Get Lit
Winter may be the perfect time to curl up with a good read, but even better than turning into a housebound bookworm is becoming an erudite social butterfly.
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Acting in Isolation
PJ Paparelli, the former head of Perseverance Theatre, Alaska’s only professional troupe, makes the cross-continental move to claim his new role as artistic director of American Theater Company.
Don’t Miss: Dolled Up
On sophomore album Yes, Virginia . . . , Boston’s Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione—aka The Dresden Dolls—have sharpened their piano and drum-based Weimar-cabaret-meets-goth-rock novelty act into a brilliantly realized vision. Palmer’s arch singing comes tempered with plenty of mordant humor, and the duo’s instrumental intensity imbues the arty songs with dark beauty and walloping … Read more
Jokes Across America
A few months ago, Simon Goldberg and Dan Ettinger hopped on their bicycles in Oregon and started pedaling in the direction of Charleston, South Carolina. Along the way, they videotaped average people spinning their best yarns: funny jokes, dumb jokes, sex jokes, all kinds of jokes. They camped in strangers’ yards, approached anyone who looked even mildly entertaining, and filmed it all. It was an unreal experience: one of my favorite stories, which they told last night as guests of the theatre variety show The Callback, is how they got homesick in Montana over Rosh Hashanah and spent the evening cold calling names they thought “sounded Jewish.” They didn’t have much luck, but met a nice Catholic couple who put them up for the night…
Writers on the Record
Victoria Lautman chats with Michael Lowenthal.
January 2008 Table of Contents
Features Top Doctors by Geoffrey Johnson, with Joanna Topor MacKenzie and Dennis Rodkin In cooperation with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., Chicago presents a list of 355 of the area’s best physicians in 56 different medical specialties. In addition, seven doctors weigh in on a wide variety of health issues, and a panel of experts explain … Read more
Maestro in the Making
Sixteen-year-old actor and aspiring singer Maestro Harrell is one local to watch in 2008.
In Concert
The ballad of Brazilian guitar virtuosos Sérgio and Odair Assad
Steven Out; Cynthia Rowley In
It’s a gray day around here, so I’m blogging something perky: style.
First off, au revoir to Steven, the Museum of Science and Industry textile designer who was auf’d on Project Runway last night. What do you think? Was it his time to go? I’ll refrain from comment, since I haven’t been keeping up with the show. But there he was, sipping a drink a few weeks ago at a gay sports bar in Uptown. A bunch of his friends had gathered to watch the premiere; poor Steven cried out halfway through the evening that…
The Blip – January 2008
Bright spots on the month’s cultural radar