Usher plucked Justin Bieber from YouTube, so maybe he'll find this woman, someone's Aunt Carol, and add her to his squad of backup dancers. more ›

Good girls and boys share their new toys with family, friends…and pets… But this videogame-playing frog reminds us all not to get too cute with the new stuff. more ›

Not the nice, fuzzy muppet kind. The creepy computer-generated kind. more ›

This 1995 news clip talks about The Fab Four's concerts in Chicago between 1964 and 1966, at the height of Beatlemania. more ›

What kind of costume would an adult trick-or-treater wear? more ›

Is it possible we appreciate Sesame Street more as adults than we did as children? more ›

Well, what would you do if you saw a spider this big? more ›

You don't really need to know much about this video beyond the fact that it stars a very adorable puppy. more ›

This classy Johnny Carson guest plays "Stars and Stripes Forever" by making fart noises with his hands. more ›

This baby is probably cooler than you and most likely a better dancer, too. more ›

Gapers Block broke the news yesterday that the U.S. National Air Guitar Finals will be held at Metro July 23. We're already in intensive training for this with a guitarist more noted for being a Home Shopping Network pitchman, but he's delivered the goods so far (in five easy payments of $39.99). And he has us starting with the basics - knowing our chords and having a distinctive look. Can we pull off the Bandero hat in this day and age? more ›

It's been that kind of Tuesday, what with the piss drizzle outside and two particular readers continuing their neverending war of words in the comments section of a couple of posts. Plus, we're also waiting for blood test results for the Chicagoist Office Manager to make sure that she doesn't have anything worse than a urinary tract infection. So let's do a conga. more ›

We're Muppet-crazy here in the Chicagoist offices today. This amazing weather has also got us crying out for spring already. So we thought combining the two would work for today's diversion, more ›

File this under "favorite things ever." Longman & Eagle, the much-acclaimed Michelin-starred restaurant in Logan Square, knows how to handle criticism with grace and charm. Or with snark and bitchiness, we're not quite sure. Either way, we love it. They took a bad Yelp review and turned it into an amazing postcard, available at the restaurant. Whether you agree with the Yelper's assessment or not is up to you. more ›

Remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? What if the tortoise was faster and more aggressive than the story let on and the hare was replaced by an enthusiastic but quickly frightened Boxer? more ›

So the commercial for the new "Transformers" movie left us feeling "meh," especially once you consider this town has seen worse damage from just a cow and a lantern (depending on your point of view). But this video? Pretty cool. more ›

Over in the virtual Chicagoist offices, Kevin shared with us yesterday a Playmobil stop-motion animated of Joy Division's "Transmissions." After doing further research, color us surprised that there was even a whole Playmobil stop-motion animation subculture. It really appealed to the geek in us, but we didn't want to post the Joy Division video. more ›

So last week we let our dog/office manager Emmylou outside to do her business. Her now-fourteen-year-old bones bounded town the front steps and promptly sank in the middle of a three-foot high snow drift. Shoveling Emmy out of the drift became the first order of business. Having an old dog has its advantages and its drawbacks. One of the latter is that they don't play in the snow like they did when they were younger. Which is why we now search Youtube for videos of puppies playing in their first deep snowfall. more ›

Next time you're at a party Nd you want to switch the conversation away from politics, ask this question: "Do you remember the time Ronald Reagan slapped the taste out of Angie Dickinson's mouth?" more ›

One of the songs that didn't make the cut in yesterday's snow tunes post was "Informer" by Snow. We told Michele, who suggested it, that we were looking for songs about snow, not one-hit wonder white Canadian dancehall MCs named Snow. more ›

Well, that was slower than expected. The Carol Moseley Braun "strung out on crack" remixes are starting to trickle in. This is an early candidate for best of the lot, given its splicing of an embarrassed Jerry Springer and the dubbing of the crowd chanting "Jer-ry! Jer-ry!" at the end. more ›

Hard to believe that, 17 years ago, people didn't know what the Internet was all about. Some of us still don't. more ›

Here's what gets me through the morning while waiting for the rest of the staff to let me know posts are ready for my eyes: cappuccino, my dog at my feet and listening to Howard Stern through a pirated online feed. more ›

Here is the true story of alcoholic vervet monkeys in the Caribbean. Mainly we just wanted to post about drunken monkeys without referring to the martial arts style. more ›

Now that the Bears are done, the Blackhawks are treading water and the Bulls are doing surprisingly well, we can start to keep an eye on the calendar and see that pitchers and catchers are set to report to spring training in less than a month. And, as White Sox fans, we're stoked to see the South Siders tear the cover off in Arizona, only to get off to a slow start once the games count. more ›

This clip is years old and has add video added in so many variations, but it's still a classic from the moment we heard it on Nightline fifteen years ago (Steve Dahl had a field day with this tape when it was first released). This is a dicatphone recording of President Lyndon Baines Johnson talking to the Haggar clothing company about customizing a few pairs of slacks for him, in decidedly non-Presidential language. more ›

Remember the "finger pointing to the moon" scene in Enter the Dragon when Bruce Lee smacks the kid upside the head during their martial arts/philosophy lesson and says, "Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory?" We felt just like the kid after missing the moonwalking bear in this awareness test video. more ›

Rob really loved Christopher Nolan's Inception. The film even made his year-end best-of list. more ›

There's always a spot at Chicagoist for cute videos of puppies. more ›

With a tip of the hat to the fine folks at Have You Seen This, Here's a slightly NSFW case of what happens when an overeager exhibitionist forgets the tennis court he's looking to streak across is enclosed. more ›