(from thehill.com)
Twitter said Thursday night that the brief disappearance of President Trump’s personal Twitter account was due to “human error” on the part of one of its employees.
“Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee,” Twitter said in a statement posted to the platform.
(from timeout.com)
As frigid temperatures move through Chicago, swimsuits and sandals are banished to storage and puffy parkas are officially back in season. As someone once said, winter is coming—or judging by the wind chill this week, it’s already here. We can’t help but notice the strange yet totally necessary lengths Chicagoans go to in order to prepare for winter. Let’s bundle up and get weird! (MORE HERE)
1. Set up a recurring Amazon order of hand warmers—you can never have too many, right?
2. Keep a map of the Chicago Pedway handy at all times.
3. Stock up on your lip balm of choice.
4. Invest in a SAD lamp.
5. Cut spending in every other area of life to accommodate impending energy bills.
6. Contemplate dropping an entire paycheck on an arctic-style parka.
7. Take the scenic route to work—through malls, office buildings or any place that’s cranking the heat.
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This moving video of late Soudgarden singer Chris Cornell ‘s daugheter Lily has surfaced today, in it she performs a cover of Jeff Buckley’s “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over”. She has quite the voice.
In 2013, Chris performed in our pre-Lounge room, Studio 7 and gave us these special recordings that we can share with you.
Stone Temple Pilots have been through a lot of hard times in the last few years, with the death of their original singer Scott Weiland in 2015 and the recent passing of their second singer Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington but the band is set up to return on November 14th at the Troubador in Los Angeles, California. The remaining members have been mum on who their new singer could be, and keeping the secrete even more close to the chest, this big comeback show is also an invitation-only event. So who is the new mystery singer? Thanks to Consequences of Sound for the scoop.
Speaking to Rolling Stone last month, bassist Robert DeLeo teased what’s to come with this yet-to-be-revealed singer “We’ve been working with someone – I don’t want to name names yet – and we’re making music. I don’t know if he’s well-known or unknown; I don’t look at him as ‘well-known.’ But we’re writing music and we’re hopefully looking at finishing a record and putting it out soon.”
Weiland was dismissed from STP in 2013, with Bennington stepping in before leaving amicably citing the challenges of the balancing act of performing in STP, Linkin Park, and being with his family. STP recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of their debut album, Core.
Fresh off a show at the House of Blues, DREAMERS came to the LOUNGE for an exclusive session that featured deep discussions, getting evicted from your apartment, and painting Bill Nye the Science Guy’s house. Yes, that is something came up along with three exclusive acoustic performances: ‘Painkiller’, ‘Sweet Disaster’ and a moving cover of the Cranberrie’s hit ‘Zombie’.
Watch more exclusive sessions we’ve recorded with PANIC! AT THE DISCO, THE 1975, THE OFFSPRING, PARAMORE, YOUNG THE GIANT, COLD WAR KIDS, RISE AGAINST, and many more: 101WKQX.COM/SONUNDLOUNGE
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Here are some social media highlights of the intimate fun that is the LOUNGE
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Today the collective mouths of Star Wars fans around the world had to wiped of drool as they watched the latest teaser for the upcoming ‘Last Jedi’ and it provides some tastey treats to look forward to when the movie is released in December. It looks like we are getting some real drama between Luke, Rey, and Kylo Ren with light saber battles and some big emotional moments that will follow the massive feels we got with ‘Force Awakens’.
William Patrick Corgan did a cover of “Wrecking Ball” (yes, the Miley Cyrus song) and nailed it. Even if you’re not into Miley, this is a solid cover.
Pretty sure wALT has already done this but either way this is pretty impressive
(from avclub.com)
Like Bill Murray before him, Jeff Goldblum is as much meme as he is man. So distinctive is his personality and cadence, the actor’s every word is met with rapture by his adoring fanbase, making him more suited than most to moonlight as a jazz musician, commandeer a food truck called Chef Goldblum’s Jazzy Snags, or give a 15-minute speech about his own career that somehow isn’t insufferable. (MORE HERE)
(from dnainfo.com/chicago)
Spoiler alert: This story contains plot details from Season 2 of “Stranger Things”
The Upside Down isn’t the only thing that’s screwy in the second season of “Stranger Things.”
One episode of the hit Netflix drama’s new season depicts heroine Eleven running away to Chicago, where things get a little twisted.
Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown, gets off her bus from small-town Indiana to find a hackneyed big city experience featuring unfriendly police, hurried businessmen and eventually slums where cold vagrants huddle around garbage fires.
For reference, here’s what Chicago’s skyline looked like in 1984:
