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EDITOR JAKE MALOOLEY CREATIVE DIRECTOR PAUL JOHN HIGGINS DEPUTY EDITOR, NEWS ROBIN AMER CULTURE EDITOR TAL ROSENBERG FILM EDITOR J.R. JONES MUSIC EDITOR PHILIP MONTORO ASSOCIATE EDITORS KATE SCHMIDT, KEVIN WARWICK, BRIANNA WELLEN SENIOR WRITERS STEVE BOGIRA, MICHAEL MINER, MIKE SULA SENIOR THEATER CRITIC TONY ADLER STAFF WRITERS LEOR GALIL, DEANNA ISAACS, BEN JORAVSKY, AIMEE LEVITT, PETER MARGASAK, JULIA THIEL PHOTO EDITOR ANDREA BAUER GRAPHIC DESIGNER SUE KWONG MUSIC LISTINGS COORDINATOR LUCA CIMARUSTI SOCIAL MEDIA COORDINATOR RYAN SMITH CONTRIBUTING WRITERS NOAH BERLATSKY, JENA CUTIE, MATT DE LA PEÑA, ANNE FORD, ISA GIALLORENZO, JOHN GREENFIELD, JUSTIN HAYFORD, JACK HELBIG, DAN JAKES, BILL MEYER, SARAH NARDI, J.R. NELSON, MARISSA OBERLANDER, BEN SACHS, ZAC THOMPSON, DAVID WHITEIS, ALBERT WILLIAMS INTERNS KEVIN QUIN, MANUEL RAMOS, KACIE TRIMBLE

20 Lit Mastering the science of home cooking with The Food Lab. 20 Comedy What’s so funny about Planned Parenthood?

21 Visual Art George Klauba’s “Cuba Rebels, Orishas, & 26 Julio” 22 Small Screen With Bob and David is a worthy Mr. Show reunion.

23 Movies Frederick Wiseman documents an American melting pot.

IN THIS ISSUE 4 Agenda The play Incident at Vichy, Wreathing of the Lions, Sing-a-Long Sound of Music, and more 8 City Life Street View: Fashion writer Lauren Fern has the perfect knit.

Space: Sailing through Harry Weese’s nautical River Cottages City Agenda: one sure thing to do every day of the week 10 Joravsky | Politics Give thanks— for the Illinois Racing Form.

11 Transportation Silly Tribune, speed cams aren’t just for kids.

MUSIC

24 The music lover’s gift guide The holiday season’s best box sets 28 Shows of note Kevin Gates, Baroness, Health, the Get Up Kids, Chris Potter, the Arcs, and more 30 The Secret History of Chicago Music John Hulburt’s 1972 LP was reissued this year with help from Ryley Walker.

FOOD & DRINK

37 Review: Sociale The South Loop Spanish restaurant is hiding some real kitchen talent.

THIS WEEK 39 Key Ingredient: Crabapples A Table, Donkey and Stick chef tarts up the fruit.

39 Restaurants The Cotton Duck, GreenRiver, and more recent reviews 40 Bars Analogue, Barrelhouse Flat, and more spots for fancy cocktails

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41 Jobs, Apartments & Spaces 42 Marketplace 44 Straight Dope Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day?

45 Savage Love A peculiar habit, a tip for beginners, a new Savage Love coinage, and more 46 Early Warnings Bill Frisell, Knuckle Puck, Goapele, Living Colour, Fleshgod Apocalypse, and more concerts on the horizon 46 Gossip Wolf Nomadic underground dance-music collective Tied celebrate their third birthday, and more music news.

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F into a holding cell with ten men who have been rounded up by Nazi officials, ostensibly for a routine check of their identity papers. As they’re led off to be interrogated one by one, it dawns on us that each man is or is suspected of being a Jew, and that those who are will be put on a freight train headed east. In this sharp and moving revival, director Ian Frank uses Redtwist Theatre’s close quarters to claustrophobic effect, creating a menacing atmosphere of tense whispers and flickering lightbulbs. A uniformly excellent cast communicates the terror of the situation as well as the continued relevance of Miller’s argument about our responsibilities to the oppressed. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 12/27: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, Redtwist Theatre, 1044 W. Bryn Mawr, 773-728-7529, redtwist.org, $30-$35, seniors $25-$30.

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THEATER

More at chicagoreader.com/ theater Ain’t Misbehavin’ Porchlight R Music Theatre’s superb rendition of this ingenious 1978 Broadway hit

celebrates composer Thomas “Fats” Waller and his world, the Harlem jazz scene of the 1920s and ’30s. Conceived

by Richard Maltby Jr. and Murray Horwitz, the show strings together more than two dozen classic tunes written and/or recorded by Waller, including “Honeysuckle Rose,” “Keepin’ Out of Mischief Now,” and the title song.

Director-choreographer Brenda Didier and musical director Jaret Landon have assembled a top-flight cast and band who capture the score’s ebullient energy and swinging stylishness. The production is sleek but slightly scruffy, as befits the rambunctious, syncopated music. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 12/20: Thu 7:30 PM (no show 11/26), Fri 8 PM, Sat 4 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM; also Fri 11/27, 2:30 PM; Thu 12/10, 1:30 PM, Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont, porchlightmusictheatre.org, $32-$45.

Angina Pectoris Hard-line Israeli defense minister Dan Yasour gets a law passed requiring Jews to receive transplant organs only from Jewish donors. Now he needs a new heart, and the only available one came from an Arab chest. Israeli playwright Michal Aharoni’s 90-minute political satire has more promise than payoff thanks to scattershot plotting, underdeveloped characters, and ever-shifting rules of engagement. Director David Y. Chack’s stilted production for Shpiel Performing Identity demonstrates few moments of successful comic timing. —JUSTIN HAYFORD Through 12/30: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM (no show 11/26), Sun 2 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-975-8150, theaterwit.org, $28.

A Christmas Carol: The Musical The Christmas Eve conversion of miser Ebenezer Scrooge is put to music in this 1994 adaptation of Charles Dickens’s

beloved novella. Lyricist Lynn Ahrens (who also wrote the book, with Mike Ockrent) and composer Alan Menken have been involved in the creation of many notable musicals, but it’s unlikely that their contributions here will be appearing on anybody’s caroling set list any time soon. Andrew Park’s production for Quest Theatre Ensemble is filled with cheer and goodwill, but poor traffic control on a small stage causes trouble throughout. Nick Rupard’s papier-mache puppets stand in for the children in the tale; Tiny Tim bears an unfortunate resemblance to alleged serial killer Robert Durst. —ZAC THOMPSON Through 12/20: Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 PM, Blue Theatre, 1609 W. Gregory, 312458-0895. F A Christmas Carol I used to find R Dickens sentimental; now I think he’s profound. There’s something sub-

versive even in his creation of capitalist everyman Ebenezer Scrooge (Larry Yando), whose grumpy isolation (the illusion of separateness, the Buddhists would call it) is an adaptive defense.

When Scrooge’s nephew reminds him that we humans are, after all, “fellow passengers to the grave,” Scrooge won’t hear it. But after a night of spectral visitations—including one from his late partner, Jacob Marley (Joe Foust)—he realizes just that: we are inextricably bound, and our time here is short. Director Henry Wishcamper’s production always brings something newly revelatory to the beloved story, and in his eighth year as Scrooge, Yando remains impishly delightful in his portrayal of a man gifted with the chance to make amends.

—SUZANNE SCANLON Through 12/27: Thu noon and 7:30 PM (no shows 11/26), Fri 8 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun 2 and 6:30 PM, Wed 7:30 PM; also Wed 12/9, noon; Tue 12/22, 2 and 7:30 PM; Wed 12/23, 2 PM, Goodman Theatre, 170 N. Dearborn, 312-443-3800, goodmantheatre.org, $26-$102.

Incident at Vichy Set in occuR pied France during World War II, Arthur Miller’s 1964 drama throws us

No More Sad Things Kahekili is R a young Hawaiian native in love with the ocean; Jessiee is a 35-year-old

midwesterner maxing out her credit cards on an impromptu solo vacation.

Both follow some mystical inspiration, personified by a ukulele-strumming guide, to a standard meet-cute on a tourist island. It quickly takes a peculiar twist in Honsol Jung’s truly one-of-a-kind romantic comedy, which like its title takes on conflicting double meanings. Ellie Green’s production for Sideshow Theatre brilliantly capitalizes on every subtle shade of melancholy in Jung’s darkly comedic script, but there’s an authentic joie de vivre in play too. Katy Carolina Collins and George Infantado create a discordant dynamic that works seemingly by magic.

Can an emotional crisis really be uplifting? —DAN JAKES Through 12/20: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM (no show 11/26), Sun 3 PM, Victory Gardens Theater, 2433 N. Lincoln, 773-8713000, victorygardens.org, $20-$25.

The Nutcracker The House R Theatre’s gorgeous annual holiday show bears only a faint resemblance to

Tchaikovsky’s ballet. Instead of bratty kids and sugar-plum fairies, Jake Minton and Phillip Klapperich’s tightly spun book introduces a family wracked by tragic loss. But magic still abounds, and in quantities that will bring a tear to the eye of even the stingiest Grinch. Though it isn’t

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dance in the traditional sense, director Tommy Rapley’s dazzling choreography infuses every scene. The show’s one weakness might be the musical numbers, which are mercifully brief and few. But in plotting, performance, and visual design, it’s a nearly flawless, truly essential all-ages holiday show. —KEITH GRIFFITH Through 12/31: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM (no show 11/26), Sat 3 and 7:30 PM, Sun 3 and 7 PM, Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division, 773-7693832, chopintheatre.com, $25-$45.

Private Lives ShawChicago presR ents Noel Coward’s 1930 comedy in a concert reading, with minimal staging

and actors reading from scripts. The classic play concerns Elyot (Michael Lasswell) and Amanda (Mary Michell), a divorced couple who fall in love all over again when they run into each other while honeymooning with their new spouses.

Under Barbara Zahora’s direction, Lasswell and Michell don’t quite achieve the flippant insouciance required for their characters, but their mastery of the language brings out the delicious musicality of Coward’s fast-flying repartee, a distinctive mix of sophisticated elegance and screwball absurdity. —ALBERT WILLIAMS Through 12/14: Sat-Sun 2 PM, Mon 7 PM, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, 1016 N. Dearborn, 312-337-6543, shawchicago.org, $30, $25 seniors, $15 students.

Sad Songs for Bad People A little late for Halloween, Rough House Puppet Theater offers an evening for those who, as a cast member put it, like to “wave across the river Styx from the safety of the bank.” The show is often brutish in execution and certainly brief at little more than an hour, even with guest artists supplying opening acts. But it’s never really nasty as it puppetizes nine songs ranging from Dolly Parton’s kitschy “Me and Little Andy” (“patty cake and bakersman, my mommy ran away again”) to Nick Cave’s psychotic “Milhaven” (“I got a pretty little mouth underneath all the foam”). The tone hovers at goofish fun despite an ineffective dramatic device.

The high point is a cantastoria-style retelling of the cowboy ballad “Step It Out Nancy.” —TONY ADLER Through 12/12: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM (no show 11/26), Neo-Futurarium, 5153 N. Ashland, 773-2755255, neofuturists.org, $15.

Best bets, recommendations and notable arts and culture events for the week of November 26

COMEDY

The Santaland Diaries Funny, R campy, foul-mouthed, and festive, Theater Wit’s The Santaland Diaries

stars Mitchell Fain in role of Crumpet, a Macy’s holiday elf with a frisky, irreverent attitude and big glass of white wine for his breaks. Fain gives us the elf’s-eye view of holiday shopping season, miming all the hilariousness of mall culture with rubber-faced ease; he’ll riff on anyone and anything, and pulls it all off joyfully.

In fact, his soaring energy sometimes puts him at odds with the droll deadpan of the David Sedaris story on which the show is based. Nonetheless, this is great holiday fun. —MAX MALLER Through 12/30: Thu-Fri 7:30 PM (no show 11/26), Sat 7:30 and 9:30 PM (except 12/5, 7:30 PM only), Sun 3 PM; also Sun 12/20 and 12/27, 7 PM; Mon 12/28, Tue 12/22 and 12/29, and Wed 12/23 and 12/30, 7:30 PM, Theater Wit, 1229 W. Belmont, 773-9758150, theaterwit.org, $28-$35.

Tea Talk about your underrepresented minorities. Velina Hasu Houston’s one-act looks at the quiet desperation of women few have spoken about much less for: Japanese war brides who came to the United States with their GI husbands after WWII. Estranged from Japan, alien to America, hidden away in Podunk towns when their husbands were career soldiers, they had only one another to remind them who they were. Houston imagines five such brides meeting for tea after the suicide of one of their number. The dead woman is present too, hoping the gathering will give her peace.

There’s great potential here, but Houston undermines it with stock characters—the would-be aristocrat and her sycophant, the consummate assimilationist, and so on. As staged for Prologue Theatre by Helen Young, the production fails to unify the script’s naturalistic passages with its bouts of poetry. —TONY ADLER Through 12/13: Thu-Sat 7:30 PM (no show 11/26), Sun 3 PM; also Mon 11/30, 7:30 PM, Side Project Theatre Company, 1439 W. Jarvis, 773-973-2150, prologuetheatreco.org, $25.

DANCE The Nutcracker Salt Creek Ballet presents its adaptation of the classic holiday performance. 11/28-11/29: Sat 1 and 5 PM, Sun 1 PM, Hinsdale Central High School, 5500 S. Grant, Hinsdale, 630-655-6100, central.hinsdale86.org, $16-$37.

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Bell Hop A new stand-up showcase from the mind of Ian Abramson that features Danny Kallas, Reena Calm, Daniel Kibblesmith, Cleveland Anderson, and Fran Hoepfner. Sat 11/28, 7 PM, Virgin Hotel, 203 N. Wabash, facebook.com/ events/575778495905801. F

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Empty Bottle Book Club On the R bill this time around: a discussion of Carrie Brownstein’s memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. Sun 11/29, 4:30 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773276-3600, emptybottle.com.

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Festival of Poets Theater Devin King and Patrick Durgin curated this four-day festival featuring performances, screenings, and readings of works written for the stage by poets.

12/2-12/5: Wed-Fri 7 PM, Sat 2:30 and 7 PM, Sector 2337, 2337 N. Milwaukee, 773687-8481, sector2337.com.

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The Interview Show A special Tuesday-night edition of Mark Bazer’s talk show featuring chef Rick Bayless (Frontera, etc), pro wrestler Colt Cabana, and Mick Dumke (Chicago SunTimes). Tue 12/1, 6:30 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433, hideoutchicago.com, $10.

PechaKucha Vol. 36 Artists, R activists, musicians, architects, politicians, chefs—you name it—gather to

share 20 images for 20 seconds each, resulting in a night of short presentations and idea sharing. This volume’s theme

of performers (including Kate Harding, Malic White, and Mandy Aguilar) each week. Through 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 A Ballerina’s Tale Documentary maker Nelson George considers the lily-white culture of classical ballet and the precipitous rise of Misty Copeland, the first African-American woman to be named a principal dancer in the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Copeland’s teenage years in Los Angeles were marked by a well-publicized custody battle in which she asked to be emancipated from her working-class mother so she could live with a white couple who were advancing her dance studies, but there’s no mention of this drama in the movie. George begins with Copeland’s subsequent arrival at the ABT when she

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Blipster Life Comedians FeloR nius Monk and Dave Helem host a variety show featuring music from

Sam Trump and the Ones Brand plus comedy from stand-ups Joey Villagomez and Just Nesh. Wed 12/2, 8 PM, the Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Ave. West, 312-801-2100, promontorychicago. com, $10-$15.

