Chicago Reader: print issue of October 15, 2015 (Volume 45, Number 3)

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Politics Mayor Rahm’s head in the sand 8

Theater Haunting Halloween shows 23

Movies Raising hell at the Chicago International Film Festival 28

WHAT IS MIDWESTERN CUISINE? Some answers to our region’s most nagging food question.

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IN THIS ISSUE 4 Agenda Brian Posehn, Tavi Gevinson, Bridge of Spies, and more recommendations 8 Joravsky | Politics Mayor Rahm’s head was in the sand when Barbara Byrd-Bennett set up her $23 million scam.

ARTS & CULTURE HAVE WE LEFT OFF YOUR FAVORITE regional delicacy from our “midwestern originals” list? Check out the selection beginning on page 11, and tweet at us using the hashtag #midwesternfood.

23 Theater An all-girl Dracula, zombie versions of Seinfeld and Les Mis, and more haunting Halloween shows 25 Lit In Fear of Dying, Erica Jong explores sex and death in the age of Internet dating.

26 Visual Art Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s portraits re-create the grotesque specters of his childhood in the Robert Taylor Homes.

26 Dance A site-specific performance in the old Shoreland Ballroom experiments with the aesthetics of dilapidation.

28 Movies Nuns raise hell at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Plus: highlights of this year’s fest

MUSIC

31 Gossip Wolf Bill MacKay’s Darts & Arrows release a new album of folky art-rock, and more music news.

31 Shows of note Stevie Wonder, the Ex & Ken Vandermark, Disclosure, the Zombies, the William Parker Quartet, and more

36 The Secret History of Chicago Music Eighties synth-pop duo the Arms of Someone New just played their first show ever.

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41 Apartments & Spaces 42 Jobs 43 Marketplace 44 Straight Dope If juglone can induce cell death, how are walnuts good for us?

45 Savage Love All you ever wanted to know about “lady spasms”—and not the good kind 46 Early Warnings Kendrick Lamar, Lower Dens, Brave Combo, and more concerts on the horizon

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ON THE COVER: Flank steak with potatoes and cauliflower at Farmhouse Tavern and Crispy carnaroli rice cake at Perennial Virant photographed by Lucy Hewett. For more of Hewett’s work go to lucyhewett.com.

There are a few reasons why midwesterners find it difficult to answer that question.

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Local chefs are using fresh, seasonal ingredients to class up classic comfort foods, from pasties to a dinner of meat and potatoes.

forgotten strain of wheat, a small-town farmer and an Evanston baker may have found the key to reviving an authentic midwestern cuisine.

dishes from Chicago restaurant kitchens

Midwestern Bread Experiment In a

17 Waste not, want not At Stock, the cafe inside the new midwestern culinary mecca Local Foods, Abra Berens is giving new life to undesirable produce.

19 Milking the past Illinois’s dairy heritage has been resurrected by a former pencil pusher who just wanted healthy milk for his family.

21 How Chicago

became ‘hog butcher for the world’ In his new book, Slaughterhouse, Chicago historian Dominic Pacyga goes back to his roots as a laborer in the southside stockyards.

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F out intermission) is packed with poetic speeches, court intrigues, and murder most foul. Yet for all its crazy intensity, this Oracle Theatre production, also directed by Truax, lacks urgency. Lines are well enunciated, but delivered in a flat style that’s ultimately soporific. And though Truax’s decision to cast the cool, statuesque Katherine Keberlein in the role of twisted, seething Richard is interesting, he never manages to justify the choice or even use it to reflect on gender politics. In the end, I found myself enjoying Joanna Iwanicka’s intriguing set and Joan Pritchard’s inspired costumes (some period, some modern) much more than the actual play. —JACK HELBIG Through 11/8: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Storefront Theater, Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, 66 E. Randolph, 312-7428497, publicaccesstheatre.org. F

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the Alley Stage, 4147 N. Broadway, 773-549-1815, www.foundlingstheatre. com, $25.

Good for Otto David Rabe’s new play, based on the writings and experiences of psychotherapist and self-help author Richard O’Connor, centers on the patients and staff members of a mental health clinic in the Berkshires. In long monologues and therapy sessions, several troubled souls, ranging in age from 12 to 75, recount their struggles with depression, autism, self-harm, and other problems. Their counselors, meanwhile, try to remain neutral while fighting with their own dark and bitter thoughts (not to mention the insurance companies).

The large cast of Michael Patrick Thornton’s somber staging convey intelligence and compassion, but there’s something leaden and portentous about the whole thing. Maybe that’s to be expected, given the subject matter. But the show’s three-hour running time doesn’t exactly fly by. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 11/22: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Gift Theatre Company, 4802 N. Milwaukee, 773-283-7071, thegifttheatre.org, $35.

My Brilliant Divorce Of course the title of this one-woman show is ironic, but wouldn’t it be great if it weren’t? The beginning is promising: Angela Kennedy Lipsky admits she’s secretly glad her husband, Max, is leaving her for his secretary because the roundness of his head was really starting to bug her. But then Geraldine Aron’s script settles into a well-worn Bridget Jones-esque groove: Angela wallows in self-pity, is ostracized by her married friends, attempts to date, struggles to save money and lose weight, and has several embarrassing-yet-charming encounters with her doctor, to whom she makes regular visits for imaginary maladies. There’s very little continuity to these adventures: plot points pop up and then disappear.

Barbara Figgins is engaging as Angela.

It’s a pity her story is so predictable.

—AIMEE LEVITT Through 11/1: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Chief O’Neill’s, 3571 N. Elston, 773-583-3066, irishtheatreofchicago.org, $25.

Hoist The best thing about R Erin Lane’s heavy-duty new play—about a female soldier’s inability

My Manana Comes In Elizabeth R Irwin’s smart slice-of-life drama, busboys in an elite Manhattan restau-

to recover from the trauma of rape and a teenage girl’s readiness to capitulate to rape culture—is that it’s full of things to hate. Lane populates her 100-minute one-act with characters driven by selfishness, stubbornness, and blind habit, trapping themselves in lives as intractably barren as the dead-end Chicago bar where they spend all their time. Bad choices abound, sprouts of altruism wither, and Lane never tells an audience where to place their sympathies. In short, she puts life onstage.

Her loose plot wanders down a few cul-de-sacs, but there’s no mistaking the work’s cumulative power, especially in director Cheryl Snodgrass’s unflinching staging for the Wheelhouse and Foundlings Theatre. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 11/7: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM,

rant kitchen argue over shifts, keep themselves entertained between rushes, and wax poetic about their dreams of a more secure life, which they’re working toward inch by inch while under the thumb of increasingly stingy management. There’s a Robert Altman quality to Sandra Márquez’s excellent production, which touches on immigration, economic inequality, and the plight of those living paycheck to paycheck without ever seeming heavy-handed. —DAN JAKES Through 11/8: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, 773-871-3000, teatrovista.org, $25-$30.

No Beast So Fierce Max Truax’s nasty, brutish, and short version of Shakespeare’s Richard III (it’s 80 minutes with-

Ride the Cyclone According to an interview printed in the program, Canadian artists Brook Maxwell and Jacob Richmond created this 2008 musical as a way of “humanizing the idea of a mass tragedy”—much as, say, the image of drowned Aylan Kurdi humanized the migrant crisis. It doesn’t work out that way, though. Ride the Cyclone starts as eerie fun, introducing us to six more or less goofy teenagers killed in a roller-coaster mishap, and to the swami-like mechanical fortune teller (think Big) who can return one of them to life. We get to know the dead through a series of truly marvelous musical numbers directed and choreographed by Rachel Rockwell, and hear about the swami’s troubles as well. But the authors are too intent on quirky amusement. They don’t push hard enough, and the show is finally an exceedingly cool but empty thrill.

—TONY ADLER Through 11/8: Tue-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand, 312595-5600, chicagoshakes.com, $20-$48.

The Seven Percent Solution R This stage adaptation of Nicholas Meyer’s 1974 best seller puts a revision-

ist spin on the iconic character of Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes. Written in the style of one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Holmes tales, the novel

relates how the great detective and his faithful friend Dr. Watson team up with young Viennese physician Sigmund Freud to solve two crises: Holmes’s own psychosis-inducing addiction to cocaine, and a German nobleman’s fiendish plot to launch a European war. Both cases require the unique combination of Holmes’s deductive abilities and Freud’s insights into Oedipal fixations.

Scripted by Terry McCabe and directed

by Warner Crocker, the show employs a chamber theater style, with Watson narrating the action while also participating in it. The result is entertaining storytelling, yet also unusually moving in its exploration of the dogged devotion Watson (Adam Bitterman) feels for the strung-out supersleuth (James Sparling, a lookalike for the famous Sidney Paget drawings of Holmes in the Strand Magazine. Lee Wichman is a lovely Freud, at once gentle and steely as he probes the secrets of the subconscious. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 11/15: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, City Lit Theater, 1020 W. Bryn Mawr, 773-293-3682, citylit.org, $29.

The Story of a Story (The R Untold Story) Ben is a schlump if not a schlemiel, writing copy for

coloring books (!) while dreaming of the Major Novel he’s going to compose and failing to follow through on the affection he feels for his equally unhappy colleague, Maggie. Then he clicks a link and a portal opens and a guy named Masterful says he’ll help Ben realize all his dreams, no strings attached. Well, turns out there are strings. The rest of this untidy, funny new musical satire

by Peter Gwinn (book and lyrics) and Jody Shelton (music) concerns Ben and Maggie’s struggle to foil Masterful before he can cliche-ify the world (I mean, more than it already is). The cast of director-choreographer Christopher Pazdernik’s Underscore Theatre production cover a lot of ground skillwise, but the upper end is strong. Similarly, the script runs from puerile to witty, with witty winning often enough to give it charm. —TONY ADLER Through 11/8: Fri-Sat 9 PM, Sun 4 PM, Mon 7:30 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773769-3832, chopintheatre.com, $20.

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Best bets, recommendations, and notable arts and culture events for the week of October 15

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College “Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument,” this group exhibit explores the creation of monuments in relation to symbolism, time, and memory. Opening reception Fri 10/23, 5-7 PM. 10/15-12/23, 600 S. Michigan, 312-663-5554, mocp.org.

Zhou B Art Center “A Sophisticated Razkuache,” a collection of local artist Marcos Raya’s work exploring surrealism, American pop, Mexican folk, and rasquachismo. Opening reception Fri 10/16, 7-10 PM. 10/16-11/14, 1029 W. 35th, 773-523-0200, 33contemporary.com.

Jan Kempenaers, Spomenik #3 (Kosmaj), 2006, from “Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture, and the Monument” at the Museum of

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Alvin Ailey II Alvin Ailey’s second company performs three new works as well as the Ailey classic Revelations. Sun 10/18, 7 PM, McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell, Glen Ellyn, 630-942-4000, alvinailey.org, $45-$50.

Cutthroat Improv Improv teams from iO, the Playground Theater, pH Comedy Theater, Under the Gun, and ComedySportz battle each week to see who dominates Chicago’s improv scene. Through 10/30: Fri 10:30 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater. com, $12.

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Aya A collaboration between Aerial Dance Chicago and Elements Contemporary Ballet, Aya flounders under its own weight. The aerial work is lovely and quite elegant, but it’s quickly overwhelmed by the Elements dancers—the sheer number of bodies made their uncoordinated limbs and lack of precision noticeable. This remains a frustration throughout; it’s not until the shorter, more organized third act that the evening is redeemed. The ballet’s creators might take a clue from that and edit the work: too much happens all at the same time for us to focus, and many of the most exciting aerial elements are left floating away in the background while the strong and capable bodies run back and forth, again and again, across the stage. Even the music is disjointed. —BRITT JULIOUS Through 10/17: Sat 8 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773-935-6860, athenaeumtheatre.com, $18-$48.

The Cronus Land Khecari Dance R (Oubliette) presents a follow-up site-specific immersive performance choreographed by coartistic director Jonathan Meyer. See review page 26.

10/16-11/13: Wed-Sun, Tue 8 PM, the Shoreland Ballroom, 5454 S. South Shore, khecari.org, $15-$250.

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Sylvia The Hamburg Ballet’s John Neumeier choreographs a modern version of Léo Delibes’s 1876 story for the Joffrey Ballet. 10/14-10/25: Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Wed 10/14, 7:30 PM, and Thu 10/22, 7:30 PM, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, 800-982-2787, joffrey.org, $32-$155.

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Brian Posehn, Dan Telfer The R stand-ups perform in honor of Beat Kitchen’s 25th anniversary. Sat

10/17, 7:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, 773-281-4444, beatkitchen.com, $23-$25.

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Essay Fiesta Karen Shimmin and Willy Nast host an evening of live readings of personal essays, featuring Keith Ecker, JH Palmer, Rose Lannin, Mae Rice, and David Berner. Mon 10/19, 7 PM, Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln, 773293-2665, essayfiesta.com.

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Funny Ha-Ha Claire Zulkey’s humor reading series returns with guests Rebecca Makkai (The Hundred-Year House), Kate James (Schadenfreude), and Steve Gadlin (I Want to Draw a Cat for You). Fri 10/16, 6:30-8 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433, hideoutchicago.com, $10 suggested donation.

Joyce Carol Oates The R acclaimed writer reads a selection of her poetry. Fri 10/16, 7 PM, Poetry

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The Animation Show of Shows Aside from World of Tomorrow, a characteristically brilliant piece by Don Hertzfeldt (Everything Will Be OK), there are no revelations in this program of recent short animations, but the selections are consistently imaginative and enjoyable.

Especially pleasant is We Can’t Live Without Cosmos, a hand-drawn short by Russian director Konstantin Bronzit that takes a gently comic approach to two astronauts in training. The funniest is Thomas Bourdis, Martin de Coudenhove, Caroline Domergue, Colin Laubry, and Florian Vecchione’s Ascension, a French stop-motion animation about two climbers struggling unsuccessfully to place a statue of the Virgin Mary atop a mountain. Two of the more visually interesting pieces, both from France, use cutouts as the primary figures: Geoffrey Godet and Burcu Sankur’s Tant de Forêts, an environmentalist statement about the hazards of deforestation, and Isabel Favez’s poignant love story Messages Dans l’Air. —BEN SACHS 97 min. Fri 10/16, 2, 6, and 8 PM; Sat 10/17, 3 and 7:45 PM; Sun 10/18, 5 PM; Mon 10/19, 6 PM; Tue 10/20, 8 PM; Wed 10/21, 6 and 8 PM; and Thu 10/22, 8 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

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Locallective Loft Locallective OneYear Anniversary, the gallery celebrates its first birthday with an art show, food from Hapa Chicago and chef Geoff Mona, cocktails by Michael Zell of Little Goat and Jilian Figaro of Drinking Bird, and music from DJs Cal, My Boy Elroy, and Johnny Fonseca. Fri 10/16, 9 PM-2

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Lillstreet Art Center A benefit for Eric Tschetter, this fund-raiser on behalf of Lillstreet’s executive director, who’s undergoing treatment for brain cancer, features snacks, drinks, and a silent auction of art created by friends of the art center. Sat 10/17, 6-9 PM, 4401 N. Ravenswood, 773-769-4226, lillstreet.com.

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Nicholas Sparks The popular R novelist reads from his new book, See Me. Purchase of the book from the Book Stall required for admission.

Fri 10/16, 7 PM, the Skokie School, 520 Glendale, Winnetka, 847-441-1750, thebookstall.com, $27.

Beasts of No Nation Set in a war-torn African country, this stark drama follows a young boy who’s separated from his family and forced to fight for a rebel army. Director-cinematographer Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre, HBO’s True Detective) alternates between documentary-style realism and passages of extreme stylization, and his multifaceted approach conveys the instability of the hero’s existence (his use !

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—BEN SACHS 136 min. Landmark’s Century Centre The Big Broadcast Bing Crosby was once bigger than the Beatles, and this 1932 musical comedy from Paramount must have been an inspiration for A Hard Day’s Night—early in the film there’s a slapstick sequence of Crosby being mobbed and chased by crazed women, and the ending hangs on whether he’ll make the big radio show in time. In between there’s a deadly dull stretch in which Crosby and a Texas oil man compete for the same woman and George Burns and Gracie Allen struggle with subpar material as the station manager and his stenographer. But once the show kicks off in the studio, this is delightful, with numbers from the Mills Brothers, the Boswell Sisters, and the Cab Calloway Orchestra.

Frank Tuttle directed. —J.R. JONES 80 min. 35mm. Sun 10/18, 4:45 PM, and Mon 10/19, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Bridge of Spies Tom Hanks R lends his considerable Honest John appeal to this fascinating

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cold war drama about the secret exchange of Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, captured by the FBI in New York City, and Francis Gary Powers, whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over Russia in 1960. James Donovan (Hanks), a Brooklyn insurance lawyer and former Nuremberg prosecutor, agreed to defend Abel on principle, which brought him and his family public scorn. Though he lost the case, he privately persuaded the judge not to execute Abel, arguing that he would be more valuable to the U.S. alive than dead, and then wound up as part of the negotiating team that exchanged Abel for Powers on the Glienicke Bridge in Berlin. Directed by Steven Spielberg, this has all the sobriety and polish of his previous historical project, Lincoln (2012); you’d never guess the original script was by Joel and Ethan Coen. With Amy Ryan,

Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, and Austin Stowell. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 141 min.

Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Webster Place 11 Her Sister’s Secret Director R Edgar G. Ulmer takes a tawdry, melodramatic script and

realizes it with tremendous feeling and craftsmanship (1946). A young, single woman in New Orleans has an affair with a soldier on leave; he gets her pregnant but ships out before hearing the news, and she doesn’t know how to reach him.

The prospect of having a child out of wedlock doesn’t frighten her, though, since she knows her rich older sister in New York can help her out of any problem. Ulmer takes the characters’ emotions seriously, illustrating them with a rich visual language rooted in subtle camera movements and reflections within shots. The opening scenes, which depict the couple’s affair, are swooningly romantic, while the moments of intimacy between the two sisters (as well as those between the heroine and her historian father) recall Frank Borzage’s films in their sincerity. —BEN SACHS 86 min. 35mm. Sun 10/18, 3 PM, and Wed 10/21, 6:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

Steve Jobs Aaron Sorkin’s fictionalized screenplay about the tech guru behind Apple boils his life down into three product launches—for the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT in 1988 (created after the board of Apple forced him out), and the iMac in 1998 (created after his triumphant return to the company). Throughout these episodes, Sorkin peddles the dualistic take on Jobs—part visionary, part ice-cold SOB—that’s become conventional wisdom since his death in 2011, and focuses on his difficult relationships with programmer Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), software designer Andy Hertzfeld (Michael Stuhlbarg), Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), and Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the biological daughter Jobs refused to acknowledge for years. As the title character, Michael Fassbender gets the SOB part down just fine, but there’s little evidence of the personal magnetism that enabled Jobs to bend so many people to his will.

