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Home » Vol. 17 No. 34

Tag: Vol. 17 No. 34

Issue of Jun. 9 – 15, 1988

Posted inArts & Culture

Berlin, Jerusalem and the Moon

by Anthony Adler June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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. […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Live, From Evanston

by Nancy Hamm June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

It’s the 200th Broadcast of the Friday Club

Posted inNews & Politics

Behind the Tribune’s Schools Series; Ronnie and Mikey: The Lost Tribes

by Michael Miner June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

One for the Books

by Ed Zotti June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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.

Posted inNews & Politics

Medium Cold

by Chris Petrakos June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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.”

Posted inArts & Culture

A Funny Family

by Albert Williams June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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, […]

Posted inNews & Politics

The Gospel According to Gordon Lish

by Sharon Solwitz June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

In which 30 aspiring writers pay $350 each for 12 hours of abuse from Captain Fiction, literary guru.

Posted inNews & Politics

Single-room housing: Can not-for-profit developers turn the tide?

by David Fremon June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Reading: Sandburg and Steichen

by James Krohe Jr. June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

“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

by Jonathan Rosenbaum June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Calendar Photo Caption

by Chicago Reader June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

The Sports Section

by Ted Cox June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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, […]

Posted inArts & Culture

The Escape Artist

by Tom Valeo June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Kuwait Until Dark; or, Bright Lights, Night Baseball

by Tom Boeker June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

More Tina and Rosie: Self-Righteous Claptrap

by Conan Putnam June 9, 1988August 20, 2021

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 […]

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