Beaver Hunt! Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » By the time it took place, I’d forgotten to think about the significance of the two criminals being women–it’s clear from the first that there will be no tearful Thelma and Louise justifications here, no earth-mother bullshit. Max McClane (Seeley, who also directs) and Marty Riggs (Kirkland) are two bad-to-the-bone broads. They’d torture and destroy the men around them even if the guy’s weren’t such assholes....

Should the City of Chicago shut down the Northwest Garbage Incinerator, located near the intersection of Chicago and Cicero Avenues, thus protecting the health, safety and environment of westside residents, creating jobs through recycling and saving at least $150 million dollars in taxpayer money? Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Voters in the far west 29th and 37th wards answered this question “yes” by almost three to one in an advisory referendum April 4....

Escape From Lincoln Park Nothing makes us more uneasy than the tales of big-city journalists who escape to the country and find happiness. Life is always hard in the hinterland, but it’s also full of meaning and harmony. Ruddy, well-rounded children usually figure in the picture. Our own lives seem shoddy by comparison. They also visited her father, a former Paris correspondent for the Sunday Times now living in retirement in a 12th-century rock house in western France....

I got the message late at night on my answering machine: “The peregrines are eating the parakeets.” It sounds like something Aldrich Ames might have sent in code to the Russians, but it was my friend Chuck Thurow, who’d picked up this juicy bit of nature gossip at a dinner party in Hyde Park. The host suspected that a peregrine falcon was gobbling up the monk parakeets that normally frequent his bird feeder....

Garth Fagan marries a subtle, offbeat sense of rhythm to the clean, extended lines of ballet and comes up with the dance equivalent of jazz music, at once cerebral and soulful, broken and elegant–his dancers’ often spiky, jabbing limbs and occasional druggy slowness almost seem to embody the jazz scores he so often uses. It’s no wonder that several years ago Fagan and Wynton Marsalis struck up a friendship, which produced in late 1991 this evening-length collaboration called Griot New York....

By Ben Joravsky “This is my first campaign. A lot of voters are just meeting me,” says O’Donnell, an official with the city’s Department of Streets and Sanitation. “Sometimes the best way to grab someone’s attention is to make them laugh. Once you have their attention, they’ll listen to what you have to say.” Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Kelly’s still the organization’s committeeman, but he lost most of his patronage and power when Mayor Washington ousted him from the Park District....

By Michael Miner Editor Ronald Witteles looked at her blankly. “I don’t know,” said Preczewski. “There was last week.” Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » These vigilantes could only have been emboldened by a crucial campus ruling the night before. By a 40-25 vote the Associated Student Government (ASG) senate had approved legislation transparently crafted to bridle the Chronicle. Any periodical “published three times a year or more” and distributed in hallways must be removed from those hallways by their staffs “within twenty-four hours of their distribution....

Bucking a long tradition of solemn films about cinema–from Dziga Vertov’s logical and analytical Man With a Movie Camera to Orson Welles’s speculative and poetic F for Fake–Jeff Vilencia’s short Images is irreverently humorous, its over-the-top postmodernism suggesting that all categories of filmmaking are equivalent and there are no rules. “You could call this cubism, or maybe Swiss cheese,” Vilencia’s voice portentously intones while we see a large backdrop with circular holes....

Thirty-eight years ago this summer, Paul Sills and David Shepherd organized the Compass Players, thereby starting what is now blandly, routinely, and pretty much correctly referred to as a theatrical revolution. At a time when the American theater’s deepest thinkers were immersed in the angst of the Method, the Compass was busy pioneering a technology in which people create plays by actually playing with each other. Second City domesticated the Compass revolution....

THE GATES (FAR AWAY NEAR) The introductory section lays out the work’s program. Paul Dresher’s score opens with a crashing chord like a hammer blow, and six dancers dash around the stage, sailing into the air in sudden leaps or rolling quickly to the floor and up again, like a city gone mad. A single dancer (Ellie Klopp) in an upstage spotlit corner moves slowly in place, her head bent meekly as if meditating deeply....

