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7 Street View Banana-inspired fashion at the Logan Square Farmers Market

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A comprehensive guide to the Chicago Jazz Festival

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16 Comedy Satirical website Clickhole presents a variety show from the minds of its staff.

17 Movies Little Men, the new drama from Ira Sachs, is a tale of friendship and gentrification.

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More at chicagoreader.com/ theater Fefu and Her Friends “My husband married me to have a constant reminder of how loathsome women are,” begins María Irene Fornés’s radical 1977 drama, which is variously about madness, women’s agency, and internalized misogyny.

The speaker, Fefu, is herself “fascinated with revulsion”; she and her husband, Philip, play a game in which she shoots him and he dodges her “bullets.” (The gun isn’t loaded—or at least Fefu thinks it isn’t loaded. Uncertainty, of course, is part of the game.) Like the all-female cast here, Fornés and her longtime partner, Susan Sontag, rejected marriage and heteronormativity. In fact, the S/M relationship between the character Paula and her former lover, Cecilia, will feel familiar to anyone who’s read Sontag’s recently published journals. The madwoman in the play, Julia, is the most fascinating of the group; as Fefu sees it, she has chosen this fate. Unfortunately, Halcyon Theatre isn’t up to the challenge of Fornés’s vision, which demands swifter pacing and an ensemble far more in sync with each other—and with the text itself. —SUZANNE SCANLON Through 10/8: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 6 PM, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3253 W. Wilson, 773-478-7941, halcyontheatre. org, $20.

Next to Normal Brian Yorkey and R Tom Kitt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 rock musical receives a breath-

taking production from BoHo Theatre under the keen-eyed, precisely nuanced direction of Linda Fortunato. Anchored by a grippingly honest lead performance from Colette Todd, the show chronicles suburban housewife Diana Goodman’s battle with suicidal depression, a 16-year struggle triggered by the death of her son. As Diana explores talk therapy, drugs, and even electroshock treatment, Yorkey and Kitt examine the impact Diana’s situation has on her family life.

The superb supporting cast includes Donterrio Johnson as Diana’s husband, Ciera Dawn as their teenage daughter, Bradley Atkinson as the girl’s boyfriend, Peter Robel as Diana’s doctor, and Gilbert Domally as the dead son, who appears throughout the story as a hallu-

cination, clinging to life through Diana’s grief-driven delusions. The offstage band led by keyboardist Ellen K. Morris delivers Kitt’s driving rock score crisply and powerfully, but never obscures the all-important libretto, which conveys a complex narrative with depth and clarity. This is a often painful, sometimes darkly funny, and relentlessly truthful work—musical drama at its very finest.

—ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 10/9: ThuSat 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, bohotheatre. com, $27-$30.

Oh, Coward! For this diverting but pointless 1972 revue, creator Roderick Cook strings together three dozen Noel Coward songs, interspersed with bits of his dramatic and autobiographical writings, with scant interest in narrative, cultural, or historical context. Each piece is an island, floating or sinking solely on the strength of the performance. Under Cameron Turner’s laissez-faire direction, the trio of actors in Dead Writers Theatre’s handsomely designed production spend most of their hesitant, imprecise first act sinking, waterlogging Coward’s wit as they go. With the exception of Joanna Riopelle’s careful, introspective take on “If Love Were All,” it’s not until Ian Rigg’s exacting rendition of “In a Bar on the Piccola Marina” midway through act two that everything falls into place.

It’s a bit late. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 9/18: Wed-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773-935-6860, deadwriters. net, $42, $32 seniors, $27 students.

Rose Like loads of Kennedy watchers before him, Laurence Leamer highlights the parallels between Greek tragedy and the dark fate of that famous clan.

Set in July 1969 at the family manse on Cape Cod, the solo show Leamer’s written around the persona of matriarch Rose has her quoting Euripides and Aeschylus as she waits to hear from her only surviving son, Senator Edward Kennedy—who’s reeling from the Chappaquiddick incident of the previous week, in which his drunk driving killed a young woman. The Greek connection is apt. Rose’s husband, Joe, grew rich by offending decency if not the gods, only to see his children overtaken by horror after horror. But Leamer doesn’t demonstrate the courage of his metaphor. He

and director Steve Scott conclude the piece on a feel-good note that negates all that’s gone before. The compensation is Linda Reiter’s performance as steely, angry 79-year-old Rose, encased in survivor’s armor she can no longer bear.

—TONY ADLER Through 9/25: Wed-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, greenhousetheater. org, $42-$48.

Sister Cities Colette Freedman’s dark comedy may be based on a familiar premise—estranged family members are reunited by the death of a parent—but her agility with dialogue and gift for creating interesting characters make it extraordinary, particularly a powerful flashback in the second half of evening that pulls it all together. Chimera Ensemble’s production starts rough, though Norma Chacon and Rainee Denham turn in fine, passionate performances; Chacon in particular blazes throughout as the spoiled youngest daughter. Others in the cast seem stiff and uncomfortable, and the pace of the show is at times too slow. As it progresses, however, the quality of the acting and the pacing pick up, thanks in large part to Freedman’s superb storytelling.

Ashley Neal directs. —JACK HELBIG Through 9/18: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Den Theatre, 1329-1333 N. Milwaukee, 773-609-2336, chimeraensemble.

are off-kilter and charming as the wacky singing-and-dancing vaudeville duo, doing their best to impress enigmatic Hollywood impresario Ace Jefferson, played by a cloying and slippery Andy Bolduc. As he sings, “I’m a wheeler, I’m a dealer, I once played bocce with Garrison Keillor,” Ace may not be what he seems, but the Starlight crew is too starstruck to notice, and mayhem appropriately ensues. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 9/18: Thu 8 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, theannoyance.com, $8.

Thee Trinity The “controversial” thrust of Thee Trinity, Polemic Theater’s painfully horrendous face plant of a debut, is that there are focus groups in the afterlife. “Jay” (Jesus Christ), “Holly” (the Holy Ghost), and “Lucy” (Lucifer) are having a kind of heavenly board meeting. To improve customer satisfaction for “corporeals” (read “Muggles”) on their journeys through heaven and hell, the empyreal board has summoned Albert Einstein, Oscar Wilde, and—from the pit of Hades, where he’s continuously raped by 72 male virgins for eternity—Osama Bin Laden. So much here is amiss (playwright Rick Roberts’s Wilde is an offensive sham) that the play isn’t so much a play as an interminable dad joke that isn’t funny. —MAX MALLER Through 10/1: Thu 7:30 PM, Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Royal George Theatre Center, 1641 N. Halsted, 312-988-9000, theroyalgeorgetheatre.com, $30.

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Deep Schwa 20th Anniversary R Old and new members of the long-running Harold team—including

Kevin Fleming, Joe Canale, Dan Antonucci, Brian Jack, Meagan Flanagan, Heather Bauman, Scott Goldstein, Tim Mason, Sue Salvi, Susie Goskowski, and more—celebrate two decades of improv.

Sun 9/4, 8:30 PM, iO Theater, the Mission Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov. com/chicago, $12.

Late Late Breakfast’s 3.5 Year R Punniversary The stand-up/game show hybrid celebrates its three-and-a-

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half-year anniversary with a show dedicated to puns. As always, free pancakes will be served. Sat 9/3, 2 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433, hideoutchicago.com. F

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Yontz and Griffin Wenzler, this hourlong one-act is one weird, funny romp through the Catskills. At the aging Starlight Lounge, resident performers Bracket (Wenzler) and Spootz (James Conklin) haven’t given up on their shot at stardom, something they owe their late, great mentor, “showbiz guy” Dolph Starlight (whose photo they pray to as a preshow ritual). Wenzler and Conklin

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Oddball Comedy Festival Funny R or Die’s annual comedy festival features Brian Regan, John Mulaney, Cameron Esposito, Iliza Shlesinger, and more. Fri 9/2, 5 PM, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-80 & Harlem, Tinley Park, 708-614-1616, oddballfest.com, $25-$99.75.

The Time Is Now (Starting Tomorrow) Under the Gun revisits some sketch comedy fundamentals in this prime-time weekend revue. A boss confuses an underling with NSFW double entendres, siblings throw a funeral service for a beloved pet, wacky beatnik poets act wacky, and Hillary Clinton swings hard for the millennial vote. Individual personalities provide comedic glimmers here and there, but there’s something stilted and awry in the back-and-forth of it all.

Other than the pretty decent gag about a Cheers-obsessed patient recovering from a coma, most bits begin and end on the same flimsy premises, then get muffled out by poor sound cues. —DAN JAKES Through 9/30: Fri 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

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VHS Comedy Miss the days of VCRs no more; Zach Peterson and Miles Hendrix host this night of comedians sharing their strange VHS tapes and adding their own commentary along the way. Tonight’s show features Odinaka Ezeokoli, Nate Simmons, Aaron Kirby, and Erin Grotheer. Fri 9/2, 8 PM, North Bar, 1637 W. North, 773-123-5678, liveatnorthbar.com, $5.

VISUAL ARTS Columbia College Glass Curtain Gallery “Skillshot: The Collaborative Art of Pinball,” a group exhibition exploring the history of pinball through writings, documentary videos, zines, fine art, and interactive exhibits. Opening reception Fri 9/23, 6-9 PM. 9/6-11/5, Mon-Wed and Fri 9 AM-5 PM, Thu 9 AM-7 PM, Sat noon-5 PM, 1104 S. Wabash, 312-3696643, colum.edu/deps.

Chicago Cultural Center, Michigan Avenue Galleries “Quest for the Marvelous,” poet and visual artist Krista Franklin appropriates image and text to explore narratives historically put upon women and people of color. Opening reception Fri 9/15, 5-9 PM, artist talk Tue 10/25, 12:15 PM. 9/3-1/8, Mon-Thu 8 AM-7 PM, Fri 8 AM-6 PM, Sat 9 AM-6 PM, Sun 10 AM-6 PM. 78 E. Washington, 312-7446630, chicagoculturalcenter.org.

Hyde Park Art Center “Ground Floor,” a group show featuring work by local emerging artists including Yael Ben-Simon, Monica Nydam, and Derrick Woods-Morrow. Opening reception Sun 9/11, 1-5 PM. 9/4-11/6, Mon-Thu 9 AM-8 PM, Fri-Sat 9 AM-5 PM, Sun noon-5 PM, 5020 S. Cornell, 773-324-5520, hydeparkart.org.

LeRoy Neiman Center Lobby “De Nue,” a collection of works exploring race-related themes created by black artists at SAIC. Opening reception Fri 9/2, 6 PM. 9/2-9/25, 312-629-6860, 37 S. Wabash, 312-629-6880, saic.edu/sugs.

Roman Susan “The Driftless Region,” sculptures and photography by Lindsey Dezman. Opening reception Sat 9/3, 6-9 PM. 9/3-9/25, Thu 4-7 PM, Sat 1-4 PM, 1224 W. Loyola, 773-270-1224, romansusan.org.

Vertical Gallery “LAX/ORD,” Los Angeles-based gallery Thinkspace curates this group exhibition of artists working in the new contemporary art movement.

Opening reception Sat 9/3, 6-10 PM. 9/3-9/24, 1016 N. Western, verticalgallery. com.

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Chinaka Hodge The poet disR cusses her book Dated Emcees, a look at her love life through the lens of

hip-hop songs, characters, and culture.

Wed 9/7, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst.com.

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Pecha Kucha Artists, activists, R musicians, architects, politicians, chefs, and more gather to share 20

images for 20 seconds each, resulting in a night of short presentations and idea sharing. Tue 9/6, 8 PM, Martyrs’, 3855 N. Lincoln, 773-404-9494, pechakucha.org/ cities/chicago, $12, $10 in advance.

Smuggler’s Cove book signing R Martin and Rebecca Cate, owners of famed San Fransisco tiki bar

Smuggler’s Cove, discuss their book Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki. Admission includes an autographed copy of the book, a tiki glass, and a Plantation rum cocktail. Tue 9/6, 6-9 PM, Lost Lake, 3154 W. Diversey, 773-293-6048, lostlaketiki.com, $60.

MOVIES

More at chicagoreader.com/movies NEW REVIEWS Don’t Breathe A weird mix of topical authenticity and narrative illogic, this thriller takes place in a bombed-out Detroit neighborhood, where a trio of petty burglars (Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto) invade the home of a blind Iraq war veteran (Stephen Lang of Avatar) in search of $300,000 in cash they’re convinced he keeps on the premises. Their plan goes all to hell, and pretty soon the enraged soldier and his foaming rottweiler have the young thieves cowering in the corners.

Screenwriters Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues keep the plot twists coming, though as they accumulate the story begins to feel like a confection, succeeding not through any fresh idea but through the stubborn recombination of a few stale ones. Alvarez directed. —J.R. JONES R, 88 min. Arclight, River East 21, 600 N. Michigan The Hollars A young artist in New York City (John Krasinski) returns to his midwestern hometown to reconnect with his spirited mother (Margo Martindale), who faces brain surgery to remove a tumor; his hapless father (Richard Jenkins), whose small business is going under; and his fathead brother (Sharlto Copley), who’s causing problems for his ex-wife. Krasinski, a longtime player on NBC’s The Office, directed a script

by James C. Strouse (Grace Is Gone) and stages its good-hearted story like a sitcom: the average-Joe protagonist spends a lot of time reacting to his family members’ wackiness and greets every new plot complication with a big “Wait— what?” Jenkins and Martindale, both old hands at this sort of “dramedy” material, come through for Krasinski as the story darkens in the second half, and there’s an unexpectedly strong performance from pop musician Josh Groban as a

youth pastor whose decency sweetens the contentious mood. With Anna Kendrick, Randall Park, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 105 min.

Landmark’s Century Centre Hooligan Sparrow In this guerrilla documentary, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang spotlights the human rights activism of Ye Haiyan, a sex worker in Hainan province who tried to mobilize international support for six schoolgirls who were raped by their principal.

Human rights attorney Wang Yu alleges that this crime was only the tip of the iceberg, and that school administrators routinely bribe officials by supplying them with underage girls. Both Haiyan and the filmmaker are subjected to endless physical harassment by anonymous goons, and the chaotic audio and video footage of these altercations generates enormous drama even as it eclipses the issues at hand; though undeniably heroic, the documentary dwells less on its subject than on its own production.

—J.R. JONES 84 min. Fri 9/2, 7 and 9 PM; Sat 9/3, 3, 5, 7, and 9 PM; Sun 9/4, 1, 3, 5, and 7 PM; and Mon 9/5-Thu 9/8, 7 and 9 PM. Facets Cinematheque Hunt for the Wilderpeople In R the mountains of New Zealand, a troublesome foster child (Julian

Dennison) is delivered into the care of an elderly couple (Sam Neill, Rima Te Wiata), and ultimately he and the old man must go on the run, fending for themselves in the wild. Based on Barry Crump’s 1986 novel Wild Pork and Watercress, this spirited comic adventure by writer-director Taika Waititi shares more in common with his gentle, character-driven drama Boy (2010) than his recent vampire farce What We Do in the Shadows (2014). Like Mark Twain, Waititi looks for humor in quirks of character and degrees of stubbornness, and the natural challenges of Crump’s wilderness journey generate a succession of belly laughs onscreen as the gruff old man scraps with the loudmouthed kid, a pudgy hip-hopper looking for a challenge equal to his will. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 101 min. Fri 9/2, 2 and 8:30 PM; Sat 9/3, 3 PM; Sun 9/4, 7:45 PM; Mon 9/5, 3 PM; Tue 9/6, 8 PM; Wed 9/7, 6 PM; and Thu 9/8, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Innocents A French doctor for the Red Cross (Lou de Laâge), serving in Poland after its liberation from the Nazis, delivers a baby to an unwed mother at a nearby convent and soon learns that the mother is a nun who was raped by Russian soldiers; worse yet, six more nuns have been similarly impregnated. Based on a true story (which was even more horrible), this French-Polish drama clicks along nicely as director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) investigates the tense, complicated relations between the French, Poles, and Soviets. It begins to bog down, though, as spiritual concerns take over the narrative. Fontaine has said that she went on two Benedictine retreats while preparing for the movie, but it takes a W

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The Light Between Oceans In this uneven melodrama from writerdirector Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine), an Australian lighthouse keeper (Michael Fassbender) and his wife (Alicia Vikander), reeling from their second miscarriage, discover a rowboat that has washed ashore carrying a dead man and a crying baby girl. Based on a 2012 novel, the narrative is gripping in its first half: the husband, a quiet World War I veteran, delights in their unofficially adopted daughter but wrestles with guilt as her wealthy birth mother (Rachel Weisz), who lives on the mainland, publicly grieves for the vanished child. The lead actors all weep convincingly, yet Fassbender and Vikander seem too awkward together to have been living side by side for years. At the climax the wife makes a decision antithetical to her character, and a morally complex film derails into hackneyed Nicholas Sparks territory, complete with a tacked-on epilogue to tie up all the loose ends. —LEAH PICKETT PG-13, 133 min. Crown Village 18, River East 21 Mia Madre Writer-director Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room) drew on his own life experience for this study of an Italian filmmaker (Margherita Buy) trying to shoot a movie while, at home, her mother is slowly dying. The domestic scenes, which include Moretti himself as the filmmaker’s brother, are well played but familiar, giving way to ham-handed dream and reverie sequences that illustrate the heroine’s growing anxiety at her approaching loss. Fortunately the movie-production scenes deliver plenty of laughs, courtesy of John Turturro as a vain, temperamental American movie star who blows take after take and dines out on his stories of an imagined creative partnership with Stanley Kubrick.

The movie within the movie, starring Turturro as a haughty factory owner clashing with his workers over layoffs, is Moretti’s little inside joke about his own left-leaning early features. In Italian with subtitles. —J.R. JONES 106 min. Fri 9/2-Thu 9/8, 1:50, 4:15, and 7:10 PM. Music Box Miss Sharon Jones! Put your R hands together for Miss Sharon Jones, the New York soul diva who fronts the 60s revivalists the Dap-Kings and whose battle with Stage II pancreatic cancer is chronicled in this spirited documentary by veteran filmmaker Barbara

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A Tale of Love and Darkness Kopple (Harlan County, U.S.A.).

As the singer’s manager reveals, Jones wants to keep her musical career and her cancer treatment separate, but Kopple is under no such obligation, and as she cuts between chilly scenes of Jones undergoing chemotherapy in late 2013 and hard-grooving concert footage from a few years earlier, you realize that the grit the singer pumps into her songs is the same thing that’s getting her through her medical ordeal. The movie paints a lovely portrait of the people who became Jones’s support group, from the young, white hipsters in her band to an old friend in South Carolina who took her in during her treatment. But the life force of the film is the music, a periodic challenge to keep on keeping on.

