Despite being told otherwise, Brian & Lou are convinced Jay is doing his best Denzel impression…
Watch: Final “Suicide Squad” Trailer
We’re getting one last taste of what we’ll see in “Suicide Squad” on August 5th.
Here’s the final trailer:
“Heathens” from Twenty One Pilots really is the perfect song for this movie!
Michael J. Fox Plays with Coldplay
Coldplay showing some BTTF love during their stop in New York. It was pretty much the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. They broke out “Earth Angle” and Johnny B. Goode” and even had Marty McFly himself on stage. Yup. Michael J. Fox.
Wonder if Chicago will get the BTTF treatment this weekend? You can still score your way into a private soundcheck party with the band HERE.
So Long, Peanut Tillman
After 13 seasons in the NFL, mostly spent with the Bears, Charles “Peanut” Tillman is hanging ’em up. Always a class act on and off the field. He came put together a video showing how he’ll be incorporating the “Peanut Punch”into his life outside of the NFL.
Nintendo made BILLIONS already off that game that everyone is playing
Yes, that game that everyone is playing a.k.a the new supreme ruler of the world Pokemon Go has proven in less than two weeks since it’s release to be a huge money maker for Nintendo. Bloomberg reported the Japanese video game company had the biggest turnover on the Tokyo Stock Exchange trading $4.5 Billion worth of stock on Friday. Overall it’s a 71% rise in one week.So does this mean that when Nintendo has it’s holiday party that Super Mario will be drinking in the corner, while everyone is talking to Pikachu and Squirrtle?
Nintendo is not the only company to benefit from this titanic move that has everyone trying to ‘catch them all’. Niantic, the mobile game developer behind the game and of course the Pokemon Company will eventually reap the rewards of the PkGo mania. But the buck does not stop there, as many advantageous entrepreneurs have created businesses off the game as detailed by here Game Zebo.
We’ve been covering the Pokemon craze all week so whether your enjoying the game as a distraction from reality with ‘augmented reality’ or you just laugh at people walking into things with their face in their phone, check out these stories looking into the whole thing.
- Weird Stories of Pokemon Go Users
- VIDEO: Near stampede in NYC over rare character in Central Park
- PkGo surpasses Twitter….yep, that fast
- The Pokemon Go Meet Up at the Bean in Chicago was HUGE
Queued Up #185
1. Awolnation – Run (Beautiful Things)
2. Brand New – I Am A Nightmare
3. Bad Suns – Disappear Here
4. Bob Moses – Tearing Me Up
5. Kungs – This Girl
6. Trapdoor Social – Sunshine
7. Miike Snow – My Trigger
8. Zipper Club – Going The Distance
9. Run River North – Run Or Hide (Queued Up Artist Showcase – 7/19)
10. Switchfoot – Float
11. Arkells – Private School
12. Powers – Sunshine
13. BØRNS – American Money
14. Descendants – Without Love
15. M83 – Go!
16. Two Door Cinema Club – Are We Ready
1. Grouplove – Welcome To Your Life
2. Judah and the Lion – Take It All Back
3. Bronze Radio Return – Only Temporary
4. The Wombats – Be Your Shadow
5. Bleached – Wednesday Night Melody
6. Night Riots – Contagious (Queued Up Artist Showcase – 7/19)
7. Local Natives – Fountain Of Youth
8. The Hunna – You & Me
9. Weezer – I Love The USA
10. Coin – Talk Too Much
11. Angel Olsen – Shut Up Kiss Me
12. The Struts – Put Your Money On Me
13. The Naked and Famous – Higher
14. The 1975 – Somebody Else
15. The Moth & The Flame – Red Flag
16. Blink 182 – Home Is Such a Lonely Place
What is you fav new song? Tweet us at @101wkqx with the #QueuedUp hashtag and let us know.
