What started as a performance component of the Bucktown Arts Fest has taken on a life of its own: this is the fifth annual incarnation of the Rhino Fest, whose name is inspired by surrealist painter Salvador Dali’s use of the term “rhinocerontic” (it means real big). Organized this year by Beau O’Reilly, Michael Martin, […]
Tag: Vol. 23 No. 47
Issue of Sep. 1 – 7, 1994
Posted inNews & Politics
Lumpen Speculation
Thank you for reminding me what a piece of crap Lumpen Times is [“The Panic in Wicker Park,” August 26]. I have to remember to tell visitors from out of town to pick one up so they can see what a proletarian pose, a slacker attitude, a near-total lack of journalistic skills, and Daddy’s money […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Six Women With Brain Death, or Expiring Minds Want to Know
SIX WOMEN WITH BRAIN DEATH, OR EXPIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW. John J. Condne III Productions, at the Synergy Center. In the semisatirical spirit of life-style musical revues like A Girl’s Guide to Chaos, Personals, and A . . . My Name Is Alice, Six Women with Brain Death, or Expiring Minds Want to Know […]
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Reader to Reader
It was the middle of the downtown lunch-hour rush at the corner of Washington and Clark. A policewoman stood in the middle of the intersection, barking out orders to drivers and pedestrians. As she tried in vain to keep traffic moving, a well-dressed middle-aged man, briefcase in hand, stepped off the sidewalk to cross Clark […]