SUPER NINTENDO RETURNS! SNES Retro console has a release date

June 26, 2017 | Kevin

Nintendo is launching the Super NES Classic Edition (which just like the NES Mini Classic which had a limited run for the 2016 Holiday season) will feature pre-loaded games in a console with wired controllers, that you can play in high-definition via an HDMI cord. According to Tech Crunch, Super NES Classic Edition will be available on Sept. 29 at a retail price of $79.99 and just like the NES Mini expect it sell out quickly.

The most alluring game on the list of pre-loaded classics is actually a game that never got released, Star Fox 2. You will need to defeat the first level of Star Fox to unlock the previously unreleased adventure of a red-haired fox fighter pilot in space. Overall the list is games here is pretty solid.

Here is the 21 pre-loaded games set for the new retro-console

  • Contra III: The Alien Wars™
  • Donkey Kong Country™
  • EarthBound™
  • Final Fantasy III
  • F-ZERO™
  • Kirby™ Super Star
  • Kirby’s Dream Course™
  • The Legend of Zelda™: A Link to the Past™
  • Mega Man® X
  • Secret of Mana
  • Star Fox™
  • Star Fox™ 2
  • Street Fighter® II Turbo: Hyper Fighting
  • Super Castlevania IV™
  • Super Ghouls ’n Ghosts®
  • Super Mario Kart™
  • Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars™
  • Super Mario World™
  • Super Metroid™
  • Super Punch-Out!! ™
  • Yoshi’s Island™

Meanwhile for those gaming in the present day, Nintendo is also dominating with the new console Switch which will see the release of ‘Super Mario Odyssey’ which based on this trailer looks be really fun and inventive. Oh, and did you know there is going to be an NINTENDO THEME PARK ?! Yeah,more on that here. 

 

Michael Jordan fan gets crying LeBron James tattoo

June 25, 2017 | Kevin

The amount of the shade casted is here is staggering and permanenly inked on one Michael Jordan superfan’s leg for what could be the rest of his life. While the debate who is the best all-time NBA player  Lebron James or Jordan  rages on, Kalen Gilleese of Salt Lake City has taken a firm stance with an inverse of the ‘crying Jordan’ meme by getting a crying LeBron tatted on his skin. Reminder that Jordan and the Chicago Bulls defeated the Utah Jazz (of Salt Lake City) for the NBA Championship in 1998 for sixth NBA title in 8 years. Just in case you forgot that’s 6 titles twice the amount that a team with LeBron James on it has won.

“I’ve heard from a lot of people that have seen it,” Gilleese said in an interview with ESPN. “No matter what they think, they end by appreciating how well-done it is.” Gilleese got the tatt in style with Bulls shorts and a pair of Jordans on. “He’s always flopping, crying, looking for fouls. I’ve never had a lot of respect for him,” Gilleese told CNN.

Will Ferrell with tiger face paint, will not stop singing on ‘CONAN’

June 25, 2017 | Kevin

Will Ferrell who is an American treasure, continue his insane stretch of appearances on ‘CONAN’ when he showed up this week with tiger face paint claiming he came from a kid’s birthday party, he also insisting on a singing the 70’s pop hit ‘Superstar’ by the Carpenters which he claimed the young birthday boy wanted to hear. Ferrell than continued to bulldoze host Conan O’Brien by insisting that he has “sing the entire song” or he would restart if interrupted. Ferrell also revealed the birthday boy is his son but previously was not aware who is father is.

So you think it ends there right? Nope. The star of ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Stepbrothers’ continued to sing the song through the commercial break, and into the show’s end credits.

Ferrell is starring the upcoming comedy film ‘The House’ in theaters on June 30th.

WILL FERRELL VS. JIMMY FALLON MUSTACHE VS. MUSTACHE! 

 

CREEPY! Watch JAWS while floating a lake

June 25, 2017 | Kevin

You Can Watch Jaws In The Water

This would be terrifying 😱🦈

Posted by LADbible on Thursday, June 22, 2017

They are going to need a bigger lake….

In Texas,  the Alamo Drafthouse has been hosting special “Jaws on the Water” screenings on a lake  that they sell as ” jawesome thrills return again this summer!” It’s been going on a couple of years now with an expansion with screenings of other ‘JAWS’  films including ‘JAWS 2′ ‘JAWS 3’  and the awful final film ‘JAWS: the Revenge’. They add fireworks in when stuff blows up, you can get body-painted bite marks, and enjoying a drink while you float like waiting chum for the greatest predator to ever swim the deep. Bloody Disgusting has the whole story and more. 

