With Lance Armstrong in the news so much these days, confessing to doping during his days as a cyclist and lying through his teeth about it for years, his connection to the Texas company that brings us Lollapalooza is worth noting.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra cellist Katinka Kleijn is used to playing with a stage full of musicians. At the Chicago Cultural Center this weekend, she’ll see what it’s like to perform a duet with her own brain.
What impressed me most was the HBO series’ adamant refusal to pander to cliché—or, when the beyond-familiar did make an appearance, to treat it with a knowing wink, not only to the audience, but from the characters.
