Via Metal Sucks comes the unusually subdued meeting between two titans of their respective fields. There's Cannibal Corpse, the long-running Buffalo-based death metal group known for their appearance in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and for their blistering beats, growling vocals and gore-drenched lyrical imagery. And then there's the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who's know for his furious double-tapping guitar shredding civil rights activism and political career, both of which have roots in Chicago. How did these two meet? more ›

If you've been reading our Blago coverage, you'll notice the one word we keep using is "surreal." His incessant denial, the Senator Oprah claim, talking to a televised Barbara Walters...we just feel like we're going further down the rabbit hole. Here at the Chicagoist office, we batted around real-life situations that compared to this and had trouble coming up with something appropriate. We then turned to the world of the arts and, in the end, this is the closest we came to finding a comparison. more ›

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