(from digitaltrends.com)
Google parent Alphabet has been developing its Project Wing delivery drone for several years. Striving for perfection, it even ditched the entirety of its work at one stage and started over.
This week the company revealed it’s been testing its latest design in the real world — as opposed to highly regulated test areas — by ferrying burritos and medicine to folks living in rural communities in Australia.
(from pitchfork.com)
The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody is slated to come out in December 2018. Well ahead of the release, director Bryan Singer has said he “couldn’t help [himself]” and shared a new photo of Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury. Check it out below.
(from avclub.com)
Conan O’Brien appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Friday, where he told a funny story about how David Letterman once sent him a horse. Unprepared for a horse in his life (especially the ornery one Letterman had selected), O’Brien confided to Colbert that the gift (in recompense for a glowing profile Conan wrote of Letterman upon Dave’s retirement from that same Late Show in 2015) has been something of a burden, frankly. Well, emerging from wherever he’s been cultivating his gloriously Skinny Santa beard for a rare talk show appearance with Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, Dave spun a very Letterman-like response to Conan’s televised griping, explaining that the horse was just a goof, intended to “take a dump” on Conan’s stage and then be returned to the ornery horse farm he’d come from. (MORE HERE)
Jimmy however got the gift of a box of Dave’s ties from the show. My friend John Michael Elliot was gifted one of those ties by Jimmy
See the full interview below.Â
(from timeout.com)
Still mourning the loss of Emporium’s Stranger Things pop-up bar in Logan Square? Return to the Upside Down for one night only as a Target in Granger, Indiana, transforms into 1980s Hawkins to celebrate the launch of an exclusive line of Stranger Things merch. (We already Google Mapped it for you: It’s a 100-mile drive from Chicago.) (MORE HERE)
Taco Tuesday is a religion in my house, but today is also National Pasta Day… how do we solve this conundrum? Thanks to all your text messages, the solution is simple…
SPAGHETTI TACOS!!!
Picture and recipe from Community Table:
If you make Spaghetti Tacos tonight, please tweet me about it!!
<3 @laurenoneil
(from rollingstone.com)
Last October, The Walking Dead‘s seventh season debuted with one of the most-watched episodes of the entire series. Long-time fans – and even a handful of haters – tuned in to see the resolution to the “Who did Negan bludgeon?” cliffhanger, in one of those rare 21st century TV moments shared by over 15 million people at once. (MORE HERE)Â
(from nme.com)
MGMT have officially returned with a new track this week. Fans have been eagerly awaiting news of the band’s long-awaited fourth album for some time. They last released their self-titled record in 2013, Watch the video for “Little Dark Age” below
(MORE HERE)
Will you be taking the stairs from now on? Me too…Wait. Nobody takes the stairs. Even creepier.
(from chicagoreader.com)
Thu 10/19: The Amazing Acro-Cats includes a skateboarding cat, a cat that holds the Guinness Book of World Records’ record for longest cat jump, and an entire band called Tuna and the Rock Cats! entirely made up of . . . cats. Bring your cat-hoarding pals to the Vittum Theater (1012 N. Noble). 7:30 PM, $23-$38 (MORE HERE)Â
My cat can’t do any of these things, but she just doesn’t want it bad enough.
After watching this, there is almost nothing I want to do more in life. -Lou
A fidget spinner in space! How long does it spin? I’m not sure, but it’s a great way to experiment with Newton’s laws of motion! pic.twitter.com/5xIJDs2544
— Randy Bresnik (@AstroKomrade) October 13, 2017
Here is the trailer for ‘Black Panther’ which is due in theaters in February. The next film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe features Chadwick Boseman reprising the role of the King of Wakanda who doubles as a superhero and returns home to reclaim his family’s throne amidst chaos. It looks really dramatic, epic, and visually gripping as we have come to expect from Marvel.
After the events of Captain America: Civil War, King T’Challa returns home to Wakanda. He soon finds his sovereignty challenged by factions within his own country. When two enemies conspire to bring down the kingdom, T’Challa must team up, as the Black Panther, with C.I.A. agent Everett K. Ross and members of the Dora Milaje—Wakanda’s special forces—to prevent a world war.
If your family with this character in ever expanding Marvel movieverse, here’s a look into his origins from Marvel Comics in Watch Mojo video form.
This sadly not surprising. Chicago has the most rats of any city in America. When the rats learn how to communicate how good deep dish and Polish sausages are, that’s when it is going to get worse.
