Ten years ago, Apple released the very first iPhone. While it is difficult to overstate the significance of what Steve Jobs and company achieved a decade later, it is easy to lose sight of precisely how far we’ve come.
The first iPhone lacked 3G connectivity and didn’t have an App Store. It had a rear camera, but didn’t allow sending images via text messages. Multitasking wasn’t a thing, and that’s to say nothing of how infamously buggy, unreliable, and incompletethe product was when Jobs first demoed it in front of a MacWorld audience in 2007. The entire mobile industry was a different place, too. Cingular Wireless was still around, and the leading smartphones of the day came from the likes of Nokia, BlackBerry, Palm, and Motorola, sporting QWERTY keyboards nearly as large as their screens. (MORE HERE)
What Ya Missed, Has your big mouth cos you your job like Miguel Montero, Vanilla vs Chocolate ice cream, Nicci is mad at CBS for interrupting Big Brother and Artie Lange.
Today the Chicago Cubs put catcher on assignment confirmed his agent Paul Kinzer, which gives the team 10 days to trade him or cut him from the team. This comes one day after Montero called out pitcher Jake Arietta for for stolen bases in 6-1 loss to the Nationals. The public statement that got Montero the boot is believed to be the following: “That’s the reason they were running left and right today because they were slow to the plate. Simple as that. It’s a shame it’s my fault because I didn’t throw anyone out.” In the questionable public discussion, Montero described Arietta as “slow” to the base. You can see Montero share the dirty laundry in the video from Sports Illustrated above.
Coach Joe Maddon expressed the move was done due to the youth in the Cubs locker room, sighting it would not set the right example for a veteran playing. This is according to multiple news outlets including ESPN.
Montero expressed his love and appreciation for the Cubs and the Chicago fans in a series of tweets today.
To the city of Chicago Dear fans, today I say goodbye to the greatest fans. I want to thank you for the support.
Shake Shack is planning to open a location inside Sears Tower, Chicago’s tallest skyscraper and the United States’ tallest. It’ll be the New York-based fast-food chain its fifth location in the city.
Shake Shack should start serving burgers and concretes to tourists and Loop workers sometime in 2019 inside the base of the tower, according to the Tribune. It’s part of a large-scale plan for the former Sears Tower which will extend the lower floor by 300,000 square feet and fill it with bars, restaurants, retail, and entertainment.(MORE HERE)
Love Shake Shack. I can’t see going to this one unless friends or family are visiting from out of town but some pretty cool stuff going in at the Sears Tower. Check out this video of the WKQX and LOOP lunch squad at the Ohio Street location from a few years ago below.
The museum is dedicated to the “importance of the visual arts, including filmmaking”. George Lucas’ proposed $1 billion Museum Of Narrative Art has been given the green-light by the Los Angeles city council.
Lucas and his wife, Mellody Hobson, has been proposing this project throughout 2017, initially pitching it to the city of Chicago. The filmmaker spoke extensively to the council members about how the showcase of popular art “appeals to people emotionally, but also tells you something about who you are.”The museum will begin construction early next year and will take 36-months to complete. It will showcase the importance of the visual arts, including filmmaking, in shaping history, perception and myth. (MORE HERE)
For so many years, we looked across the Atlantic with envy. Not because England was home to both the Beatles and the Spice Girls, or because of Queen Elizabeth’s amazing hats, but because of their grocery stores. British grocery stores are home to literally dozens of varieties of canned cocktails, from elderflower gin and tonics to mojitos, and we here in the U.S. were sorely lacking.
Not anymore, though. Cutwater Spirits, the recently relaunched division of San Diego’s Ballast Point, has finally given us what we need: strong booze, good mixers, and aluminum cans. And they’re now available in Chicago. But can they possibly be any good? We tried all of them to find out.
Though several companies have made forays into the prepared cocktail market, including Chicago’s own Crafthouse Cocktails, these individual-sized mixed drinks are still a revelation. You can take them to the pool! To the beach! To a barbecue! With no glass and no leftovers, you’re finally free to sip a great rum and Coke, no sticky Malibu bottle required. (MORE HERE)
Late 90s alt-pop band Smash Mouth has been curiously injecting itself into weird issues that seem completely unrelated to them like the recent beef between Corey Taylor of Stone Sour/Slipknot and Chad Kroeger of Nickelback but now Smash Mouth has a beef with the most feverish fanbase in music, Twenty One Pilots ‘Clique’. Yes, the band that did that song in the Shrek soundtrack is in a twitter fight with Twenty-One Pilots fans after being asked what they think of the duo. It’s a very silly and ridiculous argument so it let be known we are taking no sides on this, but we are watching the shade get casted. Let it be clear the band Twenty-One Pilots themselves are not in this, just whoever runs the Smash Mouth Twitter and the TOP faithful.
Ok, so Smashy Mouth ( I call them that, because it’s not clear which member of the band runs their twitter) has taken the public stance of endorsing TOP, so what’s so bad about that? Well, apparently asking a band if they approve of band also means they must also endorse individual members of the band? Yes, they took it that way or at least it appears they did. It’s just confusing and odd sign of misconstrued context in an age of mass collective wanting throw the daily #(insert celeb/artists whos says something remotely negative about my favorite)isoverparty with hopes of getting shallow likes and retweets with no progressive result.
If you were a fan you'd know that that both put in as much passion and time and effort and emotion. it's a band not just a singer. https://t.co/oGVFpYliZk
Then at the same time, you can say the Clique is correct in that drummer Josh Dunn is indeed a critical central force in TOP’s success, and just ignoring him is disrespectful. Still, it’s all subjective, this is having an argument for the sake of just arguing. Twenty-One Pilots is a great band who puts on amazing shows, writes wonderful music, and inspires people. Fighting over it is just a real waste of time.
Have fun with music! Debate about what songs are the best or what show you saw was better. That’s fandom for the sake of good, this is just collective bellyaching. This is just my take by the way, maybe your opinion is different. And look you, reading this whole thing! If you got thoughts hit us up on @101WKQX and tag @Kevkellam so we don’t confuse everyone else.
You can scratch your head to this mash-up of Smash Mouth and TOP, too.
What Ya Missed, Nicci bought an adult toy on her parents Prime account, a Lansing off duty officer is in the news and Brian’s bag was stolen on the plane.
A new poll had people rank the best ice cream flavors, and we fully expected a BORING pick at #1 . . . either chocolate or vanilla. But apparently we’re NOT quite that boring . . .
More than 5,000 people voted online, and COOKIES AND CREAM took first place. Here are the top ten . . .
1. Cookies and cream.
2. Chocolate.
3. Vanilla.
4. Mint chocolate chip.
5. Strawberry. Neapolitan with vanilla, chocolate, AND strawberry came in 12th.
6. Regular chocolate chip.
7. French vanilla. (If they’d lumped it in with regular vanilla, it probably would have come in first. They’re different though.)
8. Rocky road.
9. Coffee.
10. Peanut butter cup.
