Uck. Grey crappy icy Sunday afternoon. No Bears game - just the memories of Thursday's injury plagued horror. If only it were 1940 - it was during this weekend of that year that the most lopsided NFL games ever played took place - and the Bears whooped the Redskins' ass 73-0. The below video from that game is titled The Greatest Block in NFL History - it might not be the absolute greatest of all... more ›

As the rest of the media fawned over the new city council, and reminisced on the follies of councils past, other silliness was going on in the realm of politics in the City by the Lake. Let's take a look at what's up here in town: The Old Council Does One Last Thing. Following up on an issue that we wrote about a while back, it seems that the City Council's zoning committee has held... more ›

Chicagoist really hates it when people get paint on our clothes, and yes, it has happened more than once. But when it does, we try not to make racial slurs in front of children. We’re real humanitarians like that. more ›

Tomatoist is dead, long live Tomatoist. So, the best laid plans of Chicagoist and our homegrown tomato-laden summer garden of urban delights have finally taken their last spin around the sink and spun down the drain. The past week’s weather was a bit too much for the tender young seedling that we started weeks ago. Okay, we left them on the porch one day to get sun and then forgot to bring them in and they took a beating from the cold and some curious squirrels. more ›

With all the Lollapalooza hullabaloo yesterday (the Sun-Times and the Trib pick up the story today), we missed the chance to put our two cents into an argument that Richard Roeper started. It’s an argument guaranteed to inflame any barroom in the city when you include just three little words: “...of all time.” more ›

?) After all, this is the film that single-handedly destroyed the careers of Saved By The Bell star Elizabeth Berkley (NOO!!!) and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (YES!!!), and it also tried (and failed) to bring the controversial NC-17 rating into the mainstream, thus pissing off Roger Ebert forever. Among its many other virtues, Showgirls notably features an extended conversation between strippers on the deliciousness of dog food. more ›