All this city really needs is another airport.
Tag: Vol. 21 No. 10
Issue of Dec. 19 – 25, 1991
Posted inFilm
Hook and Crook
HOOK ** (Worth seeing) Directed by Steven Spielberg Written by Jim V. Hart, Malia Scotch Marmo, and Nick Castle With Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts, Bob Hoskins, Maggie Smith, Caroline Goodall, and Charlie Korsmo. BUGSY *** (A must-see) Directed by Barry Levinson Written by James Toback With Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben […]
Posted inNews & Politics
The City File
Gobbling gobblers is OK, according to Greenkeeping (November/ December): “Of all the meat and poultry choices, turkey is among those that are most free from pesticide residues…not totally pure but much less contaminated than fatty foods such as beef steak and hot dogs.” “If you want to visit Wayne Fitzgerrell State Park in Southern Illinois, […]
Posted inNews & Politics
The Bombing Begins
Remember when the prospect of war in the Gulf was frightening?
Posted inNews & Politics
The Shot Seen Round the World/FineLine Hits Bottom
The Shot Seen Round the World By the age of 40, an old saying goes, every man has the face he deserves. The foppish puss of a porcine Richard Speck decorated newspapers across America two weeks ago. A day before his 50th birthday, the mass murderer died of a heart attack in Joliet, where he’d […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Connections of the Heart
CONNECTIONS OF THE HEART at Mountain Moving Coffeehouse I was worried, going in to see the new lesbian musical comedy that played for one night only last Saturday. Part of me was hoping it would be at least bearable; another was already cringing, anticipating embarrassment. It’s not that I haven’t seen worthwhile programming at Mountain […]
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Power Going Down
POWER GOING DOWN Playwrights’ Center For Power Going Down playwright Christopher Busiel thought up some incompatible characters and got them stuck in an elevator for the weekend, then let them have at it. But most beginning improv classes in similar scenarios show far more imagination and sense of intrigue than Busiel does in his inane […]
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It’s a Wonderful Life–Right?
Perhaps Frank Capra had more to tell us than we wanted to hear.
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The Land of Everywhere/A Christmas Carol
THE LAND OF EVERYWHERE Temporary Theatre Company at the Mayfair United Methodist Church A CHRISTMAS CAROL Avenue Productions, with Kinetic Theatre at the Avenue Theatre The Temporary Theatre Company, after “evaluating current economic trends and recognizing that Chicago’s north side is inundated with off-loop theatre,” has set out for the frontier of Six Corners, bringing […]