This compilation of works by Jeff Krulik–and related videos by other directors–should be fodder for future anthropologists, not only for the videos’ various subject matters but also because Krulik and friends don’t claim detached objectivity. Instead they get their handheld cameras in the thick of the action, empathizing with the wackiness of the people they […]
Tag: Vol. 30 No. 47
Issue of Aug. 23 – 29, 2001
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A Shine On Your Shoes
Pianist and vocalist Kevin Cole has been called the best Gershwin interpreter since Gershwin. More broadly, he’s a devoted student of the golden age of the Broadway musical; whether he’s performing Cole Porter, Harold Arlen, or Jerome Kern, he makes the tunes sound immediate and alive. He also likes to uncover obscurities, which sometimes means […]
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Acquiring Minds
Collectors like Ron and Geri Hennessey put tons of time and money inot the single-minded pursuit of their love objects. What makes them do it?
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I Am Twenty
Khrushchev hated the first version of this 1964 Soviet film, and director Marlen Khutsiev cut it in half; this three-hour original became available only in 1989. The story begins when Sergei, returning from army service, moves in with his sister and mother and gets a job at a power plant; he goes out with two […]
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Savage Love
I have a recurring fantasy about having a threesome with my husband and his brother. I’m not interested in other men, and I’m not interested in my in-law without my spouse’s involvement. So how do I bring this up? Or will the aftermath of even asking be too weird to live with? –Obsessed With My […]
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Sermon on the Web
Sermon on the Web I’ve long since stopped dismissing writers who self-circulate columns or self-publish books as deluded eccentrics. When media conglomerates dream of slicing and dicing each portion of content and serving it to us 12 different ways, loners saying something personal deserve to be hailed. Once a week for the past five years, […]
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Viva Music Festival
SATURDAY SUPER ESTRELLA DAY Stage 11:00 Ivana d’Arc 11:40 Orquesta Yorumba 12:25 Marco Antonio Cruz 1:00 Buscando Estrellas 2:10 Son Reinas y Yomo Toro Petrillo Music Shell 2:35 Grupo Dimension 3:15 Los Tecolines 4:22 Los Tigrillos 5:15 DC3 6:20 Caballo Dorado 7:25 Oro Solido 8:30 Fulanito SUNDAY SUPER ESTRELLA DAY Stage 11:00 Azabache 11:50 Everdardo […]
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Shins
SHINS The various incarnations and imitations of the Nuggets anthology have made it crystal clear that just about any band can come up with one great song. In fact, boxes of these fortuitous moments, captured on seven-inch vinyl by bands I’ve forgotten the names of over the course of the 80s and 90s, are taking […]
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The Public’s Right to Good Taste
Dear editor: My guess is that you will receive a few angry letters regarding Ted Kleine’s article “Is This Man a Monster?” published in the Reader [July 27]. Or if you don’t, you should, as the article is one of the more egregious examples of yellow journalism to have appeared in Chicago’s newpapers–no slouches in […]
Posted inMusic
Prog Will Eat Itself
Yes at the Arie Crown Theatre, August 8 By Warren Sentence Rock means two simultaneous and interconnected things. Thing 1: a form of music as defined by artistic characteristics (see Joe Carducci’s Rock and the Pop Narcotic for one proposed definition). Thing 2: the market for the aforementioned form. These two things, though they share […]
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Accentuate the Positive
Spectrum Dances: Emerging and Established Voices at the Performance Loft, through August 26 By Kelly Kleiman Portraits of intimacy, power, and freedom are more compelling in contemporary American dance than depictions of isolation, struggle, and confinement. At least that’s the inference one might draw from “Spectrum Dances: Emerging and Established Voices,” a showcase for three […]
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Eddie Johnson
EDDIE JOHNSON Listening to Eddie Johnson play the tenor saxophone gives me the same feeling I get viewing Edvard Munch’s last paintings or touring Frank Lloyd Wright’s beloved Taliesin–that every gesture contains a lifetime of thought and experience. Johnson turned 80 last year, but his music seems ageless. He plays as often as he did […]
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Fitzgerald’s Bush-League Behavior
Dear editor, Thank you very much for Linda Lutton’s excellent article on the Bush tax refunds (“Congratulations! You Lose!” August 17)! Too bad Illinois senator Fitzgerald also couldn’t have understood (or did he?) how unfairly pro-rich the Bush tax cuts are. Thirteen times in May, Senator Fitzgerald faced amendments to reduce or delay the huge […]
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Bailiwick Repertory’s Directors’ Festival
Bailiwick Repertory’s 13th annual showcase of projects by emerging directors features programs of short plays on double or triple bills. The scripts run the gamut from selections by Samuel Beckett and Sam Shepard to unfamiliar or untested material, including some by the directors themselves. The fest runs through August 29 at Bailiwick Repertory, Bailiwick Arts […]