Chicago Reader: print issue of October 20, 2016 (Volume 46, Number 3)

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The Chicago Ch Guide to Fact-Checking drops during an election full of falsehoods. 23

Giuseppe T Gi Tentori’s ’s winning new restaurant is a steak house in name only. 36

A rare glimpse at the inner workings of the highly secretive medical marijuana cultivation center in remote Delavan, Illinois.

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A peek into the Area 51 of pot A rare glimpse at the inner workings of the highly secretive medical marijuana cultivation center in remote Delavan, Illinois.

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IN THIS ISSUE 4 Agenda A Shakespeare-themed audio tour of Navy Pier, “Tattoo” at the Field Museum, the Clay Hickson exhibit “It Took a Village,” the Korean horror film The Handmaiden, and more recommendations

boasts of assault and the murder of Julia Martin have in common 11 Transportation Local messenger-scene vets swept this year’s North American Cycle Courier Championships.

CITY LIFE

ARTS & CULTURE

7 Street View A self-styled Sporty Spice with slam-dunk fashion sense

19 Theater Seven stage shows for the spooky season 21 Comedy Joe Mande is trying his best to become the Drake of comedy.

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24 Visual Art Ben Rivers’s dystopian films light up the Renaissance Society.

25 Movies With Certain Women, writer-director Kelly Reichardt heads for Montana—and loses her way.

7 Chicagoans Good News Laundry owner Jeffrey Kelly is ready, able, and willing to hustle 8 Politics | Joravsky ProPublica reminds us what the “old” Rahm was like.

9 Identity & Culture What Trump’s

22 Dance The subject of Nora Chipaumire’s Portrait of Myself as My Father is a man she never knew.

23 Lit U. of C. Press releases a fitting book for a presidential election full of falsehoods.

27 In Rotation Current musical obsessions include unmarked CD-Rs, the Switched on Pop podcast, and John Maus.

28 Shows of note Mick Jenkins, Helado Negro, Teenage Fanclub, and more

FOOD & DRINK

36 Restaurant review: GT Prime Yet another winning restaurant from Giuseppe Tentori.

38 Key Ingredient: Amaranth The Betty’s chef creates a dish with a tiny seed that has a bloody history.

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41 Jobs 42 Apartments & Spaces 44 Marketplace 44 Straight Dope Cecil offers advice for those who fear a fascist takeover of the U.S. 45 Savage Love Dan introduces the “Trump Talk,” a new coinage on behalf of little girls.

46 Early Warnings Roger Waters, Lil Uzi Vert, and Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls, and more 46 Gossip Wolf Permanent Records celebrates an odds-defying anniversary, and more music news.

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THEATER

More at chicagoreader.com/ theater A Light in the Dark: The Story R of Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan As with last year’s vibrant Snowflake,

Chicago Children’s Theatre shows that speech isn’t the only language to tell a tale in its latest, a coproduction with Thodos Dance Company that recounts the story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan. The work opens with Anne, haunted by the early loss of her brother, and shows how this gave rise to her passion for teaching. Eventually she’s hired by the Keller family as a tutor for blind, deaf, and mute Helen.

Fittingly, few words are spoken on stage; Helen’s dances move from spastic to elegant, revealing her awakening. As the story progresses, her movements become more controlled—but also more joyful, her wildness now channeled and contained. The final moments reveal the process has been spiritually transformative for both student and teacher.

—SUZANNE SCANLON Through 10/23: Tue-Fri 10 AM, Sat-Sun 11 AM and 2 PM, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, 312-337-6543, thodosdancechicago.org, $25-$39.

Merge Atari’s rise and fall is one of the iconic cautionary tales of the computer era. Founded in 1972, the company built the video game industry on such mesmeric amusements as Pong, Pac-Man, Asteroids, and Centipede—growing exponentially before imploding in the early 80s. Spenser Davis’s new play tells the tale in formidable, often fascinating detail, from primitive antecedents through creative thefts, fateful buyouts, and clueless managers to the arrival of Nintendo in 1985. It’s necessarily chaotic material, given the convulsive events and eccentric personalities involved.

But chaos sometimes gets the better of Andrew Hobgood’s 100-minute staging for the New Colony. Pacing the show itself as if it were a Pac-Man game is only amusing until it starts to warp the narrative and stunt characters. Still, Wes Needham, Lindsey Pearlman, and Omer Abbas Salem manage to stay vivid throughout. —TONY ADLER Through 11/13: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Den Theatre, 1329-1333 N. Milwaukee, 773-

609-2336, thenewcolony.org, $20.

Pirandello’s Henry IV Tom Stoppard and Luigi Pirandello are theatrical brothers from different mothers, fascinated with the ways in which roles create identity, narrative makes destiny. So it was probably inevitable that the Czechborn Englishman behind Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Stoppard) would translate the Italian best remembered for Six Characters in Search of an Author (Pirandello), choosing this 1922 work about a modern-day aristocrat whose fall from a horse leaves him with the delusion that he’s an 11th-century German king. The script is chock-full of intellectual and dramatic twists, but Nick Sandys’s staging for Remy Bumppo Theatre looks too stiff to handle them at first. You’ve got to wait awhile, until Mark L. Montgomery enters as the boggled blue blood, for any real excitement to kick in. Alternately woolly and cunning, arrogant, amused, tortured, and pissed, Montgomery’s Henry saves an otherwise unsatisfying show. —TONY ADLER Through 11/13: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, remybumppo.org, $15-$57.50.

Shakespeare Theater in partnership with Richard Jordan Productions. The theme is “water,” its mystery and majesty. It ends up being part scavenger hunt, part guided meditation, as lines of Shakespearean dialogue filter through ambient soundscapes and an ensemble of male and female voices urges you to commit yourself to the unusual, experimental journey. Sometimes it feels revelatory, as when you’re asked to lie down and look up at various fixtures of the carnivalesque pier, seeing them from new perspectives; sometimes it feels like walking around Navy Pier, and through traffic (“Watch for cars!” say the voices), with headphones on. The Shakespeare, devoid of context and heavily adapted, is incidental; the real depth is in the adventure itself, which takes you through some pretty extraordinary stuff, including a stained glass museum. Tours take about 70 minutes; wear comfortable walking shoes. —MAX MALLER Through 10/23: various times, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand, 312-595-5600, chicagoshakes. com, $25 and up.

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Black Diamond A performance R by the Danish Dance Theatre. Fri 10/21-Sat 10/22: 7:30 PM, Harris Theater,

Valise 13 The title of this proR gram from Zephyr Dance is an oblique reference to the small but con-

sequential moments that people choose to carry with them along life’s journey.

Michelle Kranicke partners with Molly Strom and architect David Sundry for an interactive series of vignettes that asks audience members to participate as the sequence of events unfolds. Thu 10/20-Sun 10/23: 7:30 PM, Defibrillator Gallery, 1463 W. Chicago, zephyrdance. com, $11.

COMEDY

Bread and Butter: Kickoff Show R Danny and Liz Maupin host this monthly BYOB stand-up showcase.

The debut lineup features Reena Calm, Cameron Gillette, Cleveland Anderson, Lainie Lenertz, Rebecca O’Neal, and Marty DeRosa. Fri 10/21, 8-10 PM, Cupola Bobber Studio, 1359 N. Maplewood, 312-560-3799, cupolabobber.com, $5 suggested donation.

comedy and dance. Fri 10/21, 10:30 PM, iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov. com/chicago, $14.

If I Were You Comedians Jake R Hurwitz and Amir Blumenfeld record their advice podcast in front of a live audience. Fri 10/21, 8 PM, Park West, 322 W. Armitage, 773-929-5959, parkwestchicago.com, $22.

Thicker Than Water The R weaknesses in Douglas Parker’s lyrical recounting of Andrea Yates’s 2001 bathtub drowning of her five children are manifest. Characters haphazardly alternate between embodying and narrating their scenes, the devil skulks about without purpose, and everyone, from coroners to reporters to police detectives, is equally inclined to wax poetic. But its great strength is equally apparent, namely its meticulous humanizing of the woman who murdered her children to save them from hell and to bring the death penalty upon herself for being a terrible mother. Similarly, Genesis Theatricals’ production, under first-time director Patrick Murphy, has its obvious flaws (lots of traffic flow problems, for starters), but its simple, straightforward approach lets nothing obscure its central horror. Melissa Nelson’s near catatonic turn as Yates is gripping. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 11/6: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773935-6860, athenaeumtheatre.com, $32, $17 students and seniors.

the tumultuous reign of Silvio Berlusconi in the 90s. It was first performed by the Joffrey in 2014; this remount is part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago, the citywide jamboree marking four centuries since the Bard’s death. 10/13-10/23: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress, 800-982-2787, joffrey.org, $34-$159.

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205 E. Randolph, 312-334-7777, harristheaterchicago.org, $35-$125.

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Quantum Monk This perforR mance features dancer and choreographer Fujima Yoshinojo, artist and

musician Tatsu Aoki, and Rami Atassi, who’ll modernize the traditional Japanese classical dance piece Makasho.

Mon 10/24, 7:30 PM, Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, 773-281-0824, linkshall.org, $15.

Romeo and Juliet Polish choreR ographer Krzysztof Pastor’s ballet imagines Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers navigating three eras of Italian history, beginning with the rise of fascism in the 30s and continuing through

Maz Jobrani The Axis of Evil R Comedy Tour founding member performs. 10/21-10/22: Fri 8 PM and 10:15 PM, Sat 7 PM and 9:15 PM, Chicago Improv, 5 Woodfield, Schaumburg, 847240-2001, $33-$53.

Simmer Brown: Every Day Is R Halloween The South Asian stand-up collective presents a Halloween-themed showcase. Sat 10/22, 7:30 PM, North Bar, 1637 W. North, 773-1235678, simmerbrown.com, $10.

VISUAL ARTS Arts Club of Chicago Centennial Open House, the Arts Club of Chicago celebrates its 100th birthday with an afternoon featuring music from Eighth Blackbird, panels, performances, and access to private rooms. Sat 10/22, noon-5 PM, 201 E. Ontario, 312-787-3997, artsclubchicago.org.

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Field Museum “Tattoo,” whether for purposes of body art, tribal distinctions, or religious rituals, mankind has participated in tattooing practices for millennia. This special exhibition of more than 170 relevant objects and historical tattoo designs, produced and premiered by Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac, makes its U.S. debut at the Field Museum alongside artifacts from the Field’s own archives. 10/21-4/30/17, Daily 9 AM-5 PM, 1400 S. Lake Shore, 312-9229410, fieldmuseum.org, $15; $12 students and seniors; $10 kids ages four to 11; free on the second Monday of the month.

For “Underground Adventure” add $8, $3 kids.

The Franklin “My Feet Have Lost Memory of Softness,” Ionit Behar curated this exhibition that features “soft structures” from artists Rocío Azarloza, Ivana Brenner, Jean Alexander Frater, Michael Rado, and Matt Siber. Opening reception Sat 10/22, 6-9 PM. 10/22-11/19, Sat 5-11 PM, Sun by appointment, 3522 W. Franklin, 312-823-3632, thefranklinoutdoor.tumblr.com.

Heaven Gallery “We Have a Back Room With Other Things,” an exhibition

by Chicago artists Mel Cook and Megan Stroech exploring themes of home and domesticity through objects and replications. Opening reception Fri 10/21, 7-11 PM. 10/21-12/3, Sat noon-5 PM, 1550 N. Milwaukee, second floor, 773-342-4597, heavengallery.com/node/2376.

Johalla Projects “It Took a Village,” an exhibition of Chicago artist Clay Hickson’s work focusing on the “flawed ideals of 1960s and 1970s countercultures.” Opening reception Fri 10/21, 7-10 PM. 10/21-11/27, Sat 1-5 PM, 1821 W. Hubbard, johallaprojects@gmail.com, johallaprojects.com.

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The Handmaiden

Opening reception Thu 10/20, 5 PM. 10/20-12/23, Mon-Sat 10 AM-5 PM (Thu till 8 PM), Sun noon-5 PM. 600 S. Michigan, 312-663-5554, mocp.org.

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marks the launch of his book Building Chicago with a panel discussion hosted

by Ed Tracy. Panel members include art historian Rolf Achilles and photographer Lee Bey. A reception, cash bar, and book signing follow the talk. Thu 10/20, 6 PM, Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark, 312-642-4600, chicagohistory.org, $15.

A Kiss Crosses the City: Stuart R Dybek and Mary Livoni The Coast of Chicago author Stuart Dybek in conversation with artist Mary Livoni.

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Salon begins at 7:30 PM. Thu 10/20, 5:30 PM, Cliff Dwellers Club, 200 S. Michigan, 22nd floor, 312-922-8080, cliff-chicago.org.

Erick Lyle Curator, journalist, and R zine king Lyle talks about his book Streetopia, which catalogs San Francisco’s 2012 antigentrification art fair of the same name. Thu 10/20, 7 PM, Quimby’s Bookstore, 1854 W. North, 773-342-0910, quimbys.com.

20x2 Andrew Huff hosts this Chicago iteration of the event wherein 20 people each try to answer one question—”What do you want?”—in two minutes. Speakers include director of the Chicago Design Museum Tanner Woodford, filmmaker Melissa Fierce, and writer Bill Savage. Sat 10/22, 5:30 PM, Quenchers Saloon, 2401 N. Western, 773-276-9730, 20x2.org/chicago, $10.

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Elise Paschen The poet reads from her work in the Art Institute’s Hall of African Art and Indian Art of the Americas. Free with museum admission. Thu 10/20, 6:30 PM, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, 312443-3600, poetryfoundation.org.

Ann Patchett Bookseller and R best-selling author Patchett comes to Chicago to discuss her latest

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College “Nollywood Portraits: A Radical Beauty,” artist Iké Udé’s photography of Nigerian film stars.

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Spirits, Seduction & Sicilian Catacombs Paul Koudounaris, a photographer, historian, and member of the Order of the Good Death, presents a lecture on the “cultural boundaries that separate the living from the dead.”

Tue 10/25, 7 PM, Chicago Athletic Association Hotel, 12 S. Michigan, 312-9403552, chicagoathletichotel.com, $10.

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Julius Caesar “The New Graphic Method,” drawings and video installations

by Julien Prévieux. Opening reception Sun 10/23, 1-4 PM. 10/23-11/20, Sat-Sun 1-4 PM, 3311 W. Carroll, 312-725-6084, juliuscaesarchicago.net.

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Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst. com.

novel—Commonwealth, the story of 50 years in the lives of two intertwined families—with Tricia Bobeda and Greta Johnsen, the brilliant minds behind Nerdette. Thu 10/20, 7 PM, First Evangelical Free Church, 5255 N. Ashland, 773-5614175, firstfree.com, $32.

Cameraperson Kirsten Johnson assembled this impressionistic memoir from footage she shot over 25 years as a documentary cinematographer, working for such filmmakers as Michael Moore, Laura Poitras, Gini Reticker, Amy Ziering, and Kirby Dick. At one point Johnson’s producers assembled a “trauma cut” that highlighted all the horrible and hair-raising things she’d witnessed, but the finished version is more mercurial, focusing on odd moments that, as Johnson explains in an opening title, “have marked me and leave me wondering still.” A prosecutor in Jasper, Texas, presents physical evidence in the trial of three white men who chained a black man to their truck and dragged him to his death; philosopher Jacques Derrida notes the camera following him around on the street and jokes that he’s a true American now; a young black woman, represented onscreen only by her restless hands in her lap, explains why she’s about to get an abortion and ultimately bursts into tears. Personal footage of Johnson’s family and friends, woven into the documentary scenes, enhances the sense that any life is a

series of amazements. —J.R. JONES 102 min. Fri 10/21, 2, 4:45, and 7:15 PM; Sat 10/22, 2 PM; Sun 10/23, 11:30 AM and 4:45 PM; and Mon 10/24-Thu 10/27, 2 and 4:45 PM. Music Box Dancer Dance documentaries can be insufferably dry and mannered, but this profile of Sergei Polunin, “the bad boy of ballet,” uses Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man” for an opening sequence in which the young Ukrainian dancer broods in his dressing room and then explodes onstage. Home-video footage allows director Steven Cantor to trace Polunin’s physical and artistic development from age eight, when he took up ballet, through his teen years, when his family fractured so that he could study in Kiev and later join the Royal Ballet in London. Polunin became the company’s youngest-ever principal dancer at 20, then shocked the dance world 18 months later by quitting; he has since reemerged in Russian ballet and as star of a viral dance video called “Take Me to Church.” Cantor attributes Polunin’s emotional turmoil to professional pressure and trauma over his parents’ divorce; like Amy, Asif Kapadia’s profile of singer Amy Winehouse, the movie shows a young person being dragged into adulthood by his own outsize talent.

In English and subtitled Russian and Ukrainian. —J.R. JONES 85 min. Fri 10/21, 2 and 6 PM; Sat 10/22, 1 PM; Sun 10/23, 3 PM; Mon 10/24, 6 PM; Tue 10/25, 7:45 PM; Wed 10/26, 7:45 PM; and Thu 10/27, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Flying Ace This creaky 1926 mystery is the only surviving feature of the Norman Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, which released numerous “race films” during the silent era. Producerwriter-director Richard Norman wanted to present uplifting images of African-Americans, and what could be more uplifting than flight? The title character (Laurence Criner) seems to have been modeled on Eugene Ballard, a black American pilot who flew for the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I; the love interest (Kathryn Boyd) is based on Bessie Coleman, the first African-American woman to become a civil aviator.

Despite the promise of aerial thrills, most of the action involves the theft of a company payroll from a train station, and the flying sequences were all shot on a set. That doesn’t inhibit Norman from staging an absurd barnstorming climax in which the hero flies over another plane and drops a rope ladder to the W

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Sat 10/22, 7 PM. Logan Center for the Arts The Handmaiden Nightmare R monger Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) skill-

fully transplants the Sarah Waters novel Fingersmith, about Victorian grifters preying on the aristocracy, to his native South Korea during the Japanese occupation. A crafty young pickpocket (Tae-ri Kim) is recruited by a bogus count (Jungwoo Ha) to become handmaiden to a wealthy heiress (Min-hee Kim) whom he wants to marry and commit to an asylum; the plan goes astray when, unbeknownst to him, mistress and servant wind up rolling around naked in silken sheets. Park seizes on the story’s potent combination of larceny and taboo sexuality, and his steamy love scenes are enhanced by Seong-hie Ryu’s sumptuous set decor. But as usual with Park, it’s all fun and games until someone starts getting his fingers chopped off. In Korean and Japanese with subtitles. —J.R. JONES 127 min. Screens as part of the Chicago International Film Festival; for a full schedule visit chicagofilmfestival.com. Sun 10/23, 8:15 PM, and Tue 10/25, 8:30 PM. River East 21 Keeping Up With the Joneses A staid suburban couple (Isla Fisher, Zach Galifianakis) are pulled into a web of intrigue after two married CIA agents (Jon Hamm, Gal Gadot) move into the house across the cul-de-sac. The early scenes of this comedy play like an episode of I Love Lucy, with Fisher, another indomitable redhead, busily spying on the new neighbors and a nerdy Galifianakis trying to talk her down.

