Running a business is tough in the south-side neighborhood of Roseland, where fear keeps people off the streets. But Eddie Davis and his family would rather fight than quit.
Tag: Vol. 30 No. 7
Issue of Nov. 16 – 22, 2000
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Johnny Griffin’s Big Soul-Band
JOHNNY GRIFFIN’S BIG SOUL-BAND Tenor sax legend Johnny Griffin comes home to Chicago every spring to celebrate his birthday with a stint at the Jazz Showcase, where he and his solid quartet conduct a veritable clinic in the blues-drenched bebop many of the city’s legends learned from Captain Walter Dyett at DuSable High School. But […]
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Praise
When I spent a day in Brisbane four years ago, it struck me in terms of climate as well as social ambience as being the Mississippi or Louisiana of Australia. That’s only one of the reasons why this grim, passionate, and graphic love story about two highly dysfunctional young individuals–a chain-smoking asthmatic (Peter Fenton) and […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories The fashion house Alberta Ferretti recently introduced pieces made from hamster pelts, including a reversible patchwork coat of fur, camel, and leather (about $6,000) and a skirt suit ($6,300). The London Ferretti store told the Express newspaper in late October that it had sold 11 of its 12 suit jackets. Four weeks after […]
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Witness to a Massacre
Stories from the man who stopped the killing at My Lai.
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Who Sent That Spam?
Who Sent That Spam? Dear Reader, In Hot Type, Michael Miner has twice written about that “familiar piece of collegiate Internet humor,” the “Dear Doctor Laura” letter. It is being circulated widely and was even cribbed for the TV show The West Wing. According to Jim Hightower (one of my favorite social critics, quoted in […]
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Active Cultures: whizzes with scissors
Doris Sikorsky can remember being embarrassed about her Polish-speaking grandmother as a kid. “We lived near Devon and Milwaukee,” she says. “My parents, first-generation Americans, had moved out here early, and it was far from the ethnic neighborhoods. So most of my friends were non-Poles.” Still, the old-world traditions were alive in her home and […]
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Polish Film Festival in America
The 12th annual Polish Film Festival in America, produced by the Society for Arts, continues Friday through Sunday, November 17 through 19. All screenings are by video projection at the Society for Arts, 1112 N. Milwaukee. Tickets are $8; passes are also available. For more information call 773-486-9612. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 The Black Barons A […]
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A Good Trick
All that “first mainstream gay movie” hype for The Broken Hearts Club got us thinking about Trick, a 1999 independent film that took the boy-meets-loses-gets-girl formula and gave it a boy-meets-boy spin. Trick has a winning cast, with Christian “Dimples” Campbell in the starring role, John Paul Pitoc as the go-go boy of his dreams, […]
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Not Your Father’s Keeper
Not Your Father’s Keeper Dear editor: Writing in the October, 13 Reader, Michael Miner went to a great deal of trouble (“O’Sullivan’s Travails”) before getting around to the point of his effort: to publicize the November 18 sale of photographic prints made by the now-disabled P. Michael O’Sullivan. The sale is to be held at […]
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Elvin Bishop & Little Smokey Smothers
LITTLE SMOKEY SMOTHERS & ELVIN BISHOP Guitarists Albert “Little Smokey” Smothers and Elvin Bishop might seem like odd bedfellows: The Mississippi-born Smothers is serious and earnest, his sparse, every-note-in-its-place Chicago style tinged with Texas-Memphis swing; Bishop’s stage persona is playful, even clownish, and his dexterous lead work is still flavored by the country-and-western music he […]
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In Print: Vachel Lindsay’s downstate utopia
Ron Sakolsky first heard about Vachel Lindsay in 1972, when he bought a minicomic about the early-20th-century poet from an artist in Springfield, where Lindsay was born and died. “It was his own take on Lindsay’s life–it was quite romantic and in keeping with the counterculture of the 1970s,” says Sakolsky, a Brooklyn-born musicologist who […]
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Black and White and Wrong All Over
Black and White and Wrong All Over So now it’s finally: on record how perverted the Oak Park Regional Housing Center has become: the center’s “counselors” now don’t even bother to show Oak Park apartments to African-Americans and other blacks. Blacks can rent in Oak Park but there’ll be no help from the Housing Center, […]
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Stomp for Kids
If ever a Saturday-morning concert could stir some enthusiasm in your average jaded grade-schooler, this sounds like it’s the one: “Dance ‘n’ Drum Dee Dum” is a Kids Fare concert by Boomshaka, Northwestern University’s percussion and dance ensemble. Boomshaka director Jade Smalls (who represented Illinois in last year’s Miss America pageant) says the group will […]