Chicago Reader: print issue of August 25, 2016 (Volume 45, Number 46)

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Culture Streetwear company Trap House Chicago addresses gun violence. 15

Food & Drink Chef David Park makes Korean food magic at a food-court stand. 33

ABOLISH THE POLICE (Activists say the idea is less crazy than it sounds.)

By MAYA DUKMASOVA 10

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4 Agenda The Fly Honey Show VII, stand-up comedian Godfrey, the film Morris From America, and more recommendations

CITY LIFE

7 Street View Fashion-forward folks are reclaiming Crocs.

NEWS

Visions of a world without police

22 In Rotation Current musical obsessions include Horseback, The Trap Set podcast, Josh Berman Trio, and more.

25 Shows of note Ryley Walker, Mars Red Sky, Jeff Parker, Lil Yachty, and other recommendations

FOOD & DRINK

Around Chicago grassroots groups are putting abolitionist ideas into practice.

BY MAYA DUKMASOVA 10

33 Review: Hanbun Chef David Park makes Korean food magic in a suburban food-court stand.

34 Spirits Chicago bartenders are acquiring a taste for the challenging Indian spirit feni.

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37 Jobs 38 Apartments & Spaces 39 Marketplace

Trap House Chicago bridges streetwear and restorative justice

Mashaun Hendricks’s for-profit clothing line is just one aspect of his activist efforts to address the city’s gun violence.

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7 Bureaucracy Rap, rock, country, and DJ sets are not tax-exempt “fine arts,” according to Cook County.

8 Election watch The specter of voter fraud allowed Rauner to veto an automatic voter registration bill.

9 Transportation An activist looks to eliminate obstacles to walking and biking in Bronzeville.

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18 Lit Curbside Splendor opens a brick-and-mortar store, Curbside Books and Records.

18 Comedy T.J. Miller returns to Chicago with his “Meticulously Ridiculous” show.

19 Small Screen MTV’s Unlocking the Truth showcases the work of exoneration-focused groups.

40 Straight Dope When did the first diapers specifically for adults become commercially available?

41 Savage Love An NYC designer named Dan Savage offers advice on impotence and pegging.

42 Early Warnings Hideout 20-year Reunion, Hip-Hop Summer Fest, Hot Chip DJ set, and more 42 Gossip Wolf Bric-a-Brac Records will host the festival Scummer Slam at East Room, and other music news

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The Anton Chekhov Book Club Returns Moving Dock follows up last year’s compilation of Chekhov’s short stories with this new set of seven. Using “From the Diary of a Violent-Tempered Man” as a framing device, a cast of four women bob between goofy vignettes like “A Work of Art” and richer, more nuanced romantic pieces like “A Joke.”

Director Dawn Arnold’s reverence and affinity for the source material is clear, but the format—sort of a performance, sort of a staged reading—robs viewers of the stories’ intimacy without doing much to heighten their power. —DAN JAKES Through 9/23: Fri 8:15 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, movingdock.org, $19.50, $17.50 students and seniors.

Bloodshot Derek Eveleigh, hard-drinking former crime scene photographer, is washed up until an envelope arrives in the mail containing money and instructions: trail and photograph a particular woman, and expect more money. He bites, falls for his subject—who ends up dead—and suddenly he’s eyeballs deep in finding her killer. Douglas Post’s one-man noir is tightly constructed, well written, and calcified, so dependent on the well-worn conventions of midcentury crime dramas it may as well be an unproduced episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar. As Eveleigh, British import Simon Slater, star of Bloodshot’s original 2011 London production, gives a precise, detailed, impassioned performance, but by the time he’s played ukulele, saxophone, and done magic tricks—all before intermission— the evening feels more showcase than show. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 9/10: Wed-Fri 8 PM, Sat-Sun 2:30 and 8 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, greenhousetheater. org, $42-$48.

Dementia Me A solo show can live or die by the energy of its performer.

Dementia Me is nothing if not a high-energy display, as John Michael

Colgin (who goes by “John Michael” professionally) brings quasi-manic levels of eagerness and intensity to his tale of two years spent working for a Texas “memory care center”—a nursing home for seniors suffering from dementia. In his time there, he says, he was known as “Mr. Smiles,” and it’s clear that exuberance is important to him, not only as an actor, but as someone whose job it was to shepherd the aged through impairment, forgetfulness, and terminal illness with a reassuring smile. Dementia Me makes a desperate case for joy in all things—as a palliative to intense suffering, as a meaningful distraction that can help if not heal sickness, and as good theater. John Michael heartens without making light of his subject matter.

—MAX MALLER Through 9/12: Mon 8 PM, Den Theatre, 1329-1333 N. Milwaukee, 773-609-2336, johnmichaelplays.com, $10.

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The Fly Honey Show VII Pregamers ought to consider Irish coffee before attending this annual late-night marathon of burlesque rapture, which parties on until around last call. Accompanied by a live rock band, a rotating, diverse cast of performers celebrate bodies and self-love in a punk-styled, socially progressive variety show. Interdisciplinary collective the Inconvenience has cultivated a sizable community of artists and audience members over time, and there’s no question the show’s gender politics preach to the choir, but that’s one of its greatest values—in a year rife with disheartening stories, a little church does the mind and body some good. Emcee Mary Williamson is a razor-sharp firebrand when she yields a microphone, and this year’s run has the added bonus of soaking up some of the magical juju of the Chopin’s basement theater. —DAN JAKES Through 9/3: Thu-Fri 10:30 PM, Sat 11 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773-769-3832, theflyhoneyshow.com, $18-$80.

Mame Songwriter Jerry Herman and playwrights Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee’s 1966 musical—based on Lawrence and Lee’s 1956 stage adaptation of Evanston-bred novelist Patrick Dennis’s 1955 best seller—is an old-fashioned Broadway star vehicle.

The actor playing the title character—a

madcap Jazz Age socialite who finds new meaning in life when she becomes guardian of her orphaned nephew Patrick—must be a glamorous clotheshorse who can sing and dance up a storm. She must also be able to make lightning-fast emotional shifts, from screwball giddiness to pathos to crackling anger, as Auntie Mame fights to raise Patrick as a freethinker rather than a prep-school conformist. The leading lady of Light Opera Works’s 50th-anniversary revival of the show, belter Nancy Hays, looks good and sounds great, but under Rudy Hogenmiller’s by-the-numbers direction she’s dramatically bland; her battle for Patrick’s soul lacks any urgency. The result is a disappointingly conventional take on a wonderfully unconventional character. Kudos, however, to choreographer Clayton Cross and his high-stepping kicklines and cakewalks. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 8/28: Wed-Thu 2 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Cahn Auditorium, Northwestern University, 600 Emerson, Evanston, 847-467-4000, $34-$98.

Tall Girl and the Lightning Parade On the one hand, this bilingual Walkabout Theater show is performed outdoors, in parks, and that can be very pleasant. A beautiful moon hung in a clear sky the evening I attended. On the other hand, pretty much everything that happened under that moon was an amiable mess.

Based on a Mayan creation myth, Tall Girl follows the cosmic troubles that ensue when the daughter of the Sun and Moon falls for the son of the Ocean and Hurricane. Director Thom Pasculli approaches it as neo-Redmoonian spectacle, with stilt walking, puppets, and implacable whimsy. But little seems to have been thought all the way through.

Subsidiary characters are poorly differentiated. The choreography is vague.

Aesthetic rules change arbitrarily. And why would Pasculli time the show so that the all-important final image comes after dark, when, thanks to a lack of man-made illumination, it’s hard to see?

—TONY ADLER Through 8/27: Tue-Wed and Fri-Sat 7 PM, various locations. F

DANCE Chicago Dancing Festival The tenth annual Chicago Dancing Festival features local and national companies over five days of public performances.

Through 8/27, various locations, chicagodancingfestival.com. F Mess Hall: Installment Three A R showcase of new works from local independent dancers, choreographers,

and movement artists. 8/27-8/28: Sat 7 PM, Sun 4 PM, Outer Space Studio, 1474 N. Milwaukee, messhall3.brownpapertickets.com, $5 suggested donation.

Thrust! Described as a “mashup of tap dance, modern dance, and original music,” this double bill from Tapman collaborators Tristan Bruns (tap), Kate O’Hanlon (modern dance), and guest choreographer Ian Berg was

created with Stage 773’s thrust stage—a three-sided platform—in mind. The idea is to break away from a proscenium setting to utilize all three sides so that audience members enjoy different vantage points as the dancers face different directions at different times. It’s not the most novel of concepts, but Thrust! has its moments despite a bizarre first half that features knife-wielding demons, a tango number, and an ear-piercing heavy metal sequence (the original music is by Trainwreck Symphony). Part two, Berg’s extended piece From the Top, turns out to be a dazzling display of skill by fleet-footed tap stars including Bruns, Star Dixon, Jumaane Taylor, and Berg himself. If you can set aside the oddities of part one, you’re in for a treat. —MATT DE LA PEÑA Through 8/28: Fri-Sat 7 PM, Sun 3 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, tapmanproductions.com, $20.

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Back to School: CPS Stand-Up R Showcase Lilly Allison hosts a night of CPS employees performing

stand-up. The night also includes a school supplies drive. Sun 8/28, 8 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773697-9693, theannoyance.com, $5, free for CPS employees.

4orms Featuring four groups employing four distinct improvisational forms, this improv showcase directed by Kyle Dolan is a fun idea that veers into class recital territory. The 15 or so minutes per show is just right for a taste, but the groups seemed used to longer sets, and the results could use some tightening.

Magnanimous kicked off, subbing for Dan and Kate’s Book Club on the night I attended, basing their set on audience chitchat. Period-costumed Adult Cousins followed, using the suggestion of “coffee shop” for their four-person improv based on a training exercise where you either love, hate or are indifferent toward each scene partner. Dead Heat and the Scratch were at their best during nonsensical, gibberish-based scenes, while Improvised Twilight Zone closed the night with the most polish and style. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 9/27: Tue 8 PM, Annoyance

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Garfunkel & Oates Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci perform their comedy folk songs. Sun 8/28, 6:30 and 9 PM, City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, 312-733-9463, citywinery.com, $28-$40.

Godfrey The stand-up performs R a benefit show for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. 8/25-8/28: Thu

7:30 PM, Fri 8 and 10:15 PM, Sat 7 and 9:15 PM, Sun 7 PM, Chicago Improv, 5 Woodfield, Schaumburg, 847-240-2001, $17-$19.

Life’s a Game A solo sketch R show starring LeLe Mason. Fri 8/26, 8 PM, the Revival, 1160 E. 55th, 866-811-4111, the-revival.com, $15.

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The Time Is Now (Starting Tomorrow) An original sketch show about attempting to live up to wild aspirations. 8/26-9/30: Fri 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

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that the museum has not yet displayed including an early beach landscape by Edgar Degas and self-portrait by Henri Fantin-Latour. 8/35-1/26. Sun–Wed 10:30 AM–5 PM, Thu-Fri 10:30 AM–8 PM, Sat 10:30 AM–5 PM. 111 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600, artinstituteofchicago.org, $25, $19 students, seniors ($5 discount for Chicago residents), free kids under 14; free for Illinois residents Thursdays 5-8 PM. Experimental Sound Studio “On the Border of What is Formless and Monstrous,” Maria Gaspar presents a composite of her sound recordings from inside and outside Cook County Jail. Opening reception Fri 8/26, 6-9 PM. 8/26-9/11. Sat-Sun 1-5, or by appt.

5925 N. Ravenswood, 773-769-1069, experimentalsoundstudio.org.

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stories. Mon 8/29, 8 and 11 PM, Cafe Mustache, 2313 N. Milwaukee, 773-6879063, facebook.com/ladylikechicago, $5 suggested donation.

Lit Up! Drinkers With Writing R Problems presents a night of live lit featuring Elizabeth Gomez, David Hughes, Lily Be, and more. Fri 8/26, 7:30 PM, Brisku’s Bistro, 4100 N. Kedzie, drinkerswithwritingproblems.com.

Miss Spoken A live-lit show R based on the theme “road trips” featuring stories from Jenn Sodini,

Galerie F “Social Justice,” a group exhibition featuring work that comments on political and social issues by street artists like Chema Skandal, Don’t Fret, Left Handed Wave, and Scout Pines.

Opening reception Fri 8/26, 6-10 PM. 8/26-9/18. Tue-Sun 11 AM-6 PM. 2381 N. Milwaukee, 773-819-9200, galerief.com.

Miishkook “Sweet Spoils,” Miishkooki Art Space debuts with a group show of vibrant and colorful work from artists including Joan Cornellá, Sean Norvet, and Brecht Vandenbroucke. Opening reception Fri 8/26, 7-10 PM. 8/26-10/1.

4517 Oakton, Skokie, miishkooki.com.

Roberta Miles, Shay Degrandis, and Amy Eaton. Wed 8/31, 7 PM, Gallery Cabaret, 2020 N. Oakley, 773-489-5471, facebook. com/missspokenchicago, $5 suggested donation.

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either to 60s activism or to the riskier street-based agitation of Black Lives Matter. —J.R. JONES 66 min. Filmmakers attend the screening, part of the Black Harvest Film Festival; for a full schedule visit siskelfilmcenter.org. Thu 9/1, 6:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Ben-Hur Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ was a publishing phenomenon in its day and a precursor to the Christian entertainment business that generates thundering multiplex devotionals like this one. It’s the fifth big-screen adaptation of the book, and though it seems unlikely to dislodge William Wyler’s 1959 version, its story of a Judean prince (Jack Huston) who keeps running into Jesus of Nazareth (Rodrigo Santoro) offers plenty of action and spectacle. Director Timur Bekmambetov (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) delivers a respectable chariot race at the climax, but his best action set piece is the sea battle in which a Roman warship, where the hero toils as a galley slave, is split apart by an enemy vessel. Huston and Bekmambetov have cited producer Roma Downey as the driving force behind the movie’s strong message of forgiveness; if the director

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The Chicago Moth Storyslam R The storytelling series presents a collection of tales about need, desire,

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Art Institute of Chicago “Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions,” a collection of drawings from the 17th to the mid-20th century

Girls) and Kathleen Rooney (Rose Metal Press). Thu 8/25, 6:30 PM, City Lit Books, 2523 N. Kedzie, 773-235-2523, citylitbooks.com.

Ladylike Carly Ballerini and R Sarah Sherman host female comedians and storytellers—including Melody

Kamali, Stephanie Weber, and Becca Brown—who share their most disgusting

Agents of Change Subtitled “Black Students and the Transformation of the American University,” this 2014 documentary traces the rise in black activism at American universities from 1957, when Little Rock High School was integrated, through 1969, when African-American students notoriously took up arms to occupy the student union building at Cornell. Though directors Frank Dawson and Abby Ginzberg collect some revealing testimony from former activists at Cornell and at San Francisco State University (including actor Danny Glover), the filmmakers never really deliver on their stated intention to connect the events of the 60s to today’s black student activism, except in the most cursory fashion. This works fine as a TV history lesson, but don’t expect any insight into the current agendas of college activists or how today’s well-protected campus protests relate

were in charge, Jesus would probably have hammered a stake through Herod’s heart. With Toby Kebbell, Morgan Freeman, and Pilou Asbaek (A Hijacking) as Pontius Pilate. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 125 min. Block 37, River East 21, 600 N. Michigan The Bride Adapted from Federico García Lorca’s play Blood Wedding, this impeccably tasteful bodice-ripper from Spain (2015) opens with a scene of three children lying together in the grass: a boy and a girl who adore each other, and another boy who’s the odd man out.

