Theater historian Jeffrey Sweet recaps Chicago improv history with a multimedia presentation.
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 25
Issue of Mar. 12 – 18, 2009
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Trash and Cash
The lousy economy means it’s costing Chicago taxpayers more to recycle, but city officials are vowing to press on.
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3/20-3/21 — Free tastings of Metropolitan beer
Metropolitan Brewing offers up free samples this Friday and Saturday.
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Who gets to sign my next paycheck?
Will a bankruptcy judge in Tampa decide today who runs Creative Loafing Inc.?
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TIFs: Hidden in plain view
The City Council can approve a 99-year privatization deal in days, but it needs months to decide whether to put public records online.
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Should have insured that planet before it crashed
The Obama administration seems to have explored all its legal avenues for getting that AIG bonus money back in about 24 hours. AIG meanwhile asks that we not make them blow up the world.
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Circle of life: Goose Island’s “beer-fed pork”
Under new chef John Manion, Goose Island Brewpub is feeding its spent grain to some of the tastiest animals around.
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The dark side of the Vancouver Olympics
A 2007 documentary, The Five Ring Circus, details the high costs to Vancouver of its bid for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The film screens Friday at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum.
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Pew’s take on alternative weeklies
The Pew Research Center reports the readers of alternative weeklies are getting both younger and older.
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Oh, yeah, take care of arts and culture too, will ya?
Arts afterthoughts: Chicago lawyer Kareem Dale is to be Obama’s senior staff adviser on the arts. Never mind that he’s already serving as senior adviser on disability policy.
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A sampling of sample sales
If you’re lucky enough to still have some disposable income to spend on clothes, there are big sample sales this weekend.
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Pardon the interruption
The City Council’s hearing on TIF transparency is interrupted by demands for a more inclusive Olympics plan.
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3/17 — Blank Dogs performance
Blank Dogs, Woods, and Naked on the Vague play a free show Tuesday at Cobra Lounge.
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I saw the surprise, and the fear in his eyes, when I took his glass of champagne
Barack Obama declines a party invitation, and the implications to Establishment Washington Journalism and his relations with it are tremendous, or whatever.