PAWS Chicago hosted their annual beach party on Wednesday at Offshore Bar on Navy Pier. There were adorable pups from PAWS walking around for adoption , and it took all of the strength in my body to not bring home a black and tan puppy named Taj. But I digress, the beach themed bash featured island vacays to bid on, Hawaiian lays for all, and delicious snackies for humans and doggos. The night was topped off by a beautiful speech from Paula Fasseas, founder of PAWS. In 1997, she went into a city pound and knew that something had to change after seeing how many animals never made it out. She was the at the forefront of the “no-kill” model and this movement has reduced the killing of homeless pets entering Chicago shelters by 91%
Now it’s 2022, and PAWS Chicago has several facilities, including a medical building where they’ll perform 17,000 spay and neuter surgeries. They’re on track to get 5,000 animals adopted this year!
Orcas, or Killer Whales, are at the top of the chain. Sorry, Great White Sharks, they’re the real hunters of the sea. Lately, the orcas have been going more south to hunt due to changing environments, and now they’ve begun hunting Great White Sharks. This is rare footage of Orcas going after a giant shark…
And now for something completely different. Orcas eating a great white shark. SOUND ON pic.twitter.com/trZQRBD3xa
According the originator of Lollapalooza, it’s going to stay in Chicago ten more years! Perry Ferrall of Jane’s Addiction started Lolla in the 90’s when it traveled all around. Now it’s here to stay in Chicago for at least another decade, and they’re still planning on doing it in other countries again too.
In a long time ago in an Aragon far, far away, Green Day were nine months removed from dropping Dookie onto the masses and en route to taking over the world. As a part of their international tour, Green Day made a stop on Lawrence Avenue for an unforgettable show that was captured by MTV cameras.
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Dubbed “Together and Together Again” as a way to show that Highland Park’s strength and unity, Billy Corgan and friends including Bob Moses and Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain showed the power of community and music with last night’s benefit concert. The three hour broadcast saw a number of incredible performances, notably Corgan’s renditions of ‘Today’ and ‘1979’.
Should he be jealous of her “work friend” who dresses well…?
“Ahoy Brian, Ali and Justin am I being insecure or does my girl belong to the streets? We were clothes shopping and she kept saying โI want to dress you like this guy at workโ. Weโve only been dating for a few weeks so Iโm not comfortable fighting back yet but that rubbed me wrong. Is this something I should be worried about and bring up to her or am I just being a bitch? I love the show and love you guys.”
Maybe if you’re a Packer fan you’ll enjoy this. Everyone else feel free to throw up in your mouth a little bit as Aaron Rodgers pretends to look like Nic Cage arriving at training camp. They think they’re being cute…
Scientists in China found a link between napping a lot and heart health, and their findings weren’t great. The longer more frequent naps you take, the worse it is for your ticker. Participants in their studies also were more likely to have high blood pressure and had a likelihood of developing hypertension.
The first trailer for the new “Halloween Ends” movie is out! Yeah, it’s only almost August, but if you’re a fan of Halloween, you’re going to want to see Jamie Lee Curtis go head to head with Michael Myers. Check it!
After a few days of hinting on Twitter, Green Day announced their Friday show at Metro. Theyโll perform an 18+ show at 11 p.m. Friday July 29! Tickets will be $60 in advance and $70 day of. All tickets will be sold online and will be will call only.
I don’t blame anyone whose mind turns to mush the lower they go on a festival poster. No one reads the fine print and not everyone has the time to study up on bands in tiny text. As a certified expert in Bands at the Bottom of the Poster, however, I feel a it is my responsibility to guide you through the early hours of each day of Chicagoโs premier music festival. This list is designed to help you maximize your festival going experience because everyone with a pulse knows that they’re supposed to stick around for Green Day and Metallica, but while you’re wasting away in the sweltering summer sun, you should go out of your way to see these bands.
Thursday:
The Wombats (3:15-4:15): Perhaps my allegiance to this Liverpool-based trio is that every cute girl in my high school liked them and deep down, I do everything I do in hope that they one day validate my existence. Nevertheless, this band has been bursting out of my speakers since the first time I heard the wonderfully ironic “Let’s Dance to Joy Division”. This weekend is not for the weak at heart, and The Wombats are the perfect, light-hearted affair to kick off the festivities.
