Chicago Reader: July 30, 2015 issue (Volume 44, Number 44)

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IN THIS ISSUE 4 Agenda Stupid Fucking Bird, Tony Fitzpatrick, and more recommended events 8 City Life Space: how a master gardener transformed her Irving Park yard Zoom in: the real house from The House on Mango Street City Agenda: something cool to do every day of the week 10 Joravsky | Politics Madigan ally to the City Council: Get your financial house in order!

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14 Isaacs | Architecture Old Town’s historic West Burton Place may soon have an alien intruder.

14 Lit Vu Tran’s Dragonfish revisits the ghosts of Vietnam.

17 Theater A chamber musical about Gertrude Stein doesn’t bear repeating.

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18 Visual Art In “Intimism,” Frances Stark lays bare the reel of her everyday life.

21 Small Screen Humiliating Nick didn’t make The Bachelorette stink any less.

23 Movies How one Hemingway short story became three different movies

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27 The essential guide to Lollapalooza Thirty artists and bands worth running around Grant Park to see 36 Gossip Wolf Cole’s celebrates its sixth anniversary, plus more local music news 36 Shows of note D.R.A.M., Justin Townes Earle, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, and more

43 Review: Cherry Circle Room The restaurant in the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel is a retreat.

46 Key Ingredient: Yuzu The Asian fruit convinces a Cindy’s chef that salmon isn’t so bad.

47 A tale of two (former) dive bars After makeovers, the former Marble and Crown Tap Room (re)open.

49 Restaurant and bar listings Reviews of Bom Bolla and Nando’s PeriPeri; sports bars worth cheering

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50 Jobs 50 Apartments & Spaces 52 Music & Bands 53 Savage Love A friendly guide to hosting an all-girl sex party 54 Straight Dope How’d we learn to pronounce ancient Egyptian?

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Avatar-Incarnations Natya Dance Theatre draws inspiration from Indian mythology to express the continuous flow of energy in nature through its signature hybrid of traditional and contemporary dance. This performance is part of the Chicago Park District’s Night Out in the Parks program. Fri 7/31, 4 PM, Amundsen Park, 6200 W. Bloomingdale, 312-746-5003, natya.com.

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Dance Chance In this monthly showcase, choreographers present works in progress followed by discussion. This time around features Linnea Norwood, Sam Gardner, and Ally Baitz. Fri 7/31, 7 PM, Lou Conte Dance Studio, 1147 W. Jackson, 312850-9744, danceworkschicago.org, $3.

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15 Breaths A gay 19-year-old named Harold moves to Boystown and is taken under the wing of Lil, a middle-aged trans woman who endeavors to steer Harold away from predatory sugar daddies and toward the sweet kid he’s been chatting with online. The message hammered home by this production from About Face Youth Theatre—whose members range in age from 13 to 24—is that LGBT youngsters might have something worthwhile to learn from their queer elders (sugar daddies excepted).

Though the ensemble overestimate the extent to which we need to be convinced of that, their earnestness and energy are infectious. As if to make things artier, director Ali Hoefnagel supplies lots of choral speaking, synchronized movement, rotating of roles among cast members, and other tricks.

—ZAC THOMPSON Through 7/26: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, aboutfacetheatre.org, $15, $10 seniors and students, pay what you can at the door.

Fugue It’s hard to imagine what sort of monster would prefer dramatic improv to its comic sibling. That doesn’t deter Theatre Momentum, which has revived this show comprising four improvised one-act dramas played simultaneously on a single stage. Each playlet depicts a couple at a crossroads (breakup, breakdown, hookup); the duos take turns telling their stories as the others continue theirs in slow-motion mime (one actor inadvertently convinced me he’d never before opened a bottle of water). As a pensive assassin eating pizza in a dead man’s hotel room, Dan Jackson wrings bleak humor from the “fugue” format, plucking salient scraps of dialogue from earlier scenes. But all the aimless, prolonged stop-and-go only helps the crises miss their climaxes. —JENA CUTIE Through 8/15: Fri-Sat 8:30 PM, Pendulum Space, 1803 W. Byron, suite 216,

theatremomentum.com, $10.

Stupid Fucking Bird It’s too coy by half for playwright Aaron Posner to call his cheeky 2013 play “sort of adapted” from Chekhov’s The Seagull; its power and persuasiveness come precisely from Posner’s insightful fidelity to the original. He borrows Chekhov’s characters and plotlines, adding some keen updates and occasionally excessive metatheatricality. But no matter the number of topical rants or F-bombs—far fewer than Mamet, actually—the heartbreaking hollowness of life’s perpetual disappointments echoes as deeply here as it did in 1896. Jonathan L. Green directs this commercial remount of Sideshow Theatre’s 2014 hit with grace, agility, and exacting impudence. Perhaps fittingly, neither Posner nor Green delivers a satisfying conclusion—another of life’s disappointments. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 8/30: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Wed 7:30 PM, Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, 773-871-3000, sideshowtheatre.org, $49.

The Summer of Daisy Fay Based on Fannie Flagg’s story “Daisy Fay and the Miracle Mann,” this one-woman adaptation from New American Folk Theatre offers a charming portrait of a young woman trying to find her way out of small-town Mississippi in 1958. As Daisy Fay, pretty red-haired Charlie Irving is an intoxicating mix of honeyed sarcasm and southern gentility, and the intimate staging puts the audience right in her basement bedroom as she packs her things, several weeks early, for the Miss Mississippi pageant in Tupelo, dreaming of an acting career in New York. Her excitement vibrates down to her fingertips, and her tales of men who let her down, past and present, make her desire for a new life all the more poignant. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 8/17: Sat 3 PM, Sun-Mon 7:30 PM, Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr, 773-728-7529, newamericanfolktheatre.org, $20.

COMEDY Drunk Science Sean Flannery is distinctly qualified to host a show like Drunk Science, a multimedia stand-up revue dedicated to the science behind getting wasted. And we should know: the Reader named Flannery “Best Drunk” in our 2014 Best of Chicago issue. More than just a well-regarded boozer, however, Flannery is one of Chicago’s best comedians, the ultimate living room comic whose hilarious personal stories and kindly everyman style create a relaxed, congenial

improviser, the idea being to build upon— never to tear down or impede—whatever your partner tosses you. In the long-running Messing With a Friend, Susan Messing reigns supreme over “Yes, and . . . ,” imbuing pregnant pauses with many an excellently timed F-bomb and fleshing out characters at once demented and lovable.

“A joyful romp through hell,” the program calls the show; fire and brimstone never burned so good. Open run: Thu 10:30 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773697-9693, annoyanceproductions.com, $5.

Oedipal Arrangements Comedy is hard—which means that most comic actors and their audiences have to endure a lot of shows like this one, an evening full of painfully unfocused, poorly conceived material. Some here have potential; Evan Mills, for one, is adept at getting laughs out of mildly amusing situations. But for now this sketch show from Huggable Riot, directed by Hunter Larrison and written under the guidance of head writer Amy Anderson, is strictly for friends and family. —JACK HELBIG Through 8/12: Wed 8 PM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-5984549, huggableriot.com, $10.

Snack Boys Present a Snack Boys’ Present Unlike most sketch artists, the Snack Boys—Adam Levin and Mike Migdall—create a comedic world largely unrecognizable to those on earth. A young mother sings to no one in particular about her adorable newborn, who turns out to be a vulgar, “pimp-ass baby.” Lovers Scott Goldstein

Drunk Science host Sean Flannery ò ERIN NEKERVIS vibe. Open run: Wed 8 PM, the Comedy Bar, 500 N. LaSalle, 312-836-0499, comedybarchicago.com, $20.

Fackbuddies Longtime Chicago improviser Dina Facklis’s new training program Chicago Improv Den is a tricky souffle either on the verge of rising or deflating. But with Fackbuddies, her new show with a different improv vet as guest each week, Facklis once again delivers delicious comedic joy. Fri 7/31, 10:30 PM, Den Theatre, 1329-1333 N. Milwaukee, 773-609-2336, chicagoimprovden.com, $8.

Messing With a Friend “Yes, and . . .” is the holy mantra of any solid

and Gold Scottstein welcome us to the Greenberg Auction House, where they auction nothing but instead do borschtbelt shtick, dance to Gloria Estefan, and fling their glasses into the audience.

Throughout, Ping-Pong balls appear in unexpected places. The incessant strangeness and schlocky incongruity produce mostly opaque curiosities, but as a welcome counterpoint, each Snack Boy recites a brief autobiographical monologue about a shameful past moment, allowing some recognizable truths into their act. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 8/19: Wed 8 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, theannoyance.com, $6.

Best bets, recommendations, and notable arts and culture events for the week of July 3o

“The Last Supper: 600 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates” at Northwestern University Block Museum of Art ò COURTESY JULIE GREEN

VISUAL ARTS Art Institute of Chicago “Dionysos Unmasked: Ancient Sculpture and Early Prints,” the Greek god of wine and theater as depicted in sculptures and prints from the 15th through the 18th century. 7/31-2/15/16, 111 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600, artinstituteofchicago.org, $23, $17 students, seniors ($5 discount for Chicago residents), free kids under 14; free for Illinois residents Thursdays 5-8 PM. Gallery Guichard “Confronting Truths: Wake Up!,” Ti-Rock Moore’s new solo exhibit at Gallery Guichard in Bronzeville, was intended to start a conversation about racism in America.

Instead it’s started a controversy. Moore, who’s white, created 50 pieces for the exhibit, including Michael Brown Black Angel, a life-size replica of Michael Brown’s body lying facedown in the street after he was shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, last summer.

Through 8/10, 3521 S. King, 773-373-8000, galleryguichard.com.

Northwestern University Block Museum of Art For “The Last Supper: 600 Plates Illustrating Final Meals of U.S. Death Row Inmates,” a protest of capital punishment, artist Julie Green has painted images of death row inmates’ last meal requests onto second-hand ceramic plates. Through 8/9. Wed-Fri 10 AM-8 PM, Sat-Sun noon-5 PM. 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 847-491-4000, blockmuseum. northwestern.edu.

Elevate Energy for this week’s discussion. They’ll talk about cutting energy costs and promoting renewable energy and energy efficiency. Sat 8/1, 6:30 PM, Hilltop Restaurant, 2800 W. Foster, 773989-9100, collegeofcomplexes.org, $3.

Tony Fitzpatrick Artist, poet, and man about town Tony Fitzpatrick discusses Dime Stories, his recent collection of essays and artwork.

Sat 8/1, 7 PM, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, 773-293-2665, bookcellarinc.com.

(In)visible The final reading by the Young Chicago Authors 2014-2015 teaching artists focuses on trauma and the body, featuring Fatimah Asghar, Jasmine Barber, Britteney Kapri, Reginald Eldridge Jr., Dianna Harris, Tim Henderson, and Jamila Woods. Sat 8/1, 6 PM, Poetry Foundation, 61 W. Superior, 312-787-7070, poetryfoundation.org.

Tara Ison The novelist discusses her new essay collection, Reeling Through Life: How I Learned to Live, Love, and Die at the Movies. Fri 7/31, 7 PM, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, 773-293-2665, bookcellarinc.com.

Sara Paretsky The Chicago mystery writer releases her new V.I. Warshawski book, Brush Back. Thu 7/30, 6:30 PM, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 5751 S. Woodlawn, 773-752-4381, semcoop.com.

Tuesday Funk The eclectic monthly reading series returns with guests Henri Harps, Robert McDon-

Vertical Gallery “The Great Western,” street art from three Brits: Eine, Word to Mother, and Sickboy. The title of the show refers to a rail line that runs from London to Bristol. Reception Sat 8/1, 6-10 PM. 8/18/29, 1016 N. Western, verticalgallery.com.

LIT Anthony Bourdain: Close to the Bone The chef, author, and Parts Unknown host shares stories from his life and travels; there’s a Q&A at the end. Thu 7/30, 7:30 PM, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, 800-982-2787, auditoriumtheatre.org, $56.50-$211.50.

College of Complexes The “Playground for People Who Think” hosts the group

Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation

ald, Ryan DiGiorgi, and more. 21+. Tue 8/4, 7:30 PM, Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark, 773-334-9851, tuesdayfunk.org.

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MOVIES

More at chicagoreader.com/movies All of Me This moving documentary profiles villagers (most of them women) in La Patrona, Mexico, who prepare food for the Latin American migrants passing through the area on freight trains. Between interviews with the subjects, director Arturo González Villaseñor presents scenes of them throwing food to strangers on moving trains, and through meaningful repetition the act comes to seem like a religious ritual. This spiritual quality extends to the interviews, as the subjects often expound on their Catholic faith when asked to explain why they help others.

Villaseñor has achieved something rare—a satisfying piece of spiritual filmmaking on a delicate political topic. In Spanish with subtitles. —BEN SACHS 90 min. Facets Cinematheque 54: The Director’s Cut Mark Christopher’s lame 1998 drama about the legendary Manhattan disco Studio 54 was one of the most famous casualties of hands-on producer Harvey Weinstein: conceived as another Boogie Nights, with Ryan Phillippe as a bisexual hustler climbing the club’s employment ladder, the movie tested badly in the homophobic suburbs and was dramatically recut and reshot to de-gay the protagonist.

Restored to something like its original form, it still isn’t any good, but at least it has the courage of its convictions. Largely deleted is the hero’s flaccid romance with a rising soap opera star (Neve Campbell), and gone is the unpersuasive coda in which club owner Steve Rubell (Mike Myers), paroled after serving 11 months for tax evasion, returns to Studio 54 to inform the assembled cokeheads that they’re all his family. Replacing these elements are more scenes of the Phillippe character coupling with various people, including the ostensibly monogamous husband and wife he calls his best friends (Salma Hayek and Breckin

Meyer). —J.R. JONES 106 min. Fri 7/31, 8:30 PM; Sun 8/2, 5 PM; and Mon 8/3, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

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It’s Trad, Dad! The Beatles chose Richard Lester to direct A Hard Day’s Night largely on the strength of this irreverent 1962 comedy, in which two English teens (Craig Douglas and Helen Shapiro) defy the fuddy-duddy mayor of their town to organize a big radio show with all the hottest trad-jazz (i.e. Dixieland) bands. The British tradjazz craze would soon be vanquished by the Beatles themselves, which isn’t too surprising given the hopelessly square finger-poppin’ daddies on the program (including the Dukes of Dixieland, Chris Barber’s Jazz Band, and the Temperance Seven). But the producers hedged their bets with a smattering of rock ‘n’ roll acts as well—Chubby Checker, Del Shannon, Gary U.S. Bonds, Gene Vincent— and Lester’s brainy sight gags inside the radio station presage the pop-culture blast that he and the Fab Four would deliver two years later. Also known as Ring-a-Ding Rhythm!. —J.R. JONES 78 min. Wed 8/5, 7 PM. Northeastern Illinois University Fine Arts Auditorium Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation Yes, producer-star Tom Cruise really did hang off the side of an airplane 5,000 feet in the air to shoot the jaw-dropping action set piece that opens this fifth installment in his Mission: Impossible franchise. If Buster Keaton had pulled this off, it would be legendary, so now might be the time to concede that Cruise, the world’s oldest and richest adolescent, has invited us into his unhinged fantasy life in the tradition of some of our most beloved filmmakers.

(Any attempts at serious acting are pretty much over, though—more than a decade has passed since Collateral, Magnolia, and Eyes Wide Shut). Five movies in, Cruise has perfected the M:I formula—a simple spy story, passable character comedy, and extremely long, impressively sustained action sequences; second only to the plane escapade is an assassination attempt at the Vienna Opera that honors its debt to The Man Who Knew Too Much. Christopher McQuarrie directed; with Rebecca Ferguson, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Ving Rhames, Alec Baldwin, and Sean Harris. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 131 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Navy Pier Imax, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON, 600 N. Michigan Number One Fan A French pop star whose girlfriend has died in a suspicious-looking accident calls on the woman who once stalked him to help dispose of the girlfriend’s body; needless to say, things don’t turn out well. This µ

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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence

B drily comic French thriller marks the feature debut of writer-director Jeanne Herry, whose deceptively calm surfaces and psychologically nuanced characterizations prove her a worthy student of Claude Chabrol. The title character is no kook or psychopath but a sympathetic loner prone to bad decisions, and Sandrine Kiberlain brings a tenderness and a nervous energy to the role. In French with subtitles.

—BEN SACHS Screens as part of the Chicago French Film Festival; for a full schedule see musicboxtheatre. com. Sat 8/1, 7 PM, and Mon 8/3, 9 PM. Music Box Paper Towns This ambitious teenpic begins in the vein of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, as a rebellious high school senior (Cara Delevingne) recruits the shy boy next door (Nat Wolff) to join her in a night of mischief around suburban Orlando.

Later she runs away from home and the film becomes a mystery, the boy tracking down clues to her destination. Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber adapted a young adult novel by John Green, and like their previous adaptations, The Spectacular Now and The Fault in Our Stars, this is sensitive and often winning in its depiction of adolescent behavior; the characters speak openly about their vulnerabilities, which makes them sympathetic.

Director Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank) sets a dreamy tone, shooting much of the action at night or in dim spaces to capture the allure of the unknown. —BEN SACHS PG-13, 109 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, Showplace ICON, River East 21 A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson delivers the final installment of his “trilogy about being human,” and after watching this 2014 black comedy, you may wish to be something else. Like Songs From the Second Floor (2000) and You, the Living (2007), it’s a loosely interconnected series of deadpan gags, staged

in static, minutely composed long shots whose pronounced vanishing points connote infinity, and death.

Inhabiting these fiercely beautiful frames are an assortment of fat, lumpish, deathly pale characters whose outsize misery threatens to collapse the movie’s rigid formalism; the key figures are a pair of traveling salesmen with a suitcase full of dopey novelty items, one of whom is sinking fast into a quagmire of despair. Are you laughing yet? In English and subtitled Swedish.

—J.R. JONES 101 min. Fri 7/31, 6 PM; Sat 8/1, 5:30 PM; Sun 8/2, 3 PM; Mon 8/3, 6 PM; Tue 8/4, 8:15 PM; Wed 8/5, 1 and 6 PM; and Thu 8/6, 8:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Stanford Prison Experiment The Abu Ghraib torture scandal brought new currency to the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment, a 1971 psychological study in which college students were assigned the roles of guards and prisoners for a two-week period and almost immediately went overboard.

This gripping indie drama sticks closely to the facts, restricting the action almost entirely to the campus hall basement where the experiment took place and consequently reproducing the sense of enclosure and immersion that prompted the students’ aggressive behavior. An important facet of the case was that the researchers themselves began to lose perspective as the experiment spun out of control, and Billy Crudup gives a fine performance as Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who engineered the whole thing and was then pulled into his own power trip. Kyle Patrick Alvarez directed; with Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Ezra Miller, and Olivia Thirlby. —J.R. JONES R, 122 min. Landmark’s Century Centre Vacation Rusty Griswold, the son in National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983), is all grown up now, and because fate is cruel, he’s turned into Ed Helms. This respectably funny sequel to the Harold Ramis comedy follows Rusty, his sunny

wife (Christina Applegate), and their two boys on a road trip from Chicago to southern California, where Rusty hopes to renew their family bonds by returning to the Walley World theme park of the original movie. Writer-directors John Francis Daley and Jonathan M. Goldstein spend much of the movie tipping their hats to Ramis (numerous gags revolve around the family’s ugly, dysfunctional rental car) and the rest of it addressing the touchstones of contemporary movie comedy (male sexual embarrassment, male professional embarrassment, male physical embarrassment, and poo). With Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, reprising their roles from the original cycle.

—J.R. JONES R, 99 min. Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings revivals The Lost World An interesting relic from 1925, translating to the silent screen a marvelous tale by Arthur Conan Doyle about four Englishmen who meet a horde of prehistoric monsters while on a trek up the Amazon. Harry Hoyt directed, combining incredible special effects (the monsters) and unbearable melodrama (the actors). This was Willis O’Brien’s first feature as a stop-motion animator, eight years before King Kong. —DON DRUKER 101 min.

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Special events Chicago French Film Festival A festival of notable contemporary French films, including Number One Fan (see review, above), and a mini-retrospective of work by Abdellatif Kechiche (Blue is the Warmest Color). For a full schedule see musicboxtheatre.com. Fri 7/31Thu 8/6, times vary. Music Box v

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CITY LIFE

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The house from The House on Mango Street IN THE COMING-OF-AGE CLASSIC The House on Mango Street, author Sandra Cisneros filled the book with aspects of her childhood in Humboldt Park—and that includes the titular house. The novel’s narrator, Esperanza Cordero, grows up on Mango Street in a small, red house with tight steps, crumbling brick, and a little yard; Cisneros grew up in a similar house at 1525 N. Campbell. “Alas, dear readers, that house was demolished years ago, and now in its place stands a new three-flat built when the neighborhood was experiencing some gentrification,” Cisneros wrote in a post on her website following the publication of the 25th anniversary edition of the 1984 novel.

