Ben Bass and Beyond

Since New York Times puzzle editor (and, more importantly, FOBB&B) Will Shortz declined to air this submission, it's good blog fodd...

_ Bob Newhart   Chicago Theatre, 7pm .  There are many shows worth attending at tonight's crescendo of the Just For Laughs Chicago...

_ Nick Swardson killed at the Vic Theatre last night during the Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival.  I particularly liked this sto...

_ Just For Laughs Chicago hits the gas pedal tonight and accelerates into the weekend. Here are my picks: Doug Loves Movies Podc...

The Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival rolls on.  Tonight's slate ranges from clever TV quipsters to club scene hotshots to a Twitt...

Don't miss the Bear Down Podcast , in which Chicago comedy expats Matt Walsh (Veep),  Horatio Sanz  (Saturday Night Live),  Brad Morr...

Wednesday is hump day for the American working stiff, but the Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival is just getting into gear. Here ar...

The Just For Laughs Chicago  comedy festival kicks off tonight with a nice array of talent. My picks: A free screening of The Heat , a n...

_ If it's the second week of June, it's time once again for Chicago's most adored new tradition this side of Stanley Cup ho...

Looking ahead at Cory Booker's career... • 2016: Runs for and wins the late Frank Lautenberg's old Senate seat • 2017-19: Repeat...

_ Memo from the Shoe: WSOP MAIN EVENT SATELLITE  SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013 AT 11AM  Buy-in: $450+$50. Structure Sheets are available i...

As careful readers of the space may have noted, there has been a certain lack of new content here lately. After five solid years of banging ...

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As the mercury drops, our attention turns to indoor entertainment. Let's discuss the PG-rated type. The Chicago theater scene's tr...

If you are one of the hundreds of people who have stopped by here looking for LearnedLeague writeups over the past few days, I apologize for...

_ Today’s match was a pick’em: my opponent and I had virtually identical stats in both answering questions correctly and playing defense. U...

After more than my share of shaky defense lately, I finally flashed the leather at shortstop. 1. This photograph was taken in what ci...

Hello, fellow triviaheads.  I hope you had an enjoyable holiday weekend. The day after Labor Day fills a lot of people with dread: Stude...

I played a tough player today and needed my A game, but I brought my B game. 1. The location photographed here was, according to legen...

_ Today I discovered a new and exciting, that is to say an old and tiresome, way to lose: inferior defense. My opponent was Amy Rey...

_ Will have Day 8 match report posted by the end of the day. Until then, with apologies to Paul Baldwin, talk amongst yourselves.  He...

...not because anyone gifted the match, but because I received an unwanted tie. As an initially nervous but increasingly confident young r...

A subtly entertaining facet of the LearnedLeague trivia contest is that the best wrong answers are honored as, well, Best Wrong Answers. Th...

Today’s questions were easy. Too easy. So easy, in fact, that they compressed the field, resulting in a slew of high scores, ties, and waste...

Even as our league's Commissioner is taking a few days off, so too must I pause in my intrepid efforts to document the various and su...