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Show #504 Find Nightspots on www.WindyCityQueercast.com 4 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES said, “is the extent to which [gay equality] is an issue for non-gay people,” most notably young Seeing a future beyond people. She cited the 2009 March on Washing- ton where scores of heterosexuals, many of them students from college campuses nationwide, car- ried signs reading, “I am a heterosexual ally.” formal LGBT equality: “It is extraordinary,” Vaid said. “The expansion of the movement beyond the LGBT community” to increasing numbers of heterosexual allies “is one of the reasons that we are winning.” Talking with Urvashi Vaid Perhaps the best example of non-gay allies making a difference was their key role in win- by Chuck Colbert ning marriage referenda on Election Day. “In every one of those four states [Maine, If the LGBT movement is, at its core, a pro- Maryland, Minnesota, and Washington], you gressive struggle for justice and equality, then had heterosexual leaders—major politicians, should not the gay-rights agenda include issues major business figures, leaders of color, faith- of economic, racial, class and gender? In other based leaders, saying ‘We support this,’” Vaid ex- words, is there more to gay rights and liberation plained. “That’s really a different situation than than simply securing passage of non-discrimina- four or eight years ago.” tion laws and gaining the right to marry? Sure enough, President Obama’s coming out Longtime activist and LGBT community leader for marriage was a game-changer. “If you think Urvashi Vaid certainly thinks so. For years now, about it, the supporters of the president are the she has been urging mainstream movement people who support marriage equality or the ex- leaders to take up broader economic-rights and pansion of LGBT rights—young people, women racial-justice programs. voters, people of color who are overwhelmingly In a 1996 book, Virtual Equality: The Main- in support of fair and equal treatment,” said streaming Of Gay And Lesbian Liberation, Vaid Vaid. “It’s been so interesting for me to see what argued a larger vision for the movement, with Jesse Jackson used to call the Rainbow Coalition social justice as a window into the future. actually come into being for this election.” And now in a new book, Irresistible Revolu- In winning marriage equality this time around, tion: Confronting Race, Class, and the Assump- lessons learned from Proposition 8 were also tions of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgen- helpful. “What I took away from the 2008 Cali- der Politics Vaid offers pointed criticism of the fornia defeat was the need to do more work to movement’s shortcomings on that score. engage people and involve non-gay people in “We need a movement that is conscious of our movement,” she said. [certain] economic realities that real people are “We did go back and do more public educa- facing. she explained recently during a wide- Urvashi Vaid. Photo by Jurek Wajdowicz tion and engagement of different kinds of ranging, hour-long telephone interview. “And [faith-based] congregations and populations, our movement must address and change the se- and many, many more straight allies came out rious lack of representation of people of color in and stepped up to advocate on our behalf,” Vaid collection of essays on the politics of the move- important as LGBT equality. its leadership, and racial justice priorities in its added. “Public education is a critical element of ment, in hopes that her perspective will “influ- For all her concerns, however, Vaid is optimis- agenda.” how we are winning.” ence activists and others interested in social tic about the movement, offering another way Vaid was referring to a decade’s worth of eco- For all her optimism, however, Vaid maintains justice,” whether or not they like the book, she to look at the have-we-made-progress question. nomic demographics, data from the Williams In- the LGBT movement must keep up its guard. said. “When I see sophisticated work that activists stitute and other think tanks, which show many “What always worries me is the power of the op- “I hope that the book can make it possible for are doing around health care, the impressive LGBT people are seniors, on Medicaid and are position,” she said. “I am not complacent about people to start thinking about our work and our hidden work that provides access and opportuni- unemployed at the same time others are strug- them. They are not just going to go away or agenda in different ways,” Vaid said. ties and changes and affects people’s lives, then gling to support themselves and families on withdraw because we are winning.” “None of the issues that I raise in Irresistible I feel more hopeful,” she said. fixed incomes. “The resistance in some ways is becoming Revolution about race or class are new,” Vaid “When I look at a state like Massachusetts Speaking from her New York City office at more sophisticated, Vaid said, noting “the whole said when asked if any progress had been made where we have won formal equality in many do- the Columbia Law School (where she currently expansion of religious exemptions in laws that in the movement towards a broader gay-rights mains, I see how the movement continues to serves as director of the Engaging Tradition Proj- are passed. It’s really something to be worried agenda. push to do the training, implementation, and ect, based at the school’s Center for Gender and about.” Undoubtedly, she is no outsider to LGBT advo- education so that all parts of our community Sexuality Law), Vaid said her concern is that “we “I think the gay community has to get more cacy. From leadership positions at the National can exercise the rights that we have won, that are not just a movement of young, wage-earning sophisticated in how we think about religious Gay and Lesbian Task force in the 1980s and makes me feel hopeful,” she added. and middle-class [people]—which many of us liberty and exemptions to civil-rights laws,” 1990s to her work as a funder supporting LGBT She was referring to the Massachusetts Trans- are—and that is a good thing.” she explained. “It’s a complicated argument for issues at the Ford Foundation and the Arcus gender Equal Rights Act that took effect last However, “It’s not the full picture of the com- those of us who actually believe in freedom of Foundation, Vaid has played a role in setting the year after a six-year push by local activists, munity,” said Vaid. religion and religious liberty” and yet “are civil movement priorities. along with advocates continuing to press state What the institute’s data and similar findings libertarians and believe in the Constitution.” “The book has a pretty pointed critique” but is lawmakers for more comprehensive anti-bullying from studies and research by the National Gay It’s not yet clear whether movement leaders also “collegial,” she said, readily acknowledging and safe-schools legislation. Other statewide and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center are inclined to tackle a more inclusive LGBT that her analysis is, in fact, “self-criticism be- priorities include cradle-to-grave advocacy for for Transgender Equality, among others, “help us agenda. But the movement has matured in one cause I am in that group. I don’t remove myself LGBT youth and seniors; people living with HIV/ to see” is “the parts of the community that are way. from that.” AIDS; and survivors of intimate-partner vio- less visible,” she explained. “The LGBT community is more politically hard In all, “I love the LGBT community and our lence. Accordingly, “this makes a demand on the core in how to work with friendly administra- movement. I feel so positively about our queer There are other indictators of the LGBT move- political side of our movement that perhaps we tions,” said Vaid, referring to President Obama’s variance, our queer intelligence, and our queer ment’s health and vibrancy, too. “The movement need to take a look at issues we haven’t looked leverage of federal government agencies through resistance,” said Vaid. is much larger than it was back then” in earlier at before,” Vaid said, citing recent congressional cabinet offices—including the Department of “But no,” she said, “I don’t think we have decades, said Vaid. “I still feel by no means has negotiations over the so-called “fiscal cliff”. She Health and Human Services (HHS), the Depart- done a very good job” or “have made any prog- the movement peaked.” added, “state budgets are cutting out funding ment of Education, the Department of Housing ress” in adding, for instance “issues of poverty,” Vaid points to the Task Force’s Creating Change for social services at a time when communities, and Urban Development (HUD), and State De- HIV/AIDS health disparities, and other concerns conference, which each year draws thousands of like our community, need homeless centers, partment, among others—to chip away at dis- to a gay-rights agenda, including “criminal jus- activists, as evidence of the span of the move- community centers and health-care programs— crimination and inequality. One good example tice issues, women’s issues—violence against ment from moderate to conservative to much whatever.” is a presidential memorandum through which women, women earning less than men—or ex- more radical grassroots groups. (Held this year “I am making the argument that those is- Obama directed HHS to require all hospitals re- panding the definition of family in welfare pro- in Atlanta, Georgia, the 25th Creating Change sues [of inequality and disparity] need to rise ceiving Medicaid and Medicare to prohibit dis- grams to enable low-income lesbians with kids gathering will be held Jan. 23-27.) to prominence and that we can’t just think that crimination in visitation against LGBT people. to be covered.” “The vastness of the movement and its decen- passing a non-discrimination law and winning “There’s a tremendous amount of work go- Therefore, to mobilize larger numbers of femi- tralized nature make me hopeful,” she said. marriage is the end of the process,” she said. ing on in the federal agencies, and the agenda nist activists, Vaid co-founded the Lesbian Po- “The process of being involved in something “LGBT people are dealing with unemployment, isn’t just about getting legislation through Con- litical Action Committee (LPAC), which since its where you really can change lives and make a struggling with health crises—from HIV to gress,” Vaid said. “The movement is more skilled founding this past July, has raised more than huge difference that makes the movement irre- cancer and much more, are dealing with sexual in taking advantage of those kinds of opportuni- $750,00 from donors in 44 states, with dona- sistible,” said Vaid. prejudice that is built into every institution we ties [administrative agency and regulatory pro- tions ranging from $5 to $750,000. LPAC (www. The LGBT movement’s “honesty” is another encounter. Broadening the agenda is imperative cesses] than we were 20 years ago.” teamlpac.com) is open to anyone, including hallmark of its irresistibility, she writes in her for the movement to make meaningful change in ©Copyright. Chuck Colbert. All rights re- bisexual and trans women as well as gay men book’s introduction. the lived experience of LGBT people.” served. Vaid wrote Irresistible Revolution, which is a and other allies who feel women’s rights are as Another positive sign for LGBT rights, Vaid WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 5 Obama’s inauguration Marines admitting same-sex spouses The Marine Corps has told its legal staff has LGBT aspects that spouses’ clubs operating on its instal- lations must admit same-sex spouses if they Fitting an event with a president some view the inauguration parade: Melissa Terrell, Bran- wish to remain on the bases, according to as the most progressive ever, President Obama’s don Strawn and Kent Watkins. They will march ABC News. The advisory refers to an ongoing Jan. 21 inauguration (the same day as Martin as part of the Lesbian and Gay Band Associa- controversy at the Army’s Fort Bragg in North Luther King Jr. Day) will have several LGBT as- tion (LGBA), a musical organization composed Carolina where the officers’ spouses club has pects to it. of marching and concert bands from across the denied admission to a same-sex spouse. Out of the five people selected to read an United States and around the world. LGBA was In a statement, transgender Army veteran original poem at a presidential inauguration, selected from more than 2,800 bands to perform and OutServe-SLDN Executive Director Ally- Richard Blanco, 44, will be the first Latino, first and is the only LGBT group in history to be invit- son Robinson applauded the move, saying, gay man and youngest person to serve the role ed to march in a presidential inaugural parade, “The Marine Corps guidance issued today is when he participates at Obama’s event Jan. 21, according to SouthFloridaGayNews.com. a breakthrough and a clear indication that according to ABC News. “Here I am, first-gener- Also, a minister with an anti-gay past is out General [James F.] Amos meant what he said ation Cuban-American, and this great honor that of the inauguration. Rev. Louie Giglio, an At- when he promised Marines would lead the re- has just come to me, and just feeling that sense lanta minister and founder of the Passion Con- peal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’” of just incredible gratitude and love,” he said in ferences, has been dropped because of some an interview with NPR. Robert Frost and Maya past comments he made, according to MSNBC. Cyndi Lauper. Angelou are among those who have previously com. ThinkProgress discovered anti-gay remarks Scouts reject gay served the role. Giglio made in a mid-1990s sermon entitled “In teen’s application In addition, at least three members of Chicago Search of a Standard—Christian Response to Ho- HUD, Lauper Gay teen Ryan Andresen will not be an LGBT band ensemble Lakeside Pride will march in mosexuality.” join forces Eagle Scout, according to Gay Star News. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban California’s Mount Diablo-Silverado Boy Scout Development and Grammy-winning singer/ Council had approved his Eagle application songwriter Cyndi Lauper are joining the effort after more than 460,000 people joined his Michelle to “Make Everyone Count,” a national cam- mother’s campaign on Change.org, despite and President paign to support local one-night counts of the Boy Scouts of America’s anti-gay policy. Obama. homeless persons and families, according to The application has then forwarded to the Photo by a press release. national organization, which rejected it. David Lari/ Lauper and the True Colors Fund’s Forty to Spokesperson Deron Smith said that Andresen QNotes None Project produced a national public-ser- “stated that he does not agree to Scouting’s vice announcement to encourage viewers to principle of ‘Duty to God’ and does not meet contribute their time to gather needed data Scouting’s membership requirements. There- on the scale of homelessness throughout the fore, he is not eligible to receive the rank of United States. Visit https://www.onecpd. Eagle.” info/news/2013-point-in-time-count-make- everyone-count or www.fortytonone.org.

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He was preceded in death by Dale Barber, Wasting no time in the fight for equal marriage With new lawmakers sworn in Jan. 9, LGBT his partner of 40 years, and parents Jay D. in , sponsoring lawmakers reintroduced groups will need to start over with counting Hughes and Mary Margaret Abell Hughes. legislation that would legalize same-sex mar- supportive votes and talking to new lawmakers. During his stint in the U.S. Navy, Charles riage Jan. 9. But, Hannig said, much of that groundwork has was based in Hiroshima shortly after it was That move came on the same day that new already been laid. bombed, an experience that forever changed lawmakers were sworn in, the earliest possible “With new lawmakers that are being sworn him and inspired him to become a lifelong ac- time that sponsors could reintroduce the bill af- in… we’ve been talking with them since the mo- tivist for peace. He was a member of the Jane ter it fell short last week. ment they announced they were running on the Adams Senior Caucus, a leader in the Lakev- Illinois Unites for Marriage, a coalition of the PAC side of things,” said Hannig. iew Action Coalition, and was nominated into American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Lamb- Advocates are renewing calls for to the City of Chicago Senior Citizens Hall of da Legal and and bill sponsors press their state lawmakers on the measure. Fame. He was also a retired Cook County em- announced the move Tuesday evening. They have not stated when exactly they intend ployee and AFSCME member. “No House or Senate member can deny the to move the bill but have stated confidently that A memorial service was held Jan. 12 at Wel- Jeanne Manford. breadth of support and widespread belief that the measure will pass this year. lington Avenue United Church of Christ, 615 treating all Illinois couples fairly and equally “We want to do it in this session,” said Jim W. Wellington Ave. is the right and responsible thing to do in Illi- Bennett, regional director for Lambda Legal Mid- In lieu of flowers, donations may be made lished itself as a national organization fight- nois,” the coalition said in a statement. “Same- west. “We want to be married in 2013.” in his name to Wellington Ave UCC or to the ing for equality for LGBT people, changing sex couples and their children cannot wait any Senior Caucus, 1111 N. Wells its name to Parents, Families and Friends of longer.” Springfield extends St., #302, Chicago, Ill., 60610; call 312-787- Lesbians and Gays. The introduction of the bill comes after a roll- 2382 or visit www.seniorcaucus.org. The family requests that any donations be ercoaster week for equal marriage proponents. civil-union benefits Arrangements were made by the Cremation made to the Jeanne Manford Legacy Fund to Sponsors had hoped to push the bill to a full BY KATE SOSIN Society of Illinois (773-281-5058 or www. support the ongoing work of PFLAG National: vote in the final days of the General Assembly’s cremation-society.com). 1828 L St., NW, Suite 660, Washington, D.C., veto session. But an absence of three supportive Civil unions have been in effect in Illinois for 20036. Senators stalled the bill, and the clock ran out more than a year and a half, but the City of PFLAG founder dies of the measure. Springfield has finally worked out how it will ap- Jeanne Manford—mother of gay-rights ac- Internet activist Sponsors Sen. and Rep. Greg proach benefits for civil-union spouses. tivist Morty Manford, pioneering straight ally Harris have vowed to push the bill to vote as After more than a year of controversy, the City in the LGBT-rights movement and the founder commits suicide Aaron Swartz—an Internet activist, hacker, soon as they are able. LGBT leaders have stated of Springfield has voted to extend benefits for of PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of author and programmer who created the web- that movement on the bill could come by early civil unions. Lesbians and Gays)—died at her home in Daly feed format RSS—committed suicide at age February. The news comes after months of back-and- City, Calif., on Jan. 8, according to a PFLAG 26, according to Advocate.com. Harris has predicted that marriage equality forth over the city’s benefits plan. statement. Manford was 92. MSNBC.com reported that “at the time of will become law in 2013. The Joint Labor/Management Health Care Manford had always supported Morty (who his death Aaron was being prosecuted by the “I think we will do it,” he told Windy City Committee had initially voted not to extend passed away in 1992), but became active on federal government and threatened with up Times. “We just need to redouble our efforts.” the benefits, citing an actuarial project that the behalf of gay rights after the police failed to to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines Steans echoed that sentiment in a statement. move would cost $725,000. The committee said intervene while he was kicked and beaten for the crime of ... downloading too many free “With the full support of Senate President that the vote was legal because the city is self- during a Gay Activists Alliance demonstration articles from the online database of [digital John Cullerton, I am confident legislators will insured. in April 1972. In June 1972, Manford joined library] JSTOR.” grant all Illinois couples the freedom to marry Still, no city employee had requested the ben- her son in the Christopher Street Liberation Swartz, who battled depression, had both this year,” she said. efits. Day Parade (predecessor to NYC Gay Pride Pa- male and female lovers; he refused to label The bill passed out of the Senate Executive LGBT rights advocates widely condemned the rade), carrying a placard stating, “Parents of himself as bisexual or gay because, according Committee Jan. 3 by an 8-5 vote, a first for Il- vote, arguing that it violated the spirit and in- Gays: Unite in Support of our Children.” to his blog, “Having sex with other people of linois. tent of civil unions. The Manfords had been discussing organiz- your gender isn’t an identity, it’s an act.” That success heartened LGBT advocates last A revised projection estimated that extending ing a support group for parents of gay chil- Swartz’s funeral was held Jan. 15 at Central week, but repeated stalls on the bill ultimately the benefits would cost $66,000. dren; the first meeting of the group—then Avenue Synagogue in Highland Park, Ill., ac- prevented it from coming to a full vote in the The committee voted to reverse its decision called “Parents of Gays” took place in 1973. cording to Advocate.com. Senate or House. a year ago, but that vote was thrown out after By the early 1980s, the group formally estab- The new bill is identical to the legislation a Circuit Court Judge found that the committee pushed the previous week, the coalition said. violated the Open Meetings Act in voting behind That may not sit well with some religious groups, closed doors. The city has not extended the ben- Center on Halsted who argued in committee that the bill failed to efits since. adequately protect churches from performing The new vote will mean that city employees beneficiary of new gay weddings. Steans has countered that the can access the benefits starting March 1. ‘equality’ wine bill keeps with pre-existing anti-discrimination BY KATE SOSIN law in the Illinois Human Rights Act. Cook County Clerk Sponsors and LGBT leaders have been strongly A new wine is aiming to give LGBT supporters encouraging Illinoisans to contact their lawmak- issues wallet-sized another reason to toast to equality. ers in support of the bill. certificates New York-based winemaker Biagio Cru & Estate Cook County Clerk has new wallet- Wines has announced a new “Equality” wine, and When will a vote on sized certificates for same-sex couples with a the product is benefitting Chicago’s Center on civil union; married couples with two different Halsted, among others. equal marriage last names; or any couple who wants to carry The sparkling wine, Égalité (French for “equal- happen in Illinois? proof of their union. ity”), aims to benefit LGBTQ organizations for BY KATE SOSIN The legal, embossed certificates are avail- youth in addition to celebrating gains made by able for anyone married or civilly united in Cook LGBT people, according to a media release put Égalité wine. With pro-gay lawmakers promising to push for County for the same $15 fee as a standard-size out by the company. marriage equality early this year, many have certificate. The set of two wallet-sized marriage “With same-sex marriage now legal in states asked when the measure might come to a vote or civil-union certificates includes names, li- from Maine to New York and Iowa to Washing- in Illinois. cense number, the clerk’s signature and an em- ton, this is a time to recognize the hard-earned “Theoretically, it could be as early as Feb- bossed Cook County seal. progress that has been made in pursuit of Equal- ruary,” said Randy Hannig, policy director of Wallet certificates can be ordered at any of the ity,” said Darren Restivo, one of the principals of Equality Illinois. Cook County Clerk’s Bureau of Vital Records loca- Biagio Cru & Estate Wines, in a statement. The General Assembly is currently out but tions. Same-day service is only available at the The company has donated $1,000 to Center on heads back into session Feb. 5. downtown Chicago office in the lower level of Halsted, and the wine will be auctioned off at Sponsors of the “Religious Freedom and Mar- the Daley Center, 50 W. Washington St. Couples Center on Halsted’s upcoming Oscar party. riage Fairness Act” have vowed to push the bill can also order by mail; download a form at www. Other groups benefitting include GLSEN, as soon as possible. cookcountyclerk.com. Equality Maine, The Trevor Project and the Ali Some anticipated that turnover among legisla- Forney Center. tors might slow the process. Marriage equality WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 7

