I would be sequestered in a hospital, denied caffeine and cigarettes, and given experimental AIDS drugs. As the first day of the study drew near, I began to doubt my sanity.
Tag: Vol. 25 No. 22
Issue of Mar. 7 – 13, 1996
Posted inMusic
Poi Dog Days/Keepin Up With the Mekons/Schmitsville
Poi Dog Days The biggest selling album by a local band at the Clark Street Tower Records during 1995 was the Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. The second biggest seller, however, was Pomegranate, from Poi Dog Pondering, a name that doesn’t show up too much when local bands are mentioned. After four […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Reader to Reader
I was heading north on the el from Chicago and State about 4:15 on a Tuesday afternoon. Across the aisle a boy who looked about nine stood in front of his seat facing the window. Holding a pencil in one hand and a wide-ruled sheet of paper against the window with the other, he was […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Along for the Ride
Along for the Ride, In Pact Theatre Company, at Organic Theater Company Greenhouse Lab Theater. Randall Wheatley’s dreary dark comedy begins with an unpromising premise–two brothers spend half the play driving to their estranged father’s fishing cabin to pick up his frozen corpse and the other half driving back with the body in the backseat–and […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Whole Lotta Everything
If you need it, American Science & Surplus has it. But they get to pick the color.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Savage Love
Hey, Faggot: Any advice on dealing with feelings of jealousy? I’m a 33-year-old female in love with a 35-year-old male. Neither of us has been married, but my boyfriend had several major relationships and a large number of casual partners. I’ve had two major relationships, and it feels weird to be involved with someone with […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Lay Off Larry
Re: “Scary Larry” [February 23] C’mon, what do you expect? Television news is not in the business of educating people or entertaining people or really performing any service other than making money for its owners and corporate sponsors. The moniker “news” is merely a “handle” by which each channel gets to present various degrees of […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Traps
Set in French-occupied Indochina on the eve of the protracted civil strife that would eventually lead to the Vietnam war, this first feature by Pauline Chan hauntingly evokes an era and a place, depicting this desperate time far more accurately than the 1992 Indochine. At the center of Traps is an unhappy young Australian couple–he’s […]
Posted inNews & Politics
The Sports Section
By Ted Cox Shaquille O’Neal of the Orlando Magic put up a shot early in the fourth quarter against the Bulls a week ago last Sunday, but with Luc Longley playing tough one-on-one defense it came down short. Michael Jordan pulled in the rebound and dribbled straight out, with both Scottie Pippen and Toni Kukoc […]
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The Birdcage
One swell reason for seeing this fresh Americanized remake of La cage aux folles–the 1978 French farce about a middle-aged gay couple–written by Elaine May for her old improv partner, producer-director Mike Nichols, and costarring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as the couple–is its hilarious depiction of Pat Buchanan as played by Gene Hackman, which […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Confession Confection
Dear Mr. Rosenbaum: I generally agreed with your capsule review of Dead Man Walking, which describes the movie as honest and balanced in its handling of the controversy over capital punishment. But, after seeing the movie, I read the book of the same name upon which it was based. Then I wasn’t sure anymore about […]
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Mark Twain and the Laughing River
Veteran folk-pop singer-songwriter Jim Post (“Reach Out in the Darkness”) is no actor, but he’s a wonderful vocalist and tale teller–and nearly a dead ringer for Mark Twain. So this delightful family-oriented entertainment, smoothly directed by Brian Russell, is a natural: impersonating Twain in late middle age, Post matches the great writer’s anecdotes about growing […]