—J.R. JONES 95 min. Fri 9/2, 8:30 PM; Sat 9/3, 8:00 PM; Sun 9/4, 5:30 PM; Sun 9/4, 7:45 PM; Mon 9/5, 3 and 5 PM; Tue 9/6, 6 PM; Wed 9/7, 8 PM; and Thu 9/8, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Morgan At a laboratory in the wilderness, a tight-knit group of researchers (including Michelle Yeoh, Toby Jones, and Jennifer Jason Leigh) keep watch over a genetically engineered girl (Anya Taylor-Joy) who’s become uncontrollable, and a corporate risk-management consultant (Kate Mara) arrives at the lab to decide what should be done with the little monster. This modestly budgeted sci-fi thriller seems like a bit of genetic engineering itself: director Luke Scott is the son of Alien director Ridley Scott and shares with his dad a gift for staging scenarios in which institutional calm erupts into savage and exhilarating violence.

That and the talented cast make this worth checking out, though it doesn’t really go anywhere conceptually and gradually dwindles into routine suspense and an Outer Limits-style surprise ending. With Paul Giamatti and Brian Cox. —J.R. JONES R, 92 min. Block 37, River East 21, A Tale of Love and Darkness Natalie Portman wrote, directed, and stars in this adaptation of a

memoir by Israeli writer Amos Oz, which recounts his mother’s deepening depression during the establishment of the state of Israel. This was a passion project for Portman, who has worked only sporadically since winning an Oscar for her performance in Black Swan, and her zeal is obvious: every scene is shot in high contrast and scored to solemn string movements. But whereas Oz’s material, at its best, considers the nuances and subtleties of language, Portman’s script reduces his writing to platitudes and cliches. Israel is a sunlit Mediterranean country, but the way Portman films it, you’d think the Jews were still in eastern Europe.

In Hebrew and Arabic with subtitles. —TAL ROSENBERG PG-13, 98 min. Century 12 and CineArts 6, River East 21

REVIVALS Sweetie Those lucky enough R to have seen Jane Campion’s eccentric and engaging shorts

had reason to expect her first feature to be a breakthrough for the Australian cinema. But nothing prepared one for the freshness and weirdness of this 1989 black comedy about two sisters (Genevieve Lemon and Karen Colston) locked in a deadly struggle. Practically every shot is unorthodox, unexpected, and poetically right, and the swerves of the plot are simultaneously smooth, logical, and so bizarre you’ll probably wind up pondering them days later. The mad behavior of both sisters may make you squirm, and there are plenty of other things in this picture—including the other characters—to make you feel unbalanced, but Campion does so many beautiful, funny, and surprising things with our disquiet that you’re likely to come out of this movie seeing the world quite differently. In short, this is definitely not to be missed.

With Tom Lycos, Jon Darling, Dorothy Barry, and Michael Lake.

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Fruit, fly “I WAS MAKING a smoothie, and the banana I used was sooo yellow,” says Nadha Vikitsreth, who was spotted on a recent Sunday strolling the Logan Square Farmers Market. “So I wanted to dress like a banana, but with a twist. I added my favorite Judith Leiber belt, from Store B in Wicker Park, to jazz it up, and slipped on my fluffy sneakers from Felt in Logan Square.” The developmental therapist usually peppers her outfits with feathers and rhinestones, a nod to the costumes she creates for her burlesque performances as part of Vaudezilla at Stage 773. “I’d like to think that designing a costume and putting together a daily ensemble are the same,” she says. “The whole point of both is to bring a smile to my face.” —ISA GIALLORENZO See more Chicago street style on Giallorenzo’s blog chicagolooks.blogspot.com.

FOR A LONG AMOUNT of time I was basically a beige-atarian. I grew up in Wisconsin in a family of Korean immigrants, and my mother cooked Korean food deliciously, but I, being a gigantic idiot, was very, very picky.

It wasn’t until, like, high school that I realized I should just shut the fuck up and start appreciating it.

By the time I started to get really nutso about food, I didn’t have any preconceived notions as to what I should try or what was good or what was lame. All I knew was that there was so much more stuff out there that I wanted to cram into my face.

And then my college years coincided almost exactly with the introduction of the Food Network.

A few years ago, I went online to see if there was any way to doctor up Huy Fong sriracha. That’s the rooster sauce you get at Thai or Vietnamese restaurants. I found a basic recipe, and I tinkered around for a couple years, and everything I made was terrible. I have a bottle saved somewhere that you could pour into your car and drive to Milwaukee with.

Finally I got to a version that I thought people might like. It’s called

"I don't know if you've ever had pureed jalapeño in your eye, but if you can imagine 100 drunk wasps trying to attack your face, that is what it feels like," Hahn says. o DANIELLE A. SCRUGGS

Wrath of Hahn, and I want to give 100 percent credit to my genius friend Holly Dunsworth for coming up with that, because there is literally no other possible fucking name for this hot sauce.

Anyway, to incentivize myself to get it out the door, I told my friends, “I will trade this for whatever you want to make—candy bars, muffins, other sauces, whatever.” I thought I’d get a couple dozen friends to do it. It turned out everybody and their mom wanted to try this hot sauce. I did it again last year, and even more people wanted to get in on it.

The demand got so crazy that I realized I had to charge money.

That said, there is no money in this at all. What little extra I’ve made I’ve just put into buying a fridge to store the stuff. In early September, I’m putting up 300 jars for sale—150 of the hot sauce and then 150 of a vinegar-pepper sauce. And when they’re gone, that’s it.

It’s very laborious, blending the peppers and garlic with brown sugar and salt to ferment. I have to do it out of my folks’ house, because if you try to boil and blend and process 20 gallons of fermented red jalapeños and habaneros in a condo in the South Loop, I’m pretty sure the co-op board will throw you out a window.

Now I wear gloves and goggles all the time. In years past, I have taken a rather cavalier attitude towards this sort of thing and have been punished for my hubris. Once, as I was cleaning up, I had sweat drip into my eye, and I wiped it away with my fingers. I don’t know if you’ve ever had pureed jalapeño in your eye, but if you can imagine 100 drunk wasps trying to attack your face, that is what it feels like. You’re basically just flushing and flushing and flushing and then lying down and then swearing a lot in front of your Baptist mom. —AS TOLD TO ANNE FORD

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& Ho gFight Ten local chefs—including Phil DeRosa of Lagunitas, Matt Campbell of 90 Miles Cuban Cafe, and Lamar More of Smoke Daddy—are each given pig from Slagel Farms to create loin, shoulder, belly, and ham dishes. 11 AM-3 PM, Mahoney’s Pub & Grille, 551 N. Ogden, hogfight.com, $25, $20 in advance.

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First Tuesdays With Mick and Ben This month the Reader’s Ben Joravsky and Sun-Times’s Mick Dumke discuss the role of race, religion, and gender in the 2016 campaign with guests Salim Muwakkil, Delmarie Cobb, and Kitty Kurth. 6:30 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, hideoutchicago.com, $5.

p Chicago Fringe Festival The city hosts 47 local and traveling innovative performing arts acts, complete with workshops and events focusing on dance, theater, music, and more.

8/31-9/11: times and locations vary, chicagofringe.org, $10 per show.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS COUNTY DEPARTMENT, CHANCERY DIVISION

LAURIE SEIWERT, Individually And As ) ) Representative of a Class of Similarly Situated Persons, ) Plaintiff, ) Case No. 15 CH 8734 vs. ) SOUTHPORT PROPERTIES LLC & ) ICM PROPERTIES, INC. ) Defendants.

NOTICE OF CLASS ACTION AND PROPOSED SETTLEMENT

YOU MAY BENEFIT FROM READING THIS NOTICE. TO: Those persons who entered into a lease or a renewal at any property in Chicago owned and/or managed by Defendant ICM Properties on or after June 1, 2013, IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE A PORTION OF THE CLASS SETTLEMENT YOU MUST RETURN THE FORM AT THE END OF THIS NOTICE BY MAIL, FAX, OR EMAIL POSTMARKED ON OR BEFORE November 30, 2016. *If you do not wish to be part of the settlement, you must submit a written request for exclusion pursuant to the instructions below* WHAT THIS CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IS ABOUT On June 1, 2015 Plaintiff, Laurie Seiwert, filed a class action complaint in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. Plaintiff’s class action complaint alleged that Defendants, Southport Properties, LLC and ICM Properties, Inc., violated the Chicago Residential Landlord and Tenant Ordinance (“RLTO”) by failing to attach to leases and renewals the required summary of the RLTO. The Plaintiff and Defendants have reached a proposed settlement of the lawsuit. The Court has preliminarily approved the settlement, has appointed Aaron Krolik Law Office, P.C., and Mark Silverman Law Office Ltd. as counsel for the class (“Class Counsel”), and has approved this notice. This notice explains the nature of the lawsuit and the terms of the settlement, and informs you of your legal rights and obligations.

THE FAIRNESS HEARING: A hearing will be held by the Court to consider the fairness of the proposed settlement and to decide whether to issue a final approval of the settlement. At the hearing, the Court will be available to hear any objections and arguments concerning the fairness of the proposed settlement, including the amount of the attorneys’ fee awarded. The hearing will take place before the Honorable Judge Peter Flynn on January 5, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in Room 2408 of the Richard J Daley Center, Chicago, IL 60602.

YOU ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO ATTEND THIS HEARING BUT MAY DO SO IF YOU PLAN TO OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT. THE PROPOSED SETTLEMENT Summary of the Benefits Under the Settlement: Current and former tenants who entered into a lease or renewal at any property in Chicago owned and/or managed

by Defendant ICM Properties on or after June 1, 2013 shall receive a check in the amount of $65.00. Defendants will issue that tenant a $65.00 check mailed to the last known address of that tenant.

If less than five hundred (500) claims are submitted, current and former tenants shall receive $75.00 with the same limitations as above in Paragraph (1).

There shall be a cy Pres award of $5,000.00 to a non profit entity selected by Defendants and approved by the Court.

Any funds that are unclaimed are returned to Defendants.

Only one Claim Form may be submitted by Class Members who rented the same apartment as co-tenants. In the event of timely receipt of multiple valid Claim Forms for a single apartment, the Settlement Payment shall be divided equally amongst the valid claimants to the same lease and its associated violation.

Recovery to Plaintiffs: Subject to Court approval, Plaintiff, Laurie Seiwert shall receive an incentive award of $5,000.00. This agreement reflects both the sums that Plaintiff claimed as a member of the Class as well as an incentive award in connection with Plaintiff’s services as a representatives of the class during the pendency of this litigation.

Attorney’s Fees and Costs: Class Counsel Aaron Krolik Law Office P.C. and Mark Silverman Law Office Ltd. has requested that the Court award attorneys’ fees and costs payable by Defendant in the amount of $75,000.00, and the costs of administering the settlement agreement to be reimbursed or paid by the Defendants. This request is based on the litigation costs incurred and the amount of hours worked by Class Counsel at their normal hourly rate.

Unless you exclude yourself from the settlement, you will be part of the Class and bound by the Settlement.

Regardless of whether you submit a Claim Form, if you stay in the Class you will release the Defendant for all claims that you may have had, as of the date of Final Approval of this Settlement, which is anticipated to be January 5, 2017, arising out of your relationship with Defendant (except for claims of bodily injury).

WHAT TO DO IF YOU WISH TO RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE SETTLEMENT: If you wish to obtain the

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benefits of the Settlement, and you are a Class Member, then you must submit a completed Claim Form, by U.S. mail, fax, or email, postmarked no later than November 30, 2016 to Class Counsel, Mark Silverman Law Office Ltd., 225 W. Washington Street, Suite 2200, Chicago, IL 60606. Alternatively, you may submit the Claim Form to Mr. Silverman by email at mark@depositlaw.com. To fax your Claim Form, please fax to (312) 256-2055. If you submit the Claim Form by email or fax it must be received no later than November 30, 2016.

REPRESENTATION BY CLASS COUNSEL – OR YOUR OWN ATTORNEY: As a member of the Class, your interests will be represented by the attorneys for Plaintiffs without any additional charge to you. If you wish to participate on your own or through your attorney, an appearance must be filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court, Chancery Division, by November 30, 2016. If you participate through your own attorney, it will be at your expense.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU OBJECT TO THE SETTLEMENT: If you object to the settlement and do not wish to exclude yourself from the class action, you must submit your objection in writing to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, Richard J Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602.

The objection must be mailed to the Clerk of the Circuit Court postmarked on or before November 30, 2016. Your objection must include the name and case number. On the same date that you mail your objections to the Clerk of the Court, you must also mail copies of that objection to Class Counsel and Defense Counsel, as follows: Class Mark Silverman Law Office, Ltd., 225 W. Counsel: Washington St., Suite 2200, Chicago, IL 60606 Mr. Edward Murphy, Lipe Lyons Murphy Nahrstadt & Pontikis Ltd., 230 W. Monroe St., Suite 2260, Chicago, IL 60606 Your written objections must include detailed reasons explaining why you contend that the settlement should not be approved. It is not sufficient to simply state that you object. Provided that you have submitted a written objection, you may also appear at the fairness hearing.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU WISH TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE SETTLEMENT: You have the right to exclude yourself from both the Class and the settlement by submitting a written request for exclusion to Class Counsel postmarked (or by fax or email) on or before November 30, 2016. Your request for exclusion must state your name, address, and the name and number of the case.

WHAT IF THE SETTLEMENT IS NOT APPROVED? If the settlement is not approved, the case will proceed as if no settlement had been reached. There can be no assurance that, if the settlement is not approved, the Class will recover more than is provided in the settlement or, indeed, anything at all.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The description of the case in this Notice is general and does not cover all of the issues and proceedings thus far. In order to see the complete file, including a copy of the settlement agreement, you may visit the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County, Chancery Division, Richard J Daley Center, 50 West Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois 60602, Room 802, where you may inspect and/or copy the court file for this case at your own expense.

In addition, you or your attorney may direct questions to Class Counsel: Mark Silverman Law Office Ltd., 225 W. Washington, Suite 2200, Chicago, IL 60606, tel. (312) 7751015, fax (312) 256-2055, email: mark@depositlaw.com.

PLEASE DO NOT CALL THE JUDGE’S CHAMBERS.

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SEIWERT v. SOUTHPORT PROPERTIES, LLC CASE NO. 15 CH 08734 -CLASS MEMBER CLAIM RELEASEIf you are a class member because you entered into a lease or renewal on or after June 1, 2013 for a Chicago property with Southport Properties, LLC, or ICM Properties, Inc., please fill out this form and promptly mail, fax, email, and/or deliver it back to Mr. Mark Silverman, Mark Silverman Law Office Ltd., 225 W. Washington, Ste. 2200, Chicago, IL 60606, FAX (312) 256-2055; or you can return your completed form by Email: mark@depositlaw.com. If you return this by mail, it must be postmarked no later than November 30, 2016. If you send it by email or fax it must be received by that date.

Please write the word “ICM” on the envelope.

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Going for broke

CPS budget cuts force a south-side school to lay off an awardwinning teacher.

By BEN JORAVSKY

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n the first week of August, as he was preparing for his 25th year as a middle school social studies teacher, Rob DiPrima got the call CPS teachers have come to fear.

His principal was on the line, telling him to beat it—We’re too damn broke to pay your salary, she said.

Well, she was a little more delicate in her phrasing. But the bottom line amounted to the same thing. DiPrima was getting laid off because apparently we’ve reached the point where certified social studies teachers are a luxury some Chicago public schools can’t afford.

Just when I thought things couldn’t get worse.

At age 52, DiPrima’s something of a legend at southeast-side Jane Addams Elementary School, where he’s taught seventh- and eighthgrade social studies since 2000.

According to former students, DiPrima’s an impassioned storyteller who brings lessons of the past alive and makes them relevant to children today.

For his efforts, he was awarded educator of the year by the East Side Chicago Chamber of Commerce in 2010. And in 2004 he passed the test that made him a nationally certified teacher—one of the highest distinctions a grammar or high school teacher can achieve.

“I wanted to teach at Addams until I retired,” he says. “I love my job.”

But on August 5 he got a call from his principal, Ruth Martini-Walsh. “It was a short conversation,” DiPrima says. “She said, ‘I have eliminated your position—there’s a job fair next week.’ And I said, ‘Thanks for ruining my life,’ and I hung up.”

DiPrima was one of roughly 1,000 CPS employees—including 500 teachers—laid off last month because of budget cuts.

Martini-Walsh didn’t respond to requests for comment. But according to the letter she posted on the school’s website, she had no choice.

“These teachers were not cut from our staff because of talent or performance issues, but because of a decrease in Addams’ enrollment, and, therefore, our budget,” Martini-Walsh

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wrote. “Simply put: our budget and decreased enrollment cannot support the same number of teaching positions.”

Enrollment declined at Addams because students have been funneled to a new elementary school just up the road that will open in September.

And Mayor Emanuel decided to build the new school because Addams and another nearby school were overcrowded.

So the project intended to help Addams’s students wound up kicking them in the teeth.

So it goes in Chicago.

The challenge for Martini-Walsh—as it is for any principal facing falling enrollment—is deciding which teachers to let go.

Generally, union contract seniority rules favor long-standing employees like DiPrima.

So in theory a principal should be forced to lay off the last person hired first. But things have changed.

In the good old days of Mayor Daley—a phrase I find myself muttering more frequently than I ever imagined I would—CPS allotted teachers to a school based on enrollment.

If a principal wanted to fill a teaching vacancy with a seasoned employee such as DiPrima, so be it. The central office picked up that salary, no questions asked.

But Emanuel changed that funding formula in an effort to save money in the classroom— leaving him free to spend it on things like the new Marriott Hotel and DePaul basketball arena he’s building with TIF funds in the South Loop.

Nowadays CPS gives each school a flat per-pupil allowance that doesn’t fluctuate with a teacher’s salary. Thus, there’s no incentive for a principal to pay more to hire experienced teachers, no matter how many awards they’ve won or how much their students love them.

In fact, it’s just the opposite. There’s an incentive for principals to hire the cheapest teachers they can find.

To be blunt, when it comes to a teacher like DiPrima, principals tend not see to a classroom asset. Instead, they see $91,000—which is about what he was making. And that kind of money is almost enough to buy a principal two rookie teachers just out of college.

I’m not sure you can build a world-class public school system if teaching experience is treated as a financial liability, but that’s where we’re at.

