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Home » Vol. 27 No. 30

Tag: Vol. 27 No. 30

Issue of Apr. 30 – May. 6, 1998

Posted inArts & Culture

The Day Room

by Jack Helbig April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Hold Me

by Jack Helbig April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Garbage In, Garbage Out

by Ben Joravsky April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

Despite a terrible environmental record and ferocious opposition, the Robbins incinerator keeps on cooking

Posted inMusic

Kenny Burrell Quartet

by Neil Tesser April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Growing Up Strange

by Michael G. Glab April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

Boy fire-eater, successful entrepreneur, penniless wanderer: how William Darke found himself at the helm of a traveling freak show.

Posted inNews & Politics

An Unprintable Fate/ News Bites

by Michael Miner April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

The Laughing Lama

by Rose Spinelli April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inFilm

Tales of Ordinary Madness

by Jonathan Rosenbaum April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

A Stones’ Throw Away

by Mike Sula April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

Mick and Keith’s former roommate edges toward the spotlight.

Posted inNews & Politics

Clarification

by Chuck Metalitz April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inArts & Culture

On Stage: how to succeed at comedy by really trying

by Michael Marsh April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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, […]

Posted inArts & Culture

On Exhibit: monumental first drafts

by Bill Stamets April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

News of the Weird

by Chuck Shepherd April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

Posted inNews & Politics

Sports Section

by Ted Cox April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

“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 […]

Posted inFilm

The Black Test Car

by Ted Shen April 30, 1998August 20, 2021

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 […]

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