7.17.16 – Alt_Backspace
1. Oasis – Supersonic
2. Erasure – Chains Of Love
3. Primal Scream – Movin’ On Up
4. Siouxsie & The Banshees – The Passenger
5. Talking Heads – Life During Wartime
6. Radiohead – Paranoid Alien
7. The Rentals – Friends of P
8. Squeeze – Is That Love
9. Urge Overkill – Positive Bleeding
10. Less Than Jake – History of a Boring Town
11. The Church – Under The Milky Way
12. Teenage Fanclub – The Concept
13. Sublime – Badfish
1. Social Distortion – I Was Wrong
2. ABC – The Look Of Love
3. Breeders – Cannonball
4. U2 – Trash, Trampoline and the Party
5. R.E.M. – Finest Worksong
6. Kim Wilde – Kids In America
7. CIV – Can’t Wait One Minute More
8. Love and Rockets – So Alive
9. Candlebox – You
10. The Smiths – The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
11. Nine Inch Nails – Terrible Lie
12. The Replacements – I Will Dare
13. The Cure – Why Can’t I Be You
14. Everclear – Heartspark Dollarsign
15. Jane’s Addiction – Standing In The Shower… Thinking
New Internet Animal Star: CAT RIDES A SCOOTER
There are animals online with more followers on social media than we could ever rationalize, but for some reason this cat riding on the back of this hipster’s scooter just makes sense. Let it calm you as you begin your work week. – Kevin
A SEINFELD VIDEO GAME!?
A SEINFELD VIDEO GAME?!
Australian game developer Jacob Janerka created these wonderful mock-ups of a potential game based on the greatest TV sitcom about nothing in particular, and they look better a fresh bowl of Crabs Bisk soup. Janerka who also made the online game Paradigm, apparently crafted this game-in-the-works to look like classic 90’s pont-and-click computer games. I wonder if you can double dip a chip or get into other classic situations Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer? It just looks really fun. Maybe this can save just a few lives from the all-consuming monster that is Pokemon Go at the moment.
Pokemon Go at The Bean!
Yesterday was a busy day in the city, not only did Chicago hold its annual Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon, but it also held its first ever Pokemon Go meet up. You are probably wondering, where in the world did we hold this meet up and what do you do during one of these events that have taken over the world?
The Pokemon Go meet up was held yesterday at The Bean where there was a Facebook event page setup. At one point 12,000 people RSVP’d to the meet up to go around Chicago and catch as many Pokemon as possible. There is no official word on how many people actually showed up, but I think its safe to say not all 12,000 people showed up.
During one of these meet ups people go around the surrounding area in search of rare Pokemon that they can then catch and battle other Pokemon Goers with. Yesterday though at The Bean, the main purpose was to pin Pokemon against Pokemon in what they call a Pokemon Gym. Just think of it as a big boxing gym, except for Pokemon.The good news though is Chicago did something that no other meet up in the United States has been able to do before.
During the Chicago meet up at The Bean, there were so many people on the Pokemon Go servers at once, that they actually crashed it for the rest of the United States for a few minutes. During the meet up people were even dressing up as characters from the actually card game and TV show. Along with dressing up as characters, people were also gathering and sitting based on what team/house they are a part of in the game.
It’s safe to say that Pokemon Go has officially taken over the world and it isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. I would fully expect there to be more Pokemon Go meet ups in the Chicago area very soon. If you were at the Chicago Pokemon Go meet up on Sunday, let us know how it went!
A near stampede in NYC due to that video game everyone is playing
Call it overkill, but a mobile game has taken over lives of millions in just over a week. Pokemon Go apparently caused a near stampede yesterday in New York City when a rare character in the game was sighted in Central Park. The video above posted on Facebook by a tour company that offers city tours for PkGo players (yes, that’s a real business now) shot the video and even they found the humor in all these people trying to ‘catch ’em all’. Players in the famous park heard someone call out ‘VAPOREAN!’ and it started a panic.
This is just another example of how big PkGO has become in such a short time, as it’s currently most popular mobile game across multiple platforms.
- Pokemon GO Hacks
- An Australian band has recorded a pretty fun song about the game
- A Wyoming Teen found a dead body while playing PkGO
So if your not playing and just annoyed by all this, at least it makes for good people watching right?
@kevkellam
AND THE WINNER IS… #FRESHCONTENT
(from youtube.com/marconibologna)
I’ve been making daily videos on my own YouTube channel for 3 years but I’ve never had so much fun creating #FreshContent with my co-workers as I am now.
The Wombats at Metro
Prepare to make a mixtape with Netflix
Netflix today added a feature this week to their life-consuming VOD service that you may think was already available but is not, until now. Sold simply as “Like a Mixtape for Netflix” , Flixtape is a new feature that allows you to title and assemble specific lists of shows to share with friends.
You could do a whole group of Holiday themed episodes of sitcoms or just the episodes of ‘Family Guy’ where Stewie and Brian go on an adventure. The possibilities are huge for Netfix fans to make a fun way to keep a certain mood or tone over a specific session of TV watching. A service that is already flexible to it’s user, is now able to modified even more by users.
