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Tag: Vol. 21 No. 52
Issue of Oct. 8 – 14, 1992
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Distasteful News
To the editors: I found your obituary on Eddie Lusk [Hitsville, September 18] quite distasteful. When does the public’s “right to know” include the most private details of a person’s life/death? I believe those details which were printed regarding his death are an intrusion on his family’s privacy. Eddie’s talents and extensive musical credits were […]
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Ago! Ame!
DANCE AFRICA/CHICAGO 1992 at the Medinah Temple October 2-4 “I don’t know but I’ve been told, if you keep on dancin’ you’ll never get old.” That bit of down-home advice provided the title of a work performed during DanceAfrica/Chicago 1992; it also fit the spirit of the evening. It’s strange to review something like this […]
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Christ’s Message
To the editors: Joyous Christian Greetings! I would like to respond to Reverend Dr. Timm Peterson’s letter (September 4) concerning the Reverend Hybels’s Superchurch. Much as I am dismayed by the slick marketing of the “Superchurches” I am really sick and tired of “politically correct” liberals plastering over Christ’s message with a lot of trendy […]
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Erasure
Erasure’s outrageous gay antics and fondness for the blithest dance-pop imaginable have made them mega-stars in England, mega-demi-stars stateside. This is perhaps as it should be: before the synth-pop duo (keyboard whiz Vince Clarke, late of Depeche Mode and Yazoo, and singer Andy Bell released their amusing new Abba-esqe EP (four Abba covers) and a […]
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Big Enough?
DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE Marcia Wilkie at Live Bait Theater Marcia Wilkie has a sincere, guileless quality that pulls you in at once. Perhaps it’s her wide-eyed, sweet “golden age of Greece” face, her soft midwestern twang, or her ability to merge her personality into her various characters. Some people in performance seem larger than life, […]
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Los Macondos
Yet another example of the rich results of merging European, African, and indigenous American traditions, the vallenato music of northern Colombia contains many elements already familiar to anglophiles. The dominant instrument is the button accordion–playing catchy melodies akin to those in the many accordion-based Latin genres from Texas to Argentina–and the music abounds in its […]
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Field & Street
The Illinois chorus frog is a fossorial amphibian. I think it should be our state fossorial amphibian, but I’ll get back to that later. “Fossorial,” which refers to digging, comes from the same Latin root as fossil. Fossorial animals are diggers; they live underground. In the case of the Illinois chorus frog this means completely […]
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What Are We Going to Do With Mary?
Every small town in Texas has a Mary. She’s the prize–the most sought-after, sexual creature in the high school. And every Texas town has an eccentric like Preston Carlisle: he’s got the most money and the biggest house. Then there’s Driver Goodbody, who has no money but is a sexual magnet. What happens among these […]
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Glengarry Glen Ross
The underrated James Foley (After Dark, My Sweet) shows an excellent feeling for the driven and haunted jive rhythms of David Mamet, macho invective and all, in a superb delivery of Mamet’s tour de force about desperate real estate salesmen, adapted for the screen by Mamet himself. Practically all the action occurs in an office […]
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Cinema Glut: Here Comes the 28th Chicago International Film Festival
For anyone interested in keeping up with film, Chicago turns into New York City for six weeks every fall. The embarassment of riches is frustrating–and virtually guarantees that a lot of important work will get lost in the shuffle.
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Neighbors vs. nightclub: a northwest-side feud now in its sixth year
In 1986 Chester Kiercul opened the Capitol Club at 4244 N. Milwaukee, featuring a band that one patron describes as a Polish Miami Sound Machine, and catering to a crowd of young, newly arrived Polish immigrants. Kiercul billed it as his attempt to run an orderly but upbeat nightclub for the immigrants, but it hasn’t […]
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Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
The ninth annual Chicago International Children’s Film Festival, featuring films and videotapes from about a dozen countries, runs from Friday, October 9, through Sunday, October 18. Unfortunately, the selections are from fewer countries than in the past, and English-language films dominate. (Does this reflect a growing isolationism and xenophobia in this country?) In the listings […]