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4 Agenda Newsies, comedy from Dave Maher, the film All the Difference, and more recommendations

20 Lit/Visual Art A local artbook imprint debuts with The Inborn Absolute: The Art of Robert Ryan.

22 Movies Jason Bourne works on his personal problems in Jason Bourne.

CITY LIFE

8 Street View The ripped denim trend continues its tattered march down summer’s sidewalks.

8 Chicagoans Charles Berg is the king of Stamp King, Chicago’s last stamp store.

NEWS

LeClaire Courts in limbo

Former residents of the demolished southwest-side public housing project have been waiting nearly a decade for their right to return.

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MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE 28 Shows of note Sumac, Deerhoof, L7, Dolly Parton, and more 31 The Secret History of Chicago Music Get the scoop on girl garage band the Sunshine Sequence.

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37 Restaurant review: Mahalo The ersatz luau wipes out while surfing the crest of Chicago’s Polynesian wave.

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18 Theater Steppenwolf revives Evan Linder’s searing southern drama Byhalia, Mississippi.

18 Theater Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival of New Plays reignites.

19 Comedy Second City and Slate join forces for Unelectable You.

44 Straight Dope Has all of the drinkable water on the Earth passed through dinosaur kidneys?

45 Savage Love The perils of Pokémon Go, and more 46 Early Warnings Dickies, Kris Kristofferson, Twin Peaks, and more shows in the weeks to come 46 Gossip Wolf Los Crudos celebrate their 25th year, and more music news.

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pany’s Dear James Franco, in which one performer reads from various published letters and the others write down key phrases which then become titles for improvised scenes. The only difference here is they’re reading from D-list celebrity autobiographies (Corey Feldman’s Coreyography and Ben Carson’s Gifted Hands on opening night). The formula still works wonders, especially with improvisers so eager to create urgent, highly idiosyncratic scenes (a couple spends their first date held captive by a married couple trying to rekindle their passion). The attempts to bring all of the evening’s disparate characters together is singularly impressive. Under the Gun has assembled its tightest, most inventive ensemble yet. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 8/27: Sat 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

The Iliad, The Odyssey, and All of Greek Mythology in 99 Minutes or Less What’s the sense in muscling through the Iliad, the Odyssey, and all of Greek mythology in 99 minutes or less while moving your audience from one outdoor location to another? Got me. The rules of this Theatre-Hikes production seem a tad arbitrary. But once you decide just to let go and let Zeus, the results are entertaining. Under the direction of Ron Popp, five toga-wearing actors review a swath of ancient Greek lore, starting with the creation, pausing over the Trojan War, and finishing up—in a rush—with trials of Odysseus. The tone is eye-rollingly goofy (Hermes to Zeus: “You the man!” Zeus to Hermes: “I’m the god.”) But the company is affable, and you’ve got to hand it to coauthors Jay Hopkins and John Hunter: they don’t back down from the squirmier aspects of the tales. The big contingent of kids among us seemed to take that stuff in stride. —TONY ADLER Through 8/28: Sat-Sun 1 PM, Morton Arboretum, 4100

Illinois Rte. 53, Lisle, 630-725-2066, theatre-hikes.org, $5-$20.

Learning Curve One of the first R flashbacks I experienced walking into Ellen Gates Starr High School, the

fictional setting of this Albany Park Theater Project production in the remains of the closed Saint Hyacinth Basilica, is just how goddamn rude authority figures can be to teenagers. Many ambitious Chicago companies have asked audiences to trudge up and down the stairs of community centers/churches/ schools in the service of site specificity, but few have done so with the impact of this experiential meditation on youngadult life. Directed with an assist from Brooklyn’s Third Rail Project, 33 youth artists usher small groups through a poetic view of their days. There are some magnificently transcendent moments—like being asked, as an adult, over a paper game of MASH, surrounded by the smell of a real classroom, to dream about your future. —DAN JAKES Through 11/19: times and dates vary; see website, Ellen Gates Starr High School, 3640 W. Wolfram, $40.

Newsies In 1899 New York newsR boys went on strike, demanding a better deal from Joseph Pulitzer and

William Randolph Hearst. It’s cool that they won, but it would’ve been so much cooler had they done it dancing like the killer chorus in this touring show.

Based on if not entirely faithful to Disney’s 1992 movie musical, the stage Newsies (Broadway, 2012-2014) gives us Jack Kelly, a charismatic but troubled teen who organizes his fellow child laborers almost in spite of himself while falling in love with the “girl reporter” covering the strike. The songs by Alan Menken and Jack Feldman are almost unanimously anthemic, and Harvey Fierstein’s book outdoes the original for aspirational schmaltz. It’s the dancing, though, that stirs things up. An Agnes de Mille-ian mix of folk motifs and balletic athleticism, Christopher Gatelli’s choreography gets exuberant, often airborne realization here, complemented by the mobile, scaffolding-like units of Tobin Ost’s set. Appropriately, it’s a union show. —TONY ADLER Through 8/7: Wed 2 and 7:30 PM, Thu-Fri 7:30 PM,

100 Hauntings Free Street’s latest community-based work is 100 Hauntings, a broad sifting of ghost stories collected by the company through hundreds of interviews with Chicago residents. I had no idea so much of this city was possessed by demons. I also learned some remedies to expel a ghost if I ever meet one (here’s a freebie: for haunted rooms, grind dry orange peel to a powder, then burn it in a pile outside the doorway). Regrettably, the poor verb “haunt” is called upon to do too much work here, and it is with great solemnity and the world’s best intentions that Free Street recalls some other ways in which Chicago remains “haunted” to this day: by the legacies of redlining, poverty, and gun violence. These are the most serious of truths—too serious, I think, to ride piggyback on a winded pun. A full indoor staging opens October 14.

—MAX MALLER Fri 8/5, 6 PM, Calumet Park, 9801 S. Avenue G., 312-747-6039, freestreet.org. F Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash This tepid 2005 jukebox musical collecting some of Johnny Cash’s hits (among them, “I Walk the Line,” “Daddy Sang Bass,” “The Man in Black”), only ran 57 performances on Broadway.

It’s not hard to see why. Neither a full-fledged concert nor a musical biography, the show is a lame hybrid the momentum of which is slowed by short bits of biographical info that never quite add up to compelling story. The current production, directed by Joe Keefe, is packed with young actors who get the accents right but can’t find the fire in these iconic tunes, all the more a shame when the band, led by David Welker, nails it. —JACK HELBIG Through 9/3: Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 7 PM, Sun 3 PM, Metropolis Performing Arts Centre, 111 W. Campbell, Arlington Heights, 847-5772121, metropolisarts.com, $38.

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The Taming of the Shrew Director Adrianne Cury does a nice job minimizing the misogyny in this witty but flawed Shakespearean chestnut. In her version, the laughs don’t come from

Petruchio’s physical abuse of Kate, but from how well these two misfits (both are shrews in her version) understand each other—and how well they play together. As the couple in question, John Crosthwaite and Jhenai Mootz display an honest and very winning passion for each other. Likewise, Daniella Pereira transforms Kate’s more agreeable but often less interesting sister, Bianca, into something feisty and fascinating.

Not all of the casting in this show is as successful, and some of the physical bits are Jerry Lewis awful. But the fire is there, and that’s enough to carry the show. —JACK HELBIG Through 8/27: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 7 PM; also Wed 8/24, 8 PM, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Austin Gardens, Forest & Ontario, Oak Park, 708-445-4440, oakparkfestival.com, $29, $24 seniors, $15 students.

Troll Where would Dante, writing R today, have put the online troll in his vision of Hell? I think it would have

been the seventh circle, with those violent against others, where centaurs keep watch over captive souls as they boil eternally for their sins in a river of blood. The centaur, beast to the chest and down, was the ancient symbol for that bestiality that overcomes the heart in moments of intense hatred—and the animal rage in Troll provokes such vicious, inhuman outbursts as would only be possible for the cowards who commit them with the help of some mask or other. That mask—an actual one made of rubber in Melanie Keller’s exquisite staging for Fraud & Phony Theatricals—is the Internet. Two entire families are destroyed by so many words on a screen in Elizabeth Archer’s astonishing play, which meditates on the anonymous violence of virtual harassment with absolute sophistication and craft. —MAX MALLER Through 8/13: Thu-Sun 8 PM, Trap Door Theatre, 1655 W. Cortland, 773-384-0494, fraudandphony.com, $10.

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Imagists, a 2014 doc about the group, of which Rossi was a member. Wed 8/10, 6 PM. Mon-Thu 11 AM-5 PM, Fri 11 AM-7 PM, Sat-Sun noon-5 PM. 935 W. Fullerton, 773-325-7506, museums.depaul.edu.

Dave Maher ò EVAN MILLS film. Wed 8/3, 7:30 PM, United Center, 1901 W. Madison, 312-455-4500, unitedcenter.com, $64-$587.

The Rangefinder Gallery “Paris, Nothing New,” an exhibition of photographs

by Olivier Meyer. Opening reception Fri 8/5, 6-9 PM. 8/5-8/27. Mon-Fri: 9 AM-5:30 PM, Sat: 10 AM-2 PM. 300 W. Superior, 312-642-2255, rangefindergallery.com.

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Arguments and Grievances R Comedy Debates Local comedians Kevin White, Zach Peterson, and

Kevin Brody debate eccentric topics in a live comedy podcast, leaving the audience to decide whose argument is the winner. Tonight’s performance celebrates the show’s third year. Sun 8/7, 8 PM, North Bar, 1637 W. North, 773-1235678, argumentsandgrievances.com, $5.

Dave Maher II Kick yourself R for not showing up to the Annoyance’s one-night revival of Dave

Maher Coma Show, in which the titular stand-up comic tells the story of his descent into and painstaking recovery from a 2014 diabetic coma. Maher is that rare monologist who combines a sharp eye for the microdetail (his meticulous description of the two-hour shower he took after being released from months in rehab is riveting) with a keen understanding of macrostructure, making for a performance both disarmingly personal and carefully controlled. After sitting through these 70 minutes, I’d watch Maher do just about anything. Luckily he’s in the middle of an eight-week run at the Annoyance, dubbed Dave Maher II, where he’s putting up a new show every week. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 8/24: Wed 9:30 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, theannoyance.com, $5.

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Mal Hall California-based comedian Mal Hall comes to Chicago for a series of stand-up shows over the weekend. 8/4-8/7: Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 and 10:15 PM, Sat 7 and 9:15 PM, Sun 7 PM, Chicago Improv, 5 Woodfield, Schaumburg, 847-240-2001, $15.

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Liquid Courage An interactive improv show and drinking game.

Through 8/29: Fri 10:30 PM, Second City Chicago Beat Lounge, 1616 N. Wells, 312-337-3992.

VISUAL ARTS DePaul Art Museum A guided tour of the exhibits “Barbara Rossi: Poor Traits” and “Barbara Rossi: Eye Owe You!” and a screening of Hairy Who & the Chicago

charter school for disadvantaged students, and Lending cuts back and forth between them as Henderson, hoping to complete a pre-med degree, matriculates to lily-white Lake Forest College, whereas Branch, who’s interested in law enforcement, enrolls at Fisk University in Nashville. Both young men have trouble keeping up as undergraduates, and the action cuts rather abruptly from their mounting academic difficulties to their ultimate triumphs without much explanation. But Lending has gotten the big picture into sharp focus, showing how the growing financial and emotional burdens of higher education weigh even more heavily on the poor. —J.R. JONES 83 min. Screens as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival; for a full schedule visit siskelfilmcenter.org. Sun 8/7, 3 PM, and Mon 8/8, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

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Heartbreaker Launch Party Writer Maryse Meijer debuts her first story anthology, Heartbreaker, and discusses femininity, masculinity, family, girlhood, sexual desire, self-destruction, and more with Chicago author Lindsay Hunter. Thu 8/4, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-7699299, womenandchildrenfirst.com.

Lakeview Lit Syndicate The book club discusses Paul Beatty’s comedic novel The Sellout. Tue 8/9, 6:30, Unabridged Bookstore, 3251 N. Broadway, 773-8839119, unabridgedbookstore.com.

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More at chicagoreader.com/movies NEW REVIEWS All the Difference Chicagoan Tod R Lending, whose Oscar-nominated documentary Legacy (2000) looked

at a family trying to survive the Henry Horner Homes, returns to the west side for this Hoop Dreams-like story of two impoverished Englewood teens fighting an uphill battle to get through college.

Robert Henderson and Krishaun Branch both graduate from Urban Prep, a

All the Difference Almost Holy Pastor Gennadiy R Mokhnenko, the flawed hero of this stirring 2015 documentary, runs Pil-

grim Republic, a rehabilitation center for drug-addicted street kids in Mariupol, Ukraine. A charismatic and controversial figure, Mokhnenko has been called a vigilante by his critics but insists he must intervene in the lives of homeless youth and battered women because government services are ill-equipped to help them and the police don’t seem to care. At one point Mokhnenko quotes Dostoyevsky to defend his unorthodox methods: “I am not rebelling against my God, I simply don’t accept His world.”

Beginning with his rough formation of Pilgrim’s Republic in 2000 and ending with Russia’s military push into Ukraine in 2014, director Steve Hoover peels back multiple layers of Mokhnenko’s story with artistry and acuity, assisted by a heady and propulsive score from composer Atticus Ross (The Social Network, Gone Girl). —LEAH PICKETT 96 min. Fri 8/5, 2:30 PM, and Sat 8/6–Sun 8/7, 11:45 AM. Music Box Bad Moms It’s not just a title—it’s a demographic! Mila Kunis stars as a frazzled working mother who snaps under the pressure and decides that, instead of working full-time at a part-time job and catering to every whim of her two

min. AMC 600, River East 21, Block 37, Arclight Diary of a Chambermaid Léa R Seydoux stars in this third screen adaptation of Octave Mirbeau’s fin de

siecle novel, making the title character more cynical than in Jean Renoir’s 1946 adaptation and more downtrodden than in Luis Buñuel’s 1964 version. A young Parisian of abundant intelligence but limited means, she accepts a new post out in the country, where she attracts the attention of the lecherous master (Hervé Pierre), his rabidly anti-Semitic manservant (Vincent Lindon), and the crackpot army captain next door (Patrick D’Assumçao). Director Benoît Jacquot (Sade, A Tout de Suite) favors pronounced camera zooms, which become more ominous as his satirical drama morphs into a psychological crime thriller. In French with subtitles. —ANDREA GRONVALL 96 min. Fri 8/5, 2 and 6 PM; Sat 8/6, 5 PM; Sun 8/7, 3 PM; Mon 8/8, 6 PM; Tue 8/9, 8 PM; Wed 8/10, 6 PM, and Thu 8/11, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Gleason Diagnosed with ALS in R 2011, former NFL player Steve Gleason agreed to let filmmaker Clay

Tweel document his battle with the disease, partly so his newborn son would have a record of him before he µ

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B lost the ability to speak. “This is not gonna crush my life, even if it crushes my body,” Gleason insists, and the early scenes show a man of exceptional candor, eloquence, and determination. He embraces fatherhood, tries to mend fences with his own emotionally detached dad, and spends his last precious days of motor activity launching a foundation to help other ALS patients. But as Gleason’s physical condition worsens, the documentary becomes a harrowing study in marital devotion, capturing him and his loyal wife, Michel Varisco, in a series of increasingly bleak moments together. “What can I do to be more important to you?”

Gleason asks her piteously, but one already knows the answer: nothing.

