These Parts
Tag: Vol. 22 No. 34
Issue of Jun. 3 – 9, 1993
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Ripe Conditions
RIPE CONDITIONS Victory Gardens Theater There’s something comforting about Claudia Allen’s Ripe Conditions at the Victory Gardens Theater. It’s not in the bopping country-bumpkin music that opens each scene. It’s not in Lester and Buster, the down-home Michigan farm boys who just happen to love the same woman. It’s not even in the fluffy magenta […]
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Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu’s bizarre pop odyssey, now in progress for more than 15 years, continues on their new album Story of My Life. It’s been fascinating to watch this unsightly, off-kilter ensemble retain its art-rock street cred even as it has slowly learned to make radio- and listener-friendly records. At the same time the world itself […]
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Symphony of the Shores
In three short seasons the musician-managed Symphony of the Shores has made crossover eclecticism its endearing trademark. Not at all concerned with the decorum of classical programming, this youthful ensemble has, among other unconventional feats, performed works by jingle writers and collaborated with a performance troupe, juxtaposing light entertainment with serious art. This season finale […]
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Sympathy for the Pontiff
To the editors: I would like to take exception to the way that the Catholic Church is characterized in your May 7 issue [Calendar]. I am a Catholic feminist, a graduate of a seminary, a member of a parish staff, and like most women in my position, could talk for hours, if not days, about […]
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Art People: Tom Every and his amazing Forevertron
These Parts: Sauk City, WI
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The Sports Section
“There are two elements of the game,” said Pat Riley, head coach of the New York Knicks, after the third game of the Eastern Conference finals against the Bulls. “There’s the game of basketball and the primal game, and you’ve got to be able to deal with both of them. So the team that plays […]
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Liberal Doublespeak
To the editors: Your article on apartheid was typical liberal doublespeak which failed to discuss many salient facts [“Apartheid American-Style,” May 7]: A. The civil rights act of ’64 & ’68 allowed: 1) Two-parent families to achieve & prosper and attain incomes nearly 90 percent of that of white families. 2) The liberal welfare state […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story In April in Low Moor, Iowa, the body of a 16-year-old boy who had been suspected by his parents of running away to join the circus more than four years earlier was found hanged in their farmhouse basement; the body had not been discovered sooner because of the clutter. Since December, the bodies […]
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Sun-Times Hubris
To the editors: Regarding your Hot Type item on Steve Neal appropriating someone else’s published interview and passing it off as his own interview, if a lowly Sun-Times free-lancer pulled that stunt the person would never get another Sun-Times assignment [May 21]. Neal’s boss, Mark Hornung, defends his charge with an arrogant dismissal, “Steve doesn’t […]
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Light From the Underground
A SNAKE IN THE VEIN Amicus Theatre Company at Angel Island Alan Bowne wrote just a handful of plays before he died of AIDS in 1989, but they mark him as a significant artist who could blend dark, gritty realism with wicked wit, genuine theatrical excitement, and sharp social criticism. Like William S. Burroughs, his […]