This enterprising group has put together a triple bill of early 20th-century operatic one-acts that unveils three disparate faces of love: the essential loneliness of the human soul, ardor cooled […]
Tag: Vol. 22 No. 30
Issue of May. 6 – 12, 1993
Bach Week in Evanston
Over half a century J.S. Bach churned out at least 1,200 compositions; the surviving works alone fill 60 volumes, published by the venerable Bach Society. According to my calculations, that’s […]
Sock Monkeys
Pretty much everything about the Sock Monkeys is in their name: unabashed amusement, athleticism, grace, collaboration, a certain impishness, a little tribal je ne sais quoi, and even a sort […]
Lies and Death
DAVE ** (Worth seeing) Directed by Ivan Reitman Written by Gary Ross With Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames, and Ben Kingsley Is it the prime […]
Blunting the Cutting Edge/PR War
Blunting the Cutting Edge Scholars foresee an epochal disaster–one of the world’s great civilizations spiraling toward the black hole of Generation X (aka the twentysomethings or twentynothings), not just an […]
Reading: It’s Really Gone, Man
Jazz will survive–like opera and epic poetry have survived. But the world that made it, the source of its energy, is never coming back.
What Nonsense
Last week a production error resulted in some scrambling of Neal Pollack’s Our Town story about drummer Barrett Deems (April 30). We humbly apologize. The editors
Liquor licensees robbed by aldermen brnadishing blunt legislative instrument!
As Roger Amador sees it, one day a few years ago for no reason at all the city took $350,000 out of his pocket. More specifically, the City Council passed […]
Songwirter
Leo Pevsner at 86: “I’ll be goddamned if I know how the songs come to me. When I feel like it I write a song, and very often I feel like it.”
The Sports Section
With six seconds to play in the first quarter of the Bulls’ first playoff game against Atlanta, Will Perdue pulled down a rebound under the Hawks’ basket and dribbled a […]
Showbiz
SHOWBIZ Wisdom Bridge Theatre My high school and grammar school drama coaches are best remembered for their screaming fits, one for throwing a chair across the stage during a particularly […]
Ween/Basehead/Sloan
Your alternative-music quota for the month can be had at Metro tonight, when an impressively programmed spectrum of new sounds hits town. (Note the 6:30 PM starting time, though.) Headliners […]
Correction
To the editors: Contrary to what I wrote in my review of My New Gun (April 30), the film’s distributor is I.R.S. Media, not Fine Line. My apologies for the […]