After a blood feud between the boys’ families erupts into multiple murders, the friends are separated and the heroine (Inma Cuesta) winds up marrying the wrong guy, but years later her true love, now a lanky hunk with flowing black hair (Álex García), comes back into her life. A stirring score ennobles the characters’ volcanic emotions, and the scenes of vicious knife play unfold W

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—J.R. JONES 96 min. Fri 8/26, 2 and 8 PM; Sat, 8/27, 5:45 PM; Sun 8/28, 5 PM; Mon 8/29, 8 PM; Tue 8/30, 6 and 8 PM; Wed 8/31, 8:15 PM; and Thu 9/1, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Die Before Blossom R Indonesia is a democratic republic with no state religion, yet

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this 2014 documentary, about two middle-class Muslim girls in the city of Yogyakarta, reveals how the country’s once-secular schools have become increasingly influenced by Islamic political parties. Director Ariani Djalal is careful with the topic, avoiding explicit judgment of the school system’s shifting regime and sticking closely to her subjects with an unadorned cinema verité style. The girls, who attend a public elementary school, seem like children in the West—they listen to pop music, worry about their final exams—though as Djalal conveys, the end of childhood is vastly different in Indonesia, where millions of young women are primed for submission and suppression under religious doctrine. What’s sad is that the documentary presents this outcome as not only inevitable but also generally acceptable. In Indonesian with subtitles. —LEAH PICKETT 89 min. Sat 8/27, 8 PM. Chicago Filmmakers

Hands of Stone In keeping with the recent vogue for political sports biopics (Race, 42), this drama about boxing legend Roberto Duran connects his popularity in his native Panama to the country’s renewed national spirit when the U.S. ceded control of the Panama Canal in 1977. But the movie’s best moments are all intimate, tracing the rocky friendships that Duran (Edgar Ramirez) forged with his longtime trainer and mentor, Ray Arcel (Robert De Niro), and his most notorious opponent in the ring, Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond). Like Mike Tyson, Duran grew up in dire poverty and, catapulted into fame and fortune, struggled to control his own erratic, self-destructive behavior—most notoriously, when he forfeited his welterweight title to Leonard in the eighth round of their 1980 rematch in New Orleans.

Jonathan Jakubowicz, directing his own script, focuses on Duran’s inner circle as they try to contain him, and on the fighter’s growing maturity as he begins to taste defeat. With Ellen Barkin, John Turturro, and Rubén Blades, quite good as Duran’s shiftless manager.

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Morris From America 14, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace ICON Men Go to Battle This 2015 debut feature from writer-director Zachary Treitz is a Civil War drama gone mumblecore. In small-town Kentucky in autumn 1861, two dim-witted brothers (David Maloney, Timothy Morton) struggle to hold on to their family’s estate in the face of diminishing labor and the coming winter. War exists on the periphery for them, in the form of overheard conversation or soldiers in the general store, but quickly comes to the fore after one brother impulsively joins the Union forces. As with other mumblecore projects, the plot is secondary to mood, naturalism, and the relationship between the two protagonists, but in this historical context that approach is more of a frustration than a virtue. With Rachel Korine.

—TAL ROSENBERG 98 min. Facets Cinematheque Morris From America Morris R is a 13-year-old black kid transplanted from New York to Heidelberg, Germany, where he struggles to learn the language, endures the racist jokes of his ignorant classmates, and yearns hopelessly for the love of a pale, blond heartbreaker two years ahead of him. As written by Chad Hartigan (This Is Martin Bonner) and played by young Markees Christmas, Morris ranks as one of the most indelible, endearing adolescents to hit the screen in a long time, a tough-minded philosopher gamely suffering the vicissitudes of loneliness and unrequited love. Craig Robinson, best known as a comic blowhard, brings great warmth and restraint to his dramatic role as Morris’s widowed father, who works hard to keep it real with the unhappy teen, but Christmas holds the movie together. With Carla Juri and Lina Keller. —J.R. JONES R, 91 min. Arclight

The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble In 2000 cellist Yo-Yo Ma formed the Silk

Road Ensemble, an international collective of 50 musicians that has since recorded seven albums and brought its eclectic performances—incorporating such disparate national instruments as the gaita (a Spanish bagpipe), pipa (a Chinese lute), and kamancheh (an Iranian bowed string instrument)—to approximately two million people in 33 countries. Director Morgan Neville (Best of Enemies, 20 Feet From Stardom) adeptly profiles Ma and four prominent members of the ensemble who inspire awe with their stories of defying various sociopolitical limitations. One might easily dismiss this musical journey as a feel-good exercise in “cultural tourism,” which Ma acknowledges as a valid criticism.

But what drives the narrative is the musicians’ mutual desire to forge meaningful connections across cultures, an affirmative answer to Leonard Bernstein’s question of whether music can truly serve as a “universal language.” —LEAH PICKETT PG-13, 96 min. Fri 8/26, 2 and 6 PM; Sat 8/27, 7:45 PM; Sun 8/28, 3 PM; Mon 8/29, 6 PM; Tue 8/30, 6 PM; Wed 8/31, 6 and 8 PM; and Thu 9/1, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

SPECIAL EVENTS It’s a Complex World In this low-budget oddity (1992), a nightclub owner tries to save his place from being shut down while his bands make phone calls to the afterlife and a folk singer-turned-terrorist plots an attack.

Jim Wolpaw directed. 81 min. Wed 8/31, 8 PM. Comfort Station Spirits of Rebellion: Black Film From UCLA Director Zeinabu Irene Davis provides an inside look at the teachers, students, and social-historical factors behind the LA Rebellion cinema movement that took place at UCLA in the 1960s and ’70s. 100 min. Davis attends the screening, part of the Black Harvest Film Festival; for a full schedule visit siskelfilmcenter.org. Sat 8/27, 3 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center v

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Rap, rock, country, and DJ sets are not ‘fine arts’ And therefore are not exempt from amusement taxes, according to a Cook County official

By LEE V. GAINES

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What a Croc!

HUMBLE CROCS, the lightweight, comfortable, aerated, slipresistant footwear became a fixture of what-not-to-wear lists after enjoying a moment in the sun around 2007. Still ridiculed by the general public, Mario Batali's favorite brand of foam-resin clogs are (for better or worse) being adopted and reinterpreted by young, fashion-forward folks such as Aya Koné (pictured left) and William “Woody” Tauke. If it's proof of anything, it's that just about any fad— love it or loathe it—will come back around if you wait long enough.

—ISA GIALLORENZO

t an administrative hearing on August 22, a Cook County official doubled down on a controversial position that the Reader first reported on last week: she explained to attorneys for two Chicago venues that live performances of rock, country, rap, and electronic music do not constitute “music” or “culture” by the county's standards.

This is more than a cultural debate, though, because these definitions affect which small Chicago venues are entitled to an exemption from the county’s 3 percent amusement tax on cover and ticket charges. Anita Richardson, a hearing officer appointed by the county's Department of Administrative Hearings, seemed to argue that only small venues that book chamber orchestras, symphony orchestras, or operas should be entitled to the tax break—those relying instead on “rap music, country music, and rock ’n’ roll” in addition to electronic music and DJ performances should have to pay.

“Rap music, country music, and rock ’n’ roll” do not fall under the purview of ‘fine art,’” she explained.

Attorneys for Beauty Bar and Evil Olive took issue with the hearing offi-

Mig Reyes, center, at the Merge party at Evil Olive in February 2010.

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cer’s position. (The county is going after those venues and several others, in each case attempting to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in amusement taxes dating back at least six years.) They said the shows at the establishments they represent are culturally valuable enough to warrant exemption from the tax.

County code stipulates that venues with a capacity of 750 or fewer are not subject to the tax as long as any cover charges or admission fees are for “in person, live theatrical, live musical or other live cultural performances.” A separate section of the code defines live music and live cultural performances as “any of the disciplines which are commonly regarded as part of the fine arts, such as live theater, music, opera, drama, comedy, ballet, modern or traditional dance, and book or poetry readings.”

Cook County commissioner John Fritchey says he hopes to gain support from colleagues on the Cook County Board to amend the county’s ordinance to reflect a city rule that includes amusement-tax exemptions for DJs and other live music at small venues.

Fritchey says the county’s language “harkens back to the days of the 1950s when rock ’n’ roll wasn’t considered

music.” He adds, “No pun intended, but I think the county is being tone deaf to recognize opera as a form of cultural art but not Skrillex.”

A Chicago native who frequented the city’s music venues in his youth, Fritchey says the county’s position doesn't take into account the state of music today or its evolution over time.

D u r i n g M o n d ay ’s p ro ce e d i n gs, Beauty Bar attorney Matt Ryan argued that the Department of Administrative Hearings “shouldn’t be in the business” of determining what is and what is not fine art. If it’s music, he said, it should be exempt.

“Your argument is honestly a stretch,” Richardson countered. “I’m going to be looking for some rather persuasive legal arguments that will persuade me . . . that all music falls within the category of any of the disciplines regarded as fine arts.”

Ryan and an attorney for Evil Olive, Sean Mulroney (who’s also a co-owner of Double Door), said that at a hearing scheduled for October 17 the two venues will present evidence, including live music and testimony from a musicologist, in an effort to budge the hearing officer from her opinion regarding the J cultural value of DJ performances.

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> Living News papers Festival A night of six ten-minute plays—including work by Ike Holter, Calamity West, and Pat Whalen—inspired by newspaper articles. Thu 8/25-Mon 8/29: 7:30 PM, the Frontier, 1106 W. Thorndale, jackalopetheatre. org/the-frontier, $10.

· Filmed by B ike Portland Design Works, Half Acre Cycling, and West Town Bikes present a night of short films about cycling.

Proceeds benefit West Town Bikes’ youth and community programs serving Chicago.

7:30 PM, Vittum Theater, 1012 N. Noble, westtownbikes.org/ youth-programs, $15-$100.

ò Bucktown Arts Fest This annual street fest, which supports arts education, boasts beer, food trucks, three stages of live music, more than 200 artists, and activities for kids. Sat 8/27Sun 8/28: 11 AM-7 PM, Holstein Park, 2200 N. Oakley, bucktownartsfest.com. F

& Hot D i ggity Do g Crown Liquors hosts a hot dog eating contest during which contestants have to eat as many hot dogs injected with ghost peppers as they can. The night also includes live music from Tens, At Zero, and Oscar Bait. 7 PM-midnight, Crown Liquors, 2821 N. Milwaukee, $10 to enter hot dog eating contest.

× Go od Beer Ki nd People This fund-raiser for Yollocalli Arts Reach features food, drink, live entertainment, and a raffle. 5:30-8:30 PM, Lagunitas Brewery, 1843 W. Washtenaw, yollocalli.org, $20, $15 in advance.

 Tenth Annual Canstruction Chicago Re ception This cocktail party honors the 16 teams of artists who created sculptures out of canned goods.

Proceeds benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

5:30-8 PM, Merchandise Mart, 222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, chicagosfoodbank.org/ canstruction, $50.

& Rockin’ Lo bster Bash Local chefs like Rick Bayless, Jared Wentworth, and Sarah Jordan create lobster dishes paired with specialty cocktails. 7-10 PM, Revel Fulton Market, 1215 W. Fulton, chicagolobsterbash. com, $75.

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The attorneys said the county is seeking approximately $200,000 from each venue for amusement taxes going back at least six years, a figure that includes interest and penalties.

Richardson said she would be “happy to hear your DJ witnesses” but insisted that the attorneys need to also supply expert musicologists to argue the definition of “fine art” and “further testify the music you are talking about falls within any disciplines considered fine art.”

Bruce Finkelman, a managing partner in 16" on Center, the development company that owns both Beauty Bar and the Empty Bottle, said that the county’s position on the tax essentially means that anytime he wants to book a show at either venue he’ll need to check with the government agency first to see whether the performance qualifies as “fine art.”

He said he’s never paid amusement taxes for either venue—not in the six years since Beauty Bar opened or in the 25-year history of the Empty Bottle.

The tax bill the county is trying to squeeze out of Beauty Bar, Finkelman said, “strangles everything we’re trying to achieve”—as would the levying of the amusement tax going forward.

Mulroney said that the small businesses can’t afford to pay the amusement tax at all, whether retroactively or in the future. The county’s motivation, in his view, is clear: “They’re broke.” He added that Beauty Bar and Evil Olive are obviously test cases—the county wants to see if it can wring any more tax revenue from the city’s live-music industry.

Fritchey shares Mulroney’s suspicions: he says every local and state government agency is looking to collect any enforceable debt due to budget constraints.

“Even if I am able to change the ordinance, there is still the issue of back taxes,” he says. Though he prefers not to publicly question the hearing officer’s judgment or interpretation of the code, he says the venues are not “tax deadbeats.”

He says the venues are making “a very compelling argument” that they’re exempt from this tax—and that this debate flies in the face of what the county ought to be doing. “I think we need things to incentivize musical talent and venues that present it,” Fritchey says, “rather than make life more difficult for them.” v

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ELECTION WATCH

The fraudulence of voter fraud

Governor Rauner used a disproven, even racist myth to veto an automatic voter registration bill.

By DERRICK CLIFTON

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n the months leading up to an election, many faithful CTA riders regularly encounter this sight at their stops: a volunteer clutching a clipboard, calling out to passengers on the platform, “Register to vote. Change your address.”

That could soon become a thing of the past, if the nationwide push for automatic voter registration ultimately wins out in Illinois. Thousands of voters would no longer need nudges from volunteers or election-related mailers to register or update their information. Under the new system, a trip to the DMV for a driver’s license, among other interactions with the state, would automatically enter eligible voters’ information unless they opted out.

That’s about as straightforward as it gets.

The change would allow millions of eligible but unregistered voters to participate with relative ease, and potentially save money while cleaning up the rolls and reducing the potential for fraud, according to a report from the Brennan Center for Justice.

But despite the state legislature’s sweeping approval of automatic voter registration in May, Governor Bruce Rauner recently vetoed the bill, noting his concerns about potential “voter fraud” and conflicts with federal election law. When lawmakers return to session in November, they’ll have the option of trying to override the veto.

Rauner claims he’s earnest about increasing voter participation. So why the additional hassle? Is it really about so-called voter

fraud—or do partisan politics threaten access to this basic civil right yet again?

First, let’s just get one thing straight: reports of voter fraud are greatly exaggerated.

Voter fraud is extremely rare. As Politifact notes, the News21 investigative project analyzed roughly 2,000 alleged cases of voter fraud since the 2000 elections. The project, which released its conclusions in 2012, found that “while voter fraud has occurred, the rate is infinitesimal, and in-person voter impersonation on Election Day, which prompted 37 state legislatures to enact or consider tougher voter ID laws, is virtually non-existent.”

Nationwide, News21 found only 150 alleged cases of double voting, 56 cases of noncitizens voting, and ten cases of voter impersonation.

Simply put, voter fraud isn’t a thing—despite the insistence from Rauner and others that it is.

There’s also a broader context that can’t be ignored.

In New Jersey, Trump supporter Governor Chris Christie vetoed yet another automatic voter registration bill in his state, with “voter fraud” as his rationale. A federal judge just ruled that voting laws in North Carolina— with strict photo ID requirements and cuts to early voting and same-day voter registration, among other restrictions—were enacted with the intent of suppressing black votes with “surgical precision.” GOP officials there also claimed the regulations helped prevent voter fraud. In July, a different federal appeals court struck down voter ID laws in Texas, where Re-

publican governor Greg Abbott likewise used claims of voter fraud as his scapegoat.

And as the Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month, Donald Trump told a primarily white rural crowd in Pennsylvania—in remarks with racial overtones—that such fraud could cheat him in “certain parts” of the state. He’s now launching an effort to recruit so-called election observers, asking supporters to help him “stop crooked Hillary from rigging this election.”

“We’re hiring a lot of people. We’re putting a lot of law enforcement—we’re going to watch Pennsylvania, go down to certain areas and watch and study,” Trump said, bemoaning the state’s recently struck-down voter identification laws. He also said it’s necessary to “make sure other people don’t come in and vote five times.”

It’s beginning to sound an awful lot like a return to yesteryear, back when America was supposedly “great,” as Trump claims. Now as then, concerns about so-called voter fraud are being used as a racist smokescreen to undermine or thwart the participation of black people. Immigrants and lower-income white voters were also targets at certain times.

Trump’s recruitment of “election observers” recalls the extrajudicial (and often violent) intimidation tactics used to target blacks in addition to laws that instituted literacy tests and poll taxes, all aimed at voter suppression.

In 2013, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which designated parts of the country that had traditionally barred blacks from voting as being required to report voting law changes to the federal government. Without the provision, there’s been a redoubled effort to pass restrictive voting laws or resist measures that would ease access to the ballot box—including automatic voter registration.

I won’t get into the murky territory of assessing Rauner’s intentions with the veto.

