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We promise we love many elements about the Christmas season: the festive decorations, the spirit of togetherness, the delicious foods ... but other elements make us want to stab our eyes out. At the top of our list are awful Christmas songs. While there are some songs that make us reminisce about our childhood (anything from the A Very Special Christmas album is fair game), there are others that almost induce involuntary vomiting. We polled the Chicagoist office to compile a list of the Worst Fucking Christmas songs, and here's what was said. (You can wage your own bets about which Chicagoist writer said what):

Lonely phone calls, dying and dead relatives, a literary classic, and a reexamination of the Middle Eastern conflict took the prizes at the 2007 Third Coast International Audio Festival competition. The jury turned much of their lives over to their headphones, listening to 225 entries in search of the best English-language radio docs. Winners received a trophy/sonic instrument, a national platform for their work, and some cash to help support their future work.

We all still love rocknroll...right? We’re still recovering from all that Lollapalooza coverage over here at Chicagoist HQ, but that doesn’t mean we’re too tuckered to tie into an old skool, roll-on-the-floor-in-stale-beer sort of show this weekend. The Gallery Cabaret in Bucktown will play host to the inaugural edition of Do You Still Love Rock ‘N’ Roll?, an eleven-band, all night filth affair of rock for the love of rock. Starting at 7pm and costing...

So you're planning to: drive drunk, sell drugs, use a gun, pick up a hooker, drag race, fake a car registration, break curfew, play loud music, dump an old sofa in the alley, and buy fireworks. How does a busybody like you get around to do all these things? Easy, you rent a car.

WARNING: Do not click on the following links with your office speakers turned up. In fact, probably best to save this post for the privacy of your own home.

Gov. BJ's controversial I-SaveRx has added another state to the plan amid continued criticism from the Illinois Pharmacists Association. Missouri Governor Bob Holden announced today that his state will join Wisconsin and Illinois in the I-SaveRx drug program that allows residents to purchase re-imported prescription drugs from Canadian and British pharmacies over the Internet or by phone. Though the program launched on Oct. 4, Holden held (HEY-OH!) out until he could review the plan. He...