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Based on a True Story Here we have yet another variation on a familiar theme: the fully improvised show. In this version a guest celebrity is interviewed live, after which the ensemble creates a series of improvisations inspired—directly or indirectly—by whatever the celeb has brought up.

Because both the guest and the cast (culled from a group of more than 40 performers) change weekly, it’s nearly impossible to predict what any given show will be like. But the night I saw it, the interview portion was so fascinating and the guest—SNL alum Nora Dunn— so gracefully witty, it was hard not to see the funny but not extraordinary improvisations as commercial breaks in a high-quality talk show. Upcoming guests include Paul Meincke (11/28), Julia Sweeney (12/5), and D.B. Sweeney (12/19). —JACK HELBIG Through 12/26: Sat 9 PM, Under the Gun Theater, 956 W. Newport, 773-270-3440, undertheguntheater.com, $15.

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ford, and Natalie Jose to raise funds for reproductive health. See page 20. Wed 12/2, 9 PM, East Room, 2828 W. Medill, 773-276-9603, eastroomchicago.com, $5 suggested donation.

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VISUAL ARTS

is “Chicago Love Songs.” Tue 12/1, 8 PM, Martyrs’, 3855 N. Lincoln, 773-404-9494, pechakucha.org, $12, $10 in advance.

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Art Institute of Chicago Wreathing of the Lions, the ceremonial laying of the wreaths on the Art Institute’s lions takes place at 10:30 AM, with complimentary hot chocolate for all present. Feeling inspired? The museum hosts wreath-making workshops all day.

Fri 11/27, 10 AM-3 PM, 111 S. Michigan, 312-443-3600, artinstituteofchicago. org. F

Tuesday Funk Featured readers R at this outing of the monthly livelit series are Clayton Smith, Gint Aras,

Museum of Contemporary Art “Moon Moods,” cartoonist Lyra Hill leads an interactive performance of a lunar ritual.

Tue 12/1, 6 PM, 220 E. Chicago, 312-2802660, mcachicago.org, free with museum admission.

James Gordon, Bill Savage, and Britt Julious. Tue 12/1, 7:30 PM, Hopleaf, 5148 N. Clark, 773-334-9851, tuesdayfunk.org.

was 16, focusing on how she bucked the norm of white, flat-chested, prepubescent-looking women and, by extension, the principle of uniformity so cherished in ballet. The movie’s second half centers on Copeland’s efforts to recover from a 2012 operation to repair fractures in her left shin, her subsequent return to the ABT celebrated with the title “Dreams do come true.” She registers here more as a phenomenon than as a person.

—J.R. JONES Fri 11/27, 2 and 3:45 PM; Sat 11/28, 4:30 and 6:15 PM; Sun 11/29, 2 and 3:45 PM; Mon 11/30, 6 PM; Tue 12/1, 7:45 PM; Wed 12/2, 6 PM; and Thu 12/3, 7:45 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center

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

The Creeping Garden This 2014 science documentary introduces viewers to the weird and wonderful world of slime !

Sideswiping Normal June Huitt R and Nicole Hollander join forces for a night of storytelling. Sun 11/29, 3 PM, Martyrs’, 3855 N. Lincoln, 773-4049494, martyrslive.com, $15.

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The Intern Friday, November 27 @ 7:00pm Sat-Sun, Nov. 28-29 @ 6:00pm Mon-Tue, Nov. 30-Dec. 1 @ 7:00pm

Bridge of Spies Friday, November 27 @ 9:30pm Sat-Sun, Nov. 28-29 @ 9:00pm Mon-Tue, Nov. 30-Dec. 1 @ 9:30pm

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“It’s more of a game than a race,” explains one subject in this documentary, and seemingly anything is permitted—jockeys bribe officials beforehand, form alliances to block common enemies, and regularly attack one another during the race. Director Cosima Spender chronicles the events leading up to one such palio, intercutting profiles of jockeys (both retired and active) with highlights of various competitions and creating a fitful air of anticipation. The interview subjects aren’t particularly eloquent, though; they tend to stop the movie dead in its tracks. In Italian with subtitles.

—BEN SACHS 91 min. Music Box Tab Hunter Confidential A major Hollywood hunk in the 1950s, actor Tab Hunter comes out of the closet in this documentary portrait by Jeffrey Schwarz, based on Hunter’s 2006 book of the same title and produced by his longtime partner, Allan Glaser. Hunter’s memories of a double life in the waning days of the studio system are fascinating—the secret trysts with Olympic skater Ronald Robertson and actor Anthony Perkins, the arranged dates with starlets, the tense negotiations with tabloid magazines.

Other than that, he hardly merits a feature-length profile—his acting

was nothing to write home about, and as a chart-topping pop singer in the late 50s he made Pat Boone sound funky. His story follows the standard trajectory of a handsome face aging out of the business, though extending the story into the present does allow Schwarz to consider Hunter’s late emergence as a devout Catholic and his brief comeback as a camp presence after John Waters cast him opposite Divine in Polyester (1981). —J.R. JONES 90 min. Fri 11/27, 8 PM; Sat 11/28, 2:30 and 5:30 PM; Sun 11/29, 5:30 PM; Mon 11/30, 7:45 PM; Tue 12/1, 6 PM; Wed 12/2, 7:45 PM; and Thu 12/3, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center The Wonderful World of Industrial Musicals Steve Young, a writer for The Late Show With David Letterman, comes to town under the auspices of the Found Footage Festival to present his gleanings from the kitsch world of industrial musicals, the sorts of things screened in the 60s and 70s to amuse middle-aged marketing executives while they waited for the hookers to arrive.

Like the Soviet musicals of the 1930s, these motivational sales films for Citgo, Kellogg’s, Purina, and Hiram Walker can be hilariously incongruous, with funky song-anddance performers handed such artless lyrics as “Sell those Froot Loops, Bran Flakes, and Mini-Wheats as well / You’ll blow the competition all to hell.” On the far side of weird lies The Bathrooms Are Coming, a 1969 effort for the plumbing-fixture line American Standard in which a woman peers into the bathroom mirror as her reflection warbles, “My bathroom is a private kind of place / A very special kind of place.” But the key moment may come in the Purina spot, when a beautiful blond in a tight red sweater suggestively strokes a cash register. —J.R. JONES Thu 12/3, 7:30 PM. Music Box REVIVALS Autumn Tale At once comR plex and gentle, this 1998 feature concludes Eric Rohmer’s “Tales of the Four Seasons” series and is one of the best films of his career.

It’s about the perils and rewards of rediscovering love in middle age, though, characteristic of Rohmer,

it has important young characters as well. Beautifully capturing the southern Rhone valley, it focuses on lifelong best friends—a bookseller (Marie Riviere) and a wine grower (Beatrice Romand)—and the efforts of the bookseller and a young friend of the wine grower (Alexia Portal) to find their friend a lover. Riviere and Romand are both seasoned Rohmer actors, and even played together once before in Summer (1986); the charisma generated by them and Alain Libolt—one of the prospective boyfriends, who looks like Charles Boyer—is central to the film’s success, along with the casual precision and growing momentum of Rohmer’s script and direction. In French with subtitles. —JONATHAN ROSENBAUM PG, 112 min. 35mm. Mon 11/30, 7 PM. Doc Films

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Breaking News The crime R thrillers of Hong Kong director Johnny To are not only

action packed but smart, and this 2004 feature about a botched heist is full of vibrant and intriguing characters. Beginning with one fluid, uninterrupted shot nearly seven minutes long, cinematographer Cheung Siu-keung follows the crooks up and down streets and in and out of buildings. Badly outnumbered by police, they take hostages in an apartment mid-rise, and as the no-nonsense police commander (Kelly Chen) tangles with a maverick detective (Nick Cheung), the cocky ringleader (Richie Ren) uses the Internet to sabotage the commander’s carefully orchestrated press coverage. Peppered with moments that are both sad and funny, this ends with a media-savvy twist. In Mandarin and Cantonese with subtitles. —ANDREA GRONVALL 90 min. 35mm. Critic Fred Camper lectures at the Tuesday screening.

Fri 11/27, 5:30 PM, and Tue 12/1, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center SPECIAL EVENTS Sing-a-Long Sound of Music R Many critics trashed Robert Wise’s 1965 screen version of The

Sound of Music, but the musical’s emotional openness and unguarded optimism honestly express the worldview of songwriters Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. In the words of theater historian Ethan Mordden, their last collaboration is a “youthful piece written by the elderly, because it is entirely about freedom, which youth always seeks and the aged feel the loss of.” The film’s sweeping aerial cinematography and Salzburg location footage and Julie Andrews’s smart, feisty performance enhance the story’s appeal, and this “sing-a-long” edition, outfitted with subtitles for the lyrics, affirms Rodgers and Hammerstein’s belief in the power of music to unlock the buoyancy of the human spirit. —ALBERT WILLIAMS G, 174 min. Fri 11/27-Sat 11/28, 1 and 7 PM, and Sun 11/29, 1 PM. Music Box v

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Space “Columbia College’s feisty part-time faculty union goes its own way” —DEANNA ISAACS

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The perfect knit

FASHION WRITER AND SOCIAL butterfly Lauren Fern was flitting about during a release party for Giorgio Armani’s new self-titled autobiography in the designer’s shop on Oak Street. Fern stood out, largely due to her knit dress by Gudrun & Gudrun, a brand based in Denmark’s Faroe Islands whose collections are handmade by women in Jordan and Peru as part of the company’s empowerment projects. The womenswear expert for the Chicago Chic lifestyle website, Fern sees fashion as “an analytical art form” and an attitude rather than a reflection of “the size of your pocketbook.” Getting dressed is about “feeling like yourself and leaving room to step outside of your comfort zone from time to time.” See her gracefully doing just that on Instagram at @unfabulous_ elle. —ISA GIALLORENZO See more Chicago street style on Giallorenzo’s blog chicagolooks.blogspot.com.

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Depends on how you play the game.”

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Sailing through Harry Weese’s nautical River Cottages FROM THE READER’S tenth-floor office, the staff has a clear view of the Harry Weese River Cottages, located on Canal Street at the edge of Wolf Point’s west bank. We’ve often wondered what’s behind the architectural gem’s many slanted windows. Earlier this fall, when one of the riverfront town house’s units went on the market for the first time since it was completed in 1988, we jumped at the chance to tour the space designed by Weese, the lauded late architect whose many creations include the circular Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist and the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Weese conjured the idea for the cottages in the 1950s during a bicycle trip in Budapest, Hungary, where he saw many residences along the Danube River. The north-suburban native was determined to bring the aesthetic back to Chicago. In the 1980s, he set out to build a series of modern minimalist homes designed for waterfront liv-

ing on the Chicago River. He bought all the property along Wolf Point, his goal “to turn the riverfront into something very special,” says Michele Miller of Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty, one of the property’s listing agents. But the project never came to fruition. He built four units of the cottage before the development fell through due to high costs and slow sales.

With 4,000 square feet of living space stretched out over five levels, the postmodern town-house unit is nautically themed, naturally. An avid sailor himself, Weese intended the homes in the River Cottages to feel like ships. The ground level mimics a lower deck with tiled floors and low ceilings. A spiral staircase with metal handrails winds through the home. “As you come up, each deck seems to get wider, brighter, bigger. You see the angles, the rectangles, the portholes,” Miller says. On the third level, light pours in through

two-story triangular windows, in which Weese incorporated the angles of the adjacent railroad bridge, which is usually locked in place at about 45 degrees: “If you look from certain windows, you can see the alignment of the lines from the bridge to the lines of the River Cottages,” Miller says. Balconies on each floor jut out like the bow of a boat, offering front-row seats to architectural tours and wedding party photo shoots on the Kinzie Street bridge. Looking south while on the rooftop deck, the Lake Street el clatters on its way over the river.

The unit also has its own boat dock with room for two vessels.

Aside from a few pomo light fixtures and an intricate wall carving in the foyer, Weese left the details of each interior open for custom design. Says the other listing agent, Tanya Hamilton, also of Jameson Sotheby’s: “It will be very interesting to see what the new owners do with the space.” —ANDREA BAUER

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× Thanksgiving Day Pa rade Before diving into mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce, see a giant Tweety balloon. David Arquette is this year’s grand marshal, and you can wave at the likes of Graham Elliot, the Harlem Globetrotters, and Santa Claus. 8-11 AM, State between Congress and Randolph, cityfestivals.org. F

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¹ West Town Wi nterfest Local retailers and restaurants offer sales and holiday treats to all who come by; a “Jolly Trolley” ($15) will make the rounds in the neighborhood for shopping tours. Noon-7 PM, Division between Chicago and Grand, westtownchicago.com. F

( Sound of Mus ic S ing-a-Long The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, but louder and interactive. Dress as your favorite character for the chance to win prizes. Sun 11/29, 1 PM; Sat 12/5-Sun 12/6, 11:30 AM, Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, musicboxtheatre.com, $15, $12.50 in advance.

M Down the Rabbit Ho le Vi ntner Mark Tarlov and sommelier Joseph Spellman host a night of wine and literary discussion. On the docket: The Odyssey, Alice in Wonderland, and wine from Tarlov’s vineyard, Chapter 24.

7 PM, City Winery, 1200 W. Randolph, citywinery.com, $65.

Rent Artists Giving Back presents a performance of Jonathan Larson’s musical in conjunction with World AIDS Day. Proceeds benefit the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.

7:30 PM, Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport, artistsgivingback.org, $22-$52.

ã BrewLights Tonight’s a chance to enjoy ZooLights avec beer. Local distributor Louis Glunz offers 12 seasonal samplings, including Anchor Christmas Ale, Delirium Noël, and Stiegl Goldbräu. Please don’t serve the lions. 5:30-10 PM, Lincoln Park Zoo, 2200 N. Cannon, 312-742-2000, lpzoo. org, $60, $50 in advance.

winter festival, now in its 16th year, features more than 1.5 million Christmas lights, ice-sculpting demonstrations, visits with Santa, and live music. 11/27-1/3; dates vary, see website, Lincoln Park Zoo, 2200 N. Cannon, 312-7422000, lpzoo.org. F

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POLITICS

Give thanks— for the Illinois Racing Form

This election guide helps you predict whether Madigan or Rauner has the edge.

By BEN JORAVSKY

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s we prepare for Thanksgiving, I’d like to suggest something to spice up your feast: the Illinois Racing Form.

OK, you’re not actually going to baste your turkeys with an online publication dedicated to Illinois politics.

But it could add a little oomph to your dinner-time conversation and teach you a thing or two about politics in our increasing schizophrenic state.

The folks at the online political news service Aldertrack have come up with an exhaustive guide to the upcoming state legislative races just as filing begins this week for the March 15 primaries. I got a sneak peek courtesy of Aldertrack publishers Mike Fourcher and Jimm Dispensa. Thanks, fellers.

The Racing Form has maps of the state’s 59 senate and 118 house districts. It breaks the populations of those districts down by race,

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ethnicity, income, and age, and by how the districts voted in the 2014 gubernatorial and state’s attorney general races.

But before I dive in, let me remind you what’s at stake for our state in this upcoming election.

