JAMES COTTON RECORDED LIVE AT ANTONE’S NIGHT CLUB Antone’s Records and Tapes ANT0007 Harmonica player James Cotton has a reputation as an exhilarating live performer whose high-energy, boogie-laden blues has never been accurately captured on record. During the mid-70s, he carried what was arguably the tightest working blues band of its day–featuring Matt “Guitar” Murphy […]
Tag: Vol. 17 No. 49
Issue of Sep. 22 – 28, 1988
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Tribune Power
To the editors. According to Neil Tesser (Aug. 26) the Sun-Times’s Dennis (The Blasphemer) Byrne was responsible for an interruptus in the collective, multiple orgasms the media were having during the festival of lights at Wrigley Field. Byrne apparently committed the abomination of desecration in his treatment of the Tribune Co. tetragrammaton: “BEER.” And that’s […]
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The City File
New horizons in management science. “Managers who exhibit Type A behavior are involved in a constant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time,” according to a press release summarizing a study in Personnel Journal. “They see their enemies as the clock and other people, and typically try to measure their accomplishments […]
Posted inFilm
Entertainment as Oppression
1. A front-page story in the August 24 Variety begins, “Last week’s Republican National Convention garnered the worst network ratings of any convention in TV history.” An interesting piece of information, but not, as far as I know, one that was noted in daily newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, or on TV. Why does one have to […]
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Rampant Heterosexuality
To the editors: What Adam Langer (“Guts,” August 26) observed at Albany and School streets is an all too common example of heterosexual child abuse. For a child’s father and uncles–if indeed they were such-0to approve of, and encourage, the action of other juveniles in beating and terrorizing a defenseless six-year-old is a clear case […]
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Music Notes: Chicago Sinfonietta’s minority-minded maestro
Paul Freeman is a rarity in the world of classical music: an eminent black conductor who’s been at it for almost three decades. “There are only a handful of us around,” he says with a hint of indignation. On the phone from Victoria, Canada–his home base; he heads that city’s principal orchestra–Freeman explains that the […]
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Torture: Help Wanted
To the editors: While we commend you on the excellence of your recent front-page article, “Torture” [August 5], and the work being done at the Marjorie Kovler Center for the Treatment of the Victims of Torture, you omitted some important facts. The original idea for establishing a torture victim treatment center in Chicago came from […]
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Field & Street
I usually walk my dog in Homer Park early in the morning just as the sun is breaking over the trees along the river. Traffic is light at that hour, and the park is big enough to mute the noise of what little there is. This time of year, especially when the wind is from […]
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Homophobia
Here’s some of the testimony that aldermen heard–and gave–before voting on the gay rights ordinance. Don’t laugh. It’s not funny.
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Seed Money
To the editors: Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute [“Dr. Doom,” July 1] has done a great deal to focus attention on human assaults on Mother Earth. However, apparently even he could stand to look a little further into a couple subjects near to his heart. The money peasants must put toward hybridized seeds (obviously […]
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Eddie Harris
Sure he was just in town (in fact Eddie Harris appeared in three different contexts at the recent Jazz Fest), and sure, he played here earlier in the summer with Les McCann. And yes, you need to see him again–if only because this time, Harris gets to run his own show. But there’s more: By […]
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Lerner and Labor: A Decomposing Relationship; SWF Seeks Partner With Money
Lerner and Labor: A Decomposing Relationship From the annals of the undead . . . The Lerner newspapers’ composing room at 7519 N. Ashland expired at the end of the workweek Saturday, September 3. Survivors were consoled in the traditional way, which is to pat them on the back and wish them luck finding another […]
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A Fresh Start in Alaska
To the editors: Tom Riccio, former artistic director of the Organic Theater, moved to Fairbanks, Alaska a month ago to take over the theater department of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. He told Reader columnist, Michael Miner [September 9], Fairbanks is made up of two kinds of people: “Fundamentalist Christians and liberal granola crunchers, which […]
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Chicago Latino Film Festival 88
The fourth annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival will show 50 films, virtually all of them subtitled, from 19 Latin American countries, Spain, and the U.S. (including several independent works from Chicago). All screenings will be held at the Three Penny Cinema, 2424 N. Lincoln, from Friday, September 23, through Sunday, October 2. […]