The author was clearing up a misconception stemming from a Chicago History Museum post from 2009 that stated the house was located across the street at 1524 N. Campbell. CHM cited a Studs Terkel interview with Cisneros from 1991 as evidence—and physical similarities between the modest brick house currently standing at 1524 Campbell and the book’s description of Cordero’s house seemed to support the museum’s conclusion.

The question we have: Why didn’t Cisneros simply call her book The House on Campbell Street? In Cisneros’s interview with Terkel, the author says she didn’t want the title to remind people of the soup company; mangoes are much more delicious. —BRIANNA WELLEN “The House on Mango Street: Artists Interpret Community,” an exhibit inspired by Cisneros’s novel, is up through August 23 at the National Museum of Mexican Art, 1852 W. 19th, 312-738-1503, nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org.

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Garden variety WHEN MUSICIAN and gardener Ellen Bunch moved into her Irving Park house in 2010, the small backyard featured the typical urban flora: grass and weeds, mostly, along with a few beat-up rose bushes.

Five years later, the yard is thick with organic flowers, herbs, and vegetables—plus it’s a haven for bees, monarch butterflies, and the occasional squirrel feasting on the mulberry tree.

Bunch became a certified master gardener at the University of Illinois Extension before working at Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York. Now in Chicago, she teaches piano lessons year round and works in the summer as a garden planner where client visits include consulting, planting, weeding, staking, and management. “I have a few gardens that I take care of throughout the whole season,” she says. “Other people want to restructure their garden so it’s several sessions of moving things around and making things more natural or appealing.”

In her own backyard, Bunch has the freedom to improvise, expanding her garden each year as she tries new things. Her yard teems with tomatoes, dahlias, parsley, cilantro, chamomile, chard, sage, milkweed, mallow, borage, and echinacea (to name a few). She started most of the plants by seed to create a completely organic garden: “I didn’t know what

From top left: Ellen Bunch and her pug Che; borage, a bee magnet; Bunch’s organic garden ò ANDREA BAUER

was in the ground and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t putting in more contaminated plants—you never know if you get plants from Home Depot what they’ve been treated with.”

For those of us who lack a green thumb, Bunch says the secrets to a thriving garden are placement and watering. “If you have a [yard] that’s shaded by all tall buildings, you need to think about it kind of like a wood-

land—it would be considered undergrowth because you have these huge structures that are blocking out the sun. Think of it that way, and then go and see what kind of plants you might be able to work with.”

Bunch also writes a blog dedicated to all things botanic called More Organics. “I love to talk about plants. Anyone who has a question, find me!” she says. “I’ll give you an answer.” —ANDREA BAUER

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ã Three Floyd’s Mini Tap Takekover The Munster, Indiana, brewery takes over some taps at Jerry’s with beers that have names like Gorch Fock and Wigsplitter (respectively, a Helles lager and an oatmeal stout brewed with espresso).

7 PM, Jerry’s Andersonville, 5419 N. Clark, jerryssandwiches.com.

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Chicago This fund-raiser features performances by Lifestyles, Mystery Actions, Mr. Ma’am, and Daymaker. All proceeds benefit Girls Rock!, whose mission is unimpeachable: teaching young women to shred. 9 PM, Cole’s, 2338 N. Milwaukee, girlsrockchicago.org, $5.

× Fiesta del Sol This annual fund-raiser for the Pilsen Neighbors Community Council offers gobs of food options—Latin American and otherwise—plus live music, arts and crafts, carnival rides, and educational resources on the civil rights of immigrants.

Through 8/2: Sat 11 AM-11 PM, Sun 11 AM-10 PM, 1400 W. Cermak, fiestadelsol.org.

l Worn Out Pop-Up Sale Style blogger Shooka hosts a pop-up sale at the Brixton featuring new and used clothing from brands like Tobi and NastyGal, plus $6 mimosas, tarot readings, and music from local DJs. 3-8 PM, the Brixton, 5420 N. Clark, thewornout.com.

Lake Breeze Dinner Cruise Why eat dinner on dry land when you can take to the sea—er, lake? Mystic Blue Cruises is here to help with a buffet-style meal and music by local DJs. Ongoing, times vary, mysticbluecruises.com, $69.50.

M First Tuesdays With Mick and Ben The Reader’s Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke host the Sun-Times’s Lauren FitzPatrick, the Better Government Association’s Sarah Karp, and WBEZ’s Becky Vevea at their monthly roundtable on Chicago politics.

6:30 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, hideoutchicago. com, $5.

| Reading Under the Influence Featured guests at this outing of the monthly reading and trivia (and drinking) series are Laura Adamczyk, Luke Wilusz, Gregory E. Frohbieter, and Cyn Vargas. The theme is “Hot Stuff.” 7 PM, Sheffield’s, 3258 N. Sheffield, readingundertheinfluence.com, $3.

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State rep Barbara Flynn Currie had some choice words for Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago aldermen. BRIAN JACKSON

Chicago needs to get its financial house in order, Madigan ally tells the City Council

BY BEN JORAVSKY

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ith the city’s public schools facing massive budget deficits and cuts, house speaker Michael Madigan has apparently decided that it’s in Chicago’s best interest if Mayor Emanuel is more like me.

No, he’s not urging the mayor to drink wine, eat chicken, and stay up late watching old Richard Pryor comedies like I did last weekend. Instead, Madigan sent one of his key legislative allies to a recent City Council hearing to tell aldermen that if the city wants more money from Springfield, it will have to clean up its financial act, starting with TIFs. (Next thing you know the speaker will be calling for a financial transaction tax and bashing the mayor’s DePaul basketball arena/ Marriott hotel deal. I know, baby steps.)

Specifically, I’m referring to the testimony delivered by state rep Barbara Flynn Currie at a July 10 hearing of the council’s education committee—chaired by Fourth Ward alder-

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man Will Burns. A close Madigan ally who represents Hyde Park, Currie was there to discuss the ongoing financial crisis at the Chicago Public Schools.

On the table was Mayor Emanuel’s proposal to have the state pick up about $200 million of the annual payment CPS has to make to the teachers’ pension system.

In a nice way, Currie told the alderman it’s not going to happen—if it happens at all—unless the city changes its ways.

“I was passing on some of the responses I’ve heard from my legislative colleagues,” Currie told me.

One of her legislative colleagues was a little blunter, at least off the record: “Barbara’s testimony was Madigan’s way of telling the mayor, ‘Hey, Chicago, there will be no help from us if you don’t put some skin in the game.’”

Let’s start with the pensions. As Currie pointed out, it was only five years ago that Mayor Daley sent his top school aide—former

CPS CEO Ron Huberman—to Springfield to ask the General Assembly for a “holiday” on pension payments so CPS could get its financial act together.

The General Assembly gave CPS that holiday. But now things are worse. “Many believe that the three-year pension holiday we approved earlier this decade should have been a breather for CPS to figure out a more stable way to make payments,” Currie testified. “Instead pension liabilities ballooned after the three-year break.”

I have mixed feelings about this issue. As a property taxpayer in Chicago, I’d just as soon that someone else—and I don’t care who— pays the obligations Mayors Daley and Emanuel allowed to balloon so I don’t have to.

On the other hand, I know our local leaders can’t be trusted to prudently spend the money the state gives them. So chances are they’ll just take advantage of a greater state pickup to do something stupid, like funnel $20.5 million to a company that once employed former CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett to train principals. Just to give you one example I don’t think I’ll ever get over.

Instead of using the pension holiday to find money to pay the teacher pension obligations, Mayor Emanuel tried to muscle Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis into accepting pension cuts for retirees.

Think of it as akin to Napoleon losing his empire for having the audacity to invade Russia. Not that I’m comparing Rahm to Napoleon. Though both of them are short. (I know—cheap joke, Mr. Mayor.)

After talking about how Chicago messed up the pension holiday, Currie moved on to the tax increment financing program—one of my favorite subjects, right up there with Richard Pryor movies from the 70s.

Currie said, “Many wonder whether Chicago is in fact over-TIFed, with negative consequences for school budgets.”

Count me among the many!

“According to the Illinois Department of Revenue, TIFs cost CPS nearly $230 million in [fiscal year] ’13,” she added.

She did note that the mayor had given the schools $25 million from TIF reserves. But there’s still up to $1.7 billion left in those reserves. And TIFs continue to siphon off around $200 million a year from the schools.

So how can the mayor claim this crisis is an emergency that demands a state bailout if he’s diverting all that money from the schools to TIFs?

“BARBARA’S TESTIMONY WAS MADIGAN’S WAY OF TELLING THE MAYOR, ‘HEY, CHICAGO, THERE WILL BE NO HELP FROM US IF YOU DON’T PUT SOME SKIN IN THE GAME.’” —one of Currie’s legislative colleagues

Look at it from the state’s perspective. If the state gives CPS more money for its schools while the city just keeps diverting property taxes to TIFs, then in reality state educational aid is at best a break-even deal.

Currie also gently chided CPS for the various balloon borrowing deals it signed with lenders that have jacked up the cost of debt by hundreds of millions of dollars.

“Some question whether the city is taking aggressive enough action to forestall banks calling in $228 million in loans, given bond-rating downgrades,” Currie said.

Most definitely count me in as among that “some.”

For his part, Alderman Burns says he welcomes her testimony even though she criticized the city. “Barbara is giving a perspective from the House of our situation,” says Burns.

“And we have to take it seriously.”

Currie also advised the city to consider holding a referendum on raising property taxes to fund the schools.

Would voters approve a tax hike, even for schools? It’s hard to say.

On the one hand, I speak from experience when I say no one likes paying taxes. On the other hand, Mayor Emanuel did convince 55 percent of the electorate to reelect him.

Currie closed her testimony by urging everyone to see Trainwreck.

Not really. I can’t imagine Representative Currie advocating a movie as raunchy as Amy Schumer’s sex comedy, as funny as it is.

But that’s my recommendation. Anything to divert our attention from the mess our mayors keep making of our public schools. v

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LIT The three-flat at 159 W. Burton Place and its art moderne neighbor ! LOGAN JAVAGE

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here’s a classic Chicago question looming over a precious block in Old Town these days: Which will come first, the city landmark status, or the demolition permit?

It’s an urban development High Noon, with preservationists on one side, a real estate investor on the other, and a big clock ticking.

West Burton Place is an odd little street between LaSalle and Wells, just south of North Avenue. Stumble onto it and you’re in for a surprise—it’s as if you’d turned a corner and stepped into a slightly weirder world.

On the southeast side of the block the neighborhood’s stately Victorian mansions are for the most part overtaken by an eruption of art deco and art moderne architectural fantasy.

The first things you’re likely to notice are the moderne bookends: at the corner of LaSalle the Theophil Studios, with stacked rectangular and large round windows, and at the alley midblock its equally geometric sibling, attributed to architect Andrew Rebori. Between them, among a few other structures, is the sprawling Carl Street Studios, a warren of artists’ work/live spaces built in the late 1920s and early ’30s (when the block was called Carl

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Street) by artist and developer Sol Kagan and his partner, the versatile art deco artist and craftsman Edgar Miller.

What you see of the Carl Street Studios from the street is a quirky brick wall behind which is a maze of tile-studded sidewalks, carved wooden doors and staircases, stained glass windows, narrow passages, and a pair of courtyard gardens with koi ponds. Starting in 1927, Kagan and Miller, who met at the School of the Art Institute a decade earlier, turned a single rundown mansion into 17 one-of-a-kind artists’ apartments loosely modeled on the Montmarte studios Kagan had admired during a sojourn in Paris. The project attracted many other artists, including Jesus Torres and John W. Norton, and became a hub for the larger arts community that eventually made Old Town famous.

The Carl Street Studios and the homes that flourished around it are essentially unchanged since 1940. The block still attracts artists and art lovers—“self-selecting preservationists,” as one of them put it. Residents didn’t pay much attention when the building at 159 W. Burton Place sold quickly last spring, and they were taken by surprise earlier this month when

they received notice that a developer was preparing to demolish it. One of the few remaining Victorians on that part of the block, the threeflat on a double lot stands directly west of the Carl Street Studios and bumps right up against its art moderne neighbor on the other side.

That got the residents’ attention. They don’t want to lose a structure that tells the story of how the block was transformed, and they say the modern condo building planned for the site would be jarringly out of place there. They’re also seriously concerned about vibration and other potential damage from the demolition.

West Burton Place is on the National Register of Historic Places, but unlike a city landmark designation, that won’t protect it from demolition. Amy Keller, executive vice president of the Chicago Art Deco Society and a Carl Street Studios resident, says that “neighbors are rapidly assembling the necessary documentation” to seek city landmark status for the block.

The developer is Sebastian Barsh, of Castlerock Properties, who paid $1.3 million for the property. He’s been meeting with the neighbors, but declined to comment. At press time, the demolition permit had not yet been granted.

Keith Stolte, an officer on the Carl Street Studios condominium board, says that residents want the developer to “at least keep the front and side facades” of the building. The neighbors have a website, sos-saveourstory. org, an online petition, and the support of both Preservation Chicago and Landmarks Illinois for their endeavor.

They’re hoping to be on the agenda when the Commission on Chicago Landmarks meets next, on August 6. If the commission makes a preliminary recommendation in their favor before the city building department grants the developer’s demolition permit, the redbrick Victorian at 159, like every structure that helps tell the West Burton Place story will be protected—at least for now.

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Dragonfish revisits the ghosts of Vietnam THE ASIAN AROWANA, or dragonfish, the creature that gives its title to U. of C. prof Vu Tran’s first novel, looks like a golden Chinese dragon and is supposed to bring good luck. But the book itself more closely resembles a hermit crab: a literary novel that borrows the snail shell of noir to give itself a form and structure. The soft underbelly is the story of Hong Thi Pham, a woman who, with her daughter, flees Vietnam by boat after the fall of Saigon and lands in a ghostfilled Malaysian internment camp. The hard shell is what happens more than 20 years later when she flees her violent gangster husband—who has a small sideline in the underground dragonfish trade—with a suitcase full of cash.

The two stories are held together by a red leather diary, written in Vietnamese, that falls into the possession of the book’s narrator, Robert Ruen, an American who was married to Hong for eight years and understood her so little he insisted upon calling her Suzy, a name he borrowed from his first girlfriend. Ruen’s also a cop, which gives him access to a gun and a badge, two of the essential props of noir fiction. Ruen’s cluelessness serves the story well, but the reveals and plot twists aren’t sharp enough to make you want to grab on to the book for dear life and keep reading late into the night. It’s Hong’s story that makes Dragonfish worth reading—that and the moody Vegas setting, punctuated, in fine noir style, with lots of luxurient cigarette smoke. —AIMEE LEVITT - Dragonfish by Vu Tran (Norton), book launch Mon 8/3, 6 PM, Open Books, 651 W. Lake, 312-4751355, open-books.org.

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By TONY ADLER Stein herself wrote marvelously about their relationship, and Galati has done an elegant curatorial job of excerpting and adapting her marvels for the stage, while Flaherty has brought out their mischievous joy in a score that ranges from ragtime pastiche to more contemporary styles that seem sometimes to allude to Jonathan Larson’s Rent. We get the sweet eroticism of “Lifting Belly” (“Kiss my lips. She did. / Kiss my lips again she did. / Kiss my lips over and over and over again she did. / I have feathers. / Gentle fishes. . . . Lifting belly is so strange”), the domesticity and devotion of “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene” (“They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay”), and on and lyrically on.

Still, there’s a risk in using an artist’s art to tell her story, which is that you’ll end up subsuming the art in the story. The risk is especially great when it comes to Stein, inasmuch as her writing is so defiantly, so notoriously impenetrable: we may seize on the clean, clear conventions of romance as a welcome relief from avant-garde rigor. She’s not so hard to understand, we may tell ourselves. Just a woman in love.

Well, yes and no. Stein was obviously mining her private passions when she penned “Lifting Belly” and gave us the significantly initialed Georgine Skeene. But saying that those efforts amount to diary entries is like saying that Ulysses is a book about a day in the life of J

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A genius. A genius. Although generally (and rather condescendingly) remembered for investing in modernist art, she in fact helped invent the thing—doing as much as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, or spare-voiced Ernest Hemingway to subvert the sacred conventions of English prosody. In the manner of Matisse and Cezanne, Stein flattened out the literary canvas to draw our attention to its raw constituent elements: words, sounds, rhythms.

In the manner of Picasso and the cubists, she disrupted the flow of familiar narratives to render them rare and strange again.

Frank Galati and Stephen Flaherty clearly understood all that when they created their 2006 chamber musical about Stein, Loving Repeating, running now in an amiably bad revival from Kokandy Productions. The piece opens with the great lady standing behind a lectern at the University of Chicago in 1934, delivering a characteristically playful speech on the underpinnings of her oeuvre. Galati’s script quotes from Stein’s own discussions of her revolutionary intentions.

But those intentions aren’t the point of Loving Repeating. Its real subject is Stein’s love life—which was, for its way and time (hell, for our way and time considering all the fuss over same-sex marriage), every bit as subversive as her writing. Stein met Alice B. Toklas on September 8, 1907, and the two women remained together—wife and husband, husband and wife—until Stein’s death nearly 39 years later.

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a Dublin Jew. As Stein told her audience at the U. of C. when someone asked her about the rose-is-a-rose-is-a-rose line, “Can’t you see that when the language was new . . . the poet could use the name of a thing and the thing was really there? . . . And can’t you see that after hundreds of years had gone by and thousands of poems had been written, he could call on those words and find that they were just worn-out literary words? . . . I’m no fool. I know that in daily life we don’t go around saying ‘is a, is a, is a.’ . . . But I think that in that line the rose is red for the first time in English poetry for a hundred years.”

Despite its good and progressive and entertaining intentions, Loving Repeating by its very nature threatens to drain the red back out of Stein’s rose.

And the Kokandy show proves it. If Galati and Flaherty set a sentimental trap, this 75-minute staging by Allison Hendrix falls in up to its neck. Everything is romanticized, not to say cute-ified, into a latte froth. Pseudo-Shakespearean hand gestures make Andrea Louise Soule’s dances look as if they were cribbed from the ballroom scene in Franco Zefferelli’s Romeo and Juliet.

Willowy and tall, with a beauty reminiscent of Elizabeth McGovern, Amanda Giles is absurdly miscast as the stubby, plain young Stein—and then compounds the difficulty by playing her famously pugnacious character with a McGovern-like reserve. Emily Goldberg’s Alice is similarly confounding.

Worst of all, though, are Hendrix’s strenuous attempts to infuse set pieces with dramatic content, resulting—ironically enough—in emotional gibberish.

The prime example is her treatment of “Miss Furr and Miss Skeene,” which is played out with loads of grimaces apparently meant to convey some kind of conflict between the title characters.

(Miss Furr seems especially troubled.)

What exactly that conflict is, the grimaces never say. All in all, Stein’s version makes more sense. - Loving Repeating Through 8/30: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, kokandyproductions.com, $38.

HEAT RISES IN shimmering waves off the barren white plains. A thin crust of translucent salt coats the racetrack surface where motorcyclists gather to compete at the Bonneville Salt Flats. A young woman, her face turned toward the sun, poses against a waxed-down 250cc motorcycle. “I was out there racing, and just happened to look good in a bikini,” Frances Stark laughs. “I was really a weirdo, not some hottie.” The 1988 photograph, titled Total Performance, was her ticket into art school.

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Never one to hold back, Stark exhibits online sex chats she had with strangers while wasting time in her studio. Osservate, leggete con me (2012) displays the racy exchange from a cybererotic tryst.

The cursive white text from nine different sexual encounters is projected in a dark room with an L-shaped sofa for the viewer to recline on. “U want see my cock? Not very big, but very hard” is comically set to a score of strings, woodwinds, horns, trumpets, and trombones from Mozart’s Don Giovanni that resounds throughout the gallery. As the online conversations digress into politics, philosophy, and art, the banal and sublime are woven together.

The 21-year-old girl in the neon-green bikini beat the record that summer in ’88.

