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- Arts & Culture, Book Review Nov 20, 2019
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Riane Konc wants to help you Build Your Own Christmas Movie Romance
The choose-your-own-adventure-style parody features all the best tropes and treats of made-for-TV holiday specials.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review May 22, 2019
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Storefront Theater Musical is a bad-faith disaster
It commits the great satirical sin of punching down.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Oct 25, 2018
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Pride Plays and Films’s It’s Only a Play lacks Broadway star power, but it’s still good fun
Terrence McNally's play is essentially a workplace hangout comedy.
- Film, Movie Review Sep 27, 2018
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I Am Not a Witch signals the auspicious arrival of a fierce new talent, director Rungano Nyoni
A Zambian girl, falsely accused and imprisoned, refuses to be objectified or underestimated.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Jun 27, 2018
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After 139 years, Pirates of Penzance is still a satisfying combination of sweet and salty
Saltbox Theatre Collective's production hits Sullivan's notes and lands Gilbert's punchlines.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Review Apr 11, 2018
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Second City E.T.C.’s Gaslight District examines the perils of living in the age of alternative facts
But you can’t escape the zone of truth.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 10, 2018
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Sean Penn and Stuart Dybek talk about Penn's new novel, which neither of them quite understands
The author of Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff describes it as "humor in hopelessness."
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 8, 2017
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American Theater’s Welcome to Jesus makes you want to Get Out
The company's latest is a very nearly insufferable night in the theater.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2017
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The still-relevant satire Little Murders is the best movie in town this week
Chicago Film Society presents a rare 35-millimeter revival of Alan Arkin's 1971 film adaptation of Jules Feiffer's stage play.
- Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 30, 2016
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Wow! Clickhole live onstage!
The satirical website presents a variety show from the minds of its staff.
- Arts & Culture, Art Review Jun 29, 2016
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Before New Yorker covers, there was Puck
A new show at the Driehaus Museum presents some of the finest satirical illustrations of late 19th-century America.
- News & Politics, Feature Jun 18, 2015
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You'll never believe the 11 reasons Clickhole is the Internet's most brilliant site
In its first year of existence, the Chicago-based Onion spin-off Clickhole has become the smartest, funniest, and most absurd thing on the Internet—precisely by lampooning the Internet's absurdity. Share if you agree!
- Arts & Culture, Feature Jul 16, 2014
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Street artists peek out from the shadows
Creators of some of the city's most ubiquitous sidewalk images tell their stories.
- Blogs, Bleader May 1, 2014
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River North's last non-Italian restaurant to reconcept as Italian restaurant
A dispatch from the near future of our restaurant scene, with a side of pasta.
- Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 16, 2014
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Laugh along with Job in The Way West
Steppenwolf satirizes (and sings about) manifest destiny and the American dream.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 19, 2012
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Best comedy of 2012
Best of 2012 Countdown: Comedy
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 10, 2012
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Parodies lost: why satire must be banned from the Internet
A modest proposal for a serious problem
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 1, 2011
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Sinker's @mayoremanuel Was Vital Political Satire
@mayoremanuel lampooned the real Emanuel's propensity for profanity, and was a vital satire of local politics.
- Film, Movie Critic's Choice Nov 25, 1993
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Addams Family Values
