To the editors. I’m afraid you’ve goofed again. In your September 16th column [The Straight Dope] you use the phrase “the whole thing is so ironic it’s an instant cure for pernicious anemia.” I’m surprised you didn’t know that pernicious anemia is caused by a deficiency in a protein called intrinsic factor which carries Vitamin […]
Tag: Vol. 18 No. 6
Issue of Nov. 24 – 30, 1988
Posted inNews & Politics
Astonishing Stories
To the editors. I am not a constant reader of your worthy periodical. The few occasions on which I have examined it, however, showed you to be a distinctly “alternative bunch” and I liked that. By purest happenstance, I stumbled on a copy of the Friday Oct. 14 Issue, and was utterly flabbergasted by the […]
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Field & Street
When I bought my first Peterson and my first pair of binoculars, I approached birding rather gingerly. I mainly concentrated on the easy stuff: kingbirds, and great blue herons and wood ducks, birds of such striking particularity that it was almost impossible to mistake them for anything else. When I paged through the illustrations in […]
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Grant Us Art
To the editors: I am writing concerning the wisecrack made by Harold Henderson in “The City File” column dated November 4, 1988, saying “Religion is an art, isn’t it?” Mr. Henderson seems to be operating under the assumption that there is a clear distinction between the “sacred” and the “secular.” He also apparently did not […]
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Beat Abuse
LYNDA MARTHA DANCE COMPANY at the Dance Center of Columbia College November 18,19,25, and 26 Lynda Martha, artistic director of the nine-year-old Lynda Martha Dance Company based in Evanston, has a gift for exploiting a single mood or movement idea in a given piece. Her dancers also move insistently with the music, on each beat, […]
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Cityscape: Watch Out for River North
There’s reason to fear that its humanly scaled buildings and quiet side streets will give way to a forest of skyscrapers.
Posted inMusic
Midnight Oil: rock around the apocalypse
Australian popular art–or at least the Australian popular art that becomes popular in the Western world these days–relies heavily on images of the apocalypse. This appears to come naturally to many Australian rock bands and movie directors, but it also tends to be what we expect them to deliver us. The most popular Australian band […]
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A Girl’s Guide to Chaos
A GIRL’S GUIDE TO CHAOS! at Royal-George Theatre A Girl’s Guide to Chaos!, now playing in the Gallery Theatre in the Royal-George, is the kind of play you’re embarrassed to admit you like. It’s cute; as a matter of fact, it’s downright perky. This isn’t about love between modern men and women, but about girls, […]
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A zoning controversy: Who should get to live in Wilmette?
To the outsider, it looks as though Wilmette–with its spacious parks and Victorian homes with rolling lawns–is as genteel and quiet as it was at the turn of the century. But take a closer look, read the local paper, and you’ll see that the residents of this North Shore community are engaged in a furious […]
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Traveling With Children
The train had been standing there at Belmont, seats full and doors open, long enough that we had learned a few names. Lucas, who had been squirming in his seat, finally announced to no one special, “I’m going to go over and kiss that baby.” And he did, clambering over his seatmate to plant an […]
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Objections to Sex and Violence
OBJECTIONS TO SEX AND VIOLENCE Commons Theatre When a play uses sex and violence literally and metaphorically, passion is an operative emotion–the playwright, the director, the actors, somebody has to feel it to convince the audience. But in the Commons Theatre current production of Objections to Sex and Violence, passion is almost absent. In fact, […]
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On Exhibit: a roomful of Daleys
Richard Feigen remembers the 1968 Democratic convention well. Feigen, a Chicago-trained artist who now works in New York but owns a gallery here, recalls the surprise that swept the city–first at the demonstrations, then at the bloodshed. Feigen, though, was not surprised. “Everyone was astonished by what happened,” he says, “except for the art community.” […]
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Joe Pass
If guitarist Joe Pass were performing solo–the format for which he has received the most attention–you wouldn’t be reading this. Pass’s solo forays have always been notable for their displays of virtuosity, the ambitiousness of the concept, and their novelty. Unfortunately, they often stop swinging halfway through, and they always become repetitive, as the mortal […]
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Group Efforts: a day in our life
They meet every Friday evening at 8 PM as they have done for 93 years now, in a modest suite of rooms with green linoleum floors on the fifth floor of an old South Loop office building. The members of the Fort Dearborn-Chicago Camera Club gather to discuss photographic techniques, to plan outings together, to […]