Shout out to our costume contest winner DOC OCK!
Photographer/ Zach Spangler
Halloween Bash 2022
A new 58-mile bike trail will connect West Michigan to Chicago
Construction on a 58-mile, non-motorized bike path that will connect West Michigan to Chicago is set begin next year. Starting in New Buffalo Michigan, the Marquette Greenway Trail Project will go through Indiana and end at Calumet Park on Chicago’s southeast side. The Illinois part is done already, but the Indiana portion won’t be finished until early 2027. The Michigan portion will be constructed in two phases, both will be ready by 2025. What are you waiting for Indiana? Let’s go! Funding for the project is coming from a handful of federal, state and local grants including a $17.8 million grant from U.S. Department of Transportation to the Northwest Indiana Regional Planning Commission. It’ll take a little bit of time, but until then bikers, you can ride around here in Chicago and surrounding burbs in your cute little outfits. You’ll have to wait a few years to go all the way to Michigan along the lake shore free of traffic from cars. -Ali
The BEST dive bars in America
Sometimes you want the down to Earth, no frills type of place to sip your drink and not have to worry about people from outside of the neighborhood coming in trying to be cool, or worse, getting WAY too hammered. That’s why most people love their local watering hole. They’re more private, and most likely cheaper. Are they the cleanest or newest? Probably not, but who cares?! Here are some of the best dive bars in America by state. Let’s start with Illinois and surrounding states.
| Illinois | Bernice’s Tavern, in Chicago |
| Indiana | Ralph’s Great Divide, in Indianapolis |
| Michigan | Bumbo’s, Hamtramck |
| Wisconsin | Koz’s Mini Bowl, in Milwaukee |
| Iowa | High Life Lounge, in Des Moines |
10.30.2022 History Of Alternative
Hour 1
- Madness – One Step Beyond
- The Cure – Lullaby
- Stone Temple Pilots – Wicked Garden
- XTC – The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
- The Black Keys – Howlin’ For You
- Dinosaur Jr. – Freak Scene
- The Cranberries – Zombie
- Jaime T – Zombie
- Oingo Boingo – Weird Science
- Smashing Pumpkins – Zero
- Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Hour 2
- Beck – Devil’s Haircut
- INXS – Devil Inside
- Green Day – Geek Stink Breath
- Bow Wow Wow – Candy
- Toadies – Possum Kingdom
- Interpol – Evil
- Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead
- Soundgarden – Fell On Black Days
- Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
- Garbage – #1 Crush
- Thomas Dolby – She Blinded Me With Science
Hour 3
- The Ramones – Pet Sematary
- U2 – Elevation
- Social Distortion – Bad Luck
- Siouxsie And The Banshees – Halloween
- The Prodigy – Breathe
- Depeche Mode – It’s No Good
- Blink 182 – I Miss You
- Rob Zombie – Dragula
- Sponge – Molly
- Tears For Fears – Mad World
- TV On The Radio – Wolf Like Me
- Violent Femmes – Gone Daddy Gone
Hour 4
- L7 – Pretend We’re Dead
- The Smiths – Cemetry Gates
- Nine Inch Nails – Head Like A Hole
- Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
- Nirvana – Sliver
- Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell
- Iggy Pop/Kate Pierson – Candy
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Heads Will Roll
- Foo Fighters – Breakout
- The Hooters – All You Zombies
- Ministry – (Everyday Is) Halloween
Knife Trend gone wrong!
There is a trend going around Tik Tok of going crazy with a knife… you’d have to be crazy if you didn’t see this coming.
All said I hope this poor girl is okay and I would like to thank her for still posting this amazing content even though she probably knew it would blow up like this.
Does Kelly Clarkson nail this cover of “Black Hole Sun”?
Well, does she? You be the judge — she just belted this out this week on her syndicated talk show:
Marcus Mumford — The Lounge
You Laugh, You Go To Hell- Halloween costume edition
You laugh you go to hell, this costume looks like something else. Kids probably shouldn’t be wearing this either, because it looks like a… uhhh… just watch.
The highest-grossing tours of 2022
If there’s one message that the music industry picked up in the first half of this year is that concerts are back baby. Fans want to get out, and see live music. Box office figures from Pollstar show people are getting back out there and are willing to spend big dollars too. Gross averages in the year’s first half show an average box-office gain of $856,206 per show. Damn, that’s a LOT of dough. So who has the highest grossing tour in 2022? Bad Bunny. Here’s the top 10, take note of our boys in Coldplay coming in strong at number 9 with almost $45 million earned worldwide.
Top 10 Pollstar 2022 Worldwide Tours (Midyear)
- Bad Bunny – $120.1 million
- Genesis – $72 million
- Elton John – $70 million
- BTS – $69.3 million
- Morgan Wallen – $58.3 million
- Eric Church – $56.3 million
- The Eagles – $55 million
- John Mayer – $51.8 million
- Coldplay – $44.7 million
- Garth Brooks – $44.3 million
Elton John comes in in North American tours at number two behind the incomparable Bad Bunny. The Eagles and Genesis also make the top ten in North America, as do BTS, Morgan Wallen, Garth Brooks, Eric Church, and John Mayer.