—J.R. JONES R, 111 min. Crown Village 18, Landmark’s Century Centre, River East 21 Indignation This drama R about a bright young Jewish boy from Newark attending a

small, midwestern liberal arts college in the 1950s was adapted from a novel by Philip Roth, so you know you’re in for some pretty heavy philosophy and some pretty good head. The philosophy arrives courtesy of the dean of men (Tracy Letts), who clashes with the protagonist (Logan Lerman) over the existence of God and closely monitors his attendance at daily chapel; the head arrives courtesy of a pretty, forward classmate (Sarah Gadon), who wins the protagonist’s devotion but then turns out to be deeply troubled. As in so many of Roth’s novels, the action is dominated by male concerns and masculine codes of conduct, yet the most striking moment is a quietly fierce monologue from the boy’s mother (veteran character actress Linda Emond) in which she talks him down from marrying the fragile young woman. James Schamus, a longtime producer for Ang Lee, Todd Haynes, and others, directed his own script. —J.R. JONES R, 110 min. Landmark’s Century Centre

Private Property Released R in 1960—the same year as Psycho and Michael Powell’s Peep-

ing Tom—this pervy low-budget thriller stars Corey Allen and a babyish Warren Oates as drifters who arrive in LA, follow a statuesque blond (Kate Manx) back to her home in the Hollywood Hills, and spy on her from the vacant house next door, waiting for the right moment to rape her. Leslie Stevens, a TV writer directing his debut feature, pays homage to Hitchcock in the dialogue and, in like fashion, gives his heroine a complicating psychological wrinkle: neglected by her workaholic husband and starved for attention, she’s easy prey when Allen’s character, a smooth-talking menace, appears at her door posing as a down-and-out landscaper. Stevens shot the movie in ten days at his own home, casting his wife in the lead and drawing a gentle, appealing performance from Manx in her first big-screen role. He would go on to create the sci-fi anthology series The Outer Limits; she would divorce him and commit suicide at age 34. —J.R. JONES 79 min. Fri 8/5, 7:45 PM; Sat 8/6–Sun 8/7, 5:45 and 7:45 PM; Mon 8/8–Thu 8/11, 7:45 PM. Facets Cinematheque Roseanne for President! This shoddily produced documentary about Roseanne Barr’s 2012 presidential run is charming only for its subject, a blue-collar doyenne of prime-time TV. Her campaign barely made a dent in the election cycle, but her fiery populism and anti-Wall Street rhetoric anticipate the rise of Bernie Sanders. After losing the Green Party nomination to Dr. Jill Stein, Barr becomes the candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, though her self-proclaimed aversion to “weirdos” precludes her from pounding the campaign trail. Director Eric Weinrib has an appealing dichotomy at his disposal—the comedian shouts “Power to the people!” at rallies but at home admits, “I hate to be around people and

The Seventh Fire In the defining moment of this 2015 documentary, teenagers from the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwest Minnesota sarcastically chant “Hey-ya! Hey-ya!” as they sit in a basement getting high. The poverty and social dysfunction of many Native American communities is hardly news, but documentary maker Jack Pettibone Riccobono focuses on the relatively recent phenomenon of traditional street gangs creeping into Indian reservations. Dividing his narrative between two Ojibwe men—a teenage drug dealer eager to earn his gang colors and a veteran gangbanger on prison furlough who rues the mess he’s made of his life—Riccobono creates a credible panorama of modern small-town America in which children wave little U.S. flags at the annual Fourth of July parade even as the teen sidles through the crowd hawking crystal meth. —J.R. JONES 75 min.

Fri 8/5, 7 and 9 PM; Sat 8/6, 5, 7, and 9 PM; Sun 8/7, 5 and 7 PM; and Mon 8/8–Thu 8/11, 7 and 9 PM. Facets Cinematheque Suicide Squad Warner Bros. enlarges its DC Comics universe with this dull blockbuster about five supervillains offered release from prison if they’ll execute an impossible government mission. Will Smith stars as Deadshot, the all-American sniper hero, but Margot Robbie keeps hogging the screen as Harley Quinn, a barking-mad psychiatrist who wears clown-white makeup, dyed pigtails, and girly-punk outfits. Writer-director David Ayer can’t take his eyes off her, but that’s probably a good thing because he specializes in mean, annihilating police actioners (Training Day, End of Watch, Sabotage) and whenever Robbie isn’t dancing around, the movie feels as heavy and relentless as a Mack truck. The comic book series has played with the idea of the Suicide Squad as a controversial work-release program, with the attendant problem of recidivism (shouldn’t these guys be in Guantanamo?). But Ayers doesn’t do anything with that, political comment having drained away from comic book movies since The Dark Knight.

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CITY LIFE Street View

Holier than thou

Chicagoans

The philatelist

THE WORLD LOOKS torn and frayed.

And quite literally so, as the ripped denim trend continues its tattered march down summer’s sidewalks. Back in May, in one of his last “On the Street” columns for the New York Times, the late Bill Cunningham asked a salient question: “Is this a reflection of the tearing apart of established political parties?” Maybe. What it certainly is is yet another resurgence of a 90s fashion fixture. —ISA GIALLORENZO

Charles Berg, 74, owner of Stamp King

Clockwise from top: Jessica Pimentel, wardrobe stylist; Molly Ryan, musician; Scott Cruz, art director ò ISA GIALLORENZO

MY GRANDFATHER WAS a lifelong stamp collector, and I used to love watching what he was doing; I thought it was really cool. What did I know? I was a six-year-old. On one of those occasions, I was home with the measles, and he said, “Would you like to collect stamps?” Well, anything my grandfather thought was cool, I was all into. He gave me a box of stamps, he gave me an old album, he showed me what to do, and that was it. I tell people, “When I was six years old, I caught the measles and stamp collecting, but the measles went away.”

There was just something about my grandfather. He was from the Netherlands, and he came to Chicago with his dad in 1893. His father was a master brewer who came to work at the Dutch pavilion at the World’s Columbian Exposition, and they never went back. My grandfather was simply my idol. We had a couple of little tables in the den, and he’d work on his stamps and I’d work on my stamps, and we wouldn’t even speak; it was like being really close to each other without communicating. Over my desk I have a picture of him, and he’s carrying me

“In Chicago there used to be dozens of stamp stores,” says Berg, who runs the city’s last such outpost. ò DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS

in one arm and my brother in the other arm, and my brother has just plucked my grandfather’s stamp tongs from his pocket.

In Chicago there used to be dozens of stamp stores. Marshall Field’s had a stamp department at one time, and so did Carson’s. I used to work for the guy who owned this store. He sold the business to a customer of ours, and then the two of them had a falling out. Years of court battles, and then what was left of it fell on my head. I’m sitting here trying to keep this place going. It’s kind of a mess. But I’m still here. I’m really trying to keep it going, because it’s the only stamp store left in the whole city and suburbs.

I was sitting here one afternoon, and a couple comes in with a cover [a used envelope bearing canceled postage], and they want to know if it has any value. It’s a large-size cover, with a ten- and a 12-cent stamp from

the 1870s. It also has a black-and-red stamp depicting Lincoln, a 90-cent stamp from 1869. I happened to know that that stamp [is priced at] over $2,000 for a used copy. What is that worth on cover? I turned to the catalog. It’s not listed.

So I made a phone call to a friend of mine who specializes in 19thcentury U.S. stamps. I told him, “I have an oversize cover that has a 90cent Lincoln on it, sent from Boston to Calcutta in 1873.” And he tells me, “That’s the Ice House Cover. It was stolen almost 40 years ago. You cannot let that out of the store. Have you called the police?” My response was “The couple who brought it in is with me. Can you help me?” He knew what I meant. A few minutes later, there were five squad cars outside. Long story short, five hours later, the cover left in the possession of the FBI. —AS TOLD TO ANNE FORD

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Windy City Ducky Derby An annual fundraiser that benefits Illinois Special Olympics. More than 50,000 yellow rubber ducks (available for “adoption” for $5) race down the Chicago River toward the finish line, with prizes for winning ducks.

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E Bad News Bea rs : 40th Ann iversa r y Dan Epstein, author of Stars and Strikes: Baseball and America in the Bicentennial Summer of ’76, hosts a special screening of The Bad News Bears on the movie’s 40th anniversary.

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F Mychal Denzel Smith and Marc Lamont Hill The authors discuss their respective works on racial inequality: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching and Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, From Ferguson to Flint and Beyond. 6 PM, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, 5751 N. Woodlawn, semcoop.com. F

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CITY LIFE

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speakable debt. And yet, like that alderman, our corporate, civic, and media elite signed on anyway.

Let’s face it, folks: When it came to Daley, everybody in Chicago was a rubber stamp.

Well, not everybody. At this point, I’d like to distribute some symbolic gold medals to the few intrepid souls who had the courage to tell the mayor the Olympics were a terrible idea—to tell the emperor he had no clothes.

Maybe by doing so I can encourage a few other brave dissenters to break from the ranks the next time another mayor proposes a really bad idea.

POLITICS

Gold-medal dissenters

These people had the guts to say no to Mayor Daley’s Olympic dreams.

By BEN JORAVSKY

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n the summer of 2009, at the height of Mayor Daley’s push to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, I had a conversation with an alderman that resonates with me to this day.

Under pressure from the International Olympic Committee, Daley had just strongarmed the City Council into unanimously voting to write what amounted to a blank check to cover all cost overruns for hosting the games.

Yes, the alderman said, he knew it would probably bankrupt the city. But he supported the bid in public and voted for the blank check anyway because he didn’t want to upset the mayor or look like the local version of unpatriotic.

“Besides,” he predicted, “Rio’s getting the games.”

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“And if you’re wrong?” I asked.

He paused and said, “We’re screwed.”

Well, it turns out the alderman was correct on two fronts: Rio did get the games—the opening ceremony is Friday. (Oh, where did those seven years go?)

And we would have been screwed had the IOC awarded the games to us.

If you recall, Daley insisted it would cost no more than $3.8 billion to host the games. Last I saw, the estimate for the Rio games was $14.4 billion. Hey, Chicago: imagine paying for that baby with your property tax bills.

My aldermanic buddy was by no means the only silently skeptical Olympic flag-waver back then. And the perverse thing is, they all knew Daley’s Olympic dreams were folly.

They knew they would saddle us with un-

NO GAMES CHICAGO: A coalition of activists, led by Tom Tresser and Bob Quellos, that questioned the city’s estimates and showed up at hearings to debate Daley’s boosters.

The group even sent a delegation to Europe to petition the IOC to vote against Chicago’s bid.

I’m pretty sure no one in a position of power around here will ever credit the No Games crowd for turning the tide against the games—you wouldn’t want to encourage other citizens to think they could actually beat City Hall from time to time.

But Daley took them seriously—at least, he had undercover cops spy on the group. In 2015, after Mick Dumke and I reported on the spying, Quellos filed a Freedom of Information Act request, asking the police department to release its files on No Games.

More than a year has passed and Quellos is still in court, fighting city lawyers to force the police to turn over those files. In some ways, you might say the city’s Olympic bid is still wasting your tax dollars.

RETIRED POLICE OFFICER PAT HILL AND OTHER MEMBERS OF BLACK PEOPLE AGAINST POLICE TORTURE: This ad hoc group opposed the games largely on the grounds that Chicago didn’t deserve them for having looked the other way while former police commander Jon Burge and his minions tortured suspects in the basement of the Area Two police headquarters at 91st and Cottage Grove throughout the 80s and into the 90s.

I remember walking through Washington Park with one member of the group, a retired city worker named Bodhi (he went by just one name, like Prince). As he gathered signatures on petitions opposing the games, Bodhi said we lived in a kleptocracy—a government of thieves. “ ’Cause that’s what this is,” he said, “a land grab,” alluding to the city’s proposal to put a stadium in the park.

When I called to tell Bodhi I was giving him a gold medal, he said he’d come up with a new term: “distractracy”—in which rulers subdue the ruled by distracting them.

In this presidential election year, I think Bodhi’s on to something.

CHICAGO’S COPS: On April 2, 2009, when an IOC delegation came to Chicago to review the city’s bid proposal, hundreds of police officers and their families marched around City Hall, bearing signs that said: “No contract, no Olympics!”

At the time, the Fraternal Order of Police, the police union, was negotiating a contract with Daley, and it irritated rank-and-file cops that the city would effectively tell them We have money for the Olympics, but not for raises.

Was their protest self-serving? Who cares?

Those protesting policemen and women showed more backbone than all the other unions in town. They all went along to get along with this sorry escapade.

Maybe the cops should file their own FOIA request to see if Daley was spying on them.

THE READER: I know you’re thinking—the fix is in! But consider this: As far as I can tell, the Reader was the only media outlet in town that did not contribute to Chicago 2016, the notfor-profit committee Mayor Daley created to oversee the bid.

You can look it up on Chicago 2016’s stewardship report.

It looks like every media outlet kicked in a little something to the Olympic cause—upwards of $100,000 in some cases. That included the Sun-Times, the Tribune, and the major TV stations.

In 2009, Ben Eason, who then owned the Reader, told me it wasn’t principled opposition that kept him from contributing to the cause.

It’s just that no one asked him.

For all I know, he might have thrown in with all the other media lemmings as they led us off the cliff if only Daley’s fund-raisers had called.

To this day, I wonder why they didn’t solicit us. Was it something I wrote? If so, I’m not sorry!

Anyway, enjoy your gold medals, fellow dissidents. As No Games activist Francesca Rodriguez put it: You “medaled without doping.” As always, I wish there were more of you out there. v

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CITY LIFE Neighborhood residents want the CTA to extend the Ogden Avenue bus back to Pulaski Road.

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n the second half of the 20th century, the North Lawndale community area on Chicago’s west side was devastated by redlining and other racist lending practices that led to civil unrest among the neighborhood’s by then booming black population. Fifty years ago this summer, Martin Luther King Jr. moved his family to an apartment in the neighborhood to highlight the need for fair housing and other improvements in black areas of northern cities.

North Lawndale never recovered economically from the disinvestment and social upheavals of the last 50 years. The area’s population plummeted from a high of 124,937 in 1960 to 35,623 in 2014. According to the U.S. Census, the median household income is currently $25,797, far below the city average of $47,408.

In April the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council and others launched the neighborhood’s first comprehensive plan since 1958, covering infrastructure, housing, economic development, transit, and more.

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Last week, the council hosted a panel discussion that featured a pair of speakers from the Active Transportation Alliance and the Red Line Extension Coalition, to discuss possible transit improvements in North Lawndale and share best practices from transit advocacy elsewhere in the city.

The area—bounded roughly by Taylor Street, Kenton Avenue, Metra’s BNSF Line, and Campbell Avenue—has four CTA Pink Line stations. The Blue and Green Lines aren’t far away. But community leaders say further improving public transportation access is key to creating more opportunities for residents.

Specifically, NLCCC members argue that restoring bus service on Ogden Avenue and other corridors would be a shot in the arm for the struggling neighborhood.

Ogden, a major arterial street that runs southwest from downtown and through North Lawndale, is a priority for residents because CTA buses used to travel down the avenue all the way to Pulaski Road, well into the heart of

the neighborhood. But in 2008 the Ogden bus line was truncated due to low ridership on its western leg.

The route now extends only as far southwest as California Avenue, a mile and a half east of Pulaski, by Mount Sinai Hospital. (The line was eventually merged with the #157 Streeterville/Taylor route, which provides northeastbound service from Mount Sinai to the area near Northwestern Memorial Hospital on weekdays only, from the early morning to the early evening.)

“We’re not professional transportation people, but we do have a love and passion for our community,” said Valerie Leonard, a community development consultant present at last week’s forum. “We want to make sure that transit is accessible and affordable. People have said, ‘Some jobs I can’t take because of the way the buses run.’”

Meeting attendee Gussie Dye, a retired nurse who’s lived in the neighborhood since 1959, said she used to ride the Ogden bus to classes at Malcolm X College and UIC, and to her job at the VA Medical Center. Now, instead of having a direct bus route to appointments at Northwestern, she walks to the Kedzie bus and rides north to Chicago Avenue, then catches another bus east to Streeterville—a much longer trip.

“I would like to know what action needs to be taken to get [Ogden service] restored,” she said.

“We know a lot of people who want to see service restored on Ogden,” said panelist Cynthia Hudson, an Active Transportation Alliance community liaison who also lives in North Lawndale. “We can start right away with a petition.”

But, Hudson explained, “[the CTA needs] to see the need for it. They look at the ridership amounts and the number of people calling 311 and the alderman’s office. So my question for you is: What’s new on Ogden or in a two-block radius?” Offering that information to the CTA, she explained, could help build the case for extending the bus line.

Attendees noted that since 2008, the neighborhood has seen the opening of a new charter school and the North Lawndale Christian Fitness Center, a large complex at 3950 W. Ogden that includes a cafe and meeting rooms. New events in Douglas Park like Riot Fest, the West Side Music Fest, and NLCCC’s first arts festi-

val, which debuts in a few weeks, would also spur more Ogden bus ridership, they said.

