His Elective Majesty's bouts with word salad are well known, both locally and nationally. So are the verbal miscues of musician and noted cocksman John Mayer. But can you guess who said what in this online quiz? We're frightened we got 11 of 12 correct. more ›

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We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Chicagoist. more ›

Earlier this week, accompanied by armed guards, and carefully escorted onto American soil, the first shipment of iPhones began to arrive. The creator of the ubiqitous iPod, has the PR buzz (or Reality Distortion Field) in full effect, and we can't remember so many people ever caring so much about a cell phone. No one really got excited about the new Blackberry (even if they are promoted by John Mayer), and when an updated TREO... more ›

There's so much going on across the Ist-a-Verse that it's almost impossible to keep track these days. Fortunately, we do it so you don't have to! Londonist took a walk through Oliver Twist's London, thanks to a gorgeous map layer for Google Earth. They also caught up with modern-day fictional London, with the Fantastic Four and 28 Weeks Later. It was a week of insanity over at DCist. They started the week off with... more ›

Yawn. That’s our initial response to the free music at the Taste of Chicago this year. We know not every concert should cater to us alone, but should we suffer because of the need to cater to the balding, khaki-wearer’s bland taste in music? Thanks, XRT, for taking this to a new level of disinterest. Who’s having the BBQ? That’s where we’ll be instead of Grant Park. The Taste of Chicago has released the Fourth... more ›

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It’s been a harsh week, hasn’t it? First, we had to walk through a blizzard, prove our love on Valentine’s Day and then it got cold again. The rest of the week they piled work on us here at the office, and now we have to decide what tickets to buy for upcoming shows. Life is just hard sometimes. Too bad the John Legend and Corinne Bailey Rae show didn’t go on sale earlier; it... more ›

We're always looking for ways to max out that credit card. This week it seems that this plan may be a little more difficult than usual. We've picked a few events that go on sale Saturday that will help ease the obesity of our pocketbooks. We skipped the John Mayer set at ACL, but heard of all the Lance/Jake/Matthew sightings over the entire weekend. We don't think the power trio will be at John's shows... more ›

Ratings books are out for Chicago radio stations, but there are few surprises for those who’ve been paying attention. more ›

Last night Chicagoist took a break from our rock-n-roll lifestyle and turned on the television, mainly to watch Ultimate Fighting ‘cuz we have a slight case of the bloodlust, but came across a channel that we had never seen before on Comcast, Channel 197 (at least at our abode) – The Tube Music Network. more ›

Chicagoist has long held that it’s important to separate the artist from the art; some of the best musicians make lousy human beings (Chuck Berry, take a bow!). But lately, we keep stumbling upon two artists who seem like lovely people you could bring home to Mom. more ›

It’s become de rigeur (French for “something that hipsters do right before they mock everybody else for doing it”) to hook your iPod up during parties so you can impress/test-the-loyalty-of your friends with playlists like “Guaranteed Ass Shakers” or “Emo Songs That Are Totally Not Emo But Will Make That Girl Who Works At Pontiac Cafe Fall In Love With Me Nonetheless.” If this sounds like you then perhaps you’re ready to foist your talents on the world (or at least Lincoln Park) at The Tonic Room’s inclusively-but-clumsily-titled iPod/MP3 Night. more ›

contemporaries are John Mayer and Ben Harper, the Danish Teitur (nee Teitur Lassen) has more in common with old-schoolers Donovan or Cat Stevens. Chicagoist first became aware of Teitur (say it loud and there's music playing say it soft and it's almost like praying) when we were randomly accosted by some girl in the Borders on State who claimed the album Poetry and Aeroplanes to be fantastic before she selfishly scooped up the last copy they had. And comparisons aside, she was right. more ›