Guitarist Phil Guy grew up in Lettsworth, Louisiana, absorbing acoustic sides by Smokey Hogg, Lightnin’ Slim, and Lightnin’ Hopkins from his father’s record collection. But like his older brother Buddy, who was already playing out when Phil was in his early teens, Guy modeled himself on electric fretmen like New Orleans’s Guitar Slim. In 1969, […]
Tag: Vol. 31 No. 51
Issue of Sep. 19 – 25, 2002
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All Eyes on Bob/And Speaking of Unethical Passes…/News Bites
All Eyes on Bob Al Qaeda could have made a major move in Chicago last Sunday or Monday, and nobody in the media would have noticed. “I knew him at the Sun-Times 30 years ago,” I told a TV producer about Bob Greene. She asked, “Do you want to go on camera?” Pam Snow, who […]
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Mad Love
A handsome and well-acted bodice ripper, this 2001 Spanish feature by Vicente Aranda dramatizes the early adulthood and brief reign of Queen Joan of Castile (1479-1555), known to her subjects as Joan the Mad. Shipped off to Flanders for a political marriage to Philip of Burgundy, the mild and virginal Joan (Pilar Lopez de Ayala) […]
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Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson began his professional career in the late 50s playing guitar for bands led by Freddie King, Harmonica Slim, and slide virtuoso Earl Hooker. But by the mid-60s he’d switched gears to become a mainstay on Chicago’s burgeoning soul circuit. He cut a few sides locally and worked with Otis Clay, Tyrone Davis, and […]
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Nicholas Debeaubien’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Nicholas Debeaubien’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Defiant Theatre, at A Red Orchid Theatre. This take on directorial hubris, by John Kohler, Larry Larson, Levi Lee, and Rebecca Wackler, springs from a terrific play-within-a-play conceit. Would-be auteur Nicholas DeBeaubien, determined to put his agitprop stamp on Victor Hugo’s classic, adopts one ill-advised strategy after another, […]
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New Power Trio
The term “power trio” first referred to those lean, mean rock machines of the 60s and 70s, and even when it made its way to jazz (usually to describe a pianoless trio of sax, bass, and drums) it retained the implication of impolite strength, if not actual malice. The New Power Trio displays some measure […]
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TRG Music Listings
Rock, Pop, etc. concerts A VERY SENSITIVE DEVICE, APRIL NOISE, SOME OF THE QUIET, GRAIN, SUFFIX perform at Criticalartware’s Hello.World exhibition of artware files and performances. Fri 9/20, 8:30 PM, Heaven Gallery, 1550 N. Milwaukee. 773-342-4597. AMERICAN MUSIC DRIVEWAY TOUR Jay Mathes and other artists perform in local driveways and parking lots through mid-October. Sat […]
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What’s Eating You?
Re: “Papal Makeover,” June 21] Wanna bet you rotten sick perverts would never even try to bash the sodomy community for their degeneracy, males eating males, females eating females…or the Jewish religion. The Jews would chew you up, you cowards. Stop making Christians your whipping boys, sickies. Raba Rehan Baltimore
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Love’s Labor’s Lost
Love’s Labor’s Lost, Chicago Shakespeare Theater. Harold Bloom counts this “festival of language” as his favorite Shakespeare work, and possibly you do too if you’re sent into fits of delight by nearly opaque wordplay (“Light seeking light doth light of light beguile”). The rest of us think Love’s Labor’s Lost the most tedious, insubstantial five […]
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Quake
Quake, American Theater Company. Melanie Marnich’s postfeminist fable chronicles a good girl’s craving for experience: Lucy dares to pursue “Big Love.” The North Star of her surreal journey is That Woman, an astrophysicist serial killer who doesn’t hate the men she kills–she just “can’t take what love is really like compared to the love she […]
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Ying Quartet
When the Music in the Loft chamber series started a decade ago in the West Loop home of music lover Fredda Hyman, the fledgling Ying Quartet was its very first booking. This weekend, a reunion of sorts will take place, with both the quartet and the series now far better known. The Yings (three brothers […]
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You Read Every Word?
To the Reader: I just finished reading Meltzer’s stunning (in the worst sense) tome “Autumn Rhythm” [September 6]. God, what a waste of precious paper! So he doesn’t like getting old. He doesn’t like young people, old people, or his chronologically contemporary colleagues. He hates his life, hates his sloth, hates his own writing. Hell, […]
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Hated/Liberated
Revenge: The Miniature Hate Paintings of Patrick W. Welch at Gescheidle, through October 5 Ellie Wallace at Artemisia, through September 28 Patrick W. Welch in his 95 small paintings at Gescheidle denies the transcendence aimed for by artists from Giotto to Rothko, in which colors seem disconnected from the material world and objects float mysteriously […]