The paper doesn’t think Grease‘s creators are worth mentioning.
Tag: Taft High School
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The school model that’s good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel
If unionized teachers are good enough for Mayor Emanuel’s kids, why not the public schools?
Posted inColumns & Opinion
In the Chicago Public Schools, promises are made to be broken
Reasons to doubt Mayor Emanuel’s promises on schools—as if you needed more.
Posted inNews & Politics
Lane Tech cruises to another city softball title behind the pitching and power of Kaleigh Ambrose.
Kaleigh Ambrose rested the green softball on her hip and peered in for the sign. She went into her windmill motion and whipped the ball toward the plate. The batter swung late and the ball thumped into catcher Emily Espinosa’s mitt: strike three. Ambrose and her Lane Tech teammates ran to their dugout. She’d struck […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Exactly how bad are the bad kids of The Original Grease?
The April 28 Reader featured Cynthia Gallaher’s story about the Pink Ladies, a club started in the mid-1950s by northwest-side Catholic girls who were either going to Taft High School or knew somebody who was. Jim Jacobs went to Taft, too, and when he and Warren Casey were writing their 1971 paean to pomade, Grease, […]
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The Original Pink Ladies
Grease‘s girl gang had a real-life model on the northwest side.