Chicago Reader: November 12, 2015 (Volume 45, Number 7)

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Politics Why CPS’s REACH test is a waste of time 10 | Food & Drink The cocktails flow at Danny Meyer’s GreenRiver. 37

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40 Bars Bust a move at these spots for drink and dance.

ARTS & CULTURE

12 Theater Life imitates art in the tragicomic The Lisbon Traviata.

12 Dance Dancer Ayako Kato explores the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Blue Fish II. 14 Visual Art Architecture and comics unite at the Biennial with “Imaginary Worlds.”

14 Comedy Cook County Social Club returns to iO for the improv group’s tenth anniversary.

16 Lit How women, gays, and

IN THIS ISSUE 4 Agenda House Party, “The Ventriloquists Convention,” The Pearl Button, and more recommendations 8 City Life Show us your . . . medical marijuana card Space: A bathroom with a glass wall and more surprises from Bangtel City Agenda: one sure thing to do every day of the week

people of color are reshaping evangelical churches 17 Small Screen Aziz Ansari hangs a Louie in Master of None.

18 Movies Peanuts goes 3-D, but loses all its edge. Plus: Laurie Anderson’s Heart Like a Dog

MUSIC

22 Huge heart, 8 Inch

Betsy Remembering Meghan

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28 Shows of note Micachu & the Shapes, Public Image Ltd, Kode9, Frazey Ford, and more 31 Gossip Wolf Wrekmeister Harmonies’ J.R. Robinson heads for the hills (of Oregon).

31 The Secret History of Chicgo Music A ’72 LP from prog oddballs McLuhan goes for big bucks today.

41 Jobs 41 Apartments & Spaces 43 Marketplace 44 Straight Dope How long does it take to domesticate an animal?

45 Savage Love Can Stephen Sondheim cure a broken heart?

46 Early Warnings Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Babes in Toyland, Freakwater, Muse, Bonnie Raitt, and more concerts on the horizon

FOOD & DRINK

37 Review: GreenRiver Danny Meyer and the duo behind Dead Rabbit make a booze-forward Chicago debut.

39 Cocktail Challenge: Sauerkraut Chris Kyles of STK Chicago makes a shandy from fermented cabbage.

40 Recent restaurant reviews One of the year’s best new restaurants, Cantina 1910, and more

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F a cornball singing style. Still, there’s a best you can say, too: Listening to the songs more or less chronologically made me realize how well Berlin absorbed and assimilated lessons from truly talented peers. Going from “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” to “Blue Skies” is no mean feat.

—TONY ADLER Through 12/6: Wed-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Royal George Theatre Center, 1641 N. Halsted, 312-988-9000, theroyalgeorgetheatre. com, $60.

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Boys in the Basement Introduced as a “very personal story” for playwright John N. Frank, this 2nd Act Players’ production about divorced men has a worthy goal of helping people cope with and conquer one of the most devastating of life events. But in execution, it proves too fixated on scheming, cheating wives to offer a well-rounded perspective. The titular boys in the basement are men, all going through different phases of divorce, who live in the same apartment building and meet regularly to have a beer and extol the virtues of Hugh Hefner. While each is given moments to express inner anguish and vulnerability, the acting isn’t strong enough to carry and the blame remains frustratingly placed on unseen spouses. —MARISSA OBERLANDER Through 11/15: Fri-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Piven Theatre, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes, Evanston, 847-866-8049, evanston2ndactplayers.com, $20.

The Citizens Anthology Reviewing the Inconvenience’s annual variety show last summer, I complained about the “reductive familiarity” of its politics: So many acts spouting the passionate but pat rhetoric of the indignant Left. The company’s latest—a collection of six one-acts on the theme of civic duty— offers some more of the same. Performers whine about saving the world with their art in Andrew Hinderaker’s wan The World Spins Still. Kristiana Rae Colón’s White Noise sets the dialectical bar ridiculously low, portraying a confrontation between a white girl and her black neighbors that only stops when they team up to humble a stereotypically brutish white guy. Things get better, though. Bilal Dardai’s satire on the Orwellian uses of satire, The Needle and the Thread, might be something when it finds its comic heart. And the two final plays—Caitlin Parrish’s In Person and Ike Holter’s Victory—afford the

luxury of characters and situations that don’t feel ideologically preordained.

—TONY ADLER Through 11/15: Thu-Mon 7:30 PM (except Fri 11/13, 9 PM), Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, 773871-3000, theinconvenience.org, $25.

Death in a Beulah Box This puzzling drama by Barbara Wells unfolds in a rundown beauty salon on the south side. It’s owned by Luis, a pistol-packing stylist with good business sense, and frequented by three regulars: airheaded, hot-to-trot Carol, a lesbian activist named 20, and Death, who prowls the periphery and occasionally engages the others in mischievous chitchat. In the characters’ long, shapeless, repetitive conversations, Wells brings up several important issues—racism, gun violence, homophobia, and Chicago’s stark class divisions among them—but the script’s lurches in tone, lack of clarity, and scant attention to detail or coherent character development get in the way of whatever it is she’s trying to say. It doesn’t help that Jason Paul Smith’s staging for Three Cat Productions is both underrehearsed and overplayed.

—ZAC THOMPSON Through 11/29: ThuSat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Berger Park, 6205 N. Sheridan, 773-761-0376, threecatproductions.com, $25.

Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin Irving Berlin has always struck me as the classic striver: An essentially oafish composer and lyricist who succeeded by combining sentiment, optimism, and superhuman productivity with an uncanny nose for the zeitgeist. Hershey Felder’s one-man show hasn’t changed that view. “God Bless America” sounds no better to me now than before I saw Felder embody the man who wrote it, narrating his shtetl-to-Hollywood life story and performing fluent renditions of many of his songs. Not that Felder doesn’t put a good face on his subject.

Berlin’s seemingly boundless will to ingratiate is spun here as patriotic populism, his career-long musical ignorance as an endearing naivete. The worst you can say about this Berlin is that he’s got

Holmes vs. Holmes The devil in the White City meets the supersleuth of Baker Street in this new adventure by Bill Daniel. While hiding out in Chicago after faking his death for some reason, Sherlock Holmes (sans Dr. Watson and any apparent detective skill) investigates the diabolical deeds of real-life serial killer H.H. Holmes, who confessed to murdering more than two dozen women around the time of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. The play is obviously intended to be a tense catand-mouse game, but the cat is slow on the uptake and the mouse has no finesse. Plodding storytelling, clunky stagecraft, and ho-hum performances in Orion Couling’s production for EDGE Theater fail to generate suspense or convey the horror of the killer’s crimes.

—ZAC THOMPSON Through 11/29: ThuSat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Heartland Studio Theatre, 7016 N. Glenwood, 773-791-2393, theatre.edgeoforion.com, $22.

New Kid Adventure Stage R Chicago uses a light touch to combat nativism in this children’s show

by Dennis Foon. Grade-school-age Nick and his mother immigrate to the United States from Homeland, a country whose language is a mishmosh of world phrases and Seussisms. Little by little, Nick learns how to socialize in his strange new surroundings, to the chagrin of a playground xenophobe and, most interestingly, his homesick and isolated mother. Julie Ritchey’s inclusive production includes Spanish subtitles and a translator for pre- and postshow discussions. One small touch I loved: the bully

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is a girl, and there’s not a single emasculation joke. —DAN JAKES Through 11/21: Fri 7 PM, Sat 4 PM, Vittum Theater, 1012 N. Noble, 773-342-4141, adventurestage. org, $17, $12 youths.

White Christmas: The Musical As you might expect of a 2009 stage version of the 1954 musical based on the 1942 movie Holiday Inn, this material is beginning to show its age.

The boy-meets-girl plot (actually a twoboys- meet-two-girls plot) is tediously predictable. And Irving Berlin’s score neatly divides in two: the well-worn ear worms (“Sisters,” “Count Your Blessings,” and of course “White Christmas”) and the half-forgotten moldy oldies (“I Love the Piano”). This Drury Lane production, directed by William Osetek, is packed with talent: Sean Allan Krill and Matt Raftery kill as the two WWII vets turned Broadway hoofers. But at two and half hours, this show left me dreaming of a blue pencil. —JACK HELBIG Through 1/3: Thu 1:30 and 8 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 5 and 8:30 PM, Sun 2 and 6 PM, Wed 1:30 PM, Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, 100 Drury Ln., Oakbrook Terrace, 630-530-0111, drurylaneoakbrook.com, $40-$55.

DANCE Blue Fish II See preview, page 12. Sat 11/14, 6 PM, and Sun 11/15, noon, Chicago Cultural Center, dance studio, 78 E. Washington, 773-871-0872, chicagoculturalcenter.org. F The Cronus Land Khecari Dance R (Oubliette) presents a follow-up site-specific immersive performance

choreographed by coartistic director Jonathan Meyer. Through 11/13: Wed-Sun, Tue 8 PM, the Shoreland Ballroom, 5454 S. South Shore, khecari.org, $15-$250.

The Flow Show Chicago: R Fund the Flow Arts Part of a nationwide dance series that celebrates

“object manipulation”—think hoops, balls,

since 1967

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Fri 8:30 PM, iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov.com/chicago, $14.

Message for Details For this variety show, the guys behind the DIY comedy venue the Shithole bring their curated brand of comedy to a more traditional venue. Tue 11/17, 7 PM, Double Door, 1572 N. Milwaukee, 773489-3160, doubledoor.com. F

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PopGoesAlicia Live Alicia Swiz R hosts a panel of three Chicagoans every month to talk pop culture and

Wyatt Cenac ERIC MICHAEL PEARSON etc—”in a theatrical setting.” Fri 11/13, 7 PM, and Sat 11/14, 3 and 7 PM, Links Hall at Constellation, 3111 N. Western, 773-2810824, linkshall.org, $10-$20.

COMEDY Wyatt Cenac For Wyatt Cenac, R the best stand-up material comes from stepping out of his front door,

heading down the familiar way, and observing the hypergentrifying world around him. On last year’s Netflix-released comedy special Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn the former Daily Show With Jon Stewart correspondent settles into a pair of shows at Park Slope’s Union Hall to pretty much take the audience sitting in front of him to task. Sat 11/14, 10 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, 773-5252501, lh-st.com, $20.

Everything Is Terrible! The R Legends Members of Everything Is Terrible!, the old-VHS-collecting col-

lective, present their best finds from the past seven years. Sat 11/14, 7 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, 773-525-2501, lh-st. com, $15.

Sean Flannery The local comic and host of The Blackout Diaries and Drunk Science performs stand-up.

Thu 11/12, 8 PM, and Fri 11/13-Sat 11/14, 8 and 10 PM, the Comedy Bar, 500 N. LaSalle, 312-836-0499, comedybarchicago.com, $20.

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House Party There’s a sweet spot R in sketch comedy that six member-ensemble Damn, Gina! thrives on: jokes and premises that are just absurd and fantastical enough to have been conceived by a child, but just cynical and despairing enough that one never wants one within hearing range. Writer-director Andrew McCammon plays to his cast’s strengths in scenes about a politician unable to escape impromptu parties, a middle-aged Breakfast Club, NSA surveillance, and perhaps a little bravely, one about a trucker and his family that’s unabashedly sincere. Given how many bits are dependent on sound cues, though, it would be better if iO could refine an audio system that too often blows out the jokes it’s supposed to button. —DAN JAKES Through 12/18:

feminism. Open run: second Friday of the month, 8 PM, High-Hat Club, 1920 W. Irving Park, 773-697-8660, popgoesalicia. com, $10.

A Series of Random Chicago R comedy veterans Antoine McKay and Angie McMahon bring us this

light-on-its-feet sketch revue that skips the usual offensive situations because it (correctly!) assumes that the human condition is offensive enough. The modestly, beautifully drawn characters evoke a swarm of puzzled people dealing with not-so-delicate moral complications, like a group of employees trying to determine what sorts of racist or racy jokes they can get away with at work. The only concentrated doses of randomness come from a recurring gag about auditions for a Star Wars play based on a wacky summary by a woman who hasn’t seen the movies.

Mishu Hilmy’s would-be Obi-Wan, his face contorted into Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” is something I happily cannot unsee. —JENA CUTIE Through 11/28: FriSat 7:30 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $12.

6-9 PM. 11/13-1/2, 312-361-0281, 704 S. Wabash, 708-369-4742, elephantroomgallery.com.

Efrain Lopez Gallery “Ryan Coffey on Permanent Display,” Chicago artist Ryan Coffey’s first solo exhibit includes three site-specific installations. Opening reception Fri 11/13, 6-9 PM. 11/13-12/28, 620 W Chicago.

Julius Caesar “Twin Rooms,” work by Nelly Agassi, Assaf Evron, Michelle Grabner, Sherwin Ovid, and Bailey Romaine exploring the social aspects of art. Sun 11/15, 1-4 PM, 3311 W. Carroll, 312725-6084, juliuscaesarchicago.net.

Museum of Contemporary Art “The Ventriloquists Convention,” Gisèle Vienne and Dennis Cooper present a performance based on the imagined

MOVIES

More at chicagoreader.com/ movies NEW REVIEWS Brooklyn Set in the early 1950s, this immigrant drama follows a young Irishwoman (Saoirse Ronan) as she leaves her mother and sister to settle in the title New York borough, works as a countergirl at a Manhattan department store, and falls in love with a sweet Italian boy (Emory Cohen). After a family tragedy calls her back to Ireland, though, she must choose between her new life and her old one. Director John Crowley (Boy A) and screenwriter Nick Hornby (adapting a novel by Colm Toibin) tell this story with humor and feeling: the heroine’s homesickness and separation from her family are powerfully felt, yet there are big laughs in the dinner-table scenes at her Brooklyn

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VISUAL ARTS Alibi Fine Art “Origins,” photography

by Rachel Jump. Opening reception Sat 11/14, 5:30-8:30 PM. 11/14-12/24, 4426 N. Ravenswood, 773-454-0265, alibifineart. com.

Chicago Art Department “Ten x Ten 2015,” during each Ten x Ten cycle, local musicians pair off with visual artists, with each drawing inspiration from the other.

The music makers unveiled the fruits of their labors in September; tonight’s the gallery opening for the artists, though there’s music here too. Part of Chicago Artists Month. Fri 11/13, 6-9 PM, 1932 S. Halsted, #100, 312-226-8601, tenxtenchicago.com.

Elephant Room, Inc. “Shuttered,” drawings by Jennifer Cronin of foreclosed properties on the city’s south side. Opening reception Fri 11/13,

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Trivia Under the Gun The R improv theater’s weekly game night features the possibility of cash

prizes. Danny Ennion and Matt Fox cohost. Through 12/26: Sat 10:30 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater. com, $12.

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characters at a real-life ventriloquist convention that takes place annually at a Kentucky museum. Thu 11/12-Sat 11/14, 7:30 PM, 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org, $30.

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boarding house, where she and her lively, romantically inclined housemates clash with their prudish and forbidding Irish landlady. The film is suffused with the sense that a person is just about to bloom. With Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, and Julie Walters. —J.R. JONES PG-13, 112 min. Landmark’s Century Centre

Breaking Taboos in Fiction A Madam Phung’s Last Journey R R discussion with authors Sonali Madam Phung is a middle-aged Dev (A Bollywood Affair), Amy Jo Cousdrag queen who runs a traveling carnival ins (Level Hands), and Christa Desir (Bleed Like Me). Thu 11/12, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst. com.

Leah Lax The author discusses R her memoir, Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home.

Wed 11/18, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299, womenandchildrenfirst.com.

in Vietnam; this documentary follows her troupe over the course of a few months as they cross the country and entertain small, unappreciative crowds.

Director Tham Nguyen Thi achieves an impressive degree of intimacy with her subjects, many of them queer or transgender, as they drink, bicker, and explain how much trouble LGBT people have finding steady employment in Vietnam. This is a lively film but also a sad one—most of these people stick

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Brooklyn B to the carnival life because they can’t find acceptance anywhere else. Thi works in short takes and employs lots of disjunctive edits, her jumpy aesthetic conveying her subjects’ anxiety. In Vietnamese with subtitles. —BEN SACHS 86 min.

