Why was a sound installation by M.W. Burns banished by Columbia College’s Museum of Contemporary Photography?
Tag: Vol. 31 No. 10
Issue of Dec. 6 – 12, 2001
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Matthias Schubert
I’ve heard only one of the three albums made by the German tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert, but on Blue and Grey Suite (Enja, 1995) he plays like he may never get the chance to record another one. No one could confuse Schubert with David Murray, but both men improvise in great rushes of sound, with […]
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Festival of New French Cinema
The fifth annual Festival of New French Cinema, presented by Facets Multimedia Center and French Cultural Services in Chicago, runs Friday through Thursday, December 7 through 13, at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton. Unless otherwise noted, tickets are $7, $5 for Facets members. For more information call 773-281-4114. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7 Liberte-Oleron The title […]
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Chocolate Diva
Chocolate Diva, at Some Like It Black. Earth to Kelli Rich: when you’re singing to an audience of 20 in a space no bigger than a rich man’s bedroom, you don’t need Soldier Field’s amplification system. Rich’s one-woman tribute to five pioneering African-American singers–Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Dinah Washington–must be […]
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On Film: when you can’t move, it’s hard to make a movie
Kim Snyder first fell ill in 1994. “It felt like the flu, but there was something eerie about it,” says Snyder, a filmmaker who splits her time between New York City and East Hampton. “There was an ominous, terrible feeling….I was more than dizzy, and I was just scared to death.” Snyder’s condition got worse […]
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Orquesta Aragon
You can’t find a charanga band anywhere in the world more authentic than Orquesta Aragon. Founded in 1939 in Cienfuegos, a French colonial town about 100 miles from Havana, it’s the oldest continuously operating unit in popular music–since the 1950s, young Cuban instrumentalists have considered the band the “major leagues,” and many have vied for […]
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Domestic Terrorists
On the road to help the nation heal, a humanitarian runs into a different kind of evil.
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The Squale
Antagonism between blacks and Arabs in a suburban Paris housing project provides the backdrop for this 2000 melodrama about a gangly, foul-mouthed teen (the appealing Esse Lawson) who’s convinced that she was fathered by a neighborhood crime icon of an earlier generation. She’s fallen for a brutish, charismatic gang leader–they’re soul mates, like Bonnie and […]
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Hot Property
Glengarry Glen Ross Steppenwolf Theatre Company In a month stuffed with Christmas Carols and Christmas Schooners, Posada Magicas and Runaway Latkes, thank heaven for Glengarry Glen Ross. As an antidote to the theatrical eggnog that predominates at this time of year, Steppenwolf is presenting a crisply acted, cunningly designed revival of David Mamet’s tough, crackling […]
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Who Was That Masked Man?
A beloved teacher is laid to rest, but not before his secret identity as a notorious eco-saboteur is revealed.
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The City File
In case you hadn’t noticed, the rich are coming. Upper-income people (those who make 120 percent or more above the median) made up 29 percent of Chicago home buyers in 1993-’94, but 35.1 percent in 1999-2000, according to the Woodstock Institute’s “Home Buying by Income, 1993-2000,” written by Dan Immergluck and Geoff Smith. “The best […]
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High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music
Highly informative and thoroughly endearing, this 1991 documentary by Rachel Liebling chronicles the “high, lonesome sound” and its legendary performers against the backdrop of a changing America. Created by Scotch-Irish settlers in the Appalachian Mountains, bluegrass gradually infiltrated the mass media, incorporating outside instruments (the mandolin) and styles (from syncopated African-American work songs to rock […]
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The Professional and Eve of the Trial
The Professional and Eve of the Trial, TinFish Theatre. The company’s “second annual Serbian heritage production,” featuring two one-acts, kicks off with an adaptation of Chekhov’s short story “Eve of the Trial” by Samm-Art Williams. Though perhaps more appropriate for, say, a Russian heritage celebration, it provides an hour of light, crowd-pleasing entertainment. Williams has […]