Now could we do this on Lake Michigan? WAIT, DO WE HAVE SHARKS IN LAKE MICHIGAN?! Read about the debated history of Chicago’s 1955 ‘Shark attack’ in Lake Michigan. 

 

WHITE SOX : WATCH THE FULL MARK BUEHRLE NUMBER RETIREMENT CEREMONY

June 24, 2017 | Kevin

Here is the complete number retirement ceremony for Chicago White Sox great Mark Buehrle which took place before today’s game at Guaranteed Rate Field (still getting used to that) before the Sox took on the Oakland A’s. The ceremony featured several great Sox greats including the team’s all-time hit leader ‘Big Hurt’ Frank Thomas who still referred to the ball park as “Comiskey” plus former coach Ozzie Guillen, Scott Podsednik, and more. It was moving to see Buehrle playful yet humble as he accepted the honor with his family as his side, who mistakenly sat down too early and asked them to stay next to him. Buehrle’s son sang the National Anthem and he caught the first pitch from his daughter to add even more “ahh, that got me” feelings to the day. GO SOX!

 

 

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The Killers explain what it means to be ‘the man’

June 24, 2017 | Kevin

The Killers are ready remind you they are still at the top of the alternative music mountain with a new album ‘Wonderful Wonderful’ which is due out later this year, a headlining set at Lollapalooza in August, and a fresh flashy single ‘THE MAN’ which you can hear here. Speaking of being a ‘man’, Brendon Flowers and company touched on the idea of manliness and the lyrical points of their new albums which sees them add old elements with funkier new ones in an interview with Entertainment Weekly recently.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

Lyrically, the new songs grapple with what it means to be a man. “In your head it’s about being tough and bringing home the bacon, but what I’ve come to find is it’s really more about empathy and compassion,” says Flowers, now 36. So on the pulse-spiking “Tyson vs. Douglas,” named for the 1990 boxing match that saw then-champion Mike Tyson lose to Buster Douglas in a shocking upset, Flowers explores what it’s like to watch a hero fall. As the father of three boys, it’s a subject that hits close to home. “Right now,” he says, “to a 9-year-old, a 7-year-old, and a 6-year-old at home, I’m Mike Tyson — and I don’t want to go down.”

They found a guide in producer Jacknife Lee (U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, Taylor Swift’s Red), who worked with them in studios in Vegas and Los Angeles. “We have a lot of similar influences, but he’s also really aware of what’s happening now,” Flowers says. “He’s constantly buying records and applying things to our music that we haven’t done before.” The disco-tinged lead single, “The Man” (out now), was originally written around a Kool & the Gang sample that the band later re-created using old-school techniques. For the dramatic, slow-burning title track, Lee recorded Vannucci drumming along to old hip-hop and funk records with a boom box, then spliced those tracks into the song’s rhythm section. “There was a lot of experimentation,” Vannucci says.

 

 

 

 

Happy Mark Buehrle Day!: Why he’s one of the best White Sox players ever

June 24, 2017 | Kevin

Mark Buehrle played for the Chicago White Sox as the communities he represented on the Southside, he played with a working class no nonsense focus on the task while still exhibiting his passion for the game. That sounds like a Southsider to me. Today the White Sox will honor of the greatest pitchers in Chicago baseball history by retiring his number ‘56’. So here is a brief look at video highlights from his incredible career with the Sox. 

This wonderful video shows off Sox fans sharing their memories of Buehrle’s outstanding career with stories about the ‘05 Series, the no-hitters, and the perfect game.

In the beloved year 2005, Buehrle threw a save in the 14th inning in the World Series game after drinking a couple of beers, and won. Yes, this happened and that sounds a like Southsider to me.

The No Nos kept coming from Buehrle with the Texas Ranger.

One of the all-time best on-the-mound performances on any side of town. June 23, 2009 with over 28,000 in attendance at the park on the 35th street, Buehrle saw 27 hitters and with some help from his teammates put 27 down in a thrilling ‘Perfect Game’.

You know have done something special to when Late Night TV icon David Letterman makes you the focus of the classic ‘Top 10’ segment.

