A couple of weeks ago I convinced my girlfriend to dress up in her old school uniform for sex. We started going out long after high school ended, so I never got a chance to do the deed with her in uniform. I get the feeling she didn’t enjoy herself as much as I did […]
Tag: Vol. 30 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 7 – 13, 2001
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Actual Theatre
Actual Theatre, Bare, at WNEP Theater. Shaun Himmerick and Fuzzy Gerdes are like the college roommates whose interactions made their buddies groan, “There they go again!” or “Knock it off, you two!” In Actual Theatre this duo–supposedly what’s left of the original Bare Essentials Theatre, based in Denver–propose to explore “the real relationship of two […]
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Here’s What You Saw
To whom it may concern, While we were absolutely thrilled to be described as “brave” and a company “to watch” [May 25], out of respect both for our author and the ensemble, I would like to make a few corrections concerning Nausicaa Productions’ adaptation of Always Together. I hate to disappoint, but Anca Visdei’s play […]
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On Exhibit: standardize this!
When Julie Toole started teaching at Pablo Casals Elementary in west Humboldt Park in 1992, the school offered music classes and an after-school program that taught students everything from tap dancing to violin. “Now the only after-school activity offered is tutoring related to standardized testing for the Iowa Test of Basic Skills,” says Toole, who […]
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Sports Section
As the White Sox awaited this weekend’s series with the Cubs, the two teams’ latest role reversal looked almost complete. The Sox, who figured to repeat as American League Central Division champs this season, entered the workweek in third, seven games under .500, a distant twelve games behind the second-place Cleveland Indians and an extra […]
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Best Dope In Town
BEST DOPE IN TOWN, at Improv-Olympic. This autobiographical one-man show tells how star Ric Borelli overcame the divorce of affluent parents and an extremely unfair drug bust to go from smug, spoiled Wilmette youth to coldly self-involved LA actor. It’s an inspirational tale: young Ric, though only dealing enough to “supplement his income” and buy […]
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School for Scandal I. Columbia’s Close Call II. More Dirty Laundry III. Epilogue
By Michael Miner School for Scandal I. Columbia’s Close Call Amber Holst was taking a course on journalism ethics a couple of years ago at Columbia College, and her teacher told the astonishing story of Wade Roberts. “All of us were appalled,” Holst remembers, “about how he just made it up.” Or did he? Roberts […]
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A Very, Very, Very Late Afternoon with David Ives
A Very, Very, Very Late Afternoon With David Ives, Bulldog 17, at Live Bait Theater. For this David Ives sampler, Bulldog 17 has selected four one-acts from Ives’s All in the Timing collection. There are a few laughs to be had, but performing Ives should be more than racing through bizarre verbal exchanges, playing up […]
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Spot Check
OLO 6/8, DOUBLE DOOR You may never have heard of this semilocal band–started here but currently based in Bloomington, Indiana–but in Japan their records come out on Trattoria, the label run by pomo-pop megastar Cornelius. Their second full-length, Still Life With Peripheral Grey (on the Milwaukee label No Karma in the U.S.), is far more […]
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Chicago Blues Festival 2001
In the past, critics have accused the Mayor’s Office of Special Events and the Blues Festival’s all-volunteer advisory committee of adopting a cynical “book it and they will come” attitude: if almost anything that includes the words “Chicago” and “blues” will draw tourists to Grant Park like flies on sherbet, and if four days of […]
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Government Inspector
The Government Inspector, Terrapin Theatre, at the Athenaeum Theatre. Nikolay Gogol’s masterwork centers on a stranger who unintentionally exposes a town’s corruption. Wrongly taken to be the title investigator, Saint Petersburg con artist Khlestakov is bribed by the corrupt inhabitants and even offered the mayor’s daughter. In contrast to his past life, he and his […]
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Without Subtitles and Flood
Without Subtitles, Playwrights’ Center, at Loyola University Chicago, Kathleen Mullady Memorial Theatre, and Flood, Alchymia Theatre. As a prisoner in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia, playwright Jeroen Brouwers experienced the horrors of World War II firsthand. After the liberation of Indonesia in 1945, Brouwers’s family settled in the Netherlands, and his experiences as a […]
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Starring Chicago!
The Gene Siskel Film Center inaugurates its new location at 164 N. State with a three-week retrospective of films shot or set in Chicago, continuing Friday, June 8, through Saturday, June 23. Tickets are $7, $3 for Film Center members. For more information call 312-846-2800. FRIDAY, JUNE 8 Meet the Parents It’s tempting to call […]
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By the Bog of Cats
BY THE BOG OF CATS, Irish Repertory of Chicago, at Victory Gardens Theater. The idea behind Irish playwright Marina Carr’s most recent work–an update of Euripides’ tragedy Medea to modern-day rural Ireland–sounds brilliant. Nearly 2,500 years after it was performed in Athens, the original is still riveting: a middle-aged woman turns murderous when her husband […]
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Short films by Jan Svanmajer, program two
This week Facets Multimedia Center presents a retrospective of shorts and features by Czech surrealist Jan Svankmajer, whose work has profoundly influenced both pop culture and the avant-garde in Europe. This macabre program of seven shorts, made between 1979 and 1993, shows him at the height of his creative powers, using aggressive, intricate editing to […]