To the editors: I’ve seen many articles that bemoan the ethics of real estate development and displacement [Neighborhood News, January 29]. How about a realistic article that looks at the feasibility of these developments? We west of the Kennedy home owners continue to suffer by the get rich quick schemes of fly-by-night developers. Ron Gan […]
Tag: Vol. 17 No. 18
Issue of Feb. 18 – 24, 1988
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The Straight Dope
The most needed new word in the English language must surely be a substitute for the “his/her” attribution, which forces you to either rewrite or use the awkward “his or her” (or, for those afraid of stirring up a feminist terrorist group, “her or his”). I am perplexed that our language is so flexible and […]
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Asleep at the Switch
To the editors: Your recent Neighborhood News feature on Kathy Osterman and the Treasure Island development fiasco [“A Strip Mall in Edgewater: class warfare, or small-time tiff?” by Ben Joravsky, January 15] brought to your readers’ attention, again, that the 48th Alderperson is asleep at the switch. Our ward and the city of Chicago need […]
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City File
February is Canned Food Month, so cheer up! Soup, tuna, pasta, corn, pork and beans, green beans, tomatoes, peaches, pineapple, and ham and bulk meats were the ten top-selling canned foods in 1987, according to the Canned Food Information Council on North Michigan Avenue. Outlawed plants. Japanese honeysuckle, multiflora rose, and purple loosestrife are now […]
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Ascended Masters and Poor Schlubs
To the editors: I would like to respond to C.C. Pyle’s article, “Our Bodies, Their Selves,” on channeling, published in the January 15 Reader. It is apparent from the disorganization of the material that Mr. Pyle was simply out of his element–resulting in a report much like one would expect of a typical first grader […]
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The Danube
THE DANUBE Organic Theater Company Real life, depicted in real time, would be unbearably tedious to watch. Small, trivial events consume the vast majority of our lives, but those events simply don’t pack much dramatic wallop. Just imagine the last dinner party you attended being reproduced verbatim before an audience. That’s why all plays are […]
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Exporting Aggravation
To the editors: While much of what he says has merit, it’s only a nice dream of Jesse Jackson’s to “export . . . medicine and tractors to 400 million customers” in Latin America [“Jackson and Simon in Iowa,” February 5]. What happens when, for want of information, the recipients start hoarding the pills? Or […]
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Misplaced Opinions
To the editors: I am familiar with Achy Obejas’s work and until now have admired it. I find it unfortunate and disturbing that she chose the calendar section of the Reader to editorialize on the difficult and tragic situation between Israel and the Palestinians. (February 5 listing for Shalom ’88.) Please, in the future, keep […]
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William Ferris Chorale
New Yorker John Corigliano is perhaps one of the most important figures on the local music scene: as the Chicago Symphony’s composer-in-residence for the next two years, his mission is to promote new music and to serve as a conduit between the creative community and the venerable institution that has long ignored it. Thus, for […]
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Heartfelt Fluff
MOONSTRUCK ** (Worth seeing) Directed by Norman Jewison Written by John Patrick Shanley With Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, and Danny Aiello. Moonstruck, Norman Jewison’s pleasant, warmhearted movie, draws upon two dramatic traditions–the celebration of liberated passion (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Smiles of a Summer Night, Cousin, Cousine) and ethnic domestic comedy-drama. The setting is […]
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Field & Street
I set my first forest fire about four years ago, in an oak woods along the north branch of the Chicago River. I did the incendiary deed with a drip torch, a fire-starting device that consists of a small tank topped by a handle and a long spout. You fill the tank with a mixture […]
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A referendum gorws in the 47th Ward: boosting the current against Com Ed rate hikes
By the time the press arrives, the young professionals and the senior citizens have grabbed the best seats, and the meeting has kicked into gear. “How many of you feel that Commonwealth Edison is a greedy corporation without a heart that charges too much for electricity?” asks Josh Hoyt, convener of the night’s program, a […]
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Lace Panties
She greeted her guest at the door wearing a slinky low-cut garment designed to entice even the most monogamous man. Her gracious offer of champagne followed by a warm smile was an unneeded aphrodisiac. Inside her chamber, the cushiony touch of her carpeted floor was cloudlike. The walls were stacked with a collage of smooth, […]
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Balletic Harmony
AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE at the Auditorium Theatre February 2-13, 1988 American Ballet Theatre’s programming for their annual Chicago engagement embodies the tension between classicism and romanticism that marks ballet in America. A classical choreographic style emphasizes discipline, simplicity, harmony; the romantic emphasizes enthusiasm, intricacy, emotion. In ABT’s repertory, George Balanchine’s Symphonie Concertante and Ballet Imperial […]