue, or maybe it’s somebody’s basement. It’s loud and it’s crowded and there’s definitely nothing resembling a security staff. So there’s nobody you can alert when you see a guy who looks not quite sober standing over a woman and speaking to her aggressively. She also looks drunk, and she’s clearly uncomfortable. Then you realize you recognize this guy. Everybody in your scene knows this guy. He has what you’ve heard referred to as “social capital”: he’s powerful and connected, much more so than you. And suddenly you remember—or think you remember—that you’ve heard ugly rumors about him. Maybe from a friend of one of his ex-girlfriends. Maybe? What do you do?

On a Saturday evening in mid-May, about ten people crowd into the small living room of Earphoria, a guesthouse for musicians in Logan Square, to try to decide how best to untangle this sort of problem—a paralyzing knot of sexual violence, community dynamics, and personal responsibility. In about an hour, many of them will head down to the house’s basement performance space for a show very similar to the one in this hypothetical—through the floorboards, you can hear the sound check in progress. Several people present didn’t plan to come to this workshop, but they got here early and it’s a place to sit down, so why not? The event has been organized by the F12 Network, a volunteer group founded in late 2016 whose six members all come from Chica-

go’s DIY scene. They’re dedicated to teaching de-escalation and accountability: If you want to teach the community how to take care of itself, they reason, why not do it in places where people gather, like show houses? F12 cofounders Kelley Grenn and Sasha Tycko lead the discussion at Earphoria. (Tycko also helps run a series at the Promontory called the Corner, which since April of last year has grown into a hub for communitybased performance and activism.) On a gigantic Post-it pad propped against the front windows, the two of them have written a list of de-escalation tactics recommended by the People’s Response Team, a multiracial and multigenerational Chicago group that works to end police violence: “Take cues from the person being harmed. Orient yourself to your

surroundings. Find someone to support you. Provide a distraction.” The group considers which tactic would work best in this situation. Maybe you should ﬁnd someone who could physically confront the guy, like a bigger dude? (That can precipitate violence if the attacker feels threatened, though—look what happened last month on that train in Portland.) Maybe you should ﬁnd a way to separate them, either by inventing something urgent for the guy to do or by approaching the woman like a long-lost friend? Everyone agrees that you should definitely check up on her after she’s out of harm’s way— and again tomorrow to make sure she’s OK. The problem, as most people in the group acknowledge, is that it’s easy to know in retrospect what you should have done. What’s J

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MUSIC F12’s Quick Start Guide contains information and resources to help people learn de-escalation and mediation. o PORTER MCLEOD

continued from 21 hard is having the presence of mind to know it at the time. “I know I need to stop and take a breath,” one woman says, “but it’s hard to do in the moment.” “You struggle with how far you can go before you have to stand up and say, ‘No, I’m taking a side, because this is not right,’” another woman adds. Grenn and Tycko listen and nod sympathetically. “Accountability and de-escalation are skills you have to work on,” Grenn says. “We’ve been socialized to react with anger.” Both Grenn and Tycko speak softly, calmly, and deliberately, like people who’ve had a great deal of experience defusing difficult situations—which is what they are. Before founding F12, many of the collective’s members were part of the Feminist Action Support Network (FASN), a group that formed in 2012 to intervene in instances of violence or harassment in the DIY community. Grenn and Tycko attended several events and worked with the organization. FASN set its sights high, aiming to facilitate an accountability process that would bring peace to the person harmed and encourage the person doing the harm to make amends and change the bad behavior. The DIY community liked and respected FASN, says F12 cofounder + (often rendered “Plus Sign”), a former FASN administrator who’s also part of the rap scene and frequently hosts at the Corner. But community members also seemed to assume that people from FASN would do all the work. Even as more people signed FASN’s mailing lists offering to volunteer, fewer actually turned up to do deescalation duty at shows. Not surprisingly, this led to burnout on

the part of FASN’s core members, and the group disbanded. When they reorganized as F12—the number 12 is slang for “police,” and F usually stands for “fuck,” though the collective says it can also mean “feminism,” “friends,” “free,” or any other f-word—they decided to change their strategy. Instead of trying to do the de-escalation and mediation by themselves, they would teach others through a series of workshops and with a zine containing information and resources (it was distributed in print at the Earphoria workshop and published online last week). F12 openly acknowledge their debt to Chicago groups such as the grassroots Let Us Breathe Collective, which ﬁghts racial injustice, and Project NIA, which uses communityjustice techniques to keep young people out of prison. (Grenn has volunteered with the former.) F12 members will lead a workshop called Let’s Treat Each Other Right 101 on Thursday, June 15, at the Hyde Park Art Center, preceding an open pitch meeting for the zine The Sick Muse. They also plan to make a presentation at the Eco Collectives’s Fourth of July show and lead workshops during Fed Up Fest, a queer-centric underground punk celebration whose 2017 installment is scheduled for July 28 through 30. Other events will appear on the calendar at f12network.com as they’re nailed down. “We frame our work as F12 transforming the way our community responds to sexual violence,” says Plus Sign. “We want to promote an infrastructure we didn’t have when I was 20.” F12 also want to change the DIY community’s thinking about how to respond when one of its own hurts someone. The F12 Network

have consciously aligned themselves with the prison-abolition movement, and they don’t believe that the knee-jerk response to harassment or sexual violence—ostracizing the wrongdoer—is the best. Isolating offenders doesn’t teach them how to take responsibility for the harm they’ve done, much less how to reengage in the community. It just sends them off to a new community, where they might do the same thing again. “We support survivors fully,” Grenn says, “but this seems like a big problem. Folks support the survivor, but it’s easy for folks to dispose of people. It’s hard work to work through the hard stuff.” But certain principles hold up better in theory than in practice, as all the participants of the Earphoria workshop could tell you. Earlier that week, a widely circulated post in the DIY Chicago Facebook group by poet Kitty Cordero-Kolin had accused Ben Hopkins of queer punk duo PWR BTTM of being “a known sexual predator,” and several more people came forward with allegations of abuse by Hopkins. PWR BTTM issued a statement claiming that “the allegations come as a surprise” and requesting that accusers e-mail the band to discuss their issues. This did nothing to slow the backlash, though—within days PWR BTTM’s summer tour in support of their new album, Pageant, had been canceled. They were dropped by their record labels in the U.S. and the UK and by their manager, and streaming services stopped carrying their music. Strangely, no one at Earphoria mentions PWR BTTM. Instead, guided by Tycko and Grenn, they discuss things they can do personally if they see someone behaving like a sexual predator. The F12 members at the workshop decline to comment on the PWR BTTM situation when asked—they don’t know any of the people involved, they say, or what exactly happened between Hopkins and the accusers. They’re also reluctant to say how they might handle a similar situation in the Chicago DIY scene, because every case is different. “It’s frustrating to hear things like this, to see how people respond to it,” says Tycko. “That’s why we’re doing this work. When it happens, there’s a way to talk about it and a structure for dealing with it.”

Plus Sign later elaborated in an e-mail: “In a post-F12 world, people are more prepared to hold their friends and selves accountable with loving practices that understand and truly address the root causes and symptoms of the cycle of violence.” In other words, F12 hopes that the community will be able to spot impending signs of sexual violence and help perpetrators recognize what they’re doing and change course before any further damage is done. It’s a lofty goal, requiring the overhaul of human behavior patterns ingrained over millennia. But F12 think it’s possible, and others who’ve been watching their work agree. “I am a firm, firm, firm believer in the idea that the revolution starts at home,” says Jes Skolnik, a music writer and activist who teaches de-escalation workshops and has written extensively on accountability practices. “I have seen it. I have seen it in my very small world and rippling outwards from there.” Skolnik is referring to two things in particular: the spread of the idea that sexualassault survivors can experience PTSD and the practice of issuing trigger warnings. The term “trigger warning” has been misapplied, debased, and ridiculed over the past few years, but in its original sense it referred to something very specific and very real: the practice developed in the late 90s in Internet conversations among sexual-assault survivors who understood that calling certain memories to mind could set off panic attacks or other physiological responses. “I don’t think de-escalation tactics will spread as fast,” Skolnik continues. “It’s not as reducible a topic. It’s something you have to practice every day of your life.” As for accountability, there’s still extensive debate on what it should look like. “The things that I see working most often are considerations of what does it mean to heal—more on peace than on justice.” Skolnik’s observation echoes F12’s distrust of the criminal justice system. Instead of shunning and isolating perpetrators, says Plus Sign, “We need to stay with the trouble, huddle up, and figure it out. Our communication needs to be at the point of recognizable violence. It can come from any person at any time. You need to be ready to address it—not in a violent way, but in a loving, patient, and serene way. I cease being surprised. Not that I don’t trust anybody. But I know what everybody is capable of. To heal, they have to know what to do.” v

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THURSDAY15 Garland Jeffreys Nicholas Tremulis opens. 8 PM, City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, $22-$28. b Singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys has had a bit of a resurgence over the past four years after subtly refining the style he originally crafted on his seminal 1973 self-titled solo debut and 1977’s Ghost Writer. A native New Yorker, Jeffreys was close friends with Lou Reed, and their music shares definite similarities— in particular, the constant NYC references, the lyrics reflecting social conflict, and the easy protopunk designation. (Jeffreys’s song “Wild in the Streets” went on to become a skate-punk anthem for the Circle Jerks.) Though his sound has essentially remained unchanged over the decades, he’s more recently been promoted as a sort of roots-music artist, and it’s true that elements of blues and alt-country have infiltrated his records over the past few years. His latest release is entitled 14 Steps to Harlem, and on the title track he continues to reflect on his bottomless NYC experience through the lens of his childhood and his relationship with his parents. Jeffreys has been known to disappear from the public eye before a record release—it’s good to have him back in action and spreading the word. —JAMES PORTER

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NICK CAVE BEGAN making last year’s quietly intense Skeleton Tree (Bad Seed Ltd.) well before his son Arthur’s tragic fall from a cliff in July 2015, but its somber tone and crushing, inescapable darkness were clearly heightened by the impact of his passing. The opening couplet on the ﬁrst song, “Jesus Alone,” features Cave intoning solemnly, “You fell from the sky / Crash landed in a ﬁeld.” It’s hard not to interpret every line and sound—like the distant cries that emerge at the ends of tracks—as by-products of Cave’s loss. In some sense it’s one of the leanest, most chilled-out records of the singer’s career: the ambient-heavy “Rings of Saturn,” for example, rides on a woozy sonic fabric of restrained synthesizer color bursts as the singer lays bare pure lust in an almost bored sing-speak delivery. The music was crafted with longtime Bad Seed Warren Ellis, who helps conjure an often static, ethereal series of dirgelike settings— precariously balanced between dreamy and nightmarish—all of which are masterfully enhanced by minimalist bass lines played by Martyn Casey, also a Bad Seed. I imagine Cave will play some material from this suffocating but potent effort, but considering his voluminous discography—a good representative sampling of which is included on the recent double-CD set Lovely Creatures—I’m betting the singer’s dramatic instincts will serve a meticulously pitched survey swinging from one extreme to the other. In more than three decades of concertgoing I’ve never seen anyone capable of matching his brooding, concentrated presence. —PETER MARGASAK

For a moment back in 2013 it looked like fourth-wave emo was going to lose one of its brightest lights after Tigers Jaw’s label Run for Cover issued a statement announcing that the Scranton group were calling it a day following the departure of three of their five members. Thankfully, the split didn’t take. And last month Tigers Jaw fulfilled what I’d seen as their big-time destiny, or at least their breakthrough as it’s measured in big-I industry terms: they released an album called Spin through Black Cement, a new Atlantic Records imprint helmed by Pennsylvania punk guru Will Yip. These days major-label deals feel cosmetic at best, but they’re also what the contemporary emo scene has largely been missing, and Spin sounds like, um, a major step forward. It’s the first Tigers Jaw album on which keyboardist-vocalist

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Brianna Collins and guitarist-vocalist Ben Walsh are responsible for everything—their previous album, 2014’s Charmer, features contributions from all former members—and it builds on the band’s legacy of doleful power-pop melodies, yearning guitars, and radiant keys that molt as they exude warmth. Collins and Walsh are in lockstep, and their songs are tight and unexpectedly carefree. Even on “June,” when Collins sings about a friend suffering through an emotionally abusive relationship, Tigers Jaw are able to ﬁnd the bright spots that keep them looking ahead. —LEOR GALIL

Mary Timony Plays Helium See also Friday. Noveller opens. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $20, $18 in advance.

In the last five years or so, guitarist-singer Mary Timony has enjoyed a level of success with Wild Flag and Ex Hex that largely eluded her during her first two decades of making music—but that’s not to say her work wasn’t good during that earlier era. In the years after her wiry, mind-warping guitar work in the short-lived but superb Washington, D.C., quartet Autoclave flipped my lid, she put together her longest-running band, Helium. That combo wasn’t exactly obscure in indie-rock circles, but it certainly never got the attention of her last couple of bands. A few weeks ago Matador Records threw down the gauntlet to force some reevaluation, reissuing Helium’s small but powerful discography and rounding it out with Ends With And, a handy compendium of singles, demos, and other rarities. Cumulatively, that body of music resonates loudly more than two decades after it was made: Timony is a weirdo artrock guitar hero, an idiosyncratic virtuoso with a note-bending psychedelic sound all her own. With bassist Ash Bowie and drummer Shawn Devlin, Helium crafted a draggy, hook-laden kind of art rock— replete with songs about dragons—that spurned empty technique in favor of convoluted structures and melodic lines that always seemed to take the road less traveled. I hadn’t heard these records in years, and I’ve been shocked how fresh they sound: listening to Timony without the high-profile foil she had in Wild Flag (Carrie Brownstein) or the deliberately stripped down ethos of Ex Hex has impelled me to happily reconsider her peculiar genius J

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Rock, Pop, Etc Bow & Spear, Montrose Man, Donoma, Texas Chainstore Manager 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F Chastity Belt, Sneaks 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Coordinated Suicides, Boney, Bloodlicker 9 PM, Hideout Jason Ferg, Trick Shooter Social Club, Local Motive, Well-Known Strangers 7:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Feist 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Rob Frye’s Exoplanet 9:30 PM, California Clipper Hold Steady, Split Single 9 PM, Thalia Hall, sold out, 17+ Toine Houston, Archy Jamjun, Stephanie Rogers, Tnahpele, Black Friars Social Club, Nardo, Nestor Gomez, Josh Lava 7:30 PM, Beat Kitchen Iron Maiden, Ghost 7:30 PM, Hollywood Casino Ampitheatre b Jamestown Revival, Colter Wall 8 PM, Park West, 18+ Seu Jorge 8 PM, Ravinia Festival b Joyeux, Josefina, Karl Neurauter 6 PM, Township Never Let This Go, Shatterproof, Burst & Bloom, Cutscenes, Everyone Says 6:30 PM, Wire, Berwyn New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Paula Abdul 7:30 PM, also Fri 6/16, 7:30 PM, Allstate Arena No BS! Brass Band, Dayme Arocena 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park F b Slow Dancer 9 PM, Hideout Snort, Cat Tatt, Close Kept, Warp Spiders 9 PM, Quenchers Saloon Daphne Willis, Jennifer Hall, Secret Bad Boy 7:30 PM, Schubas, 18+ Worshipper, Killer Moon, Long Live the Goat 8 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Hip-Hop Bigbodyfiji, Decent Militia 9 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Dance Bass Banditz, Delamota, Dioptrics, Nick Twist, Selekta Steel, Rifle MC, Fonz MC 10 PM, Smart Bar F Konstantin Jace 7 PM, Bar at the Peninsula Folk & Country Devil in a Woodpile 6 PM, Hideout Blues, Gospel, and R&B Coco Montoya 8 PM, SPACE b

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FRIDAY16 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds See Pick of the Week (page 25). 8 PM, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, $49.50-$99.50. b Chris Brown 9 PM, Elastic, 3429 W. Diversey, $10 suggested donation. b Pianist and composer Chris Brown, who spent his high school years living in Hyde Park, possesses one of new music’s most curious, restless minds. He’s an inveterate explorer who veers from the strictures of composed music with a hearty improvised music practice: he’s played live computer music in the network band Hub, studied various world music systems, and worked with interactive setups between computers and live instruments. For his latest Chicago visit he’ll play music from his superb Six Primes (New World), a 2016 album of solo piano pieces written in just intonation—a tuning system in which the intervals in a scale are derived not from a constant frequency multiplier but from varying ratios of whole numbers. Brown limited himself by using only the ﬁrst six prime numbers (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, and 13) to guide elements of each piece, including form, tuning, harmony, and temporal structure. As much as I’ve tried to fully understand just intonation, I can’t entirely grasp its mathematical foundation, but I’m delighted to report that that’s not necessary to enjoy Brown’s music, which draws on a rich tradition of American maverick composers like Henry Cowell, Conlon J

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Nancarrow, James Tenney, and especially Lou Harrison, whose fascination with Indonesian gamelan music seems to be one of Brown’s most prevalent influences. His buoyant, rhythmically shifting compositions are filled with crisp, precisely phrased counterpoint, and once the listener adapts to the harmonies—which will likely sound dissonant if not “wrong” at first—there’s no missing their elegance and beauty. As if it wasn’t enough for Brown to write and play this stuff, he’ll turn on his early vocation as a professional piano tuner to tune Elastic’s piano in just intonation for the performance, changing it back to equal temperament afterward. —PETER MARGASAK

Willie Nelson & Family Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real open. 7:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, 200 Ravinia Park Rd., Highland Park, $49-$125. b If Willie Nelson is approaching death, he sure isn’t acting the way you’d expect someone to behave when afterlife is imminent. At 84 years old, he’s still releasing an album a year (sometimes two, as he did in 2016 with the tribute LPs Summertime and For the Good Times), smoking a ton of weed (while becoming something of a marijuana entrepreneur with his own strain, Willie’s Reserve), and running both a truck stop (Willie’s Place, in Carl’s Corner, Texas) and the best Sirius XM country-music station (the phenomenal Willie’s Roadhouse). For his latest eﬀort, God’s Problem Child, Nelson carved out time from his busy touring and business schedule by texting lyrics back and forth with longtime producer and cowriter Buddy Cannon. A sample line from “Still Not Dead”: “The Internet said I had passed away / But if I died I wasn’t dead to stay.” Willie Nelson is still singing, with a stoned wink, so let’s enjoy him while he’s still kicking. —TAL ROSENBERG

