We're surprised a "Like a Manny" video didn't surface last fall: more ›

Sure, he's no Timmy Cappello, but Jimmy Love still qualifies as "saxy:" more ›

This video by CRUDBUMP, a.k.a. Drew Fairweather, the creator of Toothpaste for Dinner and other web projects, deftly sums up our attitude on the weekends: more ›

Maybe it's because we have kids and had to sit through all this nonsense, but for some reason this gave us giggle fits today: more ›

Jimmy Kimmel gives lovebirds some help with their Valentine's Day gifts. more ›

On this day, in 1845, one of the most famous narrative poems, "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, was first published in the New York Evening Mirror. There have been many send-ups of the poem since, from a reading by Christopher Walken, it's been put to music by the Alan Parsons Project, and you can even see what it would have been like to watch Poe reading the poem himself. But we decided to revisit one of our guilty pleasures, the 1963 take on the classic by B-movie legend Roger Corman, just one of many Poe works put on film by Corman: more ›

The last time the Chicago Bears battled the Green Bay Packers in post-season action, the Bears still played at Wrigley Field and it was just a mere 8 days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. So we thought as a lead up to tomorrow's much-hyped game, it's fitting to briefly review the history of the rivalry between the two teams, and why Bears and Packers fans hate each others' guts: more ›

We're in football mode here at Chicagoist headquarters, as we lead up to the Bears trouncing of the Seahawks tomorrow. So we dug up a video looking at the very first Super Bowl played 44 years ago today, between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs, narrated by the dulcet tones of John Facenda: more ›

Since everybody is apparently going apeshit over the 76th birthday of Elvis Presley today, we thought we would honor the King with a video tutorial of how to make Elvis' favorite sandwich, the Fool's Gold Loaf, with the help of a 46 inch tall Elvis impersonator. more ›

Now that Mayor Richard M. Daley has officially surpassed the mayoral reign of his father, Richard J., today seemed like the perfect time to enjoy a compilation of Daley's most memorable sound bites, put together by Steve Dahl's long time technical producer, Pete Zimmerman: more ›

Merry Christmas to you and your camel's ass. more ›

Now that the first snowfall of the season has arrived, we're finally getting into the holiday spirit so we thought we would post this glimpse into Santa's Workshop and how they keep the elves with dental school ambitions in line (NSFW language): more ›

In case you missed it, Oprah made her audience go totally crazy on Friday after unveiling her Favorite Things and bequeathing them upon a crowd of anxious and teary-eyed. What was the audience reaction like? Nothing short of epic: more ›

Scottish novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson was born on November 13, 1850, and would have been 160 years old today if only he had been one of the Immortals and not prone to the cerebral hemorrhage that brought him down at the age of 44. While Google is honoring the author of with a fancy ass doodle, we decided to celebrate his birthday by presenting you with the creepiest reading of a Stevenson poem that you're ever, ever going to witness: more ›

Back in our halcyon days of retail employment, we remember working Daylight Saving Time Sundays and having people show up to the store before opening, and proceeding to get incredibly pissy that the door was locked -- that is, until we reminded them that they were dolts that hadn't set their clocks back. Seems like the moon has the same problem (some NSFW language): more ›

Disney Cartoons' "The Skeleton Dance," the very first of the many cartoon shorts in Disney's series, still holds up today and seems an appropriate way to kick-off all of the spooky festivities going on in Chicago this weekend. more ›

In case you haven't heard, Rahm Emanuel has left his position as White House Chief of Staff to run for mayor of Chicago in light of Mayor Daley's retirement next year. picked up on that obscure news story as well, and gave Emanuel a proper send off in the opening of last night's show: more ›

These guys claim to be Chicago's best hibachi team. Who are we to argue? more ›

Now this is a Running of the Bulls we can get behind. Or in front. Whatever. more ›