An interesting Hot Type column, but I think it misses the point about Mark Brown [February 11]. I think his readers care far more about the issue of whether the election legitimizes the Iraq war than they care about Mark Brown’s latest reconsideration of the war. It’s one thing to see American approval ratings for […]
Tag: Vol. 34 No. 21
Issue of Feb. 17 – 23, 2005
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The Take
Made by the couple Avi Lewis (director) and Naomi Klein (writer), this 2004 documentary chronicles how laid-off workers in Argentina took over some 200 closed factories and started them up again as leaderless co-ops, with every worker receiving the same salary. The filmmakers aren’t blind to some of the contradictions and anomalies of this movement–they […]
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Ferdinand the Bull
It’s hard to go wrong with Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s children’s classic about a young bull who’d rather smell the flowers than fight, and this musical adaptation for young audiences gets most of the notes just right even when Debbie Wicks La Puma’s score doesn’t offer much excitement (though flamenco guitarist Mehran is a […]
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Insurrection: Holding History
Robert O’Hara has said of his 1996 play that he wanted to “imagine what it would be like for me to go back in time whole, as a gay black American.” Written as his graduate thesis in the directing program at Columbia University as one part of a trilogy on slave history and family ties, […]
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Hats Off to Harry
How one determined Japanese-American man galvanized Park Forest to integrate.
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Did Shanley Get Screwed?; Scooped in Their Own Backyard; News Bite
Phoning in coverage of the latest priestly abuse scandal, most outlets missed a better story about recovered memory.
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Jorge Ben Jor
Thumbnail sketches of Brazilian music usually emphasize bossa nova legends (Joao Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim) or tropicalistas (Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil), a tendency that unfortunately neglects the work of journeyman Jorge Ben Jor. One of the first songs Jor wrote, the 1963 bossa nova classic “Mas que nada,” has been covered by more than 200 […]
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Change of Address
The January 28 restaurant listings said Chestnut Grill & Wine Bar was “housed in the old Biggs space.” The restaurant is run by Lezlie Keebler, who used to be at Biggs, but it’s in the old Cantare space, at 200 E. Chestnut. We apologize for the error.
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An Unfinshed Riddle
Oppenheimer, Lilith, and T.S. Eliot walk into a bar . . .
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A Percentage of Nothing
The Park Grill’s deal with the city isn’t just sweet–it’s ridiculous.
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Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
Despite her top billing on Dap Dippin’ With Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (2002), singer Sharon Jones was essentially a figurehead. The album was yet another showcase for the gritty New York funk-revival band led by bassist-producer Gabriel Roth (aka Bosco “Bass” Mann), though Jones gave the taut, propulsive, unapologetically retro grooves a healthy dash […]
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Mariela in the Desert
The kernel of a very good idea lies at the heart of Karen Zacarias’s play, now receiving its world premiere under Henry Godinez’s direction. Exploring the frustrations and machinations of the title character, wife of a dying painter who was once friends with Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, Zacarias hints that often the most interesting […]
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Kevin Young
Poet Kevin Young is building an accomplished career from the detritus of pop culture past. He subtitled his 2003 collection, Jelly Roll, “A Blues,” and that it was, all sly and sexy wordplay, the poet’s very real pain shrugged off with a wiseass grin. He continues to spin high art from low, old forms of […]