Effectively, Martini-Walsh got around union seniority rules by cutting DiPrima’s position from the budget, so the school has no social studies teacher at all.

On August 23, about two dozen people showed up at Addams for a local school council meeting to plead with Martini-Walsh to rehire DiPrima.

Tenth Ward alderman Sue Sadlowski Garza, who used to be a counselor at the school, asked who’d be teaching social studies in lieu of DiPrima.

Martini-Walsh said the assistant principal— who’s certified in math—would fill that role.

“So they’ve got a math teacher teaching social studies,” Garza says. “It’s crazy.”

An Addams parent set up an online petition so parents, students, and graduates could weigh in on DiPrima’s behalf.

As of publication it was filled with more than 300 testimonials ranging from “He is the most inspirational teacher I have ever met” to “He’s one of the teachers you remember forever” to “You’re fucking idiots for firing him.”

When it comes to a teacher like DiPrima, principals tend not see to a classroom asset. Instead, they see $91,000—which is about what he was making.

As you can see, some of his fans are rather passionate. In any event, the students at Addams are now without a certified social studies teacher, though most civilized school systems require students to take social studies.

I suppose we might question whether CPS counts as a civilized school system at this point—an enlightening topic for any social studies class to debate, in any school that still has one.

At least this story has one happy ending: DePrima called me Tuesday to tell me he’d been hired—at his same salary—to teach sixthgrade history at southwest-side Sutherland Elementary School.

Congratulations, my man.

One school’s loss is another school’s gain.

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his has been a summer of discontent for Chicago cyclists.

Most seriously, there were four bike fatalities in the city in the space of about two months, all involving commercial vehicles. Courier Blaine Klingenberg was struck and killed by a tour bus driver on June 15 in the Gold Coast and Divvy rider Virginia Murray was fatally struck by a flatbed truck driver on July 1 in Avondale.

Art student Lisa Kuivinen was also struck and killed by the driver of a flatbed truck in West Town on the morning of August 16. The next evening West Garfield Park resident Francisco “Frank” Cruz was fatally struck in the neighborhood by a cargo van driver who fled the scene and was still at large as of late last week.

Kuivinen’s case drew attention to a problem that may not have been a factor in any of these fatalities, but has the potential to cause additional cycling deaths. That is, construction zones that block sidewalks and bike lanes,

terrible pavement conditions caused by utility line work, and illegally parked vehicles blocking bikeways.

On the morning of the crash, Kuivinen, 20, had been biking southeast in a stretch of the Milwaukee Avenue bike lanes in West Town, police said. Near 874 N. Milwaukee, truck driver Antonio Navarro, 37, veered into the bike lane while making a right turn onto southbound Racine Avenue, striking and dragging Kuivinen.

It appears that Navarro was on his way to a transit-oriented development construction site at 830 N. Milwaukee. The site can be accessed from an alley off of Racine.

Early news reports noted that southeast-bound bike lane is blocked by a fenced-off construction zone, which forces cyclists to merge into the travel lane. However, it appears this wasn’t a factor in the collision, because the blockage is a few hundred feet past the crash site.

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DNAinfo reported that on the day after Kuivinen died, a male cyclist intentionally smashed the windshield of a truck that was parked in the bike lane.

Milwaukee Avenue is the city’s busiest cycling street, sometimes seeing 5,000-plus bike trips a day during the summer, according to CDOT. But this season much of it has been affected by construction zones and associated parking issues. The ongoing gentrification of Wicker Park and Logan Square, along with the recent passage of the city’s transit-oriented development ordinance, which reduces onsite parking requirements and allows for additional density in projects located near train stops, have led to a building boom along the Milwaukee Blue Line corridor.

On a bike ride along the 3.5-mile stretch of Milwaukee from Logan Square’s eagle-topped Illinois Centennial Monument to Kinzie Street last week, I counted 18 different sites where construction or rehab work was going on. At least seven were for TOD projects.

Much of the work included significant impacts to the public right-of-way. In addition to the bike lane blockage near the Kuivinen crash site, there were several sites, such as the “Twin Towers” TOD near the California station, where sidewalks were closed, and plenty of construction Dumpsters sat in the curb lane.

One of the most problematic projects for cyclists has been the conversion of Wicker Park’s Northwest Tower, aka the Coyote Building, into a boutique hotel. Since the construction required closing a length of sidewalk on the west side of Milwaukee, the developer provided a safe route for people on foot by building a pedestrian walkway in the street, surrounded by concrete walls.

However, the walkway eliminated the space southeast-bound cyclists used to ride in, forcing them to squeeze between a wall and car traffic. After Streetsblog publicized the problem, CDOT addressed the issue by stripping parking from the other side of the street and moving the center line of the road to widen the downtown-bound lane, but it’s still a somewhat tight fit for bike riders.

“CDOT has strict rules that govern all permit requests that affect the public’s access to the right-of-way, including requests that affect a bike lane or sidewalk,” spokesman Mike Claffey said in a statement. “If the contractor fails to meet the requirement of the permit or the city’s

Rules and Regulations for Construction in the Public Way, they can be subject to fines.”

Milwaukee Avenue hasn’t been the only trouble spot for cyclists this summer. Kinzie Street in River North, where Chicago’s first protected bike lanes were installed more than five years ago, is currently a mess due to trenches that were dug for utility work and filled in with concrete, forming a rough surface for bike tires.

In the Loop, Randolph Street (a popular westbound bike route) and Dearborn Street (home to a busy two-way protected bike lane) are similarly torn up. CDOT says these streets will be repaved later this year, the Kinzie and Dearborn bike lanes will be rebuilt, and a brand-new curb-protected bike lane will be installed on Randolph.

Still, the Active Transportation Alliance says more needs to be done to protect cyclists.

“We feel things have really come to a head this summer with the obstructions of high-profile bike routes,” advocacy director Jim Merrell told me. “The city’s regulations say pedestrians and cyclists should be accommodated and safe alternatives should be provided, and in some cases private contractors aren’t following these rules.”

While the advocacy group has always encouraged members to call 311 to report rightof-way problems, last week it launched a new campaign called “Clear the Way,” billed as “an all-out blitz to flood the city of Chicago’s 311 line to report conditions that put people walking and biking in danger.”

From now through the end of September, residents are urged to file 311 reports on unsafe conditions. Reports can also be made on the city website or via the mobile app Chicago Works. In addition, Active Trans is asking people to shoot photos of the sketchy situations and e-mail them to cleartheway@ activetrans.org.

In October, Active Trans will compile the results and submit them to Mayor Emanuel and aldermen. “We hope to encourage city officials and staff to take another look at this issue and see if more can’t be done,” Merrell said.

Hopefully by beating the drum about these problems, Active Trans will be able to convince decision makers that hazards and inconveniences for people walking and biking need to be taken just as seriously as those for people driving. v

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Keep Chicago’s name out of your mouth, Donald Trump’s using our city as a cheap prop for his own political gains.

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onald Trump is a bigot. Let’s just get that out of the way first.

But he seems newly determined to court disaffected black voters, as reports have indicated he’s losing ground with white voters, especially those who are college educated.

And anytime he mentions black people, talk of Chicago seems to soon follow.

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During his “law and order” speech at the Republican National Convention, he mentioned shootings and violent deaths in the “president’s hometown of Chicago” shortly before blaming Obama for poverty in black communities. Speaking recently with Bill O’Reilly, Trump suggested he’d be able to fix violent crime in Chicago “within one week.”

He claimed his assertion was based on con-

versation with a “top” Chicago police officer, but the Chicago Police Department has denied that Trump met with anyone there.

Then, last weekend, Trump made a crass attempt to score political points following the tragic shooting of 32-year-old Nykea Aldridge, a mother of four, who was killed while pushing her baby in a stroller in Chicago’s Parkway Gardens neighborhood. Aldridge was the cousin of Chicago Bulls star Dwyane Wade, and Trump tweeted, “Dwyane Wade’s cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in Chicago. Just what I have been saying. African-Americans will VOTE TRUMP!” It took him more than an hour to offer any condolences, well after he was publicly criticized for his remarks.

This was a new low, even for Trump. And it’s well past time for him to keep Chicago’s name out of his mouth.

Of course, the city has its problems. I’m not saying Chicago is beyond criticism, or that its issues don’t merit discussion. But Trump talking about Chicago is a shallow and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to win black votes.

When Trump talks about Chicago’s problems he offers no real solutions. Rather, he uses our city as a prop for his platform. And not coincidentally, he mostly does so in front of predominantly white, suburban or rural audiences. His plan for “black outreach” seems less about authentically connecting with black people than about appealing to white voters.

Let’s not forget that this was the candidate who couldn’t be bothered to show up at a March rally scheduled at the University of Illinois at Chicago, citing security concerns.

His incendiary remarks about Mexicans and Muslims, as well as his “All Lives Matter” antagonism towards black voters, turned out protesters in droves—setting up a showdown between activists and Trump’s many white supremacist supporters. (Including a woman who performed a Nazi salute on a street corner near the UIC Pavilion.)

The UIC rally was his primary campaign’s first in a diverse, major urban center as opposed to the mostly white rural and suburban areas where he’d made plenty of previous stops. Chicago displayed an unparalleled resistance to his toxic behavior.

Speaking of that Chicago rally, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski recently told a CNN panel that the candidate hasn’t taken his message directly to black communities because Chicago is “not a safe environment.”

Nonsense. During the course of his campaign, he’s made little to no effort to show up in black communities and has turned down invitations from organizations such as the NAACP and the National Urban League.

And Trump hasn’t appeared in Chicago since that failed event here almost six months ago. The campaign has never announced plans to reschedule, nor has it planned a follow-up event. Trump was, however, able to make an appearance in downstate Bloomington, which is 78 percent white.

Yet still, Chicago is all on his mouth like liquor.

Trump has nothing to offer Chicago, other than the odious sight of his name on the side of a downtown skyscraper.

Had he actually shown up here, Trump might have been in a better position to argue that his outreach to black and brown voters is earnest, despite evidence to the contrary.

Some officials are calling Trump’s bluff. On Monday Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Trump’s “got an election. He’s not interested in Chicago.” And in an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Congressman Danny Davis gave voice to a sentiment making its way through black communities around the city: “Talk is cheap.

Show us what you’re going to do.”

We know he won’t. Trump has demonstrated that he has no interest in listening to black and brown voters. He has no solutions. He has absolutely nothing to offer the city other than the odious sight of his name on the side of a downtown skyscraper. After all that Trump has done to alienate communities of color, the notion that he could win over black voters is laughable.

Despite some calls for Trump to come to Chicago, the protests in March already make it clear that most people in the city would be just fine if he never showed up. And I’d wager they’d be even happier if he never mentioned the city again. v

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oes a “master drawing” have to be drawn by a master? What is a “master drawing”? Furthermore, how does one qualify as a “master” draftsman? The Art Institute’s new survey show, “Master Drawings Unveiled: 25 Years of Major Acquisitions,” won’t answer any of these questions, but it does contain enough pleasurable works to interest those who appreciate the art of drawing—in particular, people who draw, whether for a living or for recreation.

“Master Drawings Unveiled” is the polar opposite of the Art Institute’s recent “Van Gogh’s Bedrooms,” which was calculated for mass appeal to a fault. There are no glitzy multimedia tie-ins, nor even a printed catalog—just marks on paper, with barely any distracting supplementary material. The only criteria for the exhibit are that the pieces date from the 17th to mid-20th centuries, have been acquired in the past 25 years, and never have been displayed in the museum before. This framework produces an uneven show, but patient visitors with a grasp of art history can have a rewarding experience.

The show begins on a high note: just to the right of the entrance is Gustave Caillebotte’s Study for Paris Street; Rainy Day (1877). A preparatory sketch for one of the museum’s most iconic paintings (Paris Street; Rainy Day), it’s a great, behind-the-scenes clue to how a masterpiece is made. The famous passersby are rendered in wiry squiggles and the umbrellas they hold in the painting are absent, save for a crude arcing line in the middle of the composition, where Caillebotte was trying to figure out the umbrellas’ eventual placement. The piece was likely done outside on a Paris street, then taken back to the studio to be used as reference for an artwork that would eventually be reproduced on countless posters, mugs, and even umbrellas.

There is nothing else in “Master Drawings Unveiled” that’s quite as resonant, but there are many minor discoveries. In Jean- J

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continued from 13 François Millet’s Landscape—Hillside in Gruchy, Normandy (1869-’70), the lumpy earth upon which cows wander palpably conveys the feeling of working the land. And Sir David Wilkie’s Guess My Name (1821) invites the viewer to guess along with the young man in the drawing, whose eyes are being covered by a girl’s hands. This study, commissioned by a German nobleman, is intimate in a way the finished painting could never be, one of the better examples of this exhibit’s virtues.

No grand statements or bravura performances—rather, sensitive studies and whispered fragments that give an inkling of the artistic process without obvious forcefulness.

The “master” tag in “Master Drawings Unveiled” could be interpreted as misleading.

There are indeed pieces by well-known names such as Max Beckmann, Edgar Degas, Käthe Kollwitz, and Francis Picabia, but the lion’s share were done by lesser-known or nowforgotten artists. In many of the wall texts, the work is attributed to a student or a friend of someone more famous. This isn’t necessarily a shortcoming—the stated aim is to introduce the public to some of the museum’s hidden treasures—and with both celebrated and obscure examples, rendered in a half-dozen

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styles, the breadth of the Art Institute’s holdings are represented.

But whether done by a master or an amateur, not every piece rises to the highest standard. Jean-Étienne Liotard’s Portrait of a Man Holding a Book, Turned to the Right (1758/’62) is a sloppy, dashed-off study that hopefully didn’t cost the Art Institute too much. Liotard may well have been an 18th-century master of the pastel portrait, as the wall text claims, but he certainly didn’t demonstrate it during the half hour he spent drawing this one. Perhaps it was included to indicate that even a master can have an off day.

The drawings, prints, pastels, and watercolors here provide an unusual insight into the varied tastes of the curators who have acquired work for the museum during the past 25 years. And in an era of overblown multimedia extravaganzas put on by museums to attract maximum revenue, a low-key art show such as this one, which welcomes independent introspection and only reveals its beauty hesitantly, is a welcome respite. v R “MASTER DRAWINGS UNVEILED: 25 YEARS OF MAJOR ACQUISITIONS” Through 1/29/17, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, 312-4433600, artic.edu. $25, $20 for Illinois residents, $14 for students and seniors.

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ear the beginning of Stephen Sachs’s Bakersfield Mist, a big-time art expert stands in the trailer home belonging to an out-of-work bartender and breaks the news to her that the painting she bought at a thrift store isn’t the genuine Jackson Pollock she hopes it is. “This is shallow. Empty,” he says of the canvas. “It has no allure.”

I know exactly what he means. There’s a funny, interesting, true story at the heart of Sachs’s 2011 play, running now in a TimeLine Theatre production at Stage 773 on Belmont.

But Sachs doesn’t tell it, choosing to paint us a shallow, empty, allure-challenged picture instead.

The real incident that inspired Bakersfield Mist goes like this: Some years back, in California, a retired long-haul trucker named Teri Horton went looking for something to cheer up a depressed friend. She found a gag present: a big painting of nothing—all squiggles, swipes, and drips, with no apparent subject— and paid five bucks for it. The friend hated the piece, and couldn’t get it through the door of her trailer in any case, so Horton added it to a garage sale. An art teacher happened by, took a look, and, according to Horton, told her, “You might have a Jackson Pollock painting here.”

Horton’s response—“Who the fuck is Jackson Pollock?”—became (in expurgated form) the title of a 2006 documentary about her efforts to get the art world to agree that her thrift-store bargain was indeed an original work by the great action painter, worth many tens of millions of dollars.

I’ve seen only the first nine minutes and 22 seconds of the documentary, but that’s enough to confirm that it’s framed as a Teri-versus-

the-snoots narrative, the primary snoot being the late Metropolitan Museum of Art director Thomas Hoving, who’s shown discussing his “connoisseurship”—and making lots of geeky moves—on his way to declaring that Horton’s painting is no Pollock.

Hoving subsequently wrote an essay for Artnet that gives substantial reasons for his declaration (among them: “The thing is painted with acrylics. Pollock never used acrylics.”) and exposes conflicts of interest and possible fabrications connected with a crucial Horton partisan. Sachs might’ve come up with something richer and more subtle if he’d been willing to take the story even that far, create even that much doubt.

But he goes in precisely the opposite direction, outdoing the documentary in flattening out the characters, sentimentalizing their conflict, and telegraphing, well, everything.

His thinly fictionalized script embodies Horton as Maude Gutman, a hard-bitten, 50ish divorcee with a foul mouth and a powerful thirst for the product she used to dispense from behind a bar. Hoving is incarnated as Lionel Percy, snoot par excellence, whose first gestures after recovering from an encounter with the neighbor’s dogs—“I’m having a seizure!”—are to (a) sneer at Maude’s redneck surroundings and (b) present his many bona fides, which include a post at Princeton, an editorship at Connoisseur magazine, and, of course, the director’s job of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Maude serves little wiener rolls, with and without Velveeta. Lionel bases his negative assessment of the painting on a cursory few minutes of inspection, during which he never so much as turns the picture over and after

which he never offers a forensic explanation of the sort that Hoving was able to provide in his Artnet article. Sachs isn’t interested in texture. He’s into schematics. He introduces Maude and Lionel as implausible, cartoonish, not to say unprofessional polar opposites in order to achieve a simple objective: arriving at the sympathetic breakthrough we all know is coming. And I guess he didn’t want to make the trip too hard on himself.

Director Kevin Christopher Fox seems to have gotten with Sachs’s program. His costume designer, Christine Pascual, put Mike Nussbaum’s Lionel in an ascot, for god’s sake.

Jeffrey D. Kmiec’s set supplies Janet Ulrich Brooks’s Maude with all manner of silly lumpen tchotchkes. Fox’s one miscalculation seems

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he Onion’s satirical website Clickhole is famous for lists, videos, and articles with titles like “8 Bullshit Cats We Wish Judas Could’ve Betrayed Instead of Christ,” “Inspiring! People Describe the First Time They Drank Gatorade,” and “The Kindest Man Alive: Jon Hamm Makes Crepes For A Beached Whale.” Behind every giggle-inducing page on the site is a staff of writers, editors, and producers who are stepping onstage to show off their chops for The Clickhole Writers Present Amazing: A Live Show.

“We have a certain comedic sensibility that isn’t necessarily tied to the website,” says Jamie Brew, Clickhole head writer. “We get along as a group of comedians, and that’s the most exciting thing for us.”

