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4 Agenda Pippin, Jim Gaffigan, Black Harvest Film Festival, and more recommendations 8 City Life Street View: a matched pair get inspiration from the Bee Gees. Chicagoans: elementary school custodian Michelet Boursiquot City Agenda: something to do every day of the week 10 Joravsky | Politics Why is Mayor Emanuel expanding another TIF district?
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12 Lit Go Set a Watchman reads like the early draft it is. 12 Theater Staged readings take center stage at Steppenwolf’s First Look showcase. 12 Visual Art Degas takes on modern life in “At the Track, On the Stage.” 15 Small Screen The Wet Hot American Summer cast reunites in Netflix’s First Day of Camp.
19 Film Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley are Best of Enemies.
38 Cocktail Challenge: Stinkbugs A Franklin Room bartender gets the insects stuck in his teeth. 38 Confessions of a list maker The ubiquity of food lists inspires an essay—and a list of south-side tacos. 40 Bars Where to drink in Ukrainian Village and East Village
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36 Review: Pearl’s Southern Comfort Dixie cuisine continues its march on Chicago with an Edgewater eatery.
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THEATER The Beauty Queen of Leenane Three Crows Theatre have almost everything required for a top-shelf inaugural production. They’ve got Martin McDonagh’s hilarious and harrowing script about unstable 40-year-old Maureen, trapped in rural Ireland caring for her intransigent mother—who actively thwarts her daughter’s one chance at happiness. They’ve got Ryan Bennett’s savvy set design that makes the compact Heartland Studio artfully claustrophobic. And they’ve got an able cast who reach extraordinary emotional heights whenever necessary (and even manage convincing Irish brogues). All that’s missing is pacing. Director Kristin Davis’s two-hour-plus production too often lingers and dawdles where it might plunge recklessly ahead, taking nearly all the edge off the play’s dark comedy, and slackening the tension between mother and daughter until quite late in the evening. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 8/9: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Heartland Studio Theatre, 7016 N. Glenwood, 773791-2393, artful.ly/store/events/6092, $18. Feast The Albany Park Theater Project staged a version of this show about the cultural resonances of eating back in 2010. Now it’s offering another serving, with an updated menu. For both the first and current Feasts, teen participants interviewed neighborhood folks on their culinary lives, then turned the results into an evening of short works. New set pieces concern eating poor, raising a cow, the romance of sugar, the magic of mole, Islamic butchery, and cooking as a form of oppression. There’s charm, insight, and considerable candor here— as well as a nicely executed bit featuring girls as doll-like victims of traditional gender roles. But the production overall lacks the grace and cohesion of its predecessor. (The set design is just plain odd, its most notable feature being a big, orange, hairy ball suspended from the ceiling.) Where the original Feast
stood on its own, the 2015 edition needs our goodwill to get by. —TONY ADLER Through 8/16: Wed 7 PM, Thu 7:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 P, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-443-3800, goodmantheatre.org, $10-$25. Last Train to Nibroc In scene one of this play set in 1940, priggish Bible thumper May and smooth-talking GI Raleigh meet cute on a cross-country train, both heading for Kentucky. He’s a charmer. She’s unpersuaded. They both have troubles. Will they get off the train together? If playwright Arlene Hutton created meaningful stakes for their relationship, I might care. As it is, they need nothing more from each other than Ginger Rogers needs from Fred Astaire. So when Hutton ramps up the crises—betrayal, abandonment, epilepsy (yes, epilepsy)—in the next two scenes, she’s building towers without foundations. And dear God, the play’s part of a trilogy. Thankfully Haven Theatre gives us only this first installment in 90 inoffensive minutes. Director Jason Gerace’s proficient production neither contracts to cliche nor explodes to life. It’s just emphatically well behaved. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 9/6: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, haventheatrechicago.com, $28. Macbeth Like Hamlet or King Lear, Macbeth is one of those gloomy, complex plays by Shakespeare that don’t exactly lend themselves to sunshine and a bottle of Two Buck Chuck. Despite the challenge, outdoor specialists Midsommer Flight have chosen to give it a whirl, presenting the Scottish play in a free 90-minute showing in various city parks. There’s plenty of sword fighting, which the company certainly has a grasp on, but overall a sort of drabness colors the production, and attention to language gets overlooked in favor of spectacle. Ultimately, let’s face it, outdoor theater attracts families like moths to a flame. And when the kiddos are bored, no amount of cheap red wine will ease the pain. —CHLOE RILEY Through 8/30: Sat
My Two Sons Sarah Ashley’s one-act comedy is an uncharacteristically understated and tender story for the Annoyance Theatre. Two teenage brothers riff off each other, negotiate a love triangle, and seek out every possible means of getting high in a sort of vignette-filled Dazed and Confused for the Generation Y set. The teens’ progressive parents (but really, who in the world is liberal enough to talk about rimming in front of their kids?) battle the kids’ older dirtbag friend, Viktor, for influence, creating a unique angle on the coming-of-age story. The collaboratively written sketch dialogue and scene structures don’t always lend themselves particularly well to the ambitious overarching material, which ends without much payoff, but it’s an often quietly funny trip down nostalgia lane. —DAN JAKES Through 8/21: Fri 8 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, theannoyance.com, $12, $8 students.
RILEY Through 8/23: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 7 PM; also Wed 8/12, 8 PM; Sun 8/16, 2:30 PM, Profiles Theatre, Alley Stage, 4147 N. Broadway, 773-549-1815, wearetheagency.org, $15.
Pippin Stephen Schwartz’s earR ly-career hit shows its age and flaws in this touring production based
The Two Gentlemen of Verona R Hampered by a complicated plot, belabored wordplay, and unlikable
Truth in Context There are moments of real truth in this new play, a two-man show from Agency Theater Collective written and directed by Chicago playwright Cody Lucas. It’s the context that doesn’t quite hold up. Lucas has crafted a fine character study in William–a corporate ad man who unravels after he’s discovered doing something he shouldn’t. But the play’s premise—an interviewee with no real motivation blackmails William into hiring him—feels phony and hinders much of the show’s easy flow. Awate Serequeberhan’s Bobby could speechify less, but Matthew Collins’s William is superbly loathsome, making it all the more delicious when he finally begins acting like a human being. Lucas has the characters; he just needs a more legitimate world for them to crawl around in. —CHLOE
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on a 2012 revival—but does so with such skill, style, and warmth it’s easy not to care. The score retains the quaint Aquarian feel of the late 60s, which is when Schwartz wrote the first version, and the revival’s circus-as-illusion conceit is self-subverting inasmuch as its amazing acrobatics are as real as can be. Still, the musical about Charlemagne’s confused son offers a fun, Candide-like journey with delightful stops along the way. Aside from the aforesaid acrobatics, there are engaging turns by John Rubinstein (the original Broadway Pippin, 1972-1977) as Charlemagne and Adrienne Barbeau as Pippin’s show-stopping grandma. Sam Lips does a fine job of balancing sexy with goofy in the title role. And Chet Walker’s Bob Fosse-inspired choreography yields some mesmerizing hip work. —TONY ADLER Through 8/9: Tue-Wed and Fri 7:30 PM, Thu and Sun 2 and 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph, 312-902-1400, $27-$105.
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characters (including a romantic lead who cheats on a devoted lover by wooing his best friend’s girlfriend), this is easily one of Shakespeare’s weakest, and silliest, plays. (Some believe it was his first.) Still, using the basic tools of drama—strong cast, good costumes (by Emily McConnell), eye-pleasing set (by Margaret Goddard-Knop) director Lavina Jadhwani transforms this into a satisfying modern-day staging. Jadwani recognizes that, for all its flaws, the play is peopled with believable characters (Vahishta Vafadari is particularly moving as the aforementioned devoted lover), and contains some fine theatrical moments, including a wonderful monologue on love, delivered with grace and power by Michael Pogue as Valentine. —JACK HELBIG Through 8/22: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 7 PM; also Wed 8/19, 8 PM, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Austin Gardens, Forest & Ontario, Oak Park, 708-4454440, oakparkfestival.com, $27, $22 seniors, $15 students, free kids under 12.
Spectacle Spectacular A completely improvised musical with dancers from J. Lindsay Brown Dance and the Glitter Island Gang. 8/9-8/16: Sun 7:30 PM, MCL Chicago, 3110 N. Sheffield, mclchicago.com, $15.
COMEDY BGA Summer Comedy Event R Comedian John Mulaney has seen his star rise rapidly in the last few years, propelled by a writing gig at SNL and a since-canceled Fox sitcom. Tonight he headlines a benefit for the Better
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Government Association, a watchdog group; there’ll also be hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Thu 8/6, 6 PM, Park West, 322 W. Armitage, 773-929-5959, bettergov.org, $75. Jim Gaffigan The family-friendly R comic, fresh off the launch of his new self-titled sitcom on TV Land, drops into Chicago as part of his “Contagious” tour. Thu 8/6, 8 PM, Northerly Island, 1400 S. Lynn White, 312-745-2910, livenation.com, $39.50-$79.50.
Laugh Lines The latest cornfest from pH Comedy Theater, written and directed by company member Rasheeda Moore, explores the origin stories of the world’s cheesiest dad jokes and Cracker Jack-style one-liners to varying degrees of funny. The hour-plus sketch show begins with the three-person cast—Jared Miller, Tawny Safieddine, and Dan Wright—chanting and making offerings to the joke gods to ensure another year of good humor. Most of the sketches that follow, from the cookie that went to the doctor because it felt crumby to the horse at the bar with the long face, benefit from Safieddine’s impeccable physical comedy and Miller and Wright’s commitment. Others stretch too long, remain underdeveloped or veer surprisingly dark for a premise based on groaners. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 9/4: Fri 9:30 PM, pH Comedy Theater, 1515 W. Berwyn, whatisph.com, $10-$15. VHS With Zach Peterson ChiR cago comic Zach Peterson hosts a night of stand-up sets and viewings
of weird old VHS tapes; with the Puterbaugh Sisters, Danny Kallas, and Derek Smith. Fri 8/7, 8 PM, North Bar, 1637 W. North, 773-123-5678, liveatnorthbar.com/ events/vhs-with-zach-peterson, $3. WeirDass Husband-and-wife R improv duo Stephnie Weir and Bob Dassie cut their teeth at iO in Chi-
cago before taking their work on tour; they bring their long-form improv home tonight. Thu 8/6, 10 PM, the Del Close Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov.com/ chicago, $14.
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VISUAL ARTS AdventureLand Gallery R “BeOddDieRich,” drawings, videos, and photography by Todd
Diederich. Fri 8/7, 7-10 PM, 1513 N. Western, adventurelandgallery.com. Comfort Station Vernacular Photography Festival, a collector for almost 20 years, John Foster introduces this new event series with a talk about vernacular photography. Future speakers include Pamela Bannos, Shari Wilkins, and Ron Slattery, who’s curating this fest. Fri 8/7, 7-10 PM, 2579 N. Milwaukee, comfortstationprojects@gmail.com, www.comfortstationlogansquare.org. Museum of Contemporary Art “MCA Screen: Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys,” Thys and de Gruyter, a longtime pair of video artists working in Belgium, bring to the MCA their ambitious installation Im Reich der Sonnenfinsternis (“In
the Empire of the Solar Eclipse”), which comprises 200 paintings by a fictional character named Johannes, himself the subject of a film on view here: Das Loch (“The Hole”). 8/8-1/17/16. Tue 10 AM-8 PM, Wed-Sun 10 AM-5 PM. $12, $7 students and seniors, free on Tuesdays. 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org.
LIT An Evening With Steve R MacIsaac Canadian cartoonist Steve MacIsaac’s comics series Sticky
addresses gay sexuality in a rarely seen format; he drops into Chicago to discuss and sign copies of his newest work, Shirtlifter, which explores issues of sexuality and masculinity within the weightlifting community. Fri 8/7, 7-9 PM, Unabridged Bookstore, 3251 N. Broadway, 773-883-9119, unabridgedbookstore.com.
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Two Cookie Minimum As always this reading series, which highlights self-published authors, is hosted by Johnny Misfit; as always, there will be free cookies. This time around the guests are Andy Glass, Andy Burkholder, Mairead Case, and Victoria Perez-Segovia. Tue 8/11, 8 PM, Comfort Station, 2579 N. Milwaukee, comfortstationprojects@gmail. com, twocookieminimum.blogspot.com.
