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Issue of Oct. 14 – 20, 1993
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Field & Street

by Jerry Sullivan

Eight years ago I wrote a story about the Cook County Forest Preserve District for Chicago magazine. The story was, overall, considerably less than complimentary. I applauded the district for buying as much land as it could. Almost 11 percent of the land area of Cook County is forest preserve. If every county in Illinois […]

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Colin Andrews and Janette Fishell

by Ted Shen

Colin Andrews and Janette Fishell are a rarity: they’re an organ duo. If you think piano duets look tricky, you’d be amazed by the amount of choreography–of hands and feet–required for two organists to share one console. Unlike its piano counter part, which historically caught the fancy of many a composer and of the rising […]

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Queers on parade: black and Hispanic gays and lesbians find they can go home again

by Ben Joravsky

Five years ago Jose Navarro left the predominantly Mexican southwest-side community in which he was raised. He was openly gay, and he didn’t think the community would tolerate that. “You grow up in a culture where all of your role models are heterosexual, or apparently heterosexual,” says Navarro, now 25. “As a Catholic, it’s even […]

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Great African Queens

by Adam Langer

GREAT AFRICAN QUEENS Black Ensemble The concept behind Jackie Taylor’s Great African Queens is promising enough: pay tribute to some of the most neglected figures in world history and thereby gain insight into overcoming current patterns of inequality. Weaving together monologues, songs, and dances that depict the forgotten histories of women who ruled over African […]

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Songwriter: Austin on the Road

by Bill Wyman

Jo Carol Pierce was a high school classmate of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock in Lubbock, Texas nearly four decades ago. (She later married Gilmore, though they eventually divorced.) She’s now part of the Austin mafia that includes those three and a handful of other world-class talents, but she’s arrived at this […]

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Love Stories

by Jack Helbig

GREEK STREETS Short Story Theatre at the Royal George Theatre Center Gallery ZORBA Apple Tree Theatre Harry Mark Petrakis is one of those Chicago-based writers, like novelist Richard Stern and poet G.E. Murray, who seem to have spent their whole lives hovering on the edge of fame. Every few years Petrakis’s work is rediscovered, and […]

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Joshua Redman Quartet

by Neil Tesser

Two years ago, when Joshua Redman captured the top prize in a national competition for tenor players, many jazzbos figured they’d heard this number before. Redman had terrific technique, he showed undeniable respect for the jazz tradition, he was the son of a musician (Dewey Redman, the former sideman to Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett), […]

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Merle Haggard

by Chris Dickinson

With legends it’s not always easy separating fact from fiction, but Merle Haggard’s dossier reads true. No disrespect to Johnny Cash, but he only played San Quentin–Hag did time as part of the captive audience. “I turned 21 in prison, doin’ life without parole,” he sings in “Mama Tried.” In reality he only served 2 […]

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Ticket of No Return

by Jonathan Rosenbaum

If you’re looking for an alternative to the Chicago Film Festival, here’s a neglected movie from the past that’s better than most of the current festival entries. Of the many films by Ulrike Ottinger I’ve seen, this lovely and deliciously “irresponsible” 1979 camp item has given me the most unbridled pleasure. A nameless heroine (Tabea […]