Yesterday we spoke with Nick Prueher of the Found Footage Festival about his chances in tonight's battle of found media. Today we turn to his opponent, who must be considered the home team, Davy Rothbart of FOUND magazine. more ›

Found Footage Festival co-host and founder Nick Prueher is happy that he's been able to share his weird hobby with the world for seven years by extracting all the best moments from VHS tapes in garages and thrift stores across the country, and to face off against FOUND Magazine tomorrow night at the Music Box in a "bitter, bitter fight to the death" for the championship of found media. more ›

There's something wryly ironic about Davy Rothbart, the co-creator of FOUND Magazine, being featured as Exhibit A in a documentary about the difficulties of finding true love. But there you have it. more ›

A 6-year-old boy and his mother, thought missing for two years, were found stowed away in a secret space in his grandmother's southern Illinois home, the Associated Press reports. more ›

Crazy wild lineup for the Saturday installment of the Tomorrow Never Knows festival at Schubas. Let's take a look, shall we? more ›

More news today about the state's case against Reginald Potts, and the evidence is really piling up. Potts was charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend Nailah Franklin over the weekend and on Monday was denied bail. more ›

Hopefully, you already love Found, the magazine and series of books created completely out of found items submitted by readers. The Found magazines and books play on a voyeur mindset of peeking at all the things that are none of your business. Items within the series, include a list about a budget with $600 set aside for crack, and other more poignant items, such as a letter found attached to a floating balloon addressed to... more ›

Before we had kids, we thought that Babies on a Plane! was a more apt horror movie title. Now that we’re on this side of the aisle, we have a little more perspective and a lot more sympathy for parents trying to get their little ones through a flight. Any parent who has traveled with their child has a bag of tricks to get them through the actual flight: bringing along favorite toys, finally relinquishing... more ›

At least since Warhol began displaying boxes of soup cans and Brillo pads in gallery settings, the concept of the “found” object as art has been a primary component of our culture. In other words, there’s a very good reason why “America’s Funniest Home Videos” has been on the air since 1989 (hint: it’s not Bob Saget). We’ve become a voyeuristic culture, with an appetite for spying-as-entertainment as an antidote to the increasingly formulamatic output... more ›

Chicagoist hopes you enjoyed your weekend, perhaps catching some good music at the Pitchfork Festival, watching the Cubs sweep the Cardinals, or just sitting inside on top of an air conditioning vent. Because any kind of good vibes you have left over will be squashed when you check out today's headlines: more ›

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now. Londonist experiences the London of the future through the wonders of 3D modeling, but while the 3D guys are... more ›

If you’re like Chicagoist, every now and then, you get the feeling that you’re a little too stuck in your routine. We live in this great big city, and yet more often than not, our existence is limited to our own little corner of it and the places we pass through in our daily commute. more ›

Our weekend visit to Intuit’s quirky outsider art gallery sure was fun. Maybe not Academy Awards fun or drunken Milwaukee Art Museum party fun, but we did enjoy old timey photos of strangers made ghostly by double exposures and other such manipulation. Sixty-five of these photos comprise Intuit’s “Accidental Mysteries” exhibit, a peek into the John and Teenuh Foster collection of ‘vernacular photography.’ These found snapshots by anonymous photographers of unknown subjects range from... more ›

Chicagoist knows there are some adventurous types who expect they’ll get their $10 worth of entertainment by just showing up at the local multiplex, placing their faith in the Hollywood studio system and picking a movie at random. Not us. We like to research our picks ahead of time, often by looking at plot synopses online. Yet it’s still a case of caveat emptor with similarly titled films. more ›

Ever hear of a pumpkin whoopie pie? Neither had we, until we got a note in the mail from Land Grant College Review editor Richard Benjamin, who describes the apparent treats as "cream cheese frosting between pumpkin cookies." He'll be bringing some with him tomorrow for the first-ever Chicago release party of the LGCR at Estelle's--and giving them away for free! We have to say, we're both intrigued and a little bit skeptical. Pumpkin confections, if done properly, can be a delight - spicy, creamy, sweet; overwhelming and dull if not. more ›

Remember that scene from the end of the movie Real Genius when Tears for Fears "Everybody Wants to Rule The World" is playing and the house fills up with popcorn, shatters the windows, and piles out.. then everyone comes to play in the popcorn and eat it? That's exactly what came to mind when we found out that a popcorn factory just west of the Loop caught on fire last night. Pop, pop, pop.. and the Loop fills up! But.. sigh.. that wasn't the case. We can only dream! more ›

Chicagoist got a copy of the Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and cannot stop paging through it. The book, which goes on sale today, was written by fellow Chicagoan Amy Krouse Rosenthal and is a memoir on what it's like to be.. well.. ordinary. Chicagoist leads a pretty ordinary life and probably if we sat down and made an encyclopedia of it, no one would read it, but Amy does this in a way that makes you keep going back for more. Just one more entry then we'll get to work. Ok, just one more. Ok, one more.. you get the picture. more ›

When Sunday nights roll around, do you typically look for an $8 excuse to make fun of other people and fast food corporations, hear some comedy and even catch a DJ set? You’re undoubtedly disappointed most of the time, but this Sunday at 8:00 p.m., shimmy on over to the Empty Bottle for Milkhouse and Cine-Magic’s Found Film Festival (FFF). more ›

Hey, today is the Day of National Concern about Young People and Gun Violence. Eee, we forgot to sound out our DoNCaYPaGV cards—boy is our face red! Oh, we're sassy, but we're against gun violence. Students across our fair nation took the pledge today, and according to a press release, Lisa Madigan, Arnie Duncan, and Miss Illinois Michelle LaGroue were on hand to celebrate with a rally. Boo, guns! Yay, Miss Illinois! more ›

You know what? Leave it to a group of Chicago scientists to go out 8,000 feet above sea-level in the Andes and find a freaking brewery! Archeologists from the Field Museum uncovered a brewery in the mountains of southern Peru where members of the pre-Inca Wari Empire made a spicy, beer-like alcoholic drink called chicha. And not just a little bit of it.. it was a large-scale brewery that they estimate was capable of making a few thousand liters of chicha a day. Scientists previously knew that the Wari made this bev, but not that they made it on such a scale. The brewery may be the oldest facility of its kind ever discovered in the Andes. more ›

Indie it-guy Davy Rothbart will be at the Empty Bottle tonight to promote his new book like ever, and tonight he'll be sharing some of his favorite found notes, art, and poetry. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own found pieces, so start scouring a sidewalk near you. more ›