Chicago Reader: print issue of November 10, 2016 (Volume 46, Number 6)

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KEMANG WA LEHULERE In All My Wildest Dreams

Through January 16 This exhibition is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago. Ongoing support for exhibitions is provided by the Alfred L. McDougal and Nancy Lauter McDougal Fund for Contemporary Art. Additional support for this exhibition is contributed by the Evening Associates, The Joyce Foundation, Pamela J. Joyner and Alfred J. Giuffrida, and Helyn Goldenberg and Michael Alper. In-kind support for this exhibition is provided by Christopher E. Olofson. Annual support for Art Institute exhibitions is provided by the Exhibitions Trust: Neil Bluhm and the Bluhm Family Charitable Foundation, Kenneth Griffin, Robert M. and Diane v.S. Levy, Thomas and Margot Pritzker, Anne and Chris Reyes, Betsy Bergman Rosenfield and Andrew M. Rosenfield, the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation, and the Woman’s Board.

Image: Kemang Wa Lehulere. One is too many, a thousand will never be enough, 2016. © Kemang Wa Lehulere. Courtesy STEVENSON, Cape Town and Johannesburg.

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IN THIS ISSUE This was supposed to be the cover.

4 Agenda The play Fun Home, the exhibit “In the Circle: Chicago Footwork,” Kristen Toomey records her first comedy album, Joel McHale discusses his memoir, the film Arrival, and more recommendations

CITY LIFE

8 Sports How the Cubs’ World Series magic transformed Wrigleyville from hellhole to happy place

MUSIC & NIGHTLIFE 32 Shows of note Quinn Tsan, Beef Jerk, Lyric Opera’s Les Troyens, and more 35 The Secret History of Chicago Music Hyde Park postpunks the Imports could’ve been America’s Joy Division.

ELECTION 2016

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impressive world premiere at Goodman Theatre.

22 Visual Art “Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination” transports visitors to new spaces.

23 Movies Mel Gibson is back with Hacksaw Ridge, a biopic of the World War II hero who never fired a shot.

10 Sports Scenes from the most lovable campaign of 2016: the Cubs’ march to the World Series 12 Space An Elgin couple has joined the growing tiny-house movement.

16 Transportation For Latino and Latina activists, transportation justice means factoring in immigration and gentrification.

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18 The Economy, Stupid Robert Gordon says the glory days of American growth are behind us.

19 Lit The Humanities Festival goes to Bronzeville—with Isabel Wilkerson and Cajmere.

20 Dance Links Hall founder Bob Eisen delves into “Past, Past, Present.”

20 Theater Andrew Hinderaker’s The Magic Play gets an

48 Straight Dope How the process of animal euthanasia compares to executing people by lethal injection 49 Savage Love A bi polyamorist’s primary partner won’t share him with anyone of her name.

50 Early Warnings Japandroids, Los Lobos, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and more shows to come 50 Gossip Wolf Carrot Top Distribution takes Saki with it as it shuts down, and more music news.

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F touring production too: worthy. Despite the occasional confusions of David Zinn’s set design, Sam Gold’s staging combines wit with great emotional clarity. Robert Petkoff reveals a truly dangerous Bruce. And Abby Corrigan stands out as one of three actors portraying Alison at different ages—especially when, having discovered sex, she sings, “I’m changing my major to Joan.” —TONY ADLER Through 11/13: Tue-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 and 7:30 PM, Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre, 24 W. Randolph, 800-775-2000, broadwayinchicago.com, $42-$110.

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More at chicagoreader.com/ theater Another Snowy Day With R Beatrix Potter and Friends With Another Snowy Day, Will Bishop

and Chicago Children’s Theatre have crafted a winter puppet show extravaganza that’s dazzling, brisk at under an hour, and sweet as can be. It’s based on three of Beatrix Potter’s animal stories, handsomely woven together by three actors who can do it all: They animate Peter Rabbit and his companions (one a ginormous fish) with beauty and dexterity. And they provide musical accompaniment on many instruments and sing in harmony. With their help, the beloved tales are brought to life with such joy that the finely realized puppets (designed by Grace Needlman) genuinely seem to laugh, cry, and speak.

This is excellent children’s theater. If you have babies, you should take them— they’ll love it. If you are a baby, I’m very impressed with your reading skills and you should go: you’ll love it. If you don’t have babies, go make some! They’ll love it! —MAX MALLER Through 11/20: SatSun 9:30 and 11 AM, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, 312-3376543, chicagochildrenstheatre.org, $25.

Betrayal Director Lauren R Shouse’s well-paced, astutely observed staging of Harold Pinter’s

1978 semiautobiographical play makes manifest just how inconsequential the work is, at least in comparison to Pinter’s other dramas. Unspooling backward in time over nine years, it focuses on a trio of tortured cultural elites betraying one another in various ways. Emma has an affair with Jerry, her husband Robert’s best friend—meaning Emma betrays her husband, Jerry betrays his wife and his best friend, and Emma betrays Jerry by confessing the affair to her husband behind Jerry’s back. Shouse’s cast has a solid grasp on Pinter’s sublimated drama, with everything played excruciatingly close to the vest. Although there’s little at stake beyond some terribly hurt

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feelings, fine performances make for a compelling, convincing 75 minutes.

—JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 12/17: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 3:30 and 8 PM, Sun 3:30 PM, Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, 773-338-2177, raventheatre.com, $46, $41 seniors ($3 discount if ordered online).

First Lady Suite Composer-liR brettist Michael John LaChiusa’s artful chamber opera probes the

privileges and pressures of being a presidential wife in a trio of inventive vignettes. One episode focuses on Jackie Kennedy from the perspective of her disgruntled, overworked secretary as the women wait aboard Air Force One before arriving in Dallas on a fateful November day in 1963; another finds inebriated Mamie Eisenhower fantasizing about a trip with black opera singer Marian Anderson to rouse Ike to action in the Arkansas school integration crisis; the third imaginatively explores the relationship between Eleanor Roosevelt and lesbian journalist Lorena Hickock, whose passionate devotion to Eleanor is only ambiguously reciprocated. LaChiusa’s complex, challenging score is well delivered by a very fine ensemble under the guidance of director Nicholas Reinhart and musical director Nick Graffagna in this adventurous Circle Theatre production. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 11/27: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 2:30 and 8 PM, Sun 2:30 PM, Tue 8 PM, Heartland Studio Theatre, 7016 N. Glenwood, 773-791-2393, circletheatrechicago.org, $28.

a low-budget production to deliver high-quality humor for both aficionados of the HBO show and uninitiated viewers like me. The Graeme of the title, played by a bumbling and endearing Ali Brice, is looking to impress his audience of high-powered investors (Andrew Lloyd Webber himself is rumored to be in attendance) with a taste of his stage re-creation of Thrones. In partnership with former classmate Bryony, played by a fearless and committed Libby Northedge, and friend Paul, played by a versatile and goofy Michael Condron, Graeme spoofs the Seven Kingdoms with seemingly unimpressive props stretched wildly past their potential.

Northedge’s “high art” scenes, including some inspired physical work with ham and confetti, are especially memorable.

—MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 11/13: Wed-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 and 6 PM, Tue 7:30 PM, Broadway Playhouse, 175 E. Chestnut, 800-775-2000, broadwayinchicago.com, $36.95-$66.95.

Krampus! It’s about time R someone put a little demonic possession into the Christmas season.

Playwrights Jaclyn Jensen and Mike Wozniak of Ghostlight Ensemble strand the preternaturally midwestern Murray family, spearheaded by manically

cheery matriarch Anne, in a secluded backwoods cabin where their Christmas plans are disrupted by a massive blizzard and a legendary evil spirit named Krampus, renowned in German folklore as Saint Nicholas’s enforcer and punisher of naughty children. Krampus possesses Anne so tenaciously that two priests attempting exorcism end up as splattered innards all over Mr. Murray’s Christmas sweater. The script’s ham-fisted shlock fits nicely into the Underground Wonder Bar’s sepulchral basement bar, and the gleefully uneven cast make no effort to conceal just how hokey and untenable the entire affair is.

It’s refreshingly awful. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 12/13: Mon-Tue 7:30 PM, Underground Wonder Bar, 710 N. Clark, 312-266-7761, ghostlightensemble. com, $10, $12 at the door.

The Little Flower of East R Orange Eclipse Theatre Company closes out its Stephen Adly Guirgis

season with this 2008 gut punch about a dysfunctional family on the brink of absolute hell. A narcissistic, newly sober screw-up recalls, Glass Menagerie style, his personal failings expressing and receiving compassion from his sister and ailing mother during key days in a Bronx hospital room. Guirgis isn’t the first playwright to take special pleasure in turning the thumbscrews on his characters and audience, or the first to wade into shame and borderline misanthropy; not unlike Conor McPherson, though, he does so for the higher purpose of illuminating grace where it matters most. Steve Scott’s exceptionally cast production makes stellar use of Strawdog ensemble member John Henry Roberts as the narrator coming to terms with his choices. —DAN JAKES Through 12/13: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 2 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, 773-935-6860, eclipsetheatre.com, $30, $20 students and seniors.

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Fun Home “I was Spartan to my R father’s Athenian, modern to his Victorian, butch to his nelly, utilitarian

to his aesthete,” writes Alison Bechdel in her best-selling graphic memoir Fun Home. By her freshman year in college she was also an out lesbian to his tortured, suicidal closet case. Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori’s 2013 musical adaptation is worthy of Bechdel’s deeply felt, subtly thought, funny, elegiac book. In dialogue as well as in songs that often take the form of a kind of tuneful recitative, Kron and Tesori lay out the intricate relationship that led the daughter to self-knowledge and her father, Bruce, to self-destruction. This 100-minute Equity

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Singin’ in the Rain Tammy Mader has choreographed some sweet bits for this version of the 1983 stage musical based on the celebrated movie. The sequence set to “Gotta Dance” is a particularly big, bright deal, and the tapping overall is sharp. As good as Mader, director William Brown, and the cast are, though, they haven’t solved an essential problem: the MGM original remains unforgettable. The 1952 celluloid performances by Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds haunt each scene and song here. In fact, Brown and Mader abet the haunting by duplicating the film’s classic moments, from the upset sofa in “Good Morning” to, of course, the deluge in the title number. You leave the theater humming the tunes, sure enough, but also wondering why you didn’t simply stream the movie. —TONY ADLER Through 12/31: Wed 1 and 8 PM, Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 4:30 and 8 PM, Sun 1 and 5 PM, Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire, 10 Marriott, Lincolnshire, 847-6340200, marriotttheatre.com, $47-$52.

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National Veterans Art Museum “Vonnegut’s Odyssey,” the exhibit explores the “connections between the timeless and universal story of veterans’ return from combat” through the work of artist and author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Opening reception Fri 11/11, 6-9 PM. 11/11-5/6, 4041 N. Milwaukee, second floor, 312-3260270, nvam.org.

The Retreat Khecari presents R an installation performance that guests can experience in a two-hour,

four-hour, or overnight format, the last of which includes dinner, sleeping nests, “hypnagogic movement workshops,” and more. Thu 11/10 and Sat 11/19, 8 PM, Indian Boundary Park, 2500 W. Lunt, 773-764-0338, khecari.org, $10-$270.

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Death, Sex & Money Live! Anna Sale hosts the podcast Death, Sex & Money with guest actor and writer Mara Wilson, followed by a screening of Clueless (handpicked by Wilson). Mon 11/14, 8 PM, Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre. com, $25.

Chicago Book Expo The fifth annual Chicago Book Expo R features books from local presses,

programs, readings, workshops, and an all-day “So You Want to Be an Author” seminar hosted by Myth-Ink. Sun 11/13, noon-5 PM, Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash, 312-369-7569, chicagobookexpo.org.

Jessica Luther The sportswritR er reads from her new book, Unsportsmanlike Conduct: College Foot-

ball and the Politics of Rape, answers questions, and signs books at this event cosponsored by the Domestic Violence Legal Clinic of Chicago. Thu 11/10, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst.com.

Kristen Toomey The Chicago R stand-up records her first album, Mother.fucker. Wed 11/16, 9:30 PM,

Timothy O’Toole’s, 622 N. Fairbanks, 312642-0700, timothyotooles.com, $15, $10 in advance.

VISUAL ARTS Columbia College Hokin Gallery “In the Circle: Chicago Footwork,” artists focus on the history and future of Chicago footwork, a dance style performed to house music that started in the mid-80s. Opening reception Thu 11/10, 5-8 PM. 11/10-12/17, Mon-Thu 9 AM-7 PM, Fri 9 AM-5 PM, 623 S. Wabash, 312344-8177, colum.edu/Student_Life/DEPS/ Hokin_Gallery.php.

Museum of Science and Industry “Where the Wild Things Are: The Works of Maurice Sendak,” 50 original works of art by Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are. The Sendak exhibit is included with museum entry. 11/10-2/20, Mon-Sat 9:30

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Joel McHale: Thanks for the Money Actor and comedian Joel McHale joins Anderson’s Bookshop to discuss his memoir Thanks for the Money: How to Use My Life Story to Become the Best Joel McHale You Can Be. Sun 11/13, 2 PM, Chicago Marriott Naperville, 1801 N. Naper Blvd., Naperville, andersonsbookshop.com, $33.

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Arrival A noted linguist (Amy Adams) grieves for her teenage daughter, who has died of cancer, but that personal tragedy gets knocked into perspective when a dozen alien spaceships land at seemingly random locations around the world. Summoned by the army, the professor partners with a genial theoretical physicist (Jeremy

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Nerd Alert with Jonathan Giles R A comedy game show that pits comedians and educators against each

other in a competition of “wit versus wisdom.” Thu 11/12, 9:30 PM, the Revival, 1160 E. 55th, 866-811-4111, the-revival. com, $10.

Renner, miscast) to make contact with the visitors, who look like giant octopuses and communicate by throwing ink patterns into the air. This solemn drama lands on the New Agey end of the SF spectrum, but the special effects are potent: the alien vessels are giant black disks that hover just over the ground like ominous eggs, and their interiors are endless quadrilateral tunnels where gravity can reverse itself. Director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) draws on Close Encounters of the Third Kind for his portrayal of scientists and soldiers groping for answers and, more generally, of the celestial playing out in highly personal terms. With Forest Whitaker and Michael Stuhlbarg. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 116 min. ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, 600 N. Michigan, Webster Place

chopathology. A disgraced former cop (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his sweet wife (Yuko Takeuchi) move to a university town so he can take a teaching position, but he gets sucked into a six-year-old case involving a vanished family; left alone at home, the wife reaches out to their new neighbors and grows increasingly alarmed by the baleful weirdo who lives next door (Teruyuki Kagawa). Predictably enough, these two story lines intersect, but director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) isn’t through yet: by the end of a leisurely two-hour running time, the film has shifted from hushed intrigue to outright horror, the spouses’ relationship fed into the grinder by an epic madman with a gift for emotional manipulation. In Japanese with subtitles.

—J.R. JONES 130 min. Fri 11/11, 2 and 8 PM; Sat 11/12, 5:30 PM; Sun 11/13, 3 PM; Mon 11/14, 7:45 PM; Tue 11/15, 6 PM; Wed 11/16, 8:15 PM; and Thu 11/17, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Eagle Huntress Otto Bell R makes an impressive directing debut with this stirring documentary,

about a 13-year-old Kazakh girl who becomes the first eagle huntress in 12 generations of her family and only the second competing huntress in the modern history of Kazakhstan. The centuries-old sport, though traditionally passed from father to son, is a natural fit for the irrepressible teen, the youngest and first female entrant in her community’s annual Golden Eagle competition.

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Rutherford’s Travels Adapted from Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage

by Ilesa Duncan (who also directs) and David Barr III, Rutherford’s Travels follows the picaresque adventures of a freedman named Rutherford Calhoun (ably played by Breon Arzell) who, while trying to make his fortune in antebellum New Orleans, unwittingly stows away on a slave ship bound for Africa. Johnson’s tale echoes Poe, Melville, Conrad, and a host of others, but what makes his work extraordinary is how well he balances the protagonist’s personal journey with a searing indictment of the peculiar institution and the slave trade. Likewise, in translating the story from page to stage for Pegasus Theatre, Duncan and Barr succeed in giving us a ripping yarn that makes us feel—and reflect. —JACK HELBIG Through 12/4: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Sat 11/26, 3:15 PM, Chicago Dramatists, 1105 W. Chicago, 312-6330630, pegasustheatrechicago.org, $30, $25 seniors, $18 students.

AM-4 PM, Sun 11 AM-4 PM, 5700 S. Lake Shore, 773-684-1414, msichicago.org, $18.

