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--The incomparable Kevin Allison of The State will speak into microphones every week at his new stage show Risk! at Arlene's Grocery. If his True Stories: Living for the City column is any indication, this show is gonna be raucous!
--Philly comic Pete Kuempel recently opened for Norm Macdonald at the Helium Comedy Club. And while it sounded like he ate it, his buds made it a point to make him feel worse. Moral of the paragraph: You won't make it in comedy without friends there to bust your balls at every turn.
--Improv mitochondria Death by Roo Roo are looking to TIE their consecutive win record (17-0) at Cagematch this THURS, AUG 6 @ 11PM. The team would need an 18th win to set a new record.
--Dave Hill and Valley Lodge will open for Harvey Danger's last show this Saturday at Bell House, ya dig? (Tickets). And speaking of musicians, Tom Morello and Boots Riley appreciate Dave's "comfortably indie-alternative vibe."
--The Magnet Theater recently announced a new elective "The First Step to Your Pulitzer," taught by the one and only Jeffrey Sweet ("Something Wonderful Right Away"). Get your pen moving with the help of a true comedy statesman.
--The Little Improv Show That Could: The CHOMPetition hosts the final round of its 32-team single-elimination improv tournament on SAT, AUG 8 @ 7PM at Identity Bar. Five duckbones gets you in.
--Check out the floating, disembodied head of UCB performer/instructor/veteran Zach Woods (The Stepfathers, Cutman Films) in New York Magazine's dead-on Approval: Week of August 10, 2009. But as far as we're concerned, Woods IS the matrix, especially after turns as The Most Awkward Boy in the World, and the utterly brilliant YouTube War: "You suck a trucker's, uh, business."
--The PIT's Ali Reza Farahnakian has officially opened Simple Studios, the newest, cleanest and nicest rehearsal spaces on 29th Street. Hear more about how the 10,000-square-foot space came to be in this podcast with PIT Faculty member Chris Grace.

Comments

[Luke Giordano]

I'm one of the friends in the Pete Kuempel video and while I stand by my comments, he didn't actually bomb opening for Norm.

I'm just a very mean boy.