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ap_OQ8488_OraQuick_WindyCityTimes_Oct2012_R3.indd 1 10/9/12 2:13 PM 8 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES form their own cleaning company. Then in Feb- Along with the other services they provide, ruary of this year Taylor left her job at Paychex the company also works with hoarders to sort Lesbian and straight in Naperville to build their business and vowed out their lives. “We are contracted through a never to go back. counseling service that does interventions for Burkhalter has a bachelor’s degree in small- hoarders,” said Taylor. “The counselor goes into friend form new business entrepreneurship and currently works the home with us and we have the client clean as a property manager over five buildings. Her with us because it defeats the purpose to just boss is very flexible with her work schedule, go in by ourselves and clean it up and throw Burkhalter said, and has supported her endeavor everything out because the client will build it cleaning company from the beginning. right back up. When we are finished with the job Neither woman has specified what titles she we have the client either donate items or throw By Carrie Maxwell she has known for 20 years. Burkhalter has a would have within the company, and they don’t them away.” boyfriend and they have been dating for two have any other investors other than themselves. As for the future, Taylor sees their company Two long-time friends, La Toya Burkhalter and years. With Burkhalter still working as a property man- growing to include big accounts, a full staff of Tanesha Taylor, recently formed a local clean- Taylor noted that she has been out to all of ager, Taylor spends more time in the field deal- 25-50 employees and the company going pub- ing company named TaylorMaid For You Cleaning their clients since they began their business ing with the clients face to face. Since Burkhal- lic with a stock. Burkhalter said she envisions a Services. The business motto is “Let us cater to March 1. “Our clients have either been neutral ter works until 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday, time when they will have additional investors as you.” or accepting of my sexual orientation,” she said. she deals with most of the administrative tasks the company grows. Burkhalter and Taylor service residential They have lost friends though since they start- such as the bookkeeping and scheduling ap- To get the word out about their company, Tay- apartments, houses and commercial businesses ed their business, Taylor remarked. Some wanted pointments with their clients. Taylor said that lor noted that she and Burkhalter talk to ev- throughout the entire Chicagoland area, travel- to work for them—which both women agreed she is the enforcer and runs the business with an eryone about their company while wearing their ing as far as the border between Illinois and would be a bad idea—and others were jealous iron fist, dealing with their employees and any company T-shirts. Burkhalter added that they Wisconsin in the north, northwest Indiana to when both Burkhalter and Taylor graduated from belligerent customers. advertise on Craigslist; hand out business cards the east and out to the western suburbs. Their college last year. They currently have four full-time and four and car magnets; and have a presence on vari- services include general housecleaning, laun- They decided to start their business since part-time employees and have grown from about ous social media platforms. dry, cooking and organizing, and they generally they felt it was almost a recession proof career 25 clients to 50 clients over the course of just Of their business and working together as a charge about $75 per service. choice. There are some people that always want a few months—some of whom are recurring cli- team Taylor said, “There are all these negative The women met about 10 years ago through to pay other people to do their cleaning and ents. Taylor said that all of their current clients preconceived notions about LGBT people but our mutual friends and their friendship has grown organizing, Taylor noted. have been satisfied with their work although if a business proves that a straight person and a gay over the years as both women have gone through The genesis of their business began with a client did express dissatisfaction with the work person can work together as a team towards a both personal and professional changes. phone conversation between Taylor and Bur- they are committed to making sure that the cli- unified goal. It’s not about either of our sexual Although Taylor was previously married to a khalter. During the conversation, Taylor told ent walks away happy. orientations it’s about being driven to succeed.” man and had children with him, she is current- Burkhalter that she was interested in striking Burkhalter said that some of the stories they “Look up TaylorMaid, call us, let us cater to ly in a seven-year relationship with a woman out on her own since she was tired of corporate hear from their clients about other companies you because you need us in your life,” said Bur- named Dee—with children of her own—whom America. From there the two women decided to stealing have amazed them. She said that their khalter. clients have tested them by leaving items such See www.taylormaid4you.com or see the com- as checkbooks, purses and money out in the pany’s Facebook page for more information. open. WCT, Sidetrack nab Ald. Sandi local Grindr awards Jackson resigns Grindr has unveiled its “Best of 2012” na- Ald. Sandi Jackson (of Chicago’s 7th Ward) tional and local awards, according to a press submitted a letter of resignation Jan. 11, say- release. ing it is hard for her to balance the roles of Users voted, among other things, Anderson politician, wife and mother, according to the Cooper the gay icon of the year, President Chicago Sun-Times. Obama as the straight ally of the year, TMZ as Jackson is the wife of embattled former the best source of gossip and Magic Mike as U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who is battling movie of the year . bipolar disorder and who resigned last No- There were also awards for several cities, vember amid a federal investigation of his including Chicago. Locally, Windy City Times campaign finances. was named best local gay news outlet, while The noted that in her res- Sidetrack won “Best Sunday funday,” Roscoe’s ignation letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sandi was favorite gay bar/club, Chicago Male was Jackson stated she was dealing with “very best place to get a haircut, FFC Fitness was painful family health matters,” not mention- named the gym with the hottest guys, Wood ing if she had become snared in his legal was the best first-date spot, Phil DaBeatz was problems. the best DJ, Frida Lay was the fiercest drag In February 2007, Sandi was elected al- queen/nightlife personality and Bill Pritchard derman after defeating Darcel Beavers, the was local hero/community advocate of the daughter of Cook County Commissioner Wil- year. liam Beavers. The resignation takes effect Jan. 15; it will be Emanuel’s first new City Council appointment since his election in 2011. Tanesha Taylor and LaToya Burkhalter of TaylorMaid For You. 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Affinity holds she said, adding that personal stories drive State Rep. Kelly home the need for marriage equality. “That annual is what has been changing hearts and minds ‘Burning Bowl’ Cassidy engaged throughout this process.” event BY KATE SOSIN In an annual tradition, Affinity State Rep. may have one more Community Services marked the new incentive to make equal marriage a reality year with Burning Bowl, an annual this year. affirmation ceremony. The event took The openly lesbian state rep has announced place at Hyde Park Union Church Jan. she is engaged to partner Kelley Quinn, after 5. two and a half years together. According to its Facebook page, Quinn brought Cassidy to front of the Capi- “Burning Bowl is a longstanding Af- tol building in Springfield Tuesday night to finity tradition that involves purging take a photo, Cassidy said. the previous year’s challenges and “At that point she got very serious, and I negativity, writing down affirma- knew, and I started crying like a baby,” said tions, goals, and focus areas for the Cassidy. current year, [along with] words of Quinn, who works as communications direc- inspiration, special performances, tor for Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios, has and fellowship.” been in Springfield on a work matter. Cassidy Longtime activist was was sworn into the 98th General Assembly the keynote speaker, and KOKUMO Wednesday. Kinetic was among the performers. Cassidy, a sponsor of the bill that would le- Also, Affinity surpassed its $5,000 galize same-sex marriage in Illinois, posted a fundraising goal, which includes photo of Quinn’s proposal in Springfield Tues- pledges. day night on her Twitter account and Face- Photos of the event by Katie Siko- book page. ra; more online at www.WindyCityMe- Cassidy said she intends to marry in her diaGroup.com home state of Illinois. First, she and other sponsors will have to pass the bill legalizing Above: Attendees burn what they have written. Below: Vernita Gray speaks at Burning Bowl. same sex marriage. Photos by Katie Sikora “I got skin in the game as someone said,” Cassidy joked. “This is an incredibly personal thing for us. It’s sort of weird to have it be both.” Cassidy said that conservative lawmakers who are expected to vote “no” on marriage equality have been congratulating her since the engagement. “They reacted as if anyone else were get- Kelley Quinn proposes to State Rep. Kelly ting engaged, and there’s progress in that,” Cassidy. Photo by Christina Villarreal

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in the gender system has enabled me to see the arbitrari- T Alex Temple ness and constructedness of all the cultural symbols LIFE that people usually take for granted. Sometimes Identifies as COMPILED BY Kate Sosin Transgender, genderqueer when I’m on the El, I look around at my fellow pas- sengers and it’s like they’re completely covered in Wed., Jan. 16 Pronouns signs. It’s a strange and slightly unsettling experi- 7:30 p.m. “She” or “they” ence, but it’s also liberating — and very good for The Color Complex making art!” by Midge Wilson and Neighborhood Edgewater Whom do you admire most? Kathy Russell “In the trans world? I’m slightly in love with Julia Life’s work Serano. And I never cease to be amazed by the inex- Thursday, Jan. 17 “I’m a composer. Right now, I’m in the doctoral haustible energy that local activist (and my friend) 7:30 p.m. program at Northwestern and teaching music theory Jen Richards puts into her work for the community.” and composition for non-majors there.” Chasing Sylvia What issues, beyond the queer community do you Beach Hobbies/interests care about? by Cynthia Morris Film, literature, photography, politics, language, “A whole host of political issues which can basi- cultural history and road trips. cally be summed up with the phrase ‘the Green Party platform.’ Also trying to expand the audience for Do you have a coming out story? contemporary classical music and fighting the idea “My transition has been very gradual, so I never of ‘good taste,’ which I see as basically a type of had the kind of big coming-out moment that a lot of social control that works by making people feel em- trans people do. For a few years, I presented myself barrassed for liking art that isn’t socially approved.” 5233 N. Clark in a visibly gender-variant way and let people come (773) 769-9299 to their own conclusions, and I wound up with dif- How do you explain the way you feel about gender ferent social circles that referred to me using differ- to others? ent pronouns. Eventually I came to the conclusion “Basically, I would say that gender is a lens through that I was no longer OK being referred to as “he,” so which people’s appearance and behavior are given over the last few months I’ve started telling people social meaning. When I say that I’m transgender, that I prefer “she” or “they.” Nobody seems to be what I mean is not that my behavior is inherently particularly surprised.” feminine — that would just be stereotyping! — but that I feel vastly more comfortable with the mean- [email protected] Photo by Alex Temple What is the best thing about being gender-vari- ings that are produced when I look at myself through womenandchildrenfirst.com To nominate a person ant? a ‘female’ lens. And when I say that I’m genderqueer, Parking Available for T in the life, email: Kate Sosin “At the risk of sounding like a character in a sci-fi what I mean is that I simultaneously find the whole Wheelchair Accessible [email protected] movie, I feel like living outside of the conventional socially-constructed gender system kind of absurd.” WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 11 MCA Stage at the “[MCA Stage] is interdisciplinary Edlis Neeson Theater . . . diverse and revolutionary.” 2012 ⁄ 13 Kristin Leahey, Northlight Theatre

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mcachicago.org 12 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES VIEWPOINTS WINDY CITY TIMES VOL. 28, No. 15, Jan. 16, 2013 lives. This holiday season, what an amazing gift grounds. A study by the Trans Murder Monitor- The combined forces of Windy City Times, FRANCESCA Bad would be: providing great music and the op- ing Project estimates that around the world one founded Sept. 1985, and Outlines newspaper, portunity to talk about gender as a place to seek transgender person is killed every three days. founded May 1987. ROYSTER freedom. Music can become a place to reimagine what PUBLISHER & EXECUTIVE EDITOR In his sometimes indefinable voice, rang- gender looks and sounds like, thanks to the Tracy Baim ing from deep and sexy to high falsetto; in his Michael Jacksons, the Lady Gagas, the Andre moves, from tight and dapper spins with spar- 3000s, the Princes and the k.d. langs of the ASSISTANT PUBLISHER Terri Klinsky kling socks, to bold crotch-grabbing to open world. Some might not see Jackson as a heroic MANAGING EDITOR Andrew Davis vulnerability, as a young person I found possi- figure, given the charges of ongoing drug abuse BUSINESS MANAGER Ripley Caine DIRECTOR OF NEW MEDIA Jean Albright Michael Jackson: bility and flexibility in a world that otherwise tied to his death and the allegations of child ART DIRECTOR Kirk Williamson felt constraining. sexual abuse. He was never convicted, or the SENIOR ACCOUNT MANAGERS: Terri Klinsky, Amy Talking about On Friday nights, my friends and I would watch charges were formally dropped. But they still Matheny, Kirk Williamson, Chris Cheuvront videos of Jackson—for a while in the 1980s, he haunt his image. But as a performer, Jackson’s PROMOTIONAL SUPPORT Cynthia Holmes NATIONAL SALES Rivendell Media, 212-242-6863 gender fluidity ruled MTV and the show Friday Night Videos, and music has opened up important avenues of free- SENIOR WRITERS Kate Sosin, Bob Roehr, Rex fashion for ourselves a new way of being. dom for his listeners. Wockner, Marie J. Kuda, David Byrne, Tony Per- Michael Jackson saved my life or, at least, he In the video for “Bad,” Jackson becomes a In the 25 years since Michael Jackson released egrin, Lisa Keen, Yasmin Nair, Erica Demarest helped me figure out how to live it. This Septem- THEATER EDITOR Scott C. Morgan gender-bending leader of the b-boys in eyeliner Bad, there have been many gains in civil lib- ber, Sony released the 25th-anniversary edition CINEMA WRITER Richard Knight, Jr. and long flowing locks. (Jheri curls would never erties for LGBTQ people, including the right to of Jackson’s seventh album, Bad. What I hope BOOKS WRITER Yasmin Nair be the same.) His moves—whether poppin’ and marriage and the right to adopt, at least in some SPORTS WRITER Ross Forman we remember about Jackson and this album are lockin’ or jazz-inspired, are precise and ballet- states. But we need to continue to seek account- ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITERS the ways that he presented a palette of choices Mary Shen Barnidge, Steve Warren, Lawrence Fer- graceful. His howl, something like Peter Pan’s ability from our laws, schools, police, hospitals for how to be in the world, especially in terms ber, Mel Ferrand, Jerry Nunn, Jonathan Abarbanel after a night of smoking cigars, is rebellious and and other public institutions for these continu- of gender. COLUMNISTS/WRITERS: Yvonne Zipter, Jorjet free. ing injustices. In order to make these changes, Harper, Meghan Streit, Charlsie Dewey, Carrie Recently, Lady Gaga helped raise more than $5 Gender is not only a theoretical issue or an we also need to have conversations with each Maxwell, Billy Masters, Tyler Gillespie, Sarah Toce, million at a charity auction by purchasing 55 Dana Rudolph, Sally Parsons, Melissa Wasserman, issue of style, but a matter of safety—even life other about unjust treatment of folks because of items from Michael Jackson’s wardrobe, includ- Jamie Anne Royce, Matthew C. Clark, Joe Franco and death, especially for transgender and other their clothes, their bodies, their voices. It just ing his multi-buckled Bad jacket and one of his SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHERS Mel Ferrand, Hal Baim, gender non-conforming young people. Many might be in culture: the art we see, the books Emmanuel Garcia, Tim Carroll, Ed Negron, Susan trademark white gloves. In a tweet to her fans, young people who are gender-unreadable, or we read, the films and television shows that we Mattes Gaga cited the importance of archiving Jack- who dress differently from the gender assigned watch, music and videos like Jackson’s—where CIRCULATION son’s costumes for the ways they represent his Jean Albright to them at birth face harassment on the streets, we can find new possibilities. CIRCULATION DIRECTOR “spirit” and “bravery” for his fans. DISTRIBUTION: Ashina, Allan, Dan, John, Renee, in hospitals and police stations, and on their Francesca Royster is a professor of English Both Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga chal- Sue and Victor jobs. at DePaul University in Chicago, and teaches WEB HOSTING: LoveYourWebsite.com (lead pro- lenge gender binaries and model the power of Home is not safe: According a 2009 study by courses in African and Black Diaspora studies grammer: Martie Marro) self-transformation through music, clothing the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 26 per- and Gay, Lesbian and Queer Studies on per- and performance. Music can provide a lifeline, a cent of LGBT teens who came out were told by formance and popular culture. Her new book, space of fantasy and reinvention when the world Copyright 2013 Lambda Publications Inc./Windy City Media their parents that they must leave home. Out Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Ec- Group; All rights reserved. Reprint by permission only. Back seems confining. This is especially important for issues (if available) for $5 per issue (postage included). of the estimated 1.6 million homeless youth in centric Acts in the Post-Soul Era (forthcoming LGBTQ fans, whose gender and sexual identities Return postage must accompany all manuscripts, drawings, the United States last year, 20 to 40 percent are from University of Michigan Press), explores and photographs submitted if they are to be returned, and are either rendered invisible or socially danger- no responsibility may be assumed for unsolicited materials. LGBTQ. queer, odd and other outsized Black musi- ous. As by my definition gender queer, Jackson All rights to letters, art and photographs sent to Windy School is not safe: In February 2008, 15-year- cal performers—including Michael Jackson, City Times will be treated as unconditionally assigned broke barriers by including a wide range of mas- for publication purposes and as such, subject to editing old Larry King—an Oxnard, Calif., student who Grace Jones and Eartha Kitt—and their fans. culinity and femininity in his performances. and comment. The opinions expressed by the columnists, wore jewelry and make-up and gender-variant This op-ed was written in association with cartoonists, letter writers, and commentators are their own As a society, we need to open up the ways clothing, and who was brave enough to come The OpEd Project, which seeks to expand the and do not necessarily reflect the position ofWindy City that we talk about gender, beyond the binaries Times. Publication of the name, photograph, or likeness of out at school—was shot to death on school range of opinion voices. a person or organization in articles or advertising in Windy of male and female, in our public and private City Times is not to be construed as any indication of the sexual orientation of such person or organization. While we encourage readers to support the advertisers who make this newspaper possible, Windy City Times cannot accept must have seemed ludicrous, packed with the Spencer’s effort to address mental health issues responsibility for advertising claims. MARK S. same drug addictions, sexual compulsions and among gay men. His drug addiction spiraled and (773) 871-7610 FAX (773) 871-7609 soulless shenanigans that AIDS, in its singular ebbed and raged again, until he finally retreated e-mail: [email protected] or KING [email protected] act of goodwill, had arrested for a decade or so. to Georgia to live with family for a few years. They found themselves in a world in which no When Spencer returned to New York City last www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com one wants to see battle scars, where intimacy September, many of his closest friends had lost podcast: WindyCityQueercast.com is manufactured on keyboards and web sites, track of him. There is uncertainty about his last where any sense of community had long since months, and no evidence that his addiction was WINDY CITY MEDIA GROUP, faded from the AIDS organizations and now only active, but what little medication compliance he 5315 N. Clark St. #192, Chicago, Illinois 60640 U.S.A The private war makes brief appearances in 12-step meetings, or managed had been abandoned completely, set- (MAILING ADDRESS ONLY) as likely, in the fraternity of active crystal meth ting the stage for his final hospitalization. that killed addicts chasing deliverance in a dangerous shell Spencer Cox died without the benefit of the Windy City Times Deadline every Wednesday. game of bliss and desolation. very drugs he had helped make available to the Nightspots Deadline Wednesday prior to street date. Spencer Cox OUT! Resource Guide ONLINE The dark allure of meth, a drug so devoured world. He perished from pneumonia, in an ironic www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com and fetished by gay men today that it is now clinical time warp that transported him back to www.WindyCityMediaGroup.com “My most courageous self, the best man that I’ll a leading indicator of new HIV infections, en- 1985. It was as if, having survived the deadliest www.WindyCityQueercast.com ever be, lived more than two decades ago during www.QueerTVNetwork.com ticed Spencer at some point along the way. The years of AIDS, having come so close to complete the first years of a horrific plague… I miss the drug is known to whisper empty promises about escape, Spencer was snatched up by the Fates in man I was forced to become.”—“Once, When We limitless power and sexual escape, while calm- a vengeful piece of unfinished business. “Windy City Media Group generated Were Heroes,” 2007 ing the addict’s ghosts and sorrows for miserably AIDS has always been creative in its cruelty. enormous interest among their readers AIDS did not kill Spencer Cox in the first, in this year’s LGBT Consumer Index brief periods of time. And it has learned to reach through the decades bloodiest battles of the 1980s. It spared him Survey. Out of approximately 100 When Spencer Cox died on Dec. 18, 2012, in with the second-hand tools of disillusionment that. print and online media partners who New York City, the official cause of death was and depression and heart-numbing traumas. Or, The reprieve allowed Spencer’s brilliance as co- participated in the survey, Windy AIDS-related complications, which is under- perhaps, using the simple weapon of crystal founder of the Treatment Action Group (TAG) to City was the best performing regional standable if post-traumatic stress, despair and meth, with all of its seductions and deceits. forge new FDA guidelines for drug approval and media in the U.S. Only survey partners drug addiction are complications related to Yes. There are many complications related to help make effective HIV medications a reality, with a nationwide footprint were AIDS. AIDS. saving an untold number of lives. able to generate a greater number of Spencer believed that this connection exists. To consider “survivor’s guilt” the culprit be- Such triumph by a man still in his twenties responses.” ­­—David Marshall, Research His own writings for the Medius Institute for Gay hind the death of Spencer Cox is a popular ex- might have signaled even greater achievements Director, Community Marketing, Inc. Men’s Health (an organization he co-founded) planation but not necessarily an accurate one. ahead. Instead, Spencer found himself adrift in focus on exactly the issues that were distressing That condition suggests surviving when other, the same personal crisis as many of his contem- him personally: Crystal meth abuse. Loneliness. presumably worthier people, did not. Sometimes poraries, who struggled for a meaningful exis- Risk taking. Feelings of confusion after years of guilt has nothing to do with it. tence after years of combating the most fright- accomplishment and purpose. For many of our AIDS war veterans, the real ening public health crisis of modern times. In retrospect, you can read his work and break challenge today is living with the horror of hav- Gay activists like Spencer were consumed by the private code written between the lines. It ing survived at all. AIDS for so many gruesome years that many of spells out “HELP ME.” Mark S. King is an award-winning columnist, them were shocked, once the war abated, to see Spencer’s life during this period and beyond author, blogger and AIDS advocate who has how little around them had changed. Climbing was difficult, by many accounts. The Medius In- been involved in gay causes since the early from the trenches, they saw a gay culture that stitute failed due to a lack of funding, defeating 1980s. WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 13 GOINGS-ON WINDY CITY TIMES’ ENTERTAINMENT SECTION

