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RESTAURANT FEATURE doing subtle things that were perpetuating harm and creating environments where harm could be present,” she says. “It’s a lack of #MeToo comes to the food-and-drink biz awareness. I thought, there’s got to be some- thing that can happen. So I started asking my- The Restaurant Culture Association seeks to help the notoriously loose hospitality industry combat self all the questions, and asking everyone else sexual harassment proactively. all the questions like, What do we do? How do we fi x this? What are the problems that need By A L to be addressed?” She’d observed that the restaurants that did have HR policies had usually cut and hen #MeToo hit the restaurant don’t have the resources to maintain a human a corporate job at a distillery. “We’re living in pasted them from a corporate employment industry, absolutely no one who resources sta —or the inclination. It wasn’t the 80s out here.” manual without bothering to acknowledge had ever worked in a restaurant surprising that well-known chefs and owners Trista Baker has been working in restau- that standards of professionalism are looser or a bar was surprised. It’s a like Mario Batali and Ken Friedman and, here rants for more than a decade, since she was in a restaurant than in an o ce. These codes perfect environment for sexual in Chicago, Cosmo Goss were forced out of in high school. She loves her industry and the also didn’t bother to defi ne terms like “sexual Wharassment and abuse to fl ourish: long hours, their restaurants after sexual harassment people in it. But since she began volunteering harassment.” Instead, some places adopted late nights, close quarters, lots of alcohol, scandals. What was surprising was that there as a counselor for survivors of sexual violence zero-tolerance policies: one incident and the and a culture that celebrates rowdiness in the weren’t more. at Resilience (formerly Rape Victim Advo- perpetrator was fi red. Baker didn’t like this, kitchen and demands that front-of-the-house “In this industry, we’re probably 40 years cates) two years ago, she began to realize that either. sta smooth over bad behavior with a smile, behind,” says Adrienne Stoner, who worked as things had to change. “I saw so many good “Put yourself in the shoes of someone that all in the name of hospitality. Most restaurants a bartender for 17 years before moving on to people with nothing but the best intentions is being harassed at work,” she says. “Now you 4 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Search the Reader’s online database of thousands The Odyssey of Chicago-area restaurants—and add your own review—at chicagoreader.com/food. FOOD & DRINK Project is a free, FREE 32-week, college- have the burden of knowing that if you report can say that. It’s going to be uncomfortable.” credit granting it, a person’s going to lose a job.” And that per- But she thinks that ultimately the RCA will be COLLEGE son may continue the same behavior at their helpful for the industry as a whole. next job. Zack Eastman, the co-owner of Dorian’s, humanities A better solution, Baker decided, was agrees. “You need to have an educational demystifying sexual harassment and its arm or else issues are going to continue to be COURSE program for consequences: establishing clear definitions systemic. I like the approach of talking to bar of unacceptable behavior and letting every owners and bar managers and having educa- income-eligible employee know exactly what would happen as tional and assisting materials to suggest ways a result. An allegation shouldn’t be a cause for to work with employees and do better. As a adults (17+) with panic. Instead, she says, managers and owners guy, a white dude, I don’t understand a lot of should view it as an opportunity. “Someone stu . Sometimes I need help from people who APPLICATIONS limited access to trusted you,” she says. “That’s an amazing have been through it, to show us all a better sign. Now you’re in a position to do something way of doing things.” college. Course to propel work culture in a positive direction.” Baker is working to incorporate the RCA as DUE In order to help restaurant owners and man- a 501(c)(3). She’s also looking for other volun- materials and agers do this, Baker has started her own orga- teers to help with training. But her ultimate AUGUST 15 nization, the Restaurant Culture Association. goal is much bigger: “I would love for the RCA transportation Originally the idea was that she and a group to become an organic thing in the industry,” of volunteers would do employee training, but she says. “I want it to belong to everyone. And assistance are then she realized what a sacrifi ce it would be if someone has a better answer, I’ll let them for a restaurant to shut down for even a few take over.” v provided. hours. So she shifted to helping restaurant owners and managers write their own policies @aimeelevitt instead. These policies, she hopes, will come THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU IF: from each restaurant’s own particular needs Class Locations: South and suit its culture. She has a lawyer on board •You can commit to doing the to make sure that those policies are legal. assignments and completing the Shore, Austin, Rogers Park, The process involves a lot of discussion in course and Cicero (in Spanish) order to make sure everyone understands •You can attend class twice a specifi c terms in the same way. “I’ve tried to Apply online at week in the evenings from develop facilitated conversation about sexual www.ilhumanities.org/ harassment,” she says. “Like literally defi ning 6:00-8:00 PM things for people and encouraging them to •You do not currently have a four- odysseyproject or by talk, not about their experiences—that would year college degree (B.A.) be gross—but to talk about the concept.” contacting Illinois Baker emphasizes that she doesn’t want to IN THE ODYSSEY PROJECT Humanities at take the fun out of kitchen culture. That would YOU WILL: destroy it. Better policy, she believes, would RESTAURANT & BAR (312) 374-1550 only improve it, by making people feel more 960 W 18TH ST - PILSEN, CHICAGO • Explore five different subject comfortable at work. More importantly, they would be more inclined to stay in their jobs. areas: Literature, Philosophy, Art High sta turnover, Baker notes, can make a History, U.S. History, and Critical restaurant “bleed money.” She hopes that will Thinking & Writing be incentive enough for restaurants to want to PARTY WITH • Study with professors from local make the e ort to change. YOUR PUP Baker will introduce the RCA to the com- ON OUR universities munity at large on Monday, August 12, with • Work with like-minded adult a panel discussion at Dorian’s in Wicker Park students in a supportive that will include chefs, servers, and bartend- environment ers from a range of bars and restaurants in the city. Stoner will be one of them. DOGFRIENDLY PATIO • Earn 6 transferable college credits In her years in the industry, Stoner has seen from Bard College upon how toxic behavior can infest an entire orga- completion of the course nization. “It should be OK to easily say, ‘I’m not OK with this, you’re making me uncom- 312.666.8601 fortable,’” she says. “Not everyone thinks they ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER5 NEWS & POLITICS
POLITICS A modest proposal Let’s turn Chicago into one giant TIF district to pay our bills. By
Cook County clerk Karen Yarbrough COURTESYCOOKCOUNTYCLERK’SOFFICE
ith the ho-hum reaction to the neighborhoods. But most of the money goes to latest report by the Cook Coun- high-income gentrifying ones that don’t need ty clerk about this year’s TIF it because . . . they have no blight to eradicate. take, I’ve decided to raise the We shouldn’t be surprised by this—the TIF white fl ag. program is flawed in such a way as to auto- WYes, I’m surrendering. You win, Mr. TIF. matically benefi t rich communities over poor I mean, I’ve been raising holy hell about this ones. As I’ve written about a few times. scam since like, I don’t know, Ronald Reagan This year’s big money winners are the was president, and it keeps rolling right along. nine TIF districts in gentrifying areas in and Case in point, Cook County clerk Karen Yar- around the Loop. They collected more than brough’s recently released TIF report. $360 million in TIF property taxes. The city’s 138 tax increment financing In contrast, the TIF districts in Englewood, districts collected about $841 million of your Austin, and Woodlawn—the city’s poorest property taxes this year, according to the areas—collected less than $5 million. clerk. Robbing from the poor to give to the rich. That’s up from the $660 million they col- That’s called economic development in lected last year. And, as long as we’re tallying Chicago. numbers, the TIFs have collected roughly $8.8 And the inequity is only going to get worse billion since the fi rst TIF district was created as the City Council, urged on by Mayor Rahm back in the 1980s. Don’t tell me Chicago’s (remember him?), approved two more hu- broke, people. mongous TIFs, Lincoln Yards and the 78, in But nobody seems too concerned about the gentrifying areas. tax hike. This year’s biggest TIF collector was the Wait, wait, it’s worse. The TIF program is transit TIF district that runs along the Red designed to eradicate blight in low-income Line from North Avenue to Devon. It collected 6 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll NEWS & POLITICS
$116 million. similar reaction to the TIF program through the city. So, everyone pays more in property But the TIFs? No one complains about The transit TIF is di erent from other TIFs the years. taxes for a TIF, even if you don’t live in a TIF them because they’re too complicated to in that it exempts the schools. In other words, They’d obediently watch Mayors Daley or district. understand. none of Chicago Public Schools’ property taxes Rahm snatch tens of millions in property taxes You know, it seems like I’ve written that So, let’s go for broke. Let’s turn the whole get diverted to the transit TIF. from their dead-broke system. And then, when explanation at least 542 times over the last city into one giant TIF district. From here on The Tribune reported it this way in a sub- the mayor kicked back a little something to couple of decades. out, all the new property taxes you pay each head: “Chicago Public Schools is a big benefi - help pay for, say, a new school, they’d fall to And even now I realize most people who see year—over and beyond the ones you paid last ciary of TIF district meant for Red, Purple Line their knees in gratitude to say: “Oh, thank you, it are like—huh? year—will go into a giant slush fund. The may- project.” thank you, thank you, Mr. Mayor, for giving us The city isn’t any help in spreading under- or’s free to raid it to pay for everything from I hate to be a nitpicker, but . . . back the money you took from us in the fi rst standing. On the contrary, the city’s official police and teacher contracts to pensions. CPS is most defi nitely not a “big benefi cia- place.” attitude toward TIFs is that they raise tax Is that legal? Probably not. But folks, we’re ry” of the TIF transit district. The schools are Anyway, where was I going with this? Oh, revenue but they’re not tax hikes. talking about an antipoverty program that simply getting the property tax dollars they yes, my new take on TIFs . . . I think even the most clueless of Chicagoans mostly goes to the rich. Obviously, little would have received if the transit TIF had The best way to describe the TIF is as a sur- will agree that this just can’t be. But the city things—like the law—can’t stop our mayors never been created. charge the council—at the mayor’s urging— gets away with it. Apparently, taxpayers don’t when it comes to TIFs. Basically, taxpayers in the transit TIF dis- slaps on your property taxes when they create mind paying the TIF tax because, well, they Look, if taxpayers are gullible enough to trict pay their property taxes to CPS, which a new TIF district. don’t know they’re paying it. think that $841 million in TIF money just diverts that money to the transit TIF, which in As soon as they create a new TIF district, And that brings me to my new approach to magically appeared out of nowhere, why stop turn diverts it back to CPS. the taxing bodies (schools, the county, the city, the TIF scam. there? Make it $1 billion. Or $2 billion. Or Oh my God, a double TIF diversion! Just etc) lose their ability to tax all of the property Mayor Lightfoot’s scrambling to come up whatever it takes to pay our bills. when you thought the program couldn’t get in that district for 23 years. with new ways to raise the money to pay for Maybe the taxpayers will catch on. But if the more confusing. To compensate for the tax dollars they ar- billions of dollars in obligations. But no matter past’s any indication, they probably won’t. v I shouldn’t be too hard on the Tribune. The en’t getting from the TIF districts, the taxing what fi nes, fees, or taxes she proposes, some- mayor’s school board appointees have had a bodies typically raise tax rates throughout one complains. @joravben
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in the adult education program, the clamor increased. “Our adult education program is on proba- tion. We must meet national and state bench- marks,” Salgado said as an explanation for standardizing hours and curriculum in adult ed classes across the six CCC campuses that o er them. He closed with a bit of unrelated but equally surprising news: the abrupt depar- ture of Harold Washington College president City Colleges instructors protest Ignacio López, thanks to an inspector gener- outside Kennedy-King College. al’s conclusion that, after two years on the DEANNAISAACS job, López was violating the city’s residency requirement. CCC’s adult education program was put on probation last September by the Illinois Community College Board because students weren’t progressing quickly enough, at least based on standardized test results. The administration says that all the changes to adult ed are designed to fix that. Associate vice chancellor of adult education Maureen Fitzpatrick told me in an interview last week, “We are making sure course design and cur- riculum are set up for student success.” In an e-mail, the administration added that it had shared information about the probation and “corrective action” with the teaching staff will be reduced to 96 hours. For speakers of and that going forward “we will be creating a ON CULTURE languages using di erent alphabets, he says, process to engage diverse stakeholders . . . in “This will close the door for them.” an ongoing review of the new curriculum and Adult ed, which offers free, government- pacing.” According to the administration, the In search of lost time supported English as a second language and loss of class time in the fall term will be 2,424 GED classes, is the CCC’s largest program, hours, or 2.9 percent. City Colleges teachers protest cutbacks in the adult education program. serving nearly 25,000 students with an entire- But Roumbanis says the ICCB did not ly part-time teaching sta , paid by the hour. issue any such direct orders. And the union By DI Last week union members and supporters, estimates that the lost instruction time for including some full-time faculty from CCC’s fall term will be closer to a whopping 18,000 for-credit undergraduate program, took to the hours. n late June, after three years of nego- shifts—shortening term length by as much street in front of Kennedy-King College, where AFSCME 3506 and other unions represent- tiations and with considerable relief, as 50 percent and lengthening some class the board of trustees was gathering for its Au- ing CCC employees want the college to put members of AFSCME 3506, the union sessions to as many as six hours. They don’t gust meeting. Chanting “Chop from the top” the brakes on this plan. Speaking in one of representing the adult education faculty believe these changes can work for their and “Education, not deportation,” they pa- the brief time slots allowed for public partic- at the City Colleges of Chicago, ratifi ed students, who typically have to juggle job raded in a narrow loop on the sidewalk before ipation at the trustees meeting, Cook County Ia contract that gave them modest salary and family responsibilities along with their heading indoors, where they took seats facing College Teachers Union Local 1600 president increases. studies. And they say it will be harder to a long table of trustees and other officials, Tony Johnston asked the board and adminis- The relief didn’t last. teach. With 16-week courses reduced to eight fl anked on one side by two equally long tables tration to stop the adult ed restructuring, do Within days of the ratifi cation, union o cials weeks, union president George Roumbanis of administrators. When CCC’s impeccably an impact analysis of the proposed changes, say, they were hit with an announcement of an asks, “How are we supposed to teach the same turned-out chancellor, Juan Salgado, reported consult with the faculty, be transparent about immediate, sweeping redesign of the adult ed material in half the time?” He predicts that that, due to declining enrollment that put expenses, and revise the budget (which will be program that will reduce faculty pay and result students will leave in droves. pressure on the college’s budget, the admin- balanced for fi scal 2020 thanks in part to the in a loss of health care and other benefi ts for Roumbanis says there’s plenty of research istration had made “the di cult decision” to questionable use of nearly $13 million from the many instructors, along with signifi cant cuts in showing that for ESL programs, more instruc- lay o 29 support sta , they responded with sale of the district’s downtown headquarters). instructional hours for students. tion time amounts to greater success. With the a resounding boo. (Total CCC enrollment is That got a cheer. v Faculty members say they were blindsid- changes, he says, ESL courses that previously down 37 percent since 2010.) And when Sal- ed. The changes include radical scheduling consisted of 170 to 250 hours of class time gado went on to talk about “improvements” @DeannaIsaacs 8 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll A love letter to Chicago journalism
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The night watchman at Graceland Ceme- tery reported seeing a hyena. Soon after, Lin- coln Park Zoo discovered that Jim the hyena was missing. The Inter-Ocean reassured read- ers that Jim was not doing anything untoward in the graveyard. Jim eluded capture in Lakev- iew, Edgewater, and Ravenswood. Although the Tribune initially portrayed the hyena as an ill-tempered beast, the Daily News praised Jim for mastering the “intricacies and dangers of the city at its leisure,” claiming that Jim might “become a valued member of the community” in due time. Although he survived the city, Jim was gunned down on the grounds of the Ger- man Old People’s Home in Forest Park a week after his escape.