Active Trans’s in-house urban planners could also help develop projections on ridership, Hudson volunteered.

There is precedent for these kinds of efforts: there have been successful grassroots campaigns involving the #34 South Michigan route in Altgeld Gardens, as well as bus lines on 31st Street and Lincoln Avenue.

NLCCC member Rochelle Jackson, who works at the Juvenile Protective Association, explained that the council also wants to add service on existing transit lines in the neighborhood, and restore bus service to other North Lawndale corridors that currently lack it.

“You have long stretches where people don’t have a bus route, so they have to walk at least a mile to get where they’re going,” she said.

Jackson added that she’d like to see the Roosevelt bus route extended a few blocks west to Mayfield Avenue, and get the #18 bus that runs primarily along 16th and 18th Streets restored to its old route, which connected North Lawndale with Little Village.

In addition to helping win back bus service, Hudson said she’s available to assist residents with lobbying for better walking, biking, and transit infrastructure. Potential “complete streets” improvements could include new sidewalks and crosswalks, pedestrian countdown timers and refuge islands, bus shelters, and bike lanes.

“We want people to have options,” Hudson said. “When it comes to transportation, it’s not just about getting in your car and getting where you need to go in the fastest manner.

We want people to be active. Especially in North Lawndale, there’s a high rate of obesity and chronic disease . . . hence the emphasis on the built environment.”

Still, Dye said, she hopes restoring North Lawndale bus service will be a priority, so that fewer residents have long treks to transit. “I heard what you said about the obesity issue, and walking is good, I grant you,” she told Hudson. “But I often see young people pushing two or three kids [long distances] to the clinic or what have you. We deserve better.” v

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

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LeClaire Courts in limbo

Former residents of the demolished southwest-side public housing project have been waiting nearly a decade for their right to return.

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atalie Saffold walks slowly down the sidewalk, her hands tightly clutching her walker.

Every few paces the 59-year-old pauses and looks over the land spread before her. Wire fence surrounds 44 acres of overgrown grass, dandelions, and trees—a lot more trees than she remembers.

This lot was once the site of LeClaire Courts, a public housing development located two miles north of Midway Airport on Chi-

cago’s southwest side. As Saffold walks, she points to things that remind her of days past.

This site was once filled with 600 twostory row houses that stretched along Cicero Avenue from 42nd to 45th Street. A red concrete pillar once marked the start of a fire lane.

A vacant space was once a convenience store.

And here, on 45th Street between LaCrosse and Lamon, was her home.

“My unit sat right along here,” Saffold says, positioning herself across the alley, next to a

large tree split through its trunk. “My front door was right here.”

It’s 35 degrees in April, and it’s hard to tell whether the tears that form at the edges of her eyes are caused by the cold or by melancholy.

Built in 1950, LeClaire Courts was an early attempt at integrated, low-rise public housing. And unlike Chicago’s more infamous highrise housing projects—the towers of Cabrini-Green or Robert Taylor Homes—LeClaire had an almost suburban feel to it, with J

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Over the years the complex was home to thousands of low-income African-Americans living in a stable residential area that, over time, has become largely Latino.

Almost a decade ago the Chicago Housing Authority told residents they’d have to leave; LeClaire was slated for redevelopment as part of the agency’s Plan for Transformation, a ten-year initiative to tear down most of the city’s public housing projects and replace them with mixed-income developments containing a combination of public housing, market-rate, and affordable units. The CHA intended to build a 900-unit mixed-income development to replace LeClaire, and promised Saffold and her neighbors they could return once LeClaire was renovated. But today, five years after the complex was demolished, the site is still vacant.

A number of residents, including Saffold, still want to come home. And under the terms of the Plan for Transformation they have an official “right to return.” But for years the CHA has refused to answer their questions about whether, when, and how the site will be redeveloped. Plans to use part of the site for a charter school have only added to residents’ frustration and sparked a new set of tensions.

“I’m almost at the point that I’m ready to get me some lawyers,” Saffold says.

IT’S HARD TO IMAGINE that LeClaire Courts was once one of the most desirable public housing projects in Chicago. The development’s neatly trimmed front yards were a source of pride for residents who spent summers outside barbecuing and mingling with neighbors who were more like family.

“The camaraderie was absolutely wonderful out there,” remembers 66-year-old Sandra Walton, who moved to LeClaire in 1971 and lived there for decades. “People have this perception of people that live in public housing— that they don’t work, they’re lazy— and that’s not it. There were nurses, and CTA drivers, and just an array of people. We all took care of each other like a village.”

In 1987, LeClaire became Illinois’s first public housing community managed by residents.

In its prime the site included a day care facility, a computer lab, and a resource center. But like many public housing developments in Chicago, it had its troubles. Throughout the years, crime, high unemployment, and poor property maintenance plagued the site.

Saffold and her three children moved to LeClaire in 1981. She joined its local advisory

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Initially, residents were told units at LeClaire would be rehabbed in phases, and that they could remain while the work was going on, moving to other units while theirs were being worked on. But the CHA soon deemed the buildings too physically damaged to save, and, according to agency annual reports, began evaluating “redevelopment alternatives.” As a result, the agency stopped leasing units when residents moved out, leaving them vacant and boarded up.

The vacancies began to worry residents, who felt the decreasing occupancy levels were a risk to their safety.

Tenants continued to leave without being replaced, and in 2009 the CHA board ended LeClaire’s HUD housing assistance payment contract—federal money that helped subsidize half of LeClaire Courts’ units—essentially dooming it to close.

Residents—who were still under the impression they’d be able to remain at LeClaire while their homes were being rehabbed—were given 90 days to move out.

But Saffold resisted the housing authority’s demand, and attempted to organize others to join her.

“I was trying to get people to stay,” she explains. “I said, ‘Let them take us to jail. At least we could go in front of a judge and plead our case.’”

But many of her neighbors feared losing their subsidized housing. One by one, they packed their things and left.

The CHA offered residents relocation options that included living in another public housing development or receiving a temporary housing choice voucher, also known as Section 8, which can be used to subsidize the rent for an apartment on the private market.

Walton took the temporary voucher and moved to an apartment in Marquette Park.

Saffold relocated to a two-story unit in Bridgeport Homes. The date of her exit is still firmly etched in her mind: September 18, 2009. By the month’s end, all 200 families that remained would be out of LeClaire.

“I was hurt,” Saffold says. “I felt like I was betrayed.”

TODAY, SAFFOLD AND HER former neighbors feel like they are living in limbo. What was intended to be a brief wait has extended into seven years of uncertainty.

Saffold’s frustration has only grown. Al-

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though she’s fond of Bridgeport, it’s never felt like home.

“We’re still here waiting,” she says.

In 2011, after demolishing the complex, the CHA suspended plans to hire a development team for LeClaire, “pending review and further consideration,” according to agency annual reports. In 2014, the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, a public-private organization, completed a transportation study of LeClaire that suggested any redevelopment plan include a mixed-use retail, medical, and institutional complex on the site.

Yet no definitive plans emerged.

Former residents say they haven’t even been able to confirm whether the redevelopment would still include 300 units of public housing as was initially promised (alongside 300 market rate and 300 affordable units).

Neither has the area’s alderman, the 22nd Ward’s Ricardo Muñoz. “[CHA is] really hard to get through, even for an alderman,” he says during a recent visit to his office.

Muñoz says he first met with CHA officials in 2011, when LeClaire was redistricted into his ward. He presented the CHA with a plan he calls “a perfect trifecta,” wherein LeClaire would be divided into three parts: one-third housing, one-third institutional, and one-third commercial.

If Muñoz’s plan were to be implemented, it would leave less room for housing than CHA’s original proposal. He estimates there would be a maximum of 250 to 280 units, a third of which would be public.

Asked if he was worried his plan would break CHA’s promise to build 300 units of public housing, he says, “Oh, they’re going to break their promise. They haven’t kept a promise in the last 20 years . . . I mean, they knew they couldn’t keep their promise. I don’t know why they did that, but that’s CHA.” But even as it has stalled on LeClaire, the CHA has been collecting federal funds linked to its redevelopment. According to HUD documents, from 2013 to 2016 the CHA received $2.93 million in federal Replacement Housing Factor Funding for LeClaire. The program designates money for the redevelopment of CHA sites, although the agency isn’t legally required to use the money for the specific development earmarked for funds.

The CHA declined to address Muñoz’s remarks or a list of other questions. In a statement, agency spokesman Matt Aguilar said that “the CHA has a working group and continues to work with the Alderman, residents and other stakeholders to create a community-driven plan that will determine the future of LeClaire Courts.”

Saffold is part of the working group. But, she says, the CHA hasn’t met with residents in more than a year.

Last November the Academy for Global Citizenship, a public charter school that’s been located in the neighborhood since 2008, agreed to purchase just over six acres of LeClaire land from the CHA. The academy has two campuses—one on 47th Street and another in the annex of Phoebe A. Hearst Fine Arts Magnet School on Lamon Avenue. The land,

valued at just over $1.5 million according to CHA documents, is meant to house a new single campus for the school. Although AGC reps say the sale isn’t final yet, in June the academy released plans for its new campus. It includes a state-of-the-art sustainable building with a three-acre urban farm and greenhouse.

The plan has reignited former LeClaire residents’ anger about not being able to return to their homes, and inflamed tensions between former residents and charter school parents and teachers. Some former LeClaire tenants wonder why land they consider theirs is being turned over to a school their kids might not even be able to attend, and they fear that a new campus will cause the population of Hearst to drop and eventually force the school to close.

These tensions surfaced in a public hearing in January, when Donald Cole, a representative of the LeClaire/Hearst Community Organization, interrupted testimony in support of the new campus with his fervent opposition.

“AGC is not wanted,” he said, addressing a room full of faculty, parents, and students.

Saffold doesn’t visit the LeClaire area as much as she’d like to, but when she does, she notices the changes. Old neighbors have moved out or passed on. Businesses have closed down and new ones have opened in their place. And black families, once the majority in the neighborhood, are now scarce.

Still, Saffold dreams of returning.

Over the years, the list of LeClaire residents with a right to return has dwindled from 400 families to fewer than 40. Some no longer qualify or have died. Others have simply lost hope of ever returning and have made their temporary homes permanent.

But the low numbers don’t deter Saffold.

She thinks CHA still has an obligation to rebuild LeClaire, both for the former residents who still want to return, and to provide housing for other low-income Chicagoans.

“Even if it gets to two people wanting to come back . . . let other families that need them come,” she says. “They want to try to use that excuse that numbers are getting lower.

Quite naturally people get discouraged. . . .

They might move on, they might be tired of waiting. But I know some families out there need them housing. Whether we go back or not, they should build them back.” v

This story was produced as part of a fellowship with the Social Justice News Nexus, based at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University.

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Rocket Boys, the lawsuit

Who owns the rights to Homer Hickam’s life story?

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s any memoirist knows, the past can grow sweeter over time, but it can also turn bitter. And so it is with the gratitude former NASA engineer and author Homer H. Hickam Jr. expressed for his agent in the acknowledgments that preface Rocket Boys, his richly recalled account of a mid-20th century boyhood in a West Virginia mining town.

The agent was the first person Hickam thanked.

“I extend my infinite appreciation to Mickey Freiberg,” Hickam wrote, “for recognizing the value of the work from its first glimmering. It was his belief in the story, and his confidence in my ability to write it, that gave me the opportunity needed to proceed.”

Rocket Boys was a huge critical and popular success, named one of the great books of 1998 by the New York Times, picked as a Book of the Month Club selection by Literary Guild and Doubleday, excerpted in Life magazine, and published in 12 languages. An instant classic, it was made into the 1999 Universal Studios film October Sky.

But in a civil lawsuit filed in June in Los Angeles, Hickam charges that Freiberg, who died in 2012, breached his “fiduciary duties” to the author by conspiring with the film’s producer, acting on behalf of Universal, to offer the story only to them when Freiberg was supposed to be shopping it around competitively. In return for this betrayal, and unbeknown to the author, Hickam claims, Freiberg “worked out a deal to receive a percentage of the producer’s fee.”

Universal Pictures, Universal City Studios, and two Universal executives—president Jimmy Horowitz and vice president Christopher Herzberger—along with as many as 100 “John Does”—are named as defendants in the suit, which seeks at least $20 million in damages.

According to the allegations, the film was released with “little fanfare” by Universal, and was initially a box office disappointment.

It went on to become “recognized as one of the most inspirational movies ever made,” in steady demand for home viewing and school showings—not because of any support from

Universal, Hickam claims—but because he’s worked “diligently” over the years to promote it at community and library book events and on his website. And, he charges, in recent years, Universal has not been paying him the 5 percent of net profits on the film that he’s supposed to be getting.

But never mind—the movie’s not even the main bone of contention in this lawsuit. The fight is over something much less well-known: a pair of fledgling musical theater pieces adapted from Hickam’s story. One, Rocket Boys the musical, was developed by Hickam and a trio of collaborators; the other, October Sky, was created by a respected Chicago-area team and produced last year at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, in association with Universal Stage Productions. (According to the lawsuit, the studio’s Herzberger, a Naperville native with ties to the Marriott, attended a performance of the Rocket Boys musical in May last year.)

The Marriott show, written by the theater’s artistic director, Aaron Thielen, with a score by composer Michael Mahler, was directed by Rachel Rockwell. Maybe you saw it? I did, and enjoyed it—as did the critics. The production “couldn’t be more powerful or moving,” wrote the Reader’s Jack Helbig.

But, no doubt like most of the audience, I was unaware that October Sky had no connection with Homer Hickam, or that he’d been working on his own musical since 2006 (cowritten with Carl Tramon, with a score by Dan Tramon and Diana Belkowski). Or that their show had already been through numerous readings and two productions and was set to open off-Broadway, when, according to the lawsuit, Universal “pulled the rug out.”

In June 2015, Universal informed Hickam by letter that it would not approve any additional productions of Rocket Boys “at least” until after October Sky had completed its run at Marriott, which Hickam says frightened off his investors. According to the complaint, a subsequent letter sought an agreement from Hickam that he would never again produce any live stage production based on his life story.

Universal says it has no comment on pending litigation. But according to the lawsuit, the company claims that its original contract

with Hickam gives it the motion picture, other media, and live stage performance rights to anything he ever writes about his own life or his family, including any Rocket Boys sequels or prequels (such as a recently published novel about his parents, Carrying Albert Home).

In his lawsuit, Hickam maintains that he doesn’t need Universal’s approval, that his agreement with the studio only gave it the rights to the Rocket Boys story for a single movie, and never included live stage production or any of his other work.

And among the many other allegations in Hickman’s 39-page, ten-count complaint: the Marriott show copied elements of the Rocket Boys musical.

Besides the monetary damages, the lawsuit seeks to shut down October Sky, or to keep it from utilizing Hickam’s name, and to clarify Hickam’s agreement with Universal. The play is set for a run at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre this fall.

Universal informed Hickam that it would not approve any additional productions of Rocket Boys “at least” until after October Sky had completed its run.

In a brief phone interview last week, Hickam said he can’t discuss the lawsuit, but he’s fighting for the Rocket Boys musical because it “lifts up people and makes them think that they can reach their dreams.”

As for the agent to whom he was infinitely grateful: “I loved Mickey like a brother,” Hickam said, “so this is heartbreaking.” v

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Kiki Layne, Jeffery Owen Freelon Jr., and Evan Linder ò EVAN HANOVER

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Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival of New Plays reignites

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In a moment rife with shame and judgment from those she loves most, Laurel nevertheless finds strength thanks to a healthy mix of self-reflection and just not giving a damn. Her mistake made her who she was meant to be, she says—mother to her son. She might not know what she’s doing most days, but she declares her intention of standing her ground. Her house will only have two rules, she vows: love and honesty.

A tour-de-force cast adds life, warts and all, to this sharply written script with each emotional interaction. These spouses, family, and friends might love one another, but that doesn’t mean they don’t wrestle with hate, guilt—and eventually even the sort of forgiveness that makes going forward possible. v R BYHALIA, MISSISSIPPI Through 8/21: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 2:30 and 8 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1700 Theatre, 1700 N. Halsted, 312-3351650, thenewcolony.org, definitiontheatre. org, $30.