Facets Cinematheque The Pearl Button Patricio R Guzman, who chronicled the military coup against Salvador

Allende in his documentary trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975-’79), has begun, in old age, to process his political experiences through stunning personal essay films about the geography and astronomy of his native land. Nostalgia for the Light (2011) considered the heavens as viewed from two observatories in the Atacama Desert, where General Pinochet’s men buried the bodies of political enemies; in this excellent companion piece Guzman ponders the endless Chilean coastline, particularly the waters where some 1,200 Allende supporters were tied to rails and sunk. He also visits the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, at the southernmost tip of the country, and speaks with descendants of the Yaghan and Alacalufe tribes who were targeted for extermination by European settlers. Guzman makes his most important contribution, though, as a personal witness connecting all these things; as one oceanographer reminds him, thought is also fluid.

In Spanish with subtitles. —J.R. JONES 82 min. Fri 11/13, 2 and 6 PM; Sat 11/14, 3 PM; Sun 11/15, 4:45 PM; Mon 11/16, 6 PM; Tue 11/17, 7:45 PM; Wed 11/18, 6 PM; and Thu 11/19, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center 70 Acres in Chicago: Cabrini Green Every Chicagoan should see this documentary about the history of the Chicago Housing Authority and the controversial destruction of Cabrini-Green Homes on the north side to make way for a 21st-century model based on mixed-income housing. Filming over a 15-year time period, director Ronit Bezalel tracks three longtime Cabrini residents as the hellish high-rises come down and new townhouses

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go up lodging an uneasy mix of lower-class blacks with government subsidies and middle-class whites paying market rates. As Bezalel reports, many more of the project’s original residents were screened out due to negative drug tests and criminal-record checks and shunted off to the south and west sides. “I stay in it, I play in it, I live in it, and it’s home to me,” declares young Raymond McDonald, one of the voices that animate this story of a community in transition.

But for those at the bottom of the economic ladder, home is wherever the city says. —J.R. JONES 53 min.

Bezalel attends the Friday and Sunday screenings. Fri 11/13-Sat 11/14, 8 PM; Sun 11/15, 3 and 5 PM; Wed 11/18, 6 PM; and Thu 11/19, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Spotlight A quantum leap R for the talented writer-director Thomas McCarthy (The

Visitor, The Station Agent), this outstanding drama recounts the yearlong crusade of the Boston Globe’s special investigative unit to expose the Catholic Church’s shielding of pedophile priests.

McCarthy and cowriter Josh Singer include agonizing moments with the grown, traumatized victims, but the movie is more notable for its textured portrayal of newspaper work and its complex and shocking sense of how the Boston archdiocese pressured the courts, the media, and its own worshipers to look the other way. Set in 2001 (the investigation is briefly shelved during the 9/11 attacks), this offers a potent reminder that investigative journalism is critical to a just society, and that we need it now more than ever. As one might expect with an actor turned director like McCarthy, the performances are uniformly excellent; among the cast are Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Billy Crudup, Stanley Tucci, and John Slattery. —J.R. JONES R, 128 min. Landmark’s Century Centre, River East 21

Bryan Cranston R Trumbo stars as screenwriter Dalton

Trumbo, who was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947 to testify on his communist associations, went to prison for contempt of Congress along with the rest of the “Hollywood Ten,” and was blacklisted for 13 years. Directed by comedy veteran Jay Roach (Meet the Parents), this partly fictionalized biopic can be facile and reductive as a history of the Hollywood blacklist, but as the personal story of a man bearing up under that awful situation, it rings true. Cranston captures Trumbo’s wisdom, idealism, and big-heartedness, but also his outraged ego, which gnawed at him and tried his relationships with his loyal wife (Diane Lane, also excellent) and eldest daughter (Elle Fanning). Louis C.K. gets his most substantial dramatic role yet as one of the Ten (though his character is invented); Michael Stuhlbarg steals the movie as a beleagured Edward G. Robinson (who named names before the committee, including Trumbo’s); and Helen Mirren is nicely acidic as the red-baiting gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. —J.R. JONES R, 124 min.

What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy British lawyer, professor, and author Philippe Sands, elaborating on a story he wrote for the Financial Times, profiles Niklas Frank and Horst von Wächter, the sons of high-ranking officers in the Nazi Party. Because Sands lost members of his family in the Holocaust, he’s not just the screenwriter and narrator but also a subject, which makes this documentary slightly unfocused. Frank is quick to condemn his father, who was a lout and a sociopath at home, but Wächter worships his, which is so compelling I wish he were the sole subject. Though Wächter acknowledges the Holocaust, he refuses to believe that his father was directly involved in genocide, even when shown documentation that proves the father approved and likely ordered mass executions. He’s a frightening example of how the denial common to fascist regimes can endure long afterward. David Evans directed. —TAL ROSENBERG 96 min. Fri 11/13, 2 and 6 PM; Sat 11/14, 7:45 PM; Sun 11/15, 3 PM; Mon 11/16, 7:45 PM; Tue 11/17, 6 PM; Wed 11/18, 7:45 PM; and Thu 11/19, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center SPECIAL EVENTS Light & Noir Film Festival Copresented by the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, this two-day series pays tribute to filmmakers who fled Hitler’s Germany to make important contributions in Hollywood. Screening are Ernst Lubitsch’s Ninotchka (1939), Fritz Lang’s Hangmen Also Die! (1943), and Michael Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce (1945). For more information visit wilmettetheatre.com. v

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AS SHE PLACED THE EYEDROPPER in her mouth and administered a homemade tincture of marijuana, Michelle DiGiacomo felt a distinct pang of paranoia. Earlier in the day she had made her first legal pot purchase from EarthMed in suburban Addison, one of eight dispensaries that began operating this week as part of the state’s Medical Cannabis Pilot Program. The 55-year-old, who runs a letters-to-Santa program serving CPS students, hoped the glycerin-based solution would relieve her chronic pain and inflammation caused by rheumatoid arthritis and other debilitating conditions.

But DiGiacomo is still haunted by the memory of cops storming her North Center apartment three years ago. Police searched the residence and arrested DiGiacomo after they tracked a California grower’s FedEx shipment of nearly 1.5 pounds of pot to the doorstep of the widowed mother of two.

The following March DiGiacomo pled guilty to a felony after the Cook County state’s attorney’s office refused to consider supporting statements from her doctors. DiGiacomo’s story figured into arguments for the Illinois Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act, which took effect in January 2014. A year later outgoing governor Pat Quinn granted DiGiacomo a pardon and expunged her record.

Her hope for a life less painful now rests with the marijuana tincture she cooked up on her stove. “I’m excited and afraid at the same time because I want it to work so bad,” she said as tears flooded her eyes. “And if it doesn’t I don’t know what I’m going to do.” —JAKE MALOOLEY

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A bathroom with a glass wall and more design surprises from hospitality company Bangtel WHILE VISITING FRANCE a few years ago, a friend and I checked into a posh hotel. The concierge showed us to our room, which was fabulous save one quirk—the bathroom was in a clear glass cube in the center of the room. My travel buddy and I weren’t even on pee-with-the-dooropen terms, so a glass-box shower show was out of the question. With an exasperated eye roll reserved for prudish Americans, the concierge escorted us to another room. This bathroom still had glass walls, but at least they were frosted. I began to think the see-through bathroom was a forward-thinking design element distinct to French libertines, so I was surprised to see this concept again on a recent visit to a Humboldt Park town house designed by Chicago native Liz Klafeta. One wall in her

second-level bathroom is transparent glass. It’s subtle in comparison to the French version, so it wasn’t until after flushing that I realized I had a clear view of people milling about below. Frantically, I replayed the bathroom visit in my mind, hoping I hadn’t done anything embarrassing.

“I want people to walk in and be like, ‘What the heck?!’” says Klafeta, 32, the founder of the boutique design and hospitality company Bangtel. With the two-year-old startup the designer applies her over-the-top style to furnished rental properties currently available in Chicago and New York. The business began with the first house Klafeta ever designed—her own.

In 2007, she rehabbed her town house from top to bottom, tearing down walls to open up the space, re-

placing a dated Formica countertop with a giant slab of concrete, and revamping the roof with commissioned graffiti to create an outdoor lounge. A neon sign reading “thug” glows in the living room. A giant street-art-style drawing of a handgun graces the wall of a guest room. In the master bedroom, a “floating bed” appears to hang from the ceiling by rope. (A support beneath it aids the illusion.)

When Klafeta moved to New York City in 2013, she decided to rent out the pad on Airbnb. “I got such a positive response from so many people I thought, Let’s keep rolling with this.”

Having spent 13 years as a wardrobe and prop stylist, Klafeta says the transition into home design felt natura. Experience creating custom looks on a small budget has served her well. By using rejected pieces of reclaimed wood, for instance, she was able to floor her second level for $600. The bathroom wallpaper is actually gift wrap coated with vinyl plastic. She often re-creates her own DIY versions of fixtures and other household items she sees in stores. “I see things and think, I could do that better—or different, or a little more funky,” she says. “Most of the time it ends up being less expensive, and more meaningful.”

Klafeta also works with artists and businesses, outfitting her rentals with products and artwork that are all for sale. CB2, Flor, and several local artists are collaborating with Klafeta on her next project, a Lincoln Park bed-and-breakfast happening in partnership with the developer New Era Chicago. —ANDREA BAUER

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× Bridgeport’s Got Beef Neighborhood restaurants like Phil’s Pizza, Ricobene’s, Soluris, and Johnny O’s battle to see who makes the best Italian beef sandwiches in Bridgeport. Tickets include samples from each competitor and drinks from Marz Brewing. 3-5:30 PM, Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan, lumpenmagazine.org, $35-$50.

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j Write Cl ub Host Ian Belknap pits local writers against one another in a composition competition: two players have seven minutes to write about two opposing ideas, and the audience picks each round’s winner. 7 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, writeclubnation.com, $10.

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Test crazy

By BEN JORAVSKY

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few days after President Obama pledged to cut the nu mber of sta nda rd ized tests students take each year, high school art teacher Molly Pankhurst sat with her kids in a Chicago classroom, apologized for what she was about to do to them, and forced them to take another central-office-mandated test.

Obviously, the honchos at Chicago Public Schools missed the president’s speech.

Pankhurst gave her students the REACH—which stands for Recognizing Educators Advancing Chicago.

That’s not to be confused with the two other standardized tests many CPS students take each year.

Those would be the PARCC—Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers—and the NWEA— Northwest Evaluation Association Measures of Academic Progress.

Sorry about all the acronyms. But they’ll be on the test.

At this point, I’d like to absolve Mayor Emanuel of blame for the REACH.

That’s because it’s the school district’s response to another acronym—a state law called PERA, or Performance Evaluation Reform Act. In 2010, state Democrats—including Speaker Madigan and Governor Quinn—passed PERA in part to show they could be as tough on teachers as Republicans.

And they have to be tough on teachers because students in Illinois and the rest of the country score below students in countries like, oh, Denmark, and not because of poverty or discrepancies in school funding.

No, it’s because teachers waste too much time goofing off in the teachers’ lounge, drinking coffee, and bitching about the boss.

So, the law says, we have to hold teachers accountable by giving them rigorous annual evaluations.

Kids take the REACH at the start and the end of each school year, giving administrators two sets of scores to compare.

The higher a student’s score rises in the second test, the higher CPS will rate

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the teacher. God help them if the score goes down.

Curiously, the REACH is graded by the teachers who give it. In other words, the teachers are evaluating themselves— sort of.

Now, I would never suggest that teachers rig the results by giving kids a low score in October and a high score in May—though that strategy worked well for Mayor Emanuel, who, after almost five years in office, still blames everything on Mayor Daley.

Anyway, Pankhurst (not her real name, by the way) was kind enough to provide me with a copy of the REACH test for high school art.

The test starts by telling students that their challenge is to “demonstrate the ability to convey meaning through the planning of a new art work.”

Their first task is to answer the following question about their artwork in ten minutes: “What global or social issue do you choose? Identify three or more aspects that are specific to your chosen global or social issue.”

Already I’m confused—I’m not sure what they mean by “aspects.”

“Think of those as examples,” explains Pankhurst. “So if you were doing an artwork on overtesting, you could say it wastes our time.”

“And our money—like the TIFs.” “Yes.” You know I’ll find any excuse to mention them.

From there, students have another ten minutes to “explain the image you could create to represent one or more aspects of your chosen global or social issue,” and “provide three separate pieces of evidence that describe how these images relate to an aspect of your global or social issue.”

By now I’m so confused with all the talk of aspect and global and social issues that I need a drink. And we’re not even done with the test.

The students are required to draw a pencil sketch of their artwork. Then they have to answer three other questions, each of which asks them to cite three examples to justify their answers.

Apparently, the number three is really important. In the scoring guide, teachers are instructed to grade students by their ability to come up with

“[Students] have been conditioned to filling in bubbles since they started school.”

— High school teacher Molly Pankhurst

three examples.

If students only provide one example, they get one point—and they’re considered “below mastery.”

If they come up with two examples, they get two points, which is “emerging mastery.”

And if they give three examples, they achieve “mastery status.”

In short, the REACH art test is really a test of a student’s ability to do whatever he or she is told. Not exactly a criterion for becoming a great artist, but that’s another story.

Looking on the bright side, the REACH is only given twice a year. But kids have to take the REACH in all of their subjects, so it adds up.

Alas, even the bright side is rather dark when it comes to the REACH. “It’s a waste of time, and I was apologizing to the kids, saying ‘I’m sorry I have to do this to you,’” says Pankhurst.

“Unfortunately, they’re used to these kinds of things. They’ve been conditioned to filling in bubbles since they started school.”

After teachers grade the REACH, they feed the scores to a computer, which eventually measure October’s results against May’s.

“It takes one 50-minute class period to give this test and then we grade them on our own time,” says Pankhurst. “We give the test to our assistant principal, who keeps them on file for a year in case we get audited. It’s stacks and stacks of paper—I’ve seen her carrying them around all week.”

The REACH only accounts for about 30 percent of a teacher’s rating—the rest of the rating is based on observations by the principal or assistant principal.

Well, if it’s good enough for the teachers, it should be good enough for the mayor. I say we devise a REACH evaluation test for Mayor Emanuel and his school board appointees.

The first question: Explain why it’s a good idea to give a $20.5 million no-bid principal consulting contract to a company run by crooks.

If they can’t come up with three solid examples, it’s time for an elected school board. v

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A little night music

By ALBERT WILLIAMS

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he Queer Encyclopedia of Music, Dance & Musical Theater (Cleis Press, 2004) defines “opera queen” as “a fan notable for his fetishistic, indeed perhaps obsessive, knowledge of opera plots, productions, and recordings, along with an equally extensive lore of gossip and speculation about the scandals, rivalries, romances, breakdowns, and triumphs in the personal lives of operatic divas.” Terrence McNally’s 1989 tragicomedy The Lisbon Traviata focuses on two such opera queens, Stephen and Mendy—affluent, white, middle-aged New York culture vultures, with apartments in Manhattan, homes in the country, and summer cottages on Fire Island. Mendy—manic and effeminate—lives alone, and is apparently celibate, though not by choice. The more reserved, more “normal”-seeming, but equally neurotic Stephen has a lover named Mike—though the eight-year relationship seems to be un-

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raveling. On the rainy night in 1989 on which the play takes place, Stephen is spending the evening at Mendy’s listening to music, but his thoughts keep drifting anxiously back to Mike, who is having a date with a younger man, Paul. Stephen is trying to accept the idea of a nonmonogamous “agreement” as the solution to his and Mike’s problems, but fears that Paul might turn out to be more than just a casual trick.

Mendy and Stephen are bonded by their fascination with all things operatic, especially their shared devotion to the legendary soprano Maria Callas. Their campy conversation dishes many famous divas—Sutherland and Scotto, Freni and Farrell, butch Marilyn Horne and bubbly Beverly Sills—but keeps returning to Callas and “the Lisbon Traviata,” a rare pirated recording of a 1958 Callas performance of Verdi’s La Traviata in Portugal, which Stephen possesses and Mendy covets.

Mendy, sensing Stephen’s distress about Mike, tries to distract his friend by provoking a bit of playful roughhousing, pretending to stab Stephen to death in the manner of the murder scenes in Tosca and Carmen—for violent passion is as important as beautiful music in operatic tales of love and death. But eventually, inevitably, Stephen must return to his own home, to face Mike and Paul—and himself. McNally’s gift for crackling repartee is on full display in the bitchy banter of Mendy and Stephen’s gabfest—and in Stephen’s waspish second-act verbal duel with his rival. But the cutting one-liners aren’t just there to amuse; they’re carefully structured to gradually guide the action as it mounts to a shocking climax.

When I saw The Lisbon Traviata in its 1989 off-Broadway run, I was unconvinced by the extremes to which McNally takes the story. In part that was because of the larger-than-life performance of Nathan Lane as Mendy—a dazzling star turn that dominated the show and overshadowed the other actors in a way that I think did the play a disservice.