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New Reviews The End of the Tour Adapted R from David Lipsky’s book Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, this moving, morally engaged drama chronicles the five-day road trip that Lipsky, then a staff writer for Rolling Stone, took with novelist David Foster Wallace in 1996 as the latter embarked
on a reading tour for his just-published opus Infinite Jest. Wallace (Jason Segel in his most impressive performance to date) comes off as brilliant, gentle, and sincere, yearning for authentic emotional experience and deeply ambivalent about the fame that’s begun to envelop him; Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) comes off as envious, duplicitous, and exploitative, rifling through the novelist’s medicine cabinet even as, outside the bathroom, Wallace is leaving a friendly surprise message on his cassette recorder. Their affectionate farewell at the end seems terribly sad, given that the story is framed by Wallace’s 2008 suicide; reliving their encounter feels even sadder, given that Lipsky couldn’t resist milking it for a book sale. —J.R. JONES R, 106 min. Landmark’s Century Centre Gemma Bovery The ever-rumpled Fabrice Luchini stars as a middle-aged husband and father who has abandoned his academic career in Paris to take over his father’s little bakery in Normandy; a disciple of Gustave Flaubert, the former professor goes into a tizzy when a young wife, newly arrived in town and coincidentally named Gemma Bovery, begins to travel the same life trajectory as the adulterous protagonist of Madame Bovary. French writer-director Anne Fontaine established herself with such dark psychological dramas as How I Killed My Father (2001) and Entre Ses Mains (2005) and has since moved on to such lighter fare as The Girl From Monaco (2008) and Coco Before Chanel (2009), but this is the first Fontaine movie I’ve seen that qualifies as lightweight. The literary gloss notwithstanding, it’s a standard May-December flirtation comedy, exemplified by a scene in which the sexy heroine (Gemma Arterton) is stung on the back by a wasp and implores the professor to suck the poison out (2014). In French with subtitles. —J.R. JONES 100 min. Fri 8/7-Thu 8/13, 5 PM. Music Box
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(1953) demonstrates her facility with actors and her flawless pacing. Two pals (Edmond O’Brien and Frank Lovejoy, both excellent) head off for a fishing trip in Mexico but get carjacked south of the border by a fish-eyed serial killer (William Talman, later the DA on the Perry Mason series). There’s a subplot in which the authorities close in on the fugitive, but Lupino, who cowrote the script, devotes most of the screen time to the fear, rage, and despair of the two friends, who realize they’re marked for death. —J.R. JONES 71 min. Wed 8/12, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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B pants persona to chilling effect; he’s the rare triple threat who’s more valuable behind the camera than in front of it. —J.R. JONES R, 107 min. City North 14, Crown Village 18, River East 21, Showplace ICON, Webster Place Runoff Nothing but misfortune comes to Betty (Joanne Kelly) and Frank (Neal Huff): their farm and agricultural supply business is failing, he’s diagnosed with cancer, and their misfit teenage son (Alex Shaffer) likes to smoke pot and sketch roadkill. When the final foreclosure notice on their home arrives, Betty bites down hard and accepts a bribe from one of their clients (Tom Bower) to illegally dump numerous drums of a toxic chemical into the neighboring river. Louisville writer-director Kimberly Levin, a biochemist making her feature debut, shows remarkable skill in the family scenes, laying out complex relationships among wife, husband, and son. The movie has drawn apt comparisons to Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River (2008) and Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone (2010) for its strong-willed heroine and credible handling of contemporary rural life. Less impressive is the creaky suspense machinery, which recycles a hoary melodramatic premise and builds to a heavy-handed climax, but this is still promising work that’s worth checking out. —J.R. JONES R, 90 min. Fri 8/7, 6 PM; Sat 8/8, 3 PM; Sun 8/9, 5:30 PM; Mon 8/10, 7:45 PM; Tue 8/11, 6 PM; Wed 8/12, 7:45 PM; and Thu 8/13, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Shaun the Sheep Movie R Aardman Animations, the British outfit responsible for the
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to deceive his beloved farmer and enable the livestock to sneak off the farm. After the plan backfires disastrously, the farmer losing his memory in an accident and winding up adrift in the big city, the animals embark on a mission to rescue him but cause mayhem wherever they go. The sight gags are so meticulously designed that they often recall Rube Goldberg inventions; much of the fun derives from seeing how the filmmakers pull off their elaborate comic scenarios. Mark Burton and Richard Starzak directed their own script. —BEN SACHS PG, 85 min. Crown Village 18, River East 21, Showplace ICON, Webster Place 3-1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets This documentary about the trial of Mark Dunn—a 47-year-old white man who opened fire on four black teenagers, killing one of them, at a Florida gas station in 2012—merits attention for its remarkable editing. Thanks to Emiliano Battista and Gideon Gold’s fluid work, the prosecution and defense unfold with the suspense of a Hollywood courtroom drama. Director Marc Silver clearly favors the perspective of Dunn’s victims and their families, yet he also engages seriously with the defendant’s account of the fateful events. Dunn comes to seem like an ordinary person, which makes his crime—not to mention his casual sense of white entitlement—seem that much more horrific. —BEN SACHS 98 min. Screens as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival; for a full schedule see siskelfilmcenter.org. Sun 8/9, 3 PM, and Mon 8/10, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center revivals The Hitch-Hiker Actress Ida R Lupino (High Sierra) enjoyed a second career as a director of B movies in the late 40s and early 50s, and this hell-for-leather noir
adapts Marilynne Robinson’s acclaimed novel about two orphaned sisters (played by Sara Walker and Andrea Burchill) who share their ramshackle house with their eccentric aunt (Christine Lahti). The setting is the Pacific northwest in the 1950s, and Forsyth does a remarkable job with period detail and the beautiful natural settings, assisted by his own UK crew of cinematographer Michael Coulter, production designer Adrienne Atkinson, costume designer Mary-Jane Reyner, and editor Michael Ellis. But the most impressive thing about this haunting fable is Forsyth’s fluidity and grace as a storyteller, which gives this understated tale some of the resonance one associates with Terrence Malick’s Badlands and Days of Heaven. The story suggests a kind of feminist version of Huckleberry Finn, with the sisters playing Huck and Tom to their aunt’s Jim; the performances by all three actresses are impeccable. A film to be savored rather than gulped. —JONATHAN ROSENBAUM 116 min. Filmmaker Stephen Cone introduces the screening. Wed 8/12, 7 PM. Northeastern Illinois University, Fine Arts Auditorium
The Interview Harun Farocki directed this experimental documentary (1996) about a training video that shows viewers how to apply for jobs. 58 min. Screens with Greg Stephen Reigh’s short Paying My Bills (2014, 16 min.) and 16mm educational fims from the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive. Sat 8/8, 8 PM; also Wed 8/12, 6:30 PM. Columbia College Hokin Hall Chicago Filmmakers, Columbia College, Hokin Hall Special events Black Harvest Film Festival The annual festival of independent feature-length and short films by African-American directors; for a full schedule see siskelfilmcenter. org. 8/9-9/3. Gene Siskel Film Center v
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Michelet Boursiquot, elementary school custodian I'M THE HEAD CUSTODIAN. I’m in charge of the whole building, and I love it. I clean, I repair things. Whatever is needed to assist the kids, I’m there. I get there at six in the morning. I’m not a morning person, but I don’t have no choice. I open the doors, and I make sure there’s no emergency, no leak, no problems. And then around 10:30, 11 o’clock, I set up for lunch. The kids throw up, make a mess—I take care of it. I’m always handy: water, lights, whatever they call me for. Two-thirty, I go home. There’s no hard part of my job. Whatever come, I take it. The kids love me. I’m telling you, they’re something else. They keep me young. I feel like they are my own. My favorite part, it just be hanging with the kids in the gym, playing ball. They tell me everything. If they have problem at home, I make them comfortable. Something bother you, come talk to me, and I will straight it out. If another kid bully them, they come and tell me. I call the other one and say, “If I have to take you to the principal, I will.” All my life I deal with kids. I’m the oldest of 20 kids—17 sisters, two brothers—and I had to take care of them. Haiti, that’s where I’m from. I was 20 when I came to the U.S. I came
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here in February, it was snowing like crazy. The first time I see that stuff, I start crying. I wanted to go back home. I read about snow in National Geographic, but I never knew it was like that. But I get adjusted. It take me a little while to learn English, about six months. Channel 11, that’s my favorite channel when I first came. Big Bird, Sesame Street. [Laughs.] I went to night school at Truman College, and then I started working for a Ford dealership. Then they shut down, and I come to the school district. In the meantime, I used to drive a school bus too. And I went to the high school too and got my GED.
Almost every year, I go back to Haiti. I always go to Mardi Gras. Just having fun, relieve some stress from here. They have parades big time. I just follow the band, dancing in the street. I been in this 30 years. I have three more years left. I have a new generation coming now. The ones who used to go to school here, their kids are coming to school now. They always remember me. They always bring me this, bring me that. I feel so much love here. I’m just a lucky man. The parents are so nice. That’s the hardest part—to quit here. That will be my hardest thing. —AS TOLD TO ANNE FORD
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Windy City Rubber Ducky Derby Benefiting the Special Olympics, the annual Ducky Derby pits 50,000 rubber ducks against one another in a race down the Chicago River. The family-friendly event includes face painting, games, and Chicago sports mascots. 10 AM, Wrigley Building Plaza, 400 N. Michigan, duckrace. com/chicago. F
M The Interview Show For August, Mark Bazer brings in chefs Cosmo Goss and Erling Wu-Bower, novelist Dave Reidy, and Americana band Jones Street Station for an evening of interviews, music, and food. 6:30 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, hideoutchicago.com, $12.
J Chicago Bears Family Fest Instead of viewing the massacre that's going to be each and every Bears game this season, take your kids to this family-friendly day at Soldier Field. Autograph sessions, outdoor games, and a youth football showcase complement the actual practice. 9:30 AM-1:30 PM, Soldier Field, 1410 S. Museum Campus, $8-$12.
Monster Food Truck Rally An outdoor party with food from trucks La Adelita and Bridgeport Pasty, among others; beer from Lagunitas; and live music and a farmers' market. 11 AM-3 PM, the Plant, 1400 W. 46th, plantchicago.com, $7, $5 in advance.
ã Brooklyn Brewery Mash A more diverse beer festival, this traveling series of events brings together live concerts, showcases from local chefs and brewers, a home video festival, and roundtables with industry leaders. Through 8/15: various times, locations, and prices, brooklynbrewerymash.com/chicago.
Ð "Hungry Souls" If you've spent much time in Pilsen, you've likely seen the work of Jasso, a prolific neighborhood graffiti artist. In this gallery show, Jasso explores street art, pop culture, and his Mexican roots. Through 8/30, Pilsen Outpost, 1958 W. 21st, pilsenoutpost.com. F
! Perseid Meteor Shower Star Party A viewing party held in conjunction with Adler Planetarium, which sends along an astronomer to narrate things; there's also live music and a scavenger hunt for kids. Rain or shine. 6-11 PM, Cantigny Park, 1S151 Winfield, Wheaton, $15, $12 in advance.
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POLITICS
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Forrest Claypool was named the Chicago Public Schools CEO last month by Mayor Rahm Emanuel (left). ! ASHLEE REZIN/FOR SUN-TIMES MEDIA
Chicago is desperate for cash, so why’s the mayor expanding another TIF district? By BEN JORAVSKY
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ast month state rep Barbara Flynn Currie came to the City Council to let Mayor Rahm Emanuel know what was what with his request for more state aid for his burgeoning teacher pension problems. Since she’s one of house speaker Michael Madigan’s chief allies, Currie’s words packed special meaning. Her message to the mayor—which might as well have come from the speaker himself—was that you’re not going to get the money you’re looking for, so stop asking for it and get your business in order. For starters, she said, it’s time to stop diverting so many property tax dollars to the tax increment financing program. Instead, the money should be spent on the schools. As Currie put it in her July 10 testimony to the council’s education committee: “Many wonder whether Chicago is in fact over-TIFed, with
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negative consequences for school budgets.” Well, last week the mayor let Madigan know just what he thought of the message Currie delivered. Emanuel unveiled a plan to extend and expand the Midwest TIF district, which will end up siphoning off tens of millions of property tax dollars, none of it guaranteed to help the schools. Then the mayor had his trusted sidekick Forrest Claypool, the new Chicago Public Schools CEO, write an essay in which he took an indirect swipe or two at speaker Madigan. “The simple and direct path too often leads to nowhere in Springfield,” Claypool wrote in the July 31 Tribune. Ballsy move by the mayor to go after the state’s most powerful politician. I haven’t seen such a tart response to a political message since Lynyrd Skynyrd penned “Sweet Home Alabama” in reaction to Neil Young’s “Southern Man.”
Not that Mayor Rahm’s a crypto confederate or anything. Also, it’s Claypool’s name on the essay, not Emanuel’s, and the piece doesn’t directly name Madigan, so maybe the mayor’s not so ballsy after all. OK, let’s dissect what’s happened here, starting with the mayor’s proposal to “solve” the problem of the $600 million or so owed to the Chicago teachers’ pension fund. The mayor has two proposals to deal with this obligation, which he artfully calls Plan A and Plan B. He’s like Shakespeare, this mayor! “Emanuel’s ‘Plan A’ creates a singular, uniform pension system across Illinois for teachers and taxpayers,” Claypool wrote. “It would treat every school district’s teachers, students and taxpayers the same.” The problem with this plan is that the state already owes hundreds of millions of dollars to its own teachers’ pension system and everyone is pretty much clueless as to what to do about it. So basically Mayor Rahm is proposing to solve his problem by giving it to someone else—all at great risk to the pension futures of Chicago teachers. That explains why the Chicago Teachers Union, speaker Madigan, and officials from municipalities throughout the state oppose it. I mean, if the state can’t make good on existing obligations, what makes the mayor think it’s a solution to add to them? My guess is that he doesn’t give a damn if the Chicago teachers’ pension goes under, so long as he’s not responsible for cleaning up the mess. In his own snarky way, Claypool acknowledges that Plan A has little chance of passage. “Plan A has the benefit of being simple,” wrote Claypool. “But in Springfield, where legislators can’t even agree on a budget, it may be too much to expect.” Take that, Speaker Madigan! So Claypool moves on to Plan B, in which he proposes that the state pick up more of the Chicago’s pension costs while making teachers pay a greater contribution. That amounts to a pay cut of about 7 percent for teachers. So you can imagine what teachers think about that. Both Plan A and Plan B were on the table
when Currie came to the City Council last month. And she rejected them, basically on the grounds that the state can’t afford either one. That’s why she urged the city to deal with its school funding debt by cutting back on TIF districts and increasing property taxes for schools. All of which brings us to the mayor’s plan to grow the Midwest TIF district, unveiled on July 28 at a meeting on the west side. Emanuel is proposing to expand the boundaries of the district and to extend its lifetime for another ten years, until 2034. He hasn’t detailed how he intends to spend the TIF money or how many millions of dollars it’s expected to add to the Midwest TIF account. Currently the district generates about $13 million a year. But I can tell you this: none of this money will help solve the pressing problem of funding our schools and wiping out the debt. To
THE MAYOR IS ESSENTIALLY RAISING PROPERTY TAXES CITYWIDE—WITHOUT GUARANTEEING THAT ANY OF THE MONEY GOES TO THE SCHOOLS. allow the Midwest TIF district to collect more money for longer, the mayor is essentially raising property taxes citywide—without guaranteeing that any of the money goes to the schools. So in effect he’s adding to our tax burden without solving our most immediate funding problems. The only bright spot here is that the Midwest TIF district includes some low-income communities that need economic development. So at least Mayor Emanuel won’t be squandering the money on rich areas for a change. Basically, he’s taking a page from Mayor Daley’s book: he’s blaming Springfield for what’s wrong while demanding that it give him whatever he wants—no questions asked. As we all know, that’s the formula that got us into this mess. v
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Go Set a Watchman is the skeleton in To Kill a Mockingbird’s closet By TYLER DASWICK
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eading Go Set a Watchman feels wrong. Not because of the subject matter, but because of the experience. It’s a broken, inconsistent, only halfway-to-good effort that feels like the early draft it is. It reads like a book you should never have been allowed to read at all. Watchman was Harper Lee’s first attempt at a race-themed novel. She submitted it to publishers back in the late 1950s, but Tay Hohoff, her editor at Lippincott, set it aside and requested that Lee expand on the story’s flashbacks instead. Lee obliged, and To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960. Watchman sat dormant for nearly 60 years, but HarperCollins made no changes to the original text before publishing it last month. This book is a draft, and it shows. Watchman takes place about a quarter century after Mockingbird. Scout Finch, now answering to Jean Louise and living in New York, returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus, and catch up with the characters of her childhood. A lot of press has detailed the supposedly shocking changes between the 1950s Maycomb of Watchman and the town from Mockingbird, but these earlier presentations of the classic characters and settings are more jarring than surprising. Yes, Atticus is a villain now and Jean Louise has a potential suitor, but Watchman’s reveals are more plot holes than plot twists. It’s not necessarily a bad thing for the story that At-
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ticus is a racist, but knowing why he devolved from the square-jawed hero of Mockingbird would be helpful. We hear in passing that the Tom Robinson trial actually resulted in an acquittal rather than a conviction, and that’s intriguing, but it’s unclear how that accounts for the differences in Scout and Atticus from the earlier novel. The inconsistencies make for a disorienting experience, but what’s truly disappointing is that Watchman doesn’t even try to connect itself to Mockingbird. It seems a fair expectation for a follow-up like this to be revised slightly, just to account for the book that chronologically came before it. Regardless, Watchman doesn’t fulfill or expand upon anything in Mockingbird; it blatantly ignores it. Instead of illuminating its characters, it throws eerie new shadows upon their faces. Instead of offering up more insight into Maycomb, it blurs the ink of its history. If Harper Lee wasn’t interested in revisiting the work or amending it, why should her audience be interested in reading it? The truth is, when this book was written, Lee’s best material was still to come, so why should we set out to retroactively experience a work far worse? Watchman isn’t the juicy origin story of a beloved book—it’s the skeleton in Mockingbird’s closet. vGo Set a Watchman by Harper Lee (Harper).
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STEPPENWOLF THEATRE’S First Look Rep was never a sprawling theater lab a la Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays. Last year it offered just two readings and three developmental productions over the course of a month. But this year there are no productions at all—just staged readings. And the whole party wraps up in less than a week. Even the name is shorter: the word “rep” is out. It’s all in the interests of art according to Aaron Carter, Steppenwolf’s director of new play development. Staged readings, he says, “ensure that playwrights can experiment boldly in rewrites without the limitations imposed by production deadlines.” They also “avoid the perception that the plays have received a Steppenwolf world premiere.” What’s left? Six scripts. Sharr White, whose The Other Place went to Broadway in 2013, is represented by Stupid Kid (Fri 3 PM), about an ex-con’s homecoming. Jason Wells’s plays have been well received in Chicago; his First Look contribution, The Engine of Our Ruin (Sun 11 AM), mixes geopolitics and partying diplomats. The Burn (Sun 2 PM) is a look at online bullying from local writer Philip Dawkins. Then there are the works by folks you’ve never heard of. Controversial rap lyrics threaten a rock festival in David Mitchell Robinson’s The Imaginary Music Critic Who Doesn’t Exist (Tue 7 PM, Sat 1 PM). Erika Sheffer’s The Fundamentals (Wed 7 PM, Sat 4 PM) totes up the price of success. And Sarah Gancher’s I’ll Get You Back Again (Thu 7 PM, Sat 8 PM) concerns a comedian at a crossroads. —TONY ADLER 8/11-8/16: Tue-Thu 7 PM; Fri 3 PM; Sat 1, 4, and 8 PM; Sun 11 AM and 2 PM, Steppenwolf Theatre, Upstairs Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted, 312-335-1650, steppenwolf.org, $5 each reading.
