Bloodshot’s ornery new signing, Scott H. Biram.
Tag: Vol. 34 No. 22
Issue of Feb. 24 – Mar. 2, 2005
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Paths of Glory
The 1957 film that established Stanley Kubrick’s reputation, adapted by Kubrick, Calder Willingham, and Jim Thompson from Humphrey Cobb’s novel about French soldiers being tried for cowardice during World War I. Corrosively antiwar in its treatment of the corruption and incompetence of military commanders, it’s far from pacifist in spirit, and Kirk Douglas’s strong and […]
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Savage Love
One of my best friends was recently diagnosed with HIV. Since college he’s been on an unending sex conquest, hooking up with countless guys he meets online to engage in risky activities. My concern is that he doesn’t seem fazed by his HIV diagnosis and says he has no intention of giving up his online […]
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The Birdpeople
Like most well-made documentaries, this 2004 film presents its subject from a variety of angles: birders in New York’s Central Park together with telephoto close-ups of their quarry, stuffed birds seen alone and in museum dioramas, a search for the presumedly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, an affecting text about a woodpecker’s nearly successful attempt at pecking […]
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The Cubbalist
Rabbi Byron Sherwin knows how to lift the Cubs’ curse. But don’t ask him to do it.
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Brett Bloom and Ava Bromberg
In 2003, Chicago artist Brett Bloom became the first resident of Seattle’s Cottage Park, a cluster of three rehabbed cottages next to a community garden in the city’s Belltown neighborhood. Formerly dominated by dive bars, missions, and low-income housing, Belltown underwent rapid gentrification during the city’s mid-90s economic boom. The garden and the cottages, which […]
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You Know What They Say About a Woman Scorned
A tiny production does justice to Oscar Wilde’s most excessive play.
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Snips
[snip] “I did not hear Mr. Gonzales repudiate two and a half years of official U.S. policy, which has defined torture so narrowly that only [practices leading to] organ failure and death would qualify,” said Senator Barack Obama on the Senate floor February 3, explaining why he voted against confirming the nominee for attorney general. […]
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Full Frontal Farmer
Banished from the Art Institute’s front steps 89 years ago by the order of censorious cop Metellus Lucullus Cicero Funkhouser, Albin Polasek’s The Sower finally comes out of hiding.
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Tracking the Changing of Minds
James Davis Sociologist National Opinion Research Center University of Chicago “Did growing up in the 1960s leave a permanent effect on attitudes and values?” James Davis asked last year in Public Opinion Quarterly, drawing on a body of research that dates back to the 70s. The answer, he found, is yes–but not to the degree […]
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The Treatment
Friday 25 DJ HELL For some, the luxury, gluttony, and debauchery of 2002’s electro surge was just a fad. To the former Helmut Geier–jet-setting Eurotrash DJ/producer and owner of Eurotrashy jet-setter label International Deejay Gigolos–it’s a way of life. The evolution of the label’s logo says it all about Hell’s sleazy, oiled-up aesthetic: he used […]
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The Divine Order of Becoming
Carla Stillwell’s new play about what we learn when a loved one gets sick is full of lovely intimate moments between mother and daughter: learning to bake, giving a home perm, fighting over doing chores. As directed by Kim Crutcher for the Ma’at Production Association of Afrikan Centered Theatre (MPAACT), these scenes are performed beautifully […]
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Professor Boom-Chicka-Boom
Rachel Shteir’s new history of the striptease took 15 years to write, but it couldn’t have been published at a better time.
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Doctor Knock, or The Triumph of Medical Science
“Health is an illusion,” crows Dr. Knock, who believes that everyone is a patient who just doesn’t know it yet. “We are all ill.” This quack storms into a French hamlet and takes its healthy (and surprisingly wealthy) residents firmly in hand, cowing them through his bluster and confidence until he’s created a tidy cult […]