Hanging Hearts Sun Speak open. 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+ On their sturdy second album Into a Myth (Shifting Paradigm), Chicago-Milwaukee trio Hanging Hearts

deliriously teeter between mayhem and ecstasy, exploring the collision of the spiritual and the carnal. The new record was produced by Dave King of the Bad Plus, a band that knows a thing or two about bringing pop concision and rock firepower to jazz aesthetics, and indeed, the trio’s original repertoire reflects that sensibility. In place of a bassist, keyboardist Cole DeGenova does some heavy lifting, frequently pushing his electric-piano lines into the red and generating a low end complemented by the booming bottom drummer Devin Drobka produces with his kick drum and toms. Bright-toned tenor saxophonist Chris Weller toggles between sweetly soulful lines that sob and writhe and extroverted cries that recall the earliest, most primal playing of Argentine saxophonist Gato Barbieri. On Drobka’s “Pilsen” the divide between pop and jazz is magnified as a sophisticated art-pop arrangement a la vintage Steely Dan suddenly splinters into woolly free jazz, all three players veering into full expressionist mode before locking back into the original theme without a hiccup. Weller’s playfully groovy “Jungle Juice” complements the beat with subtle electronic rhythms, but his screaming, splittoned tenor injects giddy tension into the fun. The back half of the album cools the jets, with DeGenova focusing on acoustic piano and the trio pushing toward more conventional postbop, but the energy never flags. —PETER MARGASAK

Taste of Randolph Street See also Saturday and Sunday. Moon Taxi, Emancipator, Soule Monde, Jerry Folk, Growler, Bassel, Grood, and others perform. 5 PM, 900 W. Randolph, $10 suggested donation. b One of Chicago’s bigger summer street festivals, Taste of Randolph Street will present more than 50 musical acts on three stages, two with live bands and one dedicated to DJs. The “Denver Live on the Rocks” stage will feature sets from folky rock act Dawes, electronic producer Robert DeLong, local rapper Probcause, dance-punk stalwarts !!! (see page 31), and R&B guitarist Son Little, among others. The Skyline stage’s lineup includes performances from party rockers Here Come the J

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Mummies, Irish indie-pop singer Eden, brass-house creators Too Many Zooz, and progressive bluegrass outﬁt Head for the Hills. Notable DJs like Teri Bristol, David Sabat, Alan King, Jesse De La Pena, and Adam Gibbons will spin over the course of the weekend. This stretch of Randolph is famous for its restaurants, and spots like BellyQ, Cruz Blanca, Publican Quality Meats, and La Sardine will be set up in the street to oﬀer tastes of their fare. —LUCA CIMARUSTI

Mary Timony plays Helium See Thursday. The Hold Steady headline. 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, sold out. 17+ Dwight Yoakam Railway Gamblers open. 8 PM, Joe’s Live, 5441 Park Pl., Rosemont, $39. Dwight Yoakam has dabbled in bluegrass now and again over the years—which is yet another aside in a career already filled with flourishes that buck Nashville orthodoxy. Back in the 90s he sang a duet with Ralph Stanley, while on his rock-solid 2015 album Second Hand Heart (Reprise) he included a spirited version of the folk song “Man of Constant Sorrow,” which was popularized by the Stanley Brothers in the 50s. So there shouldn’t be anything too surprising about last year’s terrific Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars . . . (Sugar Hill), on which the singer surveys his own back catalog of tunes accompanied by a top-notch bluegrass ensemble. In fact, what the album conveys even more than Yoakam’s ease in a bluegrass setting—where his nasal, elastic phrasing sounds better than ever—is how good his songs are, easily translating from hard-core honky-tonk into mountain music. The record replants some of his greatest tunes, from his early “Guitars, Cadillacs” to the late-90s single “These Arms,” in that rural setting, adding nicely scuffed vocal harmonies and a soul quotient measurably higher than that of most contemporary bluegrass. As if to drive the point home that a good song is a good song regardless

of stylistic treatment, Yoakam closes the album with a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain,” which not only ﬁts nicely but also underlines the fact that once upon a time country music happily welcomed in all sorts of outside inﬂuences. —PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Acceptor, Not Half Bad, Cut Up, Bosley Mongo, Genius Christ 8 PM, Burlington Brendan & the Black Jackets, Goalie Fight, 8-Bit Creeps, Cherry Cherry Bomb 9 PM, Quenchers Saloon Chicago Loud 9, Water Seed, Digeometric 8:30 PM, 1st Ward, 18+ Dark Heart News, Ego Mechanics, One Season, Daylight Sinners 8:30 PM, Cobra Lounge Gosh!, Cult of Lip, Double Grave, Ono 9 PM, Hideout Happy Alright, Furlough, Rare Candy 6 PM, Township Jennifer Hartswick Band, Organ Freeman 11 PM, City Winery b Kissing Is a Crime, Color Card, As Is 6:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Pokey LaFarge, Lillie Mae 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Lucille Furs 10 PM, Cole’s F Meatbodies, Psychotic Reaction, Strange Foliage 9 PM, Empty Bottle Nancy & Beth 8 PM, City Winery, sold out b New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Paula Abdul 7:30 PM, also Thu 6/15, 7:30 PM, Allstate Arena Owens Room, Wldlfe, Band Camino, Harvey Fox 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Roxy Swain, Toy Robots, Cheryl Lynn Tomblin 9 PM, Wire, Berwyn The Rubs, Dumpster Babies, Frito & Lucy 9 PM, Reed’s Local Matthew Santos, Emily Blue, Christopher the Conquered 8 PM, Martyrs’ Shadows of Knight, Gang Band, Maggie Aliotta & the Mighty Fines 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Slow Dancer 7 PM, SPACE b Susto, Skyway Man 10 PM, SPACE b Terrible Spaceship, Dead Larry 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F Ann Wilson 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+

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Hip-Hop Juelz Santana, Stefan Ponce 8 PM, Portage Theater, 17+ Dance DJ Craze 10 PM, the Mid Kaskade, Jonas Blue, Ravell 9 PM, Aragon Ballroom, 18+ Miguel Migs, Andrew Emil, Tamahori 10 PM, Smart Bar DJ Phil, Cid Ikarus, DJ Demchuk, Pranas, Fatboy 10 PM, Subterranean Treasure Fingers, Option 4, Servante 10 PM, Primary Nightclub Tony Trimm, Chante 9 PM, East Room Till Von Sein 10 PM, Spy Bar Folk & Country Honey Island Swamp Band 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Blues, Gospel, and R&B Cash Box Kings 10:30 PM, California Clipper Chicago Blues All-Stars, Joanna Connor Band 9 PM, Kingston Mines Vance Kelly & the Backstreet Blues Band 9 PM, also Sat 6/17, 9 PM, B.L.U.E.S. Michael Ledbetter 9:30 PM, Rosa’s Lounge Vino Louden, Dave Weld 9 PM, Buddy Guy’s Legends Maze with Frankie Beverly 8 PM, also Sat 6/17, 8 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino Nellie “Tiger” Travis Blues Band 9 PM, also Sat 6/17, 9 PM, Blue Chicago Jazz Jane Bunnett & Maqueque 8 and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase Rob Clearﬁeld Quartet 9 PM, also Sat 6/17, 8 PM, Green Mill Fareed Haque & the Funk Brothers 9:30 PM, also Sat 6/17, 9:30 PM, Andy’s Jazz Club International Hurricane Reggae Band 9 PM, Wild Hare Los Vicios de Papa 8:30 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Classical Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Branford Marsalis Susanna Mälkki, conductor (Melinda Wagner). 8 PM, Symphony Center Grant Park Orchestra & Chorus Carlos Kalmar, conductor; Christopher Bell, chorus director (Britten, Williams). 6:30 PM, also Satt 6/17, 7:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park

SATURDAY17 !!! Part of Taste of Randolph Street. 7:30 PM (set time), 900 W. Randolph, $10 suggested donation. b In a thoughtful A.V. Club retrospective of early 2000s dance-punk, Reader associate editor Kevin Warwick traced the genre’s flash on the dance floor via the era’s seminal records. “Flash” is an apt word, too—before the aughts came to a close, many of the best practitioners either called it a day (Q and Not U, Death From Above 1979), lost the thread (Hot Hot Heat), or became cheeseballs (Killers). Of the groups still truckin’, none have soldiered on like Brooklyn outfit !!! (cloyingly pronounced “Chk Chk Chk”)—and, yes, that includes LCD Soundsystem, whose ballyhooed farewell and even more extravagant reunion last year have mutated their image like a funhouse-mirror reflection. For a decade now, !!! have reliably dropped a record every two or three years, nudging their rambunctious, nervy, and funkheavy sound into new crevices. May’s Shake the Shudder (Warp) puts their evolution at the forefront—the music gleams beneath the disco ball, and

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even as front man Nic Offer forces his voice into its highest ranges, the group produce clean, efficient floor-fillers. The thrum of old !!! bleeds in around the edges, and they retain some of the righteous rage that populated their previous work. While the nimble swagger of “Five Companies” might seem to belie the philosophical crises Offer is singing about, his blunt words focus his rage on, for instance, corporate greed. —LEOR GALIL