If you recall—even though I know you’d probably rather not—Governor Bruce Rauner was elected in 2014, vowing to liberate our economy by obliterating unions’ collective bargaining rights.

Apparently, the best way to free people is to impoverish them. Feel free to use that line with your grumpy old Republican Uncle Harry during Thanksgiving.

For the most part, Rauner’s been deterred by two Chicago Democrats: house speaker Michael Madigan and senate president John Cullerton.

Rauner doesn’t have enough votes to pass a budget, so hasn’t really tried.

Meanwhile, the Democrats don’t have enough votes to override a Rauner veto—at least, not without leaving members from swing districts vulnerable to Rauner-financed political challengers.

So we’ve gone almost a year without passing a budget, as the state slowly runs out of money to pay its bills and social service programs get slashed.

Next year’s elections could tip the balance in the statehouse one way or the other.

At the moment, it’s unclear how this mess is playing in Peoria, so to speak. A recent poll

by Americans for Prosperity of Illinois reports that 35 percent of Illinois voters blame state legislators for the impasse and 25 percent blame Rauner.

However, the Illinois AFP “is a subset of the larger group founded by the conservative and incredibly wealthy Koch Brothers, Americans for Prosperity,” as Politico’s Natasha Korecki recently put it.

In short, the group’s poll may be as unbiased as the one I took that shows that 100 percent of the guys on my bowling team think Rauner’s “a plutocrat with nine homes and a heart the size of a gumball.”

Actually, that’s a great line from a recent Neil Steinberg column in the Sun-Times. Feel free to try it on Uncle Harry, as well.

But back to the Racing Form. As far as I know, this is only place to find district-by-district gubernatorial results—you can be sure that operatives for Madigan, Cullerton, and Rauner have been studying these for months.

This is valuable information for pols and political junkies alike because it helps us to see which incumbents are most vulnerable in next November’s general election.

For instance, a house Democrat named Martin Moylan represents the 55th District in Des Plaines. And Democrat Lisa Madigan—the speaker’s daughter—won 61 percent of the vote in her 2014 race out in that district.

But Rauner won roughly 57 percent of the vote in that district over former governor Patrick Quinn.

So that means 55th house voters are either open-minded or schizophrenic. One way or the other, you can be damn sure Rauner will finance a campaign against Moylan that tries to turn this middle-of-the-road Democrat into the second coming of Che Guevara.

It’s hard to find districts where Republicans are particularly vulnerable, largely because the legislative maps were drawn by Democrats. Like every good group of gerrymandering lawmakers, they tried to maximize their

strength by squeezing as many Republicans into as few districts as possible.

However, I did note that Lisa Madigan also won nearly 50 percent of the vote in the southwest 82nd District, which runs through Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties.

The 82nd is represented by Republican Jim Durkin, Rauner’s house floor leader. Maybe Speaker Madigan should talk Lisa into moving to Willow Springs to give Durkin a run for his money.

At the moment only one legislator has broken ranks from either party. That’s Chicago’s very own Ken Dunkin, of the Fifth District.

Dunkin told Madigan to take a hike on a couple of recent bills, including one that would have fully restored Rauner’s cuts in child care funding while preventing the governor from making future cuts.

I’m pretty sure old Uncle Harry would have a nice word or two to say about Representative Dunkin.

Dunkin’s machinations set off a rip-roaring debate between myself and Kobe, an old friend who’s a political consultant and big fan of Dunkin.

I suggested that Dunkin go full monty and join the Republican Party.

There’s precedence. For instance, many southern Republicans bolted from the Democratic Party after President Johnson’s civil rights legislation.

If he switches parties, Dunkin could be a GOP superstar, showered with money by the likes of the Koch brothers and maybe even featured at this summer’s Republican convention.

Are you out of your mind? Kobe responded.

There’s no way Dunkin would never get elected in the Fifth District as a Republican.

Well, let’s at look at the numbers, courtesy of Aldertrack. The Fifth District, which runs like a hockey stick from the Gold Coast to South Shore, is about 56 percent black, 30 percent white, 7.5 percent Asian-American, and 4 percent Hispanic. The median income is $48,000.

So if Dunkin gets the white vote, the Hispanic vote, and the Asian vote, and if many of the black voters stay home, he could elected as a Republican.

On the other hand, Quinn, as unpopular as he was, won 80 percent of the vote in the Fifth.

So that’s asking for quite a few voters to stay at home. Guess Kobe’s right—at least this time.

Anyway, you can order the Racing Form on Aldertrack’s website.

Enjoy your turkeys, everybody. v

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CITY LIFE

TRANSPORTATION

Silly Tribune, speed cams aren’t just for kids

Speed cameras aren’t there to protect children— they’re there to protect everyone.

By JOHN GREENFIELD

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hicago’s traffic cameras have always been highly contentious. Not only do drivers hate getting tickets, but starting in 2012 a Chicago Tribune series uncovered a number of issues with the red-light camera program, most notably the bribery scheme by vendor Redflex.

Compared to all that, Rahm Emanuel’s speed camera program has been less controversial. But last week, Trib reporters David Kidwell and Abraham Epton went nuclear on the speed cams.

In four long, mind-numbingly detailed articles, the reporters described how the cameras have produced some $2.4 million in questionable tickets since the program launched in October 2013. That represents about 2.6 percent of the roughly $81 million in tickets issued.

They quoted a dozen or so drivers who complained that the tickets they received were unfair because they were issued when parks were closed, children weren’t present in school zones, or warning signs were missing, contrary to state law and city ordinance.

Kidwell and Epton also attacked the locations of the cameras, which state law dictates can only be installed within eighth-mile zones around schools and parks. Some cams, they wrote, had been justified by the presence of small parks with limited foot traffic.

But the reporters didn’t discuss the reason why speed enforcement is crucial for everybody, not just children. The city’s default speed limit is 30 mph, and for good reason: studies show that pedestrians who are struck at this speed usually survive, while those struck at 40 almost always die.

None of the drivers who cried foul in the Trib’s story claimed not to have been speeding. And since Chicago only issues speed-cam tickets to motorists going ten mph or more over the limit, we know that those ticketed in 30 mph zones were driving dangerously fast.

Faulty cams or not, they deserved fines.

Still, the Trib has a point about the stated purpose of the program. Back in 2012, when Emanuel pushed for the state legislation that legalized the cameras, he said, “My goal is only one thing: the safety of our kids.”

Apparently, the mayor thought it would be easier get the law passed if he used a “think of the children” argument. But Emanuel’s rhetorical strategy has backfired to some extent.

Kidwell and Epton noted that, according to Chicago Police Department crash data taken from 2004 to 2014, the majority of injury crashes involving kids on foot or bikes took place on side streets, not on the arterial streets where speed cameras are generally located. They added that cams near small parks

with light foot traffic raise suspicions that their purpose is revenue, not safety.

That issue reared its head earlier this month at Keystone Park, a playground in the Hermosa neighborhood, when three cams were activated on nearby Pulaski and North Avenues, out of eyeshot from the green space. “To justify the installation of those speed cameras on the basis of safety of kids, it just doesn’t fly,” 26th Ward alderman Roberto Maldonado told DNAinfo. “It’s a money grab.”

However, each of these safety zones located near a small park also has a high crash rate on the nearby main streets, according to a Chicago Department of Transportation analysis.

There were 228 crashes in Keystone’s zone between 2009 and 2012, including five collisions with serious or fatal injuries. Speeding was a factor in 27 percent of the crashes.

The Keystone zone was ranked the 156th most dangerous out of all the city’s 1,570 safety zones, putting it in the top 10 percent.

The other safety zones with speed cameras near small parks have similarly high crash numbers. This data suggests the cams serve to protect all road users, not just kids walking to the playground.

CDOT spokesman Mike Claffey confirmed last week that a high crash rate within the safety zone around a park, rather than high foot traffic and usage at the park, determines whether an area gets cams.

Claffey added that a preliminary analysis found that crashes with injuries dropped by 4 percent citywide between 2012—the year before the first speed cams were installed—and 2014. However, injury crashes dropped 18 percent within the 21 safety zones where speed cams were installed in 2013. Severe and fatal crashes went down a full 22 percent.

CDOT commissioner Rebekah Scheinfeld argued that the Tribune’s focus on supposedly unfair ticketing practices is “noise obscuring the fact that speeding, especially ten or more miles per hour, is really dangerous.” “The Tribune is not acknowledging that,” she said.

“They’re saying the problem of traffic enforcement is more important than the problem of traffic safety.”

While Emanuel’s rhetoric has been disingenuous, that doesn’t mean speed cams are merely a cash grab. The program is making everybody safer, and the city shouldn’t be afraid to say that. v

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THE ALL-LOCAL HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

obvious than, say, a framed city skyline photo and considerably classier than a Chicago shot glass from Walgreens. —LAURA PEARSON $13.95 each at Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan, 312-322-1132, shoparchitecture.org.

From a custom pet portrait to artsy pot pipes to a box of midwestern delicacies, these 15 items should be on your shopping list this year.

Get Tan & Loose

Clay Hickson runs Tan & Loose Press—a publishing company that specializes in limited edition artist prints, zines, and ephemera “for the tasteless art collector”—out of a former funeral home in Pilsen. Inspired by postmodern design and a 70s-rock sensibility, Hickson and guest artists use a Risograph (a digital printer that’s like a mashup of a copy machine and a screen-printing press) to pump out visually exciting, brightly colored posters at reasonable prices. In the range of five to ten bucks, you can get your loved ones flowery, immaculately printed posters, hilarious books, neon patches, or, you know, a bright-pink lapel pin of a bong. —LUCA CIMARUSTI Order online at tlpress.bigcartel.com.

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Food for thought

Picture purrfect

Remember when you were a kid and the best present you could give your parents was a nice picture of you and your siblings? This is like that—except for pet owners and actually a thousand times cooler. Artist Melissa Smith creates vibrant hand-painted portraits of furry friends that capture all of the animals’ personality quirks: the guilty (but irresistible) eyes of a dog named Buddy, the smug mien of a cat named Holden, the true love between Doberman pinschers Atticus and Czar. Just send her a photo—she’ll do the rest. And the best part is that Smith really cares about the well-being of animals: she donates 10 percent of the cost of the portraits to the nonprofit pet rescue of your choice, itself a nice holiday gift.

—BRIANNA WELLEN $250-$700, Melissa Smith Art, melissasmithart.com.

Coffee on display

Craighton Berman, the Chicago designer responsible for the pour-over jug and domestic art object known as the Manual Coffee Maker No. 1, spent part of his early career consulting for Starbucks and, as he puts it, “major coffee brands that make the garbage your grandfather drinks.”

“It forced me to dig in deeper to think about what I cared about,” Berman says now.

“I felt like, screw Starbucks, but didn’t know what the alternative was.”

It turned out to be carefully made pourover coffee, preferably single origin, which Berman sees as an experience to be savored and perfected with each morning cup.

Manual’s at-home pour-over setup—funded with more than $100,000 in Kickstarter backing—is made from a bamboo base and lab-

grade glass. It’s a highly functional appliance, but it also looks like an assiduously selected decoration.

“Ninety-nine percent of the time you’re not using it,” Berman says, “so it should be beautiful if it just sits there.” —ROBIN AMER $99.95 at Fleur, 2651 N. Milwaukee, 773-395-2770 or through Manual Goods at manual.is.

The Wright stuff

For friends and family outside the city who’d appreciate something quintessentially “Chicago” for a holiday gift, these elegant old-fashioned glass tumblers, featuring details of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Chicago-area buildings— the Avery Coonley Playhouse window in Riverside and the art-glass skylight in the Oak Park Home and Studio, for example—are less

Local Foods, Chicago’s new market/food hub in West Town devoted to all things midwest made, doesn’t believe in gift baskets.

“They’re wasteful and needlessly expensive,” says Darin Latimer, Local Foods’ self-titled “direttore” and floor manager. “The basket and the ‘excelsior’ (softwood shavings used in packaging) usually go straight into the garbage.” Instead, Local Foods is offering hand-stenciled gift boxes and totes to fill with unique goods from the market: Colonel Pabst worcestershire; American Spoon whole-seed mustard (“the best mustard possible,” Latimer says); Brownwood Farms Famous Kream Mustard (“Do not open this jar near a pretzel unless you’re willing to commit to finishing the contents”); McClary Brothers drinking vinegars; Westside Bee Boyz raw honeycomb; fermented garlic (“a magical ingredient . . . put it under the skin of a whole roasted chicken”); “PK” spice blend from La Boîte, inspired by Paul Kahan and his restaurants; and Lillie’s Q Carolina Dirt, a beloved barbecue spice rub.

The product mix also includes Butcher & Larder T-shirts and “Locally Grown” shirts. Admit it: that sounds way better than your usual Hickory Farms fare. Your foodie friends and family will love it. —LAURA PEARSON $30-$100 at Local Foods, 1427 W. Willow, 312-432-6575, localfoods.com.

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Bitchin’ stitches

Stephanie Rohr draws inspiration for her “cheeky” cross-stitch wall art from media old and new. Her delicate floral and geometric designs are based on vintage cross-stitch patterns archived amid the dusty tomes of the Harold Washington Library (on the eighth floor, near the sheet music). But the phrases hand-sewn on woven cotton and meticulously framed in wooden hoops are pure Internet fodder: “Behold! The field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren” is her best seller. “Home is where no pants is,” “Boo you whore,” and “Please don’t do coke in my bathroom” are up there too.

Handmade items with this degree of craftsmanship are rarely also this funny. “Part of the humor is they look very old-fashioned,” Rohr says. “There are a lot of awesome fiber arts designers who do modern-looking ones.

But I wanted mine to look like it was made in the 50s—until you read it and you’re like, oh!”

— ROBIN AMER Patterns $5 and up, finished pieces $30 and up at etsy.com/shop/ stephXstitch.

Doggy style

Despite a lifelong love of animals, Colleen Wasilewski never imagined the skills she gleaned in the accessory-design world would one day go to the dogs. But years of corporate fashion experience—as well as an inspiring trip to Iceland where she learned rope-splicing techniques from some local fishermen—eventually led to her pet project: crafting eye-catching, brightly colored leashes for furry friends. Made under the name Notyers and featuring beautiful finishes including brass hardware and leather trim, these luxe leashes are not your usual Petsmart variety. “They’re truly handmade,” Wasilewski says. “I am hand-splicing the rope, weaving the lacing, dyeing, and cutting all by hand.” A perfect gift for dogs, cats, bunnies, weasels (etc) and the humans who love them.

—LAURA PEARSON $40, notyers.com.

