Michael Phelps vs Shark Week

June 22, 2017 | Marconi🍕

( from consequenceofsound.net)

One has more Olympic gold medals than any athlete in history; the other has a series of Hollywood thrillers with depreciating returns based on their species. This summer, Michael Phelps and a great white shark will enter the water for the race of their lives. Yes, world-class athlete star Phelps will attempt to out swim one of nature’s fastest, deadliest creatures in a made-for-TV competition for the ages. The event will be part of Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week, which kicks off July 23rd. (MORE HERE)

Does the Shark even know he’s in a competition? What does Michael Phelps need to prove?

Moments that give every Chicagoan anxiety

June 22, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from timeout.com)

While Chicago offers more than a few ways to relax (pristine beaches and outdoor bars), living in any big city can be stressful. From taking the CTA every day to “dibs” to the sheer number of summer festivals, there are tons of little triggers that make Chicagoans inexplicably anxious. Here are a few of them. Which ones are the most relatable to you?

When all your friends start getting married and moving to Ravenswood. And on that note…

When your friends buy an actual free-standing home and you wonder where you went wrong. A literal house.

Leaving your apartment during Lollapalooza weekend. Like, at all.

When you’re always one year and one neighborhood behind the “cool neighborhood” that all your friends live in. Good thing I just signed a two-year lease in Wicker Park.

When you secretly love ketchup. Don’t you dare tell a soul.

When you end up at a cash-only bar with no ATM. Extra points if you’ve already ordered the drinks.

Spending the entire month of October waiting for the temperature to drop. Will it ever be warm again?

When the timer on your CTA bus app randomly jumps up five minutes. K, guess I’m sprinting for the bus now. Cool.

The moment you realize you’re old enough to be a parent to Lollapalooza’s target demographic. This is fine. Everything is fine.

When your co-worker invites you to his improv show. Literally anything could happen.

The split-second after you tap your (potentially valueless) Ventra card. Please, please, please…

Anytime a Chicago-based team makes its way to a championship game. Even if you don’t care about sports, the entire city gets real stressed out.

The day before you realize that those sonic booms are rehearsal for the Air and Water Show. Ah, the annual fear of immediate nuclear war.

When everyone’s like, “Yaaaas it’s spring!” but it’s still 40 degrees out. Am I…supposed to…feel warm? And even worse…

When people start wearing flip-flops and cargo shorts in March. NO. Just no.

Deciding whether or not the train operator can be trusted when he says he has an immediate follower. It’s the lie that keeps society afloat.

When you have friends in town who *need* to try deep-dish pizza. What if they hate it?

When you get an itch on your leg and are convinced you have bed bugs. Yep, that’s it, burning all my clothes now.

(MORE HERE)

 

Fall Out Boy Loves Chicago

June 22, 2017 | <3 Lauren

WHY IS FALL OUT BOY DOING A #VERIFIEDFAN ONSALE?

Fall Out Boy is coming home to Chicago – and bringing a new album with them! They care about their fans and understand there are going to be more people who want to see them in the intimate setting of House of Blues Chicago, than there will be available tickets, but Fall Out Boy is committed to getting tickets in the hands of fans. Not scalpers or bots. So they’re collaborating with Ticketmaster to sell tickets for their House of Blues Chicago show exclusively through the #VerifiedFan platform – a unique fan-first technology that levels the playing field so fans get access to tickets.

More HERE

<3 @laurenoneil

Brian & Lou 06.22.17

June 22, 2017 | Nicci

What Ya Missed, Weird Allergies, Slipknot vs. Nickelback, Winky Faces, and Tyler Glenn from Neon Trees

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NETFLIX IN JULY

June 21, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from avclub.com)

You can now proceed with planning your holiday binge watching, as Netflix has just released its comings and goings for July. Several original series will debut on the streaming platform, including Friends From College, starring Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, and Fred Savage. In the comedy vein, the first season of The Standups arrives on Independence Day. You can also look forward to Jason Bateman’s big dramatic turn in Ozark, opposite Laura Linney. And we’ll finally get our hands and eyes on an animated Castlevania series, which will strike its first chords on July 7. (MORE HERE)

 

United Airlines Is Going To Serve Deep-Dish Pizza

June 21, 2017 | Marconi🍕

(from chicagoist.com / original photo cbc.ca)

The Chicago-based airline that the world loves to hate will soon serve up a Chicago-style food staple that plenty of locals love to hate. United Airlines will reportedly begin slinging deep-dish pizza in their economy cabins, starting next month.

