What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Mar 17, 2014 2:00PM
- Chicago's Kenwood Academy made a video of its teachers, students, and even mascots, getting down to the ubiquitous hit 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams.
- Lake Shore Drive was closed both ways at Fullerton Avenue due to a police standoff involving a suspect in an alleged homicide. The standoff lasted eight hours and ended Sunday evening.
- The Field Museum is looking for help in telling the stories, or kwentos, behind 10,000 artifacts from the Philippines.
- Is this bacon mania is over? Not so fast. But fried chicken is becoming increasingly popular with consumers and restaurateurs alike.
- We talked to Adam Granduciel from The War On Drugs about the creative process behind the band's stellar third release, Lost in the Dream, which comes out March 18.
- Zakk Wylde had a custom-made Les Paul guitar stolen from a tour bus outside the Chicago Theatre Friday night.
- A curious, delightful find for this weekend's weekend theater: Vimeo user Fading Dyes has claimed to have found a lost film from the Chicago Board of Education, a documentary about our fair city.
- The Crime In Boystown blog reports that 21 arrests were made, and 17 ambulance runs occurred, Saturday evening and into Sunday morning during St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Wrigleyville. Because of course.
- A Chicago cop, who hit a female cyclist near the intersection of California and Wabansia Avenues while he was reportedly drunk driving, was acquitted Wednesday of the more serious charges leveled against him.
- Grunge-era titans Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails have announced a joint tour which will hit Tinley Park's First Midwest Bank Amphitheater on July 24th.
