Jason Heidemann

Two Chicago comedians set out to prove that feminism can be in ‘Ladies Night’

May 25, 2019 at 5:40 p.m.

There's a recurring scene in the new late-night sketch show "Rehner & Nixon Present: Ladies Night! A Sketch Show With Gumption," in which comedy duo Mollie Rehner and Katie Nixon...

Don’t get mad, get even

May 25, 2019 at 5:40 p.m.

It doesn't get better, says one character as part of a critique of Dan Savage's viral anti-bullying campaign, you have to make it better. That's exactly what a couple of...

Stand-Up Scene: This weekend’s comedy included a dog at the mic

May 15, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

A quick scan of the room at Bric-a-Brac Records in Logan Square reveals a row of action figures from the movie "Alien" (including one with his chest burst open), an...

Stand-up Scene: In Lakeview, the most comedy per capita

May 15, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

Ahh, Lakeview. Home to nearly 100,000 Chicagoans, mostly apartment dwellers who live tightly like sardines (albeit the kind of sardines who do shots of Jeppson's Malort at 4 a.m. bars)...

Stand-up Scene: In Chicago, writing your own love note to comedy

May 15, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

During the standup boom of the late 1980s and early '90s, my parents constantly dragged my older brother and me to comedy clubs around the country. I was awfully young...

Stand-Up Scene: Funny in the face of the freeze

May 15, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

Chicagoans love to complain about winter and it seems their response to sub-zero temps is to stay home. But if winter is making us miserable, it would seem the panacea...

Standup Scene: Following through on our resolutions

May 15, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

It's a packed house at the"5th Annual New Year's Hangover Stand-Up Marathon" at the ComedySportz in Lakeview. Apparently Chicagoans have resolved to see more comedy in 2015, and what a...

Stand-up Scene: A visit to ‘The Art of Comedy’ in Pilsen

May 15, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

At the NYCH Art Gallery in Pilsen, Sam Norton is pointing me toward five interconnected artworks tacked to a wall and created in marker, pencil and color pencil. In one...

Stand-up Scene: A decidedly different sort of wedding for Ian Abramson

May 15, 2019 at 10:45 p.m.

Saturday turns out to be as good a day as any for a Chicago wedding. By mid-afternoon, temperatures have reached 48 degrees which is perfect since I am running late...

Chicago’s Most Fabulous Santa Speedo Run returns to Boystown

June 18, 2018 at 9:59 a.m.

Get ready to watch on Saturday as hundreds of ho-ho-homosexuals and straight allies spill out of Sidetrack bar in Boystown like bees from a hive and spend 10-15 liberating minutes...

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