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Quay, identical twins from Pennsylvania who studied at Britain’s Royal College of Art in the late 60s. The Quays were heavily influenced by Czech animators like Jan Svankmajer and the Russian pioneer Wladyslaw Starewicz (who used animal and insect remains as materials), but their cryptic, mostly black-and-white films are more musical and surreal, discarding narrative for a nightmare world of fine-art references, destabilized perspectives (from 1986, The Comb explores a gorgeous Escher-like catacomb of ladders and crimson wood), and animated objects that mock the human form (in the acclaimed Street of Crocodiles, from 1988, the hero is taken apart and reassembled by a gang of dolls with vacant eye sockets).

Also on the program: In Absentia (2000) and Quay, a new short documentary on the brothers

by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception). —J.R. JONES 35mm. Fri 10/16-Mon 10/19, 5 and 7:30 PM; Tue 10/20, 5 PM; Wed 10/21, 7:30 PM; and Thu 10/22, 5 and 7:30 PM. Music Box Wim Wenders: Early Short Films Five short films by the German New Wave director, including Same Player Shoots Again (1968) and Alabama: 2000 Light Years From Home. 99 min. Sat 10/17, 5 PM, and Mon 10/19, 7:45 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

SPECIAL EVENTS Chicago International Film Festival See our feature on page 28.

River East 21 Home Movie Day Chicago Film Archives and the Northwest Chicago Film Society host this open screening of personal 8-millimeter, Super-8, and 16-millimeter movies. Sat 10/17, 11 AM. Chicago History Museum The Massacre A 24-hour marathon of scary movies, ranging from the silent era to the present. For a full schedule visit chicagoreader.com.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Sat 10/17, 11:15 AM. Patio This Changes Everything Avi Lewis directed this adaptation of Naomi Klein’s nonfiction book, which proposes ways in which societies can respond to the issues of climate change and economic inequality. 89 min. Lewis and Klein take part in a Q&A after the screening. Tue 10/20, 7:30 PM. Music Box v

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Heads in the sand

By BEN JORAVSKY

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n the summer of 2013, Mayor Emanuel’s handpicked lineup of school board appointees featured the best and the brightest of corporate Chicago, including two lawyers, one banker, a venture capitalist, and the retired president of Northwestern University.

Yet for all their smarts, apparently the board couldn’t figure out that schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and her pals from Supes Academy were up to no good with their $20.5 million principal-training scam.

Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges Tuesday after a scathing indictment was handed down last week. The feds accused Byrd-Bennett of steering $23 million worth of consulting contracts to Supes officials in exchange for “hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks.”

But the indictment came more than two years after Sarah Karp, education reporter for Catalyst Chicago, figured out the whole scam—in less than a month.

So we have to ask ourselves: Why couldn’t our public school watchdogs see what was staring them in the face? The answer, my

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friends, is that it’s hard to see when you have your eyes closed.

I haven’t seen such willful neglect since various police and state’s attorney officials looked the other way after Mayor Daley’s nephew R.J. Vanecko killed David Koschman outside a Rush Street bar.

Karp’s exposé, published just a few weeks after the board unanimously approved the Supes deal, tells you almost everything you need to know about the sordid affair that probably will probably send Byrd-Bennett and Gary Solomon, her chief confederate at Supes, to federal prison.

OK, that’s not entirely true. The one thing Karp didn’t have back then was access to personal e-mails exchanged by Byrd-Bennett and Solomon. Those are cited in the federal indictment.

Like the one in which Solomon writes Byrd-Bennett that “When this stint at CPS is done and you are ready to re re re retire, we have your spot waiting for you. Hopefully, with even more work and more opt.”

Or the one in which Byrd-Bennett writes Solomon that she’s looking forward to get-

ting her kickbacks because “I have tuition to pay and casinos to visit.”

No, it took the subpoena powers of federal prosecutors—whose investigation was spurred by Karp’s article—to unearth those nuggets.

But still. Karp revealed that Byrd-Bennett had worked for Supes before she came to CPS. And that she maintained a questionable affiliation with the company after she was CEO. And that Solomon himself had been accused of “sending sexually explicit emails to students,” during his stint at a dean of students at Niles Township High School.

And again, Karp revealed all of this way back in the summer of 2013.

The point is that Karp raised enough red flags about Supes, Solomon, and Byrd-Bennett’s relations with both to prompt the mayor, his school aides, or any responsible official to halt the contract.

But they didn’t. Not one person spoke up.

CPS officials and board members defended the deal for months, even after principals openly complained that the training sessions were a waste of time.

The board didn’t suspend payment on the contract until April 21 of this year—about a week after word broke that the feds were investigating. By then it had been almost two years since the board approved the deal.

Roughly $12.4 million had already been paid to Supes.

You could hire a lot of special-ed teachers with $12.4 million.

For all their triumphs in the corporate world, when it comes to the schools, these board members are little more than mayoral flunkies. If this scandal doesn’t kick-start the movement for an elected school board, nothing will.

It’s clear from the highly redacted e-mails that Emanuel only grudgingly released to the Sun-Times and the Tribune that the mayor struggled over whether he should have the board approve the Supes deal.

At the time, Mayor Emanuel had to decide between what was good for the schools and what was good for his political hide.

On the one hand, the Supes deal was obviously a waste of millions. As one CPS press aide put it in an e-mail to city officials, “There

is some concern that we’re spending a large sum on some principals while laying off others, and teachers.”

You can say that again.

On the other hand, the mayor’s political credibility was on the line. He had recently closed 50 schools, mostly in black south- and west-side neighborhoods.

Byrd-Bennett was the public face of his PR campaign to assure a very skeptical public that the closings were in the best interests of these children and communities.

It would have been embarrassing for the mayor if Byrd-Bennett were to leave before the new school year started. She vaguely threatened to do so in some of her e-mails to City Hall officials.

“I wear all of the problems,” Byrd-Bennett wrote in an e-mail to an Emanuel aide that was quoted in both papers. “Either people think I can do this or…….what do they want Can you call me?????”

WHY COULDN’T OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL WATCHDOGS SEE WHAT WAS STARING THEM IN THE FACE? In short, Byrd-Bennett had the mayor by the balls and she squeezed.

And so Supes got the contract. Byrd-Bennett stayed onboard. The mayor won reelection.

And everyone in City Hall and at the CPS central office pretended all was good in the world.

Obviously no one was banking on the wretched details of this scam to go public.

Guess the formidable Sarah Karp messed that up—eh, Mr. Mayor?

And now we have to wonder where the scandal will go. If Byrd-Bennett wanted to, she could do for the mayor what Bridgegate did for New Jersey governor Chris Christie.

But my guess is she’ll take the fall—just as she did with the school closings—thus bringing the investigation to a screaming halt.

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T WHAT IS MIDWESTERN CUISINE? There are a few reasons why midwesterners

find it difficult to answer that question.

By AIMEE LEVITT

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o be a midwesterner is to be humble and proud of it. Let New Yorkers bray about how they have the biggest and best of everything.

Let New Englanders brag about how goddamned old everything is. Let Californians bore us all talking about their stupid perfect weather and southerners go on about all that tragic lost-cause Gone With the Wind shit. Let Texans be Texans.

We sit there modestly, quietly, midwesternly, secretly taking note of everybody else’s foibles so we can mock them later amongst ourselves.

But here is where all these people, obnoxious as they are, have one great advantage over us: when they’re far from home, in alien territory, feeling lost and homesick, they have the means to reassert themselves and reestablish their identities. At the very least, they can eat! If you know what good grits taste like, you must be a southerner.

What do we midwesterners have?

Sure, we have the food of our individual cities and regions: two-way chili in Cincinnati, taco pizza in the Quad Cities, cheese curds in Wisconsin, toasted ravioli in Saint Louis. But those are all restaurant foods.

They’re comforting in their own way, but they’re also gimmicks. They’re not the midwest the way black-eyed peas and collards are the south or clam chowder is New England or hatch chiles are New Mexico.

They’re not the foods we ate at home, maybe not for regular meals, but the foods we had when we had big, holiday dinners and wanted to impress everyone: our cuisine.

The problem with being a midwesterner is that when you think of which tribe you belong to (in terms of heritage, that is, not sports) you tend to think about where you were from, not about where you are now.

You think about being Czech or Norwegian or Jewish or Italian or German—and are you northern, spaetzle-eating German or southern, potato-eating German?

No matter how hard you try, though, your kuchen or gefilte fish or corn bread won’t taste the same as your grandmother’s.

They make sour cream differently now. Or maybe your family used white cornmeal in Mississippi, but couldn’t find it after they moved up here, so they switched to yellow.

And maybe 20th-century commercial American food was too tempting to resist (can you really blame Grandma for wanting to try making dessert from a box instead of standing over a stove all day?), which is how red Jell-O and Cool Whip ended up in your Swedish family’s traditional pretzel salad.

Catherine Lambrecht has seen more of midwestern cuisine, in all its varieties, than most people; in her role as vice president of the Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance, she spends part of her summers traveling to state fairs across the midwest to judge the alliance’s family heirloom recipe contests. There are a lot of casseroles and salads in these contests, and also cakes and pies and cookies. It’s impossible to draw any generalizations about what unites the entries, except that all the dishes were made by people in the midwest and the recipes originated before 1950. So Lambrecht has given up, or maybe just adopted a more Zen approach. “There’s more diversity to midwestern food than there is a universal cuisine,” she says. “Midwestern cuisine is wherever you happen to be.”

Southern food used to be just as diffuse, says Paul Fehribach, the Indiana-born chef and owner of Big Jones in Andersonville, one of the first stops in the city for homesick southerners (and a source of southerner envy). But since the founding of the Southern Foodways Alliance in 1999, southern chefs and food historians have taken a scholarly approach to defining their cuisine. Instead of depending on nostalgia, they researched what Fehribach calls the “pillars of the cuisine,” the crops and pantry staples that formed the foundation of all the old recipes. When an old recipe called for rice, the historians looked through contemporary seed catalogs to determine which kind of rice the cook probably used. Carolina Gold rice tastes much different from Uncle Ben’s. And the chefs took pride in those old dishes, now made with the proper ingredients, and worked on reviving them for a modern audience. (But isn’t it much easier to be proud of fried chicken and biscuits than tuna casserole?)

The major flaw in taking that approach in the midwest is that most midwestern food isn’t based on indigenous ingredients. It never had to be. At the time most of the midwest was getting settled, there was canned food and railroads to transport it across the country; as early as 1848, Chicagoans could eat oysters just like Bostonians and New Yorkers instead of resigning themselves to a diet of locally grown corn and squash and beans.

The other difference between midwestern and southern cuisine, says Fehribach, is that in the south, there was

MIDWESTERN ORIGINALS: A SELECT LIST OF REGIONAL FOOD AND DRINK Illinois Beer Nuts The Big Baby (double cheeseburger) Chicago-style hot dog Chicken Vesuvio

Corn dogs Deep-dish pizza Depression dog Flaming saganaki The Freddy (Italian sausage patty, long roll, red sauce, green pepper, mozzarella) Fried turtle Gyro cone Harold’s chicken The horseshoe (open-face burger, fries, and cheese sauce) Italian beef Jeppson’s Malort The jibarito The Jim Shoe, aka Gym Shoe (roast beef, corned beef, and gyros meat, chopped iceberg, tomato, “GUY-ro sauce,” and often mayonnaise or yellow mustard on sub roll)

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a mixing of races, at least in kitchens, and all the disparate national cuisines blended to form dishes that were new and weird and totally American. In the north, though, there was almost complete segregation.

“Black food” and “white food” remained separate entities.

Ethnic whites stayed in their own neighborhoods too. In Chicago, we got gyros, and we got tamales, but no one has ever figured out a way to blend them together into something new, especially not in a fine-dining restaurant.

There is one exception: the hot dog. “If Jews made hot dogs, Greeks, Macedonians, Bulgarians, Italians, and Mexicans dressed them,” Chicago food historian Bruce Kraig wrote in Hot Dog: A Global History. Even chefs, including Fehribach, have made their own fancy, “cheffed-up” hot dogs. (Fehribach used pork loin and grass-fed brisket from Local Foods, the Chicago supermarket filled exclusively with midwestern food, about which more on page 17.) Except the whole damned country has appropriated the hot dog. The entire world, even.

But maybe someday soon, the midwest will rise. (Not “again,” like the south. Just “rise.”) Fehribach is planning new restaurant that will be midwestern the way Big Jones is southern. There will be beer, and maybe fruit brandy, like the old midwesterners distilled and drank. There will be meat loaf, made with veal and pork, served with sauerkraut. There will be casseroles, made with noodles and macaroni, but not tuna, because tuna is not indigenous to the midwest. They will be better than your mom’s. Fehribach swears. You will want to eat them. And at last you will have something to brag about as a midwesterner. v

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By JULIA THIEL

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s I asked local chefs to tell me about a dish from their current menus that they thought was particularly midwestern, it seemed relevant to ask what midwestern food means to them. A lot of the same words and phrases came up in their answers: “simple,” “comforting”—and, overwhelmingly, “meat and potatoes.”

All the chefs are also committed to using locally sourced, seasonal ingredients—which makes their jobs just a bit more difficult during Chicago’s long winters. As Carrie Clark of Bridgeport Pasty says, “You have to be a little creative to make beef, chicken, pork, and root vegetables taste good all year round. This ain’t Sonoma, kiddo.”

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Crispy carnaroli rice cake by Edward Sura at Perennial Virant 1800 N. Lincoln 312-981-7070 perennialchicago.com For this appetizer—which has been on the menu since the day Perennial Virant opened—Edward Sura makes risotto with carnaroli rice and “a ton” of Parmesan cheese, folds in Brunkow cheese curds, and lets the mixture cool overnight in sheet pans. The next day he cuts it into rectangles, dusts each one in rice flour, and panfries them on all sides in clarified butter until the outside is crispy and the inside is gooey. Then he tops them with pea shoots, pickled summer beans, and vinaigrette made with smoked spring onions.

“Basically, it’s an arancini,” Sura says

of the rice cake. So what makes an Italian rice ball midwestern? According to Sura, it’s the cheese curds—something most people associate with the midwest, or at least Wisconsin—and the pickled beans.

His mom used to have a huge garden and did a lot of preserving, he says. “That’s what I grew up with, so that’s midwestern to me.”

Flank steak with potatoes and cauliflower by Emily Kraszyk at Farmhouse Tavern 228 W. Chicago, 312-280-4960 farmhousechicago.com Steak and potatoes seems like the most quintessentially midwestern food there is, covering all the bases the chefs listed: simple, comforting, and local (in this

case, at least). Emily Kraszyk says that the mission at Farmhouse is to cook food that chefs would want to eat themselves—nothing too fancy. “I don’t want eggplant five different ways. You should just let the food speak for itself.”

To make this dish, Kraszyk sears Hoosier Farms flank steak that’s been rubbed with coffee and spices and serves it with new potatoes braised in coffee and beef or lamb fat, aromatics, and white wine, as well as cauliflower in an herb marinade. The cauliflower and potatoes are finished with butter and lemon juice and the dish is served with a red-wine agrodolce, an Italian sweet-and-sour sauce, and topped with pickled mustard seeds, caramelized plums, and dill.

That may not sounds simple, but Kraszyk explains that while she wants to

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make food that people understand, she can’t just serve them what they’d make at home; the extra steps and ingredients build flavor. “We add our extra twist, but at the end of the day it’s meat and potatoes.”

Yooper pasty by Carrie Clark of Bridgeport Pasty 3142 S. Morgan, 773-254-7441 bridgeportpasty.com Defining midwestern cuisine may be all but impossible, but there are certain foods that everyone thinks of as midwestern—even if they originated in another country. The pasty, a meat-andvegetable-filled baked pastry that comes from Cornwall, is now firmly associated with Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Carrie Clark, who started Bridgeport Pasty with her husband, Jay Sebastian, actually first came across pasties in the British Isles when she was growing up; she’s never even been to the UP (though she’s quick to add that her family on both sides is midwestern through and through).

For her, what makes pasties midwestern is their simplicity and use of fresh, local ingredients. The Yooper contains only steak, onion, potato, and rutabaga in a butter pastry crust. (She decided against carrot, a controversial ingredient, on the basis that it’s not traditional in England.) “When you take good ingredients you can make something simple but delicious,” she says. “Midwesterners like a recognizable thing—that’s why deconstructed dishes don’t go over too well here.”

Bridgeport Pasty is temporarily closed due to road construction in front of the restaurant, but you can get its products at Bridgeport Coffee and the Hideout’s Riverwalk location.

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Iowa The Guinea grinder Loose meat sandwiches Taco pizza

Kansas Kansas City barbecue Zwieback (rolls)

Michigan Coney Island dog The Cudighi (Italian sausage, mozzarella, tomato sauce on a roll) Pasties Pawpaws (fruit) Sour cherry pie

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The only chef I talked to who didn’t mention simplicity when talking about midwestern food was Iliana Regan.

Maybe that’s because most people wouldn’t consider the foraging-focused multicourse meals she serves at Elizabeth particularly simple. Regan, however, concentrates on ingredients. “The things that are midwestern are actually really beautiful and delicious and amazing,” she says. “We just went on a foraging trip and I got persimmons, wild grapes, mushrooms.”

Recently, she’s been incorporating sunchokes into Elizabeth’s Native American-themed dinner series. “It grows wild everywhere around here, and it was the fourth most cultivated vegetable by [the Native Americans who lived in the area],” she says.

She roasts the sunchokes, removes the skin, and purees the rest, combining the mixture with a zucchini puree. And she makes chips with amaranth, a local grain, and sauce with the liquid from fermented elderberries (gathered in Indiana); the puree, chips, and sauce are served with brisket from Strauss Farm and garnished with sunchoke or marigold flowers. v

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MIDWESTERN CUISINE The Marquis wheat harvest begins at Hazzard Free Farm. ! JEFFREY MARINI

Midwestern originals continued from 13 Vernors ginger ale

Minnesota Booyah (a community stew) Camel burger (ground camel meat) The Hot Dago (Italian sausage, red sauce, mozzarella) Hotdish (casserole) The Juicy Lucy (a cheeseburger with the cheese inside the meat) Lefse (flatbread) Lutefisk (dried whitefish treated with lye)

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In a forgotten strain of wheat, a small-town farmer and an Evanston baker may have found the key to reviving an authentic midwestern cuisine.