But without question, his action plays into the current iteration of a long-standing, racist trend to keep black and brown people (who consistently align with Democrats) from exercising their right to vote. Whether or not he recognizes that is anyone’s guess.

So far, roughly two dozen states are considering automatic voter registration laws, while four states—California, Vermont, Oregon, and West Virginia—have already made them legal.

It’d be a shame if a silly, racialized myth prevented Illinois from joining them soon. v

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TRANSPORTATION

Breaking down barriers in Bronzeville Ronnie Matthew Harris wants to eliminate obstacles to walking and biking in the Black Metropolis.

By JOHN GREENFIELD

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s we stood astride bicycles in the shadow of Alison Saar’s Monument to the Great Northern Migration last week, Bronzeville-based transportation advocate Ronnie Matthew Harris, 47, told me that community organizing is in his blood.

“Both sides of my family immigrated from the Deep South as part of the Great Migration, and landed here in the great mecca of Bronzeville,” Harris said, gazing at the 15-foottall bronze sculpture. “And as long as there has been a historic Bronzeville, you could find an organizer by the name of Harris.”

Harris is also passionate about improving conditions in the neighborhood where he was born and raised. As the leader of Go Bronzeville, a group that promotes sustainable transportation options in the community, he’d offered to take me on a neighborhood tour highlighting pedestrian and bike access issues he wants to fix.

“Data shows that a community that walks, bikes, and uses public transportation is a

community that is healthier, safer, and more economically viable,” he said. “Go Bronzeville wants to respond to some of the inequity in public policy and urban planning that sometimes contributes to disparities in health and wealth.”

Go Bronzeville started as an initiative of the Chicago Department of Transportation. After the program ended, Harris got CDOT’s blessing to continue running Go Bronzeville on a mostly volunteer basis. Nowadays the group hosts neighborhood bike rides, mans tables at community events, and, via a city contract, promotes the Divvy for Everyone program, which offers $5 bike-share memberships to low-income Chicagoans.

To start our tour of Bronzeville’s transportation infrastructure, we saddled up and began pedaling south in one of King Drive’s wide bike lanes, separated from the street’s three lanes of southbound traffic by a painted buffer.

In 2012, CDOT proposed installing physically protected bike lanes on King, but Third Ward alderman Patricia Dowell vetoed the

plan after local clergy expressed concerns that the protected lanes would interfere with church parking.

Although he’s a bike advocate, Harris said he believes Dowell made the right call. “The cultural norms are different here than on, say, the north side,” he said. “When it comes to urban planning, we don’t always keep that in mind.”

Still, Harris thinks attitudes in the neighborhood may have evolved since then. “Back then protected lanes were new in Chicago, and the perception was that none of us [African-Americans] are riding bikes, which isn’t true.”

But that wasn’t the main thing Harris wanted me to see. We rolled west on 29th Street to South Commons, a high-rise development just east of Michigan Avenue, to discuss a pedestrian access issue that’s very personal to him.

Harris spent much of his childhood two blocks west, at the Dearborn Homes public housing project at 29th and State. When he lived there, there was pedestrian and bike access along 29th all the way from the housing project to Lake Park Avenue, just east of Lake Shore Drive. It was thus possible to travel directly to Dunbar Park, a 20-acre green space southeast of South Commons, as well as to 31st Street Beach.

But this stretch of 29th Street has been privately held since the city vacated it in 1963.

And in the early 80s, Harris says, South Commons installed an iron fence with a locked gate along the east side of Michigan, blocking foot and bike traffic from the west.

“It was for reasons of public safety,” Harris said. “In the late 70s and early 80s, this community was so volatile,” he said. “On State Street between Cermak Road and 51st Street there were three different housing projects—the Harold Ickes Homes, the Dearborn Homes, and the Robert Taylor Homes—each with its own competing gang. Gang members from the Dearborn Homes couldn’t really go west to wreak havoc because of the Dan Ryan Expressway, and because the cultural norms were you didn’t go to Bridgeport.” (Which, at the time, was a mostly white neighborhood infamous among Chicago’s black population for its violent racism.)

Instead, Harris said, gang members from the Dearborn Homes would often head east on 29th to hang out in Dunbar Park, which meant passing through South Commons.

However, most of Bronzeville’s public housing was razed in the late 90s and 2000s as part of the Chicago Housing Authority’s so-called Plan for Transformation. The Dearborn Homes, which were newer buildings, were spared from implosion and rehabbed in-

stead—Harris says the housing development is now “beautiful” and relatively peaceful. As such, he argues that it’s high time public access was restored on 29th.

I asked Harris why Dearborn Homes residents and others who live west of South Commons can’t simply walk two blocks south and use 31st to get to the park. “Twenty-Ninth is a quieter route, and there’s all these cultural land mines involved with 31st,” he said, including the Illinois Institute of Technology campus. “I can’t tell you how many times colleagues of mine growing up were pulled over by the IIT cops.”

Harris hopes Go Bronzeville can work with South Commons, local aldermen, CDOT, and other authorities to permanently reopen the 29th Street passage. “The day has come for us to readjust our perspective on public safety, particularly when that perspective undermines public health,” he said.

Reached by phone this week, Cortney Cox, property manager for the building adjacent to the gate, said he wasn’t sure why the fence and gate were originally installed, but that it might be possible to open the gate and allow the public access to the property. This, he said, would require a formal proposal by Harris and/or others, a site visit with the advocates, and a vote by the condo board.

As Harris and I continued our tour, we pedaled south on Indiana Avenue past the park, then west on 31st, jogging up Michigan and 29th again to get around the South Commons fence. After a brief spin in a new curbprotected bike lane on 31st, we headed east to the lakefront.

We stopped to check out a parking lot located at the southwest corner of 31st and Lake Shore Drive. As I noted in a recent column, the Chicago Park District is planning to expand the lot in order to facilitate driving to the lakefront.

Standing in middle of the already vast expanse of asphalt, I recalled what Harris said on the phone earlier this month. “With all the other infrastructure and service improvements we’re looking at in the area, why this?” he’d said.

Hopefully Harris’s work to highlight the importance of walking, biking, and transit access in the neighborhood will lead residents and decision makers to rethink which transportation projects should be prioritized. v

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

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Visions of a U city without police Around Chicago grassroots groups are putting abolitionist ideas into practice.

By MAYA DUKMASOVA

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ntil that moment on Fox News, Jessica Disu hadn’t considered herself a police abolitionist. But on July 11, she was on national television, surrounded by 29 other people convened by Megyn Kelly to discuss the recent killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and several Dallas police officers.

“I was under the impression that it would be a robust and productive conversation, even though it was Fox News,” says 27-year-old Disu, who identifies herself as a “humanitarian rap artist and peace activist” and is involved with various organizations serving youth on the south side. She prepared her message before going on the show: “It should be against the law for an officer to shoot a ci-

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Disu was seated in the front row, wearing a green dress, black blazer, and gold hoop earrings, her braids pulled up in a bun. Next to her was Ron Hosko, a former assistant director of the FBI. Also present at the forum: several retired NYPD officers, a “conservative voter,” a black pastor from Baltimore active with Black Lives Matter, a black pastor from Los Angeles who said Black Lives Matter was “worse than the KKK,” a civil rights attorney, a civil rights movement leader, a white woman who referred to Newt Gingrich’s “beautifully” spoken comments on race relations, a black Trump supporter, a “Second Amendment advocate,” and several unidentified others.

The discussion quickly turned raucous, with panelists shouting over each other as Kelly called on participants to answer polemical questions in quick succession. Disu sat quietly, occasionally rolling her eyes, scoffing, laughing, or nodding in agreement. “A lot of my buttons were triggered and pressed,” she recalls. “This felt so comical to me—it felt like a minstrel show.”

But then people began accusing Black Lives Matter activists of calling for the death of cops, and Disu couldn’t hold her tongue “This is the reason our young people are hopeless in America,” she began, as other panelists bickered around her. She explained that her activism in Chicago focuses on intracommunity violence. “Here’s a solution,” Disu said firmly. “We need to abolish the police.”

“Abolish the police?” came Kelly’s incredulous response, as a clamor of boos and protests rose from the forum.

“Demilitarize the police, disarm the police,” Disu pushed on, undeterred by the yelling.

“We need to come up with community solutions for transformative justice.”

“Can we all agree that a loss of a life is tragic?” she asked the forum, attempting to explain her vision.

“Who’s gonna protect the community if we abolish the police?” Kelly asked, a this-mustbe-a-joke smile spreading across her face.

“The police in this country began as a slave patrol,” Disu managed to squeeze in before being engulfed by the noise.

The clips of Disu’s calls for police abolition have garnered more than 31 million views in the month since they were posted online and sparked a virulent backlash.

“I’ve never been called a nigger in my life, until this time,” Disu says. “I’ve been called a ‘stupid nigger’ by white people across this country, a lot of hate mail—everything short

Opposite: Mothers Against Senseless Killings serves dinner daily on an Englewood corner that was once a hotspot for violence. Above: Jessica Disu didn’t always consider herself a police abolitionist. Now, she says, “our police is not working—we need to replace it with something new.” o DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS

of death threats.”

Nevertheless, she stands by what she said.

In light of relentless police violence against black people, she says it’s clear that “our police is not working—we need to replace it with something new,” she says. “It’s more than a repair. We need something new.”

Now that she’s become an inadvertent national spokesperson for an idea she only recently began espousing, Disu says abolition has come to be the only way forward that makes sense to her.

“I’m sure when someone first said, ‘We have to abolish slavery,’ it was like, whoa, that’s the stupidest idea, we’re making all of this money off of free labor, and you’re saying abolish?

Like, that sounds ridiculous.”

But Disu isn’t alone in her embrace of the idea. Though Black Lives Matter and other groups have been vocally campaigning for police reform since 2014, the tone (and the banners) of demonstrations in Chicago this summer have become explicitly abolitionist.

On July 15, Assata’s Daughters, a black feminist group often described as a radical version of the Girl Scouts, led an #AbolitionChiNow march across Bronzeville. On July 20, the #LetUsBreathe Collective, formed in the

wake of Michael Brown’s death, launched an occupation of an empty lot across the street from CPD’s Homan Square facility in North Lawndale. The collective dubbed it “Freedom Square,” publicized it as an experiment in “imagining a world without police,” and called for the city to put its $1.4 billion police budget to other uses. Following the fatal police shooting of Paul O’Neal on July 28, young people made explicit calls for police abolition in front of CPD headquarters. And on August 7, several black teen girls organized a march for abolition that drew hundreds of supporters to the Loop.

It seems the city finds itself at the epicenter of a growing movement imagining and building a world without cops. And some grassroots groups, tired of waiting for top-down change from the very agencies they protest, have taken it upon themselves to start building the abolitionist society they want to live in.

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he idea of police abolition can’t be understood separately from the wider prison abolition movement, the intellectual seeds of which were sown by radical feminists in the 60s and 70s, including academic and early Black Panther Party member Angela Davis.

Davis was herself incarcerated for 16 months while on trial for allegedly aiding a violent 1970 takeover of a California courtroom that ended with the death of a judge. Davis was acquitted in 1972, and later joined the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in the 90s.

Then and there a new movement for prison abolition began to gain traction, led in large part by queer women of color. In 1998 Davis coined the term prison industrial complex—a nod to the concept of the military-industrial complex popularized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1961. “[The work of maintaining incarceration], which used to be the primary province of government, is now also performed by private corporations, whose links to government in the field of what is euphemistically called ‘corrections’ resonate dangerously with the military industrial complex,” Davis wrote in a famous 1998 article in the magazine Colorlines. “The prison industrial system materially and morally impoverishes its inhabitants and devours the social wealth needed to address the very problems that have led to spiraling numbers of prisoners.”

In 1997, Davis cofounded Critical Resistance, an organization that has since worked J

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continued from 11 to dismantle the prison industrial complex.

The group helped serve as a model for other abolitionist groups, including Incite!, founded in Santa Cruz in 2000 by radical feminists of color. These groups sought to bring attention to drug addiction, mental illness, and other social problems underlying mass incarceration through conferences and grassroots organizing. It has been gradual, painstaking work, they say, aimed at building community institutions whose presence they hope will one day make the police unnecessary.

Mariame Kaba came to Chicago for graduate school in 1995 and eventually joined the local chapter of Incite! Raised in New York in the 80s by her Guinean father and Senegalese mother, Kaba grew up in what she has called a “collectivist” and “black nationalist framework.”

In Chicago nearly all current efforts at police and prison abolition can be traced back to Kaba. Her students and those influenced by her work are leading many prominent organizations at the forefront of police protests, such as Black Youth Project 100, Black Lives Matter Chicago, and Assata’s Daughters. Her insistence that she isn’t central to the movement is as constant as her students’ attribution of her work as the inspiration for their own.

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“I remember hearing this word ‘abolition’ and thinking it sounded absurd,” says Page May, a cofounder of Assata’s Daughters who first learned about abolition at Kaba’s teach-ins. “But I would just go to everything that Mariame ran . . . everyone knew her and respected her, even if they didn’t agree with her politics. And you couldn’t work in the city around prisons or police without knowing her.”

Kaba summarized her views in a recent interview with the AirGo podcast: “For me prison abolition is two things: It’s the complete and utter dismantling of prison and policing and surveillance as they currently exist within our culture. And it’s also the building up of new ways of intersecting and new ways of relating with each other.”

When Kaba first arrived in Chicago, “there were no abolitionist organizations at that time in the city,” she says. But by the early 2000s, Incite! began to convene national conferences that brought together organizers and intellectuals—including Davis and many other movement mothers—to ponder putting abolitionist ideas into practice. Kaba also began working with young people involved with gangs and the criminal justice system in Rogers Park, and in 2009 founded Project Nia, a group dedicated to ending youth incarceration.

“I had this notion of trying to create an explicitly abolitionist organization that would test that idea in a community setting,” Kaba explains.

That’s because Kaba, who recently moved back to New York after more than 25 years in Chicago, insists that abolition is not about destruction and anarchy—it’s about building alternatives.

“You can’t just focus on what you don’t want, you have to focus also on what you do want,” she says. “The world you want to live in is also a positive project of creating new things.”

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or an example of one of these alternatives in action, look no further than the basement of a Rogers Park church. On a recent Wednesday night, 20 or so people—young, old, queer, straight, black, white, Latinx, Asian— are sitting in a circle. Strings of Christmas lights, paper lanterns, and candles give the room a yellow glow. And in the center of the circle there’s a cluster of “talking pieces”—a chunk of driftwood, a green foam Hulk fist, a paper flower—objects that have some powerful symbolic meaning for people in the group.

One is passed around continuously to designate the speaker of the moment.

For nearly three hours, the people assembled share stories of times they’ve been hurt and those of times they’ve hurt others: A thin, black teen recalls being made fun of by a neighbor for appearing weak; an aging white woman talks about feeling excluded from her daughter’s life now that she has moved out; a young white man expresses regret at having been rude to customer service reps on the phone; a tall, curvy black woman tears up as she discusses being objectified by men. The vibe is not unlike group therapy, only no one here is “the expert.” (The church asked not to be named because its meetings are already at capacity.)

This is a peace circle—a style of community meeting practiced by indigenous peoples around the world (including some Native Americans) for centuries. The practice draws on the abolitionist notion that premodern methods of conflict resolution provide valuable alternatives to today’s overreliance on police and prisons. The organizers argue that plenty of cultures successfully addressed harm and practiced nonviolent conflict resolution before the invention of policing in the 1800s.

This particular peace circle is a descendant of similar gatherings organized by Circles & Ciphers, a Project Nia leadership training and conflict resolution program for young men who’ve been in prison, jail, or a gang.

Circles & Ciphers members also run peace circles to mediate violent situations, such as fights and shootings, but attendance at those is reserved for those affected—victims and perpetrators, their families and friends, and anyone else who might be directly impacted by the incident.

Circles & Ciphers began in 2010 as a space for teen boys living in a state-funded group home in Rogers Park.

“This narrative was being circulated that [the] group home was this blight on the community,” says Ethan Ucker, a Circles & Ciphers cofounder. “The police were being called in spades and coming out to deal with issues that were happening in the house.”

