DNA DNA on DNA (No More) Arto Lindsay Salt (Righteous Babe) Arto Lindsay picked up the guitar a month before he played out with his first band, DNA, in 1978. He was helping his friends in Mars load in for a gig at Max’s Kansas City in New York when booker Terry Ork (who also […]
Tag: Vol. 33 No. 43
Issue of Jul. 22 – 28, 2004
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Secret Gardens
Ann Grube lived two blocks down the street from her current Hinsdale home for seven years, in a house whose garden faced north. It wasn’t a happy situation, she says: “In this climate, north doesn’t work.” Casing the neighborhood for southern exposures, she came upon a big English garden behind a 1926 Tudor home designed […]
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There Goes Another School
Daley says he wants more of them–so why’s the city tearing this one down?
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Calendar
Friday 7/23 – Thursday 7/29 JULY 23 FRIDAY Back in March, when Lisa Lynch and Elena Razlogova came up with the idea for the Guantanamobile, the plight of the almost 600 “enemy combatants” held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base seemed, says Lynch, “like an issue that could disappear in an election summer.” But as […]
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Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE, Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Given the number of musicals Terrence McNally has worked on in recent years–A Man of No Importance, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Full Monty–I often wonder why he hasn’t made one out of his sweet 1987 play about a pair of prickly, middle-aged […]
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It Had To Be You!
IT HAD TO BE YOU!, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts. This dopey romantic comedy pits a batty B-movie actress against a semisuccessful producer of TV commercials. She wants him to marry her and make her a successful playwright, so she keeps him in her apartment; he wants to leave for a date with […]
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National Showcase of New Plays
The National New Play Network, a consortium of theaters devoted to developing and producing new work, presents its second biennial festival. These plays–some previously seen elsewhere, others slated for future production, yet others just waiting for a chance to reach an audience–are performed in concert readings or staged readings. The fest is a joint effort […]
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Fillet of Solo Festival
Live Bait Theater presents its ninth annual showcase of one-person performances. The event features work by an array of well-known fringe artists–among them David Kodeski, Stephanie Shaw, Susan Karp, and Edward Thomas-Herrera–as well as a crop of emerging talents, including real-life police officers involved in Live Bait’s Police-Teen Link program. The festival previews on Thursday, […]
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San Valentino and the Melancholy Kid
Back in January I wrote what I thought was a rave review of this rock ‘n’ roll horse opera, connecting it fondly to Howard Hawks, Sam Shepard, Jellyeye Drum Theatre, the Flying Karamazov Brothers, and the early Lookingglass Theatre Company. My 19-year-old son was not pleased. An intelligent jock who moves easily between frat life […]
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Underserving the Underserved; The Vision Thing
Underserving the Underserved A grassroots organization called Chicago Media Action released a critical hundred-page report July 19 about WTTW’s flagship program, Chicago Tonight. The judgment was harsh, and where WTTW’s interests intersected with the Chicago Tribune’s, it was even harsher. After analyzing 20 straight evenings of the hour-long show last September and 10 more in […]
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NOFX, Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards
The big story on this year’s Warped Tour: heavy emo pop in, sunny pop punk out. With New Found Glory fading and breakout kids Yellowcard barely keeping pace with Franz Ferdinand, the future belongs to the epic apologetics of Taking Back Sunday and that jumble of study-hall neuroses and Rush tablatures known as Coheed and […]
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Rainer Maria
Caithlin De Marrais didn’t become one of the few women tolerated in the boy’s boy’s boy’s world of emo by making demands–or, for that matter, by making sense. Her lyrics disjointed and her voice disembodied, De Marrais wafted through the first few Rainer Maria records on the majestic swell whipped up by guitarist Kyle Fischer […]
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The Bradbury Chronicles
A little-known Chicago writer goes where no man has gone before–into the private life of sci-fi icon Ray Bradbury.
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Howl Part II, Rehowled
(Channeling Allen Ginsberg after an overdose of Fox Media)
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Nuwki Nu
Georgia-born Nuwki Nu grew up in Detroit, where he played trumpet and keyboards in soul bands before moving to Chicago in 1975 to attend Chicago State on a music scholarship. In the late 90s, after suffering a back injury that threatened his ability to play, he picked up the harmonica and began to focus on […]