What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Feb 24, 2014 3:30PM
- Wes Anderson, director of films such as classics The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, and Bottle Rocket, is coming to the Music Box Theatre on Saturday, March 1, for an in-person Q&A following an advance screening of his upcoming film, The Grand Budapest Hotel.
- Apropos of the Wes Anderson post, our weekend theater pick was his short film, Hotel Chevalier.
- Once upon a time, tech innovator Harper Reed and self-proclaimed digital prophet David Shing met. Then this happened.
- Plans to bookend Pilsen with helicopter facilities separated by 1.5 miles took a hit this week as one project may not get off the ground (or out of City Hall).
- On March 1st, the Empty Bottle and Goose Island Beer Co. will host a free outdoor event entitled "Music Frozen Dancing."
- Pocket Guide To Hell presents a recreated episode of Studs Terkel's '50s TV show March 16 at The Hideout.
- In These Times' Kari Lydersen recently sat down for a Q&A session with community organizer and municipal consultant Amara Enyia, a Nigerian-American Chicagoan who plans on challenging Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the 2015 mayoral election.
- The average weekly commute for African American low-wage Chicago workers was 70 minutes longer than their white counterparts in 2011, according to The University of Chicago's Virginia Parks.
- Police in suburban Orland Park say that a cab driver picked up a couple who then proceeded to do the humpty dance inside the car. After they arrived to their destination, the couple then said they couldn't pay the fare.
- Photographer Adriana Mendez was kind enough to share with Chicagoist photos she took Saturday at The Legacy Tower at Millennium Park of about 1,000 Chicagoans uniting to form an S.O.S signal to send to international leaders in light of reported human rights abuses occurring in Venezuela.