Maybe this one just taste real sweet as a White Sox devotee, picking off a post-Cub Texas Ranger by the name of Sammy Sosa at first base. Don’t make excuses Cub fans, Sosa got corked up here.

These are just some of the reasons why Buerhle is one for the best MLB players in Chicago history.

The cool rockstars of Manhattan vs. the technical nerds of Brooklyn

June 24, 2017 | Mishell Livio

“…The book: a reductive binary between acts identified as “Manhattan” vs. those labeled as “Brooklyn.” The Manhattan bands are sexy, genially seedy, coke-sweating old-school Lower East Side rock stars of the first half of the decade: the Strokes, Interpol, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. In contrast, the so-called “Brooklyn bands” of the second half “remaking New York in their own nerdy image” (as the book’s jacket puts it) are a caricature of sexless, pretentious, dressed-down, “uncool kids”—“very technical musicians” who “don’t really present themselves as rock stars,” and are “bright,” “more grounded,” “less sensitive,” “reasonable,” and “practically minded”: TV on the Radio, the National, Dirty Projectors, Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend (also, confusingly, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, a self-consciously artsy band who are held up in some passages as hard-drinking East Village party-starters and in others as reluctant, unglamorous anti-stars living and working in Brooklyn).”   –

Check out the book On Amazon

‘Star Wars’: Ron Howard stepping in to direct Han Solo spinoff

June 23, 2017 | Kevin

Oh there is a disturbance in the Force….

Today Lucasfilm shook up the director’s chair on the untitled Han Solo spinoff film in ‘Star Wars’ series, bringing Hollywood veteran Ron Howard to take over the film after co-directors Phill Lord and Chris Miller jumped off the film. Lord and Miller reportedly left the prequel film which features the life of young Han Solo, due to ‘creative differences’ with the script written by Lawrence Kasdan, who worked on the pages of ‘Empire Strikes Back’, ‘Return of the Jedi’ and ‘The Force Awakens’. According to Polygon, the directing duo were straying too far from ‘a Star Wars movie’ with their approach.

EW reports that Lord and MIller were hired because their comedic touch, while the directors were apparently doing a straight up comedy film.

“At Lucasfilm, we believe the highest goal of each film is to delight, carrying forward the spirit of the saga that George Lucas began forty years ago,” said Kathleen Kennedy, president of Lucasfilm in a statement on StarWars.com. “With that in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that Ron Howard will step in to direct the untitled Han Solo film. We have a wonderful script, an incredible cast and crew, and the absolute commitment to make a great movie. Filming will resume the 10th of July.”

According to multiple sources, this Han Solo film is three quarters of the way through production with room for possible re-shoots. It is interesting here how much influence Howard whose a proven movie winner with hits like ‘Apollo 13’ under his belt, with a limited window to close out production of the next anticipated Star Wars big screen adventure.

CTA shows PRIDE with a Rainbow flag running this weekend

June 23, 2017 | Kevin

It’s Pride Month in Chicago with the annual parade tomorrow expecting to attract hundreds of thousands to the Boystown and Lakeview area, the CTA is going to get them their style with a rainbow flag train. Chicagoist turned us on to this story.   

The Rainbow wrapped trains will be operating on the Red Line which is sure to pack with Pride revelers enjoying the day on the Northside tomorrow. CTA has also announced expanded train service for Saturday’s parade which in 2015 drew over 1 million people. Here is all the official info on the 2017 Chicago Pride Parade.

 

The CTA Is Running A Rainbow Train For Pride Weekend & It Looks Amazing

June 23, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from chicagoist.com)

The annual Pride Parade is just around the corner, and god love ’em, the CTA is getting into the rainbow-striped spirit too. Throughout Pride weekend a rainbow-flag-wrapped train car will run along the Red Line, in all its prideful glory. The photos look fantastic. Maybe we could just keep it past the weekend? Please? (MORE HERE)

HAWKS trade PANARIN & HJALMARSSON, SAAD returns

June 23, 2017 | Kevin

Chicago Blackhawks made some big moves today with beloved players just as the NHL Draft begins with defensive force Niklas Hjalmarsson to the Coyotes for defensemen Connor Murphy and center Laurent Dauphin while Artemi Panarin was sent to the Bluejackets to bring back Brendon Saad. Oh you thought the Hawks lost enough? Yesterday Expansion Draft for the Vegas Golden Knights, Trevor Van Riemsdyk was drafted off the Hawks. Yeah, those are some big moves. The Sun Times cover the fan madness over the trades with the headline that phrased it as “people are freaking out.”


