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Tag: Vol. 22 No. 43
Issue of Aug. 5 – 11, 1993
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NPR, Warts and All
To the editors: Glenn Garvin’s case against NPR news [June 25] was fun reading and raised lots of old arguments provocatively once again, but I just can’t get my dander up nearly as high as his (do hate reporters interviewing reporters, though). I still like NPR, warts and all, because: 1) TV news is too […]
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Texas Rubies
In the acoustic country duo that calls itself the Texas Rubies, Jane Baxter Miller’s purer, more distinctive voice leads the way through what are mostly Kelly Kessler’s songs. As often as not they’re good songs, too: uncompromising elucidations of a slightly desperate romantic sensibility set to unadorned, somewhat antique-sounding chord progressions and harmonies. Some of […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story Los Angeles hypnotherapist Yvonne Smith said in May that more than 30 people had joined her support group for people who claim to have been abducted by aliens. The group meet monthly in Smith’s home to discuss their problems in coping, for example, with memories of aliens’ sexual assaults, with aliens’ planting of […]
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Local Color: there’s no place like Don’s
Don Selle will let you know a secret if you ask: the strawberry shortcake at Don’s Coffee Club is not homemade. Nothing is, except for the coffee. “I doctor my desserts,” says Don, the sole proprietor. “It’s sleight of hand. My desserts are sleight-of-hand desserts.” It’s the middle of a Thursday afternoon, and a young […]
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Real Estate Envy
To the editors: In regards to Ben Joravsky’s July 2 article on the new Lakeview Action Coalition, I believe your writer has shown a bit of old-fashioned naivete and class prejudice in his statement that “Lakeview suffers from the same disease that transformed Lincoln Park into an urban version of Arlington Heights . . . […]
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Reading: The Empire Strikes Out
Travel writing is still predominantly an imperial style of literature–arrogant, acquisitive, oblivious to the meanings of local custom,
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Beyond Our Ken
To the editors: [Re: “Ken Comes Out,” July 23] Ken is “partner” of the most famous doll: Is that basis for “outing” him? Hmmm? Until bigoted people accept us queers (ie: you and me), outing may only portray us as lifeless dolls. We are more than haircuts and accessories–we have feelings dammit. . . . […]
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Victoria de los Angeles and David Owen Norris
Listening to on aging diva perform has its hazards and its rewards. When Maria Callas gave her farewell concerts, for example, audiences were treated to the spectacle of a voice post its prime trying to recapture former glories. There was pathos in the legendary soprano’s seeming acknowledgment of her decline, yet there was also poignance […]
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The Harvey Milk Show/The Expense of Spirit
THE HARVEY MILK SHOW Bailiwick Repertory THE EXPENSE OF SPIRIT Bailiwick Repertory At first glance a musical about the rise and premature fall of a figure like Harvey Milk, the openly gay San Francisco city supervisor of the late 1970s, seems foolhardy. One can imagine the stock scenes of political idealism winning the day, the […]
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Further Insults to Poetry
To the editors: I can sympathize with Mrs. Buehler whose poetry festival was ruined by police security measures for an impending Bulls basketball game [Neighborhood News, July 23]. Some people have suffered a great deal more than that, losing their lives and their businesses because of the Bulls phenomenon. Thousands of Chicagoans would like to […]
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X marks the 80s
The current X reunion tour has all the makings of a gnarly nostalgia trip. And maybe it’s true that you can’t go home again, but when the band recently took the Cabaret Metro stage and launched into “The Hungry Wolf,” they proved it’s possible to at least drop in for a visit–not bad, considering they […]
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Pumpkin Possessed by Mysterious Ghost, Contemplates Sex Change!
Head Pumpkin Billy Corgan/Smashing success has its drawbacks
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No One Goes Mad…From Writings of the “Insane”
The brainchild of writer-director Dan Sauer and performance artist David Hauptschein, No One Goes Mad is one of those rare hybrids of theater and performance that displays the strengths of each. Structured as a series of monologues and group scenes, this evening of “outsider” writings, most of them culled from In the Realm of the […]