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Home » Vol. 27 No. 29

Tag: Vol. 27 No. 29

Issue of Apr. 23 – 29, 1998

Posted inMusic

Michael Weiss

by Neil Tesser April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

MICHAEL WEISS Were he ten years younger, pianist Michael Weiss might well have snared one of those early-90s major-label contracts that went to such pianists as Cyrus Chestnut, Benny Green, […]

Posted inArts & Culture

The Chicago Latino Film Festival

by Chicago Reader April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

The Chicago Latino Film Festival The 14th annual edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival, produced by Chicago Latino Cinema and Columbia College, continues from Friday through Monday, April 24 […]

Posted inMusic

Neutral Milk Hotel

by J.R. Jones April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL On Avery Island, the first record by Neutral Milk Hotel, sprang from recordings songwriter Jeff Mangum made at home, abetted by his friend Robert Schneider of the […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Always a Bridesmaid

by Michael Miner April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

By Michael Miner Always a Bridesmaid Last August 13 the grisly story of Abner Louima broke across New York City. Louima, a Haitian immigrant, had been arrested outside a Brooklyn […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Let There Be Rock

by Tori Marlan April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

Three suburban teenagers help bring their Christian-rock idols to town.

Posted inMusic

Remixed Results

by Michaelangelo Matos April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

Miles Davis Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974 Reconstruction & Mix Translation by Bill Laswell (Columbia) Various Artists Variety Pack (Smile) By Michaelangelo Matos When they rewrite the annals […]

Posted inArts & Culture

War and Remembrance

by Albert Williams April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

Denial Apple Tree Theatre Auschwitz Lullaby Circle Theatre The Workroom Fourth Wall Productions at Wilbur Wright College By Albert Williams In his 1976 book The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Opportunities Lost

by Ben Joravsky April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

A snap decision extinguishes one of the Public Schools’ brightest lights.

Posted inFilm

Flirting With Disasters

by Jonathan Rosenbaum April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

I’ve seen Ross McElwee’s documentary Six o’Clock News (1996) twice, on video about eight months apart, and each time there was a moment roughly halfway through when I felt that […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Will Development Bury the Barrio?

by Linda Lutton April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

In Pilsen, the property is doing better than the people.

Posted inArts & Culture

Glancing Blows

by Fred Camper April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

Cindy Sherman: Retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, through May 31 By Fred Camper Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz was once assigned to photograph Cindy Sherman. Sherman–who’d become famous by […]

Posted inFilm

Breaks in the Action

by Patrick Z. McGavin April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

Sonatine Rating *** A must see Directed and written by Takeshi Kitano With Kitano, Ren Ohsugi, Tetsu Watanabe, Aya Kokumai, Masanobu Katsumura, Susumu Terashima, Tonbo Zushi, Kenichi Yajima, and Eiji […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Field & Street

by Jerry Sullivan April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

The ospreys are back in the forest preserves around Palos Park. A pair has been resident there the past two summers, but they didn’t seem to lay any eggs in […]

Posted inMusic

Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan & Monilal Nag

by Peter Margasak April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

ALI AHMED HUSSAIN KHAN & MONILAL NAG This concert offers a rare treat, a pairing of the sitar–the best-known Indian instrument in the West, thanks to Ravi Shankar and the […]

Posted inMusic

Tim Berne’s Paraphrase

by Peter Margasak April 23, 1998August 20, 2021

TIM BERNE’S PARAPHRASE Lots of jazz musicians lose their artistic drive as they get older, refining their earlier achievements in pursuit of a living wage. But over the last two […]

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