Eclipse Theatre’s excellent production, directed by Steve Scott, has a more balanced ensemble. JP Pierson is both howlingly funny and touching as the lonely but flamboyantly entertaining Mendy, the script’s showiest role. But the heart of the story is the conflict among Joe McCauley as Stephen, Joel Reitsma as Mike, and Luke Daigle as Paul. The actors illuminate, beat by beat, the different choices the men make to deal with the escalating situation—and how they are gradually changed by the very act of making those choices.”

The Lisbon Traviata is very much a period piece today. Its characters inhabit a world of scratchy LPs and hi-fi stereos (what would Mendy say if he knew that in 2015 the Lisbon Traviata is on YouTube?). Gay men in committed relationships refer to themselves as “lovers” rather than today’s post-civil-union term “partners” even as they struggle with the behavioral changes mandated by AIDS at the end of the epidemic’s first decade. But McNally’s fundamental focus on emotional choices renders the play remarkably durable. vR THE LISBON TRAVIATA 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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In the aftermath of nuclear disaster THE MELTDOWN OF THE FUKUSHIMA Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March 2011 is still raw in the minds of many. That’s partly the basis for Blue Fish II, a conceptual performance piece from Chicagoan and native of Japan Ayako Kato of Art Union/Humanscape.

The latest installment of her Blue Fish series takes place November 14 and 15 at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the third annual SpinOff contemporary dance series, presented by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.

For Blue Fish II, Kato teams with performance artist/activist Bryan Saner to reflect on what she calls the “dysfunction and equilibrium of human behavior,” particularly in the realms of nature and “oppressive economics, militarism, and segregation.” During trips to Fukushima in 2012 and 2013, Kato says, she gained insight into the struggles between locals reeling from the disaster and Japanese officials struggling to contain it (a subsequent commission charged with investigating the accident found that, despite the earthquake and tsunami that launched it, the nuclear disaster was “manmade,” its direct causes of the accident all foreseeable). It struck her as a topic she wanted to tackle through dance.

She recruited Saner to add a new dimension to the work, previously conceived as a solo.

For Kato the change was a matter of equilibrium. She recalls the conversation with Saner that prompted their collaboration: “He said, ‘Evil never goes away. Yet the arts will never go away, either, as long as humans exists,’” she says. “Art functions as balance.

My instinct kept telling me that I needed one more person to make this piece.”

Blue Fish II shares the bill of this program of works in progress with excerpts from Honey Pot Peformance’s dance-theater work Ma(s)king Her. SpinOff concludes next weekend with Chris Schlichting’s Stripe Tease. —MATT DE LA PEÑA v BLUE FISH II Sat 11/14, 6 PM; Sun 11/15, noon, Chicago Cultural Center, dance studio, 78 E. Washington, 773-871-0872, chicagoculturalcenter.org, reservations recommended. F

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COMEDY

VISUAL ART

Comics and architecture connect at “Imaginary Worlds”

By DOMINIC UMILE

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ore than 100 years ago, a Life magazine cartoon satirizing New York City real estate ads didn’t mock overpriced apartment leases. Instead, artist A.B. Walker’s Manhattan skyscraper was roofless and without exterior walls and soared into the stratosphere amid clouds and Wright Flyer-style airplanes. It proposed a unique open-air “country house” experience on every floor, each fitted with grandiose cottages, trees, and fountains.

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas addressed the 1909 cartoon’s implicit narrative in Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978). Walker’s work described “the ideal performance of a skyscraper,” Koolhaas wrote. “The building becomes a stack of individual privacies” where “each . . . artificial level . . . is treated as if the others did not exist.”

“Koolhaas describes a blueprint as a kind of map of a utopian space/design,” says Brian Cremins, programming coordinator for the Chicago Alternative Comics Expo (CAKE).

“When I read this in his book, I thought of a page of comics.”

In some comics, Cremins sees a fixation on the past and an authorial pursuit he calls “utopian”: “an attempt to bring narrative logic, order, and sense to what otherwise might be senseless or forgotten altogether.”

At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, he’ll moderate a panel called “Imaginary Worlds” about the long interdisciplinary history

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between comics and architecture with architects Ania Jaworska and Sam Jacob and comics creators Edie Fake and Keiler Roberts.

After unearthing a history of taverns, clubs, and more that were once home to Chicago’s LGBT community, Fake set out to visually re-create those spaces in Memory Palaces, an elaborate, almost LP-size art book of psychedelic-quillike graphic design.

“I think of what I get to do as more like making a perfume than designing an actual building,” Fake says of his florid facades.

“I get to take the different auras of various architectural details and draw something together based on how space makes me feel.”

If Memory Palaces is a study of exteriors, Keiler Roberts’s Miseryland concentrates

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on interiors: it compiles seven volumes of her warm and funny autobiographical comic Powdered Milk. Shaped in her wire-thin linework—the harshest pen strokes are reserved for filling out the Evanston artist’s ponytail—Miseryland mostly shows entertaining conversations between Roberts and her precocious toddler within Roberts’s carefully rendered living space. Their chats yield all the elastic sentence permutations you’d expect from a child who is learning language.

“Of all the formal elements, I think the most about my use of space, composition, dialogue, and gesture,” Roberts says. “I use all of these toward the goal of creating a sense of life, both as I experience it, and how I want it to be. I feel cozy when I look at the comics of myself inside my home.” v R “IMAGINARY WORLDS” Fri 11/13, 6 PM, Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 312-7423165, chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org. Sold out.

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IT WAS THAT MOST BASIC of all human interactions that brought the members of Cook County Social Club together ten years ago: lunch. The improv group’s members—Bill Cochran, Greg Hess, Brendan Jennings, Mark Raterman, and Tim Robinson—took classes at iO together, and they all worked downtown, so would meet for lunch every day. Eventually they realized their absurdist comedic perspectives fit together like cheese between bread. They’ve since brought CCSC to New York and LA as they’ve pursued their individual careers as actors and writers, but this week they’ll return to iO to celebrate the group’s tenth anniversary.

For seven years CCSC had an open run at iO, where it became a staple of the theater’s long-form teams. But not before a rocky start.

“During one of the earliest shows Brendan’s pants were taken off, and Charna [Halpern, iO cofounder] threatened to ban us from the theater,” Hess says. Halpern has since forgiven the indecent exposure and is now one of the group’s biggest cheerleaders.

Cochran has been holding down the fort here in Cook County proper, and continues to perform at iO with various Harold teams.

Meanwhile Robinson moved to New York and was a featured player on a little program called Saturday Night Live before becoming a staff writer there. Hess, Jennings, and Raterman headed to LA, where the trio have a weekly show at iO West. Two or three times a year the gang gets together to perform on either coast (this year’s anniversary shows will, unfortunately, go on without Robinson), and they have no plans of stopping the reunions anytime soon because, according to Hess, no one can do quite what CCSC does.

“It’s a shared sensibility that ranges from goofy and very physical to also being very emotionally committed,” he says, “and that yields a lot of absurdity.”—BRIANNA WELLEN v R COOK COUNTY SOCIAL CLUB Thu 11/12-Fri 11/13: 8 and 10:30 PM, iO Theater, 1501 N. Kingsbury, ioimprov.com, $15.

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epending on whom you ask, America has always been “Christian Nation,” its guiding principles rooted firmly in Protestant tradition. Such an invocation has long been put forth by those on the right, frequently in contrast to a perceived shift away from “core” American values as the nation has become increasingly liberal.

But in her new book Rescuing Jesus, journalist Deborah Jian Lee upends that notion. With many young Americans fleeing the church at unprecedented rates, Lee makes a surprising discovery: “Today, more than half of younger Christians are people of color.”

Rescuing Jesus holds plenty of revelations about the future of American Christianity, but it’s not the Book of Revelation: by documenting the ways in which demographic trends and liberal politics are reshaping evangelical churches from within, Lee persuasively argues that women, members of the LGBTQ community, and people of color are slowly redefining what it means to be evangelical in some of the most conservative denominations in America.

Lee, who was raised in a nonreligious household by Taiwanese immigrants, is a fitting narrator for this great change within American religion. After joining a Christian campus group in college, she was consistently pressured to yield leadership roles to men, and her attempts to discuss racial justice issues were met with apathy and resistance.

She eventually broke off ties with evangelicalism when a group of her friends performed a dance with insulting Indian stereotypes.

Nonetheless she shows compassion and understanding to all the people she discusses throughout the book, even those resisting change. Instead of demonizing slow-moving evangelicals for failing to embrace the changes

rapidly spreading throughout the country, she finds powerful examples of those successfully challenging religious orthodoxy. One particularly moving story concerns the Biola Queer Underground, a group of students at a conservative Christian university in California whose daring organizational efforts helped open up a dialogue on a campus where “homosexual acts” were considered grounds for expulsion.

Lee also probes the complicated history of progressive politics in the evangelical community. Plenty of surprising historical nuggets emerge about the rise of the evangelical right in the 70s and 80s. For example, Lee finds evidence that race, not abortion, spurred the rise of conservative Christianity in the early 80s: a Supreme Court case ruling Bob Jones University’s antiblack policies unconstitutional galvanized the movement.

Throughout the book, Lee challenges prevailing understanding about American evangelicalism, and she demonstrates that identity politics, which once served to divide liberal evangelicals, are now working in tandem with their evangelical identities.

The question remains: How much has really changed? While Lee finds plenty of growth in the movement, the response to the current Republican presidential candidates shows that many conservative evangelicals haven’t budged yet. Still, Lee writes, “I came to appreciate the complexities of evangelicalism and its people in a way I hadn’t before.” Even that complexity challenges the decades-old presumption that evangelicalism is synonymous with conservatism, and for now, that’s progress indeed. vR RESCUING JESUS By Deborah Jian Lee (Beacon). Reading 11/17, 6 PM, Barnes & Noble, 1 E. Jackson, 312-362-8792, bn.com. F

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t’s clear Aziz Ansari is going through some stuff. To call it a midlife crisis would be inaccurate (the comedian’s only 32), but between his book Modern Romance, his latest stand-up special of the same name, and now his Netflix TV show Master of None, he has laid all of his doubts about relationships, adulthood, and family on the table.

Ansari created Master of None with former Parks and Recreation writer Alan Yang, and in the first two episodes they explore parenthood from both sides: first with the protagonist Dev (Ansari) contemplating a life with children, then considering his parents’ lives and histories. The fact that Ansari’s real-life father and mother (the adorable Fatima and Shoukath Ansari) play Dev’s parents on screen is a testament to how personal each story really is.

In many ways Master of None is reminiscent of Louie, first and foremost because it portrays an otherwise loud, confident comedian as vulnerable and unsure of himself. Other things feel familiar as well: the dreamlike flashbacks or glimpses into Dev’s mind; the dry, often dark humor; and the cinematography, more like an independent feature than a half-hour comedy. Sure, Louis C.K. did it first, but so far Ansari is proving he can be just as successful with the blueprint. Both shows tell deeply personal stories, but C.K. and Ansari’s

couldn’t be more different.

In the opening scene of “Plan B,” the series’ first episode, Ansari and a girl he just met (Noël Wells) are having sex when the condom breaks. Sure, the scenario has become somewhat of a trope, but here it plays out honestly and acts as the perfect catalyst to Dev mulling over parenthood. Is being a parent life’s most rewarding pursuit? Or is it a burden full of toddler tantrums and a loss of freedom? At the end of Dev’s 30-minute struggle, it comes down to a decision between an attractive chicken Parmesan sandwich made by an adult chef and the peanut butter, lettuce, and ketchup sandwich made by the children Dev agreed to babysit. When you put it that way, who among us wouldn’t go for the chicken Parm?

Even though the series started streaming last Friday, I’ve made it through only the first two episodes. There are no dramatic cliffhangers to keep you peeled, yet it’s not so mindless that the next one queues up without you even realizing. Each episode is so singularly focused that it deserves more time to breathe.

Unlike Netflix’s other original shows, Master of None isn’t very bingeable—but that’s a good thing. v R MASTER OF NONE is currently streaming on Netflix.

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Last week The Peanuts Movie brought Schulz’s cast of characters back to the big screen for the first time in 35 years, adding the modern technology of 3-D animation to give the characters physical depth. But emotional depth is another matter—this is a G-rated movie, and in America we try to protect children from not only sex and violence but also unhappiness. ssss EXCELLENT

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Granted, The Peanuts Movie could have been much, much worse. The team behind it—producer Paul Feig, who created the cult NBC comedy Freaks and Geeks, and coscreenwriters Craig and Bryan Schulz, the cartoonist’s sons—have made a sincere effort to honor the strip. Unlike the 2-D Peanuts features released from 1969 to 1980 (A Boy Named Charlie Brown; Snoopy Come Home; Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown; Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown), the new movie offers no big adventure catapulting the gang to some exotic location. The story is a simple matter of Charlie Brown trying to impress the little redhaired girl he adores, punctuated by Snoopy’s ongoing fantasy of battling the Red Baron in the skies and affectionate replays of some of Schulz’s most durable gags (Lucy’s psychiatric booth, Schroeder’s obsession with Beethoven,

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I must confess, I held out little hope for the movie after hearing Craig Schulz, interviewed on NBC’s Today Show, marvel at people’s continued devotion to “the brand.” Charles Schulz spent much of his professional life trying to square the circle between Peanuts the strip—which he personally wrote, drew, inked, and lettered for 50 years—and Peanuts the brand, which made him fabulously wealthy but steadily cheapened his creation. The friction dated back to 1959, when he licensed the characters to Ford Motor Company for a series of magazine ads and TV commercials, and it built steadily after Schulz, having turned down offers for years, finally agreed to bring the Peanuts gang to television for their own yuletide special, A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965). Once the TV specials began, Peanuts really became part of the cultural firmament, and toy merchandising of the characters exploded. The strip had always been intended for adults, but the brand was aimed at kids.

A Charlie Brown Christmas, an instant classic, set a lot of the aesthetic parameters that would govern The Peanuts Movie. In bringing the characters to the screen, director Bill Melendez stuck closely to Schulz’s vision, relying heavily on the profile and three-quarter poses familiar from the strip. Schulz threatened to walk if there were a laugh track on the special, and without it the animation had a deadpan comic force. He lobbied for the voice actors to be not professionals but kids recruited at auditions, and their unschooled delivery added to the characters’ charm. Any adults were kept offscreen and represented on the soundtrack by the meaningless wah-wah of a muted trombone. Instead of scoring the special with goofy cartoon music, the producers recruited jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi, whose up-tempo signature tune “Linus and Lucy” and wistful ballad “Christmas Time Is Here” would become standards.

All of these traditions are honored in The Peanuts Movie, whose 3-D animation raises some interesting formal questions. The strip often transpired in a ruthlessly two-dimensional world—think of the line drives that would flatten Charlie Brown on the pitcher’s mound, or his futile runs at Lucy’s football, or even the characters conversing with their elbows propped on a long brick wall. Snoopy’s doghouse entered the strip at a three-quarter angle, but eventually Schulz took to rendering it as purely two-dimensional, with Snoopy

impossibly stretched out along the edge of the roof. Steve Martino, director of The Peanuts Movie, gets some great 3-D effects when Snoopy is zooming around after the Red Baron (first on his house and then in a Sopwith Camel), but for the most part he respects the two-dimensional origins of the material. The characters are filled out somewhat—rather like those little plaster statues you can buy— but there’s minimal “inbetweening” (the intermediate drawings between poses), so the characters tend to rest at the same old angles.

In the figurative sense, though, the characters’ sharp edges have been filed down.

Relatively little screen time goes to Lucy, a girl of such acrid bitterness and fearsome rage that you pity the man she will marry. (Schulz based her on his first wife, Joyce Halverson, who had a talent for slicing and dicing him.)

There’s even less of Linus, whose high-minded philosophical and religious statements are undercut by the naked need of his blanket addiction. Charlie Brown is the same well-intentioned loser, but there’s nowhere near the level of agony he suffers in the strip (so severe that a frequent punch line is “My stomach hurts”). Even the first Peanuts movie, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), was more traumatic, with its scene of Charlie Brown being humiliated in a nationally televised spelling bee and its nocturnal sequence of Linus looking like a junkie from Panic in Needle Park as he trudges around Manhattan in search of his lost blanket.

