Sit through any video calls lately? Maybe too many…
You can either rate boring room backgrounds like this guy [https://twitter.com/ratemyskyperoom],
OR
UPGRADE your virtual background to one of these sweet shots immediately!!
These backgrounds are sure to improve your conversations, relationships, and life in general.
Artist Backgrounds:
Empty Venues:
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Update: May 22, 2020, 4pm
THANK YOU for sticking with us during our 34-hour Radiothon! We are exhausted, proud and in love with this city and our music venues!
Your donations, calls, posts and stories were amazing!
Together, we raised over $34,000 for the Chicago Independent Venue League and its venues!
YOU CAN STILL DONATE HERE!
#SaveOurStages
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We need to SAVE OUR CHICAGO INDEPENDENT VENUES! #SaveOurStages
34 Chicago venues have banned together to form CIVL, Chicago Independent Venue League, and they need our help during the COVID-19 Crisis Shutdown.
Also, check out the first look of the new brew Goose Island Beer Co. is releasing… CIVL Pale Ale!
It’ll be exclusively available for pick up from their taproom in a few weeks, and proceeds benefit the Chicago Independent Venue League!
We’ll be sure to share the day, time and second it’s available for order/pick up!
CIVL MEMBERS:
Avondale Music Hall
Beat Kitchen
Cafe Mustache
Chicago Chop Shop
Coles
Concord Music Hall
Dorian’s
Empty Bottle
G-Man Tavern
Harold Washington Cultural Center
The Hideout
Hungry Brain
Lincoln Hall
Martyrs
Metro
Park West
Patio TheaterÂ
The Promontory
PRYSM
Radius
Reggies
The Riviera Theatre
Rosa’s Lounge
Schubas
The Silver Room
Sleeping Village
SmartBar
Spybar Chicago
Subterranean
Thalia Hall
Tonic Room
Uncommon Ground
The Vic
The Whistler
The smash-hit hip-hop musical ‘Hamilton’ which raked in millions at live theaters, is skipping it’s anticipated release in movie theaters for a summer release on the popular streaming service. Disney+. The anticipated movie adaption which will feature notable historical figures from the formative years of the U.S.A will drop on the fitting date of July 3rd.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, who created and starred in the musical joined Disney mega-boss Bob Iger to announced the news today on ‘Good Morning America’ which has been met with some very positive reactions to fans of musical theater online.
This means the movie will come out over a year before it’s originally scheduled release of October 15. 2021. It’s another sign of Hollywood studios trying to redirect their resources in these COVID-19 times as thousands of cinemas around shuttered around the world.
Miranda sold the transition of the musical to film as giving viewers “the best seat in the house” and that it features the original cast from performances on stage in June of 2016.
The music world is seeing many covers popping up online and this one is quite the treat: Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo covered Nirvana’s moody classic “Heart Shaped Box”. Using his swooning tone Rivers covered the song during a recent live stream with just piano. It’s quite the rendition to say the least.
Weezer appeared on ‘the Simpsons’ this past Sunday where they premiered a new song Blue Dream’ off their delayed upcoming album ‘Van Weezer’. You may heard the song ‘End of the Game’ from that album on 101WKQX.. See what the band looked like on the Simpsons here. ‘
Are you ready to hear the best thing you’ll hear all morning??
Here it is, seals singing Seal’s “Kiss From a Rose’.
They have such beautiful voces.
Brought me to tears.
It looks like we are going to have a baseball season after all.
MLB team owners have met and discussed a possible season start in early July.
The MLB owners have approved a proposal to present to players, as @Ken_Rosenthal reported. They plan to meet tomorrow to discuss it.
Now is when it starts to get serious. And we’ll know soon enough if baseball is actually coming back in 2020.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) May 11, 2020
The #MLB proposal that was agreed upon among the owners and submitted to the union now calls for a 50-50 revenue split. https://t.co/iG7fd7PN4k
— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) May 11, 2020
Is this for real!?!?!?! Will we actually get some baseball???
I sure hope so, I would watch pro bowling at this point!!
Get ready to enjoy some Top Gun level action is support of COVID-19 first line workers!
The Blue Angels will be conducting a fly over in Chicago this Tuesday between 11:45 am and noon.
#Detroit, #Chicago, and #Indianapolis your Blue Angels are heading your way this Tuesday! Check back tomorrow for routes and overhead times. Stay home and stay safe!#AmericaStrong #InThisTogether #HealthcareHeroes pic.twitter.com/ZeRfFy3Nmt
— Blue Angels (@BlueAngels) May 10, 2020
How can you watch it? Well.. From home!
They will be doing a huge loop around the city working their way from the Southside all the way up north, finishing their route up out west, so you should be able to get a good view of them right from your very own home.
Enjoy the fly over and remember to stay home and stay safe!
This guy took the phrase “tastefully” decorate a little too literally.
Thats over 6,000 gummy bears on the wall.
I mean… it looks very tasty.
So I guess he nailed it!
Teachers can’t expect students to actually be responsible right???
With Zoom classes being all the rage now a-days, well not by choice, some students have found some interesting ways to skip class.
This might be the best one yet!
Impressive levels of laziness have been unlocked during quarantine!!
The soon to be divorced couple have been in the headlines a lot recently, this time something seems a little funny.
It looks like the former Bears Quarterback posted a touching instagram tribute to the mother of his 3 children, and soon to be ex-wife Kristen Cavallari and she responded with a simple heart, which seems normal… But there may be more here.
View this post on Instagram
Happy Mother’s day to all the moms. These 3 little ones picked a good one.
Kristin Cavallari and her team created an Instagram account for Jay Cutler because he didn’t have one. They originally made all the posts… so did she make this one to herself?????
That would be amazingly funny, but reports from the former couple say no. Jay has full control of the account now and actual made that post himself.
