The best movies of 1997 weren’t the stuff of Hollywood fairy tales.
Tag: Vol. 27 No. 14
Issue of Jan. 8 – 14, 1998
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In Performance: trying not to lose the beats
At the end of his relatively somber 1992 poem “After Lalon,” Allen Ginsberg–usually the sunniest of the beat writers–cautioned his readers: I had my chance and lost it, many chances […]
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Tony Oxley
TONY OXLEY English percussionist Tony Oxley didn’t even begin learning his instrument until the age of 17, but within a decade he was the house drummer at Ronnie Scott’s prestigious […]
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The True Price of Independents
gerard.qxd Dear Editors, Your Year in Review section of the December 26, 1997, issue included a simplistic and misleading chart called “The Producers” created by Adam Langer. I would suggest […]
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Art People: Aron Packer goes mobile
Aron Packer doesn’t like to be called an art dealer. “‘Art dealer’ sounds a little underhanded, kind of like a card dealer in Las Vegas,” he says. “Gallery owner” would […]
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The Ten Best Albums of 1997
The Ten Best Albums of 1997 a RICHARD BUCKNER, Devotion + Doubt (MCA). Buckner’s unhealthy absorption in his own cyclical romantic traumas has made him able to describe the tenuousness […]
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Group Efforts: seeing history through the trees
Whenever Western Civilization has stumbled across some unfamiliar living thing, it’s sorted it into one of four categories. Whether it’s a plant or animal, bigger or smaller than we are, […]
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City File
How de facto school choice operates now. Dan Weissmann and Lisa Lewis write in Catalyst (November) that 17,000 students left the Chicago Public Schools between September 1995 and September 1996. […]
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Hank Crawford
HANK CRAWFORD Alto saxophonist Hank Crawford arrives just in time: who better to turn a near-north January night into a south-side August swelter? The Memphis-born veteran has soul to spare, […]
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The Straight Dope
I have received a question pertaining to the Beatles from a friend. I have no idea what the answer is. What do all four Beatles hold on the cover of […]
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Calendar
Friday 1/9 – Thursday 1/15 JANUARY by Mike Sula 9 FRIDAY When your neighbor pisses you off, is it better to drop a bomb on his family or to slowly […]
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Fools
Fools, TinFish Theatre. The themes of comedy may be as universal as those of tragedy, but they’re often so tied to a particular time and place as to be incomprehensible […]
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Eddie Palmieri
EDDIE PALMIERI The worst news I’ve had all year: the scintillating salsa pianist and bandleader Eddie Palmieri will not lead his full-scale jazz orchestra in Chicago as originally announced, but […]
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Police Scanner
Monday, December 29, 10:35 AM Dispatcher: 2513. 2513: You want to make a little notation? Um, in the 1800 block of Nagle or Natchez, if somebody calls about a dog […]