But the voices of the boys living in the house, many of whom were also caught up in the juvenile justice system, were conspicuously missing from neighborhood conversations about them, Ucker says. With Kaba’s help, Ucker and fellow organizer Emmanuel Andre started monthly peace circles with the boys on the second floor of a Clark Street storefront. It was a safe space for them to discuss their conflicts with the community and with each other.

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“What we started to see was that the space helped guys to process things that were going on, improve their relationships among their peers, and also improve their relationships to some of the staff who manned the home,” Ucker says. “It doesn’t mean there weren’t conflicts; it just means there were other kinds of practices to address conflict when it came up.”

Eventually, the community pressured the state contractor to close the home. (A spokesperson for the group that ran it wouldn’t comment on the reasons for its closure, but said complaints against such facilities aren’t unusual.) Some of the boys ended up in prison.

However, some of the boys from the group went on to form their own peace circles, and today there are half a dozen or so held at schools, churches, and community centers around Rogers Park and elsewhere in the city.

Ucker and other volunteer facilitators also make themselves available to help resolve conflicts for neighbors and friends seeking alternatives to calling the cops.

“There’s another infrastructure here, there’s another system here,” Ucker says, contrasting peace circles to policing. “But it can respond just as effectively to harm.”

Some people call this approach “restorative justice,” where the desires of the people harmed are prioritized alongside accountability for those responsible.

Ucker illustrates the idea with an anecdote: “There was a robbery at this store in the community. One of the people at the store whose stuff was taken said, ‘Look, I don’t want to call the cops. Is there anything we can do? . . . They found on Facebook that this young person was selling their stuff, and that young person happened to go to a school where we’d done some circles, so I knew a teacher at the school and could say, ‘Hey, this is where we’re at.’”

Eventually, he says, robber and robbed were brought back together.

“That young person ended up returning what he had that hadn’t been sold, and then working at the shop in restitution for everything else,” Ucker says. “Then it turned out he really liked working there, and after this agreement was over, he continued to go there and volunteer.

There was a relationship built there.”

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ou may be thinking right about now: But what do I do if someone breaks into my house? Or if someone attacks me? How could peace circles possibly solve Chicago’s rampant gun violence problem?

Tamar Manasseh, left, has kept daily vigil at 75th and Stewart for more than a year.

Kaba says these kinds of skeptical questions are normal.

“The options when harm comes to you in this country are what?” she asks. “Call the police and get somebody from the outside involved in your process, or figure it out on your own. Doing nothing is not a good option for a lot of people . . . you shouldn’t have to choose between going to the state or doing nothing.”

Kaba and other abolitionists aren’t trying to talk people out of calling the cops in an emergency, she says. Instead, she asks communities to regularly gather and talk through alternatives to calling the police, even if they don’t yet exist.

She and other organizers also point out that abolition on a larger scale is visible all around if one knows what to look for. Kaba says individually most of us practice abolition regularly, every time we address a conflict without involving the police. In many places community-wide abolition is also in plain sight.

“People in Naperville are living abolition right now,” Kaba says. “The cops are not in their schools, they’re not on every street corner.”

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It’s a sunny Tuesday afternoon and Tamar Manasseh is setting up a barbecue like she does every day, across from a liquor store on the corner of 75th and Stewart in Englewood.

This intersection has been a hot spot of violence for years, and after another deadly shooting here last July, Manasseh decided it was time to intervene. For more than a year now she and a group of mothers have been carving out a small world without police, on what was once one of the most violent corners of the neighborhood.

“It’s about cop watching, it’s about people watching, but more than anything it’s about being seen, being a presence in the community,” Manasseh says of her daily barbecues.

Around 5 PM hot dogs are ready, and kids stream over and line up with paper plates. A group of men wait patiently until all the children have been served before approaching.

Seventy-five to 100 people come every day, “and they come in shifts,” Manasseh says.

Manasseh calls her organization Mothers Against Senseless Killings. And although there have consistently been between one and three shootings in the vicinity of the intersection every summer since 2010, according to data compiled by DNAinfo, neighborhood residents have noted a palpable easing of tensions on

the block, especially when the “army of moms” is around.

“Nobody wants to come through here shooting if they see 50 kids outside waiting to eat dinner,” Manasseh says. Her own 17-year-old son is there too, tossing beanbags with younger children. “People always say, ‘It’s not like it used to be around here.’”

Jermaine Kelly, 22, was born and raised on the block and has been coming out to help Manasseh with her cookouts since last year.

“Her presence definitely makes a big difference in our neighborhood—how we approach situations, how we approach each other,” he says. “Bad situations get diffused very easily.”

According to Kelly, even gang tensions have eased with Manasseh on patrol.

“We have our set of gangbangers here, but their opposition, their rival gangs, don’t even ride past when she’s here,” he says. “It brings us back to the question: Which is better, to be loved or to be feared? And right now love is winning,” Kelly says.

Over the last year Manasseh has devoted her life to this work, even quitting her day job as a real estate agent. MASK now has about 30 members and branches in Hyde Park and on Staten Island in New York. She doesn’t see herself as a police abolitionist per se, but J

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continued from 13 thinks of her work in the context of her Jewish faith.

“There’s this Jewish principle called tikkun olam: it’s repairing the world, and everybody has to do their part,” Manasseh explains. “This is my part.” Next year she’ll be ordained as a rabbi.

Like Kaba, she stresses the importance of relationships. “If you build community, the violence stops,” she says. “If you know your neighbors, you’re far less likely to shoot them or rob them.”

As a new song comes on her booming car stereo—and Manasseh yells for someone to skip it because it has lyrics inappropriate for kids—she recalls an unsettling recent event.

“We almost had an incident where a guy pulled a gun out here a few weeks ago. If we hadn’t been here that would have ended so

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badly,” she says. “We were able to diffuse the situation, no police had to come.” Instead, she explains, a group of men talked down the one with the gun.

“There were so many people committed to stopping it from happening,” she says.

According to Kelly, MASK’s presence in the neighborhood also eases some of the stress caused by the police. He says he has been stopped and frisked by officers many times, especially when he’s with a group of other black, male friends. Police ask about guns and drugs, he says, “until they unzip our book bags and see basketballs, gym shorts.” Normally on this corner, the cops “might jump out and harass us, search us,” he says. “But when [Manasseh’s] here, they just ride past.”

Just then a police SUV cruises by with the windows open, but the blond female officer at the wheel doesn’t turn her head toward the

corner or acknowledge Manasseh. “We’re just trying to stay out of each other’s way,” she says.

Manasseh is encouraged by other initiatives such as Freedom Square, but insists that to make a difference participants must be in it for the long haul. “Stay the course, that’s all I can say. Consistency is the key to change,” she says.

“You have to be more committed to changing things than everybody else is to keeping things the same. That’s what I’ve learned. Consistency is the absolute key to everything.”

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s calls to abolish police have intensified in Chicago, CPD and the Fraternal Order of Police (the officers’ union) have stayed mum on the matter, uninterested, it seems, in engaging in that particular conversation or trying to justify their institutional existence to this degree. When the

Reader tried to contact FOP president Dean Angelo Sr. for comment, his assistant laughed, saying, “I doubt he’ll want to comment on something so stupid.” Minutes later she called back to confirm that Angelo would not be speaking about the issue. The police department didn’t respond to requests for comment.

But an idea that still strikes many if not most in the mainstream as absurd is slowly gaining traction even within the world of criminal justice.

“The closer you get to it, and the more you work on it, the more you realize that the system is not fixable the way it is,” says attorney Alan Mills, executive director of the Uptown People’s Law Center, which has litigated civil rights lawsuits on behalf of Illinois prisoners for years.

Mills knows Kaba and says her work has been influential in legal circles; after much heated discussion, prison abolition was adopted as a platform of the National Lawyers Guild last year.

Some people may be put off by the word “abolition” itself, Mills says, but he argues that many social causes actually fall under its umbrella. He points out that abolitionists in Chicago have championed reinvestment in community mental health care, and were behind the creation of the Community Bond Fund, which collects donations for bail bonds for people in pretrial detention at the Cook County Jail. The initiative has been endorsed by the Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice and many legal aid groups.

“I think that you have to view it as a strategy and a goal rather than something that can be implemented tomorrow,” Mills says of abolition. “When I listen to the abolitionists, what I hear is that it is possible to build a world without prisons or policing.”

And, Mills adds, this world is closer than a distant sci-fi future.

“Germany and Norway have a different philosophy,” he says. “The reason people commit crimes is because they’ve become disconnected from social networks.” In the Norwegian model, “the role of prison is to rebuild those networks,” he says.

But Kaba warns that America will need much more than just a tweaking of the way prisons operate—the abolitionist project in the city and the country will require much farther-reaching social transformation in the way we think about crime, punishment, property, and how we relate to one another.

“Abolition is not about changing one thing,” she says. “It’s about changing everything, together.” v

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Trap House Chicago bridges streetwear and restorative justice Mashaun Hendricks’s for-profit clothing line is just one aspect of his activist efforts to address the city’s gun violence.

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ashaun Hendricks is only 30 years old, but he says that he’s “retired.” For the average 30-year-old, that professional status would be ridiculous, but Hendricks boasts an unusually extensive resumé: he’s been an economics teacher in Chicago, a restorative justice specialist at Chicago Public Schools, and a mentor for juvenile offenders. However, “none of that was really intentional” Hendricks says. “The

only intentional thing I’ve done is Trap House Chicago.”

Trap House is Hendricks’s brainchild, a graphic T-shirt brand that’s a synthesis of his love of streetwear and his zeal for community work and social justice. The first shirt design Trap House issued is stark red, with the words CrimE PAYS printed on the front in a bold white graffiti-style font. On the back of the shirt is a list of professions that “depend on crime to pay their salaries,” Hendricks J

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says, such as “police, lawyers, ambulances, judges, probation officers, and coroners.”

Last on the the list, bolded and underlined, is the phrase but not us. A percentage of the sales of the shirts, and of all Trap House Chicago clothing, goes to fund the organization’s nonprofit wing, TRAP (Teens Reaching All Potential), which seeks to address the root problems of poverty and violence through teaching the values of restorative justice.

“Our intention is to be cool as hell,” Hendricks says. “I want to see my young guys on the block with a CrimE PAYS T-shirt on and they surrounded by they homies and they all pointing at the shirt. They’re the educators now. The main goal of those CrimE PAYS T-shirts is to raise awareness of an invisible system—that awareness hopefully leads to an actual crime strike, which will lead to a crime drought in Chicago.”

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now lives in South Shore, attended Columbia College in the mid-2000s, originally to study marketing, but dropped out to start his first streetwear line, called YORS (Young Overcomes Reaching Success). With phrases like EVERY NIGHT IS LADIES NIGHT and I LOVE MYSELF printed on the front of the T-shirts, YORS was a brand explicitly for women, who are rarely engaged by mostly male streetwear designers and fans.

Hendricks abandoned YORS and the world of streetwear to make a transition into social and community work in 2010. He eventually discovered restorative justice, an approach that takes into account the victim and the community in addition to the offender, with the goals of fostering accountability and forgiveness. Hendricks describes it as “the way in which we value the lives and experiences of all people, specifically or especially people who have been marginalized, oppressed, and harmed—those who are at the bottom—and

not just those in lower-income communities: those are the kids, the teenagers, and people of low-income rural communities as well.”

The philosophy and practice of restorative justice encouraged Hendricks to teach a high school economics class at Banner South Academy High School in Jeffery Manor, where from 2010 to 2011 he conducted peace circles and engaged in open-ended dialogue with his students. He went on to serve as a mentor and restorative-justice specialist for the entire Chicago Public School system from 2014 until the end of this past school year—he helped implement restorative-justice practices and programs in all grades across the city.

But with all his work and success, Hendricks could still see the deep-seated problems of poverty and crime right in front of him.

“A few years ago I was in a mentoring program in Englewood, and a few of my young men were late, and I went to go get them, and they were in the neighborhood trap house, or

place where drugs are made, packaged, and distributed,” Hendricks says. “Standing outside that trap house that day I was thinking, How can I get them out and keep them out of the trap house? And the idea came to me to start Trap House Chicago.”

The streetwear industry rarely overlaps with the social-justice nonprofit field, but Hendricks’s vision was of just that: a forprofit streetwear brand that fed into a nonprofit focused on enacting restorative-justice programs. “The process of restorative justice is really how I found myself,” he says. “But my medium is T-shirts. It’s what I understand.”

As with many small entrepreneurs, Hendricks found it difficult to get both TRAP and Trap House Chicago off the ground. Normally nonprofits apply for various government and philanthropic grants, but he refused to submit to that process. “It doesn’t make sense to look for money from a system that sustains crime in order to create an orga-

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nization to prevent crime,” Hendricks says.

“Streetwear is where the attention goes. We want to be sustained through the community, the community that we serve. We want to model a for-profit business by intentionally circulating the wealth and information back into the community. In that way I’m kind of a camouflage educator.”

Hendricks was able to print and distribute a number of CrimE PAYS T-shirts on his own, but it wasn’t until he attended a restorative-justice seminar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago that Trap House really started to pick up steam. There he met Jaclyn Jacunski, a research associate and coordinator of the artist-in-residence program at SAIC, and had a conversation with her about his vision for TRAP, Trap House, and fashion as a tool for social transformation.

This chance meeting ended with Jacunski urging Hendricks to apply for a new monthlong artist-in-residence program at the SAIC

called the Tower Residency. Mashaun was admitted, and this past July he moved into a 700-square-foot room on the tenth floor of Nichols Tower in Homan Square, which temporarily served as his office and the Trap House Chicago store.

“That idea that art can link with intersections of activism to create new solutions for change—so we’re not always sitting on the same model of protest, which sometimes seems like the only mode of activism—is really exciting,” Jacunski says, “because he’s thinking of new models and more ways to express these ideas through art, fashion, and dialogue, and I think that’s where his work is a really standout project.”

The residency provided Hendricks with not only an office space and pop-up shop but media supplies and workshop spaces to make more shirts. He was given access to a classroom where he offered kids in the neighborhood a free fashion tutorial called YouBeYou Fashion Studios and initiated a restorative-justice program called Dope Dialogue. With these new facilities Hendricks was also able to release another T-shirt, one with the words MURDER MUST STOP printed above the left breast.

Instead of referring to new T-shirts as “collections,” as most streetwear and fashion brands do, Hendricks calls different Trap House lines “concepts,” because the shirts pose “ideas that need to be discussed,” he says. It’s not simply clothing, but “apparel for the campaign, for the movement.”

Trap House Chicago’s residency at Nichols Tower concluded at the end of July, and Hendricks no longer has the temporary office space and shop provided by SAIC. He’s currently looking for a brick-and-mortar venue to resettle the company and its accompanying nonprofit wing, this time for good. But Hendricks promises that wherever he ends up settling down, “that’s the space that will transform whatever community we land in, and every person that walks in through the door,” he says. “We want a CrimE PAYS shirt to be more impactful than a Nike swoosh.

I’m invested here in Chicago, and once we drastically decrease the amount of crime and poverty in the city of Chicago, then and only then would I think about going to other cities.

It only makes sense to start in my backyard, but this is an American issue.” v

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ast week a cacophony produced by the use of various hammers, saws, and drills echoed through the forthcoming Revival Food Hall on South Clark, where construction workers were finishing up preparations for the enormous upscale food court. But final touches were being made much more quietly in the southeast corner of the space: Curbside Splendor, the longtime independent press specializing in what it calls the “extraordinary voices” of the midwest, was getting ready to open its first storefront operation.

It’s more stable territory for a bookseller well-known for hawking its merch on folding tables at festivals like Pitchfork.

“This new space is important because independent literature is going through a major development right now, where there are a ton of very successful presses,” says Curbside’s editor in chief, Naomi Huffman. “As a group, we’re collectively producing some of the nation’s most important literature.”

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For Curbside, opening a physical location was an opportunity to expand its readership and engage with the broader demographics of downtown foot traffic. While the press’s team initially thought they would open a storefront in a familiar west-side neighborhood like Humboldt Park or Noble Square, Huffman says that the opportunity to participate in the Revival’s community was a “no-brainer.”

Accessibility is a recurring theme in the shop. Huffman notes that independent publishers like Curbside more accurately represent the wider public—there is more room for experimentation, genre hybridity, and identity exploration along the lines of sexuality and race, resulting in diverse voices typically ignored by big-box bookstores.