Amazing: A Live Show commenced with a few dates at the Cards Against Humanity headquarters. At one point the show was a monthly fixture at iO, but now it appears sporadically as a one-off, like the upcoming performance at the Hideout. As with Clickhole and its sister site the Onion, Amazing: A Live Show is an outlet for comedy writers either to be completely nonsensical or to present a serious issue humorously. Digital producer Dan Davis, for instance, will be talking about bike safety during his time onstage. “Bike safety is something that I’m actually interested in and think is important,” Davis says.

“But I think there’s a lot of fun to be had when you examine some of the tropes of cycling.”

The staff ’s creativity and imagination produces characters like a woman who has her own amateur “Bodies” exhibit in her backyard, or Wett Problem, a doctor who regularly gives presentations on health issues—performers are rarely, if ever, playing themselves. And unlike a typical stand-up or sketch event, Amazing: A Live Show is riddled with PowerPoint presentations, videos, and audience interaction.

Fran Hoepfner, digital editor for the Onion and former editorial coordinator for Clickhole, produced the version at Cards Against Humanity but will be performing in the show for the first time at the Hideout.

She sees the stage as a testing ground where the staff can explore their oddest interests in a way that they can’t in an online list or article or video. “There’s a cutting-loose feel to all of [the shows], in the safest possible sense,” Hoepfner says. “Everyone is free to be extremely weird and fun, and there’s a lot of joy in how alienating and strange it can be.” v R THE CLICKHOLE WRITERS PRESENT AMAZING: A LIVE SHOW Sat 9/3, 7 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-2274433, hideoutchicago.com, $10.

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riter-director Ira Sachs was raised in Memphis before moving to New York City, but you can tell he’s a New Yorker now because he’s so preoccupied with real estate. In his acclaimed indie drama Love Is Strange (2014) a longtime gay couple are forced to separate when they lose their condominium in Manhattan, and the pain of longing is only increased by the awkward living arrangements each is forced to make on his own. Now Sachs is back with Little Men, a quiet but engrossing drama about two schoolboys whose friendship is tested by their respective parents’ landlord-tenant conflict. That’s all there is to the story, but that’s all Sachs needs, because as any renter understands, losing a lease can change not only your address but your whole life. “I think all my films are about intimacy and economics, and how those things play out together,” the filmmaker recently told the Daily Beast. In the last two, those economics can be measured in square footage.

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In Little Men the conflict all springs from the business dealings of someone who isn’t there: Max Jardine, owner of a small Brooklyn apartment building and the father of middle-aged Brian (Greg Kinnear) and Audrey (Talia Balsam). Max’s relationship with Brian, a struggling off-Broadway actor, is so distant that when Max dies, an old friend (Molina again) phones Brian’s family in Manhattan to ask about the memorial service before they’ve even heard the news. For years Brian has been supported financially by his kind, even-tempered wife, Kathy (Jennifer Ehle), a busy psychotherapist, and they leap at the chance

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to vacate their expensive home and move into the old second-floor apartment where Brian was raised. Audrey, who inherited the building with Brian, wants to see more income from the street-level storefront, which Max has rented for years to a Chilean-American woman selling handmade dresses, so family begin the delicate process of notifying the tenant, Leonor (Paulina García), that they’re going to triple her rent.

According to the politics of gentrification, the Jardines are the villains here—white professionals who snap up a bargain property in an up-and-coming neighborhood and force out a Hispanic merchant whose small business gives the street some of its flavor. But Sachs complicates this easy reading by making Brian a highly sympathetic figure. At the memorial service he plays the strong, gracious son, but later, as he’s hauling some boxes down to the basement, he bursts into tears, and Sachs, granting him the privacy of a shadowy space, lingers on the anguished moment just a few seconds longer than is comfortable. Brian cares deeply for his school-age son, Jake (Theo Taplitz), a shy, artistic boy who reminds him of himself, and he’s so pleased to see Jake bond with Leonor’s cocky son, Anthony (Michael Barbieri), that he can’t bear to inform Jake about the escalating business conflict. He’s a decent guy trying to find a humane outcome to a situation in which humanity doesn’t figure.

Leonor understands what’s coming, and she resorts to all manner of emotional manipulation to strengthen her weak hand. When Anthony gets into a fistfight at school defending Jake’s good name, Leonor makes sure that

Jake knows about it. Cornered by Brian at last, she coldly puts him in his place: “Your father and I were very good friends. We spent a lot of time together. What you and your sister don’t understand is that your father wanted me to stay. He thought of me as part of this house, part of this neighborhood. I was more his family, if you wanna know, than you were.” There’s no way to know whether this arrogant statement is true, and Brian is too pleasant a fellow to point out that his father never arranged to provide for Leonor in the event of his death.

You couldn’t ask for a better example of intimacy and economics playing out together, and the standoff only deteriorates from there.

Leonor refuses even to look at the new lease, promising to give it to her attorney, and when Brian passes by the store, she’s posted a HELP WANTED sign. The next time she and Brian speak, the writing’s on the wall, and Leonor seems intent on getting her revenge before the eviction notice arrives. “Do you know why your father didn’t come to your son’s birthday, the last one?” she asks Brian. “The truth is, he was embarrassed that everything in your house was paid for by your wife. He thought you should be more as a man.” Brian accepts this vicious cut as his due, but no rejoinder is needed, because he and his sister are the ones holding the deed on the property. As anyone can tell you, there’s no such thing as a tenant getting the last word. v LITTLE MEN sss Directed by Ira Sachs. PG, 85 min. Landmark’s Century Centre

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The fifth film in The Decalogue illustrates the commandment “Thou shalt not kill.”

he Decalogue, Krzysztof Kieslowski’s major work (1990) consists of ten separate films, each running 50-odd minutes and set mainly around two high-rises in Warsaw. The films are built around a contemporary reflection on the Ten Commandments—specifically, an inquiry into what breaking each of them in today’s world might entail. Made as a miniseries for Polish TV before Kieslowski embarked on The Double Life of Veronique (1991) and the “Three Colors” trilogy (1993-’94), these concise dramas can be seen in any order or combination; they don’t depend on one another, though if you see them in batches you’ll notice that major characters in one story turn up as extras in another.

One reason Kieslowski remains controversial is that in some ways he embodies the intellectual European filmmaking tradition of the 60s while commenting directly on how we live today. The first film, illustrating “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” is about trust in computers; the often ironic and ambiguous connections between most subsequent commandments and their matching stories tend to be less obvious. (One of the 60s traditions Kieslowski embodies is that of the puzzle film, though he takes it on seriously rather than frivolously, as part of his ethical inquiry.) The fourth (“Honor thy father and mother”), for instance, one of my favorites, pivots around the revelation of feelings between a young act-

ing student and the architect who may or may not be her real father, and the eighth (“Thou shalt not bear false witness”) focuses on the investigation of an American Jewish academic into why she was denied sanctuary from the Nazis when she was a little girl. (Episodes five and six were expanded into A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, which ends more effectively than its shorter version; the expanded versions screen Friday, September 9, and Saturday, September 10).

One of Kieslowski’s best ideas was to use a different cinematographer for each film (with the exception of the third and ninth, both shot by Piotr Sobocinski, who also shot Red), though the script—which he spent a solid year preparing with Krzysztof Piesiewicz, his regular collaborator—is more important here than the mise en scene, which isn’t the case in Kieslowski’s later films. Each segment is shaped like a well-constructed short story, often with a sardonic twist at the end, and though the performances—by many of the best actors in Polish cinema—are powerful, the direction is mainly a matter of realization rather than stylistic filigree. v THE DECALOGUE ssss Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski. 572 min. Fri 9/2-Sat 9/10, Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre. com, $11 each, series passes $35.

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A comprehensive guide to the

Chicago Jazz Festival This year’s lineup captures the music’s proliferating diversity, with the Bad Plus, Anat Cohen, Erwin Helfer, Tarbaby, JD Allen, the Liberation Music Orchestra, and much more.

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By PETER MARGASAK, JOHN CORBETT, AND BILL MEYER

CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL

Thu 9/1, noon-5 PM, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 6:30-10 PM, Millennium Park, Michigan and Randolph; Fri 9/2, noon10 PM, Millennium Park; SatSun 9/3-9/4, 11:30 AM-10 PM, Millennium Park; free, all ages

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his year’s Chicago Jazz Festival includes a few themed or celebratory events, but the primary mission of its lineup is to capture the sprawling variety of jazz in all its everfragmenting manifestations. (Full disclosure: I volunteer on the committee that programs the fest.) Thursday evening’s headlining set by Chicago trumpeter Orbert Davis is a commission marking the centennial of the Great Migration, and on Friday night pianist and arranger Carla Bley leads the magnificent Liberation Music Orchestra in a performance that pays homage to bassist Charlie Haden, a fellow founder of the ensemble, who died in 2014.

On Saturday piano trio the Bad Plus enlist three superb horn men to play their take on the classic Ornette Coleman album Science Fiction, while Sunday’s closing performance celebrates the 95th birthday of a

musician who’s not only still alive, but will also lead his own group for the occasion: conga master Candido Camero.

Like last year, the festival begins with a slate of Thursday-afternoon concerts at the Chicago Cultural Center before moving to Millennium Park. WDCB 90.9 FM, owned by the College of DuPage, will once again simulcast the prefestival concerts at PianoForte Studios: Steve Million and Jeremy Kahn’s Double Monk (Monday) and Ari Brown’s tribute to singer Ann E. Ward (Tuesday), who passed away on July 18. The Young Jazz Lions Stage is back too, still on the rooftop of the Harris Theater but with a new wrinkle in its bookings: the usual assortment of strong elementary, high school, and college bands will perform on Saturday, while Sunday’s lineup features more advanced players from the Jazz Institute of Chicago’s NextGen program. —PETER MARGASAK

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THURSDAY 1 CHICAGO CULTURAL CENTER Claudia Cassidy Theater

NOON Dan Trudell Trio Superbad Chicago organist Dan Trudell draws on the full spectrum of Hammond B-3 tradition, from Jimmy Smith to Don Patterson, for a fresh and fully formed sound that he’s put to good use in his organ trio and with the B3 Bombers (featuring James Brown drummer Clyde Stubblefield). Last year Trudell threw a changeup with Dan Trudell Plays the Piano, a mainstream acoustic date that combines Coltrane-era vocabulary with the same kind of ingenuity and down-home sound you’d expect on a Ramsey Lewis LP. He plays here with the band from the album, bassist Joe Sanders and exceptional drummer Matt Wilson. —JOHN CORBETT Preston Bradley Hall

12:30 PM Mwata Bowden’s One Foot In, One Foot Out Educator, composer, and bandleader Mwata Bowden (who usually plays baritone saxophone, clarinet, or didgeridoo) is a longtime member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians. He and his bandmates here—bassist Harrison Bankhead, tenor saxophonist Ari Brown, and drummer Avreeayl Ra—have all played with one another, either extensively or occasionally, joined as they are by a web of collaborations that spans several decades and countless ensembles.

(Bankhead, Brown, and Ra are AACM members too.) The two younger members of the group, self-described “discopoet” Khari B. and trumpeter Leon Q, will bring affinities for hip-hop and spoken word. Bowden and Khari B. are father and son, but that’s not the only reason this is likely to feel like a family affair. The convergence of generations and styles promised by this lineup is very much in keeping with the AACM’s motto, “Great Black Music: Ancient to the Future.” —BILL MEYER Claudia Cassidy Theater

1:30 PM Eric Schneider/Pat Mallinger Quintet Dueling horns are a Chicago tradition. Two stalwart Chicago saxophonists—both multiinstrumentalists, both excellent contemporary practitioners—help provide the opening salvo of this year’s festival. Mallinger will be familiar to late-night Green Mill habitues as coleader of Sabertooth; he plays a quick alto with a cutting sound. Schneider’s wonderful tenor is in the

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same bag, drawing from the mainstream scene of the 50s and the cutting-edge early 60s while adding insights of more recent vintage. Here they’ll be working with pianist Dennis Luxion, bassist Matt Ferguson, and drummer Clif Wallace. —JOHN CORBETT

after the saxophone’s inventor, the band has a unique book of Pfiffner originals and adaptations that combine jazz with liturgical music.

—BILL MEYER

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2 PM Louder Than a Bomb Presents: The Bomb Squad Readings by poets affiliated with nonprofit Young Chicago Authors.

6:30 PM Brown in Bronzeville Effect with Maggie & Africa Brown Singer Maggie Brown, daughter of musician, writer, and civil-rights activist Oscar Brown Jr., inherited a lot from her celebrated father— including his deeply rooted righteousness

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3 PM Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy Following this screening of the 2008 documentary Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy, keyboardist and composer Carla Bley—who founded the Liberation Music Orchestra with the legendary bassist—will participate in a Q and A. —PETER MARGASAK Preston Bradley Hall

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3:30 PM Cameron Pfiffner’s Adolphe’s Ax Chicagoans have plenty of chances to encounter saxophonist and polymath Cameron Pfiffner. He coleads the organ combo Sabertooth, which has bridged Saturday night and Sunday morning at the Green Mill for 24 years, and he also works as an actor—this summer he played painter Gustav Klimt in a three-week run of Susan Padveen’s one-man show The Portrait at the Greenhouse Theater Center. But one place you won’t often find him is the recording studio—when he’s done with a band, you’re usually out of chances to hear it. So it’s a treat that Pfiffner has revived Adolphe’s Ax, an allsaxophone sextet he led for a spell four years ago. (He sometimes styles it “Adolphe’S AX” to make sure nobody misses the point.) Named

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and his devotion to using music to address social and cultural ills. Tonight she and her sister carry on the tradition of a great Chicago musical family, supported by pianist Shawn Wallace, saxophonist Fred Jackson, guitarist Samuel Mösching, bassist Dexter Sims, and drummer Peter Manheim. —PETER MARGASAK 8 PM Orbert Davis’s Soul Migration Trumpeter and composer Orbert Davis put himself on the map in 2004 by conceiving and

leading the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, a massive ensemble that brings the grandeur and spectacle of a symphony orchestra to jazz. For this special commission—part of Chicago’s yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Great Migration—Davis wrote a programmatic suite for a relatively pared-down group. He’s wisely enlisted singer Maggie Brown, an artist with a keen historical sensibility, as his lead vocalist. Journalist John Fountain will read texts related to this crucial chapter in the city’s history, when roughly half a million African-Americans moved here from the rural south. The band features drummer Ernie Adams, reedists Steve Eisen and Michael Salter, keyboardist Leonardo Lopez Varady, and vibist Joel Ross; here and there the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Youth Brass Ensemble and String Quartet will enlarge the sound.

—PETER MARGASAK

FRIDAY 2 MILLENNIUM PARK Von Freeman Pavilion

NOON James Sanders Proyecto Libre Local violinist James Sanders is accustomed to moving between genres: he plays classical music with the Chicago Sinfonietta, straightahead jazz with the Blue Violin Quartet, and Latin dance with Conjunto. Proyecto Libre is Sanders’s take on free jazz, but it’s hardly a free-for-all—rather it’s a band where he’s free to mix it all up. Bassists Joshua Abrams and Harrison Bankhead spend as much time grooving with percussionist JeanChristophe Leroy and drummer Avreeayl Ra as they do weaving rich, intricate harmonies with Sanders and saxophonist Edward Wilkerson Jr. —BILL MEYER

1:10 PM Magic Carpet Veteran Chicago combo Magic Carpet— guitarist Timuel Jones, bassist Parish Hick, saxophonist Fred Jackson, keyboardist Tracey King, percussionist Ryan Mayer, and drummer Makaya McCraven—have finessed a beguiling global fusion that uses their shared sense of rhythmic drive to pull together a wide variety of international threads. Traditions from Morocco, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Mali, and elsewhere commingle with strong doses of funk and blues, all driven by the jazz sensibility the musicians acquired early in their careers. —PETER MARGASAK J

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2:20 PM Greg Rockingham Quartet Rockingham is best known as onethird of the defunct Deep Blue Organ Trio, a beloved ensemble that featured guitarist Bobby Broom and organist Chris Foreman.

The drummer leads a couple groups of his own now, including this exciting lineup with Foreman (a genius of the pedals and still the go-to guy for McGriff-era goodness), guitarist Lee Rothenberg, and versatile alto saxophonist Greg Ward. Keep an eye on Ward in particular, as you’ll be hearing about him a lot more—his own bands have been on fire, and he leads a wonderful jam session at the Hungry Brain on Tuesday nights in the tradition of the jams at Fred Anderson’s old Velvet Lounge. —JOHN CORBETT

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3:30 PM Brian Carpenter’s Ghost Train Orchestra For the past decade, Boston trumpeter Brian Carpenter has corralled a dynamic group of forward-looking players to turn their attention to the earliest days of jazz—especially music made in Chicago (under the baton of bandleaders such as Tiny Parham and Fess Williams) and in Harlem (by Charlie Johnson, Fletcher Henderson, and Don Redman).

On its three infectious albums, the Ghost Train Orchestra brilliantly balances historical fidelity with contemporary techniques, spiking w ildly sw inging arrangements with succinct, stinging improvisations—in Carpenter’s hands, the past sounds more electric than ever. Today he leads a typically diverse and accomplished lineup: violinist and singer Mazz Swift, trombonist Curtis Hasselbring, tubaist Ron Caswell, banjoist

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Brandon Seabrook, drummer Rob Garcia, and reedists Andy Laster, Dennis Lichtman, and Petr Cancura. —PETER MARGASAK Jazz and Heritage Pavilion

12:30 PM John McLean: A tribute to Charlie Christian Guitarist John McLean is one of the city’s most respected modernists, taking the elegant prerogatives of Pat Metheny in new directions. This afternoon he’s rounded up some of his favorite fellow six stringers—his partners in Guitar Madness, which usually convenes for charity shows around the holidays—to salute jazz’s first great soloist on the instrument, swing paragon Charlie Christian. McLean, Dave Onderdonk, Mike Allemana, John Moulder, Neil Alger, and Ernie Denov all have different approaches, none bearing much resemblance to Christian’s, but they’ll pay tribute by playing songs associated with the master (as well as some Monk numbers and a few standards). Bassist Erich Hochberg and drummer Tom Radtke will provide the grooves. —PETER MARGASAK 2 PM Edwin Daugherty Sextet Veteran Chicago saxophonist Edwin Daugherty, a longtime AACM member and sharp session player who’s worked with the likes of Quincy Jones and Stevie Wonder, turns his attention to a bedrock tradition in Chicago jazz: the tenor sax playing made famous by Gene Ammons, Johnny Griffin, and Eddie Harris, three alumni of Captain Walter Dyett’s mighty band at DuSable High School who together developed a blues-steeped style that’s inextricably linked with the city.

