8 stories up and this guys jumps into a marina, barely missing a dock. NOPE!
OVER 370 COOK COUNTY CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS CALL OFF WORK DURING CUBS PLAYOFF RUN
Over 370 Cook County correctional officers called off work Oct. 16. The likeliest reason behind the absences is the Chicago Cubs, who played a postseason game that night. Although the Cubs playoff run is historic, the pattern of spikes in mass call-offs is far more common. In June, Game 7 of the NBA finals caused 317 correctional officers to call off, resulting in a mandatory inmate lockdown. On Mother’s Day, 464 correctional officers called off. A spokesperson for the Cook County Sheriff’s Office said these unusually large amounts of call-offs are taking place during major sporting or weather events and are becoming a significant problem.
I don’t usually call in sick but it would really suck to actually be sick and have 370 + of your co-workers call in with the postseason play-off flu the same day. – Marconi
Whiskey + Beauty Bar + Live Music =
Jack Daniels has opened a Lynchburg General Store pop-up this week only at 401 N Michigan Avenue in honor of the distillery’s 150th anniversary!
Every day there are different activities, special guests and surprises, with Wednesday being ‘Jack In Music’ featuring my friends from Beauty Bar and Penguin Prison from noon – 2p
📷 by: Mats Bakken Photography
It is free to attend and open to the (21+) public. See you there!
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Queued Up #198
1. Kings Of Leon – Reverend
2. Hippo Campus – Boyish
3. Holy White Hounds – Blind
4. Two Door Cinema Club – Gameshow
5. The Moth and The Flame – Live While I Breathe (Queued Up Showcase 10/19)
6. Capital Cities – Vowels
7. Bob Moses – Tearing Me Up
8. Sundara Karma – Loveblood
9. CRX – Ways To Fake It
10. Lowell – West Coast Forever
11. St. Lucia – Physical
12. Knox Hamilton – Washed Up Together (Queued up Artist Showcase 10/19)
13. Lewis Del Mar – Painting (Masterpiece)
14. Bleeker – Highway
1. The Fame Riot – Heart Stray
2. Warpaint – New Song
3. SWMRS – Palm Trees
4. Death Cab For Cutie – Million Dollar Loan
5. Colony House – You & I
6. Failure – Stuck On You (Double Door 10/21)
7. Dirty Heads – Oxygen
8. The Strumbellas – We Don’t Know
9. 888 – Critical Mistakes (Queued up Artist Showcase 10/19)
10. Blink 182 – She’s Out Of Her Mind
11. Dreamers – Sweet Disaster
12. Young The Giant – Silvertongue
13. Bishop Briggs – Wild Horses
14. Highly Suspect – My Name Is Human
10.16.16 – Alt_Backspace
1. Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
2. A Flock Of Seagulls – Space Age Love Song
3. Pavement – Cut Your Hair
4. Flaming Lips – She Don’t Use Jelly
5. INXS – This TIme
6. Stereo MCs – Connected
7. Weezer – My Name Is Jonas (The Nights We Stole Christmas)
8. Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
9. The Smiths – Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
10. Catherine Wheel – Judy Staring At The Sun
11. Pearl Jam – Black
12. Wall Of Voodoo – Mexican Radio
13. Bad Religion – 21st Century (Digital Boy)
1. The Cure – High
2. Adam Ant – Goody Two Shoes
3. Oasis – Supersonic
4. Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours
5. The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
6. Hole – Celebrity Skin
7. Reel Big Fish – Take On Me
8. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
9. The Replacements – I’ll Be You
10. Radiohead – Fake Plastic Trees
11. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
12. Folk Implosion – Natural One
13. R.E.M. – Stand
14. Veruca Salt – Seether
Taking Back Sundays – 10.16.16
1. Sum 41 – Fat Lip
2. Brand New – I Am A Nightmare
3. Coheed and Cambria – A Favor House Atlantic
4. Jimmy Eat World – Sweetness
5. Dashboard Confessional – Hands Down
6. Plain White Ts – Hey There Delilah
7. Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue
8. Blink 182 – Up All Night
9. Box Car Racer – I Feel So
10. We The Kings – Check Yes Juliet
11. Goldfinger – Here In Your Bedroom
12. Good Charlotte – The Anthem
13. New Found Glory – All Downhill From Here
14. All-American Rejects – Move Along
15. My Chemical Romance – Helena
WATCH: Things That Sound Chewbacca
It’s crazy how many things sound like Chewbacca.