There are graphic novels and poetry chapbooks from lesser-known authors slotted between more traditional prose works. Though the north side of the store is exclusively

Curbside-issued material, the south end is filled with items from other smaller presses such as Drag City and Rescue Press. The outlet also offers independently produced records from Chicago-based labels like Grand Jury, a testament to Curbside’s “deep roots in music.”

These homegrown sensibilities extend to Curbside’s relationship with its new neighbors. “Like the restaurants here, we are a sampling of what Chicago has to offer,” Huffman explains. “It makes sense that we are here.”

And since many people enjoy having a beer while they read, Huffman hopes that the storefront will be a natural companion to the restaurants’ happy-hour specials. She also looks forward to hosting author talks in the space, though as of now none are scheduled.

The shelves are still filling up, but the pots of air plants and vintage tchotchkes speak to how Curbside’s staff is making this shop a home. Rows of vinyl LPs wait for fingers to sift through them. It’s a captivating opening to the publisher’s latest chapter. v CURBSIDE BOOKS AND RECORDS Revival Food Hall, MonFri 7 AM-7 PM, 125 S. Clark, 773-999-9411, revivalfoodhall.com/vendors/curbside-books-records.

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WHEN I SAW T.J. Miller perform this past January, he was joined by his longtime sketch group, Heavyweights. But what Miller did can’t really be described as “sketch comedy.”

In a solo scene he remained silent, using only a clown horn to communicate with an unsuspecting audience member whom he brought onstage. He proceeded to silently act out a first date with this person while using a pair of skeleton hands as his real hands (he later tried the same bit on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert). If it sounds strange and uncomfortable, well, it was. But it was also hilarious.

These bits, as well as some outrageous personal stories, are vehicles for Miller to welcome people into his absurd mind, all while maintaining a delicate balance between making them laugh and making them cringe.

This approach isn’t restricted to the stage— he adopts it for his role on HBO’s Silicon Valley, in talk-show appearances, and even on his professional website. After one clicks through a list of tour dates on the site (normal), a page pops up where he and his wife, Kate Miller—who’s joining him onstage on his current stand-up tour—are hawking bottles of “discerning smells” for $90 a pop (strange). Lord help whoever spent the cash to find out if a scent called Warm Urine is actually just a bottle of warm urine.

Miller’s current touring show is called “Meticulously Ridiculous,” an apt description for what he does. Whether he’s performing an explosive bit or telling a story about being on the set of Yogi Bear, everything he does feels carefully planned to deliver the most bizarre and entertaining end result possible.

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n the last two years, stories of possible wrongful convictions have taken the true-crime genre by storm. To the Serial podcast and Netflix’s Making a Murderer, we can now add MTV’s Unlocking the Truth.

“It could happen to anyone” says Ryan Ferguson in the opening scenes of the show, as he explains his own story. When Ferguson was 19, he was convicted of murdering a newspaper editor in his hometown of Columbia, Missouri, and sentenced to 40 years in prison. After his case got picked up by Chicago-based attorney Kathleen Zellner—who has successfully litigated exonerations for 17 men and now represents Steven Avery of Making a Murderer—attorneys found that evidence against Ferguson was obtained through coerced false confessions by local police and prosecutors.

Ferguson spent ten years in prison before being exonerated in 2013.

Last year, a documentary film about Ferguson’s case caught the attention of MTV producers.

“I thought, what a great way to tackle this [issue]—with someone who had been through it,” says Adam Kassen, one of the series’ executive producers.

Ferguson’s case is presented as a backdrop in the show. Now that his name’s been cleared, he’s decided to help others in similar situations. Early in the first episode he joins forces with Eva Nagao of the Chicago-based Exoneration Project to investigate three other cases of possible wrongful convictions.

The cases are those of Michael Politte, accused of killing his own mother in Missouri and setting her body on fire when he was 14; Kalvin Michael Smith, accused of beating a pregnant woman nearly to death in North Carolina when he was 26; and Byron Case, who was accused of killing a female friend at the age of 19, also in Missouri.

Since MTV is a youth-oriented channel, “they wanted to look at cases where arrests happened when people were younger,” Kassen says.

Nagao says she was at first hesitant to bring the sensitive work of investigating possible wrongful convictions into a reality TV framework. “The cost-benefit analysis to doing a true-crime show is whether your work is possibly going to expose issues that are going to benefit the greater community,” she says. She doubted that “a crew could really capture this slice of life in a real and responsible way.”

Ultimately, though, Nagao says she’s “ecstatic” about how the show turned out, and is hopeful that it will draw wider attention to the problem of wrongful convictions. Between 3 and 5 percent of U.S. prisoners are estimated to be innocent, which translates to an estimated 60,000 people currently serving time for crimes they didn’t commit.

“We’re in a moment right now that the national consciousness is receptive to ideas around reform of the criminal justice system,” Nagao says. “Innocent people are going to prison; if we can show that with sympathetic characters like Ryan, then we can take [the message] a step further.”

But it’s impossible not to notice that the sympathetic characters, and the faces of false conviction in this series, are overwhelmingly those of white men. Aside from Ferguson, two of the cases center on white men (Politte and Case). The third (Smith) highlights the conviction of a black man.

According to the Sentencing Project, 38 percent of state prisoners are black and 35 percent are white. However, incarceration rates among African-Americans are five to ten times greater than among whites in every state. In addition, the Exoneration Project receives an average of 250 letters from prisoners pleading their innocence per month, and of the cases the group follows up with, “it’s overwhelmingly black defendants, overwhelmingly black men,” Nagao says.

So why didn’t those numbers translate into the show?

When it comes to producing a television show, the resources needed to film a prisoner and bring their families and legal teams on board are immense, Nagao explains. And for the show, the strongest cases had families and lawyers already actively working to prove the prisoner’s innocence.

“The common thread between [the cases profiled] is they have a lot of people working to get it onto a show and get more attention, and you need resources to do that,” says Nagao. “And any time you need resources you’re gonna see white privilege play out.”

Producers also needed connections in a state’s criminal justice system to jump through the hoops necessary for filming inmates.

“We had an easy in in Missouri, because Ryan is well-known there,” Nagao says. (Ferguson served time in the same prison and cell block as Politte.) She also points out that all three cases profiled on the show had the active backing of innocence projects such as her own.

They also chose high-profile cases that would be feasible to investigate with the support of existing innocence projects in a fivemonth production time frame, Kassen adds.

He defends the balance the show struck: “These are issues that affect us all,” he says. “It can happen in middle-class white communities, it can happen all over the place.”

Still, giving the network the benefit of the doubt, it feels as though MTV followed the path of least resistance in choosing these cases. One wonders whether giving more exposure to prisoners whose cases were already being championed was the best use of the network’s reach and resources.

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the program promises to be an interesting showcase of the work of exoneration-focused groups. The misconduct highlighted in the first two episodes alone is jarring—witness testimony is ignored, evidence is lost or not collected at all, obvious suspects are overlooked, confessions are coerced. Perhaps it’s nothing new, but it is a reminder that the machinery of the criminal justice system around the country is often morally and procedurally compromised, no matter the defendant’s race. v UNLOCKING THE TRUTH Wednesdays at 10 PM on MTV

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lenty of couples banter, woo, and fall in love in Chicago, despite the vast majority of American films locating romance elsewhere (most often in New York). But in dramatizing the first date of Barack and Michelle Obama in the summer of 1989, when they were colleagues at a Loop law firm, writer-director Richard Tanne returned to the city where the couple met and, three years later, married. Shot over 15 days last summer, Southside With You showcases a city as photogenic, dynamic, and charming as the lovers themselves.

Wisely, Tanne focuses narrowly on their date, piecing together his narrative from the president’s two memoirs, Dreams of My Father (1995) and The Audacity of Hope (2006), and from various interviews. In a 2012 presidential campaign video, the First Lady describes the couple’s first romantic outing as a kind of revelation: “He was showing me all facets of his character. . . . He was hip, cutting-edge, cultural, sensitive . . . ” Standing beside her, the president smiles and quips, “Take notes, gentlemen.” Clearly Tanne did, ssss EXCELLENT

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For the two lovers, Chicago is more than a collection of places—it’s a community, which makes the film more resonant than your average romantic walk-and-talk. Tanne opens with an appealing tableau, scored to Janet Jackson’s “Miss You Much,” that also serves as a civic statement: black families and friends enjoy each other’s company on a sweltering day in South Shore. Unlike the mass-media narrative of the south side as a gang-ridden hellhole, Southside With You radiates love, connection, and positivity. Children ride their bikes up and down the street and chase each other through sprinklers. Teenage girls eat popsicles; an older couple play cards on their front lawn. And in a sun-soaked apartment on

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Euclid Avenue, Michelle Robinson, a young attorney who lives with her inquisitive and adoring parents, prepares to meet a colleague from her law firm, who lives in nearby Hyde Park, for a casual outing that she insists is “not a date.”

Tanne takes an evenhanded yet still flattering approach to the characters; they seem like any educated and ambitious young professionals bonding over art and culture in a city that prizes both. Barack (Parker Sawyers) has completed his first year at Harvard Law School and been named a summer associate at the Loop law firm Sidley Austin; Michelle (Tika Sumpter) is a first-year associate, recently graduated from Harvard Law herself, and Obama’s adviser. Initially she balks at the idea of dating a rumored “hotshot” who is not only her subordinate but also one of the few other people of color employed by the firm. But about a month into their working relationship, he suggests that they “spend the day together,” and based on that wording, she agrees.

Nonetheless she wonders aloud what they have in common. Barack’s response is jocular yet sincere: “We both love Chicago.”

Constrained by a tight budget, Tanne takes some artistic liberties with exact locations.

The Chicago Cultural Center stands in for the Art Institute, and the couple lunch in Douglas Park instead of the museum courtyard. In one touching, if fictional, scene, Barack looks on as Michelle joins a group of black drummers and dancers in the park, their figures mirroring those in Ernie Barnes’s painting The Sugar Shack, which they discussed earlier at the exhibit. At sunset they walk along the lakeshore, not Michigan Avenue, probably because the Magnificent Mile has changed so much since 1989. North-siders will recognize the movie theater as the Music Box, though the couple probably went to the old Hyde Park 1 & 2 (now the Harper Theater). Their fabled first kiss outside a Baskin-Robbins occurs not at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd (the spot has been marked with a commemorative plaque since 2012) but at 53rd and Woodlawn, where the film crew turned a Harold’s Chicken Shack into a Baskin-Robbins for the nighttime scene.

Tanne also resorts to dramatic license in creating and then resolving a conflict between the two lawyers. Sawyer’s Barack is an imper-

fect character: he smokes, which does not go unnoticed by Michelle, and his dilapidated car has a rusted-out hole in the floor. While walking through the park, he passes judgment first on his late father, describing him as an unreachable alcoholic, and then on Michelle, questioning her practice of corporate law when her true passion lies in helping underprivileged women. She calls him a hypocrite, and he apologizes. But what really turns their date around is a visit to the Altgeld Gardens housing project, where Barack previously worked as a community organizer. At a nearby church, Barack, hoping to impress Michelle with his rhetorical prowess, gives a not-soimpromptu speech for the residents, who remember him fondly.

As Tanne has admitted in interviews, this visit may have occurred later in the couple’s relationship, yet Barack’s rousing address to the residents, who are frustrated by the City Council’s resistance to building them a community center, foreshadows his later political rise. Barack encourages them to stay positive—they already have some funding they can use as leverage—and to let go of judgment (a “friend” taught him that, he says). He invokes Harold Washington and ends his speech with a glimmer of his 2008 campaign slogan, Yes We Can. “When they say ‘no,’ ” he declares, “We say, ‘carry on!’ ” During an invented scene at the dimly lit Water Hole Lounge, Michelle asks Barack why he came to Chicago in the first place. “To make a difference,” he replies. “Politics?” she nudges. Barack considers: “Maybe.”

Chicago may not be a character in the film, the way New York City is in the movies of Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Nora Ephron. But Southside With You generates as much warmth for its setting as for its characters. In another poignant scene, Barack and Michelle pass a hallway in Altgeld Gardens whose yellow brick is inscribed with the names of people lost to gun violence. This makeshift memorial, Tanne understands, is just as integral to Chicago as the lakefront, the museums and movie theaters, and the Hyde Park curb where the future First Couple shared their first kiss over chocolate ice cream. In portraying two of the city’s most famous inhabitants, Southside With You offers a shining and prismatic view of Chicago as well. v SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU sss Directed by Richard Tanne. PG-13, 81 min.

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Horseback, Dead Ringers I fell for Horseback when I heard the hypnotizing high-desert bad trip of 2009’s Invisible Mountain. The new Dead Ringers uses the same arid drones and obsessively repetitive rhythms, which create the sense of traversing unimaginable distances, but it replaces post-black metal fuzz with throbbing synthetic bass, twinkling keys, and blowing ribbons of glassy psychedelic ambience. Mastermind Jenks Miller drapes twangy, bristling guitar over everything, and the gurgling growl of his vocals on Invisible Mountain has mellowed into lazy, drawled singing, near whispers, and spoken incantations. You’re still crossing a barren, fantastical landscape, but not by trudging in the deranging sun—you’re gliding in the cool glass capsule of a monorail.

The Trap Set podcast Joe Wong, a frustrated drummer who’s been podcasting since January 2015, chooses interviewees from diverse backgrounds—legendary session players and iconoclasts alike—to share their wide range of musical experiences. Their discussions are neither overtly technical nor intrusively personal (anymore), and my fave episodes include those with Hamid Drake, Tony Allen, Bernard Purdie, Sara Lund, George Hurley, Clyde Stubblefield, Steve Gadd, Sheila E., Mario Rubalcaba, and Milford Graves.

Josh Berman Trio, A Dance and a Hop Fun as it’d be to pick something wildly obscure, counterintuitively mainstream, or out of left field (noting, perhaps, that CTA turnstiles play the first two notes of Thelonious Monk’s “Bemsha Swing”), I want to blow my whole load on the the Chicago jazz/free/out/etc scene. Why hype a YouTube video when I can hip you, dear reader, to recent albums by the giants who walk among us? Josh Berman’s newest record epitomizes one strategy in this arena. Squint and you might see a chill trio playing short, swinging inventions that could charm a cocktail hour. But take a full view and you’ll discover brilliant experimenters burrowing deep into Berman’s subtly knotty tunes.

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Jon Mueller, “What I Thought You Said” This track from the 2016 album Tongues has it all: chanting, noise, menacing whispered vocals, meditative drum patterns, an inscrutable title, and a run time of nearly 20 minutes. Jon Mueller’s solo work under the Rhythmplex umbrella is complex and cryptic, allowing you to get impossibly lost inside your own head— where sometimes it’s safe and sometimes it’s not. Fortunately, Mueller lives in Milwaukee and visits Chicago frequently—most recently on his tour with Sumac. RIYL being in a trance.

