Here’s how to measure executive pay: Boeing CEO scores 15 lifetimes in 2005 alone.
Tag: Vol. 35 No. 39
Issue of Jun. 22 – 28, 2006
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Cruel and usual
The early 2000s? Oh yeah, that’s when the U.S. completely lost it. A shame, really.
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Reasonable conservatives and Hastert attack dogs
Grassroots right-wingers show civility to a dissenter who thinks Hastert should quit. Meanwhile Hastert blasts away at the messengers. Who’s showing leadership here?
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Blago and Bush — separated at birth?
Let’s enlarge the government and not pay for it? Both parties are playing the fools’ game of spend-and-don’t tax. But none dare speak its name.
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Things we midwesterners could’ve told you
If you want to experience the full spectrum of the natural food system, STAY IN THE CITY!
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Crunk for Christ
A secular rock scribe explores the parallel world of Christian pop music.
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Mr. Lif
Mr. Lif’s congested, sandpapery voice and El-P’s cataclysmic production both commit aggravated assault on the eardrums, and on Lif’s new Mo’ Mega (Def Jux) they make an intimidating pair. This time El-P backs off from his customary otherworldly density, trying sparser, more industrial textures–steely electric guitars, jittery percussion, corroded keyboard sounds–that if anything make his […]
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Playing to the Cheap Seats; Three Arts for Sale
Two upstart orchestras are trying to bring classical music to new audiences.
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MSTRKRFT
These two Toronto dudes really want you to understand their love for the synthetic–there’s not a single warm tone on their new debut album, The Looks (Last Gang). This perverse fixation on canned, sterile sounds makes MSTRKRFT’s vocodered penis-pump disco almost charmingly funny, especially when you know it’s the work of guys with one foot […]
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The City Hall Shuffle
“I just hand out forms. I’m not supposed to hand out advice.”
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Pins
Jim Provenzano’s play, based on his novel, is a coming-of-age narrative about a high school wrestler grappling with being gay. Few of the plot developments are surprising: there’s bullying, crying, parental bafflement, innocence lost, self-knowledge won. But Provenzano shows a deep fondness for his characters and a sure understanding of the wrestling milieu. He’s particularly […]
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Electronic Baby
Some statements are so well encoded you never guess they’re there. On the other end of the spectrum are plays like Electronic Baby, so skewed toward an offbeat concept that you can’t believe they’re not metaphoric. This rock opera by John Austin (music) and Kathleen Lombardo (book) focuses on a 13-year-old who prefers cars to […]
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M. Proust
Adapted by Mary Zimmerman from Marcel Proust’s own writings and from the memoirs of his housekeeper, this one-woman show feels like a dramatized book report. It may be proof that Zimmerman, deprived of a young, athletic, gorgeously clad and choreographed ensemble, cannot maintain the dramatic tension needed to keep an audience awake for 90 minutes. […]
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Yoga, Pilates, and Aerobic Dance
Millennium Park Randolph and Columbus 312-742-1168 or millenniumpark.org Bright and early on Saturday mornings, instructors from Lakeshore Athletic Club lead free yoga (8 AM) and Pilates (9 AM) classes on Millennium Park’s lush Great Lawn. From atop a makeshift stage trainers call out the moves to the crowd, and the crystal-clear sound system makes the […]