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WINTER THEATER SPECIAL LGBT winter theater picks

By SCOTT C. MORGAN Soul: Improvisation in the Style of Tennes- see Williams, Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, Recently, the New York Times published a piece beginning Jan. 19. This is a brand new improv on youth advocates in the Queer community comedy show that finds its inspiration from the who have pushed to expand the generally ac- frequently lurid works of the late, great gay cepted acronym LGBT to be more inclusive to American playwright. www.cicomedy.com become: LGBTQQIAA. The extra letters added on A Streetcar Named Desire, Lyric Opera of Chi- are meant to represent: “Queer,” “Questioning,” cago, March 26, 29, April 3 and 6. Renee Flem- “Intersex,” “Allies” and “Asexual.” ing stars as Blanche DuBois, the faded Southern Now I’m sure the following listing of winter belle whose grip on reality is crushed by her Renee Fleming in A Streetcar Named Desire. Photo by Marty Sohl theater picks might not be able to appeal to all brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Teddy groups within this expanded LGBTQQIAA acro- Tahu Rhodes), in Andre Previn’s 1998 operatic 10, at the Ernest Hemingway Museum Oak Park the traditional convention of having a woman nym. Yet members of any of these underserved adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic drama. Cultural Center. www.8theplay.com play the boy who refused to grow up. But with groups should voice their concerns to Chicago- This Chicago premiere only plays for four perfor- Beautiful Thing, Pride Films & Plays at the Cathy Rigby returning in the title role for an- area theaters and local playwrights so that they mances. www.lyricopera.org Athenaeum Theatre, Jan. 17 through Feb. 17. other tour of the beloved 1950s musical, Peter won’t be excluded in the future. Nijinsky, Hamburg Ballet at Millennium Park’s Before it was made into a much-loved film, Jon- Pan is played by a woman again. www.broadway- for Music and Dance, Feb. 1 and athan Harvey’s play was the first to introduce inchicago.com. World and local premieres 2. John Neumeier’s new ballet marks the Chi- this touching story between two British teenag- Stones in His Pockets, Northlight Theatre, Teddy Ferrara, , Feb. 2 cago debut of this distinguished German dance ers who unexpected fall in love. Pride Films and March 8 to April 14. Two actors perform all 15 through March 3. Pulitzer finalist Christopher company, and its content promises to be very Plays presents a special 20th anniversary pro- characters (both men and women) in this 1996 Shinn is the force behind this world premiere homoerotic. www.harristheaterchicago.org duction. www.pridefilmsandplays.com. comedy that shows the odd things that happen commissioned drama, which follows the presi- Six Degrees of Separation, Eclectic Theatre when a big-time Hollywood movie is filmed in a dent of a college queer student group who life is Revivals and returns Company at Athenaeum Theatre, Feb. 22 to small Irish community. www.northlight.org. thrown for a loop following a highly publicized 8. If you missed the Goodman Theatre’s read- March 17. John Guare’s Olivier Award-winning Priscilla, Queen of the Desert: The Musi- campus tragedy. www.goodmantheatre.org. ing of Academy Award-winner Dustin Lance 1990s comic drama is based upon a real-life gay cal, of Roosevelt University, Under a Rainbow Flag, Pride Films and Plays Black’s drama chronicling the landmark 2010 con man who worked his way into the homes March 19-31. The costumes must seen to be be- at Profiles Theatre Main Stage, March 21 to April federal trial of California’s Prop 8, there are and won the trust of wealthy New Yorkers. www. lieved in this non-Equity national tour of this 21. This is a world premiere musical by Leo still more chances to see the play in Illinois. eclectic-theatre.com Australian jukebox musical based upon the cult Schwartz that is based upon the real-life story The Winneshiek Players in Freeport, Ill., will 1994 film about two drag queens and a trans- of an Evanston WWII naval corpsman who finds present 8 on Saturday, March 2, while the Oak Drag in many forms gender performer who make an event-filled jour- love with another man after the war. www.pride- Park Lesbian and Gay Association stage the Peter Pan, , Jan. 30 to ney through the Outback to perform at a casino. filmsandplays.com. drama drawn from court transcripts from Perry Feb. 10. A lot of newer adaptations of J.M. Bar- www.broadwayinchicago.com. Perfume, Whiskey, and Sickness of the v. Schwarzenegger at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March rie’s classic children’s tale have opted to scrap 14 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES SPOTLIGHT

A flim-flam man finds his conscience while also inadvertently bringing the arts to a small and insular Iowa town in The Music Man. The Paramount Theatre in Aurora continues with its second season of producing its own Broadway musicals with Jeff Award-winning director Rachel Rockwell helming Meredith Willson’s classic 1950s musical which stars Stef Tovar, Emily Rohm and Johnny Rabe, fresh from his Broadway debut in A Christmas Story. The Music Man continues through Sunday, Feb. 3, at the Paramount Theatre, 23 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora. Previews are 7:30 p.m. Jan. 16-17. The official opening night is 8 p.m. Jan. 18. The regular run is 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturdays and 1 and 5 p.m. Allotment Annie. Photo by Tom McGrath Sundays. Tickets are $34.90-$46.90; call 630-896-6666 or visit www.paramountaurora.com.

THEATER REVIEW ties, for example—and haven’t innocent people been known to commit crimes with the best Allotment Annie of intentions? An environment combining sex, thumb of the current top sugar baron, Edward Playwright: Mark Mason THEATER REVIEW money and transients is as reliable a formula for Chester, who all but threatens to blackmail At: InFusion Theatre Company at noirish drama as for guignol farce. What prevents Sugarward Parke so he will back off from any planned Strawdog Theater, 3829 N. Broadway us enjoying either, however, is the reluctance of Playwright: Sean Graney reforms. Tickets: 773-528-9696; author Mason and director Bridgette Harney to At: the side project, 1439 W. Jarvis Ave. The second act is set in 1710 (hint! hint!), www.infusiontheatre.com; $25 decide on a consistent tone for these hijinks. We Tickets: 773-340-0140 or showing exactly what has come about during Runs through: Feb. 3 wait in vain for somebody to tip us a wink, or a www.thesideproject.net; $20 Parke’s disappointing stewardship as gover- sneer, or any clue as to how we are to regard our nor. Graney’s Sugarward is filled with infor- BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE Runs through: Feb. 10 charming profiteers. mative details and facts that would make any

There’s no denying the production’s atmo- history teacher proud, and it hopefully prods Joseph Kesselring’s Arsenic and Old Lace is a BY SCOTT C. MORGAN spheric appeal, with its nostalgic images of ra- audiences to think about our own disputed 1941 comedy premised on a pair of elderly spin- tion-book frocks, swing dancing (choreography luxury commodities nowadays that drive peo- sters inviting old bachelors to tea, where—with We take sugar for granted nowadays, but in by Jenna Stworzyjanek) and big-band music— ple and even nations to commit atrocities. the most benevolent of motives—the sisters of- the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the the latter dispensed by Mallory Nees, playing a But as a drama, Sugarward feels like a lot fer their grateful guests wine laced with poison. sweet substance was a much-prized luxury variety of radio announcers broadcasting from of historical setup for a cad’s untimely end- A deranged brother who believes himself to be item that was primarily processed via inhu- the world outside David Ferguson’s claustro- ing whom we don’t really care much about. Teddy Roosevelt digging the Panama Canal then mane and deadly slave labor in the Caribbean. phobic New England tavern. In defiance of this Roberts is certainly haughty enough as Parke, disposes of the bodies in the garden. Playwright Sean Graney highlights this fact in richly-detailed background, though, Harney has but he isn’t given much to play to show why Mark Mason’s play, making its world premiere his world-premiere two-actor historical drama instructed her actors to strip their delivery of his character ends up doing the underhanded in this InFusion production, is set in 1944, Sugarward, now playing at the side project. subtextual revelation, making for ambivalence things he does in the Caribbean. where Virginia, a hostess at Poughkeepsie’s Vic- Graney specifically focuses on Col. Daniel perhaps meant to provoke controversy, but more Joel Ewing definitely gets the showier tory Canteen, is married to her fifth husband, Parke (1669-1710), the ambitious governor likely to inspire only dissatisfied bewilderment. workout through his three roles and many the latest in a marital gallery of GIs stationed of the British Leeward Islands who was ap- costume changes, but he comes off as more at the nearby Air Force base. Her matrimonial pointed by Queen Anne herself to root out comfortable playing the comedy of the situa- compulsion is motivated, not by the widows’ corruption and put a stop to illegal trade with CRITICS’ PICKS tion compared the dramatic gravity that later benefits she receives after her hubbies die in ac- the Dutch and the French. overtakes the proceedings. tion, but her wish to provide lonely soldiers with At first, Graney plays things for comedy, Working in the tiny space of the side proj- comforting memories of home. The canteen’s with Parke (John Henry Roberts) sweating co- The Book of Mormon, Bank of America ect, director Geoff Button and his design co-proprietress, Fran, has a record of euthanis- piously in his European garb amid the tropical Theatre, through Sept. 8. The creators of team do what they can with the obviously ing wounded casualties, but when her spouse heat. Graney’s other up-front comic device is South Park and a co-creator of Avenue Q apparent limited budget. Sometimes you wish succumbs to a heart attack on their wedding to have one actor, Joel Ewing, subsequently have concocted a hilariously blasphemous that Kelsey Ettman’s costumes were plusher, night, the money accumulated by the couple in play three different roles to interact with and frequently raunchy Broadway musical or that Maria de Fabo’s set decorations and a government scam does nothing to diminish her Roberts’ Parke. that smartly takes on Mormon culture and props design were not so cheap-looking. grief. Oh, and did I mention that their schemes The first act is essentially a set up for Parke African superstitions. SCM Graney’s Sugarward is definitely histori- are facilitated by a mysterious general, whose to find his way. First Parke encounters the The Glass Menagerie, Mary-Arrchie The- cally informative and certainly offers plenty impaired sanity in no way reduces the powers servant Thomas Kirby, who is keen to inform atre Company at Angel Island, extended to contemplate. It’s just too bad that as a conferred upon him by his rank? him of the many abuses inflicted on the is- through Feb. 17. No, this is not the class- drama, there isn’t much there when it comes Oh, all kinds of things can escape undetected lands by the unscrupulous sugar barons. Then room-classic version. Director Hans Fleis- to characterization. in wartime—recruits killed in training exercises comes Christopher Codrington Jr., whose fam- chmann restores the poignant and haunting whose deaths are later listed as combat fatali- ily was once powerful but is now under the magic of memory that Tennessee Williams wrote into the play that launched his ca- reer. MSB Malkovich in The Letters, Writers’ Theatre, through March 3. An archivist faces down her brut- ‘Infernal’ Feb. 1-2 ish Soviet supervisor in John W. Lowell’s Sugarward. Actor and Steppenwolf Theatre Company tense cat-and-mouse drama that only gains Photo by founding member John Malkovich stars in from the extreme intimacy in director Kim- Scott Dray The Infernal Comedy: Confessions of a Se- berly Senior’s gripping production. SCM rial Killer for two performances at Sympho- The Magic Parlour, The House Theatre of ny Center on Friday, Feb. 1, and Saturday, Chicago at Palmer House Hilton, through Feb. 2, at 8 p.m. July 2013, and The Magic Cabaret, TMC Part- The Infernal Comedy tells the true story ners at Greenhouse Theater Center, open of Austrian serial murderer and writer Jack run. These two exhibits of slight-of-hand Unterweger (Malkovich) through chapters wizardry executed up-close by lightning- of spoken dialogue, each concluded with fingered (but always humble) practitioners arias by Gluck, Vivaldi, Beethoven and oth- offer Chicagoans of all ages the opportunity ers. to get their prestidigital groove on. MSB Tickets are $35–$125; see www.cso.org. —By Abarbanel, Barnidge (The subject matter may be inappropriate and Morgan for children under 15.) WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 15 THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT by Stephen adly guirgiS DirecteD by ensemble member anna d. Shapiro NOW THROugH MARcH 3

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THEATER REVIEW and makes for a fetching Eliza, her presence also Jimmy Smits (left) and John Ortiz in The Motherf**ker with the Hat. Photo by Michael might also bring up Britain’s blemished impe- Brosilow Pygmalion rialist past to an audience member’s mind now Playwright: George Bernard Shaw and then. THEATER REVIEW this mentor’s exemplary marriage conceals a At: Bohemian Theatre Ensemble and As her controlling teacher, Steve O’Connell dissatisfied wife chafing under her husband’s Stage Left Theatre at Theater Wit, definitely plays up the rude and haughty bad- The Motherf**ker conviction that his clean-and-sober status 1229 W. Belmont Ave. boy qualities of Professor Henry Higgins. With with the Hat absolves him of ethical lapses denied to less Tickets: 773-975-8150 or his lanky frame and jangling pocket change, Playwright: Steven Adly Guirgis virtuous men. www.bohotheatre.com or O’Connell as Higgins swaggers into scenes and At: Steppenwolf Theatre, When a demon is exorcised, what then fills www.stagelefttheatre.com; $25 plops himself down without much decorum. 1650 N. Halsted St. the void left by its absence? Is it fair to ask Runs through: Feb. 10 Makkar and O’Connell are surrounding by strong Tickets: 312-335-1650; a chronic manipulator to put aside his strata- supporting players, like Mark Pracht’s fast-talk- www.steppenwolf.org; $20-$86 gems just because his tools have changed? BY SCOTT C. MORGAN ing cockney Mr. Doolittle and Sandy Elias’ dith- Runs through: March 3 The dramatic flow in the final scenes may ery, but caring, Col. Pickering. Some of the other confer upon Ralph the role of raisonneur, lay- Why produce Pygmalion when you can get largely performers appear too young to be age appropri- BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE ing it on the line to a disillusioned Jackie, the same situations and all those glorious Lerner ate, like Lisa Herceg as Mrs. Higgins. But Herceg but when one argument fails to convince his and Loewe tunes in My Fair Lady? I’m sure many nearly walks away with the show with her curt For some substance abusers, the drug itself charge that the world is bred of cynical users theater companies opt to ignore George Bernard and commandeering performance as a sensibly is the sole obstacle to social productivity. For and the righteous path fraught with ennui, Shaw’s 1912 comic drama in favor of the beloved haughty matron who rightfully knows when to others, their palliation of choice is what al- he initiates another without missing a beat. 1956 Broadway musical, since the latter is sure put her linguist son in his place. lows them to function under stressful envi- If we are to accept Ralph’s authority, sand- to put more bums in seats. Framing the action is Eleanor Kahn’s fragmen- ronmental conditions. More often, however, bagged as it is with the rhetoric of rehab, Yet Stage Left Theatre and Bohemian Theatre tal set of oversize wallpaper patterns and period the dependency merely camouflages what re- simply because he’s the “good guy,” what Ensemble have teamed up to honor Shaw’s Pyg- furniture, which is more suggestive than literal ally ails the cripple in need of a crutch so are we to make of Jackie’s gentle cousin Ju- malion with a 100th-anniversary production at when it comes to creating London in 1912. Kris- that, even when detoxed, the aberrant behav- lio, who drinks—not to excess—and whose Theater Wit. Despite its age, Pygmalion still feels ten Ahern’s period costumes are also a delight to ior continues until the circumstances under- health-and-fitness regimen empowers him to vital and timely since Shaw’s dialogue positively gaze upon. lying it are resolved—chiefly, the self-serving kick the ass of anybody calling him a sissy? crackles with wit and stinging observations. Die- If there is one complaint, it’s that many of the image of themselves as unjustly persecuted Exacerbating this slippery moral orientation hard My Fair Lady fans will definitely notice how actors’ British dialects waver in and out. For a innocents in a hostile universe. is Guirgis’ dialogue, which comes at us thick much of Alan Jay Lerner’s My Fair Lady script piece focusing so heavily on class differentiating Stephen Adly Guirgis’ play introduces us to and fast, laced with vulgarity—the “Halle- is directly cribbed from Shaw, and how Shaw’s dialects, it is a glaring flaw. all three kinds of addicts. Barrio-bred Jackie, lujah Chorus” of vulgarity, the “Battle Hymn original ending feels much more appropriate for Bohemian Theatre Ensemble and Stage Left following his release from jail and renuncia- Of The Republic” of vulgarity, the “Stars And our times. Theatre’s strong production of Pygmalion should tion of alcohol, foresees a happy future with Stripes Forever” of vulgarity—steeped in Director Vance Smith has corralled an engag- definitely find a local audience among die-hard his beloved Veronica, whose anger, sustained florid metaphorical euphony that you want to ing cast together for Pygmalion. PBS aficionados, particularly with the current by an occasional snort of coke, is her defense explicate as you would poetry. Playgoers ca- One major way that he’s puts a different spin craze surrounding Downton Abbey. And remem- against emotional exploitation. Confronted pable of delving David Mamet’s psychological on the piece is the casting of Mouzam Makkar ber, without Pygmalion, there would have been with evidence of her infidelity, Jackie turns dynamics, though, are unlikely to let a few as Eliza Doolittle, the cockney flower girl who no My Fair Lady, so pay some homage to the to Ralph, his AA sponsor, for advice. Ah, but expletives and Todd Rosenthal’s spinning- seeks a better place in life through elocution brilliant original. unit scenery dazzle them into compliance. lessons. Although Makkar plays the role straight

