15 Minutes with DJ White Shadow, aka Paul Blair
Chicago’s Paul Blair, better known as DJ White Shadow, has played practically everywhere.
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Something Sketchy
I’ve been wrestling with the whooping cough, so Coda has been silent. (No one, I’m sure, wanted to read my musings on Ellen reruns and French existentialist writers–my main activities when I was bedridden.) Fortunately for you, Web editor Esther Kang and her pal, local writer Jackie Ostrowski, hit the annual Sketchfest in my absence and came up with a must-see: a local group called Bri-Ko. Read the review, view the photo gallery, and catch Bri-Ko again this Friday, January 11th, at 11 p.m…
Don’t Miss: Art from the Heart
New Zealand/Australian artist/scholar Ruth Watson makes art using salt, images of her own tongue, and other unconventional media. Hear her discuss her work.
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.
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