It is August 15, 2008, and if the past is any indication, the lines should be around your nearest multiplex. Why, you ask? Because there is a new Star Wars movie released today. You say that you didn’t know, and you just drove past your local mall and the lines of people at the movie […]

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Because it has always been a local program, it was big news in Chicago when it was announced today that Richard Roeper would no longer be on the long time movie review program “At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper.” Of course, the “star” of the show, Roger Ebert, has been off the air for […]

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The world of the very rich and famous is far weirder than the normal world in which you, Gentle Reader, and I reside. Case in point: the apparently finished marriage of Alex Rodriguez and wife Cynthia. With long road trips, baseball players are notorious for their infidelities with groupies on the road, but it looks […]

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To paraphrase the weepy movie Love Story: I know that writing a blog means never having to say you’re sorry, or even wrong, but I have to at least update a blast I made at WXRT and the City of Chicago. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the lack of “star power” in the […]

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I think that we should thank the City of Chicago and WXRT for giving us no reason to come to Grant Park on July 4th for the annual free concert. Where the radio station had sponsored acts like Moby, Matthew Sweet, and the final Replacements concert over the years, for the second straight year, the […]

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This may be the first time in history that you’ll see the names Evander Holyfield and Ed McMahon in the same article, unless we are talking about a Tonight Show rerun or a guest spot on Star Search. Both of these men are facing the foreclosure of their multi-million dollar homes. McMahon, 84, former sidekick […]

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One of the worst music critic clichés is someone “coming back.” There are a couple of reasons why this is lazy writing and sloppy thinking: first, it assumes that an artist’s old music is somehow intrinsically better than anything they could be doing now; the second is that the artist “went away” when that is […]

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