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August 13, 2010
Voodoo Funk, Derrick Carter, Questlove, And Horse Meat Disco Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife
We're going to stay away from Friday the 13th. Nothing good can come of it. Instead, start your weekend off on Saturday afternoon at PS1's Warm Up. It's a weird group of acts, really. Fool's Gold's funky-disco-infused house guru Treasure Fingers and catchy dance producer Kingdom man the decks ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
'Deep Space Presents M50'
We're going to stay away from Friday the 13th. Nothing good can come of it. Instead, start your weekend off on Saturday afternoon at PS1's Warm Up. It's a weird group of acts, really. Fool's Gold's funky-disco-infused house guru Treasure Fingers and catchy dance producer Kingdom man the decks ... More >>
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August 25, 2010
Shellac
We're going to stay away from Friday the 13th. Nothing good can come of it. Instead, start your weekend off on Saturday afternoon at PS1's Warm Up. It's a weird group of acts, really. Fool's Gold's funky-disco-infused house guru Treasure Fingers and catchy dance producer Kingdom man the decks ... More >>
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September 8, 2010
This is What You Get for Saying "Fuck" On Your First Episode of Saturday Night Live: The New SNL Cast Primer
Saturday Night Live is switching up their cast, and the New York Times has confirmed the new lineup. Who's out and who's in this season, which everyone will tell you is worse than the season before regardless?
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September 15, 2010
'Turrbotax Presents Untold & Brenmar'
Saturday Night Live is switching up their cast, and the New York Times has confirmed the new lineup. Who's out and who's in this season, which everyone will tell you is worse than the season before regardless?
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September 27, 2010
Rahm Emanuel to Leave Motherfu**ing White House at End of G*damn Week
ABC News' Jake Tapper is reporting that White House chief of staff Rahm "Special (Linguistic) Olympian" Emanuel is likely to leave his esteemed position as Barack Obama's chief-of-staff by the end of the week to explore a run as the mayor of Chicago, where his experience as a verbal gymnast m ... More >>
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October 3, 2010
Rahm Emanuel Announces Run For Chicago Mayor Via YouTube Video
Ex-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who left his post on Friday, announced Sunday via YouTube what everyone already knew: he's running for mayor of Chicago. Watch your goddamn backs, "gangbangers."
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October 4, 2010
Urge Overkill Play Mercury Lounge Tonight; Tickets Still Available
Given the public's abiding interest in '90s bands that may or may not have reunited, we thought we'd point out that proudly hedonistic Chicago power-pop goofballs Urge Overkill are taking another crack at it, playing their first live show in forever tonight at Mercury Lounge, and at least las ... More >>
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October 8, 2010
Lupe Fiasco's Lasers Has A Release Date
So Atlantic Records has been sitting on Lupe Fiasco's new record, Lasers, for a couple years now, an untenable state of affairs given that "he's really much more than just a rapper from Chicago -- he represents a generation, and a movement," as it was explained to us last week by the guy plan ... More >>
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October 6, 2010
Mike Reed's People, Places & Things
So Atlantic Records has been sitting on Lupe Fiasco's new record, Lasers, for a couple years now, an untenable state of affairs given that "he's really much more than just a rapper from Chicago -- he represents a generation, and a movement," as it was explained to us last week by the guy plan ... More >>
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December 8, 2010
Fright or Flight Response
Why are Mexicanairlines so fearless?