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Degas on the move THROUGH FEBRUARY 2016, visitors at the Art Institute of Chicago have an opportunity to take in “Degas: At the Track, On the Stage.” By combining two works on loan with pieces from its permanent collection, AIC, says president and curator Douglas Druick, has created “a focused exhibition exploring how Degas used the popular activities of his day to capture the intricacies of the human figure in motion.” The centerpiece of the exhibit is the 1866 oil painting Scene From the Steeplechase: The Fallen Jockey, on loan from the National Gallery of Art. In Degas’s time steeplechase was a newer form of cross-country obstacle horseracing reaching its apex in popularity. Scene depicts a jockey who’s fallen from his horse midrace and the action that surrounds him as the race continues. The work highlights the danger that made the sport the subject of much controversy; it also marks Degas’s transition from depicting historical figures to illustrating modern people in action in modern life. The stage is represented by a bronze cast of the 1881 wax sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, on loan from a private collection. Degas is perhaps best known for his depictions of dancers in paintings, such as the popular pastel The Star and oil Danseuse Rose (both of which are also on display). It’s remarkable to see these familiar subjects depicted in three dimensions, as though the object of Degas’s affections had come to life. The absence of color also shifts the focus to line and form, and Degas’s attention to detail here is unparalleled. —COLLEEN COTTET R “Degas: At the Track, On the Stage” Through 2/2016, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600, artic.edu, $20.
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orget about rock climbers and daredevils and people who sit down on toilet seats in porta-potties—David Wain and Michael Showalter are the bravest men in the world. Fans of their 2000 cult classic Wet Hot American Summer have been beside themselves since Netflix announced it would air Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, an eight-episode prequel to the big-screen parody of 80s summer camp movies, featuring the entire original cast (and then some). But it was the kind of unrestrained glee that seemed like it could easily turn ugly—if all those people’s hopes came crashing down like a rogue piece of Skylab, it would be a disaster on the scale of the Hindenberg. (That’s a joke from the movie—I’m a fan too, see.) At the very least, a lot of people would have thrown tantrums on the Internet. Wain and Showalter—who created and wrote both the film, which takes place in 1981 on the last day of camp, and the show, which takes place on the first day of camp that same summer—made a prequel that lives up to its source material by re-creating its exact brand of absurdist humor (the best way I’ve ever been able to describe it is that it’s so stupid it’s smart) and by recalling jokes without it ever seeming like those jokes are being regurgitated, unless doing so ups the anticomedy ante. It’s familiar but fresh. It builds on the minutiae of the story in a way that’ll only make future viewings of the film funnier. It cherry-picks bits of improvised dialogue from the film and fleshes out backstories. Example: In the film, during an inappropriately timed meltdown over her divorce from
her husband, Ron, Molly Shannon’s character Gail says, “When Jonas and I separated, I thought everything was lost.” In the show we actually learn who Jonas is. We even see the crayons that’ll eventually be lost—all except for a single brown one—sending Gail into an emotional tailspin. The more ridiculous the origin story the better. Elizabeth Banks’s character Lindsay, who we knew as little more than a nymph who can’t eat ribs without making a mess, isn’t who she seems. Gene didn’t start camp as a walking, talking raw nerve (and before he was fondling his sweaters he was pouring cherry juice onto his pubic mound). The verbal, self-fellating can of mixed vegetables makes sense now too. Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, Ken Marino, Joe Lo Truglio, Showalter—everyone is exactly as funny as they were 15 years ago, but Paul Rudd really goes out of his way to prove he’s one of the funniest people in Hollywood. As moody slacker Andy, he so completely harnesses the frustration of an overgrown adolescent that he can do something as stupid as misprounounce “filet mignon” and it’s funny. From the start of their rocky relationship Andy has sniped at girlfriend Katie (Marguerite Moreau) for “smothering” him. In the final episode of the season, when she asks if he’d like to walk with her to the mess hall, he snaps, “You’re being egregious.” WHAS is still egregious in all the right ways. vWET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER: FIRST DAY OF CAMP, streaming on Netflix
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est of Enemies is a movie about television—specifically, the short debates between liberal novelist Gore Vidal and conservative magazine editor William F. Buckley that were broadcast live on ABC during nightly news coverage of the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions in 1968. Vidal and Buckley loathed and disrespected each other, and each took it as his moral responsibility to drive the other from the public square. Their endless onscreen needling, still preserved on videotape, climaxed during the chaos of the Chicago Democratic convention when Vidal called Buckley a “crypto-Nazi” and Buckley replied, “Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in your goddamn face and you’ll stay plastered.” It’s a legendary TV moment, and to writer-directors Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) and Robert Gordon it represents nothing less than the dawn of our current left-right shouting match. Best of Enemies
ends with a closing montage connecting the Vidal-Buckley debates with our present-day cacophony of cable-news opinionators, none of whom possesses a fraction of the wit or erudition the older two men brought to the tube. Yet the Vidal-Buckley feud also broke past the boundaries of television into publishing in 1969, when each man wrote a lengthy account of their TV clash for Esquire. Gordon and Neville treat the Esquire chapter briefly, near the end, but in those two print pieces lies the larger story of Vidal and Buckley’s personal antagonism. Buckley and Vidal were primarily print men, but their mutual antagonism had unfolded on the tube. They first debated in 1962, on David Susskind’s talk show Open End, and took an instant dislike to each other. After Vidal lambasted Buckley and his fire-breathing magazine National Review on NBC’s late-night The Jack Paar Show, Buckley was granted equal time on a subsequent broadcast. Susskind had the duo back on in 1964 during the Republican
National Convention; they were the natural choices for the nightly debate segment when ABC, the lowest-rated of the three networks, decided to forgo traditional gavel-to-gavel coverage of the 1968 conventions for a tightly focused, prime-time news roundup. As Gordon and Neville point out with a split-screen of Vidal and Buckley, the two men were remarkably similar in their bearing: proud, elegant, well educated, well-spoken. Both were elitists who claimed to know the popular will (Vidal the grandson of a U.S. senator, Buckley the cosseted son of a western oil man), and both had run for office in New York, unsuccessfully (Vidal in a 1960 race for Congress, Buckley in a 1965 campaign for mayor of New York City). Despite these similarities, Vidal and Buckley came at each other across a cultural divide that would soon consume the entire country. Buckley was disgusted by Vidal’s homosexuality, and even more so by his satirical novel Myra Breckinridge, with its transgender hero; Vidal thought Buckley was an anti-Semite and was
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appalled by his intellectual brew of free-market economics, anticommunism, and Catholic religiosity. When the two met in Miami for the Republican National Convention, their debate immediately turned personal, and when they met again in Chicago the following month, with police and protesters clashing in the streets, it turned ugly. One can hardly imagine now how shocked people were to hear words such as queer and goddamn on television; Gordon and Neville have to bring in a linguist to explain how taboo they were. Vidal couldn’t have been more pleased; he later wrote, “In full view of ten million people, the little door in William F. Buckley Jr.’s forehead opened and out sprang that wild cuckoo which I had always known was there but had wanted so much for others, preferably millions of others, to get a good look at.” Buckley was mortified by his outburst, which was much remarked upon in the press, and still aggrieved by Vidal. Late that year he contacted Harold Hayes, editor of Esquire, and asked if he could write an essay about the debates. According to Hayes, Buckley said, “I think if I were to try and write about it, I might be able to work out why I said what I did. I will need some length, and I must be assured that your lawyers will allow me to call Vidal a homosexual in print. Otherwise there is no point in undertaking it.” Esquire’s researchers gathered enough information to prove this was so, and the magazine’s attorneys gave the OK, though Vidal had never come out (as his associate Matt Tyrnauer explains in Best of Enemies, he was “obsessed with shedding sexual labels”). Esquire would have to give Vidal a chance to reply, however, and as soon as he read a manuscript of Buckley’s gargantuan, 12,000-word piece, he began drawing up one of his own, hoping to expose Buckley as an anti-Semite once and for all. “On Experiencing Gore Vidal,” published in the August 1969 issue, is a sprawling memoir of Buckley’s encounters with Vidal and a merciless fact-checking of his fudgy statements on the air. Buckley has great fun with three public appearances in which Vidal variously proclaimed that there were 16 million, 30 million, and 40 million Americans living in poverty. But framing the piece is an impassioned J
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war lover, and an anti-Semite,” to quote Vidal biographer Fred Kaplan. Buckley had been in South Carolina on the night three of his sisters desecrated the church in Sharon, though Vidal’s careful wording of the accusation had been enough to protect him on that score, and Esquire’s attorneys concluded that Buckley’s entire case was weak. After three years of litigation, with the trial phase about to begin, the magazine decided to settle out of court and pay Buckley’s legal tab of $115,000. Buckley promptly dropped his suit against Vidal, declared victory in a surprise press conference, and gave his nemesis a good scolding. (“Let his own unreimbursed legal expenses . . . teach him to observe the laws of libel. I hope it will not prove necessary to renew the discipline in future years. There are limits even to my charity.”) Buckley may have triumphed over Vidal in the courts, but no legal injunction can erase that video clip of Buckley, his face twisted in rage, as he ranted at Vidal on ABC. Near the end of Best of Enemies, Buckley biographer Sam Tanenhaus recalls attending a TV taping in 1999 that marked the end of Buckley’s long-running PBS show Firing Line. When the host, Ted Koppel, surprised Buckley by airing the ABC clip, Buckley had no response at all; after the program he “made a beeline” for Tanenhaus, saying, “I thought that tape had been destroyed.” Buckley went to his grave in 2008 knowing that, despite a brilliant career as a writer, an editor, and the virtual founder of modern conservatism, his place in history would be defined by those few seconds of videotape. Four years later Vidal went to his grave savoring those same few seconds. v
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injured boy and a lawyer who defends the shooter in court. This doctor and lawyer are brothers, the former a cuddly humanist and the latter a greedy cynic. When the two discover their mutual connection to the shooting, they fight over the lawyer’s decision to represent the killer, nearly bringing their relationship to end. The brothers are forced to spend more time together, though, when the doctor’s wife discovers a video that shows her teenage son and the lawyer’s teenage daughter beating a homeless woman nearly to death. The filmmakers hold us in suspense as to how each main character will respond. Will the doctor, who claims that his belief in moral accountability is absolute, encourage the kids to turn themselves in, or will he ask his brother to use his legal connections to get them off the hook? This is all potentially compelling, except that Ferlan and De Matteo characterize their protagonists in such basic terms (and De Matteo maintains such a ridiculously genteel tone) that the movie feels less like a drama than like a hypothetical moral dilemma that friends might hash out around the dinner table—perhaps that’s what the title refers to. vThe Dinner s Directed by Ivano De Matteo. 92 min. Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, 312-846-2800, $11.
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“People talk about music as if it’s a separate thing. Music is people. Without us, there is no music.”
—Saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman, explaining his philosophy of human creativity to Chicago reedist Geof Bradfield
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ew jazz musicians over the past four decades have developed a practice as rigorous and original as that of alto saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman, whose many awards include a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship. A Chicago native, he grew up on the south side in thrall to the music of bebop pioneer Charlie Parker, whose harmonic dexterity and rhythmic invention remain cornerstones of Coleman’s work. He studied with Chicago legend Von Freeman, a fiercely individualistic player who no doubt helped Coleman find the fortitude to trust in his own vision. By the mid-80s that vision had crystallized as M-Base (it stands for “macro-basic array of structured extemporization”), a term for his approach to music that also became the name of a loose collective ensemble that originally included reedist Greg Osby, vocalist Cassandra Wilson, and pianist Geri Allen. M-Base dug into rhythms from around the world, melding the buoyancy of bebop with hard funk grooves and complex polyrhythms.
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Since then Coleman has relentlessly refined and evolved his ideas. He shares many of his recordings and compositions for free via his website, and he’s traveled around the world to conduct workshops and absorb ideas from locales as far-flung as Cuba, India, and Indonesia. He’s been in town for much of the past month, conducting a residency at the Logan Center on the campus of the University of Chicago and leading workshops elsewhere in the city with young musicians. His extended visit culminates with a performance by his long-running band Five Elements at Pritzker Pavilion on Thursday, August 6. Interviewing Coleman for this week’s Artist on Artist is Chicago reedist Geof Bradfield—like Coleman, a deep thinker who fortifies his original compositions with historical research and globe-spanning curiosity. An assistant professor of jazz saxophone and jazz studies at Northern Illinois University, he’s written a suite of music about the life of great trombonist and arranger Melba Liston and another
based on his tours across Africa. His current band Our Roots, which has an album due in October, was inspired by a recording of Leadbelly compositions by Clifford Jordan but also plays Bradfield’s takes on work songs and field hollers, including the music of blues preacher Blind Willie Johnson and Gullah folk group the Georgia Sea Island Singers. He’ll perform at the Chicago Jazz Festival in September with the Spin Quartet, a collaboration with trumpeter Chad McCullough, drummer Kobie Watkins, and bassist Clark Sommers, and he has a Monday gig at Andy’s through the end of the year, playing the music of Andrew Hill with Dana Hall’s Black Fire. —PETER MARGASAK
Could you talk about what you’re doing with the Logan Center residency? I saw one component of it yesterday, with the musicians’ workshop. Other than the kind of workshop that you saw, there’s community outreach where we go out and do either open rehearsals or—I don’t know if you’d call them workshops, because some of them are for kids. “Demonstrations” would be more accurate. Demonstrations, question-and-answer open rehearsals, and performances. They’re not like performances at a nightclub or something—they’re looser than that. They’re in the surrounding south-side community. And then we do more formal performances at the Logan Center. This might seem like a strange question, but why are you doing this? I learned a lot from older musicians when I was coming up. I’m just giving back and trying to inject some energy into the scene. I’ve done this before, in the 90s. We did a series of these out in the Bay Area, on the west coast. I’ve done them all over the world, really. In Brazil and Africa and Cuba and India—we’ve gone to different places. But I’m just trying to step it up a bit, make them more frequent. I’m trying to do four cities a year, with a minimum of three weeks in each place—that’s the idea. We’re doing it here, we’re doing it next in Philadelphia, then in Los Angeles, and then we’re picking a fourth city. That longer residency gives you the luxury of some time with local musicians and some time with local audiences—is that part of the idea? Normally a tour is a series of onenighters. You can’t get into anything because it’s just one night in a place, and most of it actually is traveling. This takes all that out of it. You’re just in one spot. This kind of J
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ARTIST ON ARTIST continued from 24 thing was done more in the past—Miles would come here and play at some club like the Beehive for three weeks. People would play some club, and then the hotel—the rooms would be right up above the club, so they had to do a lot less moving around. They played more— which is another benefit of this, by the way, that we’re doing a lot more playing—and as a result they played better. It gives your band a chance to develop in a way they can’t necessarily in a one-nighter series on the road. It’s a lot less stressful, and you’re concentrating on music. It has its challenges. I have to figure out a way to pay for the musicians and pay for the trip. I’m doing all this through my nonprofit, which is called M-Base Concepts Inc. We also have a website, m-base.net, that continues this kind of activity online, so that people in Australia or Mexico or wherever can be somewhat of a part of it. It’s not just the residency in Chicago; it’s an overall effort. I think it was all in 2014, when you won the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim, and the Doris Duke—were those all that year? Yeah, there was one Doris Duke in 2014 and a different Doris Duke in 2015. The first one was called an Impact Award, and the second one was the real award, the Artist Award. I wasn’t eligible to win the bigger one until I won the smaller one. That’s a huge influx of both recognition and funding all at one time—has that had a big impact on your work or your ability to do work like this residency? Recognition has impact on what other people see, and then that can parlay into you getting requests for things—you know, like interviews, some gigs, and things like that. It has impact in that sense. But as far as the actual music, I don’t think any award writes any piece of music. If anything, I’ve seen it hurt people. That’s not just awards in general, but that’s money. Money and creativity, which Von Freeman told me a long time ago, really don’t mix too well. From an artist’s standpoint, it’s a lot of money. It’s not going to drastically change your lifestyle; mainly what it does is allow you some breathing room to further concentrate on what you were already concentrating on that got you there in the first place. In the end, it doesn’t change the amount of work—it doesn’t really change anything except for how
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people perceive you. If you have to get some equipment or if you have to drive somewhere or take a flight somewhere, it allows you to do that, whereas you’d be struggling to do that before. I just use it to include more people. This workshop is a pilot, and we don’t have a whole lot of support outside of the few partners we have right now—we’re hoping to get more support later. So yeah, I have to shore up more of it on my end, and the grants help in that sense. I’ve been listening to your two most recent CDs, the one with Five Elements— Before you ask that question, one more thing. People don’t realize that you have to pay taxes on all of that. So it’s not what it looks like! I know! I’ve gotten three of those Doris Duke Chamber Music America grants, and it’s great until the end of the next year. You have to plan very carefully, because the bigger the amount, the bigger the taxes. I know a lot of musicians get kind of stuck that way—they get surprised by it. I wanted to ask you about your most recent CDs. They’re very different recordings, but they seem to be tied together by the theme of the human body. You have one with Five Elements, Functional Arrhythmias, and then you have a larger project called Synovial Joints. I was just wondering if you could talk about how the titles all reflect parts of the human body—the cardiovascular system and things like that—and how that guided the compositional process. I don’t quite understand the question, but they were both created the same way. They’re both completely improvisations. That may not make much sense until I explain it later, but I just improvised and then transcribed my improvisations for everybody to play. When there’s multiple parts, I improvised multiple times, obviously. But that’s not a new process—as far back as Johann Sebastian Bach, people were doing that already. So it’s not a big deal. Duke Ellington did it; lots of people do it. That’s basically what it was—all those are improvisations. I tell people that about Synovial Joints, and some musicians don’t believe me. This conversation continues at chicagoreader.com, where Coleman and Bradfield discuss Bunky Green, the limits of Western notation, and the ancient bedrock of human creativity.
