Rickie Perez and his traveling oyster bar are shucking everywhere
In a room with 16 finalists in four different categories, it can be hard to stand out as an entrepreneur. But when you're Rickie Perez, crowds seem to just find...
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Entrepreneur Erin Diehl thriving after Big Idea Awards
In the evenings, you'll find Erin Diehl on stage at Under The Gun Theater improvising as the host of "The Bachelor." Or embodying any other entity the audience throws her...
Five Snapchat photos you should definitely keep sending (cough)
What a concept. A messaging application through which you can send friends—and, well, really anyone you technically want—photos, videos and drawings that disappear in as little as one second and...
The Trevor Noah timeline since Jon Stewart’s announcement to leave “The Daily Show”
The Trevor Noah timeline: Dec. 4, 2014 — Trevor Noah appears as a contributor to “The Daily Show,” talking about Ebola and playing “Spot the Africa” with Jon Stewart. Jan....
5 questions for Trevor Noah (and our guess at the answers)
Will “correspondents” and “contributors” still be a huge part of “The Daily Show”? I can’t see how that would ever change. “The Daily Show” has made a living bringing in...
10 things to know about Trevor Noah before his ‘Daily Show’ hosting debut
Whether you religiously watched "The Daily Show," saw a few clips here and there when they popped up on YouTube over the years or somehow have never seen it at...
You definitely thought your #Emmys tweets were, like, so hilar
You don't live in Los Angeles. Or New York City. You have no affiliation whatsoever with the television industry. To be completely honest, you work at a mid-level advertising firm...
‘Epic Rap Battles of History’ travels from your YouTube page to the Chicago stage
“Viral video” is a phrase recklessly thrown around the Internet like food in a high school cafeteria (or maybe that was just my high school). There’s no exact science to...
Wedding hashtags provide me so much (cynical) joy
I love wedding hashtags. I do. A concise, well-organized feed of photographs populated by any and all attendees of the couple's special day. Yeah, yeah ... I know what is...
Ideas so big you’ll freak: The Big Idea Awards return
The city's brightest and hardest-working entrepreneurs stood victorious on stage in front of nearly 350 guests last fall at The Big Idea Awards, RedEye's pioneer inaugural event to crown Chicago's...