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Friday, August 31st, 2012

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LOCAL

30 Years for Local Man’s Seventh DUI ArrestSource: The Chicago Tribune, by George Houde

Despite, Hurricane Issac’s dissipating force, it is still heavily affecting the areas of Lousiana and Mississippi. There have been threats of flooding both from the torrential downpours and weaken-ing dam systems. There is also the possibility of tornadoes and storm surges as the stomr continues. So far, around 903,000 homes and businesses in Louisiana are without power.

Source: CBS News

NATIONAL

Isaac’s Presence Being Felt

Despite failed city inspections and staffing prob-lems, the Laugh Factory recently opened its doors in a belated grand opening this week. The Factory has had a shaky start, but has recently fared better with local businesses noting a decline in customers on show days. Yet, it’s still going to be an uphill battle for the Laugh Factory to fill its 400 seat the-ater on the corner of Belmont and Broadway on a regular basis. The Lakeshore Theater, which previ-ously inhabited the same spot, closed down due to poor business in 2010.

Source: Chicago Sun-Times, by Mike Thomas

NEIGHBORHOOD

Keeping Business Alive is No Laughing Matter

Chicago Fire, a dramatic tv series filmed in Chi-cago about the city’s Fire Department, is looking for college-aged and senior citizen extras to be in its upcoming season. They also need “old, down-scale” cars” in every color but red and white. Fi-nally is a chance for you or your beat-up car to be a star!

Source: The Chicago Tribune, by Luis GomezChicago Fire Wants You!

A Palatine man could be facing up to 30 years of jail time after getting charged with his seventh DUI-related charge this week. The man, 47-year-old Osvaldo Collazo, was found swerving in and out of traf-fic on West Dundee Road and stopped by police who measured his blood alcohol level at .213, nearly threee times the legal limit. After discovering his previous record (and an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court on his sixth DUI charge) Collazo recieved an automatic Class X felony charge with a mandatory 6 to 30 years in prison.

The neighborhood of Lincoln Park experienced four robberies in a period of three days last week. The police believe the similar patterns of broken rear door and/or window in all four cases means they are related. They are asking residents to be alert and call Area Detectives 312-747-8382 with any specific information.

Source: NBC ChicagoLincoln Park Robberies

LOCAL

In a collaboration entitled “21st Century Unlim-ited,” Chicago’s own worldwide ranked 7th place restaurant Alinea will switch places with 10th place New York restaurant Eleven Madison Park for a week starting Sept. 26 in New York and Oct. 7 in Chicago. The running price tag for a meal during these weeks will be $495 per meal, so there bet-ter be something covered with edible gold flakes involved.

Source: The Associated Press

Restaurant Bait and Switch

Chicago gas has been expensive lately due to local refinery and pipeline issues, and it looks as though Hurricane Isaac will only make things worse. Ac-cording to a Daily Fuel Gauge Report issued by AAA, the average price for a gallon of gas in Chicago is already at a staggering $4.44 or $0.75 higher than the national average.

Source: WBEZ, by Lauren Chooljian & Anthony Martinez

Hurricane Side Effects: Not Just For the Coastline

Note from the Editor: “Ahh... Northbroast. Where rav-ers, hippies, and bros unite to

rage face and collectively listen to what their parents call ‘broken

machine music.’”

HAPPENINGS

SPORTS

College football returned last night and already speculations are flying for who the teams to beat are this year. Teams from the SEC have won the last six titles, but many are saying they won’t be able to hold onto that streak this year; the interstate rivalry between Alabama and Auburn could see the Tigers coming out on top; and most are saying eyes will be just as closely on Penn State as they have been all year.

Source: The Bleacher Report, by Ben Chodos

Giving It The Old College Try

Velvet Circus Visits ChicagoWesnesday, Septemeber 5 - If you are in the Chica-go area, “Velvet Circus” is coming to you, they are traveling all the way from Hollywood CA to show Chicago what they’ve got!! Save the date, Wednes-day, Sept. 5th @8pm. Velvet Circus will be live at the new Laugh Factory in Lakeview. You can also click on the flyer to get advanced tickets and save $5. Tickets are $15 in advance & $20 at the door.

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You can tell college football is back because Georgia fans are already coming up with ex-cuses for why they lost to Vanderbilt.