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Earth when after years of criticism from animal rights advocates the elephants were retired last spring. But it’s a hole the folks of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, stealing a page from Cirque du Soleil, have filled with a diverting narrative in which the ringmaster and his sidekick go on a quest to save the circus stars from the evil intergalactic Queen Tatiana. As in Cirque shows, the plot, however loose, gives sharpness and coherence to what might otherwise be a fragmented revue-style show. This edition has three additional strengths: a terrific pace (not a single act drags), terrific musical accompaniment (no dependence on circus cliches or overplayed top 40), and costumes that are pure eye candy. —JACK HELBIG Through 11/13: Fri 7 PM, Sat 11 AM and 3 and 7 PM, Sun 1 and 5 PM, Allstate Arena, 6920 Mannheim, Rosemont, 847-635-6601, rosemont.com/allstate/events/ringlingbros-and-barnum--bailey-presents-out-ofthis-world, $20-$65.

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by Hungarian painter and filmmaker György Kovásznai reveals a gift for jazzy, kaleidoscopic storytelling. A nervous groom in Budapest tells his fiancee’s best friend that he wants to call off the wedding; the story’s premise may be relatively simple, but its rendering is elaborate and protean, with a zippy pace that demands close attention and jittery, shape-shifting visuals that can be difficult to track. Often the characters’ emotions are externalized— expanding, shrinking, fragmenting, and restyling, sometimes from one shot to the next. The film, with its dense, layered backgrounds and trippy score by János Másik, is a challenge to sit through, which makes it all the more exciting. In Hungarian with subtitles. —LEAH PICKETT 75 min. Screens as part of the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation; for a full schedule visit eyeworksfestival.com. Fri 11/11, 7 PM. Northwestern University Block Museum of Art

Loving Joel Edgerton and R Ruth Negga are exceptional as Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, the interracial married couple who sued the State of Virginia to recognize their union and, in 1967, took their case all the way

to the Supreme Court. Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Midnight Special), this drama works better as an intimate romance between two simple souls than as social history; the Lovings are pulled into the court system only by well-scrubbed attorneys from the American Civil Liberties Union (portrayed here as cynical and exploitative), and when the Supreme Court hears the couple’s case, they don’t even come to Washington. The gradual disconnect between the story line and the central characters makes the movie’s second half a little frustrating, but their reticence is the point—the Lovings want nothing more or less than to be left alone with each other. With Nick Kroll, Christopher Mann, Sharon Blackwood, and Michael Shannon. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 123 min. Landmark’s Century Centre Ninety Degrees in the R Shade The opening sequence, with its skyline full of

minarets and its bongo-driven jazz on the soundtrack, speaks to the East-West collaboration that birthed this caustic 1965 film noir: the screenwriter and most of the players were British, but the movie was shot in Prague by Czech director Jirí Weiss (Romeo, Juliet and Darkness). A shop assistant (Anne Heywood) carrying on with her married boss (James Booth) finds the finger of suspicion pointing at her after an embezzlement is uncovered by a visiting auditor (Rudolph Hrusínsky). The auditor— pale, sweaty, corpulent, bespectacled, and furiously repressed—falls for the woman but goes home at night to an alcoholic wife and a resentful teenage son. Weiss uses the stifling shop spaces to claustrophobic effect, and the psychological triangle among the three main characters is neatly constructed.

The sharply fatalistic conclusion proves that noir, though American in origin, flourishes anywhere the

Sand Storm Oddly, there’s no sandstorm in this Israeli drama— maybe the fans broke down on location—but there’s plenty of bad weather, as a modern-day Bedouin woman (Ruba Blal) swallows the humiliation of her ex-husband (Hitham Omari) remarrying and condemns her teenage daughter (Lamis Ammar) for running around with a local boy. Written and directed by Elite Zexer, the movie is like a study in prisoner psychology: the heroine has long since accepted her lot under a rigid patriarchy and encourages her daughter to do the same. The girl has a mind of her own (in one memorable scene she silences her mother with the simple declaration “I love him”), but the father is a powerful force over both women, skilled at invoking the harsh judgment of the community to keep them in line. In Arabic with subtitles. —J.R. JONES 88 min.

Screens as part of the Chicago Israeli Film Festival; for a full schedule visit israelifilmchi.org. Sat 11/12, 7 PM. Music Box Wounded Land In this 2015 Israeli drama, a Haifa cop (Roy Assaf) is tangling with a superior officer suspected of corruption when they hear a distant explosion—at which point a terse police thriller devolves into a murky social drama with too many tangents. A Palestinian suicide bomber and his victims are rushed to the city’s Rambam Hospital, where entire wings were built underground during the 2006 war with Lebanon. The hero, assigned to guard the bomber’s operating room, must fend off an ambush by vigilantes while locating his young son, who’s gone missing since the blast. Few of the narrative threads (the crooked commander’s relation to some arms dealers, the fate of Arab medicos caught in the maelstrom) are satisfactorily resolved, but that only goes to show how slow Israel’s conflicts are to heal. Erez Tadmor directed. In Hebrew with subtitles. —ANDREA GRONVALL 80 min. Screens as part of the Chicago Festival of Israeli Cinema; for a full schedule visit israelifilmchi.org. Sat 11/12, 9 PM. Music Box

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ò Chill Set Yollocalli presents a night for teens to explore the museum’s permanent collection and Day of the Dead exhibit while dancing to DJ Chris Banks. Activities include DIY video games, fortune telling, a photobooth, and a Snapchat scavenger hunt. 6-10 PM, 1852 W. 19th, 312-738-1503, yollocalli.org.

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The Cubs’ World Series magic temporarily transformed Wrigleyville from hellhole to happy place STROLLING DOWN Clark Street on the evening of game seven of the World Series, I stopped momentarily to peer into the window of one of Wrigleyville’s sports bars to see what sort of onfield feat had prompted a deep roar from the thousands packed into the neighborhood.

I stood shoulder to shoulder with a pair of Chicago cops clad in yellow vests who were doing the same—craning their necks to see a TV inside replaying Cubs’ second baseman Javier Baez hitting a

home run. The officer on my right, a fortysomething woman with a gruff Chicago accent, leaned her head toward me: “You seein’ this?

Unbelievable, right?”

“Unreal,” I replied. “Are we dreaming?”

“If it is, I don’t want to wake up,” said the officer on my left, a burly Latino man with a laugh that made his bushy mustache quiver.

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On most nights, the blocks surrounding Wrigley Field feel like the Unfriendly Confines—the last place in Chicago you’d have poignant or positive moments of bonding with strangers. Beyond the standard drunken boorishness, there’s an aggressive quality to the bacchanalian spirit of the area that’s encapsulated by the biting insults that fly freely at Wiener’s Circle, located a mile and a half south of Wrigley Field in Lincoln Park. You go to Wrigleyville at the risk of being shoved, insulted, cursed out, or vomited on—which is why many locals studiously avoid it.

I asked several people to accompany me to the Cubs’ capital, and they all acted like I said “Mordor” instead of “near the Metro.”

But Wrigleyville felt transformed that night—from one giant, insufferable, Axe-body-spray-scented bro

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bar to a massive version of Cheers, where maybe everyone didn’t know your name, but they were happy to know it, or offer you a hug or a fist bump or a salutation. It was an infectious mood, palpable all night.

The moment I stepped off the Ad-

dison Red Line I entered a conversation with two generations of a family eagerly heading to Wrigleyville all the way from the western suburbs because “we just had to be here.”

I got randomly invited to a house party while wandering alone on Eddy

Street—a couple of tipsy twentysomethings wearing Cubs gear asked if I wanted a brew and to catch the sixth inning in their two-story flat.

When I snaked my way through the crowd back to a spot I had held down to watch the game—a window outside of HVAC Pub—the quartet of women huddled around the glass offered me the vantage point I’d relinquished when I’d left to go to the bathroom.

I wasn’t surprised to read that only 14 people were arrested in Wrigleyville during the celebration—the drunken mob was the most polite and thoughtful one I’ve ever been in. That conviviality was evident when we began collectively singing the team’s delightfully cheesy anthem, “Go, Cubs, Go,” after David Ross’s improbable sixthinning blast into the far reaches of Progressive Field. Or groaned together and exchanged sympathies

after the Indians’ late-inning comeback. And then, finally, when we wildly danced as one in the streets after the final out. And the high fives! My wrist is still sore from all the dozens of them I exchanged with fans. But there were also moments of quiet devotion: some gathered around Wrigley Field, with heads bowed, saying silent prayers to the statue of Ernie Banks.

Will the mood last? Of course not.

The transformative power of sports is often overstated, and it’s naive to believe that this Cubs championship will permanently tame Wrigleyville—once-in-a-lifetime event or not. Already the revival-meeting atmosphere has begun to revert to the usual frat-party vibe.

But let’s savor the impossible moment for as long as it lasts. For once the neighborhood around Wrigley Field feels like, well, a neighborhood. —RYAN SMITH

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Eight years after Obama’s victory speech in Grant Park, the Cubs and the team’s longsuffering fans celebrated a stirring end to the postseason.

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When they were married two years ago, Elgin couple Alex and Korie Veidel had no intention of embarking on some unrealistic, high-maintenance house hunt replete with the stereotypical Craig-and-Stacia-style arguments over closet size and where to put the “man cave.” They had other concerns—like not falling into financial ruin.

“We wanted to pay off debt and not accrue more debt,” says Korie, 26, a former high school English teacher and now stay-at-home mom to their one-year-old son Abel. “Tiny-house living seemed like a good way to do that.”

Typically constructed on a trailer with wheels instead of a foundation, tiny houses are part of a growing movement in which

people seek to live simply in small quarters (around 500 square feet or less).

Korie and Alex, 23, a metal machinist and aquaponics enthusiast, did their research and came up with a list of specs for their first home together: “We wanted it to be not too big or too small,” Alex says. “But mostly not too big.”

“We also wanted a tall roof,” Korie adds, “not the real steeply pitched roofs [common to tiny homes], but something more flat.”

Other priorities: a king-size loft, a full-size couch for comfortable seating on the main floor, and a house that was built over the wheel wells, affording additional space.

They found the diminutive dwelling of their d reams on tinyhouselistings. com. A woman in California had built the 144-square-foot home herself, then decided it was too small for her. They purchased it, sight unseen, using their life savings, then hired someone to ship it from the west coast to Chicago’s western suburbs. “Thank God it all worked out!” Korie says.

Tucked into a grove of trees at the edge of Alex’s parents’ property in Elgin, the tiny, portable house is parked adjacent to a chicken coop and not far from a small gardening shed. From a distance, it almost looks as if it’s part of some kind of tiny village.

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Inside are all the hallmarks of a cozy, well-equipped home: framed art and family photos, brightly colored throw pillows, a wall-mounted TV, Abel’s playpen. In addition to a sleeping loft with windows, there’s a meticulously organized L-shaped kitchen and a bathroom with a composting toilet constructed by Alex.

In fact, the whole of the Veidels’ space is supertidy. From the bench with built-in storage to the magnetic spice rack, everything has a place. “And everything goes back in its place every single time,” Korie says. “A little bit messy quickly becomes dysfunctional in a tiny house!”

They don’t plan to live in such close quarters forever; in fact, the current plan is to

transition into a small one-bedroom apartment to allow more space for their growing family. But they’ve enjoyed being de facto ambassadors of the now-trending lifestyle (even, incidentally, appearing on an episode of an episode of HGTV’s Tiny House Hunters).

They neither sugarcoat or sensationalize their experiences. “People have really high expectations of you as a tiny-house owner, especially if they want to live in one themselves,” Alex says. “They need your life to validate their dreams.” “[They] ask, ‘What’s the most remarkable thing about living in a tiny house?’ ” Korie says. “And I’ll say the most remarkable thing is just how unremarkable it is.”

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s I write this, it’s roughly 8 PM, the polls have closed in half the states, and it’s pretty obvious that the electoral college firewall Hillary Clinton was banking on to prevent the Barbarian from crashing the gates and taking over our country has— Actually, I can’t tell you how the supposed firewall’s working. The early results are all over the place. She’s up. She’s down. She’s ahead in this state. Behind in that one. It’s too close to call.

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three-run lead.

It was then that Joe Maddon—for reasons I’ll never understand—chose to bring in Aroldis Chapman, the closer, even though I’m screaming at the TV, “Don’t bring him in. It’s too early!” (Though in retrospect this was a waste of energy, because of course Maddon couldn’t hear me, what with me being on a friend’s sofa in Evanston. Not that Maddon would listen to me if he could have.)

The firewall, if you didn’t already know, is made up of the states that have consistently backed Democratic candidates in past presidential elections, including President Obama in his 2012 race against Mitt Romney.

But now it seems that to win those states and preserve that firewall, there’s a new breakdown that goes like this: whatever white voters Trump picks up—and as I write this it looks like he’s getting a lot of them—have to be offset by a larger turnout from Latinos and white women and a strong turnout from black voters for Clinton. At least roughly the same turnout that Obama got.

That’s the only way Clinton can eke out a win and save us from the Barbarian. (I’m not the first person who’s called Trump that. The Sun-Times did, in a Sunday editorial headlined “Vote for Clinton against the Barbarian at the gate.”)

Oh, no. It’s around 9 PM now, and news outlets are projecting that Trump will win the congressional district in Maine that Obama won in 2012. Which shows that the firewall isn’t holding.

It also shows that I’ve been dead wrong in my assumption that no voter who voted for Obama would vote for Trump. Because no one could be schizo enoughto vote for a self-professed healer of our red-blue divide, then turn right around and vote for a guy caught on tape bragging about grabbing pussy.

More oh, no. Now an update from Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight. “We’re in something of a state of suspended animation right now. . . . and so far no major state has fallen to Clinton.”

In other words, things aren’t going the way Silver predicted either. Interesting way of framing it, Nate. As if you weren’t the one predicting up until today that Clinton had a 70 percent chance of winning.

“Uh-oh. I’m starting to feel a little panic set it.”

This comes from my editor, Robin. She’s pacing around the room we’re sharing, and she’s in her own suspended state of terror.

She’s not alone. Texts are now pouring in from my friends and relatives along the lines of: “I’m nervous.” Or “I’m feeling sick.” Or “I may vomit.” Or “What the fuck!” My wife texts: “Do you think Trump will win?”

This just in from Harry Enten at FiveThirtyEight: “[I]f you aren’t a Trump fan, you better start coming to terms with the fact he will probably be president.”

Now everyone here is looking to me for some sort insight to soothe their panic. But I have nothing to offer them, ’cause to tell you the truth, I’m freaking the fuck out myself.

I turn to my electoral cheat sheet, which I created weeks ago, though it now seems like another lifetime. Florida is key. But Clinton can win the election even if she loses Florida—

if she holds on to Michigan. And Pennsylvania.

And Wisconsin.

Oh, my God, she’s down in Michigan. And Pennsylvania. And Wisconsin. And Virginia. I forgot about Virginia. That used to be a swing state. But she’s been ahead in the polls for so long that I put it down in the firewall category.

Only Trump’s ahead in Virginia. Shit.

So she needs another firewall. Like North Carolina. Only she’s behind there too. And this just in: Pennsylvania’s too close to call.

Though at this time four years ago, Obama had already won Pennsylvania. More shit.

Now the trash calls are coming in. A guy I know from the southwest side leaves a message on my voice mail.

“Hey, yo, Ben. Trump is doing really well in Ohio and Florida.”

Just last week he told me he wasn’t a Trump supporter. He was big for Bernie, but swears he voted for Hillary. But he’s one of those Bernie voters who never really got over hating on Hillary. And now from the excitement in his voice, I’m starting to wonder if he actually did vote for Trump. Though he’d never admit it in a million years.

I think there may be a lot of guys like him out there.

Back to the results. Trump’s up in New Hampshire, Florida, and North Carolina—the firewall is crumbling.

And now, around 10 PM, the New York Times projects that Trump has a 54 percent chance of winning.

Meanwhile, FiveThirtyEight’s website still shows there’s a 73 percent chance for Clinton.

Then in the next breath, Silver says to ignore that projection, ’cause it’s not up to date.

Then why are you even showing it, doofus?

Sorry, Nate. I’m starting to become one of those guys who blames the messenger for the message. As an ancient journalist, I should know better.

Wait, breaking news! Clinton up in Virginia.

Finally, some good news.

Robin sighs. Then she grunts. She calls it a stress grunt. I’m starting to be able to decipher which sighs are good news and which ones are bad. So far the bad outweighs the good.

