This international festival of animated films and videos runs Friday through Sunday, November 7 through 9, at the Biograph, Chicago Cultural Center, and DePaul University Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield. Tickets are $6, $5 for children under 12, and are available at the venue box office 15 minutes prior to showtime. Festival passes, which grant […]
Tag: Vol. 33 No. 6
Issue of Nov. 6 – 12, 2003
Posted inNews & Politics
Brave and Bold
Dear editors, Kudos to you for running the Richard Meltzer piece “Mommy and Me” [October 24]. I rarely read your lead stories, but this one was impossible to resist. And in my humble opinion, it’s the bravest thing you’ve done in ages. Mitch Myers A writer from Rogers Park
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Too Polite to Bite
Sunday Double Header at Second City, Donny’s Skybox Studio disOriented Stir-Friday Night! at the Raven Theatre Turn on Late Night With Conan O’Brien or Saturday Night Live or The Daily Show and you’ll see comic actors trained at Second City or ImprovOlympic or the Annoyance. Many take the tradition-bound Second City approach a step further, […]
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Polish Film Festival in America
The 15th annual Polish Film Festival in America, produced by the Society for Arts, continues Friday, November 7, through Sunday, November 16. Unless otherwise noted, films are screened from 35-millimeter prints and tickets are $9 at the Copernicus Center, 5216 W. Lawrence, and at the Beverly Arts Center, 2407 W. 111th St. Films are projected […]
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Music Notes: the new face of the CSO
Vadim Karpinos’s one-bedroom South Loop apartment is stocked with enough entertainment to satisfy any high schooler. Beavis and Butt-head DVDs, PlayStation games, and techno CDs are scattered on the floor. His stereo system is impressively tricked out, with expensive speakers and surround sound. A small basketball hoop is fixed to a closet door that barely […]
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Enough Static
Dear City File [October 24]: There are 35 “educational” and “other/independent” radio stations, and only 31 owned by media giants in the Chicago area, ergo: what media monopoly? Well, sure. Adlai Stevenson High School has a radio station, and so does the Tribune Company. And I’m sure Adlai Stevenson H.S. has a newspaper too, which […]
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In Print: going crazy for chop-socky
Brian Thomas watched three movies a day last year. As he worked 14-hour days to complete the guide to Asian action films he was writing, the West Rogers Park apartment he shares with his wife, Kristin, and their pets began to overflow with videotapes and DVDs. “I didn’t see my wife much,” he admits, “although […]
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Resfest
This touring program of international digital video runs Friday through Sunday, November 7 through 9, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Tickets are $10, $12 at the door; an $85 pass admits you to all screenings. For more information call 312-397-4010. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Short videos, program one From Austria, Virgil Widrich’s astounding animation Fast […]
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Imitation Chocolate?
You be the judge: Peter Anton says the Field Museum helped itself to his candy.
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It Just Doesn’t Add Up
I challenge the math you quote from Ken Dunn of the Resource Center [City File, October 31]. The number 42,000 seems like a fairly large amount of jobs from 6,000 acres of land. One person can farm an average farm of 640 acres. It would take around 10 farmers to farm 6,000 acres. Let’s say […]
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Vicki Lawrence and Mama: A Two-Woman Show
The Emmy-winning comedian and her best-known character split the bill, Jekyll-and-Hyde style, in this two-part intimate evening. Intimate? Make that seriously intimate. Being a childhood fan of The Carol Burnett Show, I was fascinated by the story of Lawrence’s sudden rise to fame as Carol Burnett’s look-alike sidekick. But the details of her last visit […]
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Transformations
Milk Shakes From Electric Trains, Guacamole Made to Order, and Marco Conti’s Latest Venture
Posted inFilm
Blindsided
Elephant **** (Masterpiece) Directed and written by Gus Van Sant With Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, John Robinson, Elias McConnell, Jordan Taylor, Carrie Finklea, Nicole George, Brittany Mountain, Bennie Dixon, Nathan Tyson, Alicia Miles, Kristen Hicks, Timothy Bottoms, and Matt Malloy. Gus Van Sant’s startling and brilliant Elephant–a film that follows the activities of several high […]
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It Sounded Like Mancow…
To the editors: In my October 31 review of The Rocky Horror Show I misidentified the actor playing the narrator as Eric “Mancow” Muller; in fact, the role was performed by his understudy, Rob Rahn. Jennifer Vanasco
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Ween
“This band has no future”: I forget whether it was Beavis or Butt-head who said that in 1993, apropos of the video for Ween’s breakout single, “Push th’ Little Daisies.” Either way, it was a bad call–what the insanely versatile songwriting team of Gene and Dean Ween (aka Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo of New […]