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It’s easy to love LaCroix, the sugar-free, sodium-free, calorie-free sparkling water: its design is straight out of the 90s; its cans are colored like Easter eggs; and, despite origi-

nating in Wisconsin, it boasts odd, faux-Euro flourishes (the grapefruit flavor isn’t “grapefruit,” it’s “pamplemousse”). A friend of mine and her boyfriend drink so much of it that they simply call it “water.” (“Babe, can you grab me a water?” “Sorry, babe, I drank the last water,” ad nauseam). LaCroix’s rising popularity has produced skyrocketing shares for the brand’s parent company, National Beverage Corp., but this isn’t just another millennial-focused trend, as initially characterized

by New York Times Magazine writer/LaCroix drinker Mary H. K. Choi (“one of those foodas-personality things, where otherwise dull people develop an ‘obsession’ with something ostensibly exotic . . . and pass it off as a quirk”). No way. The reverence is real. And any serious LaCroix consumer will want to dress appropriately. This “fav bev tee,” designed by Edwin Menacho and available via Solid State Goods, should do the trick. —ROBIN AMER $25 at solidstategoods.bigcartel.com

Pot pride

With medical marijuana now legal and police issuing just tickets for possession, there’s not

as much need to hide your pipes away these days. So why not retire those ugly-ass psychedelic hippie bowls and acquire something a bit more tasteful that you can display proudly? Artisan Leah Ball’s unique marbling technique creates pipes that double as art objects, so you can keep them out as decor instead of hurrying to put them away every time your family comes over. Made of porcelain, they’ll make you feel like you’re smoking a standard glass one, but these have a lot more panache. And great news for the one-hitter quitters out there: Leah Ball’s midcentury-inspired pieces have large chambers, so you can get a pretty hefty hit off of them.

Plus they’re easy to clean—there are complete care instructions on her website. Follow @leah_ball_handmade on Instagram to find out about her special deals and you may wind up with more dough for your meds. —ISA GIALLORENZO $55-$110, leah-ball.com.

Coming clean

Natural handmade soaps are a dime a dozen these days. Well, not exactly a dime—more like $5 to $9. And even if you find that perfect cedar/sage/shea-butter blend (or what have you), giving a beautiful bar of soap could still send the recipient a not-so-subtle “You need a bath, buddy” message. (Unless, of course, that is your message.) Scratch Goods, a Roscoe Village skin-care salon and producer of food-grade bath and body products, offers a solution in the form of “bundles”: thoughtfully grouped goods that register more as indulgence than admonishment. The “clean” bundle, for example, includes a choice of three bars of all-natural soap—peppermintlime, charcoal, clay, or Baker Miller cornmealclove—made with the Lincoln Square bakery’s seasonal corn grits—plus a cedar rack; the “smooth” bundle features a bar of soap, a scrub, and a cedar rack; and the “detox” bundle combines an Epsom salt “soaking tea,” a clay mask, and an all-over moisturizing butter. Bonus: a portion of every Scratch Goods purchase goes toward providing hand-washing education and supplies for Sharing Hope Preschool in Licilo, Mozambique. —LAURA PEARSON $27-$41 from Scratch Goods, 3551 N. Damen, 773-857-3551, scratchgoods.com J

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Music Box VIP status

While its selling point might be the free refills on any size popcorn, the recently implemented Music Box membership offers an impressive bundle of other amenities—and at a reasonable price tag. In addition to a complimentary ticket to any regular-priced screening, there are discounts on subsequent screenings and some special events, access to free screenings for members only, and advanced-purchase privileges for special screenings, plus discounts on glasses and bottles of wine. Because you know you want to be at least a little lit during The Sound of Music sing-along. Participating restaurants, like the Butcher’s Tap and Mystic Celt, also offer a 15 to 20 percent discount when you flash ’em your membership card. As if you needed more reasons to visit the city’s best-programmed indie movie theater. Purchase online or at the box office.

—KEVIN WARWICK $50 per year, musicboxtheatre.com.

Drunk history

At first the venues on Chicago Detours’ walking tour of historic bars—Michael Jordan’s Steak House, 437 Rush, Lawry’s—might seem like head-scratchers. Where’s the history in a Phil Stefani joint? But this tour is less about these particular spots than it is about the secret history their buildings contain; delightfully, it’s a modern bar crawl designed with

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Founder Amanda Scotese says that one of these spaces was once a jazz club and speakeasy; another holds a theater once dedicated to puppet opera, while a third surprises tourgoers with an opulent interior straight out of the roaring 20s. (To say which venue is which would spoil the magic of the reveal.) The twoand-a-half-hour tour is mostly indoors, making it a good choice for a boozy winter afternoon.

—ROBIN AMER $34 per person or $62 per person including drinks, 312-350-1131, store.chicagodetours.com.

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Think inside the box

Field Notes—those simple, durable, unfussy little notebooks modeled after old-school pocket ledgers—make for a great stocking stuffer. Created by Chicago-based design and advertising studio Coudal Partners in conjunction with Portland’s Draplin Design Co., they come in several equally classic-looking editions—all gorgeous, some with gilded

covers! Know someone who’s already a Field Notes fanatic? Help that person step up his or her organizational game with the Field Notes archival box. This wooden box o’ wonders is made from cabinet-grade American birch, holds more than 60 memo books, and comes with a dozen letterpressed divider tabs for putting said notebooks in ridiculously meticulous order—“sketches,” “ideas,” “recipes,” etc— like some kinda maniac from a Wes Anderson movie or an impersonator of Gay Talese.

—LAURA PEARSON $34.95 at fieldnotesbrand. com/shop. In-person pickups at Coudal Partners, 400 N. May, 312-243-1107.

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The folks behind the excellent archival label Numero Group know how to find the best music—and play it to boot. The label’s employees and honchos frequently hit the decks at bars all around Chicago and take the time to bust out their rare soul records at scattered locales around the globe. So we’ll leave it to these pros to release not only lovely sounding reissues but also a smart-looking bag to safely tote those records on the road. Numero enlisted decades-old Nashville bag crafts-company Tucker & Bloom to create a travel bag worthy of Numero’s logo.

This black, waterproof nylon bag comes with a shearling-wool-padded strap, a leather handle, and pouches with room for your DJ gear; the burgundy interior fits up to 100 seven-inches. The bag’s got a lifetime warranty, which makes a great, um, case for its $180 price tag. If you’ve got money to spare, you don’t need to go through the extra trouble of (partially) filling the bag. The “oversized edition” costs $300 but also includes every Numero seven-inch that’s still in print.

That’s roughly three-dozen releases ranging from Ned Doheny’s “marina pop” gold to the tender, heartbreaking Penny & the Quarters soul number “You and Me,” which enhanced the gut punch of the 2010 indie drama Blue Valentine. —LEOR GALIL $180 or $300 for the oversize edition, numerogroup.com. v

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almon cooked in a beer cooler isn’t for everyone. It turns out, for example, that it’s not for me. But that doesn’t make J. Kenji López-Alt’s method for cooking salmon (or meat) sous vide any less ingenious. Sous vide—a technique in which food is vacuum-sealed and cooked in a water bath at a precise temperature—usually requires either an expensive circulator to hold water at a constant temperature, or a large pot, a thermometer, and a lot of patience. For those of us with neither patience nor a water circulator, López-Alt devised a method that takes advantage of the heat-retaining qualities of a beer cooler: you add hot water to a cooler, put the salmon (or meat) into a Ziploc bag and squeeze all the air out, seal it, and put the bag into the water to cook.

Beer-cooler salmon is one of the more unusual techniques in López-Alt’s new book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science. López-Alt has been writing the Food Lab column (which is also about food science) for the website Serious Eats since 2009 and working on this book for almost that long. López-Alt wrote in a Serious Eats post that it was originally going to be 380 pages long, contain 100 recipes, and take a year to

complete; five years after he began work on it, The Food Lab weighs in at nearly a thousand pages and has 300 recipes.

López-Alt focuses on techniques more than recipes; while his recipes are excellent (and meticulously researched), the book is really intended for people who want to understand why cooking works the way it does. I’ll probably never make López-Alt’s “ultra-fluffy mashed potatoes” because I don’t have a ricer or food mill (or any interest in buying either one), but now that I know rinsing the starch from the cut potatoes before and after cooking makes for fluffier mashed potatoes, I’ve started doing that, and it seems to make a difference.

The book’s length, coupled with the fact that it explores cooking scientifically, may make it seem intimidating. But for every fussy technique and complicated recipe (there are a few, though not many), López-Alt offers advice that actually makes cooking easier. For example, contrary to popular belief, dried pasta cooked in a small pot with just enough water to cover it turns out just fine, and it really doesn’t matter whether or not the water is boiling when you add the noodles—or if it boils at all.

López-Alt, who graduated from MIT and is a former test cook and editor for Cook’s Illustrated magazine, is obsessive in his investigation of classic cooking techniques and recipes. He’ll repeat the same cooking experiment over and over again, changing different variables until he figures out the best and easiest way to cook whatever he’s making.

And the emphasis is on simplicity as much as perfection: López-Alt is always trying to eliminate unnecessary steps.

Even the sous vide salmon, which may sound complicated, is pretty easy to make.

Getting the water in the cooler to the exact temperature you need is a fiddly business, but after you’ve got that worked out all you have to do is wait for the salmon to cook through.

(To help the cooler retain heat, you wrap it in a towel.) López-Alt writes that the tender salmon “literally melts in your mouth,” which

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is true—and a little disconcerting. I felt like I was eating salmon custard, which was nice for the first few bites, until it wasn’t. I would’ve tried panfrying it to create a crust on the outside, but I suspected the soft salmon would disintegrate in the pan. I’d still try the beer-cooler technique with meat that gets finished with a quick sear.

I was skeptical, however, about López-Alt’s technique for making hard-boiled eggs. He explains that eggs started in cold water that’s heated gradually will stick to their shells, making them difficult to peel, but eggs cooked in boiling water from start to finish will overcook on the outside before they’re done on the inside. His solution: drop eggs into boiling water (up to six eggs in a three-quart saucepan), boil for 30 seconds, then add 12 ice cubes—yes, exactly 12—which cools the water down so the eggs don’t cook too quickly. Return the water to a subsimmer (about 190 degrees Fahrenheit) and cook for 11 minutes.

I’ve been hard-boiling eggs for years using the method that everyone on the Internet seems to favor—start eggs in cold water, bring to a boil, then turn off the heat, cover the pan, and let it sit for about ten minutes— and López-Alt’s method seemed like too much of a pain to be worth it. I tried it out, though, muttering under my breath the whole time about ridiculous cooking techniques, ready to go back to my tried-and-true method the next time I needed to boil eggs. But then I tried peeling one of the eggs, and the shell practically fell off. The same thing happened with the next egg in the batch, and the next. A couple months later, I still haven’t used any other method to hard-boil eggs. That might sound like a small thing, but (as I’m sure López-Alt would agree) cooking is really about technique. Reading the Food Lab column and now the cookbook has fundamentally changed the way I cook, one technique at a time. vR THE FOOD LAB: BETTER HOME COOKING THROUGH SCIENCE By J. Kenji López-Alt (Norton)

IN HER LATEST HOUR-LONG special, One of the Greats, Chelsea Peretti took aim at the sexist idea that female comedians lean too heavily on menstruation for material. If men bled from their penises, she said, they’d never shut up about it, especially onstage. But when a woman dares mention her reproductive organs, in conversation and especially in comedy, it touches off a collective male groan.

That certainly won’t be the case at the East Room’s Planned Parenthood Stand Up Benefit, featuring a powerhouse lineup of local ladies: Reena Calm, Ali Clayton, Kristin Clifford, and Natalie Jose. Together they’re some of the strongest voices in Chicago comedy right now, each speaking her mind about body image, family life, the contemporary plight of women, and whatever else she damn well pleases.

Clayton is a bisexual southern belle obsessed with her mother’s celebrity obsession: “My mom tells me Steve Harvey is her favorite comedian.

I tell her Roseanne is my favorite mom.” Clifford is a wannabe police officer who has accepted she’s just not cut out for the job: “I run slower than I walk, and I would just make tiny gestures at criminals,” she says. “It doesn’t work.” As a kid Calm thought she’d be happy if she were cool— now she just thinks it would be cool if she were happy. And Jose spends her summers slinging beer at music festivals, where she’s learned a very valuable lesson: “It’s so important that kids have a place to go to do drugs.”

Rounding out the show is the night’s lone male performer, Nicholas Rouley, who is very funny in his own right. v—BRIANNA WELLEN PLANNED PARENTHOOD STAND UP BENEFIT, Wed

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Love in the time of revolution A SINGLE MONTH spent in Cuba in 1958 as a sailor enveloped in a love affair left a lasting impression on artist George Klauba. His latest exhibit at the Ann Nathan Gallery, “Cuba: Rebels, Orishas, & 26 Julio,” is built on that impression. He uses, as he puts it, a “mix of imagination and fact” to examine a world embroiled by upheaval and rebellion.

Klauba’s 20 paintings, executed in acrylic on panel, are striking to look upon, both as a collection and individually. He deftly combines realistic detail with fantastical imagery, such as in Ochosis’s Purification of the Hunt, where a soldier stands at the ready, shirt opened to the navel as though sweltering in the heat.

But his head has been replaced by the head of a stag, calling into question the nature of hunter and hunted in times of uprising.

In homage to his brief romance, Klauba features woman revolutionaries prominently in this collection, as well as period postage

stamps in reference to their correspondence after his departure. A Letter to Santa Barbara features a beautiful smiling woman, hands wrapped around a rifle. The dichotomy is fascinating, and while Klauba fills the painting with detail, he manages to do so without commenting on the politics behind the subject.

My favorite piece in this collection is Octubre 26 1962. The date refers to the Cuban missile crisis, when it was learned that the Soviets were building nuclear missile bases in Cuba. A Cuban revolutionary stands defiant in front of a missile with a powerful bear draped around her shoulders. The sky behind them shines orange and red, harking back to a time when the cold war threatened to turn destructively hot.

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he cold open of With Bob and David contains a line that reminds us to rid ourselves of all expectation: “This ain’t no show, mister.” But as Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’s four-episode Netflix sketch special continues, it’s hard to shake the warm, fuzzy feeling that Mr. Show is indeed back.

From the cast of past featured players to the absurd concepts to the seamless transitions, it’s everything we loved from Bob and David when they first appeared onscreen together 20 years ago.

Before landing their HBO show, the duo worked on The Ben Stiller Show and Odenkirk had stints writing for Saturday Night Live and Late Night With Conan O’Brien. After Mr. Show ended in 1998, the comedians became household names separately, Cross in his role as Tobias Fünke on Arrested Development and Odenkirk playing Saul Goodman on Breaking Bad. So much has changed in the comedians’ lives and careers—and in comedy and humor more broadly—that it’s no wonder they would ask us to come to With Bob and David without preconceptions.

The first episode opens on Paul F. Tompkins and Jill Talley, who are soon joined by John Ennis, Jay Johnston, and Brian Posehn—a mini Mr. Show reunion. They don’t miss a beat.

In the first 30 minutes the humor ranges from the silly (a poop joke) to the bizarre (a Jewish-freelance-pope-who-works-from-home

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joke), which is classic Bob and David. Over the course of the series not every sketch is a bona fide home run. Still, it’s a joy to see everyone back together—with new additions, including Paget Brewtser and Keegan Michael-Key. And when Cross and Odenkirk do hit it out of the park, it’s a homer of Kyle Schwarber proportions. One of the best sketches of the series is a surprising and hilariously fresh spin on the good cop/bad cop concept. And seeing the duo tackling contemporary issues and pop culture is one of the show’s greatest delights. “Shark Kitchen,” another standout, parodies a Chopped-like reality show perfectly.

For longtime fans of Mr. Show, the cherry on this mustardayonnaise sundae is the surprise fifth episode, an hour-long behind-the-scenes documentary about the creation of the new series. It gives invaluable insight into the writers’ room, Cross and Odenkirk’s history of collaboration, and how exactly Tompkins kept the live audience warm between sketches.

