--Chicago author Claire Zulkey continues to flirt with the dark side (AKA comedy) with some of her writing, including a recent interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls, who have been responsible for more fashion-related zings than you can find in seven hundred viewings of Mean Girls. According to Fug girl Jessica: "I think it's no secret that we really don't like formal shorts. I feel like, if you look cute in shorts, you will look CUTER in a skirt, so why not look as cute as possible?" Claire also recently wrote a funny article about Amazon Wish Lists of the Rich and Famous for Radar magazine. Can you believe Kimora Lee Simmons has the nerve to ask anyone to buy her anything?

--Chemically Imbalanced Comedy softly says 'raise' and stacks twice the bet in the center in an all-day poker tournament this Sunday; part of the proceeds will go to benefit CIC. Visit Chicago Poker Live to sign up.

--Metromix is running a special on i.O.'s TV Show this Friday, and Allison Bills was kind enough to give us all the deets on the show: "We do a completely different network every week that we take a bunch of pot-shots at and make fun of their programming. Last week, for the Learning Channel, I played a 6th grader who had won my school science bowl, so I'd been picked to teach a studio audience how to make natural disasters in a bottle. It ended with a recreating of Hurricane Katrina -- I made an audience member hold the "levee" on top of a Diet Coke bottle then asked the audience what level Katrina was. When they said '4', I said that I'd better use 4 Mentos..." Sufficed to say, everyone took a Coca-Cola bath that evening all in the name of learning...

--Tonight is the final night for Cork Lounge Open Mic, a short-lived but fiercely loved room that is sure to see quite a hurrah tonight and will reopen under a new roof shortly. But will it have the same energy as the old room? More importantly, will there be ventilation or at least windows in the new room? We'll discover the answers to these soon.

--Last but not least on this bright Tuesday morning, the Promise Keepers have announced that it'll be a wrap for them after a six-month run at i.O., with their last show tomorrow night at 10 p.m. in the Del Close Theater. The Chicago Reader once said of the group, "Art-house improv . . . With their quasi-mystical "Japanese" aesthetic, minimalist pacing and blocking, and character-driven humor, the expert Promise Keepers mold the paradigmatic Harold to their sophisticated sensibilities . . . Kinky and seductively offbeat." The Promise Keepers are Tim Baltz, Katy Fullan, Ben Johnson, Holly Laurent, and Chris Lee.

- Kristy Mangel