Chicago Reader: November 19, 2015 (Volume 45, Number 8)

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Politics Soften the blow of Mayor Rahm’s property tax hike. 10

Theater Death and Michael Shannon lurk at A Red Orchid. 16

Food & Drink A rare heirloom pepper makes a comeback. 39

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4 Agenda The play Pocatello, the comedy of Steve Martin and Martin Short, the film A Poem Is a Naked Person, and more recommendations 8 City Life Street View: DJ Virtual Brat schools us on Japanese trends.

Chicagoans: author Dave Hoekstra on being a white writer trying to document the black experience City Agenda: one sure thing to do every day of the week 10 Joravsky | Politics If you want to soften the blow of Mayor Rahm’s property tax hike, learn to play the game.

12 Isaacs | Higher ed Columbia College’s feisty part-time faculty union goes its own way.

36 Review: The Cotton Duck The art gallery/restaurant concept relates the dishes on its menu to the works exhibited on its walls.

39 A rare heirloom pepper is slowly making a comeback It took the Beaver Dam pepper 100 years to make its way from Hungary to Wisconsin to Chicago.

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41 Jobs 43 Apartments & Spaces 43 Marketplace

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24 In Rotation Current obsessions of Fake Limbs vocalist Stephen Sowley, mastering engineer Matthew Barnhart, and Reader music editor Philip Montoro 24 Gossip Wolf Jerome Derradji reissues Larry Dixon’s missing-link boogie funk, and more music news

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44 Straight Dope What if the Cuban missile crisis had gone badly?

45 Savage Love The wrong way to approach a monogamish relationship 46 Early Warnings Abbath, the Dixie Chicks, Justin Bieber, Metric, Skrillex, Juvenile, and more concerts on the horizon

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26 Shows of note Grimes, Fuzz, Simply Saucer, the Pharcyde, U.S. Girls, Mike Reed’s Flesh & Bone, and more

12 The Nutcracker takes a final bow The Joffrey Ballet performs its late founder’s beloved adaptation of the holiday classic one last time.

16 Theater Thomas Bradshaw’s Fulfillment dramatizes what Ta-Nehisi Coates warns us about.

Also: Gruesome, violent death perpetually lurks in the world of Pilgrim’s Progress.

20 Visual Art The perfect art exhibit for the presidential campaign season 21 Movies In the Basement introduces the doms who live downstairs. Also: Neil Hamburger tests your taste and patience in Entertainment.

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More at chicagoreader.com/ theater Agamemnon Aeschylus’s AgamR emnon may test the patience of modern audiences, even in Charles

Newell’s fluent, often playful 90-minute staging based on a translation by Nicholas Rudall. The eldest of the three great classical tragedians, Aeschylus relies heavily on a chorus to recount his story of vengeance, which means a lot more telling than showing. But it’s worth sitting through the talk to see how Mark L. Montgomery’s Agamemnon and Sandra Marquez’s Clytemnestra have evolved since we saw them last year in the powerful Newell/Rudall collaboration on Euripides’s Iphigenia in Aulis. Then the ill-fated king and queen were awkward, overwhelmed, poorly suited to their cosmic roles. Now leadership has made both confident, if not necessarily wise.

Clytemnestra is especially fascinating, exploiting others’ expectations to get her bloody way. —TONY ADLER Through 12/6: Wed-Thu 7:30 PM, Fri 8 PM, Sat 3 and 8 PM, Sun 2:30 and 7:30 PM, Court Theatre, 5535 S. Ellis, 773-753-4472, courttheatre.org, $48-$68.

Animals Commit Suicide Sex R doesn’t get more depraved than “bug chasing,” the act of other-

wise healthy individuals seeking out HIV infection for benefits, a sense of community, drug-fueled thrills, self-harm, or all of the above. Its realworld prevalence is questionable, but as this empathetic and twisted love story by J. Julian Christopher touches on, problematic changing attitudes about bareback sex in the era of preexposure prophylaxis are not. Hutch Pimentel’s thought-provoking and confident production for First Floor Theater is directed and acted with the sort of brute force that can make the most jaded viewer squeamish, viscerally and intellectually. Enrapturing performances and production style

help offset Christopher’s blunt and motif-heavy writing (the bug chaser’s name is Chance, for goodness’s sake), which curiously errs on the side of tidy answers. —DAN JAKES Through 12/12: Thu-Sat 8 PM (no show 11/26); also Mon 11/23 and 12/7, 8 PM, Collaboraction, 1579 N. Milwaukee, 312-226-9633, firstfloortheater.com, $10-$20.

Ibsen’s Ghosts Henrik Ibsen’s R Ghosts was vilified when it was first produced in the 1890s; one critic

called it “loathsome and fetid . . . crapulous stuff.” The beauty of Neo-Futurists founder Greg Allen’s lively and witty adaptation (which he also directs) is that it reveals what all the fuss was about. Incest, venereal disease, patriarchy, class conflict—all the dark, disturbing themes are there, no longer skirted with euphemisms. More importantly, Allen’s version, and the fine cast he assembled to perform it, successfully entertains us with Ibsen’s sometimes overwrought tale, even as it (and they) comment on the action. Stephen Walker is delightfully ponderous as the hidebound authority figure (virtually a stock character in Ibsen’s plays) who enables the rampant immorality he thinks he is fighting. —JACK HELBIG Through 12/20: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun 7 PM, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Company, Angel Island, 731 W. Sheridan, 773-871-0442, maryarrchie.com, $20-$30.

Lyric Opera’s The Merry Widow Lyric Opera’s Merry Widow, set in Paris on the eve of the 20th century, opened 24 hours after last week’s terrorist attack there.

With the body count still being tallied, the atmosphere at the Civic Opera House was subdued, and when the scene called for fireworks over Montmartre, complete with explosive sound effects, it was impossible not to be reminded of the real-world carnage. There are problems with this very traditional production (directed by Broadway’s Susan Stroman) that go beyond those horrific circumstances: most notably, a new English translation that dumbs down the already fluffy story, and some wooden acting, even from debonair leading man Thomas Hampson. But Renée Fleming, as the widow, looks and sounds lovely, and Franz Lehár’s melodic score is delicious, if bittersweet. —DEANNA ISAACS Through 12/13: Fri 11/20, Mon 11/23, Wed 11/25, and Sat 11/28, 7:30 PM; Sat 12/3, Wed 12/9, Fri 12/11, and Sun 12/13, 2 PM, Civic Opera House, 20 N. Wacker, 312-332-2244, lyricopera.org, $34-$259.

Never the Sinner John Logan’s 1985 courtroom drama concerns the case of Leopold and Loeb, the wealthy U. of C. undergrads who killed 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924. They said they did it to test Nietzschean ideas about supermen beyond the reach of ordinary morality, but Logan is less concerned with motives than exploring the currents of dominance and desire passing between the two killers. This revival directed by Gary Griffin is slick and efficient, but Japhet Balaban’s Leopold and Jordan Brodress’s Loeb fail to generate much heat together. They’re

The Long Christmas Ride R Home The title conjures images of John-Boy Walton sitting atop a

hay wagon, driving a jingle-belled Clydesdale through a gentle snow while the rest of the clan lie back on a bed of straw, smiling up at the stars.

And sure enough, Paula Vogel’s 2003 play revolves around a holiday visit to grandma’s house. Yet this trip is anything but idyllic. Here, the wagon is a 1950s-vintage Rambler, and the family it carries is headed for a defining trauma, with philandering Dad at the wheel, embittered Mom beside him, and three deeply uneasy kids in the backseat.

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convincing as remorseless snots, but not codependent remorseless snots. As the duo’s famous attorney, Clarence Darrow, Keith Kupferer manages to convey a kind of folksy exasperation, but his role feels tangential to the play’s main themes. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 12/6: Tue-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, 773-871-3000, victorygardens. org, $20-$60.

Playing God Matt Rieger’s premise sets up a pretty straightforward template for some divine comedy: souls determine their fates in the afterlife by challenging God (Beau O’Reilly) to a board game of their choosing. Somewhere in here may be a decent short play about the different bargaining tactics people take in their spiritual life, but you’d be hardpressed to find it within two aimless hours of smug philosophical mumbo jumbo. —DAN JAKES Through 12/20: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, Prop Thtr, 3502 N. Elston, 773-539-7838, propthtr.org, $12 in advance, $15 or pay what you can at the door.

Pocatello The Norman Rockwell R idea of small-town America continues to exert a pull on the imag-

ination (just listen to the presidential candidates), even though many actual small towns have become clusters of chain stores along the highway.

Samuel D. Hunter presents a more accurate picture in this compassionate, almost unbearably sad play about the waitstaff of what appears to be an Olive Garden in Idaho. Without getting preachy about it, Hunter shows how a lack of meaningful job prospects has destroyed any sense of community, plunging the characters into loneliness, substance abuse, and in some cases despair. Jonathan Berry’s pitch-perfect staging for Griffin Theatre Company captures the corporate blandness of the restaurant as well as the quiet, heart-piercing desperation of the people who work there. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 12/13: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Sat 11/29 and 12/5, 2:30 PM, Signal Ensemble Theatre, 1802 W. Berenice, 773-347-1350, griffintheatre.com, $28-$36.

Best bets, recommendations and notable arts and culture events for the week of November 19

it set in the present (a charming tax cheat!), this 1936 Kaufman and Hart comedy endures. But even if it’s nostalgia that helps keep the play alive, this Northlight Theatre revival is a surprisingly fresh production, featuring a huge cast of characters whose various eccentricities are orchestrated with elegance by Devon de Mayo.

From dance-obsessed Essie (Joanne Dubach) to painter-turned-playwright Penelope Sycamore (Penny Slusher) to Boris Kolenkhov (Sean Fortunato), the Russian ballet master, there isn’t an actor here who doesn’t delight.

—SUZANNE SCANLON Through 12/13: times vary; see website, Northlight Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie, Skokie, 847-673-6300, northlight.org, $15-$79.

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Repairing a Nation On Christmas Eve, poor, middle-aged Lois arrives at the home of her cynical, wealthy cousin, Chuck, with twin obsessions: joining the class-action lawsuit for descendants of Tulsa race riot survivors, and proving her father was cheated out of the family business by Chuck’s dad.

Charismatic performances highlight playwright Nikkole Salter’s wit and control, as when Chuck and Lois’s son amuse each other with a canny series of preposterous activist slogans. But when Salter conspicuously drops the lawsuit plot to focus on Lois’s gripe with Chuck, what results feels short on epiphanies. —JENA CUTIE Through 1/3: Fri-Sat 8 PM, Sun 3 PM, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, 7558 S. South Chicago, 773-752-3955, etacreativearts.org, $35, $25 seniors, $15 students.

Tell Me What You Remember R Revived and remounted from last year, Tell Me What You Remember

recounts the true-life story of an embattled clan’s struggle to cope with mental illness and dysfunction across four generations. Finely acted and evocatively staged by Erasing the Distance, this one-hour play asks some hard questions: Why do we hurt each other? Do I have to go through this on my own? We see the Depression-era stoicism of Inez (Dana Black) as an impossible model for her daughter Janet (Eileen Vorbach) when Janet becomes trapped in a violent, deceitful marriage with hard-working Bill (Don Bender). At a loss watching her own daughter, Kristin (Jennifer Mathews), slip toward self-destruction, Janet screams, “I need help!,” a cry that echoes throughout this deeply moving work. —MAX MALLER Through 11/22: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Filament Theatre, 4041 N. Milwaukee, erasingthedistance.org, $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $15 students and seniors.

You Can’t Take It With You R Despite dated jokes and a setup that would be far less charming were

DANCE Lights Festival Dance Celebration This collaborative showcase features six Chicago dance companies from various genres at the Artspace 8 gallery. A networking event with the dancers will follow. Sat 11/21, 2 PM, 900 N. Michigan, seechicagodance.com. F Mix at Six This iteration of the R dance performance/happy hour mashup features specialty cocktails,

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VISUAL ARTS Bridgeport Art Center “The Cardboard Show,” Project Onward and the Birdhouse Museum of Bridgeport present their 12th annual collaborative exhibition of artworks—more than 200 pieces this time around—made on cardboard. Fri 11/20, 6-10 PM, 1200 W. 35th, 773-247-3000, projectonward.org.

Chop Shop “Subchroma,” Canvas Chicago presents an immersive party that includes music from Com Truise, work by street artist Lefty, a projection by DRMBT, and styling by fashion designer Elizabeth Margulis. Fri 11/20-Sat 11/21, 7 PM, $21.90, 2033 W. North, 773-537-4440, subchroma2015.com.

Gray Center for the Arts and Inquiry “Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow, Archives 1915–2015,” the Renaissance Society celebrates 100 years by digging into its archives; the primary-source materials it’s excavated, which tell the story of the museum’s history, are complemented here with artwork by everybody from Félix González-Torres to William Pope.L. The opening reception (Fri 11/20, 6 PM) includes a performance by Chicago postpunk band Negative Scanner.

Cindy Sherman and Jim Nutt. 11/21-6/5, 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org, $12, $7 students and seniors, free kids 12 and under and members of the military, free for Illinois residents on Tuesdays.

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Chicago Book Expo A daylong R festival celebrating local authors, presses, and literary organizations

with readings, discussions, and a book sale. Among the highlights are a chat between chefs Ina Pinkney and Doug Sohn, appearances by novelist Joe Meno and Poetry magazine editor Don Share, and a panel comprising local female poets Angela Jackson, Rachel Jamison Webster, and Parneshia Jones.

Sat 11/21, 11 AM-5 PM, Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash, 312-369-7569, chicagobookexpo.org.

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Cameron Ford Live A stand-up R performance by the iO/Second City vet. Sat 11/21, 7 PM, Gorilla Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee, 773-5984549, gorillatango.com, $10.

CYSK Presents: Ricky Gonzalez R Chicago comedian Ricky Gonzalez records a new album. Fri 11/20-Sat 11/21, 8 and 10:30 PM, Timothy O’Toole’s, 622 N. Fairbanks, 312-642-0700, comediansyoushouldknow.com, $10.

An Evening You Will Forget for R the Rest of Your Life Comedy legends Steve Martin and Martin Short

offer stand-up sets, showbiz reminiscences, and music, the latter in collaboration with the Steep Canyon Rangers, a bluegrass group with whom Martin often performs. Sun 11/22, 7 PM, Rosemont Theater, 5400 N. River Road, Rosemont, 847.671.5100, $49.50-$156.

I Shit You Not The monthly R embarrassing-story showcase celebrates three years with guests Brian

Babylon, Jay Washington, Maggie Smith, Kathleen Jenkins, and Odinaka Ezeokoli.

Thu 11/19, 8 PM, Logan, 2646 N. Milwaukee, 773-252-0628, ishityounotshow. com, $5.

