There are at least two fun ironies in the rather ugly dispute that has separated leader-songwriter Roger Waters from his erstwhile teammates in the greatest dinosaur rock band of them all, Pink Floyd. The first is that Pink Floyd wasn’t really Roger Waters’s group at all: it was the conception and (originally) the execution of […]
Tag: Vol. 17 No. 13
Issue of Jan. 14 – 20, 1988
Posted inNews & Politics
A strip mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?
They’re building a strip mall on the old, deserted blacktop lot–now covered with ice–out behind the Berwyn Avenue elevated stop in Edgewater. It’s nothing fancy, really, just a small and simple stretch of shops. It’s the kind of project they build all the time in the suburbs, where most folks undoubtedly would pay it little […]
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The Boys of Winter
We lasted many years, Billy and me, all those hours and days and winter months spent out in a smoky pale world that no one had told us yet was cold enough to kill us.
Posted inArts & Culture
Stage Notes: Frank Galati conducts an affair
Frank Galati stands in the middle of what he aptly describes as “a sort of derelict loft.” Gray and bleak, it looks like a deserted artist’s studio. Strewn about the sprawling space are paintings and pieces of sculpture–some impressionism, some cubism, and a striking minimalist work, a square canvas painted nothing but yellow. Depressing and […]