Here’s a Chicago trio that’s eaten up and digested all manner of African, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern sounds, and whose spare-but-lyrical synthesis flows out naturally, without arch hipness or any sense of dilettantish flitting around. Led by the unassuming Nick Horcher, the unassuming Kilometers turn the music of hot countries into something all their own, […]
Tag: Vol. 19 No. 35
Issue of Jun. 14 – 20, 1990
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Music Notes: black piano classics preserved on paper
“When my oldest daughter came home from third grade with a note from teacher saying she had musical aptitude, my wife said, ‘Let’s buy a piano so she can learn to play,’” recalls Michael Schwimmer. “I said, ‘Oh, no. She’ll turn out just like me. She’ll take lessons for a while, quit like I did, […]
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The Sports Section
If I were a sculptor, I’d use as my subject Michael Jordan, as he appeared during a break in game one of the Eastern Conference final. The Detroit Pistons were beating on Jordan every time he drove into the lane; they were shoving and pushing and even, on more than one occasion, tripping him, trying […]
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Nuclear Waste
To the editors: I am writing in response to Scott Mervis’ article “Nuke Lite” in the March 30 issue of the Reader. I can’t understand the tone the Department of Energy (DOE) takes with the waste created by nuclear power. The DOE doesn’t want to take responsibility for waste but still proposes to build a […]
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The Way We Work
ARISTOTLE GEORGIADES: POST-LEISURE at the Abel Joseph Gallery Fine craftsmanship and clearly focused content make “Aristotle Georgiades: Post-Leisure” one of the best gallery shows in town. Concerned with the shrinking role of the blue-collarworker, Georgiade’s mixed-media installations examine the past, present,and possible future of this troubled sector of the work force. These engaging pieces challenge […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story Atlanta Braves pitcher John Smoltz gave himself five inch-long welts in March when he tried to iron his polo shirt while wearing it. “I’ve ironed that way five or six times,” he said, “and never had that happen.” Oops! A correction in the “Ask Beth” advice column in the April 13 Boston Globe […]
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The Headlight Gap
To the editors: As a longtime fan I feel I must comment on Cecil Adams’s recent column about headlights [March 2]. A couple of years back, we had occasion to rent a GM car. When we got out of this car with the headlights on, there was a sensor of some sort that detected lights […]
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On Exhibit: the delicate art of corporate communications
Once every year, no matter what it usual line of business, every publicly owned company becomes a publisher. Men in red suspenders sit down with men in ponytails to cook up ideas. Design boards are trotted in and out of conference rooms, executives dicker over copy, the chairman sits for a flatter-or-fail portrait. Type is […]
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Through the Wire
A shocking and powerful documentary by Nina Rosenblum–narrated by Susan Sarandon and shot by Haskell Wexler-about the recent “experimental” torture and attempted brainwashing of three women prisoners in a federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky. Each woman was arrested for political activity, given an unusually long prison sentence, and then isolated in a basement cell for […]
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Children Wanted
To the editors: I read with much interest Karen Fort’s article “Mothers” (February 2, 1990), and also with some regret. I, too, once promised that I would decide when I would have my babies and how many. Then, after my husband and I made the decision that we were ready and wanted to be parents, […]
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Akio Sasajima Trio
Akio Sasajima avoids fads and trends, and we’re all better for it: his gracious yet fiery guitar work fits firmly in the mainstream jazz tradition, but at the same time, he keeps pulling in newer influences and pushing at the seams, slowly stretching his art. (A solid melodist, his compositions have a distinct fingerprint, as […]
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Speaking Brecht’s Language
INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL Threepenny Opera Theater an der Ruhr at the Blackstone Theatre The Croatian Faust Theater an der Ruhr at the Blackstone Theatre One of the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of artfully packaged events, carefully marketed experiences, and spoon-fed, textbook-driven education is that people get defensive and huffy when performances […]
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Department of Viciously Attacked Thespians
To the editors: A review in this week’s Reader [March 2] was so destructive and so ugly it calls into question the faculties of its author, Mary Shen Barnidge, who in her review of the show Breaking Wood has mistakenly identified criticism with vicious personal attack. This “review” is much more revealing of a pathetic […]
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Adam and the Experts
ADAM AND THE EXPERTS Bailiwick Repertory Desperation creates “cures” that medicine cannot, and so the lack of a cure for AIDS has triggered a frenzy of panacea peddling. The panic makes a kind of cruel sense; you don’t ask a dying 20-year-old to be patient while research labs take their time testing treatments that may […]