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Silver City p 36
Introducing CHICAGO’S FREE WEEKLY | THIS ISSUE IN FOUR SECTIONS
FRIDAY, SEPT 17, 2004 | VOLUME 33, NUMBER 51
Chicago Antisocial
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Pullout guide
World Music Festival Section 3
Chris Ware p 24
ARat’sTale Police and Prosecutors Need to Be Careful When They Listen to a Snitch by Tori Marlan
The Meter
Soul Savers The Numero Group Section 3
Review
Comics on exhibit p 42
CHICAGO’S FREE WEEKLY | THIS ISSUE IN FOUR SECTIONS
FRIDAY, SEPT 24, 2004 | VOLUME 33, NUMBER 52
Joravsky
Who’s Been Partying at Cabrini? p 22
Female Trouble And lots of it, at a casting call for “Starting Over.” By Anaheed Alani
Movies
Shaun Of The Dead p 30
Our Town p 12
Letters 3
The FCC rules the waves, but should it?
Columns
Hot Type 4 New hope for the Defender
The Straight Dope 5 Great balls of fire!
The Works 6 By Ben Joravsky: Gutierrez vs. Kruesi
Chicago Antisocial 8 Liz Armstrong on Liz Armstrong
The Sports Section 10 Those unlovable Cubs
Our Town 12 SEPTEMBER 17, 2004
Media 20
World music star Foday Musa Suso; a bike path in the sky; Mike Sula’s paper chase
Chris Ware 24 Reviews
Movies 36 Silver City and Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Theater 40 Antigone and A Clockwork Orange
Books 42 Danuta de Rhodes’s The Little White Car
Dance 46 The Seldoms
Plus What Are You Wearing?; What the —?
A Rat’sTale Eugene Hawes told a story that put three men in jail for five and a half years. Two other people remain in prison. Hawes told a story about them too. By Tori Marlan
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or five days in late April and early May 2003 prosecutors tried to persuade a judge that six years earlier Bill White, along with two other black men from the west side, shot a young white couple to death in their Wrigleyville apartment. At the end of the trial Judge Vincent Gaughan acquitted White, saying the testimony of the state’s main witness, an informant, was “worthless.” White, who’d been locked up in Cook County Jail for five and a half years, sat calmly in his seat as his defense attorney jumped up and down, looking, White remembers, like someone who’d won the lottery. White recently told me he felt relieved by the verdict but not overjoyed. “I was like, oh well, not guilty. I still felt like that don’t repay. Who’s gonna come and say, I’m sorry? Who’s gonna give me back the time I missed with my children? I can’t get that life back.” If White had been hoping for an apology from the informant—his cousin Eugene Hawes, who’d told police White boasted about committing the double murder—he wasn’t about to get one. After the acquittal Hawes repeated on Fox News just about the only part of his story that hadn’t changed over the years. “He did do the murders,” Hawes said. Then he added, “I have never told a lie about something as serious as murder.” continued on page 26
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The Works
Blue in the Face By Ben Joravsky or seven years southwestsiders have been trying to persuade CTA officials to restore weekend and late-night service on the Douglas branch of the Blue Line. But until recently only one of the four local aldermen was willing to speak up on their behalf. Now, embarrassed by Congressman Luis Gutierrez, they’re all suddenly talking tough—at least for the moment. The battle started in 1996, when the CTA released a study showing that the Douglas branch wasn’t drawing enough riders to justify the cost of running trains along its rickety old tracks. A year later the CTA board, citing those findings, eliminated weekend and late-night service on the line as part of a larger package of budget cuts. It also warned that it might eventually eliminate the line altogether. Angry residents pointed out that however low the ridership, people depend on the Douglas branch, which runs along Cermak from the suburb of Cicero to Paulina Street, then over to the Eisenhower Expressway, where it links up with the Forest Park Blue Line branch. It connects Pilsen, Little Village, and North Lawndale to, among other places, the Illinois Medical District, Whitney Young High School, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Loop, and O’Hare. The residents said the cuts made it difficult for thirdshift workers to get to their jobs, for students to get to the downtown library, and for families to get to museums and parks. How could North Lawndale be revived without a direct link to the Loop? And why cut the line at a time when the city and the feds were pumping millions of federal dollars into the Little Village empowerment zone? “Close it off and you shut us off,” says Gladys Woodson, a North Lawndale resident. “They might as well just build a wall around here.” The residents suspected the CTA was playing an old game— making whatever cuts it had to make in poor black and Hispanic neighborhoods, whose residents didn’t have the clout to fight back. The line’s ridership was still higher than the ridership on the Purple Line, which runs to Evanston and Wilmette. “The CTA didn’t cut their service,” says Alejandra Ibañez, executive director of the Pilsen Alliance. “Why do people of color take the cuts?” In the aftermath of the cuts, activists, social service groups, block clubs, and chambers of commerce formed the Blue Line Transit Taskforce. They held
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meetings, organized rallies, gathered petitions, pestered officials, and produced studies of their own. They also persuaded Gutierrez to take their side. “I talked to [CTA president Frank] Kruesi about how important the Blue Line was to these communities,” says Gutierrez. Kruesi responded in a letter dated February 6, 1998. “The Douglas Branch situation is further complicated by the pressing need for major reconstruction of the line, which was built at the turn of the century,” he wrote. “That means we need you to bring home $336 million in Federal funds for this project. I do not minimize the difficulty of the challenge, but at the same time I am confident you can do for your constituents what your colleague Congressman [William] Lipinski was able to achieve in funding and constructing the Orange Line.” “I think Kruesi made that offer because he didn’t think I was going to get the money,” says Gutierrez. “I think he was really saying, ‘Come on, Gutierrez, try to be the man—be like Lipinski and show us what you can do. Otherwise we’re shutting down the Blue Line.’” But after several months of lobbying, Gutierrez managed to round up almost $400 million in federal funds, and reconstruction began in the winter of 2000. Work crews replaced the tracks, rebuilt six stations, and sped up the trains. Most of the construction was finished early last spring. “We thought, ‘OK, we have this great new line—now they’ll restore full service,’” says Woodson. Nope. The CTA said it couldn’t commit to restoring service until it finished a ridership survey to see if locals really wanted to use the line. The CTA estimates it would cost about $2.3 million a year to bring back weekend and latenight runs. “Let me get this straight—they spend $400 million rebuilding a rail line, but they don’t want to spend, what, a couple of million dollars a year to use it on weekends and at night?” says Ibañez. “They have hundreds of people begging to use their service, and they say, ‘We’ll get back to you after our study.’ They should be in the business of promoting it. They should be working with us to get people on the trains, not looking for excuses to shut off service.” The task force held more meetings, rallies, and marches—they even marched to Kruesi’s house. It finally dawned on them that their
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Riders have been screaming for years about the CTA’s Blue Line cuts. But it took a congressman to finally get some aldermen to speak up.