The whole series (doc included) clocks in at only three hours, and is extremely rewatchable. Something Cross once exclaimed during a Mr. Show sketch about Ding Dong Burgers certainly applies to With Bob and David: Fuuuck—this little motherfucker’s tasty! v WITH BOB AND DAVID is available to stream on Netflix.

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At a community meeting early in the movie, city councilman Daniel Dromm avers that 167 different languages are spoken in Jackson Heights, which is home to immigrants from all over the planet. More remarkable than these facts, however, is that all these groups seem to live in relative harmony. The meeting in question, to plan the annual Queens gay pride parade, occurs at a Jewish community center; when Wiseman returns to this space later, someone notes ssss EXCELLENT

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Make the Road, a center for Spanish-speaking immigrants where much of the movie’s action takes place, also serves as the meeting site for transgender rights activists.

The latter issue makes In Jackson Heights one of Wiseman’s most topical movies, as do the scenes concerning gentrification.

Throughout the film small business owners meet to bemoan the encroaching influence of corporate interests on the neighborhood and worry about being priced out of their storefronts. Yet even in these scenes one recognizes a certain enthusiasm among the participants, who come together in the hope of creating a movement larger than themselves. The sense of despair is undercut by fascinating scenes of these small businesses operating; one of the most compelling sequences, set in a halal chicken shop, shows workers killing and preparing chickens for market. Such workaday activity, Wiseman implies, is just as important to the community as the political activity, and his pragmatic outlook grounds the film’s idealism. v IN JACKSON HEIGHTS ssss Directed by Frederick Wiseman. 189 min. Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State, 312-846-2800, siskelfilmcenter.org, $11.

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Perhaps the music lovers in your life would enjoy 23 CDs of the Isley Brothers, two decades of the Staple Singers, or a half century of rural southern sounds from County Records.

EVERY FALL, TO GIVE music lovers a few gift ideas during this jolliest time of the year, I review a pile of recent box sets. Releases like this are rarely geared to the casual listener, and it’s hard to gauge their success using commercial metrics—as sales of physical media continue to decline, expensive multidisc collections become increasingly niche oriented. I’ve tried to cast a broad net here, including not only folkloric compilations whose musicians are by and large known only to their friends and relatives but also a giant set by longrunning hit makers the Isley Brothers.

Most of these would make good gifts not for the average consumer but rather for the sort of person who’d be happy to listen to Bob Dylan rehearse and develop various versions of “Like a Rolling Stone” for the space of entire disc. If you choose wisely, you can make someone—but not just anyone—very happy.

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BOB DYLAN The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 (Columbia/Legacy) $149.98 The latest entry in this long-running Bob Dylan “bootleg” series pulls back the studio curtain on his creative process during one of his most potent periods, when he was making Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde on Blonde. I have the six-CD deluxe edition; also available are a modest two-CD version and an exhaustive 18-CD set that collects everything laid to tape during the sessions (it’s limited to 5,000 copies and costs $599.99). Even the six-CD collection isn’t for the casual fan: disc three contains nothing but the song “Like a Rolling Stone” in alternate takes, rehearsals, false starts, and incomplete versions. But in my experience Dylan fans are rarely casual, instead clinging to every word, vocal phrase, and instrumental flourish—and this set’s level of documentation, whether you think it’s ridiculously excessive or not, makes it possible to follow the development of one of the greatest rock songs of all time. The earliest takes employ waltz time, and you can hear Dylan and his band feeling things out (at least until he announces, “My voice is gone”). During a series of rehearsals recorded the next day, the song evolves into its familiar shape—and the set also includes several versions recorded after the one that ended up on Highway 61 Revisited.

Throughout the collection, Dylan experiments with language, the shapes of words, and the band’s approach to his loose musical sketches—changes between takes make it clear how much input the players had. Dylan is so pleasantly surprised by some of the dazzling lines that Chicago blues guitarist Mike

Bloomfield improvises during the Highway 61 Revisited sessions that he loses his place in the music. On a loose first take of “Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again,” the band performs in 6/8, and Dylan is still refining his phrasing; they’re miles from the sharp drive immortalized on take 15, and it’s fascinating to hear how they get from point A to point B. Obviously the partial takes have limited repeat-listening value, but most of the complete alternates are satisfying in their own right, thanks to the excellence of all the musicians involved. The Cutting Edge also includes a beautiful 120-page hardbound book filled with detailed liner notes, song annotations, and rare photos from the era.

THE ISLEY BROTHERS The RCA Victor & T-Neck Album Masters (1959-1983) (Sony Music/Legacy) $179.98 I can’t think of a pop act that’s stayed successful, creative, and urgent for as long as the mighty Isley Brothers. Ronald Isley was there during the early days of rock ’n’ roll, singing gospel-driven hits such as “Shout” and “Twist and Shout,” and his silken voice sounded equally at home at Motown, on psychedelic soul numbers, and on proto-slow jams. He’s still making records, and though some of the lyrics are idiotic, he’s managed to sound credible produced by R. Kelly, who’s long cited the Isleys as an influence. This veritable brick of CDs—a total of 23—collects just about everything the Isley Brothers recorded during their peak years (excepting a mid-60s stint at Motown), loading each album with bonus tracks such as mono versions, single edits, and disco mixes. The set includes In the Beginning,

a previously released compilation of recordings the group did with a young Jimi Hendrix in 1964-’65 (prefiguring Ernie Isley’s wild, flanged guitar playing, which would become as much a trademark of the group as Ronald’s satiny croon), as well as a couple of live albums, among them the previously unreleased Wild in Woodstock, taped in 1980 in front of a small crowd at Bearsville Studios and rejected

by CBS Records (which distributed the Isley’s own T-Neck imprint).

It’s great to have the group’s classics together in one place. There’s the 1971 album Givin’ It Back, where the Isleys remade Vietnam-era protest songs such as “Ohio” and “Machine Gun” in their own creamy, expansive style. The 1973 gem 3 + 3 includes their most famous hit, “That Lady” (it stings that I think of Swiffer when I hear it, thanks to those commercials), as well as an indelible cover of “Summer Breeze.” And the title track of the 1983 quietstorm masterpiece Between the Sheets has been sampled by Notorious B.I.G. (for “Big Poppa”) as well as by Jay Z, Common, Da Brat, Whitney Houston, Usher, and countless others.

STAPLE SINGERS Faith & Grace: A Family Journey 1953-1976 (Stax) $59.99 The Staple Singers, one of gospel’s most important and enduring groups, finally get the deluxe treatment they deserve on this essential four-CD set, which collects material made for several labels over more than three decades. The collection opens with a single they recorded for Chicago imprint United, which is missing the tremolo guitar arpeggios by group leader Roebuck “Pops” Staples, a trademark of their early material—instead it uses the J

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ard Nevins, and onetime employee Barry Poss (who went on to found influential bluegrass imprint Sugar Hill) contribute concise memories of the label’s history. As much as I love old-time music, I’m no expert, and I hadn’t heard of most of the players here—I knew only fiddler Benton Flippen, guitarist E.C. Ball, and Carter Family scions Joe and Janette Carter.

These 113 tracks—a few by fiery bluegrass bands, but most featuring just one or two folks, demonstrating a passionate, soulful homespun virtuosity—sound as alive and electric as almost anything I’ve heard in 2015.

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label-sanctioned piano of gospel great Evelyn Gay. By the time the Staple Singers started working with Vee-Jay in 1955, though, that guitar sound had become a tell-tale sign that you were about to hear a Staple Singers song, with either Mavis’s low, throaty voice or Pops’s smooth croon caressed by mixed-gender harmonizing that was unusual at the time. Pops had a deep knowledge of tradition, bringing together old spirituals, modern tunes, and even white gospel numbers—the group’s version of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” is as definitive as the Carter Family’s, for example.

By the early 60s the Staple Singers had become stars of the gospel circuit, and Pops saw a chance to reach a larger audience via the folk revival. (The group had been playing folk festivals, and along the way they discovered Bob Dylan.) In 1963 they recorded Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” in their usual format, and a few years later harder drums and driving bass turned up on their version of “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.” As the decade progressed the Staple Singers’ arrangements grew thicker, tapping into funk and hard soul, which led to a fruitful stint at Stax beginning in 1968. The group even took on some secular material, though the songs carried messages that fit right in with their spirituality—some of the best examples are the massive 1971 hits “Respect Yourself” and “I’ll Take You There,” as well as the collaborations with Curtis Mayfield that end the set. The package includes a great 58-page booklet filled with photos, essays, and discographical info, as well as a seven-inch single featuring the Staple Singers’ first recordings, “Faith and Grace” and “These Are They.”

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VARIOUS ARTISTS Folksongs of Another America: Field Recordings From the Upper Midwest, 1937-1946 (University of Wisconsin/Dust-to-Digital) $60 The remarkable Dust-to-Digital label has taken its ethnographic releases to a new level by partnering with academic presses to complement the music with research and writing by devoted scholars. The five CDs in this set collect fieldwork by Alan Lomax and several other ethnographers, who ventured deep into Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota between 1937 and 1946 to compile a broad portrait of folk traditions in the area. Music brought by immigrants from Lithuania, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, Serbia, Sweden, and elsewhere—sometimes stylistically pure, sometimes weirdly Americanized—is complemented by music of Native Americans (Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe, and Oneida), French Canadians, and African-Americans.

Lomax wrote of his discoveries in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, “I felt that there was enough material in the region for years of work.”

Musicologists routinely overlook the midwest in favor of the south, which enjoys the advantage of having spawned blues and country. Taken on its own terms, though, the upper midwest is a treasure trove—not so long ago, all kinds of traditions coexisted in a rich multicultural fabric. Scholar James P. Leary provides invaluable background, annotating each folkloric collection and every track. The Wisconsin Lumberjacks, for instance, whose music fills one of the discs, were a troupe of lumberjacks from several mill towns along the Red Cedar and Flambeau rivers in the northern part of the

state; they formed to share the diverse culture of the workers at folk festivals in Chicago and Washington, D.C. (where the recordings were made). The set also includes a DVD of silent performance footage shot by Lomax that’s accompanied by music he recorded.

VARIOUS ARTISTS Legends of Old-Time Music: Fifty Years of County Records (County) $59.98 New Yorker Dave Freeman founded County Records in 1963 to reissue the sort of rural southern music he first encountered on an early-50s family road trip to New Orleans. His father tuned into regional radio stations along the way, and Freeman was riveted by the mountain music and early bluegrass he heard. Two years after starting the label, whose name refers to the way musical styles vary from county to county, he met a Chicago fiddler, Charles Faurot, who suggested they cut their own records with musicians from Virginia and North Carolina—and before long County’s excellent field recordings began to eclipse its reissues. This magnificent four-CD box collects string music from the label’s early years through the 1980s.

Some of the musicians represented—including banjo player Wade Ward and singer-guitarist Eldridge Montgomery—had previously recorded with Alan Lomax for the Library of Congress, but most of the folks here were introduced to the world at large by County.

The set includes a 28-page LP-size booklet with short bios of the musicians and annotations for the obscure and familiar songs they perform. Freeman, Faurot, fellow owner Rich-

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND The Complete Matrix Tapes (Polydor/UME) $51.99 This four-CD collection rounds up the extant live recordings of performances the Velvet Underground gave at influential San Francisco rock club the Matrix on November 26 and 27, 1969, when the group’s second lineup—Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, and Doug Yule—were based in the Bay Area. Some of this music has previously been released— on a deluxe reissue of the group’s self-titled third album, on 1969: The Velvet Underground Live, and as part of the box set The Quine Tapes—but by compiling everything available from those two evenings, The Complete Matrix Tapes delivers a laser-focused snapshot of this influential band well after their graduation from their Warhol-guided phase.

The Velvet Underground’s third album—their first studio effort with Yule—had been released in March ’69, and it introduced the cleaner, strummier sound that’s familiar from classics such as “What Goes On,” “Pale Blue Eyes,” and “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” At these shows the band apply that new aesthetic—where Reed and Morrison lock together gleefully in a mesmerizing, propulsive rhythmic backand-forth—to their earlier repertoire, giving a steadier drive to one of several versions of “Heroin,” an appropriately narcotic gait to “I’m Waiting for the Man,” and a swinging, accelerating-decelerating rock ’n’ roll groove to “Sister Ray,” with the usual waves of crushing feedback replaced by extended strings of fuzzed-out solos. Reed changes some lyrics too, singing a different verse from the studio version in “Sweet Jane.” This set isn’t for the casual VU fan, but getting lost in it—this fleeting moment was a real peak of the band’s middle period— has proved pretty addictive for me. v

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a slog—the embers of pop prowess catch fire once the band selects a direction. Marrow’s successes come when they check their ambition for the sake of mood and traverse the road laid out by aughties indie-rock outfits who share their earnest appreciation for bygone soft rock (never forget that Grizzly Bear once enlisted Michael McDonald to sing on a remix of “While You Wait for the Others”). When keyboardist, guitarist, and vocalist Macie Stewart takes the lead on “Cities,” her lustrous, tender vocals guide the track from its somber beginning to its growling peak. The stylistic breadth of The

Gold Standard should benefit this show—but at the very least it makes the odd pairing with roots-loving opener Al Scorch feel less unorthodox. The recent Bloodshot Records signee plays folky bluegrass with a fiery punk spirit, which is nicely documented in a live recording with his Country Soul Ensemble, May’s Live at the Spirit Store. Scorch speeds through songs with charismatic aplomb, one about seeking self-validation, another about a mystery pill provided by a stranger. “If you want to move some of those tables and dance,” Scorch urges the audience at his set in Dundalk, Ireland, “just knock ’em over—I mean, stack them gently on top of each J

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SATURDAY28 Baroness Earthling open. 9 PM, Beat Kitchen, 2100 W. Belmont, sold out. 17+ Nobody’s ever done Baroness any favors by calling them “metal.” I like this Georgia band’s music not in spite of but sometimes thanks to its corny southern-rock flavor, life-affirming sentimentality, and what front man and guitarist John Baizley himself has described as his pompous, self-aware poeticism—but that combination is Kryptonite to a certain kind of metalhead. I still remember a 2009 Village Voice piece that derided Baroness’s “stoner-metalmeets-Ford-truck-jingle approach.” Would such a listener tolerate the band’s aspirational leanings any better on the new Purple (due December 18 on their own Abraxan Hymns label), given that it’s their first album since a catastrophic 2012 tour-bus crash that left Baizley with titanium plates in his reconstructed elbow? (Bassist Matt Maggioni and drummer Allen Blickle, who both broke vertebrae, departed amicably in spring 2013 and were replaced by Nick Jost and Trans Am alumnus Sebastian Thomson.) I’m gonna say no, because Baroness’s triumphalism has

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Even before the crash, he called the band’s music “self-psychiatry”—and Purple is more cathartic and concise than its predecessor, the sprawling Yellow & Green. The record’s hothouse lushness, contributed in large part by producer Dave Fridmann, can sometimes feel a bit airless, but I love its startlingly powerful shifts in texture and density—and thumbsup to the “Fat Bottomed Girls”-style double-drumkit fills at the end of “Kerosene” and the searing, stadium-size twin-guitar cock-rock flourishes in “Chlorine & Wine.” Baroness will also visit the Reckless Records in Wicker Park (1379 N. Milwaukee) today at 2 PM for a record signing and in-store performance. —PHILIP MONTORO

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The highlight, though, may be “Your Man Is Home Tonight,” on which Clayton’s quivering, choked delivery bespeaks an almost unbearable erotic tension—here making love to one’s own spouse sounds sexier than any hookup or back-door booty call.