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formidable rhythm section consists of pianist Willie Pickens, drummer Avreaayl Ra, and bassist Chuck Webb. —PETER MARGASAK 3:30 PM Pharez Whitted Quartet Throughout his career, Chicago trumpeter Pharez Whitted has moved between the hard-bop sound perfected by his hero Freddie Hubbard and a humid strain of atmospheric smooth jazz steeped in R&B. His most recent album, 2014’s The Tree of Life, is firmly in the latter category, but this afternoon he’ll surely embrace his jazz roots, fronting a lean quartet with pianist Julius Tucker, bassist Jeremiah Hunt, and drummer Greg Artry.

—PETER MARGASAK Jay Pritzker Pavilion

5 PM Brian O’Hern & the Model Citizens Maintaining a big band is a herculean task these days—given how much harder it’s getting to make money in jazz, in most cases such groups stick together as a labor of love.

There’s plenty of affection uniting Chicago’s Model Citizens, which keyboardist Brian O’Hern has led for 20 years—an occasion they celebrated with the ebullient new album We Are So Straight Ahead, whose tongue-incheek title alludes ironically to the fun-loving irreverence with which they tackle a wide range of styles. The lineup includes many of the city’s best underrecognized talents: saxophonists Pat Mallinger, Dave Creighton, Dan Nicholson, Anthony Bruno, and Mark Hiebert; trumpeters B.J. Levy, Benjamin “BJ” Cord, and Scott Anderson; trombonists Raphael Crawford and Dylan Rehm; and the top-flight rhythm section of drummer Gerald Dowd, bassist Matt Ferguson, and guitarist Mike Allemana. —PETER MARGASAK

6 PM Tarbaby with special guest Oliver Lake Pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis, and drummer Nasheet Waits augment their malleable trio, Tarbaby, by choosing from a small coterie of collaborators—tonight they’re joined by brilliant alto saxophonist Oliver Lake, a Saint Louis native who cofounded the World Saxophone Quartet. He appears on the group’s most recent album, 2014’s Fanon, a salute to mid-20th-century Afro-French philosopher Frantz Fanon, who wrote on the effects of colonialism.

Tarbaby play fiery, quicksilver postbop of the highest order, and Lake weaves his soulful, serrated keening through the core trio’s telepathic rhythmic interactions with preternatural sophistication and grace.

With or without their extended family, Tarbaby thrive in the liminal spaces between composition and free improvisation, and their understanding of jazz’s history allows them to draw on any facet of it at any moment. But their f luidity and looseness shouldn’t be mistaken for slackness—these three musicians have worked together in so many different configurations that any one of them can seize upon an idea and count on the other two to embrace it instantly.

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7:10 PM Benny Golson Quartet You can be one of the most venerable figures in jazz without being one of the most enjoyable to listen to—let’s face it, some players lose their luster. Not so tenor saxophonist Benny Golson, who at 87 years old has been a venerable figure for longer than many careers last—and who continues to play music that makes you sit up and take notice.

He’s slowed his tempos and concentrated his fulsome tone, applying the same deadeye ear he brings to his compositions, many of which are classics. If you’ve never heard him play his tune “I Remember Clifford,” you should be so lucky that he does it here. He appears with the superb band from this year’s Horizon Ahead, his most recent record: Mike LeDonne on piano, Buster Williams on bass, and Carl Allen on drums. —JOHN CORBETT

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8:30 PM Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra conducted by Carla Bley Bassist Charlie Haden died two years ago, ending a career that began in the 1930s (when 22-month-old “Cowboy Charlie” joined his family’s country-music radio show) and J

The fest around the fest

This year’s Jazz Festival preshows and aftershows include Tony Malaby, Kidd Jordan, Ira Sullivan, Alvin Fielder, and Edward Wilkerson Jr.

By PETER MARGASAK Tony Malaby o ROB MILLER

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Jazz Institute of Chicago Jazz Club Tour 6 PM till midnight, multiple venues (Andy’s, Green Mill, Jazz Showcase, Constellation, Hungry Brain, Jerry’s Sandwiches Wicker Park, M Lounge, City Life, Old Town School of Folk Music, 50 Yard Line, Drake Hotel, Norman’s Bistro, the Quarry, Rosa’s Lounge, Reggie’s Rock Club roof deck, Red Pepper Lounge), jazzinchicago. org/jazzfest/jazz-club-tour, $50, $40 in advance ($40 and $30 for members), 21+

Afterfest jam sessions hosted

by Ira Sullivan 9 PM, Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth, 312-360-0234, jazzshowcase.com, $20, 21+ Hereafter Fest: Microcosmic Sound Orchestra, David Boykin Expanse, DJ Ayana Contreras 10 PM, Rootwork Gallery, 645 W. 18th, 917-821-3050, $10 suggested donation, all ages HotHouse Jazz Fest Afterset: Edward Wilkerson Jr., Tatsu Aoki, Marcus Evans, Sylvia Bolognesi, James Sanders, and others 9 PM, La Esquina, 5555 N. Sheridan, 312-752-5316, $15 Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Alvin Fielder, and Joshua Abrams 9:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, constellation-chicago. com, $20, $15 in advance, 18+

THURSDAY 1 Afterfest jam sessions hosted

by Ira Sullivan 9 PM, Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth, 312-360-0234, jazzshowcase.com, $20, 21+ Tony Malaby with Fred Lonberg-Holm and Michael Zerang, Vincent Chancey with Josh Berman, Joshua Abrams, and Mikel Patrick Avery 9:30 PM, Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Belmont, hungrybrainchicago. com, $10

SATURDAY 3 Afterfest jam sessions hosted

by Ira Sullivan 9 PM, Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth, 312-360-0234, jazzshowcase.com, $20, 21+

Chicago Jazz Fest Afterfest: Mwata Bowden, Tatsu Aoki, Ari Brown, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Dushun Mosley, Hanah Jon Taylor, Francis Wong, Jon Jang, Kioto Aoki, and others 10 PM, Hairpin Arts Center, 2810 N. Milwaukee, second floor, $15, $10 students Hereafter Fest: King of Dahomey, Sebau, DJ Ayana Contreras 10 PM, Rootwork Gallery, 645 W. 18th, 917-821-3050, $10 suggested donation, all ages Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Alvin Fielder, and Harrison Bankhead 9:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, constellationchicago.com, $20, $15 in advance, 18+

SUNDAY 4 Afterfest jam sessions hosted

by Ira Sullivan 9 PM, Jazz Showcase, 806 S. Plymouth, 312-360-0234, jazzshowcase.com, $20, 21+ v

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continued from 23 included long, fruitful associations with free-jazz pioneer Ornette Coleman, pianist Keith Jarrett, and guitarist Pat Metheny. He also led many groups of his own, including the noirish Quartet West and the Liberation Music Orchestra, a large band that used jazz and protest music from around the world to express Haden’s opposition to colonialism, militarism, and racism. Pianist and arranger Carla Bley has been with the orchestra since its founding in 1969, and her richly detailed brass arrangements have been as much a part of the group’s sound as Haden’s pithy bass. She’ll lead a 12-piece ensemble that includes saxophonist Tony Malaby, drummer Matt Wilson, and tuba player Joe Daley, all of whom appear on the most recent LMO album, 2005’s Not in Our Name. Their set will includes pieces from the band’s decades-deep repertoire as well as some new music—perhaps the same material of Bley’s that augments the older live recordings on the LMO’s forthcoming Time/Life, due on Impulse! in October. —BILL MEYER

SATURDAY3 MILLENNIUM PARK Young Jazz Lions Stage

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NOON Steve Schneck Quartet Trumpeter and flugelhornist Steve Schneck plays like an old soul, with a beautifully burnished tone that sounds great on ballads and brings impressive clarity to up-tempo material. He’s rooted in the fundamentals of hard bop, though his guitarist in this quartet, Neal Alger, adds a modern flourish to his sound.

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Christiansen round out the group. —PETER MARGASAK 1:10 PM Alyssa Allgood Quintet Chicago vocalist Alyssa Allgood brings precision and clarity to a repertoire that privileges the standards of the 40s and 50s. She’s an avid scat singer, and like Annie Ross (a clear influence) she often puts words to timeless bebop melodies. Her band features Dan Chase on Hammond B-3, Chris Madsen on tenor saxophone, Tim Fitzgerald on guitar, and Matt Plaskota on drums. —PETER MARGASAK 2:20 PM Chris Greene Quartet Tenor and soprano saxophonist Chris Greene has a CV that includes work with Common, Sheena Easton, and Steve Coleman & Five Elements. The Evanston native flexes his versatility on the 2014 double CD Music Appreciation: he adds a reggae groove to John Coltrane’s “Equinox,” welds free-jazz sonorities to drum ’n’ bass rhythms on “Divers,” and merges hard bop with early-80s party vibes on a cover of Yellow Magic Orchestra’s version of “Firecracker” (originally a Martin Denny tune). But the classic instrumental lineup and mainstream jazz sensibilities of his long-standing quartet (pianist Damian Espinosa, bassist Marc Piane, and drummer Steve Corley) insure that everything they play has a user-friendly coherence. —BILL MEYER 3:30 PM Victor Garcia Organ Septet Chicago trumpeter Victor Garcia, one of the most versatile and authoritative horn players in the city, still hasn’t made a recording under his own name—he’s so busy working as a sideman and putting together new projects that he must be short on time. Tonight he presents a sturdy, beguiling new septet that draws upon the skills of local Hammond B-3 whiz Dan Trudell and will surely subvert fans’ expectations of organ combos: the lineup features saxophonists Greg Ward and Rocky Year, trombonist Tom Garling, guitarist Scott Hesse, and drummer Charles Heath.

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12:30 PM Luke Malewicz Heritage Quartet Trombonist Luke Malewicz, a native of Poland who moved to Chicago when he was 11, has struck gold with this dynamic pianoless quartet, which thrives on his deft interplay with trumpeter Chad McCullough. Supported by the crisp, nimble grooves of bassist Patrick Mulcahy and drummer Jon Dietemey-

er, the front line’s tender, lyrical solos look back to the chamber-music-style innovations of west-coast jazz while injecting the harmonic sophistication of the present. —PETER MARGASAK

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2 PM Nate Lepine Quartet For years reedist Nate Lepine has maintained a high profile in myriad jazz and rock combos—he’s been a steady member of Herculaneum, for instance, and a sideman with the likes of Iron & Wine, Tim Kasher, and the Eternals Espiritu Zombi. But he’s finally releasing an album under his own name this month, and it demonstrates his brawny, agile postbop chops and knack for hard-swinging themes. The gritty and elastic Vortices features the same strong combo Lepine leads today, with second reedist Nick Mazzarella, bassist Clark Sommers, and drummer Quin Kirchner. —PETER MARGASAK

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3:30 PM JD Allen Trio For years Detroit-raised tenor saxophonist JD Allen was just a name lurking in the credits of other people’s records. After coming up working with singer Betty Carter, he put in time on all sorts of different fronts, then forged out on his own in 2008 with I Am I Am, the first in an ongoing string of highly individual and spectacularly successful albums. His sound sidesteps the conservative-

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versus-avant arguments that have haunted ambitious saxophonists for the past couple decades: he casually brings together different approaches, writes memorable new compositions, and comports himself in a way that strikes me as reminiscent of no less towering a figure than Sonny Rollins. The best of the batch, 2015’s Graffiti, is a hard-core trio recording with insightful storytelling

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team of bassist Gregg August and drummer Rudy Royston. This year he released another stellar album, Americana: Musings on Jazz and Blues, with the same lineup; it recalls Rollins’s Freedom Suite in spots. August and Royston will also accompany Allen today.

—JOHN CORBETT Jay Pritzker Pavilion

5 PM Tatsu Aoki’s Miyumi Project featuring Tsukasa Taiko and special guests Jon Jang and Francis Wong Tatsu Aoki was born and spent the first 20 years of his life in Tokyo, but even when he makes music that deals with his Japanese heritage he proves himself a Chicagoan. Like the musicians from the AACM who’ve been among his enduring partners, Aoki envisions his work as part of a continuum that stretches from the ancient to the future. In the Miyumi Project he combines vibrant reeds and swinging bass grooves with the deliberate, heavy patterns of Japanese taiko drumming. For this concert a pair of like-minded Chinese-Americans from California, pianist Jon Jang and saxophonist Francis Wong, will augment the group. —BILL MEYER

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6 PM Eric Alexander/Harold Mabern Quartet Any excuse to hear outstanding straightahead tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander is a good one, but today you’ve got an exceptional reason in the form of 80-year-old pianist Harold Mabern. Part of the deep history of Chicago jazz in the 50s, Mabern lived and worked here for five years, comparing notes

with elder pianists such as Chris Anderson and replacing Muhal Richard Abrams in the group MJT+3, with whom he recorded for Vee-Jay. Mabern went on to cement his place in the pantheon, moving to New York in ’59 and performing and recording with a staggering variety of folks, among them Wes Montgomery and Archie Shepp. He’s cut 16 records with Alexander as leader—the first, Mode for Mabes, came out in 1998—and their shared sympathies are evident at all times, whether in the hard-bop setting or the blues insinuations. —JOHN CORBETT

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7:10 PM Anat Cohen Quartet For much of the past decade, reedist Anat Cohen has been the face of the bustling community of Israeli jazz musicians working in New York. She’s demonstrated a voracious curiosity, balancing a strong feel for hardswinging postbop with a serious affinity for Brazilian choro, an instrumental cousin of samba whose spirited improvisational ethos can make it feel a lot like jazz. Tonight she brings her fleet working quartet—pianist Jason Lindner, bassist Joe Martin, and drummer Daniel Freedman—who most recently appeared with her on the 2012 album Claroscuro.

(The title is a Spanish word for the play of light and shade.) On that record she deftly weaves together most of the threads she addresses separately in her multifarious projects, including Brazilian music, classic swing, and postbop. Though Cohen plays a bit of soprano and tenor saxophone, she’s made her name with her sublime clarinet work—tonally pure, rhythmically agile, and harmonically J

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Two years ago he displayed his leadership abilities on the self-released Focus, a modern, uncluttered sextet session with a couple guest horn players. He returns to lead an impressive combo with some old running mates: saxophonist Mark Small, trumpeter Chris Klaxton, keyboardist Rob Clearfield, bassist Matt Ulery, drummer Michael Piolet, guitarist Jim Tashjian (also of prog band District 97), and singer Leslie Beukelman. —PETER MARGASAK

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continued from 25 plush. She and her band make it seem easy, even logical, to veer from the hard-driving, jagged lines of “Anat’s Dance” (composed by Lindner) to a leisurely, nostalgic spin through the Edith Piaf vehicle “La Vie en Rose” (with fat-toned trombone by guest Wycliffe Gordon, who also sings a verse in a Satchmo-style growl) to a sweetly lyrical, sweeping version of the Milton Nascimento classic “Tudo Que Você Podia Ser.” —PETER MARGASAK

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But lately pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer Dave King have switched to original material, making albums no less daunting, original, and energetic—the new It’s Hard, where they cover the likes of Peter Gabriel, Kraftwerk, and TV on the Radio, is their first collection of pop adaptations in seven years. The Bad Plus have also interpreted nonpop music—they released a walloping take on Stravinsky’s The Rite of

Spring in 2014—and they’ll debut another such project in Chicago tonight. Enhanced by saxophonists Tim Berne and Sam Newsome and trumpeter Ron Miles, the trio will tackle Ornette Coleman’s often-overlooked 1972 classic Science Fiction, a paradigm-shifting masterpiece for which the fearless composer augmented his core quartet with contributions from Dewey Redman, Bobby Bradford, and Indian vocalist Asha Puthli—looking toward the new sound he’d embrace with his band Prime Time. —PETER MARGASAK

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11:30 AM Alexis Lombre Quintet 12: 50 PM Joel Ross’s Good Vibes 2:10 PM Hanging Hearts 3:30 PM Foster Meets Brooks Big Band Von Freeman Pavilion

NOON Kendall Moore Octet Trombonist Kendall Moore was a key member of many local groups before packing his bags for Boston, including the Chicago Jazz Orchestra and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble.

1:10 PM Charles Rumback Sextet Chicago drummer Charles Rumback, though overlooked both at home and abroad, has long been one of the city’s most versatile players, moving easily between jazz styles and gracefully bridging the gap between rock and experimental music. On last year’s In the New Year he made an overdue return as a bandleader, convening a top-notch quintet with bassist John Tate, guitarist Jeff Parker, bass clarinetist Jason Stein, and alto saxophonist Caroline Davis. Rumback complements his rumbling, post-Paul Motian playing—it’s more than just timekeeping, also giving the music heft, texture, and mood—with compositions as rich and dark as mahogany. He relies on Tate to maintain a pulse within a simmering collision of independent melodies; in “Right Reasons” and “Dragons in Denver,” beautifully scarred, lapidary lines coalesce and pull apart, their balance of tranquility and turbulence demonstrating the group’s collective empathy.

The diversity of instrumental colors helps Rumback bring his music to life: the cool and muted tone of Parker’s guitar, the astringent bite of Davis’s serene alto, and the wonderfully rheumy edge of Stein’s swooping bass clarinet.

Because Rumback’s collaborators don’t all live here (and because they’ve got busy schedules of their own), he’s had to overhaul his lineup for the festival, but he’s put together a stellar sextet with Tate, reedists Greg Ward and Tony Malaby, trumpeter Ron Miles, and pianist Jim Baker. —PETER MARGASAK

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3:30 PM Barry Altschul’s 3Dom Factor Barry Altschul is one of jazz’s unsung heroes, an imaginative drummer who’s made great contributions to classic recordings by the likes of Sam Rivers, Chick Corea, Anthony Braxton, and Paul Bley. He was a crucial figure in the New York avant-garde of the 60s and 70s, and while his profile has fallen since then, the quality and rigor of his playing have not.

Recently he’s been attracting well-deserved attention for this spry, elastic working band, which features bassist Joe Fonda and powerhouse saxophonist Jon Irabagon—a Morton Grove native who’s also one of the most versatile, skilled, and exciting reedists today. Last year’s terrific Tales of the Unforeseen displays the trio’s range, opening with a lengthy group improvisation of breathless reach and moving inside with a smoldering rendition of Monk’s “Ask Me Now.” —PETER MARGASAK Jazz and Heritage Pavilion

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wisdom and vitality, especially on midtempo fare such as his take on “Make Me a Pallet on the Floor.” The album concludes with archival recordings cut in 1957 with the great singer Estelle “Mama” Yancey, and there’s another

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track from ’79 that features her and bassist Truck Parham—they’re both links to the earliest days of Chicago jazz and blues. Some of the new material includes contributions from regular Helfer cohorts, among them singer Katherine Davis and saxophonist John Brumbach, but today the pianist plays in the context I love best: solo, where his remarkable sense of time and pitch-perfect touch can really shine.