There is several big changes coming to Netflix as well. As we reported in June, the company is flirting with the idea of letting users download their shows in some way in the future. And they scored a win recently that will upset a lot of ex-boyfriends or roommates you don’t live with anymore, when it was ruled in federal court that sharing your password was a ‘federal crime’. So hang in there, the video on-demand world is a ‘changing.
And of course, Netflix will never stops it’s content shuffle of adding and dropping movies and TV shows. Fun news for comedy fans recently was the announcement that legendary writer and actor Albert Brooks will have his films on the Net very soon. This announcement video is worth the watch, especially if you enjoy dark humor.
CREEPY: Who is the Masked Bride?!
In Toronto a city famous for great comedy and being the site of Wrestlemania VI, now has another claim to fame. A mysterious ‘Maksed Bride’ is sitting in public spaces and leaving cryptic notes in public spaces. People have posted about seeing her all over the city, sitting with no interaction to anyone around her, and leaving crumbled notes at her feet. The notes are pretty out there with odd references to alt rock great Nick Cave and partial phrases in French. So hopefully she is not late for her wedding or maybe she missed her wedding…or is she running away from a wedding so she’s wearing a mask?! So many questions left unanswered.
Theories locally are running rampant. Some think it’s an elaborate performance art piece or a gorilla marketing campaign of some kind. Whatever it is, it’s weird and intriguing for sure,
TV and Radio student Robert Wharry caught video of the Masked Bride when working on a project in the street. He has stated he is connected to the Bride in anyway, but felt compelled to film when he saw her randomly writing notes in downtown Toronto.
Our hearts are with the people of Nice
Our hearts go out to the victims of today’s attacks in Nice, France who suffered an apparent terror attack today which killed 80 people when a truck rammed into a crowd during the late hours of a Bastille Day celebration where many had gathered to watch fireworks. CNN reported the occupants of the truck then exchanged gunfire with police. Information about the situation is still coming out.
In these times we can collectively feel the need to reach out and help. You can donate to efforts with the French Red Cross here. If you know someone who may be effected by this attack and need information, the U.S. State Department has a online resource here
In Paris tonight a large explosion near the Eiffel Tower occurred, yet is not terror-related according to local offiicials. That incident is being attributed to a malfunction with fireworks meant for Bastille Day celebrations. This attack in Nice occurred 8 months after an attack on a rock club in Paris where alternative band Eagles of Death Metal were performing.
Bastille Day is the French equivalent of our 4th of July. It is a celebration of the French people and their history as democratic country.
Cubs combine two great things: Chicago Hot Dogs + Deep Dish Pizza?!
As a Southside White Sox, it is an odd omission to tip the flex fit cap to the Cubs but boy, you got to do it in this scenario. ESPN’s Darren Rovell revealed on Twitter today that the Cubs will offer a GIORDANO’S DEEP DISH PIZZA made with VIENNA BEEF HOT DOGS.
This is a reality.
This is a an accomplishment that all of humanity needs to marvel and show reverence for.
The Deep Dog Dish Pizza will be available for a limited time at Wrigley Field from July 15th to the 20th. If you taste it and are able to understand life after it, tweet or send us a review on Facebook. Is this too much of good thing? Whatever. Let’s do this!
TotalProSports goes on a “gastronomical adventure” with a countdown of the top 30 most ridiculous ballpark food items.
@kevkellam
Judge orders Double Door to vacate Wicker Park location
Judge Orville Hambright Jr ordered today in Cook County court that the acclaimed rock club Double Door must vacate it’s space at the ‘six corners’ of Wicker Park which it has occupied for more than 20 years. Hambright emphasized that the ruling was made because the management failed to notify the building’s landlord last year that they intended to extend it’s lease. Double Door management and the landlord will be back in court on August 4th to figure out when the club must leave the space which is located directly next to the Damen CTA Blue Line train station.
Lawyers representing the Double Door stated the club and the landlord Brian Strauss were under an understanding that the club would continue in the space after spending $83,000 on renovations. Double Door faced similar eviction issues in 2005, but came to an agreement to avoid leaving.
Hambright also stated he hopes both sides can meet privately and saying he “prefer(s) you all negotiate your own situation,” Now if that means there is a last ditch opportunity for the Door’s survival is yet to be seen but it does not look good for this great music venue.
Meanwhile, Double Door is still promoting shows into February of 2017.
@kevkellam
