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This week's issue of the New Yorker features an editorial endorsement of Illinois Senator Barack Obama for president. So maybe they really were just messin' around with that whole cover fiasco?

Taking his message to the skies, Barack Obama is now traveling in a plane emblazoned with his campaign slogan, "Change We Can Believe In" and the Obama logo on the tail. The plane is getting a workout on Obama's current international hopscotching. Ever the lightning rod for critics, Obama's patriotism is yet again being hammered. Because no American flags on a plane means the terrorists win? A few of the Trib's commenters have bypassed the Haterade and gone straight to the crazy sauce:

We haven't even started in on our morning coffee and already Chicago's Presidential Candidate is in the headlines for a new controversy. Unlike last week, though, this one is not of Obama's doing. Barry Blitt's cover for the July 21 issue of the New Yorker, titled, "The Politics of Fear," purports to satirize the recent Fox News "terrorist fist jab" controversy, but it's created quite a commotion within the Obama campaign, which has been working overtime to dispel the myths about their candidate that have been widely circulating in recent months.

Another brewery set to open soon is Crown Brewing in Crown Point, Indiana. The brewmaster behind this endeavor is Jim Cibak, who earned his brewing stripes at Goose Island and Three Floyds. Most recently Cibak was working wonders at Firestone Walker Brewing in California, where he was experimenting extensively in barrel-aged fermentation and blended ale selections. Crown Brewing is set to open in June.

Last week's "Flashback" installment on Art Shay proved to be pretty popular with fans of the famed photographer. We made mention of one of our favorite Shay photos, snapping French author and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir au natural in "Nelson Algren's bathroom" from 1952.

Author Jeffrey Eugenides is no stranger to lovers of both great fiction and fine cinema. His novel Virgin Suicides was adapted into the 1999 film by Sofia Coppela, and his follow-up novel Middlesex was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. His work has also been featured in the likes of the New Yorker and the Yale Review, and he has received numerous other awards and recognition for his talents as an American writer … not too shabby, huh? Eugenides’ newest effort– My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro – is hot off the presses, and could be viewed as his personal love letter to the art. This anthology of 26 love stories is an amour-themed roundup of many tried and true literary masters, including James Joyce and William Faulkner.

Don't settle for another Wednesday of and Girl Scout cookies that have been in the freezer for months (not ... that ... we do that ...). There's a shitton of stuff going on tonight!

Gothamist learned about the craziest urban nightmare come true: A huge python found in the bathroom pipes. It was also a nightmare for some Yankees fans, as manger Joe Torre declined to come back and manage the Bronx Bombers. At least the city's attempt to give some direction to subway riders was interesting, pranksters went shirtless at the Fifth Avenue Abercrombie & Fitch and the I Heart Brooklyn Girls calendars came out. And just...

Okay. First things first: it was like a hug from Jesus for Chicagoist to discover that the website Beer Advocate even existed. So we’re over the moon that they’ve compiled the Top 50 Places to Have a Beer in America and had the wisdom to include not only two Chicago watering holes on the list, but two kickass Chicago watering holes. At #5: The Map Room At #21: Hopleaf Bar We talked about Map Room...

Back in January we pointed out a story about how bedbug infestations are worse now than they have been in years, especially in hotels. The pests seem to be thriving in linens and mattresses because people travel so much more now, carrying the little stowaways with them, and because restrictions on pesticides keep exterminators from really dropping the hammer. Based on our in-depth research at the always 100% accurate Wikipedia, we mistakenly implied that bedbugs...

