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, […]
Tag: Vol. 27 No. 29
Issue of Apr. 23 – 29, 1998
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The Chicago Latino Film Festival
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 […]
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Neutral Milk Hotel
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 […]
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Always a Bridesmaid
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 […]
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Let There Be Rock
Three suburban teenagers help bring their Christian-rock idols to town.
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Remixed Results
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 […]
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War and Remembrance
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: […]
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Opportunities Lost
A snap decision extinguishes one of the Public Schools’ brightest lights.
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Flirting With Disasters
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 […]
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Will Development Bury the Barrio?
In Pilsen, the property is doing better than the people.
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Glancing Blows
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 […]
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Breaks in the Action
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 […]
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Field & Street
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 […]
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Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan & Monilal Nag
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 […]
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Tim Berne’s Paraphrase
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 […]