Tag: Vol. 17 No. 16

To the editors: Thank you very much for the publicity you gave our Naperville Sun in your recent article on Pat Colander and Copley’s lust over our market [Hot Type, January 15]. We would like to correct some slight errors in the story. Naperville, the largest city in Du Page County, now has over 75,000 […]

To the editors: I would like to make a few observations regarding the recent article [Calendar, January 8] about my sculpture Green Lightning and written by Michael Ervin. When the venerable New York Times took my quote in which I described the neon elements as “burlesquing the myth of male dominance” and instead printed “he […]

To the editors: Now you’ve done it! I mean, with the Jane Addams cover story [January 15]. Week after week–whenever I get to them–your cover stories come across as humanly interesting, artfully crafted, thoughtfully probing, and resonant with a Chicago ambience. Last week’s story on Jane Addams just upped the ante a tad. Take it […]

To the editors: Gary Rivlin’s “Seven Wretched Days” [December 25] was the best article on Chicago I’ve read in the past five years (since [David] Moberg’s [March 8] ’83 piece on Washington). Thanks. Gordon Schiff N. Seminary

To the editors: C.C. Pyle, in his article about the New Age and channeling [“Our Bodies, Their Selves,” January 15] mentions that channeling is just another word for spiritualism. I agree with this. He also says that this idea that we can contact the living beyond the grave is given great appeal when, “Luminaries such […]

To the editors: The new magazine, Spy, mentioned in Hot Type, 8/7/87, is the greatest idea to come along since the First Amendment. Though it may contain some youthful frivolity, the photo essay on “the de-volution of Bob Greene’s hair pieces,” some interesting truths are seeing daylight: “The [N.Y.] Times has been dragging their employees […]

To the editors: Although I realize the implication of admitting a close relationship with the subject of controversy, I simply cannot sit idly by and not react to John Bliss’s unthinking January 15 letter (“Playing at Theater”) about the Chicago Actors Ensemble. First let me make clear that my link with this group is a […]