By AIMEE LEVITT

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he Hazzard family have been farming in northeastern Illinois since they arrived in this country in 1847; for the past few generations, they’ve settled in Pecatonica, a small village just west of Rockford. During the first half of the 20th century, Marquis wheat was one of the most popular varietals of the grain in the midwest and Canada. So it’s entirely likely that Andy Hazzard is not the first Hazzard to grow Marquis wheat. But whoever Hazzard’s most recent wheat-growing forbearer was, he or she was not kind enough to leave written instructions or advice or even a description of what Marquis wheat tastes like when it’s baked into bread.

“We’ll figure it out,” Hazzard says cheerfully. “We always do.”

This past April, Hazzard planted one kilo, or 2.2 pounds, of Marquis wheat on the plot of her farm, the Hazzard Free Farm, that she reserves for experiments, mostly with ancient grains. The long, wet spring gave way to a hot, dry summer, which as it happens is the perfect environment for Marquis wheat. Now, in mid-August, the wheat stands about three feet tall, if not in amber waves then at least a 175-foot-long amber ripple in the middle of a sea of green fields of corn and barley. It hasn’t rained in Pecatonica for a month; the grain is dry and brittle like straw. It’s exactly the right time for harvesting.

“I’m psyched!” says Ellen King, who today is one of Hazzard’s farmhands but in regular life is the co-owner and chief baker at Hewn Bakery in Evanston and Hazzard’s partner in the Marquis wheat-growing enterprise, which they have taken to calling the Midwestern Bread Experiment, an attempt to resurrect the last truly authentic midwestern bread. The entire six-member staff of Hewn, plus Tracy Leman, who’s married to Justin, the lead baker; Dan Cole, who Hazzard jokingly calls her partner in life; and Harvey Dessler, a self-described ancient-grains enthusiast from Chicago, have come to Pecatonica to help with this year’s harvest, which will yield not flour—not yet—but the seeds for next

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year. If all goes well, in two years they’ll have the first loaf of Marquis bread since World War II. They hope that, like the revival of Carolina Gold rice and other heirloom southern staple crops, the resurrection of Marquis wheat will be the beginning of a reestablishment of an authentic midwestern cuisine.

First, though, the harvest, done by hand, as in days of yore. Well, sort of.

Instead of scythes, Hazzard distributes scissors to the work crew and demonstrates how to trim the wheat from the stalks.

Hazzard’s original stash of Marquis wheat seeds was contaminated, it turns out, with spelt, which has sprouted up beside the wheat. “I don’t mind spelt,” King says. “It’s natural.” “Yeah,” Hazzard agrees. “No one else’s will taste like ours.” Nonetheless, a few of the crew members go ahead to despelt the rows, and the rest follow behind with plastic buckets to hold the harvested wheat.

“It’s sort of like blueberry picking,” King says optimistically. “Is this how you really harvest, Andy?”

Hazzard laughs. “No.” Like everything else in this experiment, they’re making it up as they go along.

Hazzard and King first met two years ago at the Good Food Festival in Chicago, where Hazzard was on a panel discussing the heritage grains she’d just started growing and milling and selling to local chefs. King had recently opened Hewn, where she makes all the bread by hand using organic flour and natural fermentation. “I tell people Andy’s like a unicorn,” King says. “You never get to meet the person growing your wheat.”

The two women hit it off immediately.

Before long, King was visiting the farm and they were having long conversations about their shared fascination with agricultural history and what Hazzard calls “our love affair with grains.” They were particularly concerned with the effects of genetically modified wheat on both the environment and human bodies; they believed things had not necessarily changed for the better when during the “Green Revolution” of the mid-20th century farmers began growing commodity wheat, fast-growing, high-yield varietals that were immune to pesticides, such as Monsanto’s Roundup Ready. Bread changed too. People lost their taste for heavy, hearty whole-wheat breads J

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King has been experimenting with flour milled from Turkey Red, a rare heirloom wheat she gets from Lonesome Stone Milling in Lone Rock, Wisconsin. It makes a hearty, earthy-tasting bread, she discovered, and whenever she bakes with it, she sells out even though, because of its rarity, it’s triple the cost of her regular organic flour. This is because it has a far lower gluten content than modern wheat; customers who are gluten intolerant can eat it. “People love the Turkey Red bread,” she says. “Because they had gluten problems, they were off bread, so it tastes really good to them.” She began to wonder if modern wheat and bread making were the cause of the national epidemic of gluten intolerance. It seemed illogical to her that humans could evolve so quickly.

Hazzard is more skeptical. As she’s grown older, she’s developed problems digesting gluten, though she’s noticed she’s less bothered by ancient grains. “It doesn’t matter what science says,” she says. “If I eat something and I don’t feel good, I don’t eat it.” Still, she was game to experiment with forgotten grains that no one had grown in decades. “I like puzzles. Farming with modern crops, I get bored easily.”

Also, from a business standpoint, she felt it was important, as a small specialty farmer, to offer products that were unavailable elsewhere.

King consulted with Stephen Jones, the geneticist who runs Washington State University’s Bread Lab and is one of the nation’s leading experts on wheat, and began looking through old seed catalogs to see which kinds of wheat were being grown in northeastern Illinois in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Hazzard, in turn, consulted with members of the Seed Savers Exchange, a nonprofit in Decorah, Iowa, that works to preserve heirloom plants, to determine which

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seeds were available. And thus they came up with Marquis.

According to the old journals King had read, bread made from Marquis wheat has a great crumb and texture. But no one bothered to report what sorts of pests it attracted or how it typically grew. Someone else, they heard, was growing Marquis at Washington State, but they were no further along in the process. Fortunately, this year had been a good growing season; the wet spring had prevented pests from moving in. It was a lucky start.

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s the wheat harvest continues, the workers grow quiet. The sun is hot.

The three rows seem to be getting longer. Hazzard’s father, Ken, wanders out to see how things are progressing. He grows more conventional crops, mostly corn, and he’s both amazed and amused that people in Evanston will pay $6 for a loaf of Hewn bread. He’s also amused by the sight of the bakery workers bent over cutting stalks of wheat with scissors.

“There are easier ways to do this,” he informs Hazzard. “Your ancestors used a scythe and a flail.”

The flail, two sticks attached by a rope, was used to thresh the wheat and break the individual kernels apart. (Wheat kernels grow in ears, like corn, only much smaller.) Hazzard collects and uses antique farm equipment but doesn’t happen to own a flail. She asks if he has

any ideas for a substitute.

“How about a goat-powered threshing machine?” he suggests, deadpan.

But after thinking for a few minutes, he relents and suggests a dehuller machine, and then he lets King and her business partner, Julie Matthei, steer a tractor in a slow circuit around the field, much to their delight.

It takes an hour and half to finish the harvest, and afterward, when everyone is sitting in the shade by the creek, sipping beer and eating Hewn bread and pastry, it doesn’t seem so bad. “Hopefully we won’t have to hand-harvest quite this much again,” Hazzard says.

Hazzard estimates that the harvest yielded between 10 and 20 pounds of seeds, enough to plant one-tenth to one-fifth of an acre next spring. After another growing cycle, she’ll be able to mill some of the wheat and King can begin experimenting with the flour and selling Marquis bread at Hewn.

She thinks it’ll be tough going at first.

Bakers a century ago didn’t use as much sugar and salt as modern bakers do, and the finished product was hearty and dense, not soft and springy like today’s sandwich bread. “But you adjust your palate,” she says. “It’s like dark chocolate, how we got used to it after years of milk chocolate. Heritage [grain] varieties are like 72 percent [cacao] chocolate.”

But Hazzard feels that she and King have far more to teach the world than just how to appreciate old-fashioned bread. “We’re laying the groundwork for a modern, sustainable food system,” she says. “The work I’m doing might not show a benefit to society for 20 years. But the thing about farmers is that anyone who does repetitive work in quiet has a chance to think. It gives you a clarity about being human. Connections are meaningful. Ellen’s bread tastes different. It’s how people used to say to me, ‘Your carrots taste different,’ and I’d say, ‘It’s love.’ You use the same seeds on the same land, but the difference, I think, is love—and intention. What Ellen does and I do is about intention, because we love it. We’re totally smitten. I want people to understand how and why we do what we do.” She pauses and looks over her fields. “I think it’s magical.” v

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unning a cafe that’s located inside a locavore superstore means that Abra Berens has at her fingertips the freshest seasonal fruits and vegetables, lovingly grown and harvested on midwestern farms. From her station in Stock’s open kitchen, the chef, a farmer herself, is able to survey Local Foods’ produce cooler, which in late September overflows with peppers, cauliflower, corn, and squashes. Here she gets a feel for what’s in abundance without having to look at an availability sheet like the other local chefs who source ingredients from the four-month-old

grocer and wholesaler. To add protein to her menus, Berens can simply walk to the other side of a dividing wall where Rob Levitt’s the Butcher & Larder has set up shop. Stock absorbs cuts of meat that don’t sell particularly well—top rounds, for instance, which are roasted for cold cuts—as well as encased meats Berens thinks are worth highlighting.

“The cafe is a place to show off some of those [local] products and also just get people excited about that food,” she says.

“Like when you go to the farmers’ market and you see kohlrabi for the first time and you can ask, ‘What is this? Tell me about it,’ and it’s an actual connection to the

story—we can do that same thing here even though we’re not the one growing it.

This is what it looks like, this is where it came from, this is how we cook it. That’s the whole idea behind Stock.”

Using local and sustainably produced ingredients to cook her interpretation of midwestern food is a big part of Berens’s vision for Stock. But her more ambitious goal is to curb food waste—and to set an example she hopes others will follow.

“That’s the thing I’m by far and away the most proud of here,” Berens says. “The food waste in this country is intolerable.”

About a third of all food produced for human consumption each year—more

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than 1.3 billion tons—ends up in the trash, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Since 2009, Berens, who’s done time at Vie and Floriole, has co-owned Bare Knuckle Farm in Northport, Michigan; she’s now turned over farm operations to her business partner, Jess Piskor, but the time she spent planting, tending, and harvesting vegetables to sell at market has given her a profound appreciation of the work that goes into every single piece of produce: “Every head of cauliflower is someone’s work. Having been a farmer I understand implicitly how intense that work is, so the food we throw away is, without getting too hoity-toity about it, it’s disrespecting that work. We want to do as much as we can to try and protect that.”

“Honoring the product” is a frequent refrain.

Twice a week Zero Percent, a local nonprofit that salvages food that would otherwise be disposed of and delivers it to charities that feed the needy, picks up what’s accumulated on Local Foods’ spoilage pallet. It’s typically produce that, for one reason or another, isn’t appropriate to sell in the store or to distribute to chefs, from broccoli that’s gone limp to tomatoes that were damaged in transit. Berens and her small staff have first dibs, though, and part of their daily routine is seeing what’s collected in spoilage and figuring out how it can be incorporated into the menu. They also keep an eye on dairy that’s nearing the sell-by date and fruits that should be frozen or preserved before they’re out of season.

On a recent afternoon, Berens repurposed wilted kale from the spoilage pallet as the base for a pesto she tossed with wheatberries and red peppers. She also roasted off wilted broccoli and served it in a skillet with butterkase and chile oil, a cleaner, fresher take on the classically midwestern side dish of broccoli in goopy cheese sauce. Also on the menu: a blue plate special of potato hash with a soft-boiled egg and a sausage, spaetzle, a beet salad, two different pasties (aka “Michigan calzones”), and a Butcher & Larder hot dog. To Berens, this all constitutes midwestern food.

“I thought about this a lot, what I want midwestern food to be,” she says. “It’s something that pays homage to his- J

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The approaching winter means that the selection of produce that’s available to Berens will change significantly in the coming weeks.

But that’s not always the case. For instance, Local Foods has partnered with MightyVine, a grower with an eight-acre greenhouse in Rochelle, Illinois, that will be supplying hydroponic tomatoes all year long.

Berens sees the chance to use only seasonal produce as an opportunity rather than an inconvenience: “I think it would be a shame [not to cook to the season]. It’s going to take longer to educate people on how to use frozen fruits and vegetables from the summer and also how to utilize the limited selection we have here in the winter—I think that’s my job right now.”

But what about spoilage? If we have a choice between not wasting food and being strictly locavore, which should be prioritized? “That gets tricky,” she says. Using mangoes as an example she asks, “Which is worse? Do you waste them or use them when it’s outside of your dogma? I don’t know. It’ll be interesting to see what happens.” v

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MILKING THE PAST Illinois’s dairy heritage has been resurrected by a former pencil pusher who just wanted healthy milk for his family.

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little more than a century ago nearly all the milk consumed in Chicago was produced within 60 miles of the city. Almost none of it came from Wisconsin.

McHenry was the third largest milk-producing county in the country, and Kane was the fourth. This wasn’t close to the situation in places like New York and Boston, where dairy had to be shipped in from much farther away.

Suburban sprawl has wiped away Illinois’s dairy industry, but the historical disparity between Chicago and other cities struck Travis Pyykkonen when he came across it in a 1910 USDA report titled “The Milk Supply of Chicago and Washington.”

Pyykkonen, then an employee benefits consultant, was becoming something of

a dairy nerd. As the father of four girls (now five) he was on the lookout for good milk for his family. It wasn’t easy to find. On the side he was working with some friends to develop the concept of a grocery store that would traffic in only unprocessed foods. Navigating the dairy side of the business gave him the opportunity to visit farms with cows that subsist on nothing but grass and produce raw or gently processed milk that hasn’t been sapped of its proteins and active enzymes by high-temperature pasteurization.

The project never got off the ground, but soon he was making weekly runs to Castle Rock Organic Farms, an organic farmstead dairy in Osseo, Wisconsin, more than four hours away from his Wheaton home, and hauling back coolers of rich, full-fat, unhomogenized lactate

for friends and neighbors. “People would come by and grab it before work,” he says. It wasn’t long before word of the milk spread. “People I didn’t know were asking about it. It was just fun sharing good food with people.”

Pyykkonen contemplated a career change. “I wanted to transition from something very sterile and transactional to ‘How can you do something vocationally that adds value to your community and makes a difference on many levels?’”

He sold some of the milk he bought wholesale to Rick Bayless’s restaurants and began to dabble in home delivery.

In the summer of 2012 he set up shop at the Green City Market. “The thing that got me really excited was when someone had an accent and they didn’t grow up in the U.S. Jamaica, Ukraine, Switzerland—they would sample my milk and

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say, ‘Ahhh, this tastes like home. To me that was like, ‘Aha. This isn’t something I made up in my head.’”

Then Castle Rock got hit by two straight summers of drought and pulled back on its reach into Chicago. Several of Pyykkonen’s customers, who’d urged him to keep going, put up the funds to build the infrastructure for a new dairy—one with a physical plant in the city itself.

“I was in the process of growing an appreciation for what is old, what has always been there. Finding the hyperlocal history of Chicago’s dairy industry connected a lot of those dots with my desire to engage the community deeply, restore something that used to be but was lost. And I believe dairy done well— from the soil to the grass to the cows to the farmer to the microdairy to the consumer to the community—can do that.”

Pyykkonnen found a farmer near Wausau who was looking for partners, and 1871 Dairy was born. (Its name is, of course, a nod to the year of the Great Chicago Fire and the lore that the blaze began after a cow kicked over a lantern while being milked.) With Pyykkonen aboard, farmer Joseph Zaiger doubled his herd of Jersey, Guernsey, and Friesian cows to 36, grazing them on 80 acres of birdsfoot trefoil, orchard grass, ryegrass, alfalfa, and red and white clover. After an equipment upgrade they began pasteurizing milk at a low 145 degrees Fahrenheit, cooling it down, bottling it, and bringing it into the city.

There are many claims, proven and unproven, about the health benefits of low-heat-pasteurized milk, but among other things it leaves intact lactase enzymes that help break down lactose, the sugar that gives so many people problems when consuming dairy products.

“It’s the difference between live milk and dead milk,” Pyykkonen says. “I would argue that low-temp-pasteurized milk below 151 degrees is still live milk.”

With a palpably luxurious body and a sweet, almost floral taste, the milk was a hit with the chefs Pyykkonen introduced it to, to the point that he had to limit the number of restaurants that could get it. The lucky ones included Cafe des Architectes, where it’s employed in the restaurant’s pioneering cheese-making program, as well as Alinea, the Aviary, and Next, where J

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continued from 19 chef Dave Beran put it to use in a flan ice cream, housemade ricotta, and the restaura nt’s coffee ser v ice. At Floriole, Sandra Holl makes yogurt with it and offers it as an upgrade at the coffee bar.

“Once someone tastes it next to our standard milk they can taste the difference,” she says. “It’s just a bit more special, with a higher fat content and a sweet, grassy f loral flavor that can’t be beat.”

Pyykkonen found an especially ardent advocate in pastry chef Dana Cree, who was then at Blackbird. “As soon as I tasted it I had to have it,” she says. “And that’s been my experience with everyone I’ve given a taste to.” She’s made everything from milk jam to kefir to cottage cheese to lebne with it. “The behavioral properties cooking with it were unlike I’d ever worked with, and that was really fascinating to me.”

Cree became something of an expert on working with the milk. She recalls receiving a text from Pyykkonen while he was making a delivery at White Oak Tavern. Then-chef John Asbaty was hav ing trouble getting his ricotta to break and form curds.

Cree theorized that because there was significantly less acid in the rumen of 1871’s grass-fed cows than that of conventional cows raised on corn-based feed, Asbaty needed to add more lemon than usual to his recipe and agitate it less. It worked.

Cree left Blackbird last summer to become 1871 Dairy’s culinary director.

“My problem is that I want to make anything you can possibly make with milk.” She’s already worked on flavored milks infused with things like doughnuts, vanilla chai, and apple pie in collaboration with local purveyors like

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Glazed and Infused, Rare Tea Cellar, and Seedling Farms. This winter she plans to develop savory yogurt flavors with root vegetables, and next summer she plans to roll out frozen pops made from yogurt and caramelized milk.

It won’t be until close to the end of the year, when 1871 moves into its 4,000-square-foot microdairy, a raw industrial space on Racine between Lake and Randolph, that fresh cheeses like mozzarella, ricotta, lebne, and cheese curds will be possible. Butter, mascarpone, creme fraiche, and sour cream are all in the works too once 1871’s herd grows and moves to a 320acre farm outside of Sheboygan. And in the distant future? Maybe a cheese cave for aging.