James Burke, a bridge ironworker, and Daniel McCarthy, a policeman, spotted an alligator in the Chicago River at what is now called Roosevelt Road. McCarthy shot four times at the two-and-a-half-foot gator, miss- ing each time. Burke, who fell into the river trying to rope the alligator, managed to snag it from the river, placing it in a barrel of water. ALISONPOLSTON Big Ben, a California sea lion at Lincoln Park Zoo, cleared two iron fences the morn- ing of November 16. The Chicago Daily News reported Big Ben trailed “his 600 pounds of Chica o’s animals one wild clumsy fl esh for several hundred feet and after nearly two years of loathsome confinement Fence-hopping sea lions, a chilled-out coyote, and more animal exploits from history had regained his freedom with a glad splash into the waters of the outer lagoon.” By J The Tribune reported that Big Ben was spot- ted in South Chicago, his “joyous bark” heard near the Illinois Steel mill. Two miles o shore, hance the Snapper joins a long line Clark and Armitage, startling patrons of Ma- occasionally turning over vegetable carts and Big Ben attempted to board a tugboat. The of “exotic” animals that gained dame Raggio’s Restaurant. Zookeepers roped scaring horses along the way. After they were captain failed to lasso Big Ben. The Tribune fame by running free in the city, the escapee, which followed the light of their captured, they were housed with Duchess, the implored the public to leave Big Ben alone. “It including the most recent before lanterns. Getting halfway back to the zoo, the elephant at Lincoln Park Zoo. is the fi rst impulse of many persons discover- Chim, the Roscoe Village cougar. The Chicago sea lion angrily refused to go further. It was ing a strange bird which has lost its way and press took their exploits with great humor, eventually lured with fi sh into a large wooden As zookeepers were leading Duchess become bewildered, or an animal which was although they sometimes also acknowledged crate. The other sea lion headed toward a cir- from the animal house to her day quarters, she escaped from captivity and is enjoying its free- the underlying pathos of a creature trying des- cus but eventually wandered back to the zoo. made a break across fl ower beds to Webster dom, to kill it,” lamented the Tribune, which perately to return home. Here is an incomplete Avenue. Crushing through sidewalks made of predicted that Big Ben would return to Lincoln list of animals gone wild in Chicago. Sue and Lou, two elephants purchased wooden planks, she smashed the double doors Park Zoo on his own. by two Chicago lawyers looking to break of the Bartholomae & Leicht brewery at Sedg- Over the next few months, Big Ben was Two sea lions from Lincoln Park Zoo into show business, eluded their keeper and wick and Dickens. She also stuck her trunk sighted in Racine, Wisconsin, Saint Joseph, hopped a wire fence. One sauntered over to roamed several miles through the north side, through a nearby saloon, tipping over a barrel Michigan, and, ba ingly, Muscatine, Iowa. Al- 10 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll though the remains of Big Ben were reportedly ment overlooked a nesting spot, loved his found near Bridgman, Michigan, in April 1904, noisy neighbors. “We are all pleased and fi shermen in Galveston Bay in Texas claimed grateful that these fine parrots have chosen GREEN they netted the body of Big Ben in 1910. to settle in the great city of Chicago,” he told one journalist. “I think of them as an omen A monkey that had been recently ac- signifying better times ahead for the entire e l e m e n t quired for scientific experiments escaped a community.” hospital at Sheridan and Wilson after lab an- In 1988, the USDA announced plans to wipe imals were taken to the roof for fresh air. On out the monk parakeet colony in Hyde Park RESALE the run, the monkey “gibbered defi ance at the out of fear that they might spread outside of police,” reported the Tribune, taking refuge the city and damage crops. Local opposition in the tower of Our Lady of the Lake Catholic caused the plan to be shelved. The parakeet www.big-medicine.org Church. A priest blocked the cops from climb- population in Hyde Park has dwindled sub- 6241 N. Broadway, Chicago ing the tower. “It’s a wild animal,” he said, stantially as birds have moved on to other “and it is entitled to protection.” The monkey neighborhoods. A large colony currently lives eventually left the tower for an undetermined under the Skyway. 773-942-6522 location. A one-year-old coyote walked into a Mon-Sat 11-7 The first nest of monk parakeets was Quizno’s at 37 E. Adams and plopped down spotted in Hyde Park. According to urban next to a cooler full of soda. After the store Sun 12-7 legend the parakeets escaped from a cage at calmly cleared out, Animal Care and Control O’Hare, but University of Chicago ecologist picked up the mellow coyote. He was taken Stephen Pruett-Jones believes it’s more likely to Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Bar- that Hyde Park parakeets were former pets rington, nine acres of woods where urban released accidentally or, possibly, on purpose. coyotes are allowed to roam free. v PLEASE (Monk parakeets can be screechy.) Mayor Harold Washington, whose apart- @backwards_river CONSIDER HONORING EARTH DAY EVERYDAY
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ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER11 Tater Tot (le ) helps prepare small rescue dogs for life with starting at $1,200—from Pocket Puppies. their new foster families. Pocket Puppies did not respond to multiple COURTESYOFMICHELLEKUNDRAT requests for comment. But small dogs don’t have to cost a small fortune. In reality, small dogs take up a lot of space in shelters and rescues. “People think that small dogs don’t end up in shelters or rescues, [but] they absolutely do,” says Kundrat. “I can tell you fi rsthand that that’s probably the most breeds that I get are owner surrenders of small, fl u y dogs.” Both Kundrat and Lindsay Gri th, advisory S D TP board director at the Live Like Roo Founda- Sun /, PM, Drake tion, an organization that supports animals Hotel, E. Walton, livelikeroo.org , $ adult, diagnosed with cancer through preventative $ child, $ dog. packages and medical grants, have seen small dogs that were surrendered at shelters because they were old. But their adorable ap- pearance helped them get into foster homes or adopted. “You can have a 17- or 18-year-old Chihua- hua,” says Gri th. “I just adopted a ten-year- old Pomeranian [from a shelter] and we got her [heart] murmur checked out—she’s going to live forever.” Griffith’s dog is ironically named Fancy. Gri th says Fancy lives a “ridiculous dog life,” Cornelia Kraus, Samuel Pavard, and Daniel E.L. which includes flying with her to multiple tempest over teacups Promislow at the University of Chicago. states for work and getting dog massages. It wasn’t until after Kundrat left Pawsh When it came to planning Live Like Roo’s A little fl oofer doesn’t have to cost a fortune. Puppies and started LEAD Rescue, a 501(c) upcoming fund-raiser, Gri th wanted to have (3) foster-based dog rescue, that she began to fun with the posh reputation of tiny dogs as By CC suspect that Tater Tot came from a puppy mill well as celebrate those that came from rescues and not a home breeder, as she had been told. and shelters. “Any GOOD breeder would never sell their So she planned a tiny dog tea party at the hen Michelle Kundrat was a store bought him for—$900, still a substantial puppies in pet stores,” she writes in an e-mail. Drake Hotel, where dogs under 20 pounds are freshman in college, almost amount of money for a college student—and According to the National Humane Educa- encouraged to get dressed up in their finest ten years ago, she worked at a that was it. tion Society, breed manipulation—especially tiny tuxes and ballgowns: the embodiment of now-defunct Lincoln Park dog “When I was 18 years old, I thought oh, as it pertains to teacup dogs—can result in fun and shallow frivolousness with purpose. Wboutique called Pawsh Puppies. There she having a small dog . . . I can carry him every- serious health risks including breathing prob- She plans on giving Fancy a full coat of dog- sold hybrids, specialty breeds, and otherwise where,” says Kundrat. “I feel like that’s also lems, brain deformities, and higher rates of safe pink dye for the occasion. “fashionable” dogs—often at hefty price tags when Paris Hilton was in her prime.” injury. This is especially prominent in puppy “Tea at the Drake is the most iconic thing we that started at $1,000. Since the early 2000s, when Hilton popu- mills, which breed high-fashion, high-selling could think of,” says Gri th. “I love the idea of It’s also where she and her then-boyfriend larized tiny dogs that fi t in tiny purses (helped dogs for the consumer market. fl oofy dresses, wearing fascinators, and bring- and coworker got a tiny dog of their own: a by Bruiser, Elle Woods’s designer-wearing A city ordinance was put in place in 2015 in ing our dogs to high tea.” ten-pound Maltipoo named Tater Tot. Chihuahua in Legally Blonde), teacup dogs order to stop stores from sourcing dogs from Tater Tot is familiar with the finer things “He was in my store for maybe about a day have enjoyed a reputation as expensive and puppy mills and instead encourage them to too. He attended Kundrat’s wedding to her or two or three days, and I just kept feeling frivolous that has largely gone unchallenged. use pounds, humane societies, and shelters. former Pawsh Puppies coworker. Their only that urge of ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t want him to And Hilton has only doubled down on this Pawsh Puppies had not been in violation of requirement for the venue was that it allowed be sold,’” says Kundrat. association in recent years, building a $325 the ordinance, as it had closed in 2010. But a dogs, she says. At Pawsh Puppies, Tater Tot was considered million home just for her tiny Pomeranians. 2018 investigation by the Chicago Tribune Now, Tater Tot is approaching his tenth a teacup dog. Breeding organizations such as But, aside from their cuteness, there are a revealed that three high-end pet stores in birthday. He spends his days with new rescue the American Kennel Club don’t o cially rec- lot of practical benefi ts to having a small dog in Chicago found a loophole that allowed them dogs to help prepare them for foster homes. ognize the teacup as a separate designation; the city, even without a special multimillion- to get dogs from rescues that have substantial Kundrat calls him her “dainty little prince.” the term is used to describe dogs that are dollar doghouse. It’s easier to rent an apart- relationships with commercial dealers and She adds, “I think that everyone should have specifi cally bred to be smaller than average. ment, they take up less space, and you can take breeders. a small dog in their life because it would bring Because teacups were trendy thanks to Paris them almost anywhere you go without them Among them was Pocket Puppies Boutique them so much joy to know that something so Hilton and her Chihuahua, Tinkerbell, they pulling you down the street. Many small dog in Lincoln Park. Celebrities like Steven Tyler, small can love something so large as a human were very lucrative for the store; Tater Tot’s breeds are also hypoallergenic, and they tend Chicago White Sox pitcher Michael Kopech, and not be scared or intimidated by us.” v price tag was $1,500. Kundrat convinced the to live much longer than larger dogs, who age and Chicago Bulls player Cristiano Felício have owner to sell Tater Tot to her for what the more rapidly, according to research done by gotten small dogs with big price tags—often @dykediscourse 12 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll On days he wasn’t there at all, she would The tra ic stand looking forlorn, and she would whimper. The neighbors complained he was too loud. He got a new collar that gave him an electric romance of shock when he barked. When she came to visit, he stood a few feet from the fence and looked guilty. There was nothing he could do. She bby and Bear would bark angrily, and then she would cry. By the time his collar came off, he had They were two Lab mixes from opposite changed. He didn’t bark anymore, but he sides of the fence. didn’t want to see her, either. He would ignore her, or he would look in her direction and then By A L deliberately turn his tail and walk back toward the house. She refused to be pulled away. She just stood and watched him and cried. Then one day, while he lay on his back deck ignoring her, she stopped crying. It happened very suddenly. She turned around, picked up her leash in her mouth, and walked away, toward home. And every time she walked past his alley after that, it was like it had never had any signifi cance at all. v
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t was love at fi rst sight. was there, they picked up their game again At least I think it was. But dogs don’t sit seamlessly. around analyzing their feelings. Within And then he disappeared. The next-door seconds of meeting another dog, either neighbors had complained that he was ripping Itheir hackles go up or they start sni ng butts. up their lawn. We didn’t discover that until They know. the following spring when, by chance, we So as soon as they locked eyes through the were walking down the alley behind his house bars of the fence in his front yard, their tails and we saw him standing by the fence. Abby began wagging. They bolted toward each squealed with joy. She must have thought he other, and began running together on opposite was gone forever. His human, who was clear- sides of the fence. They made up the rules ing out the garage, let him out into the alley, of the game as they went, and they were in and he and Abby really got to play together at complete agreement. They jumped up on their last. He leaped over her head, and they chased hind legs and barked. He ran in joyful loops each other in circles. around the front yard. As the spring and summer went on, she While they played, we humans made small got in the habit of pooping on the half block talk. His name was Bear, and he was just over just before his alley so we would have to walk a year old. Abby was seven, but she’d never toward him to use the trash can by his yard. really stopped being a puppy. They were both Sometimes he could tell she was nearby, and Lab mixes and had a Labbish resemblance, he would bark for her. There were a few great with fl oppy ears and big doggy grins, but he days when a human would be around to let her was larger and pure black while she was cocoa in, and they would play. But those were rare colored. They looked perfect together. and increasingly awkward; it was as though When I finally pulled her away to finish they had forgotten how to be together. our walk, she looked back at him over her More often he would be waiting by the shoulder. He was still standing by the fence, fence. They would rub noses through the bars, watching her go. and then they would try to play their old game, That fall, whenever we walked past his but there wasn’t as much space. He would run house, which was just around the corner from back into the yard and she would stand by the our apartment, she slowed down. When he fence and cry. ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER13 SARAHWATTS
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ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER15 imagine. We’d worked in restaurants together a housewarming gift. There would be no talk 20 years ago, but now he was co-owner of a of money changing hands; I did these out of wildly successful craft fair in cities all over love. America. I rarely see him anymore. Many people these days have decided either I felt the wind blowing back Che’s fur, com- to delay or forgo having children. Dogs and ing o the water, and thought about how lives cats have become a much bigger part of their diverge in such unpredictable ways. Back at lives as a result. Like a kid, a pet demands a Thai Lagoon in 1998 I never would have pre- set schedule and a lot of attention; unlike a dicted Mat would one day ask me for a portrait kid, a pet will never ask to go to college, and is of his dog, much less that I would make one, unlikely to hate or resent you. There are many and do so happily. arguments for choosing animals over babies. A multibillion-dollar business has risen to Walter support that choice. My portraits are a tiny Walter died after choking on a bagel. I heard part of it. about it on a literary podcast whose host was There’s something lasting about a painted Walter’s owner. I listen to the show every likeness as opposed to a photograph. Ev- week, and he mentioned Walter often. So when eryone has a million photos on their phones he shared the news of Walter’s absurdly tragic these days. For pet owners, a vast majority demise, I felt that I should commemorate his are snapshots of their beloved four-legged or passing in some way. I e-mailed the host for winged friends. But a painted portrait—when
DMITRYSAMAROV some photos and got to work. done well—evokes a living being in a way no A week or two later, I got an e-mail from camera ever could. Whether to commemorate him, thanking me for breaking a little girl’s the passing of a longtime companion or cele- heart. Apparently the podcast host’s young brate the very-much-alive-and-kicking-and- Confessions of a daughter was moved to tears by my painting wagging friend who makes you want to get of Walter. I wrote back to apologize, but he up in the morning, these paintings connect assured me he was half kidding. He was glad to directly with the people I make them for in pet portraitist have a memento of his departed friend, and his ways most of my art rarely can. It’s specific daughter’s reaction meant that I got it right. If and intimate—meant, in a way, just for them. Don’t tell anyone, but I’d do them for free. a piece of art doesn’t make you feel anything, If you’d told me when I graduated from art what is it good for? school 26 years ago that I’d be making a living By D peddling pet portraits, I’d have laughed you Eddie & Ernie out of the room. But I’m not embarrassed I know Eddie and Ernie as well as I’ve ever or ashamed of it now. It may not be the most never set out to make any part of my living Her Cats known any animals in my life. They’re Kel- meaningful work I do, but when I see the making pictures of other people’s dogs The nuts and bolts of this business can be a ly’s dogs. I’ve dog sat them often, and we’ve reaction these paintings get, I know that it’s and cats. But that’s been the case for the little tricky. Most dogs and virtually no cats all—animals and humans—spent many happy not just a cynical way of paying the bills. Pet better part of the past decade. I have to will sit still long enough for me to work from days together. When Kelly briefly moved owners’ joy is enough to make it worthwhile, Ibreak down and admit it: I’m a pet portraitist. observation, which is my preferred mode of back to Chicago, I painted these portraits as even if I wasn’t getting paid for it. v I can’t recall the first person who paid art making. So I have to rely on photographs. me money to immortalize their four-legged Since I usually use ones submitted by owners, friend, but I remember well painting my rott- I have to wade through many far-too-cute or weiler, Dex, several times 20 years ago. I only overly posed snaps to find reference images had him a few months, but I still miss him. The that will allow me to give a painting a little pictures I made celebrated the bond we had, life. I tend to go for o -the-cu , uncomposed no matter how brief it was. So I understand images that allow me some artistic leeway. pet owners’ outsize, sometimes illogical, ties When a close friend commissioned a paint- to their animals. ing of his longtime companion’s two cats, I had to collage two di erent photos for source Green Dog material. Add to that my lifelong antipathy My pet portrait career really got going about to cats, and it’s a wonder the picture turned six years ago when Brenda Lang, then-owner out so well. The fact that I knew their owners of Green Dog, a pet day care business on Chica- played no small part in that. I thought of their go Avenue in Ukrainian Village, commissioned long-lasting and loving relationship as I paint- me to make a number of portraits of the ed their favorite animals. In a way the result is animals she boarded to be hung in the lobby a proxy portrait of my friends. of her store. I started getting calls almost im- mediately. For months after, Buttercup, Chico, Che Crackers, Grendal, Folly, and all their pals I never met Mat’s dog, Che, but the photo he were monopolizing most of my studio hours. sent of Che on the beach in Michigan suggest-
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F love you,’ and Maude responds, ‘That’s great, now go out and love some more.’” Her smile starts to break. “That’s what I want to do. I decision. It comes with a lot of guilt and ques- want to go out and love some more.” tioning about whether you made the right Dinsmore is not the only one seeking love decision or not.” after loss, and she’s not the only one looking Though friends and family may not under- for guidance. Counseling for pet bereavement stand a pet owner’s grief, the need for support LINCOLN PARK | GOLD COAST | NORTH CENTER | SOUTH LOOP | EDGEBROOK is becoming more widespread. Therapists help is important. Language is key when approach- clients handle grief the same way they’d help ing someone grieving, and “It’s just a dog” or them deal with loss of friends or family. “Why don’t you get another pet?” are, J ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER17 continued from 17 Tuesday nights feel terrible too, and knowing unsurprisingly, not helpful responses. Kristin you’re not alone.” Buller , a licensed social worker and leader of Grief may also be accompanied by guilt the PAWS Pet Loss Heal support group, rec- associated with euthanasia. Pet owners often ommends instead that people consider their wonder if they waited too long, or not long words carefully. “In general, people fi nd these enough, to pull the plug, leaving owners feel- phrases dismissive,” she says. Instead, say “I ing complicit in their pet’s death. Hospice ex- don’t understand what you’re going through, ists to help ease the process but, depending on but I’m here if you need me.” the situation, some cases may hurt more. “If Buller sees healing as a two-step process. it’s a behavioral issue, it’s quality of life for the She uses the dual-process model to help her pet and the family,” says Dinsmore, who works clients handle emotions, then get back on their as a veterinary technician. “If they have cancer feet. Loss-oriented responses are the first or something, euthanasia may be easier to rea- step. They include grieving, crying, and other son than, say, neurological disorders.” expressions of sadness. Restoration-oriented Dealing with death can result in trauma. A responses follow. This step includes helping friend mentioned resorting to cutting, while people learn new skills to adapt to life after another referenced a deep depression he ex- their pets’ death. perienced after the loss of his pet. As someone “We talk a lot about the dual-process model who has recently lost her own dog, Dinsmore and how to fi nd ways to move in to the pain urges others going through the grief process and sadness, whether that’s journaling, cre- to be kind to themselves. “You have to learn ating some kind of ritual, talking with people, what life will look life after they’re gone,” she or coming to group ,” says Buller, “We teach says. “Find new hobbies to fi ll their absence. how to have respite from grief too, if that’s For me, it was crafting.” watching a bad TV show to [take a break] from “When the value of the life grows, the value crying or going out for a walk. If you give your- of the loss also grows,” says Hawthorne. self space from it at times when you need to, Stella’s death was expected, but it hurt that’s good.” nonetheless for Dinsmore. There’s no way to Support groups provide refuge. Buller’s soften the blow of losing a loved one other Turtle at Montrose Dog Beach LILLIANSTONE group meets the third Tuesday of every than holding someone else’s hand through it. month; the Anti-Cruelty Society also hosts “I came with a list of things written down I its own monthly pet loss support group. The want to say to anyone going through it,” she sense of community can be incredibly ben- says. She pulls out her computer and looks at eficial for those isolated in their grief, says the screen. “Letting go doesn’t mean you’ve Turtle, the terror of Buller. ‘The most common phrase we hear failed them. I need people to know that letting in group is ‘I know this sounds crazy,’ and go doesn’t mean you’ve failed them.” v everyone says, ‘whatever your heart is telling the do parks you, listen to it.’ It’s knowing other people on @meggie_gates A newcomer to Chicago searches for a playground to call home. By L S
y Boston terrier, Turtle, likes can only be described as that of a four-legged to stick to routine. 8 AM: bowling ball. I decided that if Turtle could Breakfast and morning stroll. fi nd his place in this city then so could I. 8:30 AM to 1 PM: Snore loudly There are 25 o cial city dog parks, or dog early warnings Min his favorite chair. 1 PM: Light fl ailing of his friendly areas (DFAs), mostly clustered on favorite toy snake, Snakey. Snakey steps out the north side. There are also several other of line a lot, and Turtle is happy to show him unofficial gathering places, particularly in never miss a show again who’s boss. underserved neighborhoods like the west The highlight of Turtle’s day takes place side. Many dog owners go rogue, letting around 5:30 PM. At that point, I wrap up their pets play o -leash in public parks such chicagoreader.com/early my deadlines for the day, he gives Snakey a as Bickerdike Park, Garfi eld Park, and Maple- celebratory fl ail, and then we’re o to canine wood Park (the last of which recently banned utopia: the dog park. dogs altogether). In Rogers Park, dogs and As recent Chicago transplants, Turtle and their owners have been known to scamper I both underestimated the immensity of Chi- around the beach after the lifeguards clock cago winters. Come mid-April, we shattered out. But for the most part, residents of our cabin fever with a trip to the L neighborhoods without official dog parks S D P. It was there that I first have three choices: commute to another discovered Turtle’s unique play style, which DFA, like I did when I lived in Austin; join one 18 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll L S D P MD B W F J B P P DFA admission is free, but Sunrise-sunset, W. AM- PM, W. Montrose, Sunrise-sunset, N. AM- PM, S. Lake N. Marine, puptown. all dogs require a $ city Logan, chicagoparkdistrict. mondog.org . F Sheffield, chicagoparkdistrict. Shore Dr., jacksonbark.com . F org. F permit and tag, available from com. F com. F a vet. More information at chicagoparkdistrict.com .