“Gutierrez liberated us,” says an alderman who’s followed the fight closely. “After that, if you didn’t speak out you looked like the wimp most of these guys really are.”
coalition was missing a crucial piece—two of their four aldermen. The Blue Line runs through four wards. Ricardo Muñoz, alderman of the 22nd Ward, was a strong supporter, and 24th Ward alderman Michael Chandler had given quiet support. But newly elected 12th Ward alderman George Cardenas was cautious, and 25th Ward alderman Danny Solis didn’t seem to want to be pinned down. Solis says he’s always been committed to restoring the cuts, but many locals say that until recently he kept his distance, rarely returning their phone calls or attending their meetings. It’s not hard to understand his reluctance to jump into the fray. He’s a Mayor Daley loyalist and not about to endorse a controversial issue without getting the OK from the mayoral aides who tell aldermen what Daley wants them to do. Daley hasn’t taken a public stand on whether the Blue Line service should be restored. As other aldermen point out, he generally lets Kruesi, his handpicked appointee, speak for him on these matters. If Kruesi is against restoring the service, then Daley must be against restoring the service, since Kruesi wouldn’t push a policy the mayor didn’t want him to push. “We thought it was important to get Danny on board because he’s so close to the mayor,” says Ibañez. They invited Solis to a major meeting they held in March, but he didn’t attend. So in April they marched to his
house, where they were greeted by his chief of staff. “It was a rainy night—we were getting drenched,” says Ibañez. “The aide said, ‘Danny can’t come out. He’s putting his son to bed.’” Solis says it was all a misunderstanding—he would have attended the meeting, but an aide forgot to put it on his schedule. “I reamed out my staff for not letting me know,” he says. The next morning he invited Ibañez and a few other task force members to his office, where he gave them a lecture on how City Hall works. “He told us, ‘This is not about racial discrimination—that doesn’t exist anymore,’” says Ibañez. “He said he would talk to Kruesi and get some questions answered.” By mid-June the task force members hadn’t heard back, so some of them walked, unannounced, into Solis’s City Hall office. “We said, ‘Hey, you were going to get us a meeting with Kruesi—why don’t you call him?’” says Ibañez. “Danny said, ‘I don’t have his number.’ We said, ‘We do. Here it is.’” Around the same time, the task force persuaded Muñoz to write a resolution calling for City Council hearings on whether the Blue Line cuts were discriminatory. Muñoz let Kruesi know he was planning to introduce the resolution, and suddenly Kruesi said he wanted to cut a deal. “The CTA doesn’t want anyone to even talk about discrimination,” says Muñoz. “If you prove it, that can jeopardize federal financing of projects.” Working through Muñoz,
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Reviews Movies
Theater
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Dance
The Little White Car
The Seldoms at Architectural Artifacts,
SILVER CITY s REVIEW BY JONATHAN ROSENBAUM
RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE s
Antigone
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DEFIANT THEATRE AT THE STOREFRONT THEATER
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Movies SILVER CITY s DIRECTED AND WRITTEN BY JOHN SAYLES WITH DANNY HUSTON, MARIA BELLO, CHRIS COOPER, RICHARD DREYFUSS, DARYL HANNAH, JAMES GAMMON, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, TIM ROTH, MARY KAY PLACE, BILLY ZANE, SAL LOPEZ, RALPH WAITE, MIGUEL FERRER, AND MICHAEL MURPHY
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Same Old Lefty Claptrap John Sayles’s election-year film noir means well, but it won’t swing any voters.
“Silver City”
By Jonathan Rosenbaum lmost 60 years ago, in the essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell made observations about bad writing that have lost none of their relevance. “As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house,” he wrote. “The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy. It is easier—even quicker, once you have the habit—to say In my opinion it is a not unjustifiable assumption that than to say I think.” Ready-made phrases in the
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news—“smoking gun,” “weapons of mass destruction,” “war on terror”—tend to hurry listeners or readers along instead of encouraging them to think. The effect of ready-made styles and formulas in entertainment isn’t much different. Nevertheless, gestures that evoke recognition are seen as obligatory, and remakes and sequels are seen as sure moneymakers.
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espite John Sayles’s charm and good intentions as a writer-director, I started avoiding his movies around the time his Men With Guns was released in 1998. The closer his fictions came to reality, the more inadequate they seemed, with their conventional plots and familiar characters. I admire the man’s politics, but his films seem mis-
guided, because every new problem has the same old tiresome solution. (A notable exception is his recent anti-Bush campaign ad, which he wrote as well as directed; it can be seen at www.moveonpac.org/10weeks.) Like so much of the American old left, he’s an aesthetic reactionary who doesn’t trust a plot or character he hasn’t shaken hands with many times before. The problem is worse than ever in Silver City, an election-year special that assaults George W. with the tried-and-true plot turns of a Raymond Chandler mystery. The movie’s being proudly promoted for doing just that, which tells us we’re not going to have our minds broadened or our beliefs challenged—and that Bush has little cause for alarm. “In the
tradition of the great film noirs, from The Maltese Falcon to Chinatown,” states the press book, “Danny’s investigation inexorably pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption, here involving high stakes lobbyists, media conglomerates, environmental plunderers, and undocumented migrant workers.” The old phrases pile up like henhouse sections. It clearly hasn’t occurred to anyone to try to say something new about these issues; instead we’re reassured that we’re in known territory. Even if the influence cited were of an environmentalist disciple of Chandler such as Ross Macdonald, the status quo wouldn’t be threatened, because familiarity isn’t the only thing wrong with these prefab notions. “Is there any way to win?” asks Kathie Moffat (Jane Greer), archetypal doom-ridden noir heroine in Out of the Past (1947), addressing Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum), archetypal doom-ridden noir hero. He replies, “There’s a way to lose more slowly.” When it comes to politics in art, the mannerist noir style seems to be one of the most attractive ways of losing slowly. It makes doom more voluptuous and artful than success, makes a film’s characters seem “half in love with easeful Death,” as Keats put it. I often wonder if the fondness many leftists have for noir films stems from their being suckers for romantic fatalism—defeatists who wouldn’t know what to do with success if it hit them over the head. To propose such a style as politically useful in an election season seems demented, even though it’s fairly routine. Maybe
Sayles figured it was the only way he could get his movie financed. The result is a gumshoe yarn that treats the romantic life of its small-time hero, Danny O’Brien (Danny Huston), as central and the destruction of the American dream as a peripheral subplot. I can’t imagine that Sayles wanted the emphasis to be so ludicrous, but his addiction to formula condemned him to it. The setting is a Colorado gubernatorial race in October 2004. Dickie Pilager (Chris Cooper)—the front-runner and, for the story’s purposes, the only candidate—is meant to be a dead ringer for George Bush. Sayles clearly sees this character as a clueless, born-again frat boy, a puppet who’s continually at a loss for words—the closest thing this movie has to a running gag. To underscore the resemblance to Bush, Sayles sticks in Pilager’s father (Michael Murphy), a wizened pro from the Senate. If Sayles had persuaded me he knew anything about Bush, his background, or his entourage that isn’t already well-known, I might have felt more like laughing. He doesn’t even seem to understand that Bush uses his tortured syntax to his advantage, acknowledging it to roars of approval, as he did during his convention acceptance speech. In the opening scene Pilager is casting out fishing line for a TV ad meant to promote his phony environmentalism, and his hook snags a corpse. His ruthless campaign manager, Chuck Raven (Richard Dreyfuss)—described in the press notes as, yawn, a “pitbull”—suspects that some enemy of Pilager may be responsible,
Arts&Events The Business Carlos Tortolero head of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, on why he quit the Illinois Arts Alliance board. by Deanna Isaacs a page 2
JOHN PHILIPS
September 17, 2004
TheList
This week’s Critic’s Choices and other good bets By Martha Bayne | thelist@chicagoreader.com
DO THEY SELL GUERRILLA SUITS?