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Health Pictureplane open. 9 PM, Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, $14, $12 in advance.

The malevolently dreamy pop-rock on Health’s current album, this summer’s Death Magic (Loma Vista), fitfully erupts into colossal blares of serrated, barely pitched noise—on the opening track, “Victim,” they sound like the ersatz basso profundo horn that movie trailers use to announce the appearance of an invading alien spacecraft or city-destroying monster. There are no monsters in the world of Death Magic, but the lost kids in the sinister demimonde of its parallel Los Angeles seem as isolated from human society as the castaways in Lord of the Flies—there’s no severed boar’s head, but there’s plenty of confusion, anomie, and casual emotional bloodlet-

ting. The lyrics to “Life” sum up the atmosphere: “Too high to sleep / Too tired to try,” front man Jake Duzsik sings, sounding simultaneously sweet and dead-eyed. And the bouncy, catchy chorus consists mostly of the repeated line “I don’t know what I want,” delivered in a gentle, anesthetized monotone. For this album Health overhauled their already distinctive aesthetic with the help of producers Andrew Dawson (a longtime Kanye West collaborator), Lars Stalford (who’s worked with the Mars Volta and post-Crystal Castles Alice Glass), and Bobby Krlic (aka the Haxan Cloak). Chattering dance beats mesh with thundering acoustic drums, and the mix’s vivid convolutions of prismatic electronics make it almost impossible to tell which sounds might have originated from a guitar. The music’s synthetic dislocations, which unmoor it from the grubby reality of taped-up cables and battered amplifier cabinets, mirror the decadent numbness of the lyrics.

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release from local label Bullet City Records, the new Bless the Destroyer continues the onslaught of last year’s Mourn the Black Lotus, because this is very much a WYSIWYG band: long, burbling, rasping tracks sometimes build to a sort of architectural grandeur, but they never quite lose their grinding undercurrents of sonic nihilism. “Caverns of the Templar” hints at a war-game-like backstory with its postindustrial influence, and the 15-minute “Bastard Child” impressively maintains a sense of raw filth throughout its long build and unconventional use of vocals. I don’t hear anything that grabs me quite as hard as Mourn’s rumbling, roiling, nearly 17-minute epic “Clairvoyant,” but then I remember that one took a while to really grow on me.

—MONICA KENDRICK

Code Orange Terror headline; Code Orange, Take Offense, Malfunction, and King Nine open.

6 PM, Reggie’s Rock Club, 2105 S. State, $15. b Once Pittsburgh’s Code Orange Kids outgrew their name and did away with their young-buck youthfulness, it seemed high time for them to incorporate more brooding, intense, and misanthropic eccentricities into their onslaught of metal-tinged hardcore-punk. Mission accomplished with last year’s I Am King (Deathwish), a sophomore album recorded by Converge’s Kurt Ballou that’s at its most lethal when the foursome hark back to the hateful chugchug-chugging guitars and deep-grinding bass lines that the early-aughts hardcore revival helped popularize (“Slow Burn” and Unclean Spirit” are pretty fun and pretty brutal, for instance, and occasionally recall old-school Poison the Well). The thing is that Code Orange very often meander from that bread and butter via complicated breakdown time changes, dark and whispery introspective vocals, and the occasional nu-metal-inflected compressed groove.

Fortunately it never knocks the album too far off course—the fierceness of a gutsy ripper like “Your Body Is Ready” is like putting a kilo of smelling salts half an inch from your nose. —KEVIN WARWICK

SUNDAY29 Car Seat Headrest Varsity open. 8 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, $12. 18+ In 2010 17-year-old Will Toledo began recording and sharing his music via Bandcamp under the moniker Car Seat Headrest (named after the audience he had in the back of his parents’ car, where he recorded his earliest stuff), and over the last five years he’s made available 11 albums of homemade, overdubbed indie rock. Last fall he moved to suburban Seattle from his native Leesburg, Virginia, and put together a band to play 11 of the tunes that were scattered across those online offerings. The new Teens of Style (Matador) is still a lo-fi affair—more than a little recalling the sound of early hook-laden Guided by Voices, though without the Who fixation—but it also has an ambitious pop vision that encompasses rich vocal harmonies, dense arrangements, and introspective lyrics. Toledo reveals tender youth in songs that communicate the sharp sting of teenage romance, fleeting idealism, and old-school existentialism, and though his wordiness and occasion-

MUSIC ally myopic worldview may reveal his age, there’s a sense of reflection that transcends it. Some musical editing could’ve helped here and there on Teens of Style, but Toledo’s melodic gifts equal his level of introspection and promise big things in the near future. —PETER MARGASAK

Chris Potter 5 and 8 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music, 4545 N. Lincoln, $25, $23 members. A In the last few years reedist Chris Potter—arguably one of the most influential saxophonists of the last two decades—has pursued a series of bold projects, expanding beyond the postbop foundation he built his career on. Earlier this year he reached a new level of ambition with Imaginary Cities (ECM), an orchestral outing that focuses more on his writing and arranging than his protean skills as a soloist. I admire artists who devote themselves to trying new things, but despite a rhythm section that includes two basses, guitar, piano, mallet percussion, and drums, the results feel a bit lugubrious, leaving the leader’s improvisational brio stranded in some sonic mud. Thankfully he hasn’t forsaken his roots, and this weekend he returns to town fronting an excellent rhythm team in bassist Scott Colley and drummer Adam Cruz, a limber duo who will not only help show off Potter’s deep-seated harmonic mastery but also remind listeners just how hard he can swing. —PETER MARGASAK

MONDAY30 Sylvie Courvoisier See also Wednesday.

Solo performance. 7:30 PM, Experimental Sound Studio, 5925 N. Ravenswood, $10, $5 members and students. b

WEDNESDAY2 The Arcs 8 PM, the Vic, 3145 N. Sheffield, $38.50. 18+ For his new collaborative project Dan Auerbach doesn’t travel far from the path of his main band, the Black Keys. His voice—both as a singer and aesthetic force—dominates the Arcs’ debut, Yours, Dreamily (Nonesuch), where he’s joined by an assortment of musicians who either tour as a member of the Keys (like bassist Richard Swift) or pursue iterations of postmodern old-school soul (like Sharon Jones’s drummer Homer Steinweiss and multi-instrumentalist Leon Michels of neosoul production crew Truth & Soul). On Yours Auerbach luxuriates in an instrumental setting that’s more lush than what he’s developed elsewhere, to say nothing of the hip-hop and psychedelic production flourishes. While his confessional lyrics are utterly forgettable, the melodies and arrangements are impressive: fuzzed-out guitar leads snake through loping grooves during the dubbed-out throb of “Everything You Do (You Do for You)” and the lilting psychsoul of “Stay in My Corner,” with Auerbach affecting a creamy Curtis Mayfield falsetto on the latter.

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not seem irrelevant. Courvoisier will also play solo and discuss her work with Ken Vandermark on Monday night at Experimental Sound Studio at 7:30 PM. —PETER MARGASAK

Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman 8:30 PM, Constellation, 3111 N. Western, $20, $15 in advance. 18+

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Based in New York, Swiss pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist (and Chicago native) Mark Feldman have long been one of improvised music’s most dynamic couples. They’re remarkable technicians who routinely erase lines between jazz and contemporary classical music while never limiting their curiosity in terms of style or discipline. Over a series of diverse quartet recordings they’ve occasionally embraced swinging, propulsive, and even raucous rhythms, especially on their 2013 album with bassist Scott Colley and drummer Billy Mintz, Birdies for Lulu (Intakt). Throughout, Feldman’s exquisite tone and refined phrasing have remained undiminished, as has his telepathic communication with Courvoisier. This week the duo make a rare local performance, where their interests in both composition and pure improvisation will be highlighted. The duo’s superb 2013 album Live at Théàtre Vidy-Lausanne (Intakt) covers lots of territory, sometimes within a single piece: Feldman’s “Five Senses of Keen” is an episodic gem with an expansive reach that includes some dazzling international influences, from Romani-like strumming inside the piano to baroque violin ornamentation that suggests the Indian Dhrupad vocal tradition. The album also includes four bracing improvisations that collectively are another testament to the simpatico musical bond between Courvoisier and Feldman: the elegant push and pull make knowing what’s written and what’s

For better or worse, the Get Up Kids’ landmark second LP, 1999’s melodramatic Something to Write Home About, helped spearhead the early-aughts emo revival that paved the way for the genre’s good, bad, and ugly to become whiny rock stars.

After riding the wave of that record’s popularity, Kansas City’s the Get Up Kids recorded their obligatory introspective, folk-tinted LP (2002’s On a Wire) and followed that with an attempt at a return to form (2004’s Guilt Show) before calling it a day in 2005. Nostalgia eventually came calling, and a few years later they reunited and toured to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Something to Write Home About—and they’ve kind of just stuck around since, even writing and recording an album of new material in the process. On 2011’s There Are Rules the band tries out a bunch of indie-rock subgenres that they’d never really messed with in the past. They experiment with synths and electronics and straight-up punk, but though it’s kind of interesting, in this day and age that’s not what people want from the Get Up Kids. They’re more suited to the nostalgia circuit—because they’ll always be better soundtracking memories of your first break-up or your first time getting drunk. This tour celebrates the 20th anniversary of the beloved adolescent staple’s formation, and I bet that made you feel really old all of a sudden. —LUCA CIMARUSTI v

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But it also has at its helm John McLean, the Levy Restaurants vet who opened two competent but unremarkable restaurants near the unnavigable North/Halsted/Clybourn clusterfuck: Burger Bar and Sono Wood Fired. And, well, Spanish is the new pizza these last few years, so why not? For that McLean tapped a relatively unknown veteran of Mercat a la Planxa as his chef de cuisine: Mark Sabbe, a former sous chef who should be noticed.

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pizzas, and five large entrees. While not purely a tapas bar in the way of Wicker Park’s Bom Bolla, for example, Sociale has accommodations for big eaters that don’t get in the way. In fact, there are some outstanding big plates for those who want to commit to something more substantial than just a drink and a snack.

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works. The traditional onion-and-potato Spanish tortilla, artfully arranged and studded with spinach, is striped with saffron aioli; grilled octopus is so tender it’s basically shellfish butter arranged among tart pickled fennel and smoky charred grapefruit.

More elaborate small plates like a chicken thigh in chorizo-and-white-bean stew and a soupy duck-confit cassoulet with sweet balsamic fennel (that bears little relation to a traditional cassoulet) almost make meals unto themselves.

Others are truly snacky: deep-fried olives burst brinily from their battered shells; skewers of pork belly are wrapped in serrano ham and drizzled with concentrated sherry jus; tiny chorizos are wrapped in potato sheets and deep-fried until crispy; brittle sizzling orbs of brandade crack open to reveal their soft hot-potato-and-salt-cod cores; large irregular lamb meatballs have enough gamy goodness to punch through a bright, thick tomato sauce.

You could happily work your way through this tapas menu, sipping away at the small but varied list of wines by the glass, or even a winey cocktail such as the Lisbon (bourbon, sweet vermouth, port). But to ignore the wood-fired flatbreads (what those outside of the restaurant industry call “pizza”) and the larger entrees would be to ignore the potent unsung talent hidden in this kitchen. Thin ovoid pies are rolled out to order and painted with house-smoked salmon and creme fraiche or, say, chorizo, Manchego, pickled red onion, and serrano bechamel and emerge blistered

and bubbling. The Brie with bacon and onions, sprinkled with grated egg yolk, would make an ideal breakfast pizza if they fired up the oven during their morning cafe hours.

That oven turns out some remarkable entrees too, among them whole roasted branzino, roast chicken, and giant grilled red prawns that form a pyramid, their juices seeping into a pile of creamy saffron rice. But down at the very bottom of the menu is listed a pair of pork chops from the same black-hooved, acornfinished pigs used to make jamon iberico.

These are stunning pieces of meat, almost steaklike in texture and flavor. Served rare and full of fatty juices, they almost render the accompanying parsnip puree and chorizo-olive escabeche irrelevant. You’ll want to tear into these like a tiger.

I encountered a few duds during my visits to Sociale: a dry, unlovely butter cake scattered haphazardly with raisins; underfried patatas bravas going soggy under too much red sauce; a sludgy eggplant-lentil soup that could’ve been brightened by more of the piquillo-pepper-infused yogurt garnish.

But the very last thing I ate at Sociale was the bougatsa: soft, sweet semolina custard wrapped in a crispy phyllo pocket dressed with orange-blossom honey in a large puddle of frothy sabayon infused with the herbal liqueur genepi. It’s the kind of dessert that won’t allow you to forget a very good restaurant that, at least outwardly, seems to want to be forgotten. v

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○ Watch a video of Scott Manley working with crabapples in the kitchen—and get the recipe—at chicagoreader.com/food.

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CRABAPPLE STRUDEL WITH GRILLED CRABAPPLE ICE CREAM WOOD-GRILLED CRABAPPLE ICE CREAM

275 G SUGAR 10 EGG YOLKS 300 ML MILK, WARMED 300 ML CREAM 200 G GRILLED AND STEWED CRABAPPLES (SEASON BEFORE GRILLING WITH SALT AND OLIVE OIL) 5 G SALT Cook egg yolks to 72 degrees Celsius in a circulator. Add the milk and sugar to a blender (the milk has to be warm enough to dissolve the sugar) and let cool a bit before adding eggs.

After blending well, add the grilled crabapple puree, cream, and salt. Blend again, then spin in an ice cream maker to freeze.

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many varieties of crabapple, they’re generally bred for their flowers rather than their fruit, though crabapples, which are high in pectin, do make good jelly.

Manley used his apples two ways: he grilled some over an open fire, cooked them down even more, and then blended them with milk, cream, sugar, and egg yolks to make an ice cream base. The rest he macerated with sugar and malic acid (to make up for the lack of tartness in the apples themselves). After being cooked down, the apples served as the filling for a crabapple strudel.

“I used to do strudel more,” Manley says, “but they’re kind of a pain in the ass. You’re supposed to get [the dough] thin enough that you can read a love letter through it.” He’s even got a theory about why the old wisdom specifies a love letter: “If you’re writing a love letter you’re probably using a very soft touch, so the print might not be as dark. You’re not jabbing at it, like, I FUCKING LOVE YOU!”

CRABAPPLE FILLING

1,000 G CRABAPPLES 200 G SUGAR 10 G MALIC ACID 10 G SALT

Tarting up crabapples RABAPPLES are technically edible, but as anyone who’s bitten into one can tell you, most aren’t anything you’d really want to eat. SCOTT MANLEY of TABLE, DONKEY AND STICK, who was challenged by HOMESTEAD’s CHRIS DAVIES to create a dish with crabapples, says he grew up near the town of Crabapple, Georgia. “We called them ‘crap apples,’” he says, and doesn’t remember trying to eat them much. “We knew better.”

Manley was expecting the crabapples he got to be very tart, and was disappointed to discover that they were like regular apples but mealier, with less flavor. “They’re kind of boring,” he says. (Because it’s late in the season for crabapples, Manley had trouble sourcing them, and couldn’t find any that were more to his liking.)

