If you and your loved one feel uncomfortable in traditional romantic settings, try treating each other to 11 Minutes Max: Soul Sisters With a License to Thrill–The Valentine Version. This late-night performance series provided an offbeat alternative to the usual holiday hype in its Christmas edition and now promises an unusual slant on love and […]
Tag: Vol. 22 No. 18
Issue of Feb. 11 – 17, 1993
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Sex, Food & Poetry
SEX, FOOD & POETRY Diamondback Theater at Sheffield’s School Street Cafe Under the clever title “Sex, Food & Poetry” Diamondback Theater has gathered two very different one-acts, one essentially about sex, the other more or less about food, both directed by Andrew Chudzinski, and both starring Mick Thomasson and Elizabeth Steele. The first play, Don […]
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The Sports Section
These Lifestep machines are a waste of time. The Stairmasters are harder, better for your ass they say, and if there’s one place I need work, well, it’s the stomach, but the ass is a close second. Why do they have the Stairmasters at the other place and not here? Might as well do 24 […]
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N.A.M.E. Artists
PURPLE HEART at N.A.M.E., February 5 and 6 What does it mean that for a 20th-anniversary celebration of performance art at N.A.M.E. only two out of seven acts actually performed? In this two-night program, only Fluid Measure Performance Company and Phil Berkman appeared live and in person and delivered actual performance art. Sure, Sharon Evans […]
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Paul Taylor Dance Company
You know how it feels to run for the fun of it? Not for exercise, not to catch a bus, but because it feels good to use your muscles and move fast. Well, Paul Taylor knows that feeling too and exploits it. Look at a work like the 1975 Esplanade: the dancers tear across the […]
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Current Trends in Rock Criticism: A Seminar
Robert Ray: Beware of “critical senility,” aka geezerism
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Rock Hudson’s Home Movies
This brilliant hour-long video by independent filmmaker Mark Rappaport (The Scenic Route) is in effect a subversive piece of film criticism that departs from the fictional conceit of Hudson himself (represented through clips from his films and by actor Eric Farr) speaking from beyond the grave about his homosexuality and what this did or didn’t […]
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Phillip Walker
Guitarist Phillip Walker’s versatility reflects the diverse blues and R & B heritage of Louisiana and Texas, where he was born and raised. He can segue from a swinging roadhouse jump blues to a stark Lightnin’ Hopkins moan, then heat things up with a steaming dose of R & B funk and finish with a […]
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John Holloway and Friends
One of the most dexterous and eloquent Baroque violinists of our time, John Holloway has participated in a number of important “historically informed” performances conducted by the likes of Roger Norrington, Andrew Parrott, and William Christie. For this recital he’ll be joined by four colleagues–Stanley Ritchie (violinist and Indiana University prof), Andrew Manze (concertmaster of […]
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Service Sector
SERVICE SECTOR Theater Oobleck at Curious Theatre Branch To say that we Americans live in a “service economy” has become something of a bitter joke. People complain about spending hours waiting in long lines just to talk to someone who doesn’t know how to help them and resents their asking in the first place. Yet […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story A state appeals court in Santa Ana, California, upheld a lower court in December by granting Sheryle Ulyate an increase in child-support payments from $2,000 to $6,000 a month. Ulyate said their 15-year-old daughter’s monthly expenses included $2,000 for clothing, $300 for jewelry, and $1,600 for entertainment. The ex-husband had made a fortune […]
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The Book of Kay/Queer Opinions
The Book of Kay Of the prejudices that have soiled America, anti-Semitism seems oddest. Our own knowledge is largely anecdotal, but once it was the mark of a Christian gentleman. Eugene Meyer, the father of Katharine Graham of the Washington Post, was a Jew. “Had Eugene not been born a Jew in an age when […]
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Master of the Musical
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG Apple Tree Theatre “Musicals are popular,” gushes the young hero of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along. “They’re a great way to state important ideas.” In a career as notable for its uncompromising individuality as for its brilliance, Sondheim has been guided by the same principle. While other […]
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Evidence of Wrongdoing
ZOE LEONARD, PHOTOGRAPHS at the Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, through February 21 Several years ago, when I was traveling through the German Democratic Republic with a group of fellow students, someone in my group was severely reprimanded by officials for taking pictures in an area where such activity was prohibited. I still […]