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Issue of May. 14 – 20, 1998
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Cannanes

by Bill Meyer

CANNANES Like anything that’s been left out too long, indie rock has gotten pretty stale: the seven-inch bins are clogged with enough dreary, inept, and unambitious records (is anyone holding his breath for the next Vehicle Flips disc?) to make me wish the pressing plants would double their prices. It takes a visit from a […]

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Apples and Oranges

by Clarence C. Terry

terry.qxd Ted Cox’s Reader article (5-1-98) keeps up the irritating tradition of white sportswriters making racist and odious comparisons of the career of Babe Ruth to that of the careers of superstar black athletes to put the black athlete down. In some weird way, he finds Michael Jordan’s first game of the 1998 playoffs with […]

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Anyone Can Play

by Douglas Wolk

Cannanes By Douglas Wolk When the Cannanes arrive here from Australia this weekend for the first dates of their third U.S. tour, longtime fans will notice a rather significant difference in the lineup from the last time around: David Nichols, who was the sole remaining founder of the band, has left, apparently for good. Now, […]

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Zine-o-File

by Collected by Todd Savage

From the pages of Snowbound, the zine with ice in its veins ¥ Issue number 1 (3023 N. Clark #708, Chicago, IL 60657-5205; $4.75) Excerpts from: Escape From Las Vegas By Maritess Zurbano I moved away from Chicago in 1992. I was going crazy from being a sixth-year student in art school, and I was […]

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Westworld

by Justin Hayford

I Married Wyatt Earp Lucky Pierre, through May 16 By Justin Hayford On November 15, 1997, at five o’clock in the evening the five members of Lucky Pierre checked in to room 103 of the Morton Grove Best Western. For the next 24 hours they stayed there and watched westerns on video. As they write […]

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City File

by Harold Henderson

A recent eight-city survey of voting-age Hispanics found that nearly 70 percent strongly support bilingual education and 84 percent back school vouchers–and 48 percent think the United States allows too many immigrants into this country (“Politico,” April 27). Squeaky wheel gets the lead out. The city’s lead-abatement program cleaned up only 48 homes between 1994, […]

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Mommapalooza! Short Takes on Mom

by Jack Helbig

MOMMAPALOOZA! Short Takes on Mom, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, at Footsteps Theatre Company. Of the six one-acts in this anthology, only S.L. Daniels’s sketch about young women selling their eggs has anything new to say about motherhood. And that piece, though interesting, feels incomplete, as if Daniels hadn’t fully researched her rich, highly charged topic. The […]

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Civic Orchestra of Chicago

by Ted Shen

CIVIC ORCHESTRA OF CHICAGO The condescension that has long relegated great unclassifiable American masters such as Duke Ellington and George Gershwin to the fringe of the orchestral repertoire or to pops concerts alongside hacks like Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Williams still prevails in most major orchestras–not to mention their apprentice ensembles, which often are […]

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Mountain View, Natural Sunbathing

by Justin Hayford

MOUNTAIN VIEW, NATURAL SUNBATHING, Bailiwick Repertory. It’s a good thing several sexy men lounge about naked for much of Mountain View, Natural Sunbathing because there’s not much else to keep your attention for the production’s 90 minutes. Daniel Kipp’s aimless assemblage of bland conversations, part of the Pride Series ’98, is no more a play […]

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Lazy Cowgirls

by Peter Margasak

LAZY COWGIRLS Not long after forming in Vincennes, Indiana, 15 years ago, the Lazy Cowgirls moved to LA to make it big–a giant and highly risky leap at the time for a charging, meat-and-potatoes punk-rock band that looked like it spent a lot of time in the local 7-Eleven parking lot. Not surprisingly, the band […]