Gadot (the new Wonder Woman in a forthcoming franchise) and Hamm are so impossibly good-looking that there’s a certain amount of amusement in just seeing the mismatched couples in one frame. But once the truth comes out and they all join forces to foil an international arms dealer (Patton Oswalt), the staleness of the premise begins to overtake players as easy and confident as Hamm and Galifianakis.

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Kevin Hart: What Now? Stand-up comedy suffers in a large performance space—the comic loses intimacy with the audience, and the laughs take longer to work their way through the crowd—yet this Kevin Hart concert movie is predicated on the show’s size: shot in August 2015, it documents his sold-out, record-breaking perfor-

mance before more than 50,000 people at Lincoln Financial Field in his native Philadelphia. Hart delivers a solid set despite the massive crowd, and appropriately, the funniest material deals with his newfound fame (a fan takes his picture while he’s trying to relieve himself in a stall of an airport men’s room) and wealth (his sons are private-school softies who can’t cope when the WiFi goes out).

To beef up the running time, Hart and directors Leslie Small and Tim Story have bracketed the concert footage with a James Bond spoof, which is as tired as it sounds but gives Hart a chance to look great in a tux and goof around with Halle Berry and Don Cheadle. —J.R. JONES R, 96 min. Block 37, Cicero Showplace 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings Miss Hokusai Katsushika R Hokusai was among the most celebrated and prolific Japanese painters of ukiyo-e (“pictures of the floating world”), and bound volumes of his woodblock prints were best-sellers in 19th-century Japan and Europe. Obsessive, selfish, untidy, and indifferent to money, he cuts a wide swath through this evocative and poignant anime (2015), but the central character is his 23-year-old daughter and production assistant, who completed his unfinished works and tackled genres, like images of beautiful courtesans, that were not his forte.

Adapted from the manga Sarusuberi, the movie traces her artistic development and personal awakening through a series of vignettes that feature her father’s motifs— bridges, street life, dragons, the spirit world. Director Keiichi Hara achieves a balance between earthiness and aestheticism, suggesting a Japan on the cusp of modernity.

—ANDREA GRONVALL 90 min. In Japanese with subtitles: Fri 10/21, 6 PM; Sun 10/23, 5 PM; Mon 10/24, 7:45 PM; Wed 10/26, 6 PM; and Thu 10/27, 8:15 PM. Dubbed in English: Sat 10/22, 2:45 PM, and Tue 10/25, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

SPECIAL EVENTS Cabaret Bob Fosse pretends to be doing a Brecht-Weill while actually further sentimentalizing and glamorizing Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin—adapted by Jay Presson Allen, and apparently clos-

er to the play I Am a Camera than to the Broadway show. Whatever this 1972 feature is, it’s entertaining and stylish, though maybe not quite as serious as it wants to be. Liza Minnelli stars at her near best, and Joel Grey is the caustic nightclub emcee; both won Oscars along with Fosse, cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth, and music director Ralph Burns. With Michael York, Marisa Berenson, Helmut Griem, and Fritz Wepper; John Kander and Fred Ebb wrote the salty songs.

—JONATHAN ROSENBAUM PG, 124 min. Mon 10/24, 7 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films Highlander Russell Mulcahy (The Shadow, the grungy and resourceful Razorback) seems a little lost in the budgetary richness of this 20th Century-Fox production from 1986; it plays like a lot of hyperkinetic three-minute movies stuck together, and you get the feeling that changing the order of the scenes wouldn’t make a whole lot of difference to the narrative.

Christopher Lambert stars as an immortal Scottish warrior, born in the 16th century and preparing for his final conflict in the New York City of 1986. Mulcahy’s aggressive visual style (lots of gratuitous camera movements and bizarre camera angles) doesn’t make for a great deal of spatial coherence; add to this the temporal incoherence of the flashback-laden plotting and you’ve got a film that’s all but incomprehensible. Yet Lambert, with his beetle brow, broken nose, and vaguely crossed eyes, remains an amiable oddball presence, and Sean Connery radiates charm and nobility in a bit as an elder immortal who shows Lambert the rules of the game. With Roxanne Hart and Clancy Brown. —DAVE KEHR 116 min. Comedian Nick Offernan introduces the screening. Sat 10/22, 11 PM. Music Box The Massacre The annual 24-hour horror marathon, ranging from the silent era to the present. Sat 10/22, 11 AM. Patio Theater O.J.: Made in America Ezra Edelman directed this three-part documentary series examining the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson. Sat 10/22, 12:30 PM (part one); Sat 10/22, 4:30 PM (part two); Sat 10/22, 8:15 PM (part three), and Sun 10/23, 3 PM (part three). Gene Siskel Film Center v

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Jeffrey Kelly, Good News Laundry owner

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Jersey boy “EVERYONE’S LAYERING UP while I’m layering down!” retail buyer and aspiring model Shaheem Anderson says of his “Sporty Spice” look, complete with a shoelace securing his cropped trousers. “My top is see-through and made the outfit a head turner as I was walking down the street. Which I live for—whether it’s a dirty look or a nod of approval, I’d rather stand out than be blended in and camouflaged into a crowd any day.” —ISA GIALLORENZO See more Chicago street style on chicagolooks.blogspot.com.

I’VE OWNED THIS laundromat 14 years. The joy is the people.

If I was working a regular job, I could only have a short minute of time to spend with people.

Where in the laundromat, I know I have their audience for at least an hour. And with an hour, there’s so much information that’s being transferred.

My favorite part of the day is customers that are willing to talk.

Now that’s something that I got from my father. There’s nine of us. My father used to take us to downtown Chicago, and he would randomly pick out any individual and say to us, “Just walk up and say, ‘Hello.’ Just, ‘Greetings.’ ” And from there he’d have us have a conversation about where they’re from, their name, what they do for a living. As I got older, I was the one that always would have to go last. Because when I talk with people, we can go all day long.

My father taught us how to make a hustle. We used to stand outside a grocery store with a red wagon, waiting for people to ask us to deliver their groceries, and written

on the side of the wagon was r.a.w: ready, able, willing.

He wouldn’t allow us to deliver papers or shine shoes. Everything was based on: Work for yourself, if you’re going to work. Be an entrepreneur. Have a business. Know what is fair.

Be the best at it.

Waking up—that is the hardest part of my day. Because at the end of my day, I’ll be at home in bed anywhere between 2 and 4 AM. I live in Dolton. That’s an hour away.

It’s easier to wait until traffic is completely gone and I can get home in 40 minutes. I can stay here, do a little work, do a little maintenance, do some paperwork, think of different ideas, anything.

My daughter, right now she’s in Abu Dhabi teaching English. Her and my granddaughter’s over there.

Assimilating yourself in that environment and being a woman, wow—you have to be very, very mindful. But I know they’re having fun because they haven’t called me but once. Do I miss them? When you feel a part of you missing, you know it’s not there, you

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can’t touch it when you want to. But knowing that they’re doing what they want, that’s the joy. So the missing, it’s compensated.

Oh, my granddaughter’s awesome. She’s ten years old.

She has that spirit for entrepreneurship and people no matter where she’s at. She calls us improvisers, ’cause no matter what we start our day off doing, we wind off doing something completely different, but still having fun.

Say she wants to sell lemonade in front of the laundromat, and I tell her, “No, we have to have a license before we can sell something on the sidewalk.” So her, in her quickness of mind, she says, “OK, well, I can draw some pictures of lemonade, and people can come inside and buy the lemonade out of your machine.” I said, “Wow, that was quick.” It just flows right out. Her talent goes beyond. —AS TOLD TO ANNE FORD

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j Le gends Ball 2016 The Windy City Rollers host their annual gala, featuring raffle prizes, a silent auction, food, and beer from Metropolitan and Revolution. 7:30 PM-midnight, the Crossing Tavern, 2548 N. Southport, windycityrollers.com, $25.

j B ig Orange Ball Howard Brown Health hosts this costume party and fund-raiser featuring a performance by Rebirth Garments, music from DJs Larissa and Megan Taylor, and an appearance by RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob the Drag Queen.

8 PM-1 AM, Carnivale, 702 N. Fulton, howardbrown.org/ event/bob2016, $150.

½ Th e Chicago Moth Sto r y Slam Popular podcast The Moth hosts its storytelling competition in Chicago. 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, 773-525-2501, themoth.org, $10.

M Quantum Mo nk This performance features dancer and choreographer Fujima Yoshinojo, artist and musician Tatsu Aoki, and Rami Atassi, who’ll modernize the traditional Japanese classical dance piece Makasho. 7:30 PM, Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, 773-2810824, linkshall.org, $15.

Ö Working B ikes 17th Anniversar y Nonprofit bicycle shop Working Bikes celebrates its 17th birthday with food, music, drinks, and a silent auction. All proceeds from the event support the group’s global and local programs. 5:30 PM, Lagunitas Tap Room, 2607 W. 17th, workingbikes.org, $35.

; Making Mainbocher This exhibit celebrates Chicago couturier Main Rousseau Bocher (aka Mainbocher), who designed outfits for everyone from the Duchess of Windsor to the Girl Scouts.

10/22-12/31, Mon-Sat 9:30 AM-4:30 PM, Sun noon-5 PM, Chicago History Museum, 1601 N. Clark, 312-642-4600, chicagohistory.org, $16.

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Merger mayor ProPublica reminds us what the “old” Rahm was like.

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hen word broke about Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s behind-thescenes role pushing for the merger between American Airlines and U.S. Airways, I happened to be flying on an American flight to New York—my legs wedged against my chin, my rowmate’s elbow just about in my ear.

It turns out that in the fall of 2013, the mayor was quietly lobbying the U.S. Department of Justice to drop its antitrust lawsuit against the airlines, according to a ProPublica investigation by Justin Elliott published last week.

For the record, I’m not—repeat, not—blaming Rahm for high ticket prices, crowded planes, outrageous baggage handling fees, and the other unpleasant realities of traveling in this new age of airline consolidation.

Just in case some of you think I blame him for everything.

But ProPublica’s revelations remind me that this “new” Rahm is just that—a relatively new political creature invented out of necessity during the fallout over the Laquan McDonald video.

Incidentally, Emanuel delivered his annual budget address the same day that Elliott’s story broke—and just one day after the mayor agreed to a deal with the Chicago Teachers Union, thus averting a strike.

In his speech, Emanuel was giddy about that teachers’ deal—it was the first thing he mentioned. Not surprisingly, he didn’t mention the ProPublica piece.

In his address, Emanuel sounded less like the mayor we’ve come to know these past six years and more like Jesus “Chuy” Garcia, his

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former opponent, running for mayor circa 2015.

Just about everything the mayor said he’s proud of having done this year is something that Garcia said had to be done back when he was running against Rahm.

Make peace with Karen Lewis and CTU by raiding the city’s TIF funds? Hire as many as 1,000 new cops? Raise taxes to pay off pensions instead of trying to force firefighters, cops, and teachers to take cuts?

Garcia, the progressive, proposed such measures during his campaign. Emanuel, the neoliberal, said they wouldn’t be necessary.

And now?

Next thing you know Rahm will be growing a mustache—just like Chuy’s.

Emanuel also vowed in his speech to keep fighting to close the gap between the haves and have-nots—a favorite mayoral theme post-Laquan McDonald.

But I’d say that American Airlines would fall into the “haves” category of this equation.

Which may explain why the mayor was so eager to help the company back in 2013.

In those days, Emanuel was more of a trickledown kind of guy, seemingly determined to battle income inequality by, um, making the rich even richer.

In the case of American, the company was looking to make millions by merging with U.S. Airways. But in August 2013, the Justice Department sued to block the merger on the grounds that it violated antitrust law. That’s when American initiated a counterattack, attempting to force the DOJ to drop its case.

According to ProPublica, one of American’s

lobbyists, Daniella Landau, had direct e-mail contact with Emanuel, who of course knew many Obama administration officials from his days as White House chief of staff.

Landau e-mailed Emanuel on September 25, 2013: “Rahm: Per your request, here is the proposed joint letter in support of the AA/US merger for your consideration. This is the

ProPublica’s revelations remind me that this “new” Rahm is just that—a relatively new political creature invented out of necessity during the fallout over the Laquan McDonald video. letter, by the way, [a publicist] raised with you in D.C. last week and that you later discussed with me.”

Man, if Emanuel had only been this chummy with Karen Lewis we’d have avoided a whole lot of turmoil.

“The ultimate goal is to go public with the letter after October 1st,” Landau continued.

“AA/US are also hoping you will agree to provide 2-3 quick phone interviews with key

reporters following release of the letter for reinforcing the pro-merger message. Doable?

Please let me know.”

In short, American was asking Emanuel—and four other big-city mayors—to make the airline’s case before the Obama administration.

And Emanuel did just that. He left the letter penned by lobbyists largely untouched, signed it, and sent it to Attorney General Eric Holder. Emanuel also went to Washington to meet with Obama administration officials on the matter.

In early November 2013, the Justice Department dropped its antitrust lawsuit—a decision that Emanuel immediately hailed in a press release.

Then, in early 2014, he received $53,000 in campaign donations from various American Airline executives.

The Chicago Tribune broke the news of those contributions in February 2015, as part of a larger story on Emanuel’s fund-raising prowess. Elliott’s exposé now puts those contributions into context.

In the Tribune story, Emanuel’s spokeswoman said the mayor believed the merger was good for expanding O’Hare. But there were other beneficiaries too.

“Wall Street has cheered the effects of the deal,” Elliott writes in his investigation. “A 2014 Goldman Sachs analysis about ‘dreams of oligopoly’ used the American-US Airways merger as an example. Industry consolidation leads to ‘lower competitive intensity’ and greater ‘pricing power with customers due to reduced choice,’ the analysis said.”

Dreams of oligopoly? Didn’t they open for the Shins during Rahm’s 2011 inauguration party?

But here’s my point: reading the ProPublica investigation in conjunction with Rahm’s recent budget address reminds me that for all his talk of reform, he’s never apologized to us for who he was and how he operated in his first term.

I know, it’s probably unrealistic to expect him to come out and say, “Yeah, I know I really was Mayor 1 Percent, what with closing those schools and clinics and everything. But I’ve seen the error of my ways.”

Instead he pretends as though the preMcDonald-video Rahm never existed.

The real issue, of course, is whether Mayor Garcia—I mean, Emanuel—has truly changed.

I suppose we’ll find out soon enough. v

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Locker room or not, it’s not just talk

What Donald Trump’s boasts of assault and Julia Martin’s murder have in common

By DERRICK CLIFTON

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exual harassment and assault have reemerged in our national discourse, thanks largely to the leaked footage of Donald Trump and Billy Bush bantering about having their way with women. Now, more than a dozen women have come forward, alleging that Trump assaulted them in one form or another.

Trump has denied the allegations and dis-

missed his comments as mere “locker room talk.” But a recent case here in Chicago underscores the very real connection between such talk and such actions, and highlights why both must be vigorously fought.

Julia Martin, a human resources supervisor at a local architecture firm, was killed October 7 when her ex-fiance came over to collect an engagement ring he’d given her. Martin had

recently ended the relationship.

As the Tribune reports, Martin, a 27-yearold black woman who lived on the 3000 block of South King Drive, spent her last moments calling and texting her dad and friends for help. One friend even hung up on her, thinking she was playing a prank. But her experience was all too real. After stabbing her, Martin’s ex-fiance, 35-year-old Rodney Harvey, jumped

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to his death from her apartment window in what’s been ruled a suicide.

Julia’s father, Derrick Martin, described her as adventurous and ambitious; she had just received her passport for a New Year’s trip to Africa. He told the Tribune that there was no indication that her ex-boyfriend was dangerous.

In recent months, she had started dating again.

Martin’s death is tragic. We may never know the words she and Harvey exchanged, or the dynamics of their relationship. And although Harvey’s family recently told the Trib that he had struggled with mental health problems over the years, one thing is clear: Martin paid the ultimate price because she exercised her right to say no to a man.

Unfortunately, this is part of a larger pattern.

Several stories have emerged over the past few years of women, including a growing number of black women, being attacked or killed by intimate partners or during instances of street harassment. All too often these women face harassment, stalking, assault, and even death because they don’t respond positively to a man’s desires. These men can’t handle J

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being rejected, and instead of respecting a woman’s wishes, they take “no” as an affront to their masculinity, which has become so fragile that they feel the need to violently defend it.

During last month’s J’Ouvert Festival in Brooklyn, for example, 22-year-old student Tiarah Poyau was walking the parade route with friends when a man tried to get her attention.

He reportedly accosted her, and she reportedly told him to “Get off me”—as clear an indication as any that Poyau didn’t want to be bothered. Moments later, her friends, who were walking ahead of her, heard a gunshot and saw Poyau fall. Poyau, a young black woman who had dreams of being an accountant, was killed by a close-range shot to the face.

And in January, 29-year-old Janese Talton Jackson was enjoying a night out with friends at a Pittsburgh bar when she was aggressively pursued by a male patron. He followed her outside, according to a bar employee, and “positioned himself against her backside in a sexual manner.” Jackson, a black woman, reportedly pushed 41-year-old Charles McK-

Martin paid the ultimate price because she exercised her right to say no to a man. inney away from her and told him to “chill,” but McKinney continued following her against her wishes. The bar employee reportedly saw McKinney shoot Jackson, and yelled out to Jackson’s friend, who called authorities and ran to console her as she died.

These experiences are more common than some may think. A 2014 survey showed that 65 percent of women in the United States had reported experiencing street harassment. Among them, 23 percent said they’d been sexually touched in some way when it happened—which is, indeed, sexual assault.

Within intimate relationships, estimates indi-

cate that roughly 20 people per minute in the United States are physically abused. And when that turns deadly, as was the case with Martin, women are killed by intimate partners in 93 percent of murder-suicides.

But as evidenced by hashtags like #YouOKSis and #WhyWomenDontReport, women often choose not to report assaults to law enforcement. (For black women, who especially live under the threat of brutality from police officers and government institutions, there’s already intense distrust.) When women do report harassment or assault, police frequently dismiss them or fail to act, as evidenced by the many rape kits that go unexamined and the staggeringly low conviction rates for men accused of sexual assault. In some cases, officers themselves are the attackers.