But because 1871’s milk is unhomogenized Cree is currently unable to make her celebrated ice creams—unless she wants gobs of butter suspended in it (which actually doesn’t sound that bad).

For that Pyykkonen is willing to compromise. “Homogenization reduces the nutrient density of the product,” he says.

“Ice cream is an indulgence, so I would be a little more OK with modification for those purposes. But if it’s milk for you to drink as part of your diet, then let’s do it as nutrient dense and wholesome as we can get it.”

Above a ll P y yk konen wants the microdairy to be a place Chicagoans can connect the dots from the cow to the dairy to their glass. Raw milk will make the two-and-a-half-hour haul down from Sheboygan, and visitors will be able to see the processing and bottling operation up close. There will be a coffee and yogurt bar, a kitchen, and a space for classes. (Until then you can buy 1871 Dairy’s milk and yogurt at Harvestime Foods, Publican Quality Meats, Plum Market, Local Foods, and the Green City Market.)

“The real history of Chicago’s dairy is connected with the idea that the artisans that produce the products for a community would ideally be an active part of that community,” Pyykkonen says. “1871 Dairy’s active participation and work in Chicago enables that loop of food production to be more transparent and available to folks living in Chicago’s urban setting.” v

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The postindustrial era separated Americans from the creation of their food.

How have people’s perceptions of what they eat changed from when meat was processed in the city’s backyard?

I don’t think that most Americans think about where their food comes from. Even though my family left meatpacking after World War II, we still lived in the neighborhood, we still dealt with the smell, and we still watched the cattle trucks go by.

In his new book, Slaughterhouse, Chicago historian Dominic Pacyga goes back to his roots as a laborer in the south-side stockyards.

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hicago’s identity has long been tied to its working-class roots. Labor battles such as the Pullman strike and the Haymarket riots, born of conflict between wealthy elites and exploited laborers, defined Chicago’s culture. But the struggles of Chicago’s rail yard and factories paled in comparison to those of its packinghouses, where the city gave birth to modern food processing.

That rich history is explored in Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World It Made (University of Chicago Press), a new book by Columbia College history professor Dominic Pacyga. The 66-year-old author’s stockyard roots are deep: his grandfather moved to the Back of the Yards neighborhood and worked in the stockyards around the turn of the last century, and Pacyga spent several summers working in the stockyards before they closed in 1971.

Pacyga’s passion for the place that earned Chicago the nickname “hog butcher for the world”—as Carl Sandberg famously described the city in his 1914 poem “Chicago”—is evident. He writes: “My

family and I have had a long relationship with the Chicago Stockyards . . . [and as] a child, I heard the stories of neighbors and relatives who worked in the yards.”

Pacyga spoke over the phone about Chicago’s deindustrialization, the historical accuracy of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, and finding his subject as a historian in a hog house.

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How did you come to work in the stockyards? One summer in the middle of college I was working at a steel plant at 51st and California, and I hated it. So I quit. I went back to the Back of the Yards where I grew up, looking for work. I thought everything was gone, but I came along the cattle pens, and was able to get a job in the hog house and in the cattle alley.

What was it like when the stockyards closed in 1971? When the yards closed, I was angry—like the other guys. There were guys that were 53 years old and had worked there since they were 18.

For me, the closing of the stockyards was the first taste of deindustrialization and [the loss of] an entire way of life. It wasn’t so much a romance as much as

What does the “locavore” movement, which emphasizes locally produced foods, say about people’s desire to understand what they’re eating now?

The locavore movement has moved against that unawareness, and there are some people willing to pay more for their meats and vegetables—but that’s only a fairly recent development. The growing locavore movement excites me, and I think more Chicagoans should embrace the city’s agro-industrial history.

a job, but a formative job, and a place where I found my subject as a historian.

Your grandfather came from Poland to work in the stockyards. How did his experiences as part of the first generation to arrive compare to the horrors faced by Jurgis and his family in The Jungle? Were the stockyard workers aware of the book and its account of the laborer’s life? There’s many people in the Back of the Yards who didn’t read the book, frankly, unless they went to high school. I read it in high school, and found it to be a little strange. It didn’t seem like the neighborhood I recalled, or the stories of my grandparents.

As far as the working conditions go, they were pretty bad. But what Sinclair does is take the stories of 50 years and puts them on one family, which is kind of unbelievable. But he does bring up stories about living conditions that are somewhat documentable.

Why did the Union Stock Yard emerge in Chicago? What was the biggest impact of the stockyards, both on Chicago and on the world? The stockyards were creat-

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What remains of the stockyards today?

What about Chicago’s meatpackers?

The stockyards still have a lot of potential, and there are a lot of green industries emerging in the industrial park, including a new green chemical plant that opened on the property of an old Swift & Company plant. I recently did a tour of the Chiappetti meatpacking plant. Chiappetti still slaughters sheep on 38th and Halsted, and all the workers were Mexican, many of them recent immigrants. The same was true of Park Packing at 41st and Ashland. These are people that are still working in the same way that they have in that square mile for more than 100 years, but they’re being joined by industries that are very diverse, and I think reasonably successful. v

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this 60-minute long-form improv set. Under the Gun Theater’s cast, who share a keen ear for listening, capitalize on the best of them with organic, unpredictable, and sometimes hilarious results. —DAN JAKES Through 10/30: Fri 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

THE MADNESS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE: A LOVE STORY Returning for its annual promenade-style ramble through spectacular Mayslake Hall, this show from First Folio Theatre focuses on the grief Poe felt at losing his beloved young wife, Virginia. But sequences involving, say, “The Pit and the Pendulum” come across as mood-breaking non sequiturs. In the end, this production is fun, but no great feat of storytelling. —KEITH GRIFFITH Through 11/1: Wed and Fri-Sat 8 PM, Thu 3 and 8 PM, Sun 3 and 7:30 PM, First Folio Theatre, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 1717 W. 31st Street, Oak Brook, 630-986-8067, firstfolio.org, $10-$39.

MARK AND BRANDON KILL DEMONS Two dissolute best friends take on the forces of hell and an army of evangelical Christians in this potty-mouthed comedy by Drew Current and Brett Mannes, who also play the title characters. Though a profusion of villains makes the story difficult to follow, the central bromance is downright sweet. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 11/27: Fri 9:30 PM, pH Comedy Theater, 1515 W. Berwyn, 773-961-8214, whatisph.com, $15.

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ur critics went looking for haunting works among this season’s Halloween shows. Here’s what we found.

There will be more openings in coming weeks, so check our listings.

ALL GIRL DRACULA Purists may take umbrage at the liberties Chicago Mammals artistic director Bob Fisher takes in his adaptation of Bram Stoker’s seminal horror novel (which Fisher also directs), but it’s refreshing to see a version in which the heroine is truly heroic, not hapless, and the lead vampire hunter seems

as evil and bloodthirsty as his prey. Fisher’s script, like Stoker’s original, feels a little long in places, but his all-female cast attacks the material with a terrifying intensity that is truly frightening. —JACK HELBIG Through 11/21: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Zoo Studios, 4001 N. Ravenswood, allgirldracula.brownpapertickets.com, $28.

BABYSITTER MASSACRE ’78: THE MUSICAL Public House Theatre’s late-night show doesn’t parody Halloween-style, sex-will-get-you-killed slasher films so much as try to outstupid them with feeble songs, rudimentary performances, and

surprisingly few thrills. It achieves that goal.

—TONY ADLER Through 10/31: Thu 8 PM, Fri-Sat 10 PM, Public House Theatre, 3914 N. Clark, 800-6506449, pubhousetheatre.com, $20.

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GOBLIN MARKET The premise is only middling scary: A young woman betrayed by curiosity. What makes Christina Rossetti’s 1862 poem truly creepy is its lurid imagery, dark implications, and aura of sexual hysteria. All are present in this chamber-opera adaptation presented by Black Button Eyes Productions. Polly Pen’s score is impressively sung. (TA) Through 10/31: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Collaboraction, 1579 N. Milwaukee, goblinmarketchicago.com, $25.

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HAUNTED Slasher flicks offer a treasure chest of absurd tropes for Kevin Mullaney’s ensemble to play around with in

ONE-ACT FESTIVAL: HALLOWEEN EDITION Brian Posen’s twice-annual One Act Festival is an inventive way to further the sense of community at Stage 773, where the energy on a busy night is already undeniable. In this edition, seven companies create new haunted-themed works.

It’s expectedly hit-and-miss, but the Ruckus’s bold twist on Gretel is memorably unsettling.

(DJ) Through 10/30: Fri 10:30 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, stage773.com, $15.

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ONE BRAIN MORE: A ZOMBIE LES MISICAL This goof on Broadway’s Les Miserables is smarter, funnier, and better done—if longer—than any goof has a right to be. What’s more, it raises an interesting question: Why does the notion of an undead Jean Valjean on the run from a zombie-hunting Javert (aka Chest Hair here) make such perfect sense?

(TA) Through 10/30: Fri 8 PM, MCL Chicago, 3110 N. Sheffield, 773-610-5930, mclchicago.com, $15-$20.

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continued from 23 SCREAM, QUEEN, SCREAM Hell in a Handbag Productions’ horror trilogy, penned by David Cerda, offers little in the way of hilarity, spooks, or fabulous drag performances. The first vignette, “Taco Tuesday,” has the most potential, with Satan (a poisonously sweet Rachel Hadlock) striking via an office copier, but successive stories evoke yawns and head scratching. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 10/31: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3:30 PM, Mary’s Attic, 5400 N. Clark, handbagproductions.org, $22-$40.

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SPLATTER THEATER The Annoyance Theatre first staged this gorefest parody in 1987. Now the show is a Halloween tradition. Along with stereotypical characters (School Stud, Class Dick) and a porn-level plot, the pristine white set provides a canvas for blood-spritzing worthy of Jackson Pollock. Onstage butchery and gut-unreeling are the true stars. (KG) Through 10/31: Sat 10 PM, Annoyance Theatre, 851 W. Belmont, 773-697-9693, theannoyance.com, $15-$20.

VAMPYRE HUNTER HIGH Among the geeks, cheerleaders, loners, and jocks at Hunter High are two vampires, a werewolf, and a vampire slayer—roles secretly assigned by a random audience member. In this hourlong improv, Under the Gun’s 12-person cast deliver savvy pop culture critiques but struggle to work them into a compelling story.

—JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 10/31: Sat 10:30 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, undertheguntheater.com. $15.

ZOMBIE SEINFELD Zombies have overrun Manhattan. Kramer’s building a high-tech zombie shelter. George fakes zombieness to avoid work. Elaine’s horrified her new boyfriend wears ponchos. Jerry cracks brain-eating jokes. The uncredited writer of EEK! Entertainment’s hour-long show nails everything artful and shoddy about Seinfeld. The cast, about half the time. (JHA) Through 10/31: Sat 7:30 PM (except 10/24); also Sun 10/25, 6 PM, Gorilla Tango, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-598-4549, gorillatango.com, $20. v

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n her 1973 novel Fear of Flying Erica Jong presented us with the idea of the “zipless fuck,” a brand of no-strings-attached sex that leads heroine Isadora Wing on an epic journey of self-discovery. “The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is,” Isadora explains.

“And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one.”

By the end of the book, she’s still never had one: when she’s presented with the opportunity on a train in Europe, Isadora balks.

In Jong’s latest novel, Fear of Dying, Isadora’s famous notion has been appropriated without credit and turned into a dating website called Zipless.com. Isadora, meanwhile, is a changed woman. She appears here in a supporting role, a sort of world-weary sage and counselor to her best friend Vanessa, an aging actress who becomes preoccupied with her own search for easy-peasy sex outside of marriage. “So you’ve stopped believing in Ziplessness?” Vanessa asks Isadora, who responds, “Absolutely . . . It works in fantasy not in reality. In reality you have to trust someone to have great sex, and who can trust what you read on the Internet?” Nonetheless, Vanessa uses Zipless.com to meets a series of weirdos and losers: a guy who requests she dress up in a leather gimp suit, another who reacts violently when she wants to take things slowly.

Jong’s book is presented as a tale of sex and aging in the age of the Internet, but it’s really a melancholic exploration of loss and

the condition of being constantly confronted with mortality, our own and others’, as we grow older. In the course of the book Vanessa endures the death of both her parents—“Will I ever get over my parents?” she wonders.

“Does anyone?”—as well as a beloved pet, and almost loses her somewhat older husband, Asher, to a sudden illness. And simultaneously she’s mourning what she perceives as the loss her sexual desirability. The narrator never reveals her age but notes that men don’t stop and stare the way they used to. Validation by way of the male erection, even her husband’s, doesn’t come as easily. “Sexual starvation is like other forms of hunger, but hunger is not love,” Vanessa observes. And although it’s one of the most fundamental expressions of humanity, sex just can’t accomplish what intimacy can.

Dying might not be as entertaining as Flying, but, despite its somewhat hokey setup and stale takedown of Internet culture, it feels like a more substantial book. We can sense the emotional direction in which Vanessa is headed, but that doesn’t make the outcome feel less genuine. It’s also a refreshing reminder to young people that sexuality doesn’t expire at a certain age. I imagine this book could be as empowering to women approaching old age as Flying was when they were 20-somethings. v FEAR OF DYING By Erica Jong (St. Martin’s)

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Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s ruptured portraits

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athaniel Mary Quinn remembers drawing the fluid black outline of a cowboy on the drab walls of the apartment in the Robert Taylor Homes where he lived as a child. In the concrete public-housing high-rise, adventures came to life, carefully copied from the pages of his favorite comic books. His father, an illiterate gambler from Mississippi, taught him how to draw on brown paper bags from the neighborhood grocery store.

“He would tell me to draw from my shoulder,” Quinn recalls. “He would take the erasers off the pencils and tell me never to erase.

Every mark has meaning. If you make a mistake, make use of that mistake and turn it into something that can work for you.”

In a series of large-scale abstract portraits currently on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, the artist captures grotesque specters from his past in black charcoal, oil pastel, gouache and acrylic gold leaf. Disfigured and distorted faces stare mournfully out at the viewer.

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Cursed by unsettling metamorphoses, whether a prominent pig snout or the flaring nostrils of an enraged bull, the characters simultaneously repel and attract.

Memories from the artist’s past continue to haunt him. “Walking down the street I get a vision. I never write them down because I never forget them. My visions are often memories I continue to hold on to, the manifestation of an indelible mark made on me by certain experiences.”

Quinn was the youngest of five boys. His mother, crippled after suffering two strokes, managed to support her family with disability checks from the government. He remembers the constant struggle to pay the bills. “I imagine the rent was maybe 50 dollars a month, and the people who lived in the projects struggled to pull together 50 dollars each month.”

In the winter, the family would often turn on the oven to heat the apartment to avoid paying the electric bill.

Quinn paints figments of memory, both real

and unreal. Like a surgeon, he meticulously constructs the fractured geometry of the face with charcoal, construction paper, tape, and an X-Acto knife. “We are all trying to keep it together. We fight to convince spectators of what appears to be a seamless existence, but inside is tension, rupture, and things that don’t quite fit. That is the raw you. I want to paint that.”

Today he lives in Brooklyn, in a small two-bedroom apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant. Brown paper covers the walls, on which he draws a delicate outline of a face. He often paints for 48 hours without sleep to keep up with the demand for his work. In his paintings he returns to his childhood apartment, or what he remembers of it, the articles of clothing scattered on the floor, a half-eaten loaf of bread, and a two-liter Royal Crown Cola. v R “NATHANIEL MARY QUINN: BACK AND FORTH” Through 10/24, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 118 N. Peoria, 312-455-1990, rhoffmangallery.com. F

LEFT IN AN UNRUFFLED state of decay during recent renovations, the ballroom at Hyde Park’s Shoreland Hotel is now a lone snaggletooth in a jawful of luxury condos. It’s also the biggest found object in Jonathan Meyer’s new piece for his company Khecari Dance, The Cronus Land, which culminates five years of work pursuing an aesthetic of dilapidation. Even the unearthly live music is created from “derelict” instruments.

Both of the dance’s two sections play with audience perspective. Structured as a picaresque adventure story, the first half puts the audience in the role of conquistadors advancing into the performers’ territory.

The piece’s most terrific element is our guide, played by Meyer himself at the rehearsal I saw. He leads us up ramps to platforms from which we can view a labyrinth before descending into it like Dante trailing Virgil in the Inferno. But this Virgil is prickly and unreliable, slinging barbs at us as he slips away into the dance.

By the second half we have reason to suspect that the beauty of the first— the blend of cruelty and serenity in a close-quarters duet, the evocative vagueness of whirling dancers dropping into stillness—was a ruse. Our misgivings prepare us for what we find in the deepest circle of The Cronus Land: Humanity writhing in the pit. —JENA CUTIE R THE CRONUS LAND 10/16-11/13: Wed-Sun, Tue 8 PM, the Shoreland Ballroom, 5454 S. South Shore, khecari.org, $15-$250.

Class of 92, 2015; Erica with the Pearl Earring, 2015. ! COURTESY OF RHONA HOFFMAN GALLERY AND THE ARTIST

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Trailing Virgil on the path to hell

VISUAL ART

Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s ruptured portraits

By ANNETTE ELLIOT

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athaniel Mary Quinn remembers drawing the fluid black outline of a cowboy on the drab walls of the apartment in the Robert Taylor Homes where he lived as a child. In the concrete public-housing high-rise, adventures came to life, carefully copied from the pages of his favorite comic books. His father, an illiterate gambler from Mississippi, taught him how to draw on brown paper bags from the neighborhood grocery store.

“He would tell me to draw from my shoulder,” Quinn recalls. “He would take the erasers off the pencils and tell me never to erase.

Every mark has meaning. If you make a mistake, make use of that mistake and turn it into something that can work for you.”

In a series of large-scale abstract portraits currently on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, the artist captures grotesque specters from his past in black charcoal, oil pastel, gouache and acrylic gold leaf. Disfigured and distorted faces stare mournfully out at the viewer.

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Cursed by unsettling metamorphoses, whether a prominent pig snout or the flaring nostrils of an enraged bull, the characters simultaneously repel and attract.

Memories from the artist’s past continue to haunt him. “Walking down the street I get a vision. I never write them down because I never forget them. My visions are often memories I continue to hold on to, the manifestation of an indelible mark made on me by certain experiences.”

