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We don't personally believe in taking weather advice from a groundhog and it seems like Friend of Chicagoist and local Fox meteorologist Amy Freeze agrees. Still, we love the movie Groundhog Day, so that's something. more ›

Today, funny man Bill Murray, native son of Wilmette, turns 59. Make one good movie, and you might be remembered. Make several, you're a "great." Make Where The Buffalo Roam, Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Little Shop Of Horrors, Scrooged, Groundhog Day, Kingpin, Rushmore, and Lost in Translation - not to mention his legendary stint on Saturday Night Live - and you're Bill Murray. Sure, lately he's done more forgettable projects like voicing the lazy feline in those bad Garfield movies, but the man can make whatever he wants for the rest of his life as far as we're concerned. He's more than earned it. And, hey, Fantastic Mr. Fox looks promising. So to you, Mr. Murray, one of the great comedic actors - and die-hard, tortured Cubs fan - in history, we salute you and offer you best wishes and any assistance you may need in blowing out the candles on your cake. more ›

Wine- and vodka-enthusiast Dan Aykroyd told Los Angeles Times writer Geoff Boucher that the long-gestating third installment is definitely a go and may start shooting as soon as this winter. Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver will all be back on board. A director has not been chosen yet (Ivan Reitman is too busy) but Aykroyd is gunning for Ramis. "He has a lot of things going on, but it would be wonderful to see him do it." No word yet on whether Slimer will also return. more ›

With his bid to buy the Chicago Cubs lagging a bit, Tom Ricketts has apparently appealed to some folks with more star wattage as potential partners to buy the franchise. According to the Tribune, Ricketts has met with such local luminaries as Bill Murray, Jim Belushi, and John Cusack. It's part of Ricketts' attempt to pull in private investors willing to chip in $25 million each to help raise capital to finalize the purchase. While it doesn't seem as if the bid is in jeopardy, indications are that there is some finagling going on with the broadcast aspect of the bid and the Ricketts family may lower it somewhat. more ›

Composer John Cage liked to quote a Zen saying: "If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting." Jim Jarmusch seems to have taken that as his modus operandi for his new movie, The Limits of Control, opening today at Piper's Alley. more ›

It was a little over a week ago that we brought you the first report of a man dressed as a clown trying to lure kids into his vehicle in the Garfield Park area. And before we even had time to scrub that image from our brains, a new report from WBBM has new info on the King of the Creepers: Not only is the South Side not safe either, but he's using balloons, too. Oh good lord. more ›

Crap, it's been an ugly week to be a Cubs fan (especially surrounded by Sox fans here at the Chicagoist office). First, the Cubs crapped the bed against the Dodgers. Then, someone threw a hissy-fit at Dodger Stadium, damaging a water pipe and the Cubs reputation. Then, a Cub fan gave the rest of us a bad rap by selling his soul allegiance on eBay. THEN, Jon Stewart and his Daily Show cohorts took pot-shots at the Lovable Losers. So someone had to stand up for us, right? While Sarah Palin didn't appear on last night's SNL Weekend Update Thursday show, Cub-lover Bill Murray did in the middle of another great debate sketch and...well, it didn't get any better for Cubs fans. more ›

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Summer is coming to a close, signified every year by the 2 million people that cram onto the shoreline for the annual Chicago Air and Water Show. The Trib put together a survival guide for the weekend so we figured we'd crank out our own list of tips... more ›

Bill Murray is taking a break from playing sad, emasculated loners and going through an acrimonious public divorce to jump out of a plane. He's scheduled to skydive as part of this year's Air and Water Show, according to Bill Zwecker. more ›

Who knew "celebrity" golf tournaments could be such a flustercuck? Not Caddyshack star Cindy "Lacey Underall" Morgan. She hosted a 2006 event, which was supposed to benefit the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund, turned out to be a disaster. A giant no-money-making, friendship-ending, lawsuit-generating disaster. Morgan says only about 100 people played golf, that the Caddyshack cast members who did show (Bill Murray and Chevy Chase weren't there) left early, and now she's on the... more ›

You're almost there. The weekend is literally a few hours away (or, if you work on the trading floor, it's already here, but then you're probably not reading this, are you?). So, to help you while away those last few hours where you're trying to appear billable, we offer this dandy video of just how much it takes to be a fact checker in this day and age. And it features hometown hero, Bill Murray.... more ›