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Tue 8/11, 7:45 PM, Thalia Hall, 1801 S. Allport, $20-$25. 17+
THE THEORY THAT REPTILIAN ALIENS ENGINEERED HUMAN EVOLUTION to create a slave race has a lot of promise as a metaphor—our political and corporate elites behave with such monstrous, soulless rapaciousness that it’s easy to imagine them as predatory extraterrestrials wearing people suits. If you believe it’s literally true, though, you’ll imperil your credibility in almost any argument. On the recent Luminiferous (eOne), the seventh album from Bay Area barbarian-metal overlords High on Fire, guitarist and front man Matt Pike tiptoes along the edge of that precipice: “Chemtrails inhaled by infants / Overpopulate time,” he bellows over the storming swing of “The Sunless Years.” “Killers made this political / Pleiadians hint at our minds.” And on the scything, pistoning title track, he describes a bizarre and sinister version of history: “Evolution virus, once inside us / Injection chip so new / If we relied on reptoid kindness / I think we’re all just screwed.” Fortunately the band’s thundering roar hasn’t lost an ounce of its bloodthirsty fury or relentless momentum—I especially like how “The Dark Side of the Compass” plays the guitars’ drawn-out swagger against Des Kensel’s frenzied, galloping beats. By High on Fire standards, midtempo numbers “The Falconist” and “The Cave” are relaxed, even lyrical, but how fine a touch can you use when everybody in your band plays with permanent Hulk Hands? Luminiferous, like pretty much every record these guys have made, is about preposterously adrenalized stampedes of drums and bunker-buster riffs that dig in and blow the songs sky-high. By and large the lyrics exist to provide Pike with something to holler while the apocalypse erupts behind him—and I’m happy to treat them as yet another example of the sort of nefarious-sounding, satisfyingly evil nonsense that’s helped give metal its distinctive flavor from day one. —PHILIP MONTORO
Steve Coleman & Five Elements 6:30 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, 201 E. Randolph. F b Jazz history is loaded with misguided attempts by small combos to add orchestral arrangements, a practice that often disrupts a group’s lean efficiency by smothering its rhythmic alacrity and harmonic fleetness. For that very reason I was leery of Synovial Joints (Pi), the recent album from alto saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman—but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Working with a 21-strong ensemble he calls the Council of Balance, Coleman has developed striking arrangements that extend his distinctive rhythms, which meld the buoyant language of bebop with funk and Cuban grooves. The armada behind him, composed of brass, strings, and percussion, enhances and sharpens his ideas rather than trapping them in sonic goop. Both the album and the four-part suite that serves as its center are named for the joints that bind the human body, an apt metaphor considering that the layers of Coleman’s compositions fit together in tight yet flexible connections. According to the liner notes he composed most of the material using a spontaneous form of expression executed by his horn or voice, or by tapping out rhythms with his hands and feet. He then assembled and overlaid the parts. “Tempest” seeks to emulate the wind and rain with a rising and falling attack, while “Acupuncture Openings,” he explains, employs “muted brass instruments” to “represent the application of acupuncture needles to the specific acupuncture points”—perhaps another reference to joints. Ultimately, however, the
music can stand on its own, free of context. It’s one of the best albums I’ve heard all year. Tonight’s performance wraps up Coleman’s three-week residency at the University of Chicago’s Logan Center for the Arts, and some of the most promising students from his stay here are expected to join his nimble working band Five Elements (trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, guitarist Miles Okazaki, bassist Anthony Tidd, tenor saxophonist Maria Grand, and drummer Sean Rickman). —PETER MARGASAK
Maar Black Givre headlines; Charles Barabe, JS Truchy, and Maar open. 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+
Maar is Joseph Clayton Mills and Michael Vallera, a pair of polymaths who have each had hands in some of Chicago’s most affecting experimental music. In his solo work and with the group Cleared, Vallera (who’s also a photographer) uses strong rhythmic and melodic structures to frame grainy, amorphous sounds that evoke both apprehension and nostalgia. A member of Haptic and Partial, Mills is also an author and a coproprietor of the Suppedaneum label, which pushes the boundaries of notation and interpretation; for his recent CD-R SIFR, for example, seven different composers wrote or drew scores in response to his arrhythmic, woody percussion and transient electronic tones. Maar’s own recordings are artifacts of a process in which each player adds layers to the other’s recordings, and both contribute fragmented instrumentals, abraded drones, mechanical pulsations, and flickering electronic textures. Parts of their first cassette, Ay (Entr’acte), can be heard folded into the pieces on their second tape, Ceto (Umor Rex), and may well turn up in tonight’s concert as well. Live, Mills J
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plays autoharp, electronics, and bits of metal and glass; Vallera processes and mixes his playing in real time with his laptop. —BILL MEYER
Total Control Early show: Udusic open. 7 PM, Thalia Hall, 1801 S. Allport, $12, all-ages. Late show: Final Grin and Stacian open; Beau Wanzer spins. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, sold out. On their 2011 album Henge Beat, Melbourne’s Total Control have the tendency to get erratic and noisy—a pulsing, dissonant synth drives the opener, “See More Glass,” which then bleeds into the ripping guitar and drums of “Retiree”—but last year’s much-praised Typical System (Iron Lung) is calculated and sparse, the instruments stalking one another in a unnerving game of cat and mouse. The tracks are mostly hazy slow burns, often tipping their hat to ominous early-80s synth-driven dirges drowned in apathy and hopelessness. But despite how prevalent and well executed that sound is, Total Control remain a rock ’n’ roll band at their core. Founders Michael David Young (Eddy Current Suppression Ring) and Dan Stewart (UV Race), perhaps realizing that two dudes onstage with a bunch of synths might just make for a boring show, have made permanent members of their touring drummer and guitarist. The seven-minute-plus “Black Spring” is paved with a low buzz, but what gives the song its hypnotic power—even after feedback and harsh noise come raining down—are the motorik drumming, twangy repeated guitar lick, and expressionless vocals. This long overdue visit to the States is their first since Typical System’s release. —KEVIN WARWICK
FRIDAY7 Dave Burrell 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $15, $12 in advance. Philadelphia-based pianist and composer Dave Burrell is one of the most unique musicians to emerge from the jazz avant-garde of the 60s. Burrell grew up on bebop, but made his name playing free jazz, collaborating with saxophonists like Marion Brown, Archie Shepp, and David Murray. Eventually he fell in love with the music of jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton and the sound of stride, and since the 70s he’s been composing jazz operas (often in collaboration with his wife, writer Monika Larsson). His latest project is a five-suite piece that examines the Civil War, and last year he released the third section as an album of duets with trombonist Steve Swell called Turning Point (No Business). As is his way, the pieces are rich in historical allusion and quotation: the opener “One Nation” includes phrases from “Yankee Doodle,” and “Sound Off” employs a military cadence that signals patriotism and division from the get-go. Compositionally the music veers away from jazz, though the interaction between the pianist and trombonist still evinces the genre’s characteristic interplay. For this rare Chicago performance— Burrell’s first since 2003—he’ll lead a fine trio with bassist Harrison Bankhead and drummer Andrew Cyrille. —PETER MARGASAK
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Marilyn Manson is as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and manifest destiny. When the shock rocker came to prominence in the late 90s he did it by tattooing his perverse aesthetic onto every aspect of his public persona—scaring parents shitless in the process. Even at a time when nu-metal was all the rage and a bunch of clowns from Iowa were finding success dressing up in clown masks, no one could touch Manson’s devilish moxie—I remember being freaked out by the grungy, dimly lit video for “Coma White,” in which he reenacts the JFK assassination. But he wouldn’t have made it very far without musical acumen, which he’s retained even as his ability to shock has faded and his creative portfolio has broadened (though I’m not sure that’s quite the right word for playing an incarcer-
ated white supremacist in the final season of Sons of Anarchy). Still, January’s The Pale Emperor (Hell, etc) moves with a refined postgoth swagger—the brooding kick and fiendish moaning on “Third Day of a Seven Day Binge,” for example, glow with Manson’s creepy magnetism. —LEOR GALIL
SATURDAY8 Bongripper Fister, Running, and Rectal Hygienics open. 8:30 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, sold out. 17+ Chicago doom four-piece Bongripper came to life ten years ago by accident. When drummer Dan O’Connor’s double kick pedal broke during a J
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practice, the group decided to shift gears: they transitioned from playing “grindy tech-death metal” to heavy, lead-footed improvisational slogging with Sisyphean ups and downs in pace. And they haven’t looked back. O’Connor, bassist Ron Petzke, and guitarists Dennis Pleckham and Nick Dellacroce have carved out a niche for themselves within the gloomy world of doom, injecting life and color into an otherwise obstinate sound. On last year’s self-released Miserable Bongripper establish a hazy mood, then demolish it with blunt drumming and thunderous guitars. The band slowly build worlds across the three songs on the double LP, orchestrating head-banging peaks and transforming them into quiet, resplendent valleys that could fit on a postrock album. The unbelievable force they summon carries listeners through each song’s mood changes, subtle or otherwise. In concert Bongripper can certainly be hypnotic, though it helps to have a taste for blood-curdling feedback and pulverizing metal. I’m not sure what special things they have in store for this ten-year anniversary show, but something tells me that it’s going to be loud—and then it’s going to get much louder. —LEOR GALIL
Formell y los Van Van 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 1801 S. Allport, $35-$40. b With the recent reopening of the U.S. embassy in Cuba after five-plus decades, it seems fitting that two of the island’s most enduring musical forces visit Chicago this week. On Wednesday, Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club brings its pre-Castroera music to the Ravinia Festival (see page BTK); tonight modernizers Formell y Los Van Van, who actually have a longer history as a working band, play Pilsen. Formed in 1969 by bassist and composer Juan Formell, who died last year at 71, the group helped keep Cuban music up to date by perpetually infusing their sound with heavy doses of American funk and pop; their expansive harmonies forged a new subgenre the leader dubbed songo, which eventually became part of the broader timba movement. That style has long since been absorbed into the Cuban mainstream, becoming as institutionalized as the vintage charanga the group once sought to usurp. Still, Los Van Van, now under Formell’s son Samuel, remain popular at home, and at their best they can still get a club moving. —PETER MARGASAK
Cheer-Accident Guzzlemug headline; CheerAccident and Mouth Captain open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $5.