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arlier in July, I spotted two-time Bachelorette finalist Nick Viall skulking around the VIP section at Pitchfork Music Festival. I stomped up to him, plucked a pen from behind my ear, and began jotting down detailed notes about his demeanor and body language as I peppered him with questions about the reality show franchise’s inner workings. Just kidding. I stomped up to him, asked if he’d pose for a picture with me, and told him that our meeting was the “best thing that ever happened to me.” Imagine what I’d do if I met a pseudocelebrity I didn’t think was a weepy wuss. Maybe if I’d known then what I know after this week’s season finale, I would’ve made a more honest effort to ask him something (anything). Like, how does it feel to be a reality show’s sacrificial lamb?

This season of The Bachelorette—the program’s 11th—got off to a gruesome start.

Granted, the show is always trash (trash we all love rolling around in like dogs picking up foul odors), but it reached a new low by pitting Kaitlyn Bristowe and Britt Nilsson against each other and allowing the stable of male contestants to decide which woman was more desirable. If The Bachelorette was created to offset The Bachelor’s tradition of subjection and humiliation, then the horned, pitchfork-toting creatures who make this show really blew it when they came up with that move. (And, for the record, I don’t believe for a second that Kaitlyn’s victory over Britt wasn’t planned in advance; Britt has looks and a personality type that make other women raise their hackles and growl.)

And that wasn’t the only instance of the producers fucking with the formula to enter-

tainment’s detriment. The rose ceremony, which typically takes place at the end of episodes, was moved somewhere near the middle. Without this logical closing, the episodes would meander until Chris Harrison shouted “Next time on The Bachelorette . . . ,” at which point we’d remember we were supposed to be watching a TV show and not checking work e-mail or scrolling through Facebook. And was the travel budget cut dramatically? Or were one or more finalists placed on some kind of terrorist no-fly list? These assholes barely went anywhere. If Ireland’s tourism traffic drops off for the next several months, it’s because we’re all sick of looking at the place. But the most egregious offense by far was eliminating hometown visits. Rather than sending Kaitlyn to meet the finalists’ families in their homes, the show arranged for everyone to engage in stilted chitchat at some sterile resort in Utah that looked vaguely like a retirement community. Families tend to act more bizarre in the comfort of their own environments.

Why erase that possibility?

This season wasn’t a total bust. We got to meet Tony, who is ridiculous and got away with never explaining why he had a black eye.

And, of course, Nick lost. For a second time. He was was smug and self-assured, and no display of confidence goes unpunished on this show.

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rnest Hemingway once said that writers selling the screen rights to their work should arrange something like a ransom payment at the California state line: “You throw them your book, they throw you the money, then you jump into your car and drive like hell back the way you came.”

Actually Hemingway may never have said that. Those words were chosen by British critic David Lodge, who identified them as “a saying attributed to Ernest Hemingway,” in his 1974 review of a book by Gene D. Phillips of Loyola University. Six years later Phillips included the quotation in his book Hemingway and Film, sloppily giving the impression that these were Hemingway’s own words. When the quotation turns up online now, presented as indisputable fact, it’s sometimes broken into two sentences to make it sound more Hemingwayesque.

The quote is a damn good one, fully reflective of how Hemingway felt, and if he were still around, he’d probably claim it whether he’d said it or not. But this literary game of telephone shows how easily an author’s

admirers can wind up putting words in his mouth. Earlier this month the Criterion Collection rereleased a DVD set on Blu-Ray that includes three screen adaptations of Hemingway’s classic short story “The Killers.” The set is titled Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers, yet Hemingway had nothing to do with any of the films, and in some cases they’re most notable for how freely the screenwriters elaborated on his source material.

Published in 1927, “The Killers” became a template for the hard-boiled crime pictures of the sound era, with their clipped, confrontational dialogue. Two thugs walk into a small-town lunchroom and hold hostage the counterman, the cook, and the lone customer, Nick Adams (a stand-in for Hemingway in numerous stories).

They’re looking to bump off one of the regulars, a boxer, but when he fails to materialize, the two men depart. As soon as they’re gone, Nick races over to the rooming house where the boxer lives, hoping to warn him, but the boxer lies in bed with his face to the wall, resigned to his fate.

“There ain’t anything to do,” he tells Nick. “After a while I’ll make up my mind to go out.”

“The Killers” embodies an idea much noted in Hemingway’s fiction, that a real man is one who can stare down his own death with honor and dignity; anyone who can’t is going to spend his entire time on earth either living in fear or living in denial. Nick can’t persuade the boxer to run, so he returns to the lunchroom and tells the counterman what happened. “I can’t stand to think about him waiting in the room and knowing he’s going to get it,” says Nick. “It’s too damned awful.” The counterman replies with one of the greatest closing lines in all of American fiction: “Well, you’d better not think about it.”

Hemingway was habitually disgusted with how Hollywood distorted his thematic intentions, yet he was a vocal fan of Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (1946). “It is a good picture and the only good picture ever made of a story of mine,” he wrote in 1959. According to Gene Phillips, who corresponded with the author’s widow, Hemingway received a print of the film from Universal Studios and liked to screen it for his houseguests, “although he invariably fell asleep after the first reel—the

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Anthony Veiller was the credited screenwriter, but the real author of The Killers was John Huston (High Sierra, The Maltese Falcon), who was under contract to another studio. Huston compressed the action of the Hemingway story to about 12 minutes and used it as the jumping-off point for a mystery in which an insurance investigator (Edmund O’Brien) looks into the boxer’s murder and can’t rest until he uncovers the motive for the crime. As Huston imagines it, the boxer (Burt Lancaster in his screen debut) has gotten mixed up in a robbery to please the woman of his dreams (Ava Gardner) and wound up taking the blame when she and her lover absconded with the loot. Siodmak, a master of light and shadow, turned The Killers into a landmark film noir, and the invented backstory, told in flashback, was tough and fatalistic enough to satisfy Hemingway.

The very idea of building out the story, however, was inimical to Hemingway’s concept of fiction. He likened a story or novel to the tip of an iceberg, and “The Killers” was a particularly striking example of this. “That story probably had more left out of it than anything I ever wrote,” he once revealed.

His model for the boxer was Chicagoan Andre Anderson, who was shot to death in a Cicero nightclub in April 1926, supposedly for refusing to throw a fight. Including all this would have distracted mightily from the metaphysical tale Hemingway had in mind, and from Nick Adams, the protagonist. In “The Killers,” the boxer’s only explanation for why he’s being hunted is “I got in wrong.” The counterman later speculates that the boxer “double-crossed somebody. That’s what they kill them for.” But leaving this to the imagination allows a lot more room for you or me to get into the same jam.

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His instructions for screenwriter Gene Coon (later a key contributor on the original Star Trek) was to revise the story Huston had invented, turn the boxer into a race-car driver (John Cassavetes), and have the mystery be unraveled not by an insurance investigator but by one of the hit men (Lee Marvin), who wants to learn why his victim refused to run when he had a chance. Like the 1946 version, the new one would identify itself onscreen as Ernest Hemingway’s The Killers.

Siodmak may have been a master of light and shadow, but Siegel was a master of the smash cut, an editing technique in which one scene jumps violently to the next for dramatic effect. He spent 25 days editing his film, which moves like a bat out of hell, though in contrast to the 1946 version it was shot in color and, consistent with TV production values, so overlit it looks like an episode of Batman. Marvin contributes his usual steely performance, Angie Dickinson is the woman playing the race-car driver for a chump, and Ronald Reagan, in his last screen role, plays her lover, the crime boss behind the robbery.

The end result was deemed too violent for television and ultimately released to theaters in 1964—in one scene the hit men pay a visit to the femme fatale, punch her in the face, and hang her out a seventh-story window.

Marvin’s character is the true protagonist here, but what kind of Hemingway hero would beat on a woman?

To counterbalance all this wild invention, the Criterion set also includes an audio recording of Stacy Keach reading the original story and, even more important, a 21-minute student film of “The Killers” made in 1956 by Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky and two classmates at the State Institute of Cinematography in Moscow. A master of elongated time, Tarkovsky knew how to magnify a moment and elevate simple action to the level of profundity, valuable skills for a movie about time running out. He and his collaborators stage nearly the entire story without sacrificing any of its inherent tension; best of all, Tarkovsky (who directed the lunchcounter scenes) finds time for Nick’s final conversation with the counterman, which was dropped in both American versions. Of the three adaptations, Tarkovsky’s is the only one that doesn’t include Hemingway in the onscreen title, but no such clarification is needed, because the story still belongs to him. v

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The Reader kept the on-the-ground realities of Lollapalooza in mind while plotting our coverage. We’ve assembled an itinerary of 30 acts approved by our writers, which despite its occasional gap or overlap ought to get you through all three days and leave you enough time to see a substantial portion of each recommended set.

Schedule conflicts forced us to make tough choices and leave out some fantastic groups: UK electro-soul outfit Hot Chip and ratchet king DJ Mustard play at the exact same time (we went with Lolla newbie Mustard), and

indie titans TV on the Radio share a time slot with R&B chanteuse FKA Twigs (we picked Twigs). We also decided to recommend two of Friday’s headliners, because you can catch more than half of Paul McCartney’s set and still see pretty much all of Flying Lotus.

Lollapalooza has the nitty-gritty details— what you can bring to the park and what you can’t, where to find the two main gates—on its website. Regardless of the flavor of pass you’ve bought, you can reenter the park three times per day (after your initial arrival). Keep that in mind if you lose your nerve and decide to change out of your banana hammock—once you’ve already skipped out a few times, you might want to wait till the next day to slip into something more comfortable. —LEOR GALIL

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A perfect moment to talk about alcohol.

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Theft Auto V; and Paul McCartney, who wrote most of the songs he’ll play tonight between 1962 and 1982. Now 73 years old, he routinely plays for longer than the 135 minutes allocated to him at Lollapalooza, delivering more than 30 hits from the Beatles, Wings, and solo McCartney songbooks. YouTube evidence suggests that time has been kind to McCartney—he can still hit many of the high notes, and his hair and waistline haven’t changed all that much in a half century.

Most important, his knack for crowd-pleasing showmanship remains intact. —BILL MEYER

BADBADNOTGOOD 2:50-3:30 PM Pepsi Stage The young hip-hop nuts in jazz trio BadBadNotGood have embraced both sides of their identity. Last year they released their first album composed entirely of original material, the controlled energy wave III (Innovative Leisure), and immediately followed it with Sour Soul (Lex), a rap-first collaboration with Ghostface Killah. The band’s improvisations are just as inspired as their MC-friendly covers: drummer Alex Sowinski rarely repeats a measure, while keyboardist Matthew Tavares and bassist Chester Hansen know when to go all in and when to dial it back. Onstage, though, they always seem mere seconds from eruption. Also Thu 7/30 at Subterranean, sold out, 17+, and Fri 7/31 at Concord Music Hall with headliner Tyler, the Creator, $30, 18+. —TYLER DASWICK FATHER JOHN MISTY 3:30-4:30 PM Palladia Stage The first time I heard “Nothing Good Ever Happens at the Goddamn Thirsty Crow,” one of the strongest tracks on Father John Misty’s great new album, I Love You, Honeybear (Sub Pop), I was taken aback. This was mostly because my own experience at the Thirsty Crow—an unassuming Los Angeles cocktail bar on a weirdly sparse stretch of Sunset Boulevard that connects the Echo Park and Silver Lake neighborhoods—was downright wonderful. But I was also surprised by his ability to color my perspective with his own. Such is the power of Father John Misty, whose singular folk-rock is alternately brusque and welcoming, cynical and jovial: it’s the perfect mood music for the times you can’t decide which mood you’re in. —DREW HUNT

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DJ MUSTARD 4:30-5:30 PM Perry’s Stage The libidinous pulse of ratchet ruled last summer, and LA producer DJ Mustard was its primary architect and undisputed king.

He worked on most of YG’s 2014 debut, My Krazy Life, and during that season, six singles he’d had a hand in hit the Billboard Hot 100. Mustard’s first album under his own name, last year’s star-studded 10 Summers (Roc Nation/Republic), includes appearances from 2 Chainz, Rick Ross, and Wiz Khalifa; Mustard had also gotten big enough to enlist Big Sean to nearly ruin a perfectly good track (“Face Down”). Lean, mean, and deceptively funky, 10 Summers begs to be played loud enough to burn down your speakers. I haven’t had much time with its follow-up, the brand-new 10 Summers: The Mixtape Vol. 1, but what I’ve heard carries on the spirit of the album.—LEOR GALIL ALABAMA SHAKES 5:45-6:45 PM Samsung Galaxy Stage On their strong second album, this spring’s Sound & Color (ATO), Alabama Shakes play music rooted in soul that has little to do with any sort of old-school soul revival. Singer Brittany Howard and company certainly make use of the classic vocabulary that evolved in the Memphis studios of Stax and Hi Records, but they’ve broadened their stylistic range, conveying jackhammer fury on “The Great-

est” and riding a primitive beat-box groove on the gorgeously subdued “Guess Who.” No matter the genre trappings, every song revolves around Howard, who sounds better than ever—she unleashes a spine-tingling cry at the start of “Don’t Wanna Fight” but then sounds utterly vulnerable on the acoustic ballad “This Feeling.” —PETER MARGASAK YOUNG THUG 6:50-7:30 PM BMI Stage Over the past couple years, oddball Atlanta rapper Young Thug has become hip-hop royalty in his hometown, which remains a center of gravity for the national scene. He’s done it in part by playing with the English language like blocks of Jell-O. He performs as though he’s surprised by his own ability to reshape words and vowels, and his songs are adventures in finding new ways to turn up. The instrumentals on April’s Barter 6 (300/Atlantic) are minimal, but Young Thug’s Technicolor flow more than fills their empty spaces; I’m not always sure what he’s saying, but I love how he says it. —LEOR GALIL PAUL MCCARTNEY 7:45-10:00 PM Samsung Galaxy Stage Lollapalooza’s choice of headliners on Friday night feels like a choice between centuries. There’s digitally augmented crooner the Weeknd; experimental producer Flying Lotus, who has his own radio station in Grand

FLYING LOTUS 9-10 PM Pepsi Stage On last year’s You’re Dead! (Warp), a dense meditation on death and what might come after it, Los Angeles producer Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) brought together disparate musical threads from his hometown.

The album helped announce the arrival of young jazz saxophonist Kamasi Washington, celebrated the fluid backbone of bassist Thundercat, and showcased contributions from three generations of stars who call LA home—Herbie Hancock, Snoop Dogg, and Kendrick Lamar. The sounds are just as multifaceted as the guest list, with hip-hop, funk, spiritual jazz, and psychedelia coming together in a richly hypnotic weave of melody, ambience, and groove. Also Fri 7/31 at Spybar (DJ set), $20, 21+. —PETER MARGASAK

SATURDAY 1 MICK JENKINS 11:45 AM-12:30 PM Palladia Stage Chicago’s been spoiled by great local rap releases lately, but few have been as potent or powerful as Mick Jenkins’s 2014 mixtape, The Water[s] (Cinematic Music Group). The 24-year-old combines resplendent soulinfluenced instrumentals with painful stories about black kids catching stray bullets; his personable, relaxed flow makes his complex rhymes about street violence and racism easy to absorb. Two pop-centric singles from Jenkins’s forthcoming Wave[s] EP, “P’s and Q’s” and “Alchemy,” sweeten his intellectually stimulating lyrics and dense wordplay with sparkling production. Also Sat 8/1 at Reggie’s Rock Club, $20, $17 in advance, 18+. —LEOR GALIL

HOLYCHILD 1-1:45 PM Bud Light Stage This Los Angeles duo want you to know they’re clever. They’re trying to popularize a subgenre they call “brat pop”—apparently a mishmash of Sleigh Bells’ hard rhythms J

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LOLLAPALOOZA (Grand Hustle/Epic) will push him into a spotlight of his own. Also Sat 8/1 at First Ward with Logan and Saba, $50-$75, 17+. —J.R. NELSON STURGILL SIMPSON 2:45-3:45 PM Bud Light Stage On Sturgill Simpson’s second album, last year’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (High Top Mountain), the Americana singer is clearly in thrall to the 70s output of Waylon Jennings and Merle Haggard, where the electric guitars seem to have flange effects built in. But it’s more than his sound that connects Simpson to the 70s. I can’t think of anyone else in the genre today who’d drop in Buddhist references the way he does on “Just Let Go,” a cosmic ode to the extinction of the self: “Gonna break through and blast off to the bardo,” he sings. If those spiritual leanings are the yin of Simpson’s music, then his self-destructive streak is the yang; in “Life of Sin” he’s unapologetic about the drugs and booze he pours into his body, explaining, “The level of my medicating some might find intimidating / But that’s all right ’cause it don’t bother me none.” Also Fri 7/31 at Metro, sold out, 18+. —PETER MARGASAK

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continued from 29 and Passion Pit’s quirky pop hooks, topped with multicolored sprinkles—and the name of their debut-full-length, The Shape of Brat Pop to Come (Glassnote), is a tongue-in-cheek nod to Refused’s 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come (itself a not-so-tongue-in-cheek nod to Ornette Coleman’s 1959 masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come). But it’s worth getting past that posturing and actually listening to the music: “Running Behind,” with its drum-line snare providing a thoroughfare for a thump-thump beat and the playful, confident rallying-cry flow of vocalist Liz Nistico, is so hot-damn catchy you’re all but guaranteed to find yourself bobbing your head.

Also Fri 7/31 at Lincoln Hall with headliner Charli XCX, sold out, 18+. —KEVIN WARWICK RYN WEAVER 1:30-2:15 PM Sprint Stage Twenty-two-year-old Ryn Weaver is still new to the music business. After the success of her online single “Octahate” last summer, she released it again on her debut album, The Fool (Mad Love/Interscope), which came out last month. The song attracted socialmedia attention from big names such as Hayley Williams and Jessie Ware, as well as comparisons to the likes of Charli XCX (with whom she collaborated on “Octahate”) and Lorde. Though little on the album makes as immediate an impression as that single, Weaver’s vibrant storytelling provides

a thread that ties it together. She certainly owes some of her success to high-powered producer friends (Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit, Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat), but her spunky energy and trilling vocals would make her synth-pop infectious no matter who else had a hand in it. Also Fri 7/31 at Schubas, $20, 18+. —CASSIDY RYAN TRAVIS SCOTT 2:15-3 PM Perry’s Stage Houston MC, producer, and fashion plate Travis Scott has been signed to Kanye West’s label (racking up a few collabs with and cosigns from the dude himself), and both men favor a baroque, avant-leaning production style and extensive use of digital vocal manipulation—in part because Scott, like his erstwhile mentor, has only halfway decent rapping and singing skills. It sometimes seems like Scott has gotten lost in Kanye’s considerable shadow—and though that’s probably not a terrible place for a 23-year-old to post up momentarily, he should ask Big Sean if it’s worth lingering for more than a hype cycle or two. Scott’s uncanny production skills occasionally reach the master’s heights, as on 2014’s “Mamacita,” a stomping banger with assists from Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug—but the recent “3500,” with Future and 2 Chainz, is only lukewarm (it’s supposedly about the fur coat proud parents Kimye bought for baby North). With any luck the other tracks on the forthcoming Rodeo

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 4-5 PM Samsung Galaxy Stage Toronto bass-and-drums duo Death From Above 1979 formed during the early-aughts disco-punk explosion, putting their own spin on the sassy genre by blasting it through a wall of huge, noisy amps. Their weird fusion of earth-rattling heavy-metal bass and high-strung pop propelled them to massive success, but in 2006, two years after their debut LP, You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine, they split up. The band reunited in 2011, and last year they finally dropped a second album, The Physical World (Last

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Gang), which operates from the same blueprint they drafted more than a decade ago.

DFA1979’s dance-floor-ready beats, crushing bass lines, and off-kilter pop sensibilities sound as fresh as they did when the band first blew up. Also Fri 7/31 at Bottom Lounge, sold out, 17+. —LUCA CIMARUSTI

THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH 4:45-5:45 PM Bud Light Stage Among the hordes of solo dudes with acoustic guitars and crackly, Dylanesque croons, the Tallest Man on Earth (aka Kristian Matsson) stands out for the much darker shades he uses to paint his yarns. His newest album, this spring’s Dark Bird Is Home (Dead Oceans), undergirds its whirling, driving acoustic lines with strings, ambient electronics, sputtering noise, and an implicit understanding of the bleakness of the world. But that doesn’t mean Matsson can’t strum his Guild guitar right into a campfire circle: though the lyrics to “Darkness of the Dream” are typically sullen, its chorus includes a gospel-like vocal melody that falls in with the triumphant thrum of the song. —KEVIN WARWICK TAME IMPALA 6-7 PM Samsung Galaxy Stage I can’t be the only one curious about how Tame Impala—the solo project of Kevin Parker in the studio—will use its touring lineup to translate its music onstage. The Australian act’s new album, Currents (Interscope), abandons the guitar-driven psych-pop of its two predecessors in favor of something calculatedly artificial. Though the mix includes plenty of real instruments—notably Parker’s nimble bass, which often adds some grit—the sound field is dominated by electric keyboards and dry, almost airless production. It’s as if Bread front man David Gates decided to ditch soft rock and sing with 10cc for a session of insular hot-tub funk. —PETER MARGASAK

BRAND NEW 7-8 PM Sprint Stage If you have even a passing interest in the latest swell of emo music, you should thank this Long Island four-piece for sowing its seeds.