Mushuganas Fur Coats, Mons, and Geezers Senior open. 9 PM, Quenchers, 2401 N. Western, $8. For Chicago the reckless mid- to late-90s Crypt Records-style punk rock—with a bit of playful bounce and a lot of fuck-it rock ’n’ roll greaser attitude—was best embodied by its heroes in the Mushuganas. Their 1995 Dropout Girl seven-inch and, even better, their 1998 self-titled debut fulllength on long-defunct Rocco Records are relics of an era, with blown-out tinny production, anthemic gargling and gruff vocals, and a flair for the dirty and wily three-second guitar solo. The Mushuganas sounded like they were trashing your living room as you were sitting in it. Between the LP’s poppier, um, heartfelt tracks that feel a touch in line with former pop-punk contemporaries the Connie Dungs (“Another Girl Another Planet”) and the tough, misanthropic strutters a la the Nobodys (“Everyone”) is a midwestern blast of a record: fast, loud, and Chicago. The Mushuganas have been known to reunite on occasion since flaring out in the early 2000s, but tonight is being spun as their ﬁnal show ever—not unlike the ﬁnal show ever they played in May in Lansing, Illinois? We’ll see. —KEVIN WARWICK

Linda May han Oh 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $15, $10 in advance. 18+ Also known as Linda Oh, bassist Linda May Han Oh chose to use her full name with the release of her strong new album Walk Against Wind (Biophilia). (The New York-based musician was born in Malaysia and grew up in Australia, where she was given the name Linda to help her assimilate.) I’m not sure why she decided to make the change now, but I’d venture it’s in part because she’s never been more assured in her musicianship and imagination as a composer, here crafting a sleek collection of probing postbop with a first-class band of cohorts. Oh drew on clear-cut images and ideas to inspire her pieces, from the metaphorical title track (inspired by “Walking Against the Wind,” the famous piece by mime Marcel Marceau) to “Speech Impediment,” where she conveys the struggle of a man with a stutter to declare his love, the knotty, rubato rhythmic pattern of her own wordless singing giving empathetic sound to the effort. Oh alternates between double bass and electric bass, just as her tunes move between elaborate groove-oriented jams and smoldering lyric workouts, all brought to life with a resourceful band that includes Kneebody reedist Ben Wendel, guitarist Matthew Stevens—a regular collaborator of both Esperanza Spalding and Christian Scott— and drummer Justin Brown, a percussionist who masterfully chops up time into fractal patterns without ever surrendering his sure-handed grip on the pulse. Oh is at the forefront of J

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taste of Randolph Street See Friday. Robert DeLong, Eden, David Sabat, !!!, Slow Magic, Probcause, Michl, and others perform. Noon, 900 W. Randolph, $10 suggested donation. b Rock, Pop, Etc Aeraco, 4 Without, Blackmarket Democracy 8 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint After the Fight, Lavisher, Almost People, Barren Plains 8 PM, Burlington Atrophy, Cross Examination, Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre, Manic Outburst, Dysphoria, Mrsa, Tropical Storm, Bloodletter 5 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ BJ Barham, Andrew Pelletier 7 PM, Schubas, 18+ Burst & Bloom, Looms, Party Apple Peel, Killer Moon, Elliot K 8 PM, Cubby Bear Christopher Church, Yadda Yadda 8:30 PM, Hungry Brain F Clams, Basement Family, AM Stations 10 PM, Cole’s F Delta Saints, Rebel Saint Revival 9 PM, Beat Kitchen Dinosaur Exhibit, Robert Fetzer Band 8 PM, SPACE b Disko Eterno, Chicago Land Musicians, Calaveras LD, Herencia de Zapata 9 PM, Wire, Berwyn Early June, Ship Captain Crew, Wayside Story 6 PM, Subterranean b Genome, Henna Roso 9 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F Don Henley 7:30 PM, Huntington Bank Pavilion Robyn Hitchcock, Kacy & Clayton 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Hold Steady 9 PM, Empty Bottle Homeless Gospel Choir, Zach Quinn, Sam Porter 6:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Jakubi, Laik 10 PM, Schubas, 18+ Le Quyen 8 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino Led Pig, Wait for Your Brother, Grapevines, Manhattan Moonmen, Crooked Hill 7 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Samson the Aviator, Stormy Chromer, Ineﬀable Plan, Rocket X-M 8 PM, Elbo Room Brian Setzer 8:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Siddius, Bloodletter 8 PM, Mutiny F Surfer Blood, Winter 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Hip-Hop Archduke, Brother El, Solo Sam, G-Scott, DJ Bonita Appleblunt 9 PM, Elastic b DJ Premier 10 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Ozuna 8 PM, Rosemont Theater Scarface, Moﬁtz Project, Jay Illa 10 PM, the Promontory Dance Bag Raiders, Gordon Bramli 6 PM, Concord Music Hall b Nick Castle 9 PM, East Room Dense & Pika, Ken Sheldon, Microdot, Don’t Trust Humans 10 PM, Primary Nightclub Jerome Isma-Ae 10 PM, Sound-Bar Kaskade 10 PM, the Mid Maximono 10 PM, Spy Bar DJ Shiva, Justin Long, Hiroko Yamamura 10 PM, Smart Bar

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SUNDAY18 Haptic and Morgan Evans-Weiler 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+ Local experimental trio Haptic adhere to two constants. One is the involvement of Adam Sonderberg, Joseph Clayton Mills, and Steven Hess, who formed the group in 2005. The other is that everything else changes. Originally convened to provide a framework for in-person improvisations with different musicians, they’ve since performed exacting scores and developed multilayered and complex pieces of music that can only be executed on a recording, often without collaborators. Their performances have ranged from quiet sounds to dense sensory overloads, and their instrumentation has included computers, drums, piano, turntables, a Morse code Instructograph, VHS tape decks, and heaps of rice. They’ve played sets hunched around a single table, and last year they scattered their

MUSIC Haptic o TIM BARNES

instruments across the floor of Constellation and made their movements between them an absorbing part of the performance. Now Haptic are observing Mills’s impending move to Arizona with a big, communal blowout with percussionist/turntablist Tim Daisy, guitarist Michael Vallera, bass clarinetist Jason Stein, and multi-instrumentalist Morgan Evans-Weiler, who’ll be on piano here. A Boston resident, Evans-Weiler has mostly recorded with violin, which is what he’ll play in his opening solo set. But whether performing alone with sine waves, leading an ensemble, or duetting with Swiss keyboardist Christoph Schiller on their excellent new CD Spinet and Violin (Another Timbre), he has the same concern: exploring the ways that contrasting elements complete one another by combining melody with timbre, discreet notes with elongated tones, and sound with silence. —BILL MEYER

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MONDAY19 The Well Wo Fat, Black Road, and Bionic Cavemen open. 7 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint, 2105 S. State, $12, $10 in advance. This Austin trio unleashed its second full-length, Pagan Science (RidingEasy Records), last fall to accolades from aﬁcionados of heavy stoner-doom: it’s a solid 40 minutes of slightly hooky riﬃng with a vintage texture that pulls listeners away from the bongwater-scented pillows in their old custom vans and up toward the stars. Fans of sinister occult rock should warm right up to “Black Eyed Gods” and “Drug From the Banks,” as well as to the monkish incantatory chants that open up “Byzantine.” Lovers of eerie atmosphere should enjoy the witchy vocals bassist Lisa Alley lends to “Pilgrimage,” and appreciators of unexpected cover choices will get a treat at the end of the record with the take on Crosby, Stills & Nash’s “Guinnevere” (they do a splendid job leadfooting the track’s pagan sensibility). The Well aren’t breaking new ground, but that’s hardly what we ask of them. —MONICA KENDRICK Rock, Pop, Etc Sammy Hagar & the Circle 8 PM, Ravinia Festival b

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Kacy & Clayton, Sima Cunningham 7:30 PM, Hideout Pink Frost, Hair, Slow Witch 9 PM, Empty Bottle F Jean-Luc Ponty 8 PM, also Tue 6/20, 8 PM, City Winery, sold out b Soft Candy, Buhu, Radio Shaq 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F Spiral Stairs, Pool Holograph, Drafts 8 PM, Schubas Donnie Wahlberg 8 PM, Arcada Theatre, Saint Charles b Weathered, Township, Dingus, Cadence Fox 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Folk & Country Wild Earp & the Free-for-Alls, Base-Alon 5 9:30 PM, California Clipper Jazz Chicago Yestet 9 PM, Elastic b Quentin Coaxum’s Words 9 PM, Whistler F Extraordinary Popular Delusions 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen F Gregory Porter, Tomeka Reid Quartet 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park F b Experimental Lou Mallozzi 7:30 PM, Experimental Sound Studio b In-Stores Sam Wagster & Michael Hartman 7:30 PM, Myopic Books F b

