To the editors: Our congratulations to Bryan Miller for her insightful interview with Peter Dominowski, WFMT’s new program director. (June 22) Miller asked questions we’d like to have asked and got the answers we might have predicted. After all, Dominowski has only recently sold WFMT owners on his ability to improve profits through improved “easy […]
Tag: Vol. 19 No. 42
Issue of Aug. 2 – 8, 1990
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The Unbelievable Truth
A highly intriguing if not always fully successful first feature by independent writer-director Hal Hartley, shot in his hometown on Long Island, gives us, among other characters, a mechanic mistaken for a priest (Robert Burke) returning from a prison sentence, a politically alienated teenager (Adrienne Shelly), and the teenager’s mercenary redneck father (Christopher Cooke). Fantasies […]
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Foto Flubs
Due to a printer’s error, the photo in the calendar story “Lecture Notes: A Couple of Women Telling Fish Tales,” July 27, was reversed. Nanette Schonberg was on the left and Jessica Esslinger was on the right. The editors
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Blacklight Festival of International Black Cinema
The ninth edition of the annual festival of black independent film will be held Friday, August 3, through Sunday, August 12 at the Film Center, Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson. Tickets are $5, $3 for Blacklight, Film Center, and Jazz Institute members. For more information call 509-2981 or 443- 3737. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3 A […]
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WFMT’s Goal
To the editors., In Bryan Miller’s interview with Peter Dominowski (June 22, 1990), the latter is quoted as stating that, “Seemingly, there is a small percentage of people who are already offended when very few changes have been made, because they perceive changes have been made.” I would respond by suggesting that there is a […]
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The Straight Dope
How do astronauts answer nature’s call in space? I’ve seen mentions of “collection systems,” but that’s about it. Also, do you pay a reward for good questions? It would stimulate my thinking. –Anxiously Awaiting Book 3, Calgary, Alberta, Canada A reward? You mosquito, the search for knowledge is its own reward. Besides, we’re out of […]
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Never Trust a Nurse With a Lay Newspaper
To the editors. Re: “Confessions of a Baby Saver” [June 15] The title of this article certainly attracts the reader’s immediate attention, however, I must question the motives of a nurse who uses a lay newspaper as the vehicle to air these very complex and sensitive issues. While there is a kernel of truth behind […]
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The City File
“The fear that many citizens have of being murdered by an unknown assailant is contrary to statistical evidence,” reports the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority in Trends and Issues 90. “Only 14 percent of the 989 murders reported in Illinois during 1988 involved verified situations in which the victim and offender were strangers to one […]
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Babushka Heaven
As soon as my mother told me the news, I caught the first bus home. I hoped I wasn’t too late. Our old friend suddenly had a week to go, two weeks max. “Archer Big Store is going out of business,” she’d said. I grew up on the southwest side, and the news was a […]
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Full of Surprises
To the editors: Amazing. In “The View From the Shelter” [July 20] we get a somewhat sympathetic treatment of a woman who says the same things about the debilitating effects of welfare that Goldwater, Reagan, and the other conservative Republicans have always said. There may be hope for you guys yet. Phil Martin W. Goethe
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Local Brew
For the first time since 1978 there’s a Chicago company in the beer business.
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Comiskey Parking
To the editors. As Michael Miner made clear in his “Dreams of Field” [Hot Type, July 13], Chicago’s Comiskey Park still could be saved, at least a modest part of it–if, that is, the will to save the old ballpark were greater than the will to destroy it. But it isn’t: the state of Illinois’ […]
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Field & Street
Summer begins to slip away even as the sweat rolls down our faces. I began to notice the signs while at a cocktail party on Navy Pier the evening of July 25. Sipping rum and Coca-Cola, nibbling on prosciutto and melon or strips of smoked salmon wound around asparagus tips, savoring the loveliest of summer […]
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Lurrie Bell & Jimmy Lane
Since returning to the scene a few years ago, guitarist Lurrie Bell has established himself as one of our most technically proficient and tasteful young bluesmen. His knowledge of traditional Chicago blues is unparalleled, and he’s done enough listening and jamming with younger players to be conversant in today’s high-energy hot-licks blues language as well; […]