The Rhinoceros Theater Festival Directed this year by Beau O’Reilly, this annual summer showcase of fringe theater, performance, and music takes its name from surrealist painter Salvador Dali’s use of […]
Tag: Vol. 25 No. 50
Issue of Sep. 19 – 25, 1996
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Money Changes Everything
The Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum By Jim DeRogatis Long before I ever set eyes on I.M. Pei’s great glass pyramid on Lake Erie, I had heard […]
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Fractured Voices
Bathe Me, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Doorika at Chicago Filmmakers By Justin Hayford Gertrude Stein’s writing seems to come from nowhere. Her perplexing prose, which began appearing in print […]
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Avant-Garde Films
This first program of X-Film Chicago’s new season is one of its best, but with a twist: the strongest films explore existing genres but become extreme enough to also transform […]
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Don Bennet Quartet
DON BENNETT QUARTET When he lived in Chicago, the peripatetic pianist Don Bennett played a hale and fleshy brand of jazz piano. Energized by big, blunt chords drawn from the […]
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Musical Notes: life in the Betsy Years
The Betsy Years take their name directly from bassist Liz Payne’s life. “My father’s been married four times,” she says. “So I denote certain periods in my childhood by who […]
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Postmodern Primitives
Jose Cobo: New Works at Maya Polsky Gallery, through October 15 Leslie Wilkes: New Paintings at Lyons-Weir & Ginsberg, through October 5 By Fred Camper A s our culture becomes […]
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Bottom Dwellers
Mark Dresser Invocation (Knitting Factory Works) Dave Holland Ones All (Intuition) Peter Kowald Was Da Ist (FMP) William Parker Testimony (Zero In) Paul Rogers Heron Moon (Rare Music) By John […]
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Screen Gems
Bernard Herrmann: Great Film Music (London/Decca) The Great Hitchcock Movie Thrillers (London/Decca) Bernard Herrmann: The Film Scores (Sony Classical) By Lee Sandlin Whatever his other accomplishments, Bernard Herrmann was the […]
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Another Shift in Tempo/Lazy Like a Fox
By Michael Miner Another Shift in Tempo Blair Kamin’s long piece on Meigs Field last week came as a revelation: the Tribune’s Tempo section wasn’t merely edging away from a […]
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Hard Question
To the Reader: Concerning Albert Williams’s review of Hair at the New Athenaeum Theatre in your August 9 issue, the night I saw the play there one of the male […]
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In Performance:Mr. Bones jangles
I heard him before I saw him–a clackety-clack sound coming from a semicircle of about 60 people. In front of them was a guy with big blue eyes and blond […]
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Yair Dalal & the Al Ol Ensemble
YAIR DALAL & the AL OL ensemble According to the liner notes for the new album by Israeli musician Yair Dalal, “Al Ol is the name of a desert wind, […]
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Workers Stiffed
Daley and developers mull a multiplex on the Clybourn Corridor
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Boystown Eats Brazil/Barbara’s Books
Steve Abrams teams up with Vortex co-owner Tony Marchese for the transition from foam parties to fine dining.