friday17 FACTS ON THE GROUND The traveling exhibit Eyes Wide Open: The Human Cost of the Iraq War is a showcase for footwear—it includes one pair of combat boots for each of the 1,000-plus U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and 1,000 pairs of street shoes commemorating the roughly 13,000 dead Iraqi civilians. It’ll be installed at Federal Plaza from 7 AM to 7 PM on Thursday, September 16, before moving to the Peace Museum (where there’s a fund-raiser for the American Friends Service Committee tonight from 5 to 8; admission is $25 or $50). | Through Sat | 11 AM-4 PM | 100 N. Central Park | www.afsc.org/eyes/default.htm | F THEATER | The 16th annual Rhinoceros Theater Festival begins tonight with the premiere of Jenny Magnus’s Cant. | 7 PM | Curious Theatre Branch a p 35
As part of the Marshall Field’ssponsored Fall Fashion Week (which runs through September 25), guerrilla boutique Vacant is coming to town for a three-week stand. Launched in London by entrepreneur Russell Miller, the migrant store has popped up around the world over the last year. On the sales floor: limited-edition garments and accessories from a host of emerging designers and established brands. | 9 AM-8 PM | Marshall Field’s, ninth floor | 111 N. State | www.fields.com The Renegade Craft Fair is back in business. | Sat-Sun | 10:30 AM-5:30 PM | Wicker Park, 1425 N. Damen | www.renegadecraft.com | F
DRUNK BY NOON Taste more than 50 international wines at today’s Wine Crush in Old Town. | 11 AM-11 PM | Wells between North and Evergreen | 773-868-3010 | Gate donation $5; wine sampling is an additional $10
FOLLOW THE BUNNY
THEATER | Single File: A Festival of Solo Performance | 7:30 PM | Athenaeum Theatre, third-floor studio a p 38
The Neo-Futurists present Noelle Krimm’s Alice—a multimedia walking tour of Wonderland, aka Andersonville. Opens today and runs through October 24. | Sat-Sun | 1-3:30 PM | Neo-Futurarium | 5153 N. Ashland | 773-275-5255 or www.neofuturists.org | $15 or pay what you can
| Antigone | Thu-Sun | Greasy Joan and cTHEATER Co. at the Loop Theater p 30 a
| Sailing to Byzantium | Thu-Sun | Caffeine cTHEATER Theatre at Live Bait Theater p 34 a
saturday18 ATTENTION URBAN FARMERS The Garfield Park Conservatory wants to see your zucchini. At today’s fourth annual Garfield Park Conservatory County Fair volunteer experts will judge veggies and flowers in a variety of categories, with special blue ribbons going to the biggest tomato and pumpkin. Drop off the contenders at the Garfield Market, just north of the conservatory, between 8 and 9:45 AM. Plus: gardening demonstrations, music, and pony rides. | 10 AM - 5 PM | 100 N. Central Park | 773-638-1766, ext. 20, or www.garfieldconservatory.org | F
monday20 MOVE OVER FRODO Ten years in the making, Susanna Clarke’s wildly anticipated fantasy novel Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell has been hailed as “a masterpiece of the genre to rival Tolkien.” The author reads and signs copies today. | 12:30 PM | Borders Books & Music | 150 N. State | 312-606-0750 | F
tuesday21 THE MISFITS REDUX Arthur Miller’s new play, Finishing the Picture, concerns the travails of a famous film director grappling with the fragile temperament of his notoriously unstable female lead. It gets its world premiere October 5 at the Goodman, but previews start tonight. | 7:30 PM | Goodman Theatre | 170 N. Dearborn | 312-443-3800 or www.goodmantheatre.org | $25-42
wednesday22 A GUY WALKS INTO A BAR... Local contributors to the new humor anthology May Contain Nuts, the third in Harper Perennial’s “Mirth of a Nation” series, take the stage. | 9 PM | Hideout | 1354 W. Wabansia | 773-227-4433 or www.hideoutchicago.com | $12 cover includes a copy of the book
thursday23 Two years after they pulled the plug on Halloween, Redmoon is back with another extravagant outdoor happening. Spectacle 04: Sink, Sank, Sunk opens tonight in Chinatown’s Ping Tom Memorial Park. | Thu-Sun | 6 PM | 300 W. 19th | 312-850-8440 or www.redmoon.org | F
cauthor of Exuberance: The Passion for Life | 7 PM READINGS & LECTURES | Kay Redfield Jamison,
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MOVIES | War at a Distance | Chicago Filmmakers a p 10
| Borders on Michigan a p 23
cFestival | 8:15 PM | Gene Siskel Film Center a p 22 MOVIES | Onion City Experimental Film and Video
sunday19 ongoing AFTER THE GOLD The Rock ’n’ Roll Gymnastics Championship Tour, featuring embattled gold medalist Paul Hamm and his brother Morgan—but minus the imperious Svetlana Khorkina, who pulled out just after the Olympics—comes to Rosemont today. | 4 PM | Allstate Arena | 6920 Mannheim | 312-5591212 or www.ticketmaster.com | $15-$85
MOVIES c Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Multiple venues a p 9 c Ghost in the Shell 2 | Landmark’s Century Centre a p 20 RESTAURANTS Reinventing the Meal | Raw cuisine a p 3 Listings | Meatless eats a p 3 ART Now Showing | Karl Wirsum a p 25 c Cody Hudson | Bucket Rider Gallery a p 28
Restaurants3 Movies9 Readings & Lectures23 Galleries & Museums24 Theater & Performance29 Comedy38 Dance41 Matches42
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Galleries & Museums Intuit 756 N. Milwaukee. Derek Webster, “yard art” sculpture, through Sat 10/2. Wed-Sat noon-5. 312-243-9088
Northeastern Illinois Univ. Art Gallery Fine Arts Center, 5500 N. Saint Louis. Yvette Kaiser Smith, crocheted fiberglass sculpture, through Fri 10/1. Mon & Wed 8-7, Tue 8-6, Thu 8-2, Fri 9-4. 773-442-4944
Istituto Italiano di Cultura 500 N. Michigan #1450. “In Stabiano,” a restored first-century fresco from Stabiae, an ancient Roman resort, through Fri 10/1. Open Mon-Fri 9-1 & 2-5. 312-822-9545
Northern Illinois Univ. Gallery 215 W. Superior, 3rd fl. Kurt Perschke, photos and video documenting his installations of a 15foot inflatable red ball in a Barcelona alley, on a Sydney bridge, and beneath a Saint Louis underpass, through Sat 10/23. WedSat 11-5. 312-642-6010
Izzo Jones 1806 W. Cuyler. “Artopolis,” group show, Sat 9/18-Sun 10/10. EOpening Sat 9/18, 7-11 PM. Wed-Thu 7-9, Sat-Sun 2-4. 773-472-6749
Ogilve/Pertl 435 E. Illinois. Joel Coplin, Hilario Gutierrez, Jo-Ann Lowney, paintings; Robert Winslow, sculpture, through Thu 10/14. Wed-Sat 11-6, Sun noon-5. 312321-0750
Japan Information Center 737 N. Michigan #1000. Takaji Kuroda, Milena Hughes, suminagashi paintings, made by floating ink on water and transferring it to paper, through Fri 10/22. Mon-Fri 9:15-5. 312-280-0430 Gwenda Jay/Addington 704 N. Wells. “Regarding What’s Past,” work in which Brad Johnson “represents the mental static that so often obscures the kind of ‘photographic memory’ we all wish we had” by layering paint over his renderings of found photos, through Wed 10/13. Tue-Sat 11-6. 312-664-3406 Kraft Lieberman 835 W. Washington. John Krawczyk, bronze sculpture, through Fri 10/15. Tue-Fri 10:30-5:30, Sat 11-5. 312-9480555 Lillstreet 4401 N. Ravenswood. Pam Robinson, silver jewelry and metal sculpture; “Form Follows Function,” group show, through Sat 10/16. EReception Sat 9/18, 46 PM. Mon-Fri 11-7, Sat 10-6, Sun 10-5. 773769-4226 Lincoln Park Conservatory 2391 N. Stockton. Was It for This, audio installation by Stephen Lapthisophon, through Thu 9/30. Mon-Sun 9-5. 312-742-7736 LIPA 410 S. Michigan #502. Work by Michael Hopkins, Ben Dallas, Terri Zupanc, Buleigh Kronquist, and Arthur Lerner, through Fri 10/29. Tue-Sat noon-6. 312493-7120 Little Known 614 W. Monroe. “The Likes of Them,” paintings and drawings by six artists “with an emphasis on the fantastical,” through Sat 10/2. Sat-Sun noon-5. 312213-8968