In response to this news, $1 million has been promised to attack the ratty situation from Mayor Rahm Emmanuel. “The rodent battle will only benefit from the investment in garbage carts which helps ensure that residents can swap out any damaged carts for a new or refurbished one in a timely manner,” said Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Charles William in a press release.
The list is put together by the pest control Orkin.
1) Chicago
2) New York
3) Los Angeles
4) San Francisco – Oakland
5) Washington, DC
6) Philadelphia
7) Detroit
8) Baltimore
9) Seattle – Tacoma
10) Dallas – Ft. Worth
Contrasting artistic styles on two city posters about rats pic.twitter.com/q6N1BcnRQR
— Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel) March 21, 2017
FOX News contributor Kat Trumpf apparently has something against alternative icons Radiohead saying on a recent episode of Greg Gutfeld Show, that the band whose been nominated for the upcoming class of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will get inducted since “it’s about fame, and not talent”. Which dismissive alone, but Trampf went onto to dig her proverbial hole with the following dumb stuff: ‘”the kind of guys that I like have to be three things: strange, malnourished, and sad. Those guys always like Radiohead, so I’ve been having to pretend to like Radiohead for years to get these men, even though the music is just elaborate moaning and whining for ring tone sounds. You know what, if that’s not fame and power that will get me to do that for someone else, then I don’t know what is.”
So this is just snarky news panel chatter, at least that what it came off as in that clip. And to simply write Radiohead into a simplistic box of description when their music is so much more diverse and unique than “ring tone sounds” is just ignorant and uninformed. If you agree of disagree, let us know on our Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.
source: Consequence of Sound
(from consequenceofsound.net)
In 2015, Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl famously finished a concert in Sweden after breaking his leg during a tumble off the stage. Shortly after, he returned to the road for the entirety of the band’s scheduled North American tour while performing on an ornate throne. Which is probably the reason why there was orthopedic doctor on hand to examine an injured fan attending Foo Fighters’ recent show in Washington, DC. (MORE HERE)
(from complex.com)
In case it wasn’t already painfully obvious, Rick and Morty fans proved they are savagely loyal to the Adult Swim show with the recent McDonald’s revival of its Szechuan sauce. This past weekend, McDonald’s brought back its Szechuan sauce, made famous recently because of Rick and Morty, in limited numbers but underestimated the fury of Rick and Morty fans who didn’t get their hands on a sauce. But those who did manage to snatch up a packet of the sauce are now making money by selling it on eBay, or, in the case of Rachel Marie of Macomb, Michigan, trading a singular sauce packet for an entire car. (MORE HERE)
(from timeout.com)
It’s actually beginning to feel like fall outside, which probably makes a run in your underwear sound a bit less enticing than it might have a few months ago. Thankfully, The Bonobos Undie Run, which takes place in Humboldt Park on Saturday, October 21, is asking participants to strip down for a good cause. The nearly-nude run, jog and walk will benefit FCancer, a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention and early detection of all types of cancer. (MORE HERE)
Before they played the Vic to a captivated packed audience, Misterwives delivered a rousing hand-clapping soul-shaking session in the LOUNGE. It was a true delight to share tales of the band working up from a single bedroom apartment to national acclaim, the positive energy that laces through all of their music, two of the band member’s recent engagement, and the fun you can have with plastic gems on a denim jacket.
Here are the songs featured in this session that you can watch above
1. Drummer Boy
2. Coloring Outside the Lines
3. Our Own House
Want to attend a future LOUNGE session? Text the word LOUNGE to 312101 to get the latest info how you can win your way into future sessions with the best and biggest in alternative.
Next month, various items from Kurt Cobain’s personal collection will be put up for auction. Among them, his actual Blockbuster video card — issued from the 1508 North Orange Grove location in Los Angeles. If a laminated membership card doesn’t do it for you, maybe the MTV Moon Man that Nirvana won for 1992’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” is more your style? You can get more info on the auction by checking out this report from NME.
Starting bid for the Blockbuster card? $100. The Moon Man? $50,000. I’d go for the card, TBH.
That way, perhaps I can use it here — the Twitter account for the very last Blockbuster store in existence:
The bell by the register is there to alert us if you have a rental question. The mini gong is for medical emergencies.
— The Last Blockbuster (@loneblockbuster) October 1, 2017
— [eric]