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ON HIS GORGEOUS NEW ALBUM Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (Dead Oceans) Ryley Walker moves deeper into his own sound, capturing something of the powerful metamorphosis that accompanies his electric performances. Artists like John Martyn and Tim Hardin remain his touchstones, but the Rockford native has pushed his cosmic, probing psych-folk into the present, with elliptical lyrics that match the simmering curiosity of his instrumental explorations. The new record was made with multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach, and if I have one issue it’s that the sound they conjure tempers what Walker and his excellent band—particularly guitarist Brian Sulpizio, keyboardist Ben Boye, and bassist Anton Hatwich—achieve live. Onstage his elastic songs are stretched and reshaped by increasingly adventurous improvisation, but here most of them keep their cool. (Of course, if the band presented the

live manifestations of the record’s eight songs there would only be room for half of them.) Imbued with new coloration and emotional gradations, Walker’s singing makes another huge leap as he explores his own elusiveness on a track like the remarkable “Funny Thing She Said to Me.” That stunning ballad has the same kind of slow-motion impact as Richard Thompson’s “Calvary Cross,” as Walker’s narrator gets dressed down by a lover who can’t resist his charms but also knows he’s unreliable. Sulpizio’s exploratory lines and the elegant chords traced by Boye and Hatwich feel like they could cycle for an eternity without ever becoming tired. Golden Sings is another knockout of fluid and exquisite arrangements, but the scary part for me is that Walker hasn’t come close to hitting his artistic ceiling—it’s as if his transformation has been mapped with stop-motion animation. —PETER MARGASAK

For a while it was possible to describe the duo Coppice’s often indescribable music simply by identifying their many instruments, particularly the harmonium and accordion wielded by Joseph Kramer and Noé Cuéllar. But the notion of renewal is built right into their name: the word “coppice” refers to the practice of pruning a tree to promote new growth. The two are in the process of discarding old methods and tools in order to better represent themselves in terms of connections—between sound and visual art, between artist and audience, between the tools themselves. In an interview for Never Nervous they explain, “First we choose and prepare the instruments and technology, then we find the music relationships between them and each other’s techniques in performance.” So don’t go to this weekend’s Turning Concert performances expecting to hear squeeze-boxes. The soundtrack for the YouTube video promoting the event comprises sparse synthesized beats and the fragmented chatter of audio technicians—though there’s no guarantee that’s what you’ll hear in concert. Kramer and Cuéllar will be joined by modular synthesizer player Peter Speer, visual artist Phil Peters, and on Saturday only, veteran sound artist Lou Mallozzi.

—BILL MEYER

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a stretch, and before I listened to the recent Alien Flower Sutra (International Anthem) I had trouble imagining what the pair would come up with. But the results are both warmly familiar and hauntingly otherworldly. Mazurek initially envisioned an opera and provided Kelly—known best for leading the Cairo Gang and serving as a key foil to Will Oldham in Bonnie “Prince” Billy—with a set of largely amorphous, often strident electronic soundscapes peppered with distinctive instrumental flourishes like the grainy rabeca scrapes provided by Thomas Rohrer on “Android Love Cry.” Kelly responded with a series of loose sketches for voice and guitar he made at home in LA, and rather than transplant those musical ideas and texts as compositional elements and libretto, Mazurek, experimenting in a São Paolo studio, ended up grafting the raw recording to the work, weaving passages of crushing humanity and tenderness into a stark, harrowing landscape of static, white noise, squelches, low-end pulses, cornet flurries, and brittle guitar chords. It’s a stunning piece of work that finds both Mazurek and Kelly exploring new territory, and I suspect the creative stretching will be even greater during the duo’s few live performances. —PETER MARGASAK Baltimore has long been a breeding ground for bands that scribble well outside the lines, and the city’s instrumental art-rock scene, for one, remains alive and well, thanks in part to Faust devotees

Horse Lords. Their new Interventions (Northern Spy) is a doozy, with looping riffs that devolve into looping riffs ad infinitum, all the while poked at by saxophone skronk and off-kilter rhythms from percussive-doodad rhythms. Their live shows feature a sort of ever-morphing decor as throughout a set, sax player/drummer/composer Andrew Bernstein, for instance, shuffles around and through the band’s maze of instruments, occasionally reaching into thin air around the corner of a floor tom to reveal a pair of maracas. It’s a hypnotic process to watch, because though Interventions is a knotted, out-there record, Horse Lords never break stride.

The saga “Toward the Omega Point” demonstrates the engaging and mesmerizing power of repetition—even the track’s subtle tweaks in tone feel like part of a bizarre chant—but it’s the challenging, noise-driven “Intervention” series that makes the album feel whole. —KEVIN WARWICK

Outset 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+ This young Chicago quartet make plain how the once radical ideas put forth six decades ago by Ornette Coleman have been embraced by the jazz mainstream. Led by saxophonist Dan Meinhardt, Outset employ the same instrumentation as Coleman’s classic pianoless quartet, embracing less rig-

orous harmonic restrictions as an avenue for easy repartee. Meinhardt’s tunes cover plenty of turf: classic hard bop, New Orleans polyphony, driving funk. The leader possesses an impressive rapport with trumpeter Justin Copeland—the most rewarding parts of the quartet’s new eponymous debut for Ears & Eyes are when the horns navigate themes together, either tracing tart unison lines or trading phrases with preternatural anticipation. The rhythm section provides energy and bounce, though sometimes the production delivers too much of it; bassist Tim Ipsen’s springy, amplified tone sullies his instrument’s natural resonance, while the superboomy miking and mixing of Andrew Green’s drumming convey a misplaced rocklike feel. Here’s hoping that tonight’s show, which celebrates the release of the new record, will feature a flatter, more instinctive sound. —PETER MARGASAK

SATURDAY27 Coppice See Friday. 8 PM, Silent Funny, 4106 W. Chicago, $10. b Mars Red Sky Dead Feathers, Bionic Cavemen, and Fever Feel open. 8 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint, 2105 S. State, $12, $10 in advance.

Does it make sense to call a doom band “twee”?

Well, everything’s relative when it comes to taste, and to my ears, Mars Red Sky are twee—in this context, I don’t even mean it as a pejorative. On their third full-length, Apex III (Praise for the Burning Soul), released in March by Listenable Records, this stoner-metal trio from Bordeaux, France, load their swirling psychedelic grooves with playful contrasts—you could consider it a reminder that drug experiences are supposed to be fun. The rhythms combine light-footed swing with bludgeoning stomps, while the riffs adorn their volcanic drones with baroque flourishes of spangled, gleaming guitar effects. The reedy, slightly nasal singing carries melodies that often feel as whimsical as anything the Beatles did at their most indulgent, albeit generally a bit campier and spookier (and I doubt these guys have ever worn candy-colored marching-band uniforms). The vocal harmonies can sound downright sunny, and when the guitars are doing their best impression of a coal-slurry flood, this makes for a pleasantly goofy (and sometimes thrillingly odd) juxtaposition. In “Under the Hood” a shuffling hi-hat lends a jaunty bustle to a growling biker-badass riff, while the catchy vocal hook feels bittersweet and faraway. The bumping verses of “Friendly Fire,” which tick-tock in nursery-rhyme triple time, bloom into beautiful, soaring choruses slathered in buzzing, kaleidoscopic distortion. I’m not sure what the hell these guys think they’re doing, but I’m not complaining. —PHILIP MONTORO

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When guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel dropped his 2003 album Heartcore—a collaboration with Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest—I remember being unimpressed, so I was surprised when Jeff Parker expressed admiration for it. Himself a guitarist, Parker has long tinkered at home with the sort of electronic beats and samples that fill Rosen- J

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winkel’s fluid, chill effort, but by and large he kept the experiments to himself. He finally started sharing earlier this year with the release of New Breed (International Anthem), the first record he’s made with a group of Los Angeles musicians since moving there from Chicago a few years ago. Despite their similar general methodology, it actually doesn’t sound anything like Rosenwinkel’s effort.

Parker’s music is raw and off-center, delivering a consistent tension between looped beats and electronic patterns and the lax grooves sculpted by his limber band: drummer Jamire Williams, bassist Paul Bryan, and saxophonist and fellow Chicago expat Josh Johnson. As usual, Parker’s lovely melodies are quietly insinuating, snaking into the memory with beguiling ease while generating a rhythmic and harmonic friction that keeps things taut and surprising. The band embraces various strains of dissonance—the descending melodic shapes in “Here Comes Ezra” collide in a sudden surge of disparate lines, while the patient line in “Visions” seems perpetually on the verge of becoming disconnected from the dragging groove. For its Chicago debut the group will be joined by local reedist Dustin Laurenzi and Parker’s teenage daughter, Ruby, who delivers the melody of “Cliché” with impressive confidence. —PETER MARGASAK

Rich the Kid, Famous Dex Rich the Kid headlines; Famous Dex, Karma, Jams, Warhol.SS, Kidd Kota, Curtee, and Supa Bwe open. 6 PM, Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee, $25. 17+ Atlanta rapper Rich the Kid celebrated Independence Day with the release of Rich Forever II, a solo mixtape in name but a collaboration in spirit. Seven of the 11 tracks feature Chicago rapper Famous Dex, who in March became the first artist to sign to Rich

the Kid’s label Rich Forever Music and who, frankly, outshines Rich the Kid on his own mixtape. To start off, one of the better tracks is a warmed-over remix of Famous Dex’s sinister underground hit “2 Times,” the new version featuring an unnecessary appearance by Wiz Khalifa. That’s not to underestimate Rich the Kid’s strengths—he’s the straight man in this partnership, his forceful flow giving Dex something sturdy to play off of. But I can’t fault anyone who’s taken by Dex’s slurpy delivery, seesawing flow, and blunt yet illustrative lyricism. It’s very easy to feel like something’s missing when Dex cycles out so Jaden Smith can get some bars in on “Like This.”

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This Norwegian quintet have never played coy about their key influence, naming themselves after a lesser-known Ornette Coleman album from 1970.

Still, the presence of a pianist (Coleman almost never worked with keyboardists) is just one measure of the combo’s determination to forge their own sound. As heard on the terrific 2015 album Hymn for a Hungry Nation (Clean Feed), the group’s themes reflect the Coleman influence most explicitly in their ebullient mood and dancing energy, but once the improvisational element kicks in, Friends & Neighbors project a more modern identity. The ballad-like “Bølehøgda” mirrors the sort of grandiloquent gestures embedded in the music of Atomic—a Scandinavian quintet that’s another clear influence— while the muscular playing of Thomas Johansson (a recent visitor to town as a member of the excellent quartet Cortex) bursts through temporal barriers with angular shapes that are thoroughly contemporary. —PETER MARGASAK

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8:30 PM, 1st Ward, 2033 W. North, $12, $10 in advance. 18+ Punk rocker turned honky-tonker Austin Lucas opens his latest album, Between the Moon & the Midwest (Last Chance), with a familiar traditionalist lament, bemoaning how Music City has no time for his brand of heartbreak-rich twang: “Everyone in Nashville’s deaf / And sad songs are a thing of the past.” Indeed, New West Records, which released 2013’s Stay Reckless, passed on the latest effort from the native of Bloomington, Indiana—he says they claimed there were no apparent singles on it. What ended up getting released stands as

Lucas’s most assured work yet, as once he finishes fulminating at the music biz, he moves into a kind of suite of songs about a love triangle in a rural town. Lucas himself is reflected in both male characters—one wants to be creative and free, and the other yearns for a traditional home life. Those two characters also happen to be best pals, so the friction of jealousy, unfulfilled desires, and infidelity provides plenty of grist. The desperation grows as the songs pivot perspectives, but Lucas maintains an impressive control of his nasal delivery, all the while embracing the flanged guitar sound of vintage Waylon Jennings while toggling between hardcore honky-tonk (“The Flame”) and breathless wanderlust that recalls early Richard Buckner (“Kristie Rae”). —PETER MARGASAK

WEDNESDAY31 Lil Yachty 7:30 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, sold out. b With his second mixtape, July’s Summer Songs 2, Atlanta rapper Miles McCollum (aka Lil Yachty), self-proclaimed “King of Teens,” helped rewrite the definition of “mixtape,” which until recently had denoted hip-hop full-lengths available for free download. Not only did Summer Songs 2 come out on a major label (Capitol and Motown), it was at first only streamable through Apple Music. Yachty has been ruffling other feathers along the way. He’s the latest lightning rod to create a divide between hiphop fans—those who “don’t get him” are often victims of ridicule by his fans due to their older age.

On Summer Songs 2, as with his previous work, Yachty purees rap styles that have been in vogue— the unpredictable flow of Keef, the molten melody of Young Thug, the out-of-step pop tunefulness of Makonnen—into tracks that are merely serviceable. But there’s something to just being OK, and by nudging rap’s odder strains towards the middle Yachty has built something resembling a gold mine.

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n far-west-suburban Westmont, tucked inconspicuously among the boxy office parks and asphalt vistas, sits the International Plaza Shopping Center, a large, frequently desolate Asian supermarket anchoring a somewhat dingy food court, perpetually underlit in spite of a broad skylight.

Unlike the grocery, the food court seems to do a brisk business, with folks continually lined up at the China Cafe for hot soy milk and Chinese doughnuts, and on weekends at the neighboring Yu Ton Dumpling House, where the owners stack piles of glistening red-green amaranth, Chinese broccoli, and cabbages harvested from their own farm.

In the center of this mostly Chinese row of food stalls sits an outlier, Hanbun, a Korean stand run by 26-year-old chef David Park and his fiancee, Jennifer Tran, both graduates of the Culinary Institute of America, the country’s preeminent culinary school. What Park is doing in this cramped suburban stand is so different from what any Korean restaurant in the region does that it’s worth a pilgrimage or two (or more) from wherever you are on the map.

Park offers two menus at Hanbun, each informed by his Korean heritage (he was born in Anyang, south of Seoul) and his formal Western culinary training, which included stages at Le Bernardin, Tru, and L2O, and longer stints at the Aviary and Wicker Park’s late Storefront Company, where he rose to sous chef. The lunchtime menu, offered from 11 AM to 3 PM Tuesday through Sunday, features about a dozen familiar, homey Korean dishes plus a special or two, executed with the thoughtfulness and precision that only a chef forged in the crucible of the fine-dining kitchen can pull off.

Take his ja jiang mian, or noodles in black bean sauce, a dish of northern Chinese origins that has come to epitomize Korean comfort food; normally a sloppy-satisfying bowl of pasta drenched in a murky but meaty and vegetable-heavy slurry. Park cures pork belly for 24 hours, then sous vides it just as long, J

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dicing the meat and folding it with reserved fats and liquids into the black bean sauce, ladling it over thick, chewy tenomi noodles from Sun Noodle (supplier to the ramen stars), then garnishing with crisp julienned cucumber quick-pickled in Vietnamese fish sauce. This ample, deeply satisfying bowl sells for $8.95, a remarkable price given the amount of labor involved, and commensurate with the rest of the lunch menu.

Operating mostly alone out of a food-court stall keeps overhead down, and it’s reflected in the prices on the rest of the menu, which offers dishes such as bibimbap, often a gateway meal for non-Koreans. At Hanbun it sports some seven garnishes, including slow-roasted chicken, perfectly jiggly soft-cooked eggs dressed with fine threads of red chile, and puffed barley rice, mixed in to mimic the crunchy texture imparted from the traditional stone pot dolsot.

Park sous vides the pork that goes on the steamed buns with coffee to impart an earthy, slightly bitter flavor. For the classic street snack ddeokkbokki, he dresses the cylindrical rice cakes with crunchy puffed amaranth as a contrast to their chewiness. His vegetable pajeon is a thin, charred pancake, crispy all the way through where common varieties are often thick and gummily undercooked. The assortment of banchan served at any given time as a collection of side dishes Park calls the “Korean Table” is also extraordinary: pickled mushrooms showered with lavender chive blossoms, a block of cold tofu painted with the spicy fermented soybean-and-chile paste ssamjang and sprinkled with finely minced chive, or a cup of kimchi chigae, a normally bold but straightforward stew given depths of flavor and complexity with chicken stock, dashi, caramelized garlic, fish sauce, and white soy.

As refined (and yet affordable) as these common dishes are, they don’t approach the level of artistry that Park displays on weekend nights, when he sets a single table behind the counter for six to nine guests and serves a multicourse juhnyuk, or dinner tasting, of beautifully plated dishes. Park draws on an array of influences for this menu, but they do skew more Korean. It isn’t the approachable innovation of, say, Parachute, but rather Korean through a modernist lens. The current

menu features delicate blooms and herbs grown in the backyard garden of Park’s future mother-in-law, and also produce gathered on weekly two-plus-hour hauls to JoongBoo Market in Avondale (HMart won’t sell to him in bulk without advance notice). There’s also a plump Plymouth Champagne oyster, garnished with a granita made from the sweet and funky rice brew makeolli, whipped lardo, and a tart shred of kohlrabi kimchi that brings out the delicate sweetness of the oyster rather than obscuring it.

Next comes a deep-fried shrimp croquette, crowned by a daikon radish flower with gochujang aioli meant to evoke the fish-cake snack known as odeng, its gooey interior oozing with emulsified crustacean, yogurt, and garlic confit. A third course unintentionally references and trumps anything I’ve seen in the poke craze: wild sockeye salmon tartare tossed with milk-bread croutons, gobs of tangy yuzu creme fraiche, and hydrated basil seeds that pop like caviar. Ddeokkbokki makes another appearance, this time toasted in chicken schmaltz atop a charred cabbage puree, with chicken-dashi-gochuchang sauce, pickled mustard seeds, and red-onion-pickled quail eggs.