Lead Story After filing a missing persons report in April on his wife, Leasa, Bruce Jensen, 39, learned that Leasa was really a feminine-looking man named Felix Urioste, 34, who had convinced Jensen to marry him in 1991 after a single sexual encounter during which Urioste remained clothed. Jensen, a devout Mormon, said to the Standard-Examiner in Ogden, Utah, “There’s no way to describe this feeling” of learning he’d been married to a man for almost four years....

THE DWARFS Northlight Theatre Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » Take the title of his 1978 masterpiece Betrayal, which at first seems easy to grasp. The further one delves into it, the more complex it becomes. Since we’re dealing with the issue of domestic infidelity in a story of a woman’s affair with her husband’s best friend, we might assume the title refers to the woman and her lover deceiving her husband....

Hey, Faggot: OK, first off, those orgasms you’re having all by your lonesome aren’t “artificial.” They’re real. And if you can bring yourself off alone, you should be able to bring yourself off in the company of men. In fact, men would be good role models for you: Guys chase down their orgasms with a single-mindedness that you would do well to emulate. When a guy’s fucking you, he maneuvers his dick around until he’s getting rubbed just…so, and he keeps it up until he comes, right?...

“I have an affinity for machinery,” confesses farmer John Peterson in Angelic Organics Farm News (August 27). “One machine can sometimes do the work of twenty laborers. It will never sneak out of the field in the middle of the morning for a nap. It’s usually where I left it. If it breaks I can almost always fix it. And I’ve never seen a drunk chisel plow. On the other hand, the 656 Farmall tractor has never made me lunch, I’ve never flirted with the wheel hoe, and I’ve never enjoyed an Amazake White Russian with the tiller....

Sitting on Mary Bordelon’s expansive front porch on Ellis Avenue at 45th Street, you can take in a lot of history. Just across the street and set back among the trees is a frame house built in the mid-1880s; it was the original home of Wallace Heckman, who, as business manager for the infant University of Chicago, acquired much of the land for the campus. Looking north up the 4400 block, you can see a group of two- and three-story Romanesque Revival residences; the one at 4453 S....

*** THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA Until fairly recently, films from the Chinese- and Vietnamese-speaking world have had next to no distribution here; so it’s worth noting that three such movies have been nominated for the foreign-language Oscar: Farewell My Concubine from Hong Kong, The Wedding Banquet from Taiwan, and The Scent of Green Papaya from Vietnam. The first two of these have already opened in Chicago, and the third–in some ways my favorite in the bunch–is starting a run this week at the Fine Arts....

In their native New Zealand the 3Ds are the subject of many stories; my favorite involves a batch of homebrew that guitarist David Mitchell once made for an Xpressway Records party. He insisted on spiking it with golden raisins, which ended up bobbing on top of the beer and puffing up so big the nonplussed crowd mistook them for cheese balls. Mitchell claimed he’d added the raisins on the recommendation of a fellow homebrewer; it wasn’t until after the party that he realized the conversation in which he’d been given the recipe never took place–he’d dreamt it....

Let’s do the time warp again, as the Mary-Arrchie Theatre commemorates the anniversary of the 1969 Woodstock festival with an annual theater and performance marathon named in honor of the author of Woodstock Nation. Seeking to stimulate a communal spirit (which may be enhanced by sleep deprivation), Mary-Arrchie’s Richard Cotovsky has organized the festival’s three days as a nearly nonstop procession of entertainment. Informality and spontaneity are the order of the day....

It was a big year for vehicle impoundment ordinances. And I’m not just saying that because I was, until October, the only prosecutor in the city’s legal department dealing with impounded cars. Mayor Daley and the City Council added two new offenses this year allowing police to seize cars. Now people playing loud music and minors driving after curfew will lose their vehicles, along with those caught fly-dumping or with drugs, guns, or prostitutes....

The Voice of the Moon With Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Nadia Ottaviani, Marisa Tomasi, and Angelo Orlando. With Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, and L.Q. Jones. Best of Chicago voting is live now. Vote for your favorites » I don’t know how well The Voice of the Moon did in Italy, but it opened in 200 theaters, and the fact that the two lead actors, Roberto Benigni and Paolo Villaggio, are popular Italian comics undoubtedly helped draw people in....