This kind of pain made Peanuts startling to newspaper readers in the 1950s, but no one wanted to produce TV specials called You’re Unlovable, Charlie Brown! or Your Friends Are Cruel and Selfish, Charlie Brown! or Even Your Dog Is Just Using You, Charlie Brown! Pain is not something you want associated with your brand. (A spoiler follows.) Charlie Brown spends most of The Peanuts Movie longing for the little red-haired girl (who is pictured onscreen, in contrast to the unseen, unheard girl in the strip). “If I was something and she was nothing, I could talk to her,” he tells Lucy, his five-cent shrink. “Or if she was nothing and I was nothing, I could talk to her. But she’s something and I’m nothing. So I just can’t talk to her.” In the end, though, the little redhaired girl sees the worth in him that everyone else has overlooked, and romance blooms. A Charlie Brown who scores with the ladies?

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Despite the free-flowing structure, Dog has a sharply intellectual orientation. Anderson has a lot on her mind, yet her observations sound off the cuff, even when she’s talking about such complicated topics as post-9/11 surveillance culture. Indeed, in much of the narration she considers the government’s current obsession with surveillance, reflecting on the proliferation of security cameras all over New York and the construction of the Nassss EXCELLENT

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HUGE HEART, E 8 INCH BETSY: REMEMBERING MEGHAN GALBRAITH

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li Burke came to Chicago from Tucson in summer 2003 to study at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, but a friend from Arizona who’d already moved here had other plans. Burke (then going by Liz) had played bass in Tucson with drummer Stephanie Levi in a punk band called 8 Inch Betsy, and once they both lived in Chicago, Levi spent months trying to get Burke to come practice with her. “I eventually caved,” Burke says. “And I’m glad I did, ’cause it was good.”

Levi had recruited a singer and guitarist named Meghan Galbraith, and in summer 2004 the three of them began playing together in a Chicago incarnation of 8 Inch Betsy. They clicked immediately, developing what Burke describes as an alchemical connection at their first practice—they’d turned two of Galbraith’s solo songs into full-band numbers by the end of the night.

The band kept playing regularly till 2012, when Burke moved back to Tucson. On January 22, 2015, Galbraith died at age 35 after a long illness, and since then it’s become especially clear that she played a big role as a catalyst and inspiration in lots of places besides 8 Inch Betsy. Everyone I interviewed for this story talked about how unfailingly supportive she was. Galbraith was quick to offer an ear or lend a hand, emotionally or professionally, and pushed friends new and old to follow their dreams. She helped people get jobs or find apartments, and she always encouraged anyone who wanted to make music, sometimes helping them with songwriting or showing them the ropes of touring or running a band. Beginning in 2008, she volunteered as a band coach and counselor at Girls Rock! Chicago, which has established a Meghan Galbraith Scholarship to honor what it calls her “infectious positivity and incredible generosity of spirit.” In the scholarship’s first year, an outpouring of donations from those who’d loved Galbraith allowed the camp to waive tuition for five girls.

The 8 Inch Betsy story ends this Friday with the release of the band’s posthumous second album, The Mean Days (it’s on 307 Knox, a D.C.-based label run by Melissa Thomas, their final live

drummer). They began working on it in 2009, persisting through a lineup change that forced them to rerecord all the drum parts. Galbraith never gave up on seeing it released, not even when the band broke up three years ago. In her memory, Burke has taken the lead to make it happen now.

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eghan Lee Galbraith was born in Waukegan on August 13, 1979, the same day her older sister, Erin, turned three. She displayed signs of her future punk-rock self at an early age. “My mom was trying to dress her and she just said, ‘I’m not wearing dresses anymore,’” Erin says. Around age six, Galbraith started wearing handme-downs from a male cousin—T-shirts, jeans, tennis shorts. “People would mistake her for a boy sometimes,” Erin says.

“And I’d have to explain, ‘No, that’s my sister.’”

Diane Galbraith says her younger daughter “definitely had a mind of her own.” She noticed Meghan’s creativity when she was still a child. “She liked creative writing and appreciated a good pun or a corny joke,” Diane says. “In grade school and middle school she fooled around with a drum set, a keyboard, and a guitar.” In her final year at Greenwood Elementary, Galbraith busted out a version of “Wild Thing” at the school’s talent show that she’d taught herself to play on the family’s cheap acoustic.

Galbraith began focusing on guitar in ninth grade, at Waukegan High School. Her parents bought her a new instrument, and after a family friend showed her how to tune it, she taught herself to play. “Her room was directly above the living room, and I would hear her playing. It would actually drive me crazy sometimes, just because it would distract me,” Erin says. “Like, I had the TV on or something, and I could hear the guitar playing. It was just, like, ‘Are you gonna be done soon?’”

Galbraith also joined the school’s badminton team—Erin was on it too—and became president of the German club.

At age 16 she started playing in the band Ska Box, based in Michigan—her parents owned a cabin in the Upper Peninsula, where Galbraith had befriended Ska Box drummer Jamie Curran. (“She would make friends anywhere she went,” Erin

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says.) Galbraith occasionally played solo shows too, performing songs by Tool and Pearl Jam. Galbraith worked on her own material privately, writing poems and lyrics in her bedroom and recording songs for friends. “She’d record them on fourtrack and give the audiotapes, so there’s only the one copy,” says her friend Steve

Albertson, who got to know Galbraith when they were 14. They hit it off while hanging out on a trampoline at a mutual friend’s house, and Galbraith gave him her homemade version of the Beatles’ “Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” (which begins with the lyrics “For the benefit of Mr. Kite / There will be a show tonight on trampoline”).

By the time Galbraith started her senior year in 1996, she’d quit many of her extracurricular activities. Her paternal grandmother had died in March of her junior year, and Erin says this had an adverse affect. “She started experimenting with pot and things like that.” Galbraith also began a brief flirtation with the rave scene. She wore huge bell-bottom jeans with colorful plastic necklaces, and she dyed her hair for the first time—it became a sort of canvas, as did Albertson’s.

“She had this giant box filled with hair dye, so whenever it was time to play with hair, there was a palette to play with,” he says. “It was super cool.”

Galbraith had had boyfriends in high school, but senior year she had her first girlfriend. “The first time she kind of came to her own sexuality was during the early rave stuff,” Albertson says. “I think she really figured out who she was in this 17- to 20-year-old period of her life. And then, you know, she was a huge proponent of lesbian culture.”

When Galbraith turned 18, just months after graduating from Waukegan High School in 1997, she moved to Chicago— not for college but to focus on music.

“She actually barely graduated,” Erin says. “She was so smart, but she just hated school.”

Through some Chicago friends she’d made in Michigan, Galbraith promptly landed a job at Ravenswood coffee shop Beans & Bagels. If any of the typical employee-boss formality ever existed between Galbraith and Beans & Bagels cofounder Darren Brown, it dissolved quickly—on the job they joked, talked trash, and bonded over favorite bands, especially the Dead Milkmen. “She was just as crass as I was,” Brown says. “The things that came out of her mouth—boy, let me tell you. She just had no filter.”

Galbraith was also an invaluable employee. “Honestly, without her I don’t know what I would’ve done, because she was my right hand man, and she would do anything for me and my family,” Brown says. Galbraith helped keep the shop staffed—Albertson and Burke wound up working there thanks to her—and she became its face to the community. Customers would visit to check out her latest Technicolor haircut or what she’d added to her collection J

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MUSIC continued from 23 of piercings and tattoos. “They would come in to talk to Meghan, see how she was doing and what was going on,” Brown says.

Writer Joe Meno was a regular at Beans & Bagels in the late 90s, though he’d met Galbraith elsewhere through one of her old roommates. Before 8 Inch Betsy came along, she’d had a few other musical projects—she self-released a CD under the name Meghan Lee, and in 2003 she formed a band called Our Missiles Are: with Meno. “It was like a high-concept art-school band, where every show the title of our band would change—like, it would be ‘Our Missiles Are: Horny,’ or the next one would be “Our Missiles Are: Sad,’” he says.

The band didn’t last long, but Meno’s friendship with Galbraith did. They’d trade mix CDs and listen to cassettes in her car. He cast her in a few plays he wrote, even though she’d never acted before. “What a gift to have somebody who’s willing to go along with your half-formed ideas,” Meno says. “Like, ‘I’m trying to figure this thing out, can you help me? And you’re gonna have to be in the show and be onstage in front of 50 strangers or whatever.’ She was game for it. I’m 41, and I just don’t have friends like that anymore.”

Albertson, who also acted in Meno’s plays, says Galbraith helped convince him to launch his first long-term band, Dr. Killbot, in 2001. “She made it seem like something that was really possible,” he says. “I think I settled into playing with one band even before she did.”

Meno cast Galbraith as teenage punk Gretchen, the lead role in a one-act play called Haunted Trails, which he named after a mini-golf course in the southwestern suburbs; it opened on the Chopin Theatre’s downstairs stage in January 2003. When Meno decided to turn Haunted Trails into a book, he says he drew inspiration from the supportive spirit he saw so much of in Galbraith— the same spirit that had encouraged him to put on the play in the first place.

That book, Hairstyles of the Damned, came out in early 2004 through Punk Planet’s new Akashic Books imprint.

The back of Galbraith’s head appears smack in the center of its iconic cover,

The cover of the second 8 Inch Betsy album, The Mean Days, originally recorded in 2010 and finally released this week

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her bright pink hair leaping out against the green background. The book has gone through 15 printings, selling about 100,000 copies. “I really believe that book cover was hugely responsible for the success of that book,” Meno says.

“She happened to have the most perfectly round head, and it just was very aesthetically pleasing.”

That year Galbraith also jump-started the Chicago version of 8 Inch Betsy, where her fearlessness and positivity helped Burke get over a bad case of stage fright. “I was notorious for getting physically ill before shows,” Burke says.

“It wasn’t the preshow jitters—it was the ‘shitters’ is what we called it, ’cause I was just sick every time.”

Once at a dive called North Beach, 8 Inch Betsy played for a largely male audience that didn’t seem used to seeing women play punk rock. “It’s a fratty dude bar, and I was so scared,” Burke says.

“I don’t know what I would be scared of—like, dudes in the audience not liking us? I don’t know. It was really weird.” But the crowd responded well—Galbraith pretty much always guaranteed that the band would make an impression, up onstage sweating through her wife beater, pushing her huge voice, and strumming her guitar till her fingers bled. “With someone like Meghan next to you, you feel safe. That’s a thing,” Burke says. “If

it was just me, I could not have accomplished what we accomplished.”

In 2005, 8 Inch Betsy began to find a larger audience after opening for Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls on the first night of the third annual Estrojam festival. In anticipation of the September gig, the band hastily recorded a four-song EP and burned it onto CD-Rs; for the cover, Burke screen-printed an image of two rabbits play fighting. Ray tapped 8 Inch Betsy to open a handful of her shows in October, which was not only the band’s first time on the road but also put them in front of Ray’s loyal and often queer fans. “You’d go to the show and there’d be people just waiting outside from the time we pulled up—in the morning, they’re waiting to get in,” Burke says.

“They just loved the songs. They were instant fans. I keep in touch with some of those people to this day. That was when we felt like we could do this.”

The recording of 8 Inch Betsy’s first album, This Time Last Time Every Time, was a slow process, mainly due to its cost—sessions started in 2006 and ran into 2007. That year Galbraith left Beans & Bagels, in part because she wanted a job more amenable to band life—she began working door at Lakeview bar the Long Room. “When she left, the heart of my hearts just sank,” Brown says. He’d hoped to eventually sell Beans & Bagels to Galbraith, but he had to recognize that her dreams lay elsewhere.

In mid-2007, 8 Inch Betsy began shopping their debut around. “We had asked Victory,” Burke says. “They didn’t want to sign a queer girl band, which kind of sucked actually. They were just really blatant about it.” The band focused on queer labels, and released This Time Last Time Every Time through San Francisco’s Queer Control Records in early 2008. In 2010, the catchy single “Doomed” got picked up by the Rock Band Network, a download service attached to the popular video games.

To support This Time Last Time Every Time, 8 Inch Betsy made their first big tour, but before it started Galbraith and Burke both went through difficult breakups—an experience that deepened their bond. “I remember the day that I moved out of my place—I was not good, and Meghan was like, ‘Let’s get a six-pack.

We’re gonna walk—we’re gonna go to the train tracks,’” Burke says. “She always had the right thing to make you feel better. It made me feel like everything was gonna be OK.” Later that year, Burke moved into the apartment Galbraith shared with Albertson.

For the most part, the band’s touring consisted of weekend treks to nearby cities. Lexington became a favorite destination in 2008, after local musician Jackson Schad (who sometimes went by Jackson Cofer) made his first foray into booking just to get 8 Inch Betsy to play at a bar in town called the Boiler Room.

Schad’s girlfriend had introduced him to the band, and he still recalls how he felt listening to “Unemployable” after the economy bottomed out. “That’s the one that stands out in my mind as when I first heard lyrics in a punk song and said, ‘That’s really close to home,’” he says.

Jackson, born Tina Maria Schad, began the process of coming out as transgender in 2008, at which point he was already playing in a group called the Spooky Qs. Though he now lives in Brooklyn, where he contributes to an LBGTQI music podcast called Homoground, before he left Lexington he helped build its queer music scene. “Lexington is a very gay city—it’s got a history of that—and the music scene has been incredibly strong. But there was rarely a crossover between the gay scene and the music scene,” Jackson says. The 8 Inch Betsy show was a turning point, because the band helped him connect with farflung queer musicians—soon he was getting a flood of MySpace and Facebook messages from artists wanting to play in town. The Spooky Qs joined 8 Inch Betsy on the road five times, including a ten-day trip in May 2010, and Galbraith and Burke taught Jackson about tour budgeting and band etiquette. In 2010 he founded an LBGTQI festival in Lexington called Queerslang, which celebrated its fifth year in September.

Galbraith and Burked helped foster community closer to home too. In summer 2008, they began volunteering as band coaches for Girls Rock! Chicago.

GR!C outreach director Melissa Oglesby recalls Galbraith’s rapport with the campers: “Sometimes at camp, bands are having a hard time—kids are struggling,

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they’re not getting along, they’re having a hard time writing the songs, whatever it is. And we have band coaches who float around and come in and magically save the day,” she says. “There are very few people who can do that—it takes a very special kind of person, and that was the best skill that Meghan had.”

Oglesby saw Galbraith as an ally on a larger stage as well. “She was very much a part of our community, not only as a volunteer but just in the sense that she was very much aligned with what we were doing,” she says. “Her presence in the world was very much of the Girls Rock! ethos. She was a female front person in a band; she was part of the DIY scene; she was very into supporting other female musicians.”

Galbraith continued writing new material for 8 Inch Betsy, and by 2009 they had enough for another album. The Mean Days was originally recorded in 2010, but the band had to postpone its release after Levi quit in the middle of a short tour not long afterward. “She is very talented, but ultimately our personalities did not mesh,” Burke says. Galbraith and Burke decided to start over, ditching Stephanie’s recordings and redoing them with drummer Christian Moder from Chicago band the Great Crusades. (Melissa Thomas, head of 307 Knox, eventually filled Levi’s spot onstage.)

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At around this time, Galbraith began a relationship with Miranda Anderson, touring manager for Chicago theater company the Hypocrites. Anderson was a regular at the Long Room, and she’d hang out with Galbraith at the door— sometimes for 15 minutes, sometimes for hours, often working on crosswords Galbraith tore out from a book of puzzles. “I could totally tell that sometimes she would not answer things just so that I could eventually figure them out,” she says. “Which was pretty cute.”

Anderson doesn’t remember exactly where she first saw 8 Inch Betsy, just that it was a windy outdoor show at a local college. But she remembers Galbraith onstage. “You could just tell immediately, ‘Oh, this is Meghan in her happy place,’” she says. “It was just really magical to watch her perform live, and after that point I went to every show that I could.”

They started dating in spring 2010, and Anderson moved into Galbraith’s apartment in 2012.

Moder finished replacement drum tracks for The Mean Days in 2012, but at that point 8 Inch Betsy ground to a halt.

Burke had made the difficult decision to return to Tucson to teach art and visual culture. He began the transition from Liz to Eli after the move—he’d been coming to terms with his gender for his last few years in Chicago. “Being in an all-girl band put some pressure on me,” he says.

“Or I guess I put that pressure on myself.”

Without 8 Inch Betsy, Galbraith mostly worked on music privately. “There would be times when I would come home and find her just sitting in her room, playing music or writing a song,” Anderson says.

“I didn’t want to get in the way of it.”

