Inside a home in a quiet, residential neighborhood in L.A., a growing crowd sprouts in a living room lined by tables for indie zines and progressive community orgs. As it gets closer to 8 p.m., the ...
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The story is all too familiar: A Wildcat doesn’t make the cut for Mee-Ow their freshman year but goes on to perform at The Second City — Chicago’s premier comedy club — post-graduation, only to land a ...
A new book argues that the isolation of a pre-social media era helped fuel a fertile Chicago ecosystem for offbeat stand-up comedians. By Jason Zinoman Paris in the 1920s. Hollywood in the ’70s.