Hey peeps — if you like movies, the Tribeca Film Festival is a great time to come to New York. It’s also a really special thing to be a part of. Seeing how the machinery works from the inside and being surrounded by creative people is pretty thrilling. It’s even better [...]

So it’s here: The world premiere of Year Zero at Chicago’s venerable and wonderful Victory Gardens Theater.
It’s not every day that a Tony Award winning theater puts on a show about a sixteen year old Cambodian American kid that writes rap lyrics and plays Dungeons and Dragons. This is something different.

Previews Begin September 11, [...]

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Hey everybody, everybody’s favorite reinterpretation of Cyrano featuring ninjas and grappling hooks arrives at Geneseo at the end of this month.
I try to support students whenever I can because I was once a student myself. Chain smoking in front of Powell Library, eating late night, deep fried snacks from Puzzles up at the [...]

Only in America, people. Only in America.
This makes me really happy. It’s pretty much the absolute personification of the American dream.
A 19 year old man wins $35 million in the lottery. But instead of playing it safe and merely partying it up, he says to himself, “You know what I [...]