—PETER MARGASAK 2 PM Norman Simmons Trio An overlooked figure in Chicago’s dynamic jazz scene of the 50s and 60s, pianist Norman Simmons was a linchpin in pickup bands that backed all sorts of touring greats. He’s made only a few recordings under his own name—a shame, because those he has released are models of elegant economy and bluesy grace.

He largely built his reputation supporting great vocalists, including Joe Williams, Anita O’Day, Helen Humes, Carmen McRae, and Ernestine Anderson, but on this rare return to his hometown he leads a classic piano trio with bassist Marlene Rosenberg and drummer Greg Artry. —PETER MARGASAK 3:30 PM Doreen’s Jazz New Orleans Doreen Ketchens is a bona fide New Orleans jewel, a monster clarinetist and charismatic vocalist whose masterful take on traditional jazz dispenses with the stiff museumlike feel that hampers the likes of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. She plays in Crescent City clubs, but her real home is the outdoor performances that she gives most days at the corner of Royal and St. Peter Streets. Her nimble band includes

her husband, Lawrence, on tuba, valve trombone, and piano; David Hammer on guitar; and Dwane Scott on drums. —PETER MARGASAK Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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5 PM Michael Zerang & the Blue Lights Michael Zerang was born and raised in Chicago, and he’s been a vital part of the city’s music and theater communities since the 70s. But the percussionist, improviser, and composer has also maintained a long-standing engagement with improvising musicians from the Middle East—he’s toured Yemen and played festivals in Lebanon, and earlier this year he traveled to Europe to join self-proclaimed “Free Middle Eastern Music” combo Karkhana. In the Blue Lights, Zerang is joined by four stalwarts of Chicago’s free-jazz scene—cornetist Josh Berman, bassist Kent Kessler, and saxophonists Mars Williams and Dave Rempis—and together they apply raucous, celebratory polyphony to tunes learned from or inspired by Middle Eastern pop and classical music. —BILL MEYER 6 PM Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah For much of his career, sublimely skilled New Orleans-bred trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah has seemed to be seeking a sound that would fit his outsize talent. It couldn’t be contained by the postbop he grew up playing, and over the years he’s experimented with admixtures of various genres—Mardi Gras Indian music, funk, hip-hop, rock, traditional Cuban styles—with often middling results. Last year, however, he released an album whose title sums up what he’s been after: J

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continued from 27 Stretch Music. “My core belief is that no form of expression is more valid than any other,” Scott explains. “This belief has compelled me to attempt to create a sound that is genre blind in its acculturation of other musical forms, languages, textures, conventions and processes.”

Plenty of players make noises like that, but Scott delivers, leading an agile band that braids together diverse ideas with a rare sense of purpose—it probably helps that such egalitarian syncretism characterizes a lot of Crescent City music. His band includes flutist Elena Pinderhughes, saxophonist Braxton Cook, pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Luques Curtis, and drummer Corey Fonville. —PETER MARGASAK

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Last year the quartet reunited, with Larry Grenadier replacing Irwin, and they picked right up where they left off on the terrific Past Present. The gap of more than two decades doesn’t hurt the music at all—the band’s

classic postbop sound exists beyond shifting trends. Scofield and Lovano have always had an easy rapport: the latter injects funk and soul, while the former adds stridency and exploratory grit. Scofield wrote all the tunes, and they cover plenty of ground. Highlights include “Chap Dance” (which weds an Ornette-style melody to a quasi-cowboy lope a la Sonny Rollins’s “Way Out West”), the shimmering “Get Proud” (flavored with 70s blues), and the jaunty, luminescent “Enjoy the Future!” (on which Stewart plays with outstanding thrust). Last year in New York, when the quartet returned to the stage, they added a tune from their first go-round along with some newer Lovano material. For live shows Ben Street has been playing bass.

—PETER MARGASAK 8:30 PM Candido’s 95th birthday celebration Cuban percussionist Candido Camero is one of jazz’s all-time great congueros. He arrived in the U.S. in 1946 and went on to play with a who’s who of greats, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Billy Taylor, Stan Kenton, and Wes Montgomery. He’s still providing a fiery polyrhythmic pulse at age 95, and to celebrate that milestone he’s leading an all-star Afro-Caribbean band worthy of his stature: trombonist Steve Turre, flutist Nestor Torres, percussionist Sammy Figueroa, pianist Elio Villafranca, bassist Yunior Terry, guitarist Diego Lopez, saxophonist Jorge Castro, trumpeter Guido Gonzalez, and vocalist Frankie Figueroa. —PETER MARGASAK v

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THURSDAY1 Hecks See Pick of the Week. Matchess and Ono open. 9 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, $10.

Marielle Jakobsons Jake Acosta headlines; Marielle Jakobsons, Chuck Johnson, and Guru Bye open. 9 PM, Cafe Mustache, 2313 N. Milwaukee, $5-$10 suggested donation.

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Thu 9/1, 9 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, $10.

ON THEIR SELF-TITLED debut for primo Chicago label Trouble in Mind local three-piece the Hecks take a break from their anxious, artfully damaged postpunk to build a wall of thrumming ambience. A track like “Landscape Photography,” for example, isn’t the only place they make something with no easily discernible melody. As opposed to the gnawing minimalism of their more standard material—filled with gangly drums and guitars that sting like barbed wire—the Hecks’ new off-brand compositions help illuminate the texture of the negative space that suffuses the record. Guitarists-vocalists Andy Mosiman and Dave Vettraino echo each other’s tight, melodic turns with Krautrock-like precision, and tracks like “Junior Showmanship” and “Rockwell Nudes” bewitch because the Hecks know how to alleviate their foreboding without puncturing the mood—drummer Zach Hebert offers a reprieve along with the space between notes. The claustrophobic moments are balanced out with tunes like “Airport Run” and “The Thaw,” which shimmy with pure pop adrenaline. —LEOR GALIL

On her new solo album Star Core (Thrill Jockey) Bay Area multi-instrumentalist Marielle V Jakobsons (Date Palms, Mymur) veers deeper than ever into sonic hypnosis, gorgeously layering ethereal long tones produced by violin, flute, synthesizer, and, for the first time, her voice. On the title track her violin conjures Indian sonorities as elegantly slaloming patterns glide over a looping bass figure and delicate electronic arpeggios before opening up into a gauzy soundburst of wordless cooing. Later on “Undone” the whistlelike tone riding across the drone resembles nothing so much as Tuvan throat singing, but when Jakobson’s voice floats in to shape a lovely, frosty melody, the complexion of the piece changes. All six tracks are marked by an entrancing liquidity, with endless transformations that feel as natural as the slow-motion billowing of a cumulus cloud.

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FRIDAY2 North Coast Music Festival Through Sunday. 3 PM, Union Park, 1501 W. Randolph, $70, three-day passes sold out. b The best part of Chicago’s music-festival deluge, assuming there is a best part, is the guarantee that not a weekend goes by where you can’t see a few good-to-great acts playing outdoors (if that’s your thing). There are negatives too, though, and North Coast Music Festival, now in its seventh year, seems to suffer more than other multiday jamborees from the overabundance of fests that drain the talent pool. Largely celebrating EDM, jam, and rap, North

Coast thrives on variety, particularly acts that don’t neatly fit into a Venn diagram combining big genre sounds. Still, this year’s bill feels familiar. How many times can dubstep producer Bassnectar and Indiana jam outfit Umphrey’s McGee play the event? Apparently three. But poke around the bill and there are plenty of choice acts, regardless of how many times they’ve previously appeared at the fest—there’s Memphis rap legend Juicy J, “shred pop” act Sleigh Bells, indie-pop wonders Matt & Kim, and D.C.-area MC Logic. Many of the best groups call Chicago home, be it soul singer and poet Jamila Woods or the string of old-school house producers performing Sunday: Gant-Man, Farley Jackmaster Funk, and the Chosen Few’s Alan King, Jesse Saunders, and Wayne Williams. And I can’t forget about local rapper and prison abolitionist Ric Wilson—though North Coast almost did. Wilson was initially left out of the “Toast the Coast Battle Royale,” in which locals who earn the most votes compete for a spot on the festival’s bill. The rapper, who’s currently celebrating his euphoric self-released EP Soul Bounce, received hundreds of votes—more than some acts in the battle—and forced the organizers to correct their mistake days before the competition. Lucky for the festival attendees. —LEOR GALIL

SATURDAY3 Guitar Wolf Hans Condor, Mama, and Aggro Control open. 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, $15.

Guitar Wolf are nothing if not consistent in distributing their power of rock ’n’ roll. For nearly three decades the Japanese trio have stabbed, gnawed at, and wrung out the classic punk rock of the Ramones, resulting in a clatter that’s less than a few tweaks away from the amplified sound of mounds of celluloid set aflame in a chasmic Dumpster. Tattered and frayed, Seiji’s guitar buzzsaws its way through a cloud of low-end-less treble created by a bass so blown out it sounds as though it’s imploding and drums that fight and struggle to add to the noise rather than lead it. Still, a track like “Fujiyama Attack,” from 1999’s great Jet Generation, has such a catchy undercurrent—simi- J

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Always ready with a “One, two, three, four!,” Guitar Wolf have been churning out records since the early 90s, not even letting up after the sudden passing of Billy (Bass Wolf) in 2005. Their newest, T-Rex From a Tiny Space Yojouhan (Ki/oon), is Guitar Wolf through and through, with the album’s title-track single injecting a potent dose of leather-clad rockabilly laced with the overbearing charisma of front man Seiji. —KEVIN WARWICK

Monolord Part of Scorched Tundra VI (see page 31). The Atlas Moth, Beastmaker, and Sweat Lodge open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $15.

Swedish doom trio Monolord return to Chicago for the first local installment of the Scorched Tundra metal festival, which Local Option brand ambassador Alexi Front has held annually in the band’s hometown of Gothenburg since 2011. In August they released the EP Lord of Suffering/Die in Haze (RidingEasy), their first new music since the excellent 2015 full-length Vænir, and thankfully it’s more of the same. Monolord stick to the simple, vaguely bluesy riffs of classic 70s doom, their long phrases often anchored by a single note that tugs on them like a center of gravity. Sinuous and monstrous, they move as deliberately as a ten-ton boa that’s too large to consider you a worthwhile meal, in slow, muscular undulations meant to hypnotize.

Guitarist Thomas Jäger sings in a clean, keening voice that’s processed to sound like it’s simultaneously underwater and on the other side of a canyon, and his occasional quasi-psychedelic solos hang so low in the mix they might as well be tiny primitive mammals dancing around the thundering feet of sauropods. Much of the time the guitars play in unison, but I like it even better when bassist Mika Häkki usurps the role of lead melodic instrument,

his massive, pleasantly rounded tone weaving nimbly through the strata of down-tuned guitar distortion or breaching the noise like a whale leaping from the inky sea. Though the density and repetition of this music can get numbing, Monolord seem to know that too: “Lord of Suffering” uses stoptime breaks whose sudden windows of silence let you feel how huge the riff is when it drops back in.

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1 PM, Union Park, 1501 W. Randolph, $80, threeday passes sold out. b Prophets of Rage Awolnation open. 7 PM, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-80 & Harlem, $20-$69.50. b Could there be a better time for a Rage Against the Machine reunion than during the most polarizing American presidential election of our lifetimes? Well, the groundbreaking hyperpolitical 90s rap-metal giants aren’t full-on reuniting, but Prophets of Rage are certainly closer in spirit to the original than previous post-Rage project Audioslave.

This time around Tom Morello, Brad Wilk, and Tim Commerford have replaced front man Zack de la Rocha with two of hip-hop’s most distinct and outspoken personalities: Public Enemy’s Chuck D and Cypress Hill’s B-Real. Along with Public Enemy turntablist DJ Lord, the supergroup will tour on sets of beloved Rage Against the Machine classics. Morello says a new album is unlikely, but the outfit has already recorded and released a single, “Prophets of Rage,” a track whose funky, Zeppelin-flavored stomp is unmistakably Rage, minus the rage itself.

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This Swedish quartet got their start in the early 2000s as a thrash/death outfit called Hazard, releasing two demos under that name. But then something bit them. In the later half of the decade they got a makeover—complete with a new wardrobe—and shot up several levels in ambition. Their Tribulation debut, The Horror (2009), refined their zombie thrash to its probable apex. And having mastered that “form,” the band started to stretch out and let their sound rapidly gain complexity over the next two full-lengths. Last year’s The Children of the Night (Century Media) is a gothic, vampire-themed, fairly melodic affair: it’s less visceral and gruesome, more atmospheric and strippeddown, and takes the risky approach of trying to mesmerize at midtempo as well as blast at a brutal gallop. —MONICA KENDRICK

SUNDAY4 Ariisk Hogg and Champagne Mirrors open.

9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $7.

If you visited the now-shuttered Rodan on a Monday during its 2000s heyday, chances are you were in the know. Each week a small band of nouveau-goth DJs spun new wave, darkwave, and other associated “-wave” genres for similar folks wearing black clothes. It was on those nights that Rolan Vega quietly premiered music under his moniker Ariisk. His dystopian electronic music drops somewhere in between November Növelet and Xymox, bands that have likely played a huge role in his chilly vibe. Vega eventually relocated to LA (and Rodan closed), where he continues to create music, uploading most of it online. But his latest vinyl release, Fatal Errors, was put out in July on Scrapes, the label helmed by Chicago’s Alex Barnett, with no accompanying digital download. It’s as though Vega now wants to be searched out by the most ardent listeners of modern cold techno. His brand of electronica is urgent and angry and barely encourages you to dance; it captures the feeling of throwing an icy glare at someone who’s just stung you with an insult. The beats are morose, best suited to a small bar dance floor with patrons who nod their head.

Those Monday nights at Rodan rarely devolved into a dance party—the devoted, downtempo crowd mainly showed up to be challenged by heady music.

Despite the dissolution of that insular scene, Ariisk maintains its spirit. Perhaps dancing isn’t always the point. —MEAGAN FREDETTE

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North Coast Music Festival This three-day party features some of EDM’s most recognizable names—including Odesza, Bassnectar, Zedd, and Logic—plus hip-hop, pop, bluegrass, and more. See page 29 for more. 9/2-9/4, Union Park, 1501 W. Randolph, northcoastfestival.com, sold out.

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But since front man Anthony Cozzi relocated to LA, the process of bringing Radiant Remains to the world has resulted in a Radar Eyes revival. That’s even though the new album sounds like it could’ve been made by a different band. The group’s all-consuming, fuzzy psychedelic je ne sais quoi of yore doesn’t quite register on these chilly songs—it’s as if Cozzi and company approach the loving distortion like it’s ice on a car windshield, in need of being chipped away at with a scraper. Fortunately some reverb remains, and the band’s pop musculature is even more robust. The new version of “Community,” which Radar Eyes originally released as the A side of a 2014 single, emits beams of flange guitars that pulse with vigor. —LEOR GALIL

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WEDNESDAY7 Andrew Bird, Margo Price 7 PM, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, Michigan and Randolph, $23.50-$58.50. b There are a number of occasions on Andrew Bird’s satisfying new album Are You Serious (Loma Vista) where the clever singer-songwriter engages in welcome self-reflection, acknowledging a tendency to be too cute (he’s even cut back on his virtuosic whistling). On the title track he sings, “Used to be so willfully obtuse, or is the word abstruse? / Semantics like a noose, get out your dictionaries,” while on “Left Handed Kisses” a weary-sounding Fiona Apple protests his verbal trickery with “The point your song here misses is that if you really love me / You’d risk more than a few fifty-cent words in your backhanded love song.” As irritating as Bird’s occasional infatuation with language has been, it hasn’t gotten in the way of his easy musicality, which has never been more direct and precise. He’s sharp-

ened his pop instincts, but his attention to sonic detail suggests his move toward the center hasn’t stemmed his curiosity. The album was coproduced with Tony Berg and David Boucher, but when Bird uses his fiddle on “Capsized” to approximate the distorted likembes of Konono No. 1, and dabbles in the township jazz vibe of Soweto on “The New St. Jude,” his fingerprints weigh heavily on the sound.

There might be hints of cultural appropriation a la Paul Simon—though Bird has his scrappy band play everything rather than hiring musicians from around the world—but it never feels arch.

After dropping out of college in 2003, Margo Price left her tiny hometown of Aledo, Illinois—near the Iowa border, not far from Davenport—and moved

to Nashville to begin a long climb that has finally resulted in her debut full-length, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter (Third Man). It’s not just the title that indicates her infatuation with Loretta Lynn; the adoration is borne out in her sound and songs too. Her big, brassy voice sounds fantastic navigating a rocktinged attack that moves between Lynn, Dolly Parton, and Bobbie Gentry, and her tunes eschew contemporary country tropes to embrace hard-luck tales: failed romance, betrayal, and solace in booze.

The single “Hurtin’ (on the Bottle)” is one of many tracks that could have been a country hit in the late 60s/early 70s. Price has occasionally filled in for Apple when Bird performs “Left Handed Kisses,” so I assume we’ll see them sing together tonight.

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here’s nothing so discouraging as a dumpling that falls apart. A dumpling is like a nicely wrapped gift, bearing not only its filling, but the pleasures of anticipation, suspense, and ultimate gratification. When a wrapper shreds at the touch of a chopstick, or sticks to the bottom of the steamer until it rips apart, a little piece of my soul dies.

That’s why after a couple visits to Logan Square’s Nepali Chiya Chai Cafe, I was left an empty, glassy-eyed shell of a being. Five varieties of momo are available, and each one looks structurally sound: neatly, evenly pleated wrappers that conform to the shape of the filling inside. The flavors are, for the most part, delicious: gingery, spicy ground bison, dill-forward lamb, ground pork ever so slightly sweetened by red onion. The only one I have any complaints about is the sloppy, bland all-vegetable version, which tastes like something pulled out of The Moosewood Cookbook for Geriatrics. But the real downside is the wrappers. Nearly every dumpling I moved toward my mouth ruptured, spilling its contents onto the plate, and necessitating remediation by spoon.

