A new show at the Driehaus Museum presents some of the finest satirical illustrations of late 19th-century America.
Tag: satire
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You’ll never believe the 11 reasons Clickhole is the Internet’s most brilliant site
In its first year of existence, the Chicago-based Onion spin-off Clickhole has become the smartest, funniest, and most absurd thing on the Internet—precisely by lampooning the Internet’s absurdity. Share if you agree!
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Street artists peek out from the shadows
Get to know some of Chicago’s mysterious, prolific street artists.
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River North’s last non-Italian restaurant to reconcept as Italian restaurant
A dispatch from the near future of our restaurant scene, with a side of pasta.
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Laugh along with Job in The Way West
In The Way West, Steppenwolf satirizes (and sings about) manifest destiny and the American dream.
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Parodies lost: why satire must be banned from the Internet
A modest proposal for a serious problem
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Sinker’s @mayoremanuel Was Vital Political Satire
@mayoremanuel lampooned the real Emanuel’s propensity for profanity, and was a vital satire of local politics.
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Addams Family Values
This sequel starts off with the same sort of hard-sell blackout gags as its predecessor, most of them built around the premise of Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) having another baby. But once Joan Cusack enters the picture as a nanny-cum-serial-killer/gold digger with her eye trained on Fester (Christopher Lloyd) things get livelier, […]