Age has only improved the national treasure that is Sheila Jordan. The human voice deepens naturally over time, and this has softened the pinched timbre that sometimes characterized her earliest […]
Tag: Vol. 33 No. 35
Issue of May. 27 – Jun. 2, 2004
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Calendar Sidebar
In 1987 the work of a young cartoonist by the name of Chris Ware caught the eye of Art Spiegelman, then editor of the comics magazine Raw, who invited Ware […]
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Richard Buckner
Richard Buckner has spent much of his career chafing at the “alt-country” label, but he doesn’t have anybody to blame but himself: his 1994 debut, Bloomed, was produced by outlaw […]
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Hands Across the Water
Ben Ruth’s 40 years too late for the British Invasion, but that’s not stopping him.
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Sisyphus in a Striped Shirt
Peanuts seethed with alienation and self-doubt–not unlike the man who created it.
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Life Behind Bars
More than two million Americans live in prison, but American movies and television usually recoil from the reality of penal institutions. Because it’s a frequent setting in crime dramas, we […]
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Short Cuts
At first Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes, made over a span of 17 years, looks like a departure for him. It consists of 11 entertaining, mainly comic short films in […]
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The Unethical Ethicist?; And Speaking of Ethics . . .; Justice, Military Style; Vernon Jarrett, Witness to History
The Unethical Ethicist? “I usually commute by train to my job in the City. Recently, at my boss’s request, I drove to work so as to have my car available […]
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Hey Preservationists: Quit Puckering and Get Pissed!
Compromise and ass-kissing don’t save buildings. It’s time for the people charged with preserving Chicago’s past to make some demands.
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The Teams We Love to Hate
The Cubs have the Cardinals, the Sox have the Twins. And both hometown clubs just gave their rivals a spanking.
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Datebook
MAY 28 FRIDAY In 1987 the work of a young cartoonist by the name of Chris Ware caught the eye of Art Spiegelman, then editor of the comics magazine Raw, […]
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Fulcrum Point
Stephen Burns, artistic director of the iconoclastic chamber ensemble Fulcrum Point, has been trying to bring Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Blood on the Floor to Chicago since 2001. The nine-part piece, which […]
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Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O.
Guitarist Makoto Kawabata, hirsute helmsman of Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., once titled a reissue series of his own early work “Learning From the Past.” That could […]
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Dead Prez
With the obvious exception of the Coup, it’s hard to think of a hip-hop act more militant than the New York duo of Stic.man and M-1, otherwise known as Dead […]