Fat kimchi-pork dumplings bathe in a cool cucumber-butter emulsion, while rib eye roasted in brown butter rests among a lotus root trifecta: pureed, fried, and pickled. As a palate cleanser, Park offers a sesame-leaf-and-soju granita with compressed honey melon, perilla seeds, and the children’s yogurt drink Yogeureuteuh, followed by a marriage of mocha and pound cake with strawberry-infused chocolate ganache and a compote made with strawberries and omija berries. Like most successful tasting menus, this one tells a story with a logical progression of courses that demonstrates the versatility of Korean food, and may even foretell its future.

And at $63, it’s a bargain.

I’ve often used this space to extol, defend, and champion the reaches of suburbia for their culinary treasures, intermittently sprawled across the Olive Garden desert like oases, far from the overmarketed restaurant clots of the Fulton Market District and Logan Square. The International Plaza is one such oasis, and within it Hanbun is a treasure worth seeking. v

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Bartenders are acquiring a taste for feni

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t’s not for everyone,” Fat Rice chef and owner Abraham Conlon says of feni.

The Indian spirit is made from cashew fruit, which resembles an apple; the cashew itself grows from the end of the pseudofruit, also called a cashew apple. Conlon compares feni’s aroma to gasoline; Julia Momose, head bartender at GreenRiver, thinks it smells a bit like acetone. But despite—and in some ways, because of—the spirit’s off-putting scent, both have put feni on their drink menus.

There’s more to feni than the nose, of course.

“It’s almost funky,” Momose says. “There’s nuttiness, an astringency, a very young, tart apple.

There’s also these softer, cooked pear notes.

It’s got waves and waves of flavor.” It also has a quality she says she’s noticed in mezcal: “A petroleum, oily, tar—like warm asphalt flavor, which is something I actually really enjoy. I like that it’s a little bit dirty.”

Both Momose and Conlon are using Spirit of India, the only brand of feni available in stores in the U.S. (One other brand can be purchased online.) Drew Whited and B.J. McCaslin, both now 33, started the Chicago-based company three years ago after meeting an Indian woman who told them about feni. At the time, Whited owned an Internet company in Chicago that customized bar and restaurant

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websites, while McCaslin was in LA launching Coco Cafe, a brand of coconut water blended with espresso and milk that he’d created. (He sold the company to Vita Coco last year and now lives in Atlanta.)

The longtime friends and entrepreneurs didn’t know much about spirits, but they did a little research, saw that feni wasn’t easily available in the U.S., and sensed a business opportunity. Intrigued by the possibilities, they immediately booked tickets to Goa, India, the only place that the spirit can be made, in accordance with a geographical indication designation. They stopped at the first roadside hut they saw that sold feni to taste it.

“We wanted it to taste better, I think,” Whited says. But “the thing about feni, if you have enough drinks it starts growing on you.”

By the end of the trip—many drinks later—he and McCaslin were sold on a triple-distilled feni made by the Vaz family, longtime producers and ambassadors of the spirit. After a fund-raising effort among family and friends, Whited and McCaslin began selling it in Chicago at Binny’s last September; they’ve since expanded to other liquor stores in the rest of Illinois, Texas, and Georgia, with plans to launch in six more states this fall.

Conlon was familiar with feni before Spirit

of India existed, he says, because Fat Rice focuses on Macanese cuisine, which has a direct connection to the southwest Indian state Goa and uses the spirit quite a bit. After it kept coming up in recipes, he says, “I was like, let’s get it. And it was nowhere to be found.” He did get a chance, though, to try feni a few years ago on a trip to Lisbon, where there are quite a few Goan restaurants.

“Like many fruit distillates, there’s a funk to it,” Conlon says. “They’re not that great.

I’m pretty sure the stuff I drank in Portugal, if you drank enough of it, it would make you go blind.” Spirit of India feni, on the other hand, is “very good,” cleaner in flavor than many other brands he’s tasted.

“We probably tried 20, 30 fenis [in Goa], and there were some pretty sketchy ones,” Whited says. “There’s been no quality control. There are people who’ve been introduced to feni and it’s not been the best experience.”

As soon as Spirit of India feni became available in Chicago, Conlon says, he ordered a case of it—which sat gathering dust until Fat Rice beverage manager Annie Beebe-Tron began playing with the spirit in preparation for the July opening of the Ladies’ Room, a tiny red-lit bar in the former waiting room at Fat Rice with its own cocktail menu. She describes feni’s flavor as “fruity, grassy, with a citrus-peel bitter acidity right at the top.” Conlon adds that he’s had fresh-squeezed cashew fruit juice in Brazil, “and it’s the most funky, ripe, half-rotten, gritty juice. But oh my god, it smells just like [feni].” (Former Next restaurant chef Dave Beran, who worked with cashew fruit for the Reader’s Key Ingredient challenge several years ago, said that the fruits “smell like sweet vomit when they’re roasted.”)

Still, Beebe-Tron and Conlon didn’t hesitate to include a feni drink on the Ladies’ Room opening menu. Called the Goan Calamando, it includes rum, Iraqi date syrup, pureed calamondin fruit (which is similar to calamansi), and roasted almond orgeat; served in a mug shaped like a Japanese raccoon dog, it’s the closest thing the bar has to a tiki drink. Her goal, Beebe-Tron says, was to “recognize that [feni is] big and wild and ripe and match that wildness.” She’s already working on another feni cocktail, and says that the next step is to make a drink that’s cleaner, more refined, less tropical. The recipe isn’t set yet, but may include grapefruit juice and a southeast Asian rose syrup made in-house.

Unlike Conlon, Momose was totally unfamiliar with feni until McCaslin showed up at her bar with a bottle of Spirit of India feni

last September. “I’d never tasted anything like it before,” she says. She found it challenging, and wasn’t sure at first that she wanted to use it in a cocktail. “But I’d go back and taste it and be like, Wait, there’s something here that I really love,” she says. “I was like, I’m going to conquer feni. I’m going to figure out a way to put this in a cocktail in a way that can be balanced and delicious for anyone, not just people who want something crazy and outthere—because it is a little bit out-there.”

What she came up with for the opening menu at Annex, the ingredient-focused cocktail bar next to GreenRiver that the GreenRiver owners opened in February, is called the Chorus Girl. It pairs feni with Batavia arrack, a funky Javanese spirit made from sugarcane and fermented red rice, along with lemon and pineapple juice for brightness and Noilly Prat Ambre Vermouth for herbal notes. Momose made an infusion of amchoor (dried and powdered green mangoes) and turmeric in a blend of Italian herbal liqueurs, adding it to the drink along with vanilla syrup; the cocktail is served over crushed ice and topped with grated black lime.

The Chorus Girl was retired, along with the rest of the opening cocktails, when Momose introduced the summer menu. But she’s developed another feni drink that will be featured on the fall menu; for this one, she says, her goal was to highlight the spirit’s fruit notes and add some herbaceous elements. For that she uses Chareau, an aloe vera liqueur infused with cucumber, muskmelon, and spearmint; pistachio orgeat adds a nuttiness that plays up that element in the cashew apple, and Aperol, lime juice, and cinnamon complete the drink.

As for feni’s off-putting qualities, Momose says, “Sometimes it’s what you’re looking for.

All these flavors that can be unpleasant can be really good and offer more depth and complexity to a spirit or drink.” She points out that descriptors like “barnyardy” and “urine” are often applied to wine and aren’t considered negative.

At Fat Rice, Beebe-Tron says, “We knew that we weren’t going to immediately have people doing shots of feni. When it’s unfamiliar it can be really challenging. It’s just so new to people’s palates that it doesn’t have a place to fit.” But customers at the Ladies’ Room seem to be enjoying the Goan Calamando, Conlon says—and he now drinks feni on the rocks with a squeeze of lime. “That’s the thing about acquired tastes,” he says. “Once you acquire that taste, you love it.” v

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SPACIOUS 1BR IN the heart of Lincoln Park available for rent.

Contact 224 532 3436.

451 W. ST. JAMES PL. 2500N.

Available September 1. $1500/mo.

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

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

Most Include HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $475.00 1Bdr From $550.00 2Bdr From $765.00 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath From $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000** CALL FOR DETAILS ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar Villas is accepting applications for subsidized 1BR apts. for seniors 62 years or older and the disabled.

Rent is based on 30% of annual income. For details, call us at 847-546-1899 ∫

LARGE ONE BEDROOM apart-

LARGE 1 BEDROOM, $725 Nr Metra & shops, Sec 8 OK. Newly decor, dining room, carpeted, appls, FREE heat & cooking gas. Elevator & laundry room, free credit check, no application fee, 1-773-919-7102 or 1312-802-7301

WEST

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

ment near Red Line. 6822 N Wayne.

Hardwood floors. Pets OK. Laundry in building. $900-$925/ month. Heat included. Available 10/1. 773-7614318, www.lakefrontmgt.com

RIDGE,

6200N/

2200W. Spacious updated one bedroom garden apartment. Near transportation, shopping, parks.

Heat, appliances, electricity, blinds included. 773-274-8792. $900.

CHICAGO - BEVERLY, large 2 room Studio, 1 & 2BR Apts. Carpet, A/C, laundry, near transportation, $650-$975/mo. Call 773-233-4939 SUBURBS, RENT TO OWN! Buy with No closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com CHATHAM- 718 E. 81st St. Newly remodeled 1 BR, 1 BA, Dining room, Living room, hdwd flrs, appliances. & heat included. Call 847-533-5463

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

rent. Utilities incl’d. Seniors Welcome. $400/mo. Call 773-431-1251

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

ACACIA SRO HOTEL Men Preferred! Rooms for Rent. Weekly & Monthly Rates. 312-421-4597

AUSTIN AREA, Best deal, 2BR. $650-$695. Credit check required.

6 N. Lockwoood Call 708-204-8600 û NO SEC DEP û 1431 W. 78th St. $2BR. $600/mo 6829 S. Perry. 1BR. $520/mo.

HEAT INCL 773-955-5106

2 BR $900-$1099 Chicago - 2BR, 1st flr, $995/mo, ap pls/heat, A/C, carpeting, blinds incl. near 91st/Cottage Grove. Sec 8 ok. No Pets. Smoke Free bldg 773-429-0274

BEVERLY, Modern 2BR, newly decorated, new carpet, stove & fridge, intercom, pvt parking, laundry room. $870/mo + sec.

Vicinity of 111th & Western. 773238-7203 MONTICELLO & OHIO Beautiful 2BR apt, freshly painted, appl incl. tenant pays all util. No pets. Sect. 8 welcome. $900/mo + sec. dep. 773533-0140 7900- 2A S WABASH Lrg 2BR, 1BA, hrdwd flrs, free heat, remod. kitc., close to public transp. prkg. $ 900/mo. Call Kevin 773-975-7234 X 286 HARVEY NICE LARGE 2BR, Bremen Twnshp school dist, gas range, fridge, A/C, heat incl, intercom. $750 /mo+$300 sec. 708335-4003

2 BR UNDER $900

Sect 8 Welc, 71st & Wentworth, newly decorated, 2BR, 1st floor unit, $850 /mo, heat incl, lndry on site. Contact Frank, 708-205-4311

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

CHICAGO- 2 BEDROOM apt near 82nd & King Dr. $900 plus security, laundry facilities available, heat included. 312-315-2988

ADULT SERVICES

ADULT SERVICES

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

224-223-7787

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Chicago, 2BR Condo, 3rd fl, w/ hardwood flrs, microwave, W/D, dishwasher, 2511 E. 76th St. $1100/mo. Austin 773-439-9661

2 BR $1100-$1299 EAST ROGERS PARK, steps to

the beach at 1240 West Jarvis, five rooms, two bedrooms, two baths, dishwasher, ac, heat and gas included. Carpeted, cable, laundry facility, elevator building, parking available, and no pets. Non-smoking. Price is $1200/mo. Call 773-764-9824.

2-4BRS. NEW, great school and area, Sec.8 ok, $1150-$1400 Cal Heights & Chatham. Also have Rent to Own Prop. 312-501-0509 EVANSTON 2BR, 1100SF, great kit, new appls, DR, oak flrs, lndry, $1250/mo incls heat. 773743-4141 www.urbanequities.co Elmhurst: Sunny 1/BR, new appl, carpet, AC, Patio, $895/incl heat, parking. Call 773-743-4141 www.urbanequities.com

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

LAKEVIEW. 3240 N Southport.

2nd floor apt. completely renovated, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, very bright, 20’x20’ lr, cac, hardwood floors, wbfp, dw, security system, storage, porch, laundry in building, one (1) car garage. Available October 1. Rent $2100 plus 1 month security and references. Call 773-550-9951 or 773348-8181.

DIXMOOR

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200

78TH & BURNHAM 3 bedroom, newly remod, hardwood floors. $850/month. Call for showing 773-758-0309

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

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

LINCOLN PARK. 2340 N. Greenview. 2 bedroom, 2 bath, jacuzzi in master bath, hardwood floors, wbfp, cac, dishwasher, washer/ dryer in apt, deck, 2 parking spaces (tandem). Available October 1. Rent $2400 plus security and references.

Call 773-550-9951 or 773-248-8181.

LINCOLN

PARK/

DEPAUL

area. 2103 N Kenmore,. Garden apt, 2 bedrooms, hardwood floors, cac, dishwasher, washer/ dryer in building. Available October 1. Rent $1900 plus one month security and references. Call 773-550-9951 or 773-3488181.

CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK HOMES. Spacious 2-3 BR Townhomes, Inclu: Prvt entry, full bsmt, lndry hook-ups. Ample prkg. Close to trans & schls. Starts at $844/ mo. w w w . p p k h o m e s . com;773-264-3005 ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar

ONE MO FREE in Logan Sq! 2br w/ hrdwood, Central Air, custom closets, frnch drs +granite! Tranquil garden. $1995/mo. Avail 9/1-prorate. Serving drinks 847-331-1466.

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

LARGE BRIGHT LINCOLN PK

NEWLY REHABBED 2, 3, 4BR

single family homes with 1- 2BA, Sect 8 Welc, located in Southside Chicago & South Suburbs.

847-962-0408 or 224-800-4480

- SINGLE family home, 1800 sq ft 4BR, 2BA, pristine condition, across from police station. $1100. 773-805-8181

SOUTHSIDE- 68/EMERALD, 68/HERMITAGE, 65/Aberdeen

LARGE TWO BEDROOM, two

2 BR OTHER

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

AUSTIN AREA 1-2 BR apts, $650-1000, heat & appliances incld Section 8 OK, close to transportation 708-267-2875

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ton Park St. Edmund’s Oasis Washington Park’s newest mixedincome community. All New Construction!!!!!

3 Bedroom Townhomes & 1, 2, & 4 Bedroom Flat units along 61st Street between Indiana Ave. & Prairie Ave. & Between 61st & 63rd on Indiana Ave. Inquire about our Application Fee Special.

Amenities Include-Two Full Baths for 3 &4 Bdrms, Washer/Dryer, Cable Ready, Dishwasher, Off Street Parking ($10 monthly), Central Air & Heating, Energy Star Appliances, Smoke Free Community, Wheelchair Accessible Units Available, 24 hour Camera Surveillance For More Information, call 773.493.2411 or come into our office at 6253 S. Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60637

BROADVIEW: NEW REHAB 2BR, heat, appls & parking incl.

On site lndry. $895+sec. Avail now. Also, 1BR Avail. 312-4044577 MATTESON, 2BR, $990$1050; 3BR, $1250-$1400.

Move In Special is 1 Month’s Rent & $99 Sec Dep. Sect 8 Welc. 708-748-4169 6944 S. GREEN. Modern 2BR apt, walk-in closet, modern kitchen w/new appls. new bath, background check req’d. 773-203-8491 CHATHAM, 736 E. 81st (Evans), 2BR, 5 rms, 2nd flr $800/mo. Call Mr. Joe at 708-870-4801 8941-43 S. COTTAGE Grove,

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

CALUMET CITY LARGE 3 BR, 2 BA, appl, A/C, laundry, hrdwd flrs, patio, parking. $1100 per mo + 1 mo sec. heat/ water incl 312-841-4556 2 FLAT BUILDINGS 3BRs, nr Chicago State U $875.

