Meet and greet photos from Ghost’s acoustic performance at The Lounge!
Photos: Zach Spangler
New Oreo flavors announced
Oreo announced their summer line-up of new flavors, and it includes…
S’mores (May)
Latte Thins (June)
Marshmallow Moon (mid-June) – They’re purple and have space designs!
Mint Chocolate Chip (August)
Maple Creme (August)
Chi-CAH-go accents are sexy? A hunnert percent true.
Well, we never would have called this one: Chicago accents are one of the “sexiest” accents in a America. Take the findings with a grain of salt, mind you (the results come from a site called “bigseventravel.com“). And said in a true Chicago accent: Take a pitcher; it lasts longer.
Crack open a “pop” in your frunchroom and dig into the list here.
Rick & Morty Season 4 coming this fall, watch the teaser
Finally the most dysfunctional outer-space inter-dimensional adventure family is coming back to our collective screens. Rick & Morty is set for Season 4, coming out via Adult Swim this November. This is huge news for fans of the popular animated show who have been waiting for new episodes since October 2017 with Season 3 ending with Rick getting into a big showdown with the leader of the free world.
This teaser video of course drops the big news in a mumbled casual style before zapping the viewer with a laser. It’s the quintessential style of humor from the show’s creator Dan Harmon and his talented team. If you still don’t think this is a fun show, check out how they record the voice overs for the show.
Tom DeLonge on a Blink-182 return: ” I plan on doing it in the future”
In a recent interview with Kerrang! magazine, former Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge revealed that he has a desire to return to the pop punk power outfit that brought him to prominence.
“I get it—trust me, I love blink and it’s given me everything in my life,” DeLonge says. “And, you know, I plan on doing it in the future. But right now there’s just no way—I have way too much going on because Angels & Airwaves is a part of To The Stars, and that’s why it works.”
DeLonge is right here as he is busy with his current band Angels & Airwaves selling out an upcoming tour and his UFO research group, To The Stars Academy. He’s also involved in a History Channel series about UFOs called ‘Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation’.
Angels & Airwaves released their first new single in several years recently. It’s called ‘Rebel Girl’, stream it here.
Meanwhile Blink-182 is busy on their own with Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba in the fold, recently releasing their own new single ‘Blame It On My Youth’.
Dave Grohl praises nine year old drummer for Foo Fighters cover
Yoyoka Soma is a nine-year-old drumming prodigy from Japan. At just two years old she started teaching herself to drum.
On a recent episode of The Ellen Show Yoyoka showed off her amazing skills with a drumming cover of the Foo Fighters “The Pretender”. After her performance, Ellen shared a special message from Foo Fighter’s lead man Dave Grohl who praised Yoyoka’s skills and encouraged her to keep drumming.
Check out Yoyoka’s performance and Grohl’s reaction below!
Did you see it coming? Black Mirror Season 5
Black Mirror released the trailer for season 5 on Twitter, with the caption: “You should’ve seen it coming.”
The upcoming series seems to focus again on the relationship between humans and technology, with notions or love, security, sex, family and work, all under the microscope.
You get a glimpse of the stellar cast with some recognizable faces like Miley Cyrus, Avengers’ Anthony Mackie, Aquaman’s Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Topher Grace.
Hope you don’t get hooked.
Florida Man Arrested For Slapping Girlfriend With Cheeseburger
Here’s your ‘Florida Man’ story for the day – a man is facing battery charges after allegedly slapping his sleeping girlfriend with a cheeseburger.
The victim says she was sleeping when her boyfriend, 30-year-old Kyle Jones, began slapping her in the face with a cheeseburger, before pulling her hair and kicking her down the stairs
Deputies say the woman was still sporting “several remnants of said cheeseburger” when they arrived. Jones was jailed and released on bond.
When’s the last time you got into an actual food fight?
Spider-Man helps with airline safety
United Airlines has added Spidey to their latest airline safety video, as the promotional push for “Spider-Man: Far From Home” goes into overdrive.
Star Wars getting Game of Thrones energy with next film trilogy
Disney has been dropping a lot of hints towards the future of Star Wars with several new TV series in development for their streaming service Disney+ and a slew of new films in the works, but now it seems these upcoming films will have a Game of Thrones influence.
Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed at a business conference this week according to Consequence of Sound that Game of Thrones show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss will launch their own Star Wars trilogy of films following this December’s Rise of the Skywalker.
GoT will air it’s final episode this Sunday.
Also here is what light sabers would like like in GoT. The Force is strong in Jon Snow.
Watch Dave Grohl surprise adorable drummer girl on ‘Ellen’
Foo Fighters have been staunch supporters of music education with young children. That became even more evident recently on ‘Ellen’ when a viral video sensation Yoyoka Soma returned to the talk show to perform a rousing cover of Foo classic ‘the Pretender’. Dave Grohl surprised the young percussionist with a video message after she crushed it on national TV.
Mark Hoppus pokes fun at old Blink-182 fashion choices
Listen to the NEW song from Blink-182 ‘Blame It On My Youth’
Some of us may have that Polaroid that we have to take a picture of with our phones to post social media, and it shows the oddly now-hilarious fashion faux pas you made in the past. Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus is someone who knows his band was deeply tied to the first big wave of ‘pop punk’ culture within the alternative music universe, and with that came some time-specific threads that remain in the past. Hoppus posted the following on the ‘gram.
