In addition to music at several venues and workshops on women’s issues, the Estrojam festival also features film and visual art. A pass to all festival events costs $75. For more information call 800-594-8499 or go to estrojam.org. THURSDAY20 Debonair Social Club 1575 N. Milwaukee | 773-227-7990 | $10 7:30 EJam Film Festival (see Movies) […]
Tag: Vol. 36 No. 52
Issue of Sep. 20 – 26, 2007
Posted inNews & Politics
For the People
Lynn Becker’s September 14 article on the debate over Grant Park as a site for the relocated Chicago Children’s Museum [“Forever Open, Clear, and Free”] is a compelling exposition of why the museum’s proposal to relocate into the northeast corner of the park is flawed and inappropriate. His argument, however, misses a crucial dimension of […]
Posted inNews & Politics
The Treatment
friday21 cBONDE DO ROLE The haters–after all the hype about the singles, they were bound to come out of the woodwork for the first album–say Bonde do Role are irresponsible assholes who happen to be Brazilian, yelling dumb stuff over ripped-off party beats and disrespecting their own musical culture. But the band’s tossed-off hybrid of […]
Posted inArts & Culture
‘night, Mother
Marsha Norman’s powerful Pulitzer-winning 1983 drama focuses on a final conversation between Thelma, an elderly small-town widow, and her middle-aged daughter Jessie, who’s decided to kill herself. As Thelma tries to convince Jessie that even an unfulfilled life is worth living, they find themselves speaking openly for the first time about their own experiences, including […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Ape
It’s appropriate that Paul Oakley Stovall’s new play touches on Darwinism since the playwright’s clearly evolving artistically. Ape suggests a talent that may soon develop opposable thumbs, at which point expect something fine. He’s not there yet, however. Stovall demonstrates a knack for dialogue, an impulse toward intriguing characters, and a light, almost musical way […]
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Too Close a Copy or Not Close Enough?
The controversy over a Martin Luther King monument to be made in China goes beyond politics and race.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Collector
William Wyler’s 1965 film version of the John Fowles novel, which confirmed the stardom of the incomparable Terence Stamp, should be held up alongside seminal serial-killer flicks like Psycho and Peeping Tom. Its butterfly motif prefigures imagery in The Silence of the Lambs, and its treacherous appeal to the audience’s inner stalker resonates profoundly in […]
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The Magnificents
There’s much to admire in playwright-magician Dennis Watkins’s Tim Burton-esque clown show for House Theatre of Chicago. His magic tricks range from charming to mind-blowing, and then there’s Collette Pollard’s handsome yet creepy design, Lucas Marino’s childlike video dream segments, Kevin O’Donnell’s melancholy score, and director Molly Brennan’s precise routines for the three clown narrators […]
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BADAWI
Born in Jerusalem, multi–instrumentalist Raz Mesinai grew up there and in New York, absorbing the sounds of both cities. Dub has been an element in his work from the beginning (as in the wiggy 90s project Sub Dub), but the music of the Middle East has played an increasingly important role. Under his own name […]
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Some Girl(s)
Neil LaBute’s stab at a sensitive exploration of relationships follows a writer about to be married around the country as he meets up with old girlfriends. Joe Jahraus’s intensely intimate staging is solid, and Kristin Collins and Sarra Kaufman, as the writer’s high school and college girlfriends respectively, movingly convey the desperation and anger seething […]