Wearing a Sox shirt and Brewers hat at the bar and got into it with some cubs fans. Long story short, I got to tell them that Matt Shaw will be first against the wall when the revolution comes, do a shot on Malört and walk away. Very satisfying night already.

Chaos again, feds tackling protesters at random. They just detained @peoplesfabric.com.

ooo but I did see this on the Metra, my first sighting of a bike rack!

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

Jumping Bomb Angels sighting!

surrealism meets sci-fi 🪐

I wrote about the incredible collection of modernist architecture in Chatham commissioned by Black professionals looking to make their mark on Chicago in the midcentury

TAKE ME WITH U

Some 1960s Chicago townhouses. Top to bottom: Pei & Weese (1969), Anderson & Battles (1967), Keck & Keck (1969), Tigerman & Koglin (1964).

Yuyo’s in Belmont Cragin announced their delivery service and expressed offering their new delivery service to alleviate the concerns of immigrant families. 💜

This is great, so glad this is happening. news.artnet.com/art-world/ci...

What's going on in Rogers Park?

In 2013, when faced with Miami-area gridlock, tennis champion Serena Williams made headlines by riding a bicycle to her match. "It was probably one of my best memories I think ever, riding a bike to a match" she said. #BicycleBirthday Serena Williams September 26, 1981

Sears and Montgomery Ward catalog files. This was Amazon for Gen X. christmas.musetechnical.com

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

A masked ICE agent sprayed David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.

So this two-person shop has become a load-bearing element of Chicago's coverage of what's happening with the ICE raids. The least you can do is support em: unraveledpress.com/support-unra...

In 2025, the administration cut funding for NPR and filed lawsuits against many leading news sources. Experts explain how journalists can kowtow to the powers that be to attempt to keep their jobs and avoid further cuts/lawsuits.

Students, alumni and faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago are speaking out about the significance of the Roger Brown Home & Studio as a part of their creative lives! Nearly 500 people have signed this letter @susannahribs.bsky.social and I wrote together!

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

“If there’s a group in Chicago that advocates on behalf of anything, it’s the people who are advocating for bike lanes and bikers,” he told reporters. “Your advocacy is paying dividends for the people of Chicago.” Proud to be among the advocates in attendance yesterday. Let's keep making roads safe

On this day in 1982, Prince released “1999” - the title track from his studio album of the same name. “I was dreamin' when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray”

Right exhibit in the right place! We look forward to seeing it. Member DePaul has the Young Lