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'SNL's' Strong returns to improv team for show
Of the three new “Saturday Night Live” cast members hired from Chicago for this season, Cecily Strong (a.k.a. “The Girl You Wish You Hadn't Started a Conversation With at a Party,” featured on “Weekend Update”) has made...
Tags: ImprovOlympic, Jill Kelley, Lorne Michaels, Paula Broadwell
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TV review: Eat (and drink) up: Bourdain takes a Chicago 'Layover'
RedEyeAnthony Bourdain still isn't a fan of deep dish pizza, but he loves Chicago. "In a town where everything is great, they're most famous for something that sucks," the chef says in the Season 2 opener of "The Layover" (8 p.m. CT Nov. 19, Travel Channel;...Tags: Bleep (euphemism), Lifestyle and Leisure, Lipitor (drug), Political Corruption, Anthony Bourdain
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Q&A: Nick Offerman on his Chicago days
Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between Nick Offermanand his “Parks and Recreation” character Ron Swanson. Both talk in a slow, deep, deadpan manner and are unabashedly masculine. And, like Swanson, Offerman is an expert...
Tags: Chicago White Sox, Comedy (genre), Chicago Cubs, TBS (tv network), Nick Offerman
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When a plane crashed in Wrigleyville
Chicago Tribune reporterOn Aug. 3, 1953, a young World War II veteran piloting a small plane terrified thousands of Wrigleyville residents while flying erratically over the neighborhood. A group of teenagers was playing a late afternoon game of softball on a gravel lot up...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Head Injuries, Motorvehicle Accidents, World War II (1939-1945)
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Interview: Adam Richman's next challenge is staying ahead in TV game
Adam Richman was the same charismatic guy’s guy Thursday in the Tribune Tower cafeteria that he was as host of Travel Channel’s “Man v. Food” — you just wouldn’t have known it at first. The burly Brooklyn native...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Tampa, Adam Richman, Social Media
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Where Conan O'Brien has been spotted, Channing Tatum coming to Chicago, Brett Favre taking part in Grant Park football game
Conan O’Brien has been easy to spot around Chicago -- and not just because he’s 6’4 and has hard-to-miss red hair. The Los Angeles-based talk show host has been out and about in the city while here filming “Conan” at the...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Miami Heat, Bars and Clubs, Brett Favre, Boston Celtics
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Share the love ...
We met in a college logic class. Evidently it was not love at first sight — we later realized we had shared a class before and never noticed each other! I sat behind him in logic, and he passed a poem to me. Three months later (still in college)... -
Eddie Vedder gives impromptu performance at Stanley's, Patrick Stump admits he has thin skin, Gary Sinise flops during first pitch
It looks like life-long Cubs fan Eddie Vedder didn’t take his team’s loss to the White Sox in the Crosstown Classic too hard. The Pearl Jam rocker partied with former Blackhawk Chris Chelios and the now retired Kerry Wood at Stanley’...
Tags: Kathy Griffin, Devin Hester, Autism, Jay Cutler, Kelsey Grammer
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Bears player starts fundraiser as funeral held for slain fan
Special to the TribuneA private funeral service for slain Bears fan William Christopher Pettry was held this afternoon while a fundraising effort has been launched by Bears player Kellen Davis to help Pettry’s widow and three children. Davis, the Bears tight end, will...Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Jacksonville Jaguars, Kellen Davis
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The 'Check, Please!' effect
Popular WTTW-Ch. 11 restaurant show "Check, Please!" is among the most successful locally produced series in Chicago television and an oasis of public television reasonableness in an otherwise frenetic restaurant scene. The series begins its 12th season...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Leo Burnett, Lettuce, WTTW, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Winter agenda: Events for the season
STAGE The Christmas Schooner Have yourself a City of Big Shoulders Christmas at the Mercury Theater, the current home of the beloved Chicago musical, “The Christmas Schooner.” Created by John Reeger and Julie Shannon, “Schooner”...
Tags: Tab Benoit, Museums, Theater, Family, Navy Pier
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New North Side venue slated for iO Theater
The iO Theater is moving. On Friday, owner Charna Halpern purchased a new space for her long-running comedy enterprise, signaling an end to iO's presence in Wrigleyville after nearly two decades. Currently located at the corner of Clark and Addison,...
Tags: ImprovOlympic, Bill Murray, Tina Fey, David Pasquesi, Mike Myers
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