The People, yes, Theo Ubique Theatre. Fred Anzevino has adapted Carl Sandburg’s poetry cycle The People, Yes for a five-member ensemble–a method of presentation so well suited to the work’s earthy wisdom, homespun wit, and populist plaudits that it’s surprising no one had tried it before. Any performance that relies heavily on verbal rather than […]
Tag: Vol. 28 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 10 – 16, 1999
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Chicago Alt.film Fest
Chicago Alt.film Fest The second annual Chicago Alt.film Fest, a festival of American independent films, continues Friday through Sunday, June 11 through 13, at the Harold Washington Library Center, 400 S. State. Tickets are $5, except for the closing program on Sunday, which is $25 and includes a postscreening awards party. A $25 pass admits […]
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Jerry-Rigged
Are the fights on Jerry Springer staged? Let me tell you about mine.
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Chi Lives: remembering Riverview
Ralph Lopez sits in the living room of his Roscoe Village apartment watching a video about the old Riverview amusement park that he and his partner Derek Gee produced five years ago. The 35-minute video, Laugh Your Troubles Away: The Complete History of Riverview Park, includes footage Lopez shot with a Super-8 camera while riding […]
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Savage Love
I am a happily married woman with two beautiful children, and I have a deep, dark secret. When I was 17 I ran away from home. With nowhere to go and nobody to rely upon, I ran into a man who referred me to an escort agency. I performed sexual acts for rich men who […]
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Anchorman (A Blues Operetta)
Anchorman (A Blues Operetta), ETA Creative Arts Foundation. Few plots in recent memory can match this one for idiosyncrasy. A teenager blessed with blazing speed declines to join his mother, who’s gone to Guyana to follow cult leader Jim Jones; instead he accepts an athletic scholarship at a predominantly white boys’ school, where a young, […]
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Dana & Karen Kletter
Dana & Karen Kletter A few years ago Granta subtitled its controversial “The Family” issue “They fuck you up”; if Dear Enemy (Hannibal), the first album by identical twins Dana and Karen Kletter, had been out then, the magazine could’ve included it as a subscriber’s bonus. The 12 songs address a broad array of issues […]
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A Tale of Two Women
Hannah Senesh is one of Monica Lewensky’s personal heroes. What would Senesh say about Monica?
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Spot Check
ETERNALS 6/11, EMPTY BOTTLE This local trio–Wayne Montana on bass, melodica, and keyboards; his former Trenchmouth bandmate Damon Locks on vocals and more keys; and Dan Fliegel, who most recently displayed his skill with exotic rhythms in Tom Ze’s backup band, on drums–has just released its first record, a three-song 12-inch called Chapter and Verse […]
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Ray Anderson Lapis Lazuli Band
RAY ANDERSON LAPIS LAZULI BAND In lending it the name of an azure stone, Ray Anderson has given this sassy, inventive, wild-assed blues quartet an oddly elegant air. He’s made a career out of zigzags and contrasts, though, so his band’s name shouldn’t surprise anyone. Anderson started out as a fire-breathing new-music trombonist–he twisted his […]
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Rating the Facts
Dear editors, I think the Reader’s pullout Blues Fest guide [June 4] was beautiful and functional, a welcome adjustment (if my memory serves) to your usual Blues Fest coverage. The only obvious lack was a map of the area, but you probably have your reasons. I’d like to respond to some of the ideas posed […]
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On Exhibit: signs, signs, everywhere a sign
Last winter artists Marc Fischer and Matti Allison created a series of collages in which they arranged photos from ads and magazines to suggest a relationship among the images. The Logan Square gallery Temporary Services displayed the collages in its storefront window. “People walked by and really understood it, without understanding it was artwork,” says […]
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West Side Stories
When I was about five years old my mother was taking Marge and me to church. We were living on Tripp Avenue, where Rosemarie was born. My mother told us that all we had to do was stand when people stand, kneel when people kneel, sit when they sit, and keep quiet while the service […]
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The Big Apple Circus
Modern circuses generally come in two varieties: very arty or very kitschy. The arty ones like to tart up their shows with lots of novel commedia dell’arte costumes (Cirque du Soleil) or weigh them down with dark, angst-filled narratives of children adrift in Bosch-like lands (Cirque Ingenieux). The kitschy ones are so frantic to be […]
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Pio’d
Dear Chuck, I am an avid reader of News of the Weird. It’s a regular highlight in my week. But this week [June 4] I was a little disturbed with the blurb on Padre Pio. Now, I’m not a religious fanatic or kind of extremist, so please don’t take me the wrong way, but I […]