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Bebu turns out pie-in-the-sky good pizza A couple One Oﬀ Hospitality vets have created a uniquely enjoyable crust. By MIKE SULA

here is no food more adaptable to the human requirement for joy than pizza. You can share it, hot and steaming, with your best friends, and it’s near guaranteed that before you’ve ﬁnished, you’ll all burst out laughing together for some reason or another. You can stumble out of bed in the middle of the night, sleepless from the ghosts moaning in your head, and the holy light of the refrigerator will spill upon a cold leftover slice on a paper plate, and for a few minutes those ghouls will be silenced, along with your hunger. Even the endless and pedantic cross-country debates over which regional specialty is better (or worse) than all the rest are a form of sport, and therefore healthy and nonviolent expressions of competitive fun. No matter what the situation is, pizza improves it. And it’s for this reason the cliche “there’s no such thing as bad pizza” is in fact a universal truth that somehow got left off Moses’s tablets of stone. I can’t even get bored writing about pizza, even though I’ve spent way too much time thinking about it not to have become slightly warped in my worldview. Sometimes there are other

things to write about than the latest pizzeria. That’s why I held the trigger on Pizzeria Bebu for months after it opened in February. Even the alliance of two One Off Hospitality vets, Zach Smith (formerly of Nico Osteria as well as RPM) and chef Jeff Lutzow (formerly of Publican and Nico Osteria), couldn’t lure me in sooner. Also, it’s in a neighborhood that challenges the sanity of anyone not used to living in this congested head cold of residential/ retail overdevelopment. You need to take the Red Line or the #72 North Avenue bus to Pizzeria Bebu. Or ride your bike. Just don’t drive. But the call of pizza, no matter what kind, is loud and long and compelling, and Pizzeria Bebu had to be held accountable. It’s a long, narrow, window-lit space, with tables just across and below the counter from the glassed-in station where Lutzow sculpts the dough and the gas-fired hell mouth that blisters the pies. Many seats, though low, offer in-your-face views of the pie-making action. So what’s it gonna be? Neapolitan with a molten, doughy center? Detroit style with buttery caramelized corners, the Motor City’s answer to fine patisserie? A cheffy take on tavern-style cracker crust? Or worse yet, deep-dish? None of those. Lutzow has developed a crust that can only be described on its own terms, unlike the city’s prevailing pizza trends of the last decade or so. Its underskirt is uniformly crispy, the alchemy of heat and dough and toppings providing that granular strata of texture, from the undercarriage’s carbonized shadows of char to the crucial middle layer, where bread gives way to sauce in a pliable and tender transition. The cornicione shows the crumb structure of a great sourdough bread while remaining tender enough for one to tear off bite after bite. Like all good pizza, at its foundation it’s just good bread. I experienced a single aberrant crust among my visits to Bebu. It’s tempting to blame the New Haven-style topping on that occasion: canny clams with overpower- J

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The ratatouille is a luscious, dense stew of springtime. o KRISTAN LIEB

continued from 35 ing cheese. Or maybe it was the light-blond bake that left an unwelcome denseness to the dough. Was is patted out too thickly? Did it languish in a cool spot in the oven? Which of the million variables was misaligned? Who knows? As with barbecue, consistency is the hobgoblin of pizzerias—but it’s a strong suit of Bebu’s. Having achieved this crustal feat, Lutzow conceived a similarly distinctive menu of specialty toppings, from the gleefully treif but breakfast-appropriate “bagel smuggler” (caramelized onions, pancetta, eggs, and everything-bagel spice) to the vegetable-laden “ratatouille,” with pattypan squash, zucchini, red pepper, and eggplant. More prosaic varieties built on red and white sauces are there for the traditionalists, and naturally you can build your own. Ditherers will be glad to know that they can also order these pies half and half, which I’m sure to some conscripts in the Pizza Taliban is something worth fighting over. For my part, it was absorbing to observe how the diameter line of yolk, melted Gruyere, and ripples of prosciutto cotto on the Parisienne met and just barely mingled with a pickly giardiniera-mined red tide under the meatball-and-ricotta half. Similarly, a misunderstood order on one

occasion led to a provocative and irresistibly scarfable pie. Some fledglings at the table, uncorrupted by pizza theocracy, decided they wanted soppressata on top of their margherita. That’s what they got, along with a thin, hot sheen of Calabrian honey, which is how Bebu’s standard soppressata rolls. While the menu focuses on pizzas, they can be supplemented with a handful of small plates and large salads. Romaine, pancetta, egg, olive, and avocado form a mountainous chopped salad. A Little Gem is loaded with fresh spring peas and favas. Oversize chunks of sweet red beet mingle with feta and nutty farro. Herbaceous meatballs wallow in powerfully umamic red sauce. Ratatouille is available also in its pure form—a luscious, dense stew of springtime. For dessert: a classic skillet cookie, lavalike in its iron crucible. There’s also a delicate, unorthodox cannolo: a cylindrical pizzelle, austerely filled with barely a hint of sugar sweetening the ricotta and chocolate. So yes, pizza is a champion relativist. It’s always inherently good relative to you not eating it. But Bebu’s rises above to join the thin ranks of the objectively good pizzas in town, a pie worth braving even one of the most traffic-choked areas of the city. v

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Assist clients to build operations capabilities that create a competitive advantage, drive profitable growth & respond effectively to risks. Req. Bach’s deg. or foreign equiv. in Health Servcs Admin, Bus Admin, Life Science or rel. + 5 yrs post-bach’s progress. rel. work exp.; OR a Master’s deg. or foreign equiv. in Health Servcs Admin, Bus Admin, Life Sciences or rel. + 3 yrs rel. work exp. Travel up to 80% req. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code IL1259, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.

ACCOUNTING M&A ADVISORY MANAGER (Mult. Pos.), PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC, Chicago, IL. Provide Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) consulting services, incl. M&A process improvement, M&A playbooks, & taking control of newly acquired entities. Req. Bach’s deg. or foreign equiv. in Acct, Fin, Bus Admin or rel. + 5 yrs post-bach’s progress. rel. work exp.; OR a Master’s deg. or foreign equiv. in Acct, Fin, Bus Admin or rel. + 3 yrs rel. work exp. Travel up to 80% req. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code IL1285, Attn: HR S SC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607. TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY MANAGER, TECHNOLOGY Strategy (Mult. Pos.), PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC, Chicago, IL. Provide strategy, mgmt, tech. & risk consulting services to help fin’l institutions respond to complex bus. challenges. Req. Bach’s deg or foreign equiv. in Acct, Bus Admin, Comp. Sci, Engg or rel. + 5 yrs post-bach’s prog. rel. work exp.; OR a Master’s deg or foreign equiv. in Acct, Bus Admin, Comp. Sci, Engg or rel. + 3 yrs rel. work exp. Travel up to 80% req. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code IL1286, Attn: HR SSC/ Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.

(Mt. Prospect, IL) Littelfuse, Inc. seeks Senior Design Engineer w/ Bach or for equiv deg in ME, Mechatronics Eng, Materials Eng, Indus Eng or related fld & 5 yrs of progr exp in job offered or in prod or tech devp incl exp w/ devp new tech, incl trck record of innovation &/or patents; CAD, incl 3D model & generation of 2D eng drawings; manuf proc: plastic injection molding, sheet metal fabrication

(stamping, coining, machining, bending, forming), soldering, ultrasonic welding; stat techniq & design of exper; & design respons for new prod & techn, for ABU PCP. Freq domes & occas intl trvl reqd. Apply to: N Castillo, 8755 W. Higgins Rd, Ste 500, 60631 TRANSUNION,

LLC

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Consultants, Digital Marketing Analysis for Chicago, IL location to use analytical reporting tools in credit info. & info. management services. Master’s in Statistics/Applied Statistics + 4yrs exp. req’d. Req’d skills: SAS, SQL, R, SQL Server/Oracle databases, Tableau, VB Script, VBA, Hive, Hadoop, performing quality audits to ensure viability of statistical models, analysis to measure digital channel performance using statistical technics including cluster analysis, factor, market basket analysis, cohort analysis, linear and logistic regression, segmentation models, PCA. Send resume to: C. Studniarz, REF: XC, 555 W Adams, Chicago, IL 60661

Acquisitions & Finance Manager Pete Highland Realty, Ltd seeks to hire acquisitions and finance manage to identify, purchase, and rehab property up for auction. Upon completion of rehab and assessment of costs – put the property up for sale, based on market price evaluation. Email your resume to law@ peterburdi.com or call (312) 9079448 Capital One seeks a Software Engineer in Chicago Metro Area, IL (multiple positions available) to perform technical design, development, modification, and implementation of computer applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Requires a bach. + 3 yrs. of exp. Must pass company’s assessment. See full req’s & apply online: https://www.capitalonecareers.co m/ Req # R27716. CAPITAL ONE seeks a Software Engineer in Chicago Metro Area, IL (multiple positions available) to perform technical design, development, modification, and implementation of computer applications using existing and emerging technology platforms. Requires a bach. + 3 yrs. of exp. Must pass company’s assessment. See full req’s & apply online: https: //www.capitalonecareers.com/ Req # R27157. CONSULTANT ORACLE AMERICA, INC. has openings for Consultant

positions in Westmont, IL. Job duties include: Analyze requirements and deliver functional and technical solutions. May telecommute from home. Apply by e-mailing resume to jim.r.smith@oracle.com, referencing 385.19734. Oracle supports workforce diversity.

DRIVERS - Regional & OTR LCL is expanding & seeks drivers to run regionally & OTR. $58K - $70K+/yr $2000.00 Sign-on Weekly payroll FULL BENEFITS & MORE!!! Class A CDL and 12 mo tractor trailer exp required. Visit: LCLbulk.com YMCA in Chicago, IL seeks .NET Application Developer to maintain & develop existing software by fixing issues as well as improving it with new functionality. Reqs BS+2yrs exp; For complete reqs & to apply visit http:// w w w . y m c a . n e t / career-opportunities/. TRAINMASTER – Iowa Interstate Railroad (Blue Island, IL) Five years prior railroad management experience required. Varied hours. See complete job description or apply at: www.iaisrr.com. IAIS is an EOE

Strategy Mgmt. Analyst/ Consultant Discharge consultant duties in project execution, work on strategy plan. MBA or rel master deg. Resume to LBL Strategies, Ltd 6321 N Avondale Ave #A214, Chicago, IL 60631 CHICAGO BUILDING CONTRACTOR in Bucktown area seeking a full time Office Assistant/ AP/AR Clerk. Great hours and salary. Send resume to ffuttrup6000@gmail .com

NUTS ON CLARK POPCORN

STORES- Paid training, lots of hours & opportunity available. Apply in person between 9 A.M. & 11 A.M. 3830 N Clark St. Must bring state ID & Social Security Card.

