I found it quite interesting in your 11/15/02 article “Man Bites Watchdogs,” by Michael Miner, how bias was clearly detectable in an article about bias. First off, let me say I believe it was an important article, talking about the hot-button issue of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the remarkable spin campaign of the Israelis. It’s […]
Tag: Vol. 32 No. 10
Issue of Dec. 5 – 11, 2002
Posted inArts & Culture
Christmas Mourning
James Joyce’s The Dead Court Theatre Young writers reach their greatest eloquence in dwelling upon the horrors of middle age and what follows it. –Richard Ellmann, James Joyce It is true, it is true, we are shadows cold and wan / And the fair and the brave whom we loved on earth are gone. –Thomas […]
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News of the Weird
Lead Stories In October in Alberta, Canada, provincial judge Shelagh Creagh ruled that inmate Shane Arthur Wilson could not be punished for carrying a homemade plastic knife, because Wilson had argued he needed the shank to defend himself against jailhouse gangs. (The decision has outraged prison guards across the country.) And in November a Washington […]
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You Write the Reviews, I’ll Write the Play
Dramatist-critic George Bernard Shaw said of play reviewing: It is always a great temptation of the critic to instruct a playwright in how he should have written his play. Alas, the more difficult job is to criticize the play presented onstage by the lowly author, not the far superior one in the critic’s own head. […]
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Memories of Viola
Memories of Viola, Artistic Home. Suppose Romeo and Juliet hadn’t been cut down in their teens. Suppose they’d met and married without any unusual controversy, grown old together, gotten to know each other’s bad habits, conducted their little betrayals–had, in short, the standard chance to get good and sick of each other the way old […]
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Petty Crime
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 3100 BLOCK OF NORTH HUDSON, 9 PM. Burglary. 32-year-old female victim, startled by noise in kitchen, fled apartment for neighbor’s. Upon returning discovered kitchen window open and potted arugula plant missing. Police observed offender had to scale 15 feet to reach plant, valued at $9.90. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 100 BLOCK OF WEST […]
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Where’s the News?
In a town where the two dailies–which itself is rare enough these days–are working harder than ever to give us less news, the waste of space about two hairdressers having a spat over each other’s customers is astonishingly pathetic. Bob Soron
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An Evening With Will Shakespeare
An Evening With Will Shakespeare, Heartland Cafe Studio Theater. That young men have written poetry in order to attract girls comes as no surprise, nor that their metaphors frequently camouflage sentiments of less than lofty intent. But never has the line between art and autobiography been finer than in this innocuously titled supposed stroll down […]
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The Radio City Christmas Spectacular
The Radio City Christmas Spectacular, at the Rosemont Theatre. When this touring show first arrived here, in 1994, it seemed strange to head out to Rosemont in order to pretend you were in Manhattan. It seems less so now, if only because this lavish, perfectly preserved Radio City holiday spectacle scants on nothing. At its […]
Posted inFilm
Prewar Jitters
Man Hunt *** (A must-see) Directed by Fritz Lang Written by Dudley Nichols With Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, Roddy McDowall, Heather Thatcher, and Frederick Worlock. A sparkling new 35-millimeter print of Fritz Lang’s 1941 Man Hunt is running at the Gene Siskel Film Center all this week, and I can recommend […]
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Chicago’s Own: Films by Adele Friedman
In the 1980s avant-garde film critic and historian P. Adams Sitney called Chicagoan Adele Friedman “a real original,” and this collection of 12 films (all but one of them silent) shows the evolution of her unique vision over the last 23 years. Her portrait films of the 70s and 80s follow their subjects rather than […]
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Gregoire Moulin Versus Humanity
Hands down, this is the funniest film I’ve seen all year. French character actor Artus de Penguern (best known in the States as Hipolito the writer in Amelie) makes his feature-directing debut with this 2001 rip-off of Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, and though it’s not quite as dark as its New York predecessor, its ironic […]
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Finders Keepers: bazaar rituals of the holiday season
You say your holiday shopping list includes a Vietnamese silk painting? A handwoven shawl? An armchair for your dog? You’re in luck. Those items, plus thousands more–from bottle-cap jewelry to out-of-print books on Native American art–are for sale at this year’s assortment of local holiday bazaars, craft fairs, and fine art extravaganzas. A selection follows. […]
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Savage Love
A coworker and I share a huge amount of sexual energy. The primary issue is that he’s 17 and I’m closer to 30. My attraction to him is likely related to a (mild) distrust of men, an issue I’m working through with a therapist. I’m not interested in a relationship, and I’m sure at 17 […]