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Home » Vol. 22 No. 30

Tag: Vol. 22 No. 30

Issue of May. 6 – 12, 1993

Posted inArts & Culture

Chamber Opera Chicago

by Ted Shen May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Bach Week in Evanston

by Ted Shen May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Apartheid American-Style

by Harold Henderson May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

It’s a housing thing.

Posted inArts & Culture

Sock Monkeys

by Achy Obejas May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inFilm

Lies and Death

by Jonathan Rosenbaum May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Blunting the Cutting Edge/PR War

by Michael Miner May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Reading: It’s Really Gone, Man

by Michael Solot May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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.

Posted inNews & Politics

What Nonsense

by The editors May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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

Posted inNews & Politics

Liquor licensees robbed by aldermen brnadishing blunt legislative instrument!

by Ben Joravsky May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Songwirter

by Adam Langer May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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.”

Posted inNews & Politics

The Sports Section

by Alan Boomer May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Calendar

by Bill Wyman May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

May

Posted inArts & Culture

Showbiz

by Josefa Smith May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Ween/Basehead/Sloan

by Bill Wyman May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Correction

by Jonathan Rosenbaum May 6, 1993August 20, 2021

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 […]

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