Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has some suggestions to fix that. They're also throwing Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash. Yeah, we may have a few issues with our World Cup broadcasters here, but this guy... more ›

Hey! Guess what?! No one burned or banned any books last night (as far as we know). Way to go! Pat yourselves on the back Chicago, you deserve it. more ›

Is it just us or is the comic book world becoming more Chicago-centric? We started noticing the trend back in March with the release of Countdown to Infinite Crisis, DC’s harbinger of things to come in their Infinite Crisis miniseries that launched this week.* Some of the events in that book took place in none other than Chicago and suburban Highland Park. Then we got ahold of a preview copy of The Oz/Wonderland Chronicles at... more ›

Chicagoist is all for going out to bars and tying one on regularly.. but sometimes we yearn for more. Which is why we are thankful for a new trend at bars: Game Night. Game Night in bars can range from a trivia to board games and prizes may include tickets to events or simply just bragging rights. It may seem nerdy but it's a fun, competitive way to use your brain cells instead of just drinking them away, and it's also a great way to interact with and meet new people. This fad seems to have had a an impact on sales of "adult" board games, which went up 5% in 2003. more ›