Directed By Corey Henderson
For love and money.
Posted on August 31, 2012
Chicagoetry: How Everywhere She Is
By J.J. Tindall
How Everywhere She Is
How everywhere she is:
in the brittle trill of cicadas,
each with claves, sound
swirling like a flock of wooden blackbirds,
the sharp, black whoosh of the Blue Line–
Posted on August 29, 2012
Chicago’s Wild 100s
By tcmerkRNR
“RNR Ent. presents a TC Production Chicago SouthSide hood 2 hood. A few spots in Chicago Wild 100s from Chicago Roseland to Chicago Pullman 103rd, 107th, 115th St. (Ada Park n Cooper Park), Halsted (Emerald, Union, n Normal Ave) , Cottage Grove (London Town, Langley, Corliss) MLK (Vernon n St Lawerence) S. Michigan (119th) State St, Wentworth (117th). Check out all RNR Ent. Mixtapes at http://www.datpiff.com/profile/treyonefour/mixtapes. Instrumental provided by BeatBulletin & Producer Chill.”
Posted on August 27, 2012
Why Jenny McCarthy And Brian Urlacher Broke Up
By The Beachwood Dating Forensics Unit
Exclusive Beachwood reporting from behind-the-scenes of the break-up has revealed a host of reasons why this Chicago wonder couple just couldn’t make it.
* Brian blames Jenny for his recent surgery because she persuaded him not to take anti-knee injury vaccine.
* Jenny needs a bigger intellectual challenge.
* Brian upset because Jenny wouldn’t come to bed Photoshopped.
Posted on August 17, 2012
Chicagoetry: Groovy Times
By J.J. Tindall
Groovy Times
My favorite nanosecond every year
is the instant the goddam blowtorch breaks
and I can smell the first quarks of autumn.
The boiling blazes seem like forever
as they confound, conflate and constrict
from Memorial Day pretty much
through Lollapalooza.
You find yourself dazedly digging trenches
in your mind for a perpetual siege,
acceding to a scorched forever
and then the goddam blowtorch breaks.
Posted on August 11, 2012
The Maxwell Street Market Vendors Association Wants You To Like Them
By Steve Balkin
The New Maxwell Street Market, on Desplaines Avenue between Roosevelt and Polk, has been in decline for several years; fewer vendors and fewer shoppers.
Once the largest open-air market in Chicago, it had 1,200 vendors in 1994 in its original location. Now, on Desplaines, it has less than 100.
This has been caused by higher vendor fees; unnecessary expensive regulations, out of line with other outdoor markets in Chicagoland; city management unfriendly to the vendors; and city management disinterested in stemming the downward trend.
But the vendors have come to the rescue of the Market and formed the Maxwell Street Market Vendors Association. Their motto is “United in Justice, In Service to the Community, In Support to our Families.”
Posted on August 9, 2012
Things From Chicago The Mars Rover Has Found
Ruling The Red Planet
Space ward shaping up nicely.
* The dude who hired Angelo Torres. Oh wait, that was a different rover.
* Richard M. Daley’s response to police chief Richard Brzeczek’s warning about Jon Burge
* Steve Bartman.
* Ald. Joe Moore’s balls.
* That missing puck.
Posted on August 6, 2012
Ye Olde Schaumburg!
Video By Dave Seminara
Vast parking lots and historic strips malls that recall the glory days of America’s suburbs!
Posted on August 6, 2012
The True Story Of How An Incompetent Gun-Runner Fraudulently Founded Streeterville
Video By Chicago Line Cruises
Capt. George Streeter was an incompetent gun-runner and vice lord who once declared himself the governor of the “Lake Michigan District” who would answer only the president.
Posted on August 4, 2012