Despite a thin discography and a sporadic touring schedule, Brand New are among the most influential indie-rock bands of the past 15 years or so. They’ve been pretty quiet since their latest and greatest album, 2009’s blistering Daisy, but things appear to be picking up: this spring’s “Mene,” the band’s first new music in six years (and presumably a single from their yet-to-be announced fifth LP), is a loud, nihilistic punk jam led by Jesse Lacey’s throaty vocals. Over raging guiJ

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LOLLAPALOOZA continued from 31 tars and pounding drums, he insists, “We don’t feel anything”—but Brand New fans will surely have all the feels. Also Fri 7/31 at House of Blues, sold out, 17+. —DREW HUNT METALLICA 8-10 PM Samsung Galaxy Stage The guys in Metallica are some of the biggest assholes in the world, but I always end up giving them a pass. No matter how many bears James Hetfield hunts, how many free download services Lars Ulrich denounces, how many innocent bassists the band hazes, or how many annoying, self-indulgent documentaries they make about themselves, one thing will always remain true: Metallica are responsible for four of the greatest, most perfect heavy-metal albums ever made. These guys have cranked out a quarter-century of crap since the last of those albums, 1988’s . . . And Justice for All, and it’d be easier to enjoy the music if Ulrich were forbidden from speaking in public, but Metallica’s live shows still rely heavily on the 80s classics—and for the most part, the band’s got those dialed in tight and loud. Sure, the members of Metallica totally suck, but this set will not. —LUCA CIMARUSTI

SUNDAY 2 IN THE WHALE 12-12:30 PM Pepsi Stage The Black Keys’ rise to ubiquity in mainstream rock is still kind of surprising, but their subsequent influence isn’t. The notion that all you need to start a band is an old guitar and a rickety drum kit is no doubt inspiring—and minus the “old” and “rickety,” that’s what renegade Denver two-piece In the Whale use to play their reckless, metal-tinged bluesrock. The band describe themselves as “the Kenny Powers of music,” and there’s no mistaking their intentions. Their songs are loud, brash, and messy, best paired with a set of earplugs and the cheapest beer you can find.

Also Sat 8/1 at Thalia Hall with headliner Gogol Bordello, sold out, 17+. —DREW HUNT ZEBRA KATZ 1:10-1:50 PM BMI Stage The frighteningly fabulous world of rapper Zebra Katz, inspired by Japanese horror movies, creepy high fashion, and bad psychedelic drug trips, blossomed from the mind of his alter ego, queer New York performance artist Ojay Morgan. After Rick Owens chose Katz’s menacing and minimal ballroom track “Ima Read” to score his Paris Fashion Week show in 2012, the record blew up around the

world, eventually generating remixes by artists such as Tricky, Azealia Banks, Grimes, and Busta Rhymes. Katz has dropped two intoxicating mixtapes, Champagne (2012) and DRKLNG (2013), and he’s now releasing a six-part series of dark films to promote his latest EP, a haunting, clattering collaboration with London-based producer Leila called Nu Renegade. Also Thu 7/30 at Berlin, $15, $12 in advance, 21+. —EMILY ORNBERG SHAKEY GRAVES 1:45-2:45 PM Palladia Stage Before settling in Austin, Texas, Alejandro Rose-Garcia tried out open mikes in New York and frequented the folk scene in Los Angeles—and those travels helped influence the distinctive, organic voice of his stage persona, Shakey Graves. After trying his hand at an acting career (he had small roles in Spy Kids 3-D and Friday Night Lights, among other productions), Rose-Garcia ventured into music, eventually adopting the rustic, foot-stomping rock ’n’ roll of his latest album, last year’s And the War Came (Dualtone). Rose-Garcia is a natural performer, and shouldn’t have any trouble translating the record’s energy for a Lollapalooza crowd—he might be a one-man band, but he can make enough music to fill a stage. Also Sat 8/1 at Park West with headliners Angus & Julia Stone, sold out, 18+. —CASSIDY RYAN SKYLAR SPENCE 2:50-3:30 PM Pepsi Stage A few years ago—about the same time the vaporwave scene he belonged to started publicly disbanding—Long Island producer Ryan DeRobertis began transmogrifying chintzy 80s sounds into R&B slow jams under the name Saint Pepsi. On those early recordings he displayed a thoughtful understanding of what makes pop music tick, and he’s retained that understanding through his transition

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from the woozy tunes of Saint Pepsi to the earnest, enthusiastic electronic tracks he’s making as Skylar Spence. His forthcoming debut album, Prom King (Carpark), glows with radio-ready warmth and ephemeral energy, and “Can’t You See” is one of my favorite summer songs this year. —LEOR GALIL MARINA & THE DIAMONDS 3:30-4:30 PM Sprint Stage “Happy,” the opening track on the newest Marina & the Diamonds album, this spring’s Froot (Neon Gold), is sparse and delicate, but don’t be misled: the rest of the record consists mostly of sweeping, pulsing synth-pop that uses Marina Diamandis’s ethereal voice to power a dance party rather than an indie-rock chamber group. The title track, with its funky bass line and electronic disco beat, is practically built for a festival setting, where there’s room to kick up dust while wearing your very best collection of illuminated jewelry. Diamandis can sound brooding, but that’s never the only note she strikes: she can rip loose for an anthemic chorus or push a catchy hook so hard you’d think it’d end up on the radio from sheer force of will. Also Sat 8/1 at Concord Music Hall, $28.50, 18+. —KEVIN WARWICK LOGIC 4:35-5:30 PM Perry’s Stage In the short time that D.C.’s hip-hop scene has been robust enough to enjoy a nation-

al profile, its big story has been street rap.

Shy Glizzy and Fat Trel are arguably making some of the best songs in the city proper, but if you widen your view to include the DMV (that’s the District, Maryland, and Virginia), you can find MCs who’ve had more success: the latest is Bobby Hall, aka Logic, a 25-yearold rapper from Gaithersburg, Maryland.

His debut, 2014’s Under Pressure (Def Jam), reached number four on the Billboard 200, and it beautifully displays his introspective lyricism and battle-rap flow. Also Sat 8/1 at Bottom Lounge, sold out, 18+. —LEOR GALIL

WILD BELLE 5:15-6 PM Pepsi Stage It’s been a couple years since Barringtonborn siblings Elliott and Natalie Bergman released Wild Belle’s first and only album, Isles (Columbia)—a breezy if somewhat insubstantial concoction of quasi-Caribbean pop and soul—and they’ve been pretty quiet since, apart from a recent cameo on the new Major Lazer album and a gig modeling Gap clothes for Spin magazine. But a new Wild Belle album is on the horizon, and given that they collaborated on it with Diplo and Beck producer Justin Meldal-Johnsen, it seems likely to have a more electronic sound. Today’s show ought to pull the curtain back on some of that new material. Also Thu 7/30 at Berlin with headliner Zebra Katz, $15, $12 in advance, 21+, and Sat 8/1 at Lincoln Hall, sold out, 18+. —PETER MARGASAK J

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continued from 33 BULLY 5:40-6:20 PM BMI Stage Nashville’s Bully hold together their perfectly balanced hybrid of ecstatic, indie-flavored pop-punk and down-and-dirty grunge with the spit and phlegm in the scratchy, snarling vocals of front woman Alicia Bognanno. On their recent full-length debut, Feels Like, (StarTime International), “Brainfreeze” and “Trying” are stark and bare-bones, dependent on Bognanno’s spunk and tormented, candid lyrics, while the barreling, punk-fueled “Six” features some of her best Courtney Love yowls. —KEVIN WARWICK A$AP ROCKY 6:45-7:45 PM Bud Light Stage A$AP Rocky has proved himself something of a Renaissance man: like many rappers, he also models, and he recently had a role in Sundance hit Dope. His second album, At. Long.

Last. A$AP (A$AP Worldwide/Polo Grounds/ RCA), dropped May 26, and it sounds exactly the way a record supposedly written on LSD should sound. It’s hazy and layered with a kaleidoscope of tone colors—guitar, synth, trumpet, you name it. “Wavybone” laces its electronic percussion and R&B-inflected vocals with a melodic horn line, and Rocky sometimes comes closer to singing than rapping—he practically croons on “LSD,” a

FKA TWIGS 7:45-8:30 PM Pepsi Stage If it were possible to isolate the various facets of last year’s LP1 (Young Turks), the debut album from FKA Twigs (aka British singer, producer, and dancer Tahliah Barnett), you could get a very different impression of her depending on which one you heard: she could be a modern R&B singer cooing nasty come-ons, a forward-looking beat maven, or a performance artist with an ethereal pop sensibility. But of course, she does all those things at once. FKA Twigs returns to town after this May’s New York staging of Congregata, an ambitious theatrical work featuring a dozen male dancers and a fourpiece live band. Only one of those dancers is accompanying her to Chicago, but here’s hoping she’ll bring some of that performance’s newer ideas to her already nuanced live show. —PETER MARGASAK FLORENCE & THE MACHINE 8:30-10 PM Samsung Galaxy Stage Ever since Florence Welch careened into pop-cultural ubiquity with the 2009 hit “Dog Days Are Over”—one of those rare, totally decent self-help radio songs that you and your mom can enjoy together when someone sings it on The View—the UK singer has made a career of splendid musical triumphalism. Her sweeping art-rock-tinged pop, which ranges from emotional and oceanic to really, really emotional and oceanic, showcases her velvety voice and gift for the kind of rushing, soulful melody that leaves fans breathless and nonfans exhausted.

Her new LP, How Big How Blue How Beautiful (Island), is typically aswirl in relationship drama and gushing hooks. Florence has a reputation for solid live showmanship too, and she’s recovered from breaking her foot at Coachella in April. Following her through mountain-climbing anthems such as “Third Eye” and “Ship to Wreck” has got to be better for you than listening to Bassnectar. —J.R. NELSON v

Lollapalooza aftershows you can still get tickets for All 54 haven’t sold out yet, in case you’ve got some energy left.

Flying Lotus DJs at Spybar after his Friday-night Lollapalooza set. ! TIMOTHY SACCENTI

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s if Lollapalooza weren’t huge enough, the fest is supplemented by dozens of afterparties, where many of the festival’s big acts play smaller venues around town. Between the late-night rock gigs and the even-later-night dance parties, you should have more than enough opportunities to make an exhausting weekend of music even more exhausting.

Much like Lollapalooza itself, many of these shows have been sold out for some time—the listings below include only events for which tickets were still available at press time. You can find a complete roundup of aftershows at chicagoreader.com. —LUCA CIMARUSTI

WEDNESDAY 29

Toro y Moi, Young Buffalo, John Splithoff 8 PM, Metro, $25, 18+

THURSDAY 30

Alt-J, Boots 9 PM, Aragon Ballroom, $48.92, 17+ Zella Day, My Gold Mask 9 PM, Schubas, $15, 18+ Hot Chip (DJ set), Slaptop 10 PM, Smartbar, $12, 21+ What So Hot, D.R.A.M. (see page 36), Zebo 10 PM, the Mid, $22.50, 21+ Zebra Katz (see Sunday), Made of Oak, Wild Belle (see Sunday), PHNM 10 PM, Berlin, $15, $12 in advance, 21+

FRIDAY 31

Django Django, Beat Connection 11 PM, Thalia Hall, $26-$36, 17+ Flying Lotus (DJ set, see Friday), Nikola Baytala, Phil Groves 10 PM, Spybar, $20, 21+ Givers, Aero Flynn 9 PM, Empty Bottle, $15, 21+ Les Sins, Chrissy 10 PM, Smartbar, $12, 21+ Tyler, the Creator; BadBadNotGood (see Friday); Taco 11 PM, Concord Music Hall, $30, 18+ Ryn Weaver (see Saturday), Coin 11 PM, Schubas, $20, 18+

SATURDAY 1

Boys Noize, Spank Rock, DJ Funk, Escor Krist, Pilo 10 PM, EvilOlive, $35, 21+ Carnage 10 PM, the Mid, $35, 21+ Mick Jenkins (see Saturday), Hurt Everybody 10 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, $20, $17 in advance, 18+ Marina & the Diamonds (see Sunday), Sheppard 11 PM, Concord Music Hall, $28.50, 18+ MSTRKRFT 10 PM, Sound-Bar, $20, $15 in advance

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Nero, Jack Lndn 10 PM, the Mid, $32, 21+ v

Alesso, SNBRN 11 PM, Aragon Ballroom, $50, 18+

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Recommended and notable shows, and critics’ insights for the week of July 30

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GOSSIP WOLF

Starring a sample from Super Mario World, D.R.A.M.’s “Cha Cha” is almost too catchy

A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene

COLE’S IN LOGAN SQUARE will celebrate its sixth anniversary on Sat 8/1 with sets from a slew of bands that feature the bar’s employees, including Lil Tits, the Bionic Cavemen, and Bolthorn, plus owner Coleman Brice, who’ll be “forcing all attendees to listen to his gospel music song cycle.” Let’s hope it’s worthy of praise! Proceeds will go to Carrefour Collaborative, a nonprofit that helps marginalized artists from Haiti bring their work to new audiences around the world.

Gossip Wolf hasn’t heard from local electro-rock outfit the Firebird Band in a minute—well, a long minute. The group’s previous full-length, The City at Night, came out in 2004, and besides a trickle of EPs, the band hasn’t had an album in the pipeline since. That’s about to change; founder Chris Broach (of emo heavy hitters Braid) has gotten the group back together and is readying a brand-new LP! The problem now is finding the funds to record with Pennsylvania punk producer Will Yip, press the LP, and self-release it.

The band launched a Kickstarter asking for $15,000 by Sun 8/9. There are some sweet rewards, including a private show; go to bit.ly/fb_cb for more info.

Royal Pines singer and guitarist Joe Patt tells Gossip Wolf that the band’s Sat 8/8 gig at the Mutiny, a celebration of the release of a new digital-only LP entitled Dead Last, will also be the group’s final show. According to Patt, the Pines’ 2005 debut at the Mutiny was as a “oneoff replacement band . . . that ended up lasting ten years.” Now that’s some serious synchronicity! This wolf is definitely glad Royal Pines spent the decade cranking out such quality country-tinged grunge rock. Nab Dead Last for free from their Bandcamp and hear for yourself. They’ll go out in style, with appearances from several former members and support from openers (and RP pals) Tijuana Hercules, the Columbines, Gay Name, and more.

—J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL

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! RICHARD PERKINS

WHAT SO NOT, D.R.A.M., ZEBO

Thu 7/30, 10 PM, the Mid, 306 N. Halsted, $22.50

IF A SONG’S WORTH depends on how well it can keep your brain in a ruthless grip, then the irrepressible “Cha Cha,” from Virginia rapper-turned-singer D.R.A.M., is downright fantastic. Featuring an accordion-like synth melody—the sample is ripped straight from Super Mario World (no, really)—and punched up by spraying percussion and hand claps, “Cha Cha” is the kind of pop song that would be flirting with cheesiness if not for D.R.A.M.’s playful, seductive swagger (he rhymes “mañana” with “mañana” close to a dozen times, which for whatever reason feels so right).

And the single is currently on an extended run. After first releasing it on last fall’s #1EpicSummer mixtape, D.R.A.M. repackaged it into the shorter EP #1EpicEP (#1EpicCheck/Empire), and since then it’s slowly garnered fans in high places, including Beyonce. The singer brought other songs from the mixtape with him, including a polished version of the sweet, romantic “Just One,” but I’ve had trouble listening to anything other than the ecstatic “Cha Cha.” I played the track at least a dozen times during a recent weekend-long bachelor party, and it took only a few for the song to worm its way into my friend Ethan’s head. I’d find him humming the melody to himself—much to his own chagrin—and I couldn’t help but admire how “Cha Cha” had made its way deeper into my life. —LEOR GALIL

THURSDAY30 Rock, Pop, Etc Alt-J, Boots 9 PM, Aragon Ballroom, 17+ Amanda X, Spirit of the Beehive, Melkbelly 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Australian Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin 2 7 PM, FirstMerit Bank Pavilion BadBadNotGood 9 PM, Subterranean, sold out, 17+ Gary Clark Jr., Black Pistol Fire 9 PM, House of Blues, sold out, 17+ Cold War Kids, Coasts 9 PM, Park West, sold out, 18+ Zella Day, My Gold Mask 9 PM, Schubas, 18+ Fake Limbs, Rad Payoff, Lardo, Oscillator Bug 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar Glass Animals, Gabriel Garzon-Montano 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, sold out, 17+ Hopeless Jack, Tijuana Hercules, Johnny Chastain & the Heart Beats, DJ Bashert 8 PM, Red Line Tap Hot Chip, Hood Internet 9 PM, the Vic, sold out, 18+ Tove Lo, Broods 9 PM, Concord Music Hall, sold out, 18+ Ms Mr, Wet 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, sold out, 18+ Mutemath 10 PM, Double Door, sold out, 17+ Old Ceremony, Pet Vices, Christopher the Conquered 8 PM, Fizz Bar & Grill St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Kristen Diable 9 PM, Thalia Hall, sold out, 17+ Andy Shauf, Angela James, Jessica Marks 9 PM, Hideout Smoking Popes, Swizzle Tree, Burnside & Hooker 4 PM, Elbo Room Spears & Gears, Eli August & the Abandoned Buildings, Blue Ribbon Glee Club 8 PM, Martyrs’ Sylvan Esso, Absofacto 9 PM, Empty Bottle, sold out War on Drugs, Philip Selway 9 PM, Metro, sold out, 18+ Zebra Katz, Made of Oak, Wild Belle, PHNM 10 PM, Berlin Hip-Hop Fenetik, Steamvalve Nation, Attack the Sound 7 PM, the Abbey Sir the Baptist, Keith James, Que Billah, Roosevelt the Titan, Thomas Mac, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Dance AOBeats, Robokid, Hunt for the Breeze, Yung Wall Street 10 PM, Primary Nightclub Rob Garza (DJ set) 10 PM, Spy Bar Hot Chip (DJ set), Slaptop 10 PM, Smart Bar Folk & Country Brett James, Jim Collins, Lee Thomas Miller, Ryan Hurd 8:30 PM, Joe’s Blues, Gospel, and R&B Lynne Jordan & the Shivers 8 PM, City Winery Jazz Makaya McCraven Quartet 9:30 PM, California Clipper Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz, and Tim Daisy; Guillermo Gregorio & Paul Giallorenzo 9 PM, Elastic Eric Schneider & Pat Mallinger Quintet 8 and 10 PM, also Fri 7/31, Sat 8/1, and Sun 8/2, 8 and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase Colin Stetson & Frank Rosaly 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+

MUSIC ed to show the trio’s own range. It helps that Pirog’s working with a powerful rhythm section capable of lending sinew to a song’s most ethereal moments as well as a juddering energy to outward-bound sallies. The delicate, mostly acoustic ballad “I’m Not Coming Home” brings beauty back into the picture, while the brief “Threshold” features violently fractured explosions of noise and texture. In his Chicago debut the guitarist performs with Philadelphia bassist Matt Engle and D.C. drummer Ian McColm.

—PETER MARGASAK

Planes Mistaken for Stars Swan King, the Gunshy, and Texas Chainstore Manager open.

8 PM, 1st Ward, 2033 W. North, $10. 18+

Holly Herndon # COURTESY VIA RVNG INTL. RECORDS Experimental Cleared, Brian Case, Trevor DeBrauw 10 PM, the Owl William Z. Villain, DB Pedersen 7 PM, Comfort Station Fairs & Festivals Fiesta del Sol: Orgullo Guerrerence, Grupo Talos, Grupo Rekuerdo, South Arsenal, Limited Wisdom 5 PM, 1400 W. Cermak

FRIDAY31 Anthony Pirog Fred Lonberg-Holm, Paul Giallorenzo, Michael Hartman, and Theo Katsounis and Shedding open. 9 PM, Elastic, 3429 W. Diversey, $10 suggested donation.

