Marti Foster’s complete lack of experience didn’t stop her from building a Humboldt Park safe house from the ground up.
Tag: Vol. 31 No. 7
Issue of Nov. 15 – 21, 2001
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2, Eclipse Theatre Company, at the Athenaeum Theatre. Eclipse concludes its season-long salute to Romulus Linney with his study of Hermann Goring during the Nuremberg trials, a difficult piece anchored by Steven Fedoruk’s performance as Hitler’s unapologetic number two man. Walking with a swaybacked swagger (equally reflecting the Nazi commandant’s arrogance and his former 300-pound […]
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News for Schulter
Dear Reader: I don’t know whether or not 47th Ward alderman Gene Schulter has toiled for years as he says in your “War of Words” article (10-26-01), but I do know that it wasn’t his years of toil that created “the ‘family atmosphere’ that makes the community attractive today.” He refers to “that sense of […]
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City File
No way am I going into that bar! Writing in the autumn newsletter of the Illinois Natural History Survey about the endangered Hine’s emerald dragonfly, Sophie Foster and Daniel Soluk observe, “Differences in habitat use may result in female avoidance of areas with high male densities and possibly male harassment.” Where the inmates run the […]
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The Tribe Takes on the Trib/News Bites
A watershed in the estrangement of the Tribune’s Jewish readers was the publication on August 24 of this front-page story: “‘No room for mistakes.’ Radicals lament rash of thwarted suicide bombings.” The article was written by the Tribune’s E.A. Torriero and datelined Jenin, West Bank. It began: “Abdel-Fatah Toubassi wishes his son would have blown […]
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Holy War Batman! or the Yellow Cab of Courage
Holy War, Batman! or the Yellow Cab of Courage, Second City E.T.C. The new show on Second City’s second stage is somewhat misleadingly titled: timely political satire is not the thrust of this hilarious, fast-paced sketch revue. Instead the splendid ensemble–Andy Cobb, Jack McBrayer, T.J. Jagodowski, Samantha Albert, the Gilda Radner-like Abby Sher, and the […]
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Faces in the Crowd, and Chartreuse
Faces in the Crowd, at Improv-Olympic, and Chartreuse, at ImprovOlympic. Second City and ImprovOlympic have launched a lot of careers, but for every actor catapulted to fame there’s a dozen who just keep bouncing at the edge of the board. Still, many of them choose to remain “underground,” like the producers of zines and indie […]
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The Straight Dope
I have read that turtles can breathe through their bums. Is this true, and if so, why did they evolve such a talent and what are the mechanics of this trick? –Steve Carr My understanding of physiology is that animals (including humans) draw in air by expanding the volume of the chest cavity. How does […]
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Willie Kent
Born in Mississippi, Willie Kent came to Chicago in the early 50s as part of the great postwar migration that revitalized the city’s blues scene. Though at first he was mentored on guitar by Willie Hudson, he switched to bass in 1959 and was soon jobbing around town with the likes of Howlin’ Wolf and […]
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Olivia Block
Bill Meyer previews the composer’s 2001 appearance at the Outer Ear Festival.
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Guts and Glory
Angela Willcocks: Walldrawings at Artemisia, through December 1 Siebren Versteeg at Suitable, through December 1 Our culture is preoccupied with objects and their consumption. Possessing things, we’re told, enhances the self–and advertising images offer the kind of instantly apparent “perfection” that invites ownership. Artists opposing this ethos often create notably “imperfect” works, seeking to disturb […]
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Calendar
Friday 11/16 – Thursday 11/22 NOVEMBER 16 FRIDAY Last year Iranian writer, lawyer, and women’s rights advocate Mehrangiz Kar and two others were arrested by the Iranian government and charged with “acting against national security” after they attended an academic conference in Berlin. Kar, who’s fighting breast cancer, was sentenced to four years in prison. […]
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One of the Boys
Kurt Landrum let just about anyone into his house for video games and good times. One guest turned out to be his killer.
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Local Lit: no kids and no regrets
By the time she was ten years old, Gloria Bowman knew she wasn’t interested in having children. “It’s not a decision I made as I got older, and said ‘I don’t want to use up more resources’ or something like that,” she says. “It’s just something you know, like if you like to sit on […]
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Hefty Records Immediate Action Tour
Last year Hefty Records, the Chicago electronic music label operated by John Hughes III–aka Slicker–released a series of six limited edition 12-inch singles dubbed “Immediate Action.” Packaged in white sleeves with release information stenciled on in spray paint, they were designed to allow artists to get their work out quickly, eliminating the normally lengthy period […]