Various health and yoga Web sites claim that iceberg lettuce contains chemicals similar to laudanum, morphine, or other opiates. There are also reports of people being admitted to hospitals after injecting themselves with lettuce extracts and papers about smoking lettuce. I have found no information about the chemical constitution of lettuce that mentions morphine or […]
Tag: Vol. 34 No. 15
Issue of Jan. 6 – 12, 2005
Posted inArts & Culture
Lightbox Orchestra
In an interview last year with the Web zine Perfect Sound Forever, Chicago composer and cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm characterized himself as a “basic research kind of guy”–he’s as excited by the process of working with musicians as he is by the results. That philosophy is especially evident in his Lightbox Orchestra, where he conducts mostly […]
Posted inMusic
The Song Machine; Lights Out in Logan Square
Kevin Tihista’s playing every Monday at Schubas this month. That should give him enough time to get through, oh, maybe a quarter of his tunes.
Posted inNews & Politics
A Strange Hell
Tolkien’s tidy war, brought to life more faithfully than ever in a new extended box set.
Posted inNews & Politics
A New Place for an Old Style and a New Style for an Old Hand
Let us now praise the corner bar; Dzine does whatever the opposite of selling out is.
Posted inNews & Politics
The Improvised Career
How Brian Posen came to start the country’s largest sketch-comedy festival.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Not in Their Names; Start Saving Now; Off, Off, Off Loop Theater; Miscellany
Poet David Hernandez and artists Star Padilla and Gamaliel Ramirez say the near Northwest Arts Council shouldn’t be using them to get grants.
Posted inNews & Politics
News of the Weird
Lead Story Criminals who accidentally leave ID at the scene of the crime are officially “No Longer Weird” (see below), but it was nevertheless remarkable that in two separate incidents on the night of November 4 in Rapid City, South Dakota, burglary suspects not only left their wallets behind but at some point removed their […]
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Winston Choi
Like all the pianists in Northwestern University’s Transcendental Piano Series, Winston Choi will perform some of the most technically daunting works composed for the instrument. Choi, who’s studied with Menahem Pressler and is now studying with Ursula Oppens, is best known for playing new music. He’s already won the 2002 Orleans International 20th-Century Piano Competition […]
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Savage Love
Being one of those poor, uninsured types, I went to the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic in San Francisco to get some stuff in my throat checked out. I described my problems–weird tonsil spots and a lump in the back of my throat–to the evening’s practitioner and said that I’d felt around back there with my […]
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Ernest Dawkins & the Chicago 12
Ernest Dawkins, the powerful Chicago altoist with the prickly-pear tone, started his New Horizons Ensemble in the late 70s, and over the course of a half-dozen or so albums he’s established the quintet as one of the most persuasive bands in AACM history. Now he’s cast a wider net: on his new album Dawkins leads […]
Posted inNews & Politics
It’s Not Your Grandpa’s Lung Cancer
Kathy Albain Director, Thoracic Oncology and Breast Cancer Research Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center Loyola University Health System Deaths from lung cancer among women have risen 150 percent in the last 20 years, and the disease now kills about 70,000 women annually in the U.S., more than breast and ovarian cancer combined. To counter this trend […]