About Face Youth Theatre: Up Until Now, About Face Theatre, at Goodman Theatre. If there’s a self-congratulatory tone to this fifth-anniversary production, it’s been earned. Made up of highlights from the last four shows, which toured schools, it’s unified by the engaging testimony of the youngest member of the current gay-lesbian-bisexual ensemble: as a youngster […]
Tag: Vol. 32 No. 45
Issue of Aug. 7 – 13, 2003
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He Believes He Can Fly
A Pilsen artist prepares to launch his work–and himself–into the sky over Lake Michigan
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Flight
Inspired by human persistence and the science of aviation, Flight is an exciting new performance piece from one of the city’s pioneer physical-theater companies. Plasticene introduces aviator Amelia Earhart, balloonist William H. Donaldson, and helicopter inventor Igor Sikorsky to visitors at the Museum of Science and Industry. In often overlapping voices, Mark Comiskey, Sharon Gopfert, […]
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Waiting Room
Pilsen solved its problem of day laborers loitering in public by finding them somewhere to congregate legally. Can Albany Park do the same?
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Just Don’t Do It
How much premarital sex is OK? Nun! An arty abstinence advocate hits the streets with a full-frontal attack on permissiveness.
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Black Harvest International Festival of Film and Video
This annual festival of films and videos by black artists from around the world continues Friday through Thursday, August 8 through 14, at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State. Tickets are $8, $4 for Film Center members, and $3 for students at the School of the Art Institute. For further information, call 312-846-2800. […]
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Does She or Doesn’t She?
Any Way You Want It Fillet of Solo Festival Live Bait Theater, through August 30 Most solo performers fall into one of two categories: those who take themselves too seriously and those who don’t take themselves seriously enough. Kristin Garrison seems to belong in the second camp–she performs her evening of short, related scenes with […]
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Ah, Wilderness
Hysterical Pastoral at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, through August 17 Rough Topography at Vedanta, through August 16 Mixer 03 at Monique Meloche, through August 30 Most nature-oriented art today seems to assume that wilderness no longer exists, that every part of the world has been framed and named, that humans are in control. […]
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Libertines
Plenty of folks questioned the Who’s decision to begin a U.S. tour just days after John Entwistle died, but what if it had been Roger Daltrey? That’s closer to what London’s Libertines are trying as they tour the States this month without Pete Doherty, who up till now has shared the guitarist-front man job with […]
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Matt Bauder & Jason Ajemian
On Object 3, the latest in the local Locust Music label’s “Object Series,” tenor saxophonist Matt Bauder and bassist Jason Ajemian venture into a hall of mirrors. The album-length piece “Normal” begins as a composition of wavering long tones in which not a lot really happens. Bauder’s sound is beautifully striated and bathed in shadows, […]
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That’s Entertainment
Menopause the Musical at the Apollo Theater Middle-aged women are daffy, depressed, forgetful, unattractive, prone to irrational mood swings, and unable to have good relationships with their mothers or daughters. At least that’s what Jeanie Linders suggests in her revue Menopause the Musical. These aren’t what you’d call uplifting messages–yet by the end of opening […]
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Crafting a Legacy
The White House was a crafty place during the Clinton years, thanks in part to George H. W. Bush. It was his presidential proclamation that made 1993 the Year of American Craft, inspiring Bill and Hillary to inaugurate a White House craft collection. They asked Michael Monroe, then curator of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, to […]
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Filet of Solo Festival
Live Bait Theater’s eighth annual showcase of one-person performances features old and new work by a slew of fringe artists. The fest runs through August 30 at Live Bait Theater, 3914 N. Clark; performances take place in the theater’s Bucket space. Tickets are $10 per show; a festival pass to all shows costs $30. Call […]
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TRG Music Listings
Rock, Pop, Etc. Concerts ALEBRIJE, ZAMANDOQUE TARAHUM, MISERIA URBANA, SFMANTO, MONOSPIT, NANUCO, PSYCHOWARD, QUITTERS, DESOLATE SKY & others; 18 & over. Sat 8/9, 1 PM, Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee. 312-923-2000 or 312-559-1212. TORI AMOS See Critic’s Choice. Mon 8/11, 7:30 PM, Skyline Stage, Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand. 312-595-7437 or 312-559-1212. TORI AMOS, BEN […]