SC + SNL = UCB

SC + SNL = UCB

Think of it as Second City meets Saturday Night Live. Upright Citizens Brigade mixes long- and short-form improv with SNL-flavored sketch comedy. Not surprising, since the company originated in Chicago and has launched the likes of Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Rob Riggle...
StageStruck: Shifting Bodies and Assumptions

StageStruck: Shifting Bodies and Assumptions

As its name suggests, Magnet Theatre seeks to draw people together. In today’s South Africa, that means connecting people of different races, ethnicities, cultures and language groups, as the country continues the still-agonizing process of negotiating a viable...

App Rats Out Corporations

Proponents of unregulated free market capitalism argue that a company’s success is determined by its appeal, or lack thereof, to consumers in the marketplace. Thanks to a new app, it looks like consumers will now more effectively be able to decide whether or not...

Eat Lunch, Change Lives

The UMass-Amherst program in Social Thought and Political Economy kicks off this week with a series of brown-bag lunch discussions with notable Valley activists. It begins Wed., Jan 30, with a talk by Lois Ahrens, director of Northampton’s Real Cost of Prisons...

It Gets Better at the Super Bowl

Arriving home early in the morning a couple of weeks ago, with his team heading to the Super Bowl after roundly defeating the Patriots, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendan Ayanbadejo experienced an impassioned “Jerry Macquire” moment. Reflecting on the...