She’s obsessively following the results on at least three different websites. Like she hopes that one of those sites will tell a happier story.

It’s not working.

Word breaks that the stock market is plunging as the news spreads that Trump may win this election.

Great. My retirement portfolio is now worthless.

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My trash-talking friend sends a text: “NYT is forecasting Trump with 61 percent chance.”

I’m starting to think that the Bernie bros went for the Donald.

Crain’s sends out an update: “Rauner makes progress in war with Madigan.”

Turns out a couple of the state reps that Governor Bruce Rauner supported have defeated the candidates backed by Illinois house speaker Mike Madigan.

Damn, I’d forgotten all about those two amid the horror of this pending national apocalypse. Suddenly Governor Rauner looks tame compared to what we’re about to face.

Plus, there’s no Madigan in Washington to hold Trump back.

Another sigh from Robin. More like an anguished cry.

She sits back in her chair and goes on an extended riff: “America had the chance to elect its first woman president. And instead they elected the biggest misogynistic asshole there is. So this is doubly awful.”

And to make it worse, the exit polls now say that more than 50 percent of white women voted for him.

I don’t say that to Robin, though. She’s already having a breakdown.

“Oh, shit!”

A cry from down the hall. Another editor working late has discovered that FiveThirtyEight has updated its projection to show that Trump has a 55 percent chance of winning.

Better late than never, huh, Nate?

Sorry, more messenger blaming.

And more gloom and doom from various friends: The Republicans have held the House and the Senate.

They control everything. There are no checks and balances.

Trump will get to fill Scalia’s Supreme Court vacancy. He’ll get to fill all the judicial vacancies.

And what does this mean for the press? He despises the press. His supporters joke about lynching reporters. At least I hope they’re joking.

I get a text from my Bernie bro telling me that Trump supporters are jubilant.

I can’t think of a response. I’d like to crack

I knew we lived in a bubble. I didn’t think it was on another planet.

a joke. But I can’t think of any jokes right now.

I haven’t felt this much political gloom and doom since the Reagan landslide of 1980.

But this may be worse. Reagan at least offered hope. Told people that America could be a special place.

Trump is dark and mean and foreboding.

Always talking about locking people up. Or beating them up. Or investigating his opponents and punishing his enemies.

Hold it. A break in the gloom and doom. This just in: Clinton takes Colorado. That was part of the firewall. But Ohio goes to Trump. And Wisconsin and Michigan and Pennsylvania are leaning his way.

If they fall, it could come down to Arizona and Alaska. That’s right—fucking Arizona and Alaska. Home of John McCain and Sarah Palin—the 2008 ticket.

This is surreal.

“Oh, god.”

Robin again. It sounds like she has a toothache. This can’t be good.

“What is it?”

“According to Omarosa, the Trump campaign is keeping a list of enemies.

Omarosa Manigault is a former contestant on The Apprentice.

America’s next president is a reality TV star.

I have a flashback to 40th Ward alderman Patrick O’Connor’s warning a few days back.

This was after the City Council voted to take down an honorary street sign outside Trump Tower.

You don’t want to upset a guy like Trump, O’Connor cautioned.

“If you put a guy like Trump in the office, with whom we have an absolutely terrible relationship, any discretion that he could exercise that would hurt us I think he would,” O’Connor said. “It will be a terrible thing for us personally in Chicago if he were to become president.”

O’Connor continued: “That’s something he understands: Getting even with people.

Going after people he doesn’t like. He understands that real well.”

I think about the billions of federal dollars that supports mass transit, education, the environment.

Breaking news. I get an e-mail from activists in Chicago heralding the results of a nonbinding referendum in Humboldt Park, in which voters rejected any charter school expansion.

It seems like the distant echo of an old fight in a city that’s cut off from the rest of the country.

Back to the big board. Trump just won North Carolina.

“President Trump closer to reality,” reads an e-mail from Crain’s.

So now we’re at the point in game seven where Chapman gives up the two-run homer, which ties the game. And now the Cubs/ Clinton have to rally to pull it out.

Only in this case we don’t have Schwarber and Bryant and Rizzo coming to the plate.

Clinton has to come from behind to win Pennsylvania and Michigan. And then she has to win Alaska and New Hampshire. Or Arizona.

Yeah, right.

I would gladly exchange that Cubs triumph for a Clinton victory. Too bad it doesn’t work that way.

Another miserable groan from Robin.

“Everything is fucked. Everything. All people who are not straight white men are fucked.

And even they are fucked.”

Which really sums it all up.

Clinton destroyed Trump in the debates. He was caught on tape bragging about assaulting women. He went through six bankruptcies.

He’s beenpraised and endorsed by white supremacists. He’s never previously run for, much less served in, an elected office. Now he’s about to be president.

The only guy I know who predicted this was a former Chicago alderman who told me Trump would win by bringing out the lumpenproletariat—people who had never believed in the system enough to vote.

But apparently they believed in Trump.

Now it’s midnight, and the Chicago Board of Elections is just about finished counting the local votes. With 95 percent of the totals in, Clinton won roughly 84 percent of the city vote. About the same as Obama.

So don’t blame me. I’m from Chicago. Our firewall held strong.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so alienated and isolated from the rest of the country. We’re like a tiny island of blue in a sea of red.

“I knew we lived in a bubble,” says the editor down the hall. “I didn’t think it was on another planet.”

Pennsylvania goes for Trump. Hillary’s only hope is Alaska and Arizona, which means no hope at all.

I get a text from the ex-alderman who predicted the victory. But he’s too upset to crow.

“Don’t mourn,” he says. “Organize.”

He’s right. I mean, really—it’s not like we have a choice. v

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n October leaders from the local Black Lives Matter movement talked with me about factors that affect travel options for African-Americans in Chicago, but that are sometimes overlooked by decision makers. These include subpar public transit service, unsafe walking conditions, and limited access to bike facilities, as well as expenses like train fares and traffic fines that can be significant for poor and workingclass people.

Last week local Latino and Latina social justice activists told me that their communities deal with similar challenges, as well as unique concerns undocumented immigrants face when it comes to navigating the city— Chicago’s Mexican-American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods seem to be especially susceptible to the gentrification and displacement sometimes associated with bike lanes, trails, and transit-friendly housing.

Lynda Lopez, a member of the Humboldt Park chapter of Grassroots Illinois Action; Alma Zamudio, who has worked with several different Latino affordable housing, labor, and social justice organizations; and José López, executive director of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, all agreed to share their thoughts on these issues.

Lopez, a 25-year-old Mexican-American, was born in Chicago and lives in Hermosa.

She works at the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council doing youth outreach, and, for disclosure, occasionally freelances for Streetsblog Chicago, the website I edit. We started off talking about the particular challenges faced by undocumented immigrants.

“Undocumented residents often live in areas with poor public transit access,” she said. “There’s a big intersection between im-

migration and transportation—where you can afford to live, where your job is, and whether you can afford to drive. . . . You see people getting up really early to make it to low-wage jobs via CTA.” Illinois did address one big transportation issue for undocumented immigrants in 2013, when the state began issuing “temporary visitor driver’s licenses” to people without visas.

“Before that, you either didn’t drive or drove without a license,” Lopez said. “So it eased that concern.” (The law also made travel safer for everyone because applicants are required to pass a driver’s test and sign up for car insurance.)

However, Lopez said, our country’s dysfunctional immigration system has made everyone less safe when it comes to hit-and-run crashes.

“When you’re an undocumented resident, there’s a constant fear that any interaction with the police is going to lead to immigration problems,” she said. She said she believes this apprehension causes some undocumented drivers to flee from crashes without reporting them, even if they’re not at fault. According to data released by the city of Chicago, between 2005 and 2014, two out of every five local pedestrian fatalities involved drivers who fled.

Zamudio, also 25, was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, immigrated to Joliet with her family when she was four, and now lives in Pilsen.

Earlier this decade she helped organize a campaign by the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization and other groups to restore CTA bus service on 31st Street. Since Little Village is a blue-collar Mexican neighborhood— with the highest percentage of residents under 18 of any Chicago community, according to the U.S. Census—it has a high demand for transit service, as do most other local Latino neighborhoods. The route had been canceled in 1997 due to low ridership, leaving the #21 Cermak and #60 Blue Island/26th Street buses as the only east-west bus lines serving Little Village.

“So if you lived in southern Little Village you had to walk all the way up to 26th or Cermak,” Zamudio said. “Old people couldn’t walk all that way, and some residents are afraid to walk on certain blocks.”

They won a partial victory in summer 2012, when the CTA agreed to extend the existing 35th Street bus line west to include 31st Street between Kedzie and Cicero. Since then, the Bridgeport Alliance and other south-side groups have successfully lobbied the CTA to test an additional bus line farther east on 31st Street. The six-month pilot launched in September.

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José López, 67, was born in San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, and moved to Chicago as a child in 1959, when he was nine. In 1973 he cofounded the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, which has led efforts to maintain the greater Humboldt Park area’s Puerto Rican identity. He emphasized access to cycling infrastructure, saying that while overall public transit access isn’t as much of an issue in greater Humboldt Park, due to the presence of the Blue Line, he’s interested in creating a full network of low-stress bike routes in the area.

“I really think we gotta start thinking outside the box in terms of transportation,” he said.

Still, the Bloomingdale Trail elevated greenway, which opened last year along the border of Humboldt Park and Logan Square, as well as the current proliferation of upscale transitoriented developments along Milwaukee Avenue, have recently fueled concerns about Latinos being priced out of nearby areas. All three activists said that the while Bloomingdale, aka the 606, started out as a grassroots, neighborhood-driven initiative, after the city took over the project it turned into a highprofile attraction that has created a real estate boom, accelerating the ongoing displacement of the area’s poor and working-class residents.

A recent DePaul University study found that single-family home prices near the trail have risen by nearly 50 percent over the past three years. And, at last week’s Mayor’s Pedestrian Advisory Council meeting, UIC professor Sharon Zenk shared the findings of a new report that concluded that, based on interviews and visual observations, Latinos are underrepresented among trail users.

Lynda Lopez and Zamudio have both been involved with efforts to preserve affordability along the trail. With Grassroots Illinois Action, Lopez helped stage two property tax workshops last summer for home owners, and the group is now working with residents to brainstorm other strategies, such as creating renters’ associations and an affordable housing plan for Humboldt and Logan. During her time with LUCHA, Zamudio worked on zoning issues for Tierra Linda (“Beautiful Land”), an affordable housing project that will be built on vacant lots close to the 606.

Zamudio is also a member of Somos (“We Are”) Logan Square, which along with other activist groups has argued that the trend toward high-end transit-oriented development (TOD) along the Blue Line is forcing Latinos out of the area. The building boom was largely spurred by Chicago’s recent TOD ordinance, which waives the usual off-street parking requirements for projects near train stations. Although First Ward alderman Joe Moreno requires that 10 percent of the on-site units be affordable, in accordance with city guidelines, the activists have been pushing for a higher percentage of affordable units with lower rents.

“The bottom line is this: How do we get communities that are transit friendly, green, accessible to resources, and not food deserts, that are also affordable?” Lynda Lopez asked.

“That’s what environmental justice would look like in these neighborhoods.” v

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o matter how bizarre things got in the presidential campaign we’ve just lived through, American voters—alarmed and agog—could take comfort in this: both candidates promised that the economy will get better. It was the one thing they agreed on.

Trump said he’d be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” and pledged to “make America great again.”

Hillary said America’s already great, but vowed to make it greater. “The measure of our success will be how much incomes rise for hardworking families,” she said.

So, beleaguered fellow voters, whatever havoc this election may bring, it won’t be long before the good economic times start rolling in, right? A chicken in every pot, two cars in every garage, and good-paying jobs for everyone?

I put that question to someone who should know—economist and Northwestern University professor Robert J. Gordon. Earlier this year, Gordon published a much-discussed book on this very subject, The Rise and Fall of American Growth.

I’ll admit, the title gave me pause. It could have been more upbeat. Like, say, The Rise and Rise of American Growth. But maybe it could be some academic-economist way of saying everything is coming up roses. So when I got

the professor on the phone last week, it was the first thing I asked about. “You know,” I said, “your title seems to suggest that we can’t make America great again.”

“That’s right,” Gordon replied. “Because the great heyday of American growth is over.”

Not only that, he said, but it’s been over for a while—more than 40 years. And as far as he can tell, it’s not coming back.

Here’s what happened: As you no doubt remember from high school history, there was an industrial revolution that began in the 18th century and created a bunch of Dickensian factories. Well, starting about 1870, there was a second industrial revolution, even bigger than the first. It ran for 100 years, peaked in the middle of the 20th century, and gave us most of the amenities of modern life we now take for granted—electric power, indoor plumbing, the internal combustion engine, telephones, radio, and television. And American manufacturing was at the center of it.

“Between 1890 and 1940, there was a complete change that revolutionized every aspect of business and household operations and included enormous improvements in health,” Gordon said. “Life expectancy in 1900 was age 47; by 1970 it was 72.”

Here’s another example: in 1900 there were 8,000 automobiles in the United States; by

1930 there were 26.8 million, replacing the horses that had been dropping thousands of tons of manure on city streets—and then dropping dead in harness. (In Chicago alone, according to his book, 7,000 horse carcasses had to be cleared from the streets every year.)

We may think that we’re living in a time of rapid transformation, but nothing that’s happened since 1970 has brought change at the same pace and scale.

“In the last 40 years, we’ve had the computer revolution,” Gordon said. “That has changed business operations, but hasn’t had the same impact. Much of the innovation is going for things that are really of fringe importance. Think of the number of companies trying to develop virtual-reality goggles. Or the so-called Internet of things, where sensors inside your refrigerator automatically signal to your smartphone that you’re running out of milk. Is that as important as inventing the refrigerator in the first place?”

This slowdown in life-changing innovation and productivity means that the American dream of a continually rising standard of living will suffer: instead of doubling every generation, as it has in the past, Gordon said, it’ll take 100 years or more to double.

“And, because many people fall below the average, we’ll see that their standard of living does not exceed [or, perhaps, even equal] that of their parents.”

He’s got some sobering numbers: Productivity growth was roughly 3 percent annually between 1920 and 1970. Over the last 45 years it was cut in half. And during the last 6 years, it slowed to only 0.5 percent per year.

Still, he’s forecasting that productivity will grow at 1.2 percent annually during the next 25 years. But, he says, growth in the median income per person, affected by “headwinds” like income inequality, debt, and an aging population, will be only about 0.4 percent annually.

So nobody will be creating 25 million new jobs anytime soon? It was all just campaign rhetoric?

“I’m not claiming that all innovation is over,” Gordon said. “I’m predicting only 25 years out. There could be all sorts of miracles that could happen 50 or 100 years from now.”

Maybe then America will be great again. v R “THE RISE AND FALL OF AMERICAN GROWTH” Robert J. Gordon appears as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Sat 11/12, 2 PM, Venue Six10, Feinberg Theater, 610 S. Michigan, chicagohumanities.org, $12, $10 members, $5 students and teachers.

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Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, the definitive history of the Great Migration (and the greatest-ever Chicago book, at least as determined by the Reader’s 2015 book tournament), will discuss Bronzeville’s past and future with Natalie Y. Moore, author of The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation. Robbie Montgomery, who after her career as an Ikette opened up the legendary Saint Louis soul food palace Sweetie Pie’s, will talk about her new cookbook with Bronzeville chef and caterer Clifford Rome. Poet Ross Gay will read from his collection Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude.

And then it will come time to celebrate one of Bronzeville’s greatest contributions to American culture: house music. (Though, to be accurate, the scene was never really confined to Bronzeville and has spread all across the city.)

Czarina Mirani first discovered house music in the 90s when she was a student at Northwestern studying dance with Joel Hall. “Joel would play house in his classes,” she says. “A lot of Frankie Knuckles. I started falling in love with house through dance.”

In 2005, she decided that since she was out every night anyway, she might as well write about it. So she launched 5 magazine, which bills itself as the only magazine in North America devoted exclusively to house

music. The publication has given her an ideal vantage point to observe how the scene has grown and changed over the years, and she’ll be talking about it at Gallery Guichard with two house-music luminaries: Robert Williams and the man known variously as Curtis Jones, Cajmere, and DJ Green Velvet.

Williams is a New Yorker who moved to Chicago in the late 70s and opened up the dance club the Warehouse in 1977; he invited his friend and fellow New Yorker Frankie Knuckles to perform there. Knuckles’s DJ sets at the Warehouse are widely believed to have birthed house music. “He’s going to talk about how he thinks house started,” Mirani says, “and what it was like, what the parties were like, what a night at the Warehouse was like.”

