Allan Johnson

After last year's impressive debut, which exceeded everyone's expectations, the Chicago Improv Festival returns for its second year beginning Tuesday. And -- everyone say it together -- it's bigger and...

To say that T.P. Hearn is a little high-strung is an understatement. "I'm a hyper person," the comedian admits. Hearn talks rapidly while he stalks the stage, stomps his feet...

Jazz: Ensemble Stop-Time, a formidable new Chicago band that addresses everything from ragtime to bebop, will play a free concert 6:30 p.m. Friday in the Bruce Cherry Theater of Olive-Harvey...

Former CBS anchor/reporter Harry Smith was listening to WGN-AM's Kathy O'Malley and Judy Markey on his car radio a few weeks ago while in town attending the funeral of his...

`One way to look at (comedy) is, `What can I do to get a laugh?' " says comic Louis C.K. Well, that would be a logical way to entertain the...

WMAQ-Ch. 5's Warner Saunders remembers an evening back in the mid-1990s when he looked beside him on the anchor desk and only saw people of his own hue. He was...

Comics have been put on notice by Matt Dwyer: Don't bring those weak jokes about airline food to his stage. "I will not let up anything that seems standup-y and...

In its two-part episode that concluded Sunday, Fox's "The X-Files" answered some of the series' many mysteries. Here are the main revelations: X - Marauding aliens are planning to take...

Working a government job just didn't cut it for Wanda Sykes-Hall. Not that she really had a choice. She freely admits she stunk at everything else. "I was just miserable,"...

Most fans of the arts know of such figures as Duke Ellington, Diana Ross and Sammy Davis Jr., but what about Oscar Micheaux, Lorraine Hansberry or Augusta Savage? "I'll Make...