THIS WEEKEND: Chicago’s first annual Thai Food Festival
(from timeout.com)
Chicago has a summer festival for just about everything, and when it comes to food and drink, there’s no shortage of fantastic options. Windy City Smokeout caters to barbecue enthusiasts, Chicago Hot Dog Fest offers encased meats galore and Festa Italiana brings meatballs and pasta to University Village. Kicking off this weekend, Chicago will land its first ever Thai Food Festival, which will tap local Thai restaurants and performers for two days of live music, food and entertainment. (MORE HERE)
Chicago drivers pay more for downtown street parking than in any other U.S. city
(from chicagoreader.com)
Chicagoans are paying more money for street parking than drivers in any other city in the U.S., according to a study from INRIX. It costs $13 to park at a metered spot downtown for two hours, compared to $12 in San Francisco and $7 in New York City. The average driver in the city also spends about 56 hours a year looking for parking in downtown. “When parking fines, congestion and the difficulty of finding parking are added together, being a motorist in Chicago is costly indeed,” DePaul University transportation expert Joe Schwieterman told the Tribune. “Chicago’s unusually high fees for parking no doubt encourages people to switch to transit, but they also are a drag on downtown retail and tourism when supply doesn’t meet demand.” (MORE HERE)
Billy Corgan Is Selling Original Smashing Pumpkins-Era Gear
(from chicagoist.com)
The rumor mill is swirling again about a possible original-lineup Smashing Pumpkins reunion, but that doesn’t mean the band’s frontman can’t still downsize the instrument closet a bit. That’s right, gear fetishists and alt-rock nostalgists, Billy Corgan is latest musician to put a chunk of equipment on the public selling block.
Following the footsteps of Wilco and Corgan’s bandmate Jimmy Chamberlain will offer up studio- and tour-used guitars, amps and assorted musical paraphernalia. Expect to find 100-plus pieces of gear—ranging from the OG Pumpkins days to (perhaps slightly less exciting) the Zwan era—when the shop launches on Wednesday, August 16. (MORE HERE)
WATCH: New NIN – LESS THAN
(from engadget.com)
Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor’s current interest in video games goes beyond remastering the Quake soundtrack for vinyl and using Kinect on tour. The video for NIN’s new single “Less Than” uses the retro PlayStation VR game Polybius as its main attraction. The on-screen action ramps up in time with the music, lyrics flying toward the viewer, building to a crescendo at the two-minute mark where all hell breaks loose.
Never Before Seen Kurt Cobain Art
(from nytimes.com)
WATCH: Another Tasty Tidbit of Queens Of The Stone Age
Queens Of The Stone Age will release the new album Villains on August 25th.  Here’s another taste of the album…..a little tidbit of an appropriately named song.  SO EXCITED TO SEE THEM AT RIOTFEST!!!  — [eric]
Illinois May Lose In Taxes…But We Make Up For It In BEER.
Illinois may have made headlines for adding more taxation to us poor saps, but turns out we are actually winning the pour game.
Illinois ranks as the third cheapest in the nation when ringing up a case of beer — at an average of $15.00. Â The most expensive? Â Pennsylvania. Â The “state of independence.” Â Yeah, more like….freeing you from your hard earned money. Â A case of beer on average will cost you just under $22.00.
Check out all 50 nifty United States below…and read more about this study while you crack open a cold one. Â — [eric]
Brian & Lou 07.13.17
What Ya Missed, Caught up with our BADASS 48 winner Tish, Rolling Stones Greatest 90’s movies and Do you sleep with a childhood toy like Lou?
The 100 Greatest Movies of the Nineties
Rolling Stone came out with their list of the 100 Greatest Movies of the Nineties and WE DON’T AGREE!!
Here’s their top 10:
- Goodfellas
- Hoop Dreams
- Safe
- The Silence of the Lambs
- Pulp Fiction
- Close-Up
- Slacker
- Malcolm X
- Chungking Express
- The Piano
Do You Say “Sneakers” or “Tennis Shoes”? America Is Divided and Furious
Did we really need another thing to tear this country apart?
There are lots of famous debates about what people in different regions call different things . . . like “soda” versus “pop” and “sub” versus “hoagie.” But one of those debates REALLY just started heating up this week on Twitter.
What do you call the shoes you wear when you exercise?
According to a study by Harvard, 45.5% of people call them “sneakers,” mostly in the northeast . . . 41.3% call them “tennis shoes” . . . and the rest use other terms like “gym shoes” or just plain “shoes.”
Apparently, though, LOTS of people had no idea there was any other term than the one they used . . . so the reactions on social media are trending toward disbelief.
Never in my life have I been so caught off-guard by a ‘regionalisms for certain terms’ map. TENNIS SHOES? ALL OF YOU SAY TENNIS SHOES? pic.twitter.com/uXJWZhILed
— Elizabeth Minkel (@elizabethminkel) July 11, 2017