Old Town Art Center 1736 N. North Park. Dena Cavazos, paintings using “architectural elements combined with collaged imagery to suggest travel,” through Thu 9/30. Mon-Fri 10-5, Sat 10-1. 312-337-1938 David Gista, nine-foot-tall John Kerry “soul bag,” at Gallery Mornea 9/18, 10 AM. “Re-mapping,” workshop led by Wade Tillett, Sat 9/18, 2-4 PM. See also Readings & Lectures. 773-465-4033 Peter Miller 118 N. Peoria. Brian Ulrich, photos; Jonathan Gitelson, photomontages, through Sat 10/16. Tue-Sat 10-5:30. 312951-1700 MN 3524 S. Halsted. Jee-Eun Kim and Jack Sloss, videos projected on a carved and painted folded screen, through Sat 9/25. Sat noon-5. 773-847-0573 Ann Nathan 212 W. Superior. Rick Beerhorst, Catia Chen, Tim Crowder, Robert Kinsell, Nola Romano, paintings; Sandra Williams, wood carvings with pigment and plastic inlays, through Tue 10/19. Tue-Fri 10-5:30, Sat 11-5. 312-6646622
Aron Packer 118 N. Peoria. Ann Worthing, paintings of “landscape fragments”; Stephen Warde Anderson, paintings of fantastic marine life and journeys, through Sat 10/9. Tue-Sat 11-5:30. 312-226-8984 Perimeter, 210 W. Superior. Work by brothers Shan Zuo Zhou and Da Huang Zhou, through Tue 10/19. Tue-Sat 10:305:30. 312-266-9473 Maya Polsky 215 W. Superior. Ed Paschke, paintings, drawings, and, the gallery claims, his first sculpture, through Tue 10/19. Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat 10:30-5. 312-4400055
Nicole 230 W. Huron. Work by Buck Brown and Akinola Samuel Ebinezer, through Sat 10/2. Tue-Sat 10-5:30. 312-787-7716
Polvo 1458 W. 18th. Jan Halle, photos of “the modern urban landscape”; “Terrorist Art 2,” “propaganda show to help throw George W. Bush and his Neo-Cons out of office”; Gisela Insuaste, one-foot-square installation, through Sat 9/25. Sat noon-5. 773-344-1940
G.R. N’Namdi 526 W. 26th #316. Alvin Loving, hanging sculpture, through Fri 10/29. EOpening Fri 9/17, 6-9 PM. Tue-Fri 11-6, Sat 11-5. 312-563-9240
Portals 742 N. Wells. Natalie Featherston, John Baker, David Braly, paintings, through Wed 12/22. Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat 11-5. 312-6421066
Llorona 1474 W. Webster. Work by 17 young Mexican artists, through Thu 9/30. 773-281-8460 Lobby 731 N. Sangamon. Kristen Neveu, photos and assemblages, through Sat 10/16. Sat noon-5. 312-432-4327
Robert Mickelson, Organism Flytrap, at Prism Printworks 311 W. Superior. Nicholas R Sistler, gouache interiors no bigger than a postcard, through Sat 10/30. TueSat 11-5. 312-664-9407 Prism 1048 W. Fulton. Group glass sculpture show, through Sat 10/30. Tue-Sat 10-6. 312-243-4885 Rajor 5234 N. Damen. Group photo show, through Wed 11/10. Mon-Fri 11-7, Sat-Sun 116. 773-728-1581
Byron Roche 750 N. Franklin. Margaret Evangeline, paintings on aluminum and stainless steel, through Fri 11/12. Tue-Sat 11-6. 312-654-0144 Judy A. Saslow 300 W. Superior. RJason Rolphe, paintings mixing acrylic, graphite, and collage; Aurora Robson, paintings and drawings, through Sat 11/13. Tue-Sat 10-6. 312-943-0530 School of the Art Institute Betty Rymer Gallery Columbus & Jackson. Work by faculty members returning from sabbatical, through Wed 9/22 C. Tue-Sat 10-5. 312443-3703 Schopf 942 W. Lake. “Argentine Alchemy,” work by Jorge Pietra, Felipe Pino, and Jorge Simes, through Fri 10/15. Tue-Sat 115. 312-432-1630
R.H. Love 645 N. Michigan #200. Colonial to modern American art. Mon-Fri 9-5, Sat 10-5. 312-640-1300
Carrie Secrist 835 W. Washington. “Outside In,” sculpture built for outdoor display, through Sat 10/23. Tue-Fri 10-6, Sat 11-5. 312-491-0917
Lydon Fine Art 309 W. Superior. Maria Olivieri Quinn, paintings of knots set against bands of color, through Thu 10/14. Tue 10-3, Wed-Sat 10-5, Sun 9-2. 312-9431133
Steele Life 4655 S. King, 2nd fl. Dorian Sylvain, paintings and other work “based on memories of the artist’s personal passage into motherhood,” through Sat 9/25. Tue-Sat 11-6. 773-538-4773
Las Manos 5220 N. Clark. Harry Sudman, paintings and other work, through Sun 10/10. Sat-Sun noon-5. 773-728-8910
Suitable 2541 W. Thomas. “Music for Worms and Compost,” work by Paul Dickinson, through Sat 10/4. EOpening Fri 9/17, 7-11 PM. Sat noon-5. 773-758-0088
Marx-Saunders 230 W. Superior. Sidney Hutter, vessel-form sculptures made by stacking disks and bars of glass and bonding them with epoxy, through Sat 10/2. TueFri 10-5:30, Sat 11-5. 312-573-1400
Hollis Taggart 3 E. Huron. Post-World War II American art, through Fri 11/12. Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 10-5. 312-475-9300
Thomas Masters 245 W. North. Melinda Stickney-Gibson, paintings, through Thu 9/30. Wed-Fri noon-6, Sat 11-6, Sun noon-5. 312-440-2322
Three Arts 1300 N. Dearborn. “The FlatRound World,” paintings by Mary Lou Zelazny and Kumiko Murakami, through Fri 10/29. Mon-Fri 9-5. 312-944-6250
Thomas McCormick 935 W. Washington. John Sabraw, paintings of “the extremely odd landscape” around Athens, Ohio, through Sat 10/16. Tue-Sat 10-5:30. 312226-6800
Three Walls 119 N. Peoria #2A. David Noonan, paintings and a short film produced during a summer residency, through Sat 9/25. Tue-Sat 11-6. 312-4233972
Monique Meloche 118 N. Peoria. Robert Davis and Michael Langlois, collaborative paintings, through Sat 10/23. Tue-Sat 11-6. 312-455-0299 Mess Hall 6932 N. Glenwood. “Mapping Part II,” cartographic publications complemented by tours and other events promising “a chance to map Chicago in new ways,” through Sun 10/10. E“Errand Walk,” utilitarian tour with Dan Wang starting from his 5209 S. Ingleside home, Sat
1R 119 N. Peoria #3D. “Interior Burnout,” video, sculpture, and works on paper by Sterling Ruby, through Sat 10/23. Tue-Sat noon-6. 312-738-3915
Unit B 1733 S. Des Plaines. “The Phantom Limb,” work that “explores the conceptual possibilities of figuration,” through Sat 10/2. Sat noon-5. 312-491-9384
Martina Nehrling, Instead of Crying, at Zig
Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Illini Union Art Lounge 828 S. Wolcott. Work by Mark Pelnar, Mon 9/20-Fri 10/15. EReception Thu 9/23, 3-7 PM. Mon-Fri 9-5. 312-4135076
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Listings are compiled by Joel Score and Tamara Faulkner from information available Monday. Hours and closing dates are prone to change; readers are urged to call ahead. Many museums have ongoing collec-
Galleries “Party Politics” Forum with Jacky Grimshaw of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, In These Times senior editor David Moberg, and Mary Gallagher of the Chicago Federation of Labor. Tue 9/28, 7 PM, HotHouse, 31 E. Balbo, 312-362-9707.
members of RAW Fine Art Alliance, Fri-Sun 9/24-9/26, 10 AM-7 PM, at Parkway Ballroom, 4455 S. King, with an artists’ roundtable Saturday at 1 (312-656-8275). . . . Paintings by Niki Kriese, Sat 9/25, 8 PM-midnight, Sun 9/26, noon-4, at Second Floor, 2242 N. Sawyer (773-486-5981). . . . Art by local Univ. of Michigan alums, Thu 9/30, 6-9 PM, at Acme, 2418 W. Bloomingdale; proceeds benefit a UM scholarship fund and the Chicago Mutual Housing Network (630-784-2200).
