Check out Monsters of Ink Alum Ryan Duggan’s Delicious Prints For the Chicago Pizza Summit
This past weekend, Old Style and the Empty Bottle’s third annual Chicago Pizza Summit brought Chicagoans together to celebrate three of the city’s favorite things: beer, live music, and stuffing your face with pizza. Along with a performance by Twin Peaks and hosting duties handled by local rapper ShowYouSuck (who’s apparently still recovering), the event…
Let’s all wish the Ramones’ debut album a happy birthday
While the band (arguably) may not have written the first punk song ever, it’s undeniable that 44 years ago this week (April 23, 1976) the genre would be pioneered by the Ramones’ debut release, Ramones. Thanks to Sire Records, the world beyond New York City would soon be introduced to Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee and…
Someone’s putting photos of Donald Trump in dog poop
Chicagoans! Help to stop (or encourage) the Trumpoop Bandit™, depending on your politics.Someone has been anonymously leaving photos of Donald Trump next to piles of dog poop in Chicago’s River North neighborhood, fueling public speculation and raising a shitload of questions. Are the photos of Donald Trump being left as a warning for people not to step in the dog poop? Is this some sort of partisan…
Bathroom hand dryers blow poop on your hands
A recent study in the science journal Applied and Environmental Microbiogy—a great bathroom read if you can find it—found that those ubiquitous bathroom hand dryers that help reduce the use of paper towels (while not completely drying your hands) also suck in fecal matter, then blow it all over your hands. In the shit-tastic study, “Deposition…
A look at the weirder side of Dan Aykroyd
I love Bill Murray as much as anyone—I’m a snob, yes, but I’m not a monster—but I think it’s time we as a culture give the mass adulation a rest for awhile. A couple other people from the original Saturday Night Live orbit were pretty great, too, and I don’t see any Etsy t-shirt shops and…
Time to end your search for the perfect one-hitter, dude
Since I started smoking pot in the late-1900s, things have come about as far as the Internet has in the same span of time. Dealers offer lengthy menus of strains, packaged in odor-free baggies printed with nifty branded art. Dispensaries stock a dizzying array of tinctures, extracts, and edibles. And as far as methods of…
The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of April 16th, 2018Check out new music from Laura Jane Grace, The Longshot, A Perfect Circle, Sleep, Fidlar, Flatfoot 56, and The Brokedowns.
John Lurie isn’t fooling anybody with this Marvin Pontiac reissue for Record Store Day
In 1999, cult favorite actor/musician/prankster polymath John Lurie—leader of the Lounge Lizards, early Jim Jarmusch muse, brilliant host of the absurdist celebrity travelogue Fishing with John—let slip an album, The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, on his Strange and Beautiful Music label. The titular artist, press materials of the time claimed, was a lost hero of…
