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Tag: Vol. 17 No. 23
Issue of Mar. 24 – 30, 1988
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A Couple of Blaguards
A COUPLE OF BLAGUARDS at the Briar Street Theatre Five years ago, on a theatrical tour of Ireland, I had the experience of visiting the coastal town of Limerick. Limerick’s a dreary little place–drab, small-minded, devoid of any signs of ambition, architecturally stuck in mid-20th-century drabness. Yet it is also home to a collection of […]
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Reading: Our City, Ourselves
These guidebooks aim to portray the “real” Chicago, to take the reader “under its skin, where it lives, breathes, and smells.” Do they?
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Calendar Photo Caption
Rub a dub dub, there’s a girl in my–sink? This photo and others by photographer Larz Cohen will be on display Tuesday, March 29, at Limelight. This one appears on a poster by JBC Enterprises, a new local production company, which is celebrating its release with a party open to the public. Free champagne will […]
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Why Is This Man Hiding?/Trib Goes for Gore
Why Is This Man Hiding? Robert Page’s palace guard, two minions who had served him intimately for years, have just resigned from the Sun-Times, apparently under fire, and employees wonder if the publisher’s own position is in danger. It is difficult to imagine Page dismissing Joan Kane and Tom Cunningham if there were any way […]
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The Straight Dope
I’m enclosing a bag of salted-in-the-shell peanuts because I think it makes a statement, although I’m not sure by whom or about what. Please note the warning on the back of the bag: CAUTION: Remove shell before consuming nutmeats I’m speechless. Is this some kind of joke? Is this an indication of what peanut distributors […]
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Indigos
Why the Indigos? Because after gigging and gigging, they’ve finally got a grip on the trick of rearranging familiar elements into something new. Both David Kay and Dick Smith write quietly mature songs that sound airy and gentle even when played loud. Kay’s tunes in particular betray a kind of coffeehouse-folkie sensibility, so it’s only […]
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City File
And when we run out of landfill space here on Earth, this may be your new home. In Adler Planetarium’s new “Space Transporters” exhibit, the visitor is “transported” to another planet, sees a three-dimensional view of its surface, and learns about its atmosphere and how much he or she would weigh there. The exhibit is […]
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Where Vernon Jarrett Is Coming From
A Strong Family, A Small Town in Tennessee, and a Lifetime of Experience With Racial Prejudice
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Broder’s Keeper
To the editors: Michael Miner’s “Hot Type” column describing the demise of the Chicago Tribune’s middle east correspondent Jonathan Broder [March 11] constituted a weak defense of and apology for Broder’s plagiarism. In describing Broder’s middle east coverage, Miner states that: “Every line he wrote was carefully read, and as he wrote what he saw, […]
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Field & Street
Last Sunday was the vernal equinox, or, as we say in English, the first day of spring. It is an occasion that often slips by unnoticed in Chicago. For us, late March brings blizzards more often than balmy breezes and nodding daffodils. We have to wait a whole month before the first pale green leaves […]
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Filth, Scum, Uninsured Animals
To the editors: Jack Clark obviously went to great pains to make his story a fair one [“Who Killed Jay Brunkella?” February 26]. It’s too bad Andrea Grannum and Margaret Smith, the dissenting jurors who would have us believe that they also desperately wanted to be fair, didn’t walk a mile in Jay Brunkella’s moccasins […]
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Tour de France
The French Travel Showcase came to town on Saint Patrick’s Day, not an ideal day for concentrating on things French: somehow the peculiar poisonous color of the river kept coming to mind, and even some of the most avid Gallophiles–the kind who were wont to burst out practically unsolicited, “Oh, I just love France”–were wearing […]
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Burnham Park: It’s Not a Neighborhood, It’s a State of Mind
To the editors: I must rise to the defense of my friend Dennis McClendon, unjustly maligned in these columns recently by Barbara Lynne of the Burnham Park Planning Board [Letters, March 4]. Ms. Lynne feels Dennis is a deluded soul who is conducting some sort of nutty campaign to convince the world that the neighborhood […]