Now that they've won an album of the year Grammy, and had one of their iconic anthems soundtrack the trailer for the Where The Wild Things Are movie, the Arcade Fire will bring a quiver to bleacher bums' lips by singing "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" at Wrigley Field. more ›

As expected, President Obama announced his 2012 re-election campaign today, via e-mail and video. We're actually shocked the Obama campaign didn't send us a text message... whoops, spoke too soon. more ›

Not sure how we missed this one but apparently the musical Hope: Das Obama Musical debuted in Germany back in January. It looks amazing and all we can, er, hope is that one of the theater companies in town see fit to bring this Barack and roll (see what we did there?) event to town. The Atlantic has more. more ›

After yesterday's mavericky weather, today dawns audacious and hopeful: the sun breaks through the clouds from time to time, in spite of the scattered showers, and temps will be unseasonably mild, into the mid 60s. Tonight remains variably cloudy with lows in the 50s. Unseasonably warm weather? Yes we can! more ›