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December 17, 2010
Magnolia Sets Up Mission Control in Harlem, Readies for World Domination
Then one day, the cupcakes started eating us.The cupcake cartel that is Magnolia isn't just opening five new locations around the country. It's priming itself for world domination with a new 5,200-square-foot production facility in Harlem, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new factory ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Butt-Dial Leads to "Hostage Situation," or, Why You Should Never Listen to Hip-Hop in Winnetka
You know how when your phone rings and you're so excited to answer it because maybe you don't get phone calls all that often, and so you pick up, eagerly but outwardly cool, 'cause you're like that, and then you hear some muffled sounds and maybe something reminiscent of a gunshot or chairs b ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Hijacking Alert Issued Over Spilt Airplane Coffee
Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
'Big Booty Hoes'
Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
The Smith Westerns+Ducktails+Bass Drum of Death
Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>
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January 18, 2011
"Why Isn't My Blog More Popular?" Quitters Wonder
Old people tend to be bad at blogging, according to a sad, strange trend piece in Crain's Chicago Business, which is making the rounds online today so internet experts can chuckle at clueless novices. Like going to the gym, eating healthier and other New Year's resolution-type self improvemen ... More >>
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February 1, 2011
9 States Are Now Under Blizzard Warnings, and Other Freaky Weather Facts
Although our winter storm warning has been downgraded to an advisory, the weather still has the makings of something rather apocalyptic. It's being called "life-threatening." Across the nation, people are freaking out. Even people in England are worried about our well-being (or are smugly enj ... More >>
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February 9, 2011
Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Stretch And Bobbito, DJ/Rupture, And Azari & III
Your week starts with a little dancing, courtesy of a dancing DJ. We've sung Willy Joy's praises as Kid Sister's DJ more than once, but tonight it's all about him. Chicago's juke-loving, bass-fiending dance DJ celebrates the release of his Woman Like Me EP on Plant Music with a set at Ella We ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Man Surprised to Find that Online Girlfriend Asking Him for Money Is Not Real
There is a sucker born every minute. On the Internet, multiply that by 200,000, and you'll get the amount of money that a hapless 48-year-old man from the Chicago suburb of Naperville sent his supposed "online girlfriend" whom he'd actually never met. But he'd seen her Florida driver's licens ... More >>
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March 2, 2011
'Discovery Presents Trus'me+Tyson Ballard+VDRK'
There is a sucker born every minute. On the Internet, multiply that by 200,000, and you'll get the amount of money that a hapless 48-year-old man from the Chicago suburb of Naperville sent his supposed "online girlfriend" whom he'd actually never met. But he'd seen her Florida driver's licens ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
The Foodie Registry Invites Married Couples to Hit Their Friends up for Dinner
Couples in Hong Kong recently began turning to McDonald's to fulfill their twisted dreams of matrimonial bliss, and now a fast-growing website is making it possible for American couples to gain edible pay-off for their decision to wed.
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March 21, 2011
The 2011 James Beard Award Finalists Are...
Earlier this afternoon in Portland, OR, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards. So without further ado, the nominees, after the jump:
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March 23, 2011
Jason Stein Quartet
Earlier this afternoon in Portland, OR, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards. So without further ado, the nominees, after the jump:
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March 30, 2011
LIAR, LIAR
What would you do for love?
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April 6, 2011
SLUDGE MATCH
Metal in a meatgrinder
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April 11, 2011
Chicago Foodies Are Even More Batshit Than New York Foodies
Alinea Grant Achatz, the man most likely to drive Chicago diners to distraction.Remember way back when Ko opened and people were doing all sorts of crazy shitto get a reservation? Three years later, Chicago has put us to shame.
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April 25, 2011
Thieves Steal $80K Worth of Human Hair From Beauty Supply Store
Thieves broke into a Chicago beauty supply store on Easter and made off with almost $80,000 worth of human hair. The Tribune reports that the robbers pried open a metal door at the shop's rear and targeted the most expensive brands of hair once inside. Jay Han, the owner of Beauty One, said t ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
TALK SOUP
Mark Bazer chats with Das Racist
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May 31, 2011
Backstreet Boy Makes Movie Debut
My favorite Backstreet Boy, Kevin Richardson, got good reviews for stepping into Chicago on Broadway a few years ago, and now he's taken another career advance by going Indie-wood. He costars in the Steve Balderson-directed The Casserole Club, a Mad Men-era glimpse into the dark side of Cali ... More >>
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June 1, 2011
My Grandmother's Horehound
The candy has a rather dusty appearance. That's "horehound," not "whore hound" -- though the joke works if you say it out loud, rather than see the word written. While the former might suggest an overly promiscuous feral dog, the latter is an herb that was used long ago to make hard candy.
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June 12, 2011
Tony Awards Prove My Blind Items Right!