Chicago’s prog-slash-avant-pop-slash-kitchen-sink legends Cheer-Accident often get a good deal more respect overseas than here in their native land (which results in some Google Translate reviews on their website that come hilariously closer to encapsulating the band than I ever could). And since they’ve never done much of anything in a predictable way, their version of a new release schedule only seems natural—it’s tailored to themselves and to their audience. For two years now, they’ve operated within a song-a-month subscription service. So though their last conventional release—in a manner of speaking—was 2011’s No Ifs, Ands, or Dogs (Cuneiform), they’ve steadily been producing material at a fairly impressive and demanding pace, especially when you consider that the average Cheer-Accident song has more ideas in it than there are in another band’s entire career. (Because of the service’s pay-what-you-can sliding scale, there’s virtually no other way to get so much fun for so little money.) Also, somewhere along the line bandleader and composer Thymme Jones even found time to record and release last year’s beautifully off-kilter instrumental solo album The Goal of Action Is Contemplation. This rare performance is a send-off for friends and compatriots Guzzlemug, who are playing their last show. —MONICA KENDRICK
Trio 3 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $25, $20 in advance. 18+
A trio of the most potent and progressive musicians to play improvised music over the last 50 years, saxophonist Oliver Lake, bassist Reggie Workman, and
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drummer Andrew Cyrille possess creativity and drive in abundance. And their cumulative individual experience—which includes stints with John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, and Lester Bowie, among many others—certainly adds up to something serious. I’ve yet to hear anything from Trio 3 that sounds phoned in—a common occurrence with musicians who have nothing to prove—but the threesome have found other ways of inspiring themselves. Over the last half decade or so they’ve collaborated with a variety of pianists (Geri Allen, Irene Schweizer, Jason
Moran, Vijay Iyer) to make a dazzling series of recordings for the Intakt label, in the process establishing themselves as one of the finest working outfits in jazz. These efforts have been fully integrated partnerships featuring fresh material and vibrant improvisation, the Trio 3 members showing no trouble keeping up with guests half their age. Tonight this terrific unit perform on their own, as they did during the 2010 installment of the Umbrella Music Fest, when they brought the house down at the Hideout —PETER MARGASAK
With the drugged-out, Auto-Tune introspection of Future and the hyperactive eccentricies of Young Thug finding a place on the hip-hop charts, it seems safe to say that the weirdest rappers have become our most popular, and now joining this wave of rising bizarro hip-hop stars are the Atlanta-based Rae Sremmurd, the duo of young brothers Khalif “Swae Lee” Brown (age 20) and Aaquil “Slim Jimmy” Brown (21). Their youthful energy and high-pitched voices make the spaced-out bangers on January’s SremmLife sound like a sort of alternate-reality version of Kriss Kross, but instead of innocently spitting tales about missing the school bus, Rae Sremmurd gleefully rap about sleeping with strippers and taking too much molly. Backed by beats from Mike Will Made It and Young Chop, the shameless call-andresponse verses riff about consuming astronomical amounts of drugs and alcohol, in the process somehow showing off two excellent rappers with an insane knack for melody and an outstanding ability to write Krazy Glue-sticky hooks. It’s really no wonder they’re blowing up—even if they do sound like they just graduated preschool. —LUCA CIMARUSTI
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WEDNESDAY12 Buena Vista Social Club 8:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, 200 Ravinia Park Rd., Highland Park, $38-$65. b In March, World Circuit released Lost and Found, a kind of odds-and-sods collection of live and previously unissued recordings by the Buena Vista Social Club. On the heels of that album, the Cuban nostalgia juggernaut makes its final visit to the U.S. in the process of ending a run that started in 1996 and helped popularize the island’s vintage sounds like nothing had since the cold war began. No less than half a dozen of the group’s most esteemed and vibrant members have died since it formed, including pianist Ruben Gonzalez, singers Ibrahim Ferrer and Compay Segundo, and bassist Orlando “Cachaito” Lopez, but these artists are captured on the new record, where they’re among its most riveting contributors. Gonzalez’s elegance and drive are crystal clear on his solo reading of “Como Siento Yo,” and Ferrer is a force of nature on a live recording of the Arsenio Rodriguez gem “Bruca Manigua,” balancing his creamy, sensuous delivery with an improvisatory brio that sends waves of seductive, spontaneous elaboration over the written melody. Here the group kicks off its farewell tour with a lineup that includes ringers like singer Omara Portuondo, guitarist Eliades Ochoa, laud maestro Barbarito Torres, and trumpeter Manuel “Guajiro” Mirabal. —PETER MARGASAK
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It’s been a good year for Ryley Walker, mostly thanks to the enthusiastic acclaim for his stunning Primrose Green (Dead Oceans), which has resulted in endless touring and high-end concert appearances like the excellent set he played at the Pitchfork Music Festival. When I interviewed him earlier this year he expressed concern that his focus on his working band might limit his ability to collaborate, so I’m happy to see he hasn’t given up his fruitful partnership with fellow guitarist Bill MacKay. Land of Plenty (Whistler)—a fantastic new recording culled from the duo’s series of low-key, all-instrumental concerts at the Whistler in January—is due out next week. Each guitarist has specific areas of expertise: MacKay has a strong grasp of jazz, with a soft spot for early fusion, while Walker excels with expansive folk. Together, though, their range and ability grow exponentially without falling into a single style: potent traces of Indian classical ragas, American primitive fingerpicking, old-timey mountain music, and traditional British folk course through the pair’s tightly integrated playing, bits of improvisation showing their almost preternatural interaction and subtle giveand-take. It’s as if they’ve been working together for years, an impression left by not only their melodic grace but also the resonant clarity of their individual tones, which together produce a sonic color burst much richer than would seem possible for the simple product of a pair of guitars. Given Walker’s schedule, I wouldn’t take the opportunity to hear him in this intimate setting lightly. The pair will also play a free in-store at Logan Hardware (2532 W. Fullerton) on Thu 8/13 at 8 PM. —PETER MARGASAK v
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Clockwise from left: the pimento cheese, served with herbed bread, is impossibly creamy; the drink menu features classics like the Hurricane (right) and originals like the bacon-infused Animal Instinct; barbecue shrimp swim in a peppery, buttery brew. ! ANDREA BAUER
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Dixie cuisine continues its march on Chicago with a New Orleans-style eatery in Edgewater. BY GWYNEDD STUART
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bout halfway through a plate of jambalaya at Pearl’s Southern Comfort, it occurred to me that I’d never given much thought to the distinction between Cajun and creole cuisines. In fact, I’ve probably used the terms interchangeably, which makes me a terrible southerner. (Well, that and defecting to Chicago.) Cajun culture was born of Canadians who relocated to the swampy French colony when in the mid-18th century the British forced them out of Acadia, a region that consisted of parts of Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (“Cajun” derives from “les Acadians”). The original Creole people, on the other hand, were first-generation Louisianans who descended from European settlers and, later, freed slaves and people of mixed race. The urban aristocracy was largely Creole.
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And to vastly oversimplify the distinctions between the two cultures’ cuisines: creole food has tomatoes, Cajun food typically doesn’t. The creole jambalaya at Pearl’s is a good illustration of the difference. Some recipes for creole jambalaya call for tomato juice and diced tomatoes, others for diced tomatoes alone. In the version served at Pearl’s, bits of andouille, chicken, and shrimp are doused in what’s basically a tomato sauce, spicy and acidic, not unlike a loose arrabbiata. This preparation probably isn’t for everyone—I prefer it the Cajun way—but it’s indicative of the kitchen’s appreciation for the nuances of the region’s food. Pearl’s is the brainchild of Danny Beck, owner of the Lakeview sports bar Toons, and his wife, Annie, a pastry chef who formerly operated the now-defunct Sunflour Bakery. Like Luella’s Southern Kitchen, the more broadly regional restaurant that opened earlier this year in Lincoln Square, the new Edgewater eatery is named after a grandma, specifically Danny’s. The bespectacled senior looks out onto the cheery dining room from a framed photo on the south wall, directly across from a well-appointed bar that serves Hurricanes, Sazeracs, and some curious originals. The Becks were already serving Louisiana-style dishes at Toons, which is known for having better fare than the average fried-food feed trough—there are po’boys on the menu along with nachos and mozzarella sticks. But chef de cuisine Dan Finelli, with the help of consultant Jonathan Zaragoza—formerly of Masa Azul and his family’s restaurant, Birrieria Zaragoza—has expanded the po’boy repertoire to include cochon de lait and fried shrimp. Unless you have a maw of Martha Raye proportions, eating either sandwich as you’d typically eat a sandwich presents a challenge. In the former, moist smoked and shredded suckling pig is piled high between a bisected baguette, and then a layer of creamy, celeryseed-rich slaw is heaped on for good measure. With some effort, it’s possible to clamp your jaws around the behemoth. The shrimp po’boy? Forget about it—not that I’m complaining. Crunchy cornmeal-breaded crustaceans spill out onto the plate and even
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the floor if you aren’t vigilant—I lost at least one to carelessness. The sandwich was a little light on remoulade, but it would be a shame to sacrifice any of the shrimp’s simple sweetness to a horseradish bite. The barbecue preparation, on the other hand, is the perfect complement; the sauce in which the sea creatures swim is buttery, peppered, and has a distinct taste of thyme—good enough to sop up every last drop with a slice of French bread. Seafood-wise, the kitchen also knows its way around a substantial catfish fillet. The blackened flesh is moist and fresh tasting, and the collards that accompany it are as good as any I’ve had in the south. They didn’t bring pepper vinegar to the table to douse them with, but I also didn’t feel the need to ask for any. Other southern staples you might expect the kitchen to nail are middling. The mud-colored gumbo is a muddled mess of flavors, none of the ingredients distinguishable from the others. Pieces of andouille seem to have been sapped of flavor by the rest of the melange, and medallions of okra are too tough and stringy to chew, an indication the pods were allowed to grow too long before being picked. Unfortunately, that represents the underrated vegetable’s only appearance on the menu. And although an entire section is devoted to barbecue—a half chicken, pork shoulder, ribs—what emerges from the smoker lacks character. A three-bone rib sampler that’s included with the appetizers is served presauced, and if I’ve learned anything from my colleague Mike Sula, it’s that presaucing is usually a bad sign. That rule held true in this case; it seemed like
the ribs had been little more than kissed by wood smoke. But don’t let the lackluster ribs deter you from sampling other starters, two of which are Pearl’s best items. The pimento cheese is impossibly creamy but still has some heat. The sinful spread is served with bread splattered with a citrusy green herb puree—it looks like an accident but its brightness successfully offsets some of the cheese’s richness. The boudin balls are also worth the caloric splurge. Served hotter than hellfire, the bread-crumb-coated orbs of sausage and rice are crackly outside, luscious inside, and have a subtle organ-meat funk. They flirt with blandness in the way only the best comfort food does. For dessert, peach cobbler served with whipped cream has a surprising amaretto-like flavor that deepens the taste of the tart fruit. Similarly, the Hurricane packs an extra fruity punch, likely from one bartender’s heavy hand with the passion-fruit syrup. The Animal Instinct, a concoction of bacon-infused whiskey, raspberry, and molasses syrup tastes vaguely like a wet frying pan smells after breakfast. If you like whiskey, stick with the Sazerac. As southern food continues to take over this Yankee town, Pearl’s has emerged as another worthwhile place to sate a craving for the region’s cuisine, sure, but also to indulge a collective longing for perpetual warmth, trees draped with Spanish moss, and the year-round hum of cicadas. Winter looms, but Pearl’s is an escape. v
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eople say you eat with your eyes,” Peter Kim of the Franklin Room says. But when it came to making a cocktail with stinkbugs—a challenge issued by Alex Gara of Charlatan—Kim tried to do the opposite, tasting the thumbnail-size insects without thinking about what they looked like. It didn’t work that well. “Of the many times I tried them, I gagged about two-thirds of the time,” Kim says. “They come with their little feet attached, and they fall off and get stuck in between your teeth. That’s not the most pleasant thing.” Stinkbugs are known as jumiles in Mexico, where they’re popular (they’re also eaten in southern Africa and southeast Asia). The smelly secretions that give the bugs their name can be eliminated by removing the heads of the stinkbugs before eating them, soaking the bugs in warm water, or roasting them. Stinkbugs are often consumed alive, especially in tacos, and are rumored to live for up to a week after being beheaded and cooked. The stinkbugs that Kim bought were frozen, and while it was easy to imagine a wiggle from a leg or antenna, they were decidedly deceased. He first tasted them frozen, and discovered that their flavor was almost nonexistent.
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“It kind of tasted like nothing, with a little bit of awfulness behind that, and then a touch of cinnamon coming in after that,” Kim says. Toasting the stinkbugs helped to bring out their flavor, which he describes as similar to a popcorn kernel, with a little cinnamon and red pepper heat at the end. “What goes well with salted popcorn? Caramel. What goes well with those things spirit-wise? Rum—it has that sugar basis.” To capture the flavor of the stinkbugs, Kim toasted and ground them, then steeped them with water and Everclear for an hour and a half. In addition to rum, he paired the tincture with house-made salted caramel grenadine, lime juice, and egg whites. Kim says that tasting the bugs over and over paid off in the long run—while the taste didn’t exactly grow on him, it did become more familiar. “That gagging reflex was still there. But part of the challenge was to keep trying it until I got it right.”
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ave we reached peak food list yet? There’s no surer vehicle for clicks than lists, and the food media have taken to them with a vengeance, announcing the ten best burgers and the 11 sexiest pho joints and the 12 chicken ’n’ waffles you must eat now to be a playah. I could certainly make a case that lists are edging more substantive food-related content out of the marketplace, but I’d be a hypocrite for doing so, because I write them too. I didn’t, though, write the one that incited the most anger last week: Chicagoist’s list of the 12 best tacos in Chicago. On Twitter and in the comments section on the site, Chicagoist was served supersize portions of all the grief many list makers have grown used to: basically, your choices suck, are too white, and are all on the north side. The first is just your opinion, man, but the latter two are fair—though I’ll tell you, I can write a list that’s half south-side joints and I’ll still get a scornful comment saying that I didn’t list anywhere to eat in Pullman, and therefore I know nothing about Chicago and must be from Iowa. (Hey, there isn’t anywhere to eat in Pullman. I’ve tried!) There are days I think the most prominent geologic feature on the south side is the chip on its shoulder. Still, when it’s a list that ranks a Mexican food item and there’s no sign of Pilsen or Little Village on it, the people complaining do have a point. (Chicagoist did list two stands
at Maxwell Street, and past editions of the same list have included places on the south side.) The thing is, I actually kind of like this list—its problem is just that the headline doesn’t acurately represent what comes after it. If those behind it had described the assignment as what it really was—We asked staffers to name their favorite taco joint. What’s yours?—they wouldn’t have set themselves up for all the abuse. But then the list wouldn’t have had an SEO-friendly title containing the magic word “best.” “Best” is the most important word in any list headline, because that’s what people search for—“best doughnut in Wilkes-Barre,” “best place to get wasted in Provo,” and so on. You want your list not only to come up in those results, but to look like the most definitive, unimpeachable source among them. The reality is that even when a publication tags a list with “best,” there’s an awfully good chance some writer working for peanuts just took the results off previous lists and scrambled them around. That’s especially true of national lists—look, nobody travels around and eats cheeseburgers constantly enough to really tell you what the 100 best cheeseburgers in America are. A list like that is basically created entirely out of Google searches, and mostly represents the places that had hot reputations a decade ago and linger online. Locally made lists certainly can be better, but it’s up to readers to be savvy and to J
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$5 Hell Or High Watermelon cans, $5 Revolution Rosa cans, $7 Grey Goose Flavors Mason Jar special, $6 Sierra Nevada Summerfest pints
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$4 beer of the month, $4 fireball shots
$4 beer of the month, $4 fireball shots
$15 domestic buckets, $4 beer of the month, $4 fireball shots
$2 Dos Equis 16oz lager cans, $4 beer of the month, $4 fireball shots
$4 select craft drafts, $4 fireball shots
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$3 well drinks
$3 Jameson, $2 PBR pints
$4 whiskey shot and a PBR, $2 PBR pints
2 Ginger & Ginger - $3, $2 PBR pints
$4 bombs, $2 PBR pints
Moosehead pints $3.75, Hamms cans $2.50, Special Export Bush Longneck bottles $3, Foster Big cans $5
Moosehead pints $3.75, Hamms cans $2.50, Special Export Bush Longneck bottles $3, Foster Big cans $5
Moosehead pints $3.75, Hamms cans $2.50, Special Export Bush Longneck bottles $3, Foster Big cans $5
Moosehead pints $3.75, Hamms cans $2.50, Special Export Bush Longneck bottles $3, Foster Big cans $5
Moosehead pints $3.75, Hamms cans $2.50, Special Export Bush Longneck bottles $3, Foster Big cans $5
Moosehead pints $3.75, Hamms cans $2.50, Special Export Bush Longneck bottles $3, Foster Big cans $5
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$4 drafts of 312 $4 benchmark bourbon
$4 Sam Adams lager drafts $4 fat tire drafts $5 two gingers Irish whiskey
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$1 bud drafts $3 well drinks $1 pucker shots
$4 shiner drafts $3 pabst tall boys $5 old smoky moonshine
$5 big red coq red ale tall boys $5 fighting cock bourbon $3 old style tall boys
$1 Budweiser drafts $3 well drinks $1 pucker shots
$2.75 PBR Tallboy Cans, $4 Bombs, $5 Cabo wabo, $5 Jack Daniels, $5 Johnny Walker Black
$5 Jameson Cocktails, $5 all wines, $3.50 312 Bottles, $5 Martinis (Absolut, Van Gogh, Beefeater)
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Big Bricks
3832 N Lincoln | 773-525-5022 WI CK ER PAR K
Cobra Lounge
235 N Ashland | 312-226-6300 AVO N DALE
El Ranchito
2829 N. Milwaukee | 773-227-1688
B ERW Y N
FitzGerald’s
6615 Roosevelt | 708-788-2118 LI N CO LN SQ UAR E
4874 N. Lincoln | 773-561-8191
Moe’s Tavern
2937 N Milwaukee | 773-227-2937
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Phyllis’ Musical Inn
1800 W. Division | 773-486- 9862 RO G ERS PAR K
Red Line Tap
7006 N. Glenwood | 773-274-5463 SO UT H LO O P
Reggie’s
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judge how much actual tasting actually went into them. I only write about places I’ve really been to, and I use an assignment as an excuse to finally try some places I’ve been meaning to get to forever. That said, a review represents a specific point in time, and there’s no telling if my visit, which could have been in 2009, accurately represents conditions today. But then there’s no telling if my visit last Tuesday does either. Restaurants are ever-changing things. The most rigorous person about this at the moment is Steve Dolinsky. If you follow the ABC 7 food correspondent/cohost of podcast the Feed right now on Twitter or Instagram, you can tag along as he tries pies for an upcoming Pizza Week on his blog. He offers blunt commentary on what he likes and doesn’t like along the way—several times a day. I went with him last Tuesday as he hit four pizza joints plus a Sicilian bakery with sheet pizza, and after I went home stuffed, he hit two more that night. When I suggested that there were places he surely knew well enough to skip returning to, he said no, he felt he had to try, say, Vito & Nick’s alongside the others within a fairly confined period, to judge them all fairly against each other. That’s how it should be done, but it’s exactly what few have the budget or time for. Dolinsky is doing it because when he tackled Italian beef with similar rigor a year ago, it produced the most traffic his site has ever had by far—and from my own experience with beef-mad Chicagoans, I believe it. To return to the Chicagoist list, the issue is, as I said, that it’s billed as a 12-best list when that’s not how it was compiled. Contributors
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to all of the site’s sections were asked to name their own favorite taco spot. Turning that into “the best” would have been like asking me for my favorite Lolla act and then publishing it in the Reader—I’ve only heard of six or seven or so of the roughly 300 bands that played last weekend. The results Chicagoist got were, indeed, almost all north side and often not all that “authentic,” but then, that wasn’t really the question. We all like things and find them comfy without any illusion that they’re “the best” in any culturally valid sense. I would have been fine with that list had it been correctly billed precisely because it would have represented the opinions of some real people. So in the end, we can’t live with lists and we can’t live without ’em. A well-constructed one, especially if it covers a less familiar area or breaks out of the “best” straitjacket, is fun to create, fun to read, and fun to check off your own experiences against. And on that note, I’m including ten tacos worth checking out on the south side. The best? Better than anything on Chicagoist’s list? Nah, just a list that might be helpful if you’re ever down that way, presented in no particular order by a guy who knows some places down there and knows there are more yet that he hasn’t tried. 10. Zacatacos, multiple locations: carne asada, al pastor, papas (mashed potato) tacos. 9. Taqueria El Pastor, 4418 W. 63rd, 773- 284-1003: tacos al pastor on spit. 8. Carniceria Aguascalientes, 3132 W. 26th, 773-254-3466: handmade tortillas, chicharron tacos with red or green salsa. 7. Carnitas Uruapan, 1725 W. 18th, 312-226-2654, carnitasuruapanchi.com: carnitas by the pound. 6. Tio Luis Tacos, 3856 S. Archer, 773-843-0098, tioluistacos.com: carne asada, chile relleno tacos. 5. Mezquite Pollo Express, 2809 W. 55th, 773-424-8100, mezquitepolloexpress.com: chicken and steak cooked over charcoal, cochinita pibil tacos. 4. Taqueria El Milagro, 3050 W. 26th, 773-579-6120: tortilla factory with guisados (stews) in cafeteria. 3. El Conde S.A., multiple locations, 312-666-2359: tacos de canasta (basket tacos). 2. Supermercado La Internacional, 4556 S. Ashland, 773-523-9745: carne asada tacos. 1. Sunday market outside Saint Francis of Assisi, 813 W. Roosevelt: whatever looks interesting. v
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the standard. —KELLY RUSSELL 1938 W. Chicago, 773-235-3483, highdivechicago.com.