of the many meetup groups, breed-specifi c or and Turtle bounced from potential playmate to My Dog Terrorizes a Giant Fire Hydrant My Dog Actually Does OK not; or risk going o -leash and getting a city potential playmate like a crazed speed dater. J B, Chicago’s largest off-leash Uptown remains one of Chicago’s most diverse ticket. (Fines start at $50.) Unfortunately, the beach’s vastness made it play space, boasts two enormous enclosures neighborhoods, and that includes the P - hard to keep him in check. This might not be a stu ed with agility equipment, a dog washing P crowd. Welcoming, laid-back, and My Dog Terrorizes a Lumpy Dog problem for a more athletic dog owner, but my station, and even a six-foot-tall fi re hydrant. attentive, Puptown’s diverse crew accepted When Turtle and I were still on the west side, partner and I agreed to save further dog beach Although not technically sanctioned as a Turtle’s antics. Regulars include a rotund pit we played it safe, taking advantage of Logan excursions for special occasions. Chicago Parks DFA—and currently threat- bull named Ivan, a Pekingese named Coco that Square Dog Park’s extensive concrete play ened by development and undergoing federal Turtle bats around like a furry mosquito, and space. There, Turtle took a particular liking My Dog Terrorizes a Designer Dog review—Jackson Bark welcomes south-side a pair of Boston terriers who are rowdier than to a lumpy 14-year-old dog named Ruby. He Despite my cautious child-rearing, we live in dog owners. Up until May, Jackson Bark was Turtle, which pleases me greatly. Now, Pup- wanted to play, but Ruby wanted to snooze, so a culture rife with toxic masculinity—which, I the south side’s only dog park. Three more town is our go-to spot. we moved on to fi nd a more youthful playmate. assume, is why Turtle is extremely uncomfort- DFAs have broken ground across Oakland and After we found our dog park, everything able around intact male dogs. While W Bronzeville since then, and Calumet Park’s else seemed to fall into place. The daily ex- My Dog Terrorizes a Sporty Dog F is well maintained, we encountered a first DFA opened in late July. Turtle loved ercise has eased Turtle’s separation anxiety, Unlike other brachycephalic breeds—pugs, record number of them during our visit. To a Jackson Bark, scampering happily through previously characterized by extended periods French bulldogs—Boston terriers like to run. newcomer, this impressive display of dog gen- agility equipment like rugged tires, doggy lad- of barking. Although I still occasionally find That’s how I found myself barefoot and fi lthy, italia seemed to refl ect on the pedigree of its ders, and hula hoops. Unfortunately, Jackson myself lost on the Blue Line, we’re both feeling chasing Turtle across the vast expanse of the south Lakeview-north Lincoln Park location. Bark is a solid half-hour drive from our place, more at home. My only question: What are we MD B as he pursued a wild- My neutered and now slightly insecure dog which led us to our fi nal destination. going to do when winter strikes? v eyed Australian shepherd. The Montrose Dog and I trudged back to Andersonville, where Beach gets crowded when the weather is nice, Snakey got an especially aggressive fl ail. @originalspinstr
ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER19 Must love hed eho s First came marriage, then dozens of prickly pets Written and photographed byG G
athew Perlick purchased his fi rst I figured that was interesting, so I put that hedgehog, Jezebel, from a pet down and Jenna saw that,” Mathew says. “It store in New York and then four was literally the only interesting thing that weeks later came back to his she saw in my profi le.” Mcollege dorm to fi ve baby hedgehogs. Jezebel Jenna Mindlin, an Apple technician who was a mother. “Technically I’ve been a hedge- was also on the dating site, was intrigued. “I hog breeder for 16 years,” he says. He quickly knew nothing about hedgehogs. I had never found homes for all of the babies in the litter. probably even given them a second thought,” Five years later, in 2008, Jezebel made it Jenna says. “So I wrote all the questions. What into Mathew’s OkCupid dating profile when do they eat? Can they shoot their spikes? Can Above: Baby hedgehogs hang out in mugs. Hedgehogs are solitary animals and can become territorial as adults. When encountering a new smell the hedgehog will build the site asked him to write something inter- you pet them? Do they make noise?” Sadly, Je- a froth in its mouth and then lick it into its quills in a behavior called anointing. esting about himself. “I have a pet hedgehog. zebel passed away before Mathew and Jenna 20 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Jenna holds four hedgehogs from their herd. She tracks the pedigrees of all of her hedgehogs to ensure there is no inbreeding.
The couple has 70 hedgehogs.
An adult hedgehog gets a mealworm treat. The hedgehogs are fed a diet of cat kibble and insects.
fi rst messaged each other, but she became an Mathew as a wedding present shortly before their own herd, which they called Prickle Pack integral part of their story as they dated. they got married. Hedgehogs (a group of hedgehogs is known as The couple collected hedgehog items Jenna stayed in touch with the hedgehog an array or a prickle). “We went from thinking throughout their relationship, everything breeder she bought from, and when the we would have seven, eight hedgehogs and from stuffed animals and piggy banks to breeder said she was going to retire, Jenna going up to 20 in the fi rst year. We ended our For more information on hedgehogs visit crystal hedgehogs and spoon rests. The two had a thought: “I’ve always wanted to breed fi rst year with close to 60 hedgehogs. Now we pricklepack.com. even went on to have a DIY hedgehog-themed animals. I love little baby animals. I mean, who are already at 70, which I think is our maxi- wedding in 2014, complete with custom cake doesn’t? So I thought, maybe we could breed mum,” Jenna says. toppers now on display in their home in Pala- them. Maybe we could pick up where she left Prickle Pack Hedgehogs has now become tine. Despite their shared passion, they didn’t o .” The breeder taught them everything she a full-time job for Jenna. Along with caring get another hedgehog until Jenna gave one to knew and gave them a few hedgehogs to start for the hedgehogs, which is just a small J ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER21 Infrared cameras allow Jenna and Mathew to monitor the hedgehog mothers and newborns. If a mother is unfi t to take care of her litter the babies will be placed with a foster mom. GONZALOGUZMAN
continued from 21 portion of her day, Jenna will answer e-mails about hedgehog purchase and care, run free meet-and-greets for interested hedgehog owners, update the website with photos of new hedgehog babies, and track pedigrees Above: Hedgehogs loose on the couch. GONZALOGUZMAN Above: Mathew holds a baby hedgehog. A er they are of their herd to ensure proper breeding. The two weeks old, the hedgehogs are handled every day so couple warns against buying hedgehogs they can get used to human touch. GONZALOGUZMAN from pet stores where males and females are housed together with family members, which can result in inbreeding. While hedgehogs can make great pets, Jenna stresses that they are not ideal for children under the age of ten— hedgehogs have prickly spines and need to be handled in a particular way to avoid injury to both the owner and the hedgehog. It’s all worth it, though, when you get to pair a hedgehog with their new owner, says Jenna. “When they meet their baby for the fi rst time, there is this look on their face, and they are just overwhelmed with emotion.” v Jenna and Mathew had a DIY hedgehog-themed @GonzGuzPhoto wedding. GONZALOGUZMAN 22 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll If you’re looking for boring “It’s Cat lovers and Caturday” memes, the Catcade Instagram account is not for you. weirdos welcome COURTESYTHE The Catcade’s Instagram is not your average CATCADE animal rescue account. By AM
hristopher Gutierrez doesn’t care if you think the Catcade’s Instagram posts are unprofessional. The only opinions that matter to him are Cthose of the 20-odd cats living in the Lakeview arcade-themed rescue and lounge (and let’s be honest, the cats probably don’t care either). When Gutierrez and partner Shelly Casey noise of cat cafes and cat rescues being like, coming out in a September 2017 post about cats in a personal extra large pizza? Mila will not opened the Catcade in August 2017, their ‘pay attention to me,’” Gutierrez said. Rupert and Mila. His description of Mila, who is judge.” Instagram was a typical cat lover’s account— Gutierrez said he and Casey take pride in “kind of a jerk to other cats but absolutely loves By October 2017, Gutierrez had gone fully mostly kitten collages, inspirational quotes the Catcade looking, sounding, and feeling like people” resonated so much that one follower rogue. And because he typically writes his cap- about adoption, and a few too many “It’s Ca- who they are—and he quickly realized that he came in to adopt her after seeing the post. tions on the couch with a cat on his lap long turday” memes. But if you ask Gutierrez, “that should hold their social media presence to the “You looking for a serious ride or die after Casey has gone to bed, his partner didn’t shit gets boring real quick.” same standard of authenticity. He decided to mini-panther, Mila has your back. You wanna see this post until morning: “After about the 20th post of ‘Look at how adopt a stream-of-consciousness approach rob a bank? Mila is your getaway driver. You “You know, I remember sitting in front of cute this cat is. He’s so loving. He loves nose that refl ects their personalities. looking to chill hard and hate on dudes? Mila my stereo with my head in my hands, crying. boops,’ you just become part of the white Casey said she noticed Gutierrez’s voice understands. You want to drown your sadness I was maybe 20 years old and in one of J
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www.rockcatsrescue.org ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER23 continued from 23 those dark places when you have no clue what the hell you will do with your life . . . ” “I was like, ‘Oh my god, what did you write? You told this weird story, and it had nothing But what to do with cats,’” Casey said. “But people just loved it.” People immediately started responding to do furries the o eat captions, Casey said, and Gutierrez had plenty more stories to tell. His midnight ramblings cover everything from adolescent think of angst to online dating. The Catcade account has almost 25,000 fol- lowers now, and Casey said the following has Cats? become a big family. “They’ve gotten insight into not just the Catcade, but also to Chris and An investigation Shelly,” she said. Not everyone is a fan of Gutierrez’s brand By MM of brutal honesty and unconventional humor. A series of posts about a cat named Fucking Karen who was on the scene of a mock shark attack received a wave of backlash—but the posts also inspired several donations in Fuck- went to opening night of Cats at the The North American touring ing Karen’s name. While his captions might Nederlander Theatre for one reason: company of Cats; Keri René turn some people off, Gutierrez knows they to look for furries. I was obsessed with Fuller as Grizabella MATTHEWMURPHY attract the right crowd: weirdos are welcome. the idea that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “We’re very vocal about being inclusive. I1981 musical had somehow played a role ‘Hey, man, are you a weirdo? Cool, so are we,’” in the development of the “fandom,” Gutierrez said. “We don’t use the word weird furry-speak for the community of muz- or weirdo in a negative way. It just means ‘dif- zle-sporting individuals who congregate ferent.’ And instead of shying away from it and at conventions and online to be animals trying to play nice, we lean into it.” together. The extent to which that fanta- Gutierrez’s outcast mentality doesn’t a ect sy—an entire subculture, hatched whole how much he and Casey care for the cats of the from a famous Broadway musical!—came Catcade. With 720 adoptions in just under two to dominate my waking hours, should give years of business, they’re doing just fi ne—no some sense of the sheer amount of time I fi lter necessary. v spend looking at Twitter. What even is Cats? No other show has @amichelson18 less to do with reality. Structurally, the thing is a weird hybrid monstrosity. It’s less a musical than some kind of operatic feline dance-o pageant. Webber adapted #TVKUV9TKVGT most of the songs in it from nonsense verse T.S. Eliot published under the nom Zootopia that depict straight-up animals, with When I checked my phone at intermission, 2GTHQTOGT! de fur Old Possum, but the showstopper, snouts and everything. the world was exploding. My algorithm, by %4'#6+8' 51.76+105 (14 “Memory,” was pieced together from other Let it be entered for the record that Patch is now fucked beyond recognition into thinking I %4'#6+8' 2'12.' Eliot poems. What better set piece could a dog, as are many of the furries who respond- am a furry, was alerting me—alerting me—to there be for a play-length fuzzing of the ed to me—with warmth—about the play’s role, the existence of the disturbing Cats movie 5WRRQTVKXG #HHKTOKPI CPF )QCN animal-human divide? or lack thereof, in their lives. Cat furries, like trailer that by now everybody has seen. &KTGEVGF 2U[EJQVJGTCR[ CPF Turns out, furries don’t much care for their four-footed cousins, tend to be more “I think they should make a movie with the *[RPQVJGTCR[ HQT #FWNVU Cats. Ironically, the thing that makes the aloof than dogs. Cats tantalize. They leave Charmin Bears,” was Patch’s incomparable show most appealing to “normies” is what you on read. You can only guess what’s hidden response. Furry interest in the film appears /#: - 5*#2'; .%59 turns furries off from it: the cats’ human behind their eyes. low: again, those human faces. For the rest of .QECVGF KP &QYPVQYP 'XCPUVQP faces. Undeterred by the facts, I went to see Cats us, Cats remains the mysterious phenomenon “I don’t think [Cats] was very influen- anyway. There were no furries. (Then again, it always was, only now with Taylor Swift tial” to the fandom, says Patch O’Furr, do I know that? Were they there in disguise?) thrown in. Furries will have to be content to YYYOCZUJCRG[EQO cofounder of Dogpatch Press, a furry I did see a bunch of children in tinsel-fl ecked wait in their own world for the next Zooto- OCZUJCRG["CQNEQO newsletter. Maybe it once resonated with kitten ear headbands. How cute. How blatantly pia. Or maybe a live-action vehicle for those NWG TQUU NWG 5JKGNF 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT the older crowd (“gray-muzzles,” in furry not what I wanted. I sulked o to my seat and dummy thicc bears . v KIPC 2TGHGTTGF 2TQXKFGT parlance) but these days kid furries model watched the first half of the show, which I their identities on cartoons like Disney’s must say was incredible. @mallerjour 24 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll ARTS & CULTURE Less scrolling.
