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Extra Extra: Chicago Burlesque Performer Twerks To Beethoven

By Jon Graef in News on Oct 20, 2013 9:00PM

  • Chicago Burlesque performer Michelle L'Amour recently set the Internet afire by twerking to Beethoven. Twerking is dead. Long live twerking? [Cosmo, h/t Sam Abernethy]
  • Speaking of asses, (too easy) Mayor Emanuel pledged no increase in property taxes to balance the 2014 budget. [Sun-Times]
  • The Chicago Reader's Mick Dumke tries to get to the bottom of why Cook County’s court system is screwed up. [Chicago Reader]
  • Low ratings for Cubs games on WGN Radio has the station exercising an option to reopen a deal with the team. [Trib]
  • Rick Bayless returns to the theater in Lookingglass Theatre’s Cascabel. [Sun-Times]

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