AUGUST 27 FRIDAY Some claim the women’s movement is irrelevant these days, but the ongoing battle over reproductive rights and class-action sex discrimination lawsuits at major financial firms suggest otherwise. This weekend the Veteran Feminists of America take a look at past struggles and plan for the future at a conference cosponsored by UIC’s Center […]
Tag: Vol. 33 No. 48
Issue of Aug. 26 – Sep. 1, 2004
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Jazz Festival
The Chicago Jazz Festival offers performances at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park (100 N. Michigan), Harris Theater for Music and Dance (205 E. Randolph), Symphony Center (220 S. Michigan), and on three stages in Grant Park: the Jazz on Jackson Stage (Jackson & Lake Shore Drive), the Jazz and Heritage Family Stage (Columbus & […]
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On Stage: Kevin O’Donnell helps the House keep the beat
Last fall, after speaking on a panel at Columbia College on how to manage a career in the arts, Kevin O’Donnell got on the elevator with House Theatre artistic director Nathan Allen, playwright Phillip Klapperich, and some other members of the young company. Making small talk, Klapperich asked the musician where he played around town. […]
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Asma Gull Hasan
“I have never been ashamed to be Muslim, not even after 9-11, and not now,” states Asma Gull Hasan in the introduction to her new book, Why I Am a Muslim: An American Odyssey (Element). The 29-year-old Hasan, a Colorado-bred graduate of Wellesley and New York University Law School, has become something of a Muslim […]
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The Straight Dope
What’s the deal with not taking a shower, using the phone, or standing too close to the TV during a thunderstorm? If people were electrocuted by lightning in their homes on anything like a regular basis surely we would hear about it more often than we do. Is this just one of those stories our […]
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The Home of House
Chicago’s Trax Records reissues a treasure trove of early house nuggets.
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The Junk Men Cometh
Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies at the Museum of Contemporary Art, through September 12 Derek Webster at Intuit, through October 2 Recycling–or in some cases not recycling–is the subject of Dan Peterman’s seven large installations at the Museum of Contemporary Art. A midcareer retrospective, the show confirms that this internationally recognized Chicago conceptual artist is an […]
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Homework
Writer-director Kevin Asher Green makes an impressive debut with this quiet black-and-white character study of a New York ballet student (Paz de la Huerta) being silently devoured by anger, self-doubt, and fear of her own body. Seriously bulimic, she divides her time between a cerebral but randy boyfriend (Evan Neumann) and the unforgiving physical demands […]
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Calendar
Friday 8/27 – Thursday 9/2 AUGUST 27 FRIDAY Some claim the women’s movement is irrelevant these days, but the ongoing battle over reproductive rights and class-action sex discrimination lawsuits at major financial firms suggest otherwise. This weekend the Veteran Feminists of America take a look at past struggles and plan for the future at a […]
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An Unimpeachable Source; It Would Have Written Itself; News Bites
An Unimpeachable Source In a pristine world there’d be no corporate relationship between the Tribune and the Chicago Cubs. Or between the Tribune and the Tribune Company’s dreams of empire. But the Tribune is entangled. A mayor angry at it over whatever John Kass snarled or the editorial page pronounced can turn his guns on […]
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Playtime
My all-time favorite movie, this 1967 French comedy by actor-director Jacques Tati almost certainly has the most intricately designed mise en scene in all of cinema. Dave Kehr had it right: “Tati attempted nothing less than a complete reworking of the conventional notions of montage and, amazingly, he succeeded. Instead of cutting within scenes, Tati […]
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Jazz Institute of Chicago Jazz Club Tour
On Wednesday, September 1, the Jazz Institute of Chicago holds its 21st annual club tour from 6 PM to midnight. Promotional buttons (which include admission and transportation) can be purchased at the clubs for $15 in advance, or $20 the night of the event. Buses arrive outside each club every 15 minutes and travel three […]
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Grant Park Orchestra
Violinist Rachel Barton Pine gets the honor of closing out this year’s Grant Park Music Festival. In her concert appearances and a string of excellent recordings for the Chicago-based Cedille label, she’s established herself as an adventurous player inside the standard violin repertoire, but this week she’ll step outside the canon to play one of […]
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Neil LaBute’s “Bash”
Neil LaBute’s Bash: Latter-Day Plays, opening this week at Circle Theatre, is a trio of one-act monologues by characters whose normalcy masks the occasional nasty surprise–a little dose of bloody vengeance or murder. But that’s typical of LaBute. The playwright and screenwriter has been attracting and alarming audiences since his 1997 Sundance Film Festival breakthrough […]
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Chicago Poetry Fest
The tenth annual Chicago Poetry Fest features two days of readings by some 80-odd local poets. Saturday’s “Chicago Poetry Squared” portion is outdoors on the 4700 block of North Lincoln (“bring your lawn chairs or blankets”) and open to all ages. Sunday’s “Chicago Poetry Unleashed: Tone It Up” is at Weeds, 1555 N. Dayton, and […]