HUBBARD STREET DANCE COMPANY at the Civic Center for Performing Arts April 28-30 and May 4-7 Hubbard Street’s hallmarks are a sassy mood, stylish choreography, and a silky-smooth yet piston-hard technique. It’s a glossy look, with a high finish and bright colors: the dance comes in a gorgeous package. Hubbard Street’s a crowd-pleaser. In its […]
Tag: Vol. 18 No. 29
Issue of May. 4 – 10, 1989
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Elsewhere: Strangers in Las Vegas
It must be the shared experience–the transience and the gambling–that makes them so open, so willing to talk.
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Johnny B. Moore With Bonnie Lee
It’s always nice to see one of your own predictions come true. In much less time than it usually takes, guitarist Johnny B. Moore has become one of the most widely respected blues musicians in Chicago. He has retained his hard-edged west-side roots while developing his technique in soul, pop, funk, and rock stylings with […]
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On Exhibit: 57 ways to improve Chicago
An illustrated feature in each issue of Spy, called “New, Improved New York,” posits some change, usually involving some in-joke, that will make Gotham a better place. In one issue, for example, the editors suggest holding a Thanksgiving-night parade featuring gigantic balloons not of Mickey Mouse or Superman or even of Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtles […]
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Daley Planning
To the editors: Ed Zotti is an astute commentator on urban planning issues in Chicago, and he also obviously cares for our city, but I must take issue with much of “Cityscape: Planning for Daley” (Reader, April 14). In the first place, Zotti–along with every other journalist in Chicago–should renounce the misty descent into portraying […]
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The Straight Dope
NEWS FROM LAKE LILLIAN Recently I heard one of your readers was concerned about the existence of my hometown of Lake Lillian, Minnesota. It’s there, all right, all 300-plus people (350-plus if you count the cats and dogs). Lake Lillian is on Highway 7 about 12 miles north of Bird Island, in case you can’t […]
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I’ll Take Jesus
To the editors: In the April 21st interview with Mr. Sheehan, he makes several points that I would like to take issue with. First is that every major theologian shares his views on the “myths” of the bible; secondly, I take offense to his insinuation that those that differ with these views are country bumpkins […]
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The City File
Nature imitates art. In the recent contest to choose the official state prairie grass, according to the state Department of Conservation, one Bolingbrook second-grader voted for northern dropseed “because it smells good…like popcorn…and it looks like a punk-rock hairdo.” New horizons in liberal guilt. This from Senator Paul Simon: “The United States is 5 percent […]
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Adult Services
To the editors: Well, the “Help Stop AIDS” ad [Section Three, April 21] is the largest in Adult Services this week! Does this fact make you feel better about taking money from companies that peddle sex on the phone and otherwise? The Reader is seemingly unconcerned about using its ad space for pimping and sexual […]
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Life Without Father
REARRANGING THE DARK HOUSE Fluid Measure at the Organic Lab Theater Rearranging the Dark House was an overwhelming disappointment. This original dance/theater work, created by Kathy Maltese, Donna Mandel, and Patricia Pelletier of Fluid Measure, is a barrage of confused, inconsistent images lacking emotional impact or theatrical weight. The piece assaulted the audience with its […]
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Women Writers
To the editors: No offense intended to Aphra Behn, but she is not “the first European woman known to have made her living as a writer” [“A Feminist Comedy From 1677,” March 24]. Christine de Pisan (c1365-c1430) has a reasonable claim to be the first professional writer in Europe–of either sex. Gail Gillispie S. Dorchester
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Illiteracy: The Creeping Menace
To the editors: The “Read Illinois conference” referred to in my profile of bookseller Richard Bray [April 14] was in fact the sixth annual Illinois Literary Heritage Conference, which is but a part of the Read Illinois program undertaken by that nice Mr. Edgar, our secretary of state. I for one wish him well. If […]
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Dr. John
Dr. John is the real thing: one of the most requested session men in New Orleans during the R & B glory days of the 50s and early 60s, he studied under the legendary pianist Professor Longhair. The Doctor’s command of over a quarter century of blues and R & B heritage makes his one […]
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The Letter From Another Planet
To the editors: I found James Krohe Jr.’s piece on Richard Bray and Guild Bookstore, Chicago Reader, April 14, 1989, to be offensive at best, and extremely poor journalism at worst. The article opens up with, and continues to utilize throughout its length, supposition, absence of fact and what can only be an undertone of […]