DCist helps us make more sense of the world this week. Posts like this concert review are the reason for Scott Stapp. DCist also enumerates the reasons for playing ultimate frisbee, Condi’s tight buns, their love of a local convenience store, and their jealousy of a person in Seattle calling the city. LAist documented graf artist Banksy’s most recent visit to LA in one two three posts. They also found the best possible use for the Louis Vuitton pattern and figured out that they weren’t seeing the grown-up version of Dancing with the Stars. Chicagoist advises smokers not to light themselves on fire, but would probably be pretty ok with it if their ex-DH did it. They also drop a few critical remarks on various alt-country folk and the comments flare up. The Crayola cannon is ransacked for a new El line name, Hilary’s Urban Eatery is accused of something, the Uptown Snack Shop is eulogized and the hunt is on for Shamrock shakes. Phillyist draws the line at pajama pants in the streets of Philidelphia and so they aren’t going to kick you out of bed in morning. They also watch a local environmental group butt heads with the AAA and interview the director of the new Paper Route video. Miamist sees the state attorney's kid go down in flames yet again and a politically-motivated kidnapping gets checked. Is Miami commutable by bicycle? And a pricey horse changes hands despite a $16M price tag. SFist survived a pair of earthquakes this week - One provided by Mother Nature and the other man-made. They also report that half the people riding Muni are turnstile Olympians and put out a call to anyone who thinks they can out J.T. LeRoy J.T. LeRoy. They peep on the mayor’s new relationship and then attempt to name it. Houstonist wrestles with the stereotypes reporting on the rodeo and Houston socialites before dirtying the hands once again at the Enron trial. They also follow Ms. Smith, Anna Nicole to Washington (x2) and wondered about their wacked out street names. Gothamist sees NYC’s title of "safest big city" slip a little bit when the psycho murder of a city grad student scares the crap out of everyone. A VV writer makes up a cover story that sounds too good to be true (but will soon be true, now), the Knicks hit rock bottom, Mario Batali’s new place gets the treatment. There’s also a panda envy case study. Shanghaiist laughs at the news of corruption and fraud in China, but the detention of protestors isn’t funny. Vocab lessons for the week include "chinked-out," "drunken shrimp," and "day rooms." The Rolling Stones and Mission Impossible 3 come to Shanghai and Starbucks ripoffs are everywhere. Seattlest drives the virtual streets in the virtual version of their home city via a Microsoft beta, but the whining in the city is all too non-virtual. They also explore everything podcastable in the city and hail a local guy on the fiction pages of the New Yorker. Scott Stapp photo by Kyle Gustafson

The Chicago Humanities Festival will be steered from a distance this year, with New Yorker Lawrence "Ren" Weschler taking the position of artistic director while remaining a resident of New York. He’ll spend four to five days in Chicago at a time for the job, and all the while keep his position as director of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Though we're tight with some folks in our nation's capital, we’re always a little distrustful when another town waxes rhapsodic on Chicago.

Well, we saw that movie last night. And we agree whole-heartedly with the New Yorker's take. We've made a vow never to watch another movie in which someone utters the word "droid" or the phrase "may the force be with you." We don't want to argue about it. We don't think you're stupid if you liked it. We're just done with it—.

The films that make up the Star Wars franchise have never been the “sleeper hit” of any summer. But we were still surprised to see Hayden Christansen’s pouty face adorning the front page of the Sun-Times this morning. Man, that Revenge of the Sith hype machine is something. Ebert gave it a rave review as did Michael Wilmington in the Tribune. Their accolades aren’t entirely surprising. Reviews of early screenings (most notably Kevin Smith’s review...

There’s just nothing cooler than being New York’s pre-Broadway musical comedy whore. Chicago’s “Spamalot” world premiere try-out bows tonight before moving on to Broadway in March, and pundits from Playbill to USA Today to the New Yorker are weighing in on the potential appeal of another potential “Producers”-size blockbuster. Of course it helps that, like “The Producers” before it, “Spamalot” hits the stage with a built-in audience that’s kinda familiar with the source material...

If you haven't seen the Reader this week, there's an interesting cover story about a local college student, University of Chicago�s Loren Wilson, and his creation of a database that analyzes that Internet bastion of indie-rock coolness, Pitchfork. A Chicago-based website, Pitchfork is something of a guilty pleasure for Chicagoist. The site's staffers are pretentious, high-brow barometers of underground hype � the Rolling Stone of the indie world. (And they're just as easy to mock: Check out Popdork, indie label Sub Pop's hilarious parody of Pitchfork.) But their ability to write snarky reviews and expose readers to great unheard bands � their tireless cheerleading helped The Wrens, The Unicorns, and Broken Social Scene all achieve semi-fame over the past year � definitely appeals to our sensibilities.

A number of the most important figures in the world graphic novels (a more artsy and less-juvenile way of saying �comic books�) are hometown boys. Dan Clowes � author of the Eightball series and the Ghost World comic and screenplay � and Chris Ware � who has a weekly strip in the Reader and just edited McSweeney�s comics-only issue (oh, Dave Eggers, you so crazy!) � are two of the most prominent examples. And while their contemporary Adrian Tomine doesn�t hail from the shores of Lake Michigan � he foolishly spends his time on the coasts instead � at least he�ll be in town tonight promoting his latest collection, the odds-and-ends anthology Scrapbook.

Here's the Obama For Illinois senatorial campaign site, which has the Obama Blog. And as a U. Chicago law school professor, Obama is beloved, even after standing up a Maroon reporter. The New Republic's Noam Scheiber recently wrote an article about Obama (registration req'd), Black Commentator searches for the "Real" Obama, and the Chicago Tribune's Eric Zorn posts excerpts of an Obama interview Jeff Berkowitz did. You can also read Obama's memoir, Dreams of My Father.