This 1995 feature, the first film directed by Canadian theatrical auteur Robert Lepage, works on so many levels that watching its elaborate, erudite storytelling unfold is exhilarating in itself. After years of absence, Pierre (Lothaire Bluteau) returns to his native Quebec City for his father’s funeral; the occasion brings back memories of his family’s past […]
Tag: Vol. 28 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 10 – 16, 1999
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The Rise and Fall of a Little Voice
By Ben Joravsky It took Madeline Halperin-Robinson almost half a year to overcome her inhibitions and speak up at a school board meeting. But she has a lot more to say. “There’s so much I want to tell the board–about testing, security, metal detectors–everything,” says Halperin-Robinson, the board’s student member this year. “[Schools CEO] Paul […]
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City File
My neighborhood is a fruit. From the “Rogers Park Builder” (Spring): “For years the market for condos and rental units in Rogers Park was waiting like a ripe apple ready to be plucked. The time for plucking is now.” One enthusiastic property owner is said to be “getting $350 per month per unit for a […]
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Clarence Darrow
Clarence Darrow would have been an inspiration in any age. Rumpled, eloquent, fiercely determined to fight the good fight–even if that meant defending admitted killers, such as Leopold and Loeb, against the death penalty–he gave lawyers a good name. Willing to use every weapon at his disposal, including his scathing wit, Darrow provided three generations […]
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Men on the Street
The everyday art of two extraordinary photographers: Marvin Newman and Yasuhiro Ishimoto.
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Bovine Intervention
Bovine Intervention Charles Fambro is having a cow, but not the kind he expected. In February the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs announced that it would organize “Cows on Parade,” an elaborate public art exhibit inspired by a similar project in Zurich; the Chicago show, which opens on Tuesday and runs through the end of […]
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Beyond the First Dimension
Conversation With a Diva Bailiwick Repertory By Carol Burbank Gay pride month is always a mixed bag. The parade may feature fabulous drag queens and heartfelt floats, but the spectacle is interrupted by dull stretches of product placement: a big truck advertising beer or reluctant aldermen waving hesitantly from unmarked cars. The entertainment in bars […]
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Brazil Nuts
Os Mutantes Os mutantes Mutantes A divina comedia ou ando meio desligado (Omplatten) The Best of Os Mutantes: Everything Is Possible! (Luaka Bop) By Michaelangelo Matos Os Mutantes, along with Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, and Tom Ze, were part of the now legendary late-60s tropicalia movement, a conscious exercise in collective experimentation by […]
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The Straight Dope
You say you can deliver the Straight Dope on any topic. Try this one. Who am I? or Who is the knower? or What is consciousness? (All the same question, roughly.) If consciousness (which we all experience intimately) is merely an epiphenomenon of the mind, which is an epiphenomenon of the brain, then there must […]
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Robert Forster & Grant McLennan
ROBERT FORSTER & GRANT McLENNAN In 1977, when Robert Forster and Grant McLennan founded the Go-Betweens, they weren’t merely looking to satisfy their artistic aspirations: they wanted a ticket out of town. They were a couple of teenage misfits in Brisbane, Australia, whose enthusiasm for foreign films and New York punk put them painfully at […]
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But Seriously…
A cop who’s seen it all reaches teens by lowering their guard.
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Calendar
Friday 6/11 – Thursday 6/17 JUNE By Cara Jepsen 11 FRIDAY Its flow has been reversed and its course straightened, but the beauty of the Chicago River still holds power over urban photographer Bob Thall, who calls his pictures of the waterway “a sort of visual poem.” An exhibit of 22 of his river photographs […]
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The Fox and the Hounds
The Fox and the Hounds Last week’s interrogation of Jerry Springer by the Chicago City Council’s Committee on Police and Fire produced some choice moments–which you probably missed if you weren’t glued to Court TV. For one thing, it was the first time in recent memory that Alderman Dorothy Tillman arrived on time. Normally she […]
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Chaos Spoken Here
Chaos Spoken Here When U.S. Maple went into the studio to record its first single back in 1995, says guitarist Todd Rittmann, he thought the band was on to something. He just didn’t know what. “I wasn’t sure what the hell it was,” he says. “It was a new feeling for me to record music […]
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Chicago Gospel Festival
FRIDAY, JUNE PETRILLO MUSIC SHELL 6:00 PM “Gentlemen of Song” featuring Daryl Coley, Youth Edition, and Marvin Sapp There was a time in the mid-80s when Oakland-born vocalist Daryl Coley did commercial jingles and sang on albums by secular artists such as Ramsey Lewis and Nancy Wilson. But having been raised in a devout Christian […]