JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS, Brown Couch Theatre Company, at National Pastime Theater. It’s a tad disconcerting to see young performers throw themselves into Jacques […]
Tag: Vol. 33 No. 21
Issue of Feb. 19 – 25, 2004
Posted inNews & Politics
Dog Bites Man
Man says “Good boy!” Teaching pets to attack might keep them from attacking.
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Confuse-a-Candidate
In Chicago holding on to your office can be as simple as getting a good lawyer to mess with the other guy.
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Dragons 1976
On the new debut album by Dragons 1976, On Cortez (Locust), alto saxophonist Aram Shelton, bassist Jason Ajemian, and drummer Tim Daisy (all born in 1976, the Year of the […]
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Ethel
Though Kronos Quartet’s world-in-a-blender approach has yielded some dodgy cocktails over the years, you have to give them credit for helping to break down the walls of the classical music […]
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Minimalist Mythmaking
Pandit Pran Nath Midnight/Raga Malkauns (Just Dreams) Early on in The Concert for Bangladesh, the sound of Ravi Shankar’s group tuning up is received with applause from the Western audience, […]
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TRG Music Listings
Rock, Pop, Etc. Concerts ERYKAH BADU, FLOETRY Sat 2/28, 7 PM, Auditorium Theatre, 50 E. Congress. 312-922-2110 or 312-902-1500. TRACY BECK Free concert. Wed 2/25, noon, Chicago Music Mart, DePaul […]
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Henry Rollins
It’s hard to believe that the same Henry Rollins who declared that “sensitivity is for pussies” has spent the last few years as a solo performer detailing a set of […]
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Fur Beethoven
FUR BEETHOVEN, Journeymen Theater Company. In press materials, director Tonika Todorova maintains that the biodrama she conceived (Jeremy Beiler wrote the script) is told “from Beethoven’s perspective.” Yet this rudimentary […]
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Paragon Springs
PARAGON SPRINGS, TimeLine Theatre Company. Steven Dietz’s transplant of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People from Norway in 1882 to the midwest in 1926 has a couple of interesting […]
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Over The Tavern
OVER THE TAVERN, at Metropolis Performing Arts Centre. For good and ill, Tom Dudzick’s play about a 1950s working-class Catholic family resembles a two-and-a-half-hour sitcom. Well-worn grievances are rehashed, most […]
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On Exhibit: Haitian art shines through the chaos
So far, Haiti’s bicentennial has been no party. In an echo of its birth on January 1, 1804, the hemisphere’s second-oldest independent republic is in armed revolt. If the impasse […]
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George Piper Dances
Who the heck is George Piper? And what does he have to do with the Ballet Boyz? Turns out that “George Piper” is an amalgam of the middle names of […]