Rebecca O’Neal Photo: Saverio Truglia “Me and your last comic are wearing the exact same outfit right now,” says Rebecca O’Neal, pink hair shining under the lights in the small backroom of Timothy O’Toole’s Pub in River North. “Except he’s shaped like a grown man and I’m shaped like a sexy Teletubby.” This kind … Read more
Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign By Jeannie Morris Agate Midway (September) Morris, a local sports journalist, vividly recounts Braun’s game-changing 1992 U.S. Senate run. The Education of a Poker Player By James McManus BOA Editions (October) The best-selling author (Positively Fifth Street) channels 1950s and ’60s Catholic Chicago … Read more
Flames! Crime! And now, blood! This fall, Dick Wolf, the reigning producer of procedural dramas, expands his NBC empire with the Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. spinoff Chicago Med, also shot here.
The 2015 version is the biggest yet.
“Jay Pharoah does one twenty times better than me, but I’m just being silly.”
Penn’s silent partner on the magic he’s devised for Shakespeare’s The Tempest
A killer layout, a tardy Snoop, and an unbecoming flasher.
More than 100 photos of the crowds, the bands, and the shenanigans from the eleventh annual Riot Fest.
