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Second City co-founder brought intellect to comedy

Source: WSB-TV Atlanta

This 2001 photo provided by The Second City shows Bernard Sahlins, the co-founder of Chicago's Second City theater. Sahlins, who nurtured the early careers of many of the earliest stars of "Saturday Night Live," died Sunday, June 16, 2013. He wa ...
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Second City Co-Founder Bernard "Bernie" Sahlins Dies At 90

Source: Chicagoist

Bernard “Bernie” Sahlins, one of the co-founders of The Second City and a Chicago cultural powerhouse, died peacefully in his sleep Sunday at age 90. Mr. Sahlins formed The Second City with Howard Alk and Paul Sills in 1959, and served as the theater’s p ...
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Second City co-founder brought intellect to comedy

Source: WTOP News

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. This undated photo shows Second City co-founder Bernard Sahlins, foreground, with members o ...
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Second City co-founder Bernard Sahlins dies at 90

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Bernie Sahlins chomps a cigar in his Second City office in 1984. | Sun-Times files Bernard Sahlins was for years the cigar-puffing patriarch of Chicago’s Second City comedy theater, which he co-founded in Old Town with Howard Alk and Paul S ...
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An eleventh-hour online petition seeks to save Uptown's Hull House theater

Source: Chicago Reader

A starry consortium of Chicago theater folk and others (think Joe Mantegna, William H. Macy, William Petersen, Jim Belushi, George Wendt) is frantically gathering signatures on a last-ditch petition aimed at saving Hull House's ...
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'Portlandia' renewed for two more seasons

Source: Baltimore Sun

Jun 12 (TheWrap.com) - Portland's feminist bookstores and bike valets better not let down their guard: IFC has renewed "Portlandia" for a fourth and fifth season. The show follows "Saturday Night Live" star Fred Armisen and Sleater-Kinney veteran Carr ...
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Portlandia: Renewed for Seasons Four and Five

Source: TV Series Finale

IFC has renewed Portlandia for seasons four and five. The 20 episode renewal will keep the original comedy series on the air into 2015. Here are the details: NEW YORK, NY –June 12, 2013 – IFC has renewed its hit origi ...
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'Portlandia' Gets Two More Seasons

Source: TV Squad

PORTLAND, Ore. — In the last season of "Portlandia," the mayor of this sustainability-obsessed city vanished in shame after he was singled out as Portland's "No. 1 electricity hog," Portland went into a blackout, cats barked, creepy music played, a ...
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Hip TV show 'Portlandia' renewed for 2 more seasons of cage-free, sustainable zaniness

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

PORTLAND, Ore. — In the last season of "Portlandia," the mayor of this sustainability-obsessed city vanished in shame after he was singled out as Portland's "No. 1 electricity hog," Portland went into a blackout, cats barked, creepy music played, and a b ...
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Pilsen tax district on hold, but plan could be revived

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Grass-roots community activism has notched a victory in Pilsen. But it remains to be seen if it is a lasting one. The Resurrection Project, one of Pilsen’s leading community groups, had prepared a plan for a special service area, or SSA, a di ...
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