What do you get when you take a remixed Rihanna song, add in two stuffed animals, white headphones and a handicam? Love, in a hopeless place, that's what. more ›

French director Gaspar Noe’s sure to be cult classic Enter The Void, and its kaleidoscopic, bombastic visual style, was ripe for the music video plucking. After all, consider the fact that music videos have a much shorter time frame to have an impact their viewers than movies do. (Check out the sequence here). Kanye West’s video for “All Of The Lights”, off of Myy Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, will no doubt become exhibit A of clips taking cues from Noe’s rich aesthetic. more ›

• The Sun-Times looks at Amber Cremeens, the McHenry native killed last week by her ex-boyfriend Tyler James Martin, who shot himself after a stand-off with police in Logan Square on Friday.
• State Attorney General Lisa Madigan is prepping a lawsuit against Caterpillar, Inc. over the huge oil sludge spill from earlier this month.
• The Arlington Heights-based company responsible for Golden Tee is gambling on a new slot machine.