Prolific Washington, D.C., guitarist Anthony Pirog had a breakout moment last year with the release of Palo Colorado Dream (Cuneiform), a bruising yet lyric trio session cut with bassist Michael Formanek and drummer Ches Smith. But he’d been honing his sound for years in various contexts, among them Janel & Anthony, his duo with cellist Janel Leppin.

The dreamy twosome found a sweet spot between jazz and progressive rock on their hypnotic album 2012 album Where Is Home, which serves up a sumptuous instrumental blend of color-rich tones, ruminative melodies, and judiciously deployed loops (Pirog has a collection of effects pedals totaling five dozen). That duo’s music is steeped in a hypnotic beauty even when certain textures veer on dissonance; in the trio with Formanek and Smith, Pirog’s more forceful improvisational side is on display. Palo Colorado Dream variously evokes the sound of Bill Frisell, Sonny Sharrock, Nels Cline, John McLaughlin, and Alan Holdsworth, yet rather than coming off as imitative pastiche, the tracks are construct-

Betrayed, almost taunted by their wistful, emo-leaning band name, Planes Mistaken for Stars were anything but soft during their heyday in the midaughts. Abrasive, crude, and grimy, the Denver-byway-of-Peoria dudes hammered out a sound akin to a funnel cloud of barbed wire and glass shards— best heard in Gared O’Donnell and Matt Bellinger’s raspy and gnarled combo vocals. Album titles like Fuck With Fire and Up in Them Guts are about as subtle as a pallet of bricks through a window, and when drummer Mike Ricketts hits full fuck-you mode on his kit he sounds like he’s frantically trying to extinguish a blaze on his snare with a single drumstick. Currently the on-again band is celebrating the reissue via Deathwish of their 2006 former swan song, Mercy. Louder and, thanks to Mastodon’s Matt Bayles, better produced than its predecessors, the album is also bigger in scope. PMFS don’t revel in their own scuzz and rawness (though Fuck With Fire’s “End Me in Richmond” is an awesome and gigantic track for that very reason), and like longtime contemporaries Coliseum, who too have worked the basement and dive-bar scene to the bone, they’ve converted their piss-and-vinegar sound to one that’s less hateful and more calculating in plotting your ultimate demise.

—KEVIN WARWICK Rock, Pop, Etc Bingers, Mexican Knives, Radio Shaq 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar Bono Bros Band, Velvet Jimis 9 PM, Wire, Berwyn Brand New 11 PM, House of Blues, sold out, 17+ Brandi Carlile, Old Crow Medicine Show 7 PM, Ravinia Festival Charli XCX, Holychild 11 PM, Lincoln Hall, sold out, 18+ Dear Thief, Kate Adams 6:30 PM, Hideout Death From Above 1979, New Pacific 11 PM, Bottom Lounge, sold out, 17+ Delta Spirit 11 PM, Subterranean, sold out, 17+ Django Django, Beat Connection 11 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ David Duchovny 9 PM, Joe’s Fine Subterraneans, Oblio & Arrow, Zoot, Great Ocean Waters 9 PM, Martyrs’ Givers, Aero Flynn 9 PM, Empty Bottle Island of Misfit Toys, Monobody, Wayne Szalinski, Regular Oatmeal 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Joliette, Life in Vacuum, Itto 9 PM, Subterra-

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nean, 17+ Misterwives, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas 11 PM, Park West, sold out, 18+ Susto, 100 Options, Tonight I Am Waiting 8 PM, Elbo Room Walk the Moon 11 PM, the Vic, sold out, 18+ Ryn Weaver, Coin 11 PM, Schubas, sold out, 18+ Jessica Lee Wilkes, Dyes, Bailey Dee 10 PM, Hideout Hip-Hop Tyler, the Creator; BadBadNotGood; Taco 11 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Dance DJ Snake, Madeon 10 PM, the Mid Flying Lotus (DJ set) 10 PM, Spy Bar Getter, Axilon 8 PM, the Abbey, 18+ Jayzeeoh 10 PM, Sound-Bar Les Sins, Chrissy 10 PM, Smart Bar Sluggers, Intermodal 10 PM, Primary Nightclub Folk & Country Hillbenders 8 PM, SPACE Sturgill Simpson, Cris Jacobs 11 PM, Metro, sold out, 18+ Blues, Gospel, and R&B Linsey Alexander, True Blue 9 PM, Buddy Guy’s Legends Toronzo Cannon & the Cannonball Express 9 PM, also Sat 8/1, 9 PM, B.L.U.E.S. Sza 10 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, sold out, 18+ Tail Dragger 9:30 PM, Rosa’s Lounge Demetria Taylor, J.W. Williams Blues Band 9 PM, also Sat 8/1, 9 PM, Blue Chicago Duke Tumatoe, Joanna Connor 9:30 PM, also Sat 8/1, 9:30 PM, Kingston Mines Jazz Fareed Haque, Tony Monaco, and Tony Dicke 9:30 PM, also Sat 8/1, 9:30 PM, Andy’s Jazz Club Le Percolateur 9 PM, Green Mill Eric Schneider & Pat Mallinger Quintet 8 and 10 PM, also Thu 7/30, Sat 8/1, and Sun 8/2, 8 and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase Matt Ulery’s In the Ivory 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ International Ugochi 9 PM, Wild Hare Classical Grant Park Orchestra Christoph Konig, conductor (Weber, Bruckner). 6:30 PM, also Sat 8/1, 7:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park Fairs & Festivals Fiesta del Sol: Banda San Guillermo, Julio Cortez y Explocion de la Cumbia, Pilar Diaz con Mariachi, Los Crudos, and others 5 PM, 1400 W. Cermak Lollapalooza: Paul McCartney, the Weeknd, Flying Lotus, Kaskade, Alt-J, and others See festival guide on page 27. 11:30 AM, Grant Park, sold out

SATURDAY1 Nick Mazzarella Trio 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+ Alto saxophonist Nick Mazzarella has become a fixture on the local jazz and improvised-music scene,

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leading several bands and working as a member of a bunch more. But his long-running trio with bassist Anton Hatwich and drummer Frank Rosaly has remained his most effective vehicle for improvising. Tonight’s performance celebrates the release of the unit’s third album, Ultraviolet (International Anthem), which chronicles a shift in the reedist’s sound. On the group’s previous recordings there’s no doubt that Ornette Coleman’s ebullient melodies and biting tone are primary influences, but the new record moves away from that source, instead documenting the emergence of a group sound (though Mazzarella’s longtime adoration for John Coltrane is apparent here and there). One of the album’s most striking pieces, “Luminous Dials,” is a tender, largely composed tune that focuses on closely aligned parts from the leader and Hatwich, who together shape saxophonelike arco lines as Rosaly pitter-patters across his kit, ornamenting the rest of the action to create a delicate three-way dialogue. Most of the seven tracks are hard-driving swingers, however, and the nimble rhythm section gives Mazzarella all the space in the world as it alternately pushes and cushions his breathless streams of melodies, harmonic explosions, and singing tones. —PETER MARGASAK

Soak Rasplyn and Quinn Tsan open. 9 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, $10.

The lyrics from her recent debut album, Before We Forgot How to Dream (Rough Trade), make it clear that 19-year-old Birdie Monds-Watson is clinging to the end of her teenage years. On “B A Nobody” the Derry, Ireland, native warbles “A teenage heart / Is an unguided dart,” while on “Reckless Behavior” she insists “When you’re young and reckless / You should not be stopped.” She and producer Tommy Mclaughlin played nearly instrument on the album, which chronicles adolescent pain and social cruelty with impressive clarity, the sweet melodies serving as a balm rather than evoking the frustration the words express. Monds-Watson has a tender, melodious delivery thick with an Irish accent that makes her sound like she either has a lisp or wishes she were Bjork, but for now it adds to her charm: the record’s honeyed, meditative folk-pop is nicely punctured by her street urchin-like enunciation.

—PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Alesso, SNBRN 11 PM, Aragon Ballroom, sold out, 18+ Beautiful Drifter, Max Plankton, Rory Tyer Band, Sansara, Roar & Men, Sewn Up 6 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Bionic Cavemen, Lil Tits, Bolthorn See Gossip Wolf on page 36 for more. 10 PM, Cole’s Catfish & the Bottlemen, Circa Waves 11 PM, Subterranean, sold out, 17+ Kelly Clarkson, Pentatonix, Eric Hutchinson, Abi Ann 7 PM, Allstate Arena Marshall Crenshaw 7:30 PM, SPACE Destructor, October 31, Savage Master, Lethal Shock 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+

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SUNDAY2 Holly Herndon Hieroglyphic Being opens.

8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $15. 18+ Though I’ve enjoyed listening to Platform (4AD/ RVNG Intl.), the second album by multimedia artist Holly Herndon, it wasn’t a complete experience until I took in one of her live shows and learned more about the methods behind her music. It’s often pretty dull watching an artist perform behind a laptop, but when I saw her perform last March at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, she and her partner, Mat Dryhurst, made laptop manipulation the centerpiece of an event with visual, quasi-interactive elements, e.g., large projections of the profile pictures of attendees who’d responded to the event’s Facebook invite. Herndon altered tracks from the new album for the live show, putting the focus on crunchy post-techno beats created from everyday sounds fractured in crushingly loud, jagged patterns worthy of Autechre, or vocals sliced and diced without disturbing their ethereal beauty. An exposition on autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), “Lonely at the Top” doubles as a kind of performance-art joke about a power broker getting a massage; “Locker Leak” employs an interesting collision of non sequitur advertising language

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from collaborator Spencer Longo. The latter doesn’t quite work. But other gambits are more interesting—“Chorus” contains textures of sound produced by processing Internet browsing histories through a program built by Dryhurst). A doctoral candidate at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics in San Francisco, Herndon brilliantly collides academic theories with pop impulses—her art is certainly at its best when every layer is discovered. —PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Black Order, Airacobra, Predator 8 PM, Red Line Tap David Hayes, Ashleigh Ashton 7 PM, Hideout 5 Seconds of Summer 7:30 PM, also Sat 8/1, 7:30 PM, First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre The Kills, Baby in Vain 11 PM, Metro, sold out, 18+ Post Child, Truman & His Trophy, Mr. Ma’am 8 PM, Double Door State Champs, Hit the Lights, Tiny Moving Parts, Let It Happen 5:30 PM, Bottom Lounge Twenty One Pilots, Night Terrors of 1927 11 PM, House of Blues, sold out, 17+ Hip-Hop A$AP Mob, Martin $ky, Mic Terror, YP, Roy French, Ego 9 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Beadz, Sinatris, DJG, 10 PM, the Abbey Dance Kygo, Klangkarussell 11 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Nero, Jack Lndn 10 PM, the Mid Folk & Country Nathan Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Dr. Ralph Stanley 8 PM, City Winery Blues, Gospel, and R&B Tinsley Ellis, Sharrows 7:30 PM, SPACE Dante Hall 8 PM, Wire, Berwyn Jazz Eric Schneider & Pat Mallinger Quintet 8 and 10 PM, also Thu 7/30, Fri 7/31, and Sat 8/1, 8 and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase Fairs & Festivals Fiesta del Sol: Banda Potrillos, Carlito Olivero, Nortenisimo Sierra Azul, Los Yumas, and others 3 PM, 1400 W. Cermak Lollapalooza: Florence & the Machine, Bassnectar, Kygo, Nero, TV on the Radio, and others See festival guide on page 27. 11:30 AM, Grant Park, sold out

MONDAY3 Justin Townes Earle 8 PM, City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, $25-$45.

On “Farther From Me,” the opener from Absent Fathers (Vagrant), Justin Townes Earle’s second album in less than a year, the singer-songwriter addresses what sure seems like his own father, Steve Earle. He dresses down a deadbeat dad who doesn’t have a clue how to repair the damage he’s wrought (“But you won’t break my heart again, no / Broke it once, I was too young / And it didn’t mend”). The following nine tracks don’t dwell on the same subject, but they’re of a similar dynamic.

Earle addresses lovers in varying states of distress, chastising one in “Call Ya Momma” for her inability to grow up, and meditating on the havoc wreaked by a loss of trust on “When the One You Love Loses Faith.” But rather than sounding like a sad sack, he conveys a hopeful air of survival and redemption that mirrors the singer’s ongoing retreat from drug and alcohol abuse and discovery of healthy relationships. On the closer he avers, “Now I never fly alone / I’ve got a place to land.” Earle gets nimble support from a lean trio that features former Lambchop guitarist Paul Niehaus, who contributes some gorgeous pedal-steel embellishment. —PETER MARGASAK

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Uncertainty and purpose strike a productive balance on Unmoored by the Wind (New Images Ltd.), the recent LP by Los Angeles-based folk singer Kayla Cohen, aka Itasca. Her songs are populated by people looking for signs—in dreams, the J

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Brothers of the Sonic Cloth Neurosis headline; the Body and Brothers of the Sonic Cloth open. 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, $25-$30. 17+ Brothers of the Sonic Cloth play filthy, rock-ribbed doom metal that lumbers and roars like Godzilla—and I don’t mean the allegedly plausible CGI version. I’m talking about the old-school Godzilla, played by a sweaty guy in a goofy rubber suit— the one with the kind of charm and personality that comes from making shit up on your own. This Seattle trio consists of guitarist and front man Tad Doyle, bassist Peggy Doyle (Tad’s wife), and drummer Dave French. You might remember Tad from the grunge outfit of the same name, active in the late 80s and throughout the 90s. The ragged, barrel-chested holler he learned back then makes a welcome addition to a doom band—he clearly settled on it before extreme-metal vocals became codified according to how each genre is “supposed” to sound. The Brothers’ self-titled full-length debut, out in February on Neurot Recordings, is Tad’s first album as a leader in nearly 15 years (I’m not counting the 2013 record by Lumbar, a trio with Tad, Aaron Edge of Himsa, and Mike Scheidt of Yob), and you can tell he’s been fussing over some of these songs for close to a decade. His riffs occasionally last as long as other people’s verses, and his episodic structures forge further ahead where a lesser man might repeat himself. “Unnamed” plays a staggering threebeat riff against a stomping one-two in the drums, and “La Mano Poderosa” uses 16-beat phrases that aren’t the usual four bars of 4/4 but instead a lopsided cluster of four threes and a four. How does that affect my Godzilla metaphor? I don’t know—give the motherfucker two heads or three legs or something. No matter how he dances, he’s making folks surprise new swimming pools with every footfall.

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weather, a view out the window—who then can’t figure out how to respond once one presents itself.

But though the lyrics remain cryptic, there’s no vagueness in Cohen’s playing: her latest release, Ann’s Tradition (Perfect Wave), is an all-instrumental cassette that brings to mind the visionary acoustic player Robbie Basho in a reflective mood. Cohen’s propulsive fingerpicking conveys the passage of time, which so often overtakes the characters in her songs, and her accomplished playing sounds even better when accompanied by her low-pitched singing. Ducktails, who are supporting their Domino debut St. Catherine, headline. —BILL MEYER

Maxim Vengerov 7:30 PM, Martin Theatre, Ravinia Festival, 200 Ravinia Park, Highland Park, $10-$60.

Now 40, violinist Maxim Vengerov has been performing for more than three decades, and he’s still in a league of his own. Shut down for several years due to a shoulder injury and burnout, he’s now back on tour in full force. The Russian virtuoso has the ability to execute the violin’s most extraordinary technical demands with ease, but is equally capable of delivering sweet lyrical melodies with electrifying intensity, exquisite phrasing, and visibly apparent joy—even playfulness. Tonight, joined by Lithuanian pianist Itamar Golan, he’ll begin with two contrasting 20th-century works: Elgar’s rarely performed Violin Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, and Prokofiev’s intensely brooding Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Minor (written for David Oistrakh, whose student Zakhar Bron taught Vengerov). The second half consists of short encorelike works by Brahms, Dvořák, Wieniawski, and Kriesler, along with Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 in A minor and two pieces by YsaŸe, including the riveting Sonata No. 3 for Solo Violin. Vengerov definitely has the charisma of a showman, but even at his most magnificent he never sacrifices musical integrity. If you want to hear great violin playing, this is the guy to see. —BARBARA YAROSS Rock, Pop, Etc Lee Gallagher & the Halleujahs, Killer Moon, Dead Feathers, Mad Alchemy 8 PM, Double Door, 18+ Mishandled, Halfway Home, A Semester Abroad, Sic Vita, Treason This 8 PM, the Abbey, 17+ Sorority Noise, Weaks 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Vamos, Ego, Modern Convenience, Foul Tip 9 PM, Empty Bottle The Vamps, Before You Exit 6:30 PM, the Vic Folk & Country Robbie Fulks & the Scavengers 7 PM, Hideout Jazz Lucas Gillan’s Many Blessings 9:30 PM, Whistler Marc Riordan’s Rager, Four Letter Words 9 PM, Elastic Experimental Nate Wooley 7:30 PM, Experimental Sound Studio In-Stores Julian Kirshner, Fred Lonberg-Holm, and Eli Namay 7:30 PM, Myopic Books

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TUESDAY4 Watkins Family Hour See also Wednesday.

8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, sold out.

Back in 2002, when their band Nickel Creek ditched a pure bluegrass sound and approached the peak of its popularity, siblings Sean and Sara Watkins launched a monthly night at famed LA nightclub Largo that doubled as a kind of live laboratory.

Dubbed the “Watkins Family Hour” by club owner Mark Flanagan, the show was an ode to old country radio programs, and indeed, country and bluegrass were big parts of the fun, but the endeavor also embraced strains of popular music. The night expanded into a recording project as the siblings just released an eponymous album through Thirty Tigers that demonstrates their catholic sensibilities.

There’s honky-tonk, old-time music, and folk-pop, but the two also make space for Fleetwood Mac’s “Steal Your Heart Away” and former Fear front man Lee Ving’s “The King of the 12 Ounce Bottles.” Even the backing musicians get a chance to sing: keyboardist Benmont Tench (of Tom Petty fame) takes a jazzy stroll through “Prescription for the Blues,” while pedal-steel master Greg Leisz tackles Bob Dylan’s “Going Going Gone.” Along with some of LA’s most versatile session players, the Watkins kids created a sprawling revue centered on the personalities of its performers. Though Leisz isn’t part of the tour, Tench, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, and drummer Don Heffington will be present, as J

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will regular participant Fiona Apple. But it’s the sweet voice of Sara Watkins that dominates, setting the tone for a richly melodic folk-rock sound informed by the history of American roots music.

—PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room, Pet Symmetry, High Dive 6 PM, Double Door Barghest, Disrotted, Dirt Church, Blunt 8 PM, LiveWire Lounge Buke & Gase, Landlady, Crown Larks 8 PM, Schubas Chata, Orlando; the Shift; Inventors 8 PM, Martyrs’ Johnnyswim 8 PM, SPACE, sold out Tim Menard & the Nowakowski Brothers 8:30 PM, Hideout Shai Hulud, La Armada, XBishopX, Forty Winters, Bitter Thoughts 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Twin Hits, Heavy Times, Lemons, Strange Faces 9 PM, Empty Bottle Hip-Hop Jake Miller, Alex Angelo, Jasmine V 6:30 PM, House of Blues Jazz Ari Brown Quintet 5:30 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art Loris 9:30 PM, Whistler Stirrup with Avreeayl Ra 9 PM, Elastic

WEDNESDAY5 Spraynard Ratboys, Brickfight, and Nervous Passenger open. 6 PM, Fizz Bar & Grill, 3220 N. Lincoln, $10.

It’s strange, but breaking up might’ve been the best thing yet to befall the Pennsylvania DIY punks in Spraynard. The group called it quits in 2012, a year before the loosely affiliated national underground emo scene they were a part of blew up, and since re-forming in 2014 they’ve been growing up and getting bigger themselves. They’ve jumped to the newly rejuvenated indie label Jade Tree—which in the 90s helped steer emo to its breaking point— and reshaped their mold of nervy, speedy pop-punk and euphoric fourth-wave emo into a more muscular sound that’s a better fit for the members’ more mature perspective. On “Everywhere”—one of several rippers from last month’s Mable—Spraynard tap into pop-punk’s fast-acting adrenaline rush and deliver anthemic vocals that convey their struggle to deal with the outside world. The lyrics make everything away from the comfort of home sound terrifying, but Spraynard’s music makes me feel like I can conquer the world. —LEOR GALIL

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ed new project from Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Twilight, Lotus Eaters, etc), and as the primary composer he enlisted very able assists from drummer Nick Yacyshyn of Baptists and Brian Cook of Russian Circles and These Arms Are Snakes.