A United spokesperson told the travel blog TravelSkills that the thick-pie stuff will be available to passengers on all flights that depart the U.S. or Mexico. A spinach and garlic pizza served will “be prepared and served in our skillet dish to help the cheese brown and keep the crust crispy,” United said. It’ll run $9.99 with a “Pizza and Beer combo” option for $13.99. (MORE HERE)

I’m ok with eating my pizza on the ground. I mean, if this takes off what next? SPACE PIZZA!!??

Riot Fest Single Day Lineup and a Surprise

June 21, 2017 | <3 Lauren

Riot Fest single-day lineups are here and Danzig returns to Riot Fest plus a hook-up on 3-day passes below!!

 

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th
Nine Inch Nails, New Order, A Day To Remember, Dirty Heads, Vic Mensa, Ministry, Death From Above, Action Bronson, X, Mayday Parade(Performing A Lesson In Romantics), The Cribs, LIARS Buzzcocks, The Story So Far, State Champs, Four Year Strong, INVSN, Chon, The Hotelier, Saul Williams, Nothing More, Radar State, Tobacco, Seaway, Like Pacific, Sleep On It, Grayscale, Skating Polly, Warm Brew, HDBeenDope,
and featuring Hellzapoppin’ Circus Sideshow Revue

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th
Queens of the Stone Age, Wu-Tang Clan, Mike D (DJ Set), At The Drive In, Danzig, Gogol Bordello, Taking Back Sunday, New Found Glory, Fidlar, Bad Brains, Peaches, The Lawrence Arms (Performing Oh, Calcutta!), Bayside (Performing The Walking Wounded), Dead Cross, Streetlight Manifesto, GBH, Shabazz Palaces, Fishbone, (Performing Truth & Soul), Knuckle Puck, Cockney Rejects, Black Pistol Fire, Slaves (UK), Versus, RVIVR, The Smith Street Band, Potty Mouth, The Regrettes, Cold Beat, Gin Rummy,
and featuring Hellzapoppin’ Circus Sideshow Revue

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th
Jawbreaker, Paramore, Prophets of Rage, M.I.A., TV on the Radio, Dinosaur Jr. (Performing You’re Living All Over Me), Pennywise, Built to Spill (Performing Keep It Like A Secret), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (Performing Let’s Face It), The Orwells, Best Coast, Cap’n Jazz, Minus The Bear, Say Anything, The Menzingers, GWAR, Real Friends, Hot Water Music, Andrew W.K., Beach Slang, that dog. (Performing Retreat From the Sun), Mad Caddies, The Flatliners, Dessa, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Engine 88, Alice Bag, Downtown Boys, Culture Abuse, Gazebos, Kitten Forever, Upset,
and featuring Hellzapoppin’ Circus Sideshow Revue

 

Single-day and two-day tickets go ON SALE FRIDAY, JUNE 23 @ 10a. Riot Fest three-day passes are on sale now, with General Admission and VIP options available.

But because you are rad, enter to win a pair of 3-day passes HERE

SEE YOU IN THE PIT!!

<3 @laurenoneil

Brian & Lou 06.21.17

June 21, 2017 | Nicci

What Ya Missed, ex revenge, if you found 100k would you turn it in, We Need To Talk and the new Ken Doll.

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Couple Donates $100,000 To Goodwill … By Accident

June 21, 2017 | Nicci

A couple in Ohio accidentally dropped off a duffel bag containing almost $100,000 at an Ohio Goodwill. Thanks to a couple of honest employees, they got back every dime. The employees at the Zanesville, Ohio, Goodwill were going through donations last week when they came across a duffel bag. Inside the bag was $97,004, a living will and marriage certificate. At first they thought the cash was fake, employee Kelsey Croy told CNN. “It was so much cash they figured it was fake at first and then thought, ‘Well no, maybe it’s actually counterfeit money,'” Croy said. “So they brought it into the store office. “I looked in the bag and we counted it right there on the desk. And it was $97,004.” Thankfully, the owners asked for a receipt for tax purposes when they dropped off the goods that morning. The employees immediately called the couple but no one answered. Not wanting to leave that amount of cash in the store, they called in the Zanesville Police Department and it was eventually returned to the owners.  The couple told police their bank was closing. So, they withdrew all their money to move it to another bank. On the way to the new bank, they stopped at Goodwill to drop off a bag of clothes. That’s how the money ended up there. READ MORE

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Marvel is merging album covers with comic books, EXCELSIOR!

