


Red Tape’s “The Skriker”
Playing at Red Tape Theater, 621 W. Belmont through OCTOBER 20th According to the dictionary, the word “skrike” means to cry or shriek. To me, the sound of the word repeated over and over is reminiscent of the pulsing high-pitched “skree skree skree” that occur in horror movies when a person appears from the shadows […]

Feast: Recordings of Consumption
In Indonesia a common form of greeting is: “Have you showered today?” This may sound strange to us, but it’s really hot there, and people take many little cold showers throughout the day called mandis. Asking whether someone has showered is the same as someone in the grocery store saying, “how’re you doing?” to us. […]