These moves might have  been expected following the Hawks first round exit from this past season’s playoffs. The moves are significant as both players exiting the team have been longtime contributors to the Hawk’s Stanley Cup Championship seasons on both sides of the puck.

Hjalmarsson leaving is a blow to longtime Hawks fans as he’s been a critical piece of the Hawks success over the years. “Niklas’ contributions to the three Stanley Cup championship teams are well known but his dependability as a teammate, selfless attitude and the way he represented the Chicago Blackhawks on and off the ice are what made him such a beloved member of the organization,” said Blackhawks general manager Stan Bowman said in a statement. “He made his debut in Chicago in 2008 and quietly established himself as one of the toughest competitors in franchise history. We wish he and his family continued success.”

Saad returns to Chicago, who also acquire goaltender Anton Forsberg, in exchange for Panarin and Tyler Motte. Saad has been missed since his last tenure with Hawks with whom he won the 2010 and 2013 Stanley Cup titles, as he was a fitting line mate for team star Johnathan Toews. As noted by CSN Chicago, the Hawks lose in this deal the “dynamite chemistry” of Patrick Kane and Panarin. Panarin himself showed his awesome talent by winning the Calder Trophey as the top rookie in the NHL during his debut season.

Factor in ‘the Demigod’ Marian Hossa sitting out all of the next season due to a serious skin allergy, complications with treatment, and debate as to whether the 38 year 1000 point plus player will ever lace up his skates again. Oh and it’s the draft weekend in Chicago with a new team being added to the league causing a lot of other noteworthy moves around the league. Did you get all that?

 

 

 

WATCH: Jack Antonoff Show You How He Makes Bleachers Music

June 23, 2017 | Marconi🍕

If you haven’t already listened to Bleachers new album “Gone Now” go do that…You know, right after this or something. 
Jack was so cool and awesome at PIQNIQ. When I met him I was a mumbling throat clearing idiot trying to say hello. 
I don’t know why either. I think maybe it’s because I think so much of him, his music and how he creates said music. Also he’s so nice. He’s this normal guy who just happens to be an amazing artist. I have so much respect for him and what he does. 
I was really bummed that he couldn’t bring his replicated bedroom to PIQNIQ because I wanted to see where he’d written all of these amazing songs. So this video from an interview he did with Rolling Stone is pretty freakin’ cool. I hope if I ever get to meet Jack again I’ll be able to act professional and have an actual normal human exchange. Thanks for sharing this peek into your process Jack.

Portillo’s lemon cake appeared on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!

June 23, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from timeout.com)

Ever since a Reddit thread led to the revival of Portillo’s discontinued lemon cake, the Illinois-based fast food chain has been making a pretty big deal out of its latest dessert option (available for a limited time only, naturally). On Tuesday night, the sweet, citrus-infused cake got some national exposure in the form of a brief appearance in the opening of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! (MORE HERE)

I love this new part of Jimmy Kimmel Live. They have viewers send in clips to start the show. Looks like Portillo’s was smart to do so. Plus if you’re in L.A. there is a Portillo’s now in Anaheim.

Eat. Travel. Rock. 06.23.17

June 23, 2017 | Nicci

Who doesn’t love a good pop-up?!  They’re in, they’re out, they build lasting memories.  Here are a couple that hopefully stick around longer than they’re supposed to. READ MORE

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Brian & Lou 06.23.17

June 23, 2017 | Nicci

What Ya Missed, Catching People in the Act, School Dress Codes, Eat Travel Rock, and Summertime Movies

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WATCH: New Music Video from Fall Out Boy ‘CHAMPION’

June 22, 2017 | Kevin

Along with today’s news of a big hometown album release show at House of Blues (more about that here), Fall Out Boy released a new track from their upcoming new album ‘M A N I A’ called ‘Champion’. The video features some similar characters from their recent video for ‘Young & Menance’ in a skateboard adventure that loose and fun. The music feels like a defiant locker room pre-game pump up, It will be surprising if you don’t hear this song used at a sports arena or as bumper music in and out of commercials during a televised game.

Pete Wentz from FOB chatted with Brian & Lou in April as the band began their manic road to the new album and tour.

Listen to the other new track from ‘M A N I A’

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