What distinguishes crabapples from the apples you’d buy in a grocery store isn’t their flavor but their size—crabapples are two inches or less in diameter. While there are

1 EGG 50 G BUTTER, MELTED 300 G WATER 15 G APPLE CIDER VINEGAR 600 G HIGH-GLUTEN FLOUR

Once Manley had his strudel dough stretched thin enough—which he did by hand, much like stretching pizza dough—he piped the filling onto it, brushed the dough with butter and rolled it up, then popped the pastry into the oven. Served with the grilled crabapple ice cream, the strudel was a simple-looking dessert that Manley says tastes like tart apple pie. “I don’t think anyone would be able to distinguish this as specifically crabapple in any way,” he says. “But it is delicious.” He might even put the ice cream on the menu—but not the strudel.

Cut apples into small to medium pieces.

Add sugar, malic acid, and salt; allow to macerate overnight. Cook down the next day until apples are mostly transparent.

Remove and put in a piping bag.

Combine all ingredients for dough, knead well, and stretch thin. Pipe crabapple filling along one side, brush dough with butter, roll up, and bake at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for about 15-20 minutes. Take it out and let it cool for about 15 minutes. Serve with ice cream.

WHO’S NEXT:

Manley has challenged CALEB TRAHAN of BREAD & WINE to create a dish with LAMB KIDNEYS. “It’s one of the few offal I don’t care for,” Manley says. “They’re kind of disgusting.” v

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smears of rich, voluptuous, and often salty sauces, strong flavors competing for attention in each dish, but little harmony or balance. The common denominator: a heavy hand with the salt.

Even Zumpano’s better dishes—and there are some good if flawed ones—could use a lighter touch. BYOB. —MIKE SULA 941 N. Damen, 773-661-6131, thecottonduck.com. Dinner: Sun, TueSat. Sun brunch.

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CANTINA 1910 ANDERSONVILLE

$$$$ Cantina 1910 is an ambitious project, two floors and a rooftop garden serving three squares a day, plus a weekend brunch.

It’s easily one of the best new restaurants of the year—Mexican or otherwise—and there’s no reason it shouldn’t be packed all day long. Diana Dávila’s is a chef full of surprises and ready to upend expectations of what Mexican food has to be. She pulls no punches when it comes to heat levels and intentionally bitter notes, and knows how to balance them with bright and assertive flavors. Take the esquites: a bowl of corn kernels, rich with brown butter spiced with morita chiles. Challenging proteins balanced by bright acidic notes contribute their bold flavors to items all over the menu, such as a plate of nachos loaded with thick, dark chili, pickled jalapeños, and thinly stripped fennel. Her puerco en cazuela, standing in as a kind of Mexican cassoulet, is loaded with rare pork loin, carnitas, chorizo, and chewy strips of skin. Meaty goat chorizo and mashed potatoes are considerably buoyed by a bright, ver-

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dant, herbal huatape verde sauce, while carne asada tacos are emboldened with the addition of chicken liver. Dávila presents a wide range of plating styles, from her fairly abstract arroz negro, swipes of inky black rice crossed with a kind of finely diced squid salsa, to a plate of simple greens atop thick smears of green goddess dressing with sprouted beans. The towering sesame cemita, worthy of its own visit, is one for the Sandwich Hall of Fame. Pastry chef Andrew Pingul has a wide range too, with warm churro loops and classic panaderia-style conchas for breakfast but also more upscale takes on familiar desserts, like a firm but still milky tres leches cake with dollops of boozy cajeta and thick cornchip-infused whipped cream.

— MIKE SULA 5025 N. Clark, 773-506-1910, cantina-1910.com.

Breakfast, lunch, dinner: daily.

Sat & Sun brunch. Open late: Fri & Sat till 11.

THE COTTON DUCK UKRAINIAN VILLAGE | $$$ The art gallery/restaurant (artstaurant?) presents a new menu every three months inspired by the work on its walls each time it mounts a show. The food of chef Dominic Zumpano, a veteran of suburban Highwood’s now-defunct PM Prime Steakhouse, and before that Milwaukee’s shuttered Umami Moto, has haute ambitions, lots of blank space on the plates, many squiggles and

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GREENRIVER GOLD COAST | $$$ New York restaurateur Danny Meyer’s first midwestern upscale barstaurant—a collaboration with the fellows behind NYC’s celebrated cocktail bar Dead Rabbit—is located high up in a Northwestern medical center.

They’ve created, in a sense, an Irish bar high above the Gold Coast. At least in spirit. The cocktails are overseen by former Aviary head bartender Julia Momose. Each cocktail is named for some aspect of or character in Chicago Irish-American history. The ones I tried were as good as any you’ll find in the city’s better bars. The cuisine is certainly not drinking food in any classical sense. What it is is very well-executed but unsurprising new-American food. Chef Aaron Lirette (Celeste, MK, Acadia) throws no bombs; there’s nothing outre or odd to correspond with the cocktails. There are oysters, a burger, roast chicken, steak for two—just the sort of familiar comforts you might need coming off a double shift in the ER. The only dish with any real proletarian balls is a pile of chicken oysters. About the only executional error I encountered was a red-wine risotto that was far too salty. Dessert seems undersold, as if the doctors would disapprove, with just three off-menu choices. A terrace offers commanding views of the nearby skyline. —MIKE SULA 259 E. Erie, 312-337-0101, greenriverchi.com. Lunch: MonFri; dinner: Mon-Sat. Open late: Sat till 11. v

Punch House ! KATIE GRAVES

sees the beverage program.

—MIKE SULA 1201 E. Delaware, 312-943-5000, drumbar.com.

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

The cocktails themselves tended toward the sweet. But partners Robert Haynes and Henry Prendergast promise to refresh the menu frequently, and a special Malort cocktail I sampled on a return visit should be a sign of better things to come—sweet and fruity up front and bitter on the finish. Analogue is a boite as well as a restaurant and bar: at 11 PM the kitchen closes and the tables are cleared to make way for DJs and musicians. —MIKE SULA 2523 N. Milwaukee, 773-904-8567, analoguechicago.com.

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BAR DEVILLE UKRAINIAN VILLAGE DeVille’s reputation as a craft cocktail destination has always been somewhat exaggerated— there’s never been a dedicated menu, and your chances of getting a complicated drink vary depending on when you go (the earlier the better). But it’s a great neighborhood bar that’s been staffed by some of the most companionable bartenders in the city—who nonetheless suffer no douchebags. There’s a tight but worthy selection of whiskey, rum,

and craft beers on tap. Cash only.

—MIKE SULA 701 N. Damen, 312929-2349, bardeville.com.

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BARRELHOUSE FLAT LINCOLN PARK The deliciously overwhelming cocktail list is a nod to the voluminous offerings over at the Violet Hour, where Barrelhouse partner Stephen Cole spent countless hours muddling and tincturing. The Elk’s Own, one of two whiskey cocktails available under the “Egg” header—there are six more egg-frothed drinks of the gin, cognac, and pisco varieties—combined bonded rye, port, lemon, simple syrup, Angostura bitters, and egg white in a perfect antidote to noisy Lincoln Parkers who stumbled in and out. —MARA SHALHOUP 2624 N. Lincoln, 773-8570421, barrelhouseflat.com.

DRUMBAR NEAR NORTH SIDE This bar at the top of the Gold Coast’s Raffaello Hotel hasn’t made much impact on locals, much less serious drinkers—the Miami-based ownership has placed more emphasis on clubby, see-and-be-seen South Beachstyle hoo-ha than on bringing in regulars. That’s really too bad, because not only is the rooftop a gorgeous spot, the interior of the bar is pretty swell: dark, comfortable, and clubby in another sort of way. Alex Renshaw, late of Sable, over-

LOST LAKE AVONDALE Paul McGee’s escape from Three Dots and a Dash yields better music, better crowds, better overall tiki vibe, and the same talented staff he trained under Empire Lettuce. The drinks remain powerfully boozy and sweet yet complex, and the rum list is as deep as the Mariana Trench. — MIKE SULA 3154 W. Diversey, 773-293-6048, lostlaketiki.com.

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PUNCH HOUSE PILSEN This concept from the team behind Longman & Eagle is even more ambitious and impressive than Michelin-starred L&E itself. Here they’ve transformed Pilsen’s historic Thalia Hall into a restaurant, Dusek’s, and an upstairs concert venue as well as this basement bar. In addition to a bar menu from executive chef Jared Wentworth, Punch House offers eight contemporary and classic punches by the glass, carafe, or bowl. Don’t miss the tangy Sanyal, with curry-infused pisco, citrus, and chile—you can drink it while taking in the violet glow of the fish tank behind the bar. —TAL ROSENBERG 1227 W. 18th, 312-526-3851, punchhousechicago.com.

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SPORTSMAN’S CLUB HUMBOLDT PARK Heisler Hospitality’s revamp of an old Polish dive, featuring craft beers and “spirit-forward” cocktails from barmen Wade McElroy (Trenchermen, Barrelhouse Flat) and Jeff Donahue (Barrelhouse Flat, the Aviary). Sporting the occasional dead animal head, the bar is cash only, with a package goods license allowing for takeout, a daily rotating cocktail list, and an amaro machine spitting out blended shots. —MIKE SULA 948 N. Western, 872-206-8054, drinkingandgathering.com. v

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LAKESIDE TOWER, 910 W

Lawrence. 1 bedrooms starting at $825-$895 include heat and gas, laundry in building. Great view! Close to CTA Red Line, bus, stores, restaurants, lake, etc. To schedule a showing please contact Celio 773-3961575, Hunter Properties 773-4777070, www.hunterprop.com

living, dining, kitchen, 1BR, 1BA, heat, carpet. $660 + 1 mo sec. Avail Now. 773-264-6711

1 BR $900-$1099

CHICAGO - NICE 1 bedroom,

EDGEWATER. 10550 W Cata-

1 bath apartment $625/month. All carpeted floors. Hot water & heat included. 80th & Rhodes. 773-928-7017 8001 S. Drexel – 1BR $650 Stove and fridge, heat. incl. Section 8 welcome. Call 312.208.1771 or 708.674.7699

CHICAGO - HYDE Park 5401 S. Ellis.

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

CHICAGO SOUTH WEST, furnished rooms with use of household. $112 per week, 1 week security deposit. 773-378-7763 CHATHAM, 704 E. 81st (Langley) 1BR, 3rd flr. $650/mo + security.

Call Mr. Joe at 708-870-4801 WEST PULLMAN (INDIANA

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

1BR $650, 2BR $750. Move-In Fee $300. Sec 8 Welcome. 773-995-6950

4851 S ASHLAND, 2BR APTS, S TOVE/REFRIG,HRDWD FLOORS, NICE, QUIET, REMODELED. READY. CALL 312-929-6106

lpa 1 bedrooms starting at $925 heat and cooking gas included! Application fee $40. No security deposit.

Parking available for an additional fee. Laundry room in the building, wood floors, close to grocery stores, restaurant, CTA Red Line train, etc.

For a showing please contact Millie 773-561-7070 Hunter Properties,Inc. 773-477-7070 www.hunterprop.com

ADDISON/PULASKI, VINTAGE BUILDING, large, sunny 4

room, 1 bedroom apt, hardwood floors, new appliances, close to Kenn edy/Blue Line El, plenty of street parking, laundry facilities, heat included, no pets, no smoking, available December 1st, 1050.00 mo, 773583-7863.

SPACIOUS 1BR, LR, DR, large kitchen, mini blinds, hardwood floors, ample closet space, Rogers Park, close to CTA & Red Line. Available 12/1. $900/mo.

Frank 847-561-9109 MILWAUKEE & BELMONT Newly Remod, 1BR w/ dining, kitchen & BA. Hdwd flrs, heat & hot water incl. $1000/mo.

773-758-0309

1 BR $1100 AND OVER LINCOLN PARK. ADDISON.

Prime location 1 bedroom available 12 /1. $1245. Beautiful courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. Hardwood floors, heat included. For appointment, call 312-8221037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am2pm.

LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.

BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 4 rooms/ 1 bedroom with oak floors. Available 12 /1. $1330. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

GREAT 1BR IN terrific location.

Views of the park, lake and zoo.

Parking under building. Bike room.

Call 312 555 1212.

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

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

SECTION 8 AFFORDABLE Housing Waiting List is now open!!

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

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

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

DUPAGE COUNTY near O’hare in the heart of Bensenville. Clean, well maintained community.

1 or 2 BR Apartments Available.

Rent Specials starting at $85 0/mo Call for details: 630-5956969 CHICAGO - CHATHAM NO SEC DEP. Spacious updated 1BR from $600 & 2BR from $800 with great closet space. Incl: stove /fridge, hdwd flrs, blinds, heat & more!!!

LIMITED INVENTORY Call About Our Move-in Special!

(773) 271-7100 APTS. FOR RENT PARK MANAGEMENT & Investment Ltd. Finally summer is here Come Enjoy The Pool! HEAT, HW & CG INCLUDED. 1Bdr From $725.00.

2Bdr From $895.00. 3 Bdr/2 Full Bath. From $1200. **1-(773)-4766000** CALL FOR DETAILS GORGEOUS NEW REHAB, Appls & Heat Incl. 73/Jeffery, 1BR $600. 79/ Escanaba, 1BR $600, 3BR $875. 72/Eberhart, Studio $500. 64/Loomis 2BR $750. 82nd/Cottage Grove Stdo $500. Sec 8 ok. 773.430.0050 CALUMET CITY 158TH & PAXTON SANDRIDGE APTS 1 & 2 BEDROOM UNITS MODELS OPEN M-F, 9AM-5:30PM *** 708-841-5450 *** 61ST/LANGLEY. 3BR/1BA. 2ND flr of 2 unit bldg. Avail Now. Sect 8 ok. Beaut apt, New fridge & stove. W/D in bsmt.

Hdwd flrs. Nr Transp, 1blk from schl. $950/mo. 312-464-2222 CHICAGO, 7727 S. Colfax, ground flr Apt., ideal for senior citizens. Secure bldng. Modern 1BR $595. Lrg 2BR, $800. Free cooking & heating gas. Free parking. 312613-4427 ROYALTON HOTEL, Kitchenette $135 & up wk. 1810 W. Jackson 312-226-4678

RIVERDALE, IVANHOE SECT, 1 & 2BR, newly remod, $740$840/mo. Lndry, priv pkig, sec cam. Wtr/heat incl. No crdt chk, Sect 8 ok. 708-308-8137

CHICAGO, 6111 S. Normal 2BR apt, stove/refrig; 6101 S. Normal 4BR apt, Newly Decorated. Section 8 Welc. Call 773-422-1878

CHICAGO, 3-4BR TOWNHOUSE & Single Family Homes.

Beautifully renovated, new kitchen, hardwood floors. Cash Only.

708-557-0644

2 BR Apartment. Stove, Fridge, A/C, Heat & Gas included.

Call 773-297-4784

RIVERDALE - COZY 5 room, 2BR, 2BA. LR w/ firplc & FR. 2 car gar w/ side drv. $1000/mo.

Crdt chk & sec dep req’d. By appt, 708-946-2745 CHICAGO, RENT TO OWN! Buy with no closing costs and get help with your credit. Call 708-868-2422 or visit www. nhba.com

Large Sunny Room w/fridge & microwave. Nr. Oak Park, Green Line, bus. 24 hour desk, parking lot. $101/week & Up. 773-3788888 FALL SPECIAL $500 Toward

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

773-287-4500 www. wjmngmt.com

CHICAGO, 7757 S. Winchester.

