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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 2, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 1/2: Five years of Soup and Bread, Vatican Shadow, and swearing puppets

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, January 2, 2013
- by Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Agenda, Soup and Bread, Swim Cafe, Milk & Honey Cafe, La Sirena Clandestina, Wendy Miller, Martha Bayne, the Hideout, Publican Quality Meats, Vatican Shadow, Dominick Fernow, the Burlington Bar, Hieroglyphic Being, Kevin Drumm, Sheer Hellish Miasma, Felt comedy, iO, Improv Olympic, Ryan Hubbard

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 11, 2012
Reader's Agenda, Tue 12/11: Seattle hip-hop, a personal lit reading, and improvised affirmation

What's on the Agenda for Tuesday, December 11, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Seattle, Blue Scholars, Lincoln Hall, Lincoln Park, Permanent Records, Dominick Mayer, Uncharted Books, Logan Square, iO, Wrigleyville, Cook County Social, Ryan Hubbard

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Oct 3, 2012
Four-star Comedy Fest at Navy Pier

A celebration of Chicago-style comedy at Navy Pier
- by Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, comedy, Chicago School of Comedy, Ben Capraro, Jimmy Carrane, comedy workshops, Annoyance Theatre, ComedySportz, iO, Actors Training Centre, Tim Kazurinsky, Charna Halpern, Baby Wants Candy, Cook County Social Club, Uncle Brother's

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 30, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Thu 8/30

What's on the Agenda for Thursday, August 30, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Beauty Bar, Yard Time Literacy Program Benefit, Dmitry Samarov, Kathryn Morrill, Luke Crumley, iO, Hitch-Cocktails, Millennium Park, Family Fun Festival

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 23, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Mon 7/23

What's on the Agenda for Monday, July 23, 2012
- by Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Pritzker Pavilion, Millennium Park, LCD Soundsystem, Shut Up and Play the Hits, Music Box, Mark Raterman, Tim Robinson, My Mans, Justin Hayford, Wrigleyville, iO

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2012
John Wayne Gacy and lighting-based dance: the week in performing arts reviews

Fresh performing arts reviews from Reader writers
- by Jordan Larson
- Tags: Theater, Arts, Dance, Hero:The Musical, Second City, We're All in This Room Together, Slideshow Theatre Company, The Gacy Play, John Wayne Gacy, Jr., Dance Union, "Salon Solarium—Dancing to Lighting", As You Like It, Lorenzo B, Renny Black's Delightfully Doomed Door of Decadent Disarray, The Lover, Harold Pinter, Hooter Rangers: A Spicy Morphing Burlesque, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Naked July:Art Stripped Down, iO, My Mans, Mark Raterman, Tim Robinson

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Blogs, Bleader, Jun 15, 2012
Miracle workers: Scott Adsit and friends improvise at iO

Scott Adsit and guests deliver great long-form improv
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Arts, Laughs Week, Comedy, Scott Adsit, Kevin Dorff, Jon Glaser, Dave Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski, Just for Laughs, iO, Improv Olympic, Variations on a Theme

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, May 9, 2012
Exploring the fabled land of Edgewater

Fable Festival brings fairy tale-inspired performances to nooks all over the neighborhood
- by Rebecca Cohen
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Fable Festival, Edgewater, Andersonville, fairy tales, New Beast Theatre Works, Julia Miller, Lizi Breit, Neo-Futurists, Greg Allen, Joe Mazza, Ike Holter, Vintage Theater Collective, Sweat Girls, Lifeline Storytelling Project, Little Red Riding Hood, iO

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Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Mar 26, 2012
This week's Culture Vultures recommend:

iO Theater, Aripo's sandwiches, and the Harlotry and Necromancy Appreciation Society
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Alan Goldsher, Game of Thrones, Game of Groans, TJ Jagodowski, David Pasquesi, Tracy Letts, Michael Shannon, improv, Greg Harris, DePaul Art Museum, arepas, Mike Steele, Island Theatre Company, The Harlotry and Necromancy Appreciation Society, iO, Aripo's Venezuelan Arepa House

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 8, 2011
The latest Reader performing arts reviews

New Reader performing arts reviews
- by Tony Adler
- Tags: Onstage, Performing Arts, Comedy, Dance, Arts, Spring Awakening, Griffin Theatre, Changes of Heart, Crossed, Teatro Luna, El Stories: Holiday Train, Far Away, Hannukatz: The Musical, It's a Wonderful Life: The Radio Play, Let It Ho!, Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer, St. Nicholas, Striking 12, Talk About God: Five Cents, Joy, iO, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, The Humans, Charles Dickens Begrudgingly Performs 'A Christmas Carol' Again, The Word Progress on My Mother's Lips Doesn't Ring True

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Performing Arts, Culture Vultures, Dec 8, 2011
This week's Culture Vultures recommend . . .