Lights Festival Dance Celebration  JUAN MOJICA 11/14-12/20, 929 E. 60th, 773-834-1936, renaissancesociety.org.

Museum of Contemporary Art “Kathryn Andrews: Run for President,” sculptures by Andrews that critique modern presidential politics. See preview, page 20. 11/21-5/8. “Surrealism: The Conjured Life,” a collection of more than 100 drawings, paintings, sculptures, and photographs that represent the surrealist movement, including work

by René Magritte and Max Ernst along with that of contemporary artists like

the Family,” featuring stories from CP Chang, Erica Cruz Hernandez, Earliana McLaurin, and Scott Woldman. Mon 11/23, 8 PM, City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, 312-733-9463, 2ndstory.com, $19.62.

You’re Being Ridiculous The R storytelling show tackles the theme “Beauty,” with a different roster

of performers (including Kate Harding, Malic White, and Mandy Aguilar) each week. 11/21-12/5: Sat 7:30 PM, Mayne Stage, 1328 W. Morse, 773-381-4554, yourebeingridiculous.com, $15. 

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More at chicagoreader.com/ movies NEW REVIEWS By the Sea During the Watergate era, a creatively blocked American novelist (Brad Pitt) and his wife (Angelina Jolie) arrive at a French seaside resort, where she mopes around modeling broad-brimmed hats and designer sunglasses and he favors white linen, nurses a glass of whiskey, and says things like “We can be happy, you know.” Trouble looms when she discovers a peephole in their wall that allows her to spy on the frisky young couple in the next room (Mélanie Laurent and Melvil Poupaud). Jolie directed her own script, aiming for an arid Antonioni vibe; her oblique treatment of the marriage doesn’t begin to give until very late in the story, and even then the couple’s deep, dark secret seems canned.

Pitt invests the vague, cranky relationship with his usual intelligence and restraint, but the movie is destined to rank with such celebrity-couple fiascos as Gigli (2003) and Shanghai Surprise (1986).

With Niels Arestrup. —J.R. JONES R, 122 min. Landmark’s Century Centre The Great Man An undocumented Chechen immigrant joins the French Foreign Legion in the hope of receiving citizenship, but instead he receives a dishonorable discharge after breaking with protocol to save a fellow legionnaire during an ambush. Most of this subdued drama takes place after the protagonist has returned to Paris, where he reconnects with his school-age son and tries every trick in the book to avoid getting deported. The characters are nicely written and performed

(Jérémie Renier is typically fine as the hero’s buddy in the military), and writer-director Sarah Leonor demonstrates an assured, literary sense of time passing. Yet the film is constricted by its narrow tonal range; everything unfolds in the same blandly naturalistic register.

In French and Chechen with subtitles. —BEN SACHS 103 min. Facets Cinematheque The Hallow A biologist working on a government-sponsored project moves to a remote, wooded area of Ireland with his wife and infant son and discovers that the area is plagued by evil spirits. This ecologically themed horror movie scores points for atmosphere and imagination (the biologist first discovers the evil forces while looking through a microscope at a sample of mysterious sludge), though it isn’t particularly scary.

The characters are little more than ciphers, so I wasn’t inclined to root for them when they got into trouble; I was more interested in the vivid-looking demons they ended up fighting. Corin Hardy directed a script he wrote with Felipe Marino. —BEN SACHS 97 min. Music Box The Night Before Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star as old pals who reunite every Christmas to make the rounds of their favorite Manhattan haunts. Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) wrote the original story for this yuletide diversion, which has been punched up, to little effect, by a crew that includes Rogen’s perennial writing and producing partner, Evan Goldberg.

It’s one of those comedies in which the big jokes bomb but the small, apparently improvised character moments generate a few chuckles; the richest running gag involves Michael Shannon as an irascible pot dealer who sees himself as a mod-

trait of R&B great Leon Russell immediately takes its place among the best rock docs. Filmmaker Les Blank (The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins) was known for his oddball ethnography, and for this project he took advantage of his time in Oklahoma, where Russell maintained a recording studio on Grand Lake in the Ozarks, to film numerous vignettes of local characters. Later the action moves to Tennessee, where Blank gets footage of bluegrass players tearing it up and gospel shouters at a black evangelical church.

Despite the carnival atmosphere, Russell still registers strongly, his ornery philosophy undercut by his sweet, soulful piano playing. Willie Nelson, George Jones, and Eric Anderson turn up along the way, contributing some fine musical moments, though Blank upstages them all with a sequence of somebody’s pet snake killing and eating a baby chick. —J.R. JONES 90 min.

Fri 11/20, 8:15 PM; Sun 11/22, 3:15 PM; Mon 11/23, 6 PM; and Wed 11/25, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Secret in Their Eyes Critics are supposed to dump on Hollywood remakes of foreign-language films, but this Americanized version of Juan José Campanella’s overrated art-house hit The Secret in Their Eyes (2009) is at least as good as the original and, with a running time well under two hours, certainly more concise. Chiwetel Ejiofor is the working-class cop who’s haunted by an unsolved rape-murder and entranced with the assistant DA on the case, played by Nicole Kidman (excellent as always); in the most significant story revision, the victim’s vengeful husband has become the victim’s vengeful mother, also a cop, who’s played by Julia Roberts. Screenwriter Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) has found a functional American equivalent for the political wrinkle that elevated the original above the usual whodunit; instead of the culprit going free as an intelligence asset in Argentina’s “dirty war,” here he’s a CIA mole informing on a terrorist sleeper cell just after 9/11. Billy Ray directed; with Dean Norris, Michael Kelly, and Alfred Molina.

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Kawaii as a button TO TALK STYLE WITH Jimmy Hassett, a shop assistant at Wicker Park vintage boutique Kokorokoko and a DJ who goes by the name Virtual Brat, is to get seriously schooled on Japanese trends. “I’m into the fairy kei/decora vibe, which is kawaii [Japanese for “cute”] and very pastel,” he says. This loosely translates into a childlike look in which he layers as many colorful pieces as possible. “I am meticulous with accessories and where they are. I love adding more throughout the day, like hair clips, plastic chains, and bracelets.” Some of his inspirations are the 80s Italian design and architecture collective Memphis Group and Harajuku and rave fashions of the 90s. Other influences come from music: “I like stuff that is hyperfast, catchy, and cute. I recently deejayed at East Room for Nightcore Night. Nightcore is pop music that is sped and pitched up.

The atmosphere was really positive and the crowd was jumping up and down. I hope to play there again!” Listen to Hassett’s high-speed mixes at soundcloud.com/davirtualbrat. —ISA GIALLORENZO See more Chicago street style on Giallorenzo’s blog chicagolooks.blogspot.com.

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—MICHAEL MINER

“Now what? Tribune writers take buyouts and go” —MICHAEL MINER

“Mayor Rahm’s principal merit pay award goes to his biggest school critic” —BEN JORAVSKY

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Author Dave Hoekstra on being a white writer trying to document the black experience SENSE OF PLACE is really important to me. I was at the Sun-Times for 29 years and did a midwest travel column for 14 of them. I’d go off to these places in the woods in Wisconsin, and it was like a cheap vacation. The linear architecture, the lake views.

Generations taking their kids, and the kids taking their kids.

So I did The Supper Club Book with the Chicago Review Press, and it went well, and we wanted to do another oral-history-type book. A lot of my work at the Sun-Times was covering black culture and black music and soul food, and nobody had combined soul food and civil rights in a book before, so we put together The People’s Place: Soul Food Restaurants and Reminiscences From the Civil Rights Era to Today.

With the budget we had, I think we hit 20 restaurants. We didn’t have the money to go west, so there’s nothing in San Francisco, Los Angeles. The book kind of reflects how we traveled: started at Dooky Chase in New Orleans and moved north to Jackson, shot over to Atlanta, up to Saint Louis, over to Memphis. We did the two [restaurants] in D.C. in a couple days. Then we went down to

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Richmond, and then we took a hot, packed Greyhound bus to New York.

It was like Midnight Cowboy.

My favorite recipe in the book is the lima beans from Charleston. So many of these places are mom-andpops, so it was hard to fact-check.

This place in Charleston, they weren’t going to e-mail me a recipe.

I made a separate trip and drove back to Charleston just to sit in the kitchen and get this recipe dictated.

And everybody talks about the pigear sandwich at the Big Apple Inn in Jackson, Mississippi. That was memorable. Chewy and spicy, the size of a slider.

On our last trip, my photographer, Paul Natkin, got mad at me.

We’re both basketball fans, and the Spurs were in the NBA finals. I was driving, and I did a Wikipedia search on my cell phone while I was driving to see where the Spurs coach went to school, and Paul got

upset with me and didn’t talk to me for about an hour. That was the only dust-up we had. He’s a talker, and I wondered why he wasn’t talking to me. I just turned up the volume on the radio.

The book isn’t heavy on opinion.

I try to let the voices breathe, and I give them respect. I’m really just a story gatherer, kind of like what Studs did. There’s one guy, Marvell Thomas, who says in the book, “There are so many definitions of what soul means. And 99 percent of them are by white writers who haven’t a fucking clue.” He’s the son of Rufus Thomas, a legendary blues guy, and he was in session at Stax when Dr. King was assassinated just a few blocks away. I can have empathy, I can share these stories and honor them, but there’s no way I can understand some of the things Marvell Thomas went through.

—AS TOLD TO ANNE FORD

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 A Night of Art and Fashion Luxury Garage Sale and BucketFeet host a shopping event with custom pieces like a Céline tote bag and drinks from Palm Breeze. RSVP required. 6-8 PM, Luxury Garage Sale, 1658 N. Wells, luxurygaragesale.com. F

 The Ultimate Food Fight The Reader hosts a squashthemed cook-off with chefs including Kevin Atkinson of State & Lake, Cory Morris and Chip Barnes of Rural Society, Will Johnson of Urban Till, and more, plus drinks from Bell’s Brewery.

6-9 PM, State & Lake, 201 N. State, stateandlakechicago. com, $40.

 Randolph Street Holiday Market It’s holiday shopping season! This market offers the chance to beat the crowds and find great gifts from an eclectic array of vendors—way better than another Macy’s gift certificate. 11/21-11/29: SatSun 10 AM-5 PM, Plumbers Hall, 1340 W. Washington, imagepilots.com/holidaymarket, $8.

 Joe Hill’s Funeral A reenactment of the funeral of labor activist Joe Hill.

The night includes music by LeRoy Bach, Janet Bean, and Jon Langford, and eulogies from various labor organization representatives. 7 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, hideoutchicago.com, $10.

24 Hour 2015: A Site for Sore Eyes The annual improv marathon features alums Aidy Bryant, Jack McBrayer, and Horatio Sanz, plus a murderers’ row of special guests: Fred Armisen, Jeff Tweedy, Kim Deal, et al. Mon 11/23-Tue 11/24, 6 PM-6 PM, Second City, 1616 N. Wells, letterstosantachicago.com, $20.

 Tuesday Night Tasting Series Chicago Distilling offers samples of its booze while local jazz singer Rose Colella performs at 8 PM. (The performance is free.)

6:30 PM, Uptown Underground, 4707 N. Broadway, uptownunderground.net, $20.

You, Me, Them, Everybody Brandon Wetherbee hosts the podcast’s sixth-anniversary show, with guests Stephanie Hasz, Goodrich Gevaart, the Puterbaugh Sisters, and the K.I.D. 8 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, hideoutchicago.com, $10.

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CITY LIFE BOBBY SIMS

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By BEN JORAVSKY

I

n the days since Mayor Emanuel jacked up property taxes, I’ve been fielding calls from millennials wanting to know how much more they’ll have to pay.

Not sure why they’re bugging me, other than I’m old. And property taxes, like hemorrhoids, are something you’re supposed to know a lot about as you get up there.

Anyway, I feel the time has come for a millennial-age edition of one of my famous property tax primers. No need to thank me, kiddies.

Generally, property taxes are directly linked to government spending. The more it spends, the more you pay. OK, that’s obvious.

Last month, Mayor Emanuel got the City Council to raise the property tax levy—how much the city spends—by roughly $588 million.

So property taxes will go up. But we won’t know exactly how much more any of us will pay until the tax hike takes effect this summer.

That’s because our property tax bill is paid in two installments and—oh, hell, let’s not get sidetracked.

Essentially, a property tax bill is based on the property value multiplied by the tax rate.

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Since the tax rate stays the same for everyone—at the moment it’s 6.8 percent—the real variable in this game is a property’s value.

What officials call the EAV. This stands for “equalized assessed valuation”—a phrase guaranteed to make anyone’s eyelids droop.

You might think that it would be as simple as this: if your assessed value goes up, your taxes go up. Oh, if it were that simple!

In reality, if your assessed value goes up more than everyone else’s, you will face a higher increase on your property tax bill than everyone else.

Conversely, if your assessed value falls relative to everyone else’s, you’ll either have a modest tax hike or no tax hike at all.

Now here’s where things get tricky.

Assessed property value is determined by Cook County assessor Joe Berrios. I assume you may have heard of him, if only vaguely, as he’s also the chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party—and he’s often been accused of nepotism in hiring in the past.

Berrios and his crew assess property value in Chicago every three years. And lucky us, in

addition to the mayor’s property tax hike, this year we also get new assessments. Property values have rebounded in many areas thanks to overall improvements in the economy and a hot market in certain trendy neighborhoods like Logan Square and Avondale. Which means that especially in those places, assessed value is way up.

If you think Berrios and his crew have overestimated the assessed value of your property, you can appeal the assessment to the Cook County Board of Review, a three-person body I’m sure most of you have never heard of.

In fact, I’ll buy lunch at the fried chicken place of my choice to any reader who can name just one member of the Board of Review. And no cheating by doing a Google search!

In an appeal, you argue that the assessor has valued your property higher than similar nearby properties. If the board agrees, it will lower the assessed value and your property tax bill will eventually go down.

As always, Chicago works best if you know how to work the system.

To demonstrate this point, I’ll cite the example of a guy named Ben who writes for the Reader.

You may have heard of him. He’s the guy who’s always so busy railing about Mayor Emanuel’s TIF scams and school board scandals that he rarely gets around to filing a property tax appeal.

In contrast, Ben’s neighbors almost always appeal.

So Ben’s assessed value stays high, while his neighbors’ goes down. As a result, the neighbors paid about $8,000 in property taxes last year while Ben paid about $9,300—even though their houses and lot sizes are very similar.

The moral of the story is—don’t be like Ben. So now that you understand how this stuff works, let’s take a look at four millennials randomly chosen because I know them. Our task is to see who gets screwed the most when it comes to next year’s property tax hike.

Let’s start with Marian, who rents a Logan Square condo. On the surface, I’d say she’s facing a big-time increase, because Berrios upped her condo’s assessed value by about 19 percent in the last go-around.

