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Girls Beware: Are You People? at Arcade Comedy Theater finds humor in sexist advertising

by Amanda Waltz

Jan 15, 2020

Let’s go back to the so-called good old days, when hot dogs cost a nickel, and ads pressured women to smoke during pregnancy and give their infants Coca-Cola. The latter will get a healthy dose of spoofing during Girls Beware: Are You People?, an all-female improv show at Arcade Comedy Theater on Sat., Jan. 18...

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