Jones was part of the second wave. As Cajmere, his first big hit was “Coffee Pot (It’s Time for the Percolator),” which Mirani calls “the classic Chicago house song.” He adopted the DJ Green Velvet persona for spinning techno. “He’s an enigma,” Mirani says. “You don’t hear him speak much. Usually he’s on a high festival stage. I don’t know if he’s ever talked to Robert Williams before.”

After Williams, Jones, and Mirani finish their discussion and reminiscences, there will be time for questions from the audience, and then the evening will end with a dance party. “[The festival organizers] wanted one of us to DJ,” Mirani says. “It’ll be a surprise who it’s going to be.” v R CHICAGO HUMANITIES FESTIVAL Fri 11/11. See chicagohumanities.org for more on the Wilkerson and house music events.

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f course there’s no such thing as magic. Not in the supernatural sense, anyway. Not in the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” sense, where Mickey Mouse dons his master’s glowing cap and casts a spell on a broom, making it tote buckets of water for him. What we choose to call magic comes down to a strategic partnership between physics, psychology, dexterity, and hope.

Nobody understands that better than the magicians themselves—a class of artists simultaneously constrained and enabled by laws of nature, human as well as scientific.

And few things demonstrate the partnership’s glories and limitations more powerfully than Andrew Hinderaker’s The Magic Play, getting an impressive world premiere now at Goodman Theatre.

A sophisticated magic show married to an absorbing love story, The Magic Play gives us an otherwise unnamed Magician, whose voice we hear before we see him in the flesh. Endearing control freak that he is, he makes an elaborate preshow announcement that urges us toward our best selves (“But if you have all now turned off your phones . . . / You’re saying you have faith that whatever’s about to happen will be worth

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being unreachable”) even as it promises dire consequences for failure (“If your phone should ring, buzz or light up during the performance . . . / An usher will escort you out of the theater and your ticket will not be refunded”).

When he finally appears onstage, the Magician embarks on a show that comes across as equal parts prestidigitation and disquisition (probably not unlike the work of Chicago magician Jeanette Andrews, described in the Reader’s October 27 Magic Issue). Played by the incredibly nimble-fingered Brett Schneider, Hinderaker’s Magician executes smooth sleight of hand while discussing Shakespeare and the peculiar etiquette that allows theatergoers to pretend they’re alone while sitting amid a crowd of people.

But soon enough his show is invaded by an apparition: the memory of a competitive diver—called, yes, the Diver—who became the Magician’s lover after the two met cute over a card trick. The Magician’s immediate reaction to this intrusion is a little hokey in Halena Kays’s otherwise deft staging (“I’m sorry, I was somewhere else . . . ,” accompanied by appropriately woozy gestures), yet it leads to a vivid recounting of a romance rendered difficult by the Magician’s fear of abandonment, his

habitual preoccupation with appearances, and an intense need to limit variables that’s understandable in his line of work but toxic to affairs of the heart.

Before we’re done we also meet the Magician’s magician Father, a Reno hack whose all too genuine disappearing act triggered compulsions that helped make his son the exquisitely accomplished mess he is. Racking up yet another in a long and remarkable series of roles exploring the tragedy of the quotidian dad, Francis Guinan allows the Father a pathos that enriches without excusing him.

Through it all there are the tricks, so elegantly designed by Jim Steinmeyer and artfully executed by Schneider. The audience’s willing collusion is a crucial element of the partnership that makes magic work: in our way, we have to hope as hard as the practitioner.

Everything about The Magic Play encourages an open-hearted engagement with its illusions, from the Magician’s persona, with its delicate balance of reticence and charm, to the stagecraft that allows us to see the Diver as a kind of reverie, floating through the upward trajectory of his dive. (Full disclosure: the floating effect is partly achieved through aerial training contributed by Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi of the Actors Gymnasium, which I’m delighted to say I cofounded.)

Uniquely, though, our engagement is guaranteed by that love story. Cirque du Soleil notwithstanding, genre fusions are usually an awkward business, betraying every discipline involved. Not here. Hinderaker’s dramatic narrative slides smoothly into the lore and practice of magic, each enhancing the other in ways that aren’t just satisfying but slightly dangerous. An enormous house of cards sits stage right, uncomfortably, like a Chekhovian pistol, all during The Magic Play’s 135-minute running time; its ultimate use neatly expresses the production’s unity of forms.

One last bit of uniqueness: the fact that the relationship between the Magician and the Diver is gay and interracial is depicted without comment or plot significance. It simply is—which feels like progress and a reason for faith in the future. The casualness of the thing is carried through equally by Schneider and Sean Parris, whose Diver is distinct and substantial, despite having appeared to his lover as if by magic. v R THE MAGIC PLAY Through 11/20: Wed 7:30 PM, Thu 2 and 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-4433800, goodmantheatre.org, $15-$50.

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Don’t ask Bob Eisen what his works are about LINKS HALL FOUNDER BOB EISEN has always approached his work with a refreshingly honest, go-with-the-flow mentality.

“I’m just not a big meaning guy in terms of making a dance,” the 69-year-old choreographer muses. “It’s not like I think it’s a bad thing, it just isn’t in my blood.”

As a result, Eisen can come across as artfully coy. Asked about his latest artistic venture, he demurred: “It’s hard for me to say what this is about. I don’t really work that way.”

Eisen, who moved to New York in 2000, is back in Chicago to celebrate his 70th birthday with a performance among friends at the venue he still calls home.

“Past, Past, Present” enlists a few of Links Hall’s usual suspects. Choreographer and performer Kristina Isabelle will reconstruct Sybil Shearer’s Judgment Seeks Its Own Level (1969), part of her ongoing investigation into the local icon’s renegade history.

Links Hall cofounder Charlie Vernon also represents the past, showing a video of his 1981 work That Fall, a piece that features five men and four wooden chairs.

As for Eisen, he’ll team up with dancers Nicholas Schrier and Jessica Cornish for an as-yet-untitled trio in which the dancers make use of the space in a “fun, humorous way.” That’s as specific as Eisen was willing to get, but at least he promises to keep you entertained. —MATT DE LA PEÑA “PAST, PAST, PRESENT” Mon 11/14, 7 PM, Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, 773-281-0824, linkshall.org, $10.

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t helps to think of “The Sympathetic Imagination,” Diana Thater’s new retrospective show at the MCA, the same way Hemingway encouraged readers to approach his own work—as an iceberg.

Only 10 percent of the material is easily accessible, and it looks like a big, white sheet of ice that makes you say, “Yes, and?” The remaining 90 percent lies below the surface and requires special tools to excavate and appreciate.

The 11 installations that make up “The Sympathetic Imagination,” which originated at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, largely consist of videos that run either independently or as collages and are projected onto the walls and floors of several large rooms, creating an immersive experience.

Many of the videos are of animals. There are variations in color, enhanced by color separations on video, gel-covered lights, tinted windows, skylights in the galleries, and film speed. Thater offers a clue to her intentions with an epigraph by J.M. Coetzee that also gives the exhibition its title: “There is no limit to the extent to which we can think ourselves into the being of another. There are no bounds to the sympathetic imagination.”

The good news, should you choose to view “The Sympathetic Imagination,” is that Thater is more than happy to provide those tools. She studied art history at NYU before she received her MFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where she still teaches. She’s written all the explanatory text in the exhibition guide and has also recorded interviews that are available at a listening station midexhib-

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it. She’s petite, with big eyes that give her a deceptively doll-like appearance, but her demeanor is that of an art history professor. “In my work,” she told a group of journalists at a recent press preview, “form and content work together to create meaning.”

Thater is also something of a polymath, and her work reflects wide reading in science, mathematics, and ancient mythology.

Knots + Surfaces, for instance, is a collage of extreme-close-up Super-8 projections of honeybees dancing in a “hive” made up of five multicolored hexagons. Honeybees use their dance to communicate where likely sources of pollen are located and direct other bees directly to those sources—this is common knowledge. What inspired Thater, though, was the work of a mathematician, Barbara Shipman, who had grown up with bees because her father was an entomologist. Shipman has proposed that bees exist in six dimensions, just like quarks in quantum mechanics. (This theory was controversial in the 1990s when it was first published, but it has since become more accepted.)

“That fascinated me,” Thater says. “Everything in a bee’s life is in sets of six. The comb is a six-sided form. They have six eyes.” Knots + Surfaces is an attempt to bring the viewer into the world of the bees. Five images coalesce into one, which looks like chaos to a human but would probably make perfect sense to a bee.

Delphine, a companion to Knots + Surfaces (an open doorway separates them; if you stand in one, you can see through to the other), immerses the viewer in the world of dolphins,

which is slightly more accessible than that of bees. Even though humans move through two dimensions while dolphins move through three, at least it’s possible to capture threedimensional movement on film.

“Dolphins navigate two worlds,” Thater explains. “They understand the world of water and air. Neither is invisible.” Unlike most other mammals, dolphins breathe consciously; only half their brains sleep at a time so they can continue to swim and breathe.

Delphine consists of four projections, two Super 8 and two video, in a room filled with magenta light. Each projection shows a wild dolphin swimming upward through the Caribbean Sea in the direction of the sun. (The sun is also represented in a static video on the opposite side of the room.) At the end, the dolphins emerge onto the surface, open their pectoral fins, and flip over to warm their bellies in the sunlight. The viewer, meanwhile, is also encouraged to move through space; the color, Thater says, is meant to make you more conscious of the space in the room, the way a dolphin has to be conscious of water and air.

(She did not, however, attempt to re-create echolocation, the dolphin sixth sense that transforms sounds into images; she considers sound a distraction in her work.)

Thater’s work plays with other forms of self-consciousness. China is a 360-degree video installation of animal trainers attempting to make a pair of performing wolves stand still; one or more of the six cameras that Thater used is always visible onscreen, and, as in most of the pieces in the exhibition,

there’s usually a projector somewhere behind a viewer to cast a shadow onto the wall. “People lose themselves in film and video,” Thater explains. “I want viewers to be conscious of their bodies. I’m trying to express that the technical is not an impediment to the experience of the sublime.”

But is the technical—or the explanation of the technical—necessary to the experience of the sublime? Should it be? Perhaps an answer lies in Oo Fifi, Five Days in Claude Monet’s Garden, the earliest-produced work in the exhibit. Thater had a fellowship to live and work in Monet’s home in Giverny, France, where she spent some of her time documenting the growth of the garden, which was guarded by a fierce cat named Fifi. In the two videos that make up Oo Fifi, Thater plays with separating colors and putting them together again, an homage to Monet’s method of painting where, instead of mixing his pigments, he put dollops of pure colors next to each other to create a blended effect. This seems simple to us now, part of the most elementary art history, because Monet and his followers made us accustomed to this way of looking at color. It’s possible that Thater’s way of looking at space will become just as commonplace, especially since she’s so willing to teach us. v R “DIANA THATER: THE SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION” Through 1/8/2017: Tue 10 AM-8 PM, Wed-Sun 10 AM-5 PM, Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org, $12 adults, $7 students and seniors.

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acksaw Ridge, which opened in wide release last weekend, represents Mel Gibson’s directorial comeback after years in the professional wilderness, following the July 2006 publication of a DUI arrest report that quoted him as saying, “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” and the July 2010 leak of a recorded phone call in which he told his then-girlfriend, “You look like a pig in heat, and if you get raped by a pack of niggers it will be your fault.” Gibson apologized for both slurs, attributing the first to alcoholic insanity and the second to the trauma of a messy breakup, and he’s been ssss EXCELLENT

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during the last days of World War II but, as a conscientious objector, refused to take up arms against the Japanese. During the Battle of Okinawa, Doss mounted a daring rescue operation that saved about 75 wounded men, and after the war he became the first CO ever awarded the Medal of Honor. Doss was a paradoxical figure, in the war but not quite of the war, and his story offers Gibson a chance to indulge both the bloodlust of his Oscar-winning Braveheart (1995) and the Christian theology of his controversial blockbuster The Passion of the Christ (2004). Yet Hacksaw Ridge isn’t the sort of movie that welcomes paradox—it’s a war movie, full of

war-movie conventions. It celebrates Doss for his idealism and commitment but follows the familiar narrative arc of a man having to prove himself in combat.

Doss is an extraordinary subject in that he was motivated by God and country in equal measure. Growing up in Lynchburg, Virginia, he registered for the draft in 1937 and enlisted shortly after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, yet he followed his religion strictly and refused to carry a rifle. “I wanted to be known as a noncombatant, but the Army had no such classification,” he remembered in the book Beyond Glory: Medal of Honor Heroes in Their Own Words. “I did not want to be known as a CO because they were refusing to salute the flag or serve the country in any way, shape, or form, and they were having demonstrations.” Doss was so devout that, stationed in the Pacific, he subsisted on dog biscuits rather than eat the pork rations provided. Yet he routinely volunteered to accompany his fellow soldiers on patrol: “I knew these men; they were my buddies, some had wives and children. If they were hurt, I wanted to be there to take care of them. And when someone got hit, the others would close in around me while I treated him, then we’d all go out together.”

The early scenes of Hacksaw Ridge show young Desmond being shaped by the Christian faith of his gentle mother (Rachel Griffiths) and the post-traumatic stress of his cruel father (Hugo Weaving), an alcoholic veteran of World War I. There’s a lot of phony boymeets-girl stuff between the gangly hero (Andrew Garfield) and a prim nurse at a local hospital (Teresa Palmer). But the movie picks up once Gibson has Doss in uniform and the young man’s martyrdom commences. In basic training, Doss is branded a coward for his refusal to fight and mercilessly ridden by his commanding officer (Sam Worthington), his drill sergeant (a droll Vince Vaughn), and his fellow recruits. Smitty (Luke Bracey), the company bully, steals Doss’s bible and makes him grovel for the enclosed photo of his fiancee.

Later, in the middle of the night, some recruits jump Doss in his sleep and beat the crap out of him, though he refuses to rat them out the next morning. His CO status is respected only after a court-martial hearing where his father shows up in uniform bearing a letter of protection from a brigadier general.

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continued from 23 the three years separating Doss’s induction in 1942 and his ultimate deployment to the Pacific theater; that’s a necessity, because they’re constructing a story in which Desmond redeems himself in the eyes of his fellow men. You couldn’t ask for a more horrific testing ground: Okinawa was the last, biggest, and bloodiest battle of World War II, claiming the lives of more than 12,000 Americans and 110,000 Japanese. U.S. forces landed easily along the southwest shore but, heading inland, faced well-entrenched and desperately committed Japanese forces who fired from concrete pillboxes amid the limestone hills and hid in networks of caves and tunnels. Re-creating the battle, Gibson embraces the Hamburger Helper aesthetic of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, blood and viscera spraying all over the place as Doss and company face their first withering firefight. In standard war-movie fashion, Doss and Smitty must save each other in combat, and Smitty goes first, shooting the Japanese soldier who’s about to bayonet Doss and then humbling the grateful CO with a silent look of reproach.

No genre cliche can obscure the heroism of Doss’s rescue operation along the Maeda Escarpment, which won him the Medal of Honor. As part of the 77th Infantry Division, his company was ordered to take a 30-to-50foot rock cliff, at the top of which lay several pillboxes; Doss, who had a talent for knottying, had anchored a giant cargo net to drape down the side of the cliff so that multiple men could scale it at once. The fighting was hellish, Americans advancing on the Japanese with bazookas and flamethrowers (Gibson loves the fire, and there are numerous

shots of men wriggling around engulfed in flame). Scores of men were wounded, and the company pulled back. Doss, the only remaining medic, remained atop the cliff for five hours, using a thick rope to lower wounded men over the side. The Japanese were known to target medics, but for some reason they let Doss complete his mission. The incident provides a hell of a climax for Hacksaw Ridge, with Doss carrying Smitty on his back after the latter takes a bullet in the assault.

Early in the movie, when Doss refuses to pick up a rifle, his sergeant and commanding officer ask him why he’s serving in the army if he’s a conscientious objector. “I’m a conscientious cooperator,” Doss explains. The line begins to make sense at the climax when, as part of the rescue, Doss finally grabs a rifle, rolls a blanket around it, and uses them as a makeshift litter to drag his wounded sergeant to safety; as they retreat, the sergeant opens fire on the Japanese with his machine gun. Doss wins the respect of his comrades, and of Gibson, by demonstrating his bravery, not his pacifism—if that’s even the word for what he believes. The Battle of Okinawa was so horrific, presaging the carnage to follow if the U.S. attacked the Japanese mainland, that it helped convince President Truman to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

His act prompted decades of soul-searching about the future of humanity, yet that sort of thinking never really penetrates Hacksaw Ridge. It’s the story of one man keeping his slate clean while the rest of the world goes up in flames. v HACKSAW RIDGE ss Directed by Mel Gibson. R, 131 min. For listings see chicagoreader.com/movies.

