Broadway in Chicago announced The Book of Mormon will come to the Bank of America Theatre for a 12-week run starting in December 2012. more ›

Let’s start with the good news: more ›

Since yesterday's post pointing you to the South Park Obama/McCain episode, we've been poking around with their Avatar Creator. Since Obama and McCain were good enough to make fun of on a national level, and since our elected officials caricature themselves on a semi-weekly basis, we figured we'd go ahead and make it official. Plus, it's Friday, and we're kinda just dicking around. more ›

We knew that the turnaround time for episodes of South Park was next to nothing, but they really must have busted their asses to get this episode put together for last night. (We'd also like to see the one they made in the event of a McCain victory - will that ever show up as a DVD extra?) We won't spoil the whole thing for you, but they managed to weave together Tuesday night's speeches, a ninjaesque Sarah Palin and a plot involving a caper a la - well, just watch. more ›

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... more ›

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? more ›

As discussed previously, former Chicago restaurateur and presumably current maker-of-sweet-love-down-by-the-fire Isaac Hayes left the cast of South Park in a blaze of self-righteous glory. more ›

It started with some cartoons. more ›

Since AMC Theaters show movies such as Herbie: Fully Loaded and The Perfect Man, you’d think they’d book just about anything. Yet the same chain that has no concerns over movies featuring anthropomorphized automobiles and daughters pimping out their moms won’t be showing The Aristocrats, a documentary about one of stand-up comedy’s oldest jokes. Why? Because The Aristocrats features more heinous vulgarity than a Chicagoist staff meeting. more ›

Unlike chocolate and peanut butter, politics and art are rarely two great tastes that taste great together. Witness Robert Mapplethorpe’s troubles with the NEA, the painting of former Chicago mayor Harold Washington in women’s underwear and this weekend’s Team America: World Police which is at the top of Chicagoist’s must-see list this weekend. Social commentary with puppets from the makers of South Park? Yes! And yet this only proves the above thesis as none other... more ›