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Ukrainian Village and East Village These are but a few of the hundreds of bar suggestions available at chicagoreader.com/barguide. Bottoms up! ALFREDO’S Decoration in this low- key neighborhood joint runs toward inflatable maracas and old beer ads with half-naked women— except above the bar, where a collection of model ships dominates. Order a shot of tequila at this spartan Mexican antro— that’s “dive,” hombre—and the quiet bartender drops a slice of lime and a salt shaker next to the drink. It’s an unexpected luxury in a place with just one pool table, two counters, low lighting, and a jukebox that plays only banda, the familiar polkalike Mexican music. No beer on tap, but there’s a good selection of Mexican brews. —JULIA THIEL 826 N. Ashland, 312-733-9873. EZ-INN This dim, cavernous 40-year-old bar doesn’t offer much in the way of beverage selection (a few of the beer taps were hidden under paper-bag sleeves), but it’s got personality. After being buzzed in by the sweet bartender, Lyuba, we were greeted by a wild-eyed mohawked gentleman who loudly proclaimed “I am Hellboy” while brandishing a full bottle of vodka. A few minutes later another patron bought us a round of shots and we were offered the opportunity to buy some tube
socks at a very good price. —BIANCA JARVIS 921 N. Western, 773-384-9682.
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GOLD STAR Zakopane, Phyllis’ Musical Inn, and the Gold Star form a triangle of well-preserved Ukie Village saloons that have weathered Division Street’s transformation from Polish Broadway to hipster strip. Mary Ann Reid, who’s run the place since 1990, says back in the day a previous owner used to shuttle sailors in from Navy Pier to be entertained by young women in the rooms upstairs; a street view ran $3 .75 an hour. Gold Star has adapted to changes in the neighborhood with frequent paint jobs, rotating local artwork, free popcorn, and generous bartenders who can entice new generations of drinkers while keeping the dwindling ranks of old -timers happy. —MIKE SULA 1755 W. Division, 773-227-8700.
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HIGH DIVE This higher-end dive bar has a good beer selection and at least one bartender who’s a real character, framed posters from indie rock shows, and a couple of booths that can easily seat up to ten. The kitchen’s also a notch above
J&M TAP Perhaps better known as the “ Secret Squirrel” because of its blink-and-you’llmiss-it exterior, this corner dive does everything right: ice-cold PBR pitchers for seven bucks, mugs full of salty pretzel rods, a well-used pool table, and the sweetest bartender you’ll ever meet singing along with Hole on the jukebox. Lit by yellowing lamps and a video slot machine, the vibe is warm and homey, welcoming and fun. — LUCA CIMARUSTI 957 N. Leavitt. LOOP TAVERN Loop Tavern’s giant arrow sign blinks a few blocks down the street from the rearing horses at Alcala’s, pointing the way in to one of the area’s many liquor store/bar combinations. At 8 PM on a Tuesday the wood-paneled bar area was packed with salt-of-the-earth types sipping cheap beer and whiskey, watching a game, and chatting animatedly as country music played on the stereo. —BEN JORAVSKY 1610 W. Chicago, 312-226-6740.
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OLA’S LIQUOR Sitting in Ola’s, you’ll see more people coming in for take-away booze, cigarettes, and lottery tickets than sitting down for a drink—and I can’t understand why they wouldn’t. The comfortable dive-slash-liquor store serves some wildly inexpensive draft beer. On a Saturday evening, the TVs will be playing Cops, and the hilariously outdated jukebox was blasting Sting upon my most recent visit. Just slightly off the main drag of Division Street bro bars, this place is a welcome and delightfully run-down oasis in Ukrainian Village. — LUCA C I M A R U STI 947 N . D a men , 773-384-7250. v
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69TH AND CALIFORNIA. 1BR. $660. Heat Incl. O’Brien Family Realty 773.581.7883 AGENT OWNED
C H I C A G O , 69th & Prairie, Modern, tenant heated, 4 room, 2BR, $725/mo. No security deposit. Agent Owned, 312-671-3795
Large 4 room apt, 1BR. 79th & Stoney. 3rd floor. $575/month Call 773-407-3143
ment near Metra and Warren Park, 6802 N Wolcott. Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Laundry in building. Heat included. $800-$875/ month. Available 9/1. 773-761-4318, www. lakefrontmgt.com
CLEAN ROOM WITH fridge and microwave. Close to Oak Park, Walmart, Buses & Metra. $105/wk & up. 773-637-5957
stove, fridge & bath, by Shopping & Transp. Elevator, Lndry. $112/wk. & Up. Call 773-275-4442
Large Sunny Room w/fridge & microwave. Nr. Oak Park, Green Line, bus. 24 hour desk, parking lot. $99/week & Up. 773-3788888
CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE
LARGE ONE BEDROOM apart-
EDGEWATER - NICE Room with
ward Rent Beautiful Studios 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR Sect. 8 Welc. Westside Loc, Must qualify. 773-287-4500 www. wjmngmt.com
79th & Woodlawn 2BR $750800; 76th & Phillips 1BR $650-700. Remodeled, appliances available. Call 312-286-5678
LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $825-$895 include heat and gas, laundry in building. Great view! Close to CTA Red Line, bus, stores, restaurants, lake, etc. to schedule a showing please contact Celio 773-3961575, Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com
ALBANY PARK. LARGE four room, one bedroom. New appliances. Large living room, separate dining room, 2 walk-in closets, in-building laundry. $875. Near Brown Line. No pets. 773-612-6379.
rehabbed one bedroom apartment, living room, dining room, small kitchen, includes heat, hot water. Armitag e/ Kenneth. $725. 773-583-5449.
Calumet Park Deluxe Apts. 1BR $700 & 2BR $800. Air, appls & parking included. 312-593-8205.
1 BR $800-$899 Hyde Park West Apts., 5325 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Renovated spacious apartments in landscaped gated community. Off street parking available. Studios $674 - Free Heat; 2BR $995 - Free heat. 4BR Townhome $1412. Visit or call 773-324-0280, MF: 9am-5pm or apply online- www. hydepark west.com. Managed by Metroplex, Inc
1BR. 110 E. 70th St. $650. Heat and appls Inc. Shown by Appt. 773-874-2556
KEDZIE AT GRACE, 2.5 rooms, heat, appliances, dining room, $645.00. Credit check, sec. deposit, lease. Leave message 847-566-1597. CALUMET CITY 1BR, with carpet, air/heat, stove/fridge, laundry facilities. $735/month + security. Section 8 welcome. 773-969-7377
1950 W. WINNEMAC. Terrific large Ravenswood 1 bdrm avail August 1! 1 block to fantastic Winnemac Park; close to Metra, Mariano’s Grocery, LA Fitness and Brown Line! Lovely Hdwd flrs, great closet space! Onsite lndry/storage. $1070, Heat incl. No Security Deposit (773)381-01 50.www.theschirmfirm.com EVANSTON. CENTRAL STREET. Great 1 bedrooms availa-
ble 9/1. $1070. Beautiful courtyard building. Hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.
EAST HUMBOLDT PARK spa-
cious three bedroom apartment with living room, dining room, kitchen, back porch. Hardwood floors. 1119 N Christiana. $1000 month. 73-5835449.
1 BR $1100 AND OVER
5000 N. WINCHESTER: Beauti-
ful Ravenswood Victorian building located 1 blk from fabulous Winnemac Park! Lovely hdwd flrs, many closets, on-site lndry/storage. $1,150.00 heat incl. No sec. dep. Oct.1.(773)381-0150. www. theschirmfirm.com
4235 1/2 NORTH Hermitage. Fantastic 1 bdrm in English Tudor courtyard building. Lovely hdwd flrs, built-in bookshelves and china cabinet! Only 2 blks to Irving Park "El". Onsite lndry/storage. Oct. 1., $1145. 00, heat incl. No Sec. Dep.(773)3810150. www.theschirmfirm.com 1234 W. WINONA, Andersonville
courtyard building! 1 bedroom $1150 heat included. Remodeled soft loft, wood floors, microwave & some units have dishwasher, laundry in the building, walking distance to grocery stores, restaurants CTA red line train and more! Great location! Application fee $40. No security deposit! For a showing please call Marge 773-4920636 www.hunterprop.com Hunter Properties office 773-477-7070
GREAT EVANSTON CAMPUS
1 BEDROOM! Ridge/ Davis. Large 4 r oom/ 1 bedroom. Available 10/1. $1355. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra. Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
AVAILABLE 9/1. EXTREMELY
large & beautiful 1-bedroom apartment on 29th floor facing lake w/ large outdoor balcony. Located 1560 N. Sandburg. Large closet space, remodeled kitchen/bathroom, central air, exercise room, swimming pool, storage room for bikes in building, parking available. Great accessibility to public transportation. $2050/mo. Call Ed ASAP for details 773-4915996
EVANSTON. FOREST AVE.
Large 1 bedroom available 9/1. From $1250. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.
LINCOLN PARK.
ADDISON.
Prime location 1 bedrooms available now, 8/16, 10/1 from $1195. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
DEPAUL 4235
NORTH
HERMITAGE.
Absolutely stunning 1 bdrm in English Tudor courtyard building! Hdwd flrs, built-in bookshelves and china cabinet! Only 2 blks to Irving Park "El". Onsite lndry/storage. Avail August 1. $1260, heat incl. No Security Deposit! (773)381-0150. www. theschirmfirm.com
NICE, SUNNY ONE bedroom.
Hardwood floors, new kitchen, white tile, bathroom. 3434 N Paulina. $1100 plus utilities. 773-539-2246, cell 773332-2098.
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AREA. M O N T A N A / RACINE. Great 1 bedroom available 9/2-9/30 for $1330. New 10/1 lease for $1360. Great building with large rooms, hardwood floors, heat included. Easy transportation to the Loop. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.
BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 4 rooms/ 1 bedroom with full dining room, oak floors. Available 9/1. $1350. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
DEPAUL
AREA.
BELDEN/
SHEFFIELD. Great 1 bedroom available 9/1. $1335. Beautiful courtyard building, hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
LINCOLN PARK/ DEPAUL. W.
GEORGE & N. SEMINARY. 1 Bedroom available 9/1. $1245. Hardwood floors, heat included. Great location for DePaul and transportation. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
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LINCOLN PARK. W. ARLING-
TON PL. 1 Bedrooms available Now, 1 0/1. From $1235. Courtyard building with exposed brick hallways, oak floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
LARGE VINTAGE ONE BEDROOM, Lincoln Square. Free
heat, hot water, laundry, private yard, enclosed porch, intercom system, security cameras, hwfl, close to el. $1100, deposit. 773-728-1583.
