Photographer/ Zach Spangler
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
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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/
Adorable rats might soon save earthquake victims
Finally, rats are going to be useful to us humans. They’re known to spread disease and make people jump up on chairs, but now they could known as rescuers. Scientists are currently training rats in a simulator disaster area, during 15-minute sessions five days a week. They’re equipped with adorable little backpacks that would help first responders search for survivors. The rats have to locate the person in rubble, then are treated when they click a button on their backpack to signify that they found someone. It will take at least nine to 12 months to train each rat. The the next step is to mimic more real world scenarios. Watch them search below, they’re SO CUTE. -Ali
Who’s Karen Is It? IT’S KANYE.
This week our Karen is Kanye West. You know why unless you’ve been living under a rock. His brazen anti-Semitic comments has sent his life into a spiral, and he deserves all of it. Mind you, he has had EVERY opportunity to apologize. In this day and age, hate speech like his cannot, and will not be tolerated in the media or anywhere. It’s rare that someone of his caliber would even proudly go off like that. And it’s dangerous, because it emboldens others since Ye has credibility. The very few that agree, feel like they can come out, and they did in Los Angeles when they put up sign on the freeway that read “Kanye was right.” He’s NOT.
Since West doubled down, he has begun to lose everything including his talent agency, CAA, his relationship with Adidas, the Gap is removing all of his products from their stores, players that are a part of his Donda Sports have stepped out, and the list goes on. Celebs like Lizzo, Jamie Lee Curtis, David Schwimmer, and Khloe Kardashian have all made it clear that Kanye’s behavior is wrong and he will not be supported. Schwimmer hit hard with this stat, “Jews make up only 2.4% of the population of the United States but are the victims of more than 60% of all religious hate crimes.” Think about that. West’s social media following, is larger than the amount of the Jewish population worldwide. He has influence. There’s proof that hate speech leads to hate crimes. He needs to remember that with great power comes great responsibility. And we need to remember that silence is complicity.
Some of the funniest things overheard at ‘When We Were Young Festival’
80,000 emo and pop punk fans gathered in Las Vegas over the weekend for “When We Were Young Festival.” Unfortunately, the first day had to be cancelled due to gale force winds. Anyone who bought a ticket for just Saturday was screwed! But thankfully, Sunday went off without a hitch. Here are some of the funniest things overheard from the attendees from the weekend.
“3OH!3 should come on three minutes late so they’re on at 3:03. That would be awesome.”
“Bro the main stage is so lamestage.”
Person 1: “Do you think anyone here is our age?”
Person 2: “Yeah look how many dudes there are in baseball hats – that means they’re balding.”
Two girls twerking while watching Jimmy Eat World: “We’re throwing it back… mournfully.”
“Guys, is my Insta story cool?”
“Travis Barker nearly stood on my foot and apologised.”
“Yeah well I stink, alright? I stink and I’m rubbish.”
James Corden came clean and “apologized”
James Corden is the host of the Late Late Show and recently he got into some hot water when he complained at a popular NYC restaurant, Balthazar. Apparently, his wife’s omlette was sub-par and verbally abused the waitress. But wait, his version of events is a little different than the media. He was banned from the place at first, then he called the owner to beg for forgiveness. The owner claims this wasn’t the first time the staff had mentioned that Corden was being rude to them. James was accused of being their worst customer in their 25 year history. Ouch. He let Corden come back under the condition that he remain civil from here on out. Here is James Corden’s official apology that he did on his show after his dad convinced to do it. Workers from Balthazar are still critical of the explanation. -Ali
Relationship Court: Two men came to pick up their daughter from school
A woman who works at a school in Georgia, witnessed something crazy go down. Two different dudes went to pick up their daughter and neither one knew about the other. They BOTH thought they were her real dad. Oddly enough, the little girl wasn’t even there. They realized it when they went to check her out. Both men were listed as her emergency contact too. Awkwarrrrrrrd! The men were seated separately while they waited for the mom to arrive. They met her in the parking lot and a fight broke out. The police came and one of the daddies got locked up. Yikes. So who is the real dad? We will have to wait for the DNA test.
Bears beat the Patriots 33-14
Last night, the Bears shocked in Monday Night Football and beat the Patriots 33-14. The Bears are now 3-4 on the season, which means, if they win every single game from here on out, Brian’s prediction for their season will be correct! This is their first road win of the season as quarterback Justin Fields went 13-for-21 for 179 yards, one touchdown, one interception, 82 yards rushing, and another touchdown on the ground. Here’s his TD! -Ali
