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Mar 13 2024
News
Chicago TikTokers blast House approval of federal ban
In October 2020, Rod Thill decided to try parlaying his small social media following into a much larger audience. Showcasing his “relatable millennial humor” could work, he thought, by learning the algorithm of one of the most popular social media platforms in the world — TikTok. For Thill, it didn’t take long for his videos on the short-form video app to take off. Now the West Loop-based
Chicago Sun-TimesMar 13 2024
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Entertaining, thought-provoking new play at TPT
LEWISTON, ME — The Public Theatre, Lewiston/Auburn’s professional theatre is proud to produce the compelling new play Secret Hour, March 15 – 24. This will be the play’s second production after its world premiere last year in New York. Entertaining, humorous, poignant, and thought-provoking, if you’ve ever been in a relationship, you’ll be discussing this provocative new play all the way home
Twin City TimesMar 12 2024
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Marie H. Zecher
Born Henrietta Marie LaChance in San Pedro, CA on July 9th 1933. Kind, sincere, and having a sweet sense of humor is how she will be remembered, with admirable strength that her sons might have called delightful stubbornness at times. As a teen, Marie came to Saint Vincent’s in Santa Barbara, CA, where she lived and went to school. Her stories of the nuns, both kind and strict, as well as late
The Santa Barbara IndependentJun 15 2013
News
Palin embraces SNL sketch, dishes out her own humor
There are so many scandals in Washington, Sarah Palin said, they could be lumped under the name of the botched gun-running sting that landed Attorney General Eric Holder in hot water long before the Benghazi, IRS or NSA stories came to light.
CNN (Online News)Mar 08 2024
News
Biden's big audition at State of the Union
President Biden arrived at the Capitol on Thursday night facing a tough assignment — a high-stakes State of the Union speech. He responded by throwing a punch — and then several more. The fiery performance, leavened by some humor at the close, aimed to rebut one of the main lines of Republican attack on Biden — the effort to portray the 81-year-old president as doddering and weak. That’s an
Los Angeles TimesMay 26 2020
News
Michigan Gov. Whitmer claims husband's reported boat request was ‘a failed attempt at humor'
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer acknowledged Tuesday that her husband dropped her name while requesting to get their boat in the water ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, though claimed her husband’s comments were a “failed attempt at humor.”
Whitmer’s comments came after her office initially pushed back against the story, saying they’re “not going to make it a practice of addressing
Fox News (Online News)Feb 28 2024
News
A Tour of Vermont's Local Comedy Scene
Prior to moving to South Burlington from a Chicago suburb last July, my only exposure to Vermont humor was the clever wordplay of Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors (see: Bohemian Raspberry and Yes Pecan!). But I've since immersed myself in the state's comedy scene, recently attending six local shows in just two weeks — and that was still a fraction of Vermont's comedic offerings. Multiple
Seven Days NewsFeb 27 2024
News
Embracing weirdness at the Florida Man Games
The first-ever Florida Man Games in St. Augustine drew hundreds over the weekend, with contests like beer-belly wrestling and an "evading arrest" obstacle course. Why it matters: The inaugural event, pitched as "the most insane athletic showdown on Earth," invited locals to celebrate all that makes Florida, well, Florida. • "We understand that Florida is weird," organizer Pete Melfi told the
AxiosFeb 22 2024
News
Fundraiser Ignites After Fire Destroys Actress Cocoa Brown's Home
A community has banded together to support actress and comedian Cocoa Brown after a devastating fire ravaged her Fayetteville, Georgia, home this week. The inferno, believed to have been sparked by a fallen candle, erupted so quickly that Brown had to flee with just the clothes on her back alongside her young son, Phoenix, and their pets. “Cocoa Brown has brought laughter and light to
Black EnterpriseFeb 24 2024
Opinion
Election Rigging? Bias in Google News Off the Charts
By now you are familiar with the controversy over Google's AI being biased against White men.
The bias is so bad, so obvious, and so embarrassing for Google that they have actually throttled Gemini from generating images of people until they can make the program at least LOOK less biased. If you aren't familiar with the controversy, you should definitely read John's piece on the issue
HotAir