But another reason women often don’t come forward to report assault and harassment is that those who do are further attacked for daring to come forward at all—if you need proof of this, see Trump’s recent suggestion that one of his accusers wasn’t attractive enough to be targeted. Trump also dismissed his accusers as

“horrible, horrible liars” in public remarks.

But we can’t dismiss these vile characterizations, nor can we dismiss any of Trump’s previous remarks as mere “locker room talk.”

These recent murders, the assault and harassment Trump has been accused of, and the supposed “talk” between men all comes from the same place: male entitlement and toxic masculinity. These are attitudes and behaviors that betray a sense of ownership of women and their bodies. Normalizing or excusing these remarks will only embolden other men to use their social power and privilege in harmful and even deadly ways.

As First Lady Michelle Obama said in a speech denouncing Trump’s banter, violence against women can’t be treated as just another day’s headline.

“This is something we cannot ignore. . . .

This is not normal,” she said. “This is disgraceful. It is intolerable.”

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Salute the messenger

Chicago messenger-scene vets swept this year’s North American Cycle Courier Championships.

By JOHN GREENFIELD

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n two-way radio speak, “10/9” means “please repeat.” That’s exactly what Christina Peck and Nico DeportagoCabrera, former and current Chicago bike messengers, respectively, did at the North American Cycle Courier Championships in New York City earlier this month.

The NACCC tests the mettle of messengers from all over the continent, with races meant to simulate a day of two-wheeled delivery work. Back in 2009, Peck won top overall honors at the championship race in Boston, and her good friend Deportago-Cabrera was the top male finisher.

This year, on October 9—which is also 10-9 Day, or international Messenger Appreciation Day—the pair repeated those very same feats in New York. Peck, who now works for Godspeed Courier in San Francisco, was also the overall winner in the 2013 NACCC in Seattle— that’s a total of three overall North American championships. On top of that, she’s been the first-place female in two Cycle Messenger

World Championships, in Mexico City in 2014 and Melbourne in 2015.

Deportago-Cabrera, who rides for Chicago’s Cut Cats Courier food delivery collective and as an independent contractor, is no slouch either.

In addition to being the top male finisher in the main NYC race this year, he was the first-place out-of-towner in a nighttime “alleycat” race (a messenger-style competition in live traffic) held in Manhattan earlier that weekend.

I caught up with these speedy folks last week to discuss their achievements, and the state of the courier industry.

“It’s rad that we got to share the award again,” Deportago-Cabrera said. “It’s getting to the point where I’m getting used to being beaten by Christina. The championships are really a mental game—it’s about how fast you can think on the fly. She’s such an intelligent person that it’s no surprise she won again.”

Peck was modest about her latest triumph.

“Nico’s generally faster than me,” she said.

“He’s beat me plenty of times in alleycats.

But alleycats are more about pushing it in live traffic, while the NACCC in New York was a lot more about studying your delivery manifest and keeping a cool head.”

A cool head was definitely needed for the final championship race, held Sunday afternoon on 17 blocks of Bushwick, Brooklyn, which the city rendered car-free for the occasion. There had been heavy rains associated with Hurricane Matthew the previous night and morning. At race time the streets of the industrial zone were still slick with water— not to mention rutted with potholes and railroad lines—and riders faced some brutal headwinds.

The three-hour competition involved flying around the course trying to earn as much (symbolic) money as possible by picking up and dropping off envelopes, parcels, and mailing tubes, with each racer choosing his or her own route. Some items were classified as “all-day” deliveries that could be dropped off at any time, while “single rushes” were due within 20 minutes and were worth an additional four dollars, and “double rushes” were due within ten minutes and added six dollars to the base rate. In the end Peck earned $300 while Deportago-Cabrera made $281.

Both couriers have had years of experience to hone their messenger skills. Peck, 30, grew up in southern California and was exposed to the alleycat scene while doing a postcollege internship in San Francisco. After visiting Chicago on a road trip, she moved here in 2008 with her twin sister, Alison, a DJ. “Chicago was fun and affordable, and I wanted to try something different,” she said.

Peck soon tried her hand as a messenger, starting out at Standard Courier and eventually making her way to Intercept Courier, then Deadline Express. That year local couriers hosted the NACCC in Garfield Park. “The Chicago messenger scene was so great back then,” she said “There were just a lot of us who were young and coming into it with lots of enthusiasm.” Deportago-Cabrera, now 32, also started courier work in Chicago that year.

The two of them helped bring the world championships to Chicago in summer 2012.

The main race took place in the south lot of Soldier Field, drawing hundreds of couriers from across North America as well as Europe, Japan, and Australia. At the end of 2012, Peck J

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I noted that while it’s rare for men and women to compete against each other in sporting events, it’s even more unusual for women to dominate men in competition, as Peck has done three times at the North American championships. “There are physical limitations,” she replied. “But lack of encouragement and funding has historically played a big role in women’s sports.” She said she thinks that dynamic is starting to change, though, and noted that this year the 4,200-mile Trans Am Bike Race was won by a woman, Lael Wilcox.

In the eight years Deportago-Cabrera has worked as a courier in Chicago, he’s seen dramatic changes in the industry. After the 2008 economic crash, traditional courier work dropped off dramatically, and many of the older companies folded. “Around 2010 we were down to 100 or 120 couriers, but now it’s back to 300,” he estimated. “More companies started basing themselves around food delivery, which is not affected so much by the financial sector.”

Food delivery has a different workflow than transporting documents, since food has to be delivered as soon as it’s ready and can’t be carried around in a messenger bag for hours. “But they’re both challenging,” Deportago-Cabrera said. “You’re still dealing with the same foul weather and bad drivers.”

Bad drivers have been a major issue for Chicago cyclists this year. Six people were fatally struck while biking in the city in 2016, and five of the cases involved allegedly reckless commercial vehicle drivers. One of the victims was Blaine Klingenberg, 29, a courier DeportagoCabrera was friendly with.

In the wake of the crashes, commenters in newspaper op-eds and online forums have scapegoated bicyclists, particularly couriers, accusing them of taking foolish risks on the road. “I think it’s an unfair criticism,” Deportago-Cabrera said. “For every bad cyclist, there’s a dozen bad drivers. It’s easy to lump all cyclists in with the person blowing the red light or the driver doing an illegal U-turn, but we’re all human and we’re all imperfect.”

Moreover, he added, the difference between a cyclist disobeying traffic laws and a driver doing it is that the cyclist usually only puts him- or herself in harm’s way, while the driver is endangering others. “A cyclist is basically a big bag of water—we’re very vulnerable,” he said. “This year’s fatalities show us that it’s not really what you’re doing on a bike, but rather being on a bike that puts you in danger.”

On a more optimistic note, DeportagoCabrera and Peck say they’re looking forward to 2017, when the NACCC will be held in Milwaukee, and Chicago will host races and parties the week before. At the end of the week there will be a group ride around Lake Michigan in order to camp near Muskegon, Michigan. Then the crew will catch the highspeed ferry across the lake to Brew City. The world championships will be held in Montreal next year, so it’s likely a decent contingent of Chicagoans will compete.

“2016 has been a great year for messengers,” Deportago-Cabrera said. “It looks like 2017 will be even better.” v

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A rare glimpse at the inner workings of the highly secretive medical marijuana cultivation center in remote Delavan, Illinois.

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he stench of chlorine was disorienting. I had expected, upon entering a facility that bills itself as one of the state’s largest producers of legal weed, to encounter the sweet, pungent odor of raw marijuana baking under a string of LED lights. But here I was, getting my first glimpse of the place in a four-by-fivefoot foyer that looked like the entrance to a heavily secured doctor’s office and smelled like a public pool.

“I think you’re supposed to step into that, actually,” says a middle-aged man to my right—a fellow reporter on this carefully orchestrated press junket. He points at a shallow one-by-two-foot rectangular pool on the floor—the source of the chlorine smell.

A facility employee behind a plate-glass window confirms his hypothesis. The pool and the foyer—which, it turns out, is pressurized—are designed to ensure the death of any insect or fungus that might try to enter the facility, whether buzzing in on its own accord or hitching a ride on the soles of our shoes. In an office located beyond the foyer, we’re led to a stack of Tyvek-brand disposable hazmat suits and blue booties, told to pick a size larger than what we’d usually wear, and suit up.

Revolution Enterprises expects to eventually produce as much as 10,000 pounds of medical marijuana annually at its downstate facility.

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Revolution founder and president Tim McGraw holds a beaker of 98 percent pure THC; each of the facility’s five grow rooms holds hundreds of plants.

continued from 13 So I, my photographer, and the half-dozen other reporters and photographers along for the tour pull on the bulky suits, and looking like a gaggle of awkward astronauts, are led through double doors into one of Illinois’s tightly regulated medical marijuana cultivation centers.

Revolution Enterprises, located about three hours south of Chicago in the remote and rural town of Delavan, is one of only 17 businesses awarded licenses to operate medical marijuana cultivation centers in Illinois. These centers have been growing medical pot for just over a year, but because recording of any kind was previously prohibited, journalists were barred from these sites up until a few months ago, and little has been seen or written about these facilities.

(An exception: for a report published last October, the Associated Press gained exclusive access to Ataraxia, a cultivation center in Albion, Illinois, 270 miles south of Chicago.)

Few members of the public have ever been allowed inside.

We wanted a firsthand look at how this new industry is faring in Illinois, how companies like Revolution grow their weed, and what kind of state-imposed—and self-imposed —regulations and restrictions they grow under.

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pany’s 75,000-square-foot grow house and laboratory on a humid day in mid-August.

With the effort it took to get in, and all the mystery and security surrounding the place, it might as well be the Area 51 of pot. Its rules are reflective of the tight restrictions the state has placed on its medical marijuana pilot program as a whole. Whether the secrecy surrounding the facility and the industry is necessary is another question.

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bout that security: Revolution’s facility sits at a corner of two country roads and is surrounded on all sides by acres and acres of cornfields. A chain-link fence topped by barbed wire encompasses the property, and every square foot of the premises is under constant surveillance. (The footage is stored for a year, per state rules.)

Those of us on the tour were sternly told to leave our cell phones in the car, and were forbidden from photographing any security features. All of Revolution’s products—its buds, edibles, and weed extracts—are delivered to dispensaries in armored cars.

We were also told by Revolution representatives that the security system was modeled on ones used by facilities that produce materials for nuclear weapons, but the company declined to offer more details about what that means. It would be the first of many seemingly larger-than-life claims made about the facility, some of which proved difficult if not impossible to verify.

But now, we finally smell it. Newly disinfected, we’ve just emerged in a vast warehouse with 24-foot-high ceilings and gleaming white walls, and the strong smell of raw marijuana—a musty pine funk with a sweet edge—wafts through the extremely well-lit space. A whirring sound, like an air conditioner, reverberates around us.

Our entourage today includes Tim McGraw, Revolution’s founder and president, and his right-hand man, COO Dustin Shroyer, who take turns helming the tour. The manager of the facility, a Delavan native named Eric Diekhoff, and the company’s director of communications, Cassandra Dowell, tag along too. The cohort of reporters hails mainly from downstate newspapers, along with one from the Chicago Tribune, who shows up late.

After pushing for months to get in, we were surprised to learn that other journalists had also been offered a peek inside the facility.

A man in a suit and a white lab coat follows us silently. I later learn he’s Jeffrey Cox, bureau chief of the Illinois Department of Agriculture’s medicinal plants division, the requisite state regulator who, for reasons undisclosed to journalists, must tail our group during the tour. (Jack Campbell, the new director for the state’s medical marijuana program, greeted our group prior to the start of the tour, but let Cox take over as the tour began.)

As we walk towards a 2,500-gallon water tank, McGraw explains that the water is piped in from Delavan, then filtered to

remove minerals and other deposits. The filtered water is then infused with nutrients for the plants to soak up.

“That’s as pure as you can get,” he says.

Purity—or the idea that weed, and especially medical weed, should be “pure”—is a recurring theme on the tour. But when pressed for specifics, Revolution declined to say what types of minerals are being filtered out or what kinds of nutrients are added in.

At this point we still haven’t seen any plants or any signs of organic matter. McGraw points to a door marked BREEDING. The facility’s plant-breeding program takes place back there, we’re told, although we’re not allowed to enter.

Instead, McGraw tells us that selecting which seeds to plant is an incredibly complex process. Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana and its most well-known chemical compound. But McGraw says marijuana plants contain more than 140 other cannabinoid compounds that act on receptors located in the human nervous system.

“Every plant or seed has a different cannabinoid profile,” he says. Strains are crossbred in an effort to find ones with medicinal value for specific ailments and conditions.

“We’re not allowed to smoke it,” McGraw says, meaning they can’t directly test a strain’s potency or effects by ingesting it; they instead map the genetic makeup of the plant to determine whether or not they want to keep growing it.

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“Within a year or so, almost everything we produce will be proprietary to us,” he says.

When asked in a follow-up interview what he meant by this, McGraw says that “most” of the strains will be unique to the company, but they won’t be able to patent them because weed is still classified as a highly restricted Schedule I drug by the federal government. (Vice reported in August that the U.S. Patent and Trade Office had just approved the first-ever patent for a plant containing significant amounts of THC, and that the office is now accepting and processing patent applications for individual strains of pot. The move signals another step on the road toward marijuana legalization, but it’s unclear how the the rush to patent individual varieties of weed would affect the industry.)

When I ask McGraw for the names of some of the company’s strains, he says he’s not allowed to disclose them, because it could be construed as advertising, and state rules forbid cultivators from marketing their products to anyone other than a doctor or a dispensary.

We continue to walk. McGraw leads us down a short hallway with rows of doors on either side. He opens one to reveal a grow room—an extremely brightly lit room full of hundreds of pot plants. Positioned in long rows, the plants are a backlit verdant blur of stalks and stems and jagged leaves and, depending on the plants’ life stage, bushy buds clustered around their center stalks.

Their earthy vibrancy contrasts strangely with their ultrasterile surroundings. The photographers in the group jockey around the threshold of the room in a bid for the best, most tantalizing shot of the weed.

We watch an employee decked out in what looks like doctors’ scrubs emblazoned with the Revolution logo—an R with the left side of the letter missing—carefully pour water into the pots at the base of each plant. All the plants are likewise hand-watered, McGraw says.

Some cultivators group their plants together in a greenhouse setting, but Revolution separates its plants by life stage, and keeps them in relatively small groups to protect against any potential pests or other contaminants, like mold. If one room is compromised, McGraw explains, they can seal it off from the rest of the crop and ideally contain any outbreak. They’re forbidden from using any sort of pesticide, it turns out, so the grouping and the Tyvek suits and the treated water in the foyer are all components of a strict biosecurity plan.

While we gawk at the plants, McGraw launches into the topic that animates him most during our tour: medical marijuana’s

potential to curb opioid dependency.

“We have an opioid epidemic in this country: 1,705 opiate overdoses in Illinois alone last year,” he says, his voice rising. “That’s insane.” (According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the figure McGraw cites is the number of people who died from opiate overdoses in 2014. Figures for 2015 aren’t yet available.)

McGraw also claims that every state with a medical marijuana program that allows patients with chronic pain to receive the drug has seen a reduction in opioid-related deaths.

“People use cannabis over opiates?” one reporter asks, somewhat incredulously.

“Absolutely,” McGraw assures him. “The only gateway cannabis is is a gateway off opiates to better health.”

McGraw sounds like an evangelist, but here at least he’s right: a study supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse links the presence of licensed medical marijuana dispensaries with lower rates of opioid-overdose deaths and fewer admissions to treatment centers for opioid addiction.

But Revolution’s bottom line is also at stake here. Medical marijuana isn’t currently approved for patients with chronic pain in Illinois, and that clearly frustrates McGraw.

He assures us that state officials will see the benefits of pot and add the condition eventually, potentially adding thousands more customers to the program.

When asked about the likelihood of adding chronic pain to the list of approved conditions, state officials said that decision was up to the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board, which oversees the list.

After we leave the grow rooms, we’re led through more white hallways into a series of smaller rooms, past more employees sporting the Revolution-branded scrubs. In what reminds me of an office break room devoid of any decor, a few employees are gathered around a table, trimming the excess leaves off marijuana buds. In another room, a man with the Revolution logo shaved into the side of his head weighs out buds, carefully placing each fuzzy green nubbin on a large metal scale.

“How much cannabis do you guys actually produce?” a reporter asks.

It’s likely the number one question on all our minds—at least it is on mine. Knowing the scale of the company’s production would hint at the amount of medical marijuana consumed regularly by patients in the state, and could help establish a baseline for the company and the industry’s future growth.

But McGraw doesn’t answer the question directly. Instead, he breaks production

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Revolution’s lab, left. “This facility is dedicated to the advancement of the science of cannabis,” says founder Tim McGraw.

continued from 15 down by light. He says the facility produces two pounds of “flower”—the hairy buds that grow around the center stalks of female plants—per grow light.

When I ask why the company measures it that way, McGraw responds that “it’s just the standard.”

Another grower I spoke with after the tour confirmed this, adding that quantifying production by grams per watt of light or grams per square foot of marijuana canopy are both common ways to measure output.

Still, I continue to prod McGraw, asking how many lights the facility currently uses, and how often Revolution harvests its weed. He says there are about 45 lights per grow room, and five rooms currently in use; they harvest each crop every eight to 12 weeks. If you do the math, that equals nearly 2,500 pounds of pot annually. But, he reminds us, they’re only using between 25 and 30 percent of the entire facility.

“This facility fully operational will have over 1,100 lights,” he says. Dowell interjects, explaining that as patient demand for pot grows, Revolution will gradually scale up its production.

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I tried asking the quantity question again in a follow-up interview post-tour, but McGraw again declined to give a specific number, saying only, “We don’t like to do that.” When pressed a third time, Dowell said that at full capacity the facility will produce “well over 10,000” pounds per year. Later, in a follow-up e-mail exchange, she asked us not to include the number of lights Revolution uses “for proprietary reasons,” even though the information was freely provided by McGraw during the tour.

Finally, we’re ushered into the lab, the facility’s most unique feature—at least that’s what we’re told by Revolution’s representatives. No other cultivator in Illinois has anything like it, they say. This room is also white, with a lower ceiling than the vast hallways we had previously walked through.

It contains various metallic and glass lab devices worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, we’re told. With this equipment, “we can do anything any state lab can do,” McGraw boasts. There’s not a speck of dirt, a leaf, or anything that resembles organic material to be found.

Revolution’s research chemist, Andrew Gumbiner, later described the equipment

to me in a detailed e-mail. Among other devices, the company’s lab contains a highperformance liquid chromatography instrument used to test the potency of weed and determine the best strains for the facility’s breeding program; a gas chromatography mass spectrometry instrument is used to profile each strain’s unique aromas, and to identify how much residual solvent remains in marijuana extracts, concentrated forms of pot’s chemical compounds. (Extracts are typically produced using solvents like butane, ethanol, and carbon dioxide to separate cannabinoid compounds from plant material, and the state sets maximum permitted levels for residuals in products sold to consumers.)