Quinn was the youngest of five boys. His mother, crippled after suffering two strokes, managed to support her family with disability checks from the government. He remembers the constant struggle to pay the bills. “I imagine the rent was maybe 50 dollars a month, and the people who lived in the projects struggled to pull together 50 dollars each month.”

In the winter, the family would often turn on the oven to heat the apartment to avoid paying the electric bill.

Quinn paints figments of memory, both real

and unreal. Like a surgeon, he meticulously constructs the fractured geometry of the face with charcoal, construction paper, tape, and an X-Acto knife. “We are all trying to keep it together. We fight to convince spectators of what appears to be a seamless existence, but inside is tension, rupture, and things that don’t quite fit. That is the raw you. I want to paint that.”

Today he lives in Brooklyn, in a small two-bedroom apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant. Brown paper covers the walls, on which he draws a delicate outline of a face. He often paints for 48 hours without sleep to keep up with the demand for his work. In his paintings he returns to his childhood apartment, or what he remembers of it, the articles of clothing scattered on the floor, a half-eaten loaf of bread, and a two-liter Royal Crown Cola. v R “NATHANIEL MARY QUINN: BACK AND FORTH” Through 10/24, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 118 N. Peoria, 312-455-1990, rhoffmangallery.com. F

LEFT IN AN UNRUFFLED state of decay during recent renovations, the ballroom at Hyde Park’s Shoreland Hotel is now a lone snaggletooth in a jawful of luxury condos. It’s also the biggest found object in Jonathan Meyer’s new piece for his company Khecari Dance, The Cronus Land, which culminates five years of work pursuing an aesthetic of dilapidation. Even the unearthly live music is created from “derelict” instruments.

Both of the dance’s two sections play with audience perspective. Structured as a picaresque adventure story, the first half puts the audience in the role of conquistadors advancing into the performers’ territory.

The piece’s most terrific element is our guide, played by Meyer himself at the rehearsal I saw. He leads us up ramps to platforms from which we can view a labyrinth before descending into it like Dante trailing Virgil in the Inferno. But this Virgil is prickly and unreliable, slinging barbs at us as he slips away into the dance.

By the second half we have reason to suspect that the beauty of the first— the blend of cruelty and serenity in a close-quarters duet, the evocative vagueness of whirling dancers dropping into stillness—was a ruse. Our misgivings prepare us for what we find in the deepest circle of The Cronus Land: Humanity writhing in the pit. —JENA CUTIE R THE CRONUS LAND 10/16-11/13: Wed-Sun, Tue 8 PM, the Shoreland Ballroom, 5454 S. South Shore, khecari.org, $15-$250.

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hen progressive Catholic nuns, eager to protest federal cuts in social spending, staged three separate “Nuns on the Bus” tours during the 2012 presidential race, they were greeted in Marietta, Ohio, in October by Tea Party protesters hoisting such placards as “Bums on the Bus” and “Romney-Ryan Yes, Fake Nuns No.” The “fake nuns” taunt referred indirectly to a Vatican statement, issued six months earlier, that had censured the Leadership Conference of Women

Religious, which represents 80 percent of American nuns, for “serious doctrinal problems” in its positions on homosexuality and women priests, and for its “radical feminist themes incompatible with the Catholic faith.”

For others who caught the bus tour, the nuns were real enough. “They are the church as far as I can see,” observes one woman in Rebecca Parrish’s new documentary Radical Grace, which screens at this year’s Chicago International Film Festival. Radical Grace unfolds during a six-year period when the Vatican

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mounted two overlapping investigations into the activities and teachings of American nuns. Parrish profiles three nuns deeply involved in social justice work: Jean Hughes of Chicago, who helps ex-convicts get back on their feet as part of Saint Leonard’s Ministries; Chris Schenk of Cleveland, whose organization FutureChurch promotes gender equality in the clergy; and Simone Campbell of Washington, D.C., whose lobbying organization Network sponsored the bus tour.

Whether these activist women are “real” Catholics is a question the movie leaves open, but Parrish, who lives and works in the South Loop, thinks they’re more connected to real life than some of their male superiors in the church hierarchy. “The majority of the ministry they do is with people who are the most marginalized, so they have exposure to real people and real people’s needs and how things actually work,” she says. “I think a lot of the clerics in the church are more in a world of theory and ideology, whereas the sisters are boots on the ground.”

Parrish grew up in Atlanta and then suburban San Francisco, where she developed an interest in documentary photography. After moving to Chicago in 2007, she took classes at Chicago Filmmakers and served as an intern at Kartemquin Films; to learn her craft, she made short promotional videos for nonprofit groups. Radical Grace, her first feature, grew out of her interest in the socially engaged Buddhism of Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, specifically “how social justice work can be approached as a spiritual practice. . . . There’s a lot of anger, often, around the issues that you’re working on. That’s good, but that can’t be all.” The idea that activism could be part of bettering oneself spiritually led her naturally enough to the Catholic sisterhood, and she began interviewing nuns across the country.

Parrish had gotten most of her ideas about nuns from movies such as The Blues Brothers and Sister Act, which didn’t prepare her for the plain-speaking Hughes, an Adrian Dominican with a lifetime of teaching and counseling J

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THE ASSASSIN In the ninth century, near the end of the Tang Dynasty, the governor of a state pulling away from the empire (Chang Chen) is stalked by a beautiful assassin (Shu Qi) who’s been trained since childhood by the cunning princess of a rival family (Sheu Fang-yi). The story promises action, but this brooding martial-arts adventure from Hou Hsiao-hsien is largely a pictorial experience: in the glistening black-and-white preface, the killer slashes an opponent’s throat and Hou cuts abruptly to a spray of wildflowers. Extreme wide shots place the characters against stunning mountain terrains and inside wild forests, recalling the crystalline detail of classical Chinese paintings; interior scenes unfold in a golden glow, gauzy curtains drifting back and forth over the action, while crickets chirp and tribal drums sound periodically, the hushed tone making the eruptions of swordplay seem even more clangorous. The dazzling 35-millimeter photography is by Mark Lee Ping Bing. In Mandarin with subtitles. 107 min. —J.R. JONES 107 min. Wed 10/21, 6 PM, and Fri 10/23, 8:15 PM.

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CHRONIC Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco is attracted to perverse relationships: his haunting Daniel & Ana, which screened at the 2009 festival, concerned a brother and sister in Mexico City who are kidnapped and forced to mate for a sex video, and this eerie drama stars Tim Roth as a private nurse in LA who’s incapable of setting boundaries with his patients. Moving from one charge to the next—a woman wasting away from AIDS, a family patriarch felled by a stroke, a woman suffering through chemo—he is, in some scenes, a study in devotion, tenderhearted and attentive, and in others, a seriously creepy individual, digging around in his patients’ private lives.

(Naturally, his own private life is a mess.) Franco has created a memorable character, one whose extremes of behavior begin to merge in a B

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CRONIES During the opening credits of Michael Larnell’s surprisingly fresh feature (which he also wrote, produced, and edited), a line of text explains the film’s title: “A close friend or companion.” Sure enough, this film, shot mostly in black and white, is primarily about friendship, though in subtle and mostly unspoken ways Larnell has plenty to say about sociology and racial segregation. In Saint Louis, Andrew (Brian Kowalski), a white, upper-middle-class twentysomething, drives over to the house of his soft-spoken, bespectacled coworker Louis (George Sample III) in a lower-class black neighborhood so that they can meet up and go fishing. Louis’s garrulous, streetwise childhood friend Jack (Zurich Buckner in a standout performance) rudely barges in on their plans, and the movie documents their day together—they smoke weed, shoot dice at an illegal small-stakes gambling operation, and do ecstasy at Andrew’s rich friend’s house—as the trio form an unlikely bond. Spike Lee is the executive producer of this film, and it boasts both a sophisticated understanding of racial politics (as in Do the Right Thing) and a finely attuned ear to the language and behavior of male camaraderie (as in 25th Hour), but it never succumbs to sensationalism and overt moralizing. The soundtrack consists entirely of Saint Louis artists, and documentary-style interviews with the main characters shine light on their motives while slyly commenting on the media’s coverage of race. —TAL ROSENBERG 84 min. Larnell attends the October 23 and 24 screenings. Fri 10/16, 3 PM; Fri 10/23, 7:45 PM; and Sat 10/24, 12:45 PM.

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DHEEPAN Writer-director Jacques Audiard ingeniously advocates for France’s most marginalized citizens by obliquely addressing their struggles in his suspenseful films. In this immigration drama the focus is on Sri Lankans affected by the fallout of the civil war between the country’s government and the independent faction known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (or the Tamil Tigers). Dheepan (Sri Lankan author and actor Antonythasan Jesuthasan); his wife, Yalini (Kalieaswari Srinivasan); and their daughter, Illayaal (Claudine Vinasithamby), are the false identities of three Sri Lankan refugees. They immigrate to France, where Dheepan finds work as caretaker of a squalid rural housing project that’s mostly become an open-air drug market, a setting that gradually unearths his concealed past as a Tamil soldier. Though it takes a jarring left turn at the end, this bears the same immaculate plot construction and tonal consistency of Audiard’s previous films, augmented by sensitive, superlative performances from Jesuthasan and Srinivasan. With Vincent Rottiers, riveting as a quietly seething kingpin, and a hypnotic score by electronic-music whiz kid Nicolas Jaar. In Tamil and French with subtitles. —TAL ROSENBERG 109 min. Fri 10/16, 8:30 PM, and Sat 10/24, 5:30 PM.

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VENUE Unless otherwise noted, all films screen at River East 21, 322 E. Illinois.

ADMISSION Unless otherwise noted, all tickets are $14 ($11 for students, seniors, and Cinema/ Chicago members).

A ten-admission pass is $130 ($100 for members), and a 20-admission pass is $250 ($195 for members). Weekday matinees through 5 PM are $8; shows after 10 PM are $10.

Special packages for opening- and closing-night galas.

ADVANCE SALES In person: Cinema/ Chicago, 30 E. Adams, suite 800 (weekdays 10 AM-6 PM) or River East 21 (Thu 10/15, noon8 PM; Fri 10/16-Thu 10/29, beginning one hour before the first show and ending after the last show has begun). Online: ticketmaster.com/ chicagofilmfestival (individual tickets only) or chicagofilmfestival.com. By phone: 24 hours in advance at 312-3323456; weekdays 10 AM-6 PM. FOR MORE Call 312-332-3456 or go to chicagofilmfestival.com.

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45 YEARS An elderly retiree (Tom Courtenay) learns that the body of his onetime lover, who died more than 50 years earlier in a hiking accident, has been recovered, perfectly preserved in an ice pack. The news sends shock waves through his long marriage to another woman (Charlotte Rampling), and in the week leading up to their 45th wedding anniversary, she begins to wonder who he really is. Directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend), this sober British drama showcases Rampling in a superb performance. Fearful, confused, and ultimately devastated, her character comes to learn that while a marriage can be strengthened by the years, so can the secret that finally takes it down. —J.R. JONES 95 min. Sat 10/17, 3:30 PM, and Tue 10/20, 6:15 PM.

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I SMILE BACK A scorching performance from Sarah Silverman anchors this painful drama of addiction and defeat. Her character, a middle-class wife and mother, is off her meds, off the wagon, and beyond the help of her caring husband (Josh Charles, also great). She humorously dotes on her daughter and two sons, but when they’re tucked away in school she sleeps with one of the neighbors and vacuums up cocaine (not since Debra Granik’s Down to the Bone has an indie drama dealt as wrenchingly with parenthood and drug abuse). Silverman completely drops her sweet/ snarky comic persona, tapping into the character’s tenderness, simmering rage, and bleak despair. The movie’s abrupt ending will strike some as daring and others as disappointing; count me among the latter, though Silverman is so good I wish it weren’t so. Adam Salky directed a screenplay by first-timers Paige Dylan and Amy Koppelman. —J.R. JONES R, 85 min. Silverman attends the screening. Fri 10/16, 6 PM.

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ROAD TO LA PAZ An unemployed man in Buenos Aries, trying his luck as a private driver, befriends one of his passengers, an old Muslim man with a variety of health problems, and agrees to take him on a trip to Bolivia so he can reunite with his brother. As with many road movies, this warm comedy is more about the journey than the destination, emphasizing the growing intimacy between the principal characters and treating viewers to some lovely images of the Argentinian countryside. Writer-director Francisco Varone sets an agreeably relaxed pace, and the character-

izations resonate; by the end of the film, you might feel as though you’ve made a couple of new friends. In Spanish with subtitles. —BEN SACHS 89 min. Varone attends the Wednesday and Thursday screenings. Wed 10/21, 8 PM; Thu 10/22, 8 PM; and Tue 10/27, 12:30 PM.

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A VERY ORDINARY CITIZEN The title character of this dark Iranian comedy is a solitary and taciturn old man in Tehran whose days revolve around napping and buying bread. His son, exiled to Canada, wants his father to visit, so he hires a young female travel agent to help the old man make arrangements; the father takes a shine to her, though his means of showing affection make her increasingly uncomfortable. Souren Mnatsakanian gives a wonderful, poker-faced lead performance—it’s never clear whether the old man is senile or just extremely aloof—and director Majid Barzegar (Parviz) fashions a deadpan visual style to match. The character humor is ingratiating, and the unexpected plot twists provide some genuine shocks. Jafar Panahi collaborated with Barzegar on the script. In Farsi with subtitles. —BEN SACHS 103 min. Sat 10/17, 8:30 PM; Sun 10/18, 11:45 AM: and Thu 10/22, 4 PM. WHERE TO INVADE NEXT Michael Moore persists in his lifelong mission to provoke liberals to paroxysms of rage, at least until the end credits roll and they start looking for a good restaurant.

Armed with an American flag, he heads across the Atlantic to document how much better European governments treat their citizens, with episodes in Italy (where workers get months of vacation and paid leave every year), France (where school lunches rival the food at fine restaurants), Finland (which now ranks number one in education globally), Germany (where workers have a strong presence on corporate boards), Norway (whose legalization of drugs has caused a drop in addiction), etc. The hit-and-run strategy precludes any meaningful consideration of how such successes might be transplanted from these smaller economies to the U.S., so as a rhetorical argument, or even a political blueprint, this falls apart almost as quickly as Moore can present it. But the movie definitely has merit as a consciousness-raising exercise, alerting blinkered Americans to the fact that we deserve better. —J.R. JONES 110 min. Moore attends the screening. Fri 10/23, 7 PM. v

experience. (She died in January at age 76.) “Jean exploded all my stereotypes, and I just loved her, adored her,” recalls Parrish. Counseling a group of parolees in the documentary, Hughes urges them to find good women who will help them stay out of trouble: “If she needs diamonds, drop her!” Parrish says she was struck by how frankly Hughes spoke of her conflicts with the Vatican; at one point in the movie she calls the 2012 censure “a denial of the divine in us.” Like the other three women Parrish settled on as her main characters, Hughes is no simple do-gooder but a conscientious woman on an uncharted spiritual journey.

However reluctant the sisters may have been to open up about controversial subjects, they were nowhere near as uncooperative as the Catholic clergy.

Parrish says she approached the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to provide a high-ranking spokesperson for the movie, to no avail. Finally she obtained footage of a talking-head interview with Thomas Paprocki, bishop of the Springfield diocese, that was shot for another documentary but never used. “The sisters say that religious life is changing and evolving,” he remarks in the movie, “but I think the question then is, what are the limits of that? How far can they push that? The question is, are you still religious? Are you still nuns? Are you still Christian?” In another clip, Paprocki shrugs off the idea of women clergy, pointing out that Jesus chose only men to be his apostles.

Hughes’s health had been seesawing back and forth throughout the production of Radical Grace, but Parrish was still shocked when the aging sister died of complications from a lung infection.

Later scenes in the movie reveal Hughes as a woman still deeply troubled by the Catholic patriarchy. “I find myself having conversations with God about the institutional church,” she confesses. “It was almost like God said to me, ‘Why don’t you walk away?’” At the same time, she considers her illness an opportunity, “a renewal for me of who I want to be till the end.” Hughes may not have been a real nun, or even a real Catholic, but Radical Grace leaves no doubt that she was a real disciple. v

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Recommended and notable shows, and critics’ insights for the week of October 15

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A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene THE PAINT HAS BARELY DRIED on the joint LP local guitarists Ryley Walker and Bill MacKay put out in August, but on Fri 10/16 MacKay’s folky art-rock quartet Darts & Arrows releases the full-length Altamira on Bandcamp (and as a small-run CD). In 2010, the Reader’s Peter Margasak wrote that “the group’s abundantly inventive music flows . . . with a delicate rhythmic touch,” and the gentle melodies of the new album’s “Evergreen” call to mind verdant, rolling hills. Altamira features guest turns from saxophonist Nick Mazzarella and AACM violist Renee Baker.

Many head shrinkers think that learning how to poop in the right place (aka potty training) plays a role in forming human personality, including concepts of shame and pride. Local indie-rock band Bullyhuff has recorded five songs that follow the “life cycle” of a meal from consumption to excretion—let’s hope they’re proud of themselves! Last week, the band posted The Beef Suite EP on Bandcamp, and this wolf digs the tossed-off riffs and punky Meat Puppets attitude of “I Called About the Pizza Puff,” “Shit Ghost,” and “If I Can’t See You, I Can’t Smell You” (just don’t listen too closely to the lyrics).

The Numero Group’s Jonathan Kirby has been DJing at the Owl for a minute, and at his monthly Jam Machine night in September, he gave away copies of White Denim, a two-volume cassette mix he describes as “Yacht Rock, Pontoon Rock, Dune Boogie, Bar ’n B, Honky Talk, Suburban Laments, and other forms of Caucasian Expression.” The rest of his copies are free for the asking at the Jam Machine on Fri 10/16. The tunes start at 10 PM, and Señor Eddy of the Sonorama DJ collective will help keep them going till the wee hours. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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THURSDAY15 Disclosure Claude Vonstroke and Pomo open. 6 PM, Festival Halls A & B, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand, $36.50. 18+ Soon after Disclosure released their first single, 2010’s “Offline Dexterity,” the promising UK electronic-music duo were grouped with myriad similar underground acts all lazily called “dubstep”—Mount Kimbie, Joy Orbison, Zomby, Scuba, SBTRKT, et cetera. Since then Disclosure have grown into the most popular and successful act to emerge from that turn-of-the-decade creative heyday. Their 2013 album, Settle, went platinum, landing on many year-end top-ten lists, and spawned the massive single “Latch”—which also launched the solo career of R&B singer Sam Smith, who’s featured on the track. (Not bad for two brothers from Surrey, the younger of whom just turned 21.) Like the full-length debuts of Basement Jaxx and Daft Punk, to whom Disclosure are sometimes compared, Settle brought electronic music from bygone eras (in this case two-step, garage house, and broken beat) into a contemporary setting, using current production techniques and adding relatively pop-friendly vocalists. Their follow-up, last month’s Caracal, isn’t as effervescent or immediate, but it’s just as immaculately constructed, and its cocktail of subgenres is just as intoxicating. The music is also moodier, cleaner, and more subtle, which might explain why critics have leveled kneejerk accusations of blandness at Caracal instead of recognizing that it’s actually more sophisticated and refined than Settle (albeit harder to absorb).

