We ran smack into this baby art patron twirling around the floor at World Tattoo. Her outfit babbled pure girl talk–short and sweet. Our fashion gumshoes checked out her statement anyway, but it came up 100 percent innocent. The trapeze dress, with its narrow shoulders and wide swing hem, skipped many a jump rope before […]
Tag: Vol. 22 No. 1
Issue of Oct. 15 – 21, 1992
Posted inNews & Politics
Earn it or spurn it: the last word in welfare
Both Bill Clinton and George Bush are cautioning that the free ride for welfare recipients is over–that people on the dole must get jobs or risk losing their benefits. The Illinois Department of Public Aid (IDPA) is ahead of them, having already trimmed thousands of single poor people, mostly black men in urban areas, from […]
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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, continues from Friday, October 16, through Sunday, October 18. In the listings below, films and videos not identified by country are from the United States. All screenings are at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Single tickets are […]
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This Week at the Chicago Film Festival
The 28th Chicago International Film Festival moves into its top-heavy second week, with a disproportionate number of high points scheduled for this weekend. The first four features that I cited last week as my favorites among the festival selections I’d seen so far–Actress, Angel of Fire, Hyenas, and Reservoir Dogs–will all be showing simultaneously this […]
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Search for Nightlife: reporter goes native
Sister Liz, Reader and Advisor, 1644 N. Damen: The strangest thing happened to Filberta. Most of her life she had been a reporter with a brilliant future in nightlife writing. She would stand on the sidelines interpreting the complex behavior of the clubgoers, interested yet detached–the mark of a professional! Then one day, without warning, […]
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The Sports Section
The Chicago baseball season didn’t deserve to the way it did. By that I’m not referring to the third-place finish of the White Sox or the Cubs’ fourth-place finish–no, those were both fully deserved–but to the last Chicago game of the year. Andre Dawson homered to give the Cubs a 3-2 victory over the Montreal […]
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Questions and Answers
GOAT ISLAND at Wellington Avenue United Church of Christ October 9-11 and 16-18 There’s a story about how kangaroos got their name–I don’t know if it’s true. Some European explorers in Australia would get very excited every time they saw a kangaroo, pointing and talking among themselves. The aborigines, noticing, would ask each other, “What’s […]
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Ten Gay Men
SOME QUEERS Chicago Stage Company at Sheffield’s School Street Cafe DEL & DAVE IN REHEARSAL FOR THE APOCALYPSE Remains Theatre A dozen years ago Charles Busch, who had yet to write the hilarious travesties Vampire Lesbians of Sodom and Psycho Beach Party, brought his Hollywood Confidential to the Victory Gardens Studio Theatre. Sadly, he made […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story In July police in India’s western state of Maharashtra called an end to a traditional annual event in which women from the adjacent villages of Sukhed and Bor line up on opposite sides of a canal and yell insults at each other. The event had become a festival, with men playing music to […]
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Art People: the creator with four heads
In 1988 four classmates from the School of the Art Institute joined forces to buck the gallery system. Instead of waiting to be discovered, Richard House, Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof decided to create their own noncommercial exhibit space. They used an empty apartment in Bucktown for their canvas, each taking a room […]
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Twisted Richard/Scooter Thomas Makes It to the Top of the World
TWISTED RICHARD Blue Rider Theatre SCOOTER THOMAS MAKES IT TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD at Cafe Voltaire “I’m ready to talk about my Uncle Richard,” Elizabeth confides to the audience. The young daughter of King Edward IV doesn’t actually appear in Shakespeare’s Richard III, but she has plenty to say in Tim Fiori’s neat […]
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Brad Goode
Brad Goode likes to speak of “the love, the exhilaration of playing as hard as you can,” and at his best this still-young veteran is the very model of a fiery improviser. He’ll start a solo with an attention-grabbing phrase, then spin lines that continually move between middle-register melodies and bravura high points. For all […]
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Nederlander Invades Jam Country: Let the Rock Wars Begin!/Ministry of Misinformation
Nederlander Invades Jam Country: Let the Rock Wars Begin! It was hard to see how the Nederlander Organization’s scheme to book rock shows at the China Club was supposed to challenge Jam Productions’ hegemony in Chicago rock promotion. While adequate and even appropriate for high-volume dance or rap acts, the cavernous and noisy China Club […]
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Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Last year the period-instrument movement reached a new peak in popularity when the sound track of a lavishly produced biopic of baroque viola da gambist Marin Marais became a huge hit. The success was surprising but not totally unexpected. For almost two decades the public’s appetite for early music has been whetted by ensembles such […]
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The Straight Dope
Jumpin’ Jack and Lazy Jim, twins, emerge from a fancy restaurant only to find all the valets have split and a heavy rainstorm lies between them and their car, 100 yards away. Jumpin’ Jack bets Lazy Jim that if he runs and Jim walks, he will arrive at the car not only faster but drier. […]