“We’re all fashion whores in my family,” says Sabina Hyderi, a former lawyer and part-time actress who, with her brother Sameer, runs this clunkily named vintage shop at 2823 N. Lincoln–just a few blocks from My Masala, the contemporary boutique belonging to her sister Salwa Harmon. Last summer the Hyderis transformed what looks to have […]
Tag: Vol. 34 No. 24
Issue of Mar. 10 – 16, 2005
Posted inNews & Politics
Sean Neely Is a Very Good Actor
In my March 4 theater Critic’s Choice for Incident at Vichy, I praised the actor portraying a wounded German but misidentified him; the role was actually played by Sean Neely. Kelly Kleiman
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True But Not Genuine
Playwright David Barr III focuses on peoples rather than people in his new docudrama.
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Women in the Director’s Chair International Film & Video Festival
With 21 film and video programs, 8 video installations, and several other events, the 24th annual Women in the Director’s Chair festival is greatly expanded from last year and offers more cutting-edge work than previous editions. This year’s festival runs Wednesday through Sunday, March 16 through 20, at the Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater, […]
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The Trouble With Young Republicans
To the editor: I enjoyed Christopher Hayes’s piece on Northwestern University’s most visible undergraduate Republican [“Birth of a Pundit,” March 4]. I was especially intrigued by the one word on a poster in his room: courage. It led me to want to ask this question of him. Has a single college Republican from Northwestern who […]
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Just Wanderer
The final revelation in Stephen Cone’s play–which traps a retired NYPD officer with an unwelcome interloper in a remote beachfront house–is unsettling and graphic. It’s also disappointing, since the last ten minutes get pulled out of the ether in Cone’s purposely elliptical Sam Shepard-style script. But Mark A. Steel as the ex-cop and Tyler A. […]
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Tim Berne’s Acoustic Hard Cell
Most of saxophonist Tim Berne’s work this decade has prominently featured electric and electronic instrumentation (often courtesy of keyboardist Craig Taborn and guitarist Marc Ducret), and until one gig in England last year the sound of this trio–Berne, Taborn, and drummer Tom Rainey–was largely defined by the Fender Rhodes electric piano. But no Rhodes was […]
Posted inMusic
Like Father, Like Sons
Between them, Jimmy Webb and his boys have done pretty much everything there is to do in the music business–except become stars.
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Arrogance on Wheels
CTA officials could still revise their controversial Brown Line reconstruction plan. But they’d rather shove it down our throats.
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Our Bodies, Our Hells
The headache that wouldn’t die, an anthropological look at fat, and a diluted natural history of blood.
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Nightengales
Thanks to an unending stream of CD reissues, music by obscure bands from the late 70s and early 80s–New York punk-funk outfit ESG, for instance, or British postpunkers A Certain Ratio and 23 Skidoo–is finding its way to listeners who weren’t yet born when it was made. One of the latest beneficiaries of this trend […]
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So Long, Second City
Dan Bakkedahl quickly earned what many improvisers work for their whole lives–a spot on the Second City mainstage and a shot at national fame. Why’d he throw it all away?
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BrouHaHa: Of Course You Realize This Means War!
Rebound relationships are notoriously desperate, ill-conceived things. Jimmy Binns is on the rebound from the Noble Fool, the Loop comedy theater that failed abruptly and expensively last spring. You can imagine how brokenhearted he must have been as its artistic director. Actually, you don’t have to imagine. This new comedy revue, which Binns conceived and […]
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Oly
Lots of synth pop is so sweet and overearnest it makes me gag–I can’t stand that lovey-dovey doe-eyed little-girl crap. But I find Oly strangely touching, probably because her forlorn-orphan melodies and almost bluesy vocals don’t give me the impression that she’s looking for a hug–she’s actually OK with being sad. She has to take […]