Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Tag: Vol. 28 No. 34
Issue of May. 27 – Jun. 2, 1999
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Neotropic/Pole/J-Rocc & Rhettmatic
NEOTROPIC/POLE/J-ROCC & RHETTMATIC Billed as “Night of the Round Tables,” this extravaganza ought to paint a pretty convincing picture of just how amazingly diverse turntable-based music making has become in 1999. Mr Brubakers Strawberry Alarm Clock (Ntone), the second album from Londoner Riz Maslen, aka Neotropic, recalls DJ Shadow in terms of density and the […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories Life imitates the movie Take the Money and Run: Vincent E. Rudolph, 36, was arrested in York, Pennsylvania, in March and charged with committing three robberies. In at least one of them he allegedly used a holdup note that read “Give me the money I got a gum.” In April the Associated Press […]
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Course Evaluation/Heading For the Palace/As the Door Spins/Fun in Yugoslavia
Course Evaluation As a student at Tennessee State University, Oprah Winfrey majored in speech, communications, and performing arts, but when she returns to academia this fall as an adjunct professor at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, her subject will be the art of leadership. With her longtime beau, marketing executive Stedman Graham, […]
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Nailing It Down
What’s behind the Vietnamese takeover of the manicure industry?
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Petty Crime
April 28, 12:30 PM, 1500 block of East 53rd. Assault. Man was stopped on street by boss from convenience mart, who accused him of stealing store’s candy to sell after business hours. Employee denied accusation. Boss, who moonlights as security guard, was in uniform. He put gun to employee’s ribs, searched him, found candy, and […]
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Keep the Legacy Alive
Born in Chicago in 1912, Katherine Dunham cobbled together a remarkable career. She made her professional debut in 1933 in Ruth Page’s ballet La Guiablesse while studying anthropology at the University of Chicago, then was awarded a fellowship by the Rosenwald Foundation and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm to study dance in Martinique, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti. […]
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Restaurant Tours: Penang’s Malaysian melting pot
Ken Lim surveys the Friday-night crowd at Penang, the Malaysian restaurant his family owns in Chinatown. All the tables are full, and a line stretches outside the front door even though it’s past nine. “That’s a Filipino family,” Lim says, pointing to a table of ten. “The grandparents bring everyone here to taste home cooking. […]
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Rhinoceros
RHINOCEROS, National Pastime Theater. The expression “herd mentality” takes on new meaning in Eugene Ionesco’s 1959 cautionary tale: humans turning into rhinoceroses was no more outlandish to him than Germans mutating into Nazis. In either case, logic, art, even love offer no defense. The embattled Berenger is the last to succumb, clinging to a mirror […]
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Bill Coday
BILL CODAY Soul singer Bill Coday waxed some classic sides on Denise LaSalle’s Chicago-based Crajon label in the late 60s and early 70s, then disappeared for almost two decades. In 1995 he launched a comeback with the widely acclaimed Sneakin’ Back (Ecko), and this year’s Put Me in the Mood is the most completely realized […]
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Kyle Eastwood
KYLE EASTWOOD Clint Eastwood played boogie-woogie piano as a young man, and in 1988 he directed the Charlie Parker biopic Bird; now, it seems, he’s produced a jazz bassist. Kyle Eastwood’s got his dad’s cool, sleepy grin, but it’s hard to tell what else he’s got on his first and only album, last year’s From […]
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Pill Hill
Pill Hill, Chicago Theatre Company. It takes more than a plan to escape from a dead-end job, enjoy security and esteem, and live on “Pill Hill”–more properly Calumet Heights, whose nickname derives from its former population of white doctors. It’s not even enough to have a direction. As the six black steelworkers who meet weekly […]
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Savage Love
I’m a 28-year-old woman. My husband is 30. We’ve been married four years and dated three years before getting married. We have a three-year-old child. Sexually, I’m of the “I’ll try anything once” school. We’ve experimented a lot over the last seven years, trying bondage, role-playing, gender-bending play, water sports, and so many positions I’ve […]
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Trio
Inexperienced improvisers think improv is all a matter of speed; rushing through the preliminaries, they create slapdash characters in cliched situations. Then they wonder why they don’t get laughs. Seasoned improvisers know that mental agility is more important, that time spent developing a character and allowing a scene to unfold will pay off. And no […]