“This facility is dedicated to the advancement of the science of cannabis. Purely,” McGraw says, launching into a speech that makes him sound like an idealistic Silicon Valley CEO. “Yes, we want to produce as much flower as possible, but at the end of the day, we want this facility to save lives and to change lives, and to do that we need to understand the plant better than we do now.”

We’re then ushered to a display in the center of the room. Various types of extracts are laid out on the table before us: everything

from hash to oil to a beaker full of a viscous amber fluid. McGraw holds the neck of the beaker between his thumb and index finger.

Its contents remind me of honey, but it’s actually roughly 98 percent pure THC. At another table there’s what looks like a cookie sheet covered with a hardened amber-colored substance about a half inch thick. It’s called “shatter,” McGraw explains, a form of pot concentrate revered by marijuana connoisseurs for—you guessed it—its purity.

The difference between the various extracts arises from the process used to cull the cannabinoid compounds from the plant matter. Extracts are a growing market in the weed industry because they provide alternatives for children or other patients who may not be able to smoke the drug because of a health condition or personal preference.

“Part of the reason we get such high quality, we do whole plant extract,” McGraw explains. “We extract flower.”

He goes on: “Most of the other parts of the country—Washington, Colorado, and everywhere else—their extracts are made from what they swept up off the floor. The purest medicine in the country comes out of Illinois.”

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But several Colorado cultivators I spoke to strongly rejected McGraw’s claims. Anthony Franciosi, CEO and founder of Honest Marijuana, a grow facility based in Oak Creek, Colorado, says many pot extracts sold in Colorado are produced using pure flower material. He called McGraw’s comment “audacious and untrue.” Andy Williams, founder and owner of Medicine Man, a Denver-based grow house and dispensary, says Colorado cultivators offer a variety of extracts, including some made from trimmings, but that those trimmings are never “swept up off the floor” as McGraw claims, and are sourced in a “clean” manner. McGraw’s assertion is “irresponsible for a licensee in this industry to say, because it’s untrue and knocks down the industry in another state to make themselves look better,” Williams says.

As it turns out, Revolution’s claims about the uniqueness of its lab were also disputed.

Zach Marburger, chief information officer for Cresco Labs, a company that holds three medical marijuana cultivation licenses in Illinois, says his facilities are also capable of conducting the same kind of testing McGraw boasts about.

But the strain of secrecy that seems to pervade the industry held firm here too.

Marburger declined to provide any further details about his labs or his testing, saying, “We don’t elaborate on equipment specifics more than that.” Representatives from another Illinois cultivator told me something similar, and declined to go on the record.

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he journalists disperse. I leave the lab and meander back to the grow rooms, where the Tribune reporter and a cameraman are prepping for a video interview with McGraw.

It suddenly strikes me how ill-equipped we—the journalists—are to call this company out on its claims in the moment. This is a new beat for all of us, and as we struggle to get up to speed, the private sector and the state have often hampered our efforts at educating both ourselves and the public about the burgeoning industry. The state has heavily restricted media access to these facilities and declined to offer up key pieces of information.

And however pleased bigwigs at companies like Revolution are to showcase the results of their hard work—and more than $40 million in personal and investment money—from the names of their strains to the price of their products, there are still some questions they’re not comfortable answering.

In the months leading up to our visit, I worked with Dowell, Revolution’s press liaison, to try to gain access to the facility. The

Revolution people would be happy to have the Reader come inside for a tour, she told me, but the state prohibits journalists from visiting cultivation centers. Dowell reached out to the Department of Agriculture multiple times in June, July, and August to see if we would be allowed in. Ultimately, we were given the go-ahead, but only after we threatened to write a story about not getting access to a privately owned facility—where the owners welcomed our presence—because of opposition from state regulators.

While there may be a business rationale for keeping some things secret—not wanting to tip off competitors to the company’s yield, for example—or legitimate security concerns around producing something still illegal at the federal level and valuable on the black market, it’s still not totally clear why the state continues to insist on such secrecy.

During the tour I wondered aloud how much Revolution charges for its flower, edibles, and extracts.

“Are you allowed to give us an idea of your prices?” I ask.

McGraw turns to the state regulator: “Jeff, are we allowed to talk about pricing?”

Cox mumbles something in a negative tone, and McGraw says to me, “Yeah, probably best not to.”

Instead, McGraw says that, as is typical, the company sets wholesale prices, whereas the dispensaries set the retail price. McGraw then claims that retail prices for Revolution’s products are lower than what’s asked for on the black market.

I reached out to several Illinois dispensary owners who purchase products from Revolution to see if they’d confirm this. A highly scientific survey of my pot-smoking friends indicates that the black-market price for an eighth of bud is approximately $60, and has remained so for at least a decade.

One dispensary owner, who’s located outside Chicago and spoke on condition of anonymity, said an eighth of weed from Revolution costs him between $27 and $32 wholesale; he sells it retail for about $55. That’s less than the going rate for an eighth at a dispensary in Chicago, which is between $60 and $65, he said. He also described Revolution as “one of the higher priced” cultivators in Illinois.

Other cultivators, he said, will sell an eighth for as little as $22.50 wholesale.

(Another dispensary owner I spoke with declined to provide wholesale costs, nor would he share the outlet’s retail price points. Even after I offered him anonymity, he still declined, saying he feared Revolution would somehow find out it was him who had tipped me off.)

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continued from 17 As for Cox’s reluctance to disclose prices, when asked to explain why a regulator would forbid a cultivator from disclosing that information, the state echoed McGraw’s explanation about the potential for prices to be construed as advertising.

But this approach isn’t common. Nate Bradley, executive director for the California Cannabis Industry Association, which acts like a chamber of commerce for weed in that state, says no California municipal or state official would ever dictate what information cultivators are or aren’t allowed to share with the public. Bradley sees this as further evidence that the marketplace in Illinois is “overregulated.”

“Illinois’s registration and their whole plan is extremely unique and over-restrictive compared to laws in other states,” he says.

Still, Revolution and the more than a dozen other companies operating in Illinois have complied, partially because they have no choice and, Bradley says, partially because they have an economic incentive to do so.

Medical marijuana cultivation licenses are “golden tickets” in Illinois, he says, and “even though [the rules] are overly restrictive at the moment, as the general public in Illinois

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Reporters during the press tour. The Illinois Department of Agriculture previously barred nearly all access to the state’s cultivation centers.

gets used to [medical marijuana] and the fear subsides, the regulations will loosen and it’s the people who’ve been there the longest that will benefit the most.”

When asked how the company felt about the state dictating what it could and couldn’t say to the public, Dowell referred me back to comments McGraw made during the tour, in which he’d thanked the state for allowing the media to tour the facility and called it a great step forward in promoting transparency.

Campbell had been in his new position as head of the state’s medical marijuana pilot program for about a month when he made an about-face and allowed not only the Reader but any media publication that wanted access the opportunity to tour these facilities, provided a state regulator was available and willing to tag along.

Before the tour began, I asked Campbell why the policy was reversed.

The rules banned recording devices from cultivation centers, with the exception of the cameras used to surveil the facilities, he said.

“But there is also a way, a legitimate business purpose, for allowing recording devices in,” he explained. “We are allowed to interpret our own rules and, up until now, we were saying we are not allowing any record-

ing equipment in the facility. Now, we’ll take a different interpretation of that, because we want to put you together with the cultivators and let the public know what’s going on behind closed doors.”

As heartening as Campbell’s push toward limited transparency is, his assertion that the Department of Agriculture can interpret its rules anyway it sees fit is somewhat alarming. He won’t be head of the program forever, and it’s possible whoever his successor is will come up with his or her own interpretation of the rules—an interpretation that doesn’t allow the public a clear look at a growing legal marijuana industry in Illinois. Medical cannabis is subject to more state scrutiny than any other agricultural industry. Regulators are required to inspect each cultivation center at least once a week, and it’s the taxpayers who are funding their salaries. It seems this industry should be the most transparent, not the least.

Maybe the state should take a lesson from the real Area 51. A lack of transparency can sometimes fuel wild speculation and conspiracy theories. Which, when paired with weed, is a really bad combination. v

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n a bare six weeks you’ll be getting your heart warmed by Scrooge and Rudolph and the rest. Right now, though, it’s time to contemplate getting it pulled out through your rib cage and eaten by some ungodly beast. Below you’ll find reviews of seven Halloween shows.

We’ll be seeing a lot more soon, so check back here next week or on chicagoreader.com/theater. —TONY ADLER

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Are You Still Afraid of the Dark? For those of you who want your scary stories not too scary, here’s a tribute to Are You Afraid of the Dark?, the long-running Nickelodeon series from the 90s that combined eerie urban legends and ghost stories with bracing lessons about friendship. This Midnight Society of five talented performers throws in improv comedy too. The team works well together: the characters and story are mostly coherent, the jokes are funny, and everyone gets a chance to shine. If the most recent tale, “The Morbid Golf Course,” wasn’t exactly terrifying, well, that’s a minor failing. The opening act, Horror of Terror, a group that creates improvised horror flicks, is slower, more awkward, and not nearly as funny.

—AIMEE LEVITT Through 11/11: Fri 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

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MIND-BLOWING MAGIC. A SPELLBINDING LOVE STORY.

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OCTOBER 21 – NOVEMBER 20 | TICKETS START AT $10 World-class magic and an emotional story of loss and love come together in this astonishing theatrical work.

Recommended for ages 13 and up.

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Bernie Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street . . . ’s Brother Bernie Todd (Kristi Parker Barnhart) has a thunderous cluster of clouds for a head of hair. The tufts quiver with static. But don’t let that fool you: he would like to make it clear that he is a perfectly normal citizen running a perfectly normal law firm. Pay no mind to his conspicuously christened partner, Karl Frankenstein; do not inquire about the book I Am Clown, nestled on a shelf between Small Town Law and Lawyer Stuff Vol. 3; be careful not to bring up pies filled with human “nibbles.” Despite his chaotic circumstances, Bernie Todd longs for nothing more than a life of quiet mediocrity. But the clowns have been sent in, and the high jinks have already begun. Is this late-night show from Hobo Junction stupid? Of course. How could a musical parody brimming with kazoos, greasepaint mustaches, and oodles of pink silly string be anything else? But don’t you love farce? —ISABEL OCHOA GOLD Through 10/28: Fri 10:30 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, 773-327-5252, stage773.com, $10, $8 students and seniors.

Camp Psychopathways Danny Galvin and Brad Pike aim for camp and hit wacky in this satirical musical (with songs by Galvin, Pike, and Robbie Ellis) about a dysfunctional summer camp for psychopathic girls: one is a sadist, another a wannabe arsonist, the third a narcissistic cell-phone addict, etc.

The story that unfolds is well told and much more tightly written than you might expect from a shoestring production at a theater best known for improv; Gretchen Eng is particularly good as a heartless would-be tween dominatrix. With a little more spit and polish this could become a cult classic or a great low-budget movie. —JACK HELBIG Through 10/26: Wed 8 PM, iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov. com, $12.

Dr. Seward’s Dracula Set R in 1895 London, Joseph Zettlemaier’s suspenseful chiller

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beloved Lucy, one of Dracula’s early victims. Ably directed by Alison C. Vesely, this First Folio production is packed with first-rate performers, especially Christian Gray, who displays remarkable range as Seward. This is one of those rare thrillers that lives up to its promise, grabbing our attention in its first moments and not letting go until the heart-stopping ending. —JACK HELBIG Through 11/6: Wed 8 PM, Thu 3 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, First Folio Theatre, Mayslake Peabody Estate, 31st St. and Rt. 83, Oak Brook, firstfolio. org, $29-$39, $26-$36 students and seniors.

Hell Stories The 26th edition of Waltzing Mechanics’ popular El Stories, which turns verbatim transcripts of interviews about CTA passengers’ experiences into ensemble performance pieces, focuses on allegedly frightening mass transit encounters. While a few are genuinely chilling (two men hoist a dead woman onto the train, ride with a her a few stops, then drag her off) and others are lightheartedly “Halloweeny” (a young man’s grandmother chums up to a woman who purports to be

a witch), most endorse the same ugly classist assumptions that have pervaded previous El Stories installments, namely that people who are homeless, mentally ill, using drugs, or acting eccentrically should be feared. The ample comic bits director Natalie Sallee adds to the mix don’t make things go down any easier. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 11/19: Sat 10:30 PM, Greenhouse Theater Center, 2257 N. Lincoln, 773-404-7336, waltzingmechanics. org, $20.

The Medium It’s an intense experience to hear powerful operatic voices in a small room. It can be thrilling, but also painful. In the case of Gian Carlo Menotti’s mid-20th-century chamber opera The Medium, now running in a tiny pocket theater upstairs at the Royal George, there’s an argument to be made for it. The aural claustrophobia that ensues is perfectly suited to the opera’s deliberately suffocating atmosphere. Mezzo-soprano Heather Aranyi is compelling, vocally and dramatically, as Madame Flora, a con woman who pretends to commune with the dead, and then does—at least in her own unraveling mind. The

results are horrific for the two youngsters trapped in her clutches, and for the audience. Aranyi’s admirably unhinged performance in this ColorBox Theatre production is supported by a youthful five-member cast and pianist Philip Seward. Consider yourself warned, and pack earplugs. —DEANNA ISAACS Through 10/30: Fri 8 PM, Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Halsted, 312-988-9000, colorboxtheatre. com, $38.

Ouija: A Haunted History The Annoyance’s half-formed, hour-long goof plays inordinately fast and loose with the history of the Ouija board. For instance, in this telling William Fuld, the prime marketer of

Ouija boards in America, hits major pay dirt selling his game to Parker Brothers. In truth, that sale happened in 1966, 42 years after Fuld’s death. But it makes no more sense to criticize the preternaturally impudent Annoyance for historical inaccuracy than to chastise a week-old puppy for peeing in the house. So while the story director Sam Locke and his improvising cast of four fashion is delightfully ludicrous, unlikely, and inane, its stage execution is too tentative and slapdash to have much impact.

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The stand-up (a writer on Parks and Recreation, The Kroll Show, and the new sitcom The Good Place) likes to poke fun at the idea of celebrity. Mande took to the Internet to prove to people how easy perceived popularity can be—he paid $400 to European hackers for a million Twitter followers—and Bitchface is filled with parodies of mixtape drops and shout-outs from RZA, Minnie Driver, Blake Griffin, and Amy Poehler. Mande also takes

aim at privilege, calling out hate speech in stand-up comedy and pointing out how ridiculous it is that there’s still a restaurant called Souplantation: “It’s not even a play on words. All it’s doing is taking the name of a food and combining it with a word that makes everyone uncomfortable.”

Mande also has plenty of jokes about growing up in Minnesota—where he’s fighting a constant battle against freshwater in the form of lakes, humidity, and snow—and the perils of cooking with a wok. But he’s never too removed from fame: his Autumn Sixteen tour kicked off just days after news broke that Drake is postponing the remainder of his Summer Sixteen tour due to injury. If he’s not the Drake of comedy already, then he’s certainly giving it his best shot. —BRIANNA WELLEN R JOE MANDE Mon 10/24, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, lh-st.com, $16.

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“My father went on to have another family,” says Chipaumire, who just turned 50. “[They’ve] popped up over the last three or four years of my life. Almost 40 years had passed without [my] knowing these people existed.”

The revelation of her half siblings, she acknowledges, is one of the wellsprings of Portrait of Myself as My Father, the fierce piece she brings to the Dance Center of Columbia College on Thursday. The work explores not only the identity of the stranger who was her father (he died in 1980), but larger questions about the black male body and African masculinity more generally.

In Portrait, Chipaumire’s body language is gruff, her movements powerful and deliberate.

Clad in football pads, equipped with a glove, and sporting gris-gris, she navigates the corners of a boxing ring while tied with elastic bands to two male collaborators. The “black

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male” she tries to summon is an identity that has yet to be fully understood, she says; in many ways, her performance is an opportunity to resolve the past by putting it on public display. Has it been difficult?

“The honest answer is yes,” she notes.

“Because reconciling my relationship with my father means reconciling my relationship with a black man. And that’s a minefield.”

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Fact-checking, author Brooke Borel notes, is more than plucking facts from random sources off the Internet that prove or disprove a candidate’s statement. It’s a discipline in itself, requiring patience, tact, and judgment as well as proficiency with the Googles. “If journalism is the cornerstone of democracy,” she writes, “then fact-checking is the building inspector, ensuring that the structure of a piece of writing is sound.” Unfortunately, it’s a skill that’s rarely taught in journalism schools or prac-

ticed in newsrooms. In the ten years I’ve been a reporter, I’ve often checked information with sources in order to save myself embarrassment later, but I’ve done a full fact check of the sort Borel teaches here only twice. It’s tedious and time-consuming and surprisingly difficult work. But I would agree with Borel that it should be done more often.

Borel is a science journalist (her previous book was Infested: How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World), but she began her career as a fact-checker. She bases her instruction on her own practices, plus a survey of 234 journalists and interviews with 91 specialists. (Full disclosure: I was one of the journalists, but none of my wisdom or experiences made it into the book.) Many of the tips she offers here are useful not just to fact-checkers, but also to reporters and researchers, particularly the chapter on checking different kinds of facts. Some of her advice is elementary, such as to get as close to the original source as possible and to avoid Wikipedia, but she’s especially good at explaining the different levels of attribution, which many journalists don’t completely understand, and how scientific studies and statistics can be misunderstood and manipulated. She reiterates one piece of advice so often it almost seems like a mantra: When in doubt, ask an expert.

Still, stories like Rolling Stone’s infamous incomplete investigation of a gang rape at the University of Virginia, as well as fabricators like the New Republic’s Stephen Glass, somehow get past the fact-checking gatekeepers.

Borel offers explanations for these lapses, though not with any great depth, maybe because they’ve been discussed so often elsewhere. Glass, who was the New Republic’s head fact-checker before he became a reporter, knew the questions that would be asked and created his own source material. Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the Rolling Stone writer, relied too heavily on one source, and the magazine’s editors ignored the fact-checkers’ concerns.

Borel includes exercises to “think like a fact-checker.” This habit of mind, she argues, can make for better readers and better online citizens. Is it too much to hope that it can make for a better democracy? v R THE CHICAGO GUIDE TO FACT-CHECKING By Brooke Borel (University of Chicago Press)

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he films of London-based contemporary artist Ben Rivers resemble elaborate works of science fiction.

His solo show “Urth,” now on display at the Renaissance Society, is filled with imaginary worlds inhabited by shaken and isolated societies. Each piece, projected throughout three adjoining rooms in the gallery, is a chilling portent of a future devastated by climate change and miserable with human solitude.

