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Fun around town, for $10 or less: FRIDAY Slow: Opening event for sLowlife, featuring time-lapse photography and high-speed video footage revealing the secret life of plants, at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (315 Chestnut), 5PM. Free Sing a Song: Steve Odabashian takes requests and makes it personal at Helium Comedy Club (2031 Sansom), 6-10:45PM. Free Mega: Release party for the 10th issue of Megawords Magazine at Juanita & Juan's/Smyrski Creative Studios (125 N 11th), 7-10PM. Free Love: Screening of I've Loved You So Long, with popcorn, at Little Theater (7141 Germantown Ave), 7PM. $6

Neal Dandade is one of my heroes. Luckily for me, unlike most people's heroes, I know mine. Quite well, actually: Neal and I go back ten years and two thousand miles to Coronado High School in El Paso, Texas. We acted together then, and now I'm lucky to get onstage once a year, but Neal is doing it professionally, performing with a number of improvisational and sketch comedy groups in the Chicago area—including the career-launching Second City. As you'll see from his interview below, improv is a natural fit for Neal, who sometimes thinks so fast it's hard to keep up. ("He was always so bright," as Mamaist put it.) You may actually have seen some of his work: know those Boost Mobile commercials with the rapping George Washington? Neal actually originated the jingle (but hasn't, as of yet, been given any credit for his work).