Ten years ago pianist Elizabeth Buccheri helped establish the chamber series at North Park College, which has considerably enriched musical life in the city’s northwest corner. Now, many happy and edifying concerts later, some of the series’s participants–including members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Vermeer Quartet–are back to celebrate its remarkable success. The […]
Tag: Vol. 20 No. 31
Issue of May. 16 – 22, 1991
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Tabloid Truth
TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS Lifeline Theatre BUNNICULA Lifeline Theatre As flies to wanton boys. . . . –King Lear If you were lucky enough to have seen Scott McPherson’s Marvin’s Room when it premiered at the Goodman Theatre Studio a little over a year ago, you probably remember what a hapless bunch of losers […]
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Theater League’s New Marketing Manager/High Hopes on Halsted/Art Politics/Joe Shanahan Opens Tamales
Your mission, Karen Barger, should you decide to accept it: Lead Chicago theater from the box-office doldrums! Teach a hundred different companies how to find their marketing niches!
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Search for Nightlife: adrift in a sea of doubt
Great Lakes Hot Tubs, 15 W. Hubbard: Kurt and Shari were bobbing in the Polynesian half-light and Kurt, pleased with the VIP suite, was flapping his hands in the water. Shari, meanwhile, felt compelled to think about Kurt’s life when he wasn’t with her: Why did he tell her he was wearing a tuxedo the […]
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The Man With the Golden Arm
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM Open City Theatre at the Synergy Center It took me three hours to read a two-paragraph passage in Jim Carroll’s Basketball Diaries. The passage was about Carroll and his buddy getting caught in the act of shooting up heroin and having to run through the city, one of them […]
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Under One Roof
UNDER ONE ROOF Society for New Things Human beings rarely conform to the idealized conceptions of them that their relatives create after they die. The premise of Dan Halstead’s one-act Back Again (being presented with Wrapped Up in Pieces under the collective title “Under One Roof”) is based on this impulse to keep people with […]
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Graces
GRACES Trilogy Productions at Stage Left Theatre I had a friend in college who was convinced that he was destined to write a great play someday. Unfortunately, he couldn’t stop thinking about what English professors might say about his work 100 years from now. So instead of writing his play, my friend spent all his […]
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Who’s Afraid of Paula Wolff?
The UIC Chancellor Flap: What Was That All About?
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Jazz Women: a weekend of major players
Marguerite Horberg had spent years on the jazz scene–producing shows, supporting the music in a variety of ways–when she finally realized, last fall, that something was missing. She’d just finished hosting a 25th- anniversary tribute to Chicago’s AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) at Hothouse, her gallery. “Where,” she asked herself, “are the […]
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WFMT Watch: Another Sudden Departure/Palm Beach Story/Cardinal Synergy
WFMT Watch: Another Sudden Departure It’s the classic case of the dog that didn’t bark. Nothing whatsoever seems to have gone on behind the scenes to account for Tom Voegeli’s resignation from WFMT. Which makes it all the more mysterious, right? The Friends of WFMT rather liked Voegeli, the station’s top man. They have long […]
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The Straight Dope
A number of my karate cronies and I got into an argument recently about a question I’m sure has been bandied about men’s locker rooms for years. Does sex the evening before an athletic competition decrease one’s performance on the field (or in our case, in the ring)? I say this is an old wives’ […]
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Just Folks
LOCAL VISIONS: FOLK ART FROM NORTHEAST KENTUCKY at the School of the Art Institute Betty Rymer Gallery The inspiration for folk art is always a source of contention among art historians, scholars, and critics. Each new “self-taught” artist creates a new crop of theories, and each elaborate new theory carries the baggage of condescension toward […]
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The City File
Please–not right after lunch! Chicago writer Bruce Rutledge, reviewing an anthology of alleged legal humor in Barrister (Spring): “The volume as a whole is not unlike a smorgasbord prepared by demented Swedes: pickled herring next to a plate of Oreo cookies, a large bowl of Clark bars by the borscht.” You should not be in […]
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Fund Raising: the real Ron Kovic movie
In Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July, the paraplegic Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, played by Tom Cruise, agonizingly comes to terms with the physical and psychic wounds inflicted by the war. His transformation from all-American boy to political activist is depicted as a personal triumph over a serious physical disability, a sentimental journey […]