1 BR OTHER SECTION 8 AFFORDABLE
CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK
HOMES. Spac 2 - 3 BR Townhomes, Inclu: Prvt entry, full bsmt, lndry hook-ups. Ample prkg. Close to trans & schls. Starts at $816/mo. www. ppkhomes.com;773-264-3005
FOUR ROOM, TWO bedroom. Vintage unit in Old Irving Park, $900 plus deposit. New windows, free heat and water. Intercom. Hardwood floors. 773-728-1583. 2 BEDROOMS, LIVING Room, Dining Room, Computer Room, Enclosed Back Porch, $740/mo, free heat. 55th & Seeley. 630-6732851
Housing Waiting List is now open!! 1, 2, & 3 Bdrms 2443 W. Dugdale Rd Waukegan, IL 60085
8037 CARPENTER. ATTRACTIVE, spac, newly carpeted, 2BR,
APPLY NOW!!! You must apply in person & all adults must be present. ID, Social Security Card & Birth Certificate REQUIRED
GLENWOOD CONDO - 2BR. Carpet, appls, quiet community. Off of I-394. FREE HEAT & WATER! $935/mo. 708-868-2210
Contact: Management Office 847-336-4400
79TH & LANGLEY. 5 Rms, 2BR, Decor. beaut. h/w floors, $760+ $400 move-in fee. Close to trans & shpg. Brown Realty 773-239-9566
APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. Summer is Here but.. Winter is on its Way! Most Include HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $445.00 1Bdr From $550.00. 2Bdr From $ 745.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-476-6000** CALL FOR DETAILS APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. Finally summer is here Come Enjoy The Pool! HEAT, HW & CG INCLUDED. 1Bdr From $745.00. 2Bdr From $890.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-4766000** CALL FOR DETAILS GORGEOUS NEW REHAB, Appls & Heat Incl. ** 73/Jeffery, 1BR $600 **79/Escanaba, 1BR $600, 2BR $725, 3BR $875 ** 72/ Eberhart, Studio $525 ** 64th/ Loomis 2BR $750 ** Section 8 ok ** 773.430.0050 CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** 76TH & SAGINAW - 1BR, $680. 2BR, $690-$770. Decorated hdwd floors near transportation, w/ heat & appliances, no security. 773-4450329 CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708-868-2422 or visit www. nhba.com CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms Hotel, 5316 S. Harper, maid, phone, cable ready, fridge, private facilities, laundry avail. $165/wk Call 773-4933500 CHATHAM- 718 E. 81st St. Newly remodeled 1BR, 1 BA, Dining room, Living room, hdwd flrs, appliances. & heat included. Call 847-533-5463
WEST HUMBOLDT PARK - 1 & 2 BR Apts, spacious, oak wood flrs, huge closets. heat incl, re-habbed, $750-$850. 847-866-7234 NEWLY REMOD HUGE Units! 1-3BR’s. Hdwd & appls, LR, DR. Section 8 OK. 773-865-5051 7957 S. Ellis & 126 W. 110th Pl. MOVE IN SPECIAL!!! B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-1122 77TH/LOWE 1 & 2BR, 69th/ Dante 3BR, 71st/Bennett 1, 2 & 3BR. 77th/Essex 3BR. New reno, appls Incl. Sec 8 ok. 708-503-1366 HAMMOND, INDIANA. 1 -2 B R TANGLEWOOD APTS. Security Deposit $250. 219-8442100
2 BR UNDER $900 Cornerstone Apts., 4907 S. St Lawrence , Newly Remodeled. 3 BR
starting $1017-$1083/mo. 2BR $900/ mo - heat incl. Visit or call (773) 5489211. M-F: 9am-5pm or apply on line www.4907cornerstoneapts.com
Managed by Metroplex, Inc. ∫
SECTION 8 WELCOME 80th/ Ashland - Beautiful, newly remod, 2BR Apt w/office, 1BA. Near schools & transp. $800/mo, tenant pays all utils. $500 move in fee. Avail Now. 773-775-4458
near trans. Heat incl, Sec 8 OK. $850/ mo + $850 Move In Fee. 312-6369340
SOUTHWEST SIDE - Newly ren-
ovated 2BR, Elec & Heat incl. $900/ mo + 1 mo sec. Section 8 Welcome., No pets. 708-210-0984 after 12pm
94-3739 S. BISHOP. 2BR, 5rm, Garden & 1st flr, new appls, crpt, stor-
age, pkng, nr shops/trans/ schools. $850 + sec. 708-335-0786
7202 S Michigan: 1 BR apartment, updated & rehabbed, $695/ heat inc, hrdwd flrs, No SD, stove and fridge inc, 312.208.1771 6250 S. WESTERN 2 Bed, Hardwood, Sec. 8 welcome, updated kit, new bathroom, new appliances. $650-$690.00. Call 312.208.1771 CHICAGO 2 BDRM, near 7600 South Ashland, $750 month. Tenant pays utilities Please call 773-846-5318
BURNHAM - 14500 S. Torrence Beautiful 1 & 2 BR in a class of their own, tile floors, appls, lndry room, a/ c, heat incl. 773-731-5010 WOODLAWN 65TH & Eberhart
1st flr 2BR 1BA apt $725, tenant pays utils, close to trans & schools. Move in fee req’d. 773-759-6400
South Side: Very nice 2BR apt in newly rehabbed 2-flat, quiet block in front of park, 64th & Loomis, $875/mo. 773-679-9010 Chicago, East Garfield Park, 3121 W. Monroe. newly rehabbed, 2BR, heat incl. $850/ mo + 1 mo sec. Call 773-928-5377
5636 S. THROOP, 2BR, 1st floor in 2 floor bldng with Private access to bsmt. 2BA, newly painted, $865/ mo. Call 815-210-3725 CHICAGO 7600 S Essex 2BR $599, 3BR $699, 4BR $799 w/apprvd credit, no sec dep. Sect 8 Ok! 773287-9999 /312-446-3333 GLENWOOD - LARGE 2BR Con-
do, balc, C/A, appls, Appls, heat, wat er/gas incl. 2 Pkg, lndry. $920 /mo. H /F High Schl. 708-268-3762.
SOUTH SIDE 108 W. 76th St. 2 BR $765 248 W. 73 St 3 BR $900 Heat incl. 708-922-1999
2 BR $900-$1099 CHICAGO- Vicinity 73rd/
Island Stoney xtra lrg 2BR, newly remod, lndry fac. Clean/quiet/well maint bldg. $950/mo incl. heat. Sect 8 ok 773-510-9290
OLD IRVING PARK! 4146 N.
Avers. 2 bedroom $1195 includes heat & gas. Remodeling just completed! New kitchen/ bath, dishwasher, hardwood floors, walking distance to grocery store, restaurants, CTA blue line and Metra train is on Irving Park Rd, 90/94 highway on Irving Park Rd, laundry in the building, etc. Application fee $40. No security deposit! For a showing please call Saida 773407-6452. Hunter Properties Inc. 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com
LINCOLN PARK.
ADDISON. Prime location 2 bedroom available 10/1. $1295. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
QUALITY
OF
LIFE
in Andersonville . Garden apt. 1 blk from groceries;vitality of N. Clark St. Near public transp. Street parking;garage available for extra. Shared yard; on site laundry. Small pets ok. Available 15 Aug. Call or text Elise--505-660-8720 South Holland, 2BR, hardwood floors, basement laundry, new kitc.
tile, 2.5 car garage, $1100/mo + water. 1 Mo Sec Req’d. Call 773505-6415
ASHLAND AUGUSTA GREYSTONE. 2 bedroom garden apartment. Laundry, walk to downtown train/ buses. $1100 includes all utilities. 773-384-2772
2 BR $1300-$1499 EVANSTON NEAR LAKE MICH-
IGAN. 617 SHERIDAN. 5 Room/ 2 Bed room/ 2 Bathroom available now8/31 at $1465/month. New lease from 9/1-8/31/16 at $1515. 5 rooms, hardwood floors, bright, airy and one block to the lake! Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30PM, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.
LINCOLN PARK FOR Sept. 1! W.
BRIAR PLACE. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a 2nd bedroom. Available 9/1-6/30/16 for $1415. New 12 month lease for $1435. Small highrise with super-sized rooms. Carpeted and air conditioned. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am2pm.
LINCOLN PARK. W. BR IA R PLACE. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a 2nd bedroom. Available 1 0/1. From $1400. Small high-rise with super-sized rooms. Carpeted and air conditioned. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm. BUENA
PARK
LANDMARK
DISTRICT. IRVING PARK & SHERIDAN RD. 5 room/ 2 bedroom available 10/1. $1450. Large apartment w/ high ceilings, hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
LARGE VINTAGE TWOBEDROOM, Lincoln Square. Free
heat, hot water, laundry, private yard, enclosed porch, intercom system, security cameras, hwfl, close to el. $1500, deposit. 773-728-1583.
2 BR $1500 AND OVER
BRONZEVILLE - 42ND & INDIANA. Gut rehabbed 2BR, hardwood floors, new kitchen cabinets & appls. $900. Sect 8 Welc. 773447-2122 AUSTIN 2BR $900 + dep & 3BR $1100 + dep, heat incl. 5211 W. Augusta Blvd. 1BR. 5302 W. Hirsch. $650. Call 773-251-6652
2 BR $1100-$1299 46TH/CALUMET.
QUIET, 2-
3BR, 1st flr, heat incl, newly remodeled kit and bath, hdwd floors, near trans.$1250-$1350. 773-667-9611
42 CHICAGO READER | AUGUST 6, 2015
bathroom, all stainless steel appliances, custom cabinets, hardwood floors, in-unit laundry, central air/ heat. Elevator building. Rent includes 1 parking space. Easy access to CTA and expressway. Close to UIC, Illinois Medical District, United Center, Downtown.$1700/Month. August 1, 2015 availability. Call TriTaylor at 312.829.7368
GOLD
COAST.
LASALLE.
Beautiful courtyard building in superb location, transportation at front door. Large rooms, hardwood floors, fireplaces. 2 bedrooms available 10/1. From $1760. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.
BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 5 room/ 2 bedrooms with full dining room, oak floors. Available now. $1700. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
LARGE END UNIT Townhome for
Rent! 1036 W. Monroe, hardwood floors, 2 bedrooms/ 2 bathrooms, wa sher/ dryer, fireplace, island kitchen. Attached garage, balcony, inside courtyard, gated. Contact KarenAguilar 737@gmail.com or 847. 877.3772
SPACIOUS EAST LAKE View 2BR apt. Newly renovated kitchen,
bath, hardwood flrs throughout, laundry on premises. Backyard for tenants. $2100 incl. outdoor parking spot. 773-880-2414, 773-580-7797
FANTASTIC WRIGLEYVILLE 2 bdrm with enclosed sunporch! On-
ly 4 blks to Wrigley Field! 2 blks to Jewel! Lovely hdwd flrs, huge remodeled Kitchen with pantry! On-site lndry/storage. 1255 West Waveland: $1660.00, tenant heated. Oct 1.(773) 381-0150.www.theschirmfirm.com
EVANSTON. FOREST AVE.
Large 5 room/ 2 bedroom available NOW. $1545. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.
7624
S. NORMAL No Dep. Beautiful 3BR Apt, New appls, CFans, fenced-in front & backyard. $1100/ mo.Sec 8 Welc. 708-2839020
3BR APT, 1761 E. 72nd Pl, 1st floor. Newly remod. New kitch appls. Off street prkng avail. $115 0/mo, all utils incl. except elec. 312-217-2386
CHICAGO, 61ST & King, large, modern, tenant heated, 3BR, $11 00/mo, no security deposit. Agent Owned, 312-671-3795
REDEVELOPED HOMES ready to rent provided by rentMACK. 3-4 bedrooms $1300-$1600/mo. Call 855-544-6225 rentmack.com
CHICAGO - 5536 S. Perry. Attn Sec 8 tenants, newly remod 3BR, 1 ba, hdwd flrs, W/D hookup, heat incl. $950. 312-451-3420.
BRONZEVILLE - 3 bedroom apt, newly decorated, free heat, lights, and gas. Near Hyde Park South. $105 0/month. 708-288-9096 SOUTHSIDE SEC 8 welcome. 2
Flat apts. 90th/Dauphin. 3BR/1BA $1100, 2BR/1BA $900. Newly remodeled. 847-533-2496
80th/Phillips, Beautiful, lrg newly
renovated 3BR, 1.5BA, hdwd flrs, appls incl. $900 & up. Sec 8 Welc. 773-655-7515
SAUK VILLAGE - 3 Bdrm, 100% remodeled, garage, AC, no pets, section 8 OK. $1100 plus security. Available 8/1. 847-736-1677 HARVEY 3BR APT, heat and hot water furnished, appls, close to schools and transportation, $1050/mo + sec. 708-205-1454 CHICAGO HOUSES FOR rent. Section 8 Ok, w/app credit $500 gift certificate 3, 4 & 5 BR houses avail. 312-446-3333 or 708-752-3812
3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499
HOT LAKEVIEW 2BED 1bath SUNNY Large 2bedroom 1bath English Garden in LAKEVIEW. HW floors, Large Livingroom,Private Patio large backyard.Rent $1650 NO DEPOSIT Beverly Covyeau 773-704-4704
Bronzeville Amazing Beautiful mini
2 BR OTHER
HAZEL CREST, 3BR, 1BA, hardwood floors, all utilities included + more! Security & credit check. $1300/mo. Call 708-335-3691
SE SIDE, 7.5 ROOM CONDO
APT , w/ many amenities. A/C, SS appliances + laundry room. Section 8 Welcome. For showing call, Evelyn at 773-434-7464 or Deshante at 773682-0012
BEAUTIFUL 2BR, new kitch w / appls & new BA. New hw flrs, intercom, sec. camera & fence. Sect 8 welc. 71st & California. 312-375-6585 CHICAGO, 80TH & Paulina, modern, 2 & 3 BR Apts, starting at $725 /month & up. No security deposit. Agent Owned, Call 312671-3795. CHICAGO, 9711 HOXIE, 2 B R , 2BA, finished basement, $10 00/mo. 2408 E. 103rd St., 3BR, 2BA, $1250/mo. Call 773-416-8512 NORTH LAWNDALE, 2BR Apts, Multiple Units Available. New construction, next to park and elementary school. Sec 8 welcome. 972-256-1141 NEWLY REHABBED, 2-3BR Apts, Auburn Gresham, Chatham, Woodlawn, South Shore. Section 8 Welc. $900+. TTRM, 312-829-7368 ENGLEWOOD 2-4BR unit apts in 2 unit gated bldgs, hdwd flrs, pets OK, no sec dep, W/D & appls incl, tenant pays own utils 312929-2167 Chicago, 2BR Apt, 1st floor, dining room, enclosed back porch. 7400 South, near Halstead. Heat included. Call 773-488-6401, leave msg.
CHICAGO, 6111 & 6109 S. Normal, 2 Bedroom Apartments. Newly Decorated. Stove & refrig incl. Section 8 Welc. Call 773-422-1878
SOUTH SHORE 2BR apt, newly
renovated apt. hdwd flrs throughout, laundry, secure bldg w/surveillance system & wrought iron fencing. $975. 773-880-2414, 773-580-7797
NEW CONSTRUCTION CONDOS FOR RENT. 2 bedroom/2
NO MOVE-IN FEE! No Dep! Sec 8
ok. 1, 2 & 3 Bdrms. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe. Stacey 773874-0100
3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200 HYDE PARK, 3BR, $1075/mo + sec dep.
Newly decorated, hdwd flrs, stove, fridge. FREE heat & hot water! Lndry fac. & cable ready. No app fee. 773667-6477 or 312-802-7301
PHOENIX Newly Remodeled 3br Brick Ranch, 1ba, side drive, utils not incl. $890/mo. Call Mr Brown. 312-459-6618
mansion. 3BR, 4BA, full fin. bsmt, granite countertops, stainless steel appls, ac, beautiful hdwd flrs, $2100/ mo. 46th/St. Lawrence. 773-6799010
1700 W Juneway, 4 bed 2 bath, $1400, ht inc, hrd wd flr, NEW REHAB, NO SD, 773.516.0145 or 773. 939.7266
HARVEY, SECTION 8 WELCOME. $0 Security for Section 8. $500 cash back. 3BR, $1200/mo. Fine condition. ADT Alarm. 708-715-0034 CALUMET CITY, 3BR, 2 full BA, fully rehab w/gorgeous finishes w/ hdwd floors, appls incl., porch, Sec 8 OK. $1100/mo Call 510-735-7171
4BR HOUSE OFF Cermak near
Kostner, appls incl, no pets, sec 8 welcome. $1250+ heat. 312-810-9927
CHATHAM 7900 blk of Langley. 3BR 1.5BA, appls/heat incl, laundry in bsmt,, Sec 8 Ok. $1200. Mr. Johnson 630-424-1403
3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799 EVANSTON. FOREST AVE.
Large 6 room/ 3 bedroom/ 2 bathroom available 9/1. $1580. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.
BUENA
PARK
LANDMARK
DISTRICT. IRVING PARK & SHERIDAN RD. 6 room/ 3 bedroom available 10/1. $1700. Large apartment w/ high ceilings, hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.
ASHLAND AUGUSTA GREYSTONE 2nd floor, sunny 3
bedroom, laundry, walk to downtown train/buses. $1575 + lights. 773-3842772
Close IIT, UIC - 3338 S Calumet, 3BR, 2BA apt, nice, quiet, stove, refrig., $1600/mo. 3810 S Wood, 4BR, 2BA 2-sty house, all new appls, $165 0/mo. 312-929-6106.
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of Lindsay Staser Snider and Qing Janet Wang Case# 2015CONC000659 For Change of Name. Notice of Publication Public Notice is hereby given that on September 16, 2015 at 10:30am being one of the return days in the Circuit Court of the County of Cook, I will file my petition in said court praying for the change of my name from Lindsay Staser Snider and Qing Janet Wang to that of Lindsay Snider Wesner and Janet Qing Wesner, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided. Dated at Chicago, Illinois, July 27th, 2015. Signature of Petitioner Lindsay Staser Snider and Qing Janet Wang
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NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to "An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State," as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County: Registration Number D15143158 on July 29, 2015, under the Assumed Business Name of Grateful Dog with the business located at 1481 West Farragut Avenue Apt 3, Chicago, IL 60640. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: Megan Elizabeth Daly, 1481 West Farragut Avenue Apt 3, Chicago, IL 60640, USA.
