My friend Trina would have loved the second annual Based on a True Titty variety show, especially when the burlesque dancer Missmagnolia’s purple pasty landed on my mother. Aside from the all-in-good-fun atmosphere, which combined poetry, music, dancing, and humor, the event once again raised both breast cancer awareness and money for the Trina Fund. [...]
Tag: sketch comedy
Liquid Courage
It's hard to say who enjoyed the opening night of Liquid Courage last Friday more -- the raucous bachelorette party who took up the entire first row, or me. Thanks to my trusty camera and a far lower consumption rate than the aforementioned, I can say for sure that I will have a much easier [...]
March Madness!
What is March Madness, anyway? Is it the humiliation a college basketball fan feels when she steals herself to cheer for her team's invitation to play in the lowly NIT and then discovers her team wasn't asked to attend any party at all? Is it the desperate craving for midseason entertainment that inspires sophisticated Chicagoans [...]
Presidentine’s Day and the fine art of mothering a comedienne
I am the proud mother of a sketch comedienne, which means I get to laugh every day. Honestly. Text messages crack me up. Phone calls make me snicker and don't even get me started on the emails. I get to see scripts before they become shows, and then I get to sit in audiences of [...]
Summer hiatus
Like many parents of busy people scattered far and near, we hold precious the days we spend together. Our Christmas gift is early morning laughter, our Thanksgiving gratitude is a table full of chatty faces we love, and our summer hiatus is the stretch of sunny days during which we are a party of six, [...]