Also, things piss me off...

Yeah, there will be plenty of rants in this as well. My first: Chicago Magazine. I have subscribed to it for a few years now, and it's gone from a supplemental guide to the City I love to Winetka Plastic Surgeon's ads and longwinded boring articles about mildly interesting topics.
The straw that broke the Camel's Back? The 8/05 issue where ImprovOlympic (IO)'s 25th anniversary issue is referenced, and then they decide to interview 6 Improv students from around the city. What gets my blood up is that of the 6 students, ONE was an IO student (performer) --Alex Eilhauer. This is an institution that is all Chicago. Born of bucking the Second City ideal that improv should be used for writing and putting that improv in front of an audience to test the performers' mettle. A theater whose founder and students have influenced nearly all of modern comedy, and this is all they could cobble together?
The devil's advocate in me thinks they called IO and were met with confusion and stumbled upon Alex and interviewed him, then had to flesh out their piece with the rest of that peanut gallery, but I'm really tired of the treatment Improv gets in Chicago media. Improv is to Chicago what Musical theater is to New York! Wake up and smell the bits!