As I said, Marian’s leasing. So maybe she can cut a deal and convince her landlord to absorb the tax hike instead of passing it on to her. Good luck with that, Marian.

Next we move to Janis, who lives in a coach house on the northwest side. Her property actually fell in assessed value this year.

That means she’s either living in a total ra-

thole or her landlord is really well connected with the assessor’s office. Anything’s possible in Chicago.

Janis should be a big winner unless her landlord decides to jack up the rent even as his property tax bill falls.

Keep your eyes open wide, Janis.

Now, let’s consider Prairie, who lives in a courtyard apartment in Rogers Park. From a property tax perspective, it’s generally a good idea to live in such buildings, as they’re owned and operated by landlords who know enough to appeal their taxes year after year.

The assessed value for Prairie’s apartment stayed about the same, and the landlord is still appealing it. Smart guy.

So I think Prairie should do OK. Noelle, on the other hand, well . . . She just bought a condo in the South Loop that went up in assessed value by 17 percent in the last round. So it looks like she’s going to get socked with a big increase.

But, hold on, consider this: Noelle’s appealed to the Board of Review, and because she owns her condo, she’s eligible for a home owner’s exemption, which for whatever reason the previous owner had not received.

That’s a tax break the county gives to people who live in the property that they own—as opposed to Prairie, Janis, or Marian, who live in units that someone else owns.

AS ALWAYS, CHICAGO WORKS BEST IF YOU KNOW HOW TO WORK THE SYSTEM. In any event, if Noelle gets the exemption she’ll shave hundreds of dollars from her annual tax bills. And should the Board of Review lower her assessed value, she’ll save even more.

Then she can brag about it over drinks at a bar with her friends. At which point, she’ll sound like a baby boomer. They love talking about how they outsmarted the tax man almost as much as they love bitching about their hemorrhoids.

As for Ben, sick and tired of paying for Mayor Rahm’s TIF scams and school scandals, he finally got around to filing an appeal.

It’s easier to work the system than to change it. v

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Columbia’s feisty parttime faculty union goes its own way The honeymoon with college President Kwang-Wu Kim is over as the union takes the school to court.

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n 2013, things were looking up at Columbia College. After several years of dicey relations between the administration and P-fac—the part-time faculty union that represents the majority of Columbia’s teachers—a new college president, Kwang-Wu Kim, was in place. It seemed to P-fac’s president, Diana Vallera, like the beginning of a new, much more congenial era.

But it was only a honeymoon.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Vallera says now. “The president said and did all the right things for about a year, then brought in a new labor attorney and a new provost, and packed his administration with new VPs. And everything changed.”

She ticks through what she sees as the biggest changes: “Columbia has always been about open enrollment, small classes, individual attention, and part-time faculty who are working professionals. Now what they’re doing is making larger classes, fewer course offerings, getting rid of senior faculty, gearing toward putting everything online. It’s becoming a completely different institution.”

The college included faculty, staff, and stu-

dents in the development of a strategic plan last year, and is changing “because the world of creative work has changed, and we must prepare our students to succeed in that world,” according to a Columbia spokesperson.

“Although unfortunate that some members of P-fac have reacted negatively during this time of rapid and needed change,” the college added, “we reiterate our support for the skilled and valued part-time faculty.”

Among those rapid changes: a drop in enrollment from about 12,500 students in 2008 to fewer than 9,000 this year.

In September P-fac announced that its membership had passed a vote of no confidence in the administration. And last month the union filed two lawsuits in federal court.

One charges the college with refusing to arbitrate employment grievances; the other accuses the school of interfering with the union’s organizing and bargaining rights by providing support to an upstart faction of part-timers, Columbia Adjuncts United.

This is where things get complicated. In January P-fac broke away from its state and national affiliates, the Illinois Education Association and the National Education Association. In a disaffiliation vote promoted by its leadership, P-fac made the unusual choice to go it alone.

Vallera says P-fac faced a chronic lack of service from the umbrella unions—which she says collected more than $200,000 in annual dues from the group. But P-fac’s departure was precipitated by the fact that the umbrella groups also represented the staff union, United Staff of Columbia College.

That was a conflict, Vallera says: “They were advocating for full-time staff to teach, in opposition to our contract. They couldn’t represent both groups.”

The IEA denies her characterization, and in a recent letter to P-fac members notes, among other things, that it provided $350,000 in legal help to P-fac between 2010 and 2014.

The opposition group Columbia Adjuncts United popped onto the scene early last fall— when Vallera was up for reelection—with a website, a Facebook page, notices that landed in P-fac members’ mailboxes, and a conciliatory, pro-IEA/NEA agenda. James Nagle, an

adjunct English professor, describes the group as “a caucus within P-fac” of people upset that the disaffiliation vote was taken over a winter holiday break, when no one was on campus to discuss and debate it.

Neither CAU nor anyone else formally opposed Vallera’s reelection, but the group has been calling attention to an audit of P-fac conducted last spring by the federal Office of Labor-Management Standards. That review found numerous record-keeping violations— along with payments to officers for expenses that included “doggie care”—but nothing serious enough to merit more than a warning and a promise of another audit “within the next several years.” Vallera doesn’t know what triggered the audit, but says she was notified of it about two weeks after the disaffiliation vote.

P-fac, which now hires its own legal help, has also hired an accountant to review the college’s finances.

“THIS IS WHAT YOU’RE SEEING AT A LOT OF UNIVERSITIES: A CORPORATE-STYLE TAKEOVER.” —P-fac president Diana Vallera

“They say they’re making these changes because of financial straits,” Vallera says, citing, for example, the replacement of smallgroup freshman seminars with a large lecture course. According to the accountant’s report, Columbia’s endowment grew from $88 million in 2010 to $135 million in 2014—which Vallera interprets as a sign of the college’s financial stability.

Meanwhile, she says, “They’re making all these cuts,” running the college like a business that cares less about students than the bottom line.

Columbia takes issue with that interpretation. The college says, for example, that the number of courses is tied to enrollment, which it is working to bring back up.

That doesn’t stop Vallera from seeing these changes as “a corporate-style takeover.”

“It’s not the Columbia that Dr. Kim promised to uphold,” she says. v

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Robert Joffrey’s The Nutcracker takes a final bow

Christine Rocas as the Sugar Plum Fairy in the 2012 production of The Nutcracker  HERBERT MIGDOLL

In its 60th season, the Joffrey Ballet performs its late founder’s beloved adaptation of the holiday classic one last time.

By BRIANNA WELLEN

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obert Joffrey’s The Nutcracker seems as essential a part of Chicago’s holiday season as the Daley Plaza tree, Goodman’s A Christmas Carol, pimped-out department store windows along State Street, and those incessant Salvation Army bell ringers.

But it is a tradition that almost never was.

In March 1988, just three months after his version of the classic Russian ballet made its world premiere in New York, Joffrey died of AIDS-related causes at the age of 57. His adaptation maintained the classic air of the century-old ballet, first choreographed by Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa in 1892, but he moved the setting from a 19th-century European household to an American home in the same era, filling the stage with vintage Americana,

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including toys from his personal collection.

Born in Seattle on Christmas Eve 1930, Joffrey had always reveled in the magic of Christmas, and when he finally decided to retool The Nutcracker alongside Joffrey cofounder Gerald Arpino, he brought his great affection for the holidays to the stage. It’s one reason Joffrey’s version of the ballet has remained a seasonal cash cow for the company over the past 28 years.

But this year is the last time that Joffrey’s choreography will grace the Chicago stage.

The company, now in its 60th season, has decided to retire the work, and next year Tony Award-winning choreographer Christopher Wheeldon will give the beloved but dusty ballet a creative overhaul.

If Joffrey were alive today, it’s likely a move he would support, say those who knew and

worked with the choreographer. Throughout his career he was known for giving emerging artists a chance, helping to usher in acclaimed contemporary lights such as William Forsythe, Moses Pendleton, and Twyla Tharp. And despite its commitment to classical ballet training, the Joffrey’s been groundbreaking on many fronts: it was the first dance company to perform at the White House, the first to appear on television, the first classical dance company to go multimedia, the first to commission a rock ’n’ roll ballet, and the first U.S. ballet company to livestream video of a rehearsal on YouTube.

And so the question seems to be less Why update The Nutcracker now? than What took so long?

“The thing of The Nutcracker is that we have reached a crossroads where the scenery, the

costumes—it’s all completely falling apart, and so one way or another we have to do a massive renovation or a new production,” says Ashley Wheater, Joffrey’s artistic director.

“And so by knowing that we have to do a new production, what can The Nutcracker look like for people today? For families today?”

Wheater began dancing with the company in 1984 at the invitation of Joffrey himself, and was part of the 1987 debut performance of Joffrey’s Nutcracker, playing the principal roles of Snow King and Herr Drosselmeyer, among others. While it was an exciting, creative time, a dark cloud loomed over the production. Joffrey had been diagnosed with AIDS and was suffering from an enlarged liver, asthma, and severe myositis, a degenerative muscle disease; he was barely seen during the show’s run. As the company’s artistic director at the time, Arpino took charge and helped with the choreography.

“The only time we saw Robert Joffrey was when we performed his Nutcracker in New York for the first time and he came onstage to take a bow,” Wheater says. “We hadn’t seen him for a long time, and he was clearly very, very ill, and we were all very distressed at that.”

Joffrey died before seeing his production enter a second season, but the company kept his adaptation alive. It’s remembered as innovative not only in its tweaks to the setting and narrative, but also in the dynamic choreography that makes great use of the corps de ballet. Take the “Waltz of the Flowers.” Whereas in traditional Nutcracker performances the corps acts as more a moving piece of scenery for the soloists, Joffrey and Arpino’s choreography is set up to highlight dancers from the corps in minisolos or group numbers throughout the eight-minute piece.

Moments like these that allow many dancers to shine are rare in a company with only three or four productions per season outside of The Nutcracker. So as Joffrey’s Nutcracker goes, so too goes its function as a kind of farm team. With its large number of performances and rotating casts, Joffrey’s work has been an annual chance for up-and-comers to show what they’re made of and, perhaps, be chosen for higher-profile opportunities throughout the rest of the season.

Edson Barbosa, who joined the company last year, remembers a grueling two weeks where he learned every male role in The Nutcracker. He took a certain glee this year watching the newbies go through the same process now that he’s been properly initiated.

Between Wheater’s experience with Joffrey and that of current ballet master and former company member Suzanne Lopez, who started performing Joffrey’s Nutcracker in 1990, the influence of Joffrey and Arpino, who died in 2008, has been carried on to new generations.

Ashley Wheater, now Joffrey Ballet’s artistic director, as the Snow King in the 1987 Nutcracker production; Robert Joffrey in a publicity photo for the ’87 run.  HERBERT MIGDOLL; COURTESY JOFFREY BALLET

The Nutcracker’s generational connection is personal for Lopez: Her ten-year-old daughter will dance in the party scene during this year’s run. Lopez was one of a number of alums the company asked to be involved onstage in the historic final run, but she opted to remain behind the scenes, letting her daughter take the spotlight instead.

“It’s even better to see my daughter perform in this Nutcracker that I know like the back of my hand,” says Lopez, who will lead this year’s children’s rehersals. “This is a much bigger deal than the smaller productions I had done as a kid, and it’s interesting to see them sort of realize that as the process goes on.”

Reminiscing about past performances, many dancers laughed looking back on gaffes. A touring production in Arkansas, for instance, ended early because of a power outage, and the dancers, ever professionals, quietly tiptoed offstage waiting for the lights to return. A costume malfunction during the Arabian number, a duet from the second act’s “divertissement,” resulted in a stage covered with beads when a thread broke, letting loose all the flair sewn onto a costume. It was remedied with an impromptu Drosselmeyer solo in front of the curtain that was met with thunderous applause. Christine Rocas, a current dancer with the company, recalled being so elated after her first time performing as the Sugar Plum Fairy that she shrieked with glee backstage—loud enough for the audience to hear—and in her excitement spilled water all over her costume. Wheater says he’ll never forget the summer of 1987 he spent with the company in Iowa City (the University of Iowa commissioned the piece) going through the ups and downs of learning what was then a brand-new production.

Behind the scenes at the company’s headquarters at State and Randolph, there’s already palpable nostalgia for Joffrey’s Nutcracker as the members ramp up to the final run beginning in early December. But there’s also eagerness to create something new to keep the company current and challenge the dancers.

“Having the same Nutcracker every year is nice because it’s comforting, but there’s a chance you go on autopilot because you’ve done it so many times, you’re too comfortable,” Rocas says. The prospect of “a new Nutcracker is really exciting. We’re all going to be on our toes a little more.”

Wheeldon has set next year’s production in Chicago around the time of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, and is choreographing it with the company’s current dancers in mind. He’s no stranger to working with them: Wheeldon put his own twist on the company’s Swan Lake last year and presented an original work, Fool’s Paradise, as part of this season’s opener, “Millennials.”

Beyond the final performance of Joffrey’s Nutcracker, the company will cap off the season with a tribute to its namesake. Joffrey had always wanted his company to perform Frederick Ashton’s version of Cinderella, according to Wheater. The 60th season will end by honoring that wish.

And the 61st season will be all about moving forward.

“I would hope that he would think it seems appropriate,” Wheater says. “Robert Joffrey was always pushing the envelope. Joffrey’s always been a company about innovation, so I would hope that he would be really happy.” v

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Here is what I would like for you to know: In America, it is traditional to destroy the black body—it is heritage. —Ta-Nehisi Coates from Between the World and Me

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ublished last summer and spending its 17th week on the New York Times best-seller list as I write this, Between the World and Me is a book-length letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, offering a harsh assessment of what it is to be black in America.

Coates explains that black bodies don’t belong to the people living in them, that the American dream is a white fantasy—and a fantasy of whiteness—conjured “at black people’s expense.” Don’t expect to breach the lotus-eater bubble of the Dreamers, Coates advises his son. “Hope for them. Pray for them, if you are so moved. But do not pin your struggle on their conversion.”

Thomas Bradshaw’s new play, Fulfillment, might as well be the stage version of Between the World and Me—a case study comprising scenes from the life of Michael, a 40-year-old

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black “senior associate” at a heavy-hitting New York law firm.

At first that life looks pretty good. Michael claims to enjoy his 80-hour weeks. He’s closing on a tiny but impressively expensive SoHo condo whose kitchen features a backsplash made of Italian green glass and Tanzanian Anigre wood cabinets. (Google that last phrase and you get what appears to be the real-life apartment Bradshaw had in mind. Sorry, it’s been sold.)

More thrillingly, Michael’s struck up an affair with a white coworker named Sarah, who has a taste for unorthodox sex. Our hero confides to best friend Simon—also white—that their first date ended with a spanking in a stairwell.