CRAP-SHOOTISHNESS is part of the charm of new play festivals, and with six scripts scheduled for readings, this one will necessarily have its share. But host Victory Gardens Theater has clearly taken measures to limit the downside variables. Ignition Festival’s opening-night offering, for instance, is by Greg Kotis, a former Neo-Futurist best known as coauthor of the eccentric Broadway hit Urinetown. (Of course, he also cowrote Yeast Nation, an awful thing set in the year 3,000,458,000 BCE, so maybe that’s not as reassuring as it sounds.) Kotis’s contribution is The Wayward Bunny (Fri 7:30 PM), in which a mystery writer undergoes a night of terror while searching for his missing son.

Another confidence builder is Laura Jacqmin, the Chicago-based author of several solid dramas, including the excellent Look, We Are Breathing. She’s represented here by EOM (End of Message) (Sat 7:30 PM), about game developers “crunching to meet an impossible deadline.”

Further attractions: Breach: A Manifesto on Race in America Through the Eyes of a Black Girl Recovering From SelfHate (Sat 3 PM) by Antoinette Nwandu, whose Pass Over is scheduled for a run at Steppenwolf in spring 2017. James Ijames’s Kill Move Paradise (Sun noon), touted as an “expressionistic buzz saw through the contemporary myth that ‘all lives matter.’ ” Karen Hartman’s Gaza Rehearsal, a “tragedy inside a comedy” following a Palestinian theater company as it rehearses Goliath—which happens to be the name of another Hartman play. And Tegan McLeod’s Girls in Cars Underwater (Sun 7:30 PM), which isn’t the Chappaquiddick story but rather the tale of a woman who mistakenly believes the path to redemption lies through a job at a tough bar. —TONY ADLER IGNITION FESTIVAL OF NEW PLAYS 8/5-8/7: Fri 7:30 and 9:30 PM; Sat 3, 5 and 7:30 PM;

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teppenwolf ’s new 1700 Theatre works perfectly for an early remount of this past winter’s world premiere of Byhalia, Mississippi, a critically acclaimed coproduction from the New Colony and Definition Theatre Company. It offers the same blackbox intimacy as the opening venue, Wicker Park’s Den Theatre, with the potential of exposing a new audience to actor-playwright Evan Linder’s multilayered southern drama, directed by Definition’s Tyrone Phillips.

While it doesn’t come until the second act, Byhalia smartly offers broad historical context to enhance the telling of the highly personal story of Jim and Laurel Parker, “proud white trash.” In their small town, a decades-old but all-too-familiar police shooting of an unarmed black man spawned boycotts followed by racial tensions that never really died. Byhalia’s backstory is eventually revealed by scorned wife Ayesha, played by a powerful Kiki Layne, and it explains the local roots of a disturbing strain that weighs heavy on personal relationships throughout.

The show opens with an exasperated Laurel, played by Liz Sharpe, asking her overbearing mother, Celeste (Cecelia Wingate), to head home because she’s making Laurel’s unborn and overdue child afraid to come out. Their interactions, both hilarious and heartbreakingly raw, set the tone for a play built on truthful portrayals of imperfect, messy people. After scenes of baby talk, foot rubs and careful discussion of a past indiscretion on Jim’s part, the couple—seemingly on the mend and in love—head to the hospital for a birth nobody, not even Laurel, seems to have anticipated. The baby is black.

Watching Jim accuse his loyal best friend, Karl (Jeffery Owen Freelon Jr.), who’s also black, of being the father proves to be the first of many shockingly real moments that rear their ugly heads throughout the play. None of these characters are bad people, but Jim’s immediate, violent reaction—and Celeste’s cold command that Laurel get rid of the baby—expose just how much we’re all products of our environments, for better or worse.

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Second City and Slate laugh the vote

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hen members of the Second City first met with staffers of the online magazine Slate last fall to plan a collaborative political revue, they never imagined that the 2016 presidential election would transpire in the way it has so far. “There was pretty much unanimous belief by us and by the Slate staff that Trump would fall away as a nominee,” Second City director Matt Hovde says.

“But as he built momentum and became the nominee, the comedian side of us was like, ‘Oh wow, this just made this show a lot more fun.’”

Unelectable You: The Second City’s Completely Unbiased Political Revue combines the comedy theater’s trademark sketch and improv satire with reporting and insight from Slate journalists. The show opens in Chicago, but will be touring the country right up until Election Day, evolving throughout the run to keep up with the rapidly changing political landscape.

Along with prewritten sketches, each night will include an interview with a Slate reporter that will cover the day’s headlines and also inspire a subsequent improv scene, all part of the effort to keep the show as up to date as possible. During the three months the cast and writers have spent preparing, sketches have been modified or scrapped entirely as each day brings crazier campaign news than the day before.

“If now, in July, Donald Trump is already half-jokingly inviting Russia to hack into Hillary’s e-mail, like, what the hell will he be doing in October?” says Slate culture editor Dan Kois, who serves as a creative consultant

Alan Linic, Carisa Barreca, Ian Owens, Tien Tran, and Frank Caeti star in Unelectable You. ò KIRSTEN MICCOLI

for Unelectable You. “As journalists, we can often predict greater trends, but we have been spectacularly unsuccessful in predicting what bananas actual, specific event might happen over the course of this election.”

An election as bat-shit crazy as this year’s race to the White House seems ripe for comedic interpretation, but Unelectable You’s creators say it’s been a challenge to turn the insanity into satire. “It’s hard to heighten what is already a cartoonish version of politics,” Hovde says.

So instead of reaching for the low-hanging fruit, they’re taking a more analytical approach, examining the patterns that make this year’s election so different from—and also surprisingly similar to—ones from the past, and creating jokes based on their findings. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be at least one crack about Trump’s tiny hands. Some of the easy jokes, Kois says, just have to be made.

Hovde and Kois ultimately aim to offer the electorate a fresh perspective on the quadrennial horse race. “I hope that one belief of [the audience members] has been challenged or at least vigorously interrogated,” Kois says. “I want them have a chance to think a little bit about how this election, while extraordinary, is also ordinary in that it is still beholden to the structures that make American democracy both stupid and great.” v UNELECTABLE YOU Through 8/28: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 4 and 7 PM, Up Comedy Club, 230 W. North, unelectableyou.com, $26-$36.

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Mandible Projects makes a permanent mark

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en Fasman didn’t have to look far for the subject of his art-book imprint’s first release. The answer was literally written on his arm, thigh, and buttocks, all of which have been tattooed by the artist Robert Ryan.

“I’ve been a fan of Robert’s tattoos and paintings for years, and he’s tattooed me a bunch,” Fasman says. “I flew out to Jersey to get tattooed by him years ago, and we just immediately hit it off.”

After Fasman returned to Chicago, he showed the tattoo on his arm to Tim Kinsella, the musician, writer, and current CEO of Featherproof Books. It so happened that Kinsella is a longtime admirer of Ryan’s work and has come to call the artist a friend. (Ryan designed the cover for Kinsella’s band Make Believe’s 2008 album Going to the Bone Church.)

Fasman and Kinsella’s mutual interest in Ryan led to discussions of a potential threeway collaboration. The result is The Inborn Absolute: The Art of Robert Ryan, a clothbound book out August 9 that features paintings, sketches, essays, and interviews. It’s the first art book Featherproof has published and the debut project by Fasman’s Mandible Projects. The book has also inspired a show of Ryan’s work opening August 6 at Great State Gallery, the West Town exhibition space of Great Lakes Tattoo.

Fasman first began tinkering with the idea of starting an imprint several years ago, as he was winding down as a freelance writer for outlets such as the Economist, Juxtapoz, and Stop Smiling. He and Chicago-based artist Cody Hudson envisioned a publishing company that would produce limited-run art prints

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and high-end book titles. But after Hudson’s first child was born and Fasman ramped up his commitments as a manager at the restaurant and bar group One Off Hospitality, the plan was shelved. When Kinsella was handed the reins of Featherproof in July 2014 and Fasman left his position at One Off soon after, the two quickly got to work on the Ryan book.

Though many art books about tattooing have been released—notably Taschen’s 1000 Tattoos (2005) and Powerhouse’s Vintage Tattoo Flash from earlier this year—The Inborn Absolute is one of the first retrospectives of a single tattoo artist. And while parts of the book touch on Ryan’s tattoo designs, the majority of the volume is devoted to his paintings.

Ryan’s artwork is heavily indebted to the spiritual realm, which the 43-year-old makes clear in the book’s introduction. “The paintings I am sharing . . . are distillations of distant cultures, esoteric cults, and ancient technologies. Most of these aspects are expressions of stories taught to me by shamans, sadhus, magicians, and fakirs.” Many of Ryan’s paintings and tattoos feature intricate geometric patterns that resemble astrological art, and Hindu deities frequently appear.

Photographs in the book show the artist inside what looks like a small, makeshift ashram. Elsewhere, Ryan opens up about his experiences with LSD and the hallucinogenic drink ayahuasca, the latter of which had a major impact on his work.

The publication of The Inborn Absolute coincides with a recent surge of interest in

tattooing as an art form and cultural tradition.

In October, the Field Museum will unveil “Tattoo,” a wide-ranging exhibition of the 5,000year history of the form. Yet the ubiquity of tattooing is a relatively recent phenomenon.

The most illuminating section of The Inborn Absolute is a lengthy exchange between Kinsella, Ryan, and Genesis P-Orridge, the British musician, performance artist, and occultist.

According to P-Orridge, tattooing and piercing were “very underground” in the 1970s. “Now there’s a tattooist or a piercer in just about every little village around the world,” P-Orridge says. “That’s what we call cultural engineering. . . . You start to realize that suddenly, all over the world, people are tattooing and piercing and modifying their bodies. Why? A sense of tribalism, of having like-minded people around you to support you.”

Challenging conventional narratives is surely a focus of Mandible, whose next collaboration with Featherproof will be a catalogue of “Making Niggers,” an exhibit curated by Project NIA that ran at In These Times magazine’s gallery space last fall. The show displayed postcards from the early 20th century that contain racist portrayals of black people; the intention wasn’t solely to shed light on America’s bigoted history, but rather to use the past as a means of demonstrating the foundational aspects of racism in American society and therefore the necessity of contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter.

Under the Mandible Projects umbrella, Fasman plans to put on more art shows and reissue out-of-print albums, among other creative endeavors, though he’s reluctant to say too much. “I just wouldn’t want to announce something and have it fall through,” he says.

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Laura Boban, Rachel Gray, and Meghann Mossell founded the Chicago chapter of Good Night Out.

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The new Chicago chapter of this international campaign joins the fight to reform a nightlife culture that too o©en turns a blind eye to harassment and sexual assault.

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bout a year ago, Meghann Mossell and a friend were watching a show at the Empty Bottle, sitting side by side at the bar. A man they didn’t know kept walking by, and each time he passed, he’d rub their backsides with his hand.

“I thought he must have been high,” Mossell recalls. “Why would someone do something like that?” She says she talked to one of the

bartenders, who immediately found the man and kicked him out.

“It made me feel really good, but I remember wondering if that’s their action plan—do they have policies set in place for this?” she says.

Or did she just luck out, she asked herself, by happening to approach a bartender who knew how to handle the situation in a way that made her feel safe and valued as a patron?

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continued from 23 physical, or even just an intimidating stare—is an unfortunately common experience in bars, clubs, and music venues, especially for women and members of the LGBTQ community.

“There are millions of stories a night that are similar to mine,” Mossell says. “They don’t seem extraordinarily harmful. They don’t seem inherently violent, but they are—and they ruin your night.”

An international campaign called Good Night Out fights harassment by providing training, tips, and other resources to management teams and employees at venues and bars. The volunteer-run organization was founded in London in April 2014 by Bryony Beynon and Julia Gray, who were running the London chapter of Hollaback!, an international network dedicated to stamping out street harassment. The two women decided they wanted to create practical strategies to help bars and venues improve the way they address or prevent sexual assault—a shift in focus that came about because they felt nightlife culture often turns a blind eye to a problem Beynon describes as “epidemic.”

Beynon, who plays guitar in the postpunk band Good Throb, has been making music for ten years—long enough to get thoroughly fed up with feeling unsafe. “I have personally experienced many types of harassment, including sexual assault, at gigs,” she says. “As an attendee and a performer.”

Mossell met Beynon three years ago at the Philadelphia incarnation of Ladyfest, a celebration of music, activism, and the arts that’s been hosted by various cities around the world since 2000. Mossell was playing a set with her band, Blizzard Babies, and Beynon had a speaking gig. Mossell was immediately captivated.

“She made this statement—she said, ‘In these times, just being close friends with a woman is a radical act,’” Mossell recalls. “And that’s when I think I fell in love with her.”

By keeping abreast of what Beynon was up to, Mossell discovered the Good Night Out campaign. “I was thinking about the many experiences I’ve had here in Chicago,” she says.

“For such a large city, we don’t seem to have a community of people watching out for each other in social spaces.”

In fall 2015, Mossell says, she felt ready to found a chapter of Good Night Out in Chicago.

She works with special-education students in the Chicago Public Schools, and as cofounders she recruited longtime friend and CPS colleague Laura Boban and another pal, Rachel Gray. Incidents of harassment and other ugly behavior had been piling up for a while—all three of them had a wearying number of stories

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they could tell. A man Mossell had talked to at Bonny’s followed her down the street in a car and asked her to watch him masturbate. Staff at a bar hosting a queer night carelessly misgendered a group of Boban’s friends—a splash of cold water in what was supposed to be a welcoming place. Gray had to throw a man out of the upscale Ravenswood cocktail lounge where she worked because he made passes at her on repeat visits—on one occasion, he was so drunk that a table of customers tried to intervene.

“I remember thinking about the Empty Bottle,” says Mossell, “and telling people that they took action so quickly—and that I wish there was a way, other than me making a fucking Facebook post, to say that that was handled well, and that’s awesome, and when something happened somewhere else it wasn’t. To give people credit, almost.”

Mossell, Boban, and Gray got help from Beynon, including Skype sessions where she taught them how to go about training bar staff.

She also sent them Chicago-specific Good Night Out posters, intended for prominent display in bars and venues that are on board with GNO’s program.

“We’re completely not-for-profit and currently unfunded, so all this is done free of charge,” Beynon says.

GNO has at least ten chapters in the United Kingdom and Ireland, though the organization’s non-hierarchical structure makes it hard to know who’s doing what. Beynon says she’s also working with chapters in the U.S. and Canada to push the GNO message even further. The Chicago group has yet to apply for nonprofit status, but it’s still so small that this hasn’t created any problems—its three founders are still its only members, and they volunteer all their time.

“I’ve been to Chicago a few times and attended festivals in large venues like Metro and played gigs in smaller ones like Township,” Beynon says. “The live music scene in Chicago is legendary but of course is not immune from sexual harassment.”

After Mossell, Boban, and Gray received Beynon’s training framework, they tailored it to the scene in Chicago as they knew it— Boban in particular felt the materials needed to place more emphasis on on serving the city’s LGBTQ community. Boban and Mossell already had connections to a few Chicago bars and venues—the latter through gigs with Blizzard Babies, the former simply because she’s lived here for 13 years. They want to begin by building relationships with small clubs where they know the staff, in hopes that word will get around about the work they’re doing—this should make it easier for them to extend their mission into bigger establishments, or into

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Cofounder Meghann Mossell hopes Good Night Out’s training sessions will dilute one of the most toxic elements of nightlife culture: “The assumption that if you’re a woman and you’re going out, that you want to either be hit on or approached in a sexual manner just because you’re in a bar and drinking.”

parts of the city they don’t typically visit.

They don’t want to end up limited by which bars they personally patronize—everybody who wants a night out, especially women and LGBTQ people, needs to feel safe from harassment in the place they go to unwind.

Gray, who moved to the city from Melbourne, Australia, last September, has learned from members of the LGBTQ community that they only feel comfortable in a select group of venues and bars, mostly in Boystown. And Boban’s own experiences have made the need for this type of work apparent too. “For me, being part of the queer community, I’ve seen stuff happen in what is supposed to be a safe space on a designated queer night, especially with trans and gender-nonconforming people,” she explains.

