koskiewi.qxd Having grown up in Logan Square on the 3400 block of W. Drummond Place during the 50s and 60s, I can provide something of a historical perspective to the parcel of land now known as the Unity Playlot [Neighborhood News, July 11]. At one point during the late 50s, the Unity Playlot area was […]
Tag: Vol. 26 No. 43
Issue of Jul. 31 – Aug. 6, 1997
Posted inNews & Politics
City File
In 1857 Abraham Lincoln was a has-been ex-congressman. Illinois had zero miles of railroad. Fewer than 30,000 people lived in Chicago….And Robert Kennicott founded the Chicago Academy of Sciences, now celebrating its 140th birthday and its status as the city’s oldest museum, according to a recent press release. “In a racially just world, black athletes […]
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, Circle Theatre. This searing production of Edward Albee’s classic tale of domestic horror makes the audience almost as tense and uneasy as the hapless young couple who unwittingly become participants in George and Martha’s all-out war. There you sit in the humble little theater, practically in the middle of the […]
Posted inMusic
Brahms’s German Requiem
BRAHMS’S GERMAN REQUIEM Forget Verdian bombast. For that matter, forget the familiar Latin words of the traditional requiem, the Roman Catholic mass for the dead. Instead of following the usual liturgical model, Johannes Brahms chose to write his requiem in the vernacular–and to give it a decidedly humanistic tack. There’s no Dies Irae, threatening endless […]
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The Light Keepers
THE LIGHT KEEPERS, Bailiwick Repertory. Rebecca Ranson’s romantic drama tells the stylized, sentimental story of two Victorian women who make a love nest out of a Lake Michigan lighthouse. The setting, with its isolation and heroic sense of vulnerability, simultaneously tests and protects the two women as they grow into a seemingly perfect partnership, the […]
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Bill Coday
BILL CODAY R & B veteran Bill Coday has reemerged, seemingly out of nowhere and with all of his gifts intact, to become one of the most exciting players on the contemporary blues scene. Coday’s recording career dates back to 1969, when Denise LaSalle discovered him in a Chicago nightclub and brought him to her […]
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Zine-o-File
From the pages of Spleen, The Angry Little Humor Zine ¥ Number 6 (P.O. Box 8122, Las Vegas, NV 89119; $1 per issue) You Say Congo, I Say Zaire By David Guhlow These two countries in central Africa have gone through more name changes than Liz Taylor. If you’re keeping score at home, here’s the […]