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Fortunately Chiya Chai has a lot more going for it than momo. Its whole reason for being is masala chai, the milky spiced-tea potion that originated in northeastern India and slowly spread through the machinations of the British East India Company. The Shrestha family that opened the spot in a bright airy space back in June has been importing tea from Nepal since the 70s, and they’re presenting an almost dizzying variety of ways to drink it.

There are three base teas—black, green, and rooibos—to be blended with a choice of whole, skim, almond, or coconut milk, and then different chai blends, from the relatively traditional masala, redolent of warming spices, and spicy masala, tasting of gingersnap, to more intercontinental experiments, such as dark chocolate-spearmint and caramel-sea salt, to mixes like fresh turmeric curry and black cardamom with purported Ayurvedic applications. Those can be balanced by spiking the chai with your choice of booze, or they can be ordered iced, though don’t make the mistake I did and request that with the salty pink Himalayan with almond butter. The ice doesn’t allow the almond butter to disperse, so it just settles to the bottom of the cup like mud.

Apart from the momo, there’s an impressively varied food menu, beginning with British-style savory pies with subcontinental fillings like chicken curry and spicy minced pork. The crust on these, while not rivaling the buttery goodness of a Pleasant House pie, is nonetheless flaky and rich, a worthy delivery vehicle.

Four curries are on offer, from an assertive vegetable jalfrezi to a mild pork vindaloo, and there’s an assortment of small plates and sides, including fries (thick, hand cut, and undercooked) smothered in curry sauce and a complex raita with black mustard seeds and tart green apple slices. But the most visually arresting and irresistible item on the menu is the chiya chile potatoes, a chunk of honey-glazed spuds crusty with crushed red chile flakes. It’s just the thing to pair with a cuppa black pepper-clove. v

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OPCORN as a late-night snack is generally made in a microwave these days, but bartender JENN FINK of PUB ROYALE and her friend MATTHEW JANNOTTA, manager of the club bars at SOHO HOUSE CHICAGO, have a different tradition. “We’re known to, late night, go back to the crib after the bars and make all types of popcorn—bacon fat, butter, regular salt,” Jannotta says.

Which is why Fink challenged Jannotta to create a cocktail with stovetop-popped popcorn (nothing from a microwave would do).

To add popcorn flavor to the drink without the actual popcorn, Jannotta infused Balcones Baby Blue corn whiskey with butter through a process called fat-washing: he melted and slightly browned the butter, combined it with the whiskey, then put the mixture in the freezer for several hours to separate out. Once the butter was mostly frozen, he broke it up with a spoon and stirred it into the whiskey again, then strained it through a cheesecloth.

The rest of Jannotta’s Better Than Garrett’s cocktail, which he modeled after an oldfashioned, was straightforward: just a little simple syrup and some whiskey-barrel-aged

bitters, with a few pieces of popcorn skewered on a cocktail pick for garnish. Flavorwise, he says, “It’s sort of like a combination of an old-fashioned and a hot buttered rum.”

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Sr Art Director: In partnership with Copywriter, develop bold, strategic & award-winning creative print, display & digital ad campaign components from concept to execution. Duties: generate creative concepts & develop ad art across all shopper touchpoints, incl print/digital media; present concepts to client, refining & developing ideas; review work at all stages through production; mock up graphics w/ verbal/email/sketch direction; lead & collaborate with photographers, retouching houses, etc. for photo shoots & creation of digital art; attend & lead development meetings; manage project schedules. Chicago loop location. Req’s BA in Graphic Design, incl 1 course each in Typography, Computer Assisted Graphic Design, Digital Media, Printmaking & 3-D Design. Req’s 5 months exp as Graphic Designer or Graphic Design Intern. Exp must incl a) 2 months working on a tobacco account & working in responsive web design, & 3 months working w/apparel graphics & poster design. Leo Burnett Company, Inc. Apply online at: www.leoburnett. com. EOE THE DEPARTMENT OF Managerial Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), located in a large metrop olitan area, is seeking an Assistant Professor to assist the department teach undergraduate and graduate courses related to Managerial Studies. Other duties include: mentor and direct the research of graduate students in the Marketing/Managerial Studies and MBA programs, serve as a liaison between the business community and the University, and conduct research in the field.

Publish and present research findings and perform University service as assigned. Requirement is a PhD degree or its foreign equivalent in Marketing, Management, or related field of study. Some travel is required. For fullest consideration, please submit a CV, cover letter, and 3 references to the attention of the Search Coordinator via email at taramc@uic.edu, or via mail at UIC, Managerial Studies, 601 S Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607. UIC is AA/EOE/M/F/Disabled/Veteran VISUAL THERAPIST NEEDED

(with or without experience) Seeking a college educated individual for a permanent part-time employment in Evanston working with children and adults in a Behavioral Vision Training program with Dr. Jeff Getzell, O.D. Experience preferred but not required for the right individual. Dr. Getzell is willing to work with an individual at an entry level, should there be no previous medical experience.

Requirements: -Exceptional problem solver -Bright -Curious -Open minded Work schedule: -Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays 2pm-6pm -Saturdays 8am-12pm Please note that the employment hours are not flexible.

Resume submission options: -jeffgetzell@sbcglobal.net -Fax: 847-866-9822 No phone calls please.

OPTOMETRY SERVICES MANAGER. Chicago, IL. Plan, di-

rect and coordinate optometry services. Work with: Zeiss IOL Master; Corneal Topographer; OCT; Humphrey visual field; corneal pachymeter; manual contact and immersion Ascan; phoropter; EMA Ophthalmology; Advanced MD. Required: Master’s Degree (US or foreign equivalent) in health administration/ vision science/biology/related. Bachelor’s Degree (US or foreign equivalent) in health administration/vision s cience/biology/related plus 5 years related, progressive experience will substitute for Master’s Degree in health administration/vision science/ biology/related. Employer will accept any suitable combination of education, training and experience equivalent to a Master’s degree in health ad ministration/vision science/ biology/related. NO PHONE CALLS. Forward resumes to: Eye Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago, Attn: Wendy Herst, 2845 N. Sheridan Rd., Suite 702, Chicago, IL 60657.

SPRING MAKER - Elk Grove Co. is looking for exp. CNC Spring Coiler and or CNC Wire Former Set Up Person.

FT, 1st or 2nd shifts. Send resume to hr@jacksonspring. com.

Strategy Director: Resp for developing long & short term strategic plans for assigned brands, leading efforts to identify fresh consumer/brand/category insights to fuel creative development. Maintain strong relationships with the other leaders of the brand teams & key client decision-makers. Contribute to intellectual property of agency by identifying opportunities for developing and sharing broad-based insight initiatives on relevant topics or issues of agency client interest. Assigned brands may include tobacco products. Chicago IL location. Req’s 4 yrs exp in the job offered at an ad agency part of int’l network. Exp must incl: 1) 2 yrs developing creative briefs, developing integrated marketing campaigns & leading crossfunctional teams, 2) 1 yr exp as Reg’l Planning Dir & 3) 1 yr exp working on tobacco account. Leo Burnett Company, Inc., 35 W Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL, 60601.

Apply online at: www.leoburnett. com. EOE

Lyons Consulting Group, LLC (DBA LYONSCG) seeks Demandware Technical Leads for Chicago, IL to plan & lead IT proj. incl. full scale Demandware impl. proj. Master’s in Comp. Sci./Info.

Tech./Ecommerce/Cybernetics or related field +3yrs exp. or Bachelor’s in Comp. Sci./Info. Tech./ Ecommerce/Cybernetics or related field +5yrs exp. req’d. Must have exp. leading full scale Demandware impl. proj. architecting. & documenting tech. solns. based on req’ts and Demandware best practices, Demandware API, pipelines, DW script, Sitegenesis, Business Manager, dev. of eCommerce web sites based on Demandware platform, sitegenesis integration w/ 3rd party ststems (OMS, payment gateways, AVS), database driven web apps. in Java, integration of real-time data exchange via webservice, asynchronous file exchange.

Must hold Demandware developer. cert. Apply at http://www.lyonscg. com/careers/, Job ID #10001 LYONS GROUP,

CONSULTING

LLC (DBA LYONSCG) seeks Sr. Application Engineers for various and unanticipated worksites throughout the U.S. (HQ: Chicago, IL) to design, dev., impl. & maint. eCommerce sw. apps. Bachelor’s in Comp. Sci./Eng. or any Eng. field + 5yrs exp. req’d. Must have exp./ proficiency w/ Hybris Accelerators, APIs, HAC, HMC, hybris Cockpits, Spring Core, MVC, Groovy, Java, J2EE, ANT, Git, SVN, Spring, RDBMS (Oracle, MySQL), JQuery, REST, SOAP, JUnit, SOLR, hybris CIS, OMS, Maven, and Data Hub. Must hold certifications for Hybris Core Developer & Oracle Java Programmer. May telecommute. Apply at http://www. lyonscg.com/careers/, Job ID #10002

ACCOUNTING ASSURANCE SENIOR ASSOCIATE –

Private Company Services (Mult.

Pos.), PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Chicago, IL. Utilize a flexible, tailored audit & tax compliance process that reflects the risk profiles of private company clients & incorporates a pricing structure appropriate to those risks. Req. Bach’s deg in Acc, Bus Admin, or rel,. + 2 yrs rel. work exp. Travel up to 40% req. Apply by mail, referencing Job Code CHIPCS, Attn: HR SSC/Talent Management, 4040 W. Boy Scout Blvd, Tampa, FL 33607.

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL seeks Senior Research Associate to manage & administer largescale economic & financial datasets. Master’s in Economics, Finance, Accounting or Statistics or a related field req’d. Education or exp. must include: data management and analysis for research support, cleaning of large data sets, Python/C++, Matlab/R, SAS /Stata, My SQL. Criminal background check req’d. Apply at: http s://www4.kellogg.northwestern. edu/recruiting/default. aspx?dept=RSCH

UIS Consulting, LLC ( H Q Schaumburg, IL) seeks QA Analysts for various & unanticipated worksites throughout the US. Master’s in Comp Sci or Info Sys +2yrs exp. or Bachelor’s in Comp Sci or Info Sys +5yrs prog exp req’d. Exp must incl: credit card industry, waterfall & agile methodology, review of testware, ALM, SQL Server, IBM Mainframe.

Email resume to: Salma Habibullah, REF#JX, salma@uisi. com

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ASPIRE SYSTEMS, INC. – Systems Analyst, Oak Brook, IL. Design/ develop customized software. Req: M .S. or foreign equiv in Comp Sci, Eng, Math, or related, plus 2 yrs related exp. Exp in Software Devel Life Cycle: Requirement Gathering/Analysis, System Analysis/Design, Coding/ Implementation. Exp. With: enterprise integration using iWay Service Manager, iWay Data Migrator, iWay MDC, iWay DQC; BI tools like MSBI (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS); Crystal Reports 8 .5/9.2; Cognos 7.2. Permanent US work authorization req. Apply to ash wini.chandramouli@aspiresys.com.

AVANT INC. SEEKS candidates

for the following position in Chicago, IL: Data Insights Manager (Job ID 2016-N002; MS in CS, EE, IT or rel field + 5 yrs exp in risk data analytics occ req’d). To apply, mail resumes to Kristine Nagy, 222 N. LaSalle St., Ste. 1700, Chicago, IL 60601 and refer to Job ID. EOE. Principals only.

NUTS ON CLARK POPCORN

Stores now hiring in Chicago for all locations...Earn $ while working with a team. Get paid while training.

Jobs Available Now Midway/O’Hare Airports. Apply in person @ corp. office: 3830 N. Clark St. Chicago.

9am-10am Mon-Fri. Must bring ID’s and Social Security Card to apply.

Established recycling company is seeking full time helpers & laborers looking for a career. HIGH PAY! Benefits include: 401k, Health, Dental, & Eye. Call & apply in person at 3000 Wireton Road, Blue Island, IL. Call 708388-3223 (Ashley) for directions only.

KAMA INDIAN BISTRO is hiring

cooks experienced in preparing fine Indian cuisine Candidate must have 5+ years of relevant experience. Culinary degree is a plus

MUSIC DIRECTOR (Vernon Hills, IL) needed to run music ministry of a Korean Church. Req. BA in Music & 1yr related exp. Resume to Trinity Presbyterian Church, 506 Arlington Ct. Vernon Hills,IL60061

SMARTLOGIX INC. SEEKS Pro-

grammers/Analysts, S/W Engineers.

Primary worksite is Northbrook,IL but relocation is possible.

Contact: hrd@smartlogix.us

GENERAL TRUCK AND trailer

mechanics needed. Full- and parttime. Uniforms provided. Opportunity for advancement. Chicago. Call 773-247-6962.

CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms

Hotel, 5316 S. Harper, maid, phone, cable ready, fridge, private facilities, laundry avail. Start at $160/wk Call 773-493-3500

MARQUETTE PARK: 6315 S California Studios from $600. Free heat and appliances. Free application fee. Call +1(312)208-1771

STUDIO $700-$899 EDGEWATER: Dlx Studio: full kic, new appl, DR, oak flrs, lndy, cats ok. $795/incl ht, water, gas, 773-743-4141 urbanequities.com

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

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

Ashland Hotel nice clean rms.

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

Low rates daily/weekly/monthly.

South Side. Call 773-376-5200

1 BR UNDER $700 7022 S. SHORE DRIVE Impecca-

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

Laundry & Security on Premises.

Parking & Apts. Are Subject to Availability. TOWNHOUSE APARTMENTS 773-288-1030

79TH & WOODLAWN 2 B R Basement $750-$800; 76th & Phillips Studio $575-$600, 1BR

$650-$700 & 2BR $750-$800. Remodeled, Appliances avail.

Free Heat. Section 8 welcome. 312-2865678

SUMMER SPECIAL: STUDIOS starting at $499 incls utilities. 1BR $550, 2BR $599, 3BR $699. With

approved credit. No Security Deposit for Sec 8 Tenants. South Shore & Southside. Call 312-446-3333

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

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

Ave) Nice, lrg 1 & 2BR w/balcony.

1BR $550, 2BR $650. Security deposit $650. Sec 8 Welcome. 773-9956950

RENTALS

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

708-388-0170

CHICAGO SOUTH - YOU’VE tried the rest, we are the best.

Apartments & Homes for rent, city & suburb. No credit checks.

773-221-7490, 773-221-7493 SOUTHSIDE - 8535 S. Green, 1 & 2 BR Apts, well maintained, hdwd floors, $625-$775/mo, security deposit required Call 773874-8451 STUDIOS AND 2 BRS

STUDIO $600-$699 PARK!

7455

N. Greenview. Studios starting at $625 including heat. It’s a newly remodeled vintage elevator building with on-site laundry, wood floors, new kitchens and baths, some units have balconies, etc. Application fee $40.

No security deposit! For a showing please contact Samir 773-627-4894 Hunter Properties 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

EDGEWATER!

CHICAGO - SOUTH SHORE Large 1BR, $660/mo. Free heat.

Near Transportation. Section 8 Welcome. Call 708-932-4582

1061 W. Rose-

mont. Studios starting at $625 to $675, All Utilities included! Elevator building! Close to CTA red line train, restaurants, shopping, blocks to the lakefront, beaches and bike trails, laundry onsite, remodeled, etc. For a showing please contact Jay 773835-1864 Hunter Properties, Inc. 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

LARGE STUDIO APARTMENT

near lake. 1339 W Estes. Hardwood floors, cats OK, laundry in building. $ 695/ month, heat included. Available 10/1.

773-761-4318, www. lakefrontmgt.com

9147 S. ASHLAND. Lrg Studio, dine -In Kit., hdwd flrs, laundry, closets. Clean & Secure. $650/mo.

No Pets.

Avail now! 312-914-8967.

67th/ Jeffery & 56th/Wabash UPDATED UNITS! NO MOVE IN FEE! ONE MONTH FREE! Free Window AC. livenovo.com or Call 312-445-9694

FALL SPECIAL $500 Toward

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

SECTION 8 WELCOME Chicago, 74th East End, newly decorated, 1BR, dining room, heat included, $675/mo. Call 773-8749637 or 773-493-5359 EXCHANGE EAST APTS 1 Brdm

$575 w/Free Parking,Appl, AC,Free heat. Near trans. laundry rm. Elec.not incl. Kalabich Mgmt (708) 424-4216 6930 S. SOUTH SHORE DRIVE Studios & 1BR, INCL. Heat, Elec, Cking gas & PARKING, $585-$925, Country Club Apts 773-752-2200

BLUE

ISLAND,

LARGE,1BR,

near 124th & Vincennes, laundry room, carpet, appls, heat incl. $675 + 1 mo rent & sec. Call 708-841-8148

NEW RENO SOUTH Shore, 7017 S. Clyde. 1BR, updated Kit/BA, hdwd flrs, tenant pays heat, nr Metra & shops. $635/mo. 630.660.5031

CHICAGO, 82ND & JUSTINE. 1BR. near transportation. $650$695 /mo. 1 month rent + 1 month Security. Heat is incl. 773-873-1591

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1 BR $1100 AND OVER AVAIL 10/1. 1111 S. Wabash. In

Unit laundry, pets allowed. upgraded.

Garage-$2000 or $1800 w/o parking.

Doorman, pool, exercise faciities. Castle Keepers. Cynthia 773-671-5465..

1 BR OTHER 75TH & EBERHART. 1 & 2BR apts ceiling fan, appls, hdwd flrs, HEATED, intercom. $650/mo & up Call 773-881-3573

û NO SEC DEP û 6829 S. PERRY. 1BR. $520/mo.

HEAT INCL 773-955-5106

1 BR $700-$799 BETWEEN KIMBALL, PULASKI. Charming 3 room, 1 bedroom.

Large walk-in closet, hardwood floors, all remodeled, new appliances.

Near Brown Line. $725 includes heat, gas. 773-710-3634.

ALSIP: 1BR. $720/MO. 2BR, 1 BA$850/mo & 3BR, 1.5BA, $1 050/mo. Parking, appliances, laundry & storage. Call 708268-3762

SOUTH SIDE 5129 S Drexel, renovated 1BR apt, 2BA, hardwood flrs, $725/mo, close to bus route, heat included. 773-285-3206

1 BR $800-$899 ONE BEDROOM apartment near

Warren Park and Metra, 6802 N Wolcott. Hardwood floors, Heat included. Laundry in building. Cats OK. $825- $875/ month. Available 10/1.

Garden unit available 10/1 for $795/ month. And larger one bedroom available 10/1 for $900/ month. 773761-4318, www.lakefrontmgt.com

WEST PULLMAN (INDIANA

REAL ESTATE

ROGERS

$625 & $725/MO. Large 1 & 2BR 75th & Union. Near public trans, schools and shopping, appl incl.