Amanda Goldblatt JORDANHICKS
LIT More strumming. Into the woods Amanda Goldblatt’s debut novel Hard Mouth explores solitude and grief. By AM
or someone who wrote her debut H M By Amanda Goldblatt (Counterpoint). novel about a woman’s escape to the Book launch Wed /, PM, mountains, Amanda Goldblatt, who Hungry Brain, W. Belmont, now lives in Chicago and teaches at hungrybrainchicago.com . F Northeastern, hasn’t spent all that Fmuch time in the wilderness. She recalls the not-quite camping of her Girl Scout days in Hard Mouth follows Denny, once a lab tech Maryland, back when she willfully believed in in the D.C. suburbs, as she deals with grief ghost stories. She also remembers snowmo- by seeking complete emotional detachment. biling in the backwoods of Maine while work- After receiving the news that her father is ing on a documentary project, “a strange and forgoing treatment for his terminal cancer, wonderful and innocent time” of exploring Denny quietly leaves her job and parents for taxidermy trophy rooms and seeing shooting the mountains. stars. Though Goldblatt, 36, has never personally Perhaps that’s why she never discloses the sought refuge in the wilderness, she knows Give your digital life a break. location of the mountain cabin in Hard Mouth, what it’s like to cope with the realization of a out next week. It’s a collage of her multire- loved one’s mortality. Her own father was di- Connect over music, dance & more. gional experiences in mid-Atlantic parks, New agnosed with cancer in 2011. Seeking an outlet England woods, and midwestern wilds. For for her insurmountable fear and dread, she Anyone can play! Find your her purposes, all that really matters is that found solace in writing. summer class at oldtownschool.org the cabin is remote enough that the protago- “Ultimately, that abject fear over the nist, Denny, can’t run back to the life she left thought of maybe losing my father, and also behind. all of the keen awareness that comes with J ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER25 R READERRECOMMENDEDb ALLAGESF ARTS & CULTURE
“Her language is something that really struck me from the beginning,” Alton says. “It’s really precise, and you can tell that you’re in the hands of a master, someone who is able to tell a story that’s working on multiple levels.” Goldblatt is relentless about line-level lan- guage. Early in the writing process, she would write blind—typing on a wireless keyboard connected to her phone—because she knew she wouldn’t make much progress if she could Dan Kerr-Hobert in the Neo-Futurists’ Tangles & Plaques JOEMAZZA see the words on a screen. A proponent of subtraction, she found it satisfying to whittle continued from 25 down her prose later to get to the core of her that kind of fear, the awareness of mortality in work. everyone and in yourself, was enough to drive In crafting a first-person narrative, Gold- FEATURE the novel into its first few years,” Goldblatt blatt paid close attention to Denny’s diction. says. Her narration comes across as matter-of-fact, Fortunately, her father recovered and has detached, and perhaps even sociopathic at Remembering dementia been in remission ever since. But Goldblatt’s times. But the last is unintentional; Goldblatt writing process was bookended by loss: both describes her protagonist as more honest Using the play Tangles & Plaques and a series of of her grandmothers died in the same year as than most people. As she says in the opening workshops, the Neo-Futurists demystify memory loss. she was fi nishing her manuscript. The experi- lines of the book, “In this story, I do not mean ence, she says, provided a sense of clarity and to hide myself. Rather I want to be obvious. I By T M brought a resolution to the novel. want you to see, at least, me.” “In retrospect, I now wonder how someone “Our understanding of how people think starts or fi nishes a novel without something and how people feel about things in life is n a bright yellow apartment tucked to experience the same thing, or a variation that feels that cataclysmic in their life,” Gold- limited by their performances and the repre- into an Andersonville retirement of it, all over again. Many will not recognize blatt says. “Certainly, people do it every day. sentations and narratives that we consume,” home, a small group of nonagenarians they’ve been there before—or why they were But I don’t understand it.” Goldblatt says. “So when a character is per- gathers for their biweekly Savvy Circle there, or even who they are—because they Hard Mouth is an adventure novel, so taking haps more fully forthcoming, or performing session. Seated on plush armchairs and have dementia. away Denny’s sense of stability was import- that forthcomingness, it can seem like an ab- Ia sofa covered in quilts, they talk about the The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual ant, Goldblatt says. She notes that Denny has a erration when really it just refl ects more fully weather and how they’re feeling. They cre- of Mental Disorders defines dementia as “weird amount of safety” in her cabin: running the human thinking experience.” ate photo collages, perform light aerobics, “an overall decline in intellectual function, water and meal replacement bars, not to men- Creating a perspective outside of oneself re- and read copies of Reminisce, a magazine including di culties with language, simple tion a roof over her head. But a stray cat and quires empathy, Goldblatt says. She explores filled with vintage automobile ads, color- calculations, planning and judgment, and an unlikely interloper pose unexpected threats this idea in a vignette from Denny’s childhood ized black-and-white photos, and nostalgic motor skills as well as loss of memory.” It’s to her self-infl icted solitude, e ectively desta- where her father challenges her to imagine she stories about the 1950s. Sometimes they a set of symptoms that often manifests itself bilizing her life in the mountains. is someone else. At fi rst, she pretends to play participate in sing-alongs. as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, or vascular Although the author had never aspired to along, but eventually she convinces herself “The last remaining function in the brain is dementia. In simpler terms, it’s an erosion create a “page-turner,” Jennifer Alton, Gold- that the thought experiment really worked— the ability to appreciate music,” says Kirsten of the mind, and it affects more than five blatt’s editor at Counterpoint Press, says that for a few hours, she becomes someone else. Riiber, the memory care director at Bethany million Americans. By 2060, this number is Hard Mouth was a manuscript that kept her up In Hard Mouth, Goldblatt invites readers to Retirement Community. So she plays the hits expected to grow to 13.9 million. at night. Not only was she drawn into the com- exercise their own empathy, following Denny they would’ve heard in their adolescence: “It’s a public health crisis,” says Riiber. pelling plot, but she also noted that Goldblatt to the mountains to understand her grief. v Doris Day’s “Sentimental Journey” and Gene “Because people are living longer, we’re just blended the adventure story with “purposeful Autry’s “Don’t Fence Me In.” Later in the seeing it exponentially more than we used and performative” prose. @amichelson18 week, they’ll come back to the Savvy Circle to. There isn’t a clear way to diagnose it. 26 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll T & P /-/: Tue-Wed PM, Thu and PM, Fri PM, Theater on the Lake, N. Lake Shore Dr, --, theateronthelake.com . F THEATER
Kaitlyn Andrews in Tangles & Plaques JOEMAZZA We know there isn’t a cure, but we have this segment of our population that can live with dementia for ten years. It’s just unprecedented in history.” Since no one is yet able to reverse the pro- cess of aging, Riiber decided to teach people about dementia in the best way she knew how: a play. Since 2012, she’s been an ensemble member of the Neo-Futurists, an experimen- tal theater group in Andersonville known for weaving the absurd and the personal into its performances. Four years ago, she teamed up with director Jen Ellison, an artistic associate with the Neo-Futurists who also teaches at Second City, DePaul, and Columbia College, and Alex Schwaninger, the former memory care director at Bethany, to create Tangles & Plaques, a play that demystifi es dementia and memory care. Named after the malfunctions in brain tissue thought to cause Alzheimer’s, Tangles & Plaques draws from Riiber’s experiences working at Bethany Retirement Community. It was originally developed as part of J
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NOW MAJOR PRODUCTION SPONSORS ON By Sam Shepard 312-335-1650 STAGE Directed by ensemble member Randall Arney steppenwolf.org ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER27 THEATER continued from 27 appear in the workshop series. the Neo-Futurists’ Neo-Lab program and In the third act of the play, story lines estab- premiered in October 2017. Now, after a year- lished in the beginning unravel in upsetting long hiatus, it’s being remounted for a free, ways, with the narrative refl ecting the “fright- four-performance run next week at Theater ening and confusing and destructive” reality on the Lake’s 2019 Chicago Summer Theater of dementia, says Ellison. But the ultimate Festival . goal isn’t to instill pessimism about the future. The new run of Tangles & Plaques will also “It’s a preparative hopefulness,” Ellison serve as the kicko for a new workshop series says. “Like, yes, we’re going to die, and some called “Remembering Dementia.” Funded by a people will experience this very devastating Creativity Connects grant from the National illness. But we don’t have to make it so that it’s Endowment for the Arts, with exercises adapt- shameful, and we don’t have to make it so that ed from scenes in the play, the workshops our dignity is lost as a result.” aim to educate people—specifically millen- nials—about dementia, using a mixture of iiber never thought she would end up reminiscence therapy (a treatment that helps working in eldercare. A theater major dementia patients remember their pasts), from Virginia, she decided to move to R Kirsten Riiber (right) and Nick Hart in Tangles & Plaques JOEMAZZA listening exercises, and improv. The series Chicago after a college field trip took her to was piloted in the spring at the University of see the Neo-Futurists’ show Too Much Light Chicago’s Logan Center for the Arts and will Makes the Baby Go Blind. She worked a variety continue at college campuses and the Neo-Fu- of jobs, but none that she was as passionate they shouldn’t feel hurt if the patient doesn’t And we just did that and then it would calm turist Theater in the fall. about as theater. And then she stumbled on remember a major life event or even a recent her down. It was naming things and grounding Dementia is a painful condition—painful for Bethany Retirement Community. conversation. Most of all, they should contin- ourselves in the present reality. both those suffering and their loved ones— It was December 2012, and she was wander- ue to visit. “Every expression comes from a need,” and it’s made worse when shrouded in secrecy. ing around her neighborhood. Her brother had Riiber was surprised to notice parallels Riiber continues. “It’s about listening for This is the philosophy that drives both the recently and unexpectedly passed away. between her work in gerontology and theater. the need underlying their action, even if that play and the workshop. “I was depressed and alone and not really Arranging the room where she hosts the Savvy behavior doesn’t make sense.” For many, that “It feels shameful,” Ellison says. “So much knowing how to grieve on my own,” she re- Circle was like designing a set, choosing the need can be as simple as not being alone. For of it is wrapped up in how we care for the members. While passing by the retirement era-specific music reminded her of sound example, she’s noticed many patients with older generations in our culture.” Plagued by home across the street from where she lived, design, and the patience that it took to listen dementia like to sit really close to the front elder abuse, neglect, and a lack of institutional she looked inside and saw seniors seated to the same story repeated multiple times door of rooms, in an e ort to be noticed. “They resources, the United States ranks far behind around a piano singing Christmas carols. A felt like running a scene. These realizations want to be seen. They want to exist.” other wealthy countries in terms of elder- Christmas tree and decorations completed inspired her to create Tangles & Plaques. Tangles & Plaques has “lived a much longer care. The goal of Tangles & Plaques is to help the scene. “[It was] the warmest, most full-of- “This is like improv. I have to be present. I life than we thought, and that surprised me,” younger adults initiate these vital end-of-life love thing I could have ever stumbled upon in have to say yes. I cannot deny their reality. I Riiber says. At the end of each performance, conversations and prepare them for their a moment where I was experiencing so much have to join their reality.” she asks members of the audience to raise inevitable role as a “generation of caretakers.” darkness. I decided, ‘I’m going to go in there The realities of Riiber’s dementia patients, their hands if they could relate to anything Tangles & Plaques itself is a winding and one day.’” most of whom are in their mid-90s, can skew they’d just seen, and almost every hand goes expansive exploration of how memories make She started volunteering soon after, doing toward the bizarre. She tells the story of one up. a life, combining 90s nostalgia, bittersweet manicures every Tuesday morning. What resident whose dementia, as it progressed, While the performances of Tangles & tales from the nursing home, and improvisa- happened was transformative. “I wanted to has manifested itself as anxiety. Every time Plaques may not extend past the end of this tional storytelling that makes each perfor- talk about this loss [of mine], but my friends she’s dropped off in her room after Savvy year, Riiber and Ellison hope that both the play mance entirely unique. couldn’t necessarily relate to me. But [the Circle, she asks Riiber, “Why are the buildings and workshop will inspire more people to seek In a scene that simulates an immersion residents] could. They were like, ‘Oh yeah, I’ve fl ying around? How do they do that with the information about dementia and fi nd ways to training exercise for eldercare workers, a lost everyone. All my family’s gone.’ It was so furniture and everything flying around and connect in a meaningful way with their loved Neo-Futurist ensemble member straps on comforting to be able to connect about that.” landing in the right place?” ones su ering from the disease. As for Riiber, oversize gloves and shoes, a pair of goggles Three years into volunteering, Riiber At fi rst Riiber didn’t understand what she she plans to continue working at the retire- smeared with Vaseline, and headphones tuned started working as the activity director and meant, so she ignored the questions. But the ment home for as long as she can. to garbled sounds of people shouting. He or later became the memory care director after next day, when the resident asked again, she “I feel like I can’t leave because I just love she is directed to pull out a card table and Schwaninger left the organization. was prepared. it so much,” she says. “I hope that a creative open it up and then bring two chairs to the Working with dementia patients, Riiber has “I sat with her and I tried to project with person sees this show—or someone who table—a simple task on its face but one that’s come to learn a variety of lessons. Visitors every ounce of my being a sense of calm—and I has the same kind of skill sets [as me] and “nearly impossible” for those with dementia should ask the patient how he or she is doing. just started naming things in her room. ‘That’s doesn’t know where to put them. I would says Riiber. They should speak loudly and clearly, in a deep your television and that’s the pillow that you love for them to join the field of eldercare “For the person entering the eldercare voice, and tell stories with feeling, focusing on made in Germany when you lived in Germa- because I think everyone will win in that fi eld, it’s to give them a sense of empathy and the present. They can look over memorabilia, ny—do you remember living in Germany? scenario.” v understanding of what they’re dealing with,” like old uniforms and photographs, but they That’s your bed and that’s the nice blanket that Riiber says. This immersion exercise will also shouldn’t try to test the patient’s memory, and your daughter Brooke gave you for Christmas.’ @taylormundo 28 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll B B Through /: Sat PM, Sun PM, Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre at Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Noyes St., Evanston, --, cityofevanston.org, $. THEATER
PREVIEW Breaking the ballet color line Black Ballerina explores the lives of dancers in two diff erent eras. By IH
Kara Roseborough in rehearsal for Black Ballerina BASILCLUNIE
allet dancers applauded last October conceived Black Ballerina, the story of two when Freed of London began selling dancers, Olivia in the 1950s and Adrienne in B pointe shoes in brown and bronze in the present day, determined to succeed in an addition to the “European pink” shoes they art form seemingly designed to exclude them. have sold since 1929. (“Brown point shoes Both characters are played by Evanston native arrive, 200 years after white ones,” noted the Kara Roseborough, Rhoze’s daughter, who has ballet · jazz · tap headline in the New York Times on November pursued ballet with a passion since the age 4; “Largest supplier of pointe shoes finally of three, and who is one of the women who contemporary recognizes that not all dancers are white,” inspired Rhoze’s interest in the subject. snarked Jezebel two days later.) While the “As a Black woman in the ballet world, I’m hip hop & more shade of a shoe seems a small a air for histo- not the default ballet dancer by definition. ry to turn upon, for many dancers, the gesture I am Black, I am tall,” says Roseborough, a was momentous and overdue. recent graduate of the University of Utah and “This isn’t about shoes, this is about who a former dancer with Charleston City Ballet. belongs in ballet and who doesn’t,” Virginia Told by a teacher that she would “break the Johnson, artistic director of Dance Theatre of color line” in a classical company and ignored Harlem, whose dancers have long dyed their by costumers who refused to adjust designs to shoes and tights to match their skin, said to match a di erent skin tone, Roseborough de- the NYT. Though pioneering Black ballerinas scribes relations that have evolved at a glacial such as Janet Collins and Raven Wilkinson pace since Collins, the fi rst Black ballerina to gained renown by the 1950s, prominent Black successfully audition for the Ballet Russe de ballet dancers have remained few and far Monte Carlo, refused to accept the job because between in an art that dates back at least four the company required her to paint her face centuries. And while Misty Copeland, the fi rst white. “Ballet isn’t just a European art form African American female principal dancer anymore,” says Roseborough. “It’s a global art at American Ballet Theatre, may be the most form. The stories being told are outdated.” visible ballerina of our generation, she has de- Adds Rhoze, “There are many challenges scribed her frustration with a profession that for anyone who is Brown or Black in this world idealizes “skin the colour of a peeled apple, and in this country. So many young Black with a prepubescent body.” ballerinas are determined to knock down Inspired by these and other Black women that thick wall, and I admire each and every seduced by the magic and cruelty of ballet, one.” Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre artistic director Tim Rhoze and writing partner Stephen Fedo @IreneCHsiao ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER29 W W J R READERRECOMMENDEDb ALLAGESF Sat /, -: PM, Center on Halsted, N. Halsted, --, centeronhalsted.org, $. Preshow reception with appetizers and beverages on THEATER the rooftop deck, postshow panel discussion moderated by Ada Cheng.
