Organic Theater Company tackles climate change, Big Pharma, family dysfunction, the evils of the media machine, and too much else for one play.
Tag: WIND
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An African-Latino showcase gives us history by way of cha-cha-cha
Columbia College inaugurates its new Afro-Latino dance program with four days of cross-pollinated performances.
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Hurricane Sandy and wind and you
Here’s a really cool map that shows the massive extent of Hurricane Sandy
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Lake Michigan is sloshing around today
Today’s strong winds caused an unusual and potentially dangerous weather phenomenon called a seiche on Lake Michigan.
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The Face of Hyde Park
Meet Conrad Wennerberg, the man on the cover of our Hyde Park-Kenwood issue.
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Test: On Simple Human Decency
Before I attempt to fill these pages with my disgust, which the odd reader who knows me will surely expect, I am obliged to address a preliminary concern, which that same odd reader may safely ignore. Some time has passed since I last raised my voice to the multitude, and whereas literary taste does not […]
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Ed Schwartz, RIP
Longtime WGN, WLUP host Ed Schwartz passes away after a long illness.
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A Tale of the Wind
This poetic masterpiece (1988) is the crowning work of Joris Ivens, the great Dutch documentarian and leftist, who made it in collaboration with his companion, Marceline Loridan, shortly before his death at age 90. (In fact there’s reason to believe the film was mainly written by Loridan, though this makes it no less Ivens’s own […]
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Final Stage?
Patrons of the Amphitheatre’s unique events may have to look elsewhere for their fun.