Onstage, Disclosure’s appeal is immediate, and if you can hear it, you should expect to dance your ass off. —TAL ROSENBERG

Kylesa Inter Arma, Indian Handcrafts, and Irata open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $20, $15 in advance.

The members of this Georgia metal institution carved out their own niche long ago, so that these days they only need to guard against intruders and entropy. In the studio they’re now a trio of cofounders Phillip Cope and Laura Pleasants, who both play guitar and sing, and drummer Carl McGinley (though onstage they still add a bassist and a second trap kit). The band recorded their brandnew seventh full-length, Exhausting Fire (Season of Mist), with no outside producer, and it takes a heavier tack than its more experimental predecessor, 2013’s Ultraviolet. Balanced perfectly on the imaginary pinnacle where psychedelia, doom, and space grunge all meet, the new album uses both singers’ voices to maximum advantage as it sets its various moods: Pleasants is really mastering the psych-chanteuse vibe, and “Shaping the Southern Sky” is Kylesa’s most mind-erasing roof lifter yet. I approve of the cover song they end with too—lots of bands go for obscurities and deep cuts, but by choosing a song everyone knows, in this case Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid,” they’ve made sure everyone can understand exactly what they’ve done to it.

—MONICA KENDRICK

FRIDAY16 Stevie Wonder 8 PM, United Center, 1901 W. Madison, $39.50-$149.50. b Stevie Wonder’s string of 70s albums remains one of the high-water marks in American pop, and for more than a year he’s been touring with a lavish production of the 1976 masterpiece Songs in the Key of Life. (That’s the one with “Isn’t She Lovely,” “Sir Duke,” “As,” and “Another Star.”) A total of 130 people contributed to this wide-ranging 21-song double LP during the two years Wonder spent making it, and at last fall’s United Center show, up to 32 musicians took the stage at once—including a tenpiece string section, six horns, two drummers, two percussionists, and a cohort of backup singers J

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that topped out at 14. Excepting the harp on “If It’s Magic,” every note of Wonder’s detailed, sprightly arrangements was played by a live human. Even with the music at full boil I could hear a percussionist tapping a cymbal the size of an egg cup, and on “Sir Duke” somebody snuck in the playful fillip of siren whistle in the tiny pause after the line about Ella Fitzgerald. Songs in the Key of Life was Wonder’s 18th studio album, but the first came out when he was 12—he was 26 for this one, and today he’s just 65. (Last year one of his backup singers was his oldest daughter, Aisha Morris, who’s 40 now—she’s the baby crying at the start of “Isn’t She Lovely.”) His voice, though somewhat weathered, remains supple and strong, with all its old acrobatic grace and infectious enthusiasm. The record’s bubbly blend of soul, funk, rock, and pop has aged beautifully, as have its messages of faith, love, joy, nostalgia, and justice for the oppressed. And at the show I saw, once Wonder finished Songs in the Key of Life, he closed with a medley of favorites (“Do I Do,” “For Once in My Life,” “My Cherie Amour”) and a scorching ten-minute jam on “Superstition.” Tickets aren’t cheap, but call in favors if you have to—this will be one of the best concerts you ever see. —PHILIP MONTORO

The Bad Plus Joshua redman 8 PM, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan, $28-$89. b Aside from backing a few singers, the Bad Plus have mostly remained a self-contained unit for the length of their 15-year run. In jazz, of course, collaboration is practically de rigueur, but pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson, and drummer David King function as such a close-knit ensemble, playing such tightly arranged, richly developed tunes (and improvising within them), that most potential collaborators would need a prohibitively long time to internalize their workings and find some maneuvering room inside. A few years ago, though, the Bad Plus began a sporadic partnership with saxophonist Joshua Redman, a protean improviser who’s open to all sorts of challenges—he’s played with Chicago jam band Umphrey’s McGee, for instance, and crafts pop-flavored material in his chamber quartet, James Farm. This spring’s The Bad Plus Joshua Redman (Nonesuch) contains original tunes written by all four musicians, including two older faves from the Bad Plus repertoire. Iverson’s hurtling “County Seat” juggles

picaresque Americana with jacked-up pre-swing dance rhythms; King’s limber, through-composed “Beauty Has It Hard” pushes and pulls against its own score, almost to the point of exhaustion; and Redman’s kaleidoscopic ballad “The Mending” is embellished by florid runs from Iverson and a searing, halting tenor solo from its composer. Redman fits in smoothly, demonstrating humility when it’s required and letting it rip when given the space.

The music is dense yet playful, lively yet contemplative, and always engaging. Now I want to see who else has what it takes to work with the Bad Plus.

—PETER MARGASAK

ICE and guests perform George Lewis’s Afterword: The AACM (as) opera See also Saturday. 7:30 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, $30, $10 for students.

Composer, trombonist, and scholar George Lewis literally wrote the book on Chicago’s hugely influential Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Published in 2008, A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (University of Chicago) drew upon his broad erudition, sharp analysis, engaging storytelling, and unguarded access to the organization’s members and historical documents—he joined it himself in 1971, six years after its founding—to deliver an authoritative account that vividly detailed the organization’s genesis, aims, and importance. This weekend the International Contemporary Ensemble, joined by opera singers Julian Terrell Otis, Gwendolyn Brown, and Joelle Lamarre, will present the multimedia premiere of his new opera, Afterword: The AACM (as) Opera, which debuted in a concert version this past May in New York. The libretto, which uses text from the interviews Lewis conducted for the book, promises to frame the organization’s ups and downs within larger historical phenomena such as the Great Migration and the civil rights movement. A review of the concert performance in the New York Times noted the difficulty of having the singers represent an organization rather than flesh-and-blood characters, but those are the sorts of problems Lewis has spent his entire career solving. These performances, in conjunction with the museum’s ongoing exhibition “The Freedom Principle,” are a collaboration with director Sean Griffin and producer and visual art- J

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ist Catherine Sullivan; joining ICE will be AACM musicians Douglas R. Ewart (woodwinds), Ann Ward (piano and voice), and Khari B. (spoken word).

—PETER MARGASAK

William Parker Quartet See also Saturday. 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $25, $20 in advance. 18+ Prolific composer, bassist, and bandleader William Parker has released four box sets in the past four years. But only one, Wood Flute Songs (Aum Fidelity), focuses on a single band. Parker’s ensemble goes by different names at different points in the set’s eight discs of live recordings, but his core group throughout is his working quartet: trumpeter Lewis Barnes, alto saxophonist Rob Brown, and drummer Hamid Drake. Parker first convened these players in 2000, and they’ve proved themselves flexible enough to handle whatever he throws at them, be it jubilant melodies, soulful vocal music, or volcanic free improvisation. Brown’s convoluted, acidic runs make a great sweet-and-sour combination with Barnes’s relatively lyrical solos; the contrast in their approaches makes it all the more thrilling when they lock onto one of Parker’s riffs. The bassist also plays Japanese shakuhachi flute and nasal double reeds, and he and Drake contribute to the music’s aura of universality by shifting fluidly from swing-based jazz rhythms to calypso, reggae, or pan-African grooves. The quartet will play two sets. —BILL MEYER

Pouya & the Buffet Boys The Underachievers headline; Pouya & the Buffet Boys, Kirk Knight, and Bodega Bamz open.

6:30 PM, Metro, 3730 N. Clark, $27, $23 in advance. b Miami rapper Kevin Pouya, better known as Pouya, is the kind of hip-hop stylist whose songs sound great taken as a whole—especially if that keeps you from listening too closely to his single-minded lyrics. His blunt, often tasteless sexual boasting is sometimes so by-the-numbers that it barely feels misogynistic; on “Dandy,” off his recent South Side Slugs mixtape, he raps, “She want me early in the morning like Pearl Harbor.” Pouya treats his words like railroad ties, though—they’re not the train, but they get the song to where it’s going all the same.

The best cuts from South Side Slugs benefit from his efforts to use his flow and enunciation to complement the backing tracks—which are often sol-

emn street-rap beats that sound like they’ve been dragged out of Memphis, left to melt in the sun, and then hustled into a pink-and-teal Miami nightclub. Members of his Buffet Boys collective provide him with lethal production; Mikey the Magician’s groaning horns and cold postpunk guitars on “Suicide Thoughts in the Back of a Cadillac” inject pathos into Pouya’s rhymes about lonesome excess.

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Zombies 8 PM, Star Plaza Theatre, 9001 Delaware Place, Merrillville, IN, $35-$50. b British band the Zombies broke up several months before they released their 1968 masterpiece, Odessey & Oracle. In fact, the misspelling in the title made it onto the album cover because Terry Quirk’s artwork sat for weeks in the apartment of bassist and songwriter Chris White with nobody noticing the mistake. The group had achieved great success already, scoring massive hits with “Tell Her No” and “She’s Not There,” but the self-produced Odessey & Oracle was on another level, and to this day it’s deservedly mentioned in the same breath as Pet Sounds. Lead singer Colin Blunstone harmonizes beautifully with his bandmates’ soaring, meticulously pitched voices, and the songs, written

by White or keyboardist Rod Argent, chronicle a loss of innocence as sobering as anything happening in pop at the time (“Butcher’s Tale” comments on the Vietnam war by describing the slaughter of WWI through a soldier’s eyes, and the sunny “Care of Cell 44” tells the story of a man writing to his imprisoned love). The Zombies were active during an era of remarkable sophistication in pop, but even in that context their final album stood out: all 12 songs are marvels of melodic grace, inventive arranging, and orchestral ambition, and the closing cut, “Time of the Season,” sounds as fresh today as ever. The band performed music from Odessey & Oracle for the first time upon reuniting in 1997 and again in tribute to ailing guitarist Paul Atkinson in 2004, a few months before his death. For the album’s 40th anniversary, the surviving founding members—White, Blunstone, Argent, and drummer Hugh Grundy—played it in its entirety in the UK, and this U.S. tour is the first time the four of them have done so on these shores. Given that the Zombies’ regular lineup (which doesn’t include White or Grundy) will perform for part of the show as well, I’d expect to hear some of the band’s lackluster new material too, but that’s a small price to pay for the chance to see such an immortal album played in the flesh. —PETER MARGASAK J

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a solitary mournful cello, what sounds like a car radio searching for a signal, and a field recording of crickets. Boys Life’s precise, assiduous performances and confident grasp of atmosphere make every barely in-key yelp sound not only urgent but important. The band reunited earlier this year, and this is the second date of their first tour since then. —LEOR GALIL

ICE and guests perform George Lewis’s Afterword: The AACM (as) opera See Friday. 7:30 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, $30, $10 for students.

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SUNDAY18 Autre Ne Veut Gems and Mazed open. 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, $15. 18+ On his 2013 debut as Autre Ne Veut, Anxiety, Arthur Ashin breathed new life into 80s synthpop and R&B sounds, aiming his slightly off-kilter recombinations of featherweight synths and gaudy electronic percussion right for your guts and heart. On that record Ashin struck a balance between his casually powerful songwriting and his desire to experiment with dated synth patches, but on the new Age of Transparency (Downtown) the latter elbows its way to center stage. Album opener “On and On (Reprise)” begins with Ashin warping and editing his falsetto singing and the song’s elegantly minimal, borderline jazzy piano part as if he were a DJ finessing a sample; he plays some sounds in reverse, drops their pitch, or subjects them to glitchy stutters, often to the detriment of the song’s momentum. After that interesting but uneven start, the rest of Age of Transparency feels like a return to form, but much of the album is missing the magic that made its predecessor magnetic. When Ashin gets his studio tricks out of his songs’ way, as he does on the pop whirlwind of “World War, Pt. 2” and the slow-building title track, his smoldering embers leap into tantalizing flames.

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MONDAY19 Rempis Percussion Quartet See also Tuesday. 9 PM, Elastic, 3429 W. Diversey, $10 suggested donation. b On the bracing new Cash and Carry (Aerophonic), the Rempis Percussion Quartet lays its intentions bare right out of the gate. Tim Daisy, one of the Chicago-based group’s two drummers, begins “Water Foul Run Amok” by rapidly clicking his sticks together four times, as if counting off a hardcore song—an especially good joke at the start of an unpremeditated, entirely improvised 39-minute track, but also entirely appropriate to the explosion of energy that opens it. Anchored by bassist Ingebrit Håker Flaten, the band locks in immediately, its high-octane, fast-moving mixture of groove and clatter buoying and buffeting the outsize blowing of leader Dave Rempis, who starts out on tenor saxophone. Before long the players drop the intensity and open up space, almost like a runner cooling down after a sprint, but then a new bass ostinato arises and the combo is off to the races again.

On “Better Than Butter” Rempis deploys his alto, his keening tone soaring over relatively ruminative percussive textures (including tangled kalimba patterns) and his lines shifting from postbop melody to pure slashing rhythm. Ebb and flow is to be expected from an all-improvising group, but the RPQ invests it with blood and sweat, countering their brawn with dynamic balance. While individual musicians push their statements to the fore, the ensemble constantly modulates between bruising sallies of abstract fury and fleeting glimpses of lyric tenderness—and every change is enough to quicken your pulse. —PETER MARGASAK

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WEDNESDAY21 Tomas Fujiwara Trio 9:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, 18+. F Drummer Tomas Fujiwara has played in so many working bands with guitarist Mary Halvorson—his quintet the Hook Up, the collective Thumbscrew, Taylor Ho Bynum’s Sextet, Chicago-based octet Living by Lanterns, Halvorson’s own Reverse Blue—that it almost seems like an act of infidelity that the guitarist beside him in the trio he leads tonight is Brandon Seabrook. Fujiwara brings sleek, graceful propulsion to almost everything he touches; on After All Is Said (482 Music), the terrific new album by the Hook Up, he keeps things driving smoothly despite the often thorny harmonies and occasionally fierce improvisations of his cohorts. But in this trio Fujiwara takes a more strident, furious approach, which suits a wild card like Seabrook—the guitarist’s giddy playing bristles with raw chaos, noise, and sometimes even the intensity of a metal shredder. Fujiwara wrote five of the eight pieces on the trio’s debut album, last year’s Variable Bets (Relative

Pitch), and they’re more tightly coiled than his usual elegant compositions. The other three are jagged, dissonant free-improv pieces, where the group’s third member, trumpeter Ralph Alessi, departs from his customary melodic grace to dissect Seabrook’s freak-outs like a scalpel. In his writing and playing with this band, Fujiwara unshackles a visceral, explosive side of his aesthetic, and his top-flight collaborators seem to take a gleeful pleasure in helping him fuck shit up. —PETER MARGASAK

The Ex & Ken Vandermark Bear Claw and Invisible Things open. 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, $15. 18+ Since forming in 1979, Dutch art-punk band the Ex have worked with all sorts of collaborators, whether traditional musicians from Ethiopia or free improvisers from across Europe and the U.S. The group’s latest full-length, The Ex at Bimhuis (1991-2015) (Ex/Bimhuis), is a two-CD celebration of such partnerships recorded live at the Amsterdam creative-music venue of its title. The Ex have held fast to their agitprop roots, but those tendencies have had to coexist with an increasingly insatiable curiosity that’s driven the group into new territory. Their interest in international music goes beyond a well-documented adoration for African sounds (they continue to work with Ethiopian saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria) to include Kurdish, Turkish, and Hungarian traditions, among others, and it’s prompted intuitive, organic transformations in the Ex’s songs that push them into a no-man’s-land between genres. The members of the band are also autodidacts in free improvisation and other forms of experimentation, and have collaborated with heavies such as Ab Baars, Wolter Wierbos, and Han Bennink. In 2013 the Ex released the fantastic Enormous Door, where a high-octane horn section called Brass Unbound (saxophonists Ken Vandermark and Mats Gustafsson, trombonist Wierbos, and trumpeter Roy Paci) enhanced a wide range of original and traditional material from the group’s vast repertoire with sharp charts and freewheeling improvisation. For the Ex’s first U.S. tour in four years, the four core members— guitarists Terrie Hessels and Andy Moor, drummer Katherina Bornefeld, and vocalist and guitarist Arnold de Boer—will be joined by Vandermark alone, which ought to provide more opportunities for unbridled spontaneity in their incendiary set.

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Account Executive The Chicago Reader is seeking an entry-level advertising salesperson to be based out of the downtown Chicago office. This sales executive will work as a member of a creative and collaborative team focused on digital, mobile, social, online and print advertising solutions.

The right candidate will work to form partnerships with local advertisers to assess and address their advertising challenges. We are seeking self-starters with a strong motivation to learn advertising strategy and who are comfortable in the digital world.

Responsibilities: - Cold-calling business owners and decision makers to set appointments - Use a consultative sales approach to identify business needs and goals - Create strategic custom solutions to meet customer needs and align our product set with their overall goals - Manage existing business and create new business to maintain a healthy sales pipeline Requirements: - Previous experience preferred - Must be familiar with the Reader brand - Must have some college education; bachelor’s degree preferred Professional, courteous and motivated individuals are strongly encouraged to apply.

Interested parties, please send resume, cover letter and salary considerations to swright@chicagoreader.com Please put "Account Executive" in the subject line.

The Chicago Reader is an Equal Opportunity Employer

2 BEDROOMS,

SECTION

Ready! 5 rooms, $900, 6959 S May 773-467-8200, 773-405-9361, Gina, BIG ROOMS, quiet, clean. Call us !

CLEAN ROOM WITH fridge and microwave. Close to Oak Park, Walmart, Buses & Metra. $105/wk & up. 773-637-5957

SOUTH.

