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Chicago Humanities Festival Our friend Jim Nayder of Chicago Public Radio's "The Annoying Music Show!" will be on hand this Saturday at Thorne Auditorium to spin "live" the very best of his annoying finds for Festival guests. Stop by and say hello!
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On Saturday, November 14, Jim Nayder of The Annoying Music Show will be in the lobby at Thorne Auditorium and annoy people in the three time blocks between the four programs that day.
Chicago Humanities Festival Thank you to everyone who joined us this weekend! The Chicago Tribune has some awesome coverage of our events from the past few days. Starting with a cover story on the Tribune Literary prize with Tony Kushner.
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It was fitting that Tony Kushner accepted the 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize on a Sunday morning, because the event honoring the "Angels in America" playwright would have felt right at home among ...
Chicago Humanities Festival Tonight we're hosting Herbert Siguenza at Wilbur Wright College. Siguenza is a founding member of Culture Clash, one of the most prominent Chicano/Latino theater ensemble in the nation. He's peforming a one-man piece about the life of Mexican comedian Cantinflas.
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Charlie Chaplin called Cantinflas the “greatest comic of all time,” and in 2003, Herbert Siguenza wrote and performed a tribute that explored Mario Moreno’s beginnings as a performer in the rough border city of Ciudad, Juárez and his path to icon of the Mexican cinema.
Chicago Humanities Festival Awesome first full day of the Festival. Caught Sander Gilman and Mel Watkins at the Cultural Center, Sen. Claire McCaskill at Thorne, and lastly our fantastic cartoonists at Francis W. Parker. Phew! Now some Second City. To get an inside glimpse of all the events, check out our twitter feed.
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The Chicago Humanities Festival is a foundation which organizes an annual series of lectures, concerts, and films in Chicago.
Chicago Humanities Festival Christopher Borrelli at the Chicago Tribune put together a great recap of our event with Matt Groening and Lynda Barry. Check it out below.
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Lynda Barry has known Matt Groening forever. Since they were students at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., in the early 1970s. Groening heard about this woman who wrote to Joseph Heller, the author of "Catch-22," and asked him to marry her. ...
Chicago Humanities Festival Missed Lynda Barry & Matt Groening yesterday? They'll be appearing again THIS Saturday with Chris Ware & Jules Feiffer for a summit on the "Not-so-funny Situation of Alternative Comix."
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Michael Miner hosts a summit meeting with Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Chris Ware to examine the evaporation of virtually all of their outlets as alternative newsweeklies and comix publishers cease publishing their work in the midst of their own financial calamity.
Chicago Humanities Festival We're live tweeting at Harold Ramis' Personal History of Film Comedy. Follow us @ Chi_Humanities or with the tag #chf09!
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The Chicago Humanities Festival is a foundation which organizes an annual series of lectures, concerts, and films in Chicago.
Chicago Humanities Festival TimeOut Chicago has a pretty hilarious interview with Festival presenter John Hodgman this week. Tickets are sold out, BUT I might have a few stashed away somewhere for a lucky Facebook/Twitter fan. Check back soon for our John Hodgman trivia...
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In advance of his Chicago Humanities Festival appearance, the nerdtastic author talks with Time Out Chicago about recipes for cooking owl and inventing the Internet.
Chicago Humanities Festival More tickets to give away, this time for the 9:30 pm show of The Second City's Museum Pieces: Sketches at an Exhibition. What Second City alum was nominated for an Oscar in 1972 for a film co-starring Dustin Hoffman? First person to answer correctly get 2 tickets!
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This sketch focuses on a beatnik’s efforts to woo a college girl whose only previous encounter with 1950s counterculture occurred in her English lit class.
Chicago Humanities Festival Excellent questions posed by the A.V. Club Chicago to prepare you for Thursday.
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Avoid going all fanboy with these solid conversation starters.