hasler.qxd Dear Editor: In his 1/9/98 article “Following the Money,” reporter Ben Joravsky describes the League of Women Voters of Chicago’s report on the tax system as “proving” that the poor are paying more than their fair share of taxes. Joravsky quotes the report as finding that “the poorest 20 percent of Illinois taxpayers pay […]
Tag: Vol. 27 No. 17
Issue of Jan. 29 – Feb. 4, 1998
Posted inFilm
Divine Inspiration
The Apostle Rating *** A must see Directed and written by Robert Duvall With Duvall, Farrah Fawcett, Miranda Richardson, Todd Allen, John Beasley, June Carter Cash, Billy Joe Shaver, Walter Goggins, Rick Dial, and Billy Bob Thornton. Kundun Rating **** Masterpiece Directed by Martin Scorsese Written by Melissa Mathison With Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Gyurme Tethong, […]
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Calendar Sidebar
Though commonly associated with a simpler, pastoral life, quilting has long been used as an incisive form of political commentary. Kathy Weaver’s Guns Are Us, Funerary Piece Three comments on our society’s destructive obsession with firearms–the homespun medium reminds us of the human cost. Weaver is one of three local artists included in the exhibit […]
Posted inNews & Politics
It’s in the Good Book
schultz.qxd Joyous Christian greetings! Robert McClory is, by his own reasoning, dead wrong about women priests and contraception [Hot Type, January 16]. McClory states that “the pope is infallible if he’s teaching what the church believes,” and the church’s teaching on both of these matters has been pretty clear over the last two millennia. Christ, […]
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Child’s Play
CHILD’S PLAY, Lucid Theatre Productions, at Preston Bradley Center for the Arts. The 1972 film based on Robert Marasco’s drama conveyed some chills, but this Child’s Play is much less convincing: Clyde Simon’s static 90-minute revival never achieves the momentum terror feeds on. A Catholic boys’ school is haunted by more than the usual guilt: […]
Posted inMusic
Reuben Wilson
RUEBEN WILSON He may not enjoy the name recognition of Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, or Jimmy McGriff, but Reuben Wilson has enjoyed the renaissance of the Hammond B-3 organ right alongside those stars–in fact, he’s become something of an underground star himself. Born in Oklahoma, he started playing professionally in Los Angeles, and in the […]
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Three of a Kind
The contenders for Sidney Yates’s congressional seat scramble to display their differences.
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Lloyd’s Prayer and Commedia Dell’ High School
Lloyd’s Prayer and Commedia Dell’ High School, Step Right Up Productions, at Victory Gardens Theater. What a piece of work is a man! But where is the “noble reason” in Bob, who was nurtured first by animals, then by men little better than beasts? Though Kevin Kling’s Lloyd’s Prayer explores such questions, this is no […]
Posted inNews & Politics
City File
“Certain management trends at ComEd…could cause utility-wide problems if the MOx program [making nuclear reactor fuel from weapons-grade plutonium] were employed,” write Carrie Benzschawel and Laura Bulow in the Evanston-based “NEIS News” (September-October). “In the past, when one reactor has required more attention due to difficulties at that reactor, ComEd has shifted resources from other […]
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Grand Hotel
GRAND HOTEL, Circle Theatre. The music may sweeten and the lyrics trivialize Vicki Baum’s novel and play (source of the classic 1932 film, with Garbo, Joan Crawford, and the Barrymores). Still, the Robert Wright-George Forrest musical adaptation preserves the desperation of Baum’s frightened folk, who define themselves by their escapes. Set in pre-Depression Berlin in […]
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Lori Belilove
Lori Belilove Behind all the cliches of the modern dancer–faux-classical gossamer garb, real classical music, thrown-back head, childishly lifted arms, skipping and leaping–was a real dancer, Isadora Duncan. And she was a revolutionary. But though the free rhythms and forms she brought to dance might be considered an outgrowth of American freethinking, she was never […]
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The Straight Dope
I just read your column about Circus Peanuts [December 26]. In all seriousness, I happen to like Circus Peanuts. I really do. I’m not kidding. Just thought you should know that there was someone in the world who actually likes the things. –Brian, via the Internet I wholeheartedly (and proudly) love Circus Peanuts! Can’t keep […]
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Flirting With Disaster
Goodbye Stranger Steppenwolf Theatre Company By Adam Langer The most tragic thing about Glad–the protagonist of Carrie Luft’s picaresque satire of late-20th-century hipster culture–is that I can’t remember ever meeting anyone quite like him. As he wanders, naive and huggable as a modern-day Candide or slacker Forrest Gump, in a haze of blissful ignorance through […]
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Anthony Molinaro
ANTHONY MOLINARO Last year, 25-year-old Chicago native Anthony Molinaro became the first pianist in five years to win the prestigious Naumburg competition for young classical musicians–one of whose sweetest rewards is guaranteed concert dates across the country. The cornerstone of Molinaro’s talent, based on tapes I’ve heard and on what his former mentor Ursula Oppens […]
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Days of the Week
Friday 1/30 – Thursday 2/5 JANUARY By Cara Jepsen 30 FRIDAY Anyone who’s lived in a garden apartment knows firsthand that the earth maintains a constant temperature of 53 de-grees just below its surface. But if you were to heavily insulate the apartment and add a few humans, their bodies would act like miniradiators and […]