REAL ESTATE RENTALS

STUDIO $500-$599 Chicago, Beverly/Cal Park/Blue Island Studio $575 & up, 1BR $665 & up, 2BR $885 & up. Heat, Appls, Balcony, Carpet, Laundry, Prkg. 708-388-0170

STUDIO $600-$699 REHABBED APARTMENTS 1 Month Free 1BR on South Shore Drive From $650 w/Parking Incld. Call 773-374-7777 CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms Hotel, 5316 S. Harper, maid, phone, cable ready, fridge, private facilities, laundry avail. Switchboard. Start at $ 160/wk Call 773-493-3500

STUDIO $700-$899 LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT

Near Loyola Park. 1335 W Estes. Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Heat included. Laundry in building. $725/ month. Available 7/1. 773-761-4318,

STUDIO OTHER LARGE SUNNY ROOM w/fridge & microwave. Near Oak Park, Green Line & Buses. 24 hr Desk, Parking Lot $101/week & Up. (773)378-8888 CROSSROADS HOTEL SRO SINGLE RMS Private bath, PHONE,

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

Ashland Hotel nice clean rms. 24 hr desk/maid/TV/laundry/air. Low rates daily/weekly/monthly. South Side. Call 773-376-5200

1 BR UNDER $700 SPRINGTIME SAVINGS! NEWLY Remod. 1 BR Apts $650 w/

gas incl. 2-5BR start at $650 & up. Sec 8 Welc. Rental Assistance Prog. for Qualified Applicants offer up to $ 400/month for 1 yr. (773)412-1153 Wesley Realty

7022 S. SHORE DRIVE Impecca-

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

SPRING SPECIAL: STUDIOS starting at $499 incls utilities. 1BR $550, 2BR $599, 3BR $699. With approved credit. No Security Deposit for Sec 8 Tenants. South Shore & Southside. Call 312-446-3333 SECTION 8 WELCOME Newly Decorated 74th/East End. 1BR. $625. 77th/Drexel. 2BR. $700. 87th/Dante. Heat not incl. 2BR. 5rms. $750. 773-874-9637 or 773-493-5359

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

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

CALUMET PARK, Updated, lrg 1BR, free heat & cooking gas, appls, lndry, storage, off street parking. Nr I-57/Metra, $650. 708-481-4720 WEST PULLMAN (INDIANA

Ave) RENT SPECIAL 1/2 Off 1 month rent + Sec dep. Nice,lrg 1BR $575; 2BR $699 & 1 3BR $850, balcony, Sec 8 Welc. 773-995-6950

FREE HEAT! NO SEC Dep. No Move-in Fee! 1, 2, 3 & 4 BRs, laundry rm. Sec 8 OK. Tiffany 773.285.3310 www.livenovo.com

SPRING

SPECIAL

1 BR $700-$799 BURNHAM NICE SIZE 1BR, heat & water incl. 1st & 2nd flr apt w/ balcony in very quiet bldg. $755/mo. Credit check req’d. 708-372-4141 8322 S INGLESIDE & 8001 S Colfax, 1BR $650, newly remodel, hrdwd flrs, cable. Sec 8 welcome (Laundry Ingleside only) 708-3081509 or 773-493-3500

Gresham Area, 1 BR apt $700/month all utilities included, 1st month rent & security needed, appls not incl. 312-259-6062 BROADVIEW: 1BR Apt Available Now. Heat, appls & parking incl. Laundry facility on site. Sec dep required. $760/mo. 312-404-4577 AUBURN GRESHAM 80TH &

$500 To-

Paulina, 2 bedroom from $825, Heat included. Call 312.208.1771

CLEAN ROOM W/FRIDGE & micro, Near Oak Park, Food -4Less, Walmart, Walgreens, Buses & Metra, Laundry. $115/wk & up. 773-637-5957

ONE BEDROOM NEAR Warren

ward Rent Beautiful Studios 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR Sect. 8 Welc. Westside Loc, Must qualify. 773-287-4500 www.wjmngmt.com

HYDE PARK- 53rd St Nr Maryland . Small 1BR $675 hdwd floors, Sec 8 ok. Heated, w / Laundry facilities. 773-8590169 8435 S. GREEN. 1BR Apt, Appliances and heat incl. $640/mo + 1 month sec req. 773-203-1174 RIVERDALE 1 BEDROOM apartment, carpet, A/C, stove & refrigerator. Near Metra. $675/mo + Security. Call 708-552-1883 MARQUETTE PARK: 6315-19 S . California, 1 Bedrooms from $675, 2 Bedrooms from $825. Heat included. Call 312.208.1771 CHICAGO W. SIDE 3859 W Maypole Rehabbed studios, $425/ mo, Utilities not included. 773-6170329, 773-533-2900 6930 S. SOUTH SHORE DRIVE Studios & 1BR, INCL. Heat, Elec, Cking gas & PARKING, $585-$925, Country Club Apts 773-752-2200

EXCHANGE EAST APTS 1 Brdm

$575 w/Free Parking,Appl, AC,Free heat. Near trans. laundry rm. Elec.not incl. Kalabich Mgmt (708) 424-4216

SECTION 8 WELCOME

Bronzeville 4950 S Prairie. 1BR. Heat, cooking gas, appl incl. $660 & up. Call Zoro, 773-406-4841 Newly updated, clean furnished rooms, located near buses & Metra, elevator, utilities included, $91/wk. $ 395/mo. 815-722-1212

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1431 W. 78th St 1BR. $500/MO HEAT INCL 773-955-5106 NICE ROOM w/stove, fridge & bath Near Aldi, Walgreens, Beach, Red Line & Buses. Elevator & Laundry. $130/wk & up. 773-275-4442 BIG ROOM with stove, fridge, bath & nice wood floors. Near Red Line & Buses. Elevator & Laundry, Shopping. $121/wk + up. 773-561-4970

1 BR $800-$899 Park and Metra. 6804 N. Wolcott. Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Heat included. Laundry in building. $875925/month. Available 7/1. 773-7614318.

LARGE ONE BEDROOM near

the lake. 1335 W Estes. Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Heat included. Laundry in building. $875/month. Available 7/1. 773-761-4318.

1 BR $900-$1099 Ravenswood DLX 3/rm studio: new kit, SS appl, granite, French windows, oak flrs, close to Brown L; $1050/heated 773-743-4141 w ww.urbanequities.com

1 BR OTHER IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY Affordable housing-section 8 preferences for Senior 62+. Near elderly with disabilities 50-61 & near elderly 50-61. Beautiful Park like setting near University Commons. Pay 30% of income for rent (Sec. 8) Appliances, A/C & Heating. Indoor hallways, laundry facilities and rec. rooms. Cable ready, gated parking, Wheelchair accessible units. Congressman George Collins Apartments, 312-243-5048 EHO/H APTS. FOR RENT PARK MGMT & INV. LTD. IT’S MOVING TIME!!! OUR UNITS INCLUDE HEAT, HW & CG PLENTY OF PARKING 1BDR FROM $775.00 2BDR FROM $925.00 3 BDR/2 FULL BATH FROM $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000*** ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar Villas is accepting applications for subsidized 1BR apts. for seniors 62 years or older and the disabled. Rent is based on 30% of annual income. For details, call us at 847-546-1899 ∫

APTS. FOR RENT PARK MGMT & INV. LTD. SPRING HAS SPRUNG!! MOST UNITS INCLUDE.. HEAT & HOT WTR STUDIOS FROM $475.00 1BDR FROM $550.00 2BDR FROM $745.00 3 BDR/2 FULL BATH FROM $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000** CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** RICHTON PARK hour assistance or live alone? Rooms South Suburbs. Call 9760

Need 24 unable to for rent, 708-336-

CHICAGO - BEVERLY, 1BR Apts. Carpet, A/C, laundry, near transportation, $770-$790/mo. Call 773-233-4939 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

SUBURBS, RENT TO OW N! Buy with No closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com

NO SECURITY DEPOSIT NO MOVE IN FEE 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APTS (773) 874-1122 ACACIA SRO HOTEL Men Preferred! Rooms for Rent. Weekly & Monthly Rates. 312-421-4597

ROYALTON HOTEL, Kitchenette $135 & up wk. Free WiFi. 1810 W. Jackson 312-226-4678

2 BR UNDER $900 CHICAGO, near 81st & Kingston, 2BR, wall to wall carpet, $700/mo + 1.5 mo. sec. Tenant pays own utils. Immed. Occupancy. 708-339-6741 74TH & KIMBARK, 2BR, stove & fridge incl., $725/mo + sec dep. Credit check. No pets. Tenant pays utilities. Call 312-607-1941 CHICAGO, KING & 73RD ST., Beautiful 2BR Apt. Newer rehab, new cabinets, $750/ mo + heat. MUST SEE! Call Irma, 847-987-4850 7701 S. South Shore Dr. 2 BDs with 1.5 Baths, Large Combo Living-Dining Rm, FREE Heat & cking gas. Prkng extra. $785-$850, Kalabich Mgmt (708)424-4216

