Ticketmaster quietly raised other fees after US crackdown on hidden charges: Documents obtained by Guardian show company increased different fees to ‘offset revenue loss’ from FTC rule change

Kind of interesting that this piece published at The Guardian acknowledges that these changes are at least partly a response to the freak out during the 2024 Olympics about Imane Khelif, when the guy writing the piece played a role in fanning those 2024 flames. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Rad @jamieludwig.bsky.social profile of Ratboys for @chicagoreader.com

Baseball is back, so why not re-read this story I wrote about the time I convinced six Chicagoland minor league teams to let me throw out a first pitch

You’re telling me the new movie They Will Kill You is different from the new movie Ready or Not 2: Here I Come? This feels like a prank…

Previewed the upcoming Empty Bottle release show for the Red Xerox comp, which documents the last five years of Chicago’s vital Hallogallo scene

Let 👏 @bebopott.bsky.social 👏 drive 👏

ICYMI

if teens did this in the loop brian hopkins would have like five city council proposals banning them

Stuck in The Reader! Always a treat getting to speak with @imleor.bsky.social!

I talked to @guypidgeotto.bsky.social about Stuck’s Optimizer, which comes out Friday.

be our poster

idk any abolitionists but the shift is as simple as gambling is growing (for everything sucks reasons) and not that regulated in the shapes it takes to a degree of celebs shilling for services with dubious legalities and class action lawsuits. the tl;dr is kids can't pick up a phone and drink.

dtf st louis is smooth-brain mare of easttown

Something about this feels made for a Kenny Dennis track

yeah man, totally variety.com/2026/digital...

Whoa @fire-toolz.bsky.social is putting out an album on Warp! fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/album/lavend...

I think I’ve seen more media coverage of this case than his 2025 album

fine, i’ll host snl uk

nonsentient, headless bodyoid (dir: david cronenberg, 2028)

Again I would like to reiterate, as something of an expert on the man and his work: there is actually nothing funnier or less film-literate than accusing someone of *ripping off Quentin Tarantino*

tired: new neurosis wired: old jandek

Everybody's asking

Can’t get over how the Roofman disguised himself as “John Zorn from New York” boxd.it/dCHRf1

Pete Hesgeth said in a room full of people "The problem with Iran is it spends money on weapons and missiles instead of improving life for their people," and not one person laughed at him

“If you don’t approve this settlement, I will destroy you,” lobbyist Mike Davis told Gail Slater, then head of DOJ’s antitrust div. (Davis denies.)This gift @wsj.com article details alleged corruption/patronage in DOJ, starring Davis & others. ... 1/2 www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Movies are so back

This is completely psychotic. He’s just a guy. And they’ve turned the full power of the nation against him because they fucked up their cleansing operation with him so badly.

My “I am leaving Instagram” ad is raising a lot of questions that are not answered by my ad

Holy shit!

Didn’t intend for this to become movie week with my newsletter but my friends in BLACK EYES invited me to see ‘Undertone,’ a horror movie about sounds (and podcasts) thefutureisourstomake.substack.com/p/at-the-mov...

saw undertone last night, which mostly made me want to revisit a superior horror movie focused on audio: pontypool (2008)

I love when the headline is a question with a one-word answer. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/b...

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dear lord

Pittsburgh City Paper is back!

There is a lot of real and rising antisemitism in the US today. Which makes the position of the AJC that it is inherently antisemitic to accuse Israel of genocide - when the leading Israeli human rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights agree - both dangerous and counterproductive.

“After 30 years of owning The Hideout, Jim, Mike, Katie and Tim have sold the club to Teri O’Brien, a musician and former Hideout employee.” www.facebook.com/share/p/185u...

Hell yes

damn now where will I turn to for… uh… what need did this serve again?

The Hallogallo scene comp Red Xerox (with contributions from Horsegirl, Friko, Lifeguard, Sharp Pins, P. Noid) is out today along with a just-announced additional cassette comp of scene bands

Brand new Gossip Wolf: -Heavy Crownz recruits a coterie of great Chicago rappers for his big new album -Jah spoil drops New Chicago Vol. 2 -Will Miller talks about the new Resavoir album at the Land school -new albums from Red PK and CBVB -and more!

Wow

Congrats to Raja Krishnamoorthi on his new position as guest contributor to the Chicago Tribune editorial board

Reporters on Me 10 minutes election night into F1 🤝 “I’ve seen enough”