He was about 12, a dark-skinned Indian boy with bright, intelligent eyes. “You must be very rich,” he said. “Tell me about Chicago.”
Tag: Vol. 21 No. 45
Issue of Aug. 20 – 26, 1992
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Native Speech/The Great American Cheese Sandwich
NATIVE SPEECH Tight & Shiny Productions at At the Gallery-Chopin Theatre As much as I like Eric Overmyer’s Native Speech, I can’t imagine a successful production of this impossibly dense script, about an underground DJ and the deteriorating world of junkies, prostitutes, and thugs he inhabits. It’s packed with seemingly endless hip jargon, and not […]
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James Kelly Choreography Project
JAMES KELLY CHOREOGRAPHY PROJECT at the Ruth Page Theatre July 31 and August 1 Jazz dance often gets a bad rap for having too much razzmatazz and not enough substance. The images that come to mind are of sexy, muscular bodies, suggestively costumed, shifting a rib cage here, gyrating a hip there. Certain moments–maybe a […]
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Mike LeDonne Trio
When he plays bebop–or, more accurately, the second wave of the bop revolution called hard bop–pianist Mike LeDonne can run with just about anybody, articulating his cross-country lines with speed, endurance, and a minimum of fuss; in his playing you can hear and respect the years he spent listening to Bud Powell, Wynton Kelly, and […]
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On Exhibit: Frank Netter’s landscapes of the body
The late Frank Netter has been described as a medical Norman Rockwell, but a current exhibit of his illustrations makes the comparison seem macabre. Just imagine one of Rockwell’s frisky youths with part of his flesh pulled away to reveal an exquisite, gleaming maze of red and blue passageways. Generally regarded as one of the […]
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Public Works
To the editors: Ben Joravsky in his Neighborhood News column (July 10) did an excellent job reporting the chronicles of Mr. Doug Brooks versus public works. Mr. Brooks bought his dream house across from a pristine Forest Preserve meadow and suffered disappointment and frustration upon learning that the meadow will host a construction site for […]
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East Park Club
To the editors: I’m saddened by Tom Lawson and Ted Wrobleski’s antidog tactics and the “Dog Wars of Lincoln Park” [Neighborhood News, July 17]. I think it’s ludicrous to fight over whether people can let their dogs off leash at Trebes Park and even worse whether they can bring their dogs to the park at […]
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Pure and Simple
SANDRA KAUFMANN at the Academy of Movement and Music August 6-8 Sandra Kaufmann is a hometown dancer who’s made it big in the Big Apple. Well, almost. Formerly a dancer with Oak Park’s Momenta, she’s now a full scholarship student at the Martha Graham School in New York. Still, she seemed a bit embarrassed by […]
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The Rhinoceros Theatre Festival
This third annual showcase of avant-garde theater in Chicago (with a taste of Kansas City for good measure) is coordinated by Scott Turner, Valerie Turner, Jim Krulish, and John Oartel–with a bow to Salvador Dali, whose use of the term “rhinocerontic” (it means real big) inspired the event’s name. It runs August 21 through 29 […]
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Union Raider
To the editors: I am less perplexed by the apparent contradictions in the union buster Jack Sheridan than David Moberg apparently is [July 24]. Sheridan may in fact be the best of the breed, but I’m not impressed with his “switching of sides” in the 50s. When, in his short career as a union organizer […]
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Search for Nightlife: the urge to merengue
Dynasty Club Bar, 5447 N. Lincoln: How sad for Fraulein Schnitzel! Here she was on holiday, sitting alone at a small table beneath the silver spheres and red, green, and yellow balloons, watching the others have fun. For days she had longed to merengue but no one would or the wrong music was playing. Overwrought, […]
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The Sports Section
Last Sunday’s old-timers’ game at Wrigley Field took place under a freshly scrubbed bright blue sky. The old pros cavorted in the sunlight with the carefree attitude of puppies at play, so that the inevitable questions–Is that Walt “No-Neck” Williams or Carlos May in right field? What’s Bob Gibson doing at third base? Did Don […]
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More on Megachurches
To the editors: The megachurch phenomenon which Robert McClory reports on isn’t new [“Superchurch,” August 7]. Not to detract from his excellent portrayal of Willow Creek, but the Gospels record crowds of 4,000 to 5,000 following Jesus Christ around the Galilean region for a period of three years. Within two months of Christ’s crucifixion, the […]
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Answering the Critics
“The insurance industry and the AMA have spent huge sums describing how bad the Canadian plan is, distorting the reality, even lying.”