Lisa Reardon The Chicago novelist reads from The Mercy Killers. Thu 9/30, 7:30 PM, Barbara’s Bookstore, 1100 Lake, Oak Park, 708-848-9140.
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Jonathan Rosenbaum Thumbs up! The Reader film critic talks about Essential Cinema. Sat 9/25, 3 PM, Barnes & Noble, 1441 W. Webster, 773871-3610. Sheila Seclearr The Evanston writer reads from her novel, A Tree on Turtle Island. Sun 9/26, 1:30 PM, Unity in Chicago, 1925 W. Thome, 773-973-0007. “The State of Black Men in America” This event features a keynote by author Kevin Powell (Who’s Gonna Take the Weight? Manhood, Race, and Power in America), a panel discussion, and a performance by poet Malik Yusef. Fri 9/24, 7 PM, South Shore Cultural Center, 7059 S. South Shore, 718-399-0695. Rob Stevens The local advocate of “thintuition” plugs The Overfed Head: What If Everything You Know About Weight Loss Is Wrong? Mon 9/27, 7 PM, Borders Books & Music, 4718 N. Broadway, 773-3347338. “Talk to Strangers: Democracy Is a Process, Not an Event” Panel with Utne magazine associate editor Leif Utne, In These Times senior editor Salim Muwakkil, Sanhita Sinha Roy of the Progressive Media Project, Tavis Smiley Show senior editor Phillip Martin, Yes! magazine executive editor Sarah van Gelder, and Mark Weisbrot of the Center for Economic and Policy Research; followed by a keynote from University of Chicago humanities dean Danielle Allen, author of Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education. A Public Square event. Fri 9/24, 4 PM (panel), 6:30 PM (keynote), UIC Chicago Circle Center, 750 S. Halsted, 312-993-0682. Reservations requested. TallGrass Writers Guild West Lafayette writer Nancy Hagen Patchen reads from her novel, Victoria’s Quest; an open mike follows. Tue 9/28, 7:30 PM, Red Lion Pub, 2446 N. Lincoln, 708-672-6630, $5, $4 for students. Richard Thieme The business and technology consultant discusses Islands in the Clickstream: Reflections on Life in a Virtual World. Tue 9/28, 7 PM, Transitions Bookplace, 1000 W. North, 312-951-7323. Abe Thompson The local businessman and motivational speaker signs My Thoughts, Your Journal, Our Book. Mon 9/27, 7 PM, Transitions Bookplace, 1000 W. North, 312-951-7323. Twilight Tales “Authors in the Hot Seat!” Authors read their work for a panel of judges and get feedback. Genre: mainstream fiction. Mon 9/27, 7:30 PM, Red Lion Pub, 2446 N. Lincoln, 773-348-2695, $4. “The U.S. Presidential Debate” A discussion with Tribune public editor Don Wycliff, Loyola poli sci prof Alan Gitelson, and Tribune editor Mark Jacob precedes a televised debate (8 PM) between John Kerry and George W. Bush. Thu 9/30, 6 PM, Chicago Historical Society, 1601 N. Clark, 312-642-4600, $5, free for students. “Waging Peace: Prayer, Prison, and Protest” Talk by activists Sister Moira Kenny and Mary Dean. Wed 9/29, noon, Saint Xavier University, McGuire Hall, 3700 W. 103rd, 773-298-3981. A prayer service follows. Jennifer Wenger The knitting aficionado presents Teen Knitting Club: Chill Out and Knit. Thu 9/30, 7 PM, Book Stall at Chestnut Court, 811 Elm, Winnetka, 847446-8880.
tion exhibits not detailed here, and galleries commonly have work by numerous artists on their rosters available for viewing. Some museums offer discounted admission for Chicago residents. Talks
Special Events Art for Animals, an art auction benefiting Tree House Animal Foundation, takes place Thu 9/30, 6-9 PM, at the Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington. $40, $35 in advance. 773-784-5488, ext. 231 Quickies. Paintings and drawings by Anthony Nagy, Fri 9/24, 8 PM-midnight, at 411 N. Wolcott, 3rd fl. (773-454-8181). . . . Work by
Out & about. “For the Birds,” in Women’s Park & Gardens, 1827 S. Indiana, features 60-odd birdhouses designed by artists and architects, through Fri 10/15 (312-7446630). . . . Two dozen artists designed gardens mixing plants and sculpture for “The Art of the Garden,” a Park District project that runs through Sun 10/31; 13 are in Grant Park, 5 in Lincoln Park, 1 in Washington Square Park (across from the Newberry Library), 2 in south-side Washington Park, and 3 in west-side Douglas Park. Proposal drawings and models are on view through Thu 9/30 Cat the Chicago Tourism Center, 72 E. Randolph, which also has brochures showing the gardens’ exact locations (312-742-7529, 312-744-2400). . . . Pier Walk, on the south edge and landward end of Navy Pier, 600 W. Grand, continues, with sculptures by 15 artists, through Fri 11/5 (312-595-5019).
directly related to exhibits are noted below; for others see Readings & Lectures. Please send exhibit info and images to Art Listings, Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illinois, Chicago 60611, or artlistings@ chicagoreader. com.
Galleries Acme Art Works 1741 N. Western. “The Pale Student of Unhallowed Arts,” “bits of decay stitched and grafted together,” a la Frankenstein, by 12 artists, through Sat 10/30. Wed-Sat noon-5. 773-278-7677 Robert Henry Adams 715 N. R Franklin. Errol Ortiz, Hairy Who-era paintings and drawings of machines and machinelike creatures, through Sat 10/30. Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat noon-5. 312-642-8700 Jean Albano 215 W. Superior. Karl Wirsum, paintings and other garish renderings of cartoonish characters, through Sat 10/16. Tue-Fri 10-5, Sat 11-5. 312-440-0770 Anchor Graphics 119 W. Hubbard #5W. Nancy Palmeri, woodcuts of cowboy politics, through Sat 10/16. Tue-Sat noon-5, Thu till 9. 312-595-9598 ARC 734 N. Milwaukee. Sheila Finnigan, Sean Rausa-Griskenas, Elsie Blue, paintings; Robert Magrisso, collages and sculpture; “Around the House,” paintings of laundry, mops, and such by Alisa Singer; photos and text by clients and staff of Apna Ghar, a domestic abuse shelter; Gale West, Richard Herzog,
installations, through Sat 9/25 C. “Art to Fear II,” pre-Halloween/election group show; landscape photos by David Bechtol with digital “remixes” of the images by Nancy Bechtol; “Blue Bridges,” work by five Bulgarian painters; paintings by Carol HalidayMcQueen and Charlotte Segal, photos by Joan Taxay-Weinger; members’ show, Wed 9/29-Sat 10/30. Wed-Sat noon-6, Sun noon-4. 312-733-2787 Architech 730 N. Franklin. “Rome and the Classical Legacy,” etchings by Piranesi, watercolors by Elizabeth Ockwell and Gilbert Gorski, and other images, through Sat 11/20. Thu-Sat noon-5. 312-475-1290 BA Studio 4738 N. Lawndale. Work by Lee Gatewood, through Sun 9/26 C. EReception Sat 9/25, noon-5. Sat-Sun noon-5. 773-583-1274 Beacon Street 4131 N. Broadway. Tran Thanh Toan, paintings, watercolors, and sculpture; paintings, sculpture, and bonsai trees by Vietnamese artists, through Fri 10/8. Mon-Fri noon-5. 773-525-7579 Mary Bell 740 N. Franklin. Scott Addis, abstract landscape paintings, through Wed 10/13. Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30, Sat 11-5. 312-6420202
