SPIN CYCLE…A MUSICAL IN TWO LOADS, Phoenix Ascending Theatre. There’s nothing profound or earth-shattering about Rick Karlin and the late Frank DePaul’s sweet, homegrown musical about four young people looking for love in Chicago. The lyrics are good without being great, the tunes nice but forgettable, and the story–about two boyfriend-hungry Lakeview women who find […]
Tag: Vol. 29 No. 44
Issue of Aug. 3 – 9, 2000
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories Eight farmers in the town of Nemaha, Iowa (population 112), have taught themselves to perform various square-dancing routines on their tractors, according to a June San Francisco Chronicle story. However, all of the farmers are male, while square dancing is a couples activity; therefore four of the “dancers” don calico skirts. In June […]
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Art People: life’s a beach for J. Deryll Von Gunten
In 1976 J. Deryll Von Gunten and his Mennonite singles group took a bus to the resort town of Virginia Beach, Virginia, for the Fourth of July weekend (“We’re the more liberal type of Mennonites”). Von Gunten, an amateur painter, spent most of his time taking loads of candid shots of frolicking group members. “Sometimes […]
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All Too Human
Gab columnist Jim Pickett stares straight into the face of AIDS.
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Windy City: Time’s Up/Oprah Loses One
Windy City: Time’s Up “This has better than a snowball’s chance in hell of happening, and it’s smaller than a bread box,” said Tracy Baim, an editor and publisher who understands that facts are fine but nothing tops a good quote. Baim was speaking the other day of the likelihood that she would acquire the […]
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Thirteen
Several people appear to be playing themselves in this lyrical fusion of drama, improvisation, and what may be reenactment–a movie that keeps open the tantalizing question of whether it’s more like fiction than documentary by seamlessly combining techniques associated with both. Thirteen-year-old Nina (Wilhamenia Dickens, the daughter of Lillian Folley, who plays her mother) retreats […]
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Police Scanner
Monday, July 24, 11:05 PM Dispatcher: At 11– Monticello, people are smokin’ dope and urinatin’ at that location. If anyone wants to watch that. Tuesday, July 25, 11:10 PM Dispatcher: 1141, take this if you would–runnin’ out of cars here–28– Flournoy on a disturbance, loud music out of a Grand Prix, first of all. And […]