Teddy Ferrara runs Feb. 2-March 3 in the 312-977-1710. Tickets are also available at Leale tells his story as he travels back in time Goodman names Owen Theatre (with opening night Monday, Ticketmaster locations and at www.Broadway- and recounts the events that, 67 years before, ‘Teddy Ferrara’ Feb. 11). Tickets ($14-$45; subject to change) InChicago.com. changed his life forever. are available at www.GoodmanTheatre.org, by Tickets are $60-$65; visit www.theroyal- cast members phone at 312-443-3800 or at the box office georgetheatre.com or call 312-988-9000. Goodman Theatre has announced casting for (170 N. Dearborn St.). ‘American Story’ the world-premiere production of Teddy Ferrara by Pulitzer Prize finalist Christopher Shinn. starts March 8 African dance Hershey Felder’s An American Story for Actor According to a press release, the production Mike Tyson bringing and Orchestra—which tells the story of Abra- “explores what happens when a tragedy sparks class Jan. 21 ham Lincoln’s last day—will have its Chicago In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the a movement—and the truth gets lost along the show to Chicago Former boxer Mike Tyson will bring his show, premiere at The Royal George Theatre, 1641 N. Joffrey Academy of Dance is hosting an African way.” Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, to the Cadillac Halsted St., beginning Friday, March 8. dance master class with Andrea Vinson on the The cast includes Liam Benzvi (Gabe), Pat- Palace Theatre for three shows Feb. 15-17. For this new production, Felder will create third floor of , 10 E. Randolph St., rick Clear (University President), Rashaad Hall The three performances run during a 10-week the role of Dr. Charles Augustus Leale, the on Monday, Jan. 21, 12-1 p.m. (Nicky), Ryan Heindl (Teddy Ferrara), Christo- national tour that starts Feb. 12 in Indianapo- 23-year-old unknown Union Army medic who The class is $15 per person. Space is lim- pher Imbrosciano (Jay), Jax Jackson (Jaq), Dev lis, Ind., the Chicago Sun-Times reported. was the first individual to reach the presiden- ited, so interested participants are encouraged Kennedy and Fawzia Mirza (Campus Police), Tickets ($50-$95 each) are on sale. For tial box at Ford’s Theatre on the night Presi- to make a reservation by registering online by Paloma Nozicka (Jenny), Adam Poss (Drew), groups of 15 or more, tickets are available now dent Lincoln was shot. Friday, Jan. 18, at www.joffrey.org/mlk or by Josh Salt (Tim), Kelli Simpkins (Ellen) and Ja- by calling Group Sales at Set in New York City in 1932, the 90-year-old phone at 312-784-4600. net Ulrich Brooks (University Provost). WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 17

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PERFORMED IN RUSSIAN AND BELARUSIAN WITH PROJECTED ENGLISH TRANSLATION concept, direction and adaptation by VLADIMIR SHCHERBAN devised, written and performed by BELARUS FREE THEATRE originally co-produced by NATALIA KALIADA and NICOLAI KHALEZIN, and “FUEL” THEATRE COMPANY (UK) ★★★★★ “A REMINDER THAT THERE ARE PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE PUTTING ON A PLAY REPRESENTS AN ACT OF POLITICAL COURAGE DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK) ” ◆ LOW-PRICED PREVIEWS BEGIN FEBRUARY 5 ◆ “AT THE END, WE APPLAUD. IN MINSK, THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO GET US ALL ARRESTED THE GUARDIAN (UK) ” Barbara E. Robertson, David Darlow and Dion Johnstone, photos by Bill Burlingham; Yana Rusakevich, photo by Nicolai Khalezin Barbara E. Robertson, David Darlow and Dion Johnstone, photos by Bill Burlingham; Yana

SUPPORT FOR MAJOR 2012/13 INTERNATIONAL SEASON SUPPORTERS PROGRAMMING 18 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES WINTER THEATER SPECIAL a contemporary of too often My Soup, a 1966-vintage romantic comedy of neglected by theater historians—whose Wine in the sort that proliferated in suburban theaters the Wilderness and Florence double-bill (cur- throughout America during the last half of the rently running through March 3; 773-752-3955) 20th century (opening Jan. 20; 847-577-2121). From classics continues ETA’s season of African-American clas- Will 2013 see grandparents and grandchildren sics, followed by Cheryl West’s Jar The Floor unite in snickering at these retro antics? (opening March 21). Northlight, after shocking Mother Nature may surprise us yet, but in the to curiosities their audiences with a Martin McDonagh blood- meantime, why not take advantage of her kind- bath in 2009, embarks on another risky project ness by spending an evening at the theater? BY MARY SHEN BARNIDGE factory, now enjoying a return to their roots: with another laugh-till-you-cry Irish play, Marie David Hare’s Skylight at (opening Jones’ Stones in His Pockets (opening March The new year already boasts significant revivals Jan. 29; 773-753-4472) and Bruce Norris’ Purple 8; 847-673-6300), while Eclipse Theatre begins of The Faith Healer at the Den, featuring the Heart at Redtwist (currently running through Pride Films running their one-playwright season—featuring the cast that first introduced Brian Friel’s haunting Jan. 27; 773-728-7529). mischievous comedies of Alan Ayckbourn this ‘Beautiful Thing’ play to Chicago in 1995 (running through Feb. You’ll also find plenty of theater from off the time—with Woman in Mind at the Athenaeum Pride Films and Plays has announced the 3; 773-398-7028), and Tennessee Williams’ The syllabus: A Soldier’s Play won author Charles (opening April 11; 773-935-6860). 20th-anniversary production of Jonathan Glass Menagerie at Mary-Arrchie’s Angel Island Fuller a Pulitzer in 1982 for its premiere produc- The most exotic artifact to be exhibited this Harvey’s Beautiful Thing, the story of two (running through Feb. 17; 773-871-0442), but tion starring Adolph Caesar, Denzel Washington winter, ironically, traces its origins to a once- teenaged boys coming to grips with their don’t reach for your Netflix card yet. There are and Samuel L. Jackson, but is seldom done now- popular genre. Arlington Heights’ Metropolis sexuality. many more reasons for making plans to venture adays—an oversight remedied by Raven Theatre Performing Arts Center has exhumed Terence London’s Bush Theatre initially produced out in this benevolent weather. (opening Feb. 18; 773-338-2177). Even more Frisby’s provocatively titled There’s A Girl in Beautiful Thing, which was written in Some of the next few months’ offerings are rarely produced are the plays of Alice Childress— 1993. perennial favorites: Shakespeare, of course, The production will run Jan. 17-Feb. 17 with Julius Caesar—transposed to present-day at Athenaeum Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Washington—at Chicago Shakespeare (open- Ave. Tickets are $15-$25; call 773-935- ing Feb. 5; 312-595-5600), as well as Measure 6875 or visit www.athenaeumtheatre.org. for Measure at the Goodman (opening March 9; 312-443-3800), and what promises to be an unconventional Coriolanus from The Hypo- crites (opening March 9 at the Chopin; 773-989- 7352). George Bernard Shaw is represented by Stage Left and Boho Theatre’s co-production of Pygmalion at Theater Wit (running through Feb. 10; 773-975-8150) and ShawChicago’s chamber reading of Widower’s Houses at the (opening Feb. 2; 312-587-7390). Selections from the modern repertoire include Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle, staged by the Promethean Theatre Ensemble in the City Lit loft (running through Feb. 9; 800-838-3006) and Pinter’s The Birthday Party at Steppenwolf (opening Feb. 2; 312-335-1650). The season Robert Hilliard as Jamie (top) and Charlie also features a category that could be dubbed Wein as Ste in Beautiful Thing. Photo “Sons of Steppenwolf,” consisting of plays that courtesy of David Zak premiered at our own home-grown star-making Wine in the Wilderness. Publicity photo

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from pulitzer prize finalist christopher Shinn comes a gripping new drama that explores what happens when a tragedy sparks a movement—and the truth gets february 2 - march 3 lost along the way.

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the glaSSer and harold and mimi Steinberg KiMPtOn HOtELs CHiCaGO the davee foundation Preferred Hotel of Goodman theatre roSenthal family charitable truSt Corporate sponsor Partner Major supporter of new support of new Work development support of new Work development Major Contributor to Research and Principal support of artistic Exclusive airline of CatCH 35 Play development development for new Work development and diversity initiatives Goodman theatre Promotional Partner WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 19 WINTER THEATER SPECIAL to Chicago after 12 years to present the critical- ly acclaimed, evening-length work Underland at The Dance Center of Columbia College, 1306 S. Michigan Ave., Thursday-Saturday, March 7-9, at Hubbard 8 p.m. Tickets are $26-$30; call 312-369-8330 A wonderful Street dancer or visit www.colum.edu/dancecenter. Ana Lopez. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns Photo by to town for a two-week of run with two differ- Todd ent programs of audience favorites at The Au- winter of dance Rosenberg ditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Congress Pkwy., Friday-Sunday, March 8-17. Per- BY Vicki Crain Dance, 205 E. Randolph St., Friday, Jan. 18, at formance times vary. Tickets are $32-$92; call 7:30 p.m. with a kid-friendly Family Series show 800-982-2787 or visit www.ticketmaster.com. After a brief break from The Nutcracker madness on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $25- Latin contemporary dance gets a nod with that is December, we’re off and running with $55, $10-$20 for Family Series; call 312-334- works by two Spanish choreographers when a slew of dance performances around the city. 7777 or visit www.harristheaterchicago.org. Luna Negra Dance Theater presents Made in With world and city premieres, revivals, collabo- Brooklyn dance and multimedia artists Miguel Spain at The Harris Theater for Music and Dance, rations and visiting companies, the 2013 winter Gutierrez and the Powerful People perform Seattle-based husband-and-wife team zoe | ju- 205 E. Randolph St., Saturday, March 9, at 8 dance season has something for everyone. Gutierrez’s latest work, And lose the name of niper comes to town with a full-evening work, A p.m. Tickets are $25-$65; call 312-334-7777 or action, in the Edlis Neeson Theater at The Mu- Crack in Everything, inspired by the Greek trage- visit www.harristheaterchicago.org. January is jumpin’: seum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., dy The Oresteia at The Dance Center of Columbia Hubbard Street Dance Chicago joins forces Lucy Riner and Michael Estanich of RE|Dance Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 31-Feb. 3, at 7:30 p.m., College, 1306 S. Michigan Ave., Thursday-Friday, with Alonzo King’s San Francisco-based con- Group presents the second weekend of the Chi- with a 3 p.m. matinee Sunday, Feb. 3. Tickets are Feb. 14-15, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $26-$30; call temporary ballet company LINES Ballet for a cago premiere of Homeland at The Hamlin Park $28 ($22 for MCA Members); call 312-397-4010 312-369-8330 or visit www.colum.edu/dance- combined bill featuring two Chicago premieres Fieldhouse, 3035 N. Hoyne St., Thursday-Friday, or visit www.mcachicago.org. center. at The Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 Jan. 17-18, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15; visit E. Randolph St., Thursday-Sunday, March 14-17. www.brownpapertickets.com. Fab February: March Madness: Performance times vary. Tickets are $25-$99; Local modern company The Dance COLEc- The Hamburg Ballet makes Chicago the first Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Michael visit www.hubbardstreetdance.com. tive sets up shop for four performances of stop on its U.S. tour. This is the first time the Flatley’s Irish dancing phenomenon Lord of Celebrating 40 years of dance, the Chicago free[Bound] at Stage 773 in Lakeview, 1225 W. word-renowned company has toured here and the Dance comes to the Akoo Theatre for two Moving Company revives numerous works and Belmont Ave., Thursday–Saturday, Jan. 17-20, at will be performing Nijinsky at The Harris The- performances, 5400 N. River Rd., Rosemont, presents a new piece by modern maven Nana 8 p.m. Tickets are $25, $20 for students; call ater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St., Saturday, March 2, at 2 and 7 p.m. Tickets are Shineflug at The Dance Center of Columbia Col- 773-327-5252 or visit www.dancecolective.com. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 1-2, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets $39.50-$72.30; call 800-745-3000 or visit www. lege, 1306 S. Michigan Ave., Thursday-Saturday, Massachusetts-based physical-theater troupe are $30-$75; call 312-334-7777 or visit www. akootheatre.com. March 21-23, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $26-$30; call Double Edge Theatre combines dance, aerial harristheaterchicago.org. Once again, Melissa Thodos and Broadway 312-369-8330 or visit www.colum.edu/dance- work, puppets and circus arts for a unique show. Chicago’s own heats up the lo- legend Ann Reinking team to create a world- center. The company comes to town for two performanc- cal dance scene with a two-week run of their premiere work. Thodos Dance Chicago performs Turning 50 hasn’t slowed down Giordano es of The Grand Parade (of the Twentieth Cen- American Legends program featuring works from A Light in the Dark, inspired by the early life of Dance Chicago. The company performs an array tury) at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, and Helen Keller, and other works at The Harris The- of audience favorites and a new work by L.A. 1306 S. Michigan Ave., Friday-Saturday, Jan. 18- a world premiere from Stanton Welch at The Au- ater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St., choreographer Liz Imperio at The Harris Theater 19, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30; call 312-369-8330 ditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 E. Saturday, March 2, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, March for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St., Thurs- or visit www.colum.edu/dancecenter. Congress Pkwy., Wed., Feb. 13-Sunday, Feb. 24. 3, at 2 p.m. Tickets are $20-$60; call 312-334- day-Saturday, March 21-23, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets German physical theater company Mummen- Performance times vary. Tickets are $31-$152; 7777 or visit www.harristheaterchicago.org. are $15-$60; call 312-334-7777 or visit www. schanz returns to Chicago with its 40th-anni- call 800-982-2787 or visit www.ticketmaster. The Stephen Petronio Company comes back harristheaterchicago.org. versary show at The Harris Theater for Music and com. SWEET CHARITY Book by Neil Simon, Music by Cy Coleman, Lyrics by Dorothy Fields Based on an original screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli and Ennio Flaiano Produced for the Broadway stage by Fryer, Carr and Harris Conceived, Staged and Choreographed by Bob Fosse Directed by Artistic Director Michael Halberstam Musical Direction by Doug Peck Choreographed by Jessica Redish Performed at 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe BEGINS JANUARY 22, 2013