3BRs. 82nd/Peoria. $875/mo.

Sep heat and A/C. RANCH REALTY 773-238-3977 DOLTON - 3BR, 1BA, GARAGE, NO BASEMENT. $1300 /MONTH + SEC. SECTION 8 WELCOME. CALL 773-454-7441

3BR, $800/mo. 5BR, 2BA, $1050.

Call for more info: 847-977-3552

CHICAGO SOUTH: 114 E 119th

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

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499 5 BEDROOM, 1ST Floor apart-

ment for rent, $1300/mo. No security deposit. Hardwood floors, new kitchen, new bathroom, parking & laundry included. 773-738-3421, email: rogerjohnson3115@gmail.com

CHICAGO: E. ROGERS PARK

CHICAGO, 8119 S. Vernon, 3BR, 2nd floor Apt., hardwood floors.

E GARFIELD PARK Newly Re-

($1300) & 1BR, 1BA Southside , hardwood, ($800), close to trans & schools, sec 8 welc, 773-988-5800

ALSIP, IL 3 BR/1.5 BA 2 story

5BR 2 full BA, full bsmt, kitchen appls included, Section 8 Welcome, no pets, $1400/ month 708-957-7319

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

90TH & LAFLIN, 3BR, heated, formal dining rm, cabinet kit. $1125.

82nd/ Wabash. 2BR, heated, avail Sept. 312-946-0130

3 BR OR MORE $2500 AND OVER PARK/

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62ND & MAPLEWOOD, 4BR, 2BA, newly remodeled, large LR, DR, kitchen, utilities not incl, Sec 8 ok. No sec dep, $1200. 773-4060604

Cermak & Pulaski, Augusta and Cicero. $900-$1150. Tenant pays utils, laundry hookup. 847.720.9010

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN.

MOVE-IN SPECIAL Sect 8 Welc, 92nd & Ellis, 4-6BR House, will accept 4BR Voucher. All appls incl, no sec dep. Call 847-533-2496, Steve.

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Returning to business, previous clients welcome. Jolanta 847650-8989. Belmont & Central. By appointment. Lic.#227000668.

GLENWOOD, 3BR, 1BA, 2 car garage, rent neg. 3BR, 2.5BA, newly rehabbed, rent to own. Text Preferred, 708-362-1268

80th/Phillips , Beautiful, lrg newly renovated 3BR, 1.5BA, hdwd flrs, appls included. $900 & up. Sec 8 Welcome 312-818-0236

3BRS.JACKSON & CENTRAL,

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FOR A HEALTHY mind and body.

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

habbed 3 Bed Apartment! Section 8 Welcome! Good Neighborhood, Hardwood, Large! 312-697-1968 HUGE 4BR 2BA Westside, crpt.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed, American Systems built. Beautifully restored. 4 BRS, 2 1/2 ba. Gourmet kitchen. Fin bsmt. Prof lancaped Mary Ellen Fitzgerald Fitzgerald Real Estate 773-909-1792

Hdwd, granite and Stainless Steel appls 2 & 3BRs, across from school Sec 8 Welc. 312-882-9674

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

$900/mo. $1800 move in. Free Heat!

Call 773-443-5472

BEVERLY 10541 S HOYNE...$569,900

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

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CHICAGO: 4BR, SS appliances, ten pays utils, $1150/mo + sec.

720 W. 61st St., Whole Foods & Walmart Coming. 773-858-3163

tenant pays utils. Section 8 Welcome. Avail 9/1. Contact Mr. Nathan 773-230-8665

area, 2103 N Kenmore. 2nd floor completely rehabbed rear apt. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, oak floors, wbfp, cac, dw, washer/ dryer in apt, two decks, skylights, storage, one car garage incl. Available Sept 1. Rent $3500 plus security and references.

Call 773-550-9951 or 773-348-8181.

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SAUK VILLAGE NICE 3BR Home + den, C/A, attached garage, $ 1100/mo + 1 month security. Section 8 Welcome Call 312-231-6972

6728 N. Bosworth Ave. Beautiful, large 3BR, 2BA, DR/LR, Hrdwd flrs.

Nr trans/shops. Heat, appls, laundry included. $1450. Available now.

847-475-3472

LINCOLN

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6117 S. CAMPBELL, newly decorated 4BR Apt. Heat included.

Stove & refrigerator. $1000/mo + $1000 sec dep. Sect 8 welc. 312719-0524

NR 87TH & STONY ISLAND, 3BR Apt, $1000 + heat, 2 mo sec + 1 mo rent, rec renov ba & kit, gar space avail. Not Sec 8 reg 773771-0785

Call 312-583-9154

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

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

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

urbs. Hotels. 1234 S Michigan Avenue. Appointments. 773-616-6969.

DOLTON 3BR, 1.5BA, garage,

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

7807 S Marshfield Ave, 5BR, 2BA & 3BR, 1BA, newly renovated, fridge/stove included. Section 8 Welcome. Michelle 708-248-2704

SALE OR TRADE UP/DOWN for condo, loft, T-House, House.

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non-residential SELF-STORAGE CENTERS. T W O locations to serve you. All

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units fully heated and humidity controlled with ac available. North: Knox Avenue.

773-685-6868.

South: Pershing Avenue. 773-523-6868.

CHICAGO 2707 E 93rd St.

roommates

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

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

GENERAL RECENTLY REHABBED APTS

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

CHICAGO - SOUTH SIDE. 5435 May. Free Heat, Section 8 ok.

1st floor, quiet 3BR, hdwd flrs.

773-925-1188

FOR SALE 240 ACRE LA Crosse Co WI farm

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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: D16147704 on August 5, 2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of ENACTZ CONSULTING with the business located at: 2941 N WHIPPLE ST #1, CHICAGO, IL 60618. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner (s)/partner(s) is: MARIA ASTUDILLO 2941 N WHIPPLE ST #1, CHICAGO, IL 60618, USA

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D16147678 on August 4, 2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of D2 with the business located at: 1711 S HALSTED #1, CHICAGO, IL 60608.

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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: D16147701 on August 5, 2016, under the Assumed Business Name of POREQPINE with the business located at 4461 W Hutchinson, Chicago, IL 60641. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner( s)/ partner(s) is: Giancarlo Mancuso, 4461 W Hutchinson, Chicago, IL 60641, USA.

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By Cecil Adams q : Incontinence products seem to

be everywhere these days. When did the first diapers specifically for adults become commercially available?

—RACHEL NEWSTEAD

A : If they aren’t everywhere yet, they will

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be soon. The bladder-control biz expects to waterproof more geezers than tots within the decade, as birth rates dip and the baby boom grays still further. Adult incontinence soaked up $1.8 billion in profits last year, and the market could grow nearly 50 percent by 2020.

Pretty good for a business that not so long ago could hardly get people to admit they needed its product.

Whether caused by childbirth, strenuous exercise, traumatic injury, or just plain aging, incontinence is nothing new, and ancient medical tomes reveal that folks have always sought means of keeping their downstairs dry. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian text from 1550 BC, discusses the condition and methods for treatment: for men, external urine-collection devices; for women, vaginal inserts to provide compression. Over the following three-plus millennia, doctors mainly refined these concepts rather than improved on them, unless you call the 18th-century penile clamp an improvement.

Meanwhile, babies had been going about their business as babies will, and by the end of the 1800s, mass production of the basic diapering elements—fabric squares and safety pins—was well under way. Cloth diapers would remain the norm for decades until WWII shook things up. Women working the homefront assembly lines began using diaper services rather than washing their own, and with cloth in as short supply as time was, various inventors contributed to the evolution of the disposable diaper as we now know it. It was Johnson & Johnson that developed the first disposable diapers mass-marketed in the United States.

NASA learned the hard way that astronauts have the same biological needs as anyone else when Alan Shepherd wet himself while waiting for the Freedom 7 launch in 1961. At this point America’s astronauts were all men, meaning urine could be easily collected in a bag or via a sheath-tube-pouch arrangement, while a larger bag attached with adhesive took care of number two.

Once NASA started putting women in orbit, though, the differences in female plumbing

required new gear. The zip-up trunks first issued were soon replaced with Maximum Absorbency Garments, treated with sodium polyacrylate to absorb liquid, and these proved so effective male astronauts started wearing them too. Space-shuttle astronauts got three—one for launch, one for reentry, and one because you never knew what might happen in space.

But that’s all fine and good for astronauts—what about poor old grandma back on earth? Commercially available adult incontinence products were slow to arrive, in part because the embarrassing nature of the ailment made marketing a tricky task. Procter & Gamble—makers of Pampers, long the undisputed champ in babies’ disposables—introduced Attends Incontinent Briefs in 1978, but these wound up being sold mainly to hospitals after print ads failed to reel in many retail consumers.

The same year Attends made their debut, Kimberly-Clark began manufacturing Huggies, the first true competitor to Pampers.

In 1983, they launched Depends and aggressively went after the mass market P&G hadn’t managed to attract. The trick: to overcome the stigma that still clung to the condition using TV ads—some depicting older people remaining defiantly active, others relying on the powerful spokesperson the company found in actress June Allyson. The gambit proved successful, and Kimberly-Clark commands nearly half of the adult-incontinence market today.

No medical condition is too embarrassing to talk about on the tube in 2016, and Kimberly-Clark’s recent campaigns have capitalized on this new frankness. The Depend line has also grown to include sleeker, more fashion-friendly incontinence underwear, now modeled by younger (and presumably continent) actors and athletes to show how undetectable they are. There’s never been a better time to be a style-conscious senior with a decreasingly cooperative bladder. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage

Daniel Savage, designer, says break up, pay up, and lie

This week’s guest Dan Savage offers advice on impotence, pegging, and more.

D EAR READERS: This is

the final week of my summer vacation—but you’ve been getting a new column every week I’ve been gone, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me.

Our final guest Dan Savage is an independent designer, illustrator, and animation director based in Brooklyn. He’s worked with the New York Times, Herman Miller, and Google, and he’s taught design and animation at NYU and the School of Visual Arts.

“I was excited to do this, even though I have no authority on the topic,” said Daniel Savage. “But I surprisingly felt pretty confident in my answers, as ridiculous as they may be.”

Q : I’m a 41-year-old straight

woman who stayed a virgin way longer than I should have (thank you, church).

When I finally realized that “not until marriage” wasn’t working for me and did the real thing, I discovered I loved it. Go me, right? Unfortunately, I’m not good at dating, so I usually go a long time between relationships. The relationship I’m in now is the first one I’ve had in two years. “Guy” is nice to me.

But every single time we’ve tried to have sex, Guy either can’t get hard or stays hard for only a few minutes. I’ve tried going down on him, using my hands, different positions—nothing works.

We don’t even kiss that much. I don’t say anything because I don’t want to hurt his feelings and because I’m really grateful to him for wanting to be with me and being nice to me. He says sorry and that he’s asked the doctor about it, but we don’t get anywhere. To be blunt, I don’t want to date him anymore. But I feel too

guilty to break up with him.

We’ve dated for four months, and I don’t know if I’m giving up too soon. Where would I be if previous boyfriends had ditched me for being inexperienced instead of showing me the ropes? Don’t I owe Guy the same thing?

—TOO DOWN TO BE WITTY

A : First off, TDTBW, I

think a long time between relationships is good. I also think not having things in common can be OK if you create new hobbies and experiences you can share.

Having said that, TDTBW, four months is plenty of time to know if it’s working. The sooner you break it off with him the better. You don’t want to hurt him any more than you have to, especially if he’s really into you, and the longer you draw it out, the more it’s going to hurt.

I wouldn’t feel guilty at all about dumping him. Sometimes you gotta think about number one.

Q : My girl and I are both

26, and we opened up our marriage. Now I’ve got a girlfriend with whom I am getting to have some of the kinky fun that was lacking at home. Here’s my question: I want to do some pegging, but I don’t know who should buy the strap-on. Me, because it’s my ass and my idea? Or her, because she would wear it and would also think it was superhot? Go halfsies on the whole rig? What’s the equitable way of doing this?

—PURCHASING EROTIC GEAR GOOD ETIQUETTE, DAN?

A : You’re 26 years old,

PEGGED, buy the damn thing. I know if I were in your situation, I’d want full control over what goes up my ass. If she owns it, would she use it while you weren’t around?

With strangers? No thanks.

Plus if you split the cost, who gets to keep it if or when you break up? Just buy it and enjoy. If you struggle with picking it out, might I suggest starting small?

Q : I’ve been in a two-year mixed relationship (she’s Native and 24, I’m white and 29), and we fight a lot. She cheated on me a couple times early in the relationship. But my problem is I have a hand-job fetish and my girlfriend has a disinterest in it, to the point where she just won’t do it.

But why am I bitching? I get laid every day for the most part, surprise blow jobs, 69ing, you name it. Should I accept this as fate? But just this morning, we went for round two, and I was having a hard time coming, and out of nowhere she pops up and jerks me off till climax. Would it be bad to fake having coming issues in hopes she does it again? Is that unfair?

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Abdu Ali, Joy Postell 10/8, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Amorphis, Swallow the Sun 3/26, 6 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Birthday Suits 10/25, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Seth Bogart Show with Max Goldstein, Dorian Electra, DJ Ariel Zetina 9/24, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Flula Borg 9/30, 7 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Cactus Blossoms 11/4, 9 PM; 11/6, 8 PM, Hideout Cafe Tacuba 12/21, 7:30 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 8/26, 10 AM, 17+ Children of Bodom, Abbath 11/26, 6 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 8/26, 10 AM, 17+ Omar Coleman 10/24, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 8/26, 10 AM Judy Collins 11/6, 6 and 8:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Fri 8/26, 10 AM DZ Deathrays, Dune Rats 11/17, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Earthless, Ruby the Hatchet 12/2, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Fielded, Heavy Dreams, Grün Wasser 10/12, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Fit for an Autopsy, Lorna Shore 10/11, 6 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ The Fray, American Authors 11/11, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre, on sale Fri 8/26, 10 AM Game of Thrones: Live Concert Experience with Ramin Djawadi 2/19, 8 PM, United Center The Good Life 11/11, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Jacques Greene (DJ set) 11/17, 10 PM, Smart Bar, on sale Wed 8/24, noon

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GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene ON SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, local goodvibes label Eye Vybe Records releases Nalumbanet, a new cassette from the duo Simulation, aka Whitney Johnson of Matchess (“Best transcendental deepspace synth trip” in the Reader’s 2015 Best of Chicago issue) and Laura “Lulu” Callier of Gel Set (who recently relocated to LA). According to their Bandcamp page, Simulation resulted from a “paranormal visitation” Johnson and Callier had in Forsyth, Montana, during a tour together—maybe that’s why Nalumbanet sounds like some of the spookiest Friday the 13th dub ever recorded? On Saturday they’ll celebrate their new tape at Experimental Sound Studio’s daylong Summersonic concert, which also includes Homme, Melina Ausikaitis, Avery Young, and others.

Though they moved to Los Angeles a few years back, Tortoise drummer John Herndon (who’s also an amazing tattooist) and artist Jennifer Gutowski got hitched in front of friends and family—including a passel of Chicago indie-rock veterans—at Rainbo Club on Sunday, August 21, and partied at the bar (fairly) deep into the night. Congrats, you two!

The folks at Bric-a-Brac Records have done wonders for the city’s all-ages DIY scene, regularly opening up their Logan Square shop to underground bands from across the country—and from our backyard. On Saturday, August 27, Bric-a-Brac takes over East Room for Scummer Slam 2016, a one-day festival featuring ten brilliant acts. Cincinnati indie sensations Tweens headline, preceded by early-80s Chicago hardcore outfit Savage Beliefs playing one of their occasional reunion sets. The party starts at 1 PM, and Gossip Wolf recommends showing up early to catch Wet Wallet, the warped postpunk project of wife-and-husband duo Gina and Keith Herzik—the same Keith who drew this wolf’s portrait! The free show is 21 and up, and Bric-a-Brac is collecting donations for Goethe Elementary School’s music program. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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