Friday: 

Monster Jam at Allstate Arena (Friday-Sunday) 

Monster Jam is coming to Allstate Arena this weekend for five separate shows. The field is stacked with trucks like Grave Digger, Zombie, El Toro Loco, and more! Tickets are still available here.

Blue October at The Vic

Blue October heads to The Vic this Friday for an intimate performance in one of Chicago’s best venues. Tickets are still available here.

Drug Church at Bottom Lounge

Hardcore standouts Drug Church come to the Bottom Lounge for a sold out show featuring Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Anxious, and Webbed Wing. Tickets are gone for this raucous night at the Bottom Lounge, but each band on this bill gets the full Brian & Justin seal of approval.

Bulls vs. the Suns

The Chicago Bulls host Kevin Durant and the Phoenix Suns on Friday. The Bulls lost the prior matchup vs. the Suns this year.

McCormick Ice Rink Tribute (Friday-Sunday)

This is the last weekend to ice skate at McCormick Tribune Plaza. More information can be found here.

Jurassic Quest (Friday-Sunday)

See towering animatronic dinosaurs, baby dino puppets and guys in scaly suits at this three-day exhibition at Navy Pier, which brings prehistoric creatures to hyperrealistic life. Kids can ride atop a T. Rex, go digging for fossils or play in a not-entirely-historically-accurate dinosaur bouncy house. There’s also face painting, science activities and crafts, but let’s be realistic: You’re gonna be too busy taking photos of the Velociraptors. More info can be found here.

Saturday: 

Blackhawks vs. the Nashville Predators 

Blackhawks host the Nashville Predators on Saturday. The Blackhawks sit at 21-35-5, while the Predators are 30-23-6.

Ja Rule & Ashanti at The Chicago Theater 

Live it up! Ja Rule & Ashanti are coming to The Chicago Theater on Saturday night for an evening of their greatest hits. Tickets are still available for this epic concert.

Elle King at The Salt Shed

If you didn’t get enough of The Salt Shed last week at AHOY!, Elle King is at The Salt Shed this weekend! Limited tickets are still available here.  

International Anime Music Festival

The 2023 International Anime Music Festival is an immersive live concert experience starring the world’s leading anime pop stars, together on stage for the first time at The Riv. A live DJ-led multimedia concert rave, featuring state-of-the-art LED and high-definition digital projections, combined with lighting, lasers, and other visual effects to create a spectacular visual environment in which the anime pop stars will perform their biggest hit songs.

Brewsology Beer Fest

 Hopheads grab tickets to Brewsology Beer Fest at the Museum of Science and Industry, where dozens of breweries and cideries (Two Brothers, Dovetail, Three Floyds and Right Bee among them) will offer samples of their brews. Wander around with a beer in hand, chat with brewery reps and feel free to check out the museum’s exhibits. More info can be found here.

Sunday: 

Chicago Polar Plunge

Brave the cold and head to North Avenue Beach this March for the Chicago Polar Plunge, which sends thousands of shivering participants into the icy waters of Lake Michigan to raise money for the Special Olympics Chicago. Can’t make it to North Aveunue this year? The fundraiser is also offering a virtual edition, giving you some creative freedom to jump into a snow bank, a cold shower or pour a bucket of water over your head as you support Chicago’s Special Olympians.

Bulls vs. the Indiana Pacers

The Bulls host the struggling Indiana Pacers in a Sunday matinee. Tip-off is at 2:30

Mod Sun at Bottom Lounge 

Mod Sun, hot off the heels of his new album, “God Save the Teen”, is playing a sold out show at the Bottom Lounge. You can watch Mod Sun’s sit-down interview with Brian & Justin here.

Badflower at House of Blues

Badflower, veterans of Q101’s annual Christmas shows, comes to the House of Blues on March 5. They tore the roof off of the Aragon Ballroom in 2021, and we cannot wait to see them in this intimate setting.

TikTok, an app that does not permit nudity, is starting to see a lot of it, but only if you look close enough. A flashing trend, dubbed “TitTok” by horny wordsmiths, is starting to infiltrate algorithms and take over feeds.

They are designed to be hidden and almost an optical illusion, like so,

Fellas, be warned. This could take over your TikTok very soon.

Remember when it was warm earlier this week? Forget that. “Spring snow” is on the way as Friday morning, a wintery mix is headed for the Windy City. Per FOX 32, the GFS model squeezes out a wide range of snow from as little as a dusting well northwest of Chicago to around 3-4 inches in the city. The heaviest snow is south and east of Chicago where up to a half foot to a foot could come down.

Hopefully this is the last big snowfall we see this year, with baseball and summer fun on the horizon.

Two-thirds of American teens use TikTok, according to the Pew Research Center, and now those kids are going to have a strict time limit on the app. Cormac Keenan, head of trust and safety at TikTok said in a blog post Wednesday that when the 60-minute limit is reached, minors will be prompted to enter a passcode and make an “active decision” to keep watching.

We’re going to go out on a limb and say that every kid that is faced with that decision will make an “active decision” to go ahead and keep scrolling.

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!

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!

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.

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.

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!