It is a nightly performance, a curious sort of automobile ballet on the quaint wide boulevard that meanders through the north end of Lincoln Park. Every model car imaginable wanders, weaves, pauses, turns around, speeds up, slows down. The lone drivers are also of every sort imaginable–white, black, brown, Asian, young and old. They have […]
Tag: Vol. 19 No. 30
Issue of May. 10 – 16, 1990
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Borah Bergman & Paul Smoker
Trumpeter Paul Smoker, Iowa’s resident new-jazz genius, has made several trips to Chicago in recent years, and if you’ve never heard him, you’ve been missing one of the most coherent improvisers in music today. (And that’s not even mentioning his technique–I can think of no modern trumpeter who could beat this guy in a cutting […]
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A Dark Day for Cabaret/But “Dark Nights” Will Help to Fill the Void/Who Will Lead the Body Politic?/Brew Ha-ha Leaves Bitter Taste/Broadway Is a State of Mind/Priced to Stay: Joe Martin’s Oil Cartoons
When Boombala went bust, the cabaret crowd lost an invaluable showcase and Mary Ann Johnson lost most of her savings.
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Stumpy’s Gang . . . A Comic Mutilation
STUMPY’S GANG . . . A COMIC MUTATION White Noise at Stage Left Frank is a bio-maintenance disposal engineer for a genetics laboratory. That means he takes the unsuccessful experiments–many of them still alive–and throws them into the incinerator. Most of them, that is. A childlike, possibly retarded man, Frank has made pets of a […]
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An Offer She Couldn’t Refuse/New Paper in Town
An Offer She Couldn’t Refuse A job is filled. . . One of the more attractive positions to open recently in Chicago journalism was editor of Chicago Reporter. “We got 50 applications,” says publisher Roy Larson, “an awfully lot of them very top grade talent working in good jobs now.” That was encouraging. “And then,” […]
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First Is Supper
FIRST IS SUPPER National Jewish Theater When a comedian attempts a work of “serious” drama, watch out. There is nothing worse than a funny person trying to create art with a capital A. More often than not the result is something less honest, less true, and considerably less successful artistically than the comic’s earlier funnier […]