AltWeeklies Wire
Last Call for Rififi?new
The popular New York comedy/DJs/burlesque venue is still up for sale, and that's no laughing matter.
New York Press |
Nate Sloan |
02-14-2008 |
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Onstage, the Sex Workers' Art Show Exploits Younew
Tour organizer Annie Oakley lists some aims of the show: Reveal sex workers as human; gain respect; demand rights; free one another from exploitation. But in practice, the show's intentions get a little murkier.
Washington City Paper |
Amanda Hess |
02-14-2008 |
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Sex Workers' Art Show: More Than Bang for the Bucknew
The show is a humanizing, edifying, fun and possibly even moral event for anyone who has cast wanton eyes on a sex worker.
Dig Boston |
Marli Guzzetta |
02-13-2008 |
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Boobs With a Side of Soynew
Portland claims world's first vegan strip club.
Willamette Week |
Lillian Hogan |
02-06-2008 |
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Tell Me a Storynew
Storytellers counter an age of bits and soundbytes with the timeless power of an oral tradition.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-01-2008 |
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W. Kamau Bell Takes His Swing at Racismnew
W. Kamau Bell plays against type and comes with not only the insights you wish you had spewed first but also the wit, centered on the issues of race that he's been grappling with since childhood.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
01-23-2008 |
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Garry Marshall Directs a Production of 'Elixir of Love'new
What does the producer of Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley and the director of Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries know about opera? Answer: How to make it funny, of course.
San Antonio Current |
Diana Lyn Roberts |
01-23-2008 |
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Are You Ready to Bust a Gut?new
The fifth annual Charleston Comedy Festival, a co-production of Theatre 99 and the Charleston City Paper, has rounded up a passel of improv, sketch, and stand-up comedians for four nights of easy fun.
Charleston City Paper |
Staff |
01-16-2008 |
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Don Rickles Killsnew
If this interview is any indication, Don Rickles will slay 'em in Atlantic City.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Sara Kelly |
01-14-2008 |
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Patton Oswalt Ain't No Annoying Hipster Douchebagnew
I found out what really bothers Oswalt about hipsters when I talked to him between sets at "The Comedians of Comedy," a marathon show that included the comics he holds in highest esteem.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Deborah Giattina |
12-19-2007 |
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A Farewell to Evelnew
They say only the good die young, so it makes a weird kind of sense that a man named Evel Knievel would live to age 69.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
12-07-2007 |
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You Dirty Girlnew
Don't let her innocent June Cleaver-meets-Amazing-Technicolor-Dreamcoat-appearance fool you. Stand-up comedian Lisa Lampanelli is vulgar, vivacious, and vicious.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
12-05-2007 |
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Geek Chic Sketch Troupe Strikes Comedy Goldnew
To describe Knock Knock. (Who's There?) Comedy! as a sketch troupe that does comedy about comedy suggests their material is full of in jokes and isn't, in the end, funny. That's not true.
NOW Magazine |
Glenn Sumi |
11-30-2007 |
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Destination Boisenew
Canadian comedian Ian Bagg on how scary comedy really is.
Boise Weekly |
Amy Atkins |
11-29-2007 |
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As the World Turdsnew
"Things have been going really well on tour," says comedian Michael Ian Black. "People come, they laugh, and at the end of the night someone pays me."
Dig Boston |
Sameer Naseem |
11-28-2007 |
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