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The sword is mightier than the pen
Media / News Bites Do newspapers think we can't see who's missing?
Posted by Michael Miner on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:01 AM
And met the man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
I wish, I wish, he’d go away.
His absence haunts the Tribune, and a lot of other papers too. He (or, very definitely, she) is remembered as an editor. Not the lofty editor who designs and leads the great campaigns that win the coveted prizes. And not the obsessive who can lecture an hour about the comma. I'm speaking of the minions who once formed the protective layer of surly common sense that insulated a newspaper's daily report from the reporters' illogic, muddled language, and failure to think through what they were trying to write about.
Soul Week / Music / Post No Bills Soul music: not just dusties
Posted by Peter Margasak on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:00 AM
Music / Performing Arts Tonight: CSO, Muti, and Mason Bates
Posted by Deanna Isaacs on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:01 PM
Crickets / Music Q&A with Craig Finn
Posted by Miles Raymer on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:43 PM
Soul Week / Music The five worst covers of "The Tracks of My Tears"
Posted by Tal Rosenberg on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 2:32 PM
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In the process of being horrified by a song I previously thought to be infallible, I realized something important about the Motown sound: Everyone loves it. That means every no-talent bucket of contagious hate has to produce a rendition of a classic Motown song. As a result, the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have an inexorable soundtrack for their stay.
Here are the five worst covers of “The Tracks of My Tears.” Proceed with caution.
Music / Post No Bills Diego Amador opens this year's Chicago Flamenco Festival
Posted by Peter Margasak on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:50 PM
Mudville / Media / Politics This is halftime!
Posted by Sam Worley on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:14 PM
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Film Oscar-nominated live-action shorts: Tuba Atlantic
Posted by J.R. Jones on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:00 PM
The Shore, an Irish nominee that I reviewed yesterday, dealt with two friends who hadn't seen each other in 25 years; Hallvar Witzø's Tuba Atlantic, its Norwegian competitor, is about a dying man who hasn't spoken to his brother in 30, so I think we all know which is going to take home the statue. Actually these two are about evenly matched as my favorite entries, each following a small number of lively characters through a simple story arc in about 25 minutes. The protagonist of Tuba Atlantic is a solitary old man living by the seashore (Edvard Hægstad) who learns he has six days to live; in order to die at home he requires a caretaker, and one arrives in the form of a goofy teenage Christian (Ingrid Viken) blithely calling herself his "angel of death." The ensuing comedy mostly derives from the fact that the old codger deals out plenty of death himself, blowing up fish with dynamite, shooting pesky gulls with a machine gun, even stomping on their eggs in "pre-emptive strikes." The title motif—a giant wind horn the man has constructed to communicate with his brother across the ocean—didn't do much for me, but the relationship between the man and the girl follows in the finest traditions of Scandinavian deadpan. A trailer follows the jump.
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Soul music: not just dusties: The death of Don Cornelius last week has prompted a great deal of nostalgia for So... http://t.co/DgrdAS18
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Go to this, Chi folks! MT @pmontoro: Diego Amador (of Pata Negra fame) opens the Chicago Flamenco Festival on Thursday: http://t.co/vcTFiIl8
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