Galbraith never gave up on The Mean Days, and she’d frequently try to restart the process of putting it out. It wasn’t until after she got sick at the end of 2013, though, that the album came off the back burner. Galbraith’s family has kept the details of her illness off the record—specifics are also absent from her obituary— but it’s clear that her declining health sped up the release. In October 2014, Burke got the go-ahead from Galbraith to work on releasing The Mean Days. The pair kept in touch till the day Galbraith died in January—she sent one last message on Facebook hours before her J

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On January 31, about 200 of Galbraith’s family and friends gathered to celebrate her life at the In-Laws Restaurant in Gurnee. Drew Adamek, a friend of Galbraith’s from high school, flew in from Serbia to say a few words. Darren Brown of Beans & Bagels, who now lives in Florida, happened to be in town and stayed for the memorial—and his wife flew in to attend. Albertson, Burke, and Erin Galbraith were among those who spoke, and no one made it through a speech without crying. Anderson was too upset to address the memorial, but plenty of people offered consoling words to her. “Every person I talked to at the celebration had an incredible story—you know, ‘Meghan changed my life because of this thing that she did,’” she says. “I spent that day crying sad tears frequently, but I think I also laughed myself to tears a good three or four times, which just felt like the most appropriate thing in the world.”

The family asked that donations made in Galbraith’s name go to Girls Rock!

Chicago, and Oglesby says the Meghan Galbraith Scholarship will continue even after that money runs out.

Burke had a difficult time continuing to work on The Mean Days in the months that followed. Just looking through photos for the CD layout was a challenge. “I would just get lost in this history—it just became emotionally overwhelming, and I just couldn’t continue,” he says. “I don’t mean to sound dramatic. It just was really difficult. It took me awhile to get some really basic things done that I needed to get done.” Burke hoped to have the album ready for physical release on August 13—the day Galbraith would’ve turned 36—but had to settle for posting the title track on Soundcloud for the occasion.

Albertson, who runs an Atlanta-based PR company called Baby Robot Media, has helped push The Mean Days out into the world, working for free on behalf of his departed friend. “She was one of the most important people in my life, and I want as many people as possible to know her and her music,” he says. “It’s really important to me. Early next year I’m going to put together a website that will collect her songs, poetry, and writings.”

So far The Mean Days has been covered by the Alternative Press, PopMatters, Punknews.org, and dozens of other sites. In a track premiere earlier this month, Nylon called 8 Inch Betsy “the coolest female-fronted queer band.”

The campaign has been an emotional one for Albertson; while he was arranging a premiere for “Get in the Van” with Verbicide Magazine in September, he learned from Burke that the track had been inspired by a trip Albertson, Adamek, and Galbraith had taken to Philadelphia to see a Dead Milkmen reunion show in 2004. “I’m like, ‘That just hit me right in the heart,’” Albertson says. “I just started losing it right then.”

The Mean Days finally comes out Friday. Its release is a tribute not only to Galbraith’s life but also to the community that flourished around her. All three members of 8 Inch Betsy’s original Chicago lineup were gay women (they were often called “queercore”), but Galbraith’s lyrics don’t focus on gender or sexuality, instead telling stories about close friendships, broken relationships, and the city’s bleak landscapes and vicious winters. They tend to capture a moment without too many specifics— that is, you can feel what Galbraith was feeling even if you don’t have any idea what real-life event inspired the song.

Nothing she sings in “Get in the Van” is transparently about that trip to Philly, but when Albertson listens to it, he’ll always remember the competition the three of them had to see who could eat the most cheesesteaks.

To celebrate the album’s release, Tucson community radio station KXCI is playing a different track from the album every day for a week, starting Monday, November 9. Many of the people I talked to for this story said they’d do the same thing—they’d play the music and think of Galbraith. “The idea of just getting together and listening to records, it’s such a foreign concept, but it’s what I did with her—it was one of the main activities, just sitting down and listening to a record,” Meno says. “I’m sure she would appreciate that—a few people in a room just being together and listening to her music.” v

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oped—from loose, spontaneous jams surreptitiously recorded by the group’s drummer, Marc Pell. Few bands make surface boredom and ennui sound so enticing and catchy by draping simple guitar or keyboard patterns over primitive, loose-limbed grooves. Levi delivers her lines like she’s talking in her sleep, but that doesn’t prevent her soulfulness from ripping through a single like “Oh Baby.” And rather than revel in depression, most of the songs embrace life’s simpler things, such as the longing for sea air on, yes, “Sea Air,” or the rejection of urban chaos and pollution on “LA Poison.” —PETER MARGASAK

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A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene GOSSIP WOLF IS SAD to say farewell to Wrekmeister Harmonies main man J.R. Robinson, who’s moving to Astoria, Oregon, this week. Robinson says that after 20 years of brutal cold, it’s time to move on. “I think I feel like Saul Bellow probably felt,” he explains. “This is an amazing, truly American city, but one where ‘No realistic, sane person goes around without protection.’” He picked Astoria not just because it’s where Goonies was filmed but “because it’s an incredibly beautiful area of the country. It’s quiet, not a lot going on, and should be an interesting place to create art.” Wrekmeister Harmonies’ new full-length, Night of Your Ascension, hits stores Fri 11/13, and it’s got a thumbs-up from the Reader’s Monica Kendrick. Robinson will be back Thu 12/17, when Wrekmeister Harmonies play the Empty Bottle.

In February local psych-pop band Santah started taking preorders for their sophomore LP—one VIP option included a seminar on vegetable fermentation taught by singer Vivian McConnell. The LP, titled Chico, dropped last week, and it’s full of creamy harmonies and dreamy arrangements. All sweet and no sour! On Fri 11/20 Santah play a release party at Lincoln Hall.

After taking a Bandcamp spin around the Pillowhammer’s new EP, How to Scrape Skies, Gossip Wolf still thinks this local band can “turn any venue into the world’s saddest airport bar.” If anything, the keening new ballad “Pago Pago”—a duet between singers Jim Dorling and Beth Yates that memorializes a failed blow job, paranoia about the government, and the Sheridan Red Line stop, among other things—plumbs even lower depths of human sorriness. Strong work! The Pillowhammer play the Empty Bottle on Tue 11/17. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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The 2010 self-titled debut from Austin’s Bright Light Social Hour is a good but in no way startling southern-rock party record, designed for a few strong tokes while you air out your pits. Their follow-up took five years, during which they unexpectedly got weird. The album title Space Is Still the Place (Frenchkiss) nods to Sun Ra of all people, while a track like “Dreamlove” abandons rawk for booty shaking with Cut Copy-esque spaced-out keyboards. Other tracks are less of a departure. “Slipstream” is gigantic and echoey cosmic blues, badass and goofy in a way that both Jim Morrison and Jimmy Page would appreciate. “Ouroboros” nods to the Doors too, as Jack O’Brien intones, “My brother walks on crushed glass / His fingers beaten like brass” (the lyrics sound especially painful in light of the January suicide of Alex O’Brien, Jack’s brother and the band’s manager). The band have said in interviews that they are creating music for a “Future South,” in which a region often seen as backwards and parochial can instead be viewed as expansive, ambitious, and welcoming. “Cities without limit / Carpeted and endless,” Jack sings in “Infinite Cities,” as the guitar does a twangy hoedown and the dance beat throbs. With Space Is Still the Place a band that seemed to be steering down the middle of the road now unexpectedly have their bare feet deep in the soil and their head in the Milky Way. —NOAH BERLATSKY

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The world’s best black-metal band couldn’t give a fuck about the devil. Polish duo Mgła live in a universe that has banished not only God and Satan but also all absolute virtue. Their melancholy, beautiful, corrosively violent music radiates the hopeless dignity that comes from accepting that your death will be as meaningless as every other death, and its bleak grandeur conveys the pity and contempt that such a despairing soul might feel for those of us still convinced that anything matters. On Mgła’s recent third full-length, Exercises in Futility (Northern Her-

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ist Che Chen, he’s ditched the drum kit in favor of an old wooden box he found—it’s a kind of homemade cajon that he beats with his hands, mallets, and a kick-drum pedal. Brown also makes great use of a pair of maracas, rattling them and bashing a cracked crash cymbal with them as he plays changing yet elemental rhythms that flow with the grace and violence of a river. Though he did spend time in Mauritania studying with Jheich Ould Chighaly, Chen has developed a kind of intuitive approach to Saharan guitar, playing a conventional electric guitar and another with frets adapted to play quartertones. The style he creates in doing so is all his own: fierce art-punk meets dirty blues meets African trance. Together the pair create a low-budget instrumental-music hoedown of unalloyed beauty and power, as heard on this year’s album Wooden Bag (Other Music) as well as a handful of great self-released tapes—they actually busked in their early days and have retained that portability and in-the-red fury. This is their Chicago debut.

—PETER MARGASAK

SATURDAY14 Kode9 DJ Manny, Heavee, DJ Tre, and Gloque open. 9 PM, East Room, 2828 W. Medill, $5.

What open-minded, voracious music fan wouldn’t

want to get a look inside the mind of Steve Goodman (aka producer Kode9), or at least get a peek at his record collection? Goodman approaches his lifelong affection for electronic music with an academic’s sense of scope, a journalist’s desire to dig, and a label honcho’s ear for curation—and it’s not only because he’s worn all of those hats at one point or another. He’s best known for Hyperdub, the 11-year-old label that started as a webzine and has grown into one of the most influential agents in the international underground electronic scene.

The label’s catalog is a broad database of movers and shakers, all united by their individual desires to follow their guts; there’s aughties dubstep poster boy Burial, footwork leader DJ Rashad, grime wonder Joker, ethereal new R&B singer Jessy Lanza, and, yes, Kode9 himself. In the last role Goodman’s released a slew of EPs and singles, plus two collaborative full-lengths with vocalist and poet Stephen Gordon (aka the Spaceape, who passed away from cancer last year), and now the new Nothing, the first Kode9 solo full-length. Goodman is a restless but refined producer, and on Nothing he plays with footwork’s clattering percussion, pureed vocal samples that stutter and bubble upwards, and scary synths that make it feel like the walls are closing in. And though Gordon’s resonant voice pops up for just one vocal, on the short “Third Ear Transmission,” it melts and groans and bleeds into the album’s dark, shifting textures. In Goodman’s hands it all makes sense because, like the best mate- J

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rial released through Hyperdub, even when something sounds strange or alien he twists it till it’s affecting. —LEOR GALIL

Ashley Monroe Ryan Beaver opens. 10 PM, Space, 1245 Chicago Ave., Evanston, sold out. b Few Nashville singer-songwriters can balance mainstream instincts with biting themes and respect for tradition as well as Ashley Monroe, who released another strong solo album this summer with The Blade (Warner Brothers). Also a member of the Pistol Annies, she trumps the record’s too-slick production from Vince Gill and Justin Niebank—along with any other Music City treacle—with writing that features well-placed doses of the blues (“I Buried Your Love Alive”) and old-school honky-tonk (“Winning Streak”). She had a hand in all of the songs with the exception of the title track, which assays a lopsided relationship with the couplet “You caught it by the handle / I caught it by the blade.” Most of the album is about heartbreak, Monroe voicing her pain at being rejected and unceremoniously dumped. Her bluntness and withering self-reflection make her something of an outsider, but she never draws attention to her rebellion, instead trusting that her nuanced voice and words will set her apart. —PETER MARGASAK

Peacers Elisa Ambrogio and Swear Beam open.

9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $5.

Mike Donovan reclaims some of the druggy, shambolic ennui of his old San Francisco combo Sic Alps with his new project Peacers. On the eponymous Drag City debut he’s joined by old pal Ty Segall, who produced and provides drums and bass (former Oh Sees member Brigid Dawson offers some distant harmony vocals on a couple of tracks too). Beneath the studio murk and deliberately loose vibe you can sense Donovan’s growth as a songwriter even as he inescapably channels the spirit of solo Syd Barrett and Skip Spence. Bathed in reverb, his vocals arrive as warped incantations pushed off course by wriggling lead-guitar lines that seem to shrink into discord once they notice they’re in the spotlight. Many of the songs are driven by an appealingly raunchy post-Rolling Stones funk that seems like a product of Segall’s involvement, adding dynamic flair to Donovan’s songs. A new working band joins him for this tour. —PETER MARGASAK

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has passed since we were able to lay claim to the experimental-pop group. Formed in Chicago in 2010, Wume (previously spelled “Wumme”) moved to Baltimore three years later—and the change in location bleeds into the band’s second album, May’s Maintain (Ehse). Synth player Al Schatz, who tours with Dan Deacon as his sound engineer, has broadened his palette to include a few sounds that feel like they’ve leaped over from the electronic wizard’s sweeping orchestral works. As they did with 2011’s Distance, Wume drive at hypnosis through Krautrock, a single-minded approach that fortunately doesn’t restrict them from floating off into different dimensions. Drummer-vocalist April Camlin speeds up her motorik pace on “Voyager” till she’s knocking out blastbeats; on “Ostinaut” Schatz blurs cinematic synths that could have soundtracked the underwater levels of Super Mario 64; and on “Gold Leaf” the band lay out a gentle, mesmerizing loop that sounds like it could either be a choir humming or a synth patch. I haven’t spent much time trying to deduce the source of the sounds on “Gold Leaf” because the song’s gentle ascent effectively pulls me under its spell nearly every time I listen to it. —LEOR GALIL

WEDNESDAY18 Micachu & the Shapes See “Pick of the week” (page 28). Lucy Stoole, Beastii, and Ganser open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $10.

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Public Image Ltd. Bad Luck Jonathan opens.

9 PM, Concord Music Hall, 2047 N. Milwaukee, $43, $38 in advance. 17+ Spawned from the dissolution of the Sex Pistols conglomerate as they were, it’s no wonder that old boy John Lydon had some big ideas to get out with his early-era Public Image Ltd. albums.

On Public Image: First Issue and Metal Box in particular Lydon proselytizes like a man possessed, squawking and squealing—and performing spoken word—as jagged, sharp guitar lines and taut, driving rhythms carve out paths for the eventual postpunk come-up. But the decadent ambitions of those first two albums greatly outweigh their ramshackle qualities—Lydon seems focused on forging a thwarting sound and persona that wholly fuck with the public’s expectations—or at least he hopes to rub the public’s nose in those shitty expectations. Six albums, a breakup, and a reunion later—one that included the 2012 album This is PiL—Lydon and company return with What the World Needs Now . . . (PiL Official), and from the opener, “Double Trouble,” the one-of-a-kind front man sounds accordingly biting and crotchety as he uses his thick accent to snarl out vitriol. Some efforts aside (“C’est La Vie” being one), the straightforward punk tracks and funkier forays (“Whole Life Time”) show off a vigor and youthfulness very much in line with PiL’s infancy in the late 70s.

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New York City restaurateur Danny Meyer and the duo behind NYC cocktail joint Dead Rabbit make their boozeforward Chicago debut inside a Northwestern Medicine building.

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f there’s one place in town where it might be safe to choke on a chicken oyster it ought to be GreenRiver. That’s on the 18th floor of Northwestern Medicine’s Lavin Family Pavilion on the Gold Coast.

And as you pass the hand sanitizer on your way to the elevator and up past the sterilized habitats of phlebotomists and electrocardiogram techs, radiologists, and ultrasound specialists, you’ll probably wonder what in the name of General Hospital was New York restaurateur Danny Meyer thinking by positioning his first midwestern upscale barstaurant—a collaboration with the fellows behind NYC’s celebrated cocktail bar Dead Rabbit—high up in a medical center. But then you’ll step into the hallway midway through a Curtis Mayfield track, and a hostess will guide you around the corner into the bar, which is fairly bustling—not with beardos and manbuns—but lanky, sleep-deprived residents and jowly MDs, some of them kicking back with their coupes and highball glasses in loose blue scrubs. There’s a captive market here.

It’s not the only seemingly incongruous element to this aerie. Meyer, whose Union Square Hospitality Group includes some 13 New York restaurants known for obsessive customer service, and his partners Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon, a pair of Belfasters who upended the idea of what an Irish pub should be, have created, in a sense, an Irish bar high above the Gold Coast. At least in spirit.

Some of the Dead Rabbit aesthetic—conceptually only—is reflected in the cocktails, overseen by former Aviary head bartender Julia Momose. Belly up and you’ll be presented with a heavy tome, divided into eight base spirit categories (rye, barley, agave, juniper, etc) featuring four cocktails each, $13 on the low end, $19 at the skyscraping top.

Each cocktail is named for some aspect of or character in Chicago Irish-American history.