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our of the new season’s best shows are hot and sensual rather than cool and conceptual— though they’re not lacking ideas. At Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Leslie Baum’s abstracted landscapes based on her travel photos are striking for the way their contrasting forms intensify the lovely colors. Flat tan rocks outlined in black in I Remember Rock River Valley suggest a cartoon style while large washes of fuzzy browns and grays are as diffuse as clouds. In Feather Weight, outlined rocks in pastel colors hover illogically above hazy areas in similar colors; below and to the Leslie Baum right, smaller dark rocks actuBodybuilder and ally cast shadows, as if firmly Sportsman planted on the ground. Baum 119 N. Peoria says these paintings are “distilthrough October 23 lations and fanciful reworkings 312-492-7261 of a location,” and the contrast between realistic renderings Adam Scott and floating rocks does remind Kavi Gupta 835 W. Washington us of the subjectivity of our through October 23 perceptions. 312-432-0708 Adam Scott’s landscapes are painted in a similarly limited William Conger but sensuous palette; the Roy Boyd images are based on his 739 N. Wells through October 19 Photoshop manipulations of media photos and others he 312-642-1606 takes himself. The works have Martina an apocalyptic feel informed Nehrling by his fears for the future, Zg intensified by our aggressive, 300 W. Superior self-destructive response to through October 9 9/11; he nicknames his show 312-654-9900 at Kavi Gupta “Armageddon in the Noonday Sun.” At first glance Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful is relatively calm, with the look of a children’s book: a gentle green lawn and blue sky take up most of the image. But a huge dark hole in the lawn is made more ominous by the pretty flowers that ring it; floating above it are two mysterious chained-together suitcases with the feet of cartoon characters. For What We Do in Secret he stretched a photo of two homes vertically so they resemble pretentiously oversize condos; a red hammer emerging from a cloud seems to threaten them with demolition. William Conger’s abstract paintings at Roy Boyd were inspired partly by the colors of childhood games and toys and partly by high modernist abstraction. Pioneer imposes solid, cleanly outlined shapes on a hazy mix of blue and white forms strongly suggestive of a 19th-century romantic sky, a continuous field not found in the show’s other works. Especially in light of the title, this piece
Clockwise from top: “What We Do in Secret” by Adam Scott, “Wondering” (detail) by Martina Nehrling, and “Pioneer” (detail) by William Conger struck me as a commentary on the way human settlement imposes solid manufactured shapes on the gentler, more variegated patterns in nature, and Conger says that it is one of his goals to evoke “our greedy exploitation of space.” “I revel in color,” Martina Nehrling writes—and this is one artist’s statement that’s substantiated by the work. Based on her past exhibits, I expected a cheerful use of color at Zg: her abstract paintings are typically filled with explosions of rhythmic brushstrokes in many vibrant hues. Rooted in Water is characteristic, its vertical marks primarily in shades of blue that contrast not only with the yellow background but with the red strokes just below many of the blue ones. The more recent
Wondering marks a shift in approach. Here Nehrling groups her brushstrokes into a single discrete shape, a sort of whirlpool spiraling from blue at the outer edges toward bright reds and oranges around a blank center, a void. This use of color is almost frightening, disturbingly hot in comparison to the gray background. It turns out that Nehrling also had a social purpose in mind. She says her paintings are in part her attempt to cope with our information overload—the “complications of convenience” produced, for example, by the identical messages left on land and cell phones. Nehrling says her paintings help her deal with “our volatile existence. . . . At times I’m able to flirt, and at times I’m almost consumed.” —Fred Camper
Music The Meter The Numero Group is on a mission to save the Motowns of the Columbuses of the world.
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September 24, 2004
TheList
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Black Keys, Cuts | 10:30 PM | Metro a p 5
Ritchie Blackmore & Blackmore’s Night | 8 PM | Congress Theater a p 22
Candlestick Maker. a p 5 Devo | 7:30 PM | Riviera | sold out Diplo and Rob Sonic open for Rjd2 | 8:30 PM | Logan Square Auditorium a p 20
Anti-Flag | 5:30 PM | Metro
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Diamanda Galas | 8 PM | Park West a p 24 The Gossip, Pretty Girls Make Graves, and the All Girl Summer Fun Band | 10 PM | Metro Macha at the Hideout Block Party | 7:30 PM | Hideout | a p 26
CALLING ALL CRETINS The late Johnny Ramone on Michael Gramaglia and Jim Fields’s documentary End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones: “It’s a very dark movie. It’s accurate. It left me disturbed.” | See Section 2 | Fri-Thu | Landmark’s Century Centre | 2828 N. Clark | 773-4443456 | $7-$9.50
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Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys | 8 PM | Fermilab a p 26
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A GEM ON THE SOUTH SIDE The Little Black Pearl Workshop, which offers arts education for kids and adults, christens its new 40,000-square-foot home with a benefit gala featuring Cassandra Wilson, Rachelle Ferrell, and Lalah Hathaway. | 6 PM | Little Black Pearl Art and Design Center | 1060 E. 47th | 773-285-1211 or www.blackpearl.org | $150
Now It’s Overhead and Tilly & the Wall open for Rilo Kiley. | 9 PM | Abbey Pub | 18+ a 38 The Spits | 9:30 PM | Empty Bottle a p 38
Sleepy LaBeef | 9:30 PM | FitzGerald’s | Also Saturday at Bill’s Blues.
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Ken Vandermark’s Territory Band-4 | 3 PM | Chicago Cultural Center a p 30
LA DJ The Movie, a beery comedy about DJ culture by American Pie star Thomas Ian Nicholas and his brother Tim Scarne, premieres drive-in style at a parking garage. To find out where, buy tickets on the Web site below; it’s $150 per car. Nicholas and Scarne (who also star in the movie) host the afterparty at Ontourage; DJ Timbo and Dave Aude spin. | 9 PM | Ontourage | 157 W. Ontario | 312573-1470 or www.theworldparty.com | $10
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Cattle Decapitation | 6:30 PM | House of Blues a p 32
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sunday26 fairs & festivals Adventures in Modern Music a p 41 Estrojam a p 42 Hideout Block Party a p 42
early warnings Afrika Bambaataa Beastie Boys Dwarves Gogol Bordello Sufjan Stevens
Trashcan Sinatras | 8 PM | Double Door a p 32
Rock,Pop, Etc 6 Hip-Hop22 Dance24 Folk & Country30 Blues, Gospel, R&B31 Jazz33 Experimental37 International38 Classical39 In-Stores40 Open Mikes & Jams40 Fairs & Festivals41 Miscellaneous42
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September 17, 2004
Sof’ Boy by Archer Prewitt
HELP WANTED
EXPERIENCED REAL ESTATE agents, are you tired of working in large offices with high fees? Small office in Lincoln Park is your answer. Call Ball Realty. 773-352-2255.