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This restless rapper, poet, and actor has helped bridge cultural and racial divides in Chicago’s DIY scene on his way to bigger stages.

By LEE V. GAINES

his August, rapper and actor Mykele Deville dreamed about his dead grandmother. It was the night after her funeral in South Carolina, and he was asleep in the car with his family on their 11-hour drive back to Chicago.

Surrounded by the cornfields of his great-grandmother’s property, a former plantation where slaves once picked cotton, Deville had been able to feel his grandmother’s presence. He remembered when he was 16 and she’d revealed to him that he wasn’t the only artist in the family: she told him that in the 1950s, she used to sneak out of her family’s home in South Carolina to sing at lounges late at night. In the dream, she wore the same dress she’d had on then, and she told him, “Art will make you happy and it will get you out of here and it will get them out of here.”

By “them” she meant his family—his mother, sister, and niece. And by “here” she meant the violence-plagued neighborhoods on the south and west sides where the three of them have lived for Deville’s whole life, sometimes together and sometimes apart.

“It’s your niece’s country now,” Deville recalls his dream grandmother saying.

His grandmother’s passing at age 60 inspired Deville even as it drove him to despair. His sister’s daughter, Vaniya Payton, is at the center of his second mixtape, Each One, Teach One, released in late August, less than a month after the funeral. It’s simultaneously an affectionate letter to the nine-year-old girl and a guidebook filled with wisdom from Deville, 27, and from several female collaborators—they share poems, a story, and a song that speak more directly to his niece’s experience as a woman. The mixtape’s central theme is a call to love yourself no matter what the world tells you.

On Deville’s debut, Super Predator, which came out in May of this year, his outlook was much darker and bleaker. The 13-track mixtape opens with an audio clip from the infamous 1994 Hillary Clinton speech where she used the term “superpredators” to describe “gangs of kids” (presumably black kids) lacking empathy and conscience. (She’s since apologized for her remarks.)

“This woman was in her 40s when she said that,” Deville says. “It was not that long ago.

It completely invalidated who I was—every thought, every artistic thing I had ever done.

It hurt when that clip surfaced.” The mix- J

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“I wanted to show I’m not this binary thing,” he says. “She paints a picture of a thug and it just so happens that that picture looks like me, my brother, my dad.”

Deville says he was “on top of a mountain” after the release of Super Predator, invigoratingly busy in Chicago’s underground art and music scenes—especially through the Dojo, an unlicensed DIY venue in Pilsen that he’d helped found in summer 2015. But by July of this year, he’d left the Dojo—his reasons, he says, included “money, depression, and needing a new start”—and the following month, his grandmother’s death gave that new start a direction.

While Super Predator was a way for Deville to explain systemic racial injustice to himself, Each One, Teach One is an attempt to “pay it forward” and shepherd his niece toward self-knowledge—and knowledge of the world.

“This structure you see everyday, the blue-andred lights—they’re not here to protect you, sweetheart. They’re not,” he says. “It’s very easy for this government to destroy you if they wanted to, but don’t let that make you afraid to learn, to travel, to get out of this thing.”

Deville knows it’s a difficult message. “It’s not that I want to hide that from her, because it’s the fucking truth, but I wanted to make something directly talking to her,” he says. “I just had this vision of her being 17 and being frustrated and saying, ‘Hey, I want to be an artist. I want to be a dancer.’”

The neighborhood where Deville’s niece lives makes it tough for him to sugarcoat anything. “[Vaniya] is living literally in a fourblock circumference of where I grew up on the west side, which means she’s not a kid no more. She hears gunshots every day,” he says.

“She is being blasted by the media about her body, what she’s supposed to look like, what she’s supposed to sound like, what she’s supposed to be listening to about her own identity. And it’s being fed into her way quicker than it was into us . . . and that terrifies me.”

Deville frames the mixtape as a bedtime story he’s telling to Vaniya with the help of his female friends, and he intersperses recordings of his niece throughout—she even sings on the chorus of the final song. Vaniya asks her uncle

Deville (center), painter Presley Joy Paget, and producer Tony Piazza perform at a Rock the Vote concert hosted by Brooklyn Boulders Chicago in September. o ALEXUS MCLANE

questions about the stars, shares her insecurities about her poofy hair, and confesses that she’s scared to live on the west side.

“There’s a lot of shootings going on,” she tells Deville. He replies, “We’re gonna try and keep you safe. We’ll do the best we can, and then we’ll get you out of here.”

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orn and raised on the west side—a part of town he knew he wanted to leave even when he was Vaniya’s age—Deville has become an unlikely pillar of Chicago’s DIY music scene, which has historically been a mostly white community. But his work helping run the Dojo represents just a fraction of his contributions. He also plays Chimney in Kristiana Rae Colón’s play Octagon, which dives into the roots of slam poetry; it runs at the Jackalope Theatre in Edgewater through November 20, and may be extended into mid-December.

He’ll perform his music this weekend at the second annual Space Opera, a two-day festival of comedy, art, and music at south-side DIY venue RutCorp that’s curated by Deville’s friend and collaborator Presley Joy Paget.

Deville’s original surname was Callicut, but according to his research, it means “one who dwells within cold huts,” he says. “Ain’t no damn cold huts in Africa, man. I’m not fucking with that last name.” His current name has a story behind it too: “I was conceived in a Cadillac DeVille, and I just think it’s cool.”

He grew up in Austin with an older sister, Ebony, and a younger brother, Michael. Deville’s dad had a troubled relationship with their mom, though—he was around when the kids were young, but he’s out of the picture now (Deville says his parents divorced “a couple of years ago”). “We basically moved damn near every four to five years of my life, and they’ve all been on parts of the west side,” he remembers. “The terrain was very rough.”

Deville says he retreated into stories, into poetry and books and television, to escape the reality of his surroundings. “The whole thing was get out,” he says. “That doesn’t mean I don’t have a strange, weird loyalty to [the west side]. This place is beautiful. There are families there. These are people. Romance happens there, and art, and geniuses walk the streets over there on the west side.

But they stay in this circumference where it’s acknowledged.”

Deville says he taught himself to play guitar with help from books and a high school Spanish teacher. He listened to music as a teen— Coldplay, Nirvana, U2, Evanescence, Mastodon—that most of his black peers had no interest in. Ebony Callicut describes her brother, who’s two years younger, as “different.”

“He was always into the arts, whether it was music or writing. Even when we were younger, like [Vaniya’s] age now, Mykele always liked to write stories,” she remembers. “He just different. He just have a different way of thinking.

He always been like that.”

Teachers at Deville’s high school, Michele Clark Academic Prep, recognized Deville’s narrative talents, and he credits them with introducing him to theater. His senior year he attended Gallery 37, an advanced arts program for upperclassmen in Chicago Public Schools.

His fellow graduates in 2007 included singer, songwriter, and poet Jamila Woods and genre-hopping south-side musician + (pronounced “Plus Sign”).

“Gallery 37 was this magical school, like Hogwarts, where every kind of art you could think of existed,” he says.

Actor, director, and teacher Mechelle Moe, one of Deville’s mentors in Gallery 37’s theater program, says the program was designed to pair talented students with arts professionals.

Her goal was to teach kids that’s it’s OK “to build your own adventure,” she says. “As an artist you have permission to do so if you give that permission to yourself—you can make your world look how you want it to. . . . I think a lot of times, kids are taught or told that a life in the arts, to pursue your passions versus a J

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Later in 2007, Deville started classes at Moe’s alma mater, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Theatre and Music, but his path wasn’t smooth. As his sister remembers, when their parents realized that he intended to pursue acting in college, they pushed back, insisting that he develop a more traditional, job-focused plan as a backup. “Mykele was so upset,” she remembers. “He was in tears.”

Callicut pointed out that even if Deville never succeeded as an actor, he’d still be a college graduate. “Most people with a college degree don’t even do the thing they went to school for,” she says. “But they still get a good job.” Her advice assuaged their parents’ fears, and Deville graduated from UIC with a BFA in theater in 2012. But he says the acting grind after college was “disheartening”—he lived with his family on the south side, and because he didn’t own a car he had to haul himself across town on the CTA to audition for parts like “thug number two.”

Deville reached a breaking point in summer 2012, when he lived with his mother, sister, and niece at 75th and Essex, a part of the South Shore neighborhood known as “Terror Town.”

“I had just walked Vaniya to kindergarten,” he says. “It was broad daylight. It was like seven in the morning. It was the week or weekend of [the] NATO [summit], and some dude just ran up and shot another dude right in the head at the bus stop I was standing on, across the street from where I lived. The dude fell.

Everybody scattered.”

Deville says he knew people who’d been shot and killed, but he’d never actually seen it happen. The experience shook him so badly that soon after he called his agent and told him he had to quit acting for his safety. He remembers thinking at the time, “I’m risking my life every time I sit at a bus stop and wait for the bus just to get to the Loop and do an audition.”

Deville returned to theater in 2013, after taking two jobs—one at a call center, the other at a coffee shop—so that he’d have enough money to move out of Terror Town and live near UIC. But he dropped back out within a year—he’d grown bored of making art for other people rather than for himself. “The disinterest in the acting work, the anonymity of it, the mind-blowing up-your-own-assness about it sometimes—how I’d work with people I’d get so close to, and once the show was over they’d drop out your life . . . that point of despair led me to seek out another art form,” he says.

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In late 2013, Deville’s restlessness led him to start seeing shows at unlicensed DIY venues, where he rekindled his interest in music and met many of the people who’d later collaborate with him on Super Predator and Each One, Teach One. That winter, at his third show, he met Presley Joy Paget, a painter and a regular at some of the same DIY spots—as she remembers it, they were at north-side venue Hostel Earphoria, “singing songs on the porch,” and they hit it off instantly. Deville bought the first jacket Paget painted, and ever since he started performing his music onstage, she’s joined

him to paint live during his sets.

“I’ve been creating these energy paintings, and he just really lets me trust my intuition— his music gives me a lot of power,” she says.

Her paintings combine frenetic multicolored geometric shapes and swirls with abstract humanoid figures and landscapes poking through.

Paget is a 23-year-old white woman from Sydney, Australia, and she says she’s inspired

by Deville’s music despite their dramatically different backgrounds. “I wish I could connect more with it, but obviously I can’t because I’m in this body and I’ve had a different life,” she

says. “But the way he composes everything frickin’ hits me and I feel it.”

When Deville helped found the Dojo, he says, the goal of the collective that ran it was to showcase a wide array of artists: visual, musical, and literary. He invited a variety of people he’d met exploring the DIY scene and helped curate diverse bills—not just musicians but also, say, queer dancers and folk poets. People of color, women, and queer people were in charge.

“We were entering [the DIY scene] with a key advantage,” Deville says. “We could access artist pools and programming that lots of these other [DIY] venues couldn’t access because they were homogenous. And the Dojo could do it effortlessly.”

The constant stream of artists passing through the Pilsen space inspired Deville, and in summer 2015 he joined the musical collective Kid Made Modern, founded by actor and singer Daniel Kyri. The group has yet to make an album (they’ve been on hiatus for a bit), but their get-togethers to write, collaborate, and experiment helped give Deville the confidence to strike out on his own as a musician.

Rapper, filmmaker, and photographer Jovan Landry also met Deville at the Dojo. “He knew I rapped and everything, and he was like, ‘We got to collaborate,’” she says. She appears on both of his albums.

On the Super Predator track “Revolt,” she raps, “You know that I’m just, just tryna make a difference in the world, with my talents: For the brown girls.” Deville and Landry, their voices rising in unison on the chorus, call on listeners to “start a revolution” and remind their audience that “the first change takes place in the mind.” Landry says the feature “means a lot to me,” and it’s helped expose her to a new crowd: the Chicago DIY scene.

Landry also appears on the Each One, Teach One track “Monolith,” alongside Deville and rapper-actor Trigney Morgan. She rails against broad-brush oversimplifications of black identity: “Don’t fool yourself to think I have some monolith behavior / Like candy, people come in different kinds of flavors / I favor the ones who ain’t afraid to be themselves.”

Landry says she wondered whether the predominantly white fans who know Deville through the DIY scene would grasp the different resonance those lines might have for black people. “It’s a different audience, but it also helps them understand black culture and black life more. I think it’s a great thing to educate people,” she explains.

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MUSIC Mykele Deville continued from 29 Morgan says says that hip-hop crowds often come to shows prepared to pay close attention to what the performers are saying.

He describes Deville as a “conscious rapper” in the same vein as Common and Lupe Fiasco, and he says that when hip-hop heads hear substantive, powerful lyrics, “They’re really into it—it’s not something that’s just a dope beat.”

Most of the city’s DIY venues have historically catered to majority-white communities, but Morgan is willing to give those audiences the benefit of the doubt: “They may not be as connected, but they’re trying to connect— they’re trying to understand.”

Deville says he’s spent his life “infiltrating” spaces where few people look like him or share his background growing up on the west side. “I really don’t give a shit who is standing in that audience,” he says, “as long as people are hearing it.” He says the bulk of his fans are white, and “for them it’s education.”

“That’s the flavor for young, woke, white liberals right now,” he explains. “They want very badly to understand things I know as futility and truths. It’s a curious thing, and it’s our responsibility to try to educate. We need to unpack it—and let’s do that through our media, our art.”

Most of Deville’s fans may not directly relate to his experiences, but many want to understand—and some get excited enough about what he’s doing that they want to work with him.

Colin Mulhern of DIY collective Young Camelot helped produce seven of the 17 songs on Each One, Teach One, and he plays bass on “Rained Bow.” (Full disclosure: Mulhern is a friend of the author.) “I don’t know what it’s like to live in black skin. But I have friends that are deeply, deeply affected by the things he’s talking about, and it affects all of us regardless of skin color,” he says. Deville, Mulhern, and fellow Young Camelot member Chris Lee produced Each One, Teach One in a week.

Mulhern, who’s made beats for Detroit rapper Boldy James, met Deville through the Dojo. He says he was so blown away by Super Predator that he wanted to help Deville on future projects any way he could.

“The entire ethos and structure of DIY culture is based on the need to collaborate,” Mulhern says. “One of the main reasons we do this is to find people that may not be getting a lot of play or a lot of love in the greater venue or music scene, and give those people who might be incredibly talented or weird or might have

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something unique to offer a stage to do their own thing.”

Callicut says she never knew the DIY scene existed until her brother introduced her to the Dojo. “When I came over, I was just like, ‘Wow.’ I couldn’t believe it. I said, ‘Mykele, you the only person I know, and to be quite honest the only black boy I know, who can bring all these different types of people together,” she says.

“I always tell him that when your time comes, and you have to leave this earth, people gonna look at you and say, ‘He lived his life.’”

At the Dojo, Deville provided a platform for others to showcase their work in a welcoming, supportive environment, and as a consequence the people who ran other DIY venues extended the same courtesy to him. He describes it as a “quid pro quo thing,” except motivated by mutual respect and a shared desire to create instead of by money.

The Dojo worked like a creative accelerator for Deville, enabling him to finish two ambitious albums in a year. And the many DIY spaces where he’s delivered his sermons— whether denouncing systemic racial injustice or celebrating black family and identity—have served as stepping stones to the legit stages he now frequents. His next aboveground show is at Subterranean on Sunday, December 18.