Misgendering people, she says, can be damaging even if it’s not malicious. “Saying ‘Hi, ladies’ isn’t always appropriate, and I think that’s a really good thing for Chicago to learn.”

Gray, who recently left her job as a server in that upscale Ravenswood bar, says she’s experienced her fair share of harassment both in Australia and her new home. She joined the GNO team for a very straightforward reason: “I wanted to make a change in something that has been an issue for me.”

A big part of the training that GNO provides to bar staff and management, Mossell says, is a frank discussion about what constitutes harassment. They also get into what kinds of experiences employees have had (both on the job and as patrons at bars) and discuss strategies to handle situations when they inevitably arise. GNO hopes these workshops will be eye-opening for any staffer who’s never experienced an unwanted groping or lecherous stare from a stranger.

Mossell also hopes the training sessions will at least dilute one of the most toxic elements of nightlife culture: “The assumption that if you’re a woman and you’re going out, that you want to either be hit on or approached in a sexual manner just because you’re at a bar and drinking.”

GNO encourages bars and venues to keep incident logs (and provides logbooks). When staff keep track of reports of inappropriate behavior, they’re better able to identify troubling patterns. Mossell also has a proposal that might help prevent patterns from emerging in the first place. “Have an ejection policy set in place that’s not ‘three strikes you’re out,’” she says. “Because that means two more people are going to get harassed.”

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assume.” It’s important that a first responder not try to play judge and jury—it helps for staff to stick to statements that begin with “I” rather than “you” when replying to someone reporting an incident, and GNO recommends referring the issue to a manager ASAP. The patron being harassed may not want the perpetrator ejected or for anyone to make a fuss—either could create a safety risk.

GNO also asks employees to keep in mind that if one person reports an incident, it’s possible that several others have had a problem with the same harasser without taking that step. “People often minimize their own experiences,” the flyer reads. “If you’re hearing about an issue, it may well have happened to multiple people that night.”

Mossell says Good Night Out’s Chicago chapter has yet to conduct a training session— she and her colleagues are still working out the kinks in their modified program, and it’s tough to schedule a bar’s entire staff to be on hand at once. Logan Square venue Township has already scheduled a date (it hosted a launch party for the Chicago chapter in early June), and GNO has received positive responses from about a half-dozen other establishments, primarily in the same area.

Mossell, Boban, and Gray acknowledge that they’ll have to walk a fine line when working with bar staff and managers: they want to start a conversation around harassment and encourage policy development but refrain from dictating strategies.

“We work with venues to create policies.

We don’t write them for them,” Gray says.

“Especially in Chicago, that’s a good way to get venues and old hospitality hands off your side very quickly—if you tell them what to do and how to do things.”

Megann Lesnick, co-owner of Township, says she was happy to host the GNO launch party.

The event raised $800 for the group, which will help cover the cost of training materials, logbooks, and posters (GNO offers its services for free) as well as transportation expenses.

The night included performances by Blizzard Babies, Split Feet, and Hi Ho, and was emceed by renowned Chicago drag queen Lucy Stoole.

Township has roughly 15 front-of-house employees, and it will likely be the first venue to receive GNO’s training. It will also hang a poster from GNO alerting patrons that they don’t have to resign themselves to a bad night out because of a creep—staff are available and trained to assist them if they need help.

“The posters give people a positive nudge in the direction of staff members, and remind them that staff are there to support, not blame or minimize their experience,” Beynon says.

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Mossell, Gray, and Boban at EZ Inn in West Town ò JEFF MARINI

Lesnick says her employees already take strides to protect customers, but she thinks the additional training offered by GNO is a no-brainer for her business. “I don’t want to just serve people drinks and make money,” she says. “I want to be more communal, and I would hate for someone in my establishment to leave here and something to happen to them that could have been prevented. I would feel awful if I could have done something to prevent it.”

Odds are that not every bar and venue owner will be so receptive, but Gray hopes GNO can take advantage of the fact that businesses have to watch their bottom lines.

People have lots of choices when it comes to where they buy their drinks or listen to their favorite bands, and if GNO develops the right kind of reputation, the group may be able to influence those decisions. The GNO seal of approval could help a bar attract and retain customers.

“The hope is that once the brand of Good Night Out becomes substantive enough within Chicago, that people will want to be associated with us and will want training programs run in their venues,” Gray says. “And eventually,

hopefully, we won’t be chasing them down, but they’ll be chasing us.”

Diplomacy is a big part of the GNO strategy.

Mossell says she and the other founders know they don’t exist in a vacuum, and they plan to network with feminist and LGBTQ-oriented advocacy groups in the city to inform their training.

The Feminist Action Support Network, for instance, already provides guidelines for venues and a voluntary system through which bands, bookers, and spaces can “rate” themselves to communicate solidarity with the organization’s goals. FASN’s goal is similar to GNO’s—it aims to provide safe spaces for women and people of color—but it concentrates not on bars and clubs but rather on the city’s DIY venues. (FASN did not return a request for comment.)

“I love FASN and I think they are incredible, and I would love to work with them and partner with them and do whatever we can to make nights out safer for everyone,” Mossell says. “At the same time, though, I feel more equipped to deal with licensed venues.”

When contacted for comment, a representative from grassroots organization FURIE

(Feminist Uprising to Resist Inequality and Exploitation) says my question is the first time she’s heard of GNO. FURIE campaigns around sexual-assault prevention, reproductive justice, and antiracism, among other issues, and social-media chair Althea Christensen says her group welcomes any effort to reduce harm to the community—she especially appreciates the inclusion of LGBTQ spaces and people.

“Eliminating sexual violence requires many different approaches, from all directions, and this could definitely be part of that,” she says.

“I think every woman who’s been to a bar can probably relate to a story of being grabbed, leered at, verbally harassed, or otherwise creeped on—with varying levels of staff intervention, ranging from completely ignoring it to the offending patron being eighty-sixed.”

Though GNO are still working on spreading their message in Chicago, they already have an ally in Christen Thomas, former talent buyer for the Empty Bottle, who since January has provided the same service for the Metro/ Smart Bar family of venues. She’s also a moderator for the Chicago chapter of Shout Your Abortion, a nationwide campaign focused on eroding the stigma attached to abortion.

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Thomas has a keen understanding of the local entertainment business and feminist advocacy work, and she says she’s helped introduce the GNO team to venue owners around the city. “It’s a program with a lot of viability for all major cities, and Chicago especially,” she says.

Thomas explains that GNO’s training program is “a really easy sell,” partly because venue and bar owners are in the business of making sure their customers have a good time.

The current cultural climate in the city helps too—there’s so much feminist-oriented activity, she says, that it’s easier to educate staff about best practices for tackling instances of sexual harassment or assault.

“I think it’s not necessarily, for every bar or theater, a conversation everyone wants to have—because it’s admitting there is a problem,” Thomas says. “But at the end of the day, we’re all in it because we want people to come out and feel safe and have a fun experience.

And Good Night Out is very noninvasive.”

GNO doesn’t plan to publicly call out bars or venues with particularly egregious records of staff or patron misbehavior (this is part of its general pattern of proceeding diplomatically). The group intends to rely on patrons and employees to call these establishments to its attention, with the ultimate goal of scheduling trainings and changing the culture that’s allowed for harassment and assault to continue with impunity.

Businesses that do nothing to stop harassment don’t just risk damaging their relationship with their customers—they can also alienate their own employees. “I’ve spoken to a few staff members who are unhappy with how management deals with it, and eventually that builds up,” Gray explains. “That’s when you lose good staff and create a shitty culture in a venue. It will impact the business eventually, and I want to make sure venues know that.”

Boban says she hopes that one day honest conversations about harassment—and about establishing safe environments for people, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation—will be so commonplace there won’t be a need for organizations such as GNO. In the meantime, though, Gray says she and the others will keep working to change the hostile culture that still condemns far too many women and LGBTQ people in Chicago to bad nights out through no fault of their own.

“We’ll play a bit more of the role of a diplomat,” she says. “Because, in reality, these places aren’t going to close down tomorrow.

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CONSISTING OF FIVE TRACKS adding up to nearly an hour, Sumac’s What One Becomes is about as hefty as the reputations of the three superlative composers pulling the levers behind its curtain. Spearheaded by guitarist-growler Aaron Turner (Isis, Old Man Gloom, Mammifer) and kept plowing forward by bassist Brian Cook (Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes, Botch) and drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists), the album is a behemoth of sludge, posthardcore, and dissonant metal that still finds ample time for prog flourishes to glide over the surface of a track like glowing flares cutting above the scorched carnage of a war zone. The first four minutes of opener “Image of Control” is a fuck-all of feedback, crescendos, and writhing, in-the-distance yowls from Turner, a how-do-you-do welcome if there ever was one, while the devastating “Rigid Man” chugs so deeply and immensely and powerfully that Turner’s guitar sound eventually becomes the equivalent of dropping anchor into the belly of a submerged submarine. Though its bleakness can be tenuous and suffocating, What One Becomes is also surprising in how swiftly it can provide catharsis— some cyclical riffs settle into a groove much quicker than you’d expect. Jon Mueller and Nordra open on Tuesday, Nordra and Aseethe on Wednesday. —KEVIN WARWICK

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Since country singer Elizabeth Cook released Welder in 2010—succeeded in 2012 by the seven-track gospel record Gospel Plow—she’s dealt with a steady profusion of serious problems: she divorced guitarist and fellow songwriter Tim Carroll, she was diagnosed with a chemical imbalance that led to a rehab stint, her family home in Florida burned to the ground, and her father died (her mother passed in 2008). It’s no wonder a new record was put off so long. But such misfortune can inspire songwriting, and indeed, there are songs on her new record, Exodus of Venus (Agent Love/ Thirty Tigers), that deal with dysfunction, abuse, and poor decision making. On “Methadone Blues,” a sequel to her 2010 song “Heroin Addict Sister,” she brings humor to a devastating subject, dropping the couplet, “Now I don’t like the looks of my latest dealer / Starched white lab coat socialistic healer.” On “Straitjacket Love,” a bluegrass-influenced gem featuring spot-on harmony singing from Patty Loveless, Cook presents a discomfiting portrait of romantic dependence, with a narrator ready to fly off the rails if she’s not practically smothered with love. The album was produced by the singer’s boyfriend, guitarist Dexter Green—who also cowrote most of the songs—nudging Cook to leave behind her honky-tonk sound in favor of a kind of bland Memphis soul-infused rock. Cook’s reedy, diminutive voice shines through, but its frequent battle with hard-rock guitars and thudding drums (played by alt-rock session pro Matt Chamberlain) grows tiresome. Her writing deserves a more subtle approach. —PETER MARGASAK

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Colvin & Earle 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, $39-$67. b Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle met in 1987 when they shared a bill in Northampton, Massachusetts, and they’ve remained friends since. Not only both poetic singer-songwriters, they’ve both experienced plenty of tumult during their careers—including wrecked marriages and substance abuse—and have managed to land on their feet time and time again. Following a 2014 joint tour where they told stories and played songs alone and together, Earle suggested they make a record. The recent Colvin & Earle (Fantasy) includes a couple of songs about love that endures through thick and (mostly) thin.

“No matter what you do / No matter what you say / I’ll come back to you,” they both sing in raw harmony on the opener, “Come What May,” while a similar magnetic attraction—one that survives rugged individualism—shines through on “The Way That We Do.” Things don’t always turn out so well, however, as the relationship between star-crossed lovers implodes on the original “You’re Right (I’m Wrong).” The album was masterfully produced by Buddy Miller, who accentuates the texture-rich twill of the two voices and gets a wonderfully meaty

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sound from guitarist and old-school Earle sideman Richard Bennett, bassist Chris Wood, and drummer Fred Eltringham—the rootsy heft belies the occasional low-key vibe of some of the covers. Together they tackle “Ruby Tuesday,” while Earle goofily sings the final line of the chorus, “Still I’m gonna miss ya,” as though he can’t help slathering on his outsize twang. More successful is the pair’s version of the lovely Emmylou Harris song “Raise the Dead.” For this performance Colvin and Earle return to the duo format. —PETER MARGASAK

Deerhoof Blank Spell and Blisters open. 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, $18.

It’s got to be hard for a band to keep reinventing itself after more than two decades, but since forming in 1994, Deerhoof have changed their sound as much as or more than any rock outfit. Yet thanks to the sweet warble of bassist Satomi Matsuzaki and the quartet’s post-Beefheart guitar tangles, they’ve always been instantly recognizable. On the group’s latest album, The Magic (Polyvinyl), they seem less interested in delivering another transformation (or maybe they’re just unable), instead revisiting the guises they’ve adapted over the years. Deerhoof have earned that right, and they’ve again written and executed irresistible tunes with dazzling precision (a wan cover of the Ink Spots hit “I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire” clocks in as an exception). I was a bit nervous when they dropped a karaoke-like cover of Def Leppard’s “Pour Some Sugar on Me” before the release—though certainly a joke, it was hard to swallow—but its huge, crunchy guitars ended up anticipating a few of the The Magic’s most hard-rocking entries. John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez unleash massive riffery propelled by huge beats from drummer Greg Saunier, and that sonic oversaturation sets the band apart—though it’s only part of the puzzle. Rodriguez sounds like he’s living out a Keith Morris fantasy on the mad dash of old-school punk “That Ain’t No Life to Me”; the dreamy “Criminals of the Dream” dabbles in 80s synth-pop even if it’s occasionally buffeted by chugging beats and nasty fuzzed-out bass; and “Debut” throbs with a tightly coiled kind of post-no-wave funk. I may have heard these moves before, but I still want to hear them again. —PETER MARGASAK

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Honey Ear Trio 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $15. 18+ This agile, imaginative New York trio works within jazz tradition while also tearing it apart, swinging ferociously on one tune and then grinding away like a hard-rock band on the next. The trio, which dropped its impressive debut, Steampunk Serenade (Foxhaven), in 2011, pushes its dualities harder on the forthcoming and aptly titled Swivel. It’s the group’s first recording with saxophonist Jeff Lederer since he replaced founding reedist Erik Lawrence in 2013, and his commitment to playing inside out pairs nicely with the outward-bound excursions launched by bassist Rene Hart. Honey Ear operates like a collective, with a steady push-pull between disparate approaches and a commitment to woodshedding that pays dividends in a richly unified sound. On the album opener, “Arby,” Hart plays fuzzed-out patterns on his pedal-enhanced upright bass complemented by backbeats launched by Allison Miller, a drummer who moves easily between jazz and rock—she also backs Ani DeFranco and Brandi Carlile—and ranks among NYC’s most versatile percussionists. On the ballad “Silent Stairs” Hart opts for a more conventional acoustic tone, but he colors in the sound field with drifting, unobtrusive electronic textures. A take on Monk’s “Evidence” skips through numerous rhythmic feels, from hurtling to hiccuping, and Lederer’s soprano saxophone gamely adapts to every sudden shift. Regardless of where the group lands on its unique spectrum, there’s always an infectious energy, melodic joy, and sense of fun. —PETER MARGASAK

SATURDAY6 Forn, Yellow Eyes Forn headline; Yellow Eyes, Cavernlight, and Bottomed open. 7:30 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $10.

For its fifth annual festival, Wisconsin metal label Gilead Media has gone west to Olympia, Washington, home of the fellow travelers at 20 Buck Spin, for a collaborative blowout called Migration, whose lineup is so good it almost makes me angry: the three-day event, which begins August 12, includes sets by the likes of False, Vastum, Vhol, Mournful Congregation, Christian Mistress, Mizmor, and Kowloon Walled City, as well as the first-ever public performance by Panopticon. Fortunately two bands on the bill, Boston doom five-piece Forn and New York black-metal outfit Yellow Eyes, are stopping in Chicago on their way out.

Forn’s t wo Gilead releases —the 201 5 EP Weltschmerz and their sole full-length, The Departure of Consciousness, released in 2014 and reissued by Gilead last year—roar and tremble with subterranean dread and melancholy.