But shit is about to hit the fan, and Michael is pathetically unprepared for it, having allowed himself to forget that, for all his success, he’s just a black body living among Dreamers. The greater part of Bradshaw’s 90-minute one-act plays out like an American black man’s stations of the cross, Michael moving from pose to pose in the profane, occasionally pornographic drama of his crowning and crucifixion.

In one pose, Michael plays the rough black buck to Sarah’s willowy white plantation mistress, wrapping his hand around her throat to get her off. When it becomes evident that Michael is an alcoholic in need of a 12-step program, the lovers move on to their next pose: Sarah as missionary, bringing a benighted negro to salvation. (“C’mon, Michael, get down on your knees,” she coaxes. “Repeat after me.”) Michael’s relationships with the other white people in his life follow similarly hoary, fantasy-fulfilling trajectories.

Michael has absorbed these racial scenarios as completely as anyone, and so he performs his roles, failing to understand that he’s got no real influence over the narrative. That he’ll never be, as they say, the hero of his own story.

Fulfillment will no doubt be compared to Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced, another drama in which a lawyer who thinks he’s earned his way out of a culturally imposed identity (Pakistani Muslim) into the safety of wealth and whiteness discovers that it’s nowhere near that simple.

But Bradshaw’s pageantlike succession of scenes put me in mind of an older work about a man gets pummeled by identity: Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck, Alban Berg’s opera of which, Wozzeck, is receiving a depressingly powerful production now at Lyric Opera.

Whatever Bradshaw’s inspirations may be, his script suffers an indifferent staging by Ethan McSweeny at American Theater Company—the Chicago half of a world premiere copresented with New York’s the Flea. There’s a lot of comedy in Fulfillment, especially with regard to Michael’s floor-stomping upstairs neighbor, but McSweeny never figures out how to integrate it into the rest of the show. On the other hand, some explicit sex scenes—“choreographed” by Yehuda Duenyas and essential to our understanding of the Michael/Sarah dynamic—work well. Sarah Barlow and Stephen Conrad Moore are thoroughly competent as Sarah and Michael respectively, but her wispiness and his impressive muscles play into American racial fantasies when it might’ve been more interesting to see the characters cast against stereotype. The Dream, after all, subsumes reality. v FULFILLMENT Through 12/13: Thu-Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, American Theater Company, 1909 W. Byron, 773409-4125, atcweb.org, $43-$48.

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By JUSTIN HAYFORD CHICAGO PLAYWRIGHT Brett Neveu has received nearly unrivaled attention on local stages. Yet mainstream success has eluded him, in large part, I imagine, because his ineluctable, often seemingly plotless scripts withhold the sort of narrative ease and emotional transparency theater audiences love. And given the hyperbolic media interest he surely knew A Red Orchid Theatre’s premiere of his new fulllength play Pilgrim’s Progress would generate (cast and ensemble member Michael Shannon has made some movies and is thus deemed more worth staring at than when he was just a great local actor), this should have been Neveu’s moment to cash in. But happily, Pilgrim’s Progress is about as perplexing as anything he’s written.

It doesn’t appear so at first. Neveu sets up an almost by-the-numbers dysfunctional family black comedy, equal parts Sam Shepard, Edward Albee and, god help us, Nicky Silver. It’s Thanksgiving at the middle-American McKees. Patriarch Jim, a college acting teacher, fusses over his famous cranberry sauce while wife Melissa, a psychotherapist, rhapsodizes over a Bloody Mary. With their pregnant 17-yearold daughter, Rania, staring vacantly out the window, they ardently negotiate the details of a contract that will require her to speak to Thanksgiving guests J

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continued from 16 about her recent trauma: she survived a bombing at the local abortion clinic. When college-age son Desmond finally shows up, he’s so smitten with his in-depth knowledge of soil science he can barely offer Rania the comfort she needs.

A more commercially minded playwright would mine this material for edgy wackiness. But Neveu’s world is exponentially more unsettled and unsettling. Gruesome, violent death perpetually lurks—at the abortion clinic, on the neighbor’s sidewalk. The McKee parents resist this chaos by writing binding contracts for nearly every family decision. Desmond buries his head in Thoreau and Hume. And all three endlessly cite various literary, philosophical and scientific authorities, desperate to make the world adhere to piecemeal absolutes. In essence, they live prefashioned lives, leaving them unable to help (or even comprehend) Rania, the only McKee who’s experiencing life in the moment—although she experiences little beyond paralysis.

Pilgrim’s Progress presents monumental stylistic challenges: it’s not parody, satire, farce, or horror but somehow all of these.

Director Shade Murray astonishingly fashions a world at once lucid and surreal, sensible and senseless. His exemplary cast’s layered, precise performances make all but the most overconceptualized moments true. Those moments accrue late in the show, making for an unsatisfying conclusion. But the journey there is gloriously, disquietingly puzzling. v R PILGRIM’S PROGRESS Through 12/13: Thu-Fri 8 PM (no show 11/26), Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 3 PM; also Fri 11/27, 4 PM, and Sun 11/29, 7 PM, A Red Orchid Theatre, 1531 N. Wells, 312-943-8722, aredorchidtheatre.org, $30-$35, sold out.

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WE’RE OFFICIALLY LESS THAN A YEAR from the 2016 presidential election, which makes this the perfect season for “Run for President,” Kathryn Andrews’s new mixed-media show at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Andrews simultaneously mocks the political process and ponders why people run for president in the first place.

“She’s interested in positions of authority and who has access to authority,” says Julie Rodrigues Widholm, the show’s curator. “The 15 sculptures and paintings create a narrative about the notion of the candidate and who is qualified.”

Andrews’s work is full of pop-culture references, from Currier and Ives prints to the Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America to Bozo the Clown (who, Widholm notes, actually did declare his candidacy in 1984). She juxtaposes Hollywood props and costumes and old campaign buttons with original paintings and sculptures. These juxtapositions invite viewers to draw their own conclusions about what the various objects mean.

“She has a biting sense of humor,” Widholm says. “Everything seems glossy, but it’s dark. We’ve all been duped. It’s part of our culture.”—AIMEE LEVITT v RUN FOR PRESIDENT, 11/21-5/8/16, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago, 312-280-2660, mcachicago.org, $12 museum admission, $7 students and seniors.

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or its first half, Ulrich Seidl’s documentary In the Basement is a brisk, bracing, and often very funny film about the seeds of fascism in contemporary Austrian society. The people Seidl observes in his short, sketchlike sequences are generally obsessed with order and domination, yet he renders their obsession nonthreatening, if not comically pathetic, by presenting them like characters in a comic strip, centering each of them in symmetrical or near-symmetrical compositions with lots of negative space at the top. They look small in relation to their environments, which is one reason they come across like children. Another is that Seidl presents their narrow-mindedness as childish and naive, not actively malicious. These are simple people with simple outlooks; the cramped, meticulously arranged suburban basements where most of the film takes place seem like their natural habitats.

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One can imagine Ochs, in an earlier era, expressing nationalist fervor with the same abandon, yet that era has passed—now he just seems like a kook. The Holocaust is never mentioned (nor are Wolfgang Priklopil or Josef Fritzl, Austrians who, not long before Seidl began shooting the film, were revealed

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In addition to Ochs, Seidl profiles three other people in the movie’s first half, all around the same age: the proprietor of an underground shooting range, a wild game hunter, and a woman who dotes on baby dolls as if they were real children. The shooting-range proprietor, who shares his name with the great director Fritz Lang, takes up most of this section, his scenes imbued with the same gallows humor as the Ochs sequences. Seidl introduces him singing opera in the empty, cavernous range; soft-spoken, sunken-featured, and nebbishy, he’s the kind of small, weak-willed person who’s influenced by more dominant personalities. In one early scene

Lang banters about Muslims with a couple of xenophobes at his range; he doesn’t believe that all Muslims want to stir up violence, but the other men easily turn him around. Like Ochs he’s obsessed with protocol and tidiness (Seidl often shows him gathering empty shells); he seems like another “good Austrian” born in the wrong era.

The woman with the dolls seems at first like an outlier in the film, her mania unrelated to fascism. Yet her scenes, which can be embarrassing to watch, color the rest of the movie with their naked expressions of loneliness.

She wants intimacy with another person, yet her means of satisfying this desire are pathetic. Watching her, you wonder if Seidl’s other subjects aren’t similarly motivated and whether they would be so obsessed if they felt loved. In any case his long takes of the woman mothering her dolls in cramped-looking storage rooms are increasingly hypnotic.

The S-M enthusiasts introduced in the second half of the film show a similar need for connection. They’re more self-aware than Ochs and Lang, articulating their desires to inflict or receive pain, yet their loneliness is hard to overlook. One woman, a professional submissive, says she used to work in sales but prefers her new line of work because it doesn’t make her feel like a machine. Another submissive—a male “love slave” who performs chores for his mistress while wearing weights attached to his scrotum—is introduced working his sad day job as a security guard at an opera house. Seidl hints that the banality of his job informs his S-M routines, that it’s only an exaggerated version of what he endures at work.

The film concludes with a short profile of another submissive, a middle-aged woman who likes to be bound and whipped. She speaks with remarkable candor about her history of abusive relationships; one senses that S-M provides a healthy outlet for her need to be dominated. She’s a productive member of society who works at a Catholic charity for abused women, and though what she does in her basement sex dungeon might seem at odds with this, she comes across as a relatively normal, well-adjusted person. Thank God for basements, which can harbor all sorts of perverse secrets—they provide not only an outlet for antisocial behavior but a place where it can be safely contained. v

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Cranky and phlegmatic, Hamburger is the central character in Entertainment, a daring and mainly successful black comedy about a dour and depressive comedian on a dead-end tour of California. Many of his jokes spring from an undisguised contempt for celebrities, so you know he’s not going to turn up on The Tonight Show anytime soon. When his jokes bomb, he scolds the audience members for their ingratitude; when his obscene verbal takedown of a drunken woman impels her to throw a drink at him, he drives her out of the bar with an even viler stream of invective.

Turkington has racked up a respectable number of TV and movie acting credits, but his collaboration here with writer-director Rick Alverson is a marriage made in heaven.

Alverson’s previous feature, The Comedy, plunged viewers into the endless, mean-spirited drollery of a fat, puerile trust-fund kid on the wrong side of 30 (TV sketch comedian Tim Heidecker) and his little court of obsequious hangers-on. Despite the generic title, the movie is like a kiss-off letter to its own hipster audience, rubbing their noses ssss EXCELLENT

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in their own impotent irony. Entertainment operates with a similar dynamic: you come to the movie hoping it will make good on its title, but the spotlight is actually on you and what your taste in amusement says about you as a person. You can throw your drink at the screen, but your only real escape is to surrender and walk out.

Alverson easily ranks as one of the nerviest indie filmmakers currently working, though Entertainment—like The Comedy before it—eventually hits the wall. There’s a subplot in which the comedian, who’s divorced, tries to connect with his teenage daughter as he blows through town, but these scenes never transcend the generic poignance of such broken relationships. Alverson can go only so deep with his characters—but to compensate, Entertainment goes wide. Using a panoramic aspect ratio of 1:2.66, Alverson follows the comedian as he visits such local attractions as an orange grove, a fake town from the old west, a tour of California oil country with its relentlessly swinging derricks, and a graveyard for commercial airliners—including one whose fuselage has been torn in half. You can bet that, as the passengers fell to their deaths, they were watching some crappy movie with Courtney Love. v ENTERTAINMENT sss Directed by Rick Alverson. R, 110 min. Music Box, 3730 N. Southport, 773-871-6604, musicboxtheatre.com, $10.

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Aye Nako’s “gay aliens” tank top  COURTESY STEPHEN SOWLEY

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Jaap Blonk at Constellation on Wed 11/4 A vocal performance by Dutch improviser and sound poet Jaap Blonk is always a splendidly, brain-erasingly absurd experience. It’s fun to watch the folks who’ve never seen him before trying to decide whether it’s OK to laugh—at this show, they seemed to get off the fence when Blonk erupted into a stream of squawking raspberries that sounded like Donald Duck turning into a motocross bike.

Mozart, The Tick The gall of the people in this band! The members of Mozart (you might know them from Cold Beat, Yi, or Heavy Bangs) play instruments they normally don’t and turn out raw weirdo punk that’s miles ahead of their contemporaries. (Cheat sheet: the Inmates circling down the Urinals’ plumbing.) In Mozart’s world, repetition and rage are no longer about hating your existence— instead, they’re the cosmic energies needed to shatter it into small slivers of light against the decay of urban reality.

Courtland Green at Dove’s Luncheonette It says a lot that one of the best things about Dove’s Luncheonette in Wicker Park isn’t the food (outstanding Texas Mexican, not Tex-Mex as they claim) or the thorough mezcal collection but rather the impeccable music library of Courtland Green, who tends bar and DJs there. (You may know him as Supreme Court, or from Sheer Magic at Danny’s.) I’ve often had one more drink than necessary just so I could wait out the end of a side he’s playing.

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Mahmoud Ahmed at the World Music Festival This legendary Ethiopian singer’s biggest Chicago concert yet was my favorite show in years, if not ever. Just as moving as Ahmed’s music—soulful, slinky, psychedelic, poignant, and joyful—was the crowd, packed with deliriously happy Ethiopian expats who’d pushed aside the security barriers so they could dance right up to the lip of the stage.

I remember thinking that it might be impossible for someone who lives in the country where he was born—someone like me—to feel the kind of excitement those fans were feeling. But I tried as hard as I could!

Grouper Recently a friend played me Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (2008) and The Man Who Died in His Boat (2013) back to back, and I guess a large dose is what it took to make me a fan of Grouper, aka Oregon singer and composer Liz Harris. Her lovely, borderline ambient songs combine blurry amniotic intimacy with a feeling of ghostly, impenetrable solitude.

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Vocalist for Fake Limbs, host of Cold Storage on radionope.com

Obnox Lamont “Bim” Thomas has been a fixture on the Ohio circuit forever, churning out a seemingly endless amount of what he calls “reefer on wax”—he’s put out three (great) albums just this year. As Obnox he plays a mix of blown-out Clevo-punk and red-eyed soul with funky breaks for daze, maintaining the kind of absurd quality control that most bands only dream of. Buy everything, see all the shows, give your baby a standing ovation.

Aye Nako’s “gay aliens” tank top Brooklyn band Aye Nako sing from the heart about identity and survival in our white, patriarchal, capitalist society. When they passed through Chicago in support of their bold new EP, The Blackest Eye, they were selling these “gay alien” tank tops (“because you really should have some gay aliens on your chest”). I’ve got severe body dysphoria (I know, shocking if you’ve seen my stupid band perform), but wearing this, I forget about it. I feel dreamy and, for once in my awful life, attractive. Get some gay aliens in your life.

