Author Archives: Tom Terranova

Rosalie Edelstein’s passion for bingo began 20 years ago when she first strolled into a northwest-side bingo hall on a whim. “When I walked in I had $5, and I think I walked out with over 40. And I thought, “Boy, that’s a lot of fun for $5.”‘ Back in those days, before she had […]

Days of the Week

Samuel Floyd Jr. traces the origin of every black musical idiom to the traditional African ring dance. “Some people refer to it as a holy dance,” says Floyd, who heads the Center for Black Music Research at Columbia College. “Ring dances in Africa were simply spectacles in which participants stood in a ring and started […]

Charles Masters’s father was never able to show his son what he did in World War II. The movies of the 1950s had plenty of fighter planes and tanks, but there were never any gliders. The use of gliders–towed, engineless aircraft made of plywood or canvas stretched over light metal frames–was possibly the biggest military […]

At the same time Newt Gingrich was fending off protesters and hawking copies of his conservative manifesto to booksellers in McCormick Place last June, a very different kind of book on American politics was being quietly passed out to the same dealers by its author, a man some people might call the anti-Newt. The book […]

March

Just inside the Arctic circle–spread across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia–live the Sami, the indigenous people of Scandinavia. There are some striking similarities between the Sami and Native Americans. Traditional Sami have a nature-centered spirituality, live in tepeelike tents, and survive largely by hunting, fishing, and reindeer herding. Like American Indians, the Sami have also […]

JANUARY FRIDAY 20 The Hell’s Angels and Outlaws biker outfits can put their much-hyped turf war on the back burner this weekend, finding common ground at the 1995 Cycle World Chicago International Motorcycle Show at the Rosemont Convention Center, 5555 N. River Road in Rosemont. Besides getting a peek at this year’s models, you can […]

October

Violist Max Raimi first got to know music lover and local political activist Joel Finkel during the 1991 CSO strike. Finkel was there the day the strike began, immediately following a free performance in Grant Park. “After the concert [the musicians] put down their instruments and picked up their picket signs,” Finkel says, “and they […]

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All immigrants have some difficulty adjusting to a new culture, but some of William Gorman’s clients have a harder time than most. Gorman is a UIC psychologist who works with victims of torture. Gorman’s clients often develop problems with substance abuse, have trouble trusting people, and even suffer from guilt for surviving at all. “The […]