There are liner notes. Guests who ponder the Hinky Dink, a concoction of Polish rye vodka, beer, pistachio, horseradish, chipotle, and lemon, will be treated to a short biography of the cocktail’s namesake, notoriously corrupt

turn-of-the-century alderman Michael Kenna, while the Teddy Bear (Irish whiskey, Pimm’s, fig, lemon, honey, dandelion, and burdock bitters) refers to gambling nogoodnik “Hot Stove” Jimmy Quinn, and the Meat Packer, a surprisingly restrained but potent mix of genever and St.-Germain, is named for stockyard union leader John Fitzpatrick.

Cocktails can seem more appealing when garnished with a story, and yet it’s a lot of information to take in, particularly since these are extraordinarily complicated cocktails with occasionally inscrutable descriptions that require the attentions of a bartender to illuminate them. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, if you can command one’s attention, but GreenRiver is a busy bar. I was surprised and relieved to learn that the grape fungus botrytis that rounded off the pleasing bitterness in the tequila, genever, and Campari Gangster’s Paradise referred not to the actual “noble rot,” but to sauternes, the miracle sweet wine that results from it. And the “curry” in the Cullerton Street (Japanese whiskey, the aperitif

Pineau des Charentes, barley, verjus blanc, and the Japanese pickle fukujinzuke) referred to the caraway liqueur Kümmel.

You’ll find a lot of culinary elements in these cocktails. Mascarpone cheese is blended into the MacSwiney, rounding off cognac and Crème de Noyaux for a Creamsicle finish on a White Russian-like drink. Kaffir lime leaf finds its way into the Haley’s Comet, adding an intense herbal note to an otherwise sweet spritz of gin, gentian, and passion fruit. Flavors of ginger, lemon, carrot, and cashew spice up the well-balanced Steamboat Cochrane, composed of Irish whiskey and Armagnac.

As if that weren’t enough to dither over, there’s a selection of $11 highballs that carry on the culinary theme—syrupy green cardamom soda with aged tequila or tart Japanese plum vinegar soda with floral white vermouth.

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continued from 37 with the food, which also happens to be very good. Servers are trained to pair some drinks with dishes, but that’s not the main mission here—and I’m not sure what is. The cuisine is certainly not drinking food in any classical sense. What it is is very well-executed but unsurprising new-American food. Chef Aaron Lirette (Celeste, MK, Acadia) throws no bombs; there’s nothing outre or odd to correspond with the cocktails. There are oysters, a burger, roast chicken, steak for two—just the sort of familiar comforts you might need coming off a double shift in the ER. But in fact the only dish with any real proletarian balls is a pile of chicken oysters. You know those coveted morsels of dark meat nestled in the hollows of the bird’s back? The best part of the chicken? Here they’re breaded and fried hard, piled atop a thick smear of pickled Fresno chile puree—like a luxe buffalo sauce— and topped with a thatch of raw black radish matchsticks. Servers seem instructed to take a “too spicy?” census with this dish, but that’s real drinking food.

Actually, you can see this menu appealing to the more stereotypical Gold Coast demographic. You have relatively refined, almost dainty snacks, like some smoked whitefish spread on grilled bread garnished with hardboiled egg, radish slices, and celery shaved so thin you can read the menu through it, or a familiar classically executed pork terrine with cornichons, mustard, and fries. There’s a vivid carrot soup, a silky emulsion providing one of the best spoonfuls on the menu, boosted with drizzles of aged balsamic vinegar and balanced by creamy creme fraiche. Tender coils of octopus entangle orange slices and crunchy

chickpeas above a bed of romesco, while unusually firm burrata stands up to a nutty farro salad with grapes and almonds.

Among Lirette’s piscine hits is a tongue of fresh sea urchin gonad resting atop brilliant orange tangles of spaghetti dressed in an uni-tomato saffron sauce and flanked by sunny cherry tomatoes. The jiggly richness of seared diver scallops is countered by hazelnut crunch and celery root puree, while thin halibut fillets wade in a soupy sea-bean ragout with baby kale and turnip.

About the only executional error I encountered during my visits at GreenRiver was a Grimace-colored red-wine risotto that was far too salty to finish.

Dessert seems undersold, as if the doctors would disapprove, with just three off-menu choices that may or may not be voluntarily offered. A fluffy square of coconut cheesecake, finished with a money shot of rum-spiked caramel, came with a shockingly tart lime sorbet to the side that will slap you out of your dissipated stupor.

An exterior terrace wraps around the corner of the dining room, offering commanding views of the nearby skyline, while a row of high-tops dominates the interior between the bar and the open kitchen. It’s a warm, comfortable environment where perhaps Meyer means to welcome more than just the hospital staff. GreenRiver might not be easy to get to for much of the city, but I could see it being an easy hang for a certain species of Gold Coaster—kind of a Monk’s Cafe for Montgomery Burns. There’s no safer bar for a centenarian. v

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Locating sauerkraut was the easy part: Kyles picked up a jar from Jewel, choosing Frank’s, the brand his grandmother used to use to make Reubens. “I would always see that jar when it was open in the kitchen, smelling up the entire house,” he says.

His first attempt to make a cocktail involved pureeing the sauerkraut and mixing it with egg white. “It was too viscous, way too thick, and the sauerkraut lingered . . . I was belching up sauerkraut for hours,” he says. “I was trying to hit on this girl at the bar [after work] and I’m just breathing sauerkraut in her face.”

Instead, Kyles made a shandy with the liquid from the sauerkraut jar, hoping that the beer would tame the sauerkraut. “It’s somewhat German-inspired—there’s a little bit of Jägermeister in there, Sam Adams Oktoberfest, sauerkraut.” Other elements of the drink included Grand Marnier, simple syrup, lemon juice, an Amaro Montenegro foam—and a sauerkraut garnish.

Kyles achieved his goal, he says: “You get

the sauerkraut taste right away, but it doesn’t linger. I wanted you to taste the sauerkraut, because that’s part of the challenge, but the beer cuts out a lot of that funk.”

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CANTINA 1910 ANDERSONVILLE

$$$$ Cantina 1910 is an ambitious project, two floors and a rooftop garden serving three squares a day, plus a weekend brunch. It’s easily one of the best new restaurants of the year—Mexican or otherwise—and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be packed all day long. Diana Dávila’s is a chef full of surprises and ready to upend expectations of what Mexican food has to be. She pulls no punches when it comes to heat levels and intentionally bitter notes, and knows how to balance them with bright and assertive flavors. Take the esquites: a bowl of corn kernels, rich with brown butter spiced with morita chiles.

Challenging proteins balanced by bright acidic notes contribute their bold flavors to items all over the menu, such as a plate of nachos loaded with thick, dark chili, pickled jalapeños, and thinly stripped fennel. Her puerco en cazuela, standing in as a kind of Mexican cassoulet, is loaded with rare pork loin, carnitas, chorizo, and chewy strips of skin. Meaty goat chorizo and mashed potatoes are considerably buoyed by a bright, verdant herbal huatape verde sauce, while carne asada

tacos are emboldened with the addition of chicken liver. Dávila presents a wide range of plating styles, from her fairly abstract arroz negro, swipes of inky black rice crossed with a kind of finely diced squid salsa, to a plate of simple greens atop thick smears of green goddess dressing with sprouted beans. The towering sesame cemita, worthy of its own visit, is one for the Sandwich Hall of Fame. —MIKE SULA 5025 N. Clark, 773-506-1910, cantina-1910. com. Breakfast, lunch, dinner: daily; Sat & Sun brunch. Open late: Fri & Sat till 11.

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LURE IZAKAYA LINCOLN PARK | $$ The Chan brothers, Macku and Kee, did wondrous things with sushi at Mirai and Heat, but at Lure Izakaya they’ve taken a surprisingly straightforward approach to Japanese drinking food. Take the sanma, a needlelike mackerel pike, laid to rest on the plate with nothing but a lemon wedge, its belly neatly folded open to reveal grillkissed crispy skin on oily, fully fishy flesh. Rich but delicate dishes predominate, like slices of barely seared salmon in a sake sauce or fatty slabs of rare seared duck breast dressed in vinaigrette. The kitchen doesn’t seem as capable of harnessing this delicacy when it comes to fried items, except for the fried chicken karaage, tender, crunchy nuggets bedded on a bowl of rice. Overall this is a welcome

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return for Lure, but it’s complicated. While there are some terrific deals on sake and a host of ambitious cocktails, they’re served in an environment that inhibits the kind of conviviality you’d expect in what’s supposed to amount to a pub. I hope Lure 2.0 overcomes these liabilities and catches fire, because it’s offering some of the most honest Japanese soul food in town.

—MIKE SULA 2925 N. Halsted, 773-360-8816, bestchicagojapaneserestaurant.com. Dinner: daily. Open late: Fri & Sat till 2, other days till midnight.

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SIDECAR AT THE LONG ROOM LAKEVIEW | $$ Late night the little window to the side of the Long Room’s barroom is manned by chefs Kyle Schrage and Jim Torres, calling themselves Beard & Belly.

They’re putting out exactly the sort of drunk food you head for when you leave a bar: burgers, chili-cheese fries, poutine, and something called a poutinewich.

The burgers, draped with melted butterkase, aren’t smothered in a bunch of nonsense. The fries are hand-cut and crispy, and the chili, while a bit sweet and tomatoey, really comes into its own in the chili-mac. But the Long Room becomes a completely different scene beginning at 7 AM, when chef Zeeshan Shah takes over Sidecar as Biscuit Man, doing biscuit sandwiches for breakfast, and rice bowls and naan rolls for lunch.

The latter includes the vibrant roasted lamb roll: a piece of warm naan piled with pulled, braised curried lamb blanketed with pickled beets, watermelon radishes, jalapeños, tart raita, and cilantro, with a side of curry-spiced plantain chips.

—MIKE SULA 1612 W. Irving Park, 773-665-4500, longroomchicago.com/sidecar-at-lr. Breakfast, lunch, dinner: Mon-Sat. Sat & Sun brunch. Open late: Fri-Sat till 1, Wed-Thu till midnight. v

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ANALOGUE LOGAN SQUARE On my first visits to this cocktail bar, I didn’t find it an exceptional place to drink. The spirits list wasn’t very deep, and the then-current drinks menu was dominated by local brands, a noble gesture that nevertheless didn’t make for much variety.

The cocktails themselves tended toward the sweet. But partners Robert Haynes and Henry Prendergast promise to refresh the menu frequently, and a special Malort cocktail I sampled on a return visit should be a sign of better things to come—sweet and fruity up front and bitter on the finish. Analogue is a boite as well as a restaurant and bar: at 11 PM the kitchen closes and the tables are cleared to make way for DJs and musicians. —MIKE SULA 2523 N. Milwaukee, 773904-8567, analoguechicago.com.

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BEAUTY BAR NOBLE SQUARE One of the trendiest places in Noble Square, this salonthemed club (with sister sites from Brooklyn to Portland) hosts events from rap shows to dance-offs, which explains the frequent $5 cover. Most of the beauty-shop hardware lining the walls is just for show, though $10-$15 (depending on the day of the week) gets you a manicure and a martini. Everyone’s here to get down, either on the dance floor or by the often-overrun bar, and between the girls and the Formica, Beau-

ty Bar suffers no wallflowers.

Luckily the music isn’t half bad.

—ASHER KLEIN 1444 W. Chicago, 312-226-8828, thebeautybar.com.

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BERLIN | LAKEVIEW Off the Boystown path you’ll find Berlin, the longtime pancultural late-night institution frequented by queer folks, straight singles and couples, fetish fiends, drag queens, and everyone in between. Celebrated for its eclectic mix of alternative electronic music and video as well as its resident parties and DJs. —KRISTEN KAZA 954 W. Belmont, 773-348-4975, berlinchicago.com.

DEBONAIR SOCIAL CLUB WICKER PARK Opened by a former Crobar manager, Debonair offers all of the essentials for a night out clubbing (as opposed to simply barhopping)—loud electronic dance music, fancy lights, sexy people—but shockingly little of the douchebag atmosphere that chokes the superc l u bs d ow n tow n . Th e t a l ent schedule is reliably full of DJs on the verge of enormity. The cool kids know that the real party is in the basement.

—MILES RAYMER 1575 N. Milwaukee, 773-227-7790, debonairsocialclub.com .

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HIDEOUT | NOBLE SQUARE The Hideout’s location, just off Elston in the middle of an industrial corridor, seems like an

unlikely one. But that doesn’t stop lines from forming outside for the dance parties, live music shows, theatrical performances, and soup nights it hosts.

On nights with no scheduled events—or if you arrive before their start time—the place can feel like a sleepy neighborhood bar, low-key and cozy. An outdoor seating area with picnic tables affords a view of the scenic parking lot for the City of Chicago Fleet Management facility. —JULIA THIEL 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433, hideoutchicago.com.

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SCARLET | LAKEVIEW Named after the color of clothing that in the 1920s signaled LGBTQ affiliation, Scarlet offers a compact dance floor and some crushing electro-dub music—it’s the place to take in a Katy Perry dub-step combo while gyrating against about a hundred other people. —NICK FORETEK 3320 N. Halsted, 773348-1053, scarletbarchicago.com.

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SLIPPERY SLOPE LOGAN SQUARE This place couldn’t be more accurately named. With its red-lit interior, loud DJs, slightly too-drinkable prebottled cocktails, and absurdly cheap Hamm’s pours, this charmingly dingy joint run by the people behind Scofflaw is an easy place to lose track of your night—and the use of your brain the following day. —LUCA CIMARUSTI 2357 N. Milwaukee, 773-799-8504, slipperyslopechicago.com.

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SMART BAR LAKEVIEW The club tucked beneath the Metro Cabaret is also the most popular dance destination in the city, booking cutting-edge DJs locally and internationally.

The interior’s a bit clubby, but the dance floor is pretty big, and the sound is unbelievable.

—TAL ROSENBERG 3730 N. Clark, 773-549-4140, smartbarchicago. com. v

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Ave, 1BR, newly decorated. Tenant pays utilities. No pets. $500/mo + security. Call 773-507-8475 HYDE PARK -SGL.FURN.RMS. With Refrig & Microwave, Utils. Inc. Close to Lake and Trans.$515-$550.

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

Heat included. Call Rosie 773-7827627 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co., 773281-8400 (Monday-Friday 9-5).

5023 N. ASHLAND 1 bdrm $985.

Heat included. Call Kara 773-8956365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773281-8400 (Mon.-Frid. 9-5)

1 BR $1100 AND OVER

4235 1/2 NORTH Hermitage.

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

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

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

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

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

LINCOLN PARK. ADDISON.

Prime location 1 bedroom available now. $1345. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

DEPAUL AREA. MONTANA/

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

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SOUTH SHORE: 7555 S Kenwood, 1br $675, 2br $765, Heat & appl included, Rory 312-593-1677

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SECTION 8 WELCOME 7620 S. Colfax New remodel, 1 & 2 Bedrooms, heat/appl incl. 312-493-5544

1 BR $700-$799 PLAZA ON THE PARK 608 East 51st Street. Very spacious renovated apartments. 1BR $722 - $801, 2BR $837 - $1,009, 3BR $1,082- $1,199, 4-5BR $1,273 - $1,405. Visit or call (773)548-9300, M-F 9am-5pm or apply online at www.plazaonthepark apts.com Managed by Metroplex, Inc

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CHICAGO - BEVERLY, LARGE 2 room Studio & 1BR, Carpet, A/C, laundry, near transportation, $640-$750/mo.

Call 773-233-4939

room. Bright, sunny. Remodeled hardwood floors. Between Kimball and Pulaski. Near expressway. Two blocks Brown Line. $795 heat included. Call 773-710-3634.

79TH & WOODLAWN 1 & 2BR $650-$800; 76th & Phillips Studios & 1BR $550-$700. Remodeled, appls avail. Sect 8 welcome. Call 312-286-5678

SOUTH SHORE, 4 rooms, 1BR, 1621 E. 70th St, 3rd floor, intercom, ceiling fans, mini blinds, washing facility on premises, 1/2 block from public trans. $700/mo. 1 mo sec + 1 mo rent. 773-288-6243

CHICAGO - $299 Move In Special!

110th & Michigan, Quaint 1BR Apts, $560/month.

Available now Secure building.

1-800-770-0989

CHATHAM CHARMER! S u n n y 1BR, 4 rms, 2nd flr, Heat incl & dbl door sec. $735/mo 708-524-0428. stevensonap artments.com

CHICAGO 70th & King Dr, 1BR, clean, quiet, well maintained bldg, Lndry + Heat. Section 8 ok. $640/ mo. 773-510-9290.