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Octagrape If you’re like me (at the trailing edge of Gen X, pretty lonely), Trumans Water holds a place of high regard in your record collection. San Diego band Octagrape (featuring two TW members as well as the principal from Soul-Junk) combines that older group’s off-the-leash guitar attack with a fuzzed-out, euphoric garage sensibility that leaves me smiling every single time—look up the “Eternal Hair” video for a great example. First hearing Aura Obelisk, Octagrape’s new double LP (it came out last month on Sounds Familyre), and finally seeing them onstage in August at LiveWire Lounge surprised and delighted me like few things in recent memory.

Protomartyr, The Agent Intellect They’re easily the best band in America right now, if not the world—good enough to endure an outdoor block party in February for—but I think my friend Andrew Morgan (Twitter handle @mrandrewmorgan) said it best: “They should sell all three Protomartyr records over the counter at Walgreens/CVS for people ‘going through stuff.’”

GOSSIP WOLF IS a longtime fan of Andy Slater, leader of funky rock outfit the Velcro Lewis Group. Not only is he one of the city’s most entertaining front men, he’s also just written his first comic! Slater is legally blind, and his Jack Chick-style tract How Many Fingers Am I Holding Up? (illustrated by Secret History of Chicago Music creator Steve Krakow) doubles as a guide for dealing respectfully with the disabled. You can expect it to be funny, sad, and full of #realtalk. On Sat 11/21 at 7 PM, Quimby’s hosts a free release party that features a reading from artist Marisa Choate and Slater’s homemade chili.

Jerome Derradji of Chicago’s Still Music is preparing a big cluster of reissues devoted to the 70s and 80s output of Larry Dixon and his funk label, LAD Productions. “Larry’s kind of the missing link in the story of soul-boogie funk and disco in Chicago,” he says. Past Due Records, Still Music’s boogie-funk imprint, will release a box of ten seven-inches, a fourLP set, and more—the material has just been remastered, and Derradji hopes to have it out early next year.

Streets and Soul, a monthly night of hip-hop, spoken word, and soul, returns to Lilly’s on Fri 11/20 with a benefit show celebrating the 12 activists whose 34-day hunger strike helped reopen Dyett High School on the southeast side. Proceeds go toward the campaign of Kenwood Oakland Community Organization executive director Jay Travis, who’s running for state representative in the 26th District. Fellow KOCO member Jitu tha Jugganot, one of the Dyett 12 and a member of Ten Tray— the first Chicago hip-hop group to release a major-label album—leads the party.

Cover is $8 and the fun starts at 8 PM. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

Nearly 45 years after recording the epic Echoes of a Friend, a tribute to his friend and bandmate John Coltrane, NEA Jazz Master McCoy Tyner receives a tribute to his own phenomenal career. Featuring performances by two great pianists who emerged under Tyner’s towering influence, Geri Allen and Danilo Pérez, and a special appearance by Tyner himself, this extraordinary concert celebrates the music and artistry of “one of the most brilliant pianists and commanding leaders in modern music” (DownBeat).

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ONE MAJOR DETAIL THAT RESONATES awesomely in the stark video for Claire Boucher’s synth-hypnotic, occasionally chilling “Oblivion,” her best single from 2012’s highly praised Visions, is that though she throws herself out there alone and on display during the guerrilla DIY shoots—down-home settings include a dirt-bike track and a high school football stadium—her panache and power are never threatened. To the contrary, the simplicity and joy of her lip syncing and dancing seem infectious to the otherwise oblivious bystanders around her. Though Grimes’s new, much-anticipated Art Angels (4AD) is undoubtedly more pop both in its cascading synth hooks and the ways in which Boucher’s upper-register vocals are harmonized with and within themselves, the artfulness and confidence with which she attacks a track like “Kill V. Maim,” with its faux cheerleaderlike vocal breakdown and mutating-but-thrumming rhythms, is even more tremendous than on Visions. But to think Art Angels is close to straight-up chart-climbing pop would being doing a disservice to Boucher’s affinity for the beauty of the outsider—not to mention that the album’s back half cranks up the futurism (with its synth swells and jigs, chopped-up samples, and wispy vocal effects, “World Princess Part II” sounds like it was composed on a hoverboard). The assuredness of Art Angels was being bred on Visions—you can easily hear it happening now with these albums placed side by side—but that certainly doesn’t make the reality of it any less important. —KEVIN WARWICK

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The music media have a mercilessly brief attention span—sometimes it feels like a band has just minutes to make an impression before everyone’s on to the next thing. This makes me especially appreciative of the sanctuary that metal provides for the difficult-listening set. Los Angeles prog-metal voyagers Intronaut, for instance, write tunes that take ages to sink in—they feel like cryptic artifacts a benign extraterrestrial race has left for us to decode. On their fifth album, The Direction of Last Things (Century Media), the four members’ parts interlock along complicated interfaces, each one adding a different shape to the puzzle. Limber, elastic bass snakes through complex twin-guitar matrices—sometimes gleaming cellular cycles, sometimes clotted, gnashing stomps—while front man Sacha Dunable pingpongs between hoarse screaming and clean, airy crooning. Drummer Danny Walker underpins the grooves’ supple intricacy with such a sure touch that he can make five- and seven-based meters rock— which is like tearing up the dance floor with somebody who’s got three legs. Intronaut navigate a fractal collage of eccentric meters that overlap like the tumbling jewels in a kaleidoscope: on “Fast Worms,” hard-panned guitars play sparse picked patterns of slightly different lengths, phasing in and out of sync, while the rhythm section splits the difference. Even riffs in 4/4 don’t tend to have backbeats—they sound so off-kilter that you have to count through them to make sure they’re actually straightforward. It’s rela-

tively easy for metal to overwhelm and shut down your higher thought processes, but this band can keep you engrossed even when your whole brain stays awake. —PHILIP MONTORO

FRIDAY20 Fuzz Walter and Oozing Wound open. 9 PM, Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport, sold out. 17+ Aside from a live EP earlier this year, Ty Segall hasn’t made a new record in 2015. (Yes, I did a double take after typing that.) He’s been busy behind the console, working on new records by Peacers, La Luz, and King Tuff, but thankfully the prolific rocker hasn’t cooled down too much. He returns to town playing drums in Fuzz, a hard-rock trio he formed a few years ago with high school pals guitarist Charles Moothart and bassist Chad Ubovich (Meatbodies). Their sprawling new second album, Fuzz II (In the Red), couldn’t be more direct in its admiration for vintage Black Sabbath—even though the tempos are usually twice as fast as Sabbath’s inspirational dirges. The vocals of Moothart and Segall fit the molten chord progressions like a glove, sometimes even affecting a shimmering vibrato, as Segall does on “Bringer of Light.” That track veers into a double-time rhythm before falling back into an elegant midtempo swing that elevates it beyond the leaden grooves of hard rock—there are actually a bunch of unexpected but effective tempo shifts throughout the record. Segall’s creative restlessness turns up here and there too, both in deft harmony vocals and irresistible hooks (I got sucked in by “Burning Wreath”), as well as on a protopunk blowout like “Red Flag.” —PETER MARGASAK J

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Though he only picked up the Hammond B-3 after moving to Chicago from his native Philadelphia in 2004, keyboardist Ben Paterson proved a quick study. He played piano in the working band of tenor great Von Freeman between 2005 and 2012, and his first gig on organ featured Von’s brother George on guitar—not a bad pedigree to be a part of. But it was organist Chris Foreman who had the biggest impact on him, and Paterson is finally demonstrating his B-3 skills on record with the impressive new For Once in My Life (Origin), which was cut with the magnificent rhythm section of drummer George Fludas and guitarist Peter Bernstein, the latter arguably the best organ-combo player working. Paterson works solidly within the format’s tradition, bringing churchy fervor, voicelike swells, and strong blues phrasing to a nice mixture of pop and jazz standards along with a few originals that fit right in. Plus his background in piano helps him avoid excess grease as his sleek lines skirt the mawkish drama of “Cry Me a River” or precisely outline the fleet shapes of Horace Silver’s “Nutville.” Paterson, who moved to New York three years ago, returns leading the same combo from the record, which will definitely keep the Green Mill at a fever pitch. —PETER MARGASAK

Mike Reed’s Flesh & Bone 7 PM, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan, $15, $10 members. b Composer and drummer Mike Reed conceived A New Kind Of Dance (482 Music), the latest album by his band People, Places & Things, as an expression of his desire to get people to move “whether it’s in their head or reflected with their bodies.” And

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the record makes both happen. You can wonder just how PPT and guest pianist Matthew Shipp transform Mos Def’s skeletal rap “Fear Not of Man” into a roiling boil of second-line beats, bebop-steeped horn solos, and dissonant keyboard stabs, or ponder the title cut’s tension between Shipp’s McCoy Tyner-like flourishes and Reed’s martial drum patterns. Or you can jiggle your bones to a variety of dance grooves, including a stately waltz, a jubilant South African kwela tune, and a Bulgarian horo that starts slow but accelerates to a velocity guaranteed to make someone lose a shoe. Tonight’s concert is inspired by a day’s events in which PPT had to shake a leg just to save their lives. While touring Europe in 2009, dubious directions landed the racially integrated combo in the midst of a neo-Nazi rally that turned violent. While they escaped unharmed, the experience has been on their minds ever since, and Reed conceived of the multimedia work Flesh & Bone to give voice to their reactions. Bass clarinetist Jason Stein, cornetist Ben Lamar Gay, and vocalist Marvin Tate will join the core quartet of bassist Jason Roebke, tenor saxophonist Tim Haldeman, and alto saxophonist Greg Ward. Together they’ll present a program of composed and improvised music interspersed with recorded interviews in which Pulitzer Prize-winning polymath Wadada Leo Smith and historian/musician George Lewis offer perspectives on race, justice, and art. —BILL MEYER

SATURDAY21 Beach Slang Lithuania and Worriers open.

8:30 PM, Subterranean, 2011 W. North, $14, $12 in advance. 17+ On their first two EPs, last year’s excellent Who Would Ever Want Anything So Broken? and Cheap Thrills on a Dead End Street, Philly quartet J

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Beach Slang present heartfelt indie rock that’s unabashedly influenced by the Replacements—the songs come across sounding like 90s radio rock from the likes of the Goo Goo Dolls and the Gin Blossoms in their jangly, polished execution. That’s not a bad thing: the almost dated charm adds a yearning, nostalgic quality to these supercatchy tunes, making the records easily two of my most listened to of 2014. At the end of last month Beach Slang released their first full-length, The Things We Do to Find People Who Feel Like Us (Polyvinyl), and this time around front man James Alex Snyder’s shows a bit more of his roots (he spent all of the 90s playing in Pennsylvania pop-punk stalwarts Weston). The Things is without a doubt a full-on punk record, as open chords are traded for power chords and Snyder’s gruff croon pushes into a scream. It has the ability to span generations in its appeal, in part due to massive anthemic choruses that kids will gladly yell along to while thrusting their fists/beers/sodas toward the ceiling.

Beach Slang’s penchant for cozy, earnest midwestern indie-rock chops will also keep the college-rock dads just as happy. —LUCA CIMARUSTI

Bottle Rockets 7:30 and 10 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, $20.

Since the 90s few rock bands have been as reliable as the twangy shitkickers in the Bottle Rockets. It helps of course that the group’s leader, Brian Henneman, is a blue-collar poet, a guy who locates profound truths in direct and unfussy language.

He tells you himself on “Shape of a Wheel,” a track from the group’s first new studio album in six years, South Broadway Athletic Club (Bloodshot).

On it he sings “Day to day I find a way / To give a new angle a spin,” and throughout the rest of the album he finds new angles, or at least new ways, to say something fresh about the most quotidian or familiar situations. On “Big Fat Nuthin’” he sings

about relaxing following the workweek: “My idea of recreation / Is brain-dead flat-line vegetation.”

Henneman blocks out rumors of infidelity from a lover on “I Don’t Wanna Know,” refusing to disrupt his reverie: “Knowledge is power / Ignorance is bliss / Who needs power / When I got this?” The Bottle Rockets’ musical flavors haven’t changed much over the years either—there’s the rollicking country rock of “Dog,” or the stomping hard rock of “Building Chryslers,” a freshly recorded gem from the group’s earliest days that turned up before only as a bonus track. They do push things a bit too, what with the blue-eyed soul of “Ship It on the Frisco” or with “XOYOU,” a power-pop gem of chiming guitars that would sound like it was made by a band of skinny ties if it weren’t for Henneman’s drawl. — PETER MARGASAK

Stine Janvin Motland 8 PM, Graham Foundation, Madlener House, 4 W. Burton, free with RSVP. b I first heard Norwegian vocalist Stine Janvin Motland when she performed as part of a quartet featuring Chicago cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm called VC/DC. While that context illustrated her nascent gifts as a free improviser, it certainly didn’t prepare me for the techniques and inventive virtuosity she serves up on her 2014 solo debut, OK, Wow (+3dB). Her precision and control are startling as she unleashes heart-stopping cries that maintain a piercing, high-pitched intensity, or makes tiny little sounds like the cracked gargle on “Kroken” that’s complemented by an almost tender drone. Elsewhere she delivers seemingly invented words in a dizzying rush, as well as sinister heavy breathing, snorelike growls, ghostly long tones, and plenty of other utterances that exist in the space between speech and song, words and noise. Made in an old wooden church outside Bergen, OK, Wow includes the pattering of rain and the voices of a kindergarten class bleeding into the space, but on J

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her most recent album, In Labour (Pica Disk), she actively duets with background noise. Working with sound artist Lasse Marhaug, Motland recorded each piece in different indoor and outdoor areas that essentially forced her to work with various ambient sounds—and she doesn’t respond so much as find a way in. Amid passing conversations and chirping birds she produces a jackhammerlike sound on “Can’t Get Any Closer,” while on “Late Morning” she dishes out shrill, post-Yoko shrieks that, depending on your perspective, either fit right in or clash with the noisy rock band rehearsing in the distance. For her Chicago debut Motland will follow a similar model, performing pieces in different spaces in the building; she’ll also deliver a more conventional improvised piece in front of listeners.

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Ben Paterson Organ Trio See Friday.

8 PM, Green Mill, 4802 N. Broadway, $15.

Salvation Staring Problem, Velocicopter, and High Priests open. 8 PM, Fireside Bowl, 2648 W. Fullerton, $7. 17+

U.S. Girls Mayor Daley and Gel Set open. 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $10.