Though rooted in moving images, Rivers’s work also features writing, photography, and drawing; the approach likely derives from an artistic background not entirely focused on film. Growing up in Somerset, a secluded county in the British southwest, Rivers moved away after graduating high school in 1990 to attend Falmouth School of Art in Cornwall.

Over the course of his three years there, his specialization in painting quickly transformed into an interest in sculpture, which eventually led him to discover film, now his preferred mode of expression.

“It encapsulates everything,” he said during an artist talk with Solveig Øvstebø, the Renaissance Society’s executive director and chief curator, following the opening of “Urth” last month. “The first films I made after art

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school were more about places. And more about the places that people had left behind: the ghosts.”

The exhibition’s title piece, Urth—a site-specific installation specially commissioned by the Renaissance Society—envisions a woman’s survival in an artificial environment after the actual planet has been deserted. The film depicts the woman’s lonely existence in an oxygen-drained and famine-stricken Biosphere 2, where she claims refuge in the face of an irreparably destroyed earth.

“I liked the idea of these different temperate regions and people attempting to live inside that, and be separate from the world,” Rivers said during the artist talk. He spoke of Biosphere 2, the site of the highly publicized closed-system ecological experiment that took place in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert in the early 90s. Though certain aspects of the experiment’s wayward design were contentious, its fundamental premise—to test whether human survivors of a planet-wide cataclysm could survive by maintaining and residing in an earthlike artificial habitat—motivates Urth.

“I just started thinking about that place in 50 years’ time or something, had there been another experiment,” Rivers said. “At a certain point, communication with the outside world

disappears, the people in there either leave or die, and there’s just this one woman left. She’s literally the last woman on earth, stuck in this fake earth which is just clinging on, clinging on to life.”

This stubborn evasion of imminent human extinction is discernible in each of the works exhibited at the Renaissance Society. In Slow Action, Rivers overlays footage captured on “islands” with original text from science fiction writer Mark von Schlegell. The series, inspired by the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, unfolds as four 16millimeter films depicting isolated postapocalyptic locales are projected simultaneously onto four panels in the gallery: the volcanic province of Lanzarote, one of the Canary Islands; the abandoned mining community of Gunkanjima, near Nagasaki; the Polynesian reef nation Tuvalu; and Somerset, a reimagining of the artist’s native home. Across the hall, Things—an autobiographical travelogue that takes place in the confines of Rivers’s London apartment—boasts nouveau roman influences, CGI, and the humorous trials of a fearless woodland garden visitor.

Like the other films in the exhibit, Urth (which also features contributions from von Schlegell) is rich with subtle literary, cultural,

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and artistic allusions. The name “Urth,” which derives from an Old Norse word that roughly translates to “fate,” is mentioned in philosopher and ecotheorist Timothy Morton’s 2016 book Dark Ecology. Rivers and von Schlegel also drew from Victorian dystopian fiction such as Mary Shelley’s The Last Man. For Urth, visitors listen through headphones to the voice of narrator Janice Kerbel, a fellow London-based artist whom Rivers recruited for the role. Through this individualized viewing experience, each observer experiences the film in solitary and sympathetic parallel with its expiring protagonist, the surviving scientist whose journal-entry narrations indicate a gradual descent toward insanity. For audience members, the effect is haunting: the woman’s hysterical realization of her failure to survive is all that remains. v R “BEN RIVERS: URTH” Through 11/6: Tue-Fri 10 AM-5 PM, Sat and Sun noon-5 PM, Renaissance Society, 5811 S. Ellis, Cobb Hall, fourth floor, 773702-8670, renaissancesociety.org. F

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ndie filmmaker Kelly Reichardt has made a career out of the saying “Wherever you go, there you are.” A naturalist at heart, she observes her characters intently as they roll into new environments, size up their surroundings, and try to conquer them.

Her breakthrough film, Old Joy (2006), follows two old pals on a road trip to a wilderness hot spring, where their friendship blooms again, and back to the city, where it withers. Her remarkable Wendy and Lucy (2008) makes a giant statement about economic injustice in America through the tiny story of a young woman stranded in a small town. Meek’s Cutoff (2010) dramatizes the 1845 incident in which a frontier guide named Stephen Meek led a wagon train full of settlers on a perilous journey through the Oregon desert. And in the sadly overlooked Night Moves (2013), scruffy ecoterrorists scout out a hydroelectric dam, disable it with an explosion, and try without success to melt back into their previous lives.

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Laura Wells (Laura Dern), an attorney at a Livingston firm, life seems just as rigidly tracked, and she’s in the process of following one client to his ultimate destination. Fuller (Jared Harris), an aging construction worker, has suffered a disabling fall and wants to sue the contractor who’s responsible, despite the fact that he has already accepted an insurance settlement. Frustrated in his plans, he storms the contractor’s offices one night, taking a security guard hostage, and Laura is enlisted by the local police to go inside the building and reason with him. The open spaces of the early scenes give way to inky black interiors, and a situation that most other filmmakers would play for suspense turns into a sleepy sequence in which Laura sits in the office reading Fuller all the documents from his company file.

Reichardt manages to connect this first story with the second when Ryan (James Le Gros), Laura’s lover, is revealed to be the guilt-ridden husband of the frosty Gina (Michelle Williams). The spouses and their crabby daughter, who live in the city but have purchased land for a second home, arrive at the farmhouse of their octogenarian neighbor, Albert (René Auberjonois), for a friendly visit that conceals an avaricious plan: Gina, full of ideas for their house, wants Albert to sell her a pile of sandstone blocks that were once part of a historic schoolhouse but have been parked on his property for 40 years. Her emotional maneuvering with the old man, so nicely ren-

dered in Meloy’s story “Native Sandstone,” doesn’t really come across onscreen, and Reichardt has beefed up the episode with vague family conflicts, though these are so muted they barely break the surface of the dialogue. A contemplative scene of Gina strolling alone through the woods may call to mind Williams’s touching performance as the young drifter in Wendy and Lucy, yet she plays a tougher, shallower person this time around.

Only the third and last story approaches the emotional force of Reichardt’s earlier work. Jamie (Lily Gladstone), a young woman who tends horses at a ranch, happens into a night-school class in small-town Belfry and falls head over heels for the instructor, Beth (Kristen Stewart), a young attorney from faroff Livingston. In Meloy’s story “Travis, B.” the ranch hand is a man pursuing a woman, but by turning it into a sweet tale of lesbian infatuation in a red state, Reichardt only heightens its loneliness and poignance. More than the other stories, this one exploits the friction between the characters and their environment: Beth endures a four-hour commute each way to teach the semiweekly class, and finally she bails out, handing the class over to a replacement. Jamie tracks her down at her firm in Livingston, but what she wants from Beth is impossible. As in Reichardt’s best movies, who you are is powerfully constrained by where you are. v

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Teletype, Spontaneity What do you get when a pair of outre-pop whizzes join forces on a record? A long wait. The brand-new full-length from Abraham Levitan (Baby Teeth, Shame That Tune) and Devin Davis (Lonely People of the World, Unite!) took two and a half years to finish, even after Levitan recorded piano-and-voice versions of the songs.

Davis worked them over and tweaked them with what sounds like an airplane hangar full of instruments, and the results glow with pop radioactivity that’s equal parts Billy Joel, ELO, and the Thin White Duke—new acts of theater reveal themselves on each listen.

Andy Shauf, The Party Lyrics are what draws me into a record, and on this 2016 album Andy Shauf hooked me with his oddly specific narratives and affected delivery. I almost feel like I’m friends with the recurring characters from the party whose story he tells: Jimmy is a dick, Sherry is unattainable, Alexander is . . . possibly dead? I’ve listened countless times, and I still have questions. Maybe I’ll get answers when he plays Schubas in November.

Torture Love, They Came Crawling I find Torture Love’s music addicting in a way I normally reserve for new Drake singles and Carly Rae Jepsen. I haven’t seen them live yet (even though they’re local), but their latest record, 2016’s They Came Crawling, does everything I love. It’s fast and psychedelic like Destruction Unit, and the vocals are deep and melodic like Total Control and Merchandise. It even uses drum breaks suggestive of hardcore. It’s noisy and catchy, perhaps my favorite combo.

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Bands loyal to 90s metalcore In the likes of Philly’s Jesus Piece and Tampa’s Blistered, the chug-chug hatefulness of the mid-90s Victory Records catalog has risen again. Compressed, tinny guitar riffs and growling bassline torpedos fill the gaps between lumbering breakdowns, and the production often recalls Destroy the Machines by Earth Crisis—which sounds like it was recorded in a ten-by-ten panic room. I can’t get enough of it.

Treasure hunting through unmarked CD-Rs During the latest purge of my CD collection, I’ve been digging through spools of CD-Rs, listening to each disc to determine if it’s worth saving. So far they’ve mostly contained demos from the early 2000s, when I was in a band that absolutely loved the Murder City Devils.

But! I did discover a copy of the great Primitive Enema by gross-out punks Butt Trumpet, released by Chrysalis in 1994, when labels signed anything that might resemble grunge.

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Switched on Pop podcast Switched on Pop is great to put on in the car when I’m tired of actual pop radio. Musicologist Nate Sloan and composer Charlie Harding dissect songs in terms you can understand without knowing music theory, occasionally tracing their roots all the way back to medieval music (or just to Michael Jackson). My favorite episode deconstructs Robyn’s “Call Your Girlfriend”—apparently while I was sweating it out on the dance floor, she was manipulating my emotions with minor-key chords and text painting.

The Hold Steady at Riot Fest I found out about the Hold Steady about 12 years late, on accident, at this year’s Riot Fest. Usually at festivals I don’t go see unfamiliar acts, but at Riot Fest I wandered to stages where I liked what I heard—including the Hold Steady performing Boys and Girls in America from beginning to end. I was mesmerized by Craig Finn’s erratic gesturing but constantly torn away (in a good way) by the crowd yelling along to almost every lyric. Experiencing the band with people who clearly sang these songs in their teen bedrooms was an awesome introduction!

John Maus, A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material This 2012 release is a treasure to me. It contains “Bennington,” a song I’d been searching for since I heard it the prior summer in an older dude’s car. Its lo-fi synth pop is dark but upbeat—it’s essentially disco for sad people, so beautiful and eerie that it could soundtrack a haunted house. I find Maus fascinating—so mysterious, so intelligent. His interviews are a treat—he almost always ends up on a philosophical tangent, catches himself, apologizes, gets back on topic, and then does it all over again.

Jenn Champion, “No One” Formerly of Carissa’s Wierd (and more recently S), Jenn Champion is a Seattle staple. The first track from her new solo project is more electronic than her previous output, but it still delivers her honest, melancholy songwriting. I can’t listen to this just once—whenever I play it, I have to hear it one more time. It evokes serious Drive nostalgia, and I hope there’s more to come.

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Thu 10/20, 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, $10, $3 with RSVP.

WHEN CHICAGO RAPPER Mick Jenkins played the Pitchfork Music Festival this summer he snuck in “Grown Ass Kid,” a bubbly number he and Alex Wiley cut with Chance the Rapper for the latter’s Coloring Book. On it Chance raps, “Everybody can say it out loud / My favorite rapper is a Christian rapper,” a line that could easily apply to Jenkins. Both MCs zero in on themes of religion and love, though Jenkins puts the latter front and center on his debut album, last month’s The Healing Component (released on his Free Nation label). Jenkins is quick to reveal that he views love as life’s elemental ingredient, and that for him religion is a prism through which he understands the importance of imparting it unto others. He told Billboard, “[Love is] aligned with my Christianity and my beliefs

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and what God’s purpose was on this Earth in the face of some of the most hateful things.” The length and stylistic breadth of Jenkins’s album has as much to do with the rapper’s bold bars—which he stuffs, but never bloats, with layered ideas—as it does with the album’s pacing. He sprinkles The Healing Component with audio clips from an unidentified interview, and as he contemplates, say, his experiences with romantic love, he creates space to allow his thoughts to sit with the listener. Tonight’s show—and Jenkins’s fall tour—is presented by Red Bull Sound Select. (Full disclosure: I’m a freelance contributor to Red Bull Music Academy radio, which hosts my Chicago-centric monthly program The Deepest Dish.)

—LEOR GALIL

On his new album Private Energy (Asthmatic Kitty), Helado Negro—the dreamiest, most pop-oriented project from Roberto Carlos Lange, who works under numerous guises—creates a lush, soothing landscape of sounds. Meticulously arranged by former Chicagoan Jason Ajemian and performed by a large group of strong New York musicians, the nimble record features a compressed orchestral richness dominated by synthesizer lines and swells: the horns that open “Obra Dos,” for example, paint a muted pastel smear, fading away just as suddenly as they appear to make way for a groove from the drums and bass synth. Lange wrote the album in 2014, troubled by the murder of Michael Brown and the country’s growing racial unrest, and on some of the English-language tunes he yearns for healing while taking stock in his Latinx identity. The single “Young, Latin & Proud” offers a holistic embrace of his ethnicity that caresses rather than hectors, while “It’s My Brown Skin” neatly builds solidarity with other people of color while also taking pride in his own background. Throughout the record, most of which is sung in Spanish, Lange sings with an intimate warmth, and even when a cut drives hard, the results feel gentle. I imagine the new songs will sound quite different tonight, as he appears with a string quartet that includes Chicago cellist Tomeka Reid. —PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Atsuko Chiba, Droughts, Merit Badge 9 PM, Burlington

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FRIDAY21 Teenage Fanclub Sam Evian opens. 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 1374 W. Lake, $20. 17+ On their first album in six years, veteran Scottish band Teenage Fanclub settle into middle-aged contentment, refining and subtly tweaking a strum-happy guitar sound that largely exists to support the gorgeous harmony singing between Norman Blake, Gerard Love, and Raymond McGinley. Most of Here (Merge) conveys joy and appreciation for life’s most basic rewards, a kind of reconciliation that one either embraces or rejects as the years pile on. In fact, while Teenage Fanclub may not be reinventing their sound, the songs frequently suggest narrators who are eagerly grabbing at a second chance for happiness. In the driving “Thin Air” Love sings, “Come let the future open up its mystery / I feel a change in my heart and soul,” while on the following “Hold On” McGinley veers dangerously close to self-help parody, singing, “Hold on, to your head, to your heart, never stop what you can’t start, just hold on to your heart.” But in song after song the infectious melodies soothe and energize, transcending the occasional triteness of the lyrics, while the easygoing grooves occasionally receive jolts from the terrific guitar playing. Complemented by a twined solo, “The Darkest Part of the Night” recalls the band’s old pop compatriots Velvet Crush, while “Live in the Moment” includes a fuzzed-out lead that erupts from ambling pyschedelia. In the end, however, it’s all about the voices and the melodies those parts shape. —PETER MARGASAK J

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There are familiar signposts on the eponymous debut from Melbourne-based New Zealander Aldous Harding (nee Hanna Harding), particularly the diaphanous early-70s pysch-folk of Britain’s Vashti Bunyan. Harding’s exquisite voice shimmers with a warm, sorrowful vibrato as it floats over spare acoustic-guitar parts that, via simple strumming or occasional arpeggios, sketch out chord patterns.

Her delivery draws heavily from Brit folk tradition, but also from the quirky, intuitive utterances of Joanna Newsom. Lovely, forlorn melodies move at a crawl, though on some of the more fleshed-out songs—“Hunter” being one—the music is propelled by lyric violin embellishments, rolling electric-guitar sequences, cascading harp runs, and the distant thumps of a tambourine. On the haunting “Two Bitten Hearts” Harding’s wordless cooing is effectively complemented by the gentle sob of a theremin. I’m less impressed with her lyrics, a series of oblique narratives about strained romance that conjure some distant, unnamed past—but could also very well be set in a present in which folks wear cloaks and drink mead. Still, Harding is only 26, and she made the record two years ago, working with her boyfriend and fellow singer Marlon Williams. Just released a few weeks ago in the U.S. by the venerable Flying Nun label, its beauty is such that I’m betting she’s got a high ceiling. —PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Dan Andriano in the Emergency Room, Dan P., Derek Grant 7:30 PM, Cobra Lounge Colbie Caillat, High Dive Heart, Justin Young 7:30 PM, Thalia Hall, sold out b Chachuba, Digeometric, Undercover Organism 9:30 PM, Tonic Room Claudettes 10 PM, Cole’s F Cougars, Volunteer, Hit School, Buckingham Palace SVU, Roach Beach 9 PM, Quenchers Saloon Crazy Squeeze, City Slang, Criminal Kids 9 PM, Reed’s Local F DJ NoDJ 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F Failure 9 PM, Double Door, sold out, 17+ Ari Hest, Chrissi Poland 8 PM, City Winery b Holy Gallows, Larks Tongue 9 PM, Burlington Interrupters, Bad Cop Bad Cop 8:30 PM, 1st Ward b King of Mars, Friday Pilots Club, Out the Car Window, Flounder 8:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Living Struggle, Toy Robots, the Saps 9 PM, Wire, Berwyn Lonesome Still, Minor Moon, Video Village 8 PM, Elbo Room Cass McCombs Band, Delicate Steve 9 PM, Empty Bottle Rhett Miller, Joe Purdy 8 PM, also Thu 10/20, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Poi Dog Pondering, Brother StarRace 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Ben Rector 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Shinyribs 9 PM, FitzGerald’s Soft Ledges 8 PM, Armitage Concert Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

Sum 41, Senses Fail, As It Is 7 PM, House of Blues b Sunflower Bean, Lemon Twigs, Joe Bordenaro & the Late Bloomers 8 PM, Lincoln Hall b Tall Heights, Lawsuits 8 PM, Schubas Tegan & Sara, Torres 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, sold out b Jenny Owen Youngs, Elle Casazza, Nonpronto 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Hip-Hop Post Malone, Jazz Cartier, Larry June 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Dance Corbin Davis, Mia Wallace 10 PM, Spy Bar DJ Three, Dabura, Derek Specs, Happy Ghost 10 PM, Primary Nightclub GTA 10 PM, the Mid Karina, Titonton Duvante, Sassmouth & Olin 10 PM, Smart Bar Elbert Phillips Noon, Randolph Cafe, Chicago Cultural Center F b Folk & Country Golden Horse Ranch Band 10 PM, California Clipper Lucy Kaplansky, Ralph Covert 7 PM, SPACE b Old Show, Soap 9:30 PM, Martyrs’ Paulina Hollers 6 PM, Hideout Blues, Gospel, and R&B Lurrie Bell Band 9:30 PM, Rosa’s Lounge Maurice John Brown, Shirley Johnson Blues Band 9 PM, also Thu 10/20 and Sat 10/22, 9 PM, Blue Chicago Chicago Blues All-Stars, Mike Wheeler Blues Band 9 PM, Kingston Mines Carlos Johnson, Sonic Soul 9 PM, Buddy Guy’s Legends Davy Knowles 10 PM, SPACE b John Primer & the Real Deal Blues Band 9 PM, also Sat 10/22, 9 PM, B.L.U.E.S. Jazz George Fludas for Funk’s Sake 9:30 PM, also Sat 10/22, 9:30 PM, Andy’s Jazz Club Moutin Factory Quintet 9 PM, also Sat 10/22, 8 PM, Green Mill Bria Skonberg Quartet 8 and 10 PM, also through Sat 10/22, 8 and 10 PM, Sun 10/23, 4, 8, and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase Experimental J&L Defer, RXM Reality, Evening Glow 9 PM, Hideout TV Pow, Graham Stephenson & Aaron Zarzutzki 9 PM, Elastic b International Carl Brown & the Solid Gold Reggae Band 9 PM, Wild Hare Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas 7 and 9 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Mana 8 PM, also Sat 10/22, 8 PM, Allstate Arena Omara Portuondo 8 PM, Symphony Center Classical Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Emanuel Ax David Afkham, conductor (Beethoven, Shostakovich).