CALUMET CITY - Large 1 br Appliances, Heat and Water Included.

648 Hirsch. Starting $750/month + security. 219-308-9664

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2 blocks from the lake • 4 blocks from “El” Express bus stop at front door • Private bath Ceiling fans / mini-blinds New carpeting / refrigerator • Laundry in building Microwaves • On-site manager

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IGAN. 613-615 SHERIDAN. 4 room/1 bedroom with hardwood floors, heat included. Available now for $1215. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am to 3pm and Sundays 10am to 2pm.

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN

NEW CONDO BUILDING 1-2

bedroom, 1-2 bathroom, stainless appliances, hardwood floors, in-unit laundry, central air/heat, parking.

Close to UIC bus, all CTA. $1200/ month. TTRM 312.829.7368.

1 BR OTHER SECTION 8 PROJECT BASED WAITLIST OPENING RIverside Village Apartments will be opening its subsidized wait list and will be randomly selecting names to add to the list, with all names chose through a lottery process. Households interested can complete a pre-application for the Housing Wait List lottery between November 30, 2015 and December 11, 2015. Applicants are welcome to apply online at http:// w w w . h a b i t a t . c o m / what-we-do/affordable-housing.

Those with limited access to a computer with internet can complete a pre-application online at the Property, during specific dates and times. Additional information is available on the website or by contacting the housing hotline at (312)595-3250.

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

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

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

2Bdr From $895.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-4766000** CALL FOR DETAILS GORGEOUS NEW REHAB, Appls & Heat Incl. 73/Jeffery, 1BR $600. 79/ Escanaba, 1BR $600, 3BR $875. 72/Eberhart, Studio $500. 64/Loomis 2BR $750. 82nd/Cottage Grove Stdo $500. Sec 8 ok. 773.430.0050 7509 S. STEWART 2BR, no sec, $785. 5610 S. King Dr., 4BR, 2BA, $1300. 7940 S. Essex, 3BR, 2BA, $1100. 7207 S. Yale, 3BR, 1BA,$895.

Ht, $300 move in fee 773955-5107 61ST/LANGLEY. 3BR/1BA. 2ND flr of 2 unit bldg. Avail Now. Sect 8 ok. Beaut apt, New fridge & stove. W/D in bsmt.

Hdwd flrs. Nr Transp, 1blk from schl. $950/mo. 312-464-2222 CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** RIVERDALE - COZY 5 room, 2BR, 2BA. LR w/ firplc & FR. 2 car gar w/ side drv. $1000/mo.

Crdt chk & sec dep req’d. By appt, 708-946-2745

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

CHICAGO, 120TH & HALSTED, 6 rooms, 2BR, heat & appliances included. $675/ month + security. Call 773707-3132

FALL SPECIAL $500 Toward

7011-13 S. UNION, 2BR, $850/ mo, tenant pays utilities. Lg LR, DR, hdwd flrs, Sec 8 welcome, 1 mo rent + 1 mo security. 708-9216354

Rent Beautiful Studios 1, 2, 3 & 4 BR Sect. 8 Welc. Westside Loc, Must qualify.

773-287-4500 www. wjmngmt.com

CHICAGO, HYDE PARK Arms

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

CHICAGO, SOUTH WEST Side.

1, 2 & 4BR, modern kitchen & bath, hdwd floors. Section 8 ok. $600$1100/mo. Call 847-909-1538 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

CHICAGO - CLEAN, new l y remod, 1BR, 1st floor Apts.

Ready Now! 724 E. 89th St. FREE HEAT. 708-951-2889 MOVE IN SPECIAL!!!

B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-1122 101ST/MAY 1BR. 77th/Lowe

1 & 2BR. 69th/Dante, 3BR. 71st/Bennett. 2 & 3BR. New reno.

Sec 8 ok. 708-503-1366

2 BR UNDER $900 Cornerstone Apts., 4907 S. St Lawrence, Newly Remodeled. 3 BR starting $1017-$1083/mo. Visit or call (773) 548-9211. M-F: 9am-5pm or apply on line. www.

CHICAGO 615-621 EAST 78TH ST. 1BR, 1ST FLR, KITCHEN, LIVING RM, DINING RM, CARPET. SEC 8 OK. FREE HEAT & APPLIANCES! 773-874-1679

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706 WEST 76TH STREET, 1 & 2BR Apts Available, heat included.

Starting at $650/ mo.

Call 773-495-0286

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

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

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2 BEDROOM APARTMENT for

W. Fletcher , hardwood floors, mini blinds, credit check required $850 month heat not included 773-908-2597

AUSTIN, LAWNDALE, W. Garfield Park, 2BR, 1BA avail, $700$1100. Hdwd flrs, appls, $250 move in fee NO SECURITY DEPOSIT Sec 8 OK. 708-209-5882 FREE HEAT 94-3739 S. BISH-

OP. 2BR, 5rm, 1st & 2nd flr, new appls, storage & closet space, nr shops/ trans. $850 +sec 708-335-0786 CHICAGO, SPACIOUS 2BR, 8605 S. May. Heat included.

Tenant pays cooking gas & electric.

Garage available. $850/mo.

720-331-2601

BLUE ISLAND, 2 br apt with remod kitchen & bath. new windows, stove/fridge incl. wall to wall carpet. $850+ sec. 708-6793919 SOUTH SHORE, 78TH & Ridgeland, 6 lrg lovely rooms, newly decorated, wall to wall carpet, blinds, heated, $850/mo + security. 773-568-1718 ASHBURN - NEAR Transportation!

Beautiful 2 & 3BR Apts. w/appls. $700-$950 + utils. Section 8 Welcome. 773-502-4304 CHGO LAWN - 2520 W. 70th St, 2BR, htd, new wnds & decor, hdwd flrs, c-fans, blinds. Sect 8 ok. $750 & up. Mr. Whitehead, 312-406-

9668

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 CHICAGO

7600 S Essex 2BR

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

WE HAVE! A NICE 1BR apt. $630 & 2BR Apt. $720. Near 82nd and Paulina. Nicely decorated, heat incl.

Call for appt 773-783-7098 AVAIL IMMED 2 & 3BR, Loc Nr Augusta and Laverne, tenant pays utils. $850 & $900 /mo.

847-720-9010 7908 S. JUSTINE 2BR. $700.

4BR. $885. Heat NOT Incl.

Restaurant also Avail.

708-421-7630 or 773-899-9529 CHATHAM 73RD & INDIANA. Large Deluxe 2BR, laundry room, security cameras, near transp. $800-$900/mo. 312-341-1950 NO SECURITY DEPOSIT 1431 W. 78TH. St. 2BR. $595/mo 6829 S. Perry. Studio $460. 1BR. $515. HEAT INCL 773-955-5106

115TH/MORGAN. SUNNY 2ND

flr apt, 3BR, 1BA, stove, fridge, c-fans, carpet, no sec dep. $950/mo.Tenant pays utils. 773-350-6601

7011 S. Kimbark 1st floor 2BR, HWFs. $725.

773-285-3206 8243 S MARSHFIELD 2BR, HWFs, 2nd floor, $825 773-216-8482

1411 W 80th –Auburn/Gresham 2br $725 heat & appl included. No app fee, Rory 312.593.1677 East Chicago, IN, 2BR $675 Ht. Incl., 3BR, $700. 1 mo. free rent w/ lease. Call MIKE 773-577-9361

2 BR $900-$1099 BUCKTOWN/ WICKER PARK.

Milwaukee/ Ashland/ Division. Lovely four room, two spacious bedrooms. Victorian building. Remodeled, hardwood floors. Two blocks Blue Line. $1090/ month. 773-7103634,

SOUTH SHORE 2BR apt, newly renovated apt. hdwd flrs throughout, laundry, secure bldg w/ surveillance system & wrought iron fencing. $900 773-880-2414, 773580-7797 2BR/1BA RENOVATED; hw floors; lrg closets, laundry and pkng avail; free heat & water. Dep & rent, $1,000. 8350 S Drexel; 773-952-8137.

2BR TWNHSE, 96TH/HOXIE.

Lv/Dn rm, kitc, hdwd flrs, lndry rm, W/D Hkup, fin bsmt, appls, pvt drive. $950 App & Move-in fee, 773-7332036.

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Lakewood. Must See! Sunny and spacious 2 bedroom at $1400. Hardwood floors throughout, large bedrooms, updated kitchen with dishwasher and tile floor, back deck with a small yard. Separate dining and living room creating lots of living space. Steps to public transportation and nightlife. Heat included! Application fee $40. No security deposit.

Parking space available. For a showing please contact Tom 773-9832340. Hunter Properties 773-4777070. www.hunterprop.com

LINCOLN PARK/ BRIAR PLACE

AVAILABLE 12/15. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a 2nd bedroom.

Available 12/15/15-7/31/16 for $1390/ month. Small high-rise with supersized rooms. Carpeted and air conditioned. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LINCOLN PARK. W. BR IA R PLACE. Get one bedroom plus den or use as a 2nd bedroom. Available 1 /1 for $1400. Small high-rise with super-sized rooms. Carpeted and air conditioned. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

BRONZEVILLE 2BR GARDEN

Apt, A/C, newly decor, carpet, near Green line/LSD, $900/mo. $1350 sec.

708-829-1454

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

LINCOLN PARK. ADDISON.

Prime location 2 bedroom available now and 12/1. $1550. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.

WHY

2 BR $1100-$1299

More Local Numbers: 800-777-8000

2 BR $1300-$1499 EDGEWATER GLEN! 6144 N.

SECTION 8, 2 BEDROOM, 5 ROOMS, $920/month, 6959 S MAY, 773-405-9361 SUE, 773-8998816, HEAT seperate

SPACIOUS DECORATED APT

1-312-924-2082

3232 N LEAVITT, 2 bdrm $1100.

Electricity included. Call Kara 773895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

remodeled in 2 flat building, 2BR, sunroom, LR, DR, free heat, nr metra. $950/mo. Jewel 312-374-1387

BEAUTIFUL, NEWLY

NEAR 102nd and King Dr. 2BR $900/mo + sec. Not Heated.

Near Trans. 773-440-4697

THE HOTTEST GAY CHATLINE

3752 N. SOUTHPORT 2 Bdrm $1100. Water included. Call Kara 773895-6365 or Paul J. Quetschke & Co. 773-281-8400 (Mon.-Fri 9-5)

BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 5 room/ 2 bedrooms with full dining room, oak floors. Available Now. $1700. Heat included. For appointment, call 312822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

MONTICELLO & OHIO Beautiful 2BR apt, freshly painted, appl incl. tenant pays all util. Sect. 8 welcome. $900/mo + sec. dep. 773-533-0140

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\P T Z 51 A V O NDA L E 2BEDROOM AVAILABLE IMME-DIATELY. $1150 PER MONTH W/DEPOSIT. TENANT PAYS UTILITIES. SUNNY SPACIOUS SECOND FLOOR. 312-593-8623

floor, 2BR, 5-room apartment.

2 blocks from Brown Line. Newer appliances, newer cabinets, hardwood floors, new fans & mini blinds, laundry facilities in building, basement storage unit, apartment faces south & east, available immediately.

Owner occupied. This will go quickly.

773-360-0198 $1400 + deposit. Pets are welcome.

EAST ROGERS PARK, steps to the beach at 1240 West Jarvis, five rooms, two bedrooms, two baths, dishwasher, ac, heat and gas included. Carpeted, cable, laundry facility, elevator building, parking available, and no pets. Non-smoking. Price is $1100/mo. Call 773-764-9824.

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

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

Visit our website at www.ppkhomes. com ROUND LAKE BEACH, IL Cedar Villas is accepting applications for Subsidized 2 and 3 bedroom apt waiting list. Rent is based on 30% of annual income for qualified applicants. Contact us at 847-546-1899 for details ENGLEWOOD 2-4BR unit apts in 2 unit gated bldgs, hdwd flrs, pets OK, no sec dep, W/D & appls incl, tenant pays own utils 312929-2167

TREVISO BAY, NAPLES FL.

CHICAGO. Very spacious 1st floor apt, deluxe 3BR, formal living room and dining room , 80th & Eberhart. Newly remodeled Section 8 Welcome. $1100/mo.

773-875-8206

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

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

3826 W FLOURNOY, 3BR, wall

New construct, newly decorated., 2BR + office/BR, home with attach 2car gar., lania has pool with BBQ, $90 00/mo. December thru March, Maria 708-707-8692

MAYWOOD, 2BR GARDEN Apt, & 3BR 2nd flr apt. 1404 Madison, Newer Appls, Section 8 Welcome, Available Now. Call 708790-2354.

CHICAGO W 2 & 3BR Apts available.

(Section 8 welc. No dep req’d.) Call 773-501-1345 HUGE, 1000SF, 2BR, 1BA Luxury Unit, newly remod, new appls, 2 extra rms, Must See! Sec 8 Welcome! Call Nigel 312.770.0795 2 & 3BRS FROM $575.

Newly decorated, heated/unheated. 1 Month Free for qualified tenants.

CRS (312) 782-4041

NO MOVE-IN FEE! No Dep! Sec 8

ok. 1, 2 & 3 Bdrms. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe. Ms. Williams 773-874-0100

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200

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

Backgrd chk/proof of income, 312856-3016

EAST 115TH STREET , 3 BR, ref rigerator/ washer,basement, enclosed yard, no pets, tenant pays utils, $1100/mo 1st/last 773-614-8304 RIVERDALE 142/LASALLE , 3BR, 1BA, cntrl ht & air, appl incl., gar $1125. Sec 8 Welcome.

Appt only 773.619.4395 Charlie 81 8.679.1175 NORTH LAWNDALE, 3BR, 1.

5BA Remod Garden Unit, hardwood floors, $1100/mo, no security, leave message, 773-2030288

BLUE ISLAND, 2BR Apt, $795/ month & DIXMOOR 3BR $1030/ month, heat & hot water incl., appls + security 708-205-1454 3BR SECTION 8 ready. 2107 S Tru mbull.7rms + Bsmt, New rehab+ gara ge.Clean, quiet, Brick bungalow.773405-9361or 773-899-8816 PARK FOREST- SOUTH Suburb 3BR,2BA Ranch. Appls included. $1150/mo + sec. Sect 8 welcome!

Call before 5pm. 708-756-7918 CHICAGO - 7934 South May 3bd

1ba, hardwood floors 1st floor. $900/ mo plus security, heat included. 708800-8867.

SAUK VILLAGE SEC 8 WelCLASSIC 3 BEDROOM - Chicago Beverly Apartment! Large Three Bedroom Apartment, High Ceilings, Gleaming Hardwood Floors in living room and dining room, Large Living Area with Cosmetic Fireplace and mantle, 3 Nice Sized Bedroom, Large Eat In Kitchen with separate pantry, Fresh painted rooms, New Windows, Convenient location. Steps from Metra Station, Starbucks, CTA and the Shops of 103rd in Beverly. Quiet Residential Block.

Month and Half Security De-posit Required. Rent: $1,195.00/-Month.

Credit Check Req ($35.00 fee)Call Michelle at 773.456.7471 or e-mail at mbhob26@gmail.com

SOUTHSIDE 8035 S. Marshfield, 3BR, 2nd floor, no Pets, $875/mo. + 1 mo. sec. dep. & all utilities. 773-8734549

come. Totally Remodeled 3BR, 2BA, 1 car garage, appls incl. $1100/mo + $1000 sec. 708-267-2244

6906 S. MICHIGAN three 2BRs, $725. Recently updated. Lots of light Space. CHA welcome. Call 312-2081771.

CHICAGO 65TH & Wood, 3 BR with large kitchen, new decor, on quiet block. Available now. $690.

Call 847-993-3010 3BR,AVAIL IMMED. NEWLY Decor, near Pulaski/Cermak, $900.

Tenant pays utils, laundry hookup, no pets. 847.720.9010

SFH 52ND & Green, 1 block from

Halstead. 3BR, 1BA $975/mo, newly remodeled, no pets. Sec 8 OK Contact Alma 708-699-4826

TWO 5BR’S. 725 92nd Pl & 5734 S. Wabash. Comp Rehab, hdwd flrs, 2BA, full bsmt, fenced yard, Sec 8 OK. Call Ike 630-440-8299 HEAT/HOT WATER INCL. 225 W. 108th Pl. 2br, 1ba, appl, ceiling fans $1100/mo $250 Cash Move In Bonus. No Sec. 312-683-5174

DOLTON - 3BR, 1BA, garage, $1275/month & security Section 8 Welcome.

