3 Cuba, Rhino in Winter festival, at Live Bait Theater. Two of these three works about Cuba by local writers are disappointing productions of rambling scripts: Frank Melcori’s The Cuban Missile Crisis and Scott Turner’s Cuban Grouper. But Beau O’Reilly and Sharon Goepfort’s adaptation of Achy Obejas’s story We Came All the Way From Cuba […]
Tag: Vol. 26 No. 21
Issue of Feb. 27 – Mar. 5, 1997
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Nikki Giovanni: New Song for a New Day
Nikki Giovanni: new song for a new day, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, at South Shore Cultural Center. “Show me someone not full of herself,” Nikki Giovanni once declared, “and I’ll show you an empty person!” In the late 60s and early 70s she defiantly reveled in first-person singularity, arguing by her example that pride in one’s […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories In January Jack Petelui, 43, claiming to hear God, stripped down to his underwear, climbed the ornate facade of a New York City hotel, resisted police efforts to talk him down for more than an hour, and finally jumped. New Yorkers were said to be astonished at the dozens of bystanders who were […]
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Northwestern Dean Bolts With Fellowship Program/ Shubert Boosts Rent/ Phantom Resident
Medill professor Abe Peck declines to join the National Arts Journalism Program on its move to New York
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Fables of the Reconstruction
We had our very own Sistine Chapel, with a 180-foot mural by an important 20th-century artist. So why is this landmark painting languishing in a warehouse?
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Petty Crime
January 30, 6:05 PM, 4800 block of North Clark. Assault and battery. Woman shopping at thrift store realized her wallet had been removed from her coat pocket. She turned to two other women and asked if they’d taken wallet. Women denied theft. Wallet was found on floor next to accused women. Argument ensued. One woman […]
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On Exhibit: changing focus
Do museums ever arrange paintings along time lines marking the progress of paint pigments? Have advances in arc welding or chisel design inspired retrospective surveys of sculpture? This sort of materialist emphasis comes naturally to curators and consumers of photography, a medium often identified with its mechanisms. Keith Davis, a curator from Kansas City, Missouri, […]
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Rhino in Winter
Offered as an adjunct to the annual summer Rhinoceros Theater and Performance Festival, this monthlong showcase of fringe entertainment features mostly new work by such ensembles and individuals as the Curious Theatre Branch, Dolphinback Theatre Company, Ira Glass, Frank Melcori, Theater Oobleck, Jamie O’Reilly, Michael Smith, the Saint Ed theater company, and John Starrs, among […]
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60 Ft Dolls
60 FT DOLLS As part of an impressive explosion of Welsh rock music that’s also given us Super Furry Animals and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, the 60 Ft Dolls amply demonstrate the relative value of geographic isolation. While indirectly a product of Great Britain’s fickle hit factory, on their full-length debut, The Big 3 (DGC), this […]
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General Electronica
It’s hard to think of a musical style that’s been discussed, celebrated, and borrowed by so many yet heard by so few as drum ‘n’ bass. The music formerly known as jungle has left traces on pop albums like Everything but the Girl’s Walking Wounded and smothered the new David Bowie…but who’s actually got the […]
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet, Yugen Theatre, at Footsteps Theatre Company. Y’see, this teenage boy and his buddies crash this yuppie party, where he falls for the richo’s daughter, but her sister gets into a fight with his homey, violence breaks out, and he’s forced to flee the cops. Yes, it’s Romeo and Juliet, once again draped […]
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Joelle Leandre
JOELLE LEANDRE Because free improvisation and classical music are by their very natures on opposite sides of the fence, it’s unusual to encounter musicians that work in both idioms, let alone artists who’ve mastered both. French bassist Joelle Leandre is one of those. She’s studied with John Cage, Giacinto Scelsi (both of whom have written […]
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On a Grand Scale
Being in Dreaming II at the Athenaeum Theatre, through March 1 Uno Man at the Dance Center of Columbia College, February 19-21 By Joseph Houseal Choreographer August Tye competed with a blizzard on opening night of “Being in Dreaming II,” but she held her own with a showcase of new dance work–her first concert in […]
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The Fellowship of the Ring
The Fellowship of the Ring, Lifeline Theatre. This first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien’s own Ring Cycle contains more outlandish inventiveness than one could ever hope to squeeze onto a stage. But the valiant Lifeline Theatre creates a credible facsimile, effectively dramatizing hapless Frodo Baggins’s dangerous quest and Tolkien’s magical forests, eerie horsemen, and bloodthirsty dwarves. […]