PREVIEW her personal story. It’s heartbreaking, though perhaps unsurprising, that after she was bru- OPENING Finding the right tally raped by a friend in college, she initially Layover of love blamed herself. R Come From Away sings about a small answers in Wrong “I had a crisis of faith after my rape,” says town in Newfoundland in the wake of 9/11. Riley. She explores that crisis in her one-wom- Way Journey an show, Wrong Way Journey, running August From the iconic image of the lone “falling man” to the gut-punch visual of walls papered with seem- 10 only at the Center on Halsted. Ultimately, ingly endless “missing” fl yers, the tragedy of 9/11 will R.C. Riley takes us on a road she didn’t lose faith, but discovered that her reverberate long a er every single person reading trip through her life perspective on God became bigger. Once she this is dust. With Come From Away, Irene Sankoff as a Black, queer, Christian accepted that God is love, she forgave herself and David Hein (book, music, and lyrics) double down on joy without compromising the impossi- woman. for the rape and for not telling anyone about ble-to-get-over sorrow of that day. The 90-minute the assault. When she came out as queer, musical takes place far from Ground Zero in Gander, By S F straight family members questioned her a tiny town in Newfoundland where 38 planes car- connection to God. “In my acceptance of my rying roughly 7,000 passengers (plus a menagerie hicago-based writer-performer R.C. queerness is where I built my strong relation- of dogs, cats, and monkeys) were forced to make an abrupt and unexplained landing. Yet for all the Riley was raised with conservative ship with God. My queerness is just as valid as passengers’ fear, rage, and frustration at fi nding CChristian faiths: her father was an elder your heterosexuality. If I’m going to hell, y’all themselves stuck for days in a plane parked on a and president in the Lutheran Evangelical all going with me. You can quote that.” rock below the arctic circle in an information black- Church and her mother was a Southern Bap- “Most people don’t understand how to love out, light and life remain stalwart even in the shadow of death and uncertainty. Terrorists would hate this outside of the way they were taught,” Riley tist. “When a young woman got pregnant out show: it’s fi lled with heroic gays and feisty women of wedlock, they made her, but not the man, says. She recounts the story of when her aunt and comes down insistently on the side of goodness, stand in front of the congregation in shame,” confronted her about her queerness, stating decency, and the simple joys of unfettered access to says Riley during a Skype interview, where her that it was “just wrong.” Riley responded by those little airline booze bottles. The music (stick around for the post-curtain- bubbly personality and smile contrast with asking if God was wrong for causing grass to call jam) ranges from get-down-and-dance bangers (“Welcome to the Rock”) to don’t-you-dare-tell- me-to-sit-down feminist ballads (“Me and the Sky,” performed with power and glory by Becky Gulsvig’s R.C. Riley TYKEITHNELSON — COMING — Captain Beverley) to “Prayer,” a gorgeous, intricate polyphonic round that calls to mind the gossamer holiness of Fiddler on the Roof’s “Sabbath Prayer.” 2019 SPECIAL ISSUES look and grow differently in the north than Keep an eye on Chicago’s James Earl Jones II, it grows in the south. “That perspective had especially when a Gander city father tells him to never been presented to her before.” round up grills from nearby backyards for a commu- nity cookout. Jones, a Black man, has a side-eye so The process of healing and writing also pronounced you’d swear he can see BBQ Becky in August 15 FOOD, DRINK, & CANNABIS brought new perspectives to her relationship his periphery. with her son, serving as a catalyst for deeper Come From Away turns the cliche of the tri- dialogue. For example, when she shared her umph of the human spirit into something we can all aspire to—no small thing, and something that’s CHICAGO JAZZ FESTIVAL thoughts on a stereotypically sexist billboard August 29 not regularly achievable in a post-9/11 world. But advertisement, it led to a conversation about the human capacity to foster healing and kindness RIOT FEST “pimps and hos” that in turn led to a more sub- amid unspeakable cruelty shines like an indomita- September 5 stantive discussion about sex workers. ble sun over this show (directed by Christopher Ashley). Nobody in Newfoundland solved terrorism. Says Riley, “I don’t consider myself a per- WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL But they showed the world how to respond to it September 12 former.” The idea originated when her thera- with compassion and humanity. —CS FALL THEATER AND DANCE pist suggested that she start journaling. As the C F A Through 8/18: Wed 2 and pages began to add up, friends and coworkers 7:30 PM, Thu-Fri 7:30 PM, Sat 2 and 8 PM, Sun asked if she was writing a book. After per- 2 PM, Cadillac Palace Theatre, 151 W. Randolph, $35-$105, “premium seats” available for more, forming in a college production of The Vagina limited $25 lottery seats available day of show, ADVERTISE WITH US Monologues, she had an epiphany. 800-775-2000, broadwayinchicago.com. Contact Patti Flynn, If Riley could give any advice to those who Sales Director: have experienced assault, she would tell One-night stand-up them that it is not their fault and that there is [email protected] International Falls shows the darkness behind nothing wrong with them. As she has learned a comedian’s mask. 312-392-2938 in her own Wrong Way Journey, “When you believe in yourself, you function in the world A tight script with the dark, quirky feel of a Twilight Zone episode, International Falls spends one night di erently.” with a stand-up and his one-night-stand. Sean Hig- gins plays Tim, a hack comedian with a ruined life @SheriFlanders 30 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll THEATER
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Catch the world’s leading roving from crappy town to crappy town—think Louis Chicago comedy clubs like the Annoyance and C.K. with consent. In the sleepy city of International Second City have a long and proud history of producing Falls, Minnesota, he meets Dee, a hotel clerk, played by lo-fi , low-budget musicals that marry sketch and improv expert on outsmarting Marie Weigle, and both gain more than another notch sensibility with earwormy, keyboard-accompanied, bet- in the belt. ter-than-they-need-to-be original tunes. At fi rst glance, Those unfamiliar with the world of comedy will director C.J. Tuor’s production at the Den would seem con artists… in Chicago. enjoy wallowing in Thomas Ward’s boozy blue mythos, to be in a similar vein, especially when it comes to clever, presented by Agency Theater Collective and End of the scrappy visual eff ects, like fl apper-dress fringe standing Line Productions. The appeal of smoky clubs, roman- in for falling crypto-code letters, handheld Saran Wrap ticized alcoholism, and witty zingers has carved out a “glass” windows, and rolling-chair-assisted fl ying kicks. respectable bit of territory for itself in the American But neither the voices here nor Jon Monteverde’s zeitgeist. Structured like an episode of Seinfeld, the play score—a MIDI fi le-sounding, melodically nonexistent Tuesday, August 20 toggles between stand-up sets and conversation. But assemblage of loose parodies—really deliver on the even playing a hack comedian takes commitment, and musical requisite of musical parody. Bruce Phillips earns 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. | Doors Open at 5:30 p.m. we need to see Tim working harder to land the jokes. As some legitimate laughs as Agent Smith, and Mike Gos- it is, the stand-up sets tend to undermine the integrity pel is a vocally strong outlier as Cypher, but the rest of Auditorium Theatre at Roosevelt University of the show. the show’s songs and gags wear thin well before the end Director Cody Lucas guides the actors to drama of its 90-minute run time. —DJ T O T 50 East Ida B. Wells Drive rather than having comedy mask sorrow. By committing M M P Through 8/25: Fri-Sat more to the comedic elements and toying with timing, 7:30 PM, Sun 3 PM, the Den Theatre, 1331 N. Mil- Chicago, IL. 60605 pacing, and tension, Lucas and his cast could have let waukee, 773-697-3830, thedentheatre.com, $25. v the tragedy accidentally slip out in cringeworthy paus- es. This doesn’t happen, and the result is a show that remains static rather than transcendent. Higgins and For over 40 years, Frank W. Abagnale has advised the Weigle are great dramatic actors who easily enrapture FBI on how to outsmart con artists. Now he is coming to the audience. Comedy takes time and timing, and over the coming weeks, it’s likely that the stand-up segments WIN Chicago for a presentation on learning to spot and avoid will earn their punch lines. —S F I - FREE F Through 8/30: Thu-Sat 8 PM, Sun scams so you can protect yourself and your family. 2 PM; also Mon 8/19, 8 PM (industry), and Wed 8/28, TICKETS 8 PM, Nox Arca Theatre, 4001 N. Ravenswood #405, This free event is open to the public, but space is limited wearetheagency.org, $22, $15 industry. Check out the latest and registration is required. . When Neo is retro giveaways to win tickets The One: The Matrix Musical Parody doesn’t hit RSVP: 1-877-926-8300 or https://aarp.cvent.com/ all the comedic high notes. to live theater, concerts, and much more. AbagnaleChicago Ready to feel old? The Matrix—a movie that, upon its release at the cusp of the new millennium, was lauded by critics and fans as the harbinger of a new era of VISIT style and futuristic fi lmmaking—is now the stuff of retrospective think pieces and anniversary screenings. CHICAGOREADER.COM/WIN Book writer and lyricist Laura Marsh honors the fi lm’s 20-year milestone with this lovingly janky “D.I.Y. style” for your chance to win! musical parody that riff s on and pays homage to the Wachowskis’ iconic sci-fi action classic and all its green- lit, leather-duster-clad glory. ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER31 FILM R READERRECOMMENDEDb ALLAGESN NEWF
The Blood Is at NOW PLAYING the Doorstep double take in the business, there are some interesting glimpses of blue-collar LA, and the downbeat ending NAlways in Season displays a genuine moral intelligence. James Fargo, the R Jacqueline Olive’s harrowing documentary least of Eastwood’s regular collaborators, directed this charts the history of public lynching since the Recon- one: his framing is clean and accurate, but he has no struction era and its a ermath today—specifi cally the timing. —DK PG, 114 min. 35 mm. Wed 8/14, 7:30 death of Black teenager Lennon Lacy, whose body PM. Northeastern Illinois University was found hanging from a swing set in Bladenboro, North Carolina, in 2014. Police ruled it a suicide, but Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus Lacy’s mother believes he was murdered as punishment Serge Gainsbourg dedicated this 1976 feature, his fi rst for his aff air with an older white woman. While his as writer-director, to the surrealist author Boris Vian, family grieves, other residents of the south—Black and though the fi lm doesn’t really bear the infl uence of white—process the trauma of their shared bloody past his playful writing; rather, it’s a dark, sexually charged by annually staging reenactments of crimes such as the provocation in keeping with many of Gainsbourg’s murders of two Black couples at Moore’s Ford Bridge recordings. Set in a small town in the middle of nowhere, in northeast Georgia in 1946, believed to have been it concerns the relationship between a dump-truck driv- committed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Although er (Joe Dallesandro, from Paul Morrissey’s Flesh, Trash, diffi cult to watch, the fi lm is invaluable in its exploration and Heat) and a young woman who works in the town’s of lynching as a form of racial terrorism. Danny Glover gas station and restaurant (Jane Birkin, Gainsbourg’s narrates. —AG 89 min. Showing as part partner at the time). He’s into men, but she desires him of the Black Harvest Film Festival. Fri 8/9, 4:15 PM, and content and simmering anger. Cinematographer Carlos sexually; eventually he agrees to let their friendship Tue 8/13, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center NBrian Banks Rossini, a veteran of nonfi ction fi lms, brings a verite, transform into a sexual aff air, and she agrees to let him R In the early 2000s, a high school football star off -the-cuff feel to his images of hotel bustle while also sodomize her because it’s the only way he can get off . NAngels Are Made of Light from Long Beach, California, was falsely accused and exploiting the possibilities of the stationary camera, as in Gainsbourg presents the story in a matter-of-fact style Afghanistan is not a place most Westerners have visited convicted of raping a classmate. Brian Banks spent one intricate geometric composition where the heroine that befi ts the stark settings and forces one to consider or know well, if at all, outside the context of war. As the nearly six years behind bars and fi ve years on parole as a fl irts with an ogling window-washer suspended dozens the sexual content head-on. This certainly isn’t for setting for this documentary, fi lmed from 2011 to 2014 at registered sex off ender before his conviction was over- of stories in the air. In Spanish with subtitles. —A everyone, but it nonetheless conveys a weird creative a school in the capital, Kabul, it is beautiful despite its turned in 2012 with the help of the California Innocence G 102 min. Fri 8/9, 2 and 8:15 PM; Sat 8/10, 5 integrity. In French with subtitles. —B S R, 88 ravages, somehow still glimmering with hope. American Project. Any fi lm detailing this incredible true story PM; Sun 8/11, 3 PM; Mon 8/12, 6 PM; Tue 8/13, 8:15 PM; min. Fri 8/9, 4 PM; Sat 8/10, 3:15 PM; Mon 8/12, 6 PM; and fi lmmaker James Longley (Iraq in Fragments) again turns must also tread through a thicket of interlocking issues, Wed 8/14, 8:15 PM; and Thu 8/15, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Thu 8/15, 8:30 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center his camera on ordinary people who are just trying to and this biopic from unlikely director Tom Shadyac Center get by—and on top of that, building a better future for (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective) cuts a clear if thorny path. NThe Kitchen their children. The fi lm centers on a trio of brothers who It sidesteps two easy routes—a white savior narrative Every Which Way but Loose Melissa McCarthy, Tiff any Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss attend the school and expands outward to include their with Brian’s lawyer from the CIP (Greg Kinnear) and a Clint Eastwood plays it safe in his fi rst full-fl edged star in this graphic novel adaptation as the wives of fellow students, parents, teachers, and other adults in condemnation of lying Jezebels—to follow Brian (Aldis comedy (1978), swiping most of the essentials from the three New York gangsters who take over their hus- their orbit. The older interviewees recall the country’s Hodge) through his daily life in the shadow of a fl awed Burt Reynolds formula and taking fewer laugh lines than bands’ criminal syndicate a er the men go to jail in recent past, illustrated through 35-millimeter archival and racially biased criminal justice system. The drama he did as Dirty Harry. Ruth Gordon and an orangutan the late 1970s. Writer-director Andrea Berloff frames footage, and share their fears that leak into the present. explores a range of conundrums, from why innocent are on hand to provide insurance when the script fails this as a tale of female empowerment, emphasizing These sequences are more evocative than informative, people accept plea deals—in Brian’s case, he accepted (as it frequently does). From any considered point of how the heroines gain confi dence as they evolve into and the lack of focus on the city’s schoolgirls is sorely fi ve years in prison over the possibility of 41 years to view, it stinks, but I still liked it: Eastwood has the best ruthless crime lords, but since the characters are all felt. At the same time, Longley’s commitment to the light life—to how diffi cult it is for ex-cons to contribute to soci- that shines through the rubble and to the many individu- ety when their access to jobs, housing, and a swath of als who are li ing the rocks is more than admirable. It is other opportunities is severely restricted. Hodge’s res- Them That Follow necessary work that reaffi rms the intrinsic value of every olute performance anchors the fi lm, while the nuanced human life, no matter how distant. In Dari, Pashto, and screenplay from Doug Atchison (Akeelah and the Bee) Arabic with subtitles. —LP 117 min. Fri 8/9, 7 and lush visual language from cinematographer Ricardo PM; Sat 8/10, 7:30 PM; Sun 8/11, 6 PM; Mon 8/12-Thu 8/15, Diaz push it several rungs above prosaic TV-movie-style 7 PM. Facets Cinematheque fare. —LP PG-13, 99 min. Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 The Blood Is at the Doorstep Galewood Crossings R This 2017 documentary follows the repercus- sions of the 2014 murder of an unarmed Black man NThe Chambermaid named Dontre Hamilton by a Milwaukee police offi cer. R Since its fi rst showings during the autumn 2018 Director Erik Ljung profi les the victim’s relatives as they festival circuit, this engrossing narrative feature debut get involved with activist groups committed to ending by actor-turned-director Lila Avilés has drawn multiple unnecessary police violence; he also speaks to members comparisons to Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma, but the only of Milwaukee’s police force as the organization attempts similarity is that they’re both about industrious maids to improve from within. (The latter interviewees don’t in Mexico City. Whereas Cuarón’s luminous movie come off especially well, but Ljung is careful not to paint followed a live-in domestic’s daily routines and complex, them as one-dimensional villains.) The movie confronts a supportive relationships with her employers, Avilés’s number of pertinent issues, not just police violence, but much grittier work leans more toward the interiority of also racism, inner-city poverty, and American society’s the lonely, guarded title character. Single mother Eve treatment of the mentally ill. (Hamilton was schizophre- (Gabriela Cartol) labors unstintingly in a fi ve-star hotel nic, and Ljung explores his case history in moving detail.) to support her young son, hoping that her meticulous In the end all these problems come to seem like facets attention to detail and willingness to do any task will get of the same crisis, which might be summarized as a lack her promoted to the 42nd-fl oor luxury suites. A nascent of empathy in the United States for our most vulnerable friendship with a garrulous, playful coworker harboring citizens. —B S 90 min. Ljung and Hamilton’s a hidden agenda (Teresa Sánchez) and a night class to mother, Maria, attend the screenings. Showing as part pursue a GED help pull Eve out of her shell, but the of the Black Harvest Film Festival. Sat 8/10, 5:15 PM, and accumulation of myriad indignities, broken promises, Sun 8/11, 3 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center poverty, and exhaustion sends Eve into a spiral of dis- 32 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Get showtimes and see reviews of everything playing THIS WEEK AT this week at chicagoreader.com/movies. FILM
one-dimensional, the attempts at catharsis feel canned. of Vincent Sherman, one of the Warner house hacks. THE LOGAN Moss, clearly struggling with her underwritten part, It’s been remade twice: unoffi cially as The Turning Point delivers the fi rst bad performance I’ve seen from her; (1977), offi cially as Rich and Famous (1981). With John she fails to make her character’s transformation from Loder, Gig Young, Dolores Moran, and Roscoe Karns. battered wife to hardened killer seem at all plausible. —DK 110 min. 35 mm. Sat 8/10, 11 AM. Music Box The other two leads fare somewhat better, drawing on their backgrounds in comedy to give their characters a NPremature certain amount of charisma; still, I would have preferred R The crown jewel of this year’s Black Harvest to watch them in something less mean-spirited. —B Film Festival, directed by Rashaad Ernesto Green, who S R, 102 min. ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts cowrote the screenplay with his star, the incandescent 6, Cicero Showplace 14, Ford City, Lake Theatre, Show- Zora Howard. She plays Ayanna, a talented young Har- DIRTY DANCING place 14 Galewood Crossings, Webster Place 11 lem poet who during the summer before her freshman year of college enters a romance with a somewhat older, AUGUST 9-12 AT 11 PM Nothing but a Man slightly adri man (Joshua Boone), whom her mother R A sincere, intelligent, and eff ectively acted (Michelle Wilson) is justifi ably wary of; the jury is also out independent feature from 1964, about a Black worker according to Ayanna’s girlfriends, who bristle at what (Ivan Dixon) and his wife (Abbey Lincoln) struggling they perceive as his sexism. The distributor, IFC Films, against prejudice and trying to make a life for them- has requested that longer reviews of this movie be held selves in Alabama. Directed by the able and neglected until it opens theatrically in January, but for now just Michael Roemer (who made The Plot Against Harry fi v e take my word for it: Premature is one of the year’s best years later) from a script written in collaboration with fi lms. —AG 86 min. Showing as part of Robert Young, who served as cinematographer; with the Black Harvest Film Festival. Fri 8/9, 8:30 PM. Gene Gloria Foster, Julius Harris, Martin Priest, and Yaphet Siskel Film Center Kotto. —JR 92 min. 16 mm. Fri 8/9, TO CATCH A THIEF 7 and 9:30 PM. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films NThem That Follow “They will pick up snakes with their hands; and when AUGUST 13-15 AT 10:30 PM Old Acquaintance they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all Bitch-goddesses Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins . . . ” (Mark 16:18). A forbidden relationship between square off as rival novelists. This 1943 feature could have Mara (Alice Englert), a pastor’s daughter, and Augie been a classic cat fi ght but for the plodding direction (Thomas Mann), another churchgoer, sets off a chain 2646 N. MILWAUKEE AVE | CHICAGO, IL | THELOGANTHEATRE.COM | 773.342.5555
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B of disastrous events in this thriller. It’s a typical star- ALSO PLAYING crossed love story but set in a tight-knit snake-handling congregation. In this Appalachian Mountain community, Always for Pleasure the church conducts business secretly because snake R The folk traditions of Black New Orleans—with handling is illegal—you can guess why. Mara is a fi rm a special emphasis on music and food—are examined believer, but her betrothal to another local boy pits her in this 1978 documentary by Les Blank. 58 min. 16 mm. faith against her heart. Meanwhile, Augie—the doubting Showing with Blank’s 1964 fi lm Dizzy Gillespie (20 min., Thomas—isn’t convinced, despite pressure from his 16mm). Sat 8/10, 7 PM. Chicago Filmmakers religious mother (played by the always dynamic Olivia Colman). The movie wins points for sheer shock: viewers NAmerican as Bean Pie might not have ever seen this religious practice up Chicagoan Liz Toussaint directed this autobiographical close. However, in their directorial debut, Britt Poulton documentary about her life as a Muslim and a country and Dan Madison Savage fail to show the church in a music performer. 62 min. Toussaint attends the screen- neutral light, choosing instead to lean into a “crazy cult” ings. Showing as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival. caricature rather than evenly portray what is already a Fri 8/9, 6:15 PM, and Sat 8/10, 8:15 PM. Gene Siskel Film complex, divisive religious custom. —N D L Center R, 98 min. Fri 8/9-Sun 8/11, 11:35 AM, 1:50, 4:15, 7, and 10:15 PM; Mon 8/12-Thu 8/15, 1:50, 4:15, 7, and 10:15 PM. Century Centre
AUGUST MONTHLY LINEUP Filmmaker appearances, panels, events & more! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark NThe Art of Racing in the Rain Black Harvest Film Festival Kevin Costner is the voice of a golden retriever, which where most of the females have died from a pandemic a 8/3 - 8/29 learns life lessons with his owners, a Formula One driver decade earlier. R, 119 min. Fri 8/9, 7:30 PM; Sat 8/10, 6:30 www.siskelfilmcenter.org/bhff25 (Milo Ventimiglia) and his wife (Amanda Seyfried). PG, PM; Sun 8/11, 5 PM; Mon 8/12-Thu 8/15, 7:30 PM. Facets 109 min. ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Cicero Cinematheque Serge Gainsbourg’s new Showplace 14, Lake Theatre, Showplace 14 Galewood restoration! Je t’aime moi Crossings NLuce non plus • 8/9 – 8/15 Julius Onah directed this drama about an adopted high NDora and the Lost City of Gold schooler living in Virginia whose past as a child soldier Panorama Latinx! James Bobin directed this live-action adventure fi lm in Eritrea and recent incidents at odds with his status The Chambermaid • 8/9 – 8/15 based on the popular Nickelodeon television series as an all-star student threaten to disrupt his and his Dora the Explorer, with Dora changed from a seven- family’s lives. With Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Kelvin Ron Howard’s documentary year-old to an older teen (Isabela Moner). PG, 102 min. Harrison Jr., Norbert Leo Butz, and Tim Roth. R, 109 min. ArcLight, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North Fri 8/9-Sun 8/11, 11:50 AM, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, Pavarotti • 8/9 – 8/15 14, Ford City, Lake Theatre, River East 21, Showplace 14 and 9:50 PM; Mon 8/12-Thu 8/15, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, New restoration! Pioneering les- Galewood Crossings, 600 N. Michigan 7:15, 8:15, and 9:50 PM. Century Centre bian classic Olivia • 8/16 – 8/21 NFantastic Tales NMade in Chicago A program of African American horror, fantasy, and A program of six short fi lms by local fi lmmakers Tristian Modern dance documentary science fi ction short fi lms. 85 min. Showing as part of the Montgomery, Ira Childs, Tommy Sigmon, Latoya Hunter, If the Dancer Dances Black Harvest Film Festival. Wed 8/14, 8:30 PM, and Thu Jan Johnson Goldberger, and Okema “Seven” Gunn. 84 8/16 – 8/22 8/15, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center min. Showing as part of the Black Harvest Film Festival. Sun 8/11, 5:30 PM, and Mon 8/12, 7:45 PM. Gene Siskel Syrian video diary For Sama NHoneyland Film Center 8/23 – 8/29 Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska directed this Macedonian documentary about a beekeeper whose NPomegranates: Queer Muslim New restoration! British quiet life is disrupted when a family settles nearby. In Mythologies apocalyptic war drama Threads Turkish with subtitles. 85 min. Music Box 8/23, 8/24, 8/26 A program of short narrative fi lms by queer Muslim NJezebel fi lmmakers. Tickets are $25 and include an Eid dinner. Sat In the Loop • 164 N. State St. Numa Perrier directed this fi lm about a young Las Vegas 8/10, 7 PM. Nightingale woman who begins work as a sex-cam performer. 78 min. www.siskelfilmcenter.org Perrier attends the screenings. Showing as part of the NScary Stories to Tell in the Dark $12 General | $7 Students | $6 Members Black Harvest Film Festival. Tue 8/13, 8:30 PM, and Wed André Øvredal directed this adaptation of Alvin 8/14, 6 PM. Gene Siskel Film Center Schwartz’s children’s horror story collections. PG-13, 111 @siskelfilmcenter min. ArcLight, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, NLight of My Life Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Ford City, Show- Casey Affl eck directed and stars in this dystopian drama place 14 Galewood Crossings, Webster Place 11 v @filmcenter about a father trying to protect his daughter in a world 34 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll Est.Est.1954 1954 Celebrating over 6165 years of service service A Reader staff er shares three musical obsessions, then asks to Chicago! someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn. 1800 W. DIVISION IN ROTATION (773) 486-9862 Come enjoy one of Chicago’s finest beer gardens! S C -J FEBRUARYSEPTEMBERJAAUGUSTNUARY 11...... 8 20 23 ...... MIKE DA FLABBYVID QUINN FLABBY FELTEN HOFFMAN HOFFMAN SHOW SHOW 8PM 8PM Reader listings coordinator SEPTEMBERJAAUGUSTNUARY 12...... 9 21 .....WAGNER PLUSH AMERICAN& MORSE DRAFT FEBRUARYSEPTEMBERAUGUST 10 22 24 .....THE ..... 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Some insane genius J K Librarian, creator to get all Pitchfork here with pretentious uploaded a supercut of every Cop Rock song of the Punk Rock and Donuts series SAT adjectives, so I’ll leave it at “banger.” to YouTube , but you can get the gist with just Dogrel reminds me of when punk used to the wait-for-the-hidden-keyboard number Midwest Live & Loud preshow at Cobra be intelligent and snotty, not just a bunch “Let’s Be Careful Out There.” Lounge on Thursday, August 29 The best of of trust-fund kids rolling around on base- the midwest are playing here: the Twin Cities’ ment floors all over the city complain- Victory and Chicago’s Fuerza Bruta are the ing about Trump. Comparisons to the Fall best oi! punk this side of the Mississippi, and are inevitable, but I always found the Fall Brick Assassin (their last show) are my favor- boring—and these kids are anything but. ite band in Chicago. Udüsic’s guitar player is a fucking shredder in the Greg Ginn mold, and the vocals slay; I’ve never seen Milwaukee’s SR Law/Less, but I’m excited to. If Crime Spree Vocalist for Udüsic and B.T.T.W. (RIP) were on the bill, it would have all my favorite Chicago bands of the past fi ve years. I like hardcore punk. These reviews are short and fast, as befi ts the genre. Play loud. Primitive Man and Full of Hell at Reggies’ Rock Club in May Aside from early-90s Haircut, Shutting Down seven-inch (2017) Unsane, Primitive Man are the loudest band I Riff s and guts. Enjoy this, and keep an eye out have ever seen. My eyes were vibrating in my for their new seven-inch from Beach Impedi- head during one of their sets, which was quite ment Records coming soon. Rob Tyner of the MC5 plays “Grande Days” unsettling. The entire club was vibrating. I in a 1980s TV clip uploaded to YouTube. MILESKITTREDGE/YOUTUBE have only seen a few other bands achieve this The Stutter, self-titled demo (2019) Philly kind of wall of sound. Full of Hell are also fan- stalwarts. “Stutter” into “Cackle” is the one- tastic live—they get lumped in with grindcore, two punch 2019 truly needs. but they toss in death metal, power electron- Rob Tyner, “Grande Days” You don’t have ics, and a little sludge too. Catch these bands Game, No One Wins (2019) No one wins to be an MC5 fan (or from Detroit) to enjoy at a small venue before it’s too late. but you, because you get to listen to the this tribute to the legendary Grande Ballroom soundtrack to the apocalypse over and over written by the late Rob Tyner and performed Fontaines D.C., Dogrel (2019) This album into the end of days. by him on Autoharp, but you should have a is a banger, 100 percent. I’m not going heart so you can feel it break with sweetness. I discovered this song via a mid-80s TV clip on YouTube, where Tyner is introduced by Detroit radio legend Dave Dixon.
Audible weeping I maintain a playlist of sad songs where you can actually hear the sing- er catch a sob in their throat or just plain full- Virginia hardcore band Haircut out wail and cry on the recording. I’m a fan of COURTESYTHEARTIST melodrama, and also it’s nice to have some- thing to put on the Victrola while entertain- ing blind dates. Please contact me if you have song suggestions.