EDGEWATER - NICE Room with

CHICAGO, BEVERLY / Cal Park

BIG ROOM WITH stove, fridge, bath & new floor. N. Side, by transp/ shop. Clean w/elevator. $116/wk + up. 773-561-4970

/ Blue Island Studio $515 & up, 1BR $625 & up, 2BR $875 & up. Heat, Appls, Balcony, Carpet, Laundry, Prkg. 708-388-0170 79th & Woodlawn 2BR $750-$800; 1BR $650-$700. 76th & Phillips 1BR $650-$700. Remodeled, appliances avail. Section 8 welcome. Call 312286-5678

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

stove, fridge & bath, by Shopping & Transp. Elevator, Lndry. $116/wk. & Up. Call 773-275-4442

1350 N LOREL 1 bedroom, heat included $750/month plus 1 month rent in advance, 773-379-7612 CHICAGO S. MALE Preferred.

All Utilities Included. $400/mo. $50 Deposit.

773-253-8541

SEIU HEALTHCARE ILLINOIS

and Indiana is seeking an Illinois based bargaining and representation coordinator. Our union is on the cutting edge of progressive movement building in Illinois, positioning our members to fight and lead against 1% attacks and building power and strength within our industries, communities, and shops. We are looking for candidates who believe in developing members and workers to lead in all aspects of union building and who are committed to closing the gap for income inequality for all working people so we can all live in a just society. The Bargaining and Representation Coordinator would work

We are adding to our growing beer staff at several Chicago locations.We need people with good working knowledge of craft beer, commodity brand beer, import beer and beer styles. Candidates must be 21 and over. If you share our passion for craft beers and excellence in customer service, we want to speak with you.

Please apply online at www.binnys.com/careers Job ID: 2015-1066 OR Apply in person at the following stores: Lakeview - South Loop - Lincoln Park - Downtown (Grand Ave)

E. CHATHAM NEWLY rehab 1BR apt, security cameras, gated

82ND/S. MERRILL 1BR, new

CHICAGO - HYDE Park

65TH & WESTERN: 1st flr 5rm

ALSIP - LUXURY 1BR, 1BA $730 .3BR, 1.5BA, $1050/mo. Balcony, new carpet, parking, appls, laundry & storage. Call 708-268-3762

CHATHAM 80TH & St. Lawrence.

remod, hdwd flrs, formal DR, heated, appls, 2nd flr, Nice neighborhood. $7 00/mo. (773)619-9511 2BR, $750 + 1 mo security, heat incl; 2nd flr 6 rm 3BR, $800 + 1 mo security. heat incl. 773-434-3128

Lrg studio $525, 1BR $585-$630.

113th & Indiana, XL 1BR heat and appl $640 773-660-9305

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

5401 S. Ellis.

1BR. $600/mo Call 773-955-5106

6317-19 S California – Marquette Park, Heat & appl including 2brs $785 Rory 312-593-1677

312-236-9000 • MRI Technologist • Health Information Technology (includes 3 certifications: Medical Billing, Coding, and Medical Office Administration) • Non-Invasive Cardiovascular Sonography (diploma & degree options) • Diagnostic Medical Sonography (diploma & degree options)

For OPEN HOUSE info, visit WWW.MCCOLLEGE.EDU

Diploma & Certificate Programs:

• Medical Assisting (also includes Phlebotomy & EKG) • Cardiology/Monitor Tech/EKG • Dialysis Technologist • Phlebotomy Technologist • Surgical Technologist (also includes Sterile Processing certification) • CNA • Pharmacy Tech • ESL

Office hours, programs, and class schedules vary by location.

Please call us or visit our website for details.

We accept international students.

MIDWESTERN CAREER COLLEGE

Chicago 20 N. Wacker Dr. (@downtown) (312) 236-9000

EOE

SOUTHSHORE, Stop looking this is it! Newly decor 3BR. 7822 S. Constance, starting at $890/mo, heat incl. Sect 8 ok. Pete, 312.770.0589

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

Now offers Associate of Applied Science Degrees

In return for your skills, we offer growth opportunities and attractive compensation.

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

Large Sunny Room w/fridge & microwave. Nr. Oak Park, Green Line, bus. 24 hour desk, parking lot. $101/week & Up. 773-3788888

AAS Accredited Degree Programs:

BEER SALES

2402 N. NEW England . 1bed. apt .$775.00 per month heat and cooking included. Near Elmwood Park.

Immediate occupancy. Laundry facilites, For more information, please call Kathy at (773) 237-4883 for an appointment.

1BR grdn apt. Electric, gas, heat & cable incl. Quiet bldng. No smoke/ loud music. $700/mo. Beaut.

Rosemoor Area. 773-264-2431

HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL

Binny’s Beverage Depot is the Midwest’s largest upscale retailer of fine wines, spirits and cigars, and due to our continued growth, we are now looking for dedicated individuals to join our team throughout Chicago:

1 BR $700-$799

7758 S. ADA, Beautiful 1 & 2BR, hdwd flrs, appls & heat incl,$675-$800/mo.

Call 773-783-9675

EDUCATION

THE DEPARTMENT OF Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), located in a large metropolitan area, is seeking an Assistant Professor to assist the department teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Finance and Business Administration. Other duties include: perform research related to Finance and Business Administration, act as a liaison between the University and business community, and provide service to the department by serving on departmental committees and college committees as assigned. Requirements are a PhD degree or its foreign equivalent in Finance, Business Administration, Accounting 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 tara mc@uic.edu, or via mail at UIC, Dept of Finance, 601 S Morgan Street, Chicago, IL 60607. UIC is AA/ EOE/M/F/Disabled/Veteran.

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

8

BECOME A

Retail

CROSSROADS HOTEL SRO SINGLE RMS Private bath, PHONE,

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

SOUTH/EAST SIDE Newly Renov 1BR, 1BA , Bsmt Apt Liv rm, kit, heat & utils incld, close to shops/transp, $600/month 773-208-9494 CHICAGO BRONZEVILLE

WEST PULLMAN (INDIANA

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

708-288-4510

CHICAGO SOUTH SIDE Beauti-

4950 S Prairie.

1BR. Heat, cooking gas, appl incl. Sec 8 ok. Lndry on site, prkg. $650 & up.

Z 773-406-4841

LINCOLN PARK/ DEPAUL. W.

GEORGE & N. SEMINARY. Studio available now. $1005. Hardwood floors, heat included. Great location for DePaul and transportation. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

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

Naperville Blue Island 200 E. 5th Ave. 12840 S. Western Ave. (@Metra Station) (@Metra Station) (630) 536-8679 (708) 926-9470

Midwestern Career College is approved by the Division of Private Business and Vocational Schools of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. Gainful Employment information for each program is available on our website at www.mccollege.edu under program descriptions.

parking, brand new appls, hot water incl. $750/mo. 773-386-9552

1 BR $800-$899 ROGERS PARK! 7520 N. Seeley.

1 bedroom starting at $895 heat included. Completely remodeled, hardwood floors, walk in closet, new windows, laundry in the building, bike room, close to shops, restaurants, etc. Garage available. Application fee $40. NO SECURITY DEPOSIT! For a showing please call Samir 773-6274894 Hunter Properties 773-4777070 www.hunterprop.com Hyde Park West Apts., 5325 S. Cottage Grove Ave., Renovated spacious apartments in landscaped gated community. Off street parking available. 1BR $869 - Free Heat; 4BR Townhome $1412. Visit or call 773324-0280, M-F: 9am-5pm or apply online- www.hydepark west.com.

Managed by Metroplex, Inc

LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $825-$895 include heat and gas, laundry in building. Great view! Close to CTA Red Line, bus, stores, restaurants, lake, etc. To schedule a showing please contact Celio 773-3961575, Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com 7018 N. RIDGE (LUNT) - 1&2 BR Newer bldg, laundry, Near transp, shopping. Rent inclds prkng & ht. $850-$1000/mo Lana 773-764-8681 2BR/2BA + 1BR/1BA apts avail,

hardwood flrs and appls incl, close to trans, schools. Sec 8 Welcome. 773443-3200

1 BR $900-$1099 EVANSTON. CENTRAL AVE.

Large 1 bedroom available 11/1. $1050. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

GREAT EVANSTON CAMPUS

1 BEDROOM FOR 12/15! Church/ Ridge. Large 3 rooms/ 1 bedroom available 12/15-8/31/16. $1080. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern. Hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

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1 BR $1100 AND OVER

1909 WEST AINSLIE: HUGE SUNFILLED 1 BDRM with dec. fireplace~flanked by built-in bookshelves. Living Room Alcove perfect for den/office! Hdwd flrs, Kitchen pantry., formal Dining Room! 1 blk to grocery store, Metra.$1,285.

00,Available NOV.1.(773)381-0150. w ww.theschirmfirm.com

4235 1/2 NORTH Hermitage.

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

Onsite lndry/storage.$1150.00,heat incl. No Sec. Dep.(773)381-0150. ww w.theschirmfirm.com EVANSTON. FOREST AVE.

Large 1 bedrooms available now from $1170. Stately building on quiet street, near Sheridan Road and Main Street, shops, restaurants, transportation. Heat included, hardwood floors. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

LINCOLN PARK/ DEPAUL. W.

GEORGE & N. SEMINARY. 1 Bedroom available 11/15-3/31/16 for $1165. New 12 month lease from 4/1 also available. Hardwood floors, heat included.

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

EVANSTON NEAR LAKE MICH-

IGAN. 615 SHERIDAN. 4 room/1 bedroom with hardwood floors, heat included available now. $1145. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

EVANSTON CAMPUS 1 BEDROOM AVAILABLE NOW! Church/ Ridge. Large 4 rooms/ 1 bedroom available NOW. $1160. Beautiful courtyard building near Northwestern. Hardwood floors, heat included.

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

LINCOLN PARK. W. ARLING-

LINCOLN PARK. ADDISON.

CHICAGO- MARINA TOWERS

TON PL. 1 Bedroom available now. $1255. Courtyard building with exposed brick hallways, oak floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

Prime location 1 bedrooms available 1 11/1. From $1215. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

42nd floor, 1 bedroom, nice view, available November. 1. $1400/mo.

Call 773-716-7082

DEPAUL AREA. MONTANA/

SECTION 8 AFFORDABLE

RACINE. 1 bedroom available now in great building with large rooms, hardwood floors, heat included. $1360. Easy transportation to the Loop. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am2pm.

LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.

BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 4 room/ 1 bedroom with full dining room, oak floors. Available now. $1350. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

2020 LINCOLN PARK WEST

1BR condo, South East view, parkview, full ammenities, non smoking, no pets, $1600/mo. Call Wally 773-505-7806

1 BR OTHER Housing Waiting List is now open!!

1, 2, & 3 Bdrms 2443 W. Dugdale Rd Waukegan, IL 60085

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

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

APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. Summer is Here but.. Winter is on its Way! Most Include HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $510.00 1Bdr From $550.00. 2Bdr From $ 775.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-476-6000** CALL FOR DETAILS

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APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. Finally summer is here Come Enjoy The Pool! HEAT, HW & CG INCLUDED. 1Bdr From $725.00.

2Bdr From $895.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-4766000** CALL FOR DETAILS GORGEOUS NEW REHAB, Appls & Heat Incl. 73/Jeffery, 1BR $600. 79/ Escanaba, 1BR $600, 3BR $875. 72/Eberhart, Studio $500. 64/Loomis 2BR $750. 82nd/Cottage Grove Stdo $500. Sec 8 ok. 773.430.0050 BACHELOR IN BEVERLY, huge house. 4 Rooms for rent, $600/mo each, utilities included. 3BA, 4 car garage, off street parking.

312-8416798 CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** FALL INTO SPECIALS! SAVE

ON YOUR RENT AFTER 6 MONTHS! 1BR all utils. $650/mo and up 2BRs and Up. Starting $850/mo No sec dep or App fee Wesley Realty 773.412.1153

CHATHAM CHARM , Vintage, newly rehabilitated, 1 & 2BR, h/w flrs, sec., alarm, heat & hot water incl, laundry,Sec 8 and Seniors Welc., Call for appt (773)4189908 6851-55 S. WOLCOTT, 1BR UP-

DATED APTS. APPLIANCES, NEAR TRANS., TENANT PAYS UTILS, NICE SECURE BUILDINGS. SECT 8 OK. 708-829-7715

89TH / ASHLAND - UNIQUE

2BR, hdwd flrs, mod kitch, A/C, several spacious closets, tenant pays heat and utils. $750/mo. 773-7223554

CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708-868-2422 or visit www. nhba.com CHICAGO, 7757 S. Winchester.

Recent decor., large 4 room, 1BR, 2nd flr, fully heated, $650. Charles (Manager) 312-401-0911

SUNNY & LARGE 2 & 3BR, hd wd/ceramic flrs, appls, heat incld, Sect 8 OK. $850 plus 70th & Sangamon. 773-4566900

8245 S. Drexel , 1st flr, 5 rooms 2BR, 1BA, stove, refrigerator incl. $650/mo. plus security. Tenant pays heat and gas. 773-363-1087

NEWLY LISTED!!!

77TH/LOWE 1 & 2BR. 71ST/ BENNETT 2 & 3BR. 69TH/ DANTE, 3BR. NEW RENO. SEC 8 OK. 708-503-1366

2 LARGE BR apt, Hdwd flrs. $800/mo Good Trans and schools.

773-568-0053

CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms

Hotel, 5316 S. Harper, maid, phone, cable ready, fridge, private facilities, laundry avail. $160/wk Call 773-4933500

PHOENIX 928 E. 153rd St. Nice 3BR, 2BA, appls, carpet, 2 car garage, no pets. $1250/mo + sec.

Section 8 Welcome. 773-651-1401

MOVE IN SPECIAL!!!

B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-1122 HAMMOND, INDIANA. 1 -2 B R TANGLEWOOD APTS. Security Deposit $250. 219-8442100 CHICAGO RECENTLY REMOD 3BR Apts (2), upper & lower, Sec 8 OK, 6968 S. Anthony. Tony 312375-1986 or 219-741-4626

F Palos Hills -REALLY NICE! E 1 bedroom, Heat/water included.

Laundry facility. Close to 294 & Rt. 83. Call 708-974-4493

2 BR UNDER $900 WHY PAY MORE? It’s Your Choice. PRINCETON PARK HOMES. Rents Starting at $816/mo.

A privately-owned south side Chicago rental town home community since 1944. Two and three bedroom residences featuring: • Spacious landscaped grounds • Walk to public transportation (CTA, “El”) • Nearby public and private schools • Ample parking • Convenient to shopping • Centrally located Campus Park • Easy access to Dan Ryan • Annual Resident’s Lawn & Garden Contest. Each unit includes: • Deck or patio • Private front and rear entrance • Basement with hook-ups for washer and dryer • Modern kitchen and bathroom cabinetry. For more information contact our rental office at: Princeton Park Homes • Phone: 773264-3005. 9119 S. Stewart Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60620. Special move-in credits. on selected units.

Visit our website at www.ppkhomes. com 8318 & 8320 S Ingleside, 1BR & Studio, lndry, hrdwd flrs, cable, Sec 8 welc. $600-$650/mo. 7000 S. Merrill 2BR, hdwd flrs, DR lrg sunrm, new remod., cable ready, lndry, O’keefe Elem, $800/mo.

Section 8 welcome. 708-308-1509, 773-493-3500 Cornerstone Apts., 4907 S. St Lawrence, Newly Remodeled. 3 BR starting $1017-$1083/mo. Visit or call (773) 548-9211. M-F: 9am-5pm or apply on line. www.

4907cornerstoneapts.com.

Managed by Metroplex, Inc. CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK

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

SECTION 8 WELCOME 80th/ Ashland - Beautiful, newly remod, 2BR Apt w/office, 1BA. Near schools & transp. $800/mo, tenant pays all utils. $500 move in fee.

Avail Now. 773-775-4458 132 E 119TH PL - 2BR w/encl porch, heated, appl incl, no pets. $675 + sec. tenant pays elec & cooking gas. Avail Now! 773-2643419

NO SECURITY DEPOSIT! 72nd Place & Ridgeland, Lrg 2BR on 1st floor, living & dining room, sun porch, $800/mo. 773690-1870 2BR + NEW KITCHEN c a b i nets, freshly painted, 58th & Sangamon, $600/mo + sec.

Tenant pays utilities. No appliances. Call 773-415-4970 7701 S. South Shore Dr. 2 BDs with 1.5 Baths, Large Combo Living-Dining Rm, FREE Heat & cking gas. Prkng extra. $785-$800, Kalabich Mgmt (708)424-4216

SOUTHSIDE 91ST/S. BISHOP,

42 CHICAGO READER | OCTOBER 15, 2015

2BR, $750/mo. + all util. & sec. dep. $750. Avail. now. Call between 9am-5pm. 773-259-5957

69TH/SANGAMON

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

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. Nonsmoking. Price is $1100 monthly. Call 773-764-9824.

SOUTH SHORE 8221 S. Clyde.

Quiet area, Large 2BR, hdwd flrs, heat incl, liv and dining rm. $1100/ mo + 1/2 mo sec. 708-951-4486

1411 W 80th Auburn/Gresham 1br $650, 2br $795 Heat& appl included, $20 app fee – half months rent free. Rory 312-593-1677

ROGERS PK. 7509 N Seely. 1st Flr. 5rm, 2 BR, SS appls, updated bath, Cent heat & air, tenant pays utils. $1250/mo. 773-520-0057

W. AVALON, 2 & 3BR Newly decor. 8059 Ellis & 8108 S. Ingleside. $675 & $850, respectively, appls incl. Call 773-971-3803

2 BR $1300-$1499

CHATHAM

73RD & Indiana.

Large Deluxe 2BR, laundry room, security cameras, near transp. $800/mo. 312-341-1950

SECTION 8 WELCOME 6951 S Peoria. 2BD/$750 Newly rehabbed w/hardwood flrs & appliances. 773-783-9675 CHICAGO 70TH & CALIFOR-

NIA. 2 bedrooms, modern kitchen & bath, hdwd flrs. Sec 8 ok. $550-$950. 847-909-1538

86th & EUCLID, Beaut Lg 5.5Rm, 1st flr, 2BR, wall to wall crpt heat incl, 1 block to CTA, Avail now $800 & 1 mo sec, 773-595-6733 94-3739 S. BISHOP . 2BR, 5rm, Garden & 1st flr, newly renovated, storage & closet space, nr shops/ trans. $850 +sec 708-335-0786 NO SECURITY DEPOSIT

1431 W. 78th. St. 2BR. $595/mo HEAT INCLUDED 773-955-5106 72nd & Jeffery - 2BR, $750+ 1.5 Sec Dep. 2nd Floor, New decor, heat incl. Good public trans. 773-493-7911

2 BR $900-$1099 EVANSTON 2BR, Sunfilled 1100 sq ft, w/sunroom; new appliances, vintage , built-ins, over-sized win-

dows, gleaming oak floors, on-site engineer & laundry $1250/incls heat.

