The 797 swung wide around McCormick Place and coasted in over Lake Michigan. The old Meigs Field shot by underneath, then the Shedd Aquarium, Lake Shore Drive, Buckingham Fountain, the Petrillo Music Shell, the Art Institute. The plane came gliding down onto the virgin runway on the second floor of 78 E. Washington, Chicago’s New […]
Tag: Vol. 21 No. 10
Issue of Dec. 19 – 25, 1991
Posted inNews & Politics
Year in Review
In keeping with the spirit of this special issue, here are highlights of 11 stories that didn’t make it into Our Town in 1991: 1. Free Financial Seminar for Women A trust officer, an accountant, and a lawyer talked to 100 women about wills, trusts, savings plans, estate planning, and charitable giving– over juice, coffee, […]
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Bob Mintzer With Trio New
Fame is funny. During the last decade, reedman Bob Mintzer has been a savvy modernist, known in jazz circles for his strong sound (blending tonal elements of two contrasting tenor-sax models, Wayne Shorter and Michael Brecker) and his busy, muscular solos. Along the way, while leading a series of big-band dates for the small DMP […]
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Art People: a Polish emigre learns the American way
When he arrived in Chicago in 1980, Jerzy Kenar visited a friend who had emigrated from Poland years earlier, a professor at the School of the Art Institute, who told him, ‘Go back to Poland, because America is cruel to artists.’ I could not understand why he was so bitter. But I could not adopt […]
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Scapin
SCAPIN Apple Tree Theatre Company By Lawrence Bommer Scapin, Rusty Magee’s musicalization of Moliere’s 1670 Les Fourberies de Scapin, is an adaptation true to its source: this slight farce becomes an even slighter musical. Working from a hip but weak translation and adaptation by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader, Magee has written ten more or […]