The guitars combine a dense, viscous downtuned growl with faraway keening and ringing, their melodies and countermelodies tugging at your body like a river with currents at different depths. Beneath the hoarse, clotted vocals, the riffs move at a stately pace, like the slow implacable drip of underground water that builds huge columns of stone, but the drums leaven the bludgeoning repetition with occasional tumbling J

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and galloping. On the longest songs, the labyrinthine structures take so long to return to a pattern you recognize that you feel like you’ll never find your way back to where you started.

Yellow Eyes’ third album and Gilead debut, last year’s Sick With Bloom, sounds like a swift mountain stream after the thaw: cold, tightly channeled, and carrying its own broken skin of ice in a million jagged pieces. The thin shriek of the vocals almost feels lost in its lunging, turbulent fury. The bass carries its own melodies, adding weight to the brittle blastbeats and the tremolo-picked blur of the swooping, hovering riffs (something I’m glad to hear more and more black-metal bands doing). Frequent sudden changes in density and feel set Yellow Eyes apart from the relatively pastoral groups working similar territory—this beauty comes freighted with violence and threat, like a spectacular spring flood. You want to watch the river rise, but it just might chew the bridge out from under your feet— or simply explode from its banks and swallow you.

—PHILIP MONTORO

Chris Ligon 8 PM, Prop Theatre, 3502 N. Elston, $15 suggested donation. b Chris Ligon is hilariously odd in a way that can’t be faked. The gangly singer-songwriter has a sublime talent and an innate inability to write tunes that hew to conventional country or pop molds, but he forever tosses in bizarre non sequiturs and casually fractures song forms without a second thought.

Beloved Chicago roots-pop combo the Flat Five have been working on an album of his songs for several years, which ought to get him some of the attention he deserves. In the meantime, after dropping a couple of great band albums for Clang!, the label owned and operated by NRBQ keyboardist Terry Adams, Ligon returns to the low-key solo mode he’s worked in for most of his wayward career.

His new Outa the Can (Weenie Arm) features him on a Baldwin Fun Machine—a cheap electric organ manufactured in 1974 that produces tacky drummachine presets and synthesized sounds like the fake flamenco guitar on “Mexican Wedding”—but the lo-fi production doesn’t detract from the hookiness of a tune like the instrumental “Look at Me

Now,” which has a kind of off-kilter funk vibe a la Marvin Gaye’s “Gotta Give It Up.” The title track imagines the narrator far out at sea with Popeye, Olive Oyl, Swee’Pea, and Bluto as they all seem to be giving one another STDs, while on “The World Missed Out” Ligon recounts how the world has overlooked his peculiar genius since childhood (“I was a Hot Track-chewin’ little dude / But the world missed out on me”). This CD release show will be preceded from 6 till 8 PM by an exhibit of his photographs and drawings by his wife, cartoonist Heather McAdams, as well as an assortment of 16mm films from the couple’s eclectic collection. —PETER MARGASAK

L7 Radkey open. PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, $26.50. 18+ As reunion tours go, this one took a lot of people by surprise—the viability came as a shock to cofounder and front woman Donita Sparks, who was a bit overwhelmed by the success of a Kickstarter launched to fund an L7 documentary. The pioneering all-female band ran with the grunge pack thanks to a postpunk attitude and west-coast social circle, but when you listen to their wonderful old records now, there’s a straightforward LA hard-rock/classic-metal feel to them, unabashed and unvarnished. In their 90s heyday, L7 were a force of nature, steamrolling gender barriers and putting a female spin on rock-star shenanigans (Iggy Pop might have pulled something like Sparks’s notorious Reading Festival tampon stunt if he’d had it in him . . . literally). They gave Chicago an appetizer-size taste of their perfectly reconstituted sound at Riot Fest last year, but this is L7’s first headlining appearance in Chicago since before their 2001 drift apart. —MONICA KENDRICK

SUNDAY7 Naked Lights Ono headline; Naked Lights and Service Industry open. 9 PM, the Owl, 2521 N. Milwaukee. F Naked Lights excel when they lean heavily on the punk part of their postpunk. For their latest

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Dolly Parton 7:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, 200 Ravinia Park Rd, Highland Park, $38-$150. b When she took the Proust Questionnaire for Vanity Fair back in November 2012, Dolly Parton claimed that the phrase she most overuses is “It takes a lot of money to look this cheap,” referring to her numerous plastic surgeries. I prefer her response to “What is your idea of perfect happiness?”: “A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.” It’s simple. And simplicity, for Parton, is about efficiency. She has a voice that could knock down ten pins without a bowling ball, and her deceptively rudimentary songs are remarkably potent, often using small pleasures—landscapes and bargain stores and coats—to address complex situations such as unplanned pregnancies and rela- J

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tionships and poverty. Though she’s never made a truly knockout album, the singles she produced between the mid-60s and early 80s are the kind that could make the Smiths jealous: witty and brief and full of tight rhythms and interlacing guitar. But the point of seeing Parton live isn’t just the songs; it’s to witness her—a big, blond American icon with a quick tongue and a generous spirit who will always be loved. —TAL ROSENBERG

MONDAY8 Naked Lights See Sunday. Toupee headline; Negative Scanner, Naked Lights, and Running open. 9 PM, Club Rectum, runningband@gmail. com, $7 suggested donation. A

TUESDAY9 Dowsing Jank, Boy Rex, and Vivian K. open.

6:30 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $10, $8 in advance. 17+ On Dowsing’s “Outside,” front man Erik Hunter Czaja sings, “Hope we die like we began / In a basement / With no one else around.” From their recent Okay, the local emo band’s first full-length for California pop-punk mini institution Asian Man Records—and first without founding members Marcus Nuccio and Delia Hornik, who left shortly after Dowsing dropped the 2013 LP I Don’t Even Care Anymore—the track is as much about how Dowsing have changed in the five years since they released their charming 2011 debut as it is about looking back while trying to navigate big life movements forward. With its surging waves of guitars that reveal hints of melancholy and joy, Dowsing’s ferocious,

lean, triumphant fourth-wave emo injects a shot of adrenaline into the experience of circumnavigating challenges that might otherwise render you listless.

—LEOR GALIL

Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld Health & Beauty open. 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $15. 18+ On last year’s contemplative Never Were the Way She Was (Constellation) saxophonist Colin Stetson and violinist Sarah Neufeld (Arcade Fire) beautifully combine their respective solo practices, managing to retain identities they forged alone while still complementing each other. The former has developed a stunning method that uses a multitude of microphones to capture an orchestra-like sound in real time via a single reed instrument, without looping or overdubbing (here he adds contrabass clarinet to his usual bass and tenor saxophones). His disciplined circular breathing generates remarkable harmonic effects that make it sound as though he’s playing multiple lines at once, and he adds to that the percussive clacking of his sax pads and vocal sounds picked up through contact mikes attached to his throat. As heard on her lovely 2013 album Hero Brother, Neufeld braids classic minimalist concepts with melodies borrowing from European folk tradition, creating a sound akin to newmusic pianists like Hauschka and Nils Frahm. Stetson provides the muscle on the album, his throbbing bass-sax patterns providing both low end and drive, but Neufeld’s ethereal, repeating double stops and snaking, striated notes fill empty spaces, floating around her partner’s sonic armature. Sometimes the players create shimmering counterpoint, as on the feverishly churning “In the Vespers,” while on the dreamy “Won’t Be a Thing to Come” their lines cradle one another, intimately aligning as her vocals provide another gauzy layer of melody.

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NEW REVIEW

Don’t say aloha to Mahalo The ersatz luau is crowded, loud— and no paradise on earth.

By MIKE SULA

I Clockwise from left: The poke trio is the most enjoyable item on Mahalo’s menu; mai tai; spam musubi: a slab of the canned meat sandwiched between rice wrapped with nori and here rolled in panko and fried; Big Kahuna cocktail. ò DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS

t was just about a year ago that I was happily proclaiming the ascendance of the Iberian way of eating in Chicago, most notably with my review of Wicker Park’s Bom Bolla, which so far had come closer than any place in town to approximating the casual Spanish tapas bar, where no wine is ever drunk without a bite of something to wash down. Just a little more than six months later, it shut its doors, unable to capture the imagination of Wicker Parkers with fried whitebait, bocadillos, and splashes of vermouth.

Its replacement is having no such problem.

The Hawaiian-themed Mahalo is hanging 11 on the crest of a Polynesian wave that’s left the city awash in tiki bars, kava, poke shops, and an increasingly annoying Buffett-style nostalgia for island vibes. The joint is run by the same folks behind the Hampton Social, which presents its own vision of unreality as a Long Island idyll.

The neighborhood has taken to it, on most nights easily filling the first-floor bar as well as a second-floor dining room and rooftop that Bom Bolla couldn’t even open.

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continued from 37 walls are hung with shortboards printed with geographic stats about individual islands, while frat reggae flows though the air and the denizens of the new Wicker Park, clad in Polo and seersucker short pants, slurp down ersatz piña coladas in a bright and airy room that could’ve been teleported from a corner at Halsted and Armitage.

Poke—the of-the-moment fish salad analog to Pokémon—sits atop a menu of nominally Polynesian retreads. These in fact are the most enjoyable items on the menu, all three of them available on a $31 sampler: blood-red ahi tuna dressed in soy and sesame, nori and green onions, and sprinkled with macadamia nuts; cold braised octopus treated with ginger, chile, and pineapple; and snappy shrimp tossed with lemon, mint, soy, and cucumber—all three to be scooped up with blistered fried wontons.

And from there . . . wipeout. The remainder of the menu comprises classic and tweaked pu pus and plate lunches. Tennis-ball-size Spam meatballs barely register on the potted-meat spectrum, instead getting filled out with pork and beef and drenched in a sweet coffee barbecue sauce, all which approximates a fair representation of mom’s meat loaf. The promised chile heat and saline soy barely register in pulled-pork fried rice with bean sprouts, corn, mushrooms, and midsummer asparagus. Dumplings stuffed with lump crab and enrobed in oversteamed wonton wrappers are drowned in globs of coconut cream redolent of canned curry paste. These bites are redeemed somewhat by the kitchen’s version of Spam musubi—a slab of the canned meat sandwiched between rice wrapped with nori and here rolled in panko and fried for a crispy exterior—though a better-quality sushi rice would certainly avoid the mush in the middle. A salad featuring sweet, gently poached shrimp, arugula, cashews (no macadamias?), and a winning pineapple vinaigrette is sabotaged by overripe papaya, barely sweet, barely aromatic, with all the charm of a December cantaloupe.

A pile of soft, oversauced ribs with the typical plate-lunch sides—salad of cold, mayoclogged macaroni and a lump of rice—comes straight from the potluck playbook of, say,

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an all-you-can-eat fund-raiser for the swim team. Pulled roasted pork follows the same formula: barely spiced shredded pig with rice, a cup of tepid pineapple hot sauce, and cloying barbecue sauce. Meanwhile Hawaii’s iconic loco moco, a burger over rice with a fried egg and gravy, is somewhat scaled up, a gravy-drenched hunk of tired short rib subbing for the ground meat and a pile of sweet mashed purple potato standing in for rice.

Remove the latter and you have a composition from any purported farm-to-table spot in town, lacking any personality or dynamism.

Compounding all these problems is a staff that seems to know business is strong and service doesn’t need to rise above a middling level of casual indifference, and a kitchen that apparently has no concept of coursing.

One evening the aforementioned stir-fry and a bacon double cheeseburger arrived at my table just moments after the apps. A sharpeyed manager spotted the problem and offered to age the mains under a heat lamp, which, while not quite delivering an appropriate level of service, managed to irradiate what little life was left in either dish. At least the burger showed promise before I let it get away.

Bom Bolla’s lonely empty pintxos case presides over sullen bartenders in floral prints, slinging teeth-crackingly sweet tropical drinks, a handful of wines, and a small selection of Hawaiian beers. Neon-lit slogans adorn the walls at Mahalo—i left my ♥ in hawaii—giving its wistful patrons permission to wallow in nostalgia for their two weeks on the Big Island, perhaps not noticing that the food isn’t so dreamy at all. v

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○ Watch a video of Jenn Fink making this cocktail with apple cider vinegar at chicagoreader.com/food.

COCKTAIL CHALLENGE

In shrubs, the roots of a delicious drink

By JULIA THIEL

Boomslang Bite by Jenn Fink ò CORY POPP

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dvocates of drinking APPLE CIDER VINEGAR cite all kinds of health benefits, from reduced blood sugar to cancer prevention. But when JENN FINK of PUB ROYALE was challenged by BRETT LICHNEROWICZ of LUXBAR to create a cocktail with the vinegar, she immediately thought of a drink popular in colonial America: the shrub. Made by combining fruit, vinegar, and sugar, shrubs were either mixed with soda water or used as a cocktail ingredient; they fell out of favor after refrigeration became common but have seen a resurgence in the last few years or so.

Fink has been making shrubs for years, and says that ginger is her favorite—so that became the starting point for her cocktail. She created shrubs with pineapple, ginger, cumin, and mint in varying combinations, covering them with sugar and letting them sit for a day or so, then straining out the solids and adding apple cider vinegar to the sugar syrup. While she tested out many variations, she says a good starting point is equal parts sugar, vinegar, and fruits, roots, herbs, or spices. “It’s super in-your-face when you first try it,” Fink says, “but it mellows over time.”

As for the drink itself, Fink had a “light, easy-drinking summer beer cocktail” in mind.

Inspired by a shandygaff, or ginger ale mixed

with beer, she combined gin, Madeira wine, several of her shrubs, and sugarcane syrup, then topped off the cocktail with Four Hands Incarnation IPA and tiki bitters. She named the drink after the highly venomous boomslang snake, since it reminded her of a more potent Snakebite (hard cider and lager).

BOOMSLANG BITE

.25 OZ GINGER-MINT-CUMIN SHRUB .25 OZ GINGER-MINT SHRUB .5 OZ PINEAPPLE-GINGER-CUMIN SHRUB .5 OZ MADEIRA .5 OZ FORD’S GIN FRESH PINEAPPLE 4 HANDS INCARNATION IPA TIKI BITTERS Muddle a few chunks of fresh pineapple in a cocktail shaker, then add all the ingredients except the last two, ice, and shake. Strain into a rocks glass and top with IPA and a few drops of tiki bitters.

WHO’S NEXT:

Fink has challenged MATTHEW JANNOTTA of the bars at SOHO HOUSE CHICAGO to create a cocktail with POPCORN popped on the stovetop. v

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Studio & 1BR Apts, utils incl. $635 & $ 750/mo + sec & application fee. M-F 9a-6p. 773-268-3725

CHATHAM 8642 SOUTH Maryland 1BR, modern with appliances, off street parking. $600/mo + sec. 773-618-2231

6554 N Ridge Blvd. Recently updated, 2BR, 1BA, $1100/mo. incls pool, parking & basic cable.

Ready to move in. 773-317-7863

Baseball Fan Photographer!

CALL (773) 619-7712 for an interview

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BIG ROOM with stove, fridge, bath & nice wood floors. Near Red Line & Buses. Elevator & Laundry, Shopping. $121/wk + up. 773-561-4970

BRONZEVILLE 4520 S King Dr. CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms

EOE

NICE ROOM w/stove, fridge & bath Near Aldi, Walgreens, Beach, Red Line & Buses. Elevator & Laundry. $130/wk & up. 773-275-4442

CROSSROADS HOTEL SRO SINGLE RMS Private bath, PHONE,

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

97th & Oglesby 3BR, 2BA $1200/month plus 1.5 mo sec, background ck, no pets 773-660-9305

AUGUST 4, 2016 | CHICAGO READER 41

CICERO: 1 Bedrooms, Heat included. No dogs. Call Ken 773-3911460

1 BR $700-$799 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

1 BR $800-$899 LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $895-$925 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

JUMBO,

LARGE ONE BEDROOM apart-

ment near Warren Park and Metra, 6802 N Wolcott. Hardwood floors, Heat included. Laundry in building.

Cats OK. $795-$825/ month. Available 9/1.

773-761-4318, www. lakefrontmgt.com

EXTRA LARGE 4.5 sunny rooms, remodeled, hwfl, 1-2 bedrooms. Two blocks Brown Line.

Near expressway, North Park and Northeastern Universities. $850 heat included. 773-710-3634.