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PICK OF THE WEEK Chicago rapper-singer Doso shows he’s one to watch
DaBaby LEORGALIL THURSDAY8 DaBaby 8:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, 4746 N. Racine, $40, 17+
The annual “Freshman Class” issue of XXL magazine aims to predict hip-hop’s future stars, but it increas- ingly spotlights artists who are already hot. The 11 rappers in the 2019 class, which was announced in June, include the two most sought-a er MCs of the summer: Houston’s Megan Thee Stallion and Char- lotte’s DaBaby. In the XXL Freshman Class freestyle cypher that the two rappers shared with YK Osiris and Lil Mosey, uploaded to YouTube at the end of July, they both scorch every second they’re on the
PAULELLIOTT mike; DaBaby, who claims about half the video’s four DOSO minutes and 30 seconds, tears through the dreamy Franchika and Frsh Waters open. 7:30PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, $12 b beat like Wile E. Coyote’s Road Runner barreling across the desert. He brings a similar vitality to his debut studio album, March’s Baby on Baby (Inter- scope), where he often sounds energized by the act of delivering his punchy verses in his distinc- tively springy southern accent. On the hook of his hit “Suge,” he discharges muscular lines that rico- CHICAGOAN MANASSEH CHAMPION fi rst picked up the trumpet sultry singing. He balances those skills on “Again, Again,” where a chet off the blown-out, minimal bass—a combo that at age seven. Now 22, he’s teaching young people how to play brass polished-up version of the instrumental for Tupac’s “Ambitionz az supersizes the song like Bruce Banner transforming instruments at the West Point School of Music in South Shore. Over a Ridah” provides the backdrop for Champion sweetly singing the into the Hulk. In concert, DaBaby storms the stage with the relentless focus of a personal trainer. When the past few years, Champion has focused his extracurricular ener- song’s hook and punching in anxious raps. Over his short career, I saw him in June at the Lyrical Lemonade Summer gy on hip-hop, releasing a slew of stylistically varied singles under Champion has shown continual growth as a vocalist: his latest sin- Smash, he didn’t seem satisfi ed till he’d pumped up the name Doso. Last year’s [Extended] (A Rugged Interest) veers gle, May’s “Know That Now,” has a relaxed vibe that might lull you everybody in the crowd. —LG between trap-infl ected tracks that highlight Champion’s agility at to sleep if it weren’t enlivened by his subtly sensual singing, which rattling o aggressive bars and melodic pop tunes that show o his makes the song sound like it belongs on the radio. —LG Doso See Pick of the Week at le . Franchika and Frsh Waters open. 7:30 PM, Schubas, 3159 N. Southport, $12. b
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FRIDAY9 Leslie Supa Bwe 8 PM, Reggies’ Rock Club, 2109 S. State, $25. 18+. Jones Beginning in 2014, Chicago rapper-singer Supa SPECIAL GUEST Bwe made his name threading together powerful LENNY MARCUS rapping, forcefully melodic singing influenced by This Friday! third-wave emo, and intensely vulnerable lyrics that address depression with considerable weight. His August 9 Next Thursday! work inadvertently blazed a trail for every Sound- August 15 Cloud rapper with more face tattoos than original Riviera Theatre ideas who’s gotten big over the past few years. Supa Vic Theatre could easily capitalize on that trend by fi nessing his early sound into a formula and following that, but he’s more interested in exploring diff erent stylistic ideas. On the April EP Just Say Thank You (Freddie Got Magic/Empire) he packs a lot into less than 20 minutes, getting knee-deep into R&B and delivering passionate vocals that sound pleasantly like they’re melting, and complement his romantic, minimal instrumentals. This spring an ad for Just Say Thank You appeared on a billboard attached to the Cali- fornia Blue Line stop, but Supa really ought to be on billboards all over the country. —LG
Bad Religion The Lawrence Arms open. 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 4746 N. Racine, $35. b
The first time I saw Bad Religion, I was a young teen and they were on their 2000 tour in support of their Todd Rundgren-produced 11th album, The New America. I remember marveling at how dudes so old were still ripping so hard, but I recently had a weird crisis when I did the math and realized that lead singer Greg Graffin was only in his mid-30s Friday, September 20 at the time, a mere two years older than I am now. This put my perception of my own aging under a Park West microscope, but more than that, it raised the point that Bad Religion, formed in 1980, have been elder statesmen of west-coast melodic skate punk for lon- ger than I’ve been alive—and as of today, they still do it better than younger copycats. Formed by high school friends—Graffi n, bassist Jay Bentley, and gui- tarist Brett Gurewitz—over the decades the band has picked up former members of the J
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continued from 37 dies and play in diff erent tempos from one anoth- Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Suicidal Tendencies, er, focusing their improvisational chops on the task and the Cult, becoming something of a retirement of sustaining cohesion while negotiating structural camp for veterans of classic punk acts in the pro- gaps and confl icting time signatures. The resulting cess. This year they released their 17th studio album, music is a bit like seeing a familiar image refl ected Age of Unreason, and it’s exactly what you’d want by a shattered mirror. The gaps in the tunes seem and expect from a Bad Religion record: breakneck to correspond with the gaps in Daly’s performance rhythms, slick Adolescents-inspired vocal harmo- schedule—he just doesn’t play out very o en, which nies, thesaurus-combing lyrics, and endless massive makes his two upcoming shows all the more note- hooks. Last year I caught Bad Religion at Riot Fest, worthy. On Friday, August 9, at Elastic, he will per- performing a set of hits before delving into a full- form a solo suite entitled Three Subsequent Compo- album performance of their signature 1988 master- sitions for Unaccompanied Arbitrary Fretless Elec- piece, Suff er. At the time they were in their 50s, and tric Guitar and Defl ation CSEGs This Year. The fol- once again they laid waste to musicians half their lowing Sunday he’ll play fretted guitar while leading age. It almost feels like Bad Religion will be around a quartet that includes bassist Jason Roebke, alto forever—and that’s fine, because they’ll be great saxophonist Sarah Clausen, and drummer Phil Sud- until their fi nal show. —L C derberg. —B M
Kieran Daly See Sunday. Nomi Epstein (solo set) and an ensemble of Epstein, Carol Genetti, SATURDAY10 SMARTBARCHICAGO.COM Peter Maunu, Tom Snydacker, Nora Barton, Eli 3730 N CLARK ST | 21+ Namay, Sam Scranton, and Emily Beisel open. Gladys Knight 8 PM, Chicago Theatre, 175 N. 9 PM, Elastic, 3429 W. Diversey, second fl oor, State, $40-$130. b $10. b The true mark of a musical icon might be the power The standard jazz repertoire is a selection of to move intergenerational audiences with a signa- mid-20th-century popular songs and composi- ture song, even decades a er its original release. tions that jazz musicians have long been expect- Take soul legend Gladys Knight: she o en ends her ed to master in order to establish their bona concerts with the 1973 hit “Midnight Train to Geor- fi des. Though the canonization of these standards gia,” a tribute to those who follow their dreams ensures that players know what to play and that and fail. Born in Atlanta, Knight had her fi rst brush listeners know what to expect, it also imposes an with fame in 1952, when at age seven she sang on aesthetic center of gravity that hasn’t moved since the TV show Original Amateur Hour (a precursor to the age of rotary telephones. Kieran Daly has man- the likes of America’s Got Talent). That same year, aged the near impossible task of doing something she and several family members started a singing with standards that hasn’t been done before. The group that they eventually dubbed the Pips. Aside guitarist and composer, who’s been based in Chi- from a short break in the early 60s to start her own cago since 2016, often plays familiar themes such family, Knight led the soulful group with her velvety, as Miles Davis’s “Half Nelson” or the Charlie Park- understated vocals till 1989, when the Pips disband- er vehicle “Cherokee” (composed by Roy Noble). ed and she launched a solo career. Though Knight But he and his accompanists don’t construct solos has earned plenty of accolades and awards (includ- TICKETS AVAILABLE VIA METRO + SMARTBAR WEBSITES + METRO BOX OFFICE. NO SERVICE FEES AT BOX OFFICE! from the tunes’ chords and wait for their turn to ing seven Grammy wins between her solo work show their stuff—instead they fragment the melo- and Gladys Knight & the Pips), she and her collab-
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AUG AUG AUGWED/THU 16 17 18 orators haven’t always received the respect that Helen Money with Sanford Parker, they deserved in the music industry. The Pips had Yakuza Yakuza headlines; Helen Money with already achieved some success before signing to Sanford Parker and CJ Boyd open. 8:30 PM, Motown in 1966—they’d even cracked the top ten Empty Bottle, 1035 N. Western, $12. 21+ of the Billboard Hot 100 with a 1961 cover of John- ny Otis’s “Every Beat of My Heart”—but the group Classically trained cellist Alison Chesley is a Los felt overlooked among the label’s cavalcade of stars. Angeles native who got her start in Chicago’s 90s In her 1997 autobiography, Between Each Line of rock scene, pairing up with Jason Narducy for the TRAE CROWDER NEUROSIS AVI KAPLAN Pain and Glory, Knight recalls Berry Gordy remov- indie duo Jason & Alison, which later morphed ing her group from the opening spot on a nation- into a full indie-rock band called Verbow. Those AUG AUG AUG al Supremes tour because the Pips were getting endeavors were solid, but since Verbow called it 19 22/24 29 bigger audience reactions than Diana Ross. Still, a day in 2003, Chesley has taken her career down the group stayed with Motown till 1973, eventual- much stranger, more fascinating paths. As an in- ly recording several of their biggest hits with the demand session musician and onstage collabora- label, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” tor, she’s worked with a stunningly diverse array and “If I Were Your Woman.” At that point they of artists, including Broken Social Scene, Anthrax, signed with Buddha, where their second single, and Russian Circles. In 2007, she began releasing “Midnight Train,” quickly hit number one. Though solo material as Helen Money, and her three DRAB MAJESTY HANDSOMETHE HOLD STRANGERS STEADY ORANGE GOBLIN Knight is no stranger to television (she and the Pips albums under that name have focused on dark, had a short-lived variety series in the 70s, and in elaborate soundscapes that beautifully weave 2013, Knight starred in her own reality show, Knight together metal and minimalism. For her upcom- AUG FRUIT BATS AUG ANDREW SCHULZSEP CHRISTINA P. Life With Gladys), it was surprising to fi nd her com- ing fourth full-length, she’s teaming up with Chi- 09 23 06 peting earlier this year on the American version of cago metal producer and musician Sanford Park- AUG AUG BY WAY OF TAPS: SEP The Masked Singer—a singing competition where er (who mi xed some of her previous releases), and 10 MYKELE DEVILLE 25 A J DILLA TRIBUTE 07 DESSA celebrities “mask” themselves in elaborate ani- the duo will share some of that material at this AUG FIRE TALK RECORDS SHOWCASE: AUG SUN•DAY SERVICE: SEP CHOIR CHOIR CHOIR mal costumes and try to get ahead based solely on show. Money will also sit in on the headlining set 11 CHICAGO VS THE WORLD 30 DEHD, DEEPER, PATIO, & FRAN 08 their voices and performances. Knight fi nished third by local experimental-metal legends Yakuza, with TOAD THE runner-up, and long before she unmasked for her whom she’s already collaborated occasionally. The AUG TUXEDO AUG SEP PINEGROVE fi nale, the judges and her fellow competitors began band, who have taken the stage only sporadical- 13 31 WET SPROCKET 11 to suspect her true identity. When it was revealed, ly over the past few years, recruited new bassist AUG THE MUSIC OF THE SEP SEP judge Kenan Thompson summed up what she Jerome Marshall in 2018. They’re slowly but surely 18 BEATLES FOR KIDS 03 CEREMONY 12 SAUL WILLIAMS means to her fans: “That voice has graced my life, cra ing their seventh album, and like Helen Money my parents’ life, and every single family member I’ve and Sanford Parker, they’ll also present some new THALIA HALL | 1807 S. ALLPORT ST. PILSEN CHICAGO | THALIAHALLCHICAGO.COM ever had.” On this tour, she’s been sticking mostly to tunes. —M K favorites from throughout her nearly seven-decade career, including her 1987 Grammy-winning dance single “Love Overboard.” While that song may not have the same cultural weight as “Midnight Train,” SUNDAY11 AUG AUG AUG Knight’s delivery of its playful opening lines (“They 14 16 17 tell me, Gladys / You know you love too hard / But Kieran Daly Quartet See Friday. Daly is DEVIN THE DUDE I tell them / Not nearly hard enough”) shows why joined by Sarah Clausen, Jason Roebke, and Phil she’s still so irresistible. —S -J Sudderberg; a quartet of Dave Rempis, Peter Maunu, Jakob Heinemann, and Bill Harris opens. 9 PM, Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Belmont. 21+ J
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Shoe” and 1968’s “Feelin’ Alright” (which became Dave Mason an even bigger smash for Joe Cocker in 1969). He RENEESILVERMAN also appears on one of the greatest rock tracks of all time, providing 12-string guitar on Jimi Hendrix’s immortal take on Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watch- guez hails from Havana, and percussionist Magdelys tower.” All the aforementioned tunes are mentioned Savigne is from Santiago. Rodriguez was a concert- in the press materials for Mason’s “Feelin’ Alright” master for Havana’s Youth Orchestra, and Savigne tour, but he also played on classics such as George is trained In orchestral percussion, but since mov- Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass” and the Stones’ ing to Toronto about five years ago they’ve both “Beggars Banquet,” and with any luck some of those honed their chops in a variety of styles, notably collaborators’ songs will leak into his set. He’ll also with Juno-nominated postrock band Battle of San- play material that has inspired his work, and along tiago and Grammy-nominated jazz group Jane with killer tunes, he’s bound to have good stories— Bunnett & Maqueque. Okan, which Rodriguez and so pass up this classic-rock legend at your own Savigny cofounded in 2016, take their name from peril. And for those whose relationships are on the gloss production and a fair amount of controlled live setting it seems likely to inspire much audience the word for “heart” or “soul” in the Afro-Cuban brink of splitting up, the show may provide a good substances; when he sings “No worries when I’m sighing and swaying. —NB religion of Santeria, and their unpredictable tunes segue into discussing the terms. —SK with you / No raindrops within my view,” he’s not flow seamlessly from traditional Cuban beats to delivering a weather report as much as he’s shar- jazz to New Orleans-infused grooves to infl uences ing his ethos. His formula doesn’t provide for a lot from more distant lands—Brazil, Spain, Turkey—that Jakob Ogawa Nathan Bajar opens. 8 PM, of variation (the EP is basically one dreamy groove WEDNESDAY14 the multicultural fabric of Toronto has brought out Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln, $18. 18+ a er another), but the point is to let your eyes cross in their music. Their group’s vibrant performances and dri into your own consciousness, and/or into Dave Mason See Tuesday. 8 PM, City Winery, include fresh takes on classic Cuban standards as Twenty-one-year-old Norwegian singer- songwriter the consciousness of some significant consenting 1200 W. Randolph, sold out. b well as original compositions, and they’re marked Jakob Ogawa titled his 2017 debut EP Bedroom other. The EP’s standout track, a duet with Ameri- by Rodriguez’s elegant vocals and masterful violin Tapes (Diamond Club), and that’s a pretty good can lo-fi singer Clairo called “You Might Be Sleep- and Savigne’s rapid-fire Afro-Cuban percussion— summary of both his methods and his interests. ing,” falls along those lines; Clairo answers Ogawa’s Okan 8:30 PM, Maurer Concert Hall, Old Town her many instruments include batá drums, sacred in Ogawa’s music is warm, woozy indie pop designed croony come-ons with a breathy distance (“Baby School of Folk Music, 4544 N. Lincoln. b F Santeria and traditionally taboo for women (though as a soundtrack for cozy loving—think Belle & when you’re near / It’s warm/ And sad”) before they Okan use them in secular pieces). Despite the com- Sebastian lounging with an extremely chilled-out slide into gentle harmony like they’re sinking into Toronto group Okan make heady, jazzy, superb- plexity of their music, Okan never drop the groove, Pizzicato Five. His fi rst single, 2016’s “You’ll Be on a midafternoon bubble bath. Despite the insulari- ly crafted music driven by two virtuosos born in and you can expect happy vibes and much dancing My Mind,” sounds like island music treated to high- ty of Ogawa’s music, it’s very openhearted, and in a Cuba’s cultural capitals: violinist Elizabeth Rodri- from the crowd. —C M Jv