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SATURDAY22 Flat Five Chris Ligon opens. 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln, sold out. b The Flat Five have been around for nearly a decade, but it’s only in recent years that they’ve moved from playing annual gigs to making quarterly appearances, and these days they’re also doing residencies more frequently. Singers Nora O’Connor and Kelly Hogan harmonize with dreamy precision, covering a broad stylistic range with ease, while the top-notch band—drummer Alex Hall, bassist Casey McDonough, and guitarist-keyboardist Scott Ligon— forge a dazzling hybrid of vintage-pop verities.

Their performances have always revolved around carefully curated covers spanning pop-music history, but for their long-promised debut album, It’s a World of Love and Hope (Angiedisc/Bloodshot), the group turned to the brilliantly twisted, criminally overlooked repertoire of songwriter Chris Ligon, Scott’s brother. Chris has recorded his own material in fits and starts over the years, but it’s most often been in lo-fi one-man-band mode, so it’s stunning to hear the Flat Five give his gorgeous, deeply infectious melodies a Technicolor finish and the treatment they otherwise deserve. There’s a Beach Boys-style glow on “Florida,” an onomatopoeic pre-

rock giddiness to “Buglight” (Chris’s original version displays a kind of post-Beefheart rudeness), and a Mamas & Papas-meets-lounge-jazz lilt to “You’re Still Joe.” And that’s just the first three tunes. These spirited renditions also make the weirdness of the lyrics more pronounced and entertaining, though the group wisely render the creepy “She’s Only Five” through some wordless vocalizing. I’m not sure if another record this year has given me more unalloyed pleasure. Chris will appear as a guest.

—PETER MARGASAK

Racetraitor Earthmover, Lifes, Young & Dead, and Through N Through open. 8:30 PM, Cobra Lounge, 235 N. Ashland, $15, $12 in advance. 17+

In 1996 Racetraitor began their brief but brutal assault on the local hardcore scene, using thrashy, grind-happy metalcore as an over-the-top vehicle for their political messages. Their polarizing shows were notorious for containing more rhetoric than music—they were largely made up of readings, guest speakers, and rants by front man Mani Mostofi and guitarist Daniel Binaei about racism, imperialism, war, justice, and veganism. Talk to any old hardcore dude today and he’ll be happy to tell you exactly how much he either loved or hated Racetraitor. By 1999 the band had called it quits, but their influence was still being felt: they planted the seed for a sprawling family tree of aggressive Chicago music that includes branches to big-time punk acts like Rise Against as well as Fall Out Boy—which was

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founded by Racetraitor drummer Andy Hurley and sometime-bassist Pete Wentz. And when the band’s outspoken members eventually began to stray from the scene, they put their money where their mouths were and forged prolific careers in the fields of human rights, social work, public health, and international law. Considering the dudes are so deeply steeped in ideals—and not prone to gimmicks and sell-out moves—I was a little wary when they announced their first show in 17 years. But they’re making it clear that this isn’t a nostalgic cash grab but a chance to make their voices heard during an especially turbulent moment in American history.

Along with this reunion show comes the crushing brand-new flexi-disc “By the Time I Get to Pennsylvania” b/w “Damaged” (Organized Crime), which might be the best music Racetraitor have ever recorded. —LUCA CIMARUSTI

Yoshi Wada & Tashi Wada 8 PM, Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 W. Burton, free with RSVP at yoshiwadatashiwada.eventbrite. com. b

Yoshi Wada was born and raised in Japan, but he belongs to an American minimalist lineage that includes La Monte Young, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, and Rhys Chatham. Like them he bypassed the complex structures of mid-20th-century J

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concert music to work with simpler forms, precisely placed pitches, and long tonal durations, to hypnotic effect. Wada, now 72 years old, was particularly drawn to bagpipes and organs, some of which he made himself with plumbing fittings and donated organ tubes powered by an air compressor.

Droning reeds erect massive walls of sound on the two LPs Wada released during the 1980s, Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile (India Navigation) and Off the Wall (FMP). Beginning with his hour-long 1987 piece The Appointed Cloud, Wada focused on making sound installations that didn’t require his presence, and while he documented them, he didn’t make any more albums of new material (in 2007 the Japanese Em label did launch a series of reissues and archival works).

More recently Wada has been performing again, this time with his son, composer Tashi Wada, who’s released three records of minimalist compositions for strings. The two men use bagpipes, reed organ, sirens, and tone generators to play loosely structured pieces that foster pockets of richly detailed tonal clashes within broad, monochromatic expanses of sound. —BILL MEYER

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8 PM, also Thu 10/20, 8 PM and Fri 10/21, 1:30 PM, Symphony Center Il Divo 7 PM, Rosemont Theater b Lyric Opera’s Das Rheingold 7:30 PM, Civic Opera House Fairs & Festivals Progtoberfest: Rikard Sjoblom, Circuline, Necromonkey, Metaphonia, Pavlov3, Chinese Professionals 11 AM, Reggie’s Music Joint Progtoberfest: Security Project, Beer for Dolphins, Fringe, Izz Edensong, Infinite Spectrum, Sonus Umbra Noon, Reggie’s Rock Club

SUNDAY23 Rock, Pop, Etc Anakande, New Context, Tomorrow People 9 PM, Tonic Room Burned or Buried, Conan Neutron & the Secret Friends, Beat Drun Juel 8:30 PM, Township Cat Wranglers 7 PM, Red Line Tap Electric Hawk, Cinemechanica, Space Blood 8 PM, Emporium Arcade Bar F Fire It Up, Revolt Coda, Eye & I, Them Guilty Aces 7 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Green Day 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom b Anthony Holmes, Judah Michael & Brad Yeoman, Dina Marie, Room 52, Breaking Ice 5 PM, Wire, Berwyn Kayo Dot, End of the Ocean, Vaskula, Gabriel Construct 8 PM, Cobra Lounge, 17+ Little Anthony & the Imperials 5 PM, Arcada Theatre, Saint Charles b Paint Fumes, Beastii, Poison Boys 9 PM, Empty Bottle Saskrotch, Superbytes, Boy Meets Robot, Baron Von Future 9 PM, Quenchers Saloon Dance Garrett David, Michael Serafini, Derrick Carter, Honey Dijon 10 PM, Smart Bar Twitchin’ Skratch, Augie Delarosa, Amy Unland,

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WEDNESDAY26 Cauldron Satan headline. Cauldron, Satan’s Hallow, and Beast Warrior open. 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 2105 S. State, $20, $18 in advance. 17+ This Toronto metal trio started in 2006 by blasting out a classic speed-metal sound with a touch of tongue in cheek. It wasn’t up to Steel Panther levels of parody, but a song like “Chained Up in Chains” certainly sports some self-awareness and a little bit of camp, only without losing any punch. Cauldron’s fourth full-length, In Ruin (Earache), plays it straight and tuneful, aiming for an unpretentious, classic sound. Vocalist Jason Decay has an affable sort of convincingness that’s even more efficiently sold by the riffs and trills from guitarist Ian Chains that fill out the spaces in the band’s galloping momentum.

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LA singer and guitarist Kayla Cohen has already revealed an impressive vision with her project Itasca, but she’s made a huge artistic leap on the new Open to Chance (Paradise of Bachelors). In the past Cohen has complemented her crystalline voice and rustic fingerstyle acoustic guitar patterns with occasional daubs of pedal steel, but here she opens things up with a nimble ensemble whose accents and filigree cast her songwriting in highly effective relief. Her luster leads to frequent comparisons to the early-70s Laurel Canyon sound, and indeed, at her most austere—like on the piano ballad “Carousel”—she summons the spirit of Ladies of the Canyon-era Joni Mitchell. Still, Cohen transmits an aesthetic purity very much her own, essaying a weakness for the rustic in a bruising world. On opener “Buddy” she fantasizes about life on a rural mountaintop with her lover, imagining mice as their guide and briars as their wedding rings, while on “Angel” the modest dream of waking up in a lover’s garden is no less fantastical: “You were golden in the light / You are the weave / With roses flowering beneath / You are the keeper.” In contrast, on “No Consequence” she bridles at those who reject life’s mystery by embracing hard certainties, which could be an indictment of Donald Trump’s cocksure reck-

lessness: “And I look up upon you with my ordinary step / Who is this blind God who walks with no regrets.” On “G.B.” Cohen pushes for a brisk country-rock sound that summons Gram Parsons, though for the most part she keeps the instrumentation lean and the atmosphere meditative. Her touring band includes pedal-steel player Dave McPeters, drummer Kevin Donohue, and bassist Sophie Weil.

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The kale Caesar is made up of finely shredded greens, sharp dressing, grated Parmesan, tomatoes, croutons, and anchovy fillets; there are half a dozen meats available in four- and eightounce portions that arrive presliced in manageable slabs.

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raditionally, the classic American steak house has been the restaurant of American individualism, or perhaps selfishness. You may share that shrimp cocktail appetizer, or the side of creamed spinach, with your boys in flannel suits, but when it comes down to the main attraction, what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is yours. Keep your paws off my T-bone, dog, or I’ll go for your throat.

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That said, there’s been a movement afoot to reinvent the steak house, from the ridiculous “female-friendly” STK Chicago to more modestly sized European-style efforts like Bavette’s and Boeufhaus.

It’s amazing no one had thought of wedging a steak house into the shared-plates concept that’s dominated the restaurant scene for so many years. Leave it to Boka Restaurant Group (Girl & the Goat, Momotaro, Perennial Virant)

to come through with that angle.

Wait a minute. Didn’t Boka’s Rob Katz and Kevin Boehm, along with chef Chris Pandel, just deliver Swift & Sons, the swanky steak house on the ground floor of Google’s West Loop headquarters? What more can they possibly accomplish with this format?

It starts with the name, GT Prime, the initials standing for Giuseppe Tentori, the longtime Boka Group chef and Trotter’s vet who opened the estimable GT Fish & Oyster in 2011.

In some ways this River North steak house—in the midst of the city’s steak-house district—is built on GT Fish’s shared-plates model, right down to the beef.

Unlike GT Fish, however, it’s dark and clubby like a typical steak house, but with some diverting features: a crowded bar filled with high-tops leads to a dining room with rough, black wood walls that dampen the light and give the appearance of having endured a forest fire. These are offset by giant illuminated photorealistic still lifes (ham-grapes-crab; cabbage-disembodied heart-octopus) and a saucerlike chandelier that might be harboring extraterrestrials. At the end of the hall, on top of a gleaming copper staircase leading to the restrooms, there’s a portrait of Tentori glaring out from under the hood of a black robe like some sort of satanic priest, just as he glow-

ers over the pass in the flesh before the busy kitchen below.

There’s no dino-size 46-ounce porterhouse coming out of that kitchen, but there are half a dozen meats available in four- and eight-ounce portions that arrive on cast-iron serviceware, presliced in manageable slabs so that your tablemates don’t have to set on them like a pack of jackals. Rib eye, skirt steak, beef tenderloin, bison tenderloin, lamb loin, and venison loin make up the choices, though there’s also “the Carnivore,” a meat platter featuring fourounce portions of beef fillet, rib eye, venison, and Wagyu, recommended to feed four to six.

There’s little to say about these fine pieces of flesh. But if you’re among the minimum four carnivores and have even a semiserious meat tooth, you’ll be clamoring for a hot dog or a pork chop sandwich on the way home.

As I indicated, though, the object at GT Prime isn’t to quench your bloodlust and send you home to Bailey with a doggie bag. The fact is, beyond these dainty steaks, GT Prime offers a menu of intriguing possibilities that barely reference steak-house standards. It’s a new opportunity to explore Tentori’s always interesting food.

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There are more conventionally plated dishes that are just as enjoyable. Lemony, creamy grits are tasty enough to make you push aside the otherwise delicious veal cheek they support. Nutty roasted cauliflower is adorned with a jumble of pine nuts, sweet fried peppers, tomato, and whipped ricotta.

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ond act to blistered shishitos livens up what’s become one of the most overplayed vegetables in town. Paired with crispy, fatty suckling pig belly, sweet pureed red cabbage and roasted squash make a plate that’s the picture of autumn.

A few dishes require some tinkering. If you prefer your steak raw, be warned the generous serving of tartare is amalgamated with too much yolk, and the chips it’s served with are too delicate to support its mucilaginous mass.

The honeycomb stuck in your teeth will remind you for hours of the overly sticky-sweet maitake mushrooms served with melted Brie.

But maybe the biggest letdown at GT Prime was a whole roasted branzino—which sells itself via a lovely photograph on the restaurant’s website—that comes to the table as two meagerly sized fillets, with nothing edible to absorb its tantalizing juices.

Desserts by pastry chef Andrea Bonitatibus are consistently beautiful and compelling, particularly a dense, chocolaty s’more cake topped with thick marshmallow ice cream and supported by a graham cookie base. The chocolate marquise is a carefully composed cake/pudding conjuration with strong banana notes and delicious sesame brittle. And a busy Meyer lemon creme brulee, which itself betrayed no hint of citrus, is topped with piles of marmalade and a quenelle of intense lemon gelato.

The affront of a $21 manhattan at the top of the cocktail list is softened by a number of more sensibly priced mixtures such as the smoky X-Ray Yankee Zulu—with ma r row-i n f used bou rbon, a cha rcoa linfused bitter aperitif, and a slab of candied bacon (not as childish as it sounds)—or, say, a negroni as conventional as the former drink is aberrant. Wines by the glass are helpfully offered in three- and six-ounce pours in case you aren’t sure about that fruity and metallic Austrian zweigelt, or the Cabernet Franc priced at $128.

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ive hundred years ago, growing AMARANTH in Mexico was a crime punishable by death: the Spanish invaders had outlawed cultivating or even possessing the staple crop. Key to both the diet and religion of the Aztecs, amaranth seeds were mixed with honey and human blood, formed into cakes shaped like the gods, and then eaten in religious ceremonies—a practice with which the conquistadors took issue. But despite the ban, enough amaranth continued to grow in the wild that it never died out, and today throughout the continent there’s increased interest in the high-protein, gluten-free seeds (while it’s often called a grain, technically amaranth is a pseudocereal, like quinoa and buckwheat).

So when Sarah Jordan of Johnny’s Grill challenged RACHEL DOW, chef at the BETTY, to create a dish with amaranth, Dow had no trouble finding it. Working with it was another matter. “It kind of tastes like dirt,” she says. “Definitely extremely earthy. I probably wouldn’t choose to eat it very often.”

Amaranth can be ground into flour, boiled like rice, or popped like popcorn. Dow tried preparing it a couple of ways, and found that popping it was harder than she expected—“If the pan is too hot it burns [the seeds] before they pop; if it’s too cold nothing happens.”

Instead, she focused on the boiling method, which produces a result that Dow describes

as “porridgey,” with a texture like fig seeds that pop between your teeth. Inspired by polenta fries, she made amaranth fries by cooking the tiny seeds in chicken broth with fresh corn kernels, garlic, parsley, and cheese, then cooling the mixture and cutting it into squares, which she coated in cornstarch before deep-frying them.

That formed the base for a take on shrimp and grits: the amaranth cakes stood in for grits, and Dow made a sauce with prosciutto, shallots, celery, piquillo peppers, and shrimp stock in which to cook the shrimp. After plating the amaranth cakes she arranged the cooked shrimp on top, poured sauce over them, and garnished the dish with scallions and Fresno chiles.

“If you put enough stuff with [amaranth] you can make it delicious,” Dow says. “But in and of itself, it’s kind of dirtlike.” Still, there’s a good chance she’ll use it again: she’s got nearly five pounds left over.

SENIOR APPLICATIONS ANALYST - Manage key business partner relationships for assigned project areas and internal customers. Specifically, assist business users and business process owners in the areas of business process reengineering, systems architecture, SAP design, application development, integration, testing and deployment. Develop, implement and roll out solutions utilizing SAP SCM globally.

Develop functional application design and specifications, as well as configure and support SAP APO modules, specifically APO DP, PPDS, SNP and GATP to meet business needs. Responsible for unit test applications, including customizations and interfaces.

Guide users during testing activities and applications start-up activities. Facilitate the process of change by clarifying new procedures and training system users.

Plan and establish after go-live activities including on-going application and support.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer S cience/Engineering or its foreign educational equivalent plus five years of experience as a SAP APO Analyst in the position offered or in a similar computer system analyst position with SAP

THE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANY is seeking a Sr. Consultant,

CS Investment Operations in Chicago, IL w/ the following reqts: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and/or Business Administration, Finance, or related field or any equivalent combination of foreign academic degrees. 3 yrs of related experience. Use SimCorp Coric and RevPort applications to implement new clients on to the platform and develop best practices for operations teams; organize projects from the creation stage through implementation using Microsoft Excel, Visio, Power Point, and Outlook tools as well as navigate and maintain Sharepoint sites; develop and enhance procedures for operational processes on accounting platforms, online client reporting portals, RevPort and SimCorp Coric; create and write reports and invoices for client consumption within SimCorp Coric and RevPort. Please apply online at www.northerntrustcareers. com and search for Req. # 16117

INFOR (US), INC. has an open-

ing for a Java Developer in Chicago, IL. Work on various cust. implementations to analyze, design, config, build, implement, mod, test, debug & deploy warehouse mgmt sys SW. Req’s a Bach. deg. (or foreign equiv) in Comp. Sci., Elec. Eng., Eng. or a rel’d field; & 5 yrs of progressive postbaccalaureate work exp., involving each of the following: Java devel.; object oriented prog. & design; Java SDK; relational DB mgmt sys; SQL; Eclipse IDE; design patterns; JBOSS; class loader hierarchy; dynamic loading; config.; C/C++; XML; UNIX; SVN; Oracle; & Windows. Travel & work at client sites as assigned.

