I was the perfect sucker for this DV feature about the JFK assassination: writer-director Neil Burger, making his feature debut, presents his video as a docudrama about the late Walter Ohlinger, an elderly ex-marine who came forward in the late 90s claiming to have been the second gunman in Dealey Plaza, and while I was […]
Tag: Vol. 32 No. 8
Issue of Nov. 21 – 27, 2002
Posted inArts & Culture
Dead Aim
Justin Hayford reviews Brett Neveu’s 2002 drama Eric LaRue at A Red Orchid Theatre.
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Richard Buckner
Richard Buckner seems unable to write songs unless his heart is broken, and on records he can come across as a self-loathing sad sack–tres romantique, eh? His new album, Impasse (Overcoat), chronicles the dissolution of his marriage to Penny Jo Buckner, a breakup rendered all the more poignant by the fact that she stuck around […]
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Savage Love
I’m a successful guy with a beautiful wife, who is a successful executive herself. About two years ago I had a seriously stupid affair with an attractive woman at my firm. It lasted six weeks, and then my wife busted us. She did the usual and threw my sorry ass out of the house; I […]
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Feeling the Buzz
Brigida Baltar: Bee House at Julia Friedman, through December 7 What does it mean for a photographer to portray herself as a human honeycomb? In “Bee House,” Brazilian artist Brigida Baltar slaps you with this question, then refuses to answer. While the exhibition features a short video loop of honey dripping down a staircase and […]
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Temma Lowly and the Meaning of Life
Her parents didn’t know what hit them. Then they started to figure things out.
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City File
Quick–name one physicist to whose calculations you would entrust Hyde Park. In honor of the 60th anniversary of the first controlled atomic chain reaction–on the University of Chicago campus on December 2, 1942–the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (November/December) recalls that the chain-reaction pile “was not supposed to be built in the city. No one […]
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Sports Section
The Blackhawks opened the season with low expectations and equally low fan interest. Though they’d made the Stanley Cup playoffs last spring for the first time in five years, they gave up their most popular player, Tony Amonte, to free agency over the summer and signed in his place Theo Fleury, a veteran star with […]
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The Right Man for the Job/Mostly Homegrown/No Way Up
When it came time for a public heart-to-heart with Steven Sondheim, Phillip Gainsley was more than ready.
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John Mooney
John Mooney has made his name integrating two wildly different styles: declamatory Delta blues and ebullient New Orleans R & B. He was born in New Jersey in 1955 but grew up in Syracuse, New York, where as a teenager he met legendary Delta bluesman Son House, who’d moved there from Mississippi in the 40s. […]
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Born Again
Dance R/Evolution at the Athenaeum Theatre, through November 22 New Dances at the Athenaeum Theatre, through November 26 If you expect an evening focused on dance classics to be more traditional than one focused on new dances, Dance Chicago has a surprise for you. “Dance R/Evolution,” featuring “remounted works from Chicago choreographers that shaped the […]
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Spot Check
BASEBALL FURIES 11/22, HIDEOUT Formed in Buffalo but now based in Chicago, this quartet keeps one foot firmly planted in rock ‘n’ roll’s alleged grave–its first full-length, Greater Than Ever (Big Neck), quaintly claims to have a side one and a side two. But as they rifle through five decades’ worth of rude, raw punk […]
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Debra Tolchinsky
Debra Tolchinsky’s show at Artemisia, “Case Studies,” uses photography, computer animation, and text to create portraits of eight fictional characters who, in an attempt to find happiness, modify their bodies in ways that range from familiar to haunting to hilarious. Most striking are six digitally altered Polaroids pasted on graph paper and accompanied by typewritten […]
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Web Crawling: Newtopia lands a solid left hook
“Newtopia was born because there are no other publications like it,” says Charles Shaw, editor in chief of the six-month-old Web zine. Shaw has supported himself for years as a freelance copywriter and as a writer and editor for publications such as UR Chicago and Punk Planet and Web sites like 3 AM Magazine and […]
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The Straight Dope
What exactly is fire? I know it’s combustion of fuel, blah, blah…but what is it exactly? Is it purely energy? What state of matter is it? I suspect it’s highly energetic gases, whose energy state is so high that they emit light, and thus we see flame, with the hotter flames being higher in electromagnetic […]