As you might expect, Sumac’s six-song, 53-minute debut, The Deal (released by Profound Lore, produced by Mell Dettmer), is demanding and rigorous, with nary a lazy moment. The album doesn’t feature the light, almost celestial qualities Isis were able to summon; instead, Sumac aim darker and lower, packing a punch more physical than cerebral. There’s a wild, improvisatory feel that gives the sense of flying blind through a dangerous landscape, and the sudden breakdowns and restorations of repetitive builds yield a disorienting sensory overload that ultimately gives a feeling of accomplishment when you settle into the relatively gentle ending. This is their first tour. —MONICA KENDRICK

Watkins Family Hour See Tuesday. 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, sold out.

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t’s not difficult to imagine the old days of the Chicago Athletic Association, when jowly titans of industry circled each other like rutting pronghorns, slugging whiskey and lobbing medicine balls in their sweat-damp towels. The recent restoration of Henry Ives Cobb’s 122-year-old Venetian Gothic edifice is so remarkable that if you could only shut out the chatter of the new Michigan Avenue hotel’s casually dressed guests you might hear the ghosts of the fusty old patriarchy harrumphing at the sudden presence of the fair sex in their midst. That’s especially true of its primary restaurant, Cherry Circle Room, a majestic dining space where not even a soundtrack of the Stooges and Nick Cave can burn off the mist of louche exclusivity. The enigmatic grandeur is further enhanced by the framed silk banners of imaginary secret societies that hang on the walls and the arcane symbols painted on the serviceware. The bar, the room’s most prominent feature, wraps around nearly half its outer edge. Behind it bartenders scale ladders to reach bottles of spirits situated next to incongruous bric-a-brac like vintage megaphones, astronaut helmets, and statuary of reposing sheep.

This, together with two other dining areas in the hotel (the Milk Room and the Game Room), is the most physically impressive project to date from Land & Sea Dept. (The rooftop bar, Cindy’s, is operated separately.) Paul McGee of L&S’s Lost Lake has been enlisted to handle the spirits; Andrew Algren, formerly of Alinea, is the sommelier; and Peter Coenen, a veteran of Boka and the Gage, helms the kitchen.

Last week I was lamenting the poorly executed “American classics” at nearby Remington’s, and like the offerings there, the menu at Cherry Circle Room doesn’t stray far from the comfortably familiar—there are steaks, a chop, chicken, duck, halibut, and of course a burger.

The difference in presentation and execution, however, is significant. CCR also offers opportunities for splurging such as caviar, a 30-day dry-aged rib eye, and tableside cocktail service. In short, there’s the requisite amount of variety in both dishes and pricing to satisfy the broad demands of a range of itinerant guests.

Unlike Remington’s, Cherry Circle Room has much to offer townies too: a majestic property, sure, but also a mostly well-executed menu. To start, a mineral-rich puck of coarsely chopped beef tartare alongside a drift of briny shaved Gouda forms the pedestal for a quail egg served upright in its shell, the top cut away for immediate dispensation once it hits the table.

Slender lengths of tender grilled octopus entwine amid nutty romesco and piquant chorizo vinaigrette. Petite, sweet, clean-tasting rope-grown mussels bathe in red curry and lemongrass. A minimalist charcuterie board is laid with disks of fatback-jacketed venison paté and ribbons of concentrated duck breast prosciutto. You’ve likely encountered interpretations of these dishes numerous times if you’ve been in the habit of eating out in this decade, but they’re so nicely presented it’s difficult to be bored.

A deconstructed shrimp cocktail finds the sweet crustaceans splayed across a plate with celery leaf and a bright and acidic if oily cocktail sauce. A fresh Caesar salad substitutes deep-fried nuggets of smelt for both anchovies and croutons. Rare slices of aged duck are arranged upon a bed of wild rice and orzo J

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continued from 43 and lacquered with a sumptuous roasted plum sauce. The Duroc pork chop arrives dissected as well, its slices situated amid farro, artichoke hearts, and a “clams casino sauce” that features whole bivalves.

Meanwhile the steak presentation rivals that of any of the nearby expense-account steak houses. The char on a 48-ounce tomahawk prime rib makes the steak look like it could cleave a skull in two, but its pink interior is lush, buttery, and rich.

The misses seem extra regrettable if only for the promise that they show. A terribly overcooked halibut fillet alongside a solid clump of squid ink pasta was paired with sweet peekytoe crab and the fish’s own poaching liquid—made in part with Paul McGee’s Bloody Mary mix. Desserts can be a disappointment too, particularly when familiar favorites are subjected to pointless deconstruction. There’s nothing satisfying about a few squares of dry carrot cake arranged around thick squiggles of cheesecake ganache—though the carrot-pineapple sorbet that accompanied the dish was interesting. Same goes for the intensely flavored miso-caramel ice cream that steals the show from an anarchic scattering of chocolate cremeux and pretzels.

A much more satisfying endgame would be one of McGee’s four boozy, lightly sweet cacao-and-vanilla ice cream drinks—each served

in a minature milk bottle with a straw stuck in it—particularly the classic Pink Squirrel, nutty with Crème de Noyaux, and a subtly minty grasshopper.

For all the wonders of Cherry Circle Room, it does have one very serious shortcoming and a few structural flaws. While the bartenders are generally excellent, knowledgeable, and genial, table service is maddeningly negligent, with servers going AWOL for prolonged periods of time, extending meals far longer than they should be. The expansive leather booths are wonderful, but the puny two-tops pushed together for four guests are inadequate for any sort of comfortable gathering. Finally, a single handicap-accessible restroom located on the far end of the neighboring Game Room is frequently occupied, which forces most guests to descend the stairs into a dim, narrow corridor that recalls certain scenes in The Shining, then cross above the hotel’s mezzanine to access the men’s and women’s. It’s quite a long journey, so long that one evening a server told my tablemates he wouldn’t pour my water until I returned. He was afraid it would get too warm. I still didn’t see him again for a good long while.

But these are mostly surmountable problems. And once they’re surmounted, this old boys’ club is going to be an excellent retreat from the Michigan Avenue madness. v

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Key Ingredient Yuzu convinces Cindy’s chef Christian Ragano that salmon isn’t so bad after all

BY JULIA THIEL

Salmon with pumpernickel “soil” and yuzu and Greek yogurt sauce # JULIA THIEL

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hristian Ragano, chef at Cindy’s, in the new Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, says that yuzu is his favorite citrus fruit.

So it was lucky for him that Kristine Antonian of Cherry Circle Room challenged him to create a dish with the Asian fruit. “It’s spectacular,” Ragano says. “Really floral, very tart, very sour, slightly sweet at the same time. It’s very hard to describe. You have to taste it for yourself.”

It’s also extremely expensive: Ragano says the last time he bought whole yuzu fruit, it cost about $200 for five pounds, and the Marugoto Shibori yuzu juice he favors runs about $80 a liter. Fortunately, a little goes a long way.

The first time Ragano tasted yuzu was when he was working at NoMi, where they used it to cure salmon. He still likes to use the fruit to prepare raw fish, substituting it for lemon or orange juice. For his challenge, though, he decided to experiment with yuzu and cooked fish. “I grew up, as a kid, eating smoked salmon on pumpernickel with a spread of butter, a slice of tomato, and pickled beets,” he says. “I hated it.”

Ragano still dislikes salmon, but that didn’t stop him from making it the centerpiece of his yuzu dish. Inspired partly by the sandwiches he ate growing up, partly by lox and bagels, he

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pan roasted a salmon fillet and served it with pumpernickel “soil” (toasted and ground pumpernickel bread with olive oil, salt, pepper, and caraway) and a yuzu and Greek yogurt sauce.

And he didn’t forget the beets: Ragano prepared them two ways—roasted and raw. The raw beets he sliced thin and tossed with yuzu vinaigrette: yuzu juice, champagne vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper, and honey. For garnish he added sprigs of dill, which resembled blades of grass sprouting from the pumpernickel crumbs on the plate.

Tasting the dish, Ragano said, “The yuzu’s the acid that brightens everything up, connects all the flavors—the fattiness from the salmon, caraway with pumpernickel, earthiness from the beets.” It may even have made him change his mind about salmon. “I’m quite enjoying this,” he said after a few bites. “I’m not joking. And I hate salmon.”

WHO’S NEXT: Ragano has challenged AARON MCKAY, executive chef at the BLACKSTONE HOTEL (and formerly at Schwa), to create a dish with BLADE MACE—the outer shell of the nutmeg fruit. v

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FOOD & DRINK Crown Tap Room ! LOGAN JAVAGE

A tale of two (former) dive bars

BY GWYNEDD STUART

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arlier this year, Marble and Crown Tap Room, two beloved dive bars in adjacent northwest-side neighborhoods, closed their doors to loyal customers to make improvements that would help them better fulfill the desires of the area’s changing demographics. Change scares people, especially when it threatens to turn their corner watering hole into another Logan Square madhouse packed with recent college grads finding themselves through craft cocktails and creative facial hair.

Both bars quietly reopened last week—the former rebranded as Best Intentions—and took somewhat different approaches to raising their profiles without totally alienating regulars who just want a comfortable place to catch a buzz.

Marble shuttered in February after being purchased last year by brothers and first-time bar owners Calvin and Christopher Marty, who wanted to execute a concept more elaborate than having marbles everywhere, which doesn’t really count as a concept. The brothers Marty anticipated reopening in a couple months. Five months later, it’s no wonder the makeover took longer; the space that’s become Best Intentions is barely recognizable.

I walked into its wood-paneled confines— seriously, everything but the bartender is covered in faux wood—at around 7 PM last Friday and was pleasantly surprised to find open swivel seats at the bar as well as stools at the counter that runs along the west wall.

A vintage jukebox full of 45s occupies the rear where the bar used to be, and above the new bar on the east wall hangs one of those old-

school signs with a list of old-school cocktails and their prices.

There’s vintage this and that everywhere; even the coasters look like they were salvaged from some late-70s bar supply warehouse. It’s an atmosphere carefully crafted to look sort of shabby, like Rose’s Lounge in Lakeview or your grandpa’s basement, except that your grandpa doesn’t know from cachaca.

On that same Friday night, I headed up Kimball to the corner of Milwaukee and Diversey to find Crown Tap more crowded than I’ve ever seen it. (Full disclosure: I’m a regular and I’m relieved they’ve reopened.) This latest round of renovations, for which the bar was closed since May, is actually its second since the folks who own neighboring Dante’s Pizzeria and the Rocking Horse took over in 2014. (On the one occasion I visited prior to the ownership change a man fell off of his bar stool onto me and started screaming “Fuck you! Call my wife!”)

Suffice it to say, Crown had already undergone some change, but this time they’ve added a patio, larger windows, and another stall in the ladies’ room. The interior design has no discernible theme—I can’t even recall if there was anything hanging on the walls—it’s just nicer. It’s sleek. There’s lots of dark wood. It looks grown-up but not stuffy. Proof: you can still pay three bucks to roll the “hot dice” for Best Intentions 3281 W. Armita shitty shot. age, 312-818-1254, bestintentionschicago.com; Crown Tap Room 2821 N. Milwaukee, 773-252-9741

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FOOD & DRINK Remington’s

The Globe Pub

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953 W. Randolph (312-488-3062).

—MIKE SULA 670 W. Diversey, 773-634-7 153 , nand osperiperi.com/restaurants/lakeview.

Lunch, dinner: daily. Open late: Fri & Sat till 11.

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early for pintxos and vermouth until you make a habit of it.

—MIKE SULA 1501 N. Milwaukee, 773-698-6601, bombollabar.com.

Dinner: daily. Open late: every night till 2.

BOM BOLLA WICKER PARK | $$ Spain has been in ascendance in Chicago in the last half decade by virtue of a few very good spots that bring together different aspects of the way Spaniards eat. Now there’s Bom Bolla, which perhaps comes closer to evoking the spirit of a Barcelona tapas bar than any of them.

It’s hard to imagine strolling by and resisting a quick glass of dry Valdespino Inocente Fino and a plate of cured anchovies, or a plated tapestry of Iberico Bellota ham. The chef responsible for derailing your day is Matt Lair, a relatively low-profile journeyman who did time at the late Kith and Kin. His open kitchen sports a wood-burning grill on which fat whole red prawns are salted and blazed scarlet, oysters on the half shell are roasted in lardo and squirted with bitter charred orange, thumb-size chorizos are fired until they nearly erupt at the touch, and eggplant is reduced to a smoky, creamy baba ghanoush-like consistency, doused with sherry vinegar, then sprinkled with paprika.

Bom Bolla opens at 2 PM every day, which may only seem too

NANDO’S PERI-PERI LAKEVIEW | $$ Based on the throngs crowding into Nando’s Lakeview location it’s clear that peri peri chicken’s powers are not to be dismissed. The large space swarms with people, and if you’re hungry and of a delicate constitution, you might just sense a case of the vapors coming on.

It doesn’t help that Nando’s has a large and varied menu, full of nonsense like mushroom wraps, steak sandwiches, veggie burgers, frozen yogurt, and raspberry cheesecake. Never mind all that. The only appropriate order is the chicken, which can be ordered in a variety of spice levels. The pieces are scored and grilled—just kissed, really— before being lightly sauced, but you can douse the bird to your heart’s content at the sauce station, where individual bottles of wild herb, lemon and herb, mango lime, garlic, mild, medium, hot, extra hot, and extra extra hot are stocked. This is the key to Nando’s world dominance, because while the smallish, hastily grilled chicken itself is nothing special, the sauces are. There’s a second location at

REMINGTON’S | LOOP | $$$$ Remington’s, the new Michigan Avenue “American grill” from the 4 Star Restaurant Group (Dunlays, Frasca, Smoke Daddy, etc), marks the Chicago homecoming of immensely talented chef Todd Stein, who spent the last year and a half working in Atlanta. Stein first rose to prominence as executive chef at MK before becoming a forefather of the current Italian wave at the late Cibo Matto, the Florentine, and Piccolo Sogno, producing some of the city’s best house-made pasta in the process. You’d suspect that 4 Star’s acquisition of such a well-respected chef is an attempt to raise the profile of a group with heavy menu overlap and restaurants that subsist on a general reputation for mediocrity. But in fact, Remington’s reproduces at least 15 menu items from at least one (if not more) of the group’s seven other restaurants. Even in the few instances where the menu goes into territory that’s uncharted for 4 Star, things tend to go wrong. Sushi, pressed onto dessert-sweet mushy coconut rice, is served too cold for one to get even a sense of the seafood’s character. But it’s not all hopeless. There’s a perfectly decent slab of rare, peppery prime rib, as good as any Wisconsin supper club’s, and the lightly fried crab cake is one of the more delicate interpretations I’ve come across. Ultimately Remington’s offers joyless takes on safe American classics ripped straight from the ownership’s other restaurants. Todd Stein, send up a signal if they’re holding you hostage. —MIKE SULA 20 N. Michigan, 312-262-6901, remingtonschicago.com. Lunch, dinner: daily. Open late: Fri & Sat till midnight. v

time, the bar sees a lot of nightshift workers, which may explain the need for therapeutic rifle fire. —J.R. JONES 1930 W. Foster, 773-561-2227.

Sports bars CANTINA PASADITA IRVING PARK The former D’Vine is now Cantina Pasadita, a sports bar from the Espinoza family, who here have adopted a more formal approach than anything seen in the Pasadita empire before. Inside it’s all chrome and pleather booths, with a frenetic cumbia soundtrack and a full bar with giant, cheap, but watery margaritas that are just boozy enough to inspire a second round. —MIKE SULA 2958 W. Irving Park, 773-516-4041.

CLEO’S | WEST TOWN The flat-screen TVs, $13 beer buckets, and Jaeger bomb specials scream “Douchey sports bar!,” but Cleos is actually a fun and comfortable place to hang out. The 12 good (and OK) beers on tap—including a rotating beer of the month—are reasonably priced, and the kitchen serves up some excellent bar food, including delicious crispy beer-battered fish tacos. A nice patio out back opens up during the warmer months. — LUCA CIMARUSTI 1935 W. Chicago, 312-243-5600, cleosbar.com.

FLO & SANTOS PIZZA & PUB SOUTH LOOP An agreeable spot to while away some hours in the South Loop, this sports bar offering pizza

and pierogi has big booths, big TVs, lots of beer, and a patio on which to drink it. —MIKE SULA 1310 S. Wabash, 312-566-9817, floandsantos.com.

THE GLOBE PUB NORTH CENTER This North Center spot seemingly shows every professional soccer game played anywhere in the world at any time (rugby, Australian Rules football, and plain old American sports get their due as well). Team scarves cover virtually every inch of wall space that’s not behind a flatscreen TV, and European beers are available from a huge, ever changing list (the vast majority in bottles). The back room is another full-size bar, which draws crowds for open mikes and a pub quiz. The Globe is also the home bar of the Chicago Fire and the Chicago Red Stars: $15 will get you a shuttle to Toyota Park “with refreshments.” —JONATHAN MAHALAK 1934 W. Irving Park, 773-871-3757, theglobepub.net.

K’S DUGOUT LINCOLN SQUARE With its ten flat-screens, three dartboards, pool table, Spider-Man pinball machine, and Big Buck Hunter video game, K’s Dugout isn’t the place to go if you want to be alone with your thoughts. But if you want to drink $8 pitchers of domestic and kill some deer, come on down! With a 7 AM opening

MARTIN’S CORNER PILSEN Remember “Bill Swerski’s Superfans” from Saturday Night Live?

Those guys are real, and they hang out at Martin’s. Blackhawks sweatshirts, Bulls hats, tightly coiffed salt-and-pepper mustaches, loud voices—they’re all sitting in the tall stools, yelling at the sports coverage on TV, and unironically drumming on the bar to “Rock & Roll Part 2” by Gary Glitter. The place is big and offers a nice selection of bottled craft beers, but your best bet is a $7.75 pitcher of Miller Lite, complete with an ice chamber built into the jug itself for maximum coldness. Naturally, the walls at Martin’s are covered with Chicago sports memorabilia, even a few relics celebrating Michael Jordan’s fabled return as number 45.

— LUCA CIMARUSTI 2058 W. 22nd, 773-847-5515.

SL SPORTS LOUNGE NEAR SOUTH SIDE The decor may be as bland as it gets, but it would be almost impossible for a hotel bar at 26th and State to be devoid of character. On the night I went, it was bustling with a delightfully unusual, racially integrated mix of locals and out-of-towners.

By eight o’clock people were singing aloud to Stevie Wonder, dancing, and debating the justice of education secretary Arne Duncan being passed over for MVP of the NBA All-Star celebrity game. There’s no beer on tap, but two of us talked politics and drank for two hours for 20 bucks total. Works for me.

—MICK DUMKE 11 W. 26th, 312225-7000, chicagosouthloophotel.com/sp-sports-bar.php. v

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CHICAGO, BEVERLY / Cal Park / Blue Island Studio $510, 1BR $610 & up, 2BR $860 & up. Heat, Appls, Balcony, Carpet, Laundry, Prkg. 708388-0170 CHICAGO - BEVERLY lrg 2 rm Studio, 1 & 2BR, Carpet, A/C, lndry, near trans $625-$940/mo. 773233-4939

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

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ing gas included. One bedroom large garden apartment. Half a step from Warren Park. Mint condition. Laundry facility. Absolutely no pets or smoking allowed. 773-250-3301.

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

69TH AND CALIFORNIA. 1BR. $660. Heat Incl. O’Brien Family Realty 773.581.7883 AGENT OWNED

1 BR $700-$799

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ALBANY PARK, 4855 N. Kimball. 1 bedrooms starting at $795$825 includes heat. Hardwood floors, laundry in the building, walking distance to grocery stores, restaurants, CTA brown line train, some apts have balcony, and more! Application fee $40. No security deposit. For a showing please call Jay 773-8351864 Hunter Properties Inc. 773-4777070 www.hunterprop.com

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

PLAZA ON THE PARK 608 East 51st Street. Very spacious renovated apartments. 1BR $722 - $801, 2BR $837 - $1,009, 3BR $1,082- $1,199, 4-5BR $1,273 - $1,405. Visit or call (773)548-9300, M-F 9am-5pm or apply online at www.plazaonthepark apts.com Managed by Metroplex, Inc

BLUE ISLAND Lg 1BR, fireplace in LR, carpet, newly dec, stove/ fridge, DR, nr Metra, tenant heated, nr 125th/Western, $695/ mo+sec. 773-238-7203 ward Rent Beautiful Studios 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR Sect. 8 Welc. Westside Loc, Must qualify. 773-287-4500 www. wjmngmt.com

82ND AND S. Merrill 1BR, updated, hdwd flrs, formal DR, heated, appls. Nice neighborhood. Sect 8 welcome. $685/mo. (773)619-9511

GEORGE & N. SEMINARY. Studios available Now, 10/1. From $980.