This very week, my column has a blind item about an actor/director who broke up with a Wicked chorus boy, only to take up with the Pal Joey guy, who broke up with an ex Chicago cast member. I also said that the Chicago guy is now a pair with that Book of Mormon star. Well, at the Tonys toni ... More >>
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June 21, 2011
VillageVines Finally Gets a Food-Related Name, Now Called Savored
SavoredVillageVines, the online restaurant discount site that sounds vaguely like the bottle of $3 Chardonnay found in the back of grandma's cupboard, has undergone a makeover and now finally has a name that sounds like it's at least related to food. It'll now be called Savored. And with a ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
What to Drink at Prune: The Chicago Matchbox (Like, Duh)
Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. girluninterrupt/foodspottingGet lit.The drink: Chicago Matchbox The bar: Prune (54 East 1st Street, East Village, 212-677-6221) The price: $10 Ingredients: Homemade lemon vodka, Sacramento tomato jui ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Casey Anthony Career Plans! Here's A Great Idea!
So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!
Film
July 20, 2011
Sex Is Comedy, Kind of, in Autoerotic
So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!
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August 17, 2011
Umphrey's McGee
So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!
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September 28, 2011
'Oktave' w/ Jeff Derringer+Edit-Select+Raiz
So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!
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October 17, 2011
Deep Thoughts from a 'Pizza Douche': How a Slice Is Like Cleavage
brendan-c/flickrLife of pie.Sure, he's from Chicago and he's been called a "pizza douche," but Patrick Bertoletti, who happens to be ranked second in the International Federation of Competitive Eating, says he's eaten at more than 200 different pizzerias around the world, including New York's ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
Q&A: Chicago Artist Michael Tewz on His Work of Art Elimination, His Buddy Sucklord
BRAVOTewz on Work of Art One of the more intriguing aspects of Work of Art, the BRAVO reality show we've been following, is that the show's producers chose a handful of cast members who'd already had a presence in the world, whose self-propelled careers could exist apart from the reality-television ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
The Sea and Cake
BRAVOTewz on Work of Art One of the more intriguing aspects of Work of Art, the BRAVO reality show we've been following, is that the show's producers chose a handful of cast members who'd already had a presence in the world, whose self-propelled careers could exist apart from the reality-television ... More >>
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November 18, 2011
Download "Enough," A Yowly Gem From Chicago's Mannequin Men (Playing Tonight And Tomorrow)
Tonight at Shea Stadium and tomorrow night at Cake Shop the fine Chicago garage-rock outfit Mannequin Men will perform, and it would behoove you to attend one or both shows, should you not have plans for the weekend yet. But don't take my word for it. Below, download the chugging "Enough," wh ... More >>
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January 6, 2012
Ask the Critics: Where Can I Get Chicago-Style Hot Dogs?
Robert SietsemaShake Shack's Chicago-style hot dog Mark L. Asks: I've been craving a Chicago-style hot dog. Who makes the best one in New York? Dear Mark: Having spent several years living in Chicago, I can appreciate your love of the Chicago-style hot dog, which differs from the classic Ne ... More >>
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January 7, 2012
Coffee Cup Motifs in NYC's 59th Street Subway Station
Don't fall in! In the last 10 years or so, lots of subway stations have been revamped, many with mosaics intended to reflect some associations with what's above the station on the street. Some of these motifs involve food and entertainment -- there are fish in the Delancey Street station, ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 4, 2012
'Verboten' w/ Hot Natured
Don't fall in! In the last 10 years or so, lots of subway stations have been revamped, many with mosaics intended to reflect some associations with what's above the station on the street. Some of these motifs involve food and entertainment -- there are fish in the Delancey Street station, ... More >>
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January 24, 2012
Broadway Replacements: Your Favorite?
Darren Criss is attracting screaming Gleeks to How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and they're filling the seats once occupied by screaming Potterfiles. Which brings to mind the topic of Broadway replacements and how they fare in light of all the hoopla generated by the origina ... More >>
Film
February 8, 2012
'Talking Landscape: Early Media Work, 1974-1984'
Darren Criss is attracting screaming Gleeks to How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and they're filling the seats once occupied by screaming Potterfiles. Which brings to mind the topic of Broadway replacements and how they fare in light of all the hoopla generated by the origina ... More >>
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January 25, 2012
Rise Against
Darren Criss is attracting screaming Gleeks to How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and they're filling the seats once occupied by screaming Potterfiles. Which brings to mind the topic of Broadway replacements and how they fare in light of all the hoopla generated by the origina ... More >>
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