The son of Sun Ra saxophonist Pat Patrick is elected governor of Massachusetts
Tag: Vol. 36 No. 7
Issue of Nov. 9 – 15, 2006
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Could there be sanity ahead for the tech team in Congress?
Maybe Congress won’t break the internets.
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Memorial for Malachi
Elastic hosts a memorial for Malachi Ritscher on Sunday, November 12
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The morning after the morning after
Election linkfest: libertarian spoilers, the conservative mainstream media, Bush as Dr. Death, and all the election ads you can stomach.
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Rumsfeld and his successor have hard questions to answer
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DAFNIS PRIETO QUINTET
Since moving to New York in 1999 Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto has worked with Latin jazz heavyweights like Eddie Palmieri and Bebo Valdes as well as vanguard modernists like Henry Threadgill and Steve Coleman. It’s easy to hear why: he’s a prodigiously gifted technician who’s distilled a world of rhythms into a signature style that […]
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Cuadecuc-Vampir
The first word in the title of Pere Portabella’s ravishing 1970 underground masterpiece, made in Spain while General Francisco Franco was still in power and shown clandestinely, means both “worm’s tail” and the unexposed footage at the end of film reels. The film is a silent black-and-white documentary about the shooting of Jesus Franco’s Count […]
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A Farewell to a Foot Slave
When Liz leaves Chicago at the end of this month, this isn’t the only job she’s quitting.
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Beware the Dashing Stranger
Rebecca Gilman’s Boy Gets Girl explodes romantic cliches.
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What’s New: Nuevo Latino Kicked up a Notch, Fresh Southern Italian, and Napa Aspirations in Edgewater
DeLaCosta 465 E. Illinois 312-464-1700 If you can get past the aggressive hipness of the new hot spot DeLaCosta, with its icky-sweet signature “poptails” (fruity cocktails garnished with boozy popsicles), loungey see-and-be-seen “solarium,” and curtained cabanas for private dining, you’ll find a very good restaurant. For his first Chicago venture, celebrated chef and James Beard […]
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Drink Here Long Enough and They’ll Give You the Bar
How a suburban school administrator and a retired golf hustler inherited a Chicago institution.
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Some Assembly Required
The pieces look promising, but can Bulls coach Scott Skiles fit them together?
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Carol Bui
Carol Bui’s full-length debut, This Is How I Recover (released on her Drunken Butterfly label), stands up to and often surpasses the work of her avowed influences–Jeff Buckley, Throwing Muses, Mary Timony–and its angular guitars call to mind Bellini and Victory at Sea, two more of her favorites. The 25-year-old D.C. native plays introspective songs […]