Kildare (2400N) corner 1BR & 3BR, new kitchen and bath, oak flrs, on-site lndry/storage/prkg $900-$1100+util 773-743-4141 w ww.urbanequities.com

Wrigleville 2BR, 1400sf, new kit/ deck, FDR, oak flrs, Cent Heat/ AC, prkg avail. $1495 + util, Pet friendly, 773-743-4141 www. urbanequities.com

NR WEBSTER AND Clark: 1BR

garden apt, central A/C, bath w/ shower, fireplace, laundry rm at back door. No pets. Avail Aug 16. $990/mo + utils + sec dep. 773-244-0738.

HOMEWOOD- SUNNY 900SF

1BR Great Kitc, New Appls, Oak Flrs, A/C, Lndry & Storage, $950/mo Incls heat & prkg. 773.743.4141

SECTION 8 WELCOME SOUTHSIDE, Recently renovated, 1 , 2 & 3 BR Apts.

80TH & PAULINA, co m p letely remodeled, 4 room, 1BR, tenant heated, $650/mo. No security deposit. Agent Owned, 312-671-3795

2 1BR apts w/DR, hdwd flrs, lndry in bsmt, $725/mo heat incl. Also avail Bronzeville 2BR. Call 312-683-5284.

110TH & VERNON. Large 1 & 2BR,

Quiet Building w/ many long term tenants, Heat/appls, LR, $700$875/mo no sec, 312-388-3845

RIVERDALE - NEWLY decor,

2BR, appls, heated, A/C, lndry, prkng, no pets, near Metra. Sec 8 ok. $795.

630-480-0638

House, 2-story LR with fireplace, loft, 1 bedroom & sitting room, modern kitchen & bath, utils included. $1250/ mo. Non-smoking. 773-235-1066

1 BR OTHER APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. SUMMER IS HERE BUT IT WON’T LAST! OUR UNITS INCLUDE HEAT, HW & CG Patio & Mini Blinds Plenty of parking on a 37 acre site 1Bdr From $750.00 2Bdr From $925.00 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath From $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000** CALL FOR DETAILS

$800-$1250/mo. Call Sean, 773-410-7084

1 BR $1100 AND OVER GORGEOUS TUDOR STYLE

1 BR $900-$1099 CALUMET HEIGHTS & Chatham:

LOGAN SQUARE BLVD Carriage

Hyde Park West Apts., 5325 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Renovated spacious apartments in landscaped gated community. Off street parking available. Sutdios $950, 1BR $1150 - Free Heat, 2BR $1400 - Free heat; 4BR Townhome, $2200 Call about our Special. Visit or call 773-324-0280, M-F: 9am-5pm or apply online- ww w.hydepark west.com. Managed

by Metroplex, Inc

Ravenswood 1BR: 850sf, great kit, DW, oak flrs, near Brown line, onsite lndy/stor., $925-$1095/heated 773-743-4141 www.urbanequities. com

courtyard building! Stunning details: built-in bookshelves/china cabinets. Lovely hdwd flrs. 2 blks to Irving Park “EL”.

ONSITE LNDRY/STORAGE. 4235 1/2 N. Hermitage: Oct. 1: $1,195.00 ht incl,

(773) 381-0150. WWW.THESCHIRMFIRM.COM

451 W. ST. JAMES PL. 2500N. Available August 1. $1500/mo.

Large 1 bedroom, updated, vintage condo, features old world charm, oak & hardwood throughout, walk-in closet, formal dining room, rent includes bike room, storage shed, laundry facility & heat. 773-750-6338

APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. SUMMER IS HERE BUT IT WILL SOON BE GONE!!

Most Include HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $475.00 1Bdr From $550.00 2Bdr From $765.00 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath From $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000** CALL FOR DETAILS

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

Rent is based on 30% of annual income. For details, call us at 847-546-1899 ∫ 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 82/WOODLAWN, STUDIOS $525+, 1BR $625+. 773-577-0993.

68/Michigan, 1BR $625+, 2BR $775. 773-744-1641. Lrg units, heat, appls, ckng gas incl. New wndws, lndry. No dep/app fee.

CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** NO SECURITY DEPOSIT No Move-in fee! No Dep! Sec 8 ok.

1, 2 & 3 Bdrms. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe.

Call Ms. Williams. 773-874-0100

LARGE SUNNY ROOM w/fridge & microwave. Near Oak Park, Green Line & Buses. 24 hr Desk, Parking Lot $101/week & Up. (773)378-8888 PULLMAN AREA, Newly remodeled 111th St., East of King Dr. $450-$550. Close to shopping & 1/4 block to metra. 773-468-1432 CHICAGO - CLEAN, NEWLY remod, 1BR, 1st floor Apts, oak flooring. Ready Now! 722 E. 89th St. FREE HEAT. 708-951-2889

MOVE IN SPECIAL B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-3400

RIVERDALE/LANSING , 1 BR condo, available now, new appliances, off street parking, $750/month Call Mr. Jackson, 708-846-9734

58th & Campbell, 1 & 2BR, modern kitchen & bath, dining room.

Starting at $650/mo & up. Heat included. Sec 8 ok. 847-9091538 CHATHAM BEAUTY XL 2BR, 1700sf, hdwd flrs, sep Liv & Din rms, heat incl. $995.

SK Properties Grp. 773-493-7000

CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE Beauti-

û NO SEC DEP û 1431 W. 78th St. $2BR. $600/mo 6829 S. Perry. 1BR. $520/mo.

HEAT INCL 773-955-5106

71ST/HERMITAGE. 3BR. 77TH /LOWE. 1 & 2BR. 69th/Dante, 3BR.

CHICAGO, 5215 WEST Augusta Blvd 2 BR $865/ mo. 121 N LeClaire. 1BR, $675/mo Heat incl for all, Sec Req. 773-251-6652

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

71st/Bennett. 2 & 3BR. New renov.

Sec 8 ok. 708-503-1366

CHICAGO - BEVERLY, large 2 room Studio, 1 & 2BR Apts. Carpet, A/C, laundry, near transportation, $650-$975/mo. Call 773-233-4939 SUBURBS, RENT TO OWN! Buy with No closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com

Ashland Hotel nice clean rms.

24 hr desk/maid/TV/laundry/air.

Low rates daily/weekly/monthly.

South Side. Call 773-376-5200 AVAILABLE NOW. ROOMS for rent. Utilities incl’d. Seniors Welcome. $400/mo. Call 773-431-1251 ACACIA SRO HOTEL Men Preferred! Rooms for Rent. Weekly & Monthly Rates. 312-421-4597

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

2 BR UNDER $900 6122 ST LAWRENCE. 2 King Size BR , 5 rms, new kit, bath, ceiling fan, balcony, laundry fac. util. not inc. Sr’s/Sec 8 ok $750. 312504-2008.

NR 87TH & STONY: quiet, 2BR, LR, DR, appls, a/c, c-fan, crpt, ten pays heat, nr shops & trans. No sm oking/pets. $825 + sec. 773-3744399

7757 S. Yates #3. Spacious two bed, hardwood floors, updated cabinets. $650 a month no utilities included. Contact Pam at 312-2081771 or 847-975-0345.

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

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

CHICAGO, 120TH & Halsted, 6

READY TO MOVE? REMODELED 1, 2 , 3 & 4 BR Apts.

2 BEDROOM NEAR 85th and

SECTION 8 WELCOME. 2748 E. 83rd, 1BR $525. 8207 S Elizabeth, 3BR, $1195, heat incl.

630-835-1365 Discount RE

SOUTH SUBURBAN HARVEY

rooms, 2BR, heat & appliances included. $695/month + security deposit. Call 773-707-3132

nets & Kolher prod., tenant pays heat, 8632 Escanaba, $600/mo + security. Call 773-415-4970

BLUE ISLAND, 2 BR, DR, lndry fac, refs reqd. no pets. $795/mo plus dep. & util. Option: Attic, 2 rooms, 1/2BA. $295 + Dep. 708-481-5212 2BR $890 2ND Flr Quiet Bldg Ten

Pay Util No Pets 4865 Concord Pl. Call 708-503-0817.

1043 E. 80TH St.: 2BR $775 Large apartment, stove, fridge, heat included. Call 773.916.0039

2 BR $900-$1099 8700

WEST/5200

NORTH

2 bedroom, decorated, appliances, hardwood floors, heated, air conditioning, No pets. No smoking. $970/ mo. 224-470-0129

SOUTHSHORE - Large 2+ BR Apt, 1 bath, carpeted, new appliances.

Laundry available. Heat included. $900mo. Call 708-204-2182 AUSTIN AREA, 2BR Apt, carpet, small newer building, $700/mo.

Tenant pays heat and elec. Section 8 Welcome. Call 773-457-2284

2 BR $1100-$1299 73RD & KING DR C o m p le t e l y Remodeled, tenant heated, 4 room, 2BR, $850/month, NO security deposit, agent owned 312-6713795 4300 BLOCK OF AUGUSTA, 2BR, 1st & 2nd floor, laundry facility on site, $1125/mo, utilities incl. Sect 8 ok. No pets / no smoking. 773-4180195 VICINITY 65TH and St. Lawrence, modern, tenant heated, 2BR Unit. $725/mo. No Sec Dep.

RARELY AVAILABLE WRIGLEYVILLE 2 bdrm! Only 4 blocks

to Wrigley Field!

LOVELY HDWD FLRS, dec. fireplace, extra large Kitchen w/pantry!

3 SEASON ENCLOSED porch!

Onsite lndry/storage. Close to Jewel and “EL” 1255 W. WAVELAND. October 1. (773) 381-0150. www.theschirmdirm.com

NONSMOKING TWO BEDROOM garden apartment. Lake-

view. Living room, dining room, Central air, in-unit washer/ dryer. Walk to restaurants, Brown Line. August 1st. $1500 includes heat, electric. 773510-6896.

2 BR OTHER CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK HOMES. Spacious 2-3 BR Townhomes, Inclu: Prvt entry, full bsmt, lndry hook-ups. Ample prkg. Close to trans & schls. Starts at $844/ mo. w w w . p p k h o m e s . com;773-264-3005 BEAUTIFUL NEW APT! 7649 S Phillips Ave 1, 2 & 4BR 741 S. Evans 2BR. Stainless Steel!! Appliances!!

Hdwd flr!! marble bath!! laundry on site!!

Sec 8 OK. 773- 404- 8926 ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar Villas is accepting applications for Subsidized 2 and 3 bedroom apt waiting list. Rent is based on 30% of annual income for qualified applicants. Contact us at 847-546-1899 for details MATTESON, 2BR, $990$1050; 3BR, $1250-$1400.

Move In Special is 1 Month’s Rent & $99 Sec Dep. Sect 8 Welc. 708-748-4169 ALSIP: 2BR, 1BA, $830/mo & 3BR, 1.5BA, $1100/mo. Parking, appliances, laundry & storage. Call 708-268-3762

Agent Owned, 312-671-3795

Escanaba, newly decorated, stove included, $550 plus 1 month security, 708-747-0054

East near 159th/Halsted, newly remodeled, 2BR, appl. off St. prk. $775 + 1 mo. sec. 708-289-5168

COLLEGE GIRL BODY RUBS $40 w/AD 24/7

224-223-7787 42 CHICAGO READER | AUGUST 4, 2016

CHICAGO 7600 S Essex 2BR $599, 3BR $699, 4BR $799 w/apprvd credit, no sec dep. Sect 8 Ok! 773287-9999 /312-446-3333 2BR W/ CARPET, cherry kit cabi-

CHICAGO, 69th & Dante, 3BR, free heat, proof of income required. $1100/mo + 1 mo security.

Call 773-493-9804

Heat & Appls incl. South Side locations only. Call 773-593-4357

79TH & LANGLEY. 5 Rms, 2BR, Decor. beaut. h/w floors, $760+ $400 move-in fee. Close to trans & shpg. Brown Realty 773-239-9566

EVANSTON 2BR, 1100SF, great kit, new appls, DR, oak flrs, lndry, $1250/mo incls heat. 773743-4141 www.urbanequities.co

CHATHAM, 736 E. 81st (Evans), 2BR, 5 rms, 2nd flr $800/mo. Call Mr. Joe at 708-870-4801

Elmhurst: Sunny 1/BR, new appl, carpet, AC, Patio, $895/incl heat, parking. Call 773-743-4141 www.urbanequities.com

8941-43 S. COTTAGE Grove,

2 BR $1500 AND

CHATHAM 2BD AVAIL Newly Updated. heat incl, hdwd floors, enclosed back porch, intercom, Mr. Rick 773-994-7562

OVER

LARGE TWO BEDROOM, two bathroom apartment, 3820 N Fremont. Near Wrigley Field. Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Laundry in building.

Available 10/1. $1775/ month. Parking available. $150/ month for single parking space. $200/ month for tandem parking space. 773-761-4318, w ww.lakefrontmgt.com

NORTHCENTER/LAKEVIEW AREA, 2 bedroom 1 bath condo.

Central air and heat, large storage unit. Washer and dryer in unit, pet friendly building. Close to Wrigleyville nightlife, Trader Joe’s, Brown Line, Wrigley field and Southport Corridor available now. 773 612 0079

LARGE BRIGHT LINCOLN PK

2Bd, 1Bth, In Unit W/D, Roof Deck, Back Porch, HVAC, Fireplace, DW, Hardwood Flrs, Available Immediately. $2000-$2500 Call: 773 472 5944

1st / 3rd flr, 2BR Apts. Ten htd, lndry /appls incl. Credit check $700 mo + $350 move in fee 773-721-8817

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200 3BD./1BA. CHI HTS, cer tile kit. /ba. fans, plenty clts, laun. rm, lg yd, side dr. & alm sys. $940. cre. chk dep. req. Calls only 708.275.

1451 NR 87TH & STONY ISLAND, 3BR Apt, $1000 + heat, 2 mo sec + 1 mo rent, rec renov ba & kit, gar space avail. Not Sec 8 reg 773771-0785 CALUMET CITY: 3BR, 1BA c/a, garage, appliances incl no basement, $1175/month plus 1 month security 773-374-6782

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PARK MANOR LOCATION, near 75th & St. Lawrence, 6 room Apt., 3BR, 2nd floor, 1 month’s sec dep. $875/mo. Call 312-259-7790

3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799

SOUTHSIDE 8105 S Exchange

CALUMET CITY, Freshly painted, 3BR, 2BA, eat in kitchen, fridge /stove incl. C/A, hdwd flrs, newly remod bsmt, storage lndry room w / W/D, 2.5 car gar, sec sys avail. $1200 + utils. 708-846-3424

large 3 BR, jacuzzi tub, fenced in yard, huge kitchen, $1,100/mo. 773802-9488

CHICAGO SOUTH: 114 E 119th

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

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

708-288-4510

CHICAGO 2707 E 93rd St.

3 BR OR MORE

5BR, 2BA, Fenced yard, nr transportation,avail 8/1/16. $1550/mo. Bernard 312-721-5692

OTHER

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499

CALUMET CITY, If you see it, you’ll want it. Everything brand new 3BR, 2.5 BA, kit w/ new appls, fin bsmt, fully A/C, 2.5 car gar, 524 Hirsch Ave. Sect 8 welc.

773-317-4357

SECT 8 WELC. 1414 S. Hamlin, 2nd flr greystone, 3BR, newly decor, new appls. NO move in fee!

Sec dep neg. Priv rear porch. Ten pays utils. $1300/mo. Avail now.

Call btwn 9am-5pm, 773-616-3067

VIC. OF 123RD & Parnell, 3BR hse, 2.5 car garage, encl. yard, all appls, $1200/mo + move in fee. Ten pays all utils. No pets.

773-614-8304

SOUTH SIDE, 6851 South Evans Avenue, very clean 3 bedroom house, 1 1/2 bath, large backyard, A/C, close to transportation, $1200 month. 773-994-7200

HUGE, immaculate 3BR, 1BA Newly remod, close to trans & shopping, quiet block. Must See! Sec 8 welcome Call 312-7700795

SAUK VILLAGE - 3BR Homes, 1 car garage, quiet neighborhood, $1200-$1350/mo + security. Section 8 OK. Call 708-271-2502

RICHTON PK, 4BR 1.5BA full fin bsmt, 2 car att gar. 3BR TH, 1.5BA, full fin bsmt, pool & prkng. Must verify income. Bad Crdt OK. 708.

