Susan Guzzi wrote: > > The suburb of Oak Park is very village like. It is very liberal and > laid back.
Ernest Hemingway, Frank Lloyd Wright, and me all have some connection to Oak Park, for whatever that signifies. > > > And I ask that you choose up sides now or perhaps Courtney has warned > you already: > > WHITE SOX or cubs - not that I want to prejudice your opinion. The > lemming,Yuppie, frat boy, trend-hoppers all choose the Scubs I mean the > Cubs. Even though I am a life long north sider I prefer the WHITE SOX Baseball fans are Sox fans. Drunks, tourists, yuppies, frat boys, and small children are Cub fans. Take Susan Guzzi, for example; a very intelligent, literate, classy person, and she is a Sox fan. > And remember I love Joni! And if Joni were to ask me out on adate, I'd take her to Pizzeria Duo for the world's best pizza. Get the garlic bread too - it is to live for. Susan mentioned theatre: I saw the original Grease at Kingston Mines theatre back in the early 1970s, it was the story of a NW side school (actually Taft, a rival of my high school, Lane Tech, but Taft and Lane kids hung out at the same places), and it was great. When it moved to Broadway, it had to be cleaned up because Chicago folks are not as genteel as New Yorkers. The funniest line that was clean that didn't make to NYC: "We've got nothing to do. I know, let's go pick up girls at Foster Avenue Beach!" And don't forget Second City for theatre. There are more theatre companies in Chicago than anywhere. Chicago made The Producers, too - there is a reason that they brong shows to Chicago to find audiences that will let them know how to develope and improve a show. Go downtown and take an architectural tour. Learn to walk everywhere, there is so much to see. Mary Schmich wrote in the Chicago Tribune on 1-20-02: "Chicago, meanwhile, turns anyone who lives here into an expert on two topics. One is architecture. The other is sports. The facts and importance of these two realms seep into a Chicagoan as if by osmosis." I would add theatre and pizza to those two. Lyric Opera is fantastic, too. Avoid concerts at the United Center unless you can endure bad acoustics. Do check out the Chicago Symphony, not at its peak now but still great, for great acoustics. The Chicago Joni fans are absolutely super. Great people. No one is a Bulls fan anymore, not with the current team. But you will get comments with the Knicks hat - although not as many not that Van Gundy resigned as coach, the little #######. No one is a Black Hawks fan either so if you are a Rangers or Islanders fan, you can do that without concern. And be a Sox fan. (the Rev) Vince
