Friday Front Porch Stage noon Othar Turner & His Rising Star Fife & Drum Band 1:30 David “Honeyboy” Edwards 2:15 Dave Myers 3:05 Robert Junior Lockwood with Junior Wells 3:30 Keb’ Mo’ 4:30 Detroit Junior Crossroads Stage 1 Gloria Thompson 2:30 Charlie Love & His Silky Smooth Band with Shirley Johnson 4:30 Carlos Johnson Petrillo […]
Tag: Vol. 24 No. 34
Issue of Jun. 1 – 7, 1995
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Reel Life: ballpark for the common man
“I have never objected to being called ‘vulgar,’” proclaimed Bill Veeck in his autobiography Veeck–as in Wreck. The late baseball impresario pointed out that the insult’s Latin origin referred to “common people,” the sort he tried to please with giveaways, exploding scoreboards, and such gimmicks as midget batters and 1979’s backfiring “Disco Demolition.” Documentary filmmaker […]
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Gun Show
“They’re probably in those vans over there, filming all this,” says my host Jim, gesturing toward a small parking area. “There are a lot of feds here today.” The presence of ATF agents at the Lake County Sportsman’s Show is apparent even to a novice like me. Jim hits the gun show every month with […]
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James Kelly Choreography Project
It’s not every choreographer who can make dances to classical music and pounding industrial rock, to the king of pop and to traditional Irish tunes. James Kelly can do that and more–and thank goodness, since his ability to shift gears means that the five dances on this program, all his, are all entertaining in different […]
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The Boys on the Band
A night in CB-space, the redneck Internet, with Nighthawk, Rebel, and the Pink Torpedo
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Ticketmaster Enlisting Soldier Field?/Schmitsville
Now negotiating: Soldier Field chief Bob Glazebrook
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The Magic Flute
Mary Zimmerman is gaining renown for her visually dazzling, beguilingly clever theater adaptations of literary classics, and she’s shown a knack for seamlessly incorporating musical elements. Like her mentor Frank Galati, she ought to be a natural for opera, and her first crack at it is her staging of Mozart’s The Magic Flute for the […]
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18th Dye
Combining a variety of Amerindie traits–hushed melodicism, controlled guitar noise, severe dynamic shifts–with a fanatically disciplined minimalism, Berlin-based 18th Dye seem to take the British approach to appropriating Yankee culture. The difference is that they aren’t capriciously chasing the latest fashions; as their new album Tribute to a Bus (Matador) proves, 18th Dye wear their […]
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Jest a Second!
Jest a Second!, Victory Gardens Theater. James Sherman’s play is so ready for prime time. All it needs is a corporate sponsor–Gerber’s might be a good choice. Jest a Second! is sweet, easily digested, and just might make you gag. Like its predecessor, the monster hit Beau Jest, it might not be earthshaking theater, but […]
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Mississippi Juke Joint Caravan
Following the excitement generated by the blues documentary Deep Blues, the Oxford, Mississippi, label Fat Possum Records has spent the last three years releasing albums by the obscure but phenomenal bluesmen who fuel the raucous energy of the low-down juke joints in north Mississippi hill country. Regardless of style, most contemporary blues loses its urgency […]
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A Door to the Sky
A young Moroccan woman who returns from Paris to her ancient hometown of Fez to see her dying father is unexpectedly pulled back toward Islam. “Am I in the 15th century or the 20th?” Nadia writes her French boyfriend, but when he visits she no longer wants to see him. Farida Ben Lyazid’s script evenhandedly […]
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Gallery Tripping: inspired by Martha Stewart
Each year Araucana chickens lay about 250 pastel-colored eggs. Wicker Park artist Juniper Tedhams ordered three dozen in shades of blue and green from a farm in Waterford, Wisconsin, and artfully arranged them in a decorative bowl as part of her installation, “Good Things,” which opens tonight at Randolph Street Gallery. The exhibit’s named after […]
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Moby
Everything Is Wrong, the first full album from techno superstar Moby, is a brilliant and monstrous affair. In keeping with his various causes–he’s vegetarian, an up-front environmentalist, and Christian–his shows and recorded tracks are produced with an adamantine rigor: the utter clarity of the conception and the execution demand respect. And indeed at its pulsating […]
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John Anthony Cheek
For this solo recital John Anthony Cheek, a pianist with advanced degrees from Indiana University and the Manhattan School of Music who’s prepped with Gilbert Kalish and Menahem Pressler, has selected five works that offer an informed survey of the ways modern experimentalists have extended the range of keyboard techniques since the 19th century. One […]
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On Exhibit: a grunt’s view of Vietnam
Chicagoan Lazlo Kondor got his job as a war photographer by fibbing to army recruiters. He told them he was the official photographer for the first Mayor Daley. Trained as an infantryman and equipped with battle gear he sometimes used, Kondor spent two years in Vietnam on missions that civilian photographers were barred from because–unlike […]