To the editors: Libertarian Harry Browne (City File, September 21) wants to know “When will we learn that we can’t allow our politicians to bully the world without someone bullying back eventually?” and cites as examples our actions in Sudan, Iraq, and Serbia, among others. All of this appears under the heading “Questions It’s Still […]
Tag: Vol. 31 No. 1
Issue of Oct. 4 – 10, 2001
Posted inNews & Politics
Baldy Sour, Anyone?
With all the reservists on their way to the Middle East, times are tough for buzz-cutting barbers like Tom Reich.
Posted inNews & Politics
Terrorist by Association/A Problem We Could Live With/The Best Buzz Money Can Buy/News Bite
Terrorist by Association One difference between December 7, 1941, and September 11, 2001, is that Pearl Harbor was attacked by a uniformed enemy that approached on enemy ships and killed in enemy planes. Last month’s terrorists slept in American beds before boarding American passenger jets. They came from within. So as bad as things got […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Correction
In my review of Pyewacket’s Boom Town [September 14], I erroneously identified Rob Skrocki and Tom Arvetis as members of the CollaborAction Theatre Company. I apologize for my mistake. Mary Shen Barnidge
Posted inArts & Culture
Beulah
Critics have compared this San Francisco pop ensemble to the Beatles and the Velvet Underground, to Love and Pavement, to the Beach Boys and Built to Spill–references so varied they probably tell you more about the critics than they do about Beulah. And writers who don’t haul out their rock encyclopedias inevitably pigeonhole the band […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Boomer Bust
Immoral Imperatives Victory Gardens Theater A strange sense of 70s deja vu permeates Jeffrey Sweet’s latest play, now receiving its world premiere at Victory Gardens under Calvin MacLean’s direction. Its attitude is earnest boomer self-fascination, its sexual politics and part of the story are lifted from Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and the Key West setting […]
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SOFA Chicago 2001
The eighth annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art at Navy Pier, which features the work of over 1,500 artists from around the world, runs Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6, 11 AM to 8 PM, and Sunday, October 7, noon to 6 PM, at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, 600 E. Grand. […]
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TRG Music Listings
Rock, Pop, etc. Concerts RYAN ADAMS & THE LAX, PAUL BURCH See Spot Check. Wed 10/10, 7:30 PM, Park West, 322 W. Armitage. 773-929-5959 or 312-559-1212. YOLANDA ADAMS, MARY MARY, SHIRLEY CAESAR, VIRTUE Fri 10/12, 7:30 PM, New Regal Theater, 1665 E. 79th. 773-721-9301 or 312-902-1500. BASS X Free in-store performance. Fri 10/5, 7 PM, […]
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Jeb Bishop Trio
Ten years ago Jeb Bishop’s trombone gathered dust in his parents’ North Carolina attic while he played bass in rock bands and matriculated as a philosophy grad student; now it’s the textbooks that gather dust, and he’s become one of the most ubiquitous horn players on Chicago’s creative-music scene. Bishop moves effortlessly between swinging rhythms […]
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Inish
Inish, Shapeshifters Theatre, at the Irish American Heritage Center. It’s easy to see why Fergus Linehan and Jim Doherty thought Lennox Robinson’s 1938 play, Drama at Inish, would make a good musical. The story is strong–a theater troupe’s arrival in a sleepy Irish village turns it upside down–and it’s packed with charming small-town types: the […]
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On Film: Monika Treut and thr angel of the favelas
Monika Treut met Yvonne Bezerra de Mello a few years ago, through mutual friends in New York City. “Upon meeting her I knew I had to make a film about her,” says Treut, whose previous films have examined the lives of sexual nonconformists. Treut says she was immediately taken with de Mello’s courage and complexity: […]
Posted inNews & Politics
News of the Weird
Lead Stories According to a study reported in the September issue of Nature, the sexual apparatus of the male earwig is thin and brittle and frequently breaks off inside the female, but it has a fully functional spare. Last month Tokyo’s Mainichi Daily News reported that a 25-year-old bulimic woman from Toyoda (near Nagoya) had […]
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Norman Blake
These days Norman Blake is best known for his facility with the acoustic guitar traditions and songwriting styles of the American south–that’s him doing “You Are My Sunshine” on the sound track to O Brother, Where Art Thou?–but his roots are in 1950s Nashville country. Born in Chattanooga in 1938, Blake grew up listening to […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Irony in the Crosshairs
Has the world changed so much that writers like Alex Shakar are suddenly obsolete?