“I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious,” Walt Whitman wrote. In his solo show Body Blows, Tim Miller dotes on himself too, sharing intimate stories about his adventures as a gay man coming of age in 70s California (land of theme parks and tar pits) and 80s New […]
Tag: Vol. 31 No. 24
Issue of Mar. 14 – 20, 2002
Posted inNews & Politics
Trib vs Tribe, Part II: Shooting Blanks?/A Bit Too Sweet/News Bites
Trib vs Tribe, Part II: Shooting Blanks? A mysterious study of the Tribune’s Middle East coverage is being kept under wraps in Chicago, though if you can wait eight months all will be revealed in Louisiana. It’s a study the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago commissioned last year to back a charge many Chicago Jews […]
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Antonio Sacre
Antonio Sacre is the best kind of storyteller, drawing you into his world with such subtlety that you hardly notice what he’s doing–until the story ends and you find yourself longing for just one more anecdote, one more voice. In this show, which played the 2001 Rhinoceros Theater Festival, he makes his Irish-American/Cuban relatives utterly […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories According to a BBC News report last month, Matsushita Electric Industrial runs a state-of-the-art retirement home near Osaka, Japan, using robotic companion bears to comfort the residents (average age: 82) and continually check their health signs. Covered in fur, the bears respond to voice commands and can monitor a resident’s alertness by timing […]
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Los Munequitos de Matanzas
For people who hear the word “rumba” and think of Ricky Ricardo leading his dinner-jacketed orchestra at the Copacabana on I Love Lucy, the music of Los Munequitos de Matanzas is likely to be either a disappointment or a wake-up call, if not both at once. Los Munequitos play the original rumba, an Afro-Cuban roots […]
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Just Here on Business
This isn’t a pub crawl–it’s a bunch of guys going from bar to bar and having a drink at each one.
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Music People: Savoir Faire is everywhere!
“I can’t stop,” says jazz violinist Samuel Williams. “Even when I really want to stop. Even when I don’t have enough money to eat and I’m living off $20 a week. I feel like I was made to play.” Williams, who performs under the stage name Savoir Faire, has been playing violin since he was […]
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Bedlam
Bedlam, at the Playground. In this late-night comedy, written and directed by Andy Eninger, small-time performance artist Danny Farragut springs his boundary-blurring works, which usually involve his bed, on unsuspecting visitors to a drapery museum. Free-associative scenes jump from present to future to ancient past, eventually revealing unlikely connections between Garp-ishly fatherless provocateur Danny and […]
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Jesus Hopped the “A” Train
Jesus Hopped the “A” Train, Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis has spent a lot of time working with prison populations, so it’s rather astonishing that his play, set on Riker’s Island, is so utterly unconvincing much of the time. And as directed by Ron O.J. Parson, this is yet another production that substitutes […]
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On Exhibit: pictorialism’s forgotten champion
Eva Watson Schutze, a portraitist in league with Alfred Stieglitz and his photo secessionist movement, exemplified late-19th-century ideals of the “new woman” as well as the era’s “new photography.” A dedicated pictorialist, she embraced an artistic style of subjective, soft-focus lyricism, derided as “fuzzography” by mainstream photographers of the time, who espoused sharp-focus realism. Born […]
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Savage Love
Hey, everybody: After I mentioned a sexual fantasy of mine in print a few weeks ago– Brad Pitt coming all over Ashton Kutcher’s face–a reader suggested that I devote an entire column to other people’s fantasies. Upping the ante, I decided to have a contest, with prizes going to readers whose fantasies were selected for […]
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Dynamic Tension
Adja Yunkers: To Invent a Garden at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, through March 31 Mu Xin: Landscape Paintings and Prison Notes at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, through March 24 Modern art has frequently been enriched by cross-cultural influences, but Adja Yunkers’s inspirations were unusually diverse, including religious […]
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For a Song
The audience is small and shows are few and far between, but walking musical encyclopedia Ralph Lampkin lives and breathes cabaret.
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Uncle Broadway
Uncle Broadway, Royal George Theatre Center. Created by Richard Ericson, Bruce Coyle, Judith Swift, and Paul Grellong, this hybrid musical taps into the new patriotism while invoking the star-spangled nostalgia of America’s greatest flag-waver, George M. Cohan. His spirit returns in a dream to help a sullen white teenage rapper bummed out by school shootings […]