With all our posts about Ingmar Bergman, Charles Burnett and underground cinema you might think that our cinematic tastes are strictly highbrow. Phooey. We like all sorts of movies. And we aren't immune to the charms of some juicy movie celeb gossip either (Vince V. anyone?) more ›

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Want to score a pair of tickets to see Conan when he comes to Chicago May 9-12? Better act fast. To request tickets (2 per person allowed), send an email to ConanInChicago@nbcuni.com with your name, address, phone number and email address. more ›

With everyone here at the Chicagoist offices still feeling a bit hungover from the holidays, we’re not quite ready to return to work. The people at Schubas’ are of the same mindset. Tomorrow they’re hosting their Fifth Annual New Year’s Rehab Night with free DVD screenings of Wedding Crashers and The Aristocrats. While we didn’t think Crashers held up as well on a second viewing, The Aristocrats is worth seeing again if only to decide... more ›

Even if Bill Murray wasn’t originally from the Chicago area, we’d still plan on seeing his latest collaboration with Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers, which hits Piper’s Alley and the AMC River East this weekend. Chicagoist has long believed that the way to tell the really compelling actors from the lousy ones is with The Phone Book Test. That is, if an actor is really good then listening to them read the phone book will still... more ›

Chicago is funny. Everyone knows that. We've got Second City, the Improv Olympic, and we lay claim to Dan Aykroyd, Alan Alda, Tina Fey, Dan Castellaneta, Bill Murray as well as many other famous comedians and writers. To commemorate our funniness, head over to the 8th Annual Chicago Improv Festival. It starts tomorrow and has guest performers from SNL, MADtv, The Daily Show and Anchorman, to name a few. In all, there will be about... more ›

Bill Murray owns a what now? A restaurant? Wait. Restaurants? As in plural? So it seems that North Shore native Murray, as well as his brothers, own a small, fast-casual chain of golf-themed restaurants in Florida and South Carolina called, naturally, Murray Bros. Caddyshack Restaurants. And according to the Trib today, they're looking to bring one or two of them to Chicago. Let us state of the record that we at Chicagoist are huge Bill... more ›

Where did he come from? When nobody was looking, actor Bill Murray suddenly jumped right on the Illini bandwagon. OK, he's a Chicago native and known Cubs fan. But he didn't go to Illinois, and Champaign isn't exactly Chicago. Nevertheless, in a span of a week he overthrew Ashley Judd as the highest profile college hoops groupie -- and he didn't even have to make the gut-wrenching choice among his team and an auto race... more ›

The once mighty Wu-Tang Clan are, sadly, all starting to go their separate ways. RZA is now off scoring movies – like Tarantino’s Kill Bill – and, with cohort GZA, busy making cameo appearances with Bill Murray ("Bill Murray!") in Jim Jarmusch movies and on segments of Chappelle’s Show. Method Man can currently be seen on the silver screen - and alongside Tom Arnold - in Soul Plane and the small screen in Fox’s Method & Red. (The latter show will probably be canceled after a few episodes. Isn’t that Fox’s standard procedure with sitcoms these days?) Ol’ Dirty Bastard is out of jail and on Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella label. Ghostface Killah, meanwhile – now just innocently known as Ghostface, probably to appeal to the kids – continues to forge on and actually make music. He’ll bring his powerful MC skillz – Chicagoist hereby promises to never write that word again – to the House of Blues tonight. Tickets are $22.
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Today finally sees the local release of Jim Jarmusch’s concept album on celluloid, Coffee and Cigarettes. A longtime Chicagoist favorite, Jarmusch has been making stylized, deadpan fish-out-of-water comedies for over twenty years now. (If you happen to have $40 still lying around – and what unemployed, blog-checking Chicagoan doesn’t? – do yourself a favor and buy Criterion’s DVD edition of his hilarious Down By Law.) This latest effort, eighteen years in the making, collects a number of shorts that capture people – and by “people,” we mean Iggy Pop or Roberto Benigni – just sitting around and enjoying the titular indulgences. Some of the sketches drag, mainly those in the middle starring non-famous people, but the good ones – namely those with pseudo-cousins Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan, married siblings Jack and Meg White, Bill Murray and Wu-Tang Clansmen RZA and GZA, and icons Bill Rice and Taylor Mead – really sizzle. It starts an exclusive engagement at the Music Box today. Chicagoist will be there, wondering why great movies open in our city weeks after playing to the philistines in New York and L.A. more ›