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Tag: Vol. 23 No. 27
Issue of Apr. 14 – 20, 1994
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A Crowd of Patsys
Her hair is bouffed, her lips pursed, bright red. Her face is full and powdery; she’s wearing an ankle-length brown skirt and a big-shouldered cowboy shirt with brown trim. She’s pacing up and down the halls of the Fine Arts Building humming “Crazy,” and she wants to be Patsy Cline. Her friend comes out of […]
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Reader to Reader
On a recent Sunday my roommate and I dragged ourselves out of bed for a promising estate sale on mansion-lined Hutchinson Street. The ad said numbers would be distributed at 9:30 and the sale would begin at 10:30, and half a dozen people were already in line when we got there at quarter past nine. […]
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Reading: A Man and His Hand
Nicholson Baker’s recent novels are expressions of the ultimate schoolboy ethos, modern epics of masturbation.
Posted inArts & Culture
Rebel; Ordering Lunch
REBEL and ORDERING LUNCH And Toto Too Productions at the Beat Kitchen When Edward flees to a deserted park after a quarrel with his wife, the last person he expects to see is a sassy southern belle in red leather chaps and four-inch spike heels. Rebel is a rock star who’s cut loose from her […]
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The Sports Section
It is absolutely true, I swear it, that as Michael Jordan stepped to the plate in the sixth inning of the Windy City Classic last Thursday, the sun reached my seat down the first-base line at Wrigley Field. It was sunny but cold in the shade of the grandstand, with the wind humming in over […]
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Local Lit: the relaxed rage of Sam Greenlee
Sam Greenlee is relaxed. He sits lotus style on a rainbow-striped blanket, rolling cigarettes and talking in reflective, short streams about the rage that fueled his 1969 underground classic The Spook Who Sat by the Door. “I planted the seed and I’ll live to see it grow,” says Greenlee. The seed was a portrait of […]
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Waters Still Runs Deep
** SERIAL MOM (Worth seeing) Directed and written by John Waters With Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Scott Wesley Morgan, Walt MacPherson, Justin Whalin, Patricia Hearst, and Suzanne Somers. “Outside it’s hot and muggy. I buy a carton of cigarettes, ever bitter that I’m taxed so highly (11) on the one purchase […]
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Spot Check
MULE, SILKWORM, CRAIN 4/15, LOUNGE AX Mule is a heavy Ann Arbor trio with burly mountain-man vocal stylings and a faux-backwoods roots blast. Its new four-song EP Wrung (Quarterstick), however, dispenses with the pronounced chaw spitting of the band’s debut album in favor of a more stripped-down, boogie-laden kick in the ass–sort of ZZ Top […]
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Gallery Tripping: Stephen Szoradi’s Blue Collar Cathedral
When Stephen Szoradi was in college at Bennington he heard that a drawing class was taking a field trip to a nearby quarry. Attracted by the prospect of seeing a large explosion, he tagged along, only to find himself fascinated by the whole scene. “I’d never seen raw materials before, growing up in D.C.” He […]
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Theater
SHEILA’S GIANT WALL OF PLOT TWISTS Sheila at Organic Theater Company Greenhouse VISTAMAX Live Bait Theater LEPERS: SCENES OF DESIRE AND IMPOTENCE Real Work, Inc. at Strawdog Theatre Company Once the dream (only partly realized) of improv visionaries like Paul Sills, David Shepherd, and Del Close, long-form improvisation has become as common as homegrown zucchini […]
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A Shaky Start for Trib’s New TV Critic/Reconstructive Surgery
A Shaky Start for Trib’s New TV Critic Ken Parish Perkins, the Tribune’s new TV critic, watched two weeks of tapes of Fox Thing in the Morning, then published his judgment of the show’s host, Bob Sirott. “Call me too new and too naive,” wrote Perkins, “but I like the guy.” Sirott was touched, but […]
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Improv, Improv, Everywhere
FLANAGAN’S WAKE Zeitgeist Theater at Improv Institute Flanagan’s Wake, half as extravagant but just as entertaining as the popular interactive show Tony ‘n’ Tina’s Wedding, might be described as “Paddy ‘n’ Fiona’s Funeral.” Upon entering the theater (which is in no way dressed up to look like anything other than a theater) the audience understands […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Story In February the Royal Bank of Scotland announced that it would begin issuing extra check-cashing ID cards to transvestite customers who request them. A bank spokesman said this would allow the customers to have separate cards depicting themselves dressed as male and female to “avoid embarrassment or difficulties.” Oops! Shortly after 10 AM […]