The best bottomless brunch drink deals around Chicago
(from chicagotribune.com)
Let’s be real: The best part of brunch isn’t the pancakes, bacon or eggs Benedict. It’s the drinks. But with some mimosas running you $14 (or more) or a bloody mary costing as much as a meal itself, a boozy brunch isn’t always in the budget.
A good bottomless booze deal can make or break a brunch date so follow our lead and get your mid-morning buzz on.
*Unless noted, these bottomless deals are available on Saturday and Sunday.
840 N. Wabash Ave. 312-944-8400
For $16.95, add bottomless mimosas to your brunch. We’re not saying you should see how much you can drink in the hour and a half limit, but we’re also not NOT saying that. 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Broken English
1400 N. Wells St. 312-951-7667
Head to the newest Broken English spot to enjoy its patio and $15 bottomless mimosas while you nosh on their many taco styles—you can order six tacos for $20 or 12 for $38 if you’re of the “sharing is caring” mindset. All day starting at 11 a.m.
Chicago Q
1160 N. Dearborn St. 312-642-1160
Put a smoky spin on your Saturday or Sunday brunch at barbecue joint, Chicago Q. For $20, your table will get its own bottle of bubbly and a carafe—yes, a carafe—of O.J. to create your own concoctions. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Dolce Italian
127 W. Huron St. 312-754-0700
Add a never-ending stream of prosecco to your Saturday or Sunday brunch for an extra $25 per person with your choice of orange juice, grapefruit juice or peach puree to prepare your bubbles as you wish. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Fremont
15 W. Illinois St. 312-874-7270
Head to this River North spot on Saturday and Sunday for unlimited boozy breakfast faves like smoked brisket and omelets, a doughnut wall, a waffle bar and your choice of desserts for $40. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Kit Kat Lounge
3700 N. Halsted St. 773-525-1111
Forget a chill low-key brunch and head to Kit Kat Lounge for their “Divalicious Brunch” prix fixe menu with two courses and two hours of build-your-own mimosas, bloody martinis, bellinis and sangrias for $29.95. You can also add the build-your-own special onto any other brunch purchase for $14.95. 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
The Reservoir
844 W. Montrose Ave. 773-275-4000
For $15 on top of your brunch entree purchase on Saturday or Sunday, you can get your buzz on with unlimited mimosas at this cozy self-proclaimed local watering hole. 11 a.m.-3 p.m.
Chris Cornell’s daughters post moving tributes to their father
Chris Cornell’s family has recently used his Facebook page to post moving messages and tributes to the late great singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave. Cornell’s daughters Lily and Toni both posted some very moving messages on a Father’s Day weekend. You can read more from the Cornell family here on Chris Cornell’s facebook page.
Cornell’s final music video made it’s way online this weekend. The song ‘”The Promise” was written for a 2016 historical film about refugees in a love triangle.
15-piece orchresta crushes it with Daft Punk cover
Daft Punk is known that robot headed duel kings of dance music with their aesthetic of technology meets humanity clouding their real faces and the group’s music is delightfully none-organic. Radio Dance Orchestra, a 15-piece orchestra took Daft Punk’s definitive hip-shaker ‘Harder, Better, Fester’ on the German late night TV show Neo Magazin Royale. It’s a truly imaginative take of a very funky song while never losing it’s original flare, yet sounding fresh.
Now if Daft Punk could dust off the robot heads and get out of the work shop for some live shows, that would be exciting. Daft Punk last a did a full tour in 2007 including a headlining set at Lollapalooza in Grant Park in downtown Chicago. They certainly stayed busy making music including their very successful ‘Randon Access Memories’ which won the band a Grammy Award a few years back.
Twenty-One Pilots on Coachella: ‘WE CAN’T STAND IT’
Twenty-One Pilot’s Tyler Joseph while headlining the Firefly Festival this past weekend went after the big West Coast fest, Coachella. The Clique in attendance at Firefly in Delaware roared when he said he favored them over the California masses of the Coachella. “It’s not that we don’t like Coachella, it’s just that we can’t stand it.” said Joseph. TMZ captured the specific moment during TOP’s set on Friday night.
Based in Coachella Valley, the fest takes place at the Empire Pollo Club and has grown to become one of the biggest music festivals in the world while also being far from the nearest major city. It has attracted thousands from around the world, with many buying tickets before each year’s lineup is even announced.
Will Ferrell vs Jimmy Fallon! Mustache vs Mustache!
Will Ferrell is on the promo tour for his upcoming film ‘The House’ and last night was a goofing with the recently mustached Jimmy Fallon on ‘The Tonight Show’ in a facial hair faceoff with comedic results. You can just tell these two ‘Saturday Night Live’ alums have joked so organically with each other off camera, so simply mining a fake mustache for real sincere laughs is no biggy.
Here is the trailer for ‘The House’ starring Ferrell and Amy Poehler as two financially strapped parents who start an illegal casino in their suburban home to send their daughter to college.
FOO NEWS
So many Foo things!! Their ninth studio album ‘Concrete and Gold’ will be out Sept. 15th and if you pre-order it you will have access to special fan presales on tour dates (which do not include a Chicago date, yet…)
I love this presale-fan access to tickets deal, QOTSA just did the same on their tour with Royal Blood. One step closer to fighting the bots and scalpers!!
Here’s a letter from Dave <3
“Like a box of really loud chocolates” $%@ YEAH!!!
CalJam 17: a one-day festival of Foo with 22 of their (and my) favorite bands, one big party:
Booking my flight now <3
Dave Grohl brought his daughter Harper onstage in Iceland the other night, watch the video HERE
<3 @laurenoneil
Brian & Lou 06.20.17
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BADASS 48 – Final Event
Check out the photos from the final event at Fatpour Tapworks, in which we crowned our BADASS 48 winner, Tish!