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POLITICS

More than 3,000 people, attended a rally for Rom-ney in Ohio on Aug. 14, but many of the coal miners in attendance are now claiming they were forced to participate and were robbed of one day’s pay in order to attend the event. The coal company in question is Murray’s Energy Century owned by Robert Murray, a huge Romney and Republican party supporter. He and his wife have donated over $450,000 to the GOP and its candidates since 2008. Over the same period of time, around $1.5 million dollars were donated to the Republican party by employees and affiliates of Murray’s company.

Source: The Chicago Tribune, By Rick Pearson

Miners Forced to Attend Romney Rally

Reading those “Chicken Soup For the Soul” mak-ing you hungry? The people at Daymon Worldwide seem to think so and have offered up a solution by creating Chicken Soup For the Soul Soup due out this January. The creators are saying it’s just meant to be good food, not some sort of emotional magical combination when eaten while reading the books, but let’s see for ourselves.

Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, by Venessa Wong

BUSINESS

Chicken Soup For The Soul For The Stomach

TECHNOLOGY

Thanks to NASA’s surveying technology, we can all feel a little smaller and more meaningless in this vast universe. Along with discoveries of even more galaxies previously not viewable due to cosmic dust, they’ve also mapped out 2.5 million super-massive black holes, two-thirds of which we didn’t know existed until now.

Source: The Atlantic, by Rebecca J. Rosen

New Black Holes Discov-ered in Space

FINDS

I have lived in Chicago for several years and can only think of a few sporadic complaints about liv-ing in the city: the humidity in the summertime, CTA trains that occasionally smell like a bathroom and the traffic on Lakeshore Drive the one day you’re running late. There’s another complaint that I’d like to register and it’s that people in Chicago just don’t drink enough champagne. Chicagoans drink plenty of Bud Light pitchers on special at sports bars during Bears games and we all know that the PBR flows like wine in Wicker Park, but if you ask me, people should drink more bubbly.

By Maris Callahan

Mimosa Bottle Service and Brunch at Dale Levitski’s Frog N Snail in Lakeview

After becoming Amazon’s top-selling product in history, the Kindle Fire has officially sold out. But conveniently enough for fans of the tablet, an “ex-citing roadmap” is already ahead according to the CEO, with speculations that the Kindle Fire 2 will be announced on September 6. Perfect timing.

Source: Gizmodo, by Adrian Covert The Kindle Fire’s Eternal Flame

President Barack Obama’s surprise Reddit AMA on Wednesday was just another in a long line of ca-sual outreaches to voters this election season (just this month he bought a round of beer for everyone at the Iowa State Fair). Other parts of the site ex-perienced difficulties following the announcement Obama would be on the site. Obama’s approval rat-ing among Redditors is now at 75 percent, which isn’t too shabby compared to his 47.7 percent na-tional rating.

Source: The Washington Post, by Hayley TsukayamaNot Bad Obama

Nothing like a little Nazi Germany name-drop-ping to really get business booming, or so thinks the owner of the store Hitler. Rajesh Shah, owner of the menswear store in India, thought the name was “catchy” and paid homage to his grandfather who was nicknamed “Hitler” after playing him in a school play. The Jewish community surrounding the store are none too happy about the name (and the accompanying swastika), but Shah says busi-ness has been great and has no plans to rebrand.

Source: The New York Times, by Malavika VyawahareHitler Store Causes Controversy

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Fashion Night Out with 900 Shops 2nd Annual Fame, Fashion, Flavor

Thursday, Septemeber 6 - Mark your calendars for Chicago’s Fashion Night Out 2012! Each year it gets bigger and better and this year the place to be is the 900 Shops on Michigan Avenue as they pres-ent their 2nd Annual Fame, Fashion, Flavor. Join 900 North Michigan Shops with special hostess Ali Larter (known for her starring role in NBC’s Heroes and having graced the covers of InStyle, Allure and Glamour, to name a few), Michigan Avenue Magazine and McGrath Lexus and Acura.

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Copyright © @kthypryn on Flickr; Used through Creative Commons. Despite the summer months coming to a close, the Lincoln Park Zoo, 2001 N. Clark St., will remain open all year-round and, as always, will be free to the public through the winter months.

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If he did something in Germany, is that our concern?” - Rajesh Shah

Editor Reaction: None of your concern? Is it worse to be Hitler, or to be the pig that tries to make money off the Holocaust. Now take that goddamn Gandhi shirt off. You don’t de-serve it.