773-454-7441 SECTION 8 WELCOME Brick, 3 Bed, 115th Laflin, 1 Mos Dec Dep, $1350.00 rent Call Al, 847-644-5195

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499 HUMBOLDT PARK SPACIOUS

rehab three bedroom apartment, living room, dining room, kitchen, back porch. Hardwood floors,. 3500 W Hirsch. $1200 month. 773-583-5449.

NEW CONSTRUCTION 3BED/ 2BATH. All appliances+parking.

Walk in closets.1200 sq. ft. SECTION 8 WELCOME. Available now. $1300 per month. TTRM 312.829.7368.

CHICAGO: E. ROGERS Park

ALSIP - 3BR, 1.5BA, $995/mo.

6726 N. Bosworth Ave. Beaut. 3BR, 2BA, DR, LR, Hrdwd flrs. Nr trans/ shops. Heat, appls, laundry incl. $1400. Available now. 847-475-3472

3 BDRM, 1BATH RENOVATION! \par Laminate, ceramic tile, washer/dryer. $1,000/mo. Tenants pay utilities. Call/text 815-556-9285.

RIVERDALE 14526 DEARBORN. 3BR w/ basement, new

appls. $1200/mo + $1200 dep. No pets, Sec 8 OK. 708-890-3466

ALERT! CHICAGO 7950 S.

4BR HOUSE - Westside.

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

Greenwood. New Construction 3BR/ 2BA apt for rent. $1100.

No sec req. 312-898-1160

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suant to “An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State,” as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D15144207 on October 16, 2015 Under the Assumed Business Name of BE BETTER BOOKS with the business located at: 7824 BRISTOL PARK DRIVE, TINLEY PARK, IL 60477.

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STRAIGHT DOPE

By Cecil Adams Q : How long does it take to “officially”

domesticate an animal? What is the last wild animal humans have domesticated?

If we tried long enough, could we end up with domesticated koalas or beavers?

—DANE COFFEY, BELLA VISTA, ARKANSAS

A : “Officially”? There’s not exactly a UN Bureau of Domesticated Animals where species register once they’ve become housebroken. But sure, plenty of animals are ripe for domestication, given enough time. Maybe eventually we could train those beavers of yours to replace the Army Corps of Engineers.

First, though, let’s make something clear about domestication. In brief, it’s not the same thing as taming, which is the easy part—what you do when you (e.g.) take a baby tiger from the jungle and hand-feed her through cubhood. That tiger may end up as amiable as you please, but say it then has cubs of its own.

They won’t have inherited any of their mother’s ease around humans. Taming refers to learned behavior, whereas domestication indicates an actual shift in the animal’s genome that takes generations to come about.

Scientist-author Jared Diamond argued in his 1997 blockbuster Guns, Germs, and Steel that this distinction disqualifies certain well-known working animals, notably the draft elephants of south and southeast Asia—they’re not bred by humans but rather plucked from the wild a la carte and trained.

A domesticated animal, as Diamond puts it, is one “selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply.”

As to your question, there’s an easy answer: the last wild animal to be domesticated was the silver fox, and it took a startlingly short time. In the late 1950s a Soviet biologist named Dmitry Belyaev rounded up about 150 of the animals with the goal of, essentially, replicating and observing the process by which, 10,000 years before, some wolves became dogs. As he bred each successive generation of kits, Belyaev selected for one trait: how the animals got along with humans.

The results were remarkable: by 1964, Belyaev had produced fourth-generation foxes as friendly as dogs—tails wagging, the whole shebang. But it wasn’t just their behavior that changed. Belyaev noticed a phenomenon identified earlier by Darwin: Domesticated mammals share certain physiological qualities that set them apart from their wild forebears. They’re smaller, with smaller brains and teeth; their fur has white spots or patches;

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their ears are floppier. Between their juvenile morphology and their friendly behavior, it’s as though domesticated animals are wild ones that have been stunted, forever stuck in adolescence. The ears of Belyaev’s foxes began to droop after just nine generations. By the time National Geographic checked in on this long-running experiment, in 2011, researchers had identified two regions of the domesticated foxes’ genomes that differed from those of their wild relatives.

The ease with which Belyaev pulled this off makes it sound as if, with a little effort and a healthy research budget, you can domesticate whatever you please. But Diamond believes there are a few prerequisites. Domesticable animals, he thinks, should:

• Grow quickly. Nobody wants to wait around 15 years for an elephant to mature.

• Breed in captivity. (Difficulties on this front

apparently thwarted Belyaev’s attempts to domesticate otters.)

• Be efficient eaters, in terms of biomass conver-

sion, and not picky, either. This rules out your koalas.

• Have reasonably decent personalities and not be too nervous.

• Come from a social structure with a “well-devel-

oped dominance hierarchy,” which humans can then insert themselves at the top of.

So domestication is a highly contingent process by which humans have sometimes manipulated evolution to benefit ourselves.

Or animals have, to benefit themselves. One hypothesis has it that the process by which wolves became dogs sprang from their own initiative, whereby the less aggressive among them realized a selective advantage in hanging around people—namely, the buffet possibilities presented by human garbage.

Humans have ever since aided and abetted the scheme. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage

Can Stephen Sondheim cure a broken heart?

Dan Savage takes the Broadway musical approach to therapy.

Q : I’m a hetero guy in need

of advice. Back in college, I met this girl. Suffice it to say she was into me but I had some shit to work through. So we ended up being a missed connection, romantically. Despite that, we still became fast friends.

We each married other people, and everything worked out great. Except I still love her. I think about her often, want to share things about my life with her, find myself wanting to rely on her when things are tough. I don’t know what to do with it. On one hand, she means an awful lot to me—she is the kind of friend that comes along once in a lifetime—and I know that I mean a lot to her. So this is a relationship worth protecting, even as asymmetrical as it is. On the other hand, these feelings are starting to seem kind of pathetic. We are barely part of each other’s lives anymore—do I even have a right to feel the way I do?

I see three options, each of which is shit. (1) Keep my feelings to myself and endure/enjoy a painful but deeply meaningful friendship. (2) Disappear, either abruptly or gradually, with no explanation. Or (3) damn the torpedoes and bare my soul, which might painfully explode the relationship. After years of option 1, I am strongly leaning toward option 3— just blowing shit wide open and dealing with whatever happens. —NO GOOD AT ACRONYMS

A : You’re going to need

a gay dude to act on the advice I’m about to give you— and not just any gay dude, NGAA, but the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals and has good taste. (Look through his

record collection: If Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is in there and Mame isn’t, he does not have good taste.)

OK, here’s my advice: Listen to the original Broadway cast recordings of Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music—music and lyrics, in all three cases, by Stephen Sondheim (peace be upon him). And you need to listen to them on vinyl, because as any Broadway-musical-obsessed gay man will tell you, epiphanies, insights, and breakthroughs come most reliably in moments of silence, i.e., when you have to flip the record over.

Here are the songs you need to pay close attention to: “Sorry-Grateful” from Company, “The Road You Didn’t Take” from Follies, and “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music. (You might be a little too fragile for “Too Many Mornings” and “Losing My Mind,” both from Follies.)

Listen over and over again— until you know the lyrics of all three songs by heart. Discuss what these songs mean with your new gay friend. Then you’ll know what to do.

Q : A friend of mine talks

about his sex life almost constantly. Not quite like bragging, more matter-offact. For instance, out of the blue he will come out with this: “I was sitting in a bar and this broad looks at me and asks if I want to fuck.

She had the tightest pussy I’ve ever had.” It just seems like conversation for him. I’m baffled by this. What’s going on with him? —NOT SO TALKY

A : I want to say the amount

of pussy and/or cock a man is actually getting exists in inverse proportion to the amount of pussy and/or cock a man brags about getting.

But it ain’t necessarily so.

(Porgy and Bess.) I’ve known plenty of guys who bragged constantly about getting tons of ass, and they weren’t all liars. Almost every one of them, however, was deeply insecure.

Q : I usually like your advice,

Dan, but I was dismayed when both you and Peter Staley got it wrong in your response to STATUS, the woman who was preparing to divorce her HIV+ husband after the revelation of another affair. You both seemed to think she was trying to get her husband sent to prison. I think she was trying to avoid that outcome! She wants her husband to tell the truth in therapy, but she’s concerned doing so will land him in prison. Here’s something else you both missed: When someone tells a therapist what they have already done, the reporting requirements are far less stringent than when a patient tells what they plan on doing. If a therapist believes a patient is likely to harm themselves or others in the future, the therapist may have to act. Patient confidentiality carries a lot of weight when it comes to past actions.

—REALLY REGULAR READER

A : You weren’t the only

reader who came to STATUS’s defense. On the off chance I got it wrong, RRR, I’m going to need to be punished. It should be something that really hurts.

Oh, I know: I’ll listen to the original Broadway cast recording of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Twice. v Send letters to mail@ savagelove.net. Download the Savage Lovecast every Tuesday at thestranger.com. ! @fakedansavage

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Babes in Toyland 1/28, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Beacon 2/4, 9 PM, Schubas, on sale Fri 11/13, noon, 18+ Bongzilla 12/9, 8 PM, 1st Ward Celtic Woman 3/15, 7 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont, on sale Mon 11/16, 10 AM b Shawn Colvin 2/19-20, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 11/14, 11 AM b Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen 2/25, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 11/14, 11 AM b Daughter 3/11, 8 PM, Metro, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b Dwele 1/7, 7 and 9:30 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 11/12, noon b Freakwater 3/18, 9 PM, Hideout G Herbo 12/5, 5:30 PM, Subterranean b G. Love & Special Sauce 2/25, 8:30 PM, House of Blues, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM, 17+ G-Eazy, A$AP Ferg 1/16, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b Godspeed You! Black Emperor 2/13, 7 PM, Rockefeller Chapel, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM, 17+ Jose Gonzalez 3/21, 7 PM, Rockefeller Chapel, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM, 17+ Kevin Gordon Band 12/11, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn, on sale Fri 11/13, 11 AM Guster 1/29, 8 PM, the Vic, on sale Fri 11/13, noon, 18+ Il Divo 10/22, 7 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b Infamous Stringdusters 3/11, 8 PM, Park West, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM, 18+ JMSN 1/17, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, on sale Fri 11/13, noon, 18+

Keys N Krates 2/4, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Kid Cudi 12/4, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, on sale Thu 11/12, 10 AM b Elle King, Third Eye Blind, George Ezra 12/5, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre b Lupe Fiasco 11/25, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Main Squeeze 12/11, 9 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Delbert McClinton 3/4, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 11/12, noon b Heather McDonald 2/14, 8 PM, Park West, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b Mest 1/16, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Muse, X Ambassadors 1/13, 7:30 PM, United Center, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM Heather Nova 4/12, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 11/14, 11 AM b Bonnie Raitt 3/22, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b Rebirth Brass Band 2/27, 7 and 10 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 11/14, 11 AM b Red Baraat 1/19, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 11/14, 11 AM b St Germain 4/10, 8 PM, the Vic, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b St. Lucia, Tigertown 2/22, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM, 17+ Joe Satriani 4/15, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b Jake Shimabukuro 2/1-2, 8 PM, City Winery, on sale Thu 11/12, noon b Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues 2/6, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 11/14, 11 AM b William Singe 2/16, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, on sale Fri 11/13, noon, 18+

Tink 12/31, 9:30 PM, the Shrine Toasters 1/29, 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Nicholas Tremulis Orchestra, Jay O’Rourke 1/29, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston, on sale Sat 11/14, 11 AM b Voivod, Vektor 2/24, 7:30 PM, the Abbey, 17+ Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties 12/11, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+ Keller Williams, Kwahtro 1/30, 8:30 PM, Park West, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM, 18+ Chris Young, Cassadee Pope 2/4, 7:30 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont, on sale Fri 11/13, 10 AM b

UPDATED Venom Inc., Necrophagia 1/11, 7:30 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, rescheduled from 11/17, 17+

UPCOMING Allie X 11/19, 7:30 PM, Double Door b Joseph Arthur & Chuck Prophet 11/27, 8 PM, City Winery b Lou Barlow 1/17, 9 PM, Schubas, part of Tomorrow Never Knows, 18+ Ryan Bingham 1/28, 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Bullet for My Valentine, Asking Alexandria 2/19, 6:45 PM, House of Blues b Graham Colton, Jay Nash 12/1, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Cradle of Filth 3/1, 6 PM, House of Blues b Death in June 12/3, 9 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Diarrhea Planet, Jeff the Brotherhood 12/30-31, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 12/30 is 18+

b Doomtree 12/4, 6:30 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+ Steve Earle 1/4-5, 8 PM; 1/25-26, 8 PM, City Winery b Brett Eldredge & Thomas Rhett 12/11, 7 PM, Rosemont Theater, Rosemont b Fuzz 11/20, 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Kevin Gates 11/28, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Aaron Gillespie 12/12, 6:30 PM, Beat Kitchen b Kevin Griffin 1/8, 8 PM, City Winery b Grizfolk 2/3, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Hall b Health 11/28, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall Heart 12/6, 8 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino, Hammond Niykee Heaton 12/3, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall b Helloween 3/4, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ Todd Hembrook & the Hemispheres 12/31, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge Johnnyswim 12/9, 8 PM, Thalia Hall b Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 12/31, 10 PM, House of Blues Junior Boys 4/6, 8 PM, Metro, 18+ Kayzo 12/5, 11 PM, the Abbey, 18+ Zoe Keating 11/22, 4 and 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, early show added b Charles Kelley 1/8, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+ Jim Lauderdale 12/13, 7 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Lawrence Arms 12/10-12, 7:30 PM, Double Door, 17+ The Loved Ones, Cheap Girls 2/12, 8 PM, Cobra Lounge Lower Dens 1/22, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall Mac Sabbath 12/31, 8 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 18+ Macabre 12/26, 7 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 17+ Marianas Trench 2/10, 7 PM, House of Blues b Laura Marling 11/21-22, 8 PM, Martyrs’ Metz, Bully 1/16, 9 PM, Metro, part of Tomorrow Never Knows, 18+ John Moreland 11/19, 9 PM, Schubas Whitey Morgan & the 78’s 12/31, 9 PM, the Abbey Mud Morganfield 12/26, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Nomo 11/28, 9 PM, Schubas Northlane 11/27, 6:30 PM, Bottom Lounge b Oblivians, Gories 1/1, 9 PM, Empty Bottle Eliades Ochoa y Barbarito Torres 1/30, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b Odesza 11/21, 10 PM, Aragon Ballroom, 18+ Anders Osborne, Amy Helm & the Handsome Strangers 3/4, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+

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Donny & Marie Osmond 11/27, 8 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino, Hammond Our Last Night, Palisades 11/21, 5:45 PM, Bottom Lounge b Judith Owen & Harry Shearer 12/4, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Promise Ring 12/31, 10 PM, Metro, 18+ Puscifer 11/21, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ Queensryche 1/31, 8 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+ The Queers 12/6, 7 PM, 1st Ward, 18+ Railroad Earth 12/30-31, 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Styx 12/11, 8 PM, the Venue at Horseshoe Casino, Hammond The Sword, Royal Thunder 12/12, 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ The Tenors 12/16, 7:30 PM, Park West, 18+ Terror, Code Orange 11/28, 6:30 PM, the Abbey b Carl Testa 12/20, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+ Richard Thompson 12/29, 8 PM; 12/30, 8 PM; 12/31, 10 PM, SPACE, Evanston b Tobacco 1/14, 10 PM, Smart Bar, part of Tomorrow Never Knows Webb Wilder 1/9, 9 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn Luke Winslow-King 12/10, 8:30 PM, Beat Kitchen Zo!, Carmen Rodgers 11/29, 8 PM, The Promontory

SOLD OUT James Bay 11/20, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre b Brendan Bayliss & Jake Cinninger 12/12, 8 PM, Park West, 18+ Beach House 3/1, 8 PM, the Vic, 18+ Andrew Bird 12/7-10, 8 PM, Fourth Presbyterian Church b Gary Clark Jr. 4/1, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ The Cure, Twilight Sad 6/10-11, 7:30 PM, UIC Pavilion b DNCE 11/20, 6:30 PM, Bottom Lounge Greg Dulli 3/18, 8 and 11 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b El Vy 11/19, 8:30 PM, Metro, 18+ Grimes 11/24-25, 9 PM, Metro, 18+ The 1975 12/8, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b Vance Joy 1/22-23, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b v

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