Yesterday, I was coming back home after a long school board meeting in the suburbs. Since it's one of those suburbs where the Pace bus schedule peters out to almost nothing after 7:00 PM, I ended up taking the Metra train to downtown Chicago and went to catch the Brown Line 'L' train up to Rogers Park ( Read more... )

You know how, back on Saturday, I wondered whether Chicago area residents were going to flock to Indiana Dunes beaches during the Memorial Day weekend? The CBS2 Chicago news report I saw last night suggests that the answer is yes.

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The Times of Northwest Indiana reported that there were some decent-sized crowds on Saturday and Sunday as well. For ( Read more... )

Yesterday, Aunt Anya sent me a video via Facebook Messenger, urging me to figure out some way to show it to Grandma Nina on Victory Day. And, after I watched it, I could see what she meant.

"Dark is the Night" is one of those classic Soviet songs where, even if you have no idea what movie it was originally written for, you at least know it exists ( Read more... )

Filed under "this has been in drafts for a while, but I'm only now getting around to posting it.

Brianna Price, knwon professionally as B.Traits is a Canadian DJ and record producer who currently lives in London. I found out about her from the eponymous radio show she used to do on BBC Radio 1. The show aired on Fridays late at night London time, ( Read more... )

Posted mostly for the benefit of hettie_lz and the (very) few other people who know who the girl in the video is. For everybody else... Well, I hope you'll get something out of it anyway.

Every once in a while, I get some really odd advertisements on Youtube. This.. is certainly one of them. To say the least

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I get that the whole thing is targeted toward doomsday preppers/Second Amendment zealots, but all i could think was "are you trying to help domestic terrorists?" And yeah, I know - the not-so-small number of domestic terrorists ( Read more... )

So I was decided, on a lark, to look up "Beverly Shores" on Youtube, just to see what would come up. And I found a video by David Duenas, a college student from the neighoring Michigan City ( Read more... )

I'm mostly posting it for the benefit of hettie_lz and annanov, who know who Song is, and who her mom, Randi, is. But I think even if you don't know the people involved, you can appreciate a mom who went through the trouble of putting together a view of a story her daughter wrote (and drew). And that Song actually did a pretty job voicing it, considering how young ( Read more... )

Last night, Chicagoland was hit by a rainfall that, somewhere along the way, turned into a snowfall. In the city, at least, it didn't look that heavy, but I guess the suburbs got it worse. So it's only fitting that Metra put out a video showing how it was making sure its commuter trains were still running during snowy weather.

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Those of you who ( Read more... )

Back in April 4, my friend Devin read a piece at The Skewer, a monthly spoken word show thing at Logan Square's Cafe Mustache. When talking to my mom about it aftewards, I struggle to describe what it was actually about. But now that there's a video, I can just embed it ( Read more... )