“A few months ago I’m just playing basements with Super Predator, and a few months later I’m playing venues all across Chicago, from the Promontory to the East Room,” he marvels. “The DIY scene helped me go from there to here.” v

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WHEN CHICAGO SINGER-SONGWRITER Quinn Tsan self-released Good Winter two years ago, the EP nestled into the region just above my chest and below my neck—which explains why her bare, somber arrangements and trembling, resonant vocals together put a lump in my throat and make my heart beat a little faster. I put Good Winter on a loop so much that fall that it felt like I knew Tsan before we even exchanged pleasantries. And, full disclosure, since then Tsan and I have actually become friends, meaning her music is no longer our only vehicle for communication, though I certainly still find it enchanting. On the new self-released London, KY EP, Tsan ditches some of her starkness in favor of more vibrant arrangements: humming slide guitars, sweeping strings, cooing backup vocals. Still, her strongest gusts are revealed when the instrumentals ebb to reveal tender, soothing singing. Though Tsan and her band get a bit rambunctious on “Blind Man’s Daughter,” nothing hits as hard as when her quiet vocals rise above restless acoustic picking and what sounds like a field recording of crickets on “Lavender Oil.” —LEOR GALIL

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THURSDAY10 Lemaitre 8 PM, Double Door, 1551 N. Damen, $20, $15.50 in advance. 18+ Even if you think you’ve never heard Lemaitre, chances are you’ve heard Lemaitre. The Norwegian electronica duo’s songs have soundtracked a couple of Facebook create-your-own-memories videos. And while social-media Muzak doesn’t exactly sound like an appealing genre, Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund make it work: the fractured, jazzy piano intro on “Cut to Black” (one of those Facebook jingles) is virtuosic and catchy enough to please Chick Corea, and “Closer,” off their 1749 EP (Astralwerks), winks at the opening of “Good Vibrations” as guest vocalist Jennie A mouths a breathy “I . . .” before the song turns into a horn-sampling, bottom-heavy strut. “Last Night on Earth,” from the new Afterglow (Astralwerks), is an anthemic bigemotion-on-cue number that gets mildly derailed by bouncing glottal noises before it scurries back toward ecstasy. “We are stupid / We are sad / We are horrible / But not bad,” the duo declare, playing to their tacky side while also showing off their craftsmanship. If you think Abba-like, sugary, ingratiating 21st-century dance pop is horrible, then, yes, Lemaitre is horrible. The band is good enough at it, though, that even skeptics are likely to find themselves humming along to the hooks days later.

—NOAH BERLATSKY

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Rock, Pop, Etc CL 8:30 PM, Chicago Theatre Day Wave, Suburban Living 9 PM, Schubas, 18+ Diiv, Moon King 8:30 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Patty Griffin, Joan Shelley 8 PM, City Winery b Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers, Ryan Joseph Anderson 8 PM, SPACE b Peter Hook & the Light 8 PM, Metro, 18+ Lightfoils, Dead Leaf Echo, Ganser, Shimmer DJs 9 PM, Empty Bottle Metro Station, Palaye Royale, the Strive, Arvia 7:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Mr. Little Jeans, Trace, Tiny Fireflies 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Napalm Death, Black Dahlia Murder, Misery Index, Abnormality 7 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Sorority Noise, Free Throw, Ratboys 7 PM, Beat Kitchen b Hip-Hop Dizzy Wright, Audio Push, Mark Battles, T Dubz 6:30 PM, Portage Theater Lecrae 7:30 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Dance Bag Raiders (DJ set) 10 PM, the Mid Fritz Kalkbrenner, Duke Shin 10 PM, Smart Bar Folk & Country Mandolin Orange, My Bubba 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Jazz Paul Marinaro & Jeremy Kahn 8 PM, PianoForte Studios b

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Experimental Alessa, David Means, Perfect Messages, Rick Schlude 7:30 PM, Comfort Station b International Calje Chicago Afro-Latin Jazz Ensemble 4, 8 and 10 PM, also Fri 11/11 and Sat 11/12, 8 and 10 PM, Jazz Showcase Classical Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus with Christiane Karg and Michael Nagy Jaap Van Zweden, conductor; Duain Wolfe, chorus director (Mozart, Wagner, Brahms). 8 PM, also Fri 11/11, 1:30 PM and Sat 11/12, 8 PM, Symphony Center

FRIDAY11 Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov 7:30 PM, Mandel Hall, University of Chicago, 1131 E. 57th, $35, $5 students. b German violinist Isabelle Faust and Russian pianist Alexander Melnikov have forged an extraordinary musical partnership, working together for more than a decade in numerous contexts and consistently providing empathic support to one another. They share a vigor and curiosity regarding their diverse repertoires that leads them to dig into the history of each work and research early versions of scores, a practice that imparts their performances with extra vitality and fidelity—witness Faust’s dazzling recording of Mozart’s violin concertos, due from Harmonia Mundi on November 25. In February 2015 Faust and Melnikov were forced to cancel their Chicago debut due to illness, and they’re finally making up that date this weekend, performing three of Beethoven’s violin and piano sonatas: Sonata no. 4 in A Minor, Sonata no. 5 in F Major, and Sonata no. 10 in G Major. The pair’s remarkable 2009 recording of the complete sonatas, which earned them a Gram-

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NOVEMBER 18TH my nomination, captures their rapport, and and I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to finally hear their collaboration in person. —PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Aurora, Dan Croll 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Blue Oyster Cult, Jefferson Starship 8 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino Cerny Brothers, Michele McGuire 7 PM, Schubas Cortege, Los Black Dogs, Flying Potion, Sun God Ra, Terran Wretch 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club CRX, Streets of Laredo, Gloomies 9 PM, Empty Bottle The Fray, American Authors 8 PM, Chicago Theatre Alex G, Lvl Up, Brandon Can’t Dance 7 PM, Subterranean b The Good Life, Jake Bellows, Oquoa, Our Fox 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Chicago Farmer 8:30 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Marineros, DJ Resistol 5000 10:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ New Color, Floral Print, Courtship, Mirror Coat 10:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Willie Nile, Phil Rockrohr 8 PM, City Winery b Pretty Reckless, Holy White Hounds 7 PM, House of Blues b Saywecanfly, Johnnie Guilbert, Social Repose, Rivers Monroe, Chase Huglin, Fairview 4 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club b Sloan 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Tired Eyes, She Called Me . . . Band 9 PM, Hideout Jonathan Tyler, the Dove & the Wolf 10 PM, Schubas Dance Black Madonna, Mike Servito, Jason Kendig 10 PM, Smart Bar Chris Lake, Cid 10 PM, the Mid Mind Against, Sebastian Mullaert 10 PM, Spy Bar Jeremy Olander 10 PM, Sound-Bar Rodriguez Jr. 10 PM, Primary Nightclub Folk & Country David Bromberg, Al Rose & Steve Doyle 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver 7:30 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Richard Shindell 7 PM, SPACE b

Blues, Gospel, and R&B Lurrie Bell Band, Mike Wheeler Blues Band 9 PM, Kingston Mines Ray Fuller 9 PM, Buddy Guy’s Legends Vance Kelly & the Backstreet Blues Band 9:30 PM, also Sat 11/12, 10 PM, Rosa’s Lounge Lil’ Ed & the Blues Imperials 9 PM, B.L.U.E.S. Nellie “Tiger” Travis Blues Band 9 PM, also Sat 11/12, 9 PM, Blue Chicago Seth Walker 10 PM, SPACE b Jazz Orbert Davis’ Chicago Jazz Philharmonic 7:30 PM, Auditorium Theatre Dana Hall’s Spring 9 PM, also Sat 11/12, 8 PM, Green Mill Lowdown Brass Band with MC Billa Camp 9:30 PM, also Sat 11/12, 9:30 PM, Andy’s Jazz Club Nick Mazzarella Quintet, Russ Johnson Trio, Keefe Jackson & Jeb Bishop 9 PM, Hungry Brain Nth Power, Nasty Snacks, Bassel & the Supernaturals 9 PM, Martyrs’ Classical Chicago Opera Theater’s The Fairy Queen 7:30 PM, also Sun 11/13, 3 PM, Studebaker Theater Yarn/Wire 8:30 PM, Constellation

SATURDAY12 Vent Fort 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $10. 18+ Another iteration of the French-Chicago improvisational music exchange called the Bridge, now in its fourth year, the sextet Vent Fort stands apart from other groupings in part because two of its U.S. members don’t live in Chicago (though trombonist Jeb Bishop was a resident for many years).

Parisian bassist Frédéric B. Briet met Bishop and the remarkable New York drummer Tyshawn Sorey during a trip to the U.S. in 2012 courtesy of trombonist, musicologist, and Chicago native George Lewis, under whom Sorey studied. The sextet— which also includes Chicago spoken-word artist Khari B., French flutist Magic Malik, and saxophonist Guillaume Orti—came together for a J

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French tour in early 2015, where it performed the mostly improvised material on its new album in the Bridge Sessions series. Together the band carves out deep, simmering grooves thanks to a strong bond between Briet and Sorey, who also adds bass trombone here and there. Malik alternates between probing, richly melodic flute solos and wordless vocal accents, like the lilting figures he drops behind Khari B.’s declamatory lines (a la Amiri Baraka) on “Start a Riot.” The setting offers Bishop and Orti lots of space, and they take full advantage of it.

—PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Alehorn of Power: Thor, Professor Black, Argus, Bible of the Devil, Lurking Corpses, Seamstress 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Arkells, Darcys 9 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Den, Building, Bummer, War Brides 8 PM, Burlington Johnnyswim, Jonny P 8 PM, Thalia Hall, sold out b Lera Lynn, Anthony Aparo 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Max & the Mild Ones, Nation of Language, Gal Gun 10 PM, Schubas F Muvves, Sexy Fights, DJ Philly Peroxide 10 PM, Cole’s F Nest, Moon Rabbit, Piece of Cake 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Nnamdi’s Sooper-Dooper Secret Side Project, Hellrazor, Astolfo Sulla Luna, Worst Gift, Future Biff 6:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Sarah Potenza, Grit & the Double Knit, DJ Lawrence Peters 9 PM, Hideout Pup, Meat Wave, Chastity 7:30 PM, Bottom Lounge, sold out b Revolt Coda, Nice Lords, Burn Rebuild, the Dead On 8:30 PM, Cobra Lounge Bob Schneider 8 PM, SPACE, sold out Sneezy, Scotch the Filmmaker, Sugar Free Guns, Namorado 7:30 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Uniform, Hide, Mark Solotroff 9 PM, Empty Bottle

Matt Wertz, Cappa, Aaron Krause 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Dance Rufus Du Sol, Roland Tings, Dena Amy 10 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Darrin Epsilon 10 PM, Spy Bar Matjoe, Dabura, Twitchin Skratch, Striz 10 PM, Primary Nightclub Mood II Swing 10 PM, Smart Bar Phutureprimitive, Govinda, Mind Cntrl 10 PM, 1st Ward, 18+ Snakehips, Charles Murdoch 9 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Folk & Country Chatham County Line 8 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Blues, Gospel, and R&B Lurrie Bell Blues Band, Joanna Connor Blues Band 9 PM, Kingston Mines Joe Moss Band, Andre Taylor 9:30 PM, Buddy Guy’s Legends Mike Wheeler 9 PM, B.L.U.E.S. Experimental Bottletree, Megiapa 9 PM, Elastic b Anil Camci, Focus Group LLC 8 PM, Experimental Sound Studio b International A-Sound & Choi Joo 10 PM, Metro, 18+ Ranking Joe 10 PM, Double Door Rebelution, Hirie 9 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+

SUNDAY13 Beef Jerk Parent, Beth Israel, and Person open.

8:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western. $8 Beneath the shambling, scrappy attack of the delightfully ragged quartet Beef Jerk, from Sydney, Australia, is a sharp sense of humor, and on their recent album Tragic (Trouble in Mind) lyrics pile up life’s disappointments like mounds of dead leaves

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that won’t stay still. Over the wag-along groove of “Another Drop” strumming guitars wrestle with a simple chord progression as Jack Lee slurs, “I’m just another drop in the ocean / Not worth the notice.”

From there he keeps on elucidating his worthlessness, seemingly intent on establishing some kind of value; on “Train” Lee’s joined by fellow guitarist Michael Branson as they sing of existential boredom in tandem—“I’m on a slow-moving train / Going through the same old place.” Yet as much as they suggest that they’re spinning in place, their music, a raucous postpunk blast that conjures the late-80s/ early-90s glory days of Aussie and New Zealand indie rock, definitely goes somewhere. Rather than sound as if they’re actively summoning that past,

however, Beef Jerk boldly stumble forward, their energy and purpose feeling as fresh as anything happening today. —PETER MARGASAK

Bent Life Bracewar headline; Bent Life, Malice at the Palace, Mal Intent, Kharma, and Capitol Offense open. 6 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $14, $12 in advance. 17+ In the six years since Nebraska hardcore group Bent Life dropped their debut 2010 demo, they’ve opened for Weekend Nachos during some of the Chicago powerviolence heroes’ final shows and linked up with heavy-hitting Boston label J

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Bridge Nine. But they’ve also found a wider audience, even if they’ve failed to catch on in their home town of Lincoln (in a 2015 interview with music site Hear Nebraska, guitarist Brock Stephens said their unrelenting chug-chugging sound isn’t “too in” in their home state, leading writer Jacob Zlomke to reflect on the site’s blind spots regarding the state’s hardcore scenes and other sounds as well). Bent Life’s long-gestating debut, August’s Never Asked for Heaven (Bridge Nine), is a testament to why their steamrolling style is on the rebound nationwide—fans of the genre will get a sugar high listening to the tightly wound breakdowns, rumbling bass notes, and exasperated, hoarse screams. The group make that muscle-bound sound their own through subtle touches like the cock-rock guitar squeal on “Thanks for Nothing,” and their commanding grasp of melody is as strong as their music is ferocious.

—LEOR GALIL

Jeremy Denk 3 PM, Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan, $21-$82, $15 students. b In recent years Jeremy Denk has left no doubt that he’s one of the most formidable and unique classical pianists at work, a musician of great flair, precision, and humor who routinely makes interesting programming choices. This weekend’s solo recit-

seems a bit odd, but it’s exactly the sort of pairing that makes a Denk performance something to both learn from and luxuriate within. —PETER MARGASAK

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The self-titled album by Jesu and Sun Kil Moon, released in January by Caldo Verde, is a true collaboration between multi-instrumentalist Justin Broadrick (also well-known for his work in Godflesh) and singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek. Broadrick’s range of contributions as Jesu—from electronic programming to sludgy guitar chugs and billowing drums— electrifies Kozelek’s acoustic stream of consciousness and adds a dynamism that can get lost when the Sun Kil Moon front man struggles to keep pace with his mind in a studio. On “Carondelet” Kozelek wails without irony over Broadrick’s Albini-esque drum booms and primal guitar about the Comedy Central roasts of Bob Saget and Charlie Sheen. It’s a vocal screeching rare for the singer, who generally favors calmly delivered observations on mortality and mundanity that put a pedestrian spin on Lou Reed’s street-rat poetry. The most gutting and beautiful song I’ve heard so far this decade is “Exodus,” featuring lyrics that empathetically meditate on bereaved parents, inspired by Nick Cave, Mike Tyson, and others who’ve lost their chil- J

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dren; Kozelek sings over plaintive piano lines and drum-machine rhythms that subtly propel the tides of sadness throughout the nearly ten-minute track. Though the words are masterful, the record wouldn’t be nearly as successful without Broadrick, who had a strong hand in its creation. My hope is that the commitment to the collaboration extends to the stage, pulling Kozelek out of his navel and away from the unhinged rants that have come to dog his reputation. Much of this music is so good it deserves a life of its own. —ERIN OSMON

Lyric Opera’s Les Troyens 1 PM, Civic Opera House, 20 N. Upper Wacker, $20-$349. b Though he spent years trying to get it produced, 19th-century French composer Hector Berlioz never got to see a performance of his Les Troyens, based on Virgil’s Aeneid. And, very likely, neither have you, since the five-act, two-part, five-hour megawork that begins with the Trojan horse and ends on a funeral pyre in Carthage is seldom mounted. Lyric Opera is promoting its first-ever production as a “once-ina-lifetime” opportunity and will be offering box suppers in the lobby at the first intermission for sustenance. As if any extra excitement were needed, two weeks before opening, Lyric announced that veteran Susan Graham would replace mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch, who was originally cast as the Carthaginian queen Dido but had to withdraw for personal reasons. —DEANNA ISAACS

Madeleine Peyroux 6 and 8:30 PM, SPACE, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston, $30-$90. b On her new album Secular Hymns (Impulse) vocalist Madeleine Peyroux keeps things simple from top to bottom. There’s no clever concept behind the collection—the ten stylistically disparate songs, she says, were chosen simply for their “personal and disarming” quality, and the title derives from a 2015 concert she gave at an English countryside church dating back to the Norman era. She’s supported only by electric guitarist Jon Herington and double bassist Barak Mori, and the focus is on her singing, which is tenderly cradled by lean, effective arrangements that bring subtle jazz voicings to old blues tunes (Lil Green’s “Hello Babe”), gospel classics (the Sister Rosetta Tharpe gem “Shout Sister Shout”), and melodramatic singer-songwriter fare (the swaggering Tom Waits ballad “Tango Till They’re Sore”).

And with the exception of a toothless reggae-lite take on “More Time” by dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson, the album succeeds because it keeps its ambitions modest. Peyroux’s voice has deepened and her phrasing has become more direct, and with songs this strong she doesn’t need much else.