‘Winterland’ at Wrigley Field will feature ice skating inside this year
The ice rink, previously outside of of Wrigley Field at Gallagher Way is now being moved inside. Now you can ice skate on the field- on top of ice that is. The rink will be in right field and the as usual, the Christkindlmarket Wrigleyville will still be right outside. If you need to rent skates, they have you covered too. You can get a pair for a few bucks, and it’s only $12 with your own skates. “Winterland” runs from Friday, Nov. 18 through Jan. 8.
Dave Grohl pulls a quick one on autograph hunters
The front man of the Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl, is taking a strong stance against autograph hunters. He’s usually been very nice and signed most anything, but enough is enough. People need to stop profiting from his signature. This video shows him asking fans to please understand but he doesn’t do them anymore unless it’s for charity. The autograph hunters doubled down and asked him to personalize it. “I’m gonna say it one more time,” Grohl starts slowly, “I stopped signing s*** unless it’s for charity.” They continue to hound him, then he pulls this classic move on them. This is why we love Dave Grohl so much. Go, Dave, go! -Ali
Franz Ferdinand – Walk Away
The most entertaining thing on the internet
Help name Shedd Aquarium’s new sea otter!
I loooooove sea otters! Whenever I go to Shedd Aquarium I make a beeline toward them because they are the cutest animals on the planet! Seriously, I have dreams about holding a sea otter. One day, it will happen. Anyhoo, Shedd welcomed two new females earlier this month, otter 926 and 929, which aren’t the most catchy names I’ve ever heard unless they are extras in the new Terminator movie. They are being smart about it too, you don’t have the ability to “write-in” your name suggestion (sorry, no Brian For Mayor the Otter this time) so get your vote in for either Sunny, Jade or Willow HERE. <3 Lauren
Am I The Jerk? Alec Baldwin is on the chopping block this week
Alec Baldwin recently dropped a weird post about the death of Halyna Hutchins, the woman he accidentally shot and killed on the movie set of Rust. The gun he was using in the film was supposed to be loaded with blanks and instead had live ammo. Baldwin claimed he never pulled the trigger and it accidentally went off, the FBI says that’s absolutely not possible.
This all happened a year ago. For some reason Alec made this post to Instagram a few days on the one year anniversary of her passing- is he the jerk?
Do They Belong To The Streets? He’s a known ghoster, and it came back to bite him
Ahoy Brian Allie and Justin I have a epic story of me belonging to the streets that that I have to share with you. I’ve been known to meet women on tinder, hook up with them and then ghost them. I’ll never do that again! About a month ago I hooked up with a woman and totally love bombed her. We had a 12 hour date that ended with us hooking up in my truck. I could tell this girl really liked me and I used that for my advantage. A couple days after the date we hooked up again and then I never talked to her again. I didn’t answer when she called and I never returned any texts. Last weekend I was in a bad car accident on the Dan Ryan and needed to be transported to the hospital with a broken leg. As the EMT’s were approaching me to help me I thought I recognized one of them. Turns out the girl I ghosted was the EMT! I pretended not to recognize her but she immediately called me out and that’s when she got her revenge. After giving me an earful for how I treated her (which was very unprofessional) she kept hitting and pulling on my broken leg. It was the worst pain I have ever felt in my entire life! I thought I was going to die and there was nothing I could do about it because I was stuck in the back of an ambulance with her. She ripped me a new one and purposely messed up my IV. She must have poked me 10 times. It was so damn scary and painful. I kept trying to apologize but she was ruthless. Once we got to the hospital she told all the nurses what I did to her which made them all hate me. It was the worst 10 hours of my entire life. I’m saying I’ve total learned my lesson but it may be a while before I ghost someone again. I thought you guys would find this funny. I love the show keep up the great work.
Adam
Feel the rain on your skin- “Laguna Beach” and “The Hills” are returning
From September 2004, to November 2006, “Laguna Beach” was on MTV and it was the greatest of times. It followed rich, beautiful, high schoolers and their drama filled lives at the beach. Everyone wanted to be Lauren Conrad, Lo Bosworth, Kristin Cavallari, or Stephen Colletti. The teens were followed in a ‘reality’ show that was heavily produced to make storylines work every week. Was Kristin really a villain? Probably not, but the show certainly made her seem like the mean girl at your school. Stephen was the hot guy no one could truly have, and Lo was the best confidant. She went to my college, turns out she’s the best at keg stands too. My point is, it was sort of relatable, even though 99.9% of people watching would never live like them, they were real to us because they went through the same high school BS.
We love “Laguna Beach.” And “The Hills” coming back too is icing on the cake. It was made for people that couldn’t let go of Laguna, and were willing to watch some of the same people try to ‘make it’ in LA. Both are back on Netflix, Laguna on Nov. 11th, and Hills starting December 15th.
Aragon Ballroom to turn into Casino for Fundraiser
Nov. 2 at the Aragon Ballroom, Uptown United’s Uptown Casino returns to host a fundraiser for the local community. The ballroom dance floor will turn into a casino for one night night with poker, blackjack, roulette, and craps. There will be live music from the Lakeside Pride Jazz Orchestra, dancing, and entertainment from Baton Lounge. Can’t make it to the event? Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Uptown United.
Tickets are $25 and come with casino chips as well. Food from local restaurants will be there as well.
Aragon Ballroom, 1106 W. Lawrence Ave.
5-9:30 p.m. Nov. 2
Tickets: https://exploreuptown.org/casino/
