For the third year in a row, Chicago has been named the greenest city to work in America. Chicago leads the nation in energy-efficient office buildings, according to a recent study. This puts The Windy City ahead of places like San Francisco, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.
42.2% of office spaces in this area have been green-certified.
Spencer Levy, chairman of Americas Research for CRBE notes that these changes not only benefit the great city of Chicago, but they also deliver real savings to owners and investors.
November 3, 2019 | jmanley
We got new music from Tame Impala, and if you think I’m not starting the show with it, you got another thing coming, pal! Plus new Post Animals, Michigander, Phantogram and more. Don’t forget to help build the playlist, use #QdUp on twitter to let us know what you like, what you don’t, and what you think Chicago needs to be listening to. I like music, you like music, enjoy the show!
If you’re going to spend a bunch of money on the technology you need to sequence lights and music, why only do it during Christmas?
Check out this Halloween light show someone (Tom BetGeorge) created using the song “Chop Suey” — who did it for a great cause, raising money for a California shelter that helps families in crisis. As one YouTube commenter put it, “the pumpkins lip sync better than most artists faking their shows.” For real. — [eric]
Some times your favorite bands don’t have their best set, or things are just off. The Youtube channel Rock & Roll Stories documented a very odd night on an elevated stage of national TV for the Red Hot Chili Peppers when they played ‘Saturday Night Live’ in 1992. As is standard on the comedy TV institution, the Chili Peppers performed several songs between sketches but after one song went well, the second showed a serious tension on stage between guitarist John Frusciante and singer Anthony Kiedis. Frusciante leave the band for the first later that year amid drug addiction issues, only to return after gaining sobriety to have another outstanding run with the band.
Marvel and Hulu announced this week that 4 adult animated shows are coming to the streaming service in the future with comic book series Marvel’s Howard the Duck, M.O.D.O.K., Hit-Monkey, and Tigra & Dazzler. These are all fairly obscure characters in the vast Marvel universe but let’s remember that Ant-Man was pretty a bad ass movie.
Marvel has had a mixed record with TV shows with their entire slate of series on Netflix like Daredevel, Luke Cage, Iron First, and Jessica Jones as their parent company Disney launches the much anticipated Disney+ streaming subscription service which will be the new home almost all MCU content. So why are these shows going to Hulu?
Well, Disney bought the full ownership of Hulu in May. Reveiws.org breaks down all these big moves in streaming and how this impacts viewers with what shows on what service.
It would be one thing to say that Flea was on CBS This Morning (11.2.19) to talk about his new autobiography, Acid For The Children.
But it would be better to say that the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist cracked open his heart a bit to talk about his childhood, his complex relationship with Anthony Kiedis, and how the late Hillel Slovak was the one the one who convinced him to become a bass player. If you have a spare eight minutes, its definitely worth a look.
If you are hoping for a look at life inside the band, the book ends just before the Chili Peppers start. But from all signs so far, Flea’s autobiography will be fascinating for fans and strangers alike regardless. It hits bookstores on November 5th.
Be still our beating emo hearts! My Chemical Romance were the talk of Halloween yesterday announcing through calculated social media posts, that they will return to the stage on December 20th at the Shrine Hall in Losa Angeles. The show went on sale today, and sold out in minutes. But what lead to all of this? RockFeed posted a well-crafted video laying out all of the elements to lead to this big news.
Joe Jonas (yes, that Jonas brother) got the reunion rumors rumbling this past summer when he stated that he had heard MCR rehearsing in sound stage down the hall from his band in New York. Jonas revealed the “dirt” during an English radio interview.
Frank Iero of MCR deflected the rumors with a humorous video.
Now MCR fans are tweeting apologies to Jonas after roasting him this summer over what they thought was a fraudulent announcement.
Since the band broke up in 2013, all of the members have stayed busy. Singer Gerard Way has been busy turning his successful comic book Umbrella Academy into a Netflix hit series.
Way also released a solo album in 2014 ‘ Gerard also stayed busy with music, releasing a solo album in 2014 called ‘Hesitant Alien’. His Halloweenie single last fall called ‘Baby, You’re a haunted house’ is a instant stuck-in-your-head song.
Mikey Way formed a band called Electric Century and released the album ‘For the Night to Control’.