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PURCHASE EARLY FOR BEST PRICES! WRITERSTHEATRE.ORG I 847-242-6000 2012/13 Season Sponsor 20 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES WINTER THEATER SPECIAL play is one of the most imaginative looks at the by a yellowing photograph, a dog and a dubious practical, ethical and moral absurdities of our translator. Iraqi involvement. Gjenganger, Akvavit Theatre at the Storefront Counterfeiters, Dog & Pony Theatre Company Theater, Feb. 28-March 24. The still-new Akva- Hot new drama for at the Pentagon Theatre in Flatiron Arts Build- vit Theatre (in its second year) is dedicated to ing, Feb. 16-March 16. We pretty much need to bringing contemporary Scandinavian drama to let this world premiere by Aaron Weissman speak Chicago audiences (none of that old-hat Ib- the cold season for itself. The company describes it as “A vaude- sen or Strindberg stuff). In this case, Akvavit ville spectacular starring the morally just but offers world-premiere English translations of dastardly counterfeiters, with amazing feats of three plays by Norwegian author Jon Fosse, who By Jonathan Abarbanel who turned much of his personal life into het- strength performed by Benjamin Franklin him- is among Europe’s most-produced living play- erosexual tales, including this examination of self! Magic, song and dance numbers and mad- wrights. The translator is Kyle Korynta. In Chicago some 40-50 theater productions open wartime love. cap buffoonery! Birth and death. Life and lib- Brewed, The Ruckus and Tympanic Theatre each month, about half of which are completely Other Desert Cities, the Goodman Theatre, erty. All in the pursuit of the American Dream.” Company at Theater Wit, March 4-24. Two off-of- new to local audiences, either world premieres through Feb. 17. The regional premiere of the FYI: Ben Franklin is on the $100 bill. Loop troupes join forces for this world premiere or regional/Chicago premieres. This truly is latest play by gay writer Jon Robin Baitz, whose Everything is Illuminated, Next Theatre by Chicagoan Scott Barsotti. The play concerns unique—the willingness of audiences to go with TV work includes The West Wing and Brothers Company, Feb. 26-March 31 (previews from Feb. seven contemporary sisters—Nannette, Babette, the flow and sample the unknown. I’ve inter- and Sisters, and who is author of plays such as 21). A U.S. premiere of a play by Simon Block, Juliette, Roxette, etc.—who must perpetually viewed top management at theaters large and The Film Society, Three Hotels and The Substance adapted from a novel by Jonathan Safron Foers, stir a pot, but now are facing cracks in their small across the country (in the course of 20 of Fire. This 2011 work concerns a mature Cali- it concerns a young man searching for an old sense of duty. What is their secret and what is years of part-time work for the National Endow- fornia family with Hollywood connections (not woman who may have saved his grandfather their obligation? Double-double-toil-and-trou- ment for the Arts) and I can’t tell you how often unlike Baitz’s actual upbringing) who clash over from the Nazis. The young man is guided only ble... an artistic director has said to me, “We can’t politics and an about-to-be-published old family do more than one new play a year. Our audi- secret. Director Henry Wishcamper has gathered ences don’t want to see anything they haven’t together some of Chicago’s best veteran actors BOOK REVIEW “In one way, the kitchen was like my heav- heard about.” Meanwhile, here in Chicago we for this one. en,” she writes. “It was my little island where have theaters that do nothing but new work and Successors, Signal Ensemble Theatre, Jan. Cooking in Heels: my brother didn’t go, where my father was flourish because of it. 24-March 3. Ya write about what ya know, so A Memoir conflicted about going. But it was also the What follows is a small sampling of the many it’s not surprising to find actor/playwright/com- place where I got my beatings, because my world and regional premieres in Chicago-area poser Jon Steinhagen penning a world-premiere Cookbook dad really hated the young lady I was becom- theaters over the next three months, arranged comedy about a city where political office has by Ceyenne Doroshow, ing.” in chronological order by opening dates. Several been passed along from father to son/daughter ed. Audacia Ray Those beatings prompted Doroshow to leave already are running. and to grandkids for three generations. Hey, he $18; Red Umbrella home in her teens, sleeping in parks or riding The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Steppenwolf says it’s a fable. Yeah, right. Project; 114 pages the train all night until she sought housing at a homeless shelter. Because Doroshow is Theatre Company, through March 3. It’s the re- Leaves, Trees, Forest, IMPAACT at the Green- by MALIC WHITE gional premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis’ salty- house Theatre Center, Jan. 27-March 3 (pre- a transgender woman, she was directed to a tongued and streetwise romantic triangle (set in views from Jan. 18). It’s a world premiere by From an early age, Ceyenne Doroshow learned men’s shelter, where she lived in fear of male New York’s Spanish Harlem) concerning two men New York-based actor/author Paul Notice about that cooking could be a recipe for survival. residents discovering her gender identity. and a woman who can’t quite express what is in the inspiration of the 2008 election on young With Cooking In Heels: A Memoir Cookbook, At the shelter, Doroshow sought refuge in their hearts, and who can’t quite figure out how African-America university graduate, and what the transgender caseworker and LGBT program the kitchen once again. She served meals so to be decent human beings. he finds when his ambitions and ideals meet the coordinator offers 40 Southern-style favorites often that most of the shelter’s residents as- American Wee-Pie, Rivendell Theatre Com- real world. that feed the soul as well as the stomach. sumed she was a staff member. pany, through Feb. 16. it’s a world premiere Southbridge, , Feb. In Doroshow’s childhood home in Brooklyn, “…I have learned that being charming and described as “a heartbreaking new comedy” by 1-March 13 (previews from Jan. 24). Chicago the kitchen was both a refuge and a battle- helpful is the best way to survive,” Doroshow Chicago-based playwright Lisa Dillman, about Dramatists, which does nothing but world pre- ground. writes. a middle-age book editor whose life is altered mieres by its ensemble of authors, presents a While working as an escort later in when he returns to his small home town for a new work by Reginald Edmund. Set in Athens, life, Doroshow was arrested and charged Ohio, in 1881, and based on a true story, it with prostitution. She spent 28 days in a men’s prison, where she earned the re- spect of male inmates by showing them how to make their bland prison food taste better. To pass the time during long days in her prison cell, Doroshow began writing recipes on scraps of toilet paper and cooked up an idea for book. The Red Umbrella Project (RedUP), an organization dedicated to empowering the voices of people in the sex trades through storytelling, is publishing Cook- ing in Heels. Doroshow’s story provides a poignant backdrop for recipes that helped her “grow family where it needed to grow.” The recipes range from classics like “Crowd Pleasing” Mac n’ Cheese and “I Should’ve Done This Before” Quiche to unique twists on Southern favorites like Spicy Ginger Wings and Curry Vegetable Cups. Recipes like Economic Zeppoles use only a few inexpensive ingredients, harkening back to Doroshow’s days of making something out of nothing. Like her childhood hero, Julia Child, Doroshow peppers her recipes with help- American Wee-Pie. Photo by Joe Mazza/Brave Lux ful hints. She suggests baking mac n’ cheese in a muffin pan instead of a bak- ing dish to limit portion sizes and re- funeral. It features a strong cast and director concerns the murder of a white woman and the minds the reader more than once that (Megan Carney), most of them Rivendell ensem- demand for the lynching of a young Black man. “the longer you marinate, the better the ble members or associates. Rivendell is a troupe Of course, there’s more to it than that. Artistic meat!” dedicated to theater which explores a woman’s director Russ Tutterow stages the play. Cooking in Heels brings a playful, lov- perspective. Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Looking- ing voice to the kitchen table. As Do- Flare Path, Griffin Theatre Company at Theater glass Theatre Company, Feb. 9-March 17 (pre- roshow said in the video for her book’s Wit, through Feb. 24. Neither a new play nor views from Jan. 30). Regional premiere of an Kickstarter campaign, “No matter what even a recent one, Flare Path dates from World attention-grabbing work by Rajiv Joseph which somebody’s gender is or their beliefs, War II and yet is being seen in Chicago for the looks at the Iraq War through the eyes of tiger, I believe food can bring everybody to- first time. It’s by Terence Rattigan (The Winslow and a dead tiger at that, and an angry tiger, Ceyenne Doroshow. Photo by Stacie Joy gether.” Boy, Separate Tables, French without Tears), the too. On Broadway, the title role was played by stylish and deeply closeted British playwright none other than Robin Williams. Reportedly, the WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 21 young man you can’t wait to bring home to meet your parents and he’s the kind of catch parents want for their gay sons. Who doesn’t love this guy, straight or gay? KNIGHT Creatively, Colfer has also proven to be a bit of AT a wunderkind—one of those dynamos with doz- THE ens of concurrent projects in several areas of the arts. He’s won a Golden Globe, been nominated MOVIES for the Emmy (twice) and seen his first novel rocket to the top of the New York Times best- seller list (a sequel is on the way)—all while keeping the home fires of Glee burning brightly via the weekly show and its endless promotional Chris Colfer in Struck by Lightning. arm (concert tours, CD releases, etc.). By Now the 22-year-old Colfer is starring in his Richard Knight, Jr. first movie, a black comedy set in high school called Struck By Lightning that he unsurpris- ingly—given this background—penned a first draft of when he was 16 and still in high school Struck by himself. The movie doesn’t quite continue Colf- er’s winning streak but it’s no embarrassment either, and it does offer the young actor a role a Lightning few steps away from his Glee character as well as school’s paper hasn’t made a difference in his to get the goods on his other targets. enough laughs and heart to make it a must-see I think that one of the most positive things application materials but editing a literary jour- The movie starts high with this quick over- for the young actor’s fan base and those with nal seems about to. All this we discover in the view, the accident and the funeral (“Lightning Ryan Murphy, the openly gay television mogul, open attitudes when it comes to their comedies. has gifted culture with is the discovery of Chris opening moments of the film as the now-dead Boy’s Funeral at 2 p.m., Bingo at 4 p.m.” a sign The film opens in theaters in New York and Los Carson relates the events leading up to his fate- on the church marquee reads) but then never Colfer. Murphy discovered Colfer (who hails from Angeles this weekend, and is available OnDe- tiny Clovis, Calif.) when he auditioned for Glee ful accident. quite catches hold after its promising start. Part mand as well. In pursing his goals, we’re quickly told that of this is because it treads on very familiar ter- in 2009. Murphy was so taken with Colfer that Colfer plays Carson Phillips, a driven high he created the role of Kurl Hummel—the fash- Carson is a male combination of Reese Wither- ritory and traffics in teen stereotypes—the goth school senior in fictional, small town Clover. He spoon’s single-minded and noxious Tracy Flick in chick, the gay theater star, the Latino lover, ion-forward, openly gay teenager who anchors lives with his alcoholic, prescription pil-popping the glee club with his magnificent soprano/ten- Election and Winona Ryder’s mentally superior the horribly behaved cheerleader, the monosyl- divorced mother (Allison Janney, snarky and Veronica Sawyer in Heathers. The plot outline labic jock, etc. But mostly, it’s due to Colfer’s or voice, abetted by the equally magnificent Ra- spot-on as usual) but lives only to get out of chel (Lea Michele), his female (though straight) and several of the characters owe more than a script, which is altogether too sweet and lacks Clover and make his dreams come true as an little to both these black comedies—as well as bite—for a black comedy it rarely goes for the doppelganger—for him. Both Colfer and Michele esteemed man of letters after graduation. The (along with Jane Lynch) became the breakout Drop Dead Gorgeous and 2004’s Saved! (The film jugular—and doesn’t make a lot of sense upon dreams are to attend Northwestern and write is helmed by out director Brian Dannelly, re- reflection. Carson is altogether too endearing stars of the show, and both characters have con- for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Times, sistently provided Glee with some of its most sponsible for the latter.) In true teenage black- and put-upon (not only by the mother but by and become the youngest-ever editor of the New comedy fashion, Carson, who is a social pariah a distant father and grandmother suffering from compelling plotlines. Yorker. Colfer—who is openly gay and in interviews is at the high school, resorts to blackmail to get Alzheimer’s) to make a convincing blackmailer. Carson’s literary dreams, however, are cut contributions from the popular kids to his maga- We’re also not particularly invested in Car- so polite, forthright and gracious in his opinions short soon before graduation when he is struck and ability to express them—has also found zine. He starts with the gay drama club head son’s goal—the character doesn’t seem to do dead by lightning in the high school parking lot and his closeted lover, after catching them in much writing himself, have any literary heroes himself a role model for teens, and perhaps a at the moment he is about to achieve the first few of his adult peers as well. He’s the darling a men’s room stall. Carson is abetted by Rebel of his goals—entry to Northwestern. Editing the Wilson, his sweet but dim toady, and proceeds Turn to page 27

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773.281.8463 timelinetheatre.com 22 WITHPAPA KATIE 8 | 1030PM MCVAY 22 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES NUNN ON ONE: THEATER CP: You wouldn’t necessarily know, but it is a different energy. It is a heavier, more grounded energy than I tend to have in my own life. To Curtis see the comic timing that these people had was Curtis Pettyjohn of ‘I Love Pettyjohn. great to learn from. We even took bridge les- PR photo sons! It is a matter of taking all of the elements Lucy’ has fans loving Fred and really grounding them so we had a strong feeling of who we were and what we were doing. Windy City Times: Curtis, tell our readers WCT: Fred is such an adorable character. about your background. CP: He gets to say the meanest things but they Curtis Pettyjohn: I grew up in Springfield. I aren’t really that mean. went to college in Bloomington and then in WCT: You were in the show Shear Madness Champaign, Ill. I went to San Francisco for the for a long run before this? American Conservatory Theater. I came back to CP: I opened the company here at the Black- Illinois after moving away for 15 years. I just stone Hotel. I went to Boston and Philly to learn came back in the last two years. I’m revisiting a the show then we opened it here. I did that lot of places. We were wined and dined at Gib- show for three and a half years. sons. That was my first job as a waiter, when it came out to see it in the East Coast! After that WCT: What part did you play? was Sweetwater many years ago. I had done a response they leased all of the rights from CBS CP: Initially I played Mikey, who was the lot of commercials, some television shows and for all of the episodes. younger cop, and I understudied Tony the hair- theater. WCT: They can change the episodes in the dresser. I did get to go on and do that role I moved back and the opportunity to do this show, then. How brilliant! sometimes. It is kind of wild being on Michigan show presented itself. It has really been wonder- CP: Yes, and this is one of the experiences— By Jerry Nunn Avenue again. ful. that from the top on down, everybody is nice. WCT: Your partner is a doctor? WCT: How did you hear about it? What is lovely is that they have created a valen- The black-and-white television series I Love CP: Yes; Dr. Sandeep Agnihotri is a chemical CP: Through a friend who plays Bill Parker in tine to Lucy. I call it a love letter. They wanted Lucy was one of the most watched shows in his- engineer and a research scientist. the show. Greg Franklin talked to a mutual friend to honor the work that was dome by these peo- tory and is still syndicated all over the world WCT: He’s a smartie. and found out I was back in town. Things were ple. We are not trying to portray any of the real today. Set in a New York apartment building, a CP: He’s left-brain and I am right-brain; be- crazy because we did a lot of the process using people. We are actors doing the characters. It’s couple, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, have many co- tween the two of us we make a full brain! electronic medium. I was auditioning through a way of honoring them and, as a result, you saw medic adventures over six seasons with their WCT: I read you have two kids. email. what happened in the house tonight. best friends and landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz. CP: That is a little bit of a fudge; our children WCT: Acting is a whole new world. WCT: How did you capture the essence of For Chicago audiences we now have I Love are four-legged. Not all of us choose to have CP: It really is. They had held auditions here Fred? Lucy Live re-enacting two of the famous epi- children but now it is becoming a possibility for but I had missed those. It has been great. The CP: We watched many episodes. Rick, the di- sodes “The Benefit” and “Lucy Has Her Eyes gay people. I think that is wonderful that I can director is Rick Sparks, who was a Chicago actor rector, told us not impersonate them. No one is Examined.” making the audience at the “Desilu walk down the street and hold hands with my many years ago before he went on to Broadway. ever going to believe they are watching William Playhouse” part of the act. Set in a Hollywood partner these days. WCT: How did the show come together? Frawley or Lucille Ball. What we are doing is to 1950s studio, fans are transported back in time Don’t miss the chance to see I Love Lucy CP: The producers put together sets for the interpret the character that they played through to witness a behind-the-scenes taping. Live at the Broadway Playhouse, 175 E. Chest- apartment, the Tropicana and one of the hotels. the instrument, which is us the individual. I William Frawley originally played Fred Mertz, nut St., now extended by popular demand to Back around 2000 they toured them around the played Pappy Yokum at age 16 so I have played who now gets an Illinois treatment courtesy of March 3. Visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com country. They went to casinos, state fairs and older than myself since the first community the- out actor Curtis Pettyjohn. Everyone may love or call 800-775-2000 for this brand new even the Mall of America. They were put out for ater that I did. Frawley was about 10 years older Lucy, but find out why Windy City Times loves block of tickets. people to wander around in and people came than I am. He had arthritis. Fred! out of the woodwork. [About] 170,000 people WCT: I didn’t know that. MAKING Come mark the 50th birthday of Windy City Times Publisher Tracy Baim