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The Chicago Bears are taking a hand in the fight against breast cancer with their 5th “Real Bears Fans Wear Pink” campaign. Fans can vote on their favorite t-shirt design through Monday, with all proceeds benefitting Bears Care. Last year the same campaign raised more than $400,000 to aid breast cancer patients and their families.

Source: The Chicago BearsBears Sport Orange, Blue, Pink

Copyright © Annie Graft Used with permissionNorth Coast Festival kicks off in Union Park today.

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37- Ear ornament40- Latin king41- ___-Foy, Quebec42- Elderly, matured43- Singer Cleo45- Pains47- Mischievous person48- Perfectly51- South American country, famous for Macchu Picchu52- Now54- Employment vacancy58- Brainstorms59- Actress Sommer61- Sturdy cart62- Farm birds63- On the main64- Islamic chieftain65- City on the Rhone66- Injure67- Seldom seen

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Fashion

I currently am in love with anything golden, shiny, or metallic… No, not tacky sparkly things like the shirts with glitter or rhinestone wording, but jew-elry or items that are beautifully ornate and drip-ping in gold.

from: The Culture Studio, by Jennifer LezanObsession Du’Jour - Heart of Gold

Copyright © Aaron Wolverton, @ woolie_bully on Instagram; Used with permission.There was a wide spread of authentic food at the Taste of Greece over the weekend.

Macy’s presented the 21st annual Glamorama at the Harris Theater with “The British Invasion: The Music Then. The Fashion Now!,” a celebration of music and style from across the pond. The runway show aimed to honor British icons, such as the now-legendary bands the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, marking the 5oth anniversary of their mo-mentous rise to fame.

from: ChiTown Fashionista, by Gabriel Charles Tyler

Macy’s Glamourama Recap: The British Invasion

Food

BLOGS - LOCAL

I believe it was Kate Moss who once said, “Noth-ing tastes as good as skinny feels.” Well, that skin-ny Brit has obviously never tasted my red velvet cream cheese cookies. You see I was skinny at the beginning of the summer; not Rachel Zoe-tiny but my size 4 pants were getting loose. Then, I redis-covered my love of baking. I don’t know how it happened, but, just like Forrest Gump decided one day to run, I decided to bake. And, I am good.

from: The Former Chubette, by Stephanie Menendez

Red Velvet Cookies Ruined My Waistline

Sad to think about, but there are people who like beer, but can’t deal with some of the ingredients. I can kind of relate, since I need to watch my blood sugar and sometimes get sneezing fits near fresh hops, but I won’t pretend that’s anywhere near the same level as someone suffering from Gluten al-lergies.

from: Beeronaut, by Mark McDermott

Putting Gluten-Free Beers to the Taste Test

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Earlier this week we spent all day helping to do an inventory of one of our district elementary li-braries. Inventories aren’t unusual of course but the reason we were doing the collection count was that in the spring the administrators eliminated the library secretary positions.

from: Bookends, by Cindy Dobrez and Lynn Rutan

Inventory Finds: Should We Read These?

A few weeks ago, you may have seen a very sly mention of the very first blog post written for Spin Sucks (which was published at 11:35 p.m. and we wonder why no one read it). I almost hate to men-tion it again because it was so bad. But I do so be-cause, as of September 11 (yes, the anniversary), we have been blogging for six years and I thought it’d be interesting to take a look back.

from: Spin Sucks, by Gini Dietrich

Lessons (and Stats) From Six Years of Blogging

Lifestyle

A bunch of economic relationships are not behav-ing the way a lot of influential people say they should. Sometimes that’s because, as Krugman stresses, such people have the wrong models. For example, they expect monetary and fiscal stimulus to generate breakout inflation and spikes in bond yields because they fail to grasp unique character-istics of the current period: liquidity trap, ZLB, de-leveraging cycle.

from: On the Economy, by Jared BernsteinInflation and the Output Gap

Technology is a blast because it never stops grow-ing and changing. What’s more is that now it’s moving at leaps and bounds, seemingly taking big-ger and bigger steps every single year. Technology is bringing the world closer together, and thanks to its widespread use, has even become some-thing of a hobby for a lot of us. If one of your lady friends has an unquenchable thirst for all things tech, then there are more than just a few things you can get for her during pretty much any gift-giving occasion.