TO RESPOND TO A READER REPLY NO. mail your re- EXPERIENCED REALTORS NEEDED. From leasing sponse to: Reader reply no. ____, c/o Chicago Reader, 11 E. Illi- to selling, there are many avenues in real estate. Perspective is a commercial firm; establishing a residential nois, Chicago, IL, 60611. division soon. If you are creative, outgoing, smart, plus liADMINISTRATIVE TEMPORARIES NEEDED! Knowl- censed, we’d like to hear from you. Must be licensed with edge of Microsoft Office Suite, strong typing and communi- excellent communication skills. Write to: MGoodman@ cation skills are required for administrative assistant and re- PerspectiveRealEstate.com or fax resume during early ceptionist positions. Please fax resume to Alfred or Nikki at morning hours: 312-222-9820. 312-347-1206 or check out our website at www.opgroup.com. PAYROLL/ BENEFITS SPECIALIST. Whole Foods MarEOE. ket in Deerfield, IL is looking for a Payroll Benefits SpecialOUR AGENTS RECEIVE unlimited Internet leads, com- ist. Applicant must have Human Resource training, and expetitive commission splits, no desk fees, top-notch training cellent data entry skills. Apply on line at and support, commission draws and health benefits avail- www.wholefoodsmarket.com or at the kiosk in our store at able. Work from home or our River North office. Call Calvin 760 Waukegan Road, Deerfield. at 312-229-6590 or fax to 312-577-0480. BOOKKEEPER/ CONSTRUCTION BILLING AIA forms SALES, PHONE, INSIDE. Tired of answering bankcard experience needed for Good Island manuf. Must know ads that don’t turn out to be what they promised? Then come QuickBooks. Fax/ e-mail resume to 312-421-1100, join the sales team of the largest independent bankcard piw_inc@ameritech.net. processor in the country. Weekly salary, commission, bonus. Medical/ dental insurance. Paid vacation program. All leads MUST HAVE KNOWLEDGE of Jewish culture, ceremonies provided. Paid training. Dynamic advancement opportuni- and artifacts. If you love to be surrounded by art, enjoy beties. Closers preferred, but will train money motivated in- ing a personal shopper and have the ability to read some Hedividuals. Call now, ask for Bill, 312-222-0131 x264. brew, call 312-322-1709 for more details. ARAMARK IS SEARCHING for individuals for the following three positions within the North Shore area: 1) Food Service Worker, a combination of up to one year of directly related training and/ or experience is typically required for carrying out the responsibilities for this job. Examines filled tray for completeness and serves trays to patients. Pushes carts to halls. Washes dishes and cleans work area, tables, cabinets and ovens. Or ward kitchens. Collects and stacks dirty dishes on cart and returns cart to kitchen. 2) Housekeeping, a combination of up to a year of directly related training and/ or experience is typically required for carrying out the responsibilities for this job. May disinfect and sterilize equipment and supplies using germicides and sterilizing equipment. Sweep, scrub, wax and polish floors using brooms, mops, power scrubbing and waxing machines. 3) Patient Transport, individual with at least one year experience within the healthcare industry. We are seeking an individual with lots of energy and good communication skills. The individual will be responsible for transporting patients to and from rooms, testing and occasionally transport bodies to the morgue. If you are interested and meet the requirements requested please fax resume to 847-570-1582 or e-mail to hr_evanston@aramark.com. No phone calls please.
COSTUME SHOP LOOKING for energetic, multi-talented individuals with great personalities to help with customer service during the Halloween season. Sales oriented with great imaginations who like to help and talk to people. We are a fun and fast-paced store so we need people who can do many things at once. If you enjoy excitement and have high energy, please apply in person: Fantasy Costume Headquarters, 4065 N Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago.
DRIVERS/ WALKERS. LOOKING for an opportunity? Drivers, own a car with insurance? Earn $500-$600 per week full-time. Walkers, earn $300-$350/ week full-time. Call Standard Courier, 312-563-1640.
RECEPTIONIST, PART-TIME FOR veterinary hospital.
GOLD COAST OFFICE looking for newly licensed and/ or experienced real estate agents to join our “work from home” program. Enjoy the benefits of having an office to meet your clients and take home 80% of your commission without having to fill a quota! Call Nathan for details. Gold Coast Realty 312-280-9600.
LANDMARK BAGELS IS seeking a qualified baker’s assistant. Evening shift. Come and apply in person 442 W Randolph Street, Chicago, IL. 312-441-1800.
MEDICAL ASSISTANT/ O.R. tech, part-time/ full-time, needed in Lincoln Park and/ or Highland Park podiatry office/ surgical center. Clerical/ reception skills and insurance/ vob experience a plus. Fax resume to 773-871-1244. Must have office and computer experience, excellent phone skills, attention to detail. M, Tu, Th, Fri 2pm-8pm, Sat 8am2pm. Applications accepted weekdays between 11am-6pm at Higgins Animal Clinic, 1705 W Belmont.
EARN EXTRA MONEY! Excellent pay, great around school or another job, days, nights, and weekends available. WHAT’S COOKING RESTAURANT. Wanted: experiSales/ service, no experience needed, all ages 18+, condi- enced server, and experienced, friendly host/ hostess, day tions apply. Call 312-397-1570 or 773-866-1608. or night, full-time. Apply in person. 6181 N Lincoln Ave, LinEXPERIENCED LOAN OFFICERS wanted: southwest coln Village Center. mortgage office (lender/ broker) seeks loan officers with a minimum of 3 years experience. We offer top pay, your own office space, over 100 lenders, advertising tools and benefits. Fax your resume to 886-346-4386 or call 773-780-2800 and ask for Ilda.
HAIRSTYLISTS, BEAUTY PROFESSIONALS. Fully
designer. Create new webs, rework and maintain existing webs. Execute projects and meet deadlines. Students and freelancers welcome. Internship credit available. Contact Tag Fasten, 312-554-8800.
Evanston are seeking motivated individuals with previous retail and/ or customer service experience. E-mail your qualifications to hr@screenz.com. Check us out at www.screenz.com. EOE.
ARTIST WANTED: I need 23 color cartoonish drawings for a private story. Most scenes are fairly simple with only a few needing greater detail. Will pay $200 cash with share of proceeds if story is ever published. 773-267-7970, marketmonkey2004@yahoo.com.
SUPAROSSA RESTAURANT GROUP. We are seeking a highly qualified restaurant manager with an excellence in guest services, leadership and a commitment to quality on all levels. Competitve salary and benefits. E-mail resume apply@suparossa.com.
CHICAGO BASED DECORATIVE glass company seeks experienced spray painters. Must understand how to operate and maintain paint spraying equipment, mix/ match colors, maintain production records, be dependable, safety conscious and work well with others. Positions require heavy lifting. Hard workers who like to be rewarded need only apply. Good pay, benefits and bonus plan. Leave detailed message after 5pm at 773-278-4660 ext 221.
ANIMAL LOVERS! SEEKING team members to join All For Doggies. Must be energetic and love pets. Pet care experience a plus. Drug test required. Apply in person at All For Doggies, 1760 N Kilbourn Ave, Chicago. No calls please.
equipped one or two chair salon. Much more than booth rental, it’s your own salon with separate locked entrance. Reasonable rent, upscale space. Lincoln Park, 773-525-0215.
PART-TIME CUSTOMER SERVICE positions. Screenz WEB DESIGNER. IMMEDIATE need for part-time web Computing Centers in Lincoln Park, Andersonville and
BARTENDERS, WAITSTAFF, DOORPERSON wanted for summer help. Jay’s, 343 W Erie. Appply in person, 3-7pm, Saturday through Thursday.
COMEDY ARTS ORGANIZATION seeks detail-oriented DANCING BARTENDERS. 708-216-9755! If you can © 2004 ARCHER PREWITT
Administrative Assistant with sense of humor. MS Office, fun keep a beat while dancing on the bar, pour a drink and look phone persona and organizational skills a must. $10-$12+ good doing it, then Pretty Ugly Saloon wants you. No experience required. Part-time/ full-time. Suburban location. hour. Fax resume: 773-784-1079 or. www.wavelength.biz.
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continued from page 26 (Kranky) is an LP of droning instrumentals indebted to minimalist La Monte Young and Krautrockers Popol Vuh, and on Dartmouth Street Underpass (Locust) Whitman transforms a field recording of ambient sounds from a glassed-in train-station pedway near his home in Somerville, Massachusetts, into a dense, detailed hum a la Phill Niblock. The discs 21:30 for Acoustic Guitar (Apartment B) and Playthroughs (Kranky) bear the closest relation to what he’ll do at this show; Whitman created their hypnotic tone poems by applying computer treatments inspired by Terry Riley’s 60s tape-loop experiments to his guitar playing. Playthroughs, the more recent of the two, creates breathtaking beauty from sounds that would once have been deemed mistakes: on “Feedback Zwei” he stirs peals of feedback from his acoustic guitar’s pickup into a slow-motion whirlpool, and on “Fib01a” he spreads a fine patina of electrical crackling over glistening bubbles of sound reminiscent of Oval. Whitman has informed me that this concert will be “more orchestrated” than the CD, with multitracked accompaniment and possibly “some more raw-sounding things.” Entrance plays first, Sightings plays third, and Telefon Tel Aviv headlines. a 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 800-594-8499, $15. —Bill Meyer
sunday26 BOBBY BARE JR. (see Music in Section One). a 7:15
PM, in front of the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433, $10 donation requested. A
CLOGS (see Monday) play an in-store set. a 3 PM, Reckless Records, 1532 N. Milwaukee, 773-235-3727. F
KEIKO YOSHIDA
Snoozie & the Miltonics Monday at Empty Bottle (see Rock, Pop, Etc.)