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Clark St., Chicago, IL 60640 (These contributions are not tax deductible) WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 23 NUNN ON ONE: MUSIC so much more interesting when I play someone other than myself. WCT: You could even do the judging, like you did on America’s Got Talent. Brandy discusses Brandy: That I would do. I would love to be a part of someone’s journey and their path. To give advice after some of the things that I’ve Whitney, reality TV gone through to share with them and to help them better their life and further their career. By Jerry Nunn see everybody face to face. I’m really connected That would be awesome. I would love to do to my fans in that way so I’m excited about it. something like that. My dream is American Idol. Like singer/actresses such as Madonna or Cher, WCT: On the new album it seemed very per- I love that show. I watch a lot of the positive Brandy is recognized immediately by her first sonal, with songs like “Without You.” shows on reality television, like Mary Mary and name or even by the name “Moesha,” because of Brandy: Oh, yeah; all of the my songs are per- La La’s Full Court Life. There are some great real- her hit ‘90s sitcom on the UPN channel. sonal, every last one of them. I’ve either gone ity shows that don’t require you to do all the Among her hits is “The Boy Is Mine” with Mon- through it firsthand or things have happened to fighting and stuff. ica, which made them the most successful song me in my past that I’ve experienced that I had WCT: Let’s play the Nunn’s Name Game with by a female duo in music history. She did the to conjure it up again for the song. Pretty much a one-word answer on working with people reality-show circuit, beginning with America’s they are the sound track to my life, if it was from your past. Got Talent and then a show with her brother, recent or even way back to my past. Brandy: Okay, let me get my vocabulary Ray J, for VH1; she later competed on Dancing WCT: The title Two Eleven refers to your ready… with the Stars. birthday and to the day Whitney Houston WCT: So ... Diana Ross. Brandy’s latest album, Two Eleven, has her passed away. Brandy. PR photo Brandy: Oh my God! Can I just say “oh my working with such talents as Frank Ocean and Brandy: Yes, and like my rebirth. God” for Diana Ross? Chris Brown. New acting projects include a re- WCT: Was there a song that was directed to Brandy: Oh, I know that. I love my gay fans. WCT: Sure. Usher. curring role on BET’s The Game and the new Tyler Whitney’s passing on the album? They are awesome. Brandy: One word is hard for me because it’s a Perry film Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Brandy: Not necessarily on the album. My trib- WCT: For the new year, you have the Tyler sentence! It was fun and competitive. Counselor. ute to Whitney Houston is what I do with my Perry movie coming out. WCT: Chaka Khan. Windy City Times: Happy New Year, Bran- life—just with the things that she taught me or Brandy: I do. That’s in March. I saw the trailer Brandy: I was in shock! I was starstruck by dy. I saw you performed at Dick Clark’s New shared. It is being everything an artist is sup- for that. It just looks so deep and spicy. I can’t her. Year’s Rocking Eve. posed to be. I have a responsibility. Sometimes wait to see it. I will definitely have to watch WCT: Jennifer Love Hewitt. Brandy: That was a lot of fun. I haven’t done when you get caught up in your personal life it alone because I don’t like to watch myself Brandy: Exciting. I loved I Know What You Did that in a long time. I got to get on that stage and the things going around you then you for- in front of other people. I’m anxious to see it, Last Summer before the one we did so I was and do some of my favorite songs from the new get that you have a responsibility. It is about though. I have that and The Game in March, so excited to work with her. album. sharing and doing music, to entertain and make I have two things happening. WCT: Frank Ocean. WCT: Will this be similar to your [Jan. 19] people feel good, to make them feel they are not WCT: Would you ever do more reality televi- Brandy: Challenging. He’s so particular about concert at [Horseshoe] Casino, maybe backup alone. That’s another responsibility of mine as sion or are you done with that for a while? everything so he’s challenging, and I liked that. dancers like that? well. I have to live up to that. I promised that I Brandy: [Sighs] I just think reality TV and me WCT: Last one: Monica. Brandy: Yeah, it will be my band and dancers. would do that. don’t really mix. Reality TV today is just so en- Brandy: Interesting. 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He’s endured a bladder infection recently ing, my relatives are just too much for me, so I’m dent would become the president—but Phillips to their table, among secret service members. and has had a double hernia, which he specu- going to make friends—and I made thousands of wasn’t even sure who the VP was. That night remains a lifelong highlight, he lates was caused from lifting the moving boxes friends in my life.” “In those days, they didn’t push the vice presi- said. “To know that something you did made a of his worldly mementos. He also has had chron- Friends would take the place of relatives, he dent [as they do now,]” Phillips said. Harry S. beautiful occasion very special, very nice and ic emphysema. determined that day. Truman succeeded Roosevelt. dignified, and that future dinners copied [your Still, he said, “basically, I’m fairly healthy. As I “I’d had it with my family,” he said, “and so After leaving the military, Phillips accepted a idea.] That meant a lot,” said Phillips, who ad- said to someone the other day, when you live to I made an art of making friends … and now am job at Edward Hines, Jr. VA [Veterans Adminis- mitted he was “good at making the mayor look be 91, parts begin to wear out; they’re not going just flooded with friends.” tration] Hospital. good.” to last forever.” Phillips graduated from Streator Township “Now that I had seen the world [through mili- Through his job for the city, Phillips met more But his memory is still razor-sharp. High School in 1940 and has never returned for tary service], I thought I could no longer live in celebrities than even he can remember. The Phillips’ stories from World War II are part of a a reunion. “I guess I moved on in life and that that small town of Streator. There was so much walls at his Evanston home showcase an amaz- new gay musical, Under A Rainbow Flag, written [period in my life] is over,” he said. more to do, more to experience, more to conquer ing life. by Leo Schwartz and produced by Pride Films and Most of his high school friends were upper- elsewhere in the world than just in Streator,” he Plays. It will run March 23-April 21; see http:// classmen. “I was a social-climber from the be- said. Yes, he is gay pridefilmsandplays.com. ginning, and as I once told a girl friend of mine, Phillips worked as a technician at Hines, and On Christmas Eve 1942, Phillips was on a ‘You too would be if you came from my family,” often was asked to work alongside surgeons who train, going from Chicago to San Diego with The early years he said. others viewed as difficult to work with. Such as other servicemen. He celebrated his birthday in Born to an unmarried woman, Phillips was After graduating, he opted against going to the day Phillips was in the operating room with North Platte, Neb., and they even had a cake for abandoned by his mother and raised by his college and started working at Montgomery Dr. Loyal Davis, a famous brain surgeon. him. grandparents in suburban Streator, about 80 Ward. He then went to work in a factory that “Many years later, while working for the city That was the first time he heard the term ‘gay miles southwest of Chicago. When they got ill, manufactured milk [of Chicago], I met bars,’ which he learned were popping up in large he moved in an aunt and uncle who lived nearby, bottles because it this woman named cities. along with their two daughters. paid more. Edith Davis,” Phillips “I couldn’t believe it,” Phillips said. His grandparents died when Phillips was 13. “I was a big shot said. “I remember While in the Navy, Phillips admits he had gay Shortly after moving in with his aunt and because I had mon- asking her if she was sex, but very limited. uncle, the man across the street died. “I was ey,” Phillips said, related to Dr. Loyal And while working for the city of Chicago, he watching them bring in the casket and I turned laughing. Davis.” never told anyone at City Hall about his sexual to my aunt and said, ‘Who was Frank Farrell?’” After Pearl Harbor He was her hus- orientation. Phillips said. was bombed on Dec. band. The two had a “I sublimated my sex drive my whole life. I Flustered, she replied, “Why are you asking 7, 1941, Phillips and daughter and Edith was in denial. It wasn’t tough, but it was my me that? You know who he was; he would come a friend decided to told Phillips that one choice,” Phillips said. “In those days, yes, it home drunk and lived across the street.” enlist in the mili- day he should meet would have been tough [to be open and out]. He explained to her that, as a child, he found tary before they got her. It never hap- I liked my job and my own character that it was a sheet of paper inside some sheet music and he drafted because, he pened, though. Their important for me to not compromise. So I just asked his grandmother what it meant because it said, if you enlisted, daughter was Nancy did not have a lot of sex.” had his name as Francis John Farrell, not Francis as opposed to getting Reagan. Phillips said he was dually in denial—of being Jon Phillips. drafted, you could Phillips worked gay and being straight. “I remember, [my grandmother] snatched [the choose which branch at Hines Hospital “The road I chose was not easy,” he said. sheet of paper] out of my hand and just said of the U.S. Armed for only a couple of Still, “If the mayor had ever called me in [to that someone was taking a typing class and just Forces you wanted years, then furthered his office] and asked, ‘Jon, are you gay?’ I think playing around [with names],” Phillips said. to join. Otherwise, his education, ulti- I would have said, ‘Yes, I am.’ But no one ever His aunt then told her daughters to play out- it was direct to the mately landing at the asked me; they never had any reason to [ask]. side so she could talk to Phillips privately. Army. Institute of Design in They could have been suspicious, but I gave His aunt said, “To the best of my knowledge, Phillips opted for the downtown Chi- them no reason to say I was gay in a time when he was your father. Your mother’s story was, she the Navy and became “If the mayor [Daley, Sr.] had ever called cago campus of the it was unpopular to be gay. That was my choice. was on her way home from her job as a ticket- a medic in 1942, al- me in [to his office] and asked, ‘Jon, are Illinois Institute of I didn’t make it easy for people to label me.” though he eventually Technology. Phillips will be thrust into the spotlight in taker, late at night. She met him on the street you gay?’ I think I would have said, ‘Yes, I and he was drunk, and he attacked and raped was transferred to the “I went to the March in Under A Rainbow Flag, a new musical U.S. Marine Corps. am.’ But no one ever asked me; they never Institute of Design by Leo Schwartz, based on the true story of gay her. So she wanted to have nothing to do with had any reason to [ask].” him.” His military stint, because I wanted the men in World War II. — Jon Phillips Phillips now admits, “I think the whole thing which ended in 1945, big city [experience] “At first, I wasn’t sure I wanted to do it be- Photo by Ross Forman colored my whole outlook on marriage, who I included time in Oki- and its anonym- cause that means I have to tell everyone that, was, my identity, etc.” nawa, Japan. ity,” Phillips said. “I yes, I am gay, but I’ve never been one to wave Phillips’ aunt told him that the neighbor of- “That was just one met a lot of people the gay flag,” Phillips said. “At 91, I have noth- ten used to stand and watch him play with oth- more miracle that I went through in my life. I through the school. I was popular in school, so ing to gain by being gay or not being gay. ers, but was always staring at Phillips. Plus, the learned a lot [while in the service,]” said Phil- our house had the biggest parties, with many “My first reaction [to the play] was, I wasn’t neighbor carried a baby picture of Phillips in his lips, who worked for a division psychiatrist in famous people attending.” sure I wanted to be in the play. At this point in wallet, his aunt told him. combat, the first time a psychiatrist served on Their loft on Ohio Street always was the hap- my life, I don’t know if I want to be famously “She believed the story and I believe the sto- the front line. “I was glad I had the experience; pening place, he said. remembered as someone who did great things ry,” Phillips said, decades later. I learned a lot, especially that I could get things “I went from poverty to dealing with famous for the Queen [of England], or he was gay. Then Phillips said that, when he heard the tale at done because I always was in charge of things.” people,” Phillips said. I thought about it, and I don’t really care. I have 13, he ran into the basement, crying, wondering He spent three months in Okinawa. He was ultimately hired by the City of Chicago to live my life the way I see it. how this could happen to him. “I remember sitting and watching kamikaze in 1954, and worked in the planning department “This play is an honor, for me and all of the planes, the [thick smoke] in the air from gunfire, for most of his 30-year career. [other gay people] who served.”

My kind of town More Jon Phillips: Phillips’ career within the city of Chicago —He admits he is a news and political junkie, spanned from Mayor Martin H. Kennelly to Mayor saying he knows what’s happening worldwide, Jane Byrne. He also worked under Mayor Michael and is proud of that knowledge. Bilandic. —He is a Chicago Blackhawks fan and has a Beautiful One of his big breaks came in 1956, when red Hawks T-shirt at home, adding that he ad- Mayor Richard J. Daley was preparing for a live mires the players’ skating and skills. speech on WTTW. The mayor’s office called Phil- —Phillips spent a lot of time going to gay lips’ department, looking for someone who could bars, but has not had a drink in 31 years, “so do some legible hand-lettering to write cue visiting gay bars now is very [rare],” he said. cards for the mayor’s speech. Phillips hasn’t been to a gay bar in two or three Thing Phillips handled the task; from then on, every years. By time the mayor’s office was going to do some- —The quote: “Many assumed I went to col- Jonathan Harvey thing that required a sign or artwork, they’d lege, so I quickly realized that I was quite ca- Directed By call Phillips. He worked in planning for key, pable.” high-profile weddings, meetings with kings and —A 1975 book about Bette Midler tells of a John Nasca queens, and so much more. party that Phillips co-hosted for her. In 1954, Phillips helped Chicago land the title —He has known Windy City Times Publisher January 17 - February 17 of All-America City. Tracy Baim since she was a very young girl be- At The Athenaeum Theatre, Chicago In 1959, Phillips was an integral part of Chi- cause he was friends with her mom, Joy Darrow, AthenaeumTheatre.org cago’s planning for a visit from Queen Elizabeth and stepfather Steve Pratt. WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 25 theDISH WEEKLY DINING GUIDE IN The sake and shochu bar is a relaxing place to Roka Akor; unwind after a hard day’s work during cocktail Bistro Voltaire hour. Shochu is a vodka-like drink that dates By JERRY NUNN back to 14th century Japan. Temperature is key in this establishment, with Located at 456 N. Clark St. is the JNK concept purified hand-carved ice for drinks and seafood restaurant Roka Akor. Roka has been voted one kept at that perfect temperature for freshness of the top 10 sushi spots in the United States, and to kill bacteria. The fire is built each night, and was given an Award of Excellence by Wine with the flames reaching more than 1,900 de- Spectacular. grees. Contemporary Robatayaki Japanese cuisine (in Private dining is available, accommodating up which items of food on skewers are slow-grilled to 48 guests along with a smaller private dining over hot charcoal) and the modern design of the area for 14. Enthusiasts may even return for a space transport guests to another part of the behind-the-scenes treatment of a cooking class world. when offered where they learn to roll their own Without a reservation the wait can be a bit sushi and mix specialty drinks. lengthy, so insiders were told to sit at this chef’s The winter menu includes such delicacies as counter if available as the cooks will give extra flame-seared uni nigiri and Wagyu confit shor- attention and special treatment at the ringside tribs with truffle maitake mushrooms. Look for seat. The name “Roka” even describes this area the Happy Time cocktail made with house in- as “Ro” means “hearth” and “ka” means “burn- fused vodka, agave nectar and Hitachino white ing fire.” The robata grill is the heart of the din- ale. While there are dozens of sakes to sample ing experience and very similar to its English alone also try it in a mixed drink with the Yoi counterpart. This style of barbecuing over an Mono. The ingredients include Hendrick’s gin, open flame has been used for centuries through- Junmai sake and fresh cucumber. out different regions of Japan. Fishermen would With the top-notch salads, sushi rolls and bring home a catch of the day; then families high-end seafood, this the place to bring a date would gather around the Ro, or fireplace, to for an all around experience that is not easily cook and eat. forgotten. Visit www.rokaakor.com for hours in- cluding lunch and brunch.

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Bistro Voltaire boasts delicious French cui- hearty meal. sine in downtown Chicago with flair from the Many diners like easy prix fixe options; these mouth of Voltaire. A large quote by the phi- have been extended from Monday night through losopher himself covers the wall of this narrow Thursday for $29 making this deal tough to spot on 226 West Chicago Avenue. It says, “Je beat. It includes the aforementioned items as m’arrêterais de mourir s’il me venait un bon mot well as others that may change throughout the ou une bonne idee (which means “I will stop my promotion, so check back regularly. The prix fixe death if a good word or a good idea come to my bargain even offers dessert such as warm choco- mind”).” late cake or creme brulee. After entering this cozy space, the ambiance The service was excellent and wine pairings wraps around guests like a warm blanket. The really added to the overall experience, with more food is Parisian in nature complete with start- than 50 wine selections to choose from. ers like French onion soup and sauteed mus- For those who can’t make the trip all the way sels. Next for the main course try the gnocci to gay Paris then try Bistro Voltaire in the Windy with vegetables or swim in grilled salmon with City. Voltaire will make you say, “Oui!” Images of Roka Akor. Photos by Jerry Nunn toasted Israeli couscous. On a cold evening the Reservations may be booked by visiting www. boeuf bourguignon is a must have with finger- bistrovoltaire.com or by calling 312-265-0911. ling potatoes and carrots to finish it off the

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We are easily accessible from the PACE 290 bus and goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of 0011 - Martinez, Clifford, 0098 - Dacres, Tiffany, 0127 We also have fabulous organizational skills (a separate the CTA 85A bus! MV Transportation, Inc. 6230 W. purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment. - McFarllar, Desiree, 0133 - MARTIN, VERNON, 0156 - function at a separate cost that utilizes your assis- Gross Point Road Niles, IL 60714 773-467-2455. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of the Ryan, Glenn, 0177 - Schmidt, Janet, 1009 - Oladipo, tance) for what hasn’t been cleaned in many months www.mvtransit.com Must pass a drug test and have a Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, that Taibou, 1061 - Lopez, Ronald, 2026 - Chisom, John, or years due to long-term illness, depression, physical/ clean driving record and clean criminal background. Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct sale(s) 2031 Hightower, Raymond, 2057 - Tillman, Elizabeth, mental challenges, for the elderly, if you have down- EOE (1/23/13-8) at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on January 2071 - Garnett, Dionne, 3022 - Bennett, Tracy, 3027 sized and more. Depressed about going home to chaos? HEALTH CARE - CAREGIVERS WANTED. Growing, li- 24th, 2013 at 12:00 pm on the Premises where - Lawrence, Yolanda, 3048 - Geanes, Marcel, 3061 - We can organize your chaos, straighten out your chaos, censed homecare company has positions open for property has been stored, which are located at Public Priklonskis, Jegors, 3084 - Urbaniak, Nichole, 3127 - help you make sense of your chaos and finally clean Caregivers who want to make a difference. All shifts Storage #23609/2050 Green Bay Road Evanston, IL Sundin, William, 3165 - Nankya, Anna, 3179 - Payton, what is no longer chaos. Can we help you? Bonded and available; one year experience required. Apply on-line 60201-3536. (847) 864-4304. In the matters of Otesha, 4104 - EDWARDS, TRACY, 5078 - OYEWOPO, insured. Chestnut Cleaning Service: 312-332-5575. http://lavenderhcs.com/careers (1/30/13-9) the personal property for the individuals listed below. ISAAC, B13 - Kus, Michael, B7 - MALIK, UMAR. Public www.ChestnutCleaning.com (11/20/13-52) 0041 - Lovers & Madmen, 0088 - Lovers & Madmen, Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases must be made HOME IMPROVEMENT 0106 - Kerr, Colin, 2033 - Henderson, Audrey, 3022 - with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods COUNSELING WINTER IS A GREAT TIME TO GIVE YOUR BATHROOM Plokita, Bartholomew. Public Storage / PS Orangeco, are sold as is and must be removed at the time of OR KITCHEN A FACELIFT! We also do Painting, and Inc. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment. Home Repairs. “A” rating with Angie’s List, A+ with BBB. at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of Licensed-Bonded-Insured, One year Warranty. Free Es- be removed at the time of purchase. Sale is subjected the Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, timates! Andy OnCall 773-244-9931www.getany.com to adjournment. that Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct (8/1/13-52) Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of the sale(s) at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on LOVE FROM THE CENTER TOP TO BOTTOM PAINTING AND CLEANING. Need to get Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, that January 24th, 2013 at 2:00 pm on the Premises where property has been stored, which are located at OF WHO YOU ARE a fresh look and have the place cleaned as well? Get it Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct sale(s) Public done now before all the entertaining starts. Call me for at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on January Storage#-07116, 362 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Life Coaching • Ceremonies a free estimate. 847-444-1482 (1/23/13-13) 24th, 2013 at 11:30 am on the Premises where IL 60654, (312) 266-0174. In the matters of the Office & Phone Appointments RENAISSANCE REMODELING + REPAIR 20 years property has been stored, which are located at Public personal property for the individuals listed below: 1032 experience in remodeling high end kitchens and Storage #24524/8050 McCormick Blvd. Skokie, IL - Lewellen, Augustus, 2024 - Faist, Barton, 2031 - BASS Rev. Jacki Belile, CEC bathrooms, home repairs, painting, built-ins. Fully 60076-2919 (847) 675-4604. In the matters of PRODUCTIONS / Donnie Lyle, 3020 - Parker, Chastity, Nurturing Pride & Faith for 20 Years insured. Jobs of all sizes welcome. Free Estimates. Call the personal property for the individuals listed below. 4054 - THOMAS, AURRIE, 4120 - Carter, Jacqueline, 773.655.4357 773-946-7559, email renremodelchicago@gmail. A030 - Ford, Eldridge, B014 - Mikhail, Eddie, B019 - 5070 - Brown, Eugene, 6160 - Kranz, Shanna. Public www.livingwellministries.net com. (1/30/13-4) Ellingson, Colin, C010 - Jackson, Theresa, D003 - Oliver, Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases must be made Landers, D071 - MARQUEZ, HARRIET, D137 - Khan, Mir, with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods F014 - Sayeed, Ashfaq. Public Storage / PS Orangeco, are sold as is and must be removed at the time of COUNSELING AND CLINICAL HYPNOTHERAPY: Providing Inc. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment help to individuals and couples in our community since at the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must 1987. I specialize in relationship issues, spiritual be removed at the time of purchase. Sale is subjected issues, childhood trauma, and recurrent patterns to adjournment. WINDY CITY TIMES Jan. 16, 2013 27 CLASSIFIEDS Jodie Foster