Giovannie & The Hired Guns (4:30-5:10): A favorite in the Q101 office, Giovannie and the bandits that follow him around the country have gone from behind the counter at a pawn shop in Texas to the most important music festival in the country. That grit and determination pours out of their music. Cut from the same cloth as the likes of Yelawolf and Shooter Jennings and Justin’s boy, Jelly Roll, Giovannie & The Hired Guns bring enough soul to their music to revive the recently deceased. It would be a grave error if your trip to Grant Park doesn’t block out time to see these boys.
Friday:
flipturn (12:50-1:30): I have an affinity for bands from Florida (Anberlin, Fake Problems, screamo act You’ll Live, etc.) and flipturn are the latest addition to bands from The Sunshine State that do it for me. Oddly enough, it is their track “Chicago” that drew me to these guys. Rarely do I make room for “good vibes” in my life (I have been told my aura is often intense and off-putting), but flipturn’s catalogue is loaded with roll-down-the-windows tracks that sound like summer and I always have room in my life for bands like that.
Wet Leg (2:50-3:30): If there is one flaw with the Lollapalooza schedule this year, it is that they decided to wage war with international ramifications by pitting England’s Wet Leg against Australia’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever. These bands are scheduled at the same time on Friday afternoon and that is bad news for everyone reading this. They both put out records this year that have crawled into my brain and taken up permanent residency, but unfortunately our friends from Melbourne will have to be seen another time. Wet Leg have put out the first great British party record in years. Their self-titled effort is seductive and care-free at a time in which the weight of the world is often too much to carry. Wet Leg is a simple band singing about simple times. With only a few dozen US concerts under their belt, this is a can’t-miss set for me.
Saturday:
Turnstile (7:45-8:45): Let me put it to you this way: if I find out you were at Lolla on Saturday night and you werenโt at the Grove stage for Turnstile, you can go ahead and lose my number. Our friendship contract will be null and void going forward. Turnstile is the best band in the world right now (Internet critics Stereogum said so) and their Saturday night set will be the biggest performance of their lives. There will come a time, years from now, when you will either be able to brag about seeing Turnstile on this epic run of shows, or you will be lying to your friends and telling them that you were there in an effort to save face. For the better part of a decade, they have been playing songs fit for stadiums in halls that reach capacity at 1,000 people. It wasn’t until 2021’s “GLOW ON”, a tour de force in rock excellence, that their talent was noticed by the masses. Originally a hardcore band entrenched in the DIY scene, Turnstile has earned a seal of approval from the likes of 311โs Nick Hexum, Post Malone, a bevy of late night talk show hosts. They are punk music for punks, dance music for people that love to dance, and alternative music for people that have been aching for guitars to find their way back onto the airwaves. More than any other band on this lineup, they embody the spirit that Lollapalooza set out to capture 21 years ago. Iโve never felt more confident giving a band my seal of approval.
Sunday:
KennyHoopla (4:00-4:45): Can we finally start to put some respect on KennyHoopla’s name? I was isolated in Middle of Nowhere, Indiana at the start of the pandemic when the Cleveland-born musician came into my life. His shriek, for lack of a better term, immediately caught me off guard. I wasn’t prepared for lyrics befitting of the main stage at Warped Tour over dance beats on his 2020 EP and I wasn’t expecting him to seamlessly flow into the Travis Barker universe the way that he did with their mixtape the following year. Hoopla has a knack for sounding like he’s on the brink of exhaustion at all times. It’s what I like about his sound. I can’t picture a better way to close out my weekend, after three long days in the sun, than with thousands of others who have also had it up to here. Hoopla is the perfect soundtrack for that.
Wicker Park Fest took place last weekend and it was a huge success! Bands like, Local H, performed and there was plenty of delicious food and beers to be had. There was one thing that made fest-goers incredibly happy though, and it wasn’t any of those things… it was this little guy who resides in Wicker Park with his family… Was his technique better than Michael Jackson’s?
The owner of Raising Cane’s bought 50,000 lottery tickets for his employees. The jackpot in Mega Millions is over $800 million at this point, and it’s one of the largest jackpots in history. If an employee wins though, they split it with everyone. That equates to roughly $10-$20k a person at the company. Not bad at all! Good luck Raising Cane’s!
A man has been parking his car outside of his house for years. While the city was repainting a red zone, where his car was parked, but the previous paint was no where to be found, they gave him a big ol’ parking ticket after they were done “repainting.” They even went around his tire that was on the curb so the paint job looks terrible. He’s literally been parking in that exact spot for FOUR YEARS. He’s going to contest it with the city. Check it out-
Dead Wolf spiders have been manipulated into robots so scientists can see how their bodies work. It sounds like the beginning to a horror movie- because it’s going to go bad. Here’s one in “action.” Ahh! So creepy…
