Night Seven: Jack Black joins for a cover of “The Spirit of Radio” by Rush.
Night Eight: “Merry Christmukkah! Our nondenominational gift to you on this convergence of holiday cheer is Randy Newman’s classic ‘I Love L.A.’ — sung by Dave Grohl!” Since it was the final performance, Grohl and Kurstin were joined by the numerous musicians who joined them for this year’s Hanukkah Sessions, including Beck, Karen O, Jack Black, Kyle Gass, P!NK and Inara George.
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The performance was recorded in front of a live audience at Largo in Los Angeles earlier this month for the third annual edition of Grohl and Kurstin’s The Hanukkah Sessions, which celebrates the religious festival with covers of songs by Jewish musicians.
Night Five featured Beck’s “E-Pro”.
Night Six: Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Heads Wil Roll”
Not all heroes wear capes. Mark Woodley, the “sports guy” at KWWL in Waterloo, IA gives no F’s as he covers the blizzard last night (this morning?) “I didn’t even realize that there was a 3:30 also in the morning until today.”
Watch his compilation below for such gems as; “What better time to ask the sports guy to come in about five hours earlier than he would normally wake up, go stand out in the wind and the snow and the cold, and tell other people not to do the same?”
“Tune in for the next couple of hours to watch me progressively get crankier and crankier.”
“I’ve got good news, and I’ve got bad news. The good news is that I can still feel my face right now. The bad news is I kind of wish I couldn’t.”
“How do I get that Stormchaser 7 duty? I feel like Clint got the better end of that deal. That thing’s heated… the outdoors currently is not heated.”
I want to party with this dude. <3 Lauren
Village trustee in Schaumburg met this week to discuss the possibility of a $150 rebate for its citizens as a way to fight back against inflation in the coming year. The payments were proposed by Mayor Tom Dailly, and the funding comes during an $18.4 million surplus in the village’s general fund. More than 18,000 would qualify for these checks if it were go to happen as currently planned.
Payments are still pending a formal approval, which is expected to happen during the next village board meeting on January 10.
With Chicago’s incoming winter storm being updated from a “watch” to a “warning”, we are facing the unfortunate reality that the next few days could be really rough. “Hunker down if you can, bundle up if you can’t — and keep an eye on each other either way” is the message from Chicago city leaders as they prepare for the storm to roll in on Thursday. Per Fox 32, “A winter storm warning from the National Weather Service goes into effect Thursday morning ahead of a steep temperature drop by the afternoon,” meteorologist Mike Bardou said.
“A light drizzle is expected to turn to snow, ushering in the worst conditions just in time for the evening commute,” Bardou said. Temperatures dropping by 25 degrees, into the low teens or single digits, are expected to create dangerously icy conditions.
Expect to see up to four inches of snow on Thursday with snowfall continuing into Friday to go along with temperatures barely above zero.
If you see someone struggling to stay warm, you’re asked to call 3-1-1 and report their location.
I know not everyone feels the same way, but I LOVE watching Monday Night Football with the Manning brothers, Peyton and Eli. Their commentary is hilarious only to be matched by their constant ripping on each other. It really is magical. For example, talking through Gumby’s finest moment caught on camera… <3 Lauren
Elon Musk f’ed around and found out. In a fit of rage and insecurity, Musk tweeted a poll on December 18 asking if he should step down as Twitter CEO.
With over 17 million votes, Musk learned that nearly 58% of voters wanted him to step down, thus Musk has announced that he would resign from the role he took on during his $44billion takeover – once he finds a replacement ‘foolish enough’ to replace him.
Unrelated, but Telsa stock is nearing record-low levels.
Shams Charania of The Athletic has reported that Zach LaVine and the Bulls are not seeing eye-to-eye. After an impressive 46-36 finish last year, the Bulls have regressed this year with the LaVine-led Bulls failing to live up to their preseason expectations. They now sit at 12-18 and are going nowhere fast. Joe Cowley confirmed that in the midst of getting slaughtered by the Timberwolves, that there was a locker room blowup with players directing their anger towards LaVine.
LaVine signed a five-year max deal with the Bulls in July worth $215.2 million. Now, with the Victor Wenbamyama sweepstakes heating up, the Bulls have an opportunity to shed LaVine, DeRozan, and Nikola Vucevic and possibly alter the direction of their franchise by scoring the first pick in the draft and scooping up Wenbamyama.
On Tuesday night, emergency crews pulled a body out of Diversey Harbor near Dock O. The body was then identified as Peter Salvino, a Northwestern University doctoral student, who disappeared on Sunday. His friends and family were searching for Salvino in Lincoln Park at the time his body was found.
Salvino left a party in Lincoln Park on Saturday night and planned to walk to his home about a half-mile away. He FaceTimed a friend at 11:59 p.m. to tell them he was walking to his apartment, but by 12:15, it was radio silence. Per Fox 32’s reporting, no one heard from Salvino after that.