Hardwood floors, heat included.

Great location for DePaul and transportation. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

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CHICAGO WEST SIDE Quincy and Lotus. 2 room studio, $525/ month + 1 month security. No pets.

Call 773-483-8838

STUDIO $900 AND OVER

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STUDIO $500-$599

Newly remodeled Studio Apts. Appls incl. Near Metra. $500-$525/mo. Call Ray 312-375-2630

8/1, 9/1, 10/1. From $885. Beautiful courtyard building. Hardwood floors.

Heat included. Close to Lawrence Ave. and great transportation. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

HUGE 2 1/2 rm studio! Tons of closet space! LANDLORD PAYS HEAT AND COOKING GAS! Only 2 blks to Metra, Mariano’s Grocery, LA Fitness! Onsite lndry/storage.

Sept.

1. $965.

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RAVENSWOOD. N. WINCHESTER. Great studios available

4916

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RENTALS

Studios starting at $775 heat included. Completely remodeled, hardwood floors, walk in closet, new windows, laundry in the building, bike room, close to shops, restaurants, etc. Garage available. Application fee $40. NO SECURITY DEPOSIT! For a showing please call Samir 773-6274894 Hunter Properties 773-4777070 www.hunterprop.com

FAR SOUTHSIDE: ROOM for rent: newly remodeled & decorated, nice, quiet area, Sr Citizen welcome. $500/mo. Mr Darby, 773-812-2037.

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

Call Mr. Joe at 708-870-4801 ALSIP - LUXURY, lrg 1BR/1BA &

3BR/1.5BA. $730-$1100. Balcony, pkng, Appls, laundry, & storage. 708268-3762

Chicago, 1BR, $560, no security deposit. $250 non refundable move in fee. 7325 S. East End. Call 773-612-6718 Chicago-Bronzeville: 3BR 2BA, newly renovated, hdwd flrs, stainless steel appls, fpl, back patio, lndry facilities. $1595.708-388-0170

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CHATHAM

80TH/EVANS,

1BR, 1st floor, hardwood floors, heat and appl incl. $620. $300 MIF. Call John 847-877-6502 HARVEY Large 1BR Apt, good area, heat, cooking gas, A/C, appls, intercom, cable ready, laundry in building. $575/mo. 708-335-4003 CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE Beauti-

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

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

CLEAN ROOM WITH fridge and microwave. Close to Oak Park, Walmart, Buses & Metra. $105/wk & up. 773-637-5957 BIG ROOM WITH stove, fridge, bath & new floor. N. Side, by transp/ shop. Clean w/elevator. $112/wk + up. 773-561-4970 CHICAGO, $595/MO . Large 1BR

75th & Union. Near public trans, schools and shopping, appl incl. Sect 8 Welc. 708-334-5188

Chatham 2BR condo: cent air, parking, laundry, $1000/mo, $400 move-in. 79th & State. Call Vernon, RPC 773-785-1400 CHICAGO, 8105 S. Paulina 1& 2BR avail. $600 & $700/mo. Newly decorated, heat incl.

Call 708-205-1448

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 SOUTH - 10538 S. Maryland, 1st flr, 1BR $565 + sec dep. indiv. heat. hdwd flrs, ac, c-fans, stove, refrig.

Call btwn 10a-6p. 773-704-4153 CHICAGO 1 BEDROOM apts

68th and Parnell, $500/mo + sec. & util. Keith 708-921-7810

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

NO SECURITY DEPOSIT 6829 S Perry - 1BR $515/mo

HEAT INCLUDED 773-955-5106

AFFORDABLE

Senior Living West Dundee IL. Now Taking Applications For 2BR Waiting List. 1 Bedroom special $750/mo. Sec. Deposit only $250! Free Heat & Water. For 55 or Better. Hrs: Mon-Fri 8am4:30pm

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

CALUMET CITY 1BR, with carpet, air/heat, stove/fridge, laundry facilities. $735/month + security.

Section 8 welcome. 773-969-7377

1 BR $800-$899 ROGERS PARK! 1623-33

W. Lunt. Courtyard building must see! 1 bedrooms starting at $895-$925, heat included!

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

EAST VILLAGE LIVING . Sunny

1 bedroom, second floor unit, bay window kitchen nook, tall ceilings. In proximity: Eckhart park,, blue line, 4 bus routes, bike lanes, three entertainment districts. Street parking.

Owner occupied building.

Nonsmoking. Cat okay. $850 monthly plus Sec. Dep. Let’s talk. By appointment: (773) 301-1020.

Hyde Park West Apts., 5325 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Renovated spacious apartments in landscaped gated community. Off street parking available. Studios $674 - Free Heat; 2BR $995 - Free heat. 4BR Townhome $1412. Visit or call 773-324-0280, MF: 9am-5pm or apply online- www. hydepark west.com. Managed by Metroplex, Inc

RAVENSWOOD. N. WINCHESTER. Great 1 bedroom avail-

able 10/15. $895. Beautiful courtyard building. Hardwood floors. Heat included. Close to Lawrence Ave. and great transportation. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $825-$895 include heat and gas, laundry in building. Great view! Close to CTA Red Line, bus, stores, restaurants, lake, etc. to schedule a showing please contact Celio 773-3961575, Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com LARGE ONE BEDROOM apartment near Metra and Warren Park, 6802 N Wolcott. Hardwood floors.

Cats OK. Laundry in building. Heat included. $800-$875/ month. Available 9/1.

773-761-4318, www. lakefrontmgt.com

IRVING PARK

. Spacious, 1 BR. ,next to Blue line across from Park.

Newly renovated, appliances, laundry,street parking, hardwood floors, forced air heat/ac,second floor. $850/mo.gas/electric not incl.

312-401-0184

1 BR $900-$1099 EVANSTON. CENTRAL STREET. Great 1 bedrooms availa-

ble 9/1. $1070. Beautiful courtyard building. Hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

EVANSTON. FOREST AVE.

1950 W. WINNEMAC. Terrific large Ravenswood 1 bdrm avail August 1! 1 block to fantastic Winnemac Park; close to Metra, Mariano’s Grocery, LA Fitness and Brown Line!

Lovely Hdwd flrs, great closet space!

Onsite lndry/storage. $1070, Heat incl. No Security Deposit (773)381-01 50.www.theschirmfirm.com

1228-44

W.

CARMEN,

Andersonville courtyard building! 1 bedroom $975 heat included. Remodeled soft loft, wood floors, microwave & some units have dishwasher, laundry in the building, walking distance to grocery stores, restaurants CTA red line train and more!

Great location! Application fee $40.

No security deposit! For a showing please call Marge 773-492-0636 ww w.hunterprop.com Hunter Properties office 773-477-7070

Large 1 bedroom available 9/1. From $1250. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

LINCOLN PARK/DEPAUL. W.

GEORGE & N. SEMINARY. 1 Bedroom available 8/3-9/30 for $1115. New 10/ 1 lease for $1125. Hardwood floors, heat included. Great location for DePaul and transportation. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LINCOLN PARK/ DEPAUL.

W. GEORGE & N. SEMINARY. 1 Bedrooms available 9/1. From $1245.

Hardwood floors, heat included.

Great location for DePaul and transportation. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

AVAILABLE 9/1. EXTREMELY

large & beautiful 1-bedroom apartment on 29th floor facing lake w/ large outdoor balcony. Located 1560 N. Sandburg. Large closet space, remodeled kitchen/bathroom, central air, exercise room, swimming pool, storage room for bikes in building, parking available. Great accessibility to public transportation. $2050/mo.

Call Ed ASAP for details 773-4915996

DE PAUL AREA. MONTA NA /

RACINE. Great 1 bedroom available 9/2-9/30 for $1330. New 10/1 lease for $1360. Great building with large rooms, hardwood floors, heat included. Easy transportation to the Loop.

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

LINCOLN PARK.

VINTAGE CHARM

. Vintage charm near Addison/Kedzie on 2nd. floor w/natural woodwork, deco fireplace, renovated bedroom. 1 mile to L-Blue Line/Kennedy. Walk to Jewel/ Target. New porch 8’ x 10’ deck. $900 heated.

HUGE

1BR

VINTAGE

Apt Ravenswood. Separate dining and living rooms. Courtyard building. $1045 rent for 2 months. Extension available through rental agent. Text/ call 224-475-1478

ARMITAGE/DAMEN ONE Bed room in renovated building. Wood Floors, Gas Heat, A/C. $965/mo plus utilities. No pets. 773-486-6877

1 BR $1100 AND OVER

ADDISON.

Prime location 1 bedrooms available 10/1 from $1315 rent. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors.

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

LINCOLN PARK. W. ARLING-

TON PL. 1 Bedrooms available Now, 1 0/1. From $1235. Courtyard building with exposed brick hallways, oak floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

DEPAUL

AREA.

BELDEN/

SHEFFIELD. Great 1 bedroom available 9/1. $1335. Beautiful courtyard building, hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

1 BR OTHER SECTION 8 AFFORDABLE 4235

NORTH

HERMITAGE.

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

Onsite lndry/storage. Avail August 1. $1260, heat incl. No Security Deposit!

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

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

1251 WEST WAVELAND . Avail Oct. 3! Apt will have new extra large Kitchen! Fantastic 4 1/2 rm, 1 bdrm with enclosed sunporch! Beautiful hdwd flrs, huge pantry, onsite lndry./ storage! Close to Jewel, 2 metra stops! Tenant heated. (773)381-0150. www.theschirmfirm.com

4235 1/2 NORTH Hermitage.

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

Onsite lndry/storage. Oct. 1., $1145.

00, heat incl. No Sec. Dep.(773)3810150. www.theschirmfirm.com

APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. Summer is Here but.. Winter is on its Way! Most Include HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $445.00 1Bdr From $550.00. 2Bdr From $ 745.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-476-6000** CALL FOR DETAILS APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. Finally summer is here Come Enjoy The Pool! HEAT, HW & CG INCLUDED. 1Bdr From $745.00.

2Bdr From $890.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-4766000** CALL FOR DETAILS GORGEOUS NEW REHAB, Appls & Heat Incl. ** 73/Jeffery, 1BR $600 **79/Escanaba, 1BR $600, 2BR $725, 3BR $875 ** 72/ Eberhart, Studio $525 ** 64th/ Loomis 2BR $750 ** Section 8 ok ** 773.430.0050

CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** CHICAGO SOUTH, You’ve tried the rest, we are the best, Apartments for rent, city and suburb, no credit checks, call 773-221-7490 or 773-2217493 76TH & SAGINAW - 1BR, $680.

2BR, $690-$770. Decorated hdwd floors near transportation, w/ heat & appliances, no security. 773-4450329

8037 CARPENTER. ATTRACTIVE, spac, newly carpeted, 2BR,

near trans. Heat incl, Sec 8 OK. $850/ mo + $850 Move In Fee. 312-6369340

GLENWOOD CONDO - 2BR. Carpet, appls, quiet community.

Off of I-394. FREE HEAT & WATER! $935/mo. 708-868-2210

SOUTHSIDE - 8045 S. Carpenter, 2BR, heated, carpet, laundry room, appliances, backyard. $800/ mo + sec. Section 8 ok. 773-3784525.

CHICAGO 92ND AND M a r quette, 2BR, quiet bldg, new crpt, heat included, $725, 1 mo rent, 1 mo sec. Nice! 773-505-1853

CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708-868-2422 or visit www. nhba.com

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

SOUTH ASHLAND,

SIDE

BEDROOM

apartment, hardwood floors mini blinds. $840. per month security deposit negotiable. Call 773.793.9862

64TH/

cozy 2BR bsmt apt, newly remod, $650 + sec. Heat incl.

Avail now. 773-307-1030

WEST HUMBOLDT PARK - 1 & 2 BR Apts, spacious, oak wood flrs, huge closets. heat incl, re-habbed, $750-$850. 847-866-7234

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NEWLY REMOD HUGE Units!

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CHICAGO 2 bdrm, near 7600

MOVE IN SPECIAL!!!

B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-1122 8941 S. COTTAGE Grove, 2BR. 8141 S. Ingleside, 2BR, 8424 S. Ingleside, 1BR. $570-$700/mo. Immediate Occupancy. 773-721-8817 77TH/LOWE 1 & 2BR, 69th/ Dante 3BR, 71st/Bennett 1, 2 & 3BR. 77th/Essex 3BR. New reno, appls Incl. Sec 8 ok. 708-503-1366 HAMMOND, INDIANA. 1 -2 B R TANGLEWOOD APTS. Security Deposit $250. 219-8442100

2 BR UNDER $900 Cornerstone Apts., 4907 S. St Lawrence , Newly Remodeled. 3 BR

starting $1017-$1083/mo. 2BR $900/ mo - heat incl. Visit or call (773) 5489211. M-F: 9am-5pm or apply on line www.4907cornerstoneapts.com

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CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK

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

8324 S Ingleside 1BR, 1st flr, lndry, hdwd flrs, cable, Sec 8 wel. $675/mo. 7000 S. Merrill: 2BR, hdwd flrs, DR lrg sunrm, new remod., cable ready, lndry, O’keefe Elem, $800/mo. Sec 8 ok. 708-308-1509, 773-493-3500 CHICAGO, 2BR, QUIET, g a r den apartment. Newly decorated. FREE heat, lights & cooking gas. $800/mo + security.

Mrs. Jernigan, 773342-4364 CHICAGO 7734 S Carpenter 1st

flr 2BR, newly remod, free ht & ht wtr, lg pantry & clsts, crpt, ceil fan, cer tile ktchn/bath $800 773-4836155

NW 2 FLAT brick, 1700 North & 5500 West. 5 rm , 2BR Apt, carpet, fireplace. $800mo + utils & sec.

Credit check req. Call 773-3865932 62nd & Maplewood, 1 bedroom, newly remodeled, large LR, DR, Kitchen, utilities not incl., Sec 8 ok. No sec Dep. $700. 773-406-0604 7015 S. DANTE, 2Br 1st Floor,

Hardwood Flrs, Ceiling Fan, Enclosed back porch, $775/mo 1st mo rent + 1.

5 sec, sect 8 ok, 630-854-7983 owner pays heat/lights.

2 BR, 6054 S. Marshfield tenant pays utils, $635/mo please text/call 773307-5090 South Ashland, $850 month tenant pays utilities Please call 773-8465318

11138 S VERNON. 2 Bedroom,

heat included, Section 8 welcome. $7 50/ Month plus. No sec dep. Call Andy 773-386-9755 Chicago, East Garfield Park, 3121 W. Monroe. newly rehabbed, 2BR, heat incl. $850/ mo + 1 mo sec.

Call 773-928-5377

CHICAGO - 2 bedroom, Near 85th

and Escanaba, newly decorated, stove included, $550 one month sec.

708-747-0054

6250 S. WESTERN 2 Bed, Hardwood, Sec. 8 welcome, updated kit, new bathroom, new appliances. $650-$690.00. Call 312.208.1771 5636 S. THROOP, 2BR, 1st floor

in 2 floor bldng with Private access to bsmt. 2BA, newly painted, $865/ mo. Call 815-210-3725

CHICAGO

8642 S. Euclid Massive 2BR., Formal Liv/Din Great Area and Block Tenant Pay All, $1,100 (773) 353 8788

OLD IRVING PARK! 4146 N.

Avers. 2 bedroom $1195 includes heat & gas. Remodeling just completed!

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

For a showing please call Saida 773407-6452.

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

AVONDALE

2

BEDROOM

Beautiful sunny hardwood floors, built-in bookcases, faux fireplace.

Large kitchen, walk-in pantry. laundry, storage, enclosed backporch, backyard. Convenient blue-line access. 1st. floor, available Aug. 1st.

GLENWOOD - LARGE 2BR Con-

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

706 WEST 76TH STREET Second floor, 2 bedroom, heat included. $875 /month 773-495-0286

2 BR $900-$1099 2 BEDROOM FOR rent2840 N.

2 BR $1300-$1499 EVANSTON NEAR LAKE MICH-

IGAN. 617 SHERIDAN. 5 Room/ 2 Bed room/ 2 Bathroom available now8/31 at $1465/month. New lease from 9/1-8/31/16 at $1515. 5 rooms, hardwood floors, bright, airy and one block to the lake! Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30PM, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

BUENA

PARK

LANDMARK

DISTRICT. IRVING PARK & SHERIDAN RD. 5-room/2 bedroom available 10/1. $1450. Large apartment w/ high ceilings, hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LINCOLN PARK. W. BR IA R PLACE. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a 2nd bedroom. Available 1 0/1. From $1400. Small high-rise with super-sized rooms. Carpeted and air conditioned. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

2032 East 72nd Pl. 2BR, 1BA, condo, 1st floor. Like new appliances! No Pets. $1,050/month plus security. heat included. 312497-2819

2 BR $1100-$1299 LINCOLN PARK.

ADDISON. Prime location 2 bedroom available 10/1. $1295. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors.

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

DOLTON - 14818 S. Irving. 2BR, no garage, sec 8 Welcome. $1100/mo. Mr Walker.

708-803-6880

NEW CONSTRUCTION CONDOS FOR RENT. 2 bedroom/2

NO MOVE-IN FEE! No Dep! Sec 8

bathroom, all stainless steel appliances, custom cabinets, hardwood floors, in-unit laundry, central air/ heat. Elevator building. Rent includes 1 parking space. Easy access to CTA and expressway. Close to UIC, Illinois Medical District, United Center, Downtown.$1700/Month. August 1, 2015 availability. Call TriTaylor at 312.829.7368

GOLD

COAST.

BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 5 room/ 2 bedrooms with full dining room, oak floors. Available 8/1. $1700. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

COAST.

ENGLEWOOD 2-4BR unit apts in 2 unit gated bldgs, hdwd flrs, pets OK, no sec dep, W/D & appls incl, tenant pays own utils 312929-2167 ok. 1, 2 & 3 Bdrms. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe. Stacey 773874-0100

2 & 3 BR apartments: Completely rehabbed. Hrdwd flrs, heat & hot water incl. No Sec Dep. Sec 8 welcome. Call 9am-5pm 773-731-8306

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200

LASALLE.

Available NOW! Beautiful courtyard building in superb location, transportation at front door. Large rooms, hardwood floors, fireplaces. 2 bedroom available 8/1-4/30 for $1775.

New lease from 5/1 for $1825. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

GOLD

2 BR OTHER

LASALLE.

Beautiful courtyard building in superb location, transportation at front door. Large rooms, hardwood floors, fireplaces. 2 bedrooms available 10/1.

From $1765. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LARGE END UNIT Townhome for

Rent! 1036 W. Monroe, hardwood floors, 2 bedrooms/ 2 bathrooms, wa sher/ dryer, fireplace, island kitchen.

Attached garage, balcony, inside courtyard, gated.

Contact KarenAguilar 737@gmail.com or 847.

877.3772

2BR/1B IN THE HEART of Lincoln Square, 2-min walk to Western Brown line. Hardwood floors and vintage details. Central AC/heat. Laundry in building.

Pets negotiable,$1900. 773.865.5526

RENTAL FEAT 3 BED 2 BATH &

MORE. CLOSE TO SCHOOLS, BEACH & TRANSIT. CALL JIM 773.733.3705 OR ERIC 773.489.5300

HYDE PARK, 3BR, $1075/mo + sec dep.

Newly decorated, hdwd flrs, stove, fridge. FREE heat & hot water! Lndry fac. & cable ready. No app fee. 773667-6477 or 312-802-7301

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109TH and So.

Wentworth., 3BR, garage, enclosed yard, appls, no pets, tenant pays utils, $950/mo + 1st/last, 773-6148304

NEWLY DECORATED. 74TH/ EAST End 2BR,$750/mo. 78th/

Calumet. 2BR. $775/mo. Heat Incl.

Sect 8 OK. 773-874-9637 or 773493-5359

DOLTON LRG 3BR/2BA, appl, ht/cooking gas, laundry facil, off street prkg. $1050 + 1 mo sec dep 708-647-8168 leave VM SAUK VILLAGE - 3 Bdrm, 100% remodeled, garage, AC, no pets, section 8 OK. $1100 plus security.

Available 8/1. 847-736-1677 HARVEY 3BR APT, heat and hot water furnished, appls, close to schools and transportation, $1050/mo + sec. 708-205-1454 CHICAGO 5246 & 58 S. Hermitage: 3BR, LR, DR, fin bsmt, $665. 2BR 1st flr, $525. 3BR, 2nd flr, $625.

1.5 mo sec req’d. 708-574-4085.

