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When we were kids, we used to visit many of the neighborhoods around Chicago as part of our parents endless quest to eat food from as many cultures as possible. Pierogi in Avondale, tortas in Pilsen, souvlaki on Halsted, dhal on Devon, and the biggest polish-with-kraut you ever saw on Maxwell are just a taste of what we've had the good fortune to eat over time. It isn't the food that sticks in our minds...

Luckily, Jimmy Carrane and Liz Allen have double-handedly saved the art of improvisation from feeding on itself. Their incredibly popular workshop “Top 10 Blindspots for Improvisers” was a salve on a festering sore. Carrane and Allen expanded the blindspots in a new book titled Improvising Better: A Guide for the Working Improviser. Chapters titled “Spreading yourself too thin” and “Anger is Okay” bring back the simple points of improvisation that get lost in the interest of originality.

We here at Chicagoist have taken an improv class, or two, or twenty. We actually made most of our friends through these classes, and were just young enough to get caught up in the politics of it all.