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What to do with a Jeckyll of a boyfriend who turns into Hyde when the pot runs out Plus: An erstwhile ‘fat little friend’ wants some action Q: Does a person who acts loving only when high on weed really love you? My live-in boyfriend of three years acts sweet, loving, and caring when he’s high, but when the weed runs out, he’s mean, angry, hurtful, and horrible to be around. I’ve asked him when he’s stoned to still act like a loving person when the weed runs out, but of course that never happens. He just dismisses that he’s mean and hurtful, and he blames me for why he’s angry. I’m so confused! Without weed, he’s intolerable. Should I just make sure he’s always well stocked with his drug? He’s a relatively functional stoner, even though technically it’s not allowed at his job. I’ve told all my friends he is no longer the mean asshole he was when I wanted to leave him (but didn’t), and now I’ve convinced everyone that he transformed back into the amazing catch I always knew he was. So basically, in order to save face over not leaving him (and now I can’t for financial reasons), I burned the bridges. —TENSIONS HIGHLIGHT CONCERNS THAT RELATIONSHIPS AREN’T PERFECT A: Someone who can be nice only when he’s high isn’t someone you should be fucking, living with, or starting a grow-op on your roof for, THCTRAP, he’s someone you should be dumping, dumping, and dumping. And to be clear: Your boyfriend’s problem isn’t weed, THCTRAP, your boyfriend’s problem is asshole. And the fact that you’re covering for him—the fact that you can’t go to your friends for help because you worked so hard to convince them he’s not an asshole—is a very, very bad sign. If being with someone
isolates you from the support of your friends, that’s not someone you should be with. Does he love you? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t— but even if he does, do you want to be loved by someone who treats you like shit when he isn’t fucked-up? No, you don’t. My advice: DTMFA. But let’s get a second opinion, shall we? “It’s not unusual for people to complain that they feel a little cranky when they run out of weed,” said Dan Skye, editor in chief of High Times magazine. “I know a lot of people who prefer to be high all the time—but if his personality is that different when he runs out of weed, this woman’s boyfriend has problems other than not being high.” Now, there are people out there who self-medicate with pot—in good ways, not bad ways. “I know many people who have dumped their pharmaceuticals for pot,” said Skye, “because pot is a better substance for easing their pain and anxiety. There are no side effects, it’s good at easing pain, and it even eases some severe medical conditions. There are people out there who are high all the time, I know hundreds of them, and they are perfectly functional, responsible human beings. We are hardwired as humans to hook up with this plant, and some people hook up with this plant in profound ways. It makes them feel better, it makes them more compassionate and more creative—it makes them better human beings.” But Skye doesn’t think your boyfriend is one of those people, THCTRAP. “If this guy is such a prick when he’s not high, I’d get rid of him,” said Skye. “Putting your girlfriend in a position where she feels like she has to become your dealer—that
she has to supply you with pot—is not acceptable.” Q: She turned me into the pretty girl’s fat little friend years ago and then ran off to sunnier places. Now she’s back. She has tried to rekindle a relationship, but she expects me to be like I was years back. I’m treating myself to a weekend away and thought about treating her too in the hopes things go to the next level. I guess I’m hoping she will give if she gets. Am I an idiot? —GOOD GUY PROBLEMS A: So you’re one of those good guys I’ve heard so much about, huh? One of those good guys who thinks all his female friends are secret sex workers— i.e., girls who will give once they get? If that’s how good guys feel about their female friends, I’d hate to hear a bad guy’s inner monologue. Don’t spend your “good guy” money on this girl, GGP, because she’s not going to fuck you. If she didn’t want to fuck you after she paid Dr. Moreau to turn you into her fat little friend, she doesn’t want to fuck you now. The odds of her wanting to take things “to the next level” once you get her alone for the weekend are worse than the odds of “President Rick Santorum.” My advice: Do not invite this woman to go away with you under false pretenses (it’s a friendly trip!) so long as you’re nursing false hopes (she’ll fuck me someday!). Invite someone else, go alone, or blow whatever money you would’ve spent on this pretty girl on a pretty local sex worker instead. v Send letters to mail@ savagelove.net. Download the Savage Lovecast every Tuesday at thestranger.com. ! @fakedansavage
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By Cecil Adams
Q: Why are there so many “ladyboys”
in Thailand, and why are they such a huge part of the sex industry?
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A: “Pick sexier topics,” the Straight Dope staffers are always complaining. “Give us something hashtaggable.” Well, here you go: a column on not just sex, but religion and guns too—what could be more compelling to Americans than that? The Thai sex trade is booming: it’s estimated there are some 200,000 prostitutes in the country, and the industry produces $2.5 billion to $4 billion each year, or around 1 percent of GDP. Kathoey—Thai slang for transgender women; “ladyboy” is widely considered pretty offensive—are often the most visible part of the industry, even if the estimated rate of transgender people in the population is the same as in most other countries, roughly 0.3 percent. Even outside the sex industry, transgender women in Thailand may be more socially integrated than their peers elsewhere in the world—in one study the subjects were found on average to be better educated and more affluent than the country as a whole. But thanks in large part to the sex trade, Thai trans women have become more visible than their counterparts in the U.S. and most other countries. So what gives? Much of it, it turns out, is probably Buddhism. The religion was adopted in Thailand by way of India about 800 years ago, and 95 percent of Thais now identify as Buddhist. Traditional Buddhists were never exactly sold on the whole sex idea in general. Reaching nirvana means achieving the absence of all desire, and sticking anything into pretty much any bodily orifice amounts to spiritual defeat for a monk, “even if only the width of a sesame seed” (not an optimistic bunch, these guys). It wasn’t for lack of thinking about it: the Buddhist code of monastic conduct called the Vinaya lists 27 categories of people, creatures, and objects that one shouldn’t have sex with, including men, women, dead women whose flesh has or hasn’t been eaten away by
animals, female monkeys, wooden dolls . . . you get the picture. Amid this overall disdain for getting off, heterosexual sex and homosexual sex were viewed as (at least for monks) equally sinful. The historian Peter Jackson has argued that preexisting Thai notions of gender interacted with Buddhist thought in a way that uniquely conflated gayness with transness; for many years gay men were simply understood as having women’s desires, and often referred to as kathoey too. But while same-sex inclinations were long thought in Thai Buddhism to be sinful, they were also thought to be congenital—meaning they couldn’t be changed during a person’s lifetime, and therefore had to be accepted. The sex-industry part of the story is much simpler. When American troops fought in the Vietnam war, roughly 700,000 of them passed at some point through Thailand, the U.S. military’s official R&R area. Their spending in restaurants, bars, and brothels exceeded 40 percent of Thailand’s export earnings and produced a proliferation of sex-based businesses. (See also: the Philippines and Korea.) To complete the equation, transgender populations all over the world are much more heavily involved in prostitution than the population at large for the simple reason that it’s hard for a publicly transgender person to find—or keep—other employment. Here in the U.S., the National Trans Discrimination Survey reported in 2011 that 26 percent of transgender people had lost their jobs due to gender identity/expression and 11 percent had done sex work for income. With Thailand’s high-profile sex trade, these trends stand out all the more. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.
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Steve Aoki 9/5, 10 PM, the Mid Black Tusk, Black Pussy, Lazer/ Wulf 9/8, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ F Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort 11/15, 6 and 8 PM, the Promontory, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM Cattle Decapitation 9/25, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 17+ Stanley Clarke 11/20, 7 and 9:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b David Cook 10/23, 8:30 PM, the Abbey b Jonny Craig 10/2, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Deafheaven, Envy 10/30, 6:30 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 18+ Robert DeLong 11/5, 8:30 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 8/7, noon, 18+ The Devil Makes Three 10/30, 9:30 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 17+ Diiv, No Joy, Sunflower Bean 10/12, 9 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 PM, 17+ Disco Biscuits 9/5, 11 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ DJ Maseo 9/10, 9:30 PM, the Promontory Dopapod 10/8, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 18+ El Vy 11/19, 8:30 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 8/7, noon, 18+ Elephant Revival 11/12, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, on sale Fri 8/7, noon English Beat 12/1-2, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 8/6, noon b Ex-Cult, Male Gaze 10/26, 9 PM, Empty Bottle F Family Force 5 11/2, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge, on sale Fri 8/7,
10 AM b Family Stone 9/13, 7 PM, the Promontory Franz Ferdinand & Sparks 10/8, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 18+ Kinky Friedman 11/4, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Front Bottoms 10/31, 6 PM, Bottom Lounge, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM b Fronzilla 9/29, 7 PM, Subterranean, on sale Mon 8/10, 10 AM, 17+ Gary Clark Jr. 4/1, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 18+ Get Up Kids 12/2, 7 PM, Double Door, on sale Fri 8/7, noon, 17+ Glass Animals 10/7, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM b Goldfish 9/6, 10 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Gorgon City 10/28, 8 PM, House of Blues, on sale Thu 8/6, 10 AM, 18+ Green Jelly 8/30, 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Hans Raj Hans & Shenkar 10/12, 8 PM, Park West, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 18+ Emerson Hart, Meiko 10/19, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 8/6, noon b Don Henley 11/8, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM b Kristin Hersh 10/4, 7 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 8/7, noon Peter Himmelman 11/18, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Hotelier 10/24, 5:30 PM, Beat Kitchen b I See Stars 10/11, 6:30 PM, the Abbey b
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Mick Jenkins 10/8, 7 PM, Metro b Eilen Jewell 11/12, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Kill Hannah 12/19, 6:30 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 8/7, noon b King Diamond 11/27, 8 PM, Aragon Ballroom, on sale Fri 8/7, 9 AM, 17+ Knife Party 9/4, 10 PM, the Mid Bonnie Koloc 11/28, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Kool Keith 9/26, 9 PM, the Promontory Local H 8/31, 8 PM, 1st Ward Makthaverskan, Lower 10/13, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 17+ Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited 9/12, 8 PM, Rosa’s Lounge Marina & the Diamonds 10/31, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM b Masked Intruder, Copyrites 10/20, 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Nellie McKay 11/14, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b OBN IIIs 9/22, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Rita Ora 9/17, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 18+ Orgone 8/18, 8 PM, Wire, Berwyn, 18+ Alice Peacock 11/21, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Pegboy 9/12, 8 PM, 1st Ward Pentagram 10/9, 8 PM, the Abbey, on sale Fri 8/7, 2 PM, 17+ Pete Rock 10/23, 9 PM, the Promontory Madeline Peyroux Trio 11/8, 6 and 8:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Matt Pond PA 11/12, 8 PM, Subterranean, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 17+ Railroad Earth 12/30-31, 8 PM, the Vic, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 18+ Cathy Richardson Band 11/27, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Russian Circles, Cloakroom 10/3, 9 PM, the Abbey, on sale Fri 8/7, 10 AM, 17+ Sadies 8/28, 9:30 PM, Wire, Berwyn Saratoga 11/7, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+
bALL AGES F Sevendust 10/21, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Sheepdogs 10/22, 8 PM, Double Door, on sale Fri 8/7, noon Sonata Arctica 3/28, 6 PM, Concord Music Hall, on sale Thu 8/6, 10 AM b Sonny Vincent, Fire Retarded 10/10, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Split Single 11/7, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 8/8, 11 AM b Spray Paint 10/9, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Kasim Sulton 11/8, 7 PM, the Abbey Sweater Beats 9/5, 10 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ U.S. Girls 11/21, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Vertical Horizon 8/30, 8 PM, Wire, Berwyn Kamasi Washington 9/9, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ X-Ambassadors, Skylar Grey 11/3, 6:30 PM, Lincoln Hall, on sale Fri 8/7, noon b
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Mikal Cronin 9/13, 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, moved from Thalia Hall King Louie 9/4, 9 PM, Subterranean, canceled
UPCOMING
Acid King 10/29, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Benise 11/13, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre b Blitzen Trapper 10/7, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall Jackson Browne 9/5, 7:30 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park Chameleons Vox 9/29, 7 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Jerry Douglas 8/18, 8 PM, City Winery b Matthew Espinosa 10/16, 7 PM, Riviera Theatre b Failure 8/21, 8 PM, Metro, 18+ Brandon Flowers 9/11, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ Marty Friedman 9/18, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club Gang of Four 10/7, 8 PM, Thalia Hall b Ghost 10/3, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre b Albert Hammond Jr. 9/15, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Sonny Knight & the Lakers 8/28, 8 PM, City Winery b Korn, Suicide Silence 10/1, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom
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Mike Krol 10/7, 9 PM, Empty Bottle La Dispute, Pity Sex 11/2, 7 PM, Double Door Lianne La Havas 10/4, 8 PM, Park West, 18+ La Luz 9/5, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Man or Astro-Man? 9/11, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Ky-Mani Marley 9/10, 10 PM, the Shrine Ricky Martin 10/11, 7:30 PM, Allstate Arena, Rosemont b Maudlin Strangers 10/16, 8:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ James Vincent McMorrow 8/26, 8 PM, Thalia Hall b Willie Watson 10/7, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Wavves, Twin Peaks 9/25, 7:30 PM, the Vic b Tyrone Wells 10/31, 6:45 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Bill “Sauce Boss” Wharton 8/20, 8 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn David Wilcox 9/20, 7 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Wild Child 10/30, 8 PM, Thalia Hall b Lucinda Williams 9/23-24, 8 PM, City Winery b ZZ Top 8/27, 8 PM, Ravinia Festival, Highland Park
SOLD OUT
AC/DC 9/15, 7 PM, Wrigley Field b Leon Bridges 10/27, 8:30 PM, the Vic, 18+ Foo Fighters, Cheap Trick, Naked Raygun, Urge Overkill 8/29, Wrigley Field b Halsey 10/28-29, 7 PM, the Vic b Nick Jonas 9/14, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Mark Knopfler 10/2, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre The 1975 12/8, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b Years & Years 9/22, 7:30 PM, Park West b v
GOSSIP WOLF
A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene GOSSIP WOLF IS a big fan of septuagenarian harmonica player and unsung reggae hero Charles “Organaire” Cameron as well as of Dark Matter coffee—and both turned up in the Reader’s latest Best of Chicago issue. You can get a dose of them on Sat 8/8 at Double Door: Organaire performs at Simmer Down Sound, a vinyl night dedicated to reggae and dancehall that this time doubles as a release party for Dark Matter’s Pressure Drip, a Jamaicaninspired coffee the roasters made with Chicago’s Jump Up Records. Also on the bill are local reggae outfit Akasha, resident selectors Graduate, Rad Brian, and Marcusiyah (for the reggae impaired, that means “DJs”), and guest DJ King Tony. It starts at 10 PM and it’s free! A quality split LP is like having two delicious hors d’oeuvres and calling it dinner. And who doesn’t want to feel fancy sometimes? On Mon 8/10 local label Berserk Records releases a scorching split from Chicago glam-garage trio Absolutely Not, described by the Reader’s Kevin Warwick as “part snotty lo-fi Pop Rocks pop-punk and part sci-fi squiggles,” and ferocious hardcore band Rat Hammer, described by Gossip Wolf as ferocious hardcore! Both groups are in top form, and sound great covering each other’s songs too. Monday night they play a free record-release show at the Empty Bottle with headliners Le Tour, who celebrate a new Berserk/Dark Circles Records LP called Terra Eyes. Keith Utech of Milwaukee experimental label Utech Records lost his wife, Kim, to breast cancer last month. Keith’s sisterin-law has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help him and his two kids during this difficult time, and many fine musicians have contributed to a 41-track benefit compilation called And Suddenly Everything, Absolutely Everything, Was There. Among the locals involved are Cinchel, Locrian, Trevor de Brauw, and Kwaidan. It costs $10, and all proceeds go to the Utech Family Fund; you can buy it at bit.ly/ase_ae. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com
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