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booted around a dingy practice space littered with cigarette butts. Their recent EP Royal Fucks—which has been up on Bandcamp for a spell—is volatile in part thanks to the throaty vocals of Jason Sipe as he digs deep into Bleach-era Cobain, but also as a result of his slashing guitar bends and gnarls, which often climb up in key like they’re trying to choke the pummeling rhythms into submission. Plus, the best kind of discordant noise rock isn’t without deepend toxic pools of apathy and cynicism—and Salvation know how to feel like shit. Tracks like “Nothing for Fun” and “Drag” reflect their titles beautifully as the band’s bent towards bleakness cuts into the lyrics like a chainsaw going through a stick of butter.

Tonight’s show is the tape release of Royal Fucks, out via local label Cold Slither. —KEVIN WARWICK

Sorority Noise Knuckle Puck headline; Seaway, Sorority Noise, and Head North open.

6 PM, Double Door, 1551 N. Damen, sorority noise. b Sorority Noise front man Cameron Boucher knows that sometimes the best way to confront an outsize problem is to tackle it head-on. At least that’s what makes the Connecticut emo band’s recent breakthrough album, Joy, Departed (Topshelf), so personal, personable, and affecting. With explicit detail and plainspoken despair, Boucher glumly sings about drug abuse and romantic woe, occasionally in conjunction with one another. He finds just the right tone to express his rock-bottom maladies and stomach-twisting desires to their fullest— because it takes a certain kind of performance, and a certain kind of performer, to pull off a line like “When you’re with your friends I want to be the spit that tingles on your lips” (which he does so in earnest on “Corrigan”). It also helps that Sorority Noise bring a full-bodied sound to the album, and the bevy of roller-coaster power chords and sym-

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py vibe of “Interstellar Overdrive” and replaces its expansiveness with ferocious claustrophobia, while “Bullet Proof Nothing” sounds like a harbinger of what would take over CBGBs two years later. After a four-year wait a new collection of rare and live material called Saucerland will be released later this year by Logan Hardware Records in conjunction with Steve Krakow’s Galactic Archive label— and what I’ve heard only confirms that the greatness of Cyborgs was no fluke. Tonight’s show is being spun as the U.S. release party for the band’s Baby Nova EP, which Canadian label Schizophrenic Records put out back in June—but perhaps think of it more as a preface to the upcoming release of Saucerland. The current version of the band includes Breau and original bassist Kevin Christoff.

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Clockwise from left: Swiss chard, squash, and nutty farro in an eggy miso sauce; grilled octopus tentacles with a sort of fennel-lemon hash; charred carrots, cream sauce, red wine glaze, and salsa verde  ANDREA BAUER

The Cotton Duck weathers rough seas

The art gallery/restaurant concept attempts to relate the dishes on its menu to the works exhibited on its walls.

By MIKE SULA

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’m not sure an exhibition of large oil paintings of shipwrecks is the most auspicious subject for a fledgling restaurant to surround its guests with. But that’s what’s happened at the Cotton Duck, a Wicker Park art gallery/restaurant (artstaurant?) that will present a new menu every three months inspired by the work each time it mounts a show.

The paintings, by Renee McGinnis, which “distill all I know of our species and the systems that sustain us down to a gentle yet sorrowful beauty,” according to the artist’s statement, are beautiful and foreboding. But trying to draw a connection between them and the food is a bit tricky.

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Chef Dominic Zumpano has made no statement of his own. A veteran of suburban Highwood’s now-defunct PM Prime Steakhouse, and before that Milwaukee’s shuttered Umami Moto, for which he was a semifinalist for a regional James Beard Award, Zumpano apparently hasn’t explained his strategy to the front of the house, who seem to have no clue how the food reflects upon the art, or vice versa.

In this age of Next and Intro, tying your menu to a particular theme or style or chef is nothing new. But we’ll have to wait until the paintings come down and new ones go up before we get any real sense of Zumpano’s style, consistency, or versatility, just as each iteration of those restaurants requires its own period of adjustment.

For now all I can say about his food’s relationship to broken battleships is that it features lots of seafood, much of it with haute ambitions, lots of blank space on the plates, many squiggles and smears of rich, voluptuous, and often salty sauces, strong flavors competing for attention in each dish, but little harmony or balance.

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continued from 36 helplessly deposited in two smudges from each corner of the plate. You can try to peck through a thicket of watercress and sesame crackers for a few scraps of grappa-cured char, but once you locate them they make little impact.

Large plates only get busier. A pair of seared scallops flank a salmon-roe-topped rice crepe atop a pile of redundantly rich and sweet pureed salsify, with no counterpoint to the shellfish’s sweet richness. Chunks of salty oversmoked sturgeon and a short rib dumpling totter on glossy beet coins, while a large under-rendered chunk of pork belly jiggles beside a duck egg perched on a thick corn cake, all drizzled with a sweet hoisinlike clam sauce.

The common denominator in all of these dishes is a heavy hand with the salt, which after few bites from any two or three plates blows out the palate and makes everything start to taste the same.

Even Zumpano’s better dishes—and there are some good if flawed ones—could use a lighter touch. Sheets of thin, salty pastrami tongue are sweetened by caramelized onions, lightened by crispy fried onions, and scattered among sensational seared, pillowy rye gnocchi that would stand on their own as the best bites on the menu. Roasty, beautifully charred carrots are swamped in frothy cream sauce, red wine glaze, and salsa verde. Swiss chard, squash, and nutty farro are deluged by an eggy miso sauce boosted with Parmesan, while

grilled and sectioned octopus tentacles are lined up against a kind of fennel-lemon hash that brings them back to life.

Things get heavy again at dessert. Sugared bombolini do battle with parsnip ice cream that starts sweet but finishes tasting like a root cellar, while an intensely funky blue cheese cheesecake overpowers the accompanying maple-pepper caramel and icy blackberry sorbet.

The Cotton Duck is BYOB, but there’s a selection of alcohol-free soda cocktails designed by Adam Seger that have been given names corresponding to the paintings on view, though the link is tenuous at best. The idea is servers will either mix a drink for you using your booze or allow you do to it at the table. Staff isn’t uniformly trained to do this.

In one case I was presented with a jigger and glass filled to the brim with Seger’s Fire in the Belly, a combination of ginger demerara, bourbon-vanilla chai, and smoked tea. Virgin, it tasted like smoked salmon. On the other hand the house ginger beer had a nicely menacing bite and mute sweetness, a perfect vehicle for bourbon or rum.

I won’t say I’m not curious where this ship is headed, both with the art on the walls and Zumpano’s next menu, but I think a lighter hand on the kitchen’s wheel would keep it away from the rocks. v

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A Beaver Dam pepper on the plant; Lee Greene, founder and owner of the Scrumptious Pantry  JULIA THIEL

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A rare heirloom pepper is slowly making a comeback

By JULIA THIEL

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ore than 100 years ago, Hungarian immigrant Joe Hussli brought the seeds for a medium-hot pepper from his homeland and planted them in his new hometown of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. The pepper was popular enough to be named after the town where it arrived, but like many other heirloom vegetable varieties, it fell out of favor after hybrids (plants created by cross-pollinating two closely related species, usually to select for certain characteristics) were introduced in the 1950s, and the pepper was all but forgotten—even in Beaver Dam—until recently.

Since 2010, Lee Greene has been on a one-woman mission to resurrect the Beaver Dam pepper. She’s the founder and owner of Scrumptious Pantry, a Chicago company that makes various products with the pepper (as well as other heirloom fruits and vegetables), and has organized multiple Beaver Dam pepper festivals in Chicago and Milwaukee. “One day [in 2013] my phone rings, the ID says

Beaver Dam, Wisconsin,” says Greene, who lives in Logan Square. The caller was from the town’s chamber of commerce; she’d learned about Greene from an Associated Press story on the pepper festivals and talked to the town mayor, who’d never heard of the pepper. “She’s like, ‘We thought you were a total fraud, but we did some research and we realized that it’s actually a thing.’”

Greene, who’s originally from Germany, left a job as the general manager of a biodynamic vineyard in Tuscany in early 2010 to move to Chicago with the goal of starting a company that would promote local food. It was a concept she’d become interested in while getting her MBA in Italy, and continued to develop while working at the vineyard. One catalyst, she says, was “observing my peers debating which tomato is better, the one from town A or town B—I’m like, there’s only five miles between your two towns. What are you talking about?” she says. “It was just full flavor immersion.”

Gradually, she realized her classmates were right about the flavor differences that terroir can create. “I saw it in our vineyard, the olive oil we made—we only had like 500 trees. Depending on if they got exposure to the sun in the morning or afternoon, or more or less wind, it mattered. The olive oil tasted completely different once you went around the corner. That was inspiration to say, how can I share that experience and excite people about regional flavors, varieties, and food grown with a certain love and attention?”

When Greene moved to Chicago, her plan was to find farmers who needed help marketing products they were creating from what they grew. Immediately, she hit a snag: not many existed. There were a few farmers with their own line of products, like Tomato Mountain in Brooklyn, Wisconsin, and River Valley Ranch & Kitchens in Burlington, Wisconsin, but those companies already had their business models set up and didn’t need her help.

“I was like, I’m just going to have to make my own,” Greene says. She started looking at the Slow Food Ark of Taste, a list of “delicious and distinctive foods” that are on the brink of extinction, and quickly settled on the Beaver Dam pepper for her first product, a pickled pepper—not least because Beaver Dam is only 150 miles from Chicago. Greene started asking around to see if anyone was growing the pepper; after being told that John Hendrickson of Stone Circle Farm in Reeseville, Wisconsin, did, she gave him a call to ask if that was true.

“He just laughed hysterically,” she says. “He said, ‘Well, growing is exaggerating. I have one row of peppers.’ I was like, ‘I’m going to buy all your production!”

Hendrickson had found the pepper in the Seed Savers Exchange catalog earlier that year, and like Greene, was intrigued—in part because his farm was only ten minutes from Beaver Dam. He produced about ten pounds of peppers that year, and sent them to North Pond restaurant for Greene to pick up. Searching the walk-in cooler for the delivery, she says, the chef asked what the peppers looked like. “I was like, ‘I have no idea!’”

Traditionally, Greene says, the pepper would be red, but the midwestern growing season is too short to allow that much ripening. The ones she gets here are the color of a Granny Smith apple, with a sweetness that slowly morphs into a mild spiciness, similar in heat level to a poblano pepper. Greene believes it works well for recipes, because the pepper’s heat doesn’t overpower other flavors. “When you take a bite, you get the other flavors J

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FOOD & DRINK continued from 39 first and then the heat kicks in,” she says.

It’s not clear, though, whether the pepper still exists in its homeland. While attending a Slow Food conference in Italy a few years ago, Greene talked to several pepper growers from Apatin— the area Joe Hussli immigrated from in 1912 (then a part of Hungary, now part of Serbia).

She showed them Beaver Dam peppers she’d brought, as well as photos of the plants. No one had seen them before. “It’s interesting,” Greene says. “Is it actually extinct in the homeland for the same reason people don’t cultivate it here, because it’s laborsome? Or did it just change a little bit here, take on the regionality and terroir of the midwest, and develop into a pepper that’s so different from what left the homeland that they can’t recognize it?”

After Greene finally got her hands on some Beaver Dam peppers, she began experimenting with recipes in her kitchen while trying to find a manufacturing facility. That turned out to be even more of a challenge than locating the peppers; the scale at which she wanted to make her products ruled out a shared kitchen space, but most midscale facilities aren’t set up to deal with fresh ingredients, Greene says. Most places she looked at that made tomato products, for example, were working with 55-gallon drums of preprocessed tomatoes, not fresh ones. It took her the better part of a year to locate two facilities that were willing to work with her.

Greene calls the Beaver Dam pepper her baby—in addition to the pickled peppers, she’s made a Beaver Dam pepper hot sauce in collaboration with Co-op Hot Sauce, and just released a Beaver Dam pepper jelly. She also makes a variety of ketchups, pickles, relishes, and preserves, mostly with local and heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables. She’s worked with pawpaws and persimmons (both native to the midwest), Wisconsin-grown cranberries, the Sheboygan tomato, and the Snow Fancy cucumber, which was the main pickling cucumber for the region before the introduction of hybrids.

SO WHY DO HEIRLOOMS MATTER? The definition can vary, but most people consider heirloom varieties to be ones developed before 1951, when hybrids were introduced. Greene acknowledges that hybrids have their advantages: “They’re optimized for this weather, easier to cultivate, more uniform in shape,” she says. That’s why the Beaver Dam pepper fell out of favor: the peppers are large and heavy, and if plants aren’t staked they tend to bend over and mold. “If you have 4,000 pepper plants,

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“HEIRLOOMS ACTUALLY TASTE THE WAY THAT NATURE INTENDED FOOD TO TASTE.” —Lee Greene, Beaver Dam pepper preservationist

you gotta go and stake them all—or you can get 4,000 pepper plants that perfectly stand up on their own,” she says. “Which one would you grow?”

The problem with the hybrid varieties, Greene says, is that they’re less flavorful. “The tomato is a perfect example. It needed to be firmer so it could be transported without getting squished; they created a tomato with more flesh and less seed cavity.” But most of the tomato’s flavor lies in the seed cavity, so making the tomato hardier meant it lost some flavor. Researchers have also found that the “green shoulders” (green streaks at the top of even perfectly ripe fruit) tomatoes used to have are key to their sweetness; the green color signals the presence of chlorophyll, which converts sunlight to energy (in this case, sugar). The gene that produces green shoulders disappeared when tomatoes were bred to have a uniform red color. “I always say that heirlooms actually taste the way that nature intended food to taste,” Greene says.

In 2012, a year after she brought her first products to market and 100 years after Joe Hussli brought the pepper to Wisconsin, Greene worked with local Slow Food chapters to organize the Beaver Dam Pepper Centennial Celebration in Chicago and Milwaukee—a small event with a big name. Five restaurants in Chicago—including Perennial Virant, Uncommon Ground, and Birchwood Kitchen—and several in Milwaukeee offered menu specials featuring the peppers for one week in September. “That was all the peppers we had,” Greene says. “Like 700 pounds—nothing, really. We couldn’t push the pepper out like crazy maniacs.”

And Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, has embraced its pepper since being reintroduced to it, hosting its first annual Beaver Dam Pepper Festival in October 2014. The event also served as an informal family reunion for Joe Hussli’s descendants, many of whom had moved away from Beaver Dam and never met each other until they returned for the festival last year, Greene says. v

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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.

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CHICAGO - 9016 S. C o t ta g e Grove, 2BR, 2nd floor over barber shop, $700/mo, tenant pays utilities. Call 773-835-2058

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

MOVE IN SPECIAL!!!

B4 the N of this MO. & MOVE IN 4 $99.00 (773) 874-1122

Ashland Hotel nice clean rms.

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

Low rates daily/weekly/monthly.

