A Skokie dispensary features dozens of varieties of flower, including a strain celebrating the Chicago film’s 40th anniversary.
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Old Boyfriends is still Joan Tewkesbury’s one and only feature
And now’s your chance to see it.
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Remembering Carrie Fisher’s Blues Brothers time in Chicago, and other news
Also, a billionaire actually asked Rahm to close Monroe Street in the Loop during his daughter’s wedding.
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Staten Island Summer: Revenge of the teen-sex comedy
A new feature from the SNL crew brings back the bad old days of Porky’s
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Weekly Top Five: The best unrealized films
Notable films that never made it to screen
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Daniel Clowes under glass
A Daniel Clowes showcase at the MCA demonstrates the uneasy relationship between art and comics.
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Now Playing: Identity Thief
Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman lock horns in this new comedy
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Reliving Fear’s SNL riot
The full version of SNL‘s most notorious musical guests is finally easily viewable online.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 1/3: Magas at Empty Bottle, Second City’s 100th revue, and Dwayne Kennedy
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, January 3, 2013
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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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Second City’s 50th Anniversary Celebration
A report on Second City’s weekend of anniversary festivities.