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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I was skeptical at first about a “Star Wars Story” film but after seeing this new trailer, I’m kinda intrigued. It has TIE Fighters, Stormtroopers, Darth Vader…. and that theme music. Check it out! -wALT
Here are the five most immediate things that got to me to freak out like milk was shooting out of my nose when I was watching the just-released final trailer for ‘Star Wars: Rogue One’ due out on December 16th. This spin-off prequel is going to be huge, oh excuse me…um…it’s going to be YUUUGE. So let’s pile all our action figures together, feel the ‘Force’ and let’s nerd-out over this energizing teaser, shall we?
1.The reestablished excitement of seeing what leads to the story in the original Star Wars film in 1977 is just a grabbing premise. Yet we get the double-down creatively from the new Star Wars creative lords of also introducing new characters to let it become something alternative to the main stories in this world. It gives these characters credible depth for fans of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Darth Vader while also allowing younger fans jumping in now to feel like they have some fresh faces they can related to in the ‘Force’.
2. Jyn Erso is going to be the new female heroine that inspires a lot of little girls and young women to geek out and get more into this universe. This character may even have more chances of earning love simply because she’s a leader of this team and appears to have less doubt of what she is meant to become, unlike Rey in ‘Force Awakens’ who needed to be prodded a little more into the Jedi she had to become. Now Jyn certainly has emotional connections to this mission (who is her dad? What is he doing with Death Star really?) and she is being put on this task by order of the Rebels, but she seems very full steam ahead in this trailer as compared the early teaser we first saw earlier this year. She reminds of the boss type character that alternative band Cake wrote about in the song ‘Short Skirt Long Jacket’ as we see Erso infiltrate the Death Star and pick up the slack.
3. The stakes are high here. This very early version of the Rebels needs to find out what this super-weapon is and how to stop it and prevent the tide from turning completely against them in the war against the Empire. This is a true prequel in the sense, that it understands where the story goes after this and what the consequences of this extended prologue has on the rest of the series. ‘You never know where you are going, unless you know where you’ve been before’ applies here, but it’s challenging to know where it’s going and try to tell us where it was before all started. That challenge appears to have been met in this trailer with a story that will deliver. The line that defines what is at stake in Rogue One: “Save the Rebellion. Save the dream.” Also can Forest Whitaker always play the wise grizzled vet in everything?! You buy that gritty passion from his acting in almost every role he’s been in.
4. The cinematography, art direction, and overall feel is spot on for a modern Star Wars movie. All these big sweeping shots that take you to these far away worlds feel tangible in seconds. The costumes have enough a soft ‘70s vibe but it’s still a space opera that we expect with robots and computer-generated ships. This is Disney, they don’t mess around engineering imagined epic ideas into something we can grasp with fanboy/fangirl glee.
5. The technology behind the Death Star could be presented in an engaging way here to remind us all how destructive it can be and lead to the Empire dominating the Star Wars universe. It has gravity to it, you know what it has done in the original trilogy. RIP Alderan!
This one is too obvious….DARTH VADER! One of the greatest villains in movie history is going to be a critical part of ‘Rogue One’ and that’s just got to be exciting for any Star Wars fan. For many, it might the complete selling point of the movie. Last year’s ‘The Force Awakens’ really made Vader this effective unseen ghost who is draped over everything in the story who motivated so much of the evil of Kylo Ren, but we never saw him on screen. Now we get to see a specific look at Vader as he grows into the mythic monster of the Empire who helped them become as powerful as possible without any of the prequel trilogy’s stigma attached to it.
Also it looks like it could be just a little bit better than ‘Force Awakens’ which should be yet another reason to go see this new adventure the day it hits theaters.
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Students in Kentucky decided to try and capture a raccoon they named Stanley on video by setting up an iPhone to record it. They got what they asked for and more. Stanley grabbed the phone and took off.
Ken Bone has easily been the most positive part of the presidential campaign. If you watched the last debate, Ken was the one in the dashing red sweater who asked an energy question. And then took over the internet. Hes been everywhere over the last few days. He even made his way on to Jimmy Kimmel Live.