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Cautious Clay 12/5, 8 PM, Bot- Half Acre’s The Big North IV Don McLean 11/21, 8 PM, City Mover Shaker, Perspective CeCe Peniston 9/22, 8 PM, The three singles he’s released so far are tom Lounge, 17+ with Allah-Las, Cowboys, Winery, on sale Fri 8/9 b a Lovely Hand to Hold 10/2, City Winery b heavy, triumphant postrock—and pret- Cavetown 10/5, 7:30 PM, Thalia Skip Church, Oozing Wound Metal Allegiance, Crobot, 8:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Chris Shifl ett, Cordovas 9 /4 , ty positive! On Sunday, August 11, Harm Hall b 8/17, 4 PM, Half Acre Beer Weapons of Anew 10/31, Whitney 12/5-12/8, 8:30 PM, 8 PM, Schubas Clairo, Beabadoobee, Hello Company Balmoral 7 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Thalia Hall, 12/6 and 12/7 are Shonen Knife, Bev Rage & Less headlines a release party at the Beat Yello 9/28, 6:30 PM, Metro, b Harley Poe, Homeless Gospel Miss June 10/21, 8 PM, Subter- sold out, 17+ the Drinks 10/1, 8 PM, Sub- Kitchen ; it’s $10 and kicks off at 8 PM. Colligo party hosted by Choir 11/9, 9 PM, Beat Kitch- ranean, 17+ Saul Williams 9/12, 8:30 PM, terranean Chicago label No Trend Records has Beats y Bateria with Hunter en, on sale Fri 8/9, 11 AM, 17+ Dave Monks 11/8, 8 PM, Subter- Thalia Hall, 17+ JD Simo, Thompson Springs been working with some of Gossip Wolf’s Diamond, Saraswathi Ranga- Hecks, Juiceboxxx 10/7, ranean, 17+ Windy City Soul Club 12/31, 8/15, 8 PM, FitzGerald’s, nathan, & Davor Palos 10/25, 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle F Moonlight Disco with Tim 9 PM, Logan Square Audi- Berwyn favorite local acts lately—including hilar- 8:30 PM, Schubas Horse Jumper of Love, Slow Baresko 8/23, 9 PM, Cerise torium Sir Babygirl, Nyssa 10/4, 9 PM, iously dystopian punks Absolutely Not, Katie Dahl 9/15, 1 PM, SPACE, Mass 9/18, 8:30 PM, Subter- Roo op at Virgin Hotels Yoke Lore 10/19, 9 PM, Bottom Empty Bottle postpunk collage artists Avantist , and Evanston b ranean, 17+ Chicago Lounge, on sale Fri 8/9, Strung Out, Casualties 10/10, multifaceted rapper and poet Mykele Digable Planets 11/26-11/27, Htrk 11/6, 8:30 PM, Empty Parlor Mob, Deal Casino 10/19, 9 AM, 17+ 8 PM, Cobra Lounge, 17+ 7 and 9:30 PM, City Winery, Bottle 8 PM, Martyrs’ Worthy, Gene Farris 8/17, Deville , all of whom play “in the round” on sale Fri 8/9, noon b Jay2, Sean Deaux, Frsh Perma Cough, Dogs at Large, 2 PM, Electric Hotel on the floor of Thalia Hall on Saturday, Dopapod, Paris Monster 12/6, Waters, Bandland ZZ, Ambi Husk 9/11, 8:30 PM, Empty UPDATED Stephane Wrembel Band 9/8, August 10 . The show costs $10 and starts 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, on sale Lyrics, Mattaudiodope 8/31, Bottle 7 PM, City Winery b at 9 PM. —J R N LG Fri 8/9, 10 AM, 17+ 8 PM, Schubas b Lee “Scratch” Perry & Sub- Cuco, Kaina 9/22, 7 PM, Ara- Mike Zito 8/23, 10 PM, SPACE, Drax Project 9/8, 7 PM, Chop Joy Formidable, Bryde 12/12, atomic Sound System 9/20, gon Ballroom, moved to the Evanston b Shop 8:30 PM, Bottom Lounge, on 8 PM, Subterranean Aragon b Zorila, One More Moon, Got a tip? Tweet @Gossip_Wolf or e-mail Dumbo Gets Mad 10/23, sale Fri 8/9, 11 AM, 17+ Phantogram, Bob Moses 8/24, Brothers & Wine 9/7, [email protected]. 8:30 PM, Empty Bottle Ruston Kelly 11/1, 8 PM, Thalia 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+ 8:30 PM, GMan Tavern v ll AUGUST - CHICA O READER43 OPINION
SAVAGE LOVE He asked if he could enter actions. It’s clear that he the start of a new relation- also autistic, which makes me, and after I said yes, I does not respect me, my ship. Not only is there noth- navigating cues from Breach of boundaries grabbed a condom for him body, my health, or my repro- ing wrong with that, SOS, partners rather diffi cult. Is a stealth act of barebacking forgivable? Plus: an and he put it on. We were ductive choices, and made but you wouldn’t want to Completely submitting spooning at the time so he his physical pleasure top pri- date someone who didn’t do to someone else weirdly autistic sub seeks advice on his open marriage. entered me from behind. ority. He has apologized pro- that at the start, because the makes me feel totally safe BDS At one point early in the fusely, been emotional about kind of person who doesn’t and free for kind of the encounter, I reached back his actions, and has definite make the effort to impress fi rst time. The problem is, to grab his hand, and all of remorse. After I sent him early in a relationship is the my spouse is also pretty : I’m a 42-year-old single, the use of condoms since a sudden, felt the condom several articles on how what kind of person who can’t be subby. When they do try straight female who recently our very fi rst encounter, he had been wearing laid he did is criminal (including bothered to make any effort to initiate sex, it’s o en so started dating a 36-year-old which he at fi rst reluctantly out on the bed. Shocked the one about the German later in the relationship. We subtle that I totally miss the man in a somewhat exclusive, agreed to but has since and outraged, I immediate- man who got eight months all erect those facades, SOS, signals. In the past month, long-distance relationship. obliged without incident. ly stopped and turned to in jail for stealthing), he now but some people are slap- I’ve had sex with my spouse We have known each other He is expressively into me him asking, “Why did you seems to grasp the severity. ping those facades on slums maybe once, compared to for a short time, but have and treats me better than take this off?” To which he It’s hard to reconcile his con- you wouldn’t wanna live in, four or fi ve times with my clocked hours upon hours on any guy I’ve dated; cooks replied, “Because I wanted sistent respect for me with while others are slapping other partner. My question the phone. I have specifi cally for me, gives me massages, to come faster.” All I could a bold and disrespectful act them on what turns out to be is this: Have you seen stated many times I don’t buys me gi s, showers me muster back was, “Do you like this. The best case is that pretty decent housing. And examples of people in open want kids of my own (he with compliments, listens to have any idea how bad that he’s a dumbass, the worst if I may continue to torture marriages who essentially does), am extremely safety me at any hour of the night, is? I can’t even look at you.” being that his respect and this metaphor: when the first fulfi ll their sexual needs with conscious (only when I see and has shown nothing but I covered my eyes and cried care for me is all a facade cracks appear in the facade, secondary partners, while someone’s STI results and respect towards me since uncontrollably for a few and I’ve been a fool. Is there which they inevitably do, and still maintaining a happy know we’re 100 percent day one. minutes. any reason I should consider you get a peek behind it, you companionable partnership monogamous will I go Until our last sexual After getting dressed, continuing to see this guy? Is aren’t a fool if it turns out with their primary? “bareback”), and am against encounter. He woke me up in showering, and exiting with- it remotely forgivable? there’s a slum there. You’re —S U hormonal contraception. the morning clearly aroused out a word, I started to —S S only a fool if you move in B -B Therefore, I’ve insisted on and ready for sexy time. process the atrocity of his instead of moving on. A: Nope. Anyway, SOS, everybody A: I’ve personally known The obvious (and objec- fronts, but eventually, those people in loving, happy, tively true) point is that any- facades fall away and you get sexless marriages who thing is forgivable. People to see people for who and aren’t leading sexless have forgiven worse—I mean, what they really are. And the lives; their marriages are there are mothers out there collapse of your new boy- companionate—some can who’ve forgiven the people friend’s facade revealed him even be described as who murdered their children. to be a selfish and uncaring passionate—but both halves But moms who’ve found it asshole with no respect for seek sexual fulfi llment within themselves to for- your body or your bound- with secondary, tertiary, give their children’s murder- aries. He was on his best quaternary, etc, partners. ers . . . yeah, they don’t have behavior until he sensed your But companionate open to live with, take meals with, guard was down, at which marriages only work when or sleep with their children’s point he violated and sex- it’s what both partners murderers. I’m not saying ually assaulted you. Those want . . . and your partner’s that forgiving the person aren’t flaws you can learn to feelings are conspicuously who murdered your kid is live with or actions you can absent from your letter. easy (I wouldn’t be able to do excuse. Move on. How do they feel about it), but most people who’ve being in a sexless or nearly “forgiven worse” never have : I am a 27-year-old man sexless marriage? Your to lay eyes on the person in an open marriage with a spouse would seem to be they forgave again. wonderful partner. They’re interested in having sex with So while it may be true that my best friend, I smile you—they occasionally try people have forgiven worse, whenever they walk into the to initiate—but perhaps your SOS, I don’t think you should room, and we have a ton in spouse is just going through forgive this. And here’s why: common. We don’t, however, the motions because they You only just started dating have that much sex. I’m think it’s what you want. this guy, and all the good currently seeing someone So . . . you’re gonna need to qualities you listed—every- else and our sex is great. have a conversation with thing that made him seem We’ve explored some light your spouse about your sex like a good, decent, lovely, BDSM and pegging, and I’m lives. If you’ve found being and possibly loving guy (the fi nding myself really enjoying told what to do in unsubtle cooking, the massages, the being a sub. I’m kind of ways by your Dominant compliments, etc.)—is the terrifi ed that, as a man, I second partner to be sexually kind of best-foot-forward might accidentally violate liberating, SUBB, you could fronting a person does at someone’s boundaries. I’m ask your spouse to be a 315656_4.75_x_4.75.indd 1 3/22/19 11:05 AM 44 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll OPINION
little less subtle when they want to initiate— or, better yet, ask them not to be subtle at all. Nowhere is it written that subs like you and your spouse have to be subtle or sly or stand there waiting for others to initiate. “I am feeling horny and I’d really like to have sex tonight” is something submissives can and do say.
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Eng./ and harvest crops; crop to enforce a lien existing any Eng. field + 2yrs exp. baling, hay bucking; operate releasing the Proposed FY2020 MTW Annual under the laws of the state or Bachelor’s in Comp. stationary equip for post- of Illinois. Sci./Comp. Eng./any Eng. harvest tasks. Must have Plan for public comment. field + 5yrs exp. req’d. ability to drive semi tractors, 1. 104 Sharon Kerby Req’d skills: Info. security & large machinery incl. The 30-day public comment period begins 2. 229 Ishmael McDaniels exp. focusing in Identity bobcat and tractors. Exp. in 3. 239 Sheena Riley CLASSIFIEDS & Access Management welding & metal fabrication. July 26 and ends August 27, 2019 4. 415 Krika Douglass (Sailpoint Identity IQ, on- Clean driving record, no 5. 428 Chester Dancy boarding, terminations, suspensions in last 4 yrs. CHA encourages and welcomes all public housing residents 6. 533 Johnny Branch access requests, approvals, Must pass our insurance 7. 548 Anna Long attestations/certifications, chk; 08/15/19-03/14/20; and the community-at-large to review the Proposed FY2020 8. 439 Joseph Crump beanshell scripting), PAM Mon- Sat; 8-5; $13.34/hr. (BeyondTrust PPM API), AD, Work guaranteed at ¾ of the MTW Annual Plan and to attend the public hearings. LDAP, RSA SecureID, PKI, period. All tools/ supplies/ This letter is to notify that JOBS CA SiteMinder, Federation equip provided. Free housing You are not required to attend a public comment hearing in order on August 25, 2019 at using SAML, RBAC, JAVA, provided to workers who 9:00 a.m. an auction will Spring, Hibernate, REST cannot reasonably return to submit comments on the Proposed FY2020 MTW Annual Plan. be held at 83rd & Halsted adminis ra i e Web service, SOAP, Perl, to residence at end of The dates, times, and locations of the public comment Self Storage, Inc., located Tableau, Jenkins, Bit work day. When contract is at 8316 S. Birkhoff Ave, sales bucket, Eclipse, PowerShell, half completed, employer hearings are as follows: Chicago, IL 60620, to sell Workday Integrations, Azure reimburses reasonable the following articles held mar e ing AD integrations, CA Agile transportation and • Aug 6, 6:00 pm: Family Investment Center (FIC), 4859 S Wabash within said storage units Central API, TrustEv Fraud subsistence expenses to to enforce a lien existing ood drin detection, Agile. 20% travel from home to worksite • Aug 14, 2:00 pm: Ella Flagg Apts., 4645 N Sheridan Rd under the laws of the state telecommuting permitted. at beginning of work of Illinois. s as salons Send resume to: R. Harvey, contract. Contact nearest • Aug 16, 11:00 am: Little Italy Library,1336 W Taylor St REF: MCA, 555 W Adams, local office of the State 1. 472 Shataqua Elmore i e o s Chicago, IL 60661 (08/08) Workforce Agency or contact BEDROOM 2. 311 Annette Dunbar employer at 816-516- Public housing residents, HCV program participants, and the 3. 224 Irma Bulley general TransUnion, LLC seeks 3000. Refer to job number Large 3 bedroom, 2 bath 4. 210 Gerald Warren Consultants for Chicago, IL 12642580 (08/08) apartment near Wrigley public may submit comments on the Proposed FY2020 MTW 5.157 Eboney Carter location to design & deliver Field. 3820 N. Fremont. 6.450 Renee Warner software application features Hardwood floors. Cats OK. Annual Plan during the public comment period. The 30-day & enhancements. Master’s in Laundry in building. Available comment period begins July 26 and ends August 27, 2019. REAL Comp Sci/ Info Management 8/1. $2225/month. (773)761- STATE OF ILLINOIS, Systems/Comp Applications RE 4318 www.lakefrontmgt.com All comments must be received by August 27, 2019. PUBLICATION NOTICE + 3yrs exp. or Bachelor’s in (08/08) OF COURT DATE FOR ESTATE Comp Sci/ Info Management EST TE Copies of the Proposed 2020 MTW Annual Plan will be REQUEST FOR NAME Systems/Comp Applications RENT S CHANGE. Location Cook + 5yrs exp. req’d. Req’d available beginning July 26 through August 27, 2019 at the County - County Division ren als skills: sw development RKET CE following locations: - 1502 N. Artesian Ave., #2 or sale exp. using Java, OOPS STUDIO ENER Chicago, IL 60622 Case Multithreading, Java Large studio apartment • CHA and HCV Administrative Offices 60 E Van Buren St Type: Name Change from Concurrency, J2EE (Servlets, near the red line. 6326 N. Helen Kar Yee Ho to Helen non residen ial JSP, Struts, JDBC), Core, Wayne. Hardwood fl oors. T SER ICES • Family Investment Center (FIC) 4859 S Wabash St Kar Yee Ho-Supanich, and MVC, JDBC, Batch, RDBMS Laundry in building. Dogs nd Mark Patrick Supanich to rooma es (DB2, Oracle), Unix/Linux, • Central Advisory Council Office 243 E 32 St OK. Heat included. Available Danielle’s Lip Service, th Mark Patrick Ho-Supanich.. shell scripting, Autosys, CI/ 9/1. $850/month. (773)761- Erotic Phone Chat. 24/7. • HCV Regional Office- South 10 W 35 St Case Initiation Date CD (Maven, Jenkins), Web 4318. www.lakefrontmgt. Must be 21+. Credit/ • HCV Regional Office-West 1852 S Albany Ave 07/11/2019 Court Date Services. Send resume to: com (08/08) Debit Cards Accepted. All 10/1/2019 at 1:00pm 50 W. R. Harvey, REF: SM, 555 W Fetishes and Fantasies • Erie Neighborhood House Little Village 4225 W 25th St Washington St., Chicago, MARKET- Adams, Chicago, IL 60661 Large studio apartment Are Welcomed. Personal, IL in Courtroom #8 Case # (08/08) near Loyola Park. 1337 W. Private and Discrete. 773- West Town 1347 W Erie St 2019CONC000972 (08/22) PLACE Estes. Hardwood fl oors. 935-4995 (08/01) Spanish Coalition for Housing: North Office 1922 N Pulaski Rd Goettsch Partners (Chicago, Cats OK. Heat included. STATE OF ILLINOIS, IL) seeks Architectural Intern Laundry in building. ERS N S South Office 1915 S Blue Island PUBLICATION NOTICE goods to develop, in a collaborative Available 8/1. $865/month. 9010 S Commercial OF COURT DATE FOR design team environment, (773)761-4318. www. SE Office REQUEST FOR NAME ser ices alternative architectural lakefrontmgt.com (08/08) LOOKING FOR GOOD CHANGE. Location: District building design studies & WOMAN TO MARRY Mail, E-mail or Fax comments to: 4 Court, Cook County, IL - heal h provide documentation of BETWEEN AGE OF 47 T0 79 County Division - 608 Beach these alternative designs BEDROOM I am 57 yr old, seeking nice Chicago Housing Authority Ave., La Grange, IL 60526 wellness studies using 2D/3D One bedroom apartment lady bet 47 to 79 with view Case Type: Name Change architectural design near Warren Park and to marriage. Only sincere Attention: Proposed 2020 MTW Annual Plan from Carey Anne Robin Ho ins r c ion software. Must submit an Metra. 6802 N. Wolcott. persons, pls email bio w/ 60 E. Van Buren Street, 12th Floor to Kerri Aisling Martin. Case electronic version of portfolio Hardwood fl oors, Laundry in recent photo:pauldavislove@ Initiation Date 07/30/2019 m sic ar s with examples of academic gmail.com [email protected] Court Date 10/01/2019 at 9:30am 50 W. Washington no ices Fax 312.913.7837 St., Chicago, IL in Courtroom #0112 Case # 20194005032 messages www.thecha.org (08/22) W NT T ISTIN T R C SSIFIE S If you have question about this notice, please call the CHA at 312.913.7300 legal no ices To request a reasonable accommodation, please call 312.913.7690 ad l ser ices TTY 866.331.3603 CHICA O READER - AUGUST ll STATE OF ILLINOIS, is: Owner/Partner Full the conduct or transaction PUBLICATION NOTICE Name Complete Address of Business in the State,” as OF COURT DATE FOR CHRISTINE MCWILLIAMS amended, that a certifi cation REQUEST FOR NAME 4417 S INDIANA AVE APT was registered by the 24 lumpenradio.com CHANGE. Location: District 3N, CHICAGO, IL 60653, undersigned with the County 4 Court, Cook County, USA (08/08) Clerk of Cook County. IL - County Division - 608 Registration Number: Beach Ave., La Grange, IL Notice is hereby given, Y19001819 on July 18, 7 coprosperity.org 60526 Case Type: Name pursuant to “An Act in 2019 Under the Assumed Change from Ryan Martin relation to the use of an Business Name of CITY Rimkus Ho to Ryan Alister Assumed Business Name in VIRTUAL CONSULTANTS, Martin. Case Initiation Date the conduct or transaction LLC with the business 07/30/2019 Court Date of Business in the State,” located at: 323 E WACKER 10/01/2019 at 9:30am 50 W. as amended, that a DRIVE STE 4300, CHICAGO, Washington St., Chicago, IL certification was registered IL 60601 The true and real in Courtroom #0111 Case # by the undersigned with full name(s) and residence 20194005029 (08/22) the County Clerk of Cook address of the owner(s)/ County. Registration partner(s) is: Owner/Partner Notice is hereby given, Number: Y19001815 on Full Name Complete pursuant to “An Act in July 18, 2019. Under the Address TIFFANY WILLIS- relation to the use of an Assumed Business Name of JOHNSON 323 E WACKER Assumed Business Name in MIGHTY VIOLET DESIGN. DRIVE STE 4300 CHICAGO, the conduct or transaction with the business located IL 60601, USA (08/15) of Business in the State,” at: 2023 N BISSELL ST UNIT as amended, that a 2, CHICAGO, IL 60614. The STATE OF ILLINOIS, certification was registered true and real full name(s) PUBLICATION NOTICE by the undersigned with and residence address OF COURT DATE FOR the County Clerk of Cook of the owner(s)/partner(s) REQUEST FOR NAME County. Registration is: Owner/Partner Full CHANGE. Location Cook Number: Y19001782 on Name Complete Address County - County Division July 16, 2019. Under the KATHLEEN E TOOMEY - 5734 W. Giddings. 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