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
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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.
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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
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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 […]
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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.”
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]