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Sure, it's stupid, but mama loves a 60 Minutes joke.

Behold: An unedited video of the Complaints Choir of Chicago. Whee! If anyone knows why the free knife-fighting class for women got flagged and removed from Craigslist, we're dying to know what the deal is. Also dying to take a free knife fighting class, holy hell. A Chicago Police officer caught a little girl who was thrown out of the window of a burning house today, cartoon-style. The girl, her mother and her brother...

Eeeeverybody's talking the Complaints Choir of Chicago this week — Daily Herald, Sun-Times, the Trib, Time Out, 848, even UPI — and with good reason. The Complaints Choir is rad! How do we know? Er, Chicagoist is in it. And so are a bunch of Chicagoist readers. But we'd think it was awesome anyway! Really. We've covered the choir before, but as a quick refresher: Finnish performance artists and husband-and-wife team Oliver Kotchta-Kalleinen and Tellervo...

The Complaints Choir of Chicago has its first rehearsal tonight at 5:30 at the MCA — and it's not too late to join! Anyone with some kvetching to do is welcome. Just show up ready to weave your bitching hay into lyrical gold, and you're in. The Complaints Choir, a performance project where singers collaborate with a choral director and CC creators Telervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta Kalleinen and local composer/conductor Jeremy Jacobsen to create...

For all you Chicagoist fans who love to bitch--whether it’s about the CTA, Macy’s, Comments by Guest #2, or a typo right here on Chicagoist--we’ve found a new forum for you: The Complaints Choir of Chicago. Artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen will work with local musician Jeremy Jacobsen to create the first choir of complainers in the Midwest. No singing experience is needed, just a good gripe. The choir will meet during five workshops...