It's Monday. It's Halloween. Lalala, this video is how many f&@ks we give today. Lalala. more ›

Today we celebrate the discovery of the New World with a video of a furry riding a bike. It's our way of saying thanks for freedom and liberty. more ›

Ira Glass appears on this week's WTF podcast with Marc Maron that was recently taped live at The Bell House in Brooklyn. Glass admitted feeling a bit weird about being in the room since just a few days before the taping Glass also appeared on the same stage for The Drunk Show during Eugene Mirman's Comedy Festival. According to Glass: more ›

39-year-old Robert Lyons is accused of hitting his mother Linda Bolek in the head with a champagne bottle and stabbing her so hard the knife broke off inside her body. more ›

If ubiquitous hacker group 4Chan was a person, this is how we imagine it to be. more ›

OK, this isn't so much Chicago based but since the annual Gathering Of The Juggalos occurs downstate and The White Stripes played Chicago a lot in their early days we taking that entryway and running through it with this piece of astounding news. more ›

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If you haven't been introduced to the genius interview stylings of comedian Marc Maron's WTF podcast, you are missing out on one of the best things the Internet has to offer right now. His primary subjects are comedians both famous and infamous, and Maron has a knack for pulling information out of them that one would never expect. Instead of long and boring dissertations on "what makes comedy comedy," Maron instead opts to act as a combination of psychiatrist and subject, often pulling intensely information from his subjects and then using it to make an emotional connection or leap of his own. Through all of this Maron manages the nigh impossible and keeps the conversation between he and his guest (or guests, as often happens during his live WTF tapings) 100% entertaining. Riveting, even! more ›

Bond has been set for $50,000 for a woman charged with aggravated battery to a senior citizen and aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. Lynn Baggett, 51, was arrested for allegedly pouring a five-gallon pot of boiling water and another substance over the head of her 74-year-old disabled neighbor Saturday after offering to make her dinner. more ›

In perhaps one of the biggest head-scratchers we've heard this week, a man made like the Teen Cop and impersonated a CTA bus driver, uniform and all, taking a CTA bus out on a joyride and even picked up passengers. The suspect, who apparently swiped a uniform from an acquaintance and successfully started and operated the bus, taking it out on the road. The Tribune reports the man took the bus out for about four hours last Wednesday night and the GPS on the bus shows he drove between the CTA's 103rd Street garage and 95th Street, apparently stopping to pick up passengers along the way. Things unraveled for the man when he returned the bus to the garage: more ›

The terrorists don't "hate our freedoms." They hate what we do with our freedoms. Case in point: Kentucky Fried Chicken's Double Down sandwich. In a time when the debate rages about how fast food chains are contributing to America's obesity epidemic, launching a sandwich featuring bacon, cheese and Thousand Island-style secret sauce fit between two pieces of fried chicken breast — or grilled, if you're "health conscious" — is a brazen display of chutzpah, if not an outright "fuck you" to those same critics. more ›

A boys' choir singing music using only the word "meow"? Sure. Why not? [via] more ›

Tankboy here. I am a huge David Bowie fan, and I've had a longstanding beef with Vanilla Ice ever since seeing him on MTV denying that "Ice Ice Baby" used the same bass line as "Under Pressure." So my head just about exploded when I discovered X Factor protegees Jedward were mashing the two songs together. My blood boiled. My head exploded. And then I found I couldn't stop watching and listening over and over and over again. more ›

Have you watched the Bulls play lately? We wouldn't cast blame if you answered no, because they've been painful to watch recently -- losers in seven of their last eight, by an average of almost 16 points. Perhaps they'd be more competitive if they actually played some defense. In their recent 110-78 debacle against the Toronto Raptors, Jarrett Jack was able to actually stop and tie his shoe while in possession of the ball! Jack received a pass at the top of the key when he noticed his laces were undone, and he bent down to fix it while cradling the ball. None of the Bulls defenders even challenged Jack as he was in a compromised position. Loul Deng should've attacked with his long arms and tried to steal the ball, but instead he looked like he wasn't sure what to do. It's no surprise they lost by 32 points with an effort like that. (via Fark.com) more ›

This weekend, the web was abuzz when pictures of former Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa from a recent Vegas event surfaced that showed him looking a bit paler than usual, raising speculation as to its cause, including it being a result of alleged steroid use. A former Cubs employee defended Sosa, saying he'd recently undergone some skin treatment. Appearing on Univisions's "Primer Impacto" program, Sosa himself has addressed the uproar by explaining, "It's a cream that I have, that I use to soften [my skin], but has bleached me some." He then inexplicably said, "I'm not a racist, I live my life happily." So to recap, Sosa's just trying to keep his skin soft and that's why he looks white, not because he wants to be white. more ›

Take a look at the photo on the left -- a recent photo of former Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa we first came across on Deadspin the other day. It was shot at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas when the slugger attended the Latin Grammys 2009 Person Of The Year Event Honoring singer Juan Gabriel. In addition to the ghostly skin, it also looks like Sosa's had some eye work done, too. The nose still looks to be stock, but we guess each starts their rebuilding process differently. Nobody can deny he looks very, very different from how he did even a couple years ago, as seen in photo on the right, taken when he testified to Congress about performance enhancing drugs. Some speculate that Sosa may be suffering from vitiligo like Michael Jackson but, in this case, caused by years of alleged steroid use. more ›

What happens when Kanye teams up with music video genius/movie director Spike Jonze? One hot, intriguing mess, that's what. Our pals at Pitchfork point us to the short film We Were Once A Fairytale, a little slice of...something that features, "Kanye acting completely drunk and making an utter ass out of himself at a club before having sex with a ghost and then ripping the world's cutest goblin out of his stomach." Also, he bleeds and vomits confetti. Hell, this might be a documentary for all we know. Judge for yourself by watching it here. Where the wild things are, indeed. more ›

In White Sox lore there are more than a few colorful characters: the Black Sox; Bill Veeck; Dick Allen; Minnie Minoso, the "Winning Ugly" Sox;Poppy Hidalgo, the 31-year-old batboy. Nothing short of massive drinking will prepare you for this. more ›

Jay Mariotti still scares us, so we've tried our best to avoid him since he departed our local rag's pages. Which explains why we missed his latest WTF moment until the boys at NQTC pointed it out. That we knew what was coming didn't dull the mystification of reading Mariotti's words. He really does just jump right from Cubs spending money now that they've been sold to the fact that Joe Ricketts' daughter is a lesbian. more ›

We get lots of email from readers in our inbox, some kind, some not so much. And we also get questions about certain stories in the area. Without a doubt, the story we're asked about the most is the case of Anthony Abbate, the Chicago Police officer caught on tape beating a Chicago bartender after she allegedly refused to serve him more beer. A December start to his trial came and went but nary a word was uttered about what was up with the case. While we still don't know exactly what happened, we do know now that he did appear in court today for a hearing and he's due back in court on February 26 when it's expected he'll be issued a new trial date. more ›

Man, weddings. They're nuts! Things just never go how you plan. Someone always drinks too much, or brings a date who wasn't invited, or...throws a knife at a kid wrapped in duct tape. Behold today's WTF, from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: more ›

All About Beer magazine (via) listed their "top 125 places to have a beer before you die" (a nice arbitrary number, by the way). Five local taverns made the cut: Hopleaf (#24), Clark Street Ale House (#43), Map Room (#47), Goose Island (#84) and John Barleycorn, which makes the cut ten spots from the bottom at #115. more ›

Chicagoist hasn't been out to the UC to see a Bulls games this year, but they apparently show this video on the scoreboard during halftime at some games: more ›