from: Little Tech Girl

The Latest and Greatest Gift Ideas for Techie Chicks

Culture

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Music

BLOGS - NATIONAL

Art Garfunkel is 1/2 of one of the most popular duos in music history but we’re not going to men-tion the other guy because quite frankly he gets enough accolades. This is for you Mr. Garfunkel... For almost 50 years Art Garfunkel’s voice has been in our heads and in our hearts. He has sung lead or harmony vocals on ten “Top 10” hit singles and sold almost 20 million records worldwide.

from: Pop Culture Beast, by Pat Francis

Music Review: Art Garfunkel “The Singer”

Technology

The good: The TiVo Stream lets you easily stream and download programs wirelessly from your TiVo DVR to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. Setup and operation are simple. The bad: The Stream cur-rently only works with iOS devices, and the app functionality could be more robust. It has TiVo Pre-miere support only and requires a wired Internet connection for the DVR and Stream.

from: CNet, by Joshua GoldmanTiVo Stream Review

Lifestyle

This morning I went over to my grandmother’s house to bring her buttermilk and ice cream. She calls me once a week or so: “Jessie, go to the store for me, will you? I’m outta cornmeal and see if you can get some of that cream for my eyebrows. You know, that cream you got at the pharmacy that one time ...” Most of my family lives within about five miles of her house, so I’m not the only one who gets calls like this from Gigi.

from: The Hairpin, by Jesslyn ShieldsHow To Live Practically Forever

Uncle Sammy’sfrom: The Top Sheet Staff

Uncle Sammy’s is a classic sandwich shop locat-ed near the intersection of Fullerton and Racine in Lincoln Park. With their melt-in-your-mouth brownies and yummy concocted sandwiches, such as The Pilgrim and Californian, this is the place to be when your stomach is growling. School is now back in session at DePaul University so make sure to make this your lunch hot spot between classes. Their “Buy One, Get One Free” deals, special of-fers for frequent customers, and delicious food earns them a spot as The Top Sheet’s Local Busi-ness of the Week.

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LOCAL BUSINESS OF THE WEEK

Social Media is BullshitBy B. J. Mendelson

“We live in a world where it’s far easier to make money telling people how to get rich using the

internet than it is to get rich using it.”

Mendelson’s first book will hit the shelves and e-books September 4.

Visit www.socialmediaisbullshit.com to learn more.

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Hackman’s always had a kind of different spin on whatever scene he gets jammed in with. This new collaboration with new producer Jabru is distinctly fresh. It’s got a clean-cut, polished feel, almost poppy, and far more so than Hackman’s solo tunes, but this is where its brilliance lies, delivering ad-dictive, crystalline hooks that make you catch your breath.

from: Bass Music, by Gwyn

Paradise Club Recordings An-nounces First Release, Including Hackman’s New Project

A group of teenagers go on a trip in the cabin at the woods. But what they don’t know is that the cabin itself was being controlled by a secret agency (I still don’t know what is it called). And starting from there mischief and a whole lot of mayhem happen in the cabin and the 5 teens. The Cabin in the Woods is a great tribute for those who have been linked and a big fan of the horror/ suspense genre, please be advised that if you haven’t seen this movie, I dare you to stop reading this review for now because I’ll be discussing the ending.

from: The Film Geek GuyCabin In The Woods (Film Review)

“No guns,” Batman admonishes in The Dark Knight Rises, “No killing.” The irony of his warn-ing would soon become apparent as the summer’s biggest movie event became forever associated with the largest mass shooting in the nation’s his-tory. Even though TDKR would go on to become the year’s second-highest grossing film, the mas-sacre in Aurora, Colorado cast a pall over the entire summer’s action movies, if not its entire box office.

from: Vulture, by Claude Brodesser-Akner

Summer 2012 Box Office Report Card: Action, Genre, and Super-hero Edition

Film

This year, many Chicago public schools are re-introducing something they haven’t had for 30 years: RECESS!Source: @OMGFacts

The Chicago Jazz Festi-val kicked off Thursday and is free to enjoy all weekend at the Cultural Center and Millenium Park.

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CorePower Yoga is offering a free week of classes at its Lakeview and Lincoln Park loca-tions for new students. Try it out!