John Sweeney

Dudley Riggs reminisces on Brave New Workshop

Comedy troupe readies for its move downtown

Brave New Workshop: Sharp as ever after 50 years

Throwing knives at critics hasn't undercut the group's popularity

Worker of the world divide

Roman Holiday

Brave New Workshop returns to its old coliseum; the Guthrie takes a stab at Caesar

Artificial Intelligence

The strangely robotic wit of Caleb McEwen emerges in the Brave New Workshop's Minnesota Summer

Funny Business

In the growing local improv scene, everyone's a comedian

Brown Shirt, Blue Collar

Union Made

Laborers' union members, mostly low-paid black and Hispanic workers, financed their president's White House visits while the Justice Department quashed a mob investigation.

Bubbaphilia

By interfering with the Teamsters, a union only just emerging from a scabrous history of institutionalized malfeasance, the Clintonoids displayed their utter contempt for union democracy and for the labor movement itself.