June 20, 2017 | Kevin

Marvel Comics is rolling a series of covers for some of their more popular titles that will blend the art work of rock music’s more visually stunning album covers with Nirvana, The Clash, Guns N’ Roses, and Blondie blended with Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor, Inhumans, and X-Men. The special issues roll out in comic book stores and online in September. Marvel has done this before with hip hop legends in 2015. MovieWeb has more on the story here. 

Marvel and rock music collide this September with new tribute variant covers!

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Ryan Penagos, Marvel’s vice president and executive editor of digital media revealed more of the teased covers in a post on Twitter. Can we get these in posters up in our studio now?

Daniel Day Lewis retires from acting

June 20, 2017 | Kevin

Daniel Day Lewis is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of all time. From ‘Gangs of New York’ to ‘The Last of the Mohicans’, he has displayed a trans-formative power on screen that very few posses. When DDL is in a movie, he is the character he’s portraying. So it was sad to read today according to Variety, that Day Lewis is retiring from acting at the age of 60.

In a statement, Day-Lewis’ spokeswoman, Leslee Dart, confirmed the news: “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further comment on this subject. ” He goes out on top with a career spanning four decades and four Oscar awards on his mantle place. His last movie an untitled drama has already been filmed, and will see Day Lewis collaborate again with the well regarded Paul Thomas Anderson, who directed Day-Lewis to a best actor Oscar in 2007’s “There Will Be Blood.

My personal favorite role of Lewis’s is his performance in the emotional drama ‘In the Name of Father’ where he played Gerry Conlon, an Irish man who is believed to have committed a pub bombing with his father and is jailed by English officials.

Toni Cornell’s letter to Chris for Father’s Day

June 20, 2017 | <3 Lauren

Sunday was a month since he left.  Sunday was also the first father’s day his children spent without him.

Chris Cornell’s daughter Toni wrote him a beautifully heart-breaking letter on his facebook page, copied below:

Daddy,

Let me start by saying how much I love you and how much you mean to me. You are my idol, someone I’ve always looked up to. You were always there for me. You pushed me forward every day, and you still do.

Whenever I cry or feel like there’s no way I can go on, I hear your voice, “Don’t sit worrying peanut. Worry is a waste of time, I’m ok.”

I always took what you said to heart. Probably because everything you said was so smart.

Every time you came home from tour you spent all your hours with us. No matter how tired you were, how many time zones you traveled, you were there for us.

Whenever I was sick you would take care of me. You would cuddle with me, hug me, kiss me. You didn’t care about getting sick. You would stay up all night to make sure my fever went down. And if it didn’t, you would wake me up and give me my medicine. I would open my eyes, see you, and feel better.

I have so many memories with you but one of my favorite ones was earlier this year when I was jetlagged and we watched ‘Purple Rain ‘. We were staying at the BHH and you came into my room when I was trying to find a movie to watch.

“How about Purple Rain?” you said. I always trusted your judgement. I put it on and immediately fell in love! We then got to your favorite song, ‘The Beautiful Ones’.

“This song is so special it doesn’t even belong in a genre. When I was in my twenties, I saw this in the theatre and some guy started cracking up laughing at this scene and song. It got me really mad, ” you said.

I fell in love with the song too and listened to it on repeat.

Our special connection was always the arts. Poems, books, music, writing. We both have a unconditional love for it.

Who’s going to introduce me to movies like ‘Purple Rain’ and songs like ‘The Beautiful Ones’ now? I’m hoping I will find some because you trained me so well.

I know you are still here, and the warmth I feel beneath the cold, is you.
YOU ARE THE BEST FATHER IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. And I know, that if this wasn’t an accident, you’d still be cuddling with me watching ‘Purple Rain’.

I love you and miss you so, Daddy. You deserve your own day to be celebrated because you are the best dad anyone could ever have. Happy Father’s Day!

Love,
Your Baby Toni
www.chriscornell.com

💔 @laurenoneil

 

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