Uncle Fatty's Rum Resort (Lakeview's #1 cover band venue featuring daily drink specials, games and more in a fun, beach-party atmosphere) has backed off its plans to host a celebration of Osama bin Laden's death featuring drink specials called "The Floating Terrorist" and "Osama Been Shot." more ›

The assassination of Osama bin Laden has obviously dominated headlines today. While people in New York and Washington, DC have been dancing in the streets, here in Chicago the mood has been more, "They got him. Hm." Chicago magazine's Whet Moser writes that's because "bin Laden's death will be of local importance there in a way that it can't be here." Still, that doesn't mean Moser is totally passive to the news. more ›

Last week President Obama released his long-form birth certificate, telling the press that “We do not have time for this kind of silliness.” Last night he announced to the nation that Osama bin Laden had been killed by Navy SEALS in Pakistan. But over the weekend, he played jokester at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, where he cracked wise about Donald Trump, birthers and their conspiracy theories, and the possibility that he might, someday, have to give a speech without the use of a teleprompter. more ›

Kevin's got this afternoon's diversion coming in a few minutes, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to share the Taiwanese CGI version of the bin Laden assassination, which is as brilliantly coarse as we've come to expect from NMA. (Probably NSFW) more ›

Fulfilling a promise he made during the 2008 presidential campaign, President Obama announced around 10:30 CST that al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden had been killed in a raid. A crowd of people gathered outside the White House while the President made his remarks in celebration. bin Laden's death comes nearly ten years after the September 2001 terrorist attacks catapulted him to the ranks of one of the world's most wanted men and a political bogeyman in America. The body of bin Laden was later buried at sea. more ›

If your weekend was anything like ours, you donned some crazy garb and drank until you blacked out, all in the name of Halloween. Some of us out there had near misses with costumed cuties, and others just wished for love in a Freddy Krueger costume. This week we scanned Craigslist for the creepiest Halloween-related Missed Connections and found that dressing up makes those posting ads a little more crazypants than usual. Behold: You’re tall,... more ›

A Muslim American, Syed Abbas, filed suit Monday against AFI Industries Inc claiming he was fired because he complained about harassment on the job. Abbas worked at an AFI factory in suburban Chicago for nine years and was fired in March 2003. more ›