Q101 sends their thoughts to his friends and family.
Don Caskey, of Ohio, says he has convinced more than 600 strangers to get $40,000 worth of matching tattoos with him, and he’s still going. The 56-year-old was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma in December 2018 after spotting blood in his urine. Since then, he has connected with hundreds of people in an effort to be remembered long after he expires.
“Getting a mark on each other’s bodies, a forever mark that they’ll never forget, and they’ll keep with them throughout life and afterward, they’ll take it with them when they go, so we’re connected together forever by ink,” he explained. Most of his markings are smaller than the palm of his hand and still have not covered his body. He hopes to fill his skin with 1,500 more designs.
The was a large emergency on Tuesday at O’Hare after a passenger told an O’Hare employee that they have a “bomb in a bag”. CPD became aware just before 5:45 AM that the passenger had told an airline employee behind the inside counter there was a pipe bomb in his bag and then left the scene.
TSA noted that the bag was cleared by 6:50 and screening resumed as normal. The suspect was taken into custody, and charges are pending, Chicago police said.
Adam Sandler’s “list of people who are Jewish” has four different versions. The original debuted in 1994, the latest released in 2015.
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A blizzard could hit Chicago on Thursday and last through Saturday. While nothing is guaranteed, reports are predicting that heavy snowfall and winds 40-50mph will engulf Chicago on the first half of Friday. Per Tom Kines of AccuWeather, “The snow combined with the strong winds, with gusts up to 50 mph possible, will be dangerous, impairing people’s visibility and creating potentially dangerous cold.” Kines said he also expects Chicago to get 6 or more inches of snow.
Kines added, “Regardless of where the storm tracks, Chicagoans should expect for their holiday travel plans to be impacted, the meteorologists said. Flights will “most definitely” be canceled, and people should try to travel earlier in the week or stay at home.”
Chicago Warming Centers are located at:
You can call 311 to find the warming center nearest to you. Older people can also go to one of the city’s 21 senior centers. Information about the senior centers is available online.
Q101 will have updates as the week goes on. Stay safe, Chicagoland.
Brian is a man of tradition. Change is something that no one likes, but Brian likes to push forward back and delay the passing of time as much as possible. He struggles with anything out of the ordinary, and one of those unordinary things is this story of a man who made his turtle his flower girl.
The Chicago native has been with his turtle for 24 years, and at The Westin Chicago River North last month, the turtle graced the room by carrying the ring from the doorway to the alter. Per Paul McDonald, the owner of the turtle, his longtime friend is a “social turtle” who never popped into her shell. She thrived under the pressure.
We with these two, and their turtle, the best of luck.
Le Barkery, a living definition of “expendable income”, is thriving in Uptown. Our friends at Block Club Chicago put this store on our radar thanks to this story, which highlights the success of a dog bakery compared to the owner’s prior human-targeted bakeries. We don’t have any issue with the owner of this store, nor do we have any issues with people loving their pets, we’re just astounded that there is this big of a market to feed dogs luxury treats. They eat dirt, you know? They don’t need a cupcake.
How much do you spend on your pets every year? The conversation lives on Facebook!
White Sox fan Bennett Karoll is fed up with the White Sox. Thanks to a GoFundMe that he started, there are now “Sell the team, Jerry” billboards going up on the Southside. Karoll is one of 350 people that donated to the cause. The billboards, which will be 12 by 8 feet on a black background with white lettering, will be up for at least the first two months of the season, Karoll said.
Karoll admits that there’s “zero chance” that Reinsdorf will be motivated to sell the team after seeing these billboards, but that doesn’t matter to him. Karoll just wants him to read it.
Kendra Licari of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, is facing charges after allegedly sending hateful messages to teenage students, including her daughter, under fake names on the Internet. Per Good Morning America, “The shocking charges come after a yearlong investigation into a complaint filed by Beal City Public Schools after Licari’s teenage daughter and her boyfriend reported getting harassing messages.”
The 42-year-old woman allegedly used software to hide her location and used several numbers and area codes, even allegedly trying to pin the origin of the messages as coming from her daughter’s classmates. When confronted with the evidence, Licari admitted the messages were sent by her.
Dave Grohl‘s annual Hanukkah Sessions has begun — and the director of such favorites as The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Trainwreck, and The King Of Staten Island took center stage.
Judd Apatow took vocals while Dave took his familiar seat behind the drums as the trio launched into the 1968 hit Spinning Wheel from Blood Sweat & Tears.
The Foo Fighters frontman and producer Greg Kurstin have been doing the event since 2020 — covering a Jewish artist each of the eight nights of Hanukkah.
Everyone wants in on the fun now that AHOY! is moving to The Salt Shed. It was announced over the weekend that Goose Island is taking their operations from Lincoln Park to The Salt Shed. The new location is just across the river from the titular Goose Island.
Goose Island has been an anchor in Lincoln Park since the year it was founded in 1988. They will still be located there until the end of next year when the move takes place.