633.6352

WOODLAWN AVE, 3BR, 1 Full Bath, bsmt, Sect 8 OK, $1300 plus 1 month security.

708-351-9053 Smith

DOLTON 143RD/

CHICAGO S: Newly renovated, Large 3-4BR. In unit laundry, hardwood floors, very clean, No Deposit! Available Now! 708-6551397

SOUTH SHORE - 6815 S. Merrill,3BR 2 full BA, 3rd fl,c-fans, cent heat & air, hdwd, $1100 + 1 mo sec. Ten pays utils. Credit check. 773-643-1970

CHICAGO HEIGHTS 3BR, 1BA, NEWLY REMODELED, APPLS INCL , SECTION 8 OK. NO SEC. DEPOSIT. 708-8224450

E GARFIELD PARK Newly Re-

RIVERDALE 13923 MICHIGAN.

and houses for rent. No SecDep. Section 8 Welcome. Heat included for apartments. Call 708-979-3852.

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

312-446-3333 or 708-752-3812

PARK MANOR: 7532 S Vernon, Beaut rehab 3BR, 2BA house, granite ctrs, SS appls, whrlpl tub, fin bsmt, $1475/mo. 708-288-4510

Pam 312-208-1771.

Chicago, 120th and Normal. 5BR, 2BA, hardwood flrs, full finished basement, island kitchen. $1150/mo + sec. 708-369-3997

RECENTLY REHABBED APTS

CHICAGO HOUSES FOR rent.

CHICAGO 8457 S Brandon, 4BR

76TH AND CALUMET

habbed 3 Bed Home! Section 8 Welcome! Quiet Neighborhood, Hardwood, Large! 312-989-9943

UNIVERSITY PARK. 4, 3 & 2BR, House/Condo, Section 8 ok.

For information: 708-625-7355

4356 S LAKE Park: $1500 4BR,1BA central air and heat. No sec dep. Call Toni 773-916-0039 or

6343 S. ROCKWELL - 3BR, incl heat. hdwd flrs, lndry facility, fenced in bldg, fireplace, appiances

$995/mo. Sec 8 ok. 773-791-6100

MATTESON, SAUK VILLAGE &

Newly Decorated 3BR, 1BA, range, fridge, dryer, sec 8 OK. Call Gordon 708-868-0873

SECTION 8 WELCOME WEST PULLMAN 255 W. 111th Pl, 6BR, 3BA, $1620. Newly remod, appls incl, full bsmt, garage. 5BR Voucher Accepted. 773-793-8339

4341 S GREENWOOD 1N $1395 large 4BR, 1BA, all updated, Heat and water incl., no sec dep. Call Toni 773916-0039 or Pam 312-208-1771

South Shore: 3BR 1.5 bath & 2BR: newly remodeled. Hrdwd flrs, heat & hot water incl. No Sec Dep. Sec 8 welc.. Call 9am-5pm 773-731-8306

XL 2ND FLR APT., 78th & S. Sangamon St., 3BR, 1BA, $1000/ mo + sec. Heat incl. No pets, sec 8 OK. 773-874-0524, before 9pm.

NEAR 83RD & Yates. 5BR, 2BA, hdwd flrs, fin basement, stove & fridge furn. Heat incl. $1600 + 1 mo sec. Sect 8 ok. 773-978-6134

apartments, 1st & 2nd flr. 2 or 3BR voucher ok; 847-926-0625

6BR apartment, 1st flr, 4 or 3BR voucher ok; 847-926-0625

EXECUTIVE 4BD 4BA Home on

6+ acres in Michigan.

Approved for horses. 40x80 heated barn w/kitchen. Must see to believe. $399,900. MLS 15062109 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Michigan Real Estate Dave Persons, Realtor® 117 E. State St. P.O. 155 Colon, Mi. 49040 Cell: 269-625-2734 Office 432- 3430 Email: depersons@yahoo.com

non-residential SELF-STORAGE

CENTERS.

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

773-685-6868.

South: Pershing Avenue. 773-523-6868.

GENERAL

roommates

643 W. GARFIELD Large 3 & 4BR, 2BA, 2 flat building, porch enclosed, big yard. Section 8 welcome. $1150 & $1350. 312-3373893

ROOMS FOR RENT $400- $410/month.

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

FOR SALE

SHARED APT, private bedroom, Mature adult pref, No drugs or alcohol, 7300 block of S. Vernon, Chicago, IL, 60619. 773-580-4141

3110 WISCONSIN, BERWYN.

FEMALE STUDENT HOUSING

3 luxurious levels of living space will truly amaze! 5 bedrooms/5 baths.

Elegant chandeliers, Italian ceramic flooring & marble throughout. Large eat-in-kitchen, formal dining room & family room with fireplace. Private 2nd floor, 2 room ensuite with fireplace, access to wraparound balcony.

3rd floor in-law arrangement. 3 car garage. Overlooks Proksa Park. 2 blocks from Metra. 20 minutes from Chicago’s Loop. Too much to mention, come see for yourself. Asking $440,000. Michals Realty, 708-4479950.

SUMMER COTTAGE ON

All Sports Long Lake in St. Joseph County Michigan.

182’ Frontage. Completely remodeled. Well and Septic. 60x94 Storage Barn. $249,000 MLS 16018475 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Michigan Real Estate Dave Persons, Realtor® 117 E. State St. P.O. 155 Colon, Mi. 49040 Cell: 269-625-2734 Office 432- 3430 Email: depersons@yahoo.com Independently Owned & Operated

in private home. N. Bronzeville: 40th/ King Dr. $550/mo shared utils. Chicago Interns welc 630-842-1739

MARKETPLACE GOODS

FRENCH BULLDOG PUPPIES,

AKC, 9wks, vet checked, shots, wormed, papers, $800ea FOR PICTURES EMAIL bredtuner872@aol.com 773-248-3086

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By Cecil Adams q : A friend says all of the drinkable water on the earth has passed through dinosaur kidneys. What do you think? —JERRY LODRIGUSS

q : A friend claimed that all water on earth is

“old” water, billions of years old. I countered that water is a product of combustion and therefore “new” water is continually being created. Also, water decomposes through methods such as electrolysis. How likely is it that the majority of water molecules on the planet are the same bonding of hydrogen and oxygen atoms from billions of years ago?

—BILL B.

A : Just guessing, Jerry: would this friend happen to be about eight years old? I ask because it sounds like he or she may be among the nearly 140,000 viewers of an eye-catching video posted last May by Curious Minds, a YouTube channel aimed at sparking children’s interest in science, entitled “Have you drunk DINOSAUR PEE?” To address your more genteel rephrasing of this inquiry requires that I give Bill and his friend an answer about the age of water, but also points us toward a third, even bigger question: What is water, anyway?

To get this out of the way: yes, dinosaurs apparently did urinate. For years, scientists figured that dinosaurs, like most of their avian descendants, evacuated liquid and solid waste in a single stream from an orifice called the cloaca. But in 2002 paleontologists in Colorado found preserved, amid a cluster of dinosaur footprints, a ten-foot-long, five-foot-wide, ten-inch-deep “bathtub-shaped depression”— the first genuine evidence to suggest that at least some dinosaurs must have produced urine separately, as ostriches do.

Now, no one thinks actual dinosaur tinkle drips from our faucets, or even (I hope) that any trace particle of dinosaurs’ waste has lingered in our water supply for the 66 million years since their extinction. In fact, author Charles Fishman was making a point about the resilience of the water cycle in his 2011 book The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, when he devised the bold claim that his press materials simplified thus: “The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex.”

The reasoning behind such an assertion is straightforward enough. Though nearly 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water exists on earth, and pretty much always has, 96.5 percent of that is seawater. Only 11 million cubic kilometers is fresh, much of which is locked away as 44 CHICAGO READER - AUGUST 4, 2016

groundwater or in glaciers. That leaves only 93,000 cubic kilometers of water available for beverage use. The age of the dinosaurs lasted 135 million years, more than enough time for them to consume all the potable water that evaporated and precipitated across the globe.

And what goes in, of course, must come out.

But how much of the water we drink today existed back then for dinosaurs to guzzle?

Fishman says, “No water is being created or destroyed on Earth.” Well, that’s clearly untrue. As Bill notes, the process of electrolysis splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gases. As for creating water, it’s a regular function of a society that burns as much fossil fuels as ours does. When hydrocarbons combust, the products include carbon dioxide, to our ecological dismay, but also—picture jet contrails here—water.

Combustion produces about only ten cubic kilometers of water per year, though, and humans have been burning fossil fuels at a significant rate for less than a century. So Curious Minds isn’t off base in saying that “the total amount of water on earth has been fairly constant.” The fact remains: there is fresh water now available for human consumption that no dinosaur could have drunk first.

OK, now let’s go big picture: What is water?

Duh—two hydrogen atoms, one oxygen, right?

Basically, but it’s not that simple. Though water is a highly stable compound, water molecules are dynamic little critters, their component particles constantly splitting off and recombining. All told, in the liquid state your average H2O grouping hangs around unchanged for maybe a millisecond.

So, sure, when you turn on your shower, the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms that emerge may at some point have seen the inside of a dinosaur. But they’ve mixed and matched with each other so often since that their relationship to whatever once filled some diplodocus’s bladder is, to put it mildly, tenuous. And if that still makes you squeamish?

Trust me, you don’t even want to think about what might have happened with all the dinosaur crap. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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By Cecil Adams Q : A friend says all of the drinkable water on the earth has passed through dinosaur kidneys. What do you think? —JERRY LODRIGUSS

Q : A friend claimed that all water on earth is

“old” water, billions of years old. I countered that water is a product of combustion and therefore “new” water is continually being created. Also, water decomposes through methods such as electrolysis. How likely is it that the majority of water molecules on the planet are the same bonding of hydrogen and oxygen atoms from billions of years ago?

—BILL B.

A : Just guessing, Jerry: would this friend

happen to be about eight years old? I ask because it sounds like he or she may be among the nearly 140,000 viewers of an eye-catching video posted last May by Curious Minds, a YouTube channel aimed at sparking children’s interest in science, entitled “Have you drunk DINOSAUR PEE?” To address your more genteel rephrasing of this inquiry requires that I give Bill and his friend an answer about the age of water, but also points us toward a third, even bigger question: What is water, anyway?

To get this out of the way: yes, dinosaurs apparently did urinate. For years, scientists figured that dinosaurs, like most of their avian descendants, evacuated liquid and solid waste in a single stream from an orifice called the cloaca. But in 2002 paleontologists in Colorado found preserved, amid a cluster of dinosaur footprints, a ten-foot-long, five-foot-wide, ten-inch-deep “bathtub-shaped depression”— the first genuine evidence to suggest that at least some dinosaurs must have produced urine separately, as ostriches do.

Now, no one thinks actual dinosaur tinkle drips from our faucets, or even (I hope) that any trace particle of dinosaurs’ waste has lingered in our water supply for the 66 million years since their extinction. In fact, author Charles Fishman was making a point about the resilience of the water cycle in his 2011 book The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water, when he devised the bold claim that his press materials simplified thus: “The water coming out of your kitchen tap is four billion years old and might well have been sipped by a Tyrannosaurus rex.”

The reasoning behind such an assertion is straightforward enough. Though nearly 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water exists on earth, and pretty much always has, 96.5 percent of that is seawater. Only 11 million cubic kilometers is fresh, much of which is locked away as

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groundwater or in glaciers. That leaves only 93,000 cubic kilometers of water available for beverage use. The age of the dinosaurs lasted 135 million years, more than enough time for them to consume all the potable water that evaporated and precipitated across the globe.

And what goes in, of course, must come out.

But how much of the water we drink today existed back then for dinosaurs to guzzle?

Fishman says, “No water is being created or destroyed on Earth.” Well, that’s clearly untrue. As Bill notes, the process of electrolysis splits water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gases. As for creating water, it’s a regular function of a society that burns as much fossil fuels as ours does. When hydrocarbons combust, the products include carbon dioxide, to our ecological dismay, but also—picture jet contrails here—water.

Combustion produces about only ten cubic kilometers of water per year, though, and humans have been burning fossil fuels at a significant rate for less than a century. So Curious Minds isn’t off base in saying that “the total amount of water on earth has been fairly constant.” The fact remains: there is fresh water now available for human consumption that no dinosaur could have drunk first.

OK, now let’s go big picture: What is water?

Duh—two hydrogen atoms, one oxygen, right?

Basically, but it’s not that simple. Though water is a highly stable compound, water molecules are dynamic little critters, their component particles constantly splitting off and recombining. All told, in the liquid state your average H2O grouping hangs around unchanged for maybe a millisecond.

So, sure, when you turn on your shower, the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms that emerge may at some point have seen the inside of a dinosaur. But they’ve mixed and matched with each other so often since that their relationship to whatever once filled some diplodocus’s bladder is, to put it mildly, tenuous. And if that still makes you squeamish?

Trust me, you don’t even want to think about what might have happened with all the dinosaur crap. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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When gaming is an excuse for neglect. Plus: sneaky facials, sex-worker yick Q : My husband is using

Pokémon Go as an excuse to stay out until 5 AM with another woman. She is beautiful and about a decade younger than him, and he won’t hear me out on why this is bothersome.

Our work schedules don’t match up, and he always wants me to meet him in the wee hours of the morning after I’ve worked a full day shift. I’m totally fine with him wanting to stay out after work for a few drinks with friends, but Pokémon Go until 5 AM alone with a twentysomething for four straight weeks?! It’s driving me crazy. I told him how I feel, and he says it’s my fault for “never wanting to do anything.” I told him I feel like he doesn’t even like me anymore, and he didn’t even acknowledge my feelings with a response. Please help.

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A : Second Life, SimCity, World of Warcraft, Minecraft—it’s always something.

By which I mean to say, PGMN, Pokémon Go isn’t destroying your marriage now, just as SimCity wasn’t destroying marriages 15 years ago. Your husband is destroying your marriage. He’s being selfish and inconsiderate and cruel. He doesn’t care enough about you to prioritize your feelings—or even acknowledge them, it seems.

When a partner’s actions are clearly saying “I’m choosing this thing—this video game, this bowling league, this whatever—over you,” they’re almost always saying this, as well: “I don’t want to be with you anymore, but I don’t have the courage or the decency to leave so I’m going to neglect you until you get fed up and leave me.”

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I don’t believe that for a second—he looooves facials.

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GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene PILSEN HARDCORE HEROES Los Crudos celebrate their 25th anniversary with nine days of music and art this fall. Desafinados, which roughly translates as “those who are out of tune,” will center on a gallery exhibition documenting the history of Latino and Chicano punk in Pilsen and Little Village; the Co-Prosperity Sphere will host Desafinados, which runs from Friday, September 30, through Saturday, October 8. Desafinados will also include an art fair, panels on queer art and local punk, and a literary night with readings

by Michelle Gonzales (Spitboy) and Alice Bag (the Bags). Organizers want to keep the whole series free to the public, so they’ve launched an IndieGoGo campaign to cover their costs; goodies for backers include Crudos 25th-anniversary T-shirts and test pressings of records that front man Martin Sorrondeguy has released through his Lengua Armada label. Grab your wallet and head to bit.ly/crudos25.

Can it possibly have been a year since Logan Square dive Crown Liquors got its roomy, wood-paneled remodeling and fancy new drink list? Gossip Wolf remembers when hitting up the bar’s insanely filthy bathrooms meant taking your life into your own hands! Much like the neighborhood, Crown seems to have retained its charms despite big changes, and on Thursday, August 4, it celebrates a year of looking brand spanking new with live sets by “witch punk” band Lil Tits and punk trio Vamos. Last month the latter released the scorching single “Outsiders,” whose video celebrates water balloons, kiddie pools, and biking around in the Chicago heat.

In April, Carolinas-based indie Tiny Engines announced it had signed gnarly Chicago postpunk trio Yeesh. In late July, the label released Yeesh’s swashbuckling second album, Confirmation Bias—and this wolf can confirm it rips! The band’s set at Wicker Park Fest last month was canceled due to inclement weather, but they headline the Hideout on Thursday, August 4. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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