The Onion's A.V. Club successfully threw its hat into the ever growing ring of publication sponsored music festivals last weekend. They took over the street outside The Hideout and filled it with food trucks, beer, fundraising efforts for Rock For Kids and a strong two-day bill of musical acts.
A.V. Fest, The Little Fest That Could
Simple Cooking: Bison Meat in Pitas
Let's generalize, shall we? Bison, as a class, want you to eat them. If they didn't, then why would they be so delicious? Their meat is similar to beef, but a little bit sweeter, and in this writer's opinion, more tender. There's a misconception floating around that bison is gamey. Bison was gamey, perhaps, when hoards of bison roamed the great plains of America and they were foraging and galloping and eating all kinds of weird stuff that they found. Now, almost all the wild bison are gone and they're just raised on farms for human consumption. Which means they are being fed with grass and grains, which in turn means that bison does not taste gamey.
Hump Day Morning Diversion: Facebook, Your Parents, And You
God Bless The Onion. Especially for giving us this pretty brilliant take on parents and social media, which, now that parents are having to pay for kids to study Twitter, is only going to get worse.
The Onion Grows
Who doesn't love the Onion? God knows we do, and hey — even Neil Steinberg sort of likes it. And that guy knows funny! Anyway, there are two big reasons to love the Onion even more: First and foremost, their Google map layer — go ahead and play around with it, above — is twenty kinds of amazing. And the company announced today that they're moving their HQ here. Well, business HQ. While the...

