It's busy being Oprah. Today she hosted international attention addict David Blaine as he held his breath for over 17 minutes, earning himself his first Guinness World Record. We thought for sure he already had one for his truly staggering ability to generate useless ideas, but apparently not. Blaine held his breath for 17 minutes and 4 seconds, besting the previous record, 16 minutes and 32 seconds, set in February. Tomorrow, brace your ovaries:......

So we were watching that "mentalist" series with that goofy emo magician a few weeks ago, and we realized we actually sort of missed the smugness of much simpler conjurists ... like David Blaine. Luckily for us all, he's back, and doing what he can to help push that little hand on the clock ever closer to quitting time. Thanks to Melissa for the tip......

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagiarized novel is the......

By the time you read this, Chicagoist will be in a New York state of mind. We'll be catching up with old friends, eating a slice of "Original Simply Famous Really There Can Be Only One" Ray's pizza, gawking at David Blaine's "douchebag in utero" performance art piece - "douchebag" being the word of the week around here - and sniffing out a bar with a wide selection of premium tequilas. This week's primer on......