BERLIN, JERUSALEM AND THE MOON A Traveling Jewish Theatre at Wisdom Bridge Theatre There’s a distinctly haymishe, homey, quality to Berlin, Jerusalem and the Moon. Not matzo ball soup haymishe. […]
Tag: Vol. 17 No. 34
Issue of Jun. 9 – 15, 1988
Posted inNews & Politics
Behind the Tribune’s Schools Series; Ronnie and Mikey: The Lost Tribes
Behind the Tribune’s Schools Series The Tribune first intended its series on Chicago schools to run a month to six weeks. The series would go on and on, past the […]
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One for the Books
What should the new library look like? How should it relate to its users and the city around it? Five prominent architects have addressed the question. Next week judges will decide the answer.
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Medium Cold
Competitive ice-carving: “It’s not only artistic, it has many of the elements of sport as well, it’s physically demanding, and style and performance count for a lot.”
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A Funny Family
CLOSE OF PLAY Famous Door Theatre at Victory Gardens Studio Theater Simon Gray’s biting black comedy Close of Play has a very wordy script, filled with confessional outpourings and bizarre, […]
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The Gospel According to Gordon Lish
In which 30 aspiring writers pay $350 each for 12 hours of abuse from Captain Fiction, literary guru.
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Single-room housing: Can not-for-profit developers turn the tide?
It seems the most unlikely of combinations: single-room-occupancy hotels, those holding pens for the John Hinckleys and Travis Bickles of the world, and not-for-profit organizations, those bastions of goody-goodyism. Yet […]
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Reading: Sandburg and Steichen
“Such days!–Oshkosh, Hartford, Menomonee Falls, Milwaukee, the lake, Chicago & Princeton & YOU!!” What further proof do we need of the transforming power of love than its ability to make […]
Posted inFilm
May the Formula Be With You
WILLOW * (Has redeeming facet) Directed by Ron Howard Written by Bob Dolman and George Lucas With Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Warwick Davis, Billy Barty, Gavan O’Herlihy, Jean Marsh, Pat […]
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Calendar Photo Caption
Photographer Francois Robert took his original photograph of a five-year-old in a lily pond and manipulated it nine different ways. They range from weaving chicken wire through it to rephotographing […]
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The Sports Section
My brother came downtown last month, on a day I had to work, and he and a friend went off to the bleachers to watch the Cubs. Later that night, […]
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The Escape Artist
THE ESCAPE ARTIST Victory Gardens Today’s aspiring young playwrights were born after television became a fixture in American homes. They grew up with sitcoms, soap operas, and Saturday-morning cartoons. Sitting […]
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Kuwait Until Dark; or, Bright Lights, Night Baseball
KUWAIT UNTIL DARK; OR, BRIGHT LIGHTS, NIGHT BASEBALL Second City I think comedy revues compared to straight drama have a more active rapport with their audience. Whether or not a […]
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More Tina and Rosie: Self-Righteous Claptrap
To the editors: I am appalled by the number of readers who claim to be outraged by Marion Karczmar’s affectionate and engaging portrait of her former neighbors, Tina and Rosie […]