THE CLOWN, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, at the Lunar Cabaret, and CUT IT OUT!, Caravan/Caravan, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, at the Lunar Cabaret. It was just chance that two of the entries in this year’s Rhino Fest (which closes this weekend) are adaptations of works by Heinrich Bšll, but they play off each other nicely. Neither is […]
Tag: Vol. 26 No. 51
Issue of Sep. 25 – Oct. 1, 1997
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Spot Check
BLONDE REDHEAD 9/27, FIRESIDE BOWL On its third full-length, Fake Can Be Just As Good (Touch and Go), this international band (singer-guitarist Kazu Makino is Japanese; twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace are Italian) puts forth the chunkiest and most accessible version of its no-wave-lite sonic melange yet. No-wave-influenced bands should always have at least […]
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Writing’s the Easy Part/ Performing Arts Center Seeks Manager, Momentum/ Do You Want a Latte With That?
First-time novelist Tim Brown pieces together his publicity machine.
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Ballet Folklorico de Mexico
Ballet Folklorico de Mexico Sometimes the long-term effects of a performance are incalculable. Several non-Hispanic acquaintances have told me how much Ballet Folklorico de Mexico impressed them as children growing up in Chicago decades ago; some of them later learned Spanish and/or studied Hispanic culture. Seeing the company is far from a mere filmstrip experience: […]
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John Patton
JOHN PATTON Although “Big” John Patton never attained the 60s popularity of fellow Hammond B-3 maestros Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Jack McDuff, or Richard “Groove” Holmes, he certainly rates as one of the most significant organists of the last three decades. Without approaching the daring invention of Larry Young, Patton incorporated some of his linear, […]
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Fridge Strings: Nocturne w/ Fruit & Grandmother
FRIDGE STRINGS: NOCTURNE W/ FRUIT & GRANDMOTHER, Flying Girl, at Strawdog Theatre. For Amanda Clower–the creator, with Jenny Magnus, of this intriguing one-woman show–Saint Augustine’s “dark night of the soul” takes the form of late-night refrigerator raids. Seizing on the moment of truth when appetite yields to rumination, Clower’s surrogate Mimi recalls her garrulous mother […]
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Caught in the Net
Captured at www.fathermag.com/circ/mail/aldeeb.html Differences Between Male and Female Circumcision by Sami Aldeeb You cannot be against female circumcision and in favor of male circumcision at the same time unless you are willing to convince us that your culture is better than others’ cultures your religion is better than others’ religions your holy book is better […]
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Over-Amped
Pizzicato Five Metro September 13 By Frank Youngwerth Advance publicity for Pizzicato Five’s summer tour promised that the animated Japanese popsters would be backed by a live band, the largest group they’d performed with outside of their home country. Up to now they’ve toured in a scaled-down version due to financial constraints. Though the “Great […]
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Savage Backlash/ Trib’s Unfiltered Bias
By Michael Miner Savage Backlash A hyperpersonal essay that begins, “About five years ago I had sex with this guy I met at a party,” and admits to some irritation that the guy still lives, received an “excellence in journalism” award at the recent conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association in Chicago. […]
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City File
Local school councils are ethnically representative of the city, but not educationally representative, according to a survey of 1,900 LSC members at 325 schools by the Consortium on Chicago School Research. LSC members are 64 percent “minority,” as are 62 percent of city residents (and 89 percent of Chicago Public Schools students). Some 60 percent […]
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Koko Taylor
KOKO TAYLOR Koko Taylor has done as much as anyone to refute the stereotype of the long-suffering blues chanteuse, battered by life and reduced to reveling in masochism. Even in the early 60s, when producer Willie Dixon sometimes saddled her with overwrought paeans to suffering and hard times, she cut through the bathos with searing […]
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The Straight Dope
We know of Absorbine Jr.; whatever became of Absorbine Sr.? Are there any other family members of which we should be aware? –Donarita and Wally, via the Internet You think you have total command of the world’s knowledge. Then something like this comes in and you realize: I have barely scratched the freaking surface. But […]