BLESS your Beautiful Hide! It's back! The rip-roaring musical, guaranteed to put a smile on your face, received an ecstatic reception from fans of the fifties' film.

If the Marx Brothers designed a museum for non-European cultures, they might have come up with the Quai Branly's permanent-colle ction galleries: Devised as a spooky jungle, the place is briefly thrilling, but brow-slappingly wrongheaded.

Fremont. The name recalls, at least to me, Dennis the Menace's persnickety neighbor Mr. Wilson's dog. Or was that Tremont Maybe it was the last name of the lady who was the butt of all the old Marx Brothers' gags. No, that was Margaret Dumont. Or was that the old television network that predated acronyms I know Lisa Fremont was the name of Grace Kelly's character in the Hitchcock classic "Rear Window".

"A Night at the Opera," the second concert of the New West Symphony's 2006-07 Masterpiece Series season, will feature popular opera arias, scenes and ensembles.Comme nt

If you've been keeping up with the site this week, you know that Chicagoist made a new friend in local rocker Richard Marx.Comment

Dialectical Magick I have to thank the folks over at the Coffee Shop for the excellent article entitled Socratic Marx, which discusses this letter from Marx which was published in the Tucker Anthology The Marx and Engels Reader as: For a Ruthless Criticism of Everything Existing (1843).

TUESDAY NIGHT at 9, KRON Channel 4 viewers hoping to see Pam Moore, Gary Radnich and company deliver the latest headlines will be startled to find instead a steamy new soap opera called "Desire,&q uot; in which two hunky brothers being pursued by the Mafia fall for the same smokin'-hot woman. Then, if they bother to stick around long enough -- and that's a huge if -- there's "Fashion House," another soap that has 1980s sex symbols Bo Derek and Morgan Fairchild playing dueling divas with a proclivity for...