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'MasterChef' auditions coming to Chicago, 'House Hunters' hits Lou Malnati's, Common cast in indie film
If you’re a great cook and wouldn’t mind getting screamed at by a guy who looks like a Scottish Nick Nolte, the casting directors of Fox’s “MasterChef” want to talk to you.
The Gordon Ramsay-hosted reality show will hold...Tags: Nick Nolte, Wrigleyville, Foods and Beverages, The View (tv program), Hannibal Buress
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Snowquester, sequester both inspire a yawn
It is fitting that we referred to last week's storm-that-wasn't as a snowquestration. And not just because it was kind of embarrassing and shut the government down. No, the meteorological turbulence — such as it was — was like the economic...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Budget Control Act of 2011, Samuel Beckett, Jimmy Fallon
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Going one-on-one with Paula Poundstone
Paula Poundstone lives in Santa Monica, Calif. "We're near the Jack in the Box," she says. "But I don't like to brag." And although she doesn't perform her stand-up comedy in Chicago often, she's here all the time. She's become almost as well-known as a...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Chicago Hotels, AIDS, NPR, Paula Poundstone
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Weigh what you hear on the 'news'
With focus now on Lincoln and other celebrated figures in American history, we hear discussions of what they would think, do or say today. Since they can't speak now for themselves, no certain answers are to be found. That doesn't stop discussions,...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Elections, News Agency, Television Industry, Chuck Hagel
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'Bitter Buddha': Spotlight's a bit brighter on pair's return
The last time I spoke with comedian Eddie Pepitone was June, just prior to the world premiere of his movie "The Bitter Buddha" in Chicago, where it screened during the Just For Laughs festival. Nine months and several tour stops later, he and director...
Tags: Conan (tv program), Jackie Gleason, Mitzi Gaynor, Raising Hope (tv program), Christian Slater
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Mark Sanford's comedy of errors
WASHINGTON -- In a congressional campaign ad released Wednesday, Mark Sanford, R-Appalachian Trail, looks soberly into the camera and makes his closing plea before Tuesday's vote. "Nancy Pelosi and allies have spent more than a million dollars to...Tags: Mark Sanford, Elections, Jim DeMint, Government, Anthony D. Weiner
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Moving, slowly, toward a la carte cable
The cable company Cablevision says it's just looking out for consumers in its lawsuit against Viacom, owner of MTV and Nickelodeon, over bundled programming packages that drive monthly bills higher. And the company is correct — to a point. ------...
Tags: Laws, Anti Trust Crime, Antitrust Issues, Corporate Crime, Consumers
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Being numb to it all no longer big shock
Sometime in the next few weeks, if you're walking down Fullerton Avenue around DePaul University and have 15 minutes to spare, duck into the tidy brick building alongside the CTA station. Here you will find the DePaul Art Museum, an institution so...
Tags: Arts, Fine Artists, Dining and Drinking, Millennium Park, Religion and Belief
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'Charity' begins for the home team
Granted, the Blackhawks are playing extraordinary hockey this year and fans have a right to be excited. But let's be honest about this "streak" that has everyone in the local sports world hyperventilating. If not for the "charity point" — also...
Tags: NPR, Anheuser-Busch, YouTube, Steven Brill, Entertainment
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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: Chicago Fire (tv program), ImprovOlympic, TNT (tv network), Keegan-Michael Key, USA Network (tv network)
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FAU fumbles stadium name deal with prison operator GEO Group
The protesters came to deliver a petition opposing Florida Atlantic University's $6 million stadium name deal with private prison operator GEO Group. They were told FAU President Mary Jane Saunders wasn't available to see them. So they plopped down on...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Human Rights, Stephen Colbert, Students, Colleges and Universities
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Interview: It's nice to be the 'Queen of Mean'
We haven’t seen the last of Lisa Lampanelli on the Comedy Central Roasts, not according to the “Queen of Mean” herself. Lampanelli, the 51-year-old insult comic who performs Saturday at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet, said she...
Tags: Gary Busey, Howard Stern , Roseanne Barr, Lisa Lampanelli, Flavor Flav
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