Andersonville looks for ways to keep its commerce local.
Tag: Vol. 34 No. 5
Issue of Oct. 28 – Nov. 3, 2004
Posted inNews & Politics
I Stand Corrected
In my column last week [The Business, October 22] I said Tom Williams reviewed about 240 shows at chicagocritic.com last year. Williams has corrected me: he says that’s the number of shows he’s reviewed so far this year. Deanna Isaacs
Posted inArts & Culture
Un-American Activities
It’s great to see young artists take an interest in politics, but they should learn more about the subject before they attempt to teach it. And you know a show’s in trouble when 15 of its 60 minutes are devoted to a debate over whether to have an intermission, even if the debate is intended […]
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Red Play for a Blue State
What’s bad for the country is good for Marxist theater.
Posted inNews & Politics
If a Tree Falls in a Nonswing State
Environmentalists take off their clothes, terrorists attack Kerry and Bush, and the ballot inspires a hearty yawn.
Posted inNews & Politics
Pick Your War Zone
Ben Joravsky does a thorough job of assessing the flap over inserting a naval academy into Senn High School, treated as a matter of local involvement (or lack thereof) and of triage of educational resources among various stakeholders (“School for Sale,” October 15). Five years ago this might have been state-of-the-art analysis, although even then […]
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Can You Hear Their Voices?
Hallie Flanagan was a professor at Vassar when she and Margaret Clifford, a former student, wrote and produced this 1931 drama. A “living newspaper” play that weaves journalists’ statistics and stories into a tale about anguished regular folk, the work is rarely performed nowadays. But Jacob Juntsen and director Bernadine Ann Tippit have adapted the […]
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Rhinoceros Theater Festival
The Curious Theatre Branch’s 15th annual showcase of experimental theater, performance, and music from Chicago’s fringe runs through 11/20 at the Curious Theatre Branch, 7001 N. Glenwood. Admission is $12 or “pay what you can”; for information and reservations, call 773-274-6660. Following is the schedule through 11/01; a complete schedule is available online at www.chicagoreader.com. […]
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Talk Therapy
The voting rights of the mentally ill are restricted in 37 states, but these clients of a local treatment center give the lie to the law.
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Letters to the President
There’s a buttload of politically inspired offerings on local stages right now, but Michael Garvey’s late-night solo show is something different, neither a hard-hitting satire nor a histrionic gripefest. Instead, in just under an hour, he poignantly raises a question familiar to many Americans since the 2000 election debacle–do we belong in this country anymore?–by […]
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Taxpayer’s Surprise
The Cook County assessor’s good news about property taxes doesn’t mention the bad news.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Savage Love
I have a serious problem. I am pregnant with a boy. At first my husband and I were in agreement that we would not circumcise him. I have read that the foreskin is comparable to a clit–it houses all the nerves that make sex more pleasurable. But now my husband says he has changed his […]
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If It Bleeds, It Leads
The second scripted effort from Triplette–a trio of women who’ve improvised together since 1998–reveals their tight, trusting collaboration and true-to-life characters. We want to laugh long and hard, but it’s not easy at this late-night sketch-comedy show. The opening is sharp, as competing newscasts emphasize sex and violence, but when the three turn to a […]
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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
In a program note, Side Project adapter Adam Webster describes Stephen Crane’s 1893 novel about hardscrabble immigrant life in New York’s Bowery as a love story. He even has Crane wander about reading love letters. True, one of the book’s main plot lines is a budding romance between impossibly naive Maggie–who “blossoms in a muddle […]