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Kings, no Queens, one lassoed princess
Jen and I met at Ohio University and started dating while she worked in Chicago and I worked in Washington. We came to Los Angeles in 2001 (her) and 2002 (me). Then, like all couples who move to Los Angeles, we broke up. After two years together, the "L....
Tags: Los Angeles Kings, Weddings, Entertainment, National Hockey League, Staples Center
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Why you should have Nate Robinson's back
For RedEyeI bought a Nate Robinson jersey this weekend because I'm not sure he'll be a Bull next year. You read that right. Because I don't think he'll be back, I bought his jersey. This does not happen often. Chicago fans don't run out to buy as much merchandise...Tags: Chicago Cubs, Bryan LaHair, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Nate Robinson
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'Sirens': Another Chicago TV pilot picked up
Yet another scripted series will be shooting in Chicago. On Thursday USA Network announced it has picked up the Denis Leary-produced half-hour comedy “Sirens,” about Chicago EMTs who have their act together at work but are a mess in their...Tags: Television, ABC (tv network), Entertainment, Lennon Parham, Comedy Central (tv network)
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5 TV series slated for Chicago productions
A total of five scripted TV series slated for next season will shoot in Chicago, according to Betsy Steinberg, who heads up the Illinois Film Office. That is a record high for the city. All are one-hour dramas. NBC, which renewed “Chicago Fire&...Tags: Bravo (tv network), Television, Jimmy Fallon, Television Industry, Dick Wolf
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'SNL' looks to Mexico, with iO's help
“Saturday Night Live,” set to wrap its 38th season this month, is branching out into Mexico with the help of iO Theater's Charna Halpern, who is working with producers to cast the new show. Auditions for Spanish-speaking writers and...Tags: Mexico, Entertainment, Mexico City
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Chicago improv team behind Comedy Central pilot 'Schlub Life'
A group of Chicago sketch and improv performers are making a sitcom pilot for Comedy Central called “Schlub Life,” about “two out-of-work and out-of-shape husbands and their exasperated wives who begrudgingly provide the good life for...Tags: Television, Entertainment, Comedy Central (tv network)
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'Schlub Life': Comedy Central pilot coming from locals
A group of Chicago sketch and improv performers are making a sitcom pilot for Comedy Central called “Schlub Life,” about “two out-of-work and out-of-shape husbands and their exasperated wives who begrudgingly provide the good life for...Tags: Television, Entertainment, Comedy Central (tv network)
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Chicago and the arts
The huge dramas playing out from Boston to our flooded basements are weighing on our hearts now. But humans are not wired to be stressed out 24/7/365. When our imaginations are ready to soar, we couldn’t be in a better place than Chicago. Local...
Tags: Lollapalooza, Arts, The Second City, Arts and Culture, Entertainment
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Improv Fest: Subtle mastery from Adsit and Lutz
Chicago has long been improv's home base. Much of this is due to the ongoing influence of Del Close, the outsize personality and improv guru (and the subject of at least two films being developed about his life) who made the persuasive case that...
Tags: Tina Fey, 30 Rock (tv program), Scott Adsit
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Del Close: Dueling scripts detail improv pioneer
Charna Halpern's script about her late iO (formerly ImprovOlympic) co-founder Del Close opens with the vastly influential, hard-living, difficult, brilliant improvisation pioneer glimpsing a TV on which his former student Betty Thomas is thanking him...
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Improv Fest: One dumb idea can be a lot to work with
The 2013 Chicago Improv Festival kicked off earlier this week with Craig Cackowski — a veteran Second City and iO performer seen in recent years on NBC's "Community" — asking the audience for a suggested location. The first reply shouted out...
Tags: Arts and Culture, 30 Rock (tv program), Scott Adsit, Lucas Neff, Raising Hope (tv program)
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Toss up a bottle for the author of 'Cocktail'
Before it became a lucrative if critically drubbed exemplar of '80s cinematic cheese, the Tom Cruise vehicle "Cocktail" first sprang to life as a novel by Heywood Gould, who based the book on his experiences bartending throughout New York in the 1970s....
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