CICERO - 2 BEDROOM, $850$875/mo. Newly remodeled, laundry, free cooking gas and heat. 708-990-1911 or 630-673-6157 9112 S. YATES, Great location. 2BR, 1st flr, carpet, ceiling fans & mini blinds. $785/mo + security. HEAT INCLUDED. 773-374-9747 LOGAN SQUARE 2 Bedroom

Apartment. Modern kitchen & bath, balcony, washer & dryer in unit. $850/MO. 773-235-1066

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2BR, VERY NICE, lrg rms, quiet bldg, no pets, tenant pays own util. $725/mo + 1 mo sec. 6545 S. Winchester Ave. 773-799-5696 CHICAGO 7600 S Essex 2BR $599, 3BR $699, 4BR $799 w/apprvd credit, no sec dep. Sect 8 Ok! 773287-9999 /312-446-3333

75 S.E. YATES - R e n o v a t e d 2BR Apt, Family Room, 1. 5BA, LR, DR, Eat in Kitchen, 3 flat, tenant heated, $950/ mo. Call 773-375-8068

Chicago, 6137 S. Rhodes, 3BR Apartment, hardwood floors, nice block, Section 8 welcome. $900/mo. Call 312505-8737

2 BR $1100-$1299

CALUMET CITY, 3BR, 2 full BA, fully rehabbed w/ gorgeous finishes, CAC & appliances incl., porch, Section 8 OK. $1100/mo. 510-735-7171

2BR W/ NEW CARPET, cherry

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

AUBURN GRESHAM, 1401-11 West 80th, 2beds from $775, Free heat – no deposit. Call 312.208.1771

LAKEVIEW, STEPS TO LAKE,

2 BR $900-$1099 2BDRM/BATH CONDO. SEC 8 wel 24hr security. 773-405-1250

ELMHURST: Dlx 1BR, new appl, new carpet, AC, balc. overlook pool, $925/mo. incl heat, prkg, OS Laundry. 773-743-4141 www. urbanequities.com 4300 BLOCK OF AUGUSTA,

2BRs, 1st & 2nd floor, laundry facility on site. $1150/mo, utils incl. Sect 8 ok. No pets/no smoking. 773-418-0195

NICE, QUIET, NEWLY Decorated

2 bedroom, 1 bathroom apartment 950/mo Heat and water included. 9734 S. Prairie Call 708-417-0466 Sec 8 Welcome

91ST/ADA. 2BR, $725/mo. New bath, kitchen and carpeting. RANCH REALTY 773-952-2122 MATTESON - DUPLEX, 2BR/ 1BA, Appls, $990/mo. + sec. avail. 7/15 HAZEL CREST - 3BR/1BA, $11 00/mo + Sec. Avail 7/15. 888-4346855

73RD & DORCHESTER, 2BR, refrig & stove, lndry hookups, off street prkg, enclosed yard, $975/ mo. No security dep. 773-684-1166

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

GREAT ANDERSONVILLE DUPLEX apartment. Two bed-

rooms + den, living room/dining room. Hardwood floors. Unique kitchen with island stove opens up to private deck and backyard in charming grey-stone 2 flat. Close to redline, beach, shops. $1,875 with garage parking. Available August 1. Last tenants loved so much they stayed 7 years 312-371-8520

LARGE 2BR 1BA, Large light filled living room, large dining room and den, White kitchen with refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, microwave, disposal, pantry. Patio with grill and free propane. Hardwood floors, AC, free laundry and free storage, heat included. Available Aug 1, Call or text Bob at 773-7104286, BDMOODY@RCN.COM

2 BR OTHER ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar

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

1048 W. 81ST, 2BR, stove, fridge, crpt, c-fans, ten pays heat. 6432 S. Peoria, 4BR, heat incl., Newly decor. Sect 8 Welc. 312-608-7622 GLENWOOD, Updated lrg 2BR Condo, H/F High School. Balc, C/ A, appls, heat/water incl. 2 prkng, lndry. $975/mo. 708-268-3762. NEWLY REHABBED 1BR Apt. $750. 3 & 5BR single family homes w / 2BA. $1300-$1800. Sect 8 Welc. 847-962-0408 65TH & TALMAN 3 BR stove,

fridge, laundry facilities. $900+ Security 773-881-8836

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200 SECTION 8 WELCOME $200 Move-In Bonus, No Dep. 7134 S. Stewart. 5BR/1BA House. 6227 S. Justine. 3BR/1BA & 225 W 108th Pl, 2BR/1BA. 7134 S. Normal, 4BR/ 2BA. Ht & appls incl 312-683-5174

1611 S. SPAULDING 3bd, 1ba. apt.

for rent. $850 per month rent. $850 security deposit. Tenant responsible for heat and electric. Call 708-9324151 for additional details.

SOUTHSIDE 68th/Hermitage, 3BR. $850. 70th/Normal, 3BR. $825. 847-977-3552

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ADULT SERVICES

Lansing , 2BR, carpeting, AC, patio, 2 parking spaces, w/d, heat incl, quiet bldg. Section 8 Welcome $925 + 1 mo sec. (773)9552125

3 BR OR MORE $1800-$2499 ITALIAN VILLA, UNIQUE and

charming character, stained glass ceiling and windows, venetian plastering, 1st floor, central air, kitchen & bath with stainless steel & granite LR /DR, library, 3BR, 2BA, washer & dryer in unit, front porch, patio, grill and garden, 2 garages available. $1850/mo. 773-274-4775.

LOGAN SQUARE Turn Of The Century 9 room boulevard apartment, 3BRs, hardwood floors, 2fireplaces, modern kitchen & bath, breakfast room. $1800/mo. includes heat. 773-235-1066

ALSIP, IL 3 BR/1.5 BA 2 story

townhouse for rent. $1150/mo without appliances. Call Verdell, 219888-8600 for more info.

HARVEY 15318 S. VINE. 6BR, 2 Full BA, freshly updated, garage, quiet block, nr schools. $1250/mo. 773-501-0503

AUSTIN AREA-126 N Long Ave 3BR electric baseboard heat $970 + dep and 1BR LeClaire St $675 incl heat 773-251-6652

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499

3 BR OR MORE $2500 AND OVER Gary NSA accepting applications for studio & 2 bedroom SUBSIDIZED apartments. Apply Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 1pm ONLY at 1735 W 5th Ave. Applications are to be filled out on site. Adult applicants must provide a current picture ID and SS card.

3 BR OR MORE OTHER

10234 S. CRANDON, small home, 3BR, 1BA, kit & util room, totally ren a/c, all appls incl, nice fncd yd, CHA welcome. 773-3174357 ALL NEW, 2 flat on Lake & Lockwood, 2BR, granite, stainless steel in kitchen. Mature building. Call 773-603-4356 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

GENERAL ROGERS PARK 6633 N. Sheridan Road Open House Sat 6/17, 10am-3pm. Free Credit Application Renovated Studio $900 & up; Renovated 1 Bedroom $1,100 & up (including heat and water) 1 block from Loyola & 1 block from Beach. Call 847-833-4848 CHICAGO SOUTH - YOU’VE tried the rest, we are the best. Apartments & Homes for rent, city & suburb. No credit checks. 773-221-7490, 773-221-7493 2122 W. 68TH PL. Remodeled 5BR House, 2BA, Central Air, Tenant pays utilities, security system. Sec 8 ok. Call Roy 312-405-2178

non-residential

PHOENIX NEAR 153RD and 5th SELF-STORAGE CENTERS. Ave. 4BR, 2BA, excellent condition. T W O locations to serve you. All Pets OK.$1100/mo + sec. 7228 S. Langley, newly rehabbed units fully heated and humidity con773-615-5698 3BR Apt Avail. New hdwd flrs, trolled with ac available. North: Knox granite kitchen w/ new appls. Avenue. 773-685-6868. South: Brand new furnace, walk in clos- Pershing Avenue. 773-523-6868. ets, gated, lrg bkyrd, great locaBEVERLY 5BR, 2 BA newly tion, tenants pay heat & electriciremodeled, hdwd floors, ty. Section 8 Vouchers Welcome. 10110 South Winston, $1400mo 2 HOURS WEST of Chicago, 3BR, 773-416-1983 or 773-490-0749 Section 8 ok 773-671-2708 Rock Falls country retreat, wood

3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799 79TH/MAPLEWOOD. 4BR. $1500/mo.

3 Bath, central air, 1 car garage. Ranch Realty 773-952-2122

3816 WEST 76TH ST reet 4BR 2BA brick, 2 car garage, exc cond, move in ready, move in fee req $1675/mo Al 847-6445195

CHICAGO HEIGHTS, 498 W 17th St, 3BR, 1BA, off street parking, Section 8 Welcome. Available Now. 312-458-9804 CHICAGO, Newly updated, 4BR, 1.5BA, appls incl. 2 prkng spaces, near Morgan Park HS. $1400 /mo. Section 8 welcome. 630-730-8343

roommates ROOMS FOR RENT $400- $425/month.

5926 S. Peoria & 448 W. 60th Pl 773-744-9915 or 312-343-8196

PULLMAN AREA, Newly

4BR, 1.5BA, HDWD flrs, recently remod, gated bldng, no smoking /no pets. $1500/mo. Shemaiah, 773-205-8362 or 312218-1888

remodeled 111th St., East of King Dr. $450-$550. Close to shopping & 1/4 block to metra. 773-468-1432

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Glendale Blvd., Valparaiso, IN 46383, Wed-Sat. June 21-24, 8am-5pm. Boys Schwinn Stingray bicycle & others, collectible, 4 piece table set, metal & glass, Harley Davidson Tees, Concert Tees, Sports Tees & Jerseys, hand & electric tools, nuts, bolts, hardware, BB guns, chairs-industrial look & wood, books & magazines (older), record albums & more...