Telecommuting permitted. Any suitable combo of edu., training, or exp. is acceptable. How to apply: Mail re-

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SYSTEMS ANALYSTS Zensar Technologies, Inc. has openings in Oak Brook, IL. All positions may be assigned to various, unanticipated sites throughout the US. Job Code: US-OBIL110: Computer Systems Analyst (Solution Analysis/ Coding): analyze req’s & provide solutions. Job Code: US-OBIL111 Technical Lead/Systems Analyst (Trial Runs/Testing): evaluate user requests & write programs. Mail resume to: Prasun Maharatna, 2107 North First Street, Suite 100, San Jose, CA 95131. Include job code & full job title/s of interest + r ecruitment source in cover letter.

EOE

PROGRAMMER ANALYST. CHICAGO, IL. Develop, modify

and implement computer applications software and programming.

Work with: core Java, C++, SQL, NoSQL, TOAD, Volt DB, Atlassian tool suite, CORBA, IDL and related technologies, Spring Boot, XML and JSON parsing tools, TCP and UDP socket API programming, and Hazelcast. Required: Master’s Degree in Computer Science/ Engineering/ Management Information Systems/ related. NO PHONE CALLS. Forward resumes to: Chicago Board Options Exchange, Attn: Human Resources, Ref. Dept. PMVE, 400 S. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60605.

GELBER SECURITIES, LLC a

wholly owned subsidiary of Gelber Group, LLC seeks Equity Options Traders for its Chicago, IL location to review & analyze the stock market, company-specific updates, news, & trading events. Master’s in Finance or Financial Markets +2yrs exp. or Bachelor’s in Finance or Financial Markets +5yrs exp. req’d. Exp. must incl: VBA, Black Scholes Merton models, American Style Equity options & European Style Index options, modeling for option pricing, implied volatility surfaces, SEC compliance review.

Send resume to: HR, REF#JVS, hr@gelbergroup.com

Team Leader, Japanese Automotive Global Key Accounts: Work to increase sales of industrial factory automation products for the manufacture of Japanesebrand vehicles in No. America.

Reqs. degree in Bus. Admin. + exp. in sales of factory automation equip. to auto. manuf. industry incl. global key account coord., recommendation of tech. apps., relationship mgmt. & negotiations. Reqs. up to 50% U.S. & international travel. Location: Vernon Hills, IL. Apply to Mitsubishi Electric Automation, online at http s://meau.silkroad.com/, Job Code 378-966.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, APPLICATIONS Reqs Bachelors

deg or foreign equiv in Information Technology + 2 yrs postbaccalaureate exp in job offered using VB6, SQL Server, and LAMP in benefit administration and online education environments. See full job desc at http://www.vsnr. com/job-postings/ Mail resume to: Andy Bui, Managing Member, Software Visioneer, LLC, 950 Milwaukee Ave., Suite 302, Glenview, IL 60025, Attn: Recruitment.

Software Developer – Chicago, IL, Multiple Openings. Comcast Cable Communications LLC. Build & maintain SW apps used by media sales orgs.

Reqs.

Bach in CS, Engin or rltd & 2 yrs. exp develop .NET, web-based SW in Agile environ, utilize C#, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, REST/ RESTful web services & SQL Server. Apply to: denise_mapes @cable.comcast.com. Refer to Job ID#0283 REAL ESTATE ASSISTANT

WHO’S NEXT:

Dow has challenged RYAN PFEIFFER, chef de cuisine at BLACKBIRD, to cook with BRANSTON PICKLE, a pickled chutney that’s popular in England. “It’s brown and gravylike, with square pickled vegetables in it,” Dow says. “It kind of looks like puke.” v

sume, ref. IN04, incl. job history, to: Infor (US), Inc. Attn: Cheryl Sanocki, 1351 South County Trail, Building 3, East Greenwich, RI 02818. EOE.

$$12.25/HOUR 15 / HOUR

872-203-9303 A P P LY

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Loop law office seeks legal assistant in real estate and in particular the foreclosure process with 1-3 years’ experience. The candidate should have strong computer skills (i.e. MS Word) and organizational skills. We offer a good working environment, profit sharing and health benefits.

Salary commensurate with experience. Please e-mail your resume to

clerk@gsgolaw.com

CHICAGO PUBLIC MEDIA is

hiring an Analytics Manager to work with data to help us understand audience trends, listening patterns and donation behavior in order to help guide key business decisions. Must have Google Analytics experience, and know how to use BI dashboard tools like Tableau or Qlik. Send resume, cover letter to jobs@wbez.org

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MARKETING SPECIALIST: Research market conditions in trans-

portation areas, determine potential sales, create marketing campaign to increase revenue. Gather data on competitors, analyze prices, sales, method of marketing, distribution.

Bachelor Degree in Business Manage ment/Marketing + 2 yrs exp. Res: DMK Express, Inc. 6601 S Menard Ave, Bedford Park IL 60638

ESPERANZA HEALTH CENTERS seeks Pediatrician, Chicago, IL. Provide medical care to pediatric patients. Reqs. med. degree, IL physician lic. & completion of 3yrs pediatric residency training. Send CV to Dan Fulwiler, 2001 S. California Ave, Chicago, IL 60608 WBEZ RADIO IS hiring a Talent Acquisition Manager to help us find new and diverse talent to join our growing organization. You should have 5+ years of recruitment experience ideally for a media company.

Send resume, cover letter to jobs@ wbez.org

PUBLIC RADIO’S ONLY rock-n-

roll talk show “Sound Opinions” is seeking an experienced producer with a critical editorial ear to join our team. Must have 5+ years’ experience producing a talk show or podcast for a large audience. Send resume, cover letter to jobs@wbez.org

NUTS ON CLARK Popcorn Stores

hiring for new location: Sales, cooks, stock, paid training. Starts immediately when working with a team.

Apply in person @ corp. office, 3830 N. Clark St. Chicago 9 am to 10 am Mon Thru Fri. Must bring ID’s to apply

REAL ESTATE RENTALS

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

708-388-0170

STUDIO $600-$699 ROGERS PARK! 7455 N .

Greenview. Studios starting at $675 $695 including heat. It’s a newly remodeled vintage elevator building with on-site laundry, wood floors, new kitchens and baths, some units have balconies, etc. No security deposit! For a showing please contact Samir 773-627-4894 Hunter Properties 773-477-7070 www. hunterprop.com EDGEWATER!

1061 W. Rosemont. Studios starting at $695 to $725, All Utilities included! Elevator building! Close to CTA red line train, restaurants, shopping, blocks to the lakefront, beaches and bike trails, laundry onsite, remodeled, etc. For a showing please contact Jay 773835-1864 Hunter Properties, Inc. 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms

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

MARQUETTE PARK: 6315-19 S California, Studios, 1beds, 2beds from $600-$800, Free heat, no deposit. 773.916.0039

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

STUDIO OTHER

Ashland Hotel nice clean rms.

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

Low rates daily/weekly/monthly.

South Side. Call 773-376-5200

1 BR UNDER $700 QUALITY

APARTMENTS,

Great Prices! Studios-4BR, from $450. Newly rehabbed. Appliances included. Low Move-in Fees. Hardwood floors. Pangea - Chicago’s South, Southwest & West Neighborhoods. 312-985-0556

FALL SPECIAL: STUDIOS starting at $499 incls utilities. 1BR $550, 2BR $599, 3BR $699. With approved credit. No Security Deposit for Sec 8 Tenants. South Shore & Southside. Call 312-4463333 7022 S. SHORE DRIVE Impecca-

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

Laundry & Security on Premises.

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

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

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

CHICAGO BRONZEVILLE

SOUTH.

1 BR $900-$1099

Apts. $680-$725/mo. Heat Incl. Parking available, appls incl No Pets.

773-907-0302

SECTION 8 WELCOME 3BR. 77 Ridgeland $850. Heat incl, Laundry on site.

773-874-9637 or 773-493-5359

NICE ROOM w/stove, fridge & bath Near Aldi, Walgreens, Beach, Red Line & Buses. Elevator & Laundry. $130/wk & up. 773-275-4442 BIG ROOM with stove, fridge, bath & nice wood floors. Near Red Line & Buses. Elevator & Laundry, Shopping. $121/wk + up. 773-561-4970

76TH & PHILLIPS 2BR $750$800.

Remodeled, Appliances available. FREE Heat. 312-2865678 CHICAGO - SOUTH SHORE Large 1BR, $660/mo. Free heat.

Near Transportation. Section 8 Welcome. Call 708-932-4582 406 W. 119TH St. Large Unheated 3BR apt, no pets, sec 8 Welcome $780/mo + 2 months security.

708-862-8285

WEST PULLMAN (INDIANA

GALEWOOD 2.5BR, HARDWOOD floors, security cameras on

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

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

CROSSROADS HOTEL SRO SINGLE RMS Private bath, PHONE,

Newly remod 1BR & Studios starting at $500. No sec dep, move in fee or app fee. Free heat /hot water. 1155 W. 83rd St., 773-619-0204

5401 S. Ellis.

STUDIO $470/mo.

Call 773-955-5106

5701 W. WASHINGTON. 1BR

BLUE ISLAND, completely remod 2BR. New appls., heated, lndry, prkg incl. $900/mo Sec dep req’d.

708-638-6687, 708-638-9742

CLEAN ROOM W/FRIDGE & micro, Near Oak Park, Food -4Less, Walmart, Walgreens, Buses & Metra, Laundry. $115/wk & up.

773-637-5957

CHICAGO - HYDE PARK

1338 S AUSTIN – Cicero

4950 S Prairie.

1BR. Heat, cooking gas, appl incl. Sec 8 ok. Lndry on site, prkg. $680 & up.

Z 773-406-4841

LARGE SUNNY ROOM w/fridge & microwave. Near Oak Park, Green Line & Buses. 24 hr Desk, Parking Lot $101/week & Up. (773)378-8888

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

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

CHATHAM - 7105 S. Champlain, 1BR. $640/mo. Sec 8 OK. Heat & appl. Call Office: 773-9665275 or Steve: 773-936-4749 1BR NEAR 93RD & King Drive, stove & fridge included, carpet in living room & bedroom ideal for seniors, $600/mo. 773-387-2044 RIVERDALE new decor 1 & 3BR avail, heat, water, appls, nr metro, many amenities. $700 & $925/mo.

No Pets. No Smoke. 708-841-8094 CALUMET CITY - Comfortable 1 bedroom, heat, A/C, appliances & carpet included, $650/month + security, 708-957-2043

property, near trans. $825/mo.

Tenant pays utils. 773-882-2688

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

HEAT INCL 773-955-5106

1 BR $700-$799 HUMBOLDT PARK. ONE bed-

room apartment for rent. Newly remodeled. Next door to food store. $750 per month plus security deposit. Near shopping area. Monica, 773592-2989.

CHATHAM - 88TH & Dauphin.

Lovely 2BR, lndry rm, security camera, nr metra, $800-$900/mo, 312-341-1950

8324 S INGLESIDE: 1BR, 1st flr, newly remod., lndry, hdwd flrs, cable. Sec 8 welcome.$660/mo.

708-308-1509 or 773-493-3500

1 BR $800-$899 LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W

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

Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $875-$925 include heat and gas, laundry in building. Great view! Close to CTA Red Line, bus, stores, restaurants, lake, etc. To schedule a showing please contact Celio 773-3961575, Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com

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Studio-1bedrooms $800-$900 Free heat. Call 312.208.1771

LARGE ONE BEDROOM apart-

ment near Loyola Park. 1341 W Estes.

Hardwood floors. Heat included. Cats OK. Laundry in building. Available 11/ 1. $925/ month. Small one bedroom apartment available for $750/ month.

773-761-4318, www. lakefrontmgt.com

LARGE ONE BEDROOM apart-

ment near Red Line. 6822 N Wayne.

Hardwood floors. Pets OK. Laundry in building. $900-$925/ month. Heat included. Available 11/1. 773-761-4318, www.lakefrontmgt.com

ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT

near Warren Park and Metra, 6802 N Wolcott. Hardwood floors. Heat included. Laundry in building. Cats OK. $900/ month. Available 11/1. 773761-4318, www.lakefrontmgt.com

WRIGLEVILLE 1BR, 1000SF, new kit/deck, FDR, oak flrs, Cent H eat/AC, prkg avail. $1295 + util, Pet friendly, 773-743-4141 www. urbanequities.com ROGERS PARK:

Deluxe 2BR + den, new kitchen, FDR, oak floors close to beach. $1250/heated, 774-743-4141 www.urbanequities.com

EDGEWATER 1000SF 1BR; new kit, sunny FDR, oak flrs, Onsite lndy; PKG Avail., $1095/incl heat.

773-743-4141 www. urbanequities.com

1 BR $1100 AND OVER UKRAINIAN

VILLAGE!

2251

W. Thomas, 1 bedroom at $1175.

Close to restaurants, grocery, shops, nightlife and public transportation.

No security deposit. For a showing please contact Jolanda 773-4897404. Hunter Properties 773-4777070 www.hunterprop.com

1 BR OTHER PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT PARKWAY APARTMENTS, located at 712 W. Diversey, Chicago, Illinois, is opening its Waiting List for individuals in need of affordable apartments. Minimum annual income Studio $17,784 and 1BR $19,860. All requests for pre-applications must be completed in person at: Parkway Apartments 712 W. Diversey Chicago, Illinois 60614 1:00PM - 5:00 PM Friday, October 21, 2016 CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 ***

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APTS. FOR RENT PARK MGMT & INV. Ltd. TIME TO TURN THE FURNANCE ON!!!

Most units Include..

HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $495.00 1Bdr From $550.00 2Bdr From $745.00 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath From $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000** CHICAGO, CHATHAM NO SECURITY DEPOSIT Spacious updated 1BR from $600 with great closet space.

Incl: stove/fridge, hdwd flrs, blinds, heat & more!!!

LIMITED INVENTORY ** Call (773) 271-7100 ** ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar Villas is accepting applications for subsidized 1BR apts. for seniors 62 years or older and the disabled.

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

LARGE 1 BEDROOM, $725

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

ONE OF THE BEST M & N MGMT, 1BR, 7727 Colfax ** 2 Lrg BR, 6754 Crandon ** 2 & 3BR, 2BA, 6216 Eberhart ** Completely rehabbed.

You deserve the best ** 773-9478572 or 312-613-4427 FREE HEAT No Sec Dep/ Move-in fee!

Sec 8 ok. 1, 2 & 3 BR. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe.

Call Gina 773-874-0100 126 EMERALD 5 & 2, fin bsmt

$1550.

142 Lowe 3 & 1, fin bsmt, $1125.

144 Emerald 3 & 2 + $1190. Appts 773.619.4395 Charlie 818.679.1175

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS. 4 BR,

Modern kitchen & bath, 2 ca r garage. $1200 and up plus sec dep, Section 8 ok. 847-909-1538

CHICAGO - BEVERLY, large 2 room Studio, 1 & 2BR Apts. Carpet, A/C, laundry, near transportation, $650-$975/mo. Call 773-233-4939

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71ST/HERMITAGE. 3BR. 77th/ Lowe. 2BR. 69th/Dante, 3BR. 71st/ Bennett. 2 & 3BR. New renov.

Sec 8 ok. 708-503-1366 SUBURBS, RENT TO OW N! Buy with No closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708868-2422 or visit www.nhba.com BELLWOOD 2BR, 1BA apt, encl porch, parking available, near transportation and shops. $825/mo. 773-849-5314

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

LOGAN SQUARE 2 bedroom apartment, 2-flat building, modern kitchen & bath, balcony, washer & dryer. $800/mo. Near Blue Line.

773-235-1066

NORTH AVE & Cicero Clean/Quite 2BR 2nd Fl apt, Appl incl. ten pay utils.

No pets. $895/mo + sec dep. Call 708503-0817 Must See!!!

DIXMOOR 2BR, QUIET area, carpet, parking, near transportation. $695mo + sec.

773-568-7750

OAK PARK - Lg 2BR, hdwd flrs, decorative fire place, granite kitchen, D/W, close to trans. Heat Incl. $1295+. 708-359-1440 CHICAGO, FAR SOUTH SIDE,

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

ROYALTON HOTEL, Kitchen-

ette $135 & up wk. Free WiFi. 1810 W. Jackson 312-226-4678

2 BR UNDER $900 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in Calumet City, nice neighborhood, quiet building, newly remodeled, heat, gas & water included. Security deposit required. $850/mo.

708-288-5358 CHICAGO 5246 S. HERMITAGE: 2BR bsmt $400. 2BR 1st floor, $525. 3BR, 2nd floor, $625.

1.5 mo sec req’d. 708-574-4085.

75TH/EMERALD. No Sec. Dep. Required! Hurry Won’t Last! Water and Heat Incl. 2BR. $750. Income verification req Mel 312-9821400

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Newly decorated, 2BR Townhouse, $640/mo. Section 8 Welcome.

773-873-4321, 8am-5pm

AUBURN GRESHAM, 1401 W 80TH , 2bed for $895 – No app fee, No deposit, free heat. 312.208.1771

2 BR $900-$1099 8043 S. CHAMPLAIN, newly rehab 2.5BR, hdwd flrs, updtd kit + BA, eat in DR, heat & water incl. $950. Available Nov 1st.

773-609-5517 CHICAGO, 9307 S. Saginaw, Newly rehabbed, 2BR, carpet, stove & fridge, heat not incl, $950/ mo. Sect 8 welc. Mr. Johnson, 773294-0167 4321 W CORTEZ ST. Very nice

2BRapartment, dining room, central air, $900/mo + 1.5 month sec. Eng 773-620-1241 or Sap 702-793-0710

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

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

Evanston 1100sf 3BR, W/new Appl, oak floors $1275/mo incls heat. 773-743-4141 www. urbanequities.co CALUMET PARK, 2BR House, completely rehabbed, $1100/mo + security. Tenants pay own utils.

Section 8 ok. 708-388-5701 CHATHAM BEAUTIFUL REMOD 2 & 3BR, hdwd flrs, custom

cabinets, avail now. $1100-$1200/mo + sec. 773-905-8487 Sec 8 Ok

73RD & DORCHESTER, 2BR, carpet, $1210; 119th & Calumet, 3BR, 2BA, carpet, $1350. No Sec Dep. Sec 8 ok. 773-684-1166.

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

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3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499

LARGE TWO BEDROOM, two

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, REHABBED 2BR 2-sty home w/ fin bsmt, living rm, dining rm, hdwd flrs, 2-car gar, $1200/mo.