They may not want to be married to each other anymore, but they are still parents together!!
Saturday was one of those perfect Chicago weather days and I took advantage by driving up the Lake Michigan Circle Tour all the way to Zion and got in some hiking at the Illinois State Beach. The Lakefront and 606 may be closed, but there are still lots of parks and resources open where you and your family can go hiking, fishing, boating (with no more than 2 people in the boat) even picnicking while practicing safe social distancing. Stay safe and get outside! <3 Lauren
Illinois parks open for limited use during COVID-19
Episodes 6 and 7 of The Last Dance aired last night, and we are loving every single minute of it.  I mean, if we have to be stuck inside forever, what better way to pass the time than by watching MJ and Pippen dunk all over Patrick Ewing amirite?  Here are the top 3 moments we loved from last night, and 3 that we didn’t.
TOP 3
“Way to go, Craig.” Â Episode 7 was incredibly quotable, but we got our best one just a few seconds in to the episode. Â After being asked a question Jerry Krause clearly didn’t want to answer, causing him to storm out of a press conference that had barely started, someone chimed in with a “Nice one, Craig” towards whoever asked the question. Â This needs to become our next go to insult when we need to drag a coworker for not muting their mic on a Zoom chat.
“Is there an echo?” Â “Guys Im getting feedback” “Oh sorry, thats me. Forgot to mute.” Â “WAY TO GO, CRAIG.”
“I’m Back” Â -Michael Jordan, upon announcing his return to the NBA. Â Coincidentally, also me, when the dining room at the Olive Garden opens back up.
Steve Kerr has no fear. Â Even before the Last Dance, the story of Steve Kerr getting punched in the face by Michael Jordan was widely known, but for the first time we got to hear the details of the story from both players involved. Â Turns out that Steve Kerr didn’t just take a punch to the face and keep going, he punched back! Â Dude has 8 NBA championships as a coach and player and his greatest accomplishment is that he went blow for blow with Michael Jordan. Â I bet he would even agree with that.
BOTTOM 3
THE DUNK. Â People forget how close the Bulls got to going to the NBA finals the year MJ went to play baseball. Â What people should never forget, is the greatest dunk in NBA history. Â The amount of disrespect Pippen delivers to Patrick Ewing (and then Spike Lee) is off the charts. Â Seriously, look at this. Â And then watch it again and again and again. Â They should’ve devoted at least 30 minutes on this dunk, and how Scottie Pippen should’ve been the MVP that year. Â In fact, as a Pippen guy, I’m a little upset with how tertiary his story has been this entire series. Â Give this man the spotlight he deserves, dammit!
RIP James Jordan. Â James Jordan’s murder was such a tragedy. Â What made it worse was that some members of the media wrote articles questioning if Michael Jordan’s gambling issues had anything to do with it, despite absolutely no evidence indicating that. Â Imagine how awful that must be, to not only lose a family member, but to be blamed for it as well? Â Gross.
Michael Jordan, ruining people. The only thing more disrespectful than the Pippen dunk in these episodes, was Michael Jordan calling Scott Burrell a HO multiple times.  OUTRAGEOUS.  Also, Toni Kukoc has never recovered from the abuse he took from Jordan and Pippen, you can hear it in his voice every time he speaks. Poor Toni. Someone send him a fruit basket.
Check out these dogs hanging out on a motorcycle like it’s no big deal.
They’re the cutest bikers I’ve ever seen!
I don’t see a single helmet though… Safety first!
I’m not sure what scared this guy so much about a rubber chicken, but his reaction is hilarious!
They’re coming from the sky! It’s raining chickens!
Pete Davidson really loves his fans.
That being said, he has asked them to stop bringing him weed to his mom’s house.
Yes… he still lives with his mom.
There is a time and place people! Just stay home and let Pete Davidson get his own weed!
There are a lot of questionable ads out there… this one definitely ranks high on any list.
fully losing my mind over this Nintendo ad where Kim Cattrall is horny for Mario??!!?? pic.twitter.com/fjnOajDccr
— Marc (@MarcSnetiker) May 6, 2020
Who was Kim Cattrall trying to sell this to? Who is the demographic here???
There are so many questions…
Imagine actually liking your teachers in grade school…
Maybe you would have liked more if they acted like this teacher who set up a protective plastic border at her house so that she could hug her students and still socially distance.
Now that’s going above and beyond!
First, we got to see The Goonies. Now we get to go back in time with another eighties cinema classic.
Josh Gad’s web series Reunited Apart will reunite the cast of Back To The Future this week. And as you can see in his Instagram teaser, the two primary members — Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd — will definitely be there. Tune in Monday morning and you will see some serious s#@t. (Or, just some great memories shared of one of my favorite childhood movies) — [eric]
[📷: Jason Leung on Unsplash]
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Happy Mother’s Day
Their latest album ‘Van Weezer’ may be delayed but beloved alt icon Weezer will get animated this Sunday on the latest episode of ‘the Simpsons’. The episode called “the Hateful Eight-year olds” will feature the Weez portraying a cover band on a romantic cruise that Homer and Marge are taking. According to Consequence of Sound, Weezer will be featured with 3 songs including a never-before-heard track “Blue Dream”.
Several alternative bands have appeared on the long-running animated TV institution including an entire episode that spoofed the Lollapalooza tour with Homer joining the tour as ‘freakshow’ performing who gets got shot in his jiggly belly with a cannonball. The episode called ‘Homerpalooza’ (Season 7 / Episode 24) came out in 1996 when Lolla was culture tidal wave of on the peak of 90’s alternative music breakthrough period culturally so it was ripe for satire. There is some very memorable scenes with Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill, and Sonic Youth all providing their voices for the episode. You can stream every episode of the Simpsons now on Disney+.