Live literature, the holiday El Train, and Greg Palast's Vulture's Picnic
- by Asher Klein and Jordan Larson
- Tags: Culture Vultures, Robbie Q. Telfer, Encyclopedia Show, Write Club, Funny Ha-Ha, Barbara Scharres, Gene Siskel Film Center, CTA, holiday train, Michael Balzer, iO, improv, Vultures' Picnic, Greg Palast

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Jun 9, 2011
Chicago’s comedy secret? Margaret Hicks says it’s fail again, fail better.
- by Brian Costello
- Tags: Lit & Lectures: Lit Feature, Second City, comedy, Bernie Sahlin, Margaret Hicks, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History, Marx Brothers, Tina Fey, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Lord Buckley, Dick Gregory, Bob Newhart, Del Close, John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chris Farley, Viola Spolin, Paul Sills, iO, Annoyance Theatre, Lenny Bruce, Just for Laughs, Chicago Sketchfest

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Performing Arts, Comedy Critic's Choice, Jun 9, 2011
Just for Laughs: a comic infestation hits Chicago.
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Comedy Critic's Choice, Just for Laughs, Valerie Weiss, Tim Minchin, Dave Attell, Jim Breuer, Bill Burr, Jim Norton, Anti-Social Network, John Lutz, Dan Bakkedahl, Peter Grosz, Rob Janas, 4 Square, Close Quarters, Reovler, Demetri Martin, Steve Waltien, Joel McHale, Kurt Braunohler, Kristen Schaal, Seth Meyers, Michael Patrick O'Brien, TJ Jagodowski, Jet Evelth, Paul Brittain, Bandicoot!, Mick Napier, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Gene Siskel Film Center, Lincoln Hall, Chicago Theatre, iO, Playground Theater, the Vic, Annoyance Theatre

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Blogs, Bleader, May 25, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday 5/25

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, iO, Margolis & Reisman, Pick Me Up Cafe, Six, Elastic, Red Apple, Boy Meets Girl, Doc Films, Shinju Sushi, Nobody's Perfect, Gene Siskel Film Center, Russian Tea Time

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Performing Arts, Performing Arts Sidebar, Apr 15, 2010
Chicago Improv Festival

Featuring Tim Meadows, Susan Messing, Dusk: Improvised Tween Erotica, and more
- by Steve Heisler
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Annoyance Theatre, ComedySportz Theatre, Second City E.T.C., iO, Second City Training Center, Playground Theater, Martyrs'

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 11, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 3/11

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Books, Shapers, Hideout, the Southern, Clay Taylor, Little Big, John Crowley, Free Fall, Atomic, Ken Vandermark, Elastic, La Humita, North Face, Music Box, P.S. Bangkok, Comic Symposium of Chicago, Nicole Hollander, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, John Porcellino, School of the Art Institute, Cafecito, Rent, Theatre Building Chicago, NightBlue, Cuna, Kendal Duque, My Mans, Mark Raterman, Tim Robinson, Cook County Social Club, iO, Moxie

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 23, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday 2/23

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Books, Basia Bulat, Schubas, Julius Meinl, Masters of Persian Music, Symphony Center, Trattoria No. 10, 30% Chance of Hailey, iO, Cullen's Bar & Grill, Where the Arts Meet, Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James, Bistro Bordeaux, Martha Nussbaum, Cedars Mediterranean Kitchen, Thaw: A Night of Hot Winter Ballyhoo, Links Hall, Coalfire

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 18, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 2/18

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Visual Art, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Books, Francoise Mouly, Columbia College, New Yorker, Cafecito, Joseph E. Stiglitz, The World Beyond the Headlines, Piccolo Mondo, The Searchers, Doc Films, Medici on 57th, Wild Beasts, Schubas, Los Moles, Breakfast Club: The Totally 80s Musical!, iO, TAC Quick, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, Chicago Curry House, People Under the Stairs, Subterranean, Babylon Eatery

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 2, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday, 2/2

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, 30% Chance of Hailey, Lyndsay Hailey, iO, Vines on Clark, Chicagoland, Annoyance Theatre, Ba Le Sandwich Shop, Typeface, Gene Siskel Film Center, La Madia, Neil Jendon, Empty Bottle, Rootstock Wine & Beer Bar

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday, 1/26

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Behemoth, House of Blues, Xoco, best chicago restaurants, A Face in the Crowd, Gene Siskel Film Center, Crofton on Wells, The White Ribbon, Landmark's Century Centre, New Tokyo, Dreamgirls, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Cibo Matto, Cook County Social Club, iO, Vines

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