Those already familiar with the music of percussionist Mongo Santamaria won’t need much prompting to hear him this weekend: mere mention of his infectious Afro-Cuban jazz and roots music acts like a magnet for the previously indoctrinated. Among the uninitiated, the jazz fans can think of him as not only a splendid conga drummer but […]
Tag: Vol. 17 No. 4
Issue of Nov. 12 – 18, 1987
Posted inArts & Culture
A Glorious Synergy
DESIGN FOR LIVING Apple Tree Theatre Company I like to put my nose right up to great paintings and study how the artists achieved their effects: a crude dab of white paint, for example, endows a human eye with intelligence; some roughly layered colors make an Impressionist landscape shimmer. There’s something incongruous about the fact […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Cul-de-sac: has Negrophobia struck northeast Oak Park?
When Barbara Woodson moved to Oak Park with her mother and two sisters seven years ago, she knew she was moving into one of Chicago’s most racially enlightened communities. Though the Woodsons are black and the neighborhood was still primarily white, there were no problems when they moved onto LeMoyne Parkway, a tidy street of […]