What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Dec 23, 2013 3:00PM
- A reporter for the Chicago Reader got bamboozled recently in a blackface related hoax that has to be read to believed.
- DNAInfo points out a Chicago Department of Transportation report that mentions protected bike lines with a concrete curb being installed as a possible project.
- Bears Defensive Tackle Henry Melton was arrested for public intoxication and an alleged assault at a Texas sports bar called, oddly enough, Chill.
- An 11-year-old boy, Donovan Turnage, was killed after a carjacked vehicle police were pursuing on the city's South Side crashed into the car he was in.
- Bronzeville rapper NoNameGypsy recently teamed up South Side up-and-comer Mick Jenkins for a terrific track called "Samaritan."
- From the Chicago Film Archives' Chicago Public Library Collection comes a 25-minute travelogue from 1957 of a "small family [taking] a road trip across Illinois." Won't you join them?
- The Violet Hour introduced two new winter warm cocktails.
- Playlist: 2013: the year in outstanding local music, track by track, featuring Chance The Rapper, Alla, Pelican, and much more.
- The Chicago Symphony Orchestra debuted "CSO Sounds and Stories," an online magazine that's absolutely essential.
- Goose Island and Deschutes Brewery have teamed up for the third and final of their "Class of '88" brews, a 10 percent ABV Belgian-style ale.
