Results tagged “worldrecords”

Are you a fan of the shoes Michael Jordan made famous? If so, you might want to join the hundreds (thousands?) of fans of MJ and his eponymous shoes who will converge at his statue outside the United Center at noon this Saturday to shoot the final scene of the documentary "Jordan Heads." Billed as "the most anticipated sneaker documentary ever," Saturday's shoot caps four years of production on the film.

The search continues today for extreme sporting adventurer and former Chicago options trader Steve Fossett, who has been missing since Monday. Fossett was visiting the Flying M Ranch near Yerington, Nev., scouting for dry lake beds that could be used for breaking a land-speed record. He was piloting a Single Engine Bellanca Citabria Super Decathlon, a two-seat aerobatic plane, for his reconnaissance flight. The aircraft had over five hours of fuel on board when it...

This month we asked you ladies and gents to judge a book by its cover. We chose Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Gross. Actually, although reading in the heat about the "gamy" and "slightly sweet" smell of rotting human flesh did make us feel faint at times, we found Stiff to be thoroughly engrossing (no pun intended). Mary Roach's forays into cadaver research and the body farm were all precise and detailed without...

In January George Hood, an Aurora resident, spent 85 hours on a stationary bicycle in an attempt to break the world record. Guinness officials notified Hood that due to inconsistencies in his log of rest breaks, they express "great regret" that he is not the record holder he thought he was.

Does the name Kim Goodman ring a bell? She’s the south side woman who holds the top spot in the Guiness Book of World Records for being able to pop her eyeballs out of her head the farthest. Goodman set the record in 1998 and subsequently made the talk show rounds. We’re pretty sure she appeared in at least one commercial, too.

We’re of the opinion that the older people get, the more they rule. That’s why we were particularly sad to hear that a few days ago, while we were all eating pizza rolls and yacking about Stroger, what may have been the world’s oldest person quietly passed away in this very city.

Maximus, the World's Largest Bottle of Wine, enough to hold over 173 standard bottles or 1,200 glasses of wine, can now be found in Northern New Jersey. The 340-pound bottle was created for Morton's here in Chicago and has been auctioned off for just under $56,000. If we had a Chicagoist party and invited all of you guys, how long do you think it'd take to polish that thing off?

• Answer the question we were too skeeved to ask: what do you do with a dead elephant? "Tatima [the 35-year-old elephant] will be disposed of as 'medical waste' via incineration," according to the Sun-Times. Geaahh. Poor Tatima died Saturday after a battle with tuberculosis, which, who knew, elephants can totally get. Tatima, and two other female African elephants at the Lincoln Park Zoo, came to Chicago from the San Diego Zoo in spring 2003. Some animal rights activists tried to get Tatima et. al. moved to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee, and claim that living conditions at the zoo contributed to her disease and eventual death. For some reason, the Sun-Times puts in the lede that Gillian Anderson wrote a letter supporting the move. Gillian Anderson? Yeah, we bet she has time to write lots of letters now that her career is dead. Whatever. RIP, Tatima.