LEGAL NOTICES Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of speech headlines NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF the Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, the Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, PERSONAL PROPERTY (CONT.) that Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct that Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct Golden Globes Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of the sale(s) at Public Storage by Competitive bidding sale(s) at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, that on January 24th, 2013 at 10:00 am on the Premises January 24th, 2013 at 1:30 pm on the Premises Many awards were handed out, as expected, Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct sale(s) where property has been stored, which are located at where property has been stored, which are located at at the 70th annual Golden Globes—but it was at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on January Public Storage#-22331, 4072 N. Broadway, Chicago, Public Storage#-22338, 1129 N. Wells St., Chicago, Jodie Foster’s speech that had people talking, as IL 60613, (773) 404-8592. In the matters of the IL 60610, (312) 951-8891. In the matters of the 24th, 2013 at 1:00 pm on the Premises where she thanked her lesbian ex-partner at the Jan. personal property for the individuals listed below: A012 personal property for the individuals listed below: property has been stored, which are located at Public 13 event. Storage#-08066, 947 West Van Buren, Chicago, - Hareas, Cathy, A023 - Roca, Meloney, B026 - Cargill, A006 - Harrison, Suzanne, A008 – LANDAHL DESIGN Foster was the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMi- IL 60607, (312) 421-0049. In the matters of the Denise, B044 - Toledo, Manuel, B051 - Hood, Isaac, STUDIO,LLC / Gregory Landahl, B077 - Nguyen, Canh, lle Award. During her acceptance speech, she personal property for the individuals listed below: 0036 - B083 - AJAYI, SAMUEL, B108 - Valadez, Eustaquio, B089 - SYNAGOGUE, CENTRAL , B095 - Robinson, Thomas, Joyce, 0103 - Mumphery, Audrey, 0204 - Jones, C016 - IBRAHIM, ALI, C025 - BELL, AMIR, C028 - Butler, LaTonja, B124 - NAVIGANT DEVELOPMENT, LLC / thanked her ex-partner and co-parent, Cydney Karl, 0225 - Mack, Tamara, 0345 - Tolliver, Patricia, Edward, C054 - Lanieche, Sofiane, C067 - Frempong, Anthony Tomaska, C310 - HANNEY, SUZANNE, D402 - Bernard. (They have two sons.) 0366 - Miklusak, Carol, 0452 - Lozado, Maya, 0456 - Michael, C070 - Davenport, Eric, C075 - BALOGUN, Nowak, Elizabeth, D414 - Ress, Penelope, D416 - Rhine, She added that she has lived virtually her Jeffries, Ryan, 0546 - Black, Letanya, 0672 - Rambo, KOLAPO, C095 - Mueller, Neal, D006 - Gwendolyn, Bailey, Nigeria, D468 - Mui, Teresa, D485 - LEE JR, CHARLES, entire life in the public eye, yet still wanted Elisha, 0705 -Dinwiddie, Ronda, 0772 - Kauffman, Corie. D016 - GISH, DIANE MARIE, D031 - PRINCE, MAE, D073 D500 - KLEPTACH, THERESA, D522 - Jones, Paige, to keep some things private. According to the Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases must be - CLARK, SHANNON, E014 - Jaranilla, Virgina, E026 - The E563 - Koppel, Flora, E661 - Cantwell, Steven, E676 Washington Post, she said, “Someday, in the fu- Three Dollar Store ,Inc / Brian Brothers, E057 - HAREAS, - mannsell, roy, E690 - LANDAHL DESIGN STUDIO,LLC made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All ture, people will look back and remember how CATHY. Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. / Gregory Landahl, E692 - Dumbuya, Salimatu, E695 - goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of beautiful this was. I have given everything up purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at Ress, Penelope, E698 - Dumas, Lorell. Public Storage/ there, from the time that was I was 3 years old. Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of the the time of sale. All goods are sold as is and must be PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases must be made with cash … There is no way I could ever stand here with- Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, that removed at the time of purchase. Sale is subjected to only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct sale(s) adjournment. is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Sale is out acknowledging one of the deepest loves of at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on January Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of the subjected to adjournment. my life: my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in 24th, 2013 at 12:00 pm on the Premises where Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, that love but righteous soul sister in life, my confes- property has been stored, which are located at Public Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct sale(s) LEGAL SERVICES sor, ski buddy, consigliere, most beloved BFF of Storage#-08067, 1711 West Fullerton Ave, Chicago, at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on January NEED LEGAL ASSISTANCE? William H. Ransom & 20 years, Cydney Bernard. Thank you, Cyd.” IL 60613-1912, (773) 525-5518. In the matters of 24th, 2013 at 11:00 am on the Premises where Associates, Estate Planning & Trusts; Real Estate; The Internet exploded in response to Foster’s property has been stored, which are located at Public Commercial/Contract Litigation; Employment the personal property for the individuals listed below: speech. Among those who talked was Kate Ken- Storage#-22336, 2835 N. Western Ave, Chicago, Discrimination and Retaliatory Discharge; Personal 1107 - Booth, Aaron, 1203 - Hassan, Quawana, 2016 dell, who heads the National Center for Lesbian - McDonald, Stephanie, 2034 - Wilkinson, Loren, 2104 IL 60618, (773) 772-9209. In the matters of the Injury; Mortgage Foreclosure Defense. 312-953-9120; Rights. “Well regardless of the articulate nature - Lambert, Debrah, 2247 - Lewis, Corey, 3066 - REED, personal property for the individuals listed below: 0053 [email protected]. (1/16/13-13) of this moment for Jodie, let me just say, you go ANTOINE, 3158 - Rosen, Herb, 4013 - Roland, Kerdia. - Wright, Tim, 0102 - SMALUK, ALLISON, 0115 - SPACIO Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases must be LLC / Patricia Feeley, 0119 RUDOLPH, KAREN, 0147 MASSAGE girl!,” Kendell posted. “It’s about fucking time... made with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All - BALANZAR, MIRIAM, 0202 - Rice, Kathleen, 0219 - FIRST-CLASS ASIAN MALE MASSEUR. London-trained we got your back babe.” However, she also said goods are sold as is and must be removed at the time of Palmer, Thomas, 0268 - Howlett, Edward, 0279 - Rosen, and qualified. Over 25 years of worldwide experience that she’d love to find a new best friend for Fos- purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment. Lisa, 0301 - QUINONES, RAFAEL, 0337 - BATES, OMAR, and 100% attuned to your needs. Satisfaction assured. ter beside Mel Gibson, who was seated at Fos- Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of 0356 - Rivera Perez, Alexis, 0563 - MARTIN, LINDA, Please call Dennis at 773-248-9407 (7/3/13–26) ter’s table. the Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, 0570 - Martin, Helen, 0608 - FARRELL, KATHLEEN, As for awards, Ben Affleck received some re- 0669 - MILLER, CHERYL, 0742 - SMITH, IDELLA, 0765 - that Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct PIANO & VOICE LESSONS demption from his Oscar snub by winning for Ayende, Juan, 0823 - WILSON, NEKETA. Public Storage/ PIANO & VOICE LESSONS – in my studio or your home sale(s) at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on Best Director for the film Argo, triumphing over January 24th, 2013 at 10:30 am on the Premises PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases must be made with cash offered by young, gay, professional with Master’s in names such as Ang Lee (Life of Pi), Kathryn where property has been stored, which are located at only and paid at the time of sale. All goods are sold as music. Andersonville, Boystown and Near Northside. Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty), Quentin Tarentino Public Storage#-20620, 4430 N. Clark , Chicago, is and must be removed at the time of purchase. Sale is Take lessons with a neighborhood teacher. All ages IL 60605, (773) 989-4619. In the matters of the subjected to adjournment. welcome. Jonathan at 646-418-4043. (1/30/13–12) (Django Unchained) and Steven Spielberg (Lin- personal property for the individuals listed below: C010 Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of coln). In addition, Argo won for Best Motion - Washington, Ron, C011 - Harrison, Michael, C044 - the Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, SPIRITUALITY Picture: Drama. Les Miserables won for Best Mo- Cowans, Richard, C058 - Supran, Richard, C069 - Meltzer, that Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct tion Picture: Comedy or Musical. sale(s) at Public Storage by Competitive bidding on Howard, C071 - Flaherty, Colleen, D038 - Cashman, Reviving Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty) and Daniel- Kathleen. Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases January 24th, 2013 at 12:30 pm on the Premises Day Lewis (Lincoln) won lead acting awards for where property has been stored, which are located at must be made with cash only and paid at the time of their roles in the categories of motion picture Public Storage#-20485, 1414 S. Wabash, Chicago, The Spirit... sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at (drama), while Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings the time of purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment. IL 60605, (312) 427-1043 . In the matters of the Renewing Playbook) and Hugh Jackman (Les Miserables) Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section 4 of personal property for the individuals listed below: the Self-Service Storage Facility Act, State of Illinois, 0020 - Hutchinson, Michael, 0068 - matthews, eddie, won Best Performances in a Motion Picture: B1018 - GSSP Enterprise, B1019 - Diaz, Veronica, B1035 The Life... that Public Storage / PS Orangeco, Inc. will conduct Turn to page 29 sale(s) at Public Storage by Competitive bidding - Muhammad, Dianna, B1048 - Wiggins, Lisa, B1055 January 24th, 2013 at 11:30 am on the Premises where - Lewis, Monique, C2005 - Robinson, Joann, C2020 - Atonement Episcopal Church property has been stored, which are located at Public Massey, Walter, C2066 - Myers, Peter, D3043 - Eubanks, 5749 N. Kenmore Storage#-21807, 1916 N. Elston Ave, Chicago, Chiquita, D3076 - JONES, CEDRIC, E4007 - McCants, www.ChurchOfTheAtonement.Org MOVIES from page 21 Marlon, E4031 - Robinson, Shanta, E4042 - Dias, Brian, IL 60642, (773) 227-3114. In the matters of the Sundays at 11 A.M. personal property for the individuals listed below: E4115 - Roeder, Ingrid, E4138 - HAMMOND, HOWARD, E4148 - Shannon, Robert, F5019 - CARIDINE, DALE, like Capote or Vidal and is never seen reading A229 - HIGAREDA, VIRGINIA, A237 - ACEVEDO, ARTURO, a book, visiting the library or reading an issue A320 - HOSKINS, CYNTHIA, A421 - HAWLEY, DUSTIN, F5094 - Thomas, Arnesia, F5097 - Bell, Lauren, F5111 of the New Yorker—the magazine he claims he A481 - BERNSTEIN, GAIL, C005 – 1637 PIERCE DW - DeGroat, Marian, F5112 - Thompson, Nikia, G6047 - WINDOW TREATMENTS LLC FOR BUSINESS / Joseph Varan, C055 - BERNAHL, Fikes, Gregory, G6128 - Joseph, Cheryl, G6132 - Kidd, WONDERING WHAT TO DO WITH THOSE WINDOWS?: dreams of editing. And the movie keeps focusing DAVID, C095 - SANDERS, LEONARDO, D537 - CHALMERS, Tyjuan, G6139 - kennedy, patricia, H7051 - Scott, Call me! I take care of it all from design through on the adult characters surrounding Carson—his ROBIN, D547 - KOLLATH, DENNIS, D566 - SUMA, MARY, Hughie, H7059 - Roberts, Sanford, H7068 - Adams, installation, customizing to your needs. JOSEPH RICE drunken mother, lousy father and the father’s D573 - LEANER, MARIE, D634 - PIERCE, MARVIN, D681 Delrice, H7120 - Vinson, Sheila, H7128 - Walton, Interiors, Inc. Full Decorating Services with a specialty pretty, pregnant fiancée, as well as the grand- - RAMIREZ, GEORGE D714 - WALKER, CHARLES, D726 Soraya. Public Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases in window treatments for over 25 years. 773-271- mother. Top actors—Janney, Dermot Mulroney, - HOLSHOE, JASON, D741 - KOLLATH, DIANE. Public must be made with cash only and paid at the time of 2361. www.JosephRiceInteriors.com (12/29/12-26) Christina Hendricks, Polly Bergen, etc.—cer- Storage/ PS Orangeco, Inc. Purchases must be made sale. All goods are sold as is and must be removed at tainly keep the scenes chugging along, but I with cash only and paid at the time of sale. All goods the time of purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment. kept hoping the pieces of the script would fit are sold as is and must be removed at the time of together better. purchase. Sale is subjected to adjournment. Struck By Lightning is a sincere rather than charming or laugh-out-loud movie—and ton- REAL ESTATE ally, one of the latter would have made it work BUSINESS/BUILDING FOR SALE ROOMMATE WANTED much better. It’s also too serious—one wants TAVERN FOR SALE 7000 N. CLARK AREA TAVERN WITH REAL ESTATE, 4 am COOL ROOMATE WANTED. 1 bedroom available in beauti- more outrageousness—because that’s what the and public place of amusement licenses. Eleven units ful 3 bedroom first floor Greystone in east Rogers Park. fun little premise promises but doesn’t quite de- 4 A.M. license & PPA license. in 3 brick adjoining buildings. 100 x 100 property with Must love dogs, cats and be a non-smoker, non-drinker liver. Colfer (who also executive-produced) is off Rogers Park near 7000 N. driveway and 3 car garage. 995,000. Richard at 773- and drug free. $720/mos. includes utilities. Call 773 to a good rather than a great start in movies, Clark St. 6 blocks north of 671-1273 (4/3/13-13) 981-8882. (2/6/13-4) and given the enormous talent this young man Clark & Devon. has demonstrated (some of which is on display Occupancy is 135 people. TWO BEDROOMS FOR RENT SEEKING RENTAL here), I fully expect lightning to strike for him EDGEWATER COMMUTER ADVANTAGE. You’d be happy to EXCELLENT TENANTS SEEK SAME IN LANDLORD of well cinematically in the future—perhaps the next Contact: come home to. Walk to beach and park, redline and maintained non-smoking owner-occupied 2-3 flat. Fi- time around. buses or go shopping. Spacious bedrooms with walk in nancially stable couple of 18yrs seek quiet life in top Richard at 773-671-1273 Check out my archived reviews at www. closets. Formal dining room. Big kitchen with new floor floor apt w/pkng. Preferred area: Montrose-Touhy/ windycitymediagroup.com or www.knightat- or email at and sink. $1300 with heat. Parking $80. Plus laundry, Lakefront-Western. 773-271-2488, sndstravel@aol. [email protected] storage, video intercom, patio and yard. IT’S YOUR com (1/30/13-4) themovies.com. Readers can leave feedback MOVE…773-706-6065. (1/23/13-3) at the latter website. 28 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES

and fitness zine, published by Kathie Bergquist. Readings, performances, and a special demonstration from Early to Bed. Refreshments, prize drawing. Proceeds benefit Ms. Fit online zine and the Wom- en’s Voices Fund. 7:30pm, Women & Chil- dren First Books, 5233 N. Clark St., www. Brought to you by the combined efforts of womenandchildrenfirst.com Cameron Esposito Lesbian comedian is per- WINDY CITY forming as part of Tomorrow Never Knows CHAD TO THE BONE 2013. 8pm, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia TIMES Ave., www.tnkfest.com RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Champion Saturday, Jan. 19 Chad Michaels Hydrate presents RuPaul’s Wed., Jan. 16 Drag Race All-Stars champion Chad Mi- RuPaul’s Drag Race: chaels for two special performances at Tomorrow Never Knows 2013 Through Jan. ‘NICE’ CAPADES 11pm and 1am; joined by Rupaul Drag All-Stars champ Chad 20 at various venues around Chicago. Race Season 4 star DiDa Ritz. 11pm, Hy- Michaels will be at Performers include SSION, the project of Jan. 18-19, 25-26 drate, 3458 N. Halsted St., www.hydrat- Hydrate, 3458 N. Halsted openly gay singer Cody Critcheloe (Jan. Miami Nice: A Golden Girls echicago.com; Tickets: www.brownpaper- 18), and lesbian comedian Cameron Es- St.. Musical will run at Gorilla tickets.com/event/309804 posito (Jan. 19). Various locations, www. tnkfest.com Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Photo by Mathu Andersen Animal Owners/Lovers Singles Night Pet Milwaukee Ave. Sunday, Jan. 20 Urban Village: Wicker Park Service LGBT- owners and like-minded folks, wine & beer welcoming worship services at Urban Vil- tend the event, and would like to contrib- plus BYOB. Dogs welcomed. If your dog Photo by Carlos Deleon lage Church are eclectic and experiential, ute to this year’s preparations, feel free to sniffing that cute stranger’s crotch isn’t practical and intelligent, relevant and, make donations through paypal to shady- enough of an ice breaker, there will be hopefully, inspiring. 10:30am-11:45am, [email protected]. 10pm, Spin Nightclub, preference stickers and mailboxes. 7pm- , 1543 W. Division St., 800 W. Belmont Ave., www.spin-nightclub. 9:30pm, 773-754-8816., Jameson Loves www.urbanvillagechurch.org/wicker-park/ com Danger, 5208 N. Clark St., http://buff.ly/ Urban Village Church: Andersonville ser- v09ksm players of all levels. $7/night; $30/ Hannah). 10pm, Berlin Nightclub, 954 W vice Andersonville is a neighborhood full Tuesday, Jan. 22 Authors Midge Wilson and Kathy Russell month; 6pm, Center on Halsted, 3656 N Belmont Ave., www.berlinchicago.com of passion, art, diversity, and eclectic en- Drag Race with Frida Lay Chicago’s only of The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Halsted St., www.centeronhalsted.org ergy, all which makes Urban Village Church amateur drag contest, hosted by Frida Color in a New Millennium, a provocative Beautiful Thing Presented by Pride Films Friday, Jan. 18 thrilled to be involved in the community! Lay! A hit at Roscoe’s since its premier in exploration of how Western standards of and Plays. A boy who skips school to Miami Nice: A Golden Girls Musical Miami, 10:30am-11:45am, Bethany Retirement 2000. 9pm, Roscoe’s, 3356 N. Halsted St., beauty are influencing cultures across the avoid playing sports is attracted to his 1986. Divorced and over 60, a substitute Center, 1602 W. Ainslie St. (at Ashland), www.roscoes.com globe and affecting personal, profession- next-door neighbor, an athletic teen teacher is spending another lonely Friday www.newchicagochurch.com al, romantic, and familial relationships. who is regularly beaten by his father and night playing Scrabble with her mother brothers. Illustrates the struggle of grow- and friends, but is suddenly plunged into OPALGA winter brunch Free to current Wed., Jan. 23 7:30pm, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Angelique Munro Fireside Chat Hosted by ing up in a world that can be cruel and a world of drugs, guns, and cheesecake. members. Non-members $25. Or add $5 to Clark St., www.womenandchildrenfirst.com Leatherman Douglas O’Keeffe. Angelique unforgiving to anyone perceived as differ- 7:30pm-8:30pm, 773-598-4549, Gorilla that to join the organization. RSVP info@ Baroque Band: Gone With The Wind Brit- Munro, featured in Chicago House’s newly ent. Through Feb 17; 7:30pm, Athenaeum Tango Theatre, 1919 N. Milwaukee Av- opalga.org. 12:30pm-3pm, Tratoria 225, ish virtuoso recorder player Piers Adams released TransLife Center video, will dis- Theatre, 2936 N. Southport Ave., www. enue, Chicago, http://www.gorillatango. 225 Harrison St., Oak Park, www.opalga. will join Baroque Band for a whirlwind cuss her history, community involvement athenaeumtheatre.org com more information org program of tempestuous recorder concer- and Transgender-related issues before a Cynthia Morris, author Chasing Sylvia Ssion Kansas City’s queer-fronted outfit Concert tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, tos by Vivaldi, Albinoni, and Telemann, live audience. Q&A follows. 7:30pm, Cen- Beach celebrates the world of Sylvia shares the stage with Niki and the Dove, Jr. ’s 25th Anniversary including Vivaldi’s famous “La Tempesta” ter on Halsted, 3656 N Halsted St., www. Beach, the plucky American who moved Onuinu, Vacationer and Moon Boots. 9pm, Season continues MLK Weekend. Opera concerto. 7:30pm-10:30pm, 312-235- centeronhalsted.org to Paris in 1919 and opened Shakespeare Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave., http:// Superstar Eric Owens Makes His Conduct- 2368, , 220 S Michigan Angela Koenig, author of Rebellion in and Company bookshop, the first English- lincolnhallchicago.com ing Debut; Guest Artists also include Met Ave., www.baroqueband.org/event/gone- Ulster The Chicago author will read from language lending library and bookshop in clarinetist Anthony McGill and the Mosaic with-the-wind/ and sign copies of her historical fiction Paris. 7:30pm, Women & Children First, Saturday, Jan. 19 Choir. $40-$50. See Jan. 21 for another book, centered on a Boston lesbian who 5233 N. Clark St., www.womenandchil- Equality IL Transgender Community Social location. 3pm, 312-236-3681, ext.2, Thursday, Jan. 17 gets caught up in the IRA (Irish Republi- drenfirst.com Socialize, dine and sip cocktails at the el- Wentz Concert Hall, Naperville, www.chi- Open Gym Volleyball Mondays and Thurs- can Army) of the 1980s. 7:30pm, Women Rory Phillips Stardust presents Rory Phil- egant Mayne Stage. RSVP at eqil.org. Sug- cagosinfonietta.org days. Co-ed, open court volleyball for & Children First Books, 5233 N. Clark St., lips (Trash/UK) with Greg Corner (Kill gested donation $10. 12pm, Mayne Stage, Bblyss Femistry Dream: Astrological Free- www.womenandchildrenfirst.com 1328 W. Morse Ave., www.eqil.org dom Affair The spirit of feminine sensual- Rally Marks two important dates, Martin ity, independence creatively bonded by a Luther King Jr. Day and the 3rd anni- spectrum of colors. A celebration of life Thursday, Jan. 24 Sunset Boulevard preview Based on Billy versary of the Citizens United v. Federal and the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Wilder’s 1950 film about silent movie star Election Commission U.S. Supreme Court Jr. $10 till 11 pm w/RSVP or Password. Norma Desmond longing for a return to ruling, recognizing corporate personhood $15 all night without. AQUARIUS are FREE her glamorous heyday on the big screen, and giving Constitutional rights to cor- until 11 pm with unlimited discounted having been discarded by Tinseltown with porations, associations and unions that guestlist until 11:30 pm. 9pm, 877-570- the advent of “talkies.” Scored with Lloyd were originally intended only for human 6607, Tantrik, 770 N. Halsted St., www. Webber melodies. Opening Friday, Feb. 1 beings. Participating: members and sup- bblyss.com at 8:30 pm, and running through March porters of Public Citizen, Illinois Move to Robyn Showcase The Polar Music Party fea- 24. 8pm, 630-530-0111, Drury Lane The- Amend, Common Cause, MoveOn, ILPIRG, turing music and video from Robyn and atre, 100 Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace, Newspaper Guild/CWA Local 34071, Coffee electronic superstars of Scandanavia. DJ www.drurylaneoakbrook.com Party, Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Ameri- Greg Haus. 10pm, Berlin Nightclub, 954 cans for Democratic Action and the 10th W Belmont Ave., www.berlinchicago.com Democrats. 12pm, Federal Plaza, Adams & Saturday, Jan. 26 CMSA Women’s Social Party Date auction Dearborn Monday, Jan. 21 with The Force and the Chicago Women’s Youth Speak OUT! Saturdays. Open Mike for Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Chica- Rugby Team, benefiting both teams. Ev- young people to express themselves and go Sinfonietta’s 25th Anniversary Season eryone welcome. CMSA members free, to hear from legendary artists in the mak- continues MLK Weekend celebrating the non-members $5. The Force 2013 calendar ing. Free. 4pm, Center on Halsted, 3656 N universal lessons of Dr. King with music will be for sale and rugby players will have Halsted St., www.centeronhalsted.org from the American South to the African items for sale. Amy Kelly will emcee, with concert Chicago’s lesbian plains. $26–$50. Also see Sunday, Jan. singers Mindy Bartlett and Daphne Willis feminist chorus will perform “On the 20 for another location. 7:30pm, 312- and comedian Judy Fabjance performing Street Where You Live,” “Testimony” and 236-3681, ext.2, Symphony Center, 220 “Are you there, Judy? It’s me. Cancer.” other favorites. Tickets are a suggested S Michigan Ave., www.chicagosinfonietta. Amy Kelly & The Bill Ande Band perform. donation of $10 in advance; $15 at the org 7pm-10pm, Joe’s Bar, 940 W. Weed St., door. 7:30pm, Ethical Humanist Society, Mercedes’ 2013 All-American Goddess at www.chicagomsa.org 7574 N. Lincoln Ave., Skokie, www.ar- Large Benefit Show Help support Mer- temissingers.org cedes on her quest to be the next Miss Too Hot to Handel: The Jazz Gospel Mes- All-American Goddess at Large. Hosted siah Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. with bar from 10-11 pm with a star-studded the 8th annual Messiah through Jan. 20. show of national and local entertainers, 7:30pm-9:30pm, 800-982-2787, Audito- featuring Dena Cass, Coco Van Cartier, HITTING A HIGH NOTE rium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 Sage Summers, Debbie Fox, The Princess, E Congress Pkwy., www.auditoriumtheatre. Jade, Eddie Couture, Tyra Beach, Tori Sass, Saturday, Jan. 19 org Saya Naomi, Kinley Preston, Ruby Dee and Ms. Fit Online Zine Launch Party A femi- other local entertainers. $10 suggested nist, body-positive, LGBTQ-friendly health donation at door. 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BILLY MASTERS MLK Big ass choruses, some heart rippers!” The video “I do not think it should be used for anything BUT for the first single, “Woman’s World,” is being recreational use and health care.”—Miss Iowa shot next week. She is also planning a tour in Mariah Cary (presumably inadvertently) supports support of the CD this summer. In the interim, holiday the legalization of marijuana during the Q&A Cher is dipping her toes back into television. portion of the Miss America Pageant. You know She just signed a development deal with Logo you’re in trouble when you’re being laughed at (you remember them, the once and never gay network). She worked with writer and comic Ron weekend by Brooke Burke-Charvet. When I’m on deadline the night of an awards Zimmerman on a potential series, which is set in Saturday, January 19 • Open at 3pm show, I always hold this column in case any 1960s Hollywood. Not only is Cher on the cre- Holiday Weekends are Sidetrack Weekends. ative side, but she’s also considering starring in last-minute stories need mentioning. The Gold- High Energy Beats ‘til 3am en Globes delivered just that, courtesy of our the vehicle. own Jodie Foster. Yes, I think we can call her In some happy news, Matt Dallas just an- Sunday, January 20 • Open at 3pm “our own” since she basically came out while nounced that he got engaged ... to a MAN! Al- Show Tunes 4-9pm • Rewind 80s & 90s ‘til 2am accepting the Cecil B. DeMille Award. She tested though the former Kyle XY star has never made the waters by teasing of a “big announcement,” any formal statement along the lines of, “Yup, Monday, January 21 only to declare that she’s single (something we I’m Gay”, he tweeted this news rather noncha- lantly: “Starting off the year with a new fiancé, It’s INAUGURATION DAY! reported in 2009). Join us as we watch & celebrate She then said, “I already did my coming out @bluehamilton. A great way to kick off 2013!” this momentous American event. about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone (BEYONCE & KELLY CLARKSON TOO) Age—in those very quaint days when a fragile young girl would open up to trusted friends and Open at 10:30AM! family, coworkers and then gradually, proudly, to Show Tunes everyone who knew her.” She made it clear that 8pm-2pm if anyone was expecting her to be more specific, that was their problem. She added, “There is no way I could ever stand here without acknowl- edging one of the deepest loves of my life, my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in love but righ- teous soul sister in life, my confessor, ski buddy, consigliere, most beloved BFF of 20 years, Cyd- ney Bernard. Thank you, Cyd. I am so proud of our modern family.” Two people you didn’t see at the Golden Globes were Barbra Streisand and Bette Midler. In fact, 3349 N. Halsted it’s pretty rare to see them turn up on the big SidetrackChicago.com /SidetrackBar screen these days. But in some strange occur- /SiidettrackBar /SidetrackBar rence not unlike Halley’s Comet or a Kardashian dating a Caucasian, they both had movies in the cinema as 2012 ended. This made me wonder FOSTER from page 27 job. They generally received good reviews. how long it’s been since such a phenomenon Following are excerpts from Foster’s comments last happened. As it turns out, it’s been more Comedy or Musical. In addition, a surprised on TV Jan. 13, according to the Washington than 20 years. In the final days of 1991, Bette Adele won for best original song for “Skyfall,” Post: trotted out For The Boys while Babs ushered in the title song of the James Bond movie; she “There’s not gonna be a big coming-out speech The Prince of Tides. Even though The Guilt Trip bested such singers as Keith Urban and Taylor tonight, because I already did my coming out and Parental Guidance are not major additions to Swift. about a thousand years ago, back in the Stone their oeuvre, it’s nice to see two of our most be- One speaker who surprised all was former Age, in those very quaint days when perhaps a loved divas can still be relevant. (For the record, President Bill Clinton, who introduced the movie young girl would open up to trusted friends and The Guilt Trip cost $40 million and has made $33 Lincoln. Co-hoster Amy Poehler subsequently re- family and coworkers and then gradually, proud- million, while Parental Guidance was budgeted ly, to everyone who knew her, to everyone she at $25 million and has already earned $71 mil- ferred to him as “Hillary Clinton’s husband.” In the world of television, Showtime’s Home- actually met. But now apparently I’m told that lion.) every celebrity is expected to honor the details Although Bette has had a steady presence on Call it a comeback. Bette’s in movie theaters land (Best Television Series: Drama) and HBO’s of their private life with a press conference, a the big screen, she hasn’t appeared in a Broad- and on the stage. Girls (Best Television Series: Comedy or Musi- fragrance and a prime-time reality show. And, way show since Fiddler on the Roof in 1969, cal) were the top winners. Don Cheadle was a you know, you guys might be surprised, but I alongside the slightly more seasoned Pia Zadora. While Pia has returned to Broadway twice since I’m sure this will lead to the inevitable ques- (I know—I was surprised, too), Midler’s subse- tion: How many old fiancés has Matt had? I’m quent Great White Way experiences have been not privy to such personal information, but I limited to three concert runs and as a producer must confess that this revelation did not take Screen capture of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. As I told you me by surprise. I first met Matt when he was of Jodie Foster months ago, that’s all about to change—Midler a bartender at Kathy Griffin’s Christmas party— accepting the Cecil will be appearing in I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With a sure telltale sign. Around that time, I recall B. DeMille award Sue Mengers. This one-woman show chronicles hearing that he was dating one of Kathy’s good at the 70th annual the life of Hollywood superagent Sue Mengers. friends, actor Jonathan Bennett. Previously, Golden Globe Playwright John Logan (who wrote the most Bennett had been linked to Lance Bass. So once awards. NBC image recent Bond flick) admitted he was fascinated again a gaggle of gays revolves around Kathy from Hulu. with Mengers after their one brief encounter. At Griffin. a dinner party, he asked her what had changed When Jodie Foster coming out is news, it’s the most since she arrived in Hollywood. “Hon- definitely time to end yet another column. I ey,” she said, “we used to have fun!” Logan add- should mention that Jodie did previously ac- ed, “Later in the evening she settled back and knowledge Cydney while they were still togeth- lit up a joint. There she was: a joint in one hand er. It was back in 2007 at the Women in Enter- and a cigarette in the other. At that moment, I tainment Breakfast. And I know this because I looked it up in the archives of www.BillyMasters. knew I had to write the play.” The play opens surprise acting winner for the comedy House of am not Honey Boo Boo Child. ... Some day, in com—the site that’s always on top of things. Of April 24. Lies, edging, among others, out actor Jim Par- the future, people will look back and remember course, I’m willing to do whatever necessary to Another gay diva plans on having a very busy sons (The Big Bang Theory). Modern Family had how beautiful this was. I have given everything please my readers. So feel free to drop a note 2013. Although the release of Cher’s new CD has three nods (including those for Sofia Vergara up there, from the time that was I was 3 years to [email protected] and I promise to get been delayed until March, the industry is buzzing and Eric Stonestreet), but came up empty. (For old. … There is no way I could ever stand here back to you before Nick Cannon hooks up with that it could make quite a large impact ... along the full list of winners, see www.goldenglobes. without acknowledging one of the deepest loves Miss Iowa! Until next time, remember, one man’s the lines of “Believe” (and not, presumably, org/2012/12/nominations-2013.) of my life: my heroic co-parent, my ex-partner in filth is another man’s bible. Burlesque). Cher tweeted some details: “Lots of Tina Fey and Poehler co-hosted the event, love but righteous soul sister in life, my confes- dance, but none are SAME KIND OF DANCE! Have marking the first time two women shared the sor, ski buddy, consigliere, most beloved BFF of 20 years, Cydney Bernard. Thank you, Cyd.” 30 Jan. 16, 2013 WINDY CITY TIMES CMSA women’s party expected to draw 1,200 by Ross Forman this social would never have happened. I’m hop- ing that because of the success we have had The third annual CMSA Women’s Social Party is in the past that we can keep this going for our expected to be the largest ever, featuring mu- women CMSA members and for our non-profit or- sic, entertainment and an auction. Organizers ganizations that have benefited from it.” expect 1,200 people to attend, up from 1,000 The event is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 26, last year and 900 in 2011. 7-10 p.m., at Joe’s Bar, 940 W. Weed St. “I feel this [event] is such a great opportunity Amy Kelly will serve as the MC for the event, for CMSA to give back to our community since which will feature singers Mindy Bartlett and many of these members volunteer for these or- Daphne Willis, plus comedian Judy Fabjance per- ganizations,” which will benefit from the social forming “Are you there, Judy. It’s me. Cancer,” a party, said Sam Hamilton, event coordinator. one-woman comedy show based on Fabjance’s “I want to thank the past and current CMSA personal battle with cancer. board for [its] support. If it weren’t for them Amy Kelly & The Bill Ande Band also will be performing. Fabjance and her girlfriend, Kelly Beeman, played in the CMSA women’s soccer league, where Beeman was the team captain. “Judy is a longtime CMSA member battling cancer,” Hamilton said. “She currently does not have health insurance to help pay for her medi- cal bills. The money raised from the [event’s ad- mission fee] for non-members will be divided evenly between Judy and the [Chicago] Force, which is always in need of funding.” More than 30 Force players also are active Scene from a past CMSA women’s social. Photo from Hamilton and Mystic Images Photography CMSA members. The Force and the Chicago Women’s Rugby Football Club will be doing a combined date last-minute date auction with the Force and it the event and rugby players also will have items auction, with money raised from these auctions worked out well. This year I’m trying to organize for sale. benefiting both teams. it so it truly benefits the Force.” “Former [CMSA] President Shawn Albritton and “We are hoping to raise around $5,000 by the Six rugby players also will be auctioned off. former [CMSA] Vice President Marcia Hill started end of the evening,” Hamilton said. “It’s great that the 2013 Women’s Social Party this social in 2011,” Hamilton said. “For years, Six Force players will be auctioned off for [is] expanding the charitable groups who will when we used to have our CMSA party combining dates. benefit from [the event to include] the Chicago women and men, only 50 or so women would at- “I had been doing the date auction since we Force football team, the Chicago Women’s Rugby tend, compared to 700-plus men. The old board started the CMSA women’s social with other Team and Judy Fabjance,” Hamilton said. “CMSA decided at that time to have a separate women’s Sam Hamilton. Photo from Hamilton charities,” Hamilton said. “Last year we did a has provided an outlet for the largest LGBTQ social from the men’s, and it has proven to be sports leagues in the Midwest, [and] our annual successful.” ADVERTISEMENT parties has given something back to organiza- That said, men are invited, and will be attend- When experience counts... tions, such as a local food pantry or a pet shel- ing the women’s social, Hamilton confirmed. In service to the community for over 30 years. ter.” “Of course, all CMSA members are welcome,” The Force will be selling its 2013 calendar at she said. The Law Offices of Roger V. McCaffrey-Boss & Associates Chicago taking part in ‘Cupid’s Undie Run’ Chicago is one of 17 cities across the coun- DIVORCE – LEGAL EQUALITY FOR EVERYONE try participating in Cupid’s Undie Run, which serves as a national fundraiser to benefit the When the Civil Union Act was signed into law by Governor Quinn, everyone was rejoicing at the granting of Children’s Tumor Foundation (CTF). all the legal benefits to same-sex couples. For Beth and her ex-lover Janet, however, the joy of the new civil Since its first event in 2010, Cupid’s Undie union law was not that they could enter into a legally binding relationship in Illinois – the joy was that they Run has donated more than $400,000 to CTF could finally end the legal relationship they created in Vermont in 2000. with 100 percent of fundraising dollars going In 2000, LGBT couples from all states could travel to Vermont, apply to Vermont town clerks for a civil straight to the foundation. union license and then receive a civil union certificate. Vermont intended that the legal status granted to The Chicago race (approximately one mile) LGBT couples was to be parallel to civil marriage. But it only worked while in Vermont. takes place Saturday, Feb. 9, at Houndstooth Relationships change and it changed for Beth and Janet, who now live apart. In 2006 they split. Now Saloon, 3369 N. Clark St., at 2:30 p.m. (Par- ready to move into new unions and marriages, they discovered they could not terminate their Vermont civil ticipants must be at least 21.) Admission is union in Illinois. Illinois did not allow them to “divorce” under Illinois law. The only way for Janet and Beth to terminate their Vermont civil union was for one of them to move to Vermont and meet the residency $30; see www.CupidsUndieRun.com. requirement of living there for one year. They couldn’t afford to move back nor did they want to. So they stayed together legally. Hancock opens rink People change and grow, people can create ugly disasters and people make mistakes – what seemed like John Hancock Observatory, 875 N. Michigan a good idea at one point in someone’s life may not be the same great idea years later. The new civil union Dirk Schafer. Ave., has reopened its skating rink. The rink law in Illinois provides a legal fix for the mistakes. It allows judges to grant legal dissolution of unions and will be open 9 a.m.-10:30 p.m through April make declarations of invalidity of a civil union, and decree that a marriage between persons of the same sex, 8. a civil union, or a substantially similar relationship (other than a common law marriage), legally entered into The observatory has an online ticket and in another jurisdiction, can be dissolved here in Illinois. Dirk Schafer releasing reservation system (at www.JHOChicago. Now Janet and Beth – as well as all the other LGBT couples who have marriage licensees from other states and countries – can have the benefit of Illinois’ law and courts to terminate their legal ties – to unwind workout DVD com), where reservations are required for the mistakes and fix the bad ideas. This gives a real sense of equality to LGBT couples so they know they Dirk Schafer—who shot to fame 20 years skating sessions. A 25-minute skating session won’t end up in legal limbo if their relationship changes. ago when he became the first out gay man is $5 (plus admission) and guests are wel- to be named Playgirl magazine’s “Man of come to either bring their own skates or rent the Year”—has released the fitness DVD, the them at the observatory for $1. SWAPOUTWORKOUT. “Fitness is both my passion and my career,” Force calendars out Schafer said in a statement. “By creating this • Bankruptcy • Wills, Trusts & Probate The Chicago Force has limited quantities of DVD, I wanted to share with a wider audience its 2013 calendar available. • Real Estate Closings • Civil Unions the valuable knowledge that I have accumu- The items are $10, plus $4 shipping. They lated over 20 years of helping people change 19 S. LaSalle, Suite 1500, Chicago, IL 60603 are available at www.chicagoforcefootball. their bodies and their lives … step by step.” com. 312-263-8800 [email protected] See www.swapoutworkout.com. 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