THE DAY ROOM, at the Irish American Heritage Center. In a perfect world all but the most brilliant plays would be filed in a drawer and forgotten. Certainly this is […]
Tag: Vol. 27 No. 30
Issue of Apr. 30 – May. 6, 1998
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Hold Me
HOLD ME, Great Beast Theater, at Profiles Theatre. Jules Feiffer’s 1977 sketch comedy, like his earlier works The Explainers and Feiffer’s People, culls bits and pieces from his famous, now […]
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Garbage In, Garbage Out
Despite a terrible environmental record and ferocious opposition, the Robbins incinerator keeps on cooking
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Kenny Burrell Quartet
KENNY BURRELL QUARTET Those jazz guitarists of the 1950s who built upon the legacies of saxist Charlie Parker and guitarist Charlie Christian (who cut a vital figure in the transition […]
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Growing Up Strange
Boy fire-eater, successful entrepreneur, penniless wanderer: how William Darke found himself at the helm of a traveling freak show.
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An Unprintable Fate/ News Bites
By Michael Miner An Unprintable Fate The Sun-Times has come in for criticism lately over its campaign to rid itself of senior Washington reporter Basil Talbott. So it’s only fair […]
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The Laughing Lama
The Laughing Lama By Rose Spinelli “Welcome to…what do we call this any-way?” The holy man giggles and his eyes dance over our faces, as though hoping one of us […]
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
Films by Yasuzo Masumura By Jonathan Rosenbaum To appropriate one of the categories of Andrew Sarris’s The American Cinema, Yasuzo Masumura (1924-1986) is a “subject for further research.” I’ve yet […]
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A Stones’ Throw Away
Mick and Keith’s former roommate edges toward the spotlight.
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Clarification
metalitz.qxd Dear Reader: The listing about our courses in your April 10 edition [Calendar] might give readers the wrong impression of Henry George and the ideas we teach. You said […]
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On Stage: how to succeed at comedy by really trying
A little over three years ago Joe Bardetti left a job as a copywriter for Leo Burnett to become a full-time stand-up comedian. He knew he was giving up security, […]
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On Exhibit: monumental first drafts
The inventory list reads like the triage ledger at an emergency room: Theresa is missing her right-hand middle finger and left-hand little finger; Neptune is without both arms; Pluto has […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories In March the Oregon Lottery Commission awarded a $124,000 contract to a company to advise the commission on how to restore its gambling operations in case of a […]
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Sports Section
“Ruthian,” I jotted in my notebook when Michael Jordan stole the ball, and almost immediately recognized how unsatisfactory that adjective was. When Jordan unretired and led the Bulls to the […]
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The Black Test Car
The Black Test Car In this 1962 follow-up to his hit satire Giants and Toys, Yasuzo Masumura fires another salvo against Japan’s emerging class of corporate warriors. The tone here […]