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Tag: Vol. 31 No. 36
Issue of Jun. 6 – 12, 2002
Posted inMusic
Adult.
Adam Lee Miller, an art-school grad from Detroit who used to play bass in punk bands, went over to the dark side after one group kicked him out for bringing synths to practice. He started playing solo in 1994, under the name Artificial Material, and after a verbal agreement with Aphex Twin’s Rephlex label fell […]
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Don’t Forget the Lab Workers
I just finished reading the article titled “Killer on the Loose” by Mike Sula in the May 17, 2002, issue. I was very impressed with this article, both for the medical preciseness and the style of writing. I congratulate Mike Sula for doing excellent “homework” on the facts. As a clinical microbiologist for the past […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Savage Love
I am a 21-year-old girl who is very much in love with a 24-year-old boy. When we first met, he was very sexual and easy to please. We had a lot of fun back in the day. But now, almost two years later, he is seriously lacking lust. I have to beg him for sex. […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories Last month the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported that California filmmakers Ray Laticia and Ty Beeson had sold about 10,000 copies of their video Bumfights, which features homeless people (many of them intoxicated) engaging in fistfights and dangerous stunts on the streets of Las Vegas. Some participants say the video is a realistic portrayal […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Disappearing Act
The American Plan Roadworks Productions at the Viaduct Theater Playwright Richard Greenberg is preoccupied with disappearance. The Dazzle (now playing at Steppenwolf) offers an anatomy of self-effacement as two brothers bury themselves in trash and tics. The central concern in The American Plan, a 1990 Greenberg play receiving an outstanding production at Roadworks, is not […]
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Studs Rebuts
To the editor: I’ve just come across an impassioned letter to the editor [May 31] in which Joel Sprayreger, Esq., refers to me in fascinating terms: “Let him hear leftspeak, and the knees start jerking….This is proven by Studs’s venerative reference to Bertie Russell, the looney Brit don who advocated unilateral disarmament in the 1950s.” […]
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Summer Sketchbook
The CollaborAction showcase of 20 short plays (each under seven minutes long) includes world premieres by Warren Leight, Beth Henley, Wendy MacLeod, and others. The festival also features environmental design by Wesley Kimler and DJs between plays. “Summer Sketchbook” takes place nightly through June 16 at the Chopin Theatre, 1543 W. Division. Showtimes are Mondays-Thursdays, […]
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Petty Crime
Saturday, April 13, 2:30 PM, 6400 block of South Long. Impersonating an officer. Three teenage girls in car were flagged down by two men who flashed a badge and claimed to be police officers. Offenders ordered girls out of car, accusing them of possessing a gun. One offender searched car, while the other demanded the […]
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Breakbone Dance Co.
Atalee Judy is a choreographer for the 21st century, citing as the motivating force behind her “Logotype” series her generation’s culturally induced attention deficit disorder and resultant fixation on jingles and logos. Each piece in the series, she says, came out of a single symbolic image: a bar code, the schematic female figure that graces […]
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Antibiotics and Animals
“Killer on the Loose” (cover story, May 17) demonstrates why it is important to keep antibiotics working. Increasingly, human illness caused by bacteria cannot be treated with antibiotics that have worked in the past. How would the ending of this story differ if the invasive Group A streptococcal (GAS) infection was resistant to the antibiotics […]
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Sports Section
For at least one night–at most, one week–the Cubs’ season was as it was supposed to be, full of hopes rewarded and dreams fulfilled. The night was May 22, when pitching phenom Mark Prior went up against the Pittsburgh Pirates in front of 40,138 anxious fans at Wrigley Field. The Pirates, whom Prior would face […]
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Clouddead
The term “alternative hip-hop” was coined in the early 90s to differentiate politically positive and musically ambitious groups like Digable Planets, Arrested Development, and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy from their gangsta brethren–but it should’ve been saved to describe the fundamentally warped output of the wild crew that revolves around the LA label Mush Records. […]
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Desperately Seeking Muckrakers/Editorials Without the Fuss/News Bites
Desperately Seeking Muckrakers The Times newspaper based in Munster, Indiana, is advertising for a new reporter. But not just any reporter, to work not just any beat. And because a lot of hard-charging journalists don’t normally think of places like Munster to work, the Times has written not just any ad. It begins, “County government […]
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Spot Check
DAVE EDMUNDS, MARSHALL CRENSHAW 6/7 & 6/8, ABBEY PUB Neither one of these guys deserved to fade away with new wave: Marshall Crenshaw hasn’t released an album of new material since 1999, but he’s at work on one with members of Sex Mob and the Jazz Passengers. In 2000 Rhino reissued his first album and […]