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Wednesday, 18 November 2009 20:03 |
By K.D. Hopkins
On Saturday, November 14, two of my friends and I took a visit to the past. We settled into the theatre at North Park University to see a luminous production of Anne V. McGravie’s “WRENS.” The title is an acronym for Women’s Royal Navy Service that is the U.K. version of the WACS or WAVES.
This is the story of women being pressed into service and yet being detained by the mores and restraints of the society that awaits them when WWII ends.
This was a stunning production on many levels beginning with the cast.
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 05:38 |
 By James Ginderske
Rogers Park activist group Northside POWER joined almost five thousand people last week in a well-organized demonstration that concluded three days of actions at the American Banking Association (ABA) convention in Chicago.
Northside P.O.W.E.R. (The acronym stands for “People Organized to Work, Educate and Restore”) is the community organizing arm of the Good News Community Kitchen (GNCK), a Rogers Park facility that feeds between 130 and 180 people each night of the year.
According to P.O.W.E.R. Organizer Cindy Bush: “Northside P.O.W.E.R. was founded about 5 years ago because the GNCK board, patrons and partners decided to become an anti-hunger organization that not only feeds people, but also, through advocacy and community organizing, addresses the causes of poverty and hunger.”
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 04:52 |
 By Janet Potter
The Heartland Cafe was filled past capacity Thursday, October 22 to hear four Chicago authors read from their work and discuss Chicago as a writers’ city.
The event, titled “An October Sort of City,” was part of the Chicago Book Festival, and was co-hosted by Chicago Public Radio’s “Chicago Amplified” series and “Stop Smiling,” an independent publisher based in Wicker Park. JC Gabel, editor-in-chief of “Stop Smiling” magazine, said that the reading was conceived as being “as unconventional as possible,” and indeed it was a unique night.
Eschewing the reverence of a traditional book reading in a bookstore or auditorium, the four authors took to the stage together, and read from their work in the dining room of the Heartland Cafe, where the attendees were packed together at tables and the overwhelmed but always hospitable staff rushed around filling drink and dinner orders.
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 05:16 |
 By K.D. Hopkins
If you are of a certain age group, you probably recall learning or singing “The Impossible Dream.” It brought tears to my eyes as a child even having not seen the play or read the story.
I did eventually read the story as a teenager and it became one of my favorites. Theo Ubique Cabaret Theatre Company has refreshed my love of the story and the music.
The talent and inventiveness of Theo Ubique always astound me. They have explored gender bending in other productions – most recently “The Taming of the Shrew.”
In “La Mancha”, the role of Cervantes/Don Quixote is played by the gifted Danielle Brothers. From the time Cervantes is dragged into the asylum, I was held rapt by her performance.
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Tuesday, 03 November 2009 05:07 |
 By Francis Scudellari
On a typically overcast mid-October day, I was walking my ex-wife’s two pugs (yeah, you read that right) when I happened upon a lost dog. Actually, it was Lucy who found him, with her canine sense of smell much keener than my more evolved human eyesight.
She was proceeding through the alley head-down to do her daily sniffing when an unexpected scent perked up her routine and set her off to barking. Albert, her other escort, meanwhile maintained the nonchalant wait-and-see attitude best befitting the male of any species.
Curious at what could get Lucy so up-in-paws, I peeked past the clump of weeds where her nose had been buried. He was hard to see at first, a pile of black tucked into the corner of a securely fenced parking lot, and well-hidden beneath a tree’s still thick but yellowing leaves.
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