Oh those shorts that jort through the ages. 1999 when the backwards visor and the Jinco jean had a place on our collective heads and butts.
‘The Simpsons’ theme song over ‘Game of Thrones’ credits
This shouldn’t work. And yet…
Why does the @TheSimpsons theme song work perfectly with @GameOfThrones opening. 🤔 #GameofThrones #Simpsons pic.twitter.com/hyJ7NL8wfO
— Gerry Rushe (@gerry_rushe) May 10, 2019
First responders get a free meal on Wednesday
As a thank you to first responders, Culver’s is offering meals on Wednesday.
Their offering police officers, firefighters, EMTs, correctional officers, and 911 dispatchers a meal on May 15th.
Make sure to present your badge or ID to receive the free meal.
The snack pack will include either two chicken tenders or a single burger with a small fry and a small drink.
Just visit one of these participating Culver’s locations:
- 10745 S. Cicero Avenue Oak Lawn
- 9229 S. Harlem Avenue Bridgeview
- 9515 S. Kedzie Avenue Evergreen Park
- 8211 Ogden Avenue Lyons
- 6943 W. Roosevelt Road, Berwyn
- 4939 W. Irving Park Road Chicago
- 7542 W. Grand Avenue Elmwood Park
- 2751 Rose Street Franklin Park
Thank you first responders, with all you do for the community.
Bill Nye’s fiery message
We all kinda grew up with Bill Nye the Science Guy teaching us science with fun videos, but now that we’re adults he’s done sugar coating things.
He joined HBO’s “Last Week Tonight” to give a little NSFW rant on the planet, and the Green New Deal.
This @BillNye segment on Climate Change from @LastWeekTonight is brilliant.
1. Don’t watch if you are offended by cursing.
2. If item 1 is true of you, you may also want to unfollow me in general 😂 pic.twitter.com/K2qPILRVqY— Rachel Nichols (@Rachel__Nichols) May 14, 2019
Think we may have broken Bill Nye…
You can check out the full episode with host John Oliver, and see another cameo of Bill Nye.
(Fast forward to 10:20 to see another ‘experiment’ from Bill.)
“Arthur” teacher, Mr. Ratburn, is revealed to be gay in the Season Premiere
The theme song for childhood show Arthur is basically a “love is love” anthem, so it’s actually a bit of a surprise that the first LGBTQ character was only introduced this year – but they’ve finally embraced this “original point of view”.
The season 22 premiere episode, titled “Mr. Ratburn and the Special Someone”, begins with Arthur and his friends mistaking a lady helping with wedding preparations as his fiancé. The woman, voiced by Jane Lynch, turns out to be his sister. The kids are pleasantly surprised when it’s revealed that the chocolate shop owner, Patrick, is the one marrying Mr. R.
Yet the most shocking part of the episode is how after 22 years, Arthur and his friends are still in the 3rd grade.
See more reactions from the episode on Buzzfeed, or watch the whole episode here.
Smith & Thell — Meet and Greet — The Lounge
Meet and greet photos with Maria Jane Smith from Smith & Thell at The Lounge!
Queued Up #331 Playlist – 5.12.19
#331 5.12.19
Hour 1
- Of Monsters and Men – Alligator
- SYML – Break Free
- Foals – In Degrees
- Blink 182 – Blame It On My Youth
- Young The Giant – Heat Of The Summer
- 311 – Good Feeling
- Twin XL – Good
- Barns Courtney – You and I
- Mini Mansions – GummyBear (Queued Up Artist Showcase 6/7)
- Silent Rival – Sleep Like a Baby
- Sego – Shame
- Vampire Weekend – This Life
- MXMS – Salvation Hurts
- Absofacto – Dissolve
- Suzi Wu – Highway
Hour 2
- Beck – Saw Lightning
- White Lies – Tokyo
- Angels and Airwaves – Rebel Girl
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Black Star Dancing
- Marshmello – Here With Me (feat. CHVRCHES)
- I Don’t Know How But They Found Me – Social Climb (QUAS 5/15)
- The Struts – In Love With a Camera
- Matt Maeson – Cringe
- Bastille – Doom Days
- Houses – Left Alone
- Badflower – Promise Me
- Japanese Breakfast – Essentially
- The Regrettes – Dress Up
- The Unlikely Candidates – Novocaine
- Teenage Wrist – Mary
You could get paid to live on a yacht for a week
Photo courtesy of HushHush
HushHush, a \”Luxury shopping marketplace & shopping concierge service\” based in London, is looking for a yacht reviewer. You could be flown all over the world to live on a yacht and and make certain they meet the brand\’s high standards. A keen eye for detail is helpful, since you need to make sure every little thing on the boat is in ship shape (pun intended).
The qualifications? You must be over 21, have a passport, and be readily available on short notice throughout the year. They say that \”You do not need experience of yachts, but if you do, that will give you an advantage.\”
You would make £1,000 per yacht review (roughly $1123 American). There\’s the potential to review up to 50 yachts per year, which would translate to about $56k annually.
Not bad!
They made what into rolled ice cream!?
Has man gone too far? This ice cream roller decided to mix pizza, hamburgers, and chicken nuggets into what many would call the ultimate sweet and savoury dessert… I wonder what it tastes like.
I know people like to dip their fries into their McFlurry…but this may be going too far.