—PETER MARGASAK Rock, Pop, Etc Caspian, Appleseed Cast 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+ Crown the Empire, Blessthefall, New Years Day, Too Close to Touch 5 PM, Bottom Lounge b Magik*Magik 6:30 PM, Schubas b The 1975, 070 Shake 7 PM, also Mon 11/14, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom b

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TUESDAY15 Trap Them Yautja, Like Rats, and Stay Asleep open. 8 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $15. 17+ As if he needed to add more to the mystique of the new filthier-than-thou, baleful and crazed Crown Feral (Prosthetic), Trap Them front man Ryan McKenney decided to jump off a giant speaker during a mid-October show in Eindhoven, Netherlands, breaking both of his feet. He went on to finish the show (holy shit!) and has since been making do, burdened by a bulky pair of casts and occupying whatever rickety chair is available. Indeed, listening to McKenney shred his vocal chords on the band’s follow-up to 2014’s Blissfucker—you can damn near hear the spit and fire pelt the GodCity studio mike—it’s no wonder he’s doggedly forging ahead.

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WEDNESDAY16 Quinsin Nachoff 8:30 PM, Constellation, 1035 N. Western, $10. 18+ Tenor saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff, a Toronto-native based in New York, has used different assemblages to explore varying compositional and conceptual precepts in his music—colliding a sax trio with a string quartet or leading his Pyramid Project, which front-loads music with a heavy-duty brass section. He’s also written extensively for new-music ensembles, and with the new album Flux (Mythology) he’s inventively adapted those sorts of commissions into a rugged, bass-free improvising quartet.

Alto saxophonist Dave Binney joins Nachoff to play zigzagging unison lines that pull apart to create tart counterpoint, but the heaviest lifting is done by polymath keyboardist Matt Mitchell, who fills out the bottom with drummer Kenny Wollesen and gives the front line plenty to chew on. The careening rock energy of “Tightrope” belies the balletic suggestion of its title, though the broken-glass chords of Mitchell maintain control throughout.

And on “Complimentary Opposites” he toggles between mathematic complexity, with both hands forming dizzying braids on the Fender Rhodes, and more direct acoustic playing, throwing a surprising reggae interlude in for good measure. Nachoff wrote “Astral Echo Poem” with Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal in mind (the title is an anagram of his name), and the piece summons his freewheeling spirit without aping his language. The quartet is touring behind the record, and I can only assume

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That’s odd, because the region—drawing upon abundant and varied produce and literally ancient history—is arguably Mexico’s most revered. So when a wholly Oaxacan restaurant opens its doors, it’s best to pay attention.

The folks behind Kie-Gol-Lanee took over the space once inhabited by the late Riques Cocina Mexicana in Uptown, amid the abundance of pho joints and Vietnamese groceries.

Led by chef Reynel Mendoza, they’re a group who found work cooking at the Andersonville Italian restaurant Anteprima after emigrating from the tiny mountain town of Santa María Quiegolani, the latter word being the Spanish translation of Kie-Go-Lanee, which means “old stone” in Zapotec, the majority language of the village.

In Uptown, where the Virgen de Guadalupe blesses you as you pass beneath her post above the arch of the door, you’ll find exactly the sort of dish likely to be prepared in those pine- and oak-covered mountains: mushrooms, varied in species, enveloped in a packet of fragrant banana leaf, along with cilantro, green onions, and tart salsa verde. I’m sure Mendoza and company didn’t forage for those mushrooms anywhere more remote than their whole- J

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There are a few other uncommon offerings, in particular, the tlayuda, aka the Mexican pizza, a crackly, superthin cornmeal flatbread smeared with black beans and loaded with cabbage, tomato, red onion, avocado, and the long white string cheese the state is known for, plus a choice of toppings, from mushrooms to chicharrones to skirt steak to the dried beef known as cesina. These are a rarity in Chicago—though they arrive shattered at the table with salsa at Rick Bayless’s Leña Brava—and occasionally they do here as well, for dredging through an inky black-bean salsa.

Oaxacan-style tamales complete the more street-food-oriented section of the menu.

The flat, rectangular banana-leaf packages contain steaming, silky-smooth cornmeal that bursts with its filling—chunks of pork with tangy green mole or shredded chicken in the spicy, chocolaty, head-spinningly complex mole rojo, one of the seven classic moles associated with Oaxaca.

A darker, richer mole appears among formally plated entrees dominated by proteins smothered in sauce, with a side of starch or vegetable. And it’s an entirely appropriate pairing with Cornish hen, though the odd choice of serving this with a scoop of creamy pasta salad seems less influenced by the chefs’ hometown than it does by their work at Anteprima.

So too does the barbecued lamb served with mashed potatoes, peas, and carrots, but the fall-off-the-bone meat and the rich sauce make for a nearly homogenous dish that feels as if a warm blanket has enveloped your digestive

tract. Same goes for rabbit stewed with potatoes and peppers. These are homey, comforting plates, a bit at odds with the grilled quail with sweet plum sauce or the skirt steak with an earthy salsa made with the corn fungus huitlacoche.

A smattering of snacks, appetizers, and lighter dishes rounds things out. Garnachas are little masa cups stuffed with pork, cabbage, radish, cheese, and red salsa. Tlacoyos are corn patties stuffed with black beans and topped with cheese, cactus, tomato, onion, and radish. A salty tortilla soup is fueled by chipotle chiles and cooled by fatty avocado, while tacos are loaded with beef birria or chicharrones softened in red salsa.

You’re not embracing the full protein experience without an order of chapulines, the tiny grasshoppers snacked on all over the state, though at Kie-Gol-Lanee they’re a bit overfried and missing much of the customary lime acidity.

For dessert, in addition to the standard tres leches cake and a blueberry tart, there are the more uncommon tastes of moist caramel-drizzled zucchini cake and squash cooked down in cinnamon and the raw sugar piloncillo. And with Kie-Gol-Lanee’s BYOB policy, it’s not a bad plan to use your own mezcal to spike the horchata, tamarindo, or the sweet squash drink known as chilacayota.

Kie-Gol-Lanee doesn’t present the most comprehensive or even the most varied Oaxacan menu compared to ones we’ve seen in the past (no mole amarillo? no manchamanteles?).

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

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)

WEST PULLMAN (INDIANA

Ave) RENT SPECIAL 1/2 Off 1 month rent + Sec dep. Nice,lrg 1BR $575; 2BR $650 & 1 3BR $850, balcony, Sec 8 Welc. 773-995-6950

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

773-637-5957 CHATHAM 80TH & St. Lawrence. Lrg studio $525, 1BR $585-$630. 113th & Indiana, XL 1BR heat incl. $640.

773-660-9305 FALL SPECIAL $500 Toward

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

CHICAGO, 711 W. GARFIELD, 1BR /Studio Apt. Newly decorated, heated, appliances incl., $645 & $595. Call 1-773-881-4182

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

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1BR. $600/mo.

Call 773-955-5106

5701 W. WASHINGTON. 1BR

CROSSROADS HOTEL SRO SINGLE RMS Private bath, PHONE,

ACCOUNTANT: PERFORM ACCOUNTING AND TAX SERVICES; BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ACCOUNTING; LIBA, INC. 2516 WAUKEGAN RD, #113, GLENVIEW, IL 60025

Newly updated, clean furnished rooms, located near buses & Metra, elevator, utilities included, $91/wk. $ 395/mo. 815-722-1212

Ashland Hotel nice clean rms.

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

Low rates daily/weekly/monthly.

South Side. Call 773-376-5200

WEST CHATHAM 1BR, hard-

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

Apts. $680-$700/mo. Heat Incl.

Parking available, appls incl No Pets.

773-907-0302

wood floors, $730/mo incls heat.

2BR Park Manor, in-unit laundry, $85 0/mo. Call 312-683-5284

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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

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6829 S. Perry. 1BR. $520/mo.

1431 W. 78th St. 2BR. $605/mo.

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BRONZEVILLE 4950 S Prairie.

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

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1 BR $900-$1099 LARGE ONE BEDROOM apart-

ment near Loyola Park. 1341 W Estes.

Hardwood floors. Heat included. Cats OK. Laundry in building. Available 12/ 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. $925/ month. Heat included. Available 12/1. 773-761-4318, www.lakefrontmgt.com

ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT

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.

8324 S Ingleside: 1BR $660, Studio $600, 1st flr, newly remod., lndry, hdwd flrs, cable. Sec 8 welc. 708-308-1509, 773-4933500 CHICAGO WESTSIDE 2 nice 1BR Apartments, Austin Area, quiet building, $750/mo + sec, Laundry rm , Parking 773-575-9283 8001 S COLFAX; 1BR $650, 2nd flr, newly remod, hdwd floors, cable. Great location! Sec 8 welcome.

708-308-1509, 773-493-3500 3705 W. ADDISON Studio. $720.

Heat included. Call Daniel, 773-8758085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

AUSTIN AREA 1-2 BR apts, $750-1000, heat & appliances incld Section 8 OK, close to transportation 708-267-2875

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

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

near Warren Park and Metra, 6802 N Wolcott. Hardwood floors. Heat included. Laundry in building. Cats OK. $900/ month. Available 12/1. 773761-4318, www.lakefrontmgt.com

HYDE PARK 1BR. $975/MO + sec dep. Newly decor, hdwd flrs, stove, fridge, free heat & hot water, laundry facilities, Free Credit Check. 773-667-6477 or 312-802-7301

3708 N. MARSHFIELD, 1 Bdrm.

$995. Heat included. Call Daniel, 773875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

2511 W. SUNNYSIDE, 1 Bdrm.

$965. Heat included. Call Daniel, 773875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

1 BR OTHER APTS. FOR RENT PARK MGMT & INV. Ltd. IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN! OUR UNITS INCLUDE HEAT, HW & CG Plenty of parking 1Bdr From $750.00 2Bdr From $925.00 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath From $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000***

HYDE PARK Large 2.5 Room Studio, $850 /mo.

Large 1.5 Room Studio, $750 /mo.

Newly decorated, carpeted, stove, fridge, all utils incl., elevator, laundry facilities. FREE credit check. No application fee.

773-493-2401 or 312-8027301 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 ∫

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 CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** 70TH & CALIFORNIA, 1 & 2BR, modern kitchen & bath, dining room. Starting at $65 0/mo & up. Section 8 Welcome. 847-909-1538 SPACIOUS-SAFE 773-4235727. BRONZEVILLE, 3BR, heat included. Englewood, 1,2 & 3BR, heat incl. Dolton, 2BR, Gated Parking.

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

Auburn Gresham, Beautiful 2 flat building, newly decorated 3BR $875 & 1BR $575. Hdwd flrs, heat incl, security deposit. 708510-3405 CHICAGO, Room for Rent in quiet home, older adult female preferred, $450/month. 84th & Pulaski.

Call 773-767-8678 AUSTIN AREA 55th Block of Gladys, 2.5BR, 1BA, liv rm, din rm $

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

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

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

1BR, 7730 S. Jeffery, $750 1BR, 110 E. 70th St., $700 Heat and appliances Included.

Shown by Appt. 773-874-2556 MOVE IN SPECIAL B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-3400 ROYALTON HOTEL, Kitchenette $135 & up wk. Free WiFi. 1810 W. Jackson 312-226-4678

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 VERY NICE 2BR Apt Near 82nd & Hermitage. Nicely decorated, heat incl. $730/mo. Call for an appointment 773-7837098 CHICAGO SOUTH, 66 Winchester, Clean 2.5 BR. Section 8 ok, No Pets. $800/mo + security deposit.

Please call 708-439-3652

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

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ALSIP: LARGE 2BR, 1.5BA, $875/mo. Balcony, appliances, laundry & storage.

Call 708-268-3762 LANSING - 18348 Torrence Ave. 1 Bedroom Apartment, $650/mo. Heat & Water included.

No pets. Call 708-895-4794

$895.00. Heat included. Call Daniel, 773-875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

6921 N. GREENVIEW, 1 Bdrm

$1425.

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

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

SQUARE 2 bedroom apartment, 2-flat building, modern kitchen & bath, balcony, washer & dryer. $750/mo. Near Blue Line.

773-235-1066

850/mo, plus 1 mo sec & 1 mo rent 773-378-0710

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

Most units Include..

HEAT & HOT WTR Studios From $545.00 1Bdr From $575.00 2Bdr From $745.00 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath From $1200 **1-(773)-476-6000**

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7000 S. Merrill 2BR, hdwd flrs, lrg FR/sunrm, new remod., cable ready, lndry, O’keefe Elem, $800/ mo. Section 8 welcome. 708-3081509, 773-493-3500

No deposit, free heat. 312.208.1771

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decorative fire place, granite kitchen, D/W, close to trans. Heat Incl. $1295+. 708-359-1440

THIS IS IT! Garden 2BR. 7830 S. Colfax. Start $850. 3BR. 3rd flr. 7820 S. Constance. Start $995.

Sec 8 ok. Pete, 312.770.0589 CHICAGO

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

OLD IRVING PARK! 4146 N.

Avers, 2 bedrooms at $1095 including heat and cooking gas. Just completed remodeling, new kitchen, new batch, dishwasher, hardwood floors, walking distance to grocery store, restaurants and public transportation, laundry in building. NO SECURITY DEPOSIT! For a showing please contact Saida 773-407-6452, Hunter Properties 773-477-7070

948 N. DAMEN AVE. unfurnished apartment for rent. 2BR, stove & refrigerator. Neat & clean. Newly painted. $1000/mo. Call 847-9624818 or Email: nsrjh6@yahoo.com

SPACIOUS 2BR APT, newly renovated kitchen & bath, hdwd floors throughout, tenant heated. $ 1050/mo. Sect 8 welcome. 708300-4787

LYNWOOD, 2BR, 1BA, c -fa n s, heat, appliances, A/C, $1000 /mo. Credit check, security deposit, no pets. Call 773721-6086

2153 N. BELL, 2 Bdrm. $850.

Water included. Call Daniel, 773875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

2 BR $900-$1099 DLX 1ST FLR, 2.5BR, hdwd flrs, ceiling fans, lg LR/DR & ktchen, 3 car gar. 83rd & Maryland. $850, Free heat & appl incl. Sec 8 welc. 773412-0541

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Bronzeville - 42nd & Indiana.

Gut rehabbed 2BR, hardwood floors, new kit cabinets & washer in unit $995. Sect 8 Welc. 773447-2122

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CHICAGO RIDGE, SPACIOUS 2 bedroom, appliances, balcony, $950/mo., heat included

2 BR $1300-$1499

708-422-8801

CHICAGO - BEAUTIFUL 2BD/ 1BA in a 2 unit bldg, large enclosed backyard, new carpet, utils incld. $950/mo. Contact 773-680-4174

WEST AUSTIN AREA. 2BR, 2nd floor, living/dining/laundry room, heat incl. secure building, $1,000/mo.

Donnell. 773-584-1833

HARVEY 4BR, 2BA, newly decorated, LR, DR, water included $1125/mo Sec 8 Welcome.

708-672-0302 or 708-703-7077 ROGERS PARK: 1700 Juneway, 2-3 bedrooms $900-$1200, Free heat, No deposit -312.593.1677

2 BR $1100-$1299 MAYWOOD - 2BR APT WITH enclosed sun porch, carpet A/C. No pets. Ten pays electric & gas.

Avail now. $900. David Miller, 708259-9219 4300 BLOCK OF AUGUSTA, 2BR, 1st & 2nd floor, laundry facility on site, $1125/mo, utilities incl.

Sect 8 ok. No pets / no smoking.

773-418-0195 W. BELLE P L A I N E , 2 Bdrm $1140. Water included. Call Daniel, 773-875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

PILSEN AREA - R E M O D ELED Large 2 Bdrm, 2 Bath

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

IRVING PARK/PULASKI 2BR

in jumbo, impeccable 6-flat, beautiful floors, fixtures, decorative fireplace, porch swing, laundry & yard. $1150/ mo heated. $85 garage, Affordable.

773-392-7356.

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73rd & Dorchester, 2BR, carpet, $1150; 119th & Calumet, 3BR, 2BA, carpet, $1250. No Sec Dep. Sec 8 ok. 773-684-1166.

