Also, a poll shows that Jesus “Chuy” Garcia has a massive lead in the congressional primary.
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Second City: The Next Generation
The latest E.T.C. show, A Red Line Runs Through It, shows that even the oldest sketch institutions can make progress.
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How Chicago shaped Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert’s friends and former cast members look back at his formative years in Chicago.
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iO makes a big move into founder Charna Halpern’s ‘dream theater’
iO leaves behind two decades of history as it moves to founder Charna Halpern’s “dream theater.”
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Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films
Notable films that never made it to screen
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Now Playing: Identity Thief
Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman lock horns in this new comedy
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John Carpenter, Lollapalooza celebrities, old-school death metal, and more on the B Side
Horror music, Lolla sightings, old-school death metal, and more
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Chicago’s comedy secret? Margaret Hicks says it’s fail again, fail better.
“Chicago is different because it’s not on a coast, it’s different from New York or Los Angeles because you have the right to fail. You get more than one chance. You have the right to fail and pick yourself up and start again.” —Second City cofounder Bernard Sahlins, quoted in Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious […]
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Memento Whore-y
Dear DirecTV: your David Spade-Chris Farley Tommy Boy ads are giving everyone the creeps. When you’ve lost Richard Roeper, you’ve lost America.
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Flag Smoking Permitted in Lobby Only, or Censorama
FLAG SMOKING PERMITTED IN LOBBY ONLY, OR CENSORAMA Second City When you write about Second City, it’s easy to sound like a broken record: they’re not what they were; afraid to make the yups choke on their Perrier, they aim at easy targets and convenient stereotypes; they bog down in Saturday Night Live physical humor […]