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

NO MOVE-IN FEE! No Dep! Sec 8

ok. 1, 2 & 3 Bdrms. Elev bldg, laundry, pkg. 6531 S. Lowe. Ms. Payne.

773-874-0100

CHICAGO, SOUTH WEST Side.

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

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

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

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

4907cornerstoneapts.com

Managed by Metroplex, Inc. º

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. BISHOP. 2BR, 5rm,

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

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

Tenant pays cooking gas & electric.

Garage available. $850/mo.

720-331-2601

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

RIVERDALE - Newly Remodeled,

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

73RD/STEWART

2BR,

1BA

Apt, 2nd and 3rd flrs, hdwd flrs, heat incl. $675/mo + 1 mo sec. Call Ms. Williams. 773-426-7626

CHICAGO- 108TH & Eberhart, newly rehab’d, hardwood floors, faux fireplace, 2BR, 1st flr. $800/month. Call 708-841-9025

CHICAGO - AUBURN GRESHAM, 2BR, hardwood floors, stove & fridge incl. $725/mo, tenant pays heat & light. Call 312-656-8011

CHICAGO 7600 S Essex 2BR $599, 3BR $699, 4BR $799 w/apprvd credit, no sec dep. Sect 8 Ok! 773287-9999 /312-446-3333 East Chicago, IN, 2BR $675 Ht. Incl., 1 mo. free rent w/ lease. Call MIKE 773-577-9361

2 BR $900-$1099 NEAR 102ND AND King Dr. 5

rooms, 2BR, appliances, laundry available, tenant pays all utilities. $875/mo + security. 773-440-4697

BLUE ISLAND T.H. $995/mo, Lrg 2 Story, 2BR 1.5BA, new stove, full bsmt, refin hdwd flrs, soundproof, great loc. No Pets 815-274-6567 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

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.

LINCOLN PARK. ADDISON.

Prime location 2 bedrooms available 12/1 from $1260. 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.

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.

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

773-905-8487 Sec 8 Ok

2 BR $1300-$1499 LINCOLN PARK. W. BR IA R

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

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EDGEWATER GLEN! 6144 N. Lakewood. Must See! Sunny and spacious 2 bedroom at $1300. 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.

ADDISON.

Great 2 bedroom available now–4/ 30/16! $1465 per month. Heat included. Courtyard building steps from the lake and transportation. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

CHATHAM RENO 2BR+, newly refinished

hdwd flrs, $1400/mo. + 1 mo sec.

Sec 8 Ok. Lve msg 773-704-2423

BELMONT/ HUDSON. 2 buildings from the lakefront. Large 5 room/ 2 bedrooms with full dining room, oak floors. Available now and 12/1 from $1640. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

2 BR OTHER CHICAGO, PRINCETON PARK

LINCOLN PARK/ BRIAR PLACE

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

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

LINCOLN PARK LANDMARK.

2 BR $1500 AND OVER GOLD

COAST.

LASALLE.

Beautiful courtyard building in superb location, transportation at front door. Large rooms, hardwood floors, fireplaces. Available 1/1-9/30/16 for $1810 per month. Heat included. For appointment, call 312-822-1037 weekdays until 5:30pm, Saturdays 9am-3pm and Sundays 10am-2pm.

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

TREVISO BAY, NAPLES FL.

BEAUTIFUL NEW APT! 7657 S. Phillips Ave 2bdrm 8127 S. Ingleside Ave 4bdrm Stainless Steel!! Appliances!! hdwd flr!! marble bath!! laundry on site!!

Sec 8 OK. 773- 404- 8926 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

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

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

2 & 3BRS FROM $575.

HUGE, 1600SF, 2BR, 1BA Luxury

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

CRS (312) 782-4041

Unit, newly remod, new appls, near lake front & trans. Must See! Sec 8 OK! Call Nigel 312.770.0795

NEW 2 BEDROOM apartment in Lawndale. Hardwood floors, new appliances, laundry. FREE heat! Sec 8 Welcome. 773-420-8570

3 BR OR MORE UNDER $1200 CHICAGO 65TH & WOOD, 2+ BR WITH LARGE KITCHEN, NEWLY DECORATED, ON QUIET BLOCK. AVAILABLE NOW. $690/MO. CALL 847993-3010 NR 43RD/PRINCETON 3BR, sto ve/refrig furn, tenant pays cook gas & elec, $850 + 1 mo rent + 1 mo sec dep, credit ck req 312-8066370 ALSIP - 3BR, 1.5BA,

$995/mo.

1BR, 1BA. $730/mo. Balcony, new carpet, parking, appls, laundry & storage. Call 708-612-3762

AUSTIN AREA 126 N Long, 3BR,2BA, elec heat,$950/mo plus dep, 5554 W Gladys $895/m heat included plus dep. 773-251-6652 CHICAGO, 6643 S. Drexel newly remodeled 3 bed, CHA welcome $950 per/mo Please call Al at 773-858-8787

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

COUNTRY CLUB HILLS 1203 Williamsburg. Newly Remod 3BR , 1.

5BA, T.H, LR, DR, Kit, deck. $1150/mo + sec. 708-670-7179 CHICAGO, 8435 S. Colfax.

3BR, 2nd floor, 2BA, 2 living rooms, Section 8 welcome, $1200.

630-618-8600

61ST/RHODES. NEWLY DECORATED 3BR, DR, heat incl. $875/ mo. Sect 8 OK. 773-874-9637 or 773-493-5359

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

3 BR OR MORE $1200-$1499 SECTION 8 WELCOME BRICK, 2 BED, 1 BATH, W/ BSMT, 2 CAR GAR., 115TH LAFLIN, 1 MOS DEC DEP, $13 50/MO. CALL AL, 847-6445195 LINCOLN BY BRYN Mawr, 2nd flr, spacious 3.5BR, 1BA, hdwd floors, C/A, patio. $1350/mo, water incl. Immed Occupancy. Call 312-730-0053 CHICAGO, 6650 S. University.

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

This Dope’s

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 DOLTON - 1437 Berg Dr. 3BR,

2BA, LR, DR, Walk in closets, Off street pkg, Sec 8 Welcome. $1250/mo. + elec. 708-596-9078.

81ST & WESTERN, single family, newly rehab, brick houses, 3+ BR, hdwd flrs. Sect 8 OK. Oppty area. $1500+. No Sec Dep 847.924.7027 LG 3BDR APT. @ 614 S 12th Ave.

Maywood $1300/mo - 2mo SEC. & 1st mo Rent REQ W/O credit check pls contact Mrs. Waller 708-397-4483

3 BR OR MORE $1500-$1799 LAKEVIEW! 1739 W. Addison.

Must See. 3 bedrooms at $1725.

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 ww w.hunterprop.com

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 ASHBURN 2450 W 83rd: Beaut. rehab 3BR/2BA house, granite ctrs, st. steel appls, whirlpl tub, fin bsmt, 2 car gar, $1600/mo 708288-4510 DAN RYAN WOODS 8626 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. $1600/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

PORTAGE-ATTENTION BOATERS! DEEP water frontage

3 BR OR MORE OTHER

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. UNIVERSITY PARK, 5BR House, 2.5BA, fireplace, S.S appliances, 2 car garage, huge gated backyard, Sect 8 OK. No credit check. 708308-8137 NEWLY REHABBED brick homes, very nice blocks.

94th & Wabash, 4BR, 1.5BA, $1400. 96th & Emerald, 5BR, 2.5BA, $1500. 847-322-2243 SOUTH SIDE BEAUTIFUL, spacious, 6BR, 2BA, 2 levels feature hardwood flrs, wtw carpet, full fin bsmnt. Must see. Sec. 8 OK. 708-7856547 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 DIXMOOR - single family home, 1800 sq ft 4BR, 2BA, pristine condition, across from police station. $1350. 773-805-8181 BRICK, 4 BED, 2 bath, w/ bsmt, 2 car gar., 87th Fairfield, Evergreen Park. 1 Mos Sec Dep, $1575/mo. Call Al, 847-644-5195 SOUTH

SUBURBS

-

Beaut Remod., 3BR, LR, DR, 1BA, eat-in kit, W/W carpet, appliances incl. Must see! Section 8 ok. 708-785-6547

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

Call or pref text. 708-362-1268 Dolton,

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

MILLER BEACH-YOU will be surprised when you see this home with spacious rooms, new kitchen and main bath. High quality throughout and a very special second story screen porch. $134600 Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com

non-residential SELF-STORAGE

CENTERS.

PROFESSIONAL

OFFICE

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.

BUILDING for rent/sale - 4656 W. Touhy, Lincolnwood, Dependable LLC 224-434-7176 huntercorp94@ hotmail.com WE PAY CASH for houses. Multi-

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

2BR+

NR

roommates SOUTH SHORE, Senior Discount. Male preferred. Furnished rooms, shared kitchen & bath, $45 0/mo. Utilities included. 773-7105431

MARKETPLACE

GOODS

CLASSICS WANTED Any classic cars in any condition. ’20s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, ’60s & ’70s. Hotrods & Exotics!

Top Dollar Paid!

Collector.

Call James, 630-201-8122

ALL NEW HDWD, granite and

MASSAGE TABLES, NEW and

RICHTON PARK. 3BR, House/Condo, Section 8 ok.

For information: 708-625-7355 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 CHICAGO HEIGHTS 4 OR 5 BR

3 BR OR MORE $1800-$2499

GENERAL

GREAT EVANSTON CAMPUS

CHICAGO - 78TH/S. Shore &

2 BATH, NEWLY REMODELED, SECTION 8 OK. 96 W. 15TH 7088224450

6943-51 S. Cornell Ave Apts Starting at $550. NO DEPOSIT! HURRY! Call Phyllis 773.495.4133

FOR SALE

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.

KILL BED BUGS! Harris Bed Bug

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

SERVICES 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 FULL BODY MASSAGE. hotel, house calls welcome $90 special.

Russian, Polish, Ukrainian girls.

Northbrook and Schaumburg locations. 10% discount for new customers. Please call 773-407-7025

Getsome at 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

MILLER BEACH-SPACIOUS 2

level w/3 or 4 BR, 2 BA, attached heated garage. $88900 Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188, See Virtual Tour & Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com.

sTill legal in Dorm rooms sTraighTDope.com

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83RD/JEFFREY,

heated, decor FP, hdwd flrs, lots of storage, formal DR, intercom, newly remod kitchen & bath. $1000. Missy 773-241-9139

MATTESON, SAUK VILLAGE &

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

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.

on Little Calumet River (Burns Waterway) in Portage Marina district w/ direct access to Lake Michigan. $58900 Ayers Realtors, 219-938-1188, See more information and Beach Cam at MillerBeach.com

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN

NEW

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Rob. We’re fast approaching the culmination of a five-year cycle wherein the Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services draw on the current scientific literature and come up with recommendations about how people should be eating. Last time around, in 2010, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans suggested that skipping breakfast could lead to obesity, leaning on evidence like a 2007 study in which men who ate a morning meal were found less likely to gain weight. “Eat a nutrient-dense breakfast,” goes this terse recommendation, noting that skipping breakfast has been “associated with” weight gain.

Hang on, you say—“associated with”? That’s even slipperier than “correlated with,” right?

Buddy, you’re not alone. A 2013 paper on the “proposed effect of breakfast on obesity,” or PEBO, undertook a meta-analysis of the available research. The paper’s title is “Belief Beyond the Evidence,” if that gives you any idea of where and how strongly its authors stand on the subject; they write, “The observational literature on the PEBO has gratuitously established the association, but not the causal relation, between skipping breakfast and obesity.” They also spend a little time tracking the PEBO on its journey from the academy to the popular consciousness, finding it parroted everywhere from respected sources like the Mayo Clinic to, um, less-respected sources like Dr. Oz. Their objections are several, but revolve (as suggested in the above quote) around the observational nature of the work they analyze—observational studies being, as their name indicates, far less rigorous than those based on that scientific gold standard, the randomized controlled trial.

Helpfully, a couple teams of researchers have pitched in with those over the last several years. One such study, conducted at a New York hospital, divided obese patients into three groups; over four weeks, one got high-fiber oatmeal for breakfast, one got no-fiber Frosted Flakes, and a control cohort skipped breakfast altogether. Turned out that the no-breakfast crew lost a little weight compared to the other two. A study published in

2014 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition arrived at a similar conclusion.

Those New York researchers did find higher cholesterol levels in the breakfast skippers, which suggests to me that “Does it or doesn’t it make you fat?” is perhaps not the apposite question here, though in recent years it’s one that’s preoccupied nutritionists and, as those federal guidelines indicate, policy makers. There are plenty of other health benefits breakfast has to recommend it: regular consumption of the meal has been linked to lower risks of heart disease and type 2 diabetes, for instance.

Of course, in my tender youth, it wasn’t like my mother was telling me to eat a good breakfast so I’d have better cholesterol in middle age. Rather, kids get some hazy bromide about “feeding your brain.” So what about that? Well, a 2013 lit review in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience found that the available information “may indicate that children who eat breakfast are more able to concentrate, pay attention and are more alert at school.” On the other hand, it also noted that much of the research (again) lacked “scientific rigor”: beyond the subjective nature of evaluating kids’ classroom behavior, you’ve got major confounding factors like socioeconomic status, which tends to correlate independently with both academic performance and breakfast eating.

But what if, as you suggest, we rebrand skipping breakfast as fasting, in accordance with new diet trends? Eh—the jury’s still out.

The case has been made that skipping breakfast increases the stress on your body such that it can result in insulin sensitivity, then diabetes, then high blood pressure, etc. The case has also been made (via work with mice, at least) that skipping a meal increases stress on the body such that cells build important defenses, and the skippers end up leaner and healthier. Maybe by 2020 the feds will have something to offer this discussion. v Send questions to Cecil via straightdope.com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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GOSSIP WOLF A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene CHICAGO DANCE-MUSIC collective Tied (aka Mantas Steles, Max Jacobson, and Ari Frank) have kept busy as DJs, producers, podcasters, and party starters for three years now. This year they were named “Best nomadic collective for weird, druggy, hard-hitting underground techno” in the Reader’s Best of Chicago issue—no small feat, considering how lonely nomadic lifestyles can be. Just ask your nearest wolf! Tied throw an anniversary party Sat 11/28—they haven’t announced the location—where they’ll spin and host a five-hour set from Berlin-based house and techno wizard Shaun Reeves. E-mail tiedchicago@gmail.com for tickets, and they’ll let you know where to get down.

Gossip Wolf loves Chicago sibling combo Wild Belle—whose new album, Dreamland, is due in early 2016—but it’s worth remembering that both Elliot and Natalie Bergman played in Nomo, whose sweaty, funky fusion of jazz, electronic music, and Afrobeat turned local clubs into sweaty, funky messes back in the day (aka 2008). Given Wild Belle’s success, you might’ve figured Nomo would be no more, but at Schubas on Sat 11/28, they’ll play their first show in three years!

Thanksgiving is a time for lots of things, but usually not shows. So thanks to the Promontory for opening its doors Thanksgiving night for the Appreciation Party, headlined by local hip-hop legend Anthony “the Twilite Tone” Khan and friends. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.

Last week local underground label Patient Sounds released its final two cassettes of 2015: Hot Rice by Japanese footwork producer Foodman and a split called John Wayne Death Scene from ambient artists Danny Clay and Joseph Edward Yonker. —J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail gossipwolf@chicagoreader.com.

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