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

1151 W. LILL 2 Bdrm. $1250. Water

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

224-223-7787

included. Call Daniel, 773-875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-2818400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

2806 W, ALTGELD, 2 Bdrm.

$1295. Heat included. Call Daniel, 773-875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

2250 W. AINSLIE 2 Bdrm. $1250.

Heat included. Call Daniel, 773-8758085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

CHATHAM BEAUTIFUL REMOD 2 & 3BR, hdwd flrs, custom

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

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

Available 12/1. $1595/ month. Parking available. $150/ month for single parking space. $250/ month for tandem parking space. 773-761-4318, w ww.lakefrontmgt.com

4165 N. LINCOLN 2 Bdrm. $1650.

Water included. Call Daniel, 773-8758085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

2 BR OTHER BEAUTIFUL NEW APT! 62nd and King Dr. 2BDRM 72nd and Evans. 3BDRM 6150 S. Vernon. 4BDRM Stainless Steel!! Appliances!!

Hdwd flrs!! Marble bath!!

Laundry on site!!

Sec 8 OK. 773- 404- 8926

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

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200

ENGLEWOOD 4BR, 1BA,

61ST/LANGLEY. 3BR/1BA. 1ST flr of 2 unit bldg. Avail Now. Sect 8 ok. Beaut apt, New kitchen, W/D in bsmt. Hdwd flrs. Nr Trans, 1 blk from schl. $1000/mo.

312-464-2222

BEAUTIFUL 3BR, new decor,

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

6018 S. ST. Lawrence, 3BR Apartment, 2 full bath, newly painted, blocks from the Univ. of Chicago. $995/mo. Call 630-4520163 CHICAGO, 7821 S. Paxton Ave, 3rd floor, 3BR/2BA, large, updated Apt in clean & quiet 3 flat, $1030/ mo + 1 mo sec dep. Call 773-9022128 CALUMET CITY, 3BR, 2 car garage, fully rehab w/ gorgeous finishes & hdwd flrs. Beautiful backyard. Sect 8 ok. $1175/mo.

510-735-7171

3 BDRMS/1BATH, APPLIANCES and garage. $1,050. Section 8 welcome NO Sec. Dep. _ $600 nonrefundable move in fee. 708-214-3674

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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

NORTH LAWNDALE, 2BR Apts, Multiple Units Available.

New construction, next to park and elementary school. Sec 8 welcome. 972-256-1141

CHICAGO, 7028 3BR, lrg living room, hardwood flrs, 1.5BA, mo + heat. Section 708-204-9881

S. GREEN, dining room, 3 unit, $895/ 8 Welcome.

6114 S. MORGAN, 1st floor, newly renov 2BR. $725/mo, utilis separate. References & sec dep req’d. Please call for appt, 312835-6667

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

Move In Special is 1 Month’s Rent & $99 Sec Dep. Sect 8 Welc. 708-748-4169

SOUTHSIDE CHICAGO- 2BR,

Balcony, close to Public Transportation & Expressway, $800 month includes heat. 312-519-6913

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114TH & KING Dr. 3BR, carpeted,

great transp., garage, Secure buildling, $880/mo + 1 month security. Call 708-889-6128

AVAILABLE NOW! 90th & Jus-

tine, 2nd flr, 3bedroom, hardwood floors, $1100/heat not included +security Sec 8 Ok. 773-476-7335.

86TH AND MORGAN 4BR, 1BA

newly rehab, 61st/Bishop, $1000 / mo. Sect 8 ok. Pets ok. Top flr of 2 unit bldg. 312-953-1232 non smoking, heat incl, Nr Kennedy King College & trans. $800/mo. 773-960-8465 leave msg

SOUTHSIDE: 68th & Hermitage 3BR$800/mo, 68th & Emerald 5BR, 2BA $1050/ mo, 3BR, 1BA $800/mo 847-977-3552 Chicago 3BR apartment, 2nd fl, 1.5BA, Large LR & DR, $700/ mo + security. Tenant pays heat.

Call 773-993-3962

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499 6200 BLOCK OF S. GREENWOOD. (2) 3BR Apts, separate DR, all new kitch, $1350/ mo. Close to UofC Hospitals, H.S & public trans. W/D on site. No pets. Application Fee applies. 773-858-7551 BRAND NEW, TWO rehabbed 3BR apts with new everything.

Just $1250/montly. 55th & Carpenter. A must see! Call 919-5200753

SOUTHSIDE SEC. 8 OK. 88 Place

& Cottage. 4 bed, 2 bath, quiet block, all appls. incl., finished bsmt. $1300.

Call 847-533-2496

HARVEY 15020 S Marshfield.

Freshly Updated 4BR, 2 full BA. Stove /fridge incl. Quiet blk. $1200 /mo. Sec 8 wel 773-501-0503 NEAR 63RD AND RHODES.

Newly Remod 3-4BR, new appls. $1200-$1500/mo. Sec 8 Welcome.

Call 708-955-7795

House, section 8 OK, credit check and security deposit required.

773-456-2061

CHICAGO HEIGHTS 3 bdrm

house for rent, exc cond, available now. $1050/Mo, 1st mo + sec dep.

Tenants pay all utils. 708-343-8629

SOUTH SHORE 7731 S. Yates, Area 3BR 2 bath, Carpeted, $950/mo + 1 month Security deposit Please Call 773-947-9391

CHATHAM-3BR 1.5BA, REF/ HEAT incl, laundry in bsmt, 7900 block of Langley, Sec 8 Ok. $1160/ Mo. Mr. Johnson 630-424-1403

3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799

SEC 8 5BR New Renovated House Avail NOW. Close to shopping, transportation, 5BR Vouchers call/txt (773) 407-3722 ASAP 3144 N. SEMINARY, 3 Bdrm.

$1700.00 Water included. Call Daniel, 773-875-8085 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

10742 S LaSalle, Section 8 Welcome 4BR, 1BA, hdwd flrs, tenant pays utilities, $1400/mo no security dep 773-221-0061

3 BR OR MORE $1800-$2499

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RICHTON PARK, 3BR TH, 1.5BA, stainless steel appls, hdwd, full fin bsmt, pool & parking. Tenant pays electric & water. Must verify income. Bad Credit OK. 708-6336352

HYDE PARK 53rd/ Greenwood, Quiet building on quiet block, 4-5BR, 3BA, hdwd flrs, sunny, lrg yard, lndry, new kit, heat incl, garage too. $2750.

312-464-2222

W Pullman, Morgan Park area 4BR’s, 1.5 BA, liv rm, kit, newly remodeled, w/d, stove, fridge, garage, $1400-1500 847-7326383

Chicago Style Bungalow , 4 BR, 2 full BA, freshly decorated, new carpet, modern kit & bath, $15 00/m +1 m sec/1m rent Larry, 708529-3836

7724 S KING Dr, 3BR, 1BA, newly remod, 2 car garage. Open House Sun 11/6 at 1:30-5pm.

Sect 8 Welc. Avail 12/1 Clarence 773-707-3387

Blue Island , 2423 W. 123rd St, 2BR, 1.5BA, freshly decor, modern BA & kitch, A/C, heat incl. $900/ mo+1 mo sec. Larry, 708-529-3832

7432 S MARYLAND, 3BR, 1st floor, hrdwd floors, Sec. 8 ok. 3 or 2 BR Voucher ok. Call 847-9260625.

S. SIDE: 5BR, 1.5BA, LR & DR, hdwd flrs, high ceilings, encl porch, pantry, bsmt, ADT alarm. Sec 8 ok. 708-612-1732

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

773-685-6868.

South: Pershing Avenue. 773-523-6868.

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be there to administer a lethal shot, typically of pentobarbital. Delivered in sufficient dosage, this barbiturate, most widely marketed in the U.S. as Nembutal, zips through the bloodstream to knock out brain and heart functions pretty much simultaneously. The end is instant and painless, the process so far from cruel and unusual that even the Humane Society grudgingly recommends it if euthanasia is unavoidable. With an even bigger hit of pentobarbital you can put down a horse—or end a human life with little muss or fuss.

Contrast that frictionless procedure with the dysfunctional workings of death row.

As of 2010, about 7 percent of lethal injections conducted in the U.S. resulted in some shameful, often headline-snagging snafu. And that incompetence hasn’t abated in the years since—capital punishment has if anything become an even less professional undertaking, as reputation-protecting drug manufacturers and physicians edge away from the institution and states grow cagier about what happens in the death chamber.

The irony here is that the earliest advocates of chemical execution actually got the idea from animal euthanasia. “We kill animals more humanely than people,” pathologist Jay Chapman recalls thinking circa 1977, while Gary Gilmore was awaiting death by firing squad.

It was in that year that Chapman, then Oklahoma’s chief medical examiner, whipped up the lethal-injection protocol that still bears his name. His three-drug cocktail—sodium thiopental as a sedative, pancuronium to still the lungs, and potassium chloride to stop the heart—was eventually adopted nationwide.

The Illinois-based drug manufacturer Hospira slammed the brakes on the Chapman protocol in 2011 when it ceased production of sodium thiopental. Scrambling about for a substitute, death-penalty states turned to pentobarbital. But once word got out that Nembutal was now being used for capital-punishment purposes, public outcry in execution-averse Europe led to a pledge from its Danish manufacturer, Lundbeck, to stop selling it to states that practiced lethal injection. Undeterred, some corrections departments started buy-

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a large Labrador. Despite my emotional turmoil, I couldn’t help but notice the complete lack of pain, trauma, and stress our dog experienced, and how quickly it was all over. Why do there seem to be ongoing issues whenever we execute people by lethal injection that we never see when dogs get put to sleep? —MIKE HOGAN

ing compounded barbiturates from unregulated smaller pharmacies, while state lawmakers moved to shield the drugs’ provenance from journalists, defense lawyers, and even judges. When in 2014 a lethal-injection recipient in Oklahoma protested, “I feel my whole body burning,” there was no way for reporters to determine where the crucial dose of pentobarbital had come from.

Undependable drugs notwithstanding, the bigger problem may lie in . . . well, in the execution. The American Nurses Association is “strongly opposed” to its members taking part in an execution, and the American Medical Association’s code of ethics states flat out that physicians shouldn’t get involved. In 2010 the American Board of Anesthesiology went further, reserving its right to revoke certification for lethal-injection participants.

With the pool of experienced injectors thus limited, it’s maybe unsurprising how often execution personnel can’t manage to find a vein.

Stanley “Tookie” Williams got jabbed like a pincushion by California injection techs for almost 20 minutes in 2005; four years later in Ohio, executioners fumbled around so ineffectually that Romell Broom is still alive to appeal his sentence. And in the most notoriously botched injection of recent years, the IV line inserted into Oklahoma prisoner Clayton Lockett in 2014 pumped sedative into his flesh rather than the intended blood vessel; he was apparently at least semiconscious when the potassium chloride hit, and it took him nearly 45 torturous and bloody minutes to finally die.

To be fair, not every instance of animal euthanasia goes off without a hitch either. In 2010, a Detroit man brought his apparently lifeless Rottweiler home from the vet believing she’d been put to sleep and planning to bury her; come morning, she was up and about, the recipient of an insufficient barbiturate dosage.

If plans go awry even when we dote on the creature we’re killing, small wonder that issues arise when injecting humans we’ve decided don’t deserve to live. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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The brown M&Ms of open relationships

A bi polyamorist’s primary partner won’t share him with anyone of her name.

Q : I am a bi man in my late

20s in a poly relationship.

My primary partner’s name is Erin. One of the rules she mandated is that I cannot date anyone else named Aaron or Erin. She thinks it would be confusing and awkward. Since those are fairly common names, I have had to reject other Aarons/ Erins several times over the last couple of years. My name is very uncommon, so she doesn’t have to worry about this on her side. Overall, it seems like a superficial reason to have to reject someone. Is there any sort of compromise here?

We haven’t been able to think of any work-arounds.

—NOT ALLOWED MULTIPLE ERINS

A : I can’t count the number

of gay couples I’ve met over the years where both men or both women had the same first name. OK, OK, it’s not a parallel circumstance, I realize. But having a hardand-fast/deal-breaky rule about names—“I can’t date someone named Dan, you can’t date someone named Erin, my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest”—strikes me as silly and reductive. We are not our names, and our names are not ours. (I am not the only Dan Savage out there, nor am I the only Dan Savage capable of giving decent sex advice, as my substitute Dan Savages ably demonstrated this summer.)

So here’s my suggested work-around, NAME: Your primary partner stops being a ridiculous control queen.

But just in case you want a second opinion . . .

“This poor woman wants to make sure that when her lover cries out her name, he really means her,” said Dossie Easton, coauthor of The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to

Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures.

“I can understand this, but I’m wondering if there could be a work-around with nicknames—actually, that could get kind of sexy. ‘Hey, Bear!

Gimme a hug.’ ‘Ooh, Tiger, you are so fierce tonight!’

In all seriousness, many lovers have very personal nicknames for each other, and perhaps that would make the ‘Aaron/Erin’ problem manageable.”

Would you like a third opinion?

“It sounds like Erin has that most common of polyamorous fears: the fear of being lost in the crowd,” said Franklin Veaux, coauthor of More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory. “Some folks deal with this by passing rules against taking a date to a favorite restaurant or forbidding certain pet names.

It sounds like Erin is dealing with her fear by saying, ‘Don’t date any more Erins.’

The problem is that names don’t make you unique. Erin isn’t special in NAME’s eyes because of her name. But sometimes putting words on a fear is the first step toward eliminating it. She says dating another Erin would be ‘confusing and awkward.’ What does that mean? What are Erin’s concerns? If it’s only feeling awkward, well, being an adult means feeling awkward sometimes!”

To recap: Your primary partner needs to get over it (Dan’s advice), your primary partner might be mollified if you swore to use only pet names for other Aarons/ Erins (Dossie’s advice), keep talking and maybe your primary partner will get over it (Franklin’s advice). All in all, our expert panel doesn’t have a lot of sympathy for your primary partner’s position. So in the interest of fairness, I’m going to offer a

defense of Erin’s position.

It’s not uncommon for people in open relationships to insist on a rule that seems arbitrary, even capricious, to their partners. I call these rules “Brown M&Ms,” a reference to 1980s hair rock band Van Halen. The band’s touring contract stipulated that bowls of M&Ms be set out backstage with all the brown M&Ms removed.

To see if their contract had been followed to the letter—a contract that included a lot of technical requirements for their elaborate and potentially dangerous stage shows—all the band had to do was glance at those bowls of M&Ms. If a local promoter couldn’t be trusted to get something simple and seemingly arbitrary right, they couldn’t be trusted to get the bigger stuff right. And if the promoter didn’t get the big stuff right, it wasn’t safe for the band to perform.

Arbitrary rules in open relationships are like Van Halen’s brown M&Ms: a quick way to check if you’re safe. If your partner can’t be trusted to not sleep with someone else in your bed, not take someone else to a favorite restaurant, not use your favorite/special/beloved sex toys with someone else, etc, perhaps they can’t be trusted to get the big things right— like ensuring your physical and emotional safety and/or primacy. So, NAME, if obeying a rule that seems silly and arbitrary makes your partner feel safe to “perform,” i.e., secure enough to be in an open/poly relationship with you, then obeying their seemingly silly rule is the price of admission. v

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GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene ACCORDING TO RESIDENT JOSH DUMAS, the 6Odum building at 2116 W. Chicago will soon be no more. An underthe-radar countercultural hub for more than 20 years, it’s housed performance and practice spaces as well as the Semaphore recording studio; Pieholden Suite Sound, which moved in circa 2010, left on November 1 and will reopen shortly in Logan Square. The building recently changed hands, and it appears likely to be demolished—the new owner hasn’t found new tenants. Before leaving for good, Dumas recorded an EP with his drony duo, Mending (with singer Kate Adams), that uses 6Odum’s ambient sounds, including ceiling fans and heating vents. At Odum’s End comes out on cassette Friday, November 11, via Mending’s Bandcamp.

Gossip Wolf has loved Logan Square record shop Saki since it opened in 2010, but sadly it closes December 1. Saki shares a building with Carrot Top Distribution, and Patrick Monaghan, who owns all three, says he decided in September to shutter CTD after 20 years—in a letter to labels and stores, he cited (among other things) tough industry conditions that drive labels to cut out distributors and sell directly to stores. “It hasn’t been fun for a while—we haven’t made money for a while,” he says. “Everyone works their butt off, and we haven’t been able to give anyone raises.” Saki and CTD once employed about 15 people, but by next week only four full-timers and three part-timers will be left. Saki is discounting all inventory and announcing its final in-stores.

Back in the 90s, Slink Moss and his band the Flying Aces tore up Chicago clubs with a hybrid of power pop and rockabilly. Moss moved away in 1997 and now lives in Hudson, New York, but he’ll reunite with the Aces for two rare sets at Phyllis’ Musical Inn on Saturday, November 12, with Reader transportation columnist John Greeenfield on bass and guests including Phyllis’ owner Clem Jaskot.

—J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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