South Side. Call 773-376-5200 ROYALTON HOTEL, Kitchen-

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

2 BR UNDER $900 2 BED, LIVING, DINING, KITCHEN,BATH. HARDWOOD FLOORS, ENCLOSED summer

porch.Storage,off-street parking,laundry,gated yard.No pets, smokers or Section 8. Avail. 12/1 708 355 1031 850.00 month/ security deposit 1275.00

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.

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

Call for appt 773-783-7098 82ND/COMMERCIAL 2BR APT, tenant pays utils, close to schools and transp. $700/mo + $500 move-in. 773-775-4458

LOGAN SQUARE 3554 W McLean, nice 2 bedroom apartment, $800/mo. Tenant pays utilities. Call 312-320-6484 CHICAGO 7600 S Essex 2BR $599, 3BR $699, 4BR $799 w/apprvd credit, no sec dep. Sect 8 Ok! 773287-9999 /312-446-3333 AVAIL IMMED 2 & 3BR, Loc Nr

Augusta and Laverne, tenant pays utils. $850 & $900 /mo.

847-720-9010

NO SECURITY DEPOSIT 1431 W. 78TH. St. 2BR. $595/mo 6829 S. Perry. Studio $460. 1BR. $515. HEAT INCL 773-955-5106

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

773-285-3206

2 BR $900-$1099 2BR/1BA RENOVATED; hw floors; lrg closets, laundry and pkng avail; free heat & water. Dep & rent, $1,000. 8350 S Drexel; 773-952-8137.

Evanston 2BR, 1100sf, sunrm, new appls, oak flrs, on-site eng ineer/lndry, $1150/mo incls ht.

773-743-4141 www. urbanequities.com SOUTH SHORE 8221 S. Clyde.

Quiet area, Large 2BR, hdwd flrs, heat incl, liv and dining rm. $1100/ mo + 1/2 mo sec. 708-951-4486 CHICAGO - 6747 S. PAXTON, newly renovated, 2BR, 2BA, HWFs throughout, $950/mo, ht & parking space incl., 773-285-3206

ROSELAND-5BR, 2BA, newly decorated, $1200/month plus security, fenced in yard.

708-672-0302 or 708-703-7077

2 BR $1100-$1299 SUNNY NORTH CENTER 3rd

floor, 2BR, 5-room apartment.

2 blocks from Brown Line. 20 min from downtown, 10 min from night life. Newer appliances, newer cabinets, hardwood floors, new fans & mini blinds, laundry facilities in building + storage space. Apt. faces south & east. Available immediately 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 BED IN Lincoln Square, $1115/

month. Free heat&gas, laundry in bldg. 2 blocks from Square, CTA train & bus. Vintage, clean bldg. 925-5862715

CHATHAM Beautiful remod 3BR, hdwd flrs, custom cabinets, avail now. $1200/mo + sec.

773-905-8487 Sec 8 Ok

CHICAGO: Section 8 Welcome!

319 W 106th St 2BR/2BA,$1100 fenced yard, cats welcome.

773-953-4368

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

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.

Managed by Metroplex, Inc. º CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK

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

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

Avail Now. 773-775-4458 62ND/CALIFORNIA 2BR $740 & $820 or 3BR $920 Heat incl in all & Sec Dep req.

O’Brien Family Realty 773-581-7883 Agent owned 121ST & EGGLESTON , 2 huge 3BR apts, near metro,coin laundry, heat incl, section 8 ok, pets ok, $1000-1200/m discount sec 312-259-5518 FREE HEAT 94-3739 S. BISH-

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

Tenant pays cooking gas & electric.

Garage available. $850/mo.

720-331-2601

CHICAGO, SPACIOUS 2BR, 8605 S. May. Heat included.

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-

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North Wrigleyville 4128 N. Clarendon Furnished rooms for rent from $135 a week or $540/month

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

By Appointment Only 773-929-7778 No Pets Allowed

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 CHICAGO W 2 & 3BR Apts available.

(Section 8 welc. No dep req’d.) Call 773-501-1345

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200

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

C H I C A G O , 70th & Aberdeen.

2BR, 3rd floor, newly rem. 1 mo rent $695, plus sec $695, Heat included, laundry room.

Call 773-651-8673 3 BR 1 BA Home near 136th/Indi-

ana \par Tenant pays utilities. Sec 8 okay. Call 773-750-3749 for more info

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

BLUE ISLAND, 2BR Apt, $795/ month & DIXMOOR 3BR $1030/ month, heat & hot water incl., appls + security 708-205-1454 PARK FOREST- SOUTH Suburb 3BR,2BA Ranch. Appls included. $1150/mo + sec. Sect 8 welcome!

Call before 5pm. 708-756-7918

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

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

3BR,AVAIL IMMED. NEWLY

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.

2 BR $1500 AND OVER

LINCOLN PARK. ADDISON.

Prime location 2 bedrooms available now and 12/1 from $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.

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.

2 BR OTHER NORTHPOINT APARTMENTS WILL be opening the 1, 2, 3 and 4

bedroom project based Section 8 waiting list on November 19, 2015 PHONE CALLS ONLY. The call is to secure contact information and make an appointment to apply. We will accept the following number of calls: 50 1br, 60 2br, 30 3br & 15 4br. We will begin taking calls at 10:00 a.m.

The waiting list will close once fully completed applications for the numbers outlined here have been received. The number to call is (773) 764-6707 or TTY (800) 526-0844.

Professionally Managed by NHPMN Management, LP. Equal Housing Opportunity.

FREE FLAT SCREEN!!! 7 5 t h / Honore and 66th/Loomis, 25BR, Remodeled w/hdwd flrs. $800-$1500.

Sec 8 OK. 773494-2247 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 COUNTRY CLUB HILLS 2/ 3bdrm 1bath all new appli, full finished bsmt, new carpet, wood fls.

SEC 8 OK $1300 1 mo sec. 708351-3538 7837 S. Wood, 3BR, 1st flr. 10812 King Dr. 2BR, 3rd flr. Both w/ LR, DR. Heat incl. No pets. Sect 8 OK. Background check. 773-450-8211

CHICAGO: E. ROGERS Park 6726 N. Bosworth Ave. Beaut. 3BR, 2BA, DR, LR, Hrdwd flrs. Nr trans/ shops. Heat, appls, laundry incl. $1400. Available now. 847-475-3472 $1250/MO. 4BR, 2BA, hdwd/ marble flrs, full fin bsmt, laundry, A/C, on a dbl lot. Background Ck & sec dep req. 773-343-6344 8015 S. HARPER- 5BR, 2BA, clean unfinished bsmnt, lrg EIK, no gar, tenant pays utils, $1300/mo. + sec. 773-671-2645 104TH AND CALHOUN. Brick 3BR, 2BA, Quiet area, Heat Incl.

Sec 8 Welcome. $1200/mo.

Call 773-443-0175 MULTIPLE

REMODELED

Decor, near Pulaski/Cermak, $900.

Tenant pays utils, laundry hookup, no pets. 847.720.9010

HOUSES for rent 3-5 bedrooms.

82nd & Stony Island. Welcome Section 8. Jim 312-600-7991

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

BORN. 3BR w/ basement, new appls. $1200/mo + $1200 dep. No pets, Sec 8 OK. 708-890-3466

RIVERDALE

14526

DEAR-

6742 S. WOLCOTT. 4BR, Sec 8

LINCOLN PARK. W. BR IA R

4907cornerstoneapts.com

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

Recenty decorated, large 4 room, 1BR, 3rd flr, fully heated, $600 Charles (Manager) 312-401-0911

SOUTHSIDE

room, Section 8 welcome. $750/ Month. Heat Incl. No security deposit.

Call Andy 773-386-9755

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

CHICAGO, 7757 S. Winchester.

CHICAGO

61ST/RHODES. NEWLY DECORATED 3BR, DR, heat incl. $875/

mo. Sect 8 OK. 773-874-9637 or 773-493-5359

8001 S. Dobson – 3BR $900. H/W flrs. Stove, fridge, & heat incl’d. Sec. 8 Welccome. 312.208.1771 or 708.674 .7699

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499 CHICAGO, 6650 S. University.

Beautiful 3BR, 2BA Condo, hdwd flrs, SS appls. $1245/mo. Sec 8 ok. Please Call Kasia 773-2822222

SECTION 8 WELCOME! AWESOME 3BR/2BA 3RD FL APT. $1,195 PER MONTH. TENANT PAYS UTILS. CALL 312-451-2235.

5034 S. Michigan: Newly renovated 3BR, 2BA $1375. Hardwood flrs Stainless appls w/DW, Central heat/air, in unit w/d. 312.

208.1771 or 708.674.7699

HEALTH & WELLNESS

HEALTH & WELLNESS

- University of Illinois at Chicago Healthy Older Adults Needed If you are at least 60 years old, and in good health for your age, you may qualify for the “White matter microstructure, vascular risk and cognition in aging” study in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). You may participate in paper and pencil tests, a history and physical and/or an MRI brain scan. This research will help us understand how brain activity changes in later life. The study will require 1-2 visits, and up to 5 hours of your time.

- You may receive up to $100 for your participation For more information: -- call: 312-996-2673 -- or email: lamarstudy@psych.uic.edu This study (Protocol #2012-0142) is being conducted by Melissa Lamar, Ph.D (Principal Investigator) at the UIC Department of Psychiatry, 1601 W. Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois.

OK. $1400/mo + sec. 1119 W. 72nd St. 2 bdrm apt. Sec 8 OK. $675/mo+ Sec. Call Bill 630-854-3723

3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799 HYDE PARK 7 large rooms, 51st & Greenwood condo 3BR, 2BA, heat included. Appliances, washer/ dryer hook-up, ample street parking, no pets. $1700/mo. 312-9524983 DAN RYAN WOODS 8628 S. Damen, Beautifully rehabbed 3BR house, granite counters, SS appliances, Whirlpool tub, fin. bsmnt, 2car gar. $1525/mo. 708-288-4510 SCOTTSDALE 4148 W. 77th Pl. Beautifully rehabbed 3BR, 2BA house, granite counters, SS appliances, A/C, fin. bsmnt, 4-car gar. $1625/mo. 708-288-4510 NEAR 83RD & YATES. 5BR, 2BA, hdwd flrs, fin basement, stove & fridge furn. Heat incl. $1600 + 1 mo sec. Sect 8 ok. 773978-6134 BEVERLY/MORGAN PARK. 3BR brick ranch house. C/A, $1,500/ month + sec dep req. No pets/ smoking, Sect 8 OK. 708-647-9737

CHICAGO, WEST SIDE, Newly

decorated 5BR house, nr Harrison & Pulaski, $1550/mo. Tenant pays utils. 847.720.9010

3BR, 5065 W Jackson, large living & dining room, Section 8 welcome, utilities incl., no pets $1500/mo for more info 773-255-2869

3 BR OR MORE $1800-$2499 GREAT EVANSTON CAMPUS

4 BEDROOMS! Ridge/ Davis. Large 6½-7 rooms/ 4 bedrooms/ 2 bathrooms. Available now. From $2395.

Beautiful courtyard buildings near Northwestern, Evanston downtown, restaurants, movies, “L” and Metra.

Large, airy rooms with hardwood floors, high ceilings, spacious closets, 2 bathrooms. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

LAKEVIEW! 1739 W. Addison.

Must See. 3 bedrooms, $1800. Hardwood floors, completely renovated apartments, 1 blk to CTA brown line on Addison, walking distance to shops, restaurants, Wrigley Field, and more! Application fee $40. No security deposit! Parking space available for a monthly fee. For a showing please call Saida 773-407-6452, Hunter Properties 773-477-7070 www. hunterprop.com

3 BR OR MORE OTHER

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN

BEAUTIFUL 3BR, 1BA LR, DR, newly rehabbed, new appls w/ microwave. Laminated flrs, carpeted BRs. Lndry on site, 50th & Indiana, Quiet, well maintained bldg. Call (312)623-6510 for appt to see call T. R. CHICAGO, UPDATED 3BR House, 11734 Prairie. Appliances included. $1250/mo. Tenant pays own utilities. Near public trans 708-408-7075 HARVEY - 14910 S. Lincoln Ave. Freshly Updated 5BR, 2 full bath. Stove & fridge incl. Quiet block. $1100/mo. Sect 8 welc!

773-501-0503 SUBURBS, RENT TO O W N !

Buy with No closing costs and get help with your credit.

Call 708-868-2422 or visit w ww.nhba.com

3-4BR, 2 blks from metra, 20 min from downtown, stove/ refrig incl, ceiling fans, c/a indiv heat & 24 hr secure Sec 8 wel 773-577-1097

CHATLINE

UNIVERSITY PARK 3/4BR, 2BA. Stainless Steel appls, fenced-in back yard, 2 car gar. $1550/obo.

Call or pref text. 708-362-1268

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AUGUSTA/SPRINGFIELD 5 ROOMS, 2 bedrooms, $700 per

773.867.1235 Try for FREE

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For More Local Numbers: 1.800.926.6000

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Teligence/18+

month plus security, tenant pays heat. 312-401-3799

CHICAGO

SOUTH SECTION 8

WELCOME Central A/C, all utilities included, 4-6BR, 2BA, fenced yard with balcony. 312-804-0209 Dolton,

MATTESON, SAUK VILLAGE & RICHTON PARK. 3BR, House/Condo, Section 8 ok.

For information: 708-625-7355 ALL NEW HDWD, granite and Stainless Steel. 3BR, 1BA or 5BR, 2BA, Sec 8 Pref. If accepted $500 Gift. 773-603-4356

CHICAGO HOUSES FOR rent.

Section 8 Ok, w/app credit $500 gift certificate 3, 4 & 5 BR houses avail.

312-446-3333 or 708-752-3812

6720 N CAMPBELL, Exceptional 2BR + den, new kitchen, oak floors, laundry/storage new windows, $1225/mo + util., parking included.

773-743-4141. www. urbanequities.com

2836 SPAULDING: 2BR, 1200sf, new kitc, new deck, FDR, new windows, oak flrs, deco fpl, lndry, $ 1300/mo + utilties, garage included, 773-743-4141 www.urbanequities. com

L O C AT I O N GOODS

CLASSICS WANTED CHICAGO S SIDE, good for resAny classic cars in any taurant, store, school/tutoring, condition. ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, office spaces. Btwn Cottage + ’60s & ’70s. Hotrods & Exotics!

Stony Island. 3750sf. Rent with Top Dollar Paid! option to buy. Negotiable. Owner Collector. will help finance. 773-401-7927 Call James, 630-201-8122

WE PAY CASH for houses. Multi-

Units & Commercial Buildings. In Chicago & Chicagoland area. Any Shape, Size or Condition. Call Manny 847673-7575

MASSAGE TABLES, NEW and

used. Large selection of professional high quality massage equipment at a very low price. Visit us at www. bestmassage.com or call us, 773764-6542.