Sect 8 Welc. 708-334-5188

LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W

Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $895-$925 include heat and gas, laundry in building. Great view! Close to CTA Red Line, bus, stores, restaurants, lake, etc. To schedule a showing please contact Celio 773-3961575, Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com

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 WAITLIST OPEN Anathoth Gardens/PACE APTS. Studio Apts. Available Qualified Seniors 62+ Affordable Senior buildings, rent based on 30% Of mthly income. A/C, laundry room, Cable ready, intercom entry system, Front desk security.

Applications Are being accepted between 11:00 a.m. And 3:00 p.m.

Monday thru Friday at Anathoth Gardens 34 N. Keeler Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60624 Please call 773-826-0214 For more Information 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 ∫

142 LOWE 3&1, FIN BSMT, $1125.

144 Emerald 2&2 plus $1150. new reno. Open House, Appt Only.

773.619.4395 Charlie 818.679.

1175

ble October 1st. One bedroom $895 plus heat. Quiet, nonsmoking, pet friendly building. Good light. Close to transportation. Cable, internet included. 347-633-0005.

82/WOODLAWN, STUDIOS $525+, 1BR $625+. 773-577-0993.

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

1 BR $900-$1099

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

VICINITY ADA/ OHIO. Availa-

LARGE ONE BEDROOM apart-

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

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

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

HOMEWOOD- SUNNY 900SF

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

CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** SPACIOUS-SAFE 773-4235727. BRONZEVILLE, 3BR, heat included. Englewood, 1,2 & 3BR, heat incl. Dolton, 2BR, Gated Parking.

NO SECURITY DEPOSIT No Move-in fee! No Dep! Sec 8 ok. 1, 2 & 3 Bdrms. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe.

Call Gina. 773-874-0100

Humongous 4BR/2BA, 3BR/2BA, 3B R/1BA, new hd fl, cer tile, Cent Air, rec light, chrrywd cabinets, grnt cntrs, nr trans, 773-410-3892

CHICAGO, NEAR GARFIELD BLVD. 3BR Apartment & Rooms for Rent. $400 & $700/mo. Section 8 welcome. Call 773-218-2758 CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE Beauti-

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

9116 S. SO. Chicago Ave., 2BR, $670. 13356 S. Brandon, 1B R, $550. Both 1BA, carpet & appliances included. 312-683-5174 71ST/HERMITAGE. 3BR. 77TH /LOWE. 1 & 2BR. 69th/Dante, 3BR. 71st/Bennett. 2 & 3BR. New renov.

Sec 8 ok. 708-503-1366

68TH INDIANA NICE, UPDATED 1-2BR apts, spacious w/ hdwd flrs, close to transportation. $600$700/mo. Heat Incl. 773-445-0329

SOUTH SHORE, 76 Saginaw.

Nice updated, 1-2BR apts, Spacious w / hdwd flrs & more. $630-$770/mo.

Heat Incl. 773-445-0329

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

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

SOUTHSIDE COZY 2BR newly remod. Condo near 79th/Damen, secure building, sec. 8 OK. $925.

708-752-3065

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.

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 2-4BRS. NEW, great school and area, Sec.8 ok, $1150-$1400 Cal Heights & Chatham. Also have Rent to Own Prop. 312-501-0509

2 BR $1300-$1499 3115 N KEATING Ave. 5 room, 2BR, 1st Floor apartment for rent, $1300/mo. No security deposit.

Hardwood floors, new kitchen, new bathroom, parking & laundry included. 773-738-3421, e-mail: rogerjohnson3115@gmail.com

2 BR $1500 AND

OVER

2 BR UNDER $900

Cottage Grove, 2BR apt. $950/mo Newly remod, appls, mini blinds, ceiling fans, Section 8 welcome. Call 312915-0100

2BR. 7830 S. Colfax. Start at $850/ mo, heat incl. Sect 8 ok. Pete, 312.770 .0589 7701 S. South Shore Dr. 2 BDs with 1.5 Baths, Large Combo Living-Dining Rm, FREE Heat & cking gas. Prkng extra. $785-$850, Kalabich Mgmt (708)424-4216

SOUTHSIDE RENOVATED 2

BR, 6052 S. Marshfield. Tenant pays utils, $635/mo please text/call 773-307-5090

CHICAGO

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

2br apartment 7743-51 South Stewart $650 per mo 1st and last month rent req. heat incl. 773-547-9697®

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

6 N. Lockwoood Call 708-204-8600 1043 E. 80TH St.: 2BR $775

Large apartment, stove, fridge, heat included. Call 773.916.0039

2 BR $900-$1099 SUNNY

SPACIOUS 5 Room, 2 Bedroom. Modern kitchen & bath, dishwasher & hardwood floors in 2-flat. Nice neighborhood. Approximately 5000N & 3700W. Near transportation. Rent includes heat, gas, electric & Direct TV. $1060/mo. + security deposit. Call 773-279-0466 W. HUMBOLDT PARK. 1302-08 N. KILDARE. DIVISION/ PULASKI. NEWLY REHABBED, 2BR, $785.

SEC 8 OK. 773-619-0280 OR 773286-8200 MUST SEE, NEWLY D E C O RATED 2BR apts, laundry room, heat incl. $995. No sec. dep, 6437 S Kenwood, Mr. Windham. 708417-4195 BRONZEVILLE - 42nd & Indiana.

Gut rehabbed 2BR, hardwood floors, new kitchen cabinets & appls. $995. Sect 8 Welc. 773447-2122

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200

CHICAGO, 7617 S. Eggleston Newly Remodeled 5BR House, 2BA, finished basement, appliances included. Section 8 ok. 708539-6239

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

7711 S. EAST End 3fl $950+sec

heat includ buz entr hardwood fl,stove/frig, 773-456-1274 Wilson

DOLTON - 3BR, 1BA, GARAGE, NO BASEMENT. $1300 /MONTH + SEC. SECTION 8 WELCOME. CALL 773-454-7441 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

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

3 BEDROOM HOME to Rent

2138 .W. 71st Place. Chicago Call Corean at 708-275-7098 between 10 am and 4 pm 86TH/INGLESIDE 3BR, 1.5BA

AUSTIN AREA Huge 6 rooms, 3BR, 1.5BA, 2nd floor, hardwood floors, heat incl. $1050/mo + move-in fee. Call 773-419-3014

NO SEC DEP. Chicago, 9121 S.

SOUTHSHORE, STOP LOOKING this is it! Newly decor Garden

3 BR OR MORE

Townhouse, hdwd flrs, part fin bsmt, nr trans. Tenant pays elec and gas. $1150/mo. 773-960-6791

BEAUTIFUL 5 RM, 2 BR, encl. porch/pantry, appl. inc. tenant pays heat. nr trans. 71st/Fairfield.

No Smoking. $700/mo +sec.

773-238-5188

79TH & ABERDEEN, Garden & 2BR Apt, $700-$750+utils. 80th & Drexel, 3BR, 2BA, hdwd flrs & ceramic tile, $1100. Sect 8. 773-5024304

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

CHICAGO, 4019 W. Arlington,

3BR, 2nd flr, tenant pays all utiltiies, back porch,stove, $1170/mo. Price Neg. 773-966-4821

CALUMET HEIGHTS & Chatham:

COMPLETELY REHABBED AND Excellent 2BR, 1BA Condo

for rent at 837 W Barry. Hardwood, exposed brick, tile, granite and stainless in the kitchen. Building has an indoor pool, laundry gym, sundeck, saunas. Available Sept 1. $1900 / month. 203-216-1080

LARGE TWO BEDROOM, two

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

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STRAIGHT DOPE

By Cecil Adams Q : My blood type is A negative. I’ve heard

A : That sure is some netherworld of dodgy

disinfo you inadvertently spelunked into, Katrina. Many links concerning Rh-negative blood look kosher enough in your search results but when clicked release a flood of wide-eyed theories about ethnic migration, blood-type-based dating tips, and offers to trace your ancestry back to extraterrestrials, angels, or lizards.

Various stalwart rationalists, bless ’em all, have labored above and beyond to debunk this stuff. But, as you say, the question is where these crypto-hematologists emerged from and what their deal is. On examination, they generally seem to be people who had certain theories about how the world worked long before they learned of Rh negativity.

And then? Well, they smelled blood.

The term Rh factor is commonly used to refer to the presence of a certain protein, the D antigen, on the surface of an individual’s red blood cells. If you’ve got it—and most of us do—you’re Rh positive. The slim minority of humans without? Rh negative. It’s always good to know your blood type, but particularly when you’re pregnant. Things can get tricky when an Rh-negative mother is carrying an Rh-positive fetus—if she’s been exposed to Rh-positive blood before (typically via a prior pregnancy), she’ll produce antibodies that can attack her helpless kiddo like it’s an infection.

As with most of our species’ biological oddities, scientists believe that Rh-negative blood initially resulted from a DNA mutation that evidently served some sort of evolutionary purpose that research hasn’t quite yet nailed down. Carrying the gene for Rh negativity seems to improve resistance to the parasitic condition called toxoplasmosis, which may hint at an answer, but no one knows for sure.

No one knows for sure: five magic words that will forever summon swarms of crackpots from dankest cyberspace. Some try to tell you that the children of the Nephilim, an antediluvian race of fallen angels and/or giants casually mentioned in Genesis, still walk among us—ye shall know them by their Rh-negative blood. Others will list the “reptilian” physical characteristics Rh-negative folks possess, including extra vertebrae and lower-than-normal body temperature. But two major sets of

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this can cause pregnancy issues, so I googled “Rh-negative blood” and ran across a bunch of weirdo sites with “theories” about the origin of negative blood types and some online communities with seriously racist undertones. Where did all this crazy mythology surrounding blood types come from? —KATRINA

opportunistic cranks stand out, each armed with their own theories about Rh negativity.

The first crew is relatively benign, of a type familiar to all battlers against pseudoscience: those who for more than half a century have recast the divine beings of the world’s religions as “ancient astronauts,” crediting extraterrestrials with constructing the pyramids and inspiring the stone heads of Easter Island.

But for some scholars of this ilk, aliens weren’t here just to jumpstart our civilization. They manipulated us on a cellular level, creating, according to UFO-centric author Nick Redfern, “a slave race to dutifully mine gold.” The evidence? You guessed it: Rh-negative blood.

You’re more likely, though, to encounter the suggestion that Rh-negative blood makes its possessor superior to others. Sometimes this leads to charming kookdom—the Basque people have an extraordinarily high Rh-negative rate of 25 to 35 percent, which entrances that strange subset of Basquophiles who believe them to be a magical race that built Stonehenge and traveled regularly to North America centuries before the age of exploration.

Unfortunately, this viewpoint attracts far nastier sorts too. Forever on the lookout for some minor genetic distinction between ethnicities to bolster their worldview, certain white supremacists are tickled pink about the fact that about 15 percent of people of European descent will tend to be Rh negative, while less than 1 percent of Africans, Asians, and Native Americans will. Thus, predictably, you’ll see assertions that Rh negatives have a higher IQ and that the fair-skinned Caucasian traits of northern Europeans were caused by the mutation. Stray far enough into the muck and you’ll find “proof” that Jesus was Scandinavian—with AB-negative blood, natch.

Back here in reality, I’ve got good news for Rh-negative moms-to-be: as long as you discuss potential Rh-factor issues with your OB-GYN early enough, complications can usually be avoided. If, however, your doc mentions anything about ancient astronauts or Nephilim, make sure you get a second opinion. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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By Dan Savage

What can clients do to fight laws that harm sex workers?

Speak up! Plus: a gay cross-dresser who really, really shouldn’t adopt.

Q : I have been seeing sex

workers for 30 years, and I shudder to think how shitty my life would have been without them. Some have become friends, but I’ve appreciated all of them.

Negative stereotypes about guys like me aren’t fair. But what can we clients do to fight stupid, regressive, repressive laws that harm sex workers? —NOT A JOHN

A : You can speak up, NAJ.

The current line from prohibitionists—people who want sex work to remain illegal—is that all women who sell sex are victims and all men who buy sex are monsters. But talk to actual sex workers and you hear about considerate, regular clients who are kind, respectful, and sometimes personally helpful in unexpected ways. You also hear about clients who are threatening or violent—and how laws against sex work make it impossible for them to go to the police, making them more vulnerable to violence, exploitation, and abuse, not less.

There is a large and growing sex workers’ rights movement, NAJ, which Emily Bazelon wrote about in a terrific cover story for the New York Times Magazine (“Should Prostitution Be a Crime?,” May 5, 2016).

Bazelon spoke with scores of sex workers active in the growing and increasingly effective decriminalization movement. Amnesty International recently called for the full decriminalization of sex work, joining Human Rights Watch, the World Health Organization, and other large, mainstream health and human rights groups.

But there’s something missing from the movement to decriminalize sex work: clients like you, NAJ. The legal risks and social

stigma attached to buying sex doubtless leave some clients feeling like they can’t speak up and join the fight, and the much-touted “Nordic model” is upping the legal stakes for buyers of sex. (Said model makes buying sex illegal, not selling it. In theory, only clients are supposed to suffer, but in practice, the women are punished too.)

But sex workers today are coming out in ever-greater numbers to fight for their rights in the face of potentially dire legal and social consequences.

Clients need to join the fight—or perhaps I should say clients need to rejoin the fight.

In The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution, author Faramerz Dabhoiwala writes about “societies of virtue” formed all over England in the late 17th century. Their campaigns against prostitutes were particularly vicious and indiscriminate; women were thrown in jail or publicly whipped for the crime of having a “lewd” appearance.

Then a beautiful thing happened.

“In the spring of 1711, a drive against ‘loose women and their male followers’ in Covent Garden was foiled when ‘the constables were dreadfully maimed, and one mortally wounded, by ruffians aided by 40 soldiers of the guards, who entered into a combination to protect the women,’” writes Dabhoiwala.

“On another occasion in the East End, a crowd of over a thousand seamen mobbed the local magistrates and forcibly released a group of convicted prostitutes being sent to a house of correction.”

Male followers of loose women, soldiers of the guard, mobs of seamen—not altruists, but likely clients of

the women they fought to defend.

I’m not suggesting that today’s clients form mobs and attack prohibitionists, cops, prosecutors, and their enablers in the media. But clients can and should be out there speaking up in defense of sex workers and themselves.

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How can I encourage my boyfriend to tell his parents he’s gay and wants to explore his feminine side by wearing female clothes? And how do I teach an early schoolage boy that it’s OK for him to explore his feminine side by wearing female clothes and also teach him that he doesn’t have to be gay at the same time? —DRESSING A FUTURE TOGETHER

A : Wear whatever you like, DAFT, but please don’t adopt any children. Because a father who pushes his son into a dress is just as abusive and unfit as one who forbids his son to wear a dress. You two don’t need kids, DAFT, you need a therapist who can help your boyfriend with his issues (the closet, not wearing female clothes) and help you with your extremely odd and potentially damaging ideas about parenting. v Send letters to mail@ savagelove.net. Download the Savage Lovecast every Tuesday at thestranger.com. ß @fakedansavage

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Leon Russell 10/30-31, 8 PM, City Winery b Russian Circles, Cloakroom 9/9, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Satan 10/26, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Savoy Brown 9/30-10/1, 7 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Bob Schneider 11/12, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston John Scofield 10/5, 7 and 9:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Calum Scott 11/7, 6 PM, Lincoln Hall b Thee Oh Sees 11/19, 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ This Wild Life 10/12, 6 PM, Subterranean b Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats 9/13, 8 PM, Metro, 18+ Vinyl Thief 9/18, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Tessa Violet, Dodie Clark 10/14, 6:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Warpaint 9/30, 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Weepies 11/2, 8 PM, Thalia Hall b Webb Wilder 10/28, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Dar Williams 11/17, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Marlon Williams & the Yarra Brothers 9/20, 8 PM, Martyrs’ Brian Wilson 10/1, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre ZZ Top, Gov’t Mule 9/17, 7 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont

SOLD OUT Bear vs. Shark 10/29, 8 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Bear’s Den 9/23, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Bill Callahan 9/25-26, 7:30 and 9:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Dillinger Escape Plan 9/16, 11 PM, Cobra Lounge Echo & the Bunnymen 9/17, 8 PM, Metro, 18+ Failure 10/21, 9 PM, Double Door, 17+ Lukas Graham 1/17, 7 PM, House of Blues b Jason Isbell 11/18, 7:30 PM, Thalia Hall b Lush 9/18, 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Mekons 9/19-20, 8 PM, Hideout Motion City Soundtrack, Black Foxxes 9/18, 10 PM, Metro Stabbing Westward 9/22, 8 PM, Double Door Taking Back Sunday 9/16, 11 PM, Metro, 18+ Tricky 10/30, 7 PM, Double Door v

GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene PROLIFIC CHICAGO MUSIC photographer Bobby Talamine, whose work has frequently graced the Reader (you might remember his vibrant shots of Cheap Trick, Gary Numan, or Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment with Chance the Rapper), was assaulted after Radiohead’s set at Lollapalooza—and the bastards made off with his camera too. Talamine’s buddy Brett Widmann has set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to cover the cost of new gear, which quickly met its initial goal. And on Wednesday, September 7, the fine folks at Metro host a celebration of Talamine’s work at GMan Tavern as a thank-you to donors. It features DJ sets from Tom Pazen, Jeff Pazen, Scary Lady Sarah, Jeff Moyer, Greg Haus, and Gil Burns, and Talamine’s photos will be projected onstage (he’ll also sell prints). It’s free and starts at 6 PM. Gossip Wolf has been awaiting new jams from Chicago label Scrapes (run by creepy-synth maven Alex Barnett) and from local proto-industrial duo Hogg— and as if in answer, they’ve teamed up! On Thursday, September 1, Scrapes releases Hogg’s Solar Phallic Lion, whose selftitled track features laborious bass grind, ugly guitar scrapes, and what sounds like a vocodered recording of an animal undergoing electroshock therapy. Gossip Wolf approved! Chicago artist Elijah Burgher, who’s appeared in the Whitney Biennial, did the EP’s obsessively weird artwork. Hogg will be selling copies of the 12-inch (Scrapes recently started releasing vinyl) on Sunday, September 4, when they play a label showcase with Champagne Mirrors and Ariisk at the Empty Bottle.

It’s been a few since Gossip Wolf checked in on off-center pop auteurs Oshwa, and just last week the badass band self-released their second album, I We You Me. Oshwa have smoothed out their dazzlingly knotty sound on these tantalizing tracks, and you can order a copy on transparent gold vinyl from their Bandcamp. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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