Photo credit: Zach Spangler
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Indie-Pendent Dance Party – 6.17.17
MGMT – Time To Pretend
Marian Hill – Down (Black Caviar Remix)
Misterwives – Reflections
Mutemath – Joy Rides
Cut Copy – Take Me Over
STRKFKR – Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance
Miike Snow – Animal (Fake Blood Remix)
Magician Featuring Jeppe – I Don\’t Know What To Do
Phoebe Ryan – Ignition/Do You
Muna – I Know A Place
Local Natives and Sofi Tukker – Dark Days (Sofi Tukker Remix)
Cut Copy – Hearts on Fire
Klingande – Jubel (Nora En Pure Remix)
Magician, The – Together
Miike Snow – Genghis Khan (CID Remix)
Green Velvet – Shake and Pop
Sundshine Underground – Put You In Your Place
Ghostland Observatroy – Sad Sad City
Warpaint – New Song
Arcade Fire – Everything Now
Lorde – Supercut
Foster the People – Pumped Up Kicks (Gigamesh Remix)
VHS Or Beta – Night on Fire
Portugal The Man – Live In The Moment
Pulp – Disco 2000
Sundara Karma – She Said
Fever – Ladyfingers
Swmrs – Figuring It Out
Sleigh Bells – Crown On The Ground
Charli XCX – Gold Coins
CHVRCHES – The Mother We Share
Disclosure Featuring Lorde – Magnets
LCD Soundsystem – Dance Yrself Clean
Taking Back Sundays – 6.18.17
1. Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
2. My Chemical Romance – Helena
3. Simple Plan – Addicted
4. Goldfinger – Counting The Days
5. Saosin – Voices
6. Refused – New Noise
7. MXPX – Responsibility
8. Paramore – Misery Business
9. Plain White Ts – Hey There Delilah
10. Fenix TX – Threesome
11. Taking Back Sunday – What’s It Feel Like To Be A Ghost?
12. Brand New – The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows
13. Alex Clare – Up All Night
14. Yellowcard – Way Away
Queued Up #232
1. Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness – So Close
2. The National – The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness
3. Papa Roach – Periscope (feat. Skylar Gray)
4. The Killers – The Man
5. Irontom – Be Bold Like Elijah
6. Spoon – Can I Sit Next To You
7. Odesza – Line Of Sight
8. Palaye Royale – Get Higher (Queued Up Artist Showcase 7/13)
9. The Lumineers – Angela
10. Ron Gallo – Young Lady, You’re Scaring Me
11. Lo Moon – This Is It
12. PVRIS – What’s Wrong
13. Green Day – Revolution Radio
14. Dreamers – Painkiller
15. Royal Blood – I Only Lie When I Love You
1. Lorde – Sober
2. Vinyl Theatre – 30 Seconds
3. Jessie Reyez – Figures
4. Barns Courtney – Golden Dandelions
5. Portugal. The Man – Live In The Moment
6. Mikey Mike – Doin’ Me
7. Rancid – Where I’m Going
8. DJ Shadow/ Run The Jewels – Nobody Speak
9. July Talk – Picturing Love
10. The Unlikely Candidates – Violence
11. The War On Drugs – Holding On
12. Queens Of The Stone Age – The Way You Used To Do
13. George Ezra – Don’t Matter Now
14. Beth Ditto – Fire
15. Death From Above 1979 – Freeze Me
6.18.17 – Alt_Backspace
1. Beck – Where It\’s At
2. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
3. Veruca Salt – Volcano Girls
4. Nirvana – About A Girl
5. Icicle Works – (Birds Fly) Whisper To A Scream
6. Jane\’s Addiction – Been Caught Stealing
7. Collective Soul – Gel
8. The The – This Is The Day
9. Depeche Mode – Walking In My Shoes
10. Beastie Boys – Sure Shot
11. Social Distortion – Bad Luck
12. Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone
13. Frank Black – Hang On To Your Ego
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Under The Bridge
2. The Smithereens – Blood And Roses
3. Soho – Hippychick
4. Smashing Pumpkins – Perfect
5. The Jam – A Town Called Malice
6. R.E.M. – Finest Worksong
7. The Rentals – Friends Of P
8. INXS – This Time
9. The Cure – Just Like Heaven
10. Ned\’s Atomic Dustbin – Happy
11. Better Than Ezra – Good
12. The Replacements – Bastards Of Young
Dave Grohl’s daughter rocks with the Foo Fighters
While playing in Iceland, Dave Grohl introduced his daughter Harper to the stage to make her live music debut drumming with the Foo Fighters on a cover of Queen’s sports stadium anthem ‘We Will Rock You’. How brave do you have to be to do that?!
It is absolute adorable and shows the connective power of music in families.
Check out the Foos latest single ‘Run’ here.
Iconic Avalon Regal Theater Will Specialize In Hologram Shows, Starting This Fall
(from chicagoist.com)
Chicago is poised to become one of two cities in the country where you can casually go see a hologram in concert.
Remember the Tupac hologram at Coachella 2012? Gizmodo called it “disquieting.” MTV News called it “unsettling.” Well, the technology behind that much-described performance is currently controlled by Hologram USA—and they’ve signed a deal to permanently install their signature “Pepper’s Ghost” hologram technology at Chicago’s famed Avalon Regal Theater (1645 E 79th St).
Construction has already begun, and the theater will reopen as a full-time hologram theater—with a grand opening that could conceivably feature “Tupac”—on October 1.
Hologram USA isn’t going to ride the Tupac train forever, though. The company has plans to “create shows around the images of” (!) deceased celebrities including Buddy Holly, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland and Chicago’s own Bernie Mac. (MORE HERE)