Edgar Marriquin spin salsa, merengue, and bachata (23+) F. Thursdays, 9 PM-2 AM, DJ Boris, DJ Elite, DJ Prieto & Ricky Perez spin hip-hop, reggae, bachata, and merengue (18+). 773-772-9333.
hosts guest DJs for the “Supreme Court Hearings.” Thu 9/30, Titonton Duvante, Matty, Coleman Burditt, Ken Meier. Fri 10/1, 9 PM, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble with Osunlade. 312-226-7600.
Rodan 1530 N. Milwaukee F: Fri 9/24, 11 PM-2 AM, DJ Courtland. Sat 9/25, 10 PM, Mouse on Mars; 11 PM, Jeff Parker, John Herndon. Last Tuesday of every month, 10:30 PM-2 AM, DJ Anon, DJ Swizzle, DJ Amputee & T-Bux. Last Wednesday of every month, 10 PM, DJ Madrid. 773-276-7036.
Sound-bar 226 W. Ontario: DJs spin 9 PM4 AM Fridays, Sundays, and Thursdays, 9 PM-5 AM Saturdays. Fri 9/24, Mauro Picotto, Gaetano Parisio, Side Four, DJ Apocalypse, John Grammatis, Hiroki. Saturdays, John Curley, Chris Tomasone, Jernell Geronimo, Shaka 23, Jay Prasad. Sun 9/26, Chris Eterno, Luis M. Fri 10/1, Seb Fontaine. 312-787-4480.
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GHOST During a quiet moment on Ghost’s new
album, Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City), you can clearly hear the sound of pages turning. It’s easy to imagine them as leaves of vellum bound into a massive, dusty, leather-covered tome full of arcane secrets; this Tokyo-based collective, founded by singer and guitarist Masaki Batoh in the mid-80s, makes its home in 60s acid folk and psychedelia, and its sound is always steeped in mysticism. In the band’s more stilted and self-indulgent moments, you can picture the elves and unicorns all too clearly, but an everchanging roster and varied, inventive arrangements have by and large kept its formula fresh. Hypnotic Underworld, Ghost’s first record in five years, balances meditative madrigals with set-the-controls-for-the-heart-of-the-sun freakouts; percussionist Junzo Tateiwa is the most impressive addition this time out, adding propulsive force to the fluteheavy jam “Ganagmanag” and bringing the four-part opening epic to a close with a majestic tidal wave of drum rolls. The band doesn’t make it to Chicago often, and this is one of the best lineups Batoh’s assembled yet—catch it now, because odds are the group will have morphed again by the time it comes back. This show is part of the Adventures in Modern Music festival; Double Leopards, Noxagt, and Xiu Xiu open. a 9 PM, Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, 773-276-3600 or 800-594-8499, $15. —Mark Athitakis
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Jedi Mind Tricks started out in the mid-90s as fantastically dippy as PLUR ravers—but instead of blathering about peace, love, unity, and respect, they carried on about crop circles, tarot, auras, the Pleiades, magick, voodoo, Atlantis, vortices, and suchlike. But with each release they sound like they’ve degenerated a little more into straight-up thugs—even Ikon the Verbal Hologram dropped his moniker in favor of plain ol’ Vinnie. If you pay closer attention to their oeuvre though, continued on page 30
Room 22 Lounge 22 E. Hubbard: Fridays, 10 PM-2 AM, DJ Burak spins Euro, progressive, tribal, and high energy F. 312-5274900. Smart Bar 3730 N. Clark: DJs spin nightly after 10 PM. Fri 9/24, Marques Wyatt, Josh Deep. Sat 9/25, Miles Maeda, Mike Frugaletti. Sundays, DJ Madd Crates spins underground hip-hop, breaks, reggae, and old-school jams. Tuesdays, DJs $#&@! and Gremlin spin at “Noctronica”: industrial, EBM, synth pop, and noise. Wednesdays, DJ Pogo spins indie, Britpop, new wave, and alternative. Thu 9/30, Brian Ffar, Daniel Mnookin, Audiophile, Miss Michaela, Disc Jockey CB. Fri 10/1, Andy Caldwell, Dayhota. Sat 10/2, Morgan Geist, Daniel Wang. 773-549-4140. Sonotheque 1444 W. Chicago: DJs spin 9 PM-2 AM Sundays through Fridays, 9 PM-3 AM Saturdays. Saturdays and Thursdays, Anthony Nicholson. Sat 9/25, 10 PM, Archetype, Carlos Soufront, Matthew Martin, Karl Meier. Sundays, DJ Rikshaw spins reggae, dub, and dancehall. Tue 9/28, Rob Hamilton, Joel Kriske, DJ Courtland
Spin 800 W. Belmont: DJs spin after 10 PM. Fridays, DJ Peter Mavrik & VJ Terp. Saturdays, VJ Riley York. Sundays, VJ Bryan F. Mondays, VJ Terp F. Tuesdays, VJ Tech-Nick F. Wednesdays, DJ Jungle Jorge and VJs Riley York & Bryan. Thursdays, VJ Boom Boom. 773-327-7711. Subterranean Cafe & Cabaret 2011 W. North: Downstairs in the lounge: Fridays and Saturdays, 7 PM-2:30 AM, DJ Trew spins Motown, funk, rare groove, disco, and hip-hop. Tuesdays, 6 PM-1:30 AM, Artek, DJ Verb, Norman Rockwell, Maryjane, D Double spin at the 606 Entertainment open mike. Wednesdays, 6 PM-1:30 AM, David Chavez & Caswell James spin deep house. 773-278-6600. Ten56 1056 N. Damen: DJs spin 10 PM-2 AM (until 3 AM Saturdays). Saturdays, Refried Beats with DJs Mass Transit, J-Biz & Spinello. Sundays, DJ Rich Rock. Mondays, DJ Dan Ryan. Tuesdays, DJ Rudy & DJ Tankboy spin alternative rock, punk, and new wave. 773-227-4906.
Trace 3714 N. Clark: DJs spin 10 PM-2 AM. Sundays, Doug Brandt spins house. 773477-3400. Transit 1431 W. Lake: DJs spin 10 PM-4 AM Thursdays and Fridays (until 5 AM Saturdays). Saturdays, Martin “Boogieman” Luna, DJ Goose, Jay Funk. 312-491-9729. Vision 640 N. Dearborn: DJs spin 10 PM-4 AM (until 5 AM Saturdays). DJ Theory spins Fridays in the Dome; DJ Spin spins Saturdays in the Dome. Fri 9/24, DJs spin hip-hop and house at “Operation Getdown.” Saturdays, Julian “Jumpin’” Perez, DJ Structure, Gabriel & Dresden, Jimmie Page. 312-266-2114. White Star Lounge Magnum’s Steakhouse, 225 W. Ontario: Fridays, 10 PM-4 AM, DJ Spin. Saturdays, 10 PM-5 AM, Mach 1. Thursdays, 10 PM-4 AM, DJs spin salsa and merengue. 312-337-8080. Xippo 3759 N. Damen: DJs spin 10 PM-2 AM nightly (until 3 AM Saturdays). Fridays, DJ Storm. Saturdays, DJ Phatman. Mondays, DNS & Monna spin jazz and house. Tuesdays, DJ Kenny spins house. Wednesdays, Steve Prior spins underground dance. 773-529-9135. Zentra 923 W. Weed: DJs spin 10 PM-4 AM Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays (until 5 AM Saturdays). Fri 9/24, Paul Johnson, Rithma (live). Saturdays, Psycho Bitch, Andre Harris, DJ PNS, Josh Werner. Mondays, Derrick Carter, Diz, Hiroki. Fri 10/1, DJ Rush, Mike Wade. 312-787-0400.