SOUTHSIDE - 3BR/2BA, hardwood floors, $900/mo + 1 month security. 525 E. 92nd Street. No utilities furnished. (312)898-2771

SOUTHSIDE CHICAGO- NEWLY remod 2BR /1BA, hdwd flrs, on

bus line, W/D in bldg, granite, SS appl. $850 + security. 773-233-3181

CHICAGO SOUTH: 114 E 119th

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

Whipplenewly remodeled, hardwood floors,miniblinds, credit check required$1000 heat included773908-2597

UNIVERSITY PARK, LRG 2BR, 2BA Condo, new carpet, balcony, W/D, A/C. $950. 1 mo rent + 1 mo sec. 5% Discount for Seniors.

773-261-2200

NEWLY REHABBED, 2-3BR Apts, Auburn Gresham, Chatham, Woodlawn, South Shore.

Section 8 Welc. $900+. TTRM, 312-829-7368

LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.

7600 S Essex 2BR

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

EVANSTON CAMPUS 2 BEDROOM! 1125 Davis. Large 5 room/2 bedroom. Available 9/1. $1960 per month. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

5025 NORTH ASHLAND Studio

$750.00. Heat included. Call Kara, 773-895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co., 773-281-8400 (Monday-Friday 9am-5pm).

IRVING PARK LOFT AVAILABLE

FANTASTIC

WRIGLEYVILLE

2 bdrm with enclosed sunporch! Only 4 blks to Wrigley Field! 2 blks to Jewel! Lovely hdwd flrs, huge remodeled Kitchen with pantry! On-site lndry/storage. 1255 West Waveland: $1660.00, tenant heated. Oct 1.(773) 381-0150.www.theschirmfirm.com

Sept. 5th. Newly rehabbed w/ updated appliances. 2 BR. 1 BA and open living area. Second Floor. $1500/ Month Call now! 773.463.0501

5527 N. CAMPBELL 2 bedroom $1575.00. Heat included. Call Kara 773-895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri. 9-5)

St. Newly decorated 4BR. Laundry facility in bsmnt. Heat included $1200 /month. 773-317-0479

25 W. 103RD Pl. 3br, 1ba. 225 W. 108th Pl. 2br, 1ba incl heat . $1150/each. $200 Cash Move-In Bonus. No Sec. Dep. 312-683-5174 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

CHICAGO 70th/Aberdeen. Remodeled 3BR, 3rd fl, ht incl, $795 + $795 sec 773-651-8673

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499

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7749 S. Essex MASSIVE 3BR. Formal Liv\Din QUIET BUILD.\BLOCK, Sec 8 Welc., Tenant Pay All, $1,300 + Move-in Fee. (773) 353-8788 HOME RENT W/ Option to Buy. Brick 3BR, 2.5 car garage, full bsmt, $ 1350/mo. 102nd and Aberdeen. 773-941-6519

3BR, 1BA, laundry hookups, unfinished bsmt, off street parking in rear. Tenant pays all utils. $1250/mo + 1 mo security. 708-369-9071 REDEVELOPED HOMES ready to rent provided by rentMACK. 3-4 bedrooms $1300-$1600/mo.

Call 855-544-6225 rentmack.com HARVEY, SECTION 8 WELCOME. $0 Security for Section 8. $500 cash back. 3BR, $1200/mo.

Fine condition.

ADT Alarm. 708-715-0034 CALUMET CITY, 3BR, 2 full BA, fully rehab w/gorgeous finishes w/ hdwd floors, appls incl., porch, Sec 8 OK. $1100/mo Call 510-735-7171

46TH/CALUMET. QUIET, 3BR,

1st flr, heat incl, newly remodeled kit and bath, hdwd floors, near trans. $1340. 773-667-9611

3 BD, 1 bath for rent in Steger, Will.

2 car garage. Appl. incl. 1 mth sec dep. Pets ok. 8’s ok. $1200 mth. 708224-8471 6142 S. Rockwell, 2 flat 3br/4br,

heat and appl, carpet, section 8 OK, $1250-$1450/mo. Near trans and school. 773-317-5947

3BR, 2BA Brick, fireplace, central air, hardwood floors, garage, nr Chicago State. 98th and Calumet. $1499 + utils. Call 708-922-9233 SOUTHSIDE SEC 8 welcome. 2

Flat apts. 90th/Dauphin. 3BR/1BA $1200, 2BR/1BA $1050. Newly remodeled. 847-533-2496

4BR HOUSE OFF Cermak near Kostner, appls incl, no pets, sec 8 welcome. $1250+ heat. 312-810-9927 CHATHAM 7900 blk of Langley.

3BR 1.5BA, appls/heat incl, laundry in bsmt,, Sec 8 Ok. $1200. Mr. Johnson 630-424-1403

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

Large 6 room/ 3 bedroom/ 2 bathroom available 9/1. $1580. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

ASHLAND AUGUSTA GREYSTONE 2nd floor, sunny 3

bedroom, laundry, walk to downtown train/buses. $1575 + lights. 773-3842772

NEAR 83RD AND Yates. 5br, 2ba,

hardwd floors, fin basement, tenant pays utils, $1500/mo + 1 mo sec.

Sect 8 Welc. 773-978-6134

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS 3br,

2ba, beauty,1700 & 1 month sec., 18700 Oakwood, Call 708-752-3065

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

4 BEDROOMS! Ridge/ Davis. Large 6½-7 rooms/ 4 bedrooms/ 2 bathrooms. Available now and 9/1. From $2295. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets, 2 bathrooms. Heat included.

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

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

EVANSTON. 1711 RIDGE. Avail-

able 9/1. $2335. Vintage building with up-to-date facilities.

Near Northwestern, downtown Evanston.

Large 5½ rooms/ 3 bedrooms/ 1½ bathrooms, hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

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EVANSTON. 1703-11 RIDGE.

Available now, 9/1. From $2475. Vintage building with up-to-date facilities. Near Northwestern, downtown Evanston. Large 7 rooms/4 bedrooms, hardwood floors, 2 bathrooms. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN

3 BR OR MORE $2500 AND OVER EVANSTON CAMPUS 5

BEDROOMS Ridge/ Davis. Large 7-1/2 ro om/ 5 bedroom/ 2-3 bathrooms.

Available now and 9/1. From $2595.

Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra.

Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets, 2-3 bathrooms. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

MILLER BEACH-SOLID 50’S

brick & stone ranch located steps from Marquette Park & Lake Michigan, 3 BR, 1.5 BA, walkout basement adds huge potential; $87,900 Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach. com.

LAKE MICHI WATERFRONT. 5

bedrm 3 bath. Sleeps 15. 2-car garage. Laundry. Large kitchen. Many closets. 40’ deck. Steps to beach.

Ownership includes beach club membership. barbara.k.sunshine@ gmail.com 954-675-4127

RANCH w/spacious rooms & high quality new kitchen & bath. $135,000 Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach .com.

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meticulously updated and maintained, on wooded nearly .5 acre duneside lot w/4 BR, 1.75 BA, attached garage. An easy walk to the market and restaurants and just a few blocks to the beach! $229,900 Ayers Realtors, 219-9381188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com.

DEPAUL CAMPUS ONE block away, 2123 N Seminary. Flexible move dates. 7 rooms, 3 very big bedrooms, 2 full baths, central air and heat, tenants pay own utilities. $270 0/ month. Looking for August 1, September 1. Home 773-348-3730, cell 773-932-4730.

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PARK FOREST 3 bedroom, 1 bath, full basement, Central air and heat, hardwood floors, Section 8 OK, by forest preserve 312-525-0567

MORGAN PARK, 5BR, 1.5BA, split level, fenced yard, newly remodeled. Section 8 welcome. $15 00/mo. Call 773-671-2708

MODERN MASTERPIECE ON

Lake WI: 3 bedroom contemporary home siting on 270 feet of private Lake WI frontage with southern exposures. No expense was sparred w/ the finishes incl. extensive use of commercial glass, 9’ to 12’ ceilings, 8’ solid core doors and oak/marble flooring w/granite thresholds. Screen porch w/built-in grill, patios and beach area! Please visit N4294CtyHw yU.com for more info today.

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Terrific location! Close to major intersections! Newly remodeled! Large reception area, 4 separate offices, conference room, new Kitchenette, excellent storage! Reserved parking! $ 2000.00 monthly. (773) 381-0150. w ww.theschirmfirm.com

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RENOVATED WOODLAWN APARTMENT, hardwood floors,

granite, stainless appliances, wash/ dry hook-up. (773) 297-2240 for appt.

87TH COMMERCIAL Newly Re-

modeled Apts 2-Bdrm-$700, 1 Bdrm$500, Tenant pays utilities,1 mo security deposit773-507-4877

roommates SOUTHSIDE - 118th ($396) & 71st ($400) Sangamon. Quiet, furnished room, Shared kitchen & bath. Males preferred. Call 773-609-3109 CHICAGO, Clean Room, Near 79th & Avalon, share kitchen & bath, $237.

50 every 2 weeks. 773-731-1134

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1971 HONDA CL350. New paint

professionally done wet sanded and buffed. Gas tank lined with Red Kote sealant. Fuel petcock rebuilt. New tires and tubes professionally installed balanced with new wheel bearings. Seat recovered by upholstery shop. New master link on chain. Professional mechanic installed new points and condenser all set to factory specs. Carburetors rebuilt some new parts all set to factory specs. $2150 or best offer cash only. 630776-2422

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(Edens to Lake St, E 1/2 blk to Lavergne, S to building) 8/2, 9a-1p.

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urbs. Hotels. 1234 S Michigan Avenue. Appointments. 312-922-2399.

HEALTH & WELLNESS MIRACLE MASSAGE BY profes-

sional masseuse. Good location, free parking, clean and cozy rooms. In/ outcalls. 5901 N Cicero, 773-7425259, 773-209-1448. www. miraclemassageforyou.com.

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FULL BODY MASSAGE. FULL BODY MASSAGE. hotel, house calls welcome $90 special. Russian, Polish, Ukrainian girls. Northbrook and Schaumburg locations. 10% discount for new customers. Please call 773407-7025 SWEDISH AND DEEP tissue $6

0/ hour. Relaxing therapeutic hot stone four-hand massage. Bioenergy.

Unforgettable health and mind benefits! Pure pleasure. 847-650-8989. By appointment. Lic.#227000668.

FOR A HEALTHY mind and body.

European trained and certified therapists specializing in deep tissue, Swedish, and relaxation massage. Incalls. 773-552-7525. Lic. #227008861.

MUSIC & ARTS WANNA SING GOSPEL? Volun-

teer vocalists wanted - ALL VOICES, especially Tenor, Baritone & Bass for multi-cultural, nondenominational, adult community choir. Currently rehearsing for debut CD project and future YouTube video shoot. Must also be willing to sing a variety of other sacred genres as well as á cappella songs. Saturday rehearsals, 9:30 a.m. to Noon, Chicago (SE side). (312) 613-1650.

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legal notices IN THE MATTER of the Petition of Lindsay Staser Snider and Qing Janet Wang Case# 2015CONC000659 For Change of Name.

Notice of Publication Public Notice is hereby given that on September 16, 2015 at 10:30am being one of the return days in the Circuit Court of the County of Cook, I will file my petition in said court praying for the change of my name from Lindsay Staser Snider and Qing Janet Wang to that of Lindsay Snider Wesner and Janet Qing Wesner, pur-

suant to the statute in such case made and provided. Dated at Chicago, Illinois, July 27th, 2015. Signature of Petitioner Lindsay Staser Snider and Qing Janet Wang

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was regis-

tered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D15143111 on July 23, 2015 Under the Assumed Business Name of OPTION 4 with the business located at: 215 W WASHINGTON ST #3408, CHICAGO, IL 60606 The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: Owner/Partner Full Name Complete Address BRIAN DAVID HURLEY 215 W WASHINGTON ST #3408 CHICAGO, IL 60606, USA

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pur-

suant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D15143005 on July 15, 2015. Under the Assumed Business Name of DYNAMIC APPROACH TUTORING with the business located at: 2021 S WOLF RD 324, HILLSIDE, IL 60162. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: NERISSA LEE, 2021 S WOLF RD 324, HILLSIDE, IL 60162, USA

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suant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D15143031 on July 17, 2015. Under the Assumed Business Name of DORGAN FINANCIAL with the business located at: 360 WEST ILLINOIS #5A, CHICAGO, IL 60654. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/partner(s) is: VICKIE DORGAN, 360 WEST ILLINOIS #5A, CHICAGO, IL 60654, USA

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to "An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State," as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County: Registration Number D15142920 on July 8, 2015, under the Assumed Business Name of Shipshape Organizing Solutions with the business located at 500 N Lake Shore Drive #1005, Chicago, IL 60611.

The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: Michelle Nicole Burns, 500 N Lake Shore Drive #1005, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D15143013 on July 16, 2015. Under the Assumed Business Name of DIRK MATTHEWS PHOTOGRAPHY with the business located at: 4826 W. BERENICE, CHICAGO, IL 60641. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: DIRK MATTHEWS, 4826 W. BERENICE, CHICAGO, IL 60641, USA

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to "An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State," as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County: Registration Number D15142940 on July 9, 2015, under the Assumed Business Name of The Minimum Viable Company with the business located at 4923 W Catalpa Ave, Chicago, IL 60630. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: Ben Rady, 4923 W Catalpa Ave, Chicago, IL 60630, USA.

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage

A friendly guide to hosting an all-girl sex party (for women only, natch) Q: I have always wanted to have a girls-only sex party, but I’m not sure how I feel about actually organizing one. What’s the etiquette if I do organize one myself? Do I need to provide the dildos for people’s harnesses? Or just the condoms and lube?

And how do I find people who want to attend? Do I just tweet out an invite? Is there a better way that makes me seem less sketchy? —NO SNAPPY ACRONYM A: What I know about hosting girls-only sex parties could fit inside what I know about the Marvel universe with room left over for what I know about the Higgs boson—and all of that could fit inside Lindsey Graham’s chances of being president with room left over for Donald Trump’s humanity.

But luckily for you, NSA, I know someone who knows quite a lot about both girl sex and sex parties.

“Hosting a play party is much like hosting any other party,” said Allison Moon, a San Francisco–based writer and sex educator. “You want guests to feel welcome and comfortable—this means you provide lube, safer sex supplies, refreshments, and towels and/or puppy pads.”

Moon is the author of two popular lesbian werewolf novels—more are hopefully on the way—and the really terrific memoir Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories From a Queer Life. Her most recent book is Girl Sex 101, a terrific sex-ed book “for ladies and lady-lovers of all genders and identities” that features girlsex wisdom from an array of sex-positive superstars.

Moon has also hosted numerous sex parties, and says hosting a girls-only sex party does not obligate you to break open a pinata full of dildos as your guests arrive.

“Toys are the responsibility of guests,” said Moon. “If NSA has a few sparkling-clean vibes and dildos that she doesn’t mind using as party favors, by all means put them out. I have a couple of Magic Wands that are great for getting the party started, because there’s always someone who’s wanted to try one. But she doesn’t have to spend a ton of cash outfitting her friends’ crotches.”

As for finding people who might want to attend your sex party, Moon and I both agree that putting an invite on Twitter—or Facebook or Instagram or Farmers Only or Yik Yak—is a very, very bad idea.

“NSA should stay away from social media to start,” said Moon. “Instead, she should make a list of friends who might be down and give them a call to see if they have friends they’d want to bring. Bonus points if she has friends who are up for being used as ‘ringers.’ Lady parties are notorious for taking hours to warm up—someone has to be the first one in the pool, and a ringer can help get the party started.

Or she could consider some ice-breaking games, like spin the bottle, as a goofy way to get the girls ready to grind on each other.”

But let’s say you don’t have any friends who might want to come to your girls-only sex party—or you’re too chicken to ask your friends— is there another way?

“If her slutty-friend pool is small, she could look at sites devoted to sex-positive folks, like FetLife or her local chapter of a leather women’s group. But she should be superexplicit about her women-only policy if she does post anywhere online, and she should also consider screening guests with a phone call. And I strongly recommend a closed-door

policy, i.e., folks must arrive by a certain time or they can’t come in. This keeps you from having to monitor the door all night so you can enjoy your own damn party.”

Q: I’m an early-30s gay man who’s never had much success with relationships.

I’ve had a female friend since college who’s generally wonderful but frequently pesters me with some variant of “So, when are you gonna settle down with a nice fella?” I try to deflect these comments without being too confrontational because I realize she wants me to be happy, but she never seems to get how annoying this is.

I’d like some way to indicate “You know relationships are not my forte, and you’re hurting my feelings” without having to risk hurting hers.

—FRIEND’S ANNOYING QUESTION A : So you’ve allowed a friend to hurt your feelings over and over again because you’re worried that telling her to knock it the fuck off might hurt her feelings? Speak up already, FAQ: “I have no idea if I’m ever going to settle down with a fella, nice or otherwise, and it hurts my feelings when you ask about it. So stop asking.”

If she persists, then either your friend doesn’t care that she’s hurting your feelings (malice!) or she’s too dense to realize this question hurts your feelings despite having been told it hurts your feelings (stupidity!). Then you’ll have to ask yourself why you’re wasting your time on someone who’s malicious, stupid, or both. v Send letters to mail@ savagelove.net. Download the Savage Lovecast every Tuesday at thestranger.com. ! @fakedansavage.com

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STRAIGHT DOPE

By Cecil Adams

Q: How do we know how to

pronounce proper names in ancient Egyptian? I understand the Rosetta Stone gave us the ability to translate hieroglyphics, but how do we know two birds laying eggs is pronounced “Tutankhamun”?

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A: Our knowledge of Egyptian pronunciation begins with the Rosetta Stone too, Dave.

Discovered in 1799, the stone is a black granitelike slab on which a decree by Ptolemy V is inscribed in three languages— hieroglyphics, what’s now called demotic script, and ancient Greek. The decree itself, issued in Memphis in 196 BC, is of little consequence. (Short version: I, Ptolemy V, have done great deeds. Worship me, dudes.)

What makes the Rosetta Stone special is that each language conveys an essentially identical message. In other words, the Rosetta Stone is a hieroglyphics cheat sheet.

The two researchers who vied to translate the Rosetta Stone were the French linguist Jean-François Champollion and the English freelance genius Thomas Young. Young had the first breakthrough, discovering that demotic script was actually a cursive version of hieroglyphics. However, like most everyone else at the time, he thought both hieroglyphs and demotic characters were ideographic—i.e., that each symbol represented a concept rather than representing only a sound, as with the Latin alphabet.

Young, on the other hand, believed some hieroglyphs were phonetic—specifically, those used to spell out the names of foreign rulers, which because they had no local equivalent could only be expressed phonetically.

This proved to be the key. The Rosetta scripts encoded different languages. But proper names, often enclosed in an oblong border called a cartouche, would presumably be pronounced similarly regardless of language.

Young tried to assign phonetic values to the cartouche glyphs, but translated only six before giving up. The task fell to Champollion.

He made two breakthroughs. The first was comparing the demotic characters signifying Ptolemy on the Rosetta Stone to those representing Cleopatra in a separate example of

demotic. He found characters corresponding to the Greek equivalents of P, L, T, O, and E in each name. In other words, demotic characters didn’t just symbolize concepts; they spelled out how words were pronounced. (As you may have guessed, in Greek the P in Ptolemy isn’t silent.)

Champollion’s next brainstorm was more of a leap. First he identified the hieroglyphs corresponding to various demotic characters. Then he took the hieroglyphs for Ptolemy on the Rosetta Stone and compared them to those on an obelisk, in a cartouche known to signify Cleopatra. Sure enough, he found the P, L, O, and E hieroglyphs exactly where he predicted. What about the T? Champollion deduced he’d found a hieroglyphic homophone for this letter—that is, another symbol having the same pronunciation, as with our F and PH. Champollion set about finding other correspondences between Greek letters and hieroglyphs. In 1822 he found non-cartouche-enclosed hieroglyphs spelling out “Ra-mes-ses” (i.e., the name Ramses, used by numerous pharaohs). Bingo! Champollion’s work wasn’t confirmed until 1866, when another multilingual text was discovered. But he’d figured it out.

So that’s how we know how to pronounce ancient Egyptian names. That’s not to say an ancient Egyptian would know what you were talking about if you chronoported back to Thebes in the second century BC and asked to see Tutankhamen. As any American knows who’s earned Parisian scorn trying to communicate with just a French-English dictionary, the Latin alphabet gives only a rough idea of pronunciation. One wonders how, without a surviving recording, someone in the future would phonetically translate North Dakotan, Cajun, or Valley Girl versions of English. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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