What The Hell Happened This Weekend? 10 Stories You Might Have Missed
By Jon Graef in News on Oct 6, 2014 2:00PM
- Saturday's Great Chicago Fire Festival was a total bust.
- Using time-lapses, gliding tracking shots, and a sweeping piano soundtrack, YouTube channel The Outbound Life's newest video lets the beauty of downtown Chicago unfold in less than two minutes.
- A new Chicago Tumblr about the city's unexplained mysteries may be just the thing to quell your pre-Halloween spooky-bone.
- This weekend's snow, slight as it was, represented Chicago's third earliest snowfall since the city began recording it.
- In keeping with the name of the series—Reading Under the Influence—each performer took a shot before taking the mike at this unique live lit show.
- Appropriately, our playlist this weekend should be the soundtrack to your hibernation, with songs about how awful weather is never forever.
- Chicago entrepreneur and author Petula V. Sankarsingh launched her feminine empowerment experiment turned quasi-epistolary novella A Love Letter to Me at Open Books.
- To keep up with demand without selling out to the man, Edgewater's Sauce and Bread have launched a Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for sustainably increasing production of its popular SBK Bars.
- Our weekend theater pick was '70s TV movie The Night Stalker, which was one of two TV movies spun into supernatural Chicago-set television show Kolchak: The Night Stalker.
- To anyone dealing with mental health issues, reading articles online, privately, at home, can be a gift. But it can also be a curse.
