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Tag: Vol. 18 No. 38
Issue of Jul. 6 – 12, 1989
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What’s Going on at Inside Chicago?; The Flag Bill of Rights
What’s Going on at Inside Chicago? We’re a long time getting around to writing about Inside Chicago. But it looked so low rent when it debuted in 1987. And we were preoccupied with Chicago Times, which soon appeared and has distracted us ever since with its stormy misadventures. The contrast between the two new bimonthlies […]
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Beaux Arts Trio
Chamber music often takes a backseat to orchestral music during the summer months, but this week there is a feast that will prepare chamber-music lovers for the dry weeks ahead: the Beaux Arts Trio playing the complete piano trios of Beethoven in three consecutive concerts. The tight ensembling and depth of interpretation that the Beaux […]
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Hot Times: remembering the house-music underground
A few weeks ago Rhonda Craven found herself laughing at a TV report on a new dance craze, house music. “It was one of those ‘info-tainment’ syndicated shows,” she says. “They were showing scenes from clubs in New York, but nowhere–nowhere at all–did they talk about house music’s real roots.” Those roots are buried deep […]
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The Straight Dope
Everywhere you go you hear people say, “If you don’t like the weather here, just wait ten minutes and it’ll change.” As though where they live is the only place with variable weather. But who really has the right to say this? I leave it to you to decide what constitutes variability, but I’d suggest […]
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Restaurant Tours: Joel Ponchalek seeks a wider audience
Clark Street between Belmont Avenue and Wrigley Field is distinguished by a motley assortment of ethnic eateries. You’ll find Japanese, Mexican, Thai, Chinese, Korean, Ethiopian, and Philippine restaurants along that stretch. American food tends to be limited to hot dogs and hamburgers with one interesting exception–Joel’s Theatre Cafe. For the past four years the Organic […]
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The City File
“Let’s face it,” says Glenn O’Brien in Interview, quoted in Utne Reader (July/August 1989). “Reprieved chickens and ducks wouldn’t be wild animals; they’d just be unemployed animals, homeless animals, animals whose enforced mutations mean that there is no going back. There’s no wild to go back to. If everyone were vegetarian, chicken would be an […]
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Young Blood, Real Talent
LBJFKKK Cardiff Giant at Angel Island I had begun to question my judgment. Was the theater I’d been seeing all that bad, or, as has often been suggested, did I really hate everything? Had I become jaded, bitter, burnt out? Was it time to apply for law school? I tell you, I was seriously thinking […]
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The Handshake of Peace
To the editors: For the last 20 years the progressive elements of the Episcopal Church have had to put up with the whining and complaints of reactionaries like Bryan Miller [“Is Nothing Sacred?” June 9] and John Jamieson. Well I have news for any sexist racist homophobic assholes who want to live in the 16th […]
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Private Lives
PRIVATE LIVES Live Theatre Extraordinary how potent cheap music is. –Private Lives Cheap theater, however, is not. Right now you can’t get less theater for your money than this tepid, inept stab at Private Lives, a dismal offering from the so-called Live Theatre. Of all God’s blunders Noel Coward hated bores the most. Yet A.C. […]
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Do Us All a Favor–Quit!
To the editors: Susan S., a teacher of 8 years, asserted in her letter of June 23, 1989 that the “#1 reason children fail is because they refuse to make the effort.” As a teacher of 13 years, I can tell you, I’ve never met a student who didn’t want to learn. Sure, they put […]
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The Sports Section
A week ago last Wednesday at Wrigley Field, the wind blew straight in off the lake out of the northeast. Wispy, sparse, low-flying clouds passed overhead, growing larger as they seemed to scrape the top of the grandstand and then diminishing as they continued on to the southwest. Shawon Dunston looked up between turns in […]
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Cooler by the Lake
To the editors: I was interested in the article deploring the loss of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer [“Is Nothing Sacred?” June 9]. I was raised an Episcopalian and have ventured twice to the St. Paul’s by the Lake Church across the street from where I live. Both times I have been amazed at […]
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Julie Wilson
It’s not just the unique texture of her voice–deep and dark and glistening, like Spanish leather–that makes a cabaret performance by Julie Wilson an unforgettable experience. And it’s not only the masterful technique with which she shifts between singing and speaking that makes familiar Broadway standards seem brand new in her renditions. What Wilson brings […]