To the editors: Concerning Nelson’s cartoon on Alderwoman Dorothy Tillman [December 20]: The Reader has shown insensitivity before. A year or so ago, I wrote objecting to a review of Strauss’s opera Salome, which used the Jewish Princess stereotypes that insult and intimidate Jewish women, often with overtones of violence, in college and work situations. […]
Tag: Vol. 21 No. 16
Issue of Jan. 30 – Feb. 5, 1992
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The Straight Dope
What is it with sickness and cold temperatures? Countless times I have heard it said that winter is “cold and flu season.” Mom always said to put my hat and galoshes on or I would catch pneumonia or my death of a cold. But I’m no dope. I know disease is caused by germs, not […]
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Credit Due
One of the photographs accompanying last week’s Our Town article on Joan Jett Blakk showed a large cutout poster that was displayed at her campaign event. We should have credited the artist who created the original: his name is Lee Kay. The editors
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Da Books
To the editors: Guild helps Chicago think [Letters, January 3]? The impression I get is that they are purveyors of poetry, performance art, books, and occasionally music, to audiences who are already familiar with or open to the material presented. Further, they present that material to an audience not committed enough to pay for it. […]
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The City File
What we learn from Atari games, from a recent release: “Wanna be a cop? Try A.P.B., the game where the more donuts you eat, the better your chances are to nail your quota of bad guys.” Signs of intelligent life in the cemeteries? Biologist Lawrence Slobodkin in a forthcoming book (Harvard University Press catalog, Spring): […]
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The Choice Between Art and Life
LA BELLE NOISEUSE **** (Masterpiece) Directed by Jacques Rivette Written by Pascal Bonitzer, Christine Laurent, and Rivette With Michel Piccoli, Emmanuelle Beart, Jane Birkin, David Bursztein, Gilles Arbona, Marianne Denicourt, and the hand of Bernard Dufour. Considering how rarely the achievements of art match up with the achievements of commerce, it’s a pleasure to note […]
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Time to Save Energy
To the editors: I was disappointed in the time zone column (Hot Type, January 3) written by M. Miner. One important issue was totally ignored in the column–energy savings for the Chicago Region. I have heard Mr. Peterson speak on the Time Zone Change and he focuses a large part of his speech on the […]
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Cube
M. William Karlins, Robert Lombardo, and Alan Stout have at least a few things in common: they’re all well-established local composers about to turn 60. This joint birthday salute by the chamber collective Cube may shed some light on their other attributes. Karlins and Stout, who’ve been colleagues at Northwestern University for more than a […]
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Eddie Burks
They used to call Eddie Burks “Jewtown”–his intense vocals and raw-edged harmonica style sound as if they were nurtured in the hardscrabble blues atmosphere of the Maxwell Street Market. Burks has been a blues mainstay in Chicago for years, gigging on his own and occasionally with Jimmy Dawkins and other bandleaders, but until recently he’s […]
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12 Reasons to Visit Hyde Park
To the editors: I don’t want to become embroiled in the Guild Books controversy [Hot Type, November 15] since I haven’t visited Guild in years and I’m not familiar with their situation. I did, however, want to offer several small corrections to Z. Merryweather’s letter in your January 3 edition. I believe the bookstore Merryweather […]
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Search for Nightlife: Oh, to Be Camp (an ode to B. Kamp)
Cairo, 720 N. Wells: “Oh, B. Kamp, you look more glamorous tonight than evermore,” Plain Patty said, hopping up and down. “Let me be near you as you and your ecstatic boyfriends Keith Ann and Aqua Netta search for the night at Cairo’s weekly Steamy Sunday. It gets so exciting when Byron Dorsey, the club’s […]
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Property Rights
To the editors: With regard to Harold Henderson’s “Land Battle” [December 6], why is it that individuals who try to protect their own hard earned land, or other property, from forcible expropriation are labeled “nasty” and having “bad manners” while the people who want to take their property away under flimsy pretenses are only mildly […]
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Field & Street
A check of my phone book reveals four listings under the heading “Wild Onion.” They include a restaurant and a yoga center. And though it’s not in the phone book, there is also a group called the Wild Onion Alliance, whose goal is to promote bioregionalism. All of these are named in honor of Chicago, […]