773-743-4141, www.urbanequities. com

BEAUTIFUL NEW APT!

6943 S. Woodlawn Ave 4bdrm 8127 S. Ingleside Ave 4bdrm Stainless Steel!! Appliances!! hdwd flr!! marble bath!! laundry on site!!

Sec 8 OK. 773- 404- 8926 SOUTH SHORE 2BR apt, newly renovated apt. hdwd flrs throughout, laundry, secure bldg w/ surveillance system & wrought iron fencing. $900 773-880-2414, 773580-7797

BRONZEVILLE - 42ND & INDIANA. Gut rehabbed 2BR, hardwood floors, new kitchen cabinets & appls. $900. Sect 8 Welc. 773447-2122

LINCOLN PARK. BELMONT/

HUDSON. Beautiful apartment!

Large 5 room/ 2 bedroom with full dining room, oak floors. Available no w–7/31/16 for $1465 per month. New lease for 8/1/16 at $1480 per month.

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

EDGEWATER

2

BEDROOM.

2ND FLR. + Den/ Balcony. 5321 N. Winthrop, includes: Heat, appliances (microwave), hardwood floors. Great location: near lake, shopping, and transportation -$1475. 773/561-4128.

Info: http://www.labossinc.com 7453 N. SHERIDAN. Beautiful 2BR, 1BA Condo, Lake View, heat and parking incl. $1395/mo.

Call Kasia 847-668-0439

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

LINCOLN PARK. W. BR IA R

PLACE. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a 2nd bedroom. Available now. $1595. Small high-rise with super-sized rooms. Carpeted and air conditioned. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.

BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 4-5 room/ 2 bedrooms with full dining room, oak floors. Available Now. From $1525. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

2 BR OTHER MATTESON 2 & 3 BR AVAIL. 2BR, $990-$1050; 3BR, $1250-$1400.

Move In Special is 1 Month’s Rent & $99 Security Deposit. Section 8 Welcome. Call 708-748-4169

CHICAGO-

6212

SOUTH

Vernon- 3 BR 1 BA, renovated, A/C, balcony, near U of C & metro, off street prkg. $900 + 1 mo security 773-577-7022

86TH & THROOP, Newly Remodeled, 3BR. Heat & appliances incl, hardwood floors.

Section 8 welcome. 773-4303100 3826 W FLOURNOY, 3BR, wall

to wall carpet, tenant pays utils., fresh painted, 1-mo sec.. $825.

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CHICAGO, BEVERLY, 1316 W.

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OCTOBER 15, 2015 | CHICAGO READER 43

STRAIGHT DOPE

By Cecil Adams

Q : If juglone can induce cell death

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in humans, how are walnuts good for us? Is it juglone in walnuts that causes walnut/pecan allergy? —MAJA RAMIREZ

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A : Given certain facts, Maja, yours is a reasonable question: Walnut trees, along with other members of the Juglandaceae family (pecan, hickory), do produce a compound called juglone. And the 2005 study you linked to in your e-mail, from the journal Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology, did indeed find that juglone induced death in the human cells researchers applied it to. The authors concluded their report with the suggestion that “a further understanding of its effects on human cells is warranted.”

They weren’t the first to wonder about juglone’s potential effects on human well-being. Scientists before and since have explored that very question—but mainly what they’re looking at is whether a little juglone might actually be a good thing.

First, though, let’s back up. The various nonalimentary benefits of juglone, medicinal and otherwise, have been well-known for ages.

(And it’s nonfood uses I’m talking about exclusively here: juglone, found in the walnut tree’s roots, bark, leaves, wood, and green nut hulls, is unrelated to allergies triggered by eating the nuts themselves.) In the early 20th century, for instance, American doctors prescribed juglone to treat various skin conditions; it’s been used as a folk remedy around the world to battle inflammation, fungus, intestinal issues—you name it.

In addition to enumerating its long career as a natural medicine (as well as an ingredient in hair dye), a 2012 literature review suggests we haven’t yet tapped juglone’s full potential, including as an herbicide and biocide. These properties, too, are already folk knowledge. Lazy fishermen used to dump unripe walnut hulls into ponds to take advantage of juglone’s toxic effects; the stunned fish would float to the surface, easily collectible. And as an herbicide, juglone will be familiar to backyard gardeners as the reason you don’t want to grow some vegetables too close to a black walnut tree, the richest source of juglone in the Juglandaceae family: it inhibits the respiration of certain plants (including tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplant) living within the walnut’s root

zone, which in a mature tree can extend up to 80 feet.

But inside the body? That 2005 paper you cite found two responses juglone produced in human cells: necrotic and apoptotic. Necrotic’s no good. That’s the capital-D death you’re worried about, but scientists evidently aren’t—I wasn’t able to find much more research into juglone’s necrotic tendencies. They’re far more interested in getting juglone to induce apoptosis, which is the naturally occurring process, also known as “programmed cell death,” by which our bodies cycle out cells that are no longer wanted, or that present a threat to our health. Scientists’ thinking is this: Can juglone be used to produce an apoptotic response in something really nasty inside of us—say, cancer?

The research has certainly been promising. A 2009 study in Cell Biology International reported on exposing, in vitro, a chemotherapy-resistant line of melanoma cells to juglone; the juglone did enough of a number on the cells and their tendency to proliferate that the scientists suggested the compound might be characterized as an anticancer agent according to criteria put forth by the National Cancer Institute. Similar reactions have been observed when juglone has been let loose on leukemia, prostate cancer, and cervical carcinoma.

And we haven’t exhausted juglone’s medical possibilities even where cancer’s not concerned. One recent study found that its antimicrobial properties prove effective against Acanthamoeba, a common protozoan that can cause granulomatous amebic encephalitis, a rare but highly unpleasant infection of the brain and spinal cord; researchers floated the idea of using juglone as a disinfectant in hospitals. It’s shown potential as an antiviral agent, too, as when it was recently pitted to salutary effect against the protein 1a8g, an enzyme in HIV. That might not be what you had in mind, but the juglone in walnuts certainly is good for some things. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage

All you ever wanted to know about ‘lady spasms’— and not the good kind

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What’s going on down there? Plus: ‘What’s wrong with my sexual fantasies?’

Q : I am a cis woman in my

mid-20s. I get a pang or a spasm of pain in a place deep in my clit/urethra area. It takes me by surprise every time it happens, so I jerk around and press my crotch for a hot second— which doesn’t help, but it’s about the only thing I can do. Around four or five convulsions happen and then quickly it’s over. There’s no pattern—it happens at random times and anywhere from one to four times daily.

It started about a week ago. I wonder if my lady spasms are associated with stress. I started a new job in September that I love, but it’s very demanding, which has taken a toll on my mental and physical health. What’s going on down there? What’s the solution? Will doing Kegels help me manage these spasms? —SUPER PERPLEXED ABOUT SPASMS MOSTLY

A : I shared your letter with

Dr. Lori Brotto, a gynecologist at the University of British Columbia who’s done extensive research on vaginal/ vulval pain. Brotto shared your letter with a second gynecologist, Dr. Jonathan Huber, who’s based in Ottawa.

“SPASM definitely needs to see a physician as soon as possible,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber wrote in their joint response. “The collection of symptoms she describes does not map perfectly onto any single diagnosis, so these ideas below are best guesses.

“Sudden-onset, intermittent genital pain can be caused by a number of simple things, such as abrasions, an infection, dermatosis, etc,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber continued. “They’re easy to rule out and treat, if necessary.”

But “SPASM’s symptoms most closely map onto a

condition called ‘interstitial cystitis’ (IC) or bladder pain syndrome,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber explained. “IC is diagnosed when there is chronic bladder or urethral pain in the absence of a known cause. It’s typically described as having the symptoms or sensations of a bladder infection, without actually having an infection. Since IC often coexists with other symptoms such as vulval or menstrual pain, if this individual has any of these other diagnoses, then IC may be more likely to account for her pain.”

How can you determine if it’s IC? “IC is best assessed by a urologist, who may choose to do further urine tests and even a cystoscopy—putting a narrow camera through the urethra into the bladder to take a look.”

Another possible cause: a urethral diverticulum. “It’s like an outpouching along the tube of the urethra,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber wrote. “This is kind of like a dead-ended cave where urine and other debris can collect, which can possibly lead to infection and pain.

“Some of her symptoms also sound like the beginnings of ‘persistent genital arousal disorder’ (PGAD), a condition of unwanted genital sensations and arousal in the absence of sexual desire. PGAD can be triggered by stress and temporarily relieved with orgasms.

For some women with PGAD, it is related to starting or stopping a medication (especially antidepressants).

“In sum, we feel she should see a gynecologist first and possibly get a referral to a urologist,” Dr. Brotto and Dr. Huber concluded. The good news: There are treatments for all of these conditions.

“She also asks about whether Kegel exercises will help. A good gynecologist

will be able to test her pelvic floor strength and control, and advise whether she should be seeing a pelvic floor physiotherapist.”

Q : I am a 23-year-old Italian girl and I have been in a longdistance relationship for one year. At least two times per week, we masturbate on Skype. There is something that confuses me about the way I masturbate when I am alone. My boyfriend watches pornos daily when we are far away. This is something I don’t like, but I have not asked him to give up watching pornos.

Sometimes I watch them, and when we are together, it’s me who suggests to watch them together or I let him watch them while I’m giving something to him. But when I masturbate, I think only about him watching porno alone. What’s wrong with my sexual fantasies?—CONFUSED

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A : There’s nothing wrong with your sexual fantasies, CIAO, you’re just experiencing a little cognitive dissonance and residual sex negativity—and that particular tension can both distress and arouse. But seeing as your boyfriend is likely going to look at porn whether you want him to or not, and since you enjoy porn together, I would advise you to err on the side of embracing your fantasies.

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CHICAGO SHOWS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT IN THE WEEKS TO COME

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 8PM

Helado Negro

with special guest Thomas Wincek • In Szold Hall

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 8:30PM

Alejandro Ziegler Tango Quartet • Milonga Night Global Dance Party • In Szold Hall SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 8PM

Dan Wilson: Words & Music

with special guest Jenny Owen Youngs

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 6 & 9PM

The SteelDrivers In Szold Hall SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 7PM

Dave Specter's Message in Blue: Chicago Blues…and Beyond • In Szold Hall

Jana Hunter of Lower Dens ! COURTESY MOTORMOUTHMEDIA

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 8PM

Act of Defiance 11/4, 6:30 PM, Double Door Marcia Ball Band 12/12, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn, on sale Fri 10/16, 11 AM Brendan Bayliss & Jake Cinninger 12/12, 8 PM, Park West, on sale Fri 10/16, 10 AM, 18+ Brave Combo 12/18, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn, on sale Fri 10/16, 11 AM Leon Bridges 3/11, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre, on sale Fri 10/16, noon b Greg Brown 1/23, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 10/15, noon b Brushy One String, Emeline Michel 3/18, 7:30 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 10/15, noon b Fred & Toody Cole 11/7, 5 PM, Empty Bottle, on sale Fri 10/16, 10 AM Dogs on Acid 12/20, 6 PM, Beat Kitchen, on sale Fri 10/16, 10 AM b Alejandro Escovedo 1/28-30, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 10/15, noon b Fall Out Boy, Awolnation 3/12, 7 PM, United Center, on sale Fri 10/16, 10 AM b Selena Gomez 6/25, 7:30 PM, United Center, on sale Sat 10/17, 10 AM b Angel Haze 11/15, 9 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Jeezy 11/17, 9 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 10/16, 10 AM Charles Kelley 1/8, 8 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 10/16, 10 AM, 17+ Kendrick Lamar, Future, Meek Mill, Fetty Wap 10/25, 6 PM, United Center b Sonny Landreth 12/4, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn, on sale Fri 10/16, 11 AM

Craig Finn (of the Hold Steady) with special guest Esmé Patterson FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 8PM

Tembembe Ensamble Continuo SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 8PM

The Cactus Blossoms In Szold Hall SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 7PM

Special Consensus 40th Anniversary Concert SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 7:30PM

Donnie Fritts with John Paul White (formerly of the Civil Wars) • In Szold Hall ACROSS THE STREET IN SZOLD HALL 4545 N LINCOLN AVENUE, CHICAGO IL

10/23 Global Dance Party: Samuel del Real 10/25 Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan 10/30 Barbara Furtuna 11/1 The Slide Guitar Masters of Old Town School

WORLD MUSIC WEDNESDAY SERIES FREE WEEKLY CONCERTS, LINCOLN SQUARE

10/21 Juan Medrano Cotito y Golpe Tierra 10/28 Daniel Rojas y Arpeggio Latino

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Jim Lauderdale 12/13, 7 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Leningrad 11/29, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Lower Dens 1/22, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, on sale Fri 10/16, noon Don McLean 1/27, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 10/15, noon b Mr. Gnome 12/17, 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ New Orleans Suspects 12/5, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn, on sale Fri 10/16, 11 AM Eliades Ochoa y Barbarito Torres 1/30, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b OG Maco 10/30, 9 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Royal Canoe 11/18, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen Royal Concept 11/19, 7:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Skizzy Mars 2/19, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall b Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys 12/5, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Stardeath & White Dwarfs 11/11, 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Chris Webby 11/13, 7 PM, the Abbey, 17+ Yellow Claw 12/19, 9 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+

UPDATED The Cure, Twilight Sad 6/10-11, 7:30 PM, UIC Pavilion, 6/10 is sold out 6/11 added, on sale Fri 10/16, 11 AM b

UPCOMING Paul Brady 11/1, 7 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

Cheatahs 10/24, 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+ !!! 11/21, 9 PM, Schubas Circa Survive, RX Bandits 11/1, 7 PM, Riviera Theatre b Dandy Warhols 11/19, 8 PM, Thalia Hall b Doomtree 12/4, 6:30 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Ellery Eskelin 11/7, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Everclear 11/11, 7 PM, City Winery b Freaky Deaky: Bassnectar, Armin Van Buuren, Pretty Lights, 2 Chainz, and more 10/31-11/1, Toyota Park, Bridgeview, 18+ Kinky Friedman 11/4, 7:30 PM, Gorgon City 10/28, 8 PM, House of Blues, 18+ Gwar 11/3, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Hate Eternal 11/3, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Have Mercy 10/25, 6:30 PM, Double Door b Peter Himmelman 11/18, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston b In the Valley Below 10/24, 10 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Jethro Tull 11/1, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre King Dude 10/23, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Mark Kozelek 11/19, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Jesse Lawson 10/29, 6:30 PM, Wire, Berwyn b Leftover Crack 10/26, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Los Lobos 12/13-16, 8 PM, City Winery b Michael McDermott 12/21-23, 8 PM, City Winery b Minus the Bear, Murder by Death 11/15, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Misfits 11/27, 7 PM, Portage Theater Nots 11/13, 9 PM, Empty Bottle

b Odesza 11/21, 10 PM, Aragon Ballroom, 18+ Protomartyr 10/25, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Public Image Ltd. 11/18, 9 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Joe Pug 12/5, 7 and 10 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Sheepdogs 10/22, 8 PM, Double Door A Silent Film 10/26, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall Simply Saucer 11/23, 9 PM, Empty Bottle F Sinkane 11/21, 10 PM, Schubas Sister Hazel 12/18-19, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Slaves 12/6, 8 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Slow Magic, Giraffage 11/28, 10 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Small Black 11/7, 10 PM, Lincoln Hall Smoke or Fire 11/6, 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Sonata Arctica 3/28, 6 PM, Concord Music Hall b Musiq Soulchild 11/24-25, 7:30 and 9:30 PM, City Winery b Soulside 11/11, 8:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ J.D. Souther 12/7, 8 PM, City Winery b Special Consensus 10/24, 7 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Split Single 11/7, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Squeeze 11/27-28, 7:30 PM, Park West, 18+ Stained Radiance 11/5, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Vince Staples 12/15, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Steel Panther 12/6, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Styx 12/11, 8 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino, Hammond Kasim Sulton 11/8, 7 PM, the Abbey The Sword, Royal Thunder 12/12, 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Tall Heights 10/25, 8 PM, Hideout Richard Thompson 12/29, 8 PM; 12/30, 8 PM; 12/31, 10 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Thor 11/16, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Timeflies 10/23, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre b Toadies 11/15, 9 PM, Double Door Tops, Molly Nilsson 10/27, 7 PM, Lincoln Hall b Tortoise 1/23, 9:30 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Trans-Siberian Orchestra 12/28, 8 PM, Allstate Arena, Rosemont b Travelin’ McCourys, Drew Emmit & Andy Thorn 11/15, 5 and 8 PM, City Winery b Tubes 11/1, 8:30 PM, City Winery b Nik Turner’s Hawkwind 11/20, 9 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Turquoise Jeep 11/13, 9 PM, Empty Bottle

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Underoath 4/7, 7 PM, Riviera Theatre b U.S. Girls 11/21, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Vance Joy 1/22-23, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, 1/22 sold out b Phil Vassar 1/29, 8:30 PM, Joe’s Suzanne Vega & Duncan Sheik 11/13, 7 and 10 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Venom Inc., Necrophagia 11/17, 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Verve Pipe 12/5, 9 PM, Schubas Kurt Vile & the Violators, Waxahatchee 10/22-23, 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Narada Michael Walden 11/21, 7 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint Wand 11/7, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear 10/28, 8 PM, Martyrs’ Wax Idols, Them Are Us Too 10/27, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Ryn Weaver 11/12, 7:30 PM, Park West b The Weeknd 11/6, 7:30 PM, United Center b Tyrone Wells 10/31, 6:45 PM, SPACE, Evanston b The Werks 10/31, 11:30 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Yob, Acid King 10/29, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Yonder Mountain String Band 11/7, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+

SOLD OUT Andrew Bird 12/7-10, 8 PM, Fourth Presbyterian Church b Borns 11/14, 8 PM, Double Door b Leon Bridges 10/27, 8:30 PM, the Vic, 18+ Chvrches 10/24, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ City & Colour, Hurray for the Riff Raff 11/6, 7 PM, Metro b Mac Demarco 11/7, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Dir En Grey 11/9, 6 PM, Bottom Lounge El Vy 11/19, 8:30 PM, Metro, 18+ Front Bottoms 10/31, 6 PM, Bottom Lounge b Halsey 10/28-29, 7 PM, the Vic b Marina & the Diamonds 10/31, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b Misterwives 10/30, 7 PM, the Vic b The 1975 12/8, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats 10/30, 9 PM, Park West, 18+ v

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