773-793-2382

LINCOLN SQUARE AREA, 2023 W. Balmoral , 3 bdrm. Central AC, newly decorated, 1st fl. apt. laundry fac. hardwood floors. Quiet area.

Tenant pays utilities. No dogs. Credit/ background check. $1,400 + security

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

Available 11/1. $1695/ month. Parking available. $150/ month for single parking space. $250/ month for tandem parking space. 773-761-4318, w ww.lakefrontmgt.com

SUNNY, SPACIOUS 2ND floor

unit of brick 2-flat. Hardwood floors, 1 bathroom, spacious closets, free laundry, heat included. EZ street parking. Roscoe Village/St.Ben’s neighborhood. Avail. Oct.15. $1800 773-344-1976

2 BR OTHER ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar

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

CHICAGO, ASHBURN AREA, 2 & 3BR, 1BA, HARDWOOD FLOORS, LAUNDRY ROOM, C /A, $875-$1050/MO. SECTION 8 WELCOME. 773-4300101

Split level. Hardwood floors in Lv Rm & Dn Rm. Carpet in Bedrooms.

AC & ceiling fans thru out. One Bdrm & Bath on 2nd Fl, One Bdrm & Bath in 3rd Fl with separate exit.

Great for roommates. Pet friendly.

Unit has its own furnace. Laundry & Storage room on 3rd Fl. Art Gallery on 1st fl. Electric, garbage, water & laundry facilities included.

Rent $1,450/mo plus securities AVL immediately. Lease. Call Karly @ 574-806-1049

WEST DEPAUL 1548 W. Fullerton, 2BR, hardwood floors, deck, washer/dryer, garage available, $1400/mo + extra for garage. $400 off if signed by November 1. Call Carlos 773-230-9156

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AUSTIN & HIRSCH, 6 rooms, 3BR, appls, carpet, $1150/mo + utils. 1 mo rent + 1 mo sec.

Adults pref. Avail now. No pets.

773-637-9807 SECTION 8 WELCOME. No Security Deposit. 7721 S Peoria, 3BR apt, appls incl. $1050/mo.

708-288-4510

come. No security dep. 4841 S Michigan, 4BR apt, appls incl, $1300/mo.

708-288-4510

CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK HOMES. Spacious 2-3 BR Townhomes, Inclu: Prvt entry, full bsmt, lndry hook-ups. Ample prkg. Close to trans & schls. Starts at $844/ mo. w w w . p p k h o m e s . com;773-264-3005 MATTESON, 2BR, $990$1050; 3BR, $1250-$1400.

Move In Special is 1 Month’s Rent & $99 Sec Dep. Sect 8 Welc. 708-748-4169 CALUMET PARK, Impeccably clean, 2BR coach house, hdwd flrs, all appliances incl. $675/mo. 708370-2826, btwn 3pm-10pm.

AFFORDABLE 2 & 3BRs FROM

$650. Newly decorated, heated/ unheated. 1 Month Free for qualified tenants. CRS (312) 782-4041

CALUMET CITY CONDO for lease with option to buy, 2BR, 2BA. For details call 312-3426607, serious offers only.

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SOUTHSIDE: 68th & Hermitage 3BR$800/mo, 68th & Emerald 5BR, 2BA $1050/ mo, 3BR, 1BA $800/mo 847-977-3552 4BR

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legal notices STATE OF ILLINOIS County of Cook In The Circuit Court For Cook County, Illinois In The Matter of the Petition of Shani Francis Case# 16M2003658 For Change of Name. Notice of Publication Public Notice is hereby given that on November 30, 2016 at 9:00 AM being one of the return days in the Circuit Court of the County of Cook, I will file my petition in said court praying for the change of my name from Shani Francis to that of Shani Francis-Alim, pursuant to the statute in such case

made and provided. Dated at Evanston, Illinois, October 17, 2016.

Signature of Petitioner: Shani Francis. October 20, 27 & November 3 NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County.

Registration Number: D16148418 on October 12, 2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of MEAN LITTLE ELF with the business located at: 3640 N. CHRISTIANA AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60618. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner (s)/ partner(s) is: STEVEN HOLMQUIST, 3640 N. CHRISTIANA AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60618, USA NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D16148261 on September 28, 2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of LAW OFFICES OF SHARON SHI with the business located at: 500 N. MICHIGAN AVE., STE. 600, CHICAGO, IL 60611. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner (s)/partner(s) is: XIAOMING SHI, 2152 N. LAKEWOOD AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60614, USA

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County.

Registration Number: D16148417 on October 12, 2016 Under the Assumed Business Name of T & Z ELECTRICAL with the business located at: 2957 N ELSTON AVE., CHICAGO, IL 60618. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: JOSEPH SARPY, 2957 N ELSTON AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60618, USA

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pur-

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STRAIGHT DOPE

By Cecil Adams Q : Any guidance for those who fear a fascist

takeover of the United States and think they may need to get out in a hurry? What countries will accept political refugees from the U.S. on short notice? What’s the easiest way to get your money out of the country in advance? Are there people who will arrange to ship one’s art collection overseas, no questions asked? —ALBERT ETTINGER

A : I’m happy to note, Al, that the odds of a fascist takeover look somewhat slimmer than they did when your question arrived a few weeks back. Even so, one has to deal with the tension somehow as this debilitating campaign enters its final stretch: for some, that may mean constantly re-refreshing poll-tracking sites; for others, evidently, it means packing the bags and setting ’em by the door. The bad news for blue-state types ready to scram on November 9 is that things will have to get really scary before any old American citizen can pass as a political refugee. The good news?

That leaves more time to plan your exciting new life abroad and find a safe harbor for you and your money. Well, most of your money.

A refugee, you see, has to persuade some kindly foreign government that she has, per UN convention, a “well-founded fear” of persecution because of “race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.” The election of an unqualified bully as chief exec won’t in itself do the trick, and even if President Trump concluded his inaugural address with a declaration of martial law, you’d still have to demonstrate you’re a likely target of government oppression. Finding yourself on a national database of Muslim-Americans might not even be enough until federal goons actually start rounding up the registrants.

Where to flee to? If you’re concerned about Trump, I can’t imagine you’re a big Putin fan, so following Edward Snowden to Russia is probably a no-go. Closer to home, Canada’s liberal refugee policy doesn’t mean they’ve been overly sympathetic to putatively oppressed Americans. A black American, Kyle Canty, who’d argued he was endangered by racially motivated police violence in the U.S. lost his Canadian asylum bid in January. But you never know. In 2014 Canadian immigration officials ruled that a Florida court’s 30-year prison sentence for having sex with a 16-year-old boy was excessive and let U.S. citizen Denise Harvey stay up north.

Assuming a long, slow slide into totalitarian hell for the U.S. rather than a sudden putsch, consider less urgent forms of emigration. Line up employment in Canada beforehand, for instance—they’re much more wel-

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coming to foreigners seeking a work visa than we are, and if you’ve got the right skills (plus enough cash savings to ensure that you won’t beeline onto the dole) they might open their doors even before you score a job offer. Then again, if you’ve really got some extra bucks in the bank, invest in a business overseas—most countries just love deep-pocketed foreign entrepreneurs.

Staying in your new nation is potentially trickier than getting in—one pink slip and it could be back to the U.S. with you, freeloader. If you plan on marrying into citizenship, choose your destination wisely: wedding your Saskatchewanian sweetie, for instance, doesn’t put you on the fast track to becoming a naturalized Canadian. Most European nations are more accommodating to foreign-born spouses, though, and if you tie the knot with an obliging Brazilian, full citizenship can be yours within a year. Some countries might grant you citizenship based on descent: the Law of Return permits Jews to relocate in Israel, and if one of your grandparents was born in Ireland there’s a process for repatriation to the auld sod.

As for your art collection—for a displaced person, Al, you certainly are a high roller— some governments will indeed demand a sizable chunk of its value. Sweden might otherwise be a dream relocation site, but you’d have to cough up a 25 percent value-added tax. Certainly there are shady professionals who can assist, but immigration officials prefer their admittees with clean hands, and a smuggling racket is a good way to make a bad (read: extraditable) first impression.

Though we hear the same talk about moving to Canada or Europe every four years, evidence suggests few Americans actually skedaddle after the wrong candidate gets elected. This year the big difference is that the people most likely endangered by a Trump victory are the ones who really want to stick around.

It’d be cruelly ironic if the subjects of mass deportation were to find a mess of American expats waiting for them in Mexico. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage

Introducing ‘the Trump Talk’

Dan Savage sanctions a new coinage on behalf of little girls.

Q: Waiting to pay for my groceries at the market this evening, this guy, stinking of booze, says to my nine-yearold daughter, “Sweetheart, can you put the divider thing there for me?” He then thumps two huge bottles of vodka down on the belt. I move closer to my daughter; he then reaches his hand over me and wraps his hand around her arm, saying, “Now, you be nice to your mommy, sweetie.”

I pluck his hand off. “Do not touch my child,” I say.

My other hand is pressed against my daughter’s ribs, and I can feel her heart POUNDING. “You have a beautiful daughter,” he says.

So pissed. We leave. “I hated that man,” my daughter says once we get in the car. “He smelled bad, I wanted to hit him. If anyone ever does that to me again I’m going to scream.” Here we effing go: “Sometimes you have to be hypervigilant,” I tell my daughter, “because some gross men out there feel they are entitled to touch us.” And then I share my story: “When I was a little girl . . . ” We have to learn to brush this shit off, to make sure that this endless assault course of predators doesn’t take one bit of your pride, your confidence, or your sense of peace as you walk through this world. I am so angry.

We should call this the “Trump Talk.” The depressing conversation that every parent needs to have with their little girl about revolting, predatory, entitled men.

The Trump Talk. —MOTHER AND DAUGHTER DISCUSS ENRAGING REALITIES

A: I’m sorry about what

happened to your daughter at the grocery store, but I’m glad you were there with her when it happened.

The author Kelly Oxford, in response to Donald Trump’s horrific comments about sexually assaulting women, called on women to tweet about their first assaults under the hashtag #notokay.

Oxford’s post went viral— more than a million women responded—and reading through the seemingly endless thread, I was struck by how many women were alone the first time they were assaulted. Oxford herself was alone the first time it happened to her: “Old man on a city bus grabs my ‘pussy’ and smiles at me. I’m 12.”

So thank God you were there with your daughter, MADDER, there to pull that asshole’s hand off of her, there to protect her from worse, and there to help her process the experience. And in that car ride home you inoculated your daughter with your message (you are a human being and you have a right to move through this world unmolested) before gross predators could infect her with theirs (you are only an object and we have a right to touch you). I want to live in a world where this sort of thing doesn’t happen to anyone’s daughter, MADDER, but until we do: Every little girl should be so lucky as to have a trusted adult standing by ready to intervene when it does happen.

Regarding your suggestion, MADDER, I’ve received roughly ten million emails begging me to do for Donald Trump what I did for Rick Santorum: My readers and I redefined santorum (“the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex”), and some wanted us to do the same for Trump. People even sent in suggestions: trump is the streak of shit a large turd sometimes leaves on the bottom of the toilet

bowl; trump is the snot that sometimes runs out of your nose when you’re giving a blow job; a trump is a guy so hopelessly inept in bed that no woman (or man) wants him, no matter how rich he is. The suggested new meanings all struck me as trivial and snarky—and I don’t think there’s anything trivial about the racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, and violence that Trump has mainstreamed and normalized, and I’m not inclined to snark about it.

And, besides, trump already has a slang meaning: it means “to fart audibly” in Great Britain—and that definition is already in the Oxford English Dictionary. And it frankly didn’t seem possible to make Donald Trump’s name any more revolting than he already has.

Nothing I could say in my sex column could even slightly elevate the feelings of disgust decent people experience whenever they hear his name.

But then your e-mail arrived, MADDER. Your suggestion—that parents call the conversation they need to have with their daughters about predatory and entitled men the “Trump Talk”—is just as fitting and apt as the “frothy mixture” definition of santorum. It’s not trivial and it’s not snarky. It has gravitas, MADDER, and here’s hoping “Trump Talk” isn’t just widely adopted but universally practiced. Because no little girl who gets groped on a bus or in a grocery store or on a subway or in a classroom should ever have to wonder if she did something wrong. v Send letters to mail@ savagelove.net. Download the Savage Lovecast every Tuesday at thestranger.com. ß @fakedansavage

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The King Khan & BBQ Show 12/3-4, 9 PM, Empty Bottle, second show added Mindless Behavior 12/2, 7 PM, House of Blues, canceled Sticky Fingers 10/18, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, postponed

UPCOMING American Football 10/29, 7:30 PM, the Vic b Anderson Wakeman Rabin 11/5, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Animals as Leaders 11/25, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Bad Bad Hats, Flint Eastwood 12/9, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen Band of Horses 11/16, 7:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom b Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 11/27, 5 and 8 PM, City Winery b David Bromberg 11/11, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Cage the Elephant, Catfish & the Bottlemen 12/2, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom Children of Bodom, Abbath 11/26, 6 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Elvis Costello & the Imposters 10/29, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Dead Horses 12/14, 8 PM, Schubas Dickies, Queers 11/17, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Diiv, Moon King 11/10, 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Earthless, Ruby the Hatchet 12/2, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Rik Emmett 11/3, 8 PM, City Winery b Epica, Fleshgod Apocalypse 11/8, 6:30 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Fight Amp 11/5, 8 PM, Township, 18+ Fitz & the Tantrums, Grouplove, Switchfoot 12/3, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom Frigs 11/30, 9 PM, Hideout

b The Good Life 11/11, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Gza 10/30-31, 8 PM, City Winery b Helmet, Local H 12/16, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 18+ Hoops 11/17, 9 PM, Hideout In Flames, Hellyeah 11/30, 7:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Jesu, Sun Kil Moon 11/13, 8 PM, Park West, 18+ Elle King 11/5, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b King Dude 12/17, 9 PM, Beat Kitchen La Sera, Springtime Carnivore 10/30, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Lordi 2/14, 7 PM, Double Door Lucero 10/28, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Majid Jordan 11/6, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Mannheim Steamroller 12/17, 8 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont MDC 10/30, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Mystery Lights 12/6, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Natural Child 11/4, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Nohband 10/30, 7:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Paper Route 11/4, 7 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Partynextdoor, Jeremih 11/29, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom b Passenger 3/17, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b Purity Ring 10/29, 8:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b Pujol 11/15, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Purling Hiss 11/18, 9 PM, Hideout Queensryche 12/9, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Quince 11/13, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Joshua Radin, Good Old War 11/8, 7:30 PM, Thalia Hall b David Ramirez 10/28, 10 PM, Schubas Rdgldgrn 11/21, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Rebelution 11/12, 9 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ Red Fang, Torche, Whores 12/10, 8 PM, Metro, 18+ Screeching Weasel, Bowling for Soup, Ataris 11/4, 6:30 PM, Concord Music Hall b Set Your Goals 11/5, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge b Harry Shearer & Judith Owen’s Christmas Without Tears 12/11, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Joan Shelley 12/3, 9 PM, Hideout Richard Shindell 11/11, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Sims 11/4, 10 PM, Schubas Sister Hazel 12/9-10, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Troye Sivan 11/1, 7:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom b Nik Turner’s Hawkwind 11/6, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Turnpike Troubadours 11/16, 7:45 PM, Joe’s Live, Rosemont

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Twin Peaks, Together Pangea 12/17, 7:30 PM, Metro b Twiztid 10/29, 7 PM, Portage Theater, 17+ Two Door Cinema Club 11/25, 8:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom b Two Tongues, Backwards Dancer 11/16, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Jonathan Tyler 11/11, 10 PM, Schubas Ulcerate 11/27, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Ultimate Painting 12/2, 9:30 PM, Hideout Wild Nothing, Small Black 11/9, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Webb Wilder 10/28, 7 PM, SPACE, Evanston b A Wilhelm Scream 12/2, 7 PM, Cobra Lounge, 17+ Lucinda Williams 12/28-31, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, 12/29-31 sold out b Dar Williams 11/17, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Peter Wolf & the Midnight Travelers 11/14, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b 11/15, 8 PM, City Winery b Wood Brothers 11/3, 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Young the Giant, Ra Ra Riot 11/4, 7:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom

SOLD OUT Bear vs. Shark 10/29, 8 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Jon Bellion 10/28, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b Bongripper 10/29, 9 PM, Hideout Lukas Graham 1/17, 7 PM, House of Blues b Highly Suspect 11/18, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge b Jason Isbell 11/18, 7:30 PM, Thalia Hall and 11/19, 7 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Louis the Child 11/25-26, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ Marshmello 11/25-27, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Mr. T Experience, Nobodys 12/9, 7 PM, Reggie’s Music Joint, 17+ Roisin Murphy 11/7, 8 PM, Double Door, 18+ Conor Oberst 11/26, 8:30 PM and 11/27, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Pup, Meat Wave 11/12, 7:30 PM, Bottom Lounge b Timeflies 11/4, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge b Tricky 10/30, 7 PM, Double Door v

GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene IT’S HARD TO BELIEVE, but one of Gossip Wolf’s favorite vinyl shops, Permanent Records, has run its brick-and-mortar location in Ukrainian Village for ten years!

(It’s been a label too for almost as long.)

On Monday, October 24, the Permanent crew take over the Empty Bottle to celebrate their tin anniversary with a free Monday show headlined by noisy malcontents Running, who released their selftitled debut on Permanent in 2010. Also on the bill are Ohio postpunks Counter Intuits (aka former Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments front man Ron House and Times New Viking guitarist Jared Phillips), ethereal synth avatar Matchess, and Nude Attitudes & No Dreams—that is, a collaborative set by two solo projects from members of Rectal Hygienics. And speaking of “bill,” between bands Trouble in Mind cofounder Bill Roe, who once worked at Permanent, will spin records.

The free show starts at 9 PM! Wicker Park shop Shuga Records and downstate punk label Manic Static have just hooked up to put out a transparent blue vinyl reissue of the totally excellent self-titled 2014 debut by local indie-rock quartet Ne-Hi. When you buy your copy at Shuga, tell ’em Gossip Wolf sent you!

Local dub-rock duo Hobbyist describe themselves as “Suicide meets Jim Croce,” and these Bad, Bad Leroy Browns—aka multi-instrumentalist Marc Mozga and singer Holly Prindle—deliver on that odd promise! Last week Arizona label Precarian Cuts dropped a killer Hobbyist single, “2244,” on a handmade lathe-cut picture disc. In a rad move by everyone involved, all proceeds benefit the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network.

On Sunday, October 23, Comfort Station in Logan Square hosts the inaugural ZINEmercado zine fest, a free event that brings together dozens of diverse independent zine makers and comics artists—accompanied by DJ sets and a performance from old Gossip Wolf pals Wet Wallet. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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