NEWLY REMODELED 2 & 3

bdrm at 75/Colfax. No move-in fee or sec dep. Heat included. Sec 8 welcome. Call 773-234-6257

Killers/ KIT complete treatment system. Available hardware stores. Buy online/ store: homedepot.com

SERVICES BUCKTOWN, 1907 W Cortland

Ave., 1.5 car garage for rent. $275/ mo. Available now. 708-448-2337.

roommates DOLTON, 1 Room for Rent. $5 00/mo. Lights, gas, water, W /D included. Female preferred. No smoking in home.

708-841-7245

LEGAL SERVICES- Need a

lawyer? For as low as $17.95/mo.

Consultations, Contract, Evictions, Foreclosure, Bankruptcy, Traffic Tickets, Expungement, Divorce, Criminal & more. Call Theresa 312-806-0646

SNOW

LIQUIDATION SALE SINGLE Family & 2 Flats.

20 properties. Must Sell!

Call 773-517-3655

non-residential SELF-STORAGE

CENTERS.

T W O locations to serve you. All units fully heated and humidity controlled with ac available. North: Knox Avenue.

773-685-6868.

South: Pershing Avenue. 773-523-6868.

Meet sexy new friends

who really get your vibe...

7721 S. KINGSTON. Bed, TV,

mini blinds, utils incl. Share Kitchen & Bath, c-fans. Senior Discount. $450/mo. 312-479-5502

REMOVAL,

312.924.2066 Get your local number: 1.800.811.1633 18+ www.vibeline.com

SWEDISH AND DEEP

Tissue Relaxing Therapeutic Massage for pleasure, stress & anxiety relief for whole family in my place or yours.

847-650-8989. By appointment. Lic. #227000668.

dence address of the owner (s)/ partner(s) is: STEVEN HARTMAN 4328 N. WOLCOTT, CHICAGO, IL 60613, USA --

LOW COST BLOOD Test. CBC $10; LIPID $15 and more. Unilabinc, OakPark.

Phone: 708-848-1556.

GROUPON Special on Wellness Blood test with Doctor visit $49. ww w.BloodTestInChicago.com

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: D15144472 on NOVEMBER 10, 2015 Under the Assumed Business Name of VOX VITA MEDIA with the business located at: 340 W SUPERIOR ST #1206, CHICAGO, IL 60654. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner (s)/ partner(s) is: NICOLE CRAME, 340 W SUPERIOR ST #1206, CHICAGO, IL 60654, USA

FOR A HEALTHY mind and body.

European trained and certified therapists specializing in deep tissue, Swedish, and relaxation massage. Incalls. 773-552-7525. Lic. #227008861.

UKRAINIAN

MASSAGE.

MASSAGE

MUSIC & ARTS DOMINICK D ROCKS Universal,

Columbia, Warner, Jive, Capital, Sony, BMG, RCA, Atlantic, Epic, Walker, Mancow & Jobo. IE, BSEast & BSWest. Love, Selena G, 773-4817429.

MESSAGES SEEKING

SARAH

WILSON,

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pursuant to "An Act in relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name in the conduct or transaction of Business in the State," as amended, that a certification was registered by the undersigned with the County Clerk of Cook County. Registration Number: D15144485 on November 12, 2015, under the Assumed Business Name of Palace Car Pictures with the business located at 11307 S Saint Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60628. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner(s)/ partner(s) is: Wyatt Ollestad, 11307 S Saint Lawrence Ave, Chicago, IL 60628, USA.

THERAPY.

Miracle Massage by professional masseuse. Good location, free parking, clean and cozy rooms. In /outcalls. 5901 N Cicero, 773-7425259 or 773-209-1448. www. miraclemassageforyou.com. Lic.# 227000368.

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

NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pur-

CALLS in/ out. Chicago and suburbs. Hotels. 1234 S Michigan Avenue. Appointments. 312-922-2399.

Tim Gaebl of All Together. Call Lloyd Levin 847-981-0533

224-223-7787

Connect Instantly

CARPET

Cleaning, Pressure washing and building-Home common areas maintenance. 773-292-6015

NEW

Edgewater Glen: Beautiful 1BR, 900sf, new kit/SS appl & granite, DR, oak flrs, on-site lndry /storage, $1075/mo, heat incl 773-743-4141 www.urbanequities .com

DOLTON 3BR HOUSE All appl inc., lrge bkyd, driveway parking 2 car garage.Section 8 welcome Call before 6pm.® 708-359-2210

appliances. Call 773-908-8791

MARKETPLACE

KILL BED BUGS! Harris Bed Bug

6720 N CAMPBELL, Exceptional 3BR + den, new kitchen, oak floors, laundry/storage, new windows, $1300/mo + util., parking included.

773-743-4141. www. urbanequities.com

2537 N Lowell: 2BR, 1100sf, new kit., oak flrs, new windows, laundry, $1100/mo, ht/pkg incl. 773743-4141 www.urbanequities.com

CHICAGO SOUTHSIDE, Newly remodeled 3BR w/ appliances, washer/dryer & 2BR w/

CONVENIENT

FOR SALE

14511 Avalon, fully renov 3BR, 1BA, all appls incl, W/D, fully fin bsmt, fncd in yrd. A/C. CHA insp. Sec 8 ok. 773-317-4357

DIXMOOR - single family home, 1800 sq ft 4BR, 2BA, pristine condition, across from police station. $1350. 773-805-8181

FREE TRIAL

3 & 4BR Condos. Recently renovated, spacious, attractive.

Woodlawn & S. Shore. All renters welcome. 773.784.7900.

legal notices NOTICE IS HEREBY given, pur-

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: D15144473 on November 10, 2015 Under the Assumed Business Name of NORTHSTAR YACHT SERVICE with the business located at: 755 WEST BUENA AVENUE UNIT 105, CHICAGO, IL 60613. The true and real full name(s) and residence address of the owner (s)/partner(s) is: ANTHONY CHARLES LAHAIE 755 WEST BUENA AVENUE UNIT 105 CHICAGO, IL 60613, USA

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A : I’m confident human society would have survived, which I assume is your main concern.

But that’s easy to say now. For a week in October 1962 the whole planet was wondering if U.S.-Soviet antagonism was about to boil over into nuclear armageddon.

Everyone knows the story: U.S spy-plane photos reveal Russian nuclear-missile bases under construction in Cuba; Kennedy orders a blockade of the island and demands the missiles’ removal; six tense days later, Khrushchev complies. What’s better understood now is how little Khrushchev had thought through the ways it might all play out. He needed more negotiating leverage than the USSR’s iffy intercontinental missiles could buy him, and he hoped he could rattle the Americans by placing medium-range missiles at their doorstep.

The Americans were rattled all right.

Despite the insistence of Department of Defense secretary Robert McNamara that the new deployment didn’t change the balance of power, the Joint Chiefs of Staff initially supported some sort of invasion of Cuba in response; it was only after a full week of deliberation that Kennedy was able to sell the blockade idea instead.

Why didn’t it go worse? Most obviously, neither side was crazy enough to want to precipitate the end of the world.

This was particularly plain to the Soviets in 1962, when the U.S. warhead stockpile was nine times the size of theirs. (They’d catch up over the next 15 years, and by 1978 were out in front.) It was openly known by both governments that even if Russia were to launch all its missiles in Cuba, it couldn’t take out the U.S.’s capability to obliterate the USSR in response.

Beyond that, historically speaking there simply haven’t been many preemptive wars— i.e., ones where, amid ongoing high international tension, one country strikes first for fear of becoming a target itself. Empirically it seems fairly difficult for governments to pull the trigger (so to speak), even when they’re under serious threat.

Nonetheless, it was a scary time, with many opportunities for the shit to hit the fan.

During the last days of the standoff, 60-plus B-52 bombers were in the air carrying nuclear payloads at any given time; one technical or communications glitch could have meant catastrophe. A Russian submarine lost communication with the surface, assumed war had broken out, and almost launched its own nuclear torpedo. According to an Air Force vet who’s only recently come forward, at one point launch orders were sent by mistake to U.S. missile bases at Okinawa. The crews didn’t comply only because a commanding officer noticed enough irregularities in protocol to investigate further.

If either side had gone nuclear, though— accidentally or not—then we’ve got a whole different picture. The emergency document called the Single Integrated Operational Plan provided the U.S. military command with a prioritized list of thousands of targets in the Soviet bloc and China. The first tier of targets included missile launch sites, airfields for bombers, and submarine tenders; Cuba had all of these, making it an obvious place for an early attack.

Again, if the Soviets had struck first it’s likely the U.S. would have been able to retaliate, but that’s little consolation. Despite optimistic government-produced PSAs instructing citizens on how to wash radioactive particles off their potatoes, our country’s population would have been immediately reduced by 20 percent if a third of Soviet nukes had hit their targets. If all of them had hit home, half the population would have been wiped out, not including after-the-fact deaths from fallout, cancer, starvation, etc. Of course, our retaliatory capability meant things probably would have been still grimmer on the Soviet end.

That said, it’s unlikely either side would have launched its full arsenal. Rationality won the day: it was in neither state’s interest to escalate. This, unfortunately, may not hold true for today’s conflicts—but that’s another topic for another column. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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By Dan Savage

The wrong way to approach a monogamish relationship Yes, you can betray a willing cuckold. Plus: single and sad, the Stephen Sondheim cure vindicated Q : I’ve always been a big believer in the

common-sense obviousness that monogamy is hard. Additionally, I like the idea of my wife getting fucked. I don’t have any desire to be denigrated or emasculated; I just get off on the idea of her being satisfied and a little transgressive. Early in our relationship, we talked about monogamish guidelines: I’d like to be informed and consulted, and she would rather I kept mine to myself.

Last weekend we were having sex, and she asked me if I “wanted to hear a story,” code for treating me to a tale of a sexual contact.

She’d been out of town for work most of the summer, and she told me that one of her roommates had gotten in the shower with her and fingered her until she came. I asked her if she’d fucked him, and she said yes. It was all hot and awesome. But a few hours later, I was experiencing pangs: Why hadn’t she told me or asked me at the time? Also, I felt very alone and depressed that summer, and when I’d gone to visit her, my wife and this roommate acted very strangely. I told her that I thought it was hot and cool, but that I didn’t think it was cool that she’d kept this from me for so long.

Things got worse from there: over the last week, we’ve had some great sex and open conversations but also a lot of anger and hurt. The truth is that she carried on with this guy all summer. It’s not the sex that bothers me so much as the breadth of the deception, the disregard for my feelings, and the violation of our agreement. And, yes, I’m feeling a little emasculated. How does a loving husband who intellectually believes that fooling around is OK—and who finds it hot sexually— get over this kind of hurt and anger? Help me

get right with GGGesus.

— COCKED UP CUCKOLD KEEPS STRESSING

A : Two things have to happen in order for you

to move on. One thing your wife has to do, CUCKS, and one thing you have to do.

Your wife has to express remorse for this affair—and it was an affair, not an adventure— and take responsibility for the anger, the hurt, and, um, all the great sex you two have been having since the big reveal.

You don’t give her version of events— why she kept this from you—but you were depressed and lonely while she was away, and she may have concluded that informing and consulting you about this guy (first when she wanted to fuck him, and then when she was actually fucking him) would’ve made you feel worse. This conclusion is a massive self-serving rationalization, of course, because she knew you might veto the affair if she informed and consulted you. Figuring it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, she went ahead and fucked the guy all summer long and then disclosed when your dick was hard.

Your wife needs to own up to the deception, the dishonesty, and the manipulation, and then take responsibility for the hurt she caused—that requires a sincere expression of remorse—and promise it won’t happen again.

She shouldn’t promise not to fuck around on you again. You don’t want that, right? What she’s promising is not to deceive you again, not to go in for self-serving rationalizations again, and not to avoid informing and consulting you again.

And one more thing that won’t do: She won’t humiliate you again. You feel emascu-

lated in the wake of this affair because her summer fuck buddy knew what was up when you two met and you didn’t. He knew who you were (the husband), but you didn’t know who he was (the fuck buddy).

Now here’s the thing you have to do, CUCKS: You have to forgive your wife. Mistakes were made, feelings were hurt, massive loads were blown. The fact that there was an upside for you even in this messy affair (see: massive loads, blown) should make that a little easier.

Q : I’m a 27-year-old straight woman. I’ve

spent this last year back on the dating market, and it’s HORRIBLE. I have a reasonably pretty face, I’m fit, and I take care of myself. I have my life together—friends, interests, job—and I’m emotionally stable. I go out, I enjoy meeting people, I’m on Tinder.

And I keep hearing that with a huge influx of young dudes, Seattle is an easy place to date as a woman. So why am I finding it so hard? I can get casual sex, and that’s fun. But as far as finding a relationship beyond just fuck buddies, it’s depressingly predictable: Guy acts interested, texts me all the time, but eventually starts fading away. I’ve asked close friends to be honest with me; I even had a heart-to-heart with an ex-boyfriend.

Everyone says I’m not doing anything wrong.

Are they all lying to me? I’m currently seeing someone I really like. When we’re together, it seems like he likes me a lot. But now he’s starting to do the fade. I’m really sad and anxious. It’s killing my soul to be rejected constantly. —BUMMED ABOUT DATING

A : You’ve been “back on the dating market”

for one year, BAD. Twelve measly months! And in that time, you’ve dated/fucked a handful of men and nothing panned out. That sounds pretty normal. If you expected to be back in a committed relationship within weeks, BAD, then your unrealistic expectations are the source of your grief, not your thoroughly

typical dating/mating/fading experiences.

And there are worse things than being single for a year or two in your 20s. Get out there and meet men, pursue those nonmen interests, and throw yourself into your work.

Being single is not an aggressive cancer— there’s no immediate need for a cure—and panicking about being single isn’t the secret to romantic success. (And being single means being miserable only if you convince yourself that single = miserable.)

So here’s what you can do: Chill the fuck out; listen to your friends, your ex, and your advice columnist; and stop melting down about what sounds like a thoroughly normal love life, BAD, not an unfolding catastrophe.

Q : This is NGAA, the guy you advised

to make a gay friend and listen to some musicals with him. I didn’t find a gay friend, but I did buy recordings of the shows you suggested, and I’ve been listening to the songs you recommended. I don’t know them by heart yet, so I have more listening to do.

But Mr. Stephen Sondheim’s message seems to be that I need to quietly move on. Thanks for your answer, Dan. It really helped. —NO GOOD AT ACRONYMS

A : Thank you for writing back, NGAA, and

for listening to the shows I recommended: Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music.

My advice for you made a lot of my other readers angry—really angry. They accused me of blowing you off and not answering your question and failing at this whole advice column thing. But I didn’t blow you off. I directed you, as I’ve directed many other readers, to the expert I thought could help you. In your case, NGAA, that person was Mr. Stephen Sondheim. v

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