The Blackhawks weren't in action on the ice last night but they found a way to make it to our television screens. Out in the Los Angeles area to play both the Kings and Ducks as part of a three-game road trip, the team made a cameo on The Tonight Show with Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith, and Brent Seabrook showing off their Olympic hardware to Leno. more ›

A big tip o' the hat to Pippen Ain't Easy [via] for posting this clip of Bulls legend Scottie Pippen paying Jay Leno a visit when Leno himself brought The Tonight Show to Chicago back in 1996. more ›

Look, we know we should let the whole Late Night War thing go, but as ardent members of Team Conan we considered it a virtual slap in the face to our red-haired leader when NBC soundtracked the recent promos for Leno return to The Tonight Show with The Beatles' "Get Back" (as in: where you belong). more ›

It was mentioned in the comments of this post yesterday, so - if you haven't seen it yet - here it is: Jimmy Kimmel destroying Leno on Leno's show. Amazing. more ›

There is no update. In fact, until something official comes down the pike -- and the fact that nothing has means everything is still literally up in the air -- we wish news sites would just stop posting about this whole thing. Also, for the record, we are on Team Conan, obvs. more ›

Last night, Kanye was scheduled to appear alongside Jay-Z and Rihanna on the premiere of Jay Leno's new show, but the host took the opportunity to bring Kanye out and talk to him about Sunday night's Taylor Swift Thunder Theft. Kanye's apology seemed as genuine as you can expect from him. And for the conspiracy theorists who still think it was staged, well...we can't blame you. We're suckers for conspiracy theories. The whole thing stinks to high heaven, but, as we pointed out yesterday, to pull off such a stunt would require a level of self-awareness on Kanye's part. So let's just blame Leno for slipping something into Kanye's drink on Sunday night. more ›

Sam Zell wants Jay Leno to be on WGN America, he said at a meeting yesterday. In Portland with Chief Operating Officer Randy Michaels, Zell said he's interested in having Leno on the newly revamped superstation and on the Tribune's stations when the host's contract is up with NBC in 2009. more ›

After seeing their viewer numbers plummet over the last few weeks, the major networks forced their late night talent back on the air last night. David Letterman took the high road, working out a deal with his writers so they could return with him, but keep in mind that he owns the production company that puts out his program. We suspect neither Conan O'Brien or Jay Leno are too jazzed to return without their writers, but since their shows are owned by the networks, they don't have the same kind of leverage. more ›

The commercial above is the newest entry by that winning combination of McDonald's and Leo Burnett. It's gotten such a response that Jay Leno and Ellen Degeneres have asked about having Quincy Eaton, the pint-sized cross between Ozone and Radio Raheem who stars in the video, on their respective shows. Surely Eaton can teach Ellen how to pop and lock. The commercial also extends the proverbial fifteen minutes of fame for "The Cha-Cha Slide."... more ›

Protest over national vs. regional chains, the never-ending debate over the place of cars and bicycles in our metropolises, professional sports scandals, remembering a solemn day, and being issued a search warrant - it all happened across our sites this week! Another banner week at Chicagoist started off with daily reports from food writer Lisa Shames on her attempt to eat only locally grown and raised foodstuffs all week as part of a farmers market... more ›

We beg Flannery O’Connor’s forgiveness from the great beyond for that headline, but a few tidbits we stumbled across recently just go to show that, in the weird world of TV, all paths eventually cross. You just can’t make this stuff up: Tonya Cooley of MTV’s “Real World Chicago” has gone soft-core, appearing in the Cinemax opus The Erotic Traveler 02: Lost in Ecstasy. (We would argue that “Real World” is itself soft-core, but what... more ›

Sometimes when we wake up and splay the Chicago newspapers across our desk, certain themes just pop out at us. We're like John Nash from A Beautiful Mind, circling headlines with markers and attaching connecting strings with masking tape and pushpins. In between the seasonal religious controversies and potential parking-dibs comment bait this morning, today's theme was guns: real ones, fakes ones, and illegal ones. While CBS 2 was still talking about the fallout from... more ›

As we trudge through the last remaining days of summer, things are rather quiet on the silver screen now that the Snakes have slithered out. This is the time when projects that studios have little-to-no confidence in get unceremoniously dropped into theaters. We’ve seen Invincible a million times before, and Idlewild has us intrigued, but worried. Working in separate studios might work for hip-hop double albums, but it’s not the best operating plan for a movie. more ›

Most people think of as a New York movie, but it kicks off in Chicagoist's own back yard: the University of Chicago campus. You can't pull your car up to the gate from the opening scene anymore, and they're driving the wrong way on Lake Shore, but still. more ›