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FEMALE ILLINOIS LICENSED Emergency Medical Technician with Masters degree in Healthcare is available for Elder care or Child care Mon-Fri 7am-7pm. Near north or Lincoln Park.

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HINCKLEY

Community Garage Sales will be held 6/9-6/11 Sales will take place rain or shine. OVER 50 HOMES PARTICIPATING! Maps will be available at local businesses.

MUSIC & ARTS DOMINICK

DEFANSO & Lia Lakely rocks Slaughter Slayer, Metallica, Cof Bodemn, L. Zepplin, Osbourne, Fun with Pink, D. Bowie, The Cure, Peter Frampton. 773-4817429.

MASSAGE TABLES, NEW and

used. Large selection of professional high quality massage equipment at a very low price. Visit us at www. bestmassage.com or call us, 773764-6542.

HUGE PORTAGE PARK SALE, Chicago. 50+ garages involved. Maps of sale and refreshments at Faith Church, 5051 W. Belle Plaine. Saturday 6/17, 9am4pm. GARAGE SALE

3520 N. Lakeshore Dr. Multi-Vendors, Saturday 6/17, 9am-4pm. Collectibles, vintage, clothing, books. For more info 773-857-3520

FREON R12 WANTED Certified buyer will PICKUP, PAY CA$H for cylinders of R12. 312-291-9169 refrigerantfinders.com. 2 sets of luggage, pair of binoculars, high chair, Cannon camera. Orland Park 708-364-7902

SERVICES PET SITTER. SKILLED dog walker, cat sitter provides daily walks, home visits, transportation for your pet dog, cat, bird, guinea pig, fish... Skilled, bonded, personable and fun. Justin 773-951-4898.

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STRAIGHT DOPE By Cecil Adams Q : So, the world is warming. How bad can we expect things to get? —JEREMY EHRLICH

A : Some say the world will end in fire, Jeremy,

and some say in ice. I hold with those who say: Why choose? The ice, melting off the poles, will be what does us in, but only as a result of the great anthropogenic fossil-fuel inferno—a combo that wasn’t on the menu of options Robert Frost had in mind. We discussed this stuff a few years back, when I noted that global warming seems to have forestalled any future ice age, perhaps indefinitely. The future doesn’t look much rosier now, though it does look wetter, according to a pileup of more recent studies on the sea-level problem. Don’t get me wrong: There are plenty of other ways climate change will wreck the planet. A study last year held it responsible for a doubling of wildfires in the American west over the last 30 years. Elsewhere drought will mean new migration patterns and resultant strife. But if it’s the worst-case scenario you’re looking for, pal, then you’re gazing into the deep blue sea. And you’re looking at, chiefly, Antarctica, whose disintegrating ice sheet could raise the global sea level one meter by 2100 and 15 meters by 2500—which would mean, as one researcher put it, “literally remapping how the planet looks from space.” We’re seeing the beginnings of this play out, from more frequent nuisance flooding to existential crises in places like Kiribati, a tiny Pacific island nation that’s making plans to relocate wholesale before it finds itself underwater entirely. The contemporaneous effects pale in comparison with what will happen on coasts, and particularly in coastal cities, if oceans rise to the extent of some projections. Sea levels just two meters higher will displace 2.5 million people from Miami, 1.8 million from Mumbai, and more than a million each in New York and New Orleans, etc. We’re already exacerbating this problem—more people are moving to coastal cities, leading to construction on land previously left undeveloped precisely because of flood risk. In some places, increased population can overtax the groundwater, causing cities to literally sink as water is pumped from below. Sunny seaside Jakarta, with a metro area now home to 30 million, is expected to drop six feet by 2025— an inopportune development, to say the least, what with oceans on their way up. So, how likely is a sea-level rise of one meter, let alone 15 meters? In its most recent assessment report, from 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change laid out

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virgin. I’m an overweight, straight-ish guy (I’m attracted to a few men, but those cases are exceedingly rare). I’ve also gone through an absolute hell life thus far, losing a testicle to cancer and having an abusive father who threatened a teenage me into celibacy by invoking the phrase “penile lobotomy” should I have sex with any girlfriends. I’ve barely dated in ten years, and while I’m free from my father and the aforementioned mortal dick terror, I’m also INCREDIBLY scared about putting myself out there. I’m disabled, I’m not conventionally attractive by most standards, my whole zone down there is scarred up from surgeries, and, to top it all off, I’m on the small side. The last time I had the opportunity for sex, I went for it, but I was so terrified that I couldn’t keep it up. The woman I was with said something to the effect of “Well, I can’t do anything with that, now can I?,” after which I asked her to leave because, seriously, that’s kind of an asshole thing to say. I’m notionally on Tinder and Bumble, but I really don’t know what I’m doing—and more often than not, I feel like the right thing for any theoretical partners would be for me to just stay in hiding and not inflict my grotesque presence on them. I’m scared of another humiliation, as that’s most definitely not my kink, and I’m at an age where my complete lack of experience and physical deformity are (I would have to imagine) major issues for anyone I might encounter. I truly want romance, sexuality, and companionship in my life. I haven’t fought through poverty, disability, physical and emotional abuse, and my genitalia trying to kill me to stay entombed in my office

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Hire a sex worker. It will allow you to separate your anxieties about finding romance and companionship from your anxieties about being sexually inexperienced. A kind, indulgent, competent sex worker can relieve you of your virginity and help restore—or instill— confidence in your dick’s ability to get and stay hard in the presence of another human being. Be totally honest about your inexperience and your concerns. If you get the sense during negotiations—which should be brief and to the point—that the woman you’re talking to is impatient or uncaring, thank her for her time and start over. Presumably you’ve got a computer in your office, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. Use it. Get out of the house. Go places, do things. Even if you have to go alone, go. You’re likelier to meet someone if you’re out of the house and moving through the world. Even if you don’t meet someone right away, you’ll feel less isolated and less alone. Even if you never meet someone (I’m not sugarcoating things— some people don’t), going places and doing things means you’ll have a rich and full and active life regardless. You’re not alone. OK, you’re alone—but you’re not alone alone. Meaning, there are women (and men) out there who feel just as paralyzed as you do—because they’re almost-30-year-old-orolder virgins, because they’re not conventionally attractive, because their first/only sexual experiences were just as humiliating, because they

had traumatic childhoods and bear emotional scars. You want a woman to come into your life who is patient and accepting and kind and willing to look past your disability and your inexperience and your difficult history. Be patient, accepting, kind, and similarly willing. Get over those scars. I had a boyfriend a long time ago who had significant scarring on his balls and taint. He was a farm boy (sigh), and he fell on a piece of farm machinery and wound up straddling a scalding-hot pipe, which burned through his jeans and left third-degree burns on his balls, taint, and upper-upper thigh. Guess what? I didn’t even notice them. And not for want of opportunity: he was my first serious boyfriend, and I spent the better part of three months with my face in his crotch. The scars that were so obvious to him and left him feeling self-conscious about his genitals? They were invisible to me until he needlessly apologized for them. Genitals are a jumble of flesh and folds and hairs and colors and bits and pieces and sometimes scars, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. If you’re worried your scarring is noticeable, mention that you’re a cancer survivor and lost a ball but gained a sick (as in cool) scar. Good luck, TVWBFAWLJNITGW. We’re rooting for you.

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GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene SOMETIMES THE LINEUP of one show seems to sum up the awesomeness of Chicago’s DIY punk scene, and just such a show arrives Saturday, June 17. Gossip Wolf is already in the tank for the tangled, bracing hardcore of the Bug, whose new Humbug seven-inch just dropped via the dependable Not Normal Tapes (run by the band’s singer, Ralph Rivera). Depending on whom you ask, C.H.E.W. stands for “Cold Hands Elicit Worry” or “Cocaine Heroin Ecstasy Weed,” but either way, the D-beat barrages on group’s recent split with Philly punks Penetrode (on California label Neck Chop) put this wolf in a floor-punching mood! And blistering psych-punk quartet Dianetics (with members of Negative Scanner and Daylight Robbery) have a new demo called And Psycho Horse that sounds like they’re ﬁghting for space in a trash can. For venue info, e-mail notnormaltapes@gmail.com. Freelance writer and Reader contributor Erin Osmon has been working on Jason Molina: Riding With the Ghost for years, and last month her book about the beloved singer-songwriter finally came out. Osmon’s meticulous research—she dug into Molina’s letters and e-mails and interviewed dozens of people close to him—informs her portrait of the magnetic, mysterious musician. At Quimby’s on Saturday, June 17, she’ll give her ﬁrst reading from the book, and members of Molina’s band Songs: Ohia will join her for a Q&A. Japanese artist Takashi Murakami has a retrospective called “The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and if you follow the MCA on Instagram you already know that Bono and the Edge from U2 have dropped by. According to one of Gossip Wolf’s spies, Christian Slater (currently playing a figment of Rami Malek’s imagination on Mr. Robot) visited last weekend, rocking sunglasses indoors. The $15 million statue of the naked anime dude isn’t actually ejaculating, Mr. Slater! No safety goggles needed! —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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