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Chicago comedians get national spotlight on Comedy Central tonight
Working in stand up outside of radio, you get to meet some hilarious people. In Chicago, these same people work really hard, hitting the open mics every night, and trying at ‘shows’ where they need to will the audience to get into it. It makes you better and the show better, still that effort is not always properly recognized. Well comedy superstar Kevin Hart when he’s not busy making blockbuster movies with the Rock or performing to sold-out crowds in arenas around the world, understand this. He launches his new comedy toruing series, ‘Hart of the City’ tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30 CST.
Four the city’s best comics Josh Johnson, Erica Clark, Just Nesh, and Calvin Evans all hit the stage of Chicago’s own Jokes & Notes for a nationally televised audience. Hometown people doing right, so seek this show out. These comics are all hilarious and they will steal your heart. Check out this very funny teaser above. Don’t believe me? Check out this clip with some very NSFW language.
Facebook is now streaming video on your TV
Another way we can not escape the ever-present reach of Mark Zuckerberg into our collective lives…
Facebook this week introduced video streaming on Apple TV and Chromecast from mobile devices. So you will be able to watch that live stream of your nephew’s birthday party when your out of town on a TV. This is going to be useful and is an expected upgrade, as Facebook invests more resources into their video platform whether it’s video you are shooting yourself or professionally cut-together footage from people like us here at 101WKQX. So You might want to update your notfications to see all the cool stuff we’ll be shooting at the Nights We Stole Christmas Dec 1-3rd at Aragon, more info here.
At first glance the most interesting part will being able to see live comments to your FB live videos on a TV screen. There is still ways to go with FB video on big screen TVs as the feature is devloped, with only iOS devices able to stream to Apple TV and Chromecasts. The feature will soon be available from Android devices to Chromecasts.
Gorillaz tease a new album with fun cartoon teasers
Gorilliaz have not released new music since 2010, so they are due to deliver another whimsical animated dose of alternative right? The masterminds behind the whole thing Blur’s Damon Albarn and his collaborator Jamie Hewlett publicly stated there could be new album due out this past June, but it was delayed to 2017. Recent reports have stated this new record could be done within “two weeks”.
Plus there is a ton of animated teasers floating out from the band’s social media accounts revealing the stories behind the virtual character members of the band. These two stories have centered on members Noodles and Russell. Hip hop heavyweights De La Soul (who previously scored the hit “Feel Good Inc” with Gorilliaz) and Snoop Dogg are confirmed to appear on the yet-to-be-titled album. Chicago rapper Vic Mensa is also rumored to participate as well.
The Head and the Heart in The Lounge
The Head And The Heart – Library Magic
The Head And The Heart perform “Library Magic” during a 101WKQX intimate session in The Lounge.
Bob Moses in The Lounge
The Head And The Heart – All We Ever Knew
The Head And The Heart perform “All We Ever Knew” during a 101WKQX intimate session in The Lounge.
The Head And The Heart Interview – “Seattle/Band Progression”
How would The Head And The Heart sound if they met in Chicago? See how Seattle played an important roll in the bands formation and how they felt about their new album.
WATCH: Great White Breaks Through Shark Cage
High-five to Gabe and Garrett on Youtube for sharing this insane video of a great white breaking into a divers cage.
Corey Feldman on Today… Again
Corey Feldman performed on the Today show…again. Spoiler alert, it wasn’t any better than the first disaster. This time he managed to drop the American flag and compare him self to Nirvana.
Rick Bayless’s Emergency Taco is the savior of Frontera Grill staff
(from chicagoreader.com)
We don’t do family meal because I don’t believe in family meal very often,” Rick Bayless says to me at Frontera Grill as, behind him, four cooks dig into a platter of tacos and the hostess pulls up a gooey length of queso fundido. “A lot of restaurants do family meal, and because of the nature of the restaurant business it kind of gets pushed off to the side and it ends up being a slapdash thing. I don’t feel like it shows the kitchen staff, the front-of-house staff what we really feel about them. We call it the Emergency Taco because you’re really busy, and you’re starving, and all of those things are always ready and warm in this restaurant,” Bayless continues. “So you stop for a minute, and you make your perfect Emergency Taco. I think it’s one of the reasons for the longevity of our staff.” (MORE HERE)
I love the idea of the EMERGENCY TACO so much I made a quick video about it. Rick Bayless you are my hero!! – Marconi
