Chris Black Saved My Life is dedicated to the band’s late friend and honorary band member, Chris Black, who died on May 19th, 2019.
This Karen will report and block you if you enjoyed ‘Cocaine Bear’
The world is a sick place. Just ask this Karen, who has no time for ‘Cocaine Bear’ or anything fun, ever.
Where do you think this Karen is from? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Dave Grohl barbecues for over 24 hours at homeless shelter
Dave Grohl spent over 24 hours volunteering at a Los Angeles shelter to prepare barbecue for hundreds of people experiencing homelessness. The Foo Fighters frontman cooked up everything from brisket to pork butt to ribs and more. Grohl and his companions smoked the meat well past midnight, unpreterbed by a rare winter storm that rolled through Southern California. Grace Ancheta, the director of the shelter that Grohl served at, said, “He actually served to our guests, he came out and was very gracious and took pictures with the people that recognized him…He wanted no glory for it, he was like, ‘I just want to do this for you guys and give back in that way.”
Yesterday, Foo Fighters announced three stand-alone dates in New Hampshire, Arkansas, and Alabama to go along with their busy, festival-heavy summer. Information on all Foo Fighters touring dates can be found here.
Chicago woman wastes tax return on 1998 Ford Escort, paying $289 for the next 84 months
One Chicago woman has 2029 circled on her calendar, as it will mark her final time she’ll have to pay for a recent investment. While we would love to applaud a single mother for working hard and having enough money to put a downpayment on a car, her payment structure is horrid. For the next 84 months, she’ll be paying $289 for a car that will be over 30 years by the time she’s doing paying it off. This is one of the most ill-advised tax return purchases we’ve ever seen.
What have you purchased with your tax return? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Dictionary adds new words including “cakeage” and “petfluencer”
313 new words have been added to the Dictionary, including a bunch of words that you’ve never heard of and a bunch of words that you’ll never use again. Words include:
- Cakeage: A fee charged by a restaurant for bringing your own cake. So like a “corkage” fee for wine, but with cake instead.
- Cakeism: It comes from the term “have your cake and eat it too.” It’s “the false belief that one can enjoy the benefits of two choices that are in fact mutually exclusive, or have it both ways.”
- Digital nomad: A person who works remotely while traveling for leisure, especially when having no fixed, permanent address.
- Nearlywed: A person who lives with someone in a life partnership, sometimes engaged with no planned wedding date.
- Hellscape: A place or time that is hopeless, unbearable, or irredeemable.
- Northpaw: An athlete who is right-handed, like a pitcher or boxer.
- Rage farming: Provoking people by posting inflammatory political stuff on social media, hoping to get angry responses and go viral.
- Cyberflashing: Sending pictures of your junk to strangers online, or by Airdropping them.
- Cli-fi: Short for “climate fiction.” It’s any sort of sci-fi where climate change is a major part of the story.
- Petfluencer: A person who gains a large following on social media by posting entertaining images or videos of their pet.
We’ll give bonus points to anyone who can use “cakeage” in a proper sentence.
Lori Lightfoot concedes, Vallas and Johnson set for runoff in April
For the first time since Jane Byrne’s reign as Chicago mayor from 1979-1983, Lori Lightfoot will be a one-term mayor. Lightfoot, who has been atop Chicago’s food train since 2019, finished with 17% of the vote in Tuesday’s election. She conceded on Tuesday evening, giving way to a runoff between Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson.
A runoff between former head of CPS, Paul Vallas, and Cook County commissioner and former teacher Brandon Johnson, is slated for April 4.
Your commute just became hell: three-year construction project on the Kennedy begins in March
Major delays are coming to the Kennedy Expressway. The Illinois Department of Transportation announced plans to rehab 36 bridge structures between the Edens and Ohio St. The $150 million project is expected to start the week of March 20.
More than 275,000 driveways will face delays as IDOT plans on demolishing bridge decks and then replacing and repairing joints.
Thank you, Patrick Kane!
Patrick Kane is headed to the New York Rangers. A four time All -Star and 3 time Stanley Cup Champion, Kane spent his entire 15-year career here with the Blackhawks, recording 1,225 points (446 goals, 779 assists) in 1,161 games here in Chicago.
“Whiskey-fungus” plagues Tennessee, residents furious with Jack Daniel’s
Residents in Lincoln County, Tennessee, are not happy with the environment that Jack Daniel’s has provided. A “sooty” black mold has began covering homes, porches, cars, and more and it’s all thanks to the liquor company’s barrel houses. Resident Patrick Long said, “I’m extremely concerned. My wife has breathing problems. One of the neighbors got cancer…It’s in the air. And you really, probably don’t want to be breathing that in. But nobody has done a test to determine if it’s actually poisonous.”
What problem is specific to your area? The conversation lives on Facebook!
People born in 2005 can now vote. Here’s a bunch of songs that came out that year to put it into perspective
Time is a cruel mistress. It never stops moving, no matter how bad you want it to. For some Gen Z kids, they are voting in their very first Chicago Mayoral Election and that means there’s a good chance that they were born in 2005. While our instincts tell us that 2005 was only a few years ago, it was, in fact, 18 years ago. The distance between 2005 and now is the same distance as the 70’s and when That 70’s Show actually began.
2005 can be remembered by the White Sox World Series victory, Star Wars III, or the first ever YouTube video, but we like remembering it by the music that came out that year.
For example:
There was also this, from Chicago’s very own:
And we can’t forget about these bangers:
A full list of bangers that turn 18 year this can be found here.
Wendy’s is selling their chili in a can and it’s going to be a problem
Wendy’s Chili is coming to your local grocery store. After decades of being guarded by their red-headed mascot, Wendy’s has decided to make their addicting pile of meat over-the-counter for the first time ever. Wendy’s joins the likes of Chick-fil-A, who sells their signature sauce in stores, PF Changs, who sell a number of restaurant-related products in stores, and Olive Garden, who bottled up their signature salad dressing for the masses.
What other restaurant product should be added to grocery store shelves? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Gen Z is drinking something called a “borg” and they don’t think you can handle it
Move over, Malort shots. The newest generation of young professionals is drinking something called a “borg” – a Black Out Rage Gallon, that involves alcohol and home appliances. According to Yahoo, the drink can be made by “filling a plastic gallon jug with a half-and-half mixture of vodka and water, plus add-ins like a caffeinated flavor enhancer and/or an electrolyte power mix and/or whatever other type of sweetener the mixologist chooses.”
There are “borg” advocates out there who claim that it is the safest form of college drinking because you can control how much alcohol goes into the container. Others argue that because it is called a “borg”, it simply must be dangerous.
We want to see you drink a borg! Send us your concoction on Facebook!
Here’s where you can vote in Chicago
Today is election day in Chicago and Q101 wants to make sure that you get out and vote. If you are unsure of where to cast your ballot today, the Chicago Board of Elections can assist you in that process with a very easy-to-use polling place tracker. Enter your address into the finder, then submit their name, and the lookup tool will find your current polling place.
If you need to check as to whether or not you’re registered to vote, you can do so here.
Remember, if no candidates receive 50 percent or more of the vote in any race, the top two candidates will advance to runoff election, which will be held on April 4.
Brian & Justin are coming back to Lizzie McNeil’s on St. Patrick’s Day
We had so much fun together last year for St. Patrick’s that we have to do it again.
And this time we’ll do it twice! Join us for Q101 St. Patrick’s Day Live! on Friday, March 17th at Lizzie McNeill’s in Chicago.
Brian and Justin will broadcast live at Lizzie McNeill’s from 6:00am-10:00am with everything you expect in your mornings: Know It Nothing, Whose Karen Is It?, and of course concert tickets that you can win! In fact, we’ll have concert tickets every hour to giveaway!
For those you of you that can’t get up before the sun, we’ll also be partying from 3:00pm – 7:00pm with Brian Phillips while he broadcasts live from Lizzie McNeill’s. He’ll have concert tickets for you every hour and maybe even a History of Alternative lesson or two.
Take the day off and come hang with us all day at Lizzie McNeill’s in Chicago for Q101 St. Patrick’s Day Live! See you there!
AHOY!
Bush Meet and Greet
Puppy meet and greet with Silversun Pickups
Thank you to all the fans that came out! <3
Photos by: Alex Geshel, Laurie Fanelli, and Zach Spangler
Fewer people are getting married as the mindset towards marriage shifts in America
Over the last 50 years, the marriage rate in the U.S. has dropped by nearly 60%. This is because of the growing change in the perception of marriage across the country. As Andrew Cherlin, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins explained, “You got married, then you moved in together, and then you got a job…Marriage is now becoming the last step into adulthood.”
This trend could spell the end for “50th Wedding Anniversary” parties and beyond.
Man heats up food, washes clothes in hot tub just to save $30 a month
Todd is an Extreme Cheapskate. So much so that TLC followed him around with a camera to document his money-saving ways for their show Extreme Cheapskates. Todd is not like most cheap people, though. He doesn’t cut up coupons or sweat to death in an air condition-less home. Todd is a hot tub owner who gets multiple uses out of his hot tub.
To save $30 on utilities, he heats up his food and washes his clothes in his hot tub. He claims there is no need to own a washing machine because they cost “too much money”.
Todd might be a genius.
‘Old Farts’ from Chicago offer give wisdom, life advice to those who need it
Good advice can be golden, whether it’s true or not. Two self-proclaimed ‘old farts’ from Chicago posted up at an Atlanta park and offered social commentary to whoever asked for it. According to ring leader Kevin Shotsberger, “People ask us questions. If we don’t know what the answer is, we’ll just lie to you. You know, we are men.”
Razz Jenkins, his partner-in-crime, noted, “The hardest part of that is getting that old fart up out of that chair. It’s a camp chair, so you can get locked in.”
DuPage county is voted best county in Illinois
At just under 1,000,000 citizens, DuPage county has been voted the best county to live in in Illinois in a recent survey. A nationwide survey ranked the best counties to live in around the country and DuPage finished best in our state.
Per WGN, “DuPage County, one of a ring of counties directly surrounding Chicago, features parks, small downtowns in its many cities, restaurants, and shopping. A historic mansion in Naperville, Illinois, now serves tapas, while a restaurant in Oak Brook, Illinois, has brunch and bocce on the menu. DuPage is one of Illinois’ healthiest spots, according to an annual survey, and its residents can take advantage of forest preserves, miles of bike trails, and golf courses. The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, is a public garden and outdoor museum with a program in tree research. Schools in Dupage County have an average ranking in the top 5% of Illinois public schools, according to Public School Review, a website that provides profiles of public schools across the country.”
Do you agree with this survey? The conversation lives on Facebook!
Chance the Rapper honors Black revolutionaries with Black History Month tribute
Chicago’s very own Chance the Rapper uploaded a new music video for his song “YAH Know”, with this one offering Black revolutionaries.
Q101 continues to support all marginalized groups in their fight for equality.