Frank Iero has been quite active releasing three albums since MCR split. 2016’s Stomaches, 2016’s Parachutes, and the 2017 EP ‘Keep the Coffins Coming’. He most recently played Riot Fest this past September.
So will MCR play more show? Record new music? Could we get them to play Riot Fest already? Only time will tell.
So maybe you found yourself at a costume party in the past week, rubbing elbows with someone dressed up as a ‘sexy’ version of something, and having a good time. Well I was doing the same this week and felt I could trust the party hosts to let me charge my phone in a bathroom unattended, well that’s a mistake at a party where a bunch of smart ass Chicago comedians are dancing and drinking right? Well, someone got my phone and filmed the following short video.
I left my phone charging in a separate room at a party, and I LOVE this video a good hearted random stranger left on my phone pic.twitter.com/JUPMi6jH2F
Yeah, you were expecting something really bad? No unnecessary nudity or mean negativity, just ‘hey you, go get those dreams’. I understand this person who I did not meet directly goes by the name Collin, and I want to thank him. Also if you watch this video you can hear a crowded kitchen chant “KEVIN! KEVIN” because I was ripping a beer bong. Yes, a stranger was telling me to chase my dreams while I chugged a beer. This why I love Chicago, and never want to leave.
No one has 100% validated this so I reached out to close personal friend, Tom Morello, but he would neither confirm or deny the rumor (or answer my calls). More info as it becomes available, but feel free to start planning your Coachella 2020 trip.
**UPDATE** Industry sources have confirmed this is happening, as well as saying that other dates will be announced. You can offiically start freaking out now! **
The Juice decided to dress up as Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, Patrick Mahomes this year because… of course he did. We love ya, Juice. Keep on doing your thing for the Twitterverse.
Golf.com’s anonymous pro survey was revealed a number of things. The golfers talked about politics, drug use, and some of the worst golfers to play with. The most interesting part of the survey, however, was the fact that 41% of card-carrying PGA pros revealed that they had had sex on a golf course.
One player noted that it’s important to “avoid the sand traps”, while another gleefully wished to have that experience one day.
We don’t want to ask about the wildest place, you know, have done it, but we do have a very public Twitter and you can tag us with that information if you want.
Bill Murray is a man of mystery, someone who has truly decided to live his life to the fullest. He recently revealed in an interview with fellow comedian, Amy Schumer, that he applied for work at the P.F. Chang’s at the Atlanta airport.
Schumer rightfully clarified with Murray, who said that he was just looking for some fun. He described the PF Chang’s as “one of the great places”.
Word got back to P.F. Chang’s, who initially ignored Bill Murray’s application for whatever reason. We’re starting to think that they’re going to want to get in touch with Murray.
So the weather today in Chicago has not been kind to trick ‘r treaters so maybe you are stuck up inside avoid the scary weather (FREEZING RAIN?!) well dig into this Halloween trivia quiz from Chicago-to-LA comedian Ryan Budds. What score can you get on this Halloween trivia quiz that has questions about Hocus Pocus, ‘Friends’, pumpkins, and of course some horror movies? I got 7 out of 15.
Be still my emo beating heart! My Chemical Romance has announced their return. After some curious social media postings, it has finally been confirmed that Gerard and the gang would be reuniting to play Shrine Expo Hall on December 20th. The presale happens Nov 1st HERE. Will this lead to a full tour? Are dudes going to start wearing eyeliner again? CAN I STILL FIT IN TO MY SKINNY JEANS??? No one can say for sure, but watch this space, because when we find out we will be the first to let you know.
Hopefully, we will never need either a phone sex line or a suicide hotline, but in the case that you do, it’s important that you have the right number. A middle school in Los Angeles accidentally flipped two numbers in the suicide hotline number, which in return now leads students to a sex hotline.
The district’s superintendent noted that this was obviously a mistake in a letter to parents.
So with a new Terminator movie coming out to some positive reviews, the time-traveling robopocalypse film series has always turned heads with it’s human-destroying machines. IGN posted this video looking at how the Terminators have evolved with film technology from practical puppeteering in the 80’s to the groundbreaking CGI of the 90’s to the current day. It’s interesting look at visual effects in movie.
