Lead Story The Ohio High School Athletic Association announced in September that officials had made a mistake the week before when they prevented Bobby Martin, a senior at Colonel White High School in Dayton, from finishing a football game because he wasn’t wearing knee pads, thigh pads, or shoes. Martin, who was born without legs, […]
Tag: Vol. 35 No. 5
Issue of Oct. 27 – Nov. 2, 2005
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SOFA Chicago 2005
The 12th annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects & Functional Art brings 90-some dealers in ceramics, furniture, jewelry, and other three-dimensional media to Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, 600 E. Grand. Special exhibits focus on furniture from Tasmania and the U.S., flatware, and work by artists living in Israel. The first two exhibits are among the […]
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Howe Gelb, John Parish
For years John Parish was content to work behind the scenes, building an impressive resume as a producer on albums by Goldfrapp, Eels, Sparklehorse, and Polly Jean Harvey (who played in his first band, Automatic Dlamini, back in the late 80s). His first solo album, 2002’s How Animals Move (Thrill Jockey), was assembled from five […]
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Rhinoceros Theater Festival
This annual showcase of experimental theater, performance, and music runs through 10/31 at Prop Thtr, 3502-4 N. Elston. Rhino Fest is coordinated by the Curious Theatre Branch, and features emerging and established artists from Chicago’s fringe. Performances take place in Prop’s north and south theaters. Admission for most shows is $15 or “pay what you […]
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Stage Directions
The play being rehearsed in L. Trey Wilson’s Stage Directions requires its two actors to kiss–a task that’s no problem for gay Gary but increasingly uncomfortable for heterosexual Rod. The playwright and the show’s director also must confront their feelings about homosexuality. The topic might have been an invitation to didactic sermonizing, but Wilson–no stranger […]
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Groucho: A Life in Revue
The comedy of Groucho Marx–based largely on inspired insults and chaotic wordplay–was never what you would call tender. This biodrama by Groucho’s son, Arthur Marx, and Robert Fisher seeks to show that the man did indeed have a heart, and a heavy one, full of worry and regret. It’s pretty much the standard tears-of-a-clown approach […]
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Savage Love
My wife and I were married straight out of college. At the time I knew she suffered from a potentially debilitating mental disorder, so I came into the relationship with my eyes fully open. Since then, nine years and two children have followed. About two years ago her disorder began to get worse. Suicidal ideation, […]
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Assif Tsahar & Cooper-Moore
As a pianist Cooper-Moore has played with Susie Ibarra, William Parker, and David S. Ware, among others. But the 59-year-old New Yorker doesn’t just play piano. On a pair of duet recordings with Israeli-born reedist Assif Tsahar, he plays flute, drums, and myriad instruments he designed and built himself. Those include a three-string banjo; an […]
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Keep ‘Em Both Away From the Court; Superstition by Any Other Name
Judith Miller and Harriet Miers sure have a lot in common.
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Select Media Festival 4
This fourth annual celebration of experimental art–four weekends of exhibits, performances, tours, and screenings–takes as its stage the “underused urban geography” of Bridgeport, or as the organizers, who also produce Lumpen magazine, call it, “the Community of the Future.” Programs are scheduled at a number of venues, mainly Texas Ballroom and Hey Cadets!, both at […]
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Prescient or Just Paranoid?
Rogers Park residents turned out in force to foil a city plan that officials say doesn’t exist.
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Indian Jewelry
Sonic Youth’s brief foray into Mansonism on Bad Moon Rising might have inspired a whole new American goth style if they’d stuck with it, in which case we’d have a lot more bands like Indian Jewelry. They howl and shake through echoing, jammy mayhem, sometimes sounding like the Birthday Party, sometimes like some tribe of […]
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Snips
[snip] What they need is a good hurricane. According to a recent Urban Institute report, more than half of recently released prisoners who return to Chicago wind up in just seven neighborhoods: Austin, North Lawndale, East Garfield Park, West Englewood, Humboldt Park, Roseland, and Auburn Gresham. Less than a quarter said they had access to […]
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Schoolhouse Rock Live!
Hard to believe, but when this stage version of the kids’ educational TV series was first produced 12 years ago in Cafe Voltaire’s raggedy basement space, it seemed slightly parodic and subversive, in the same way The Real Live Brady Bunch did. But today, in a much tonier venue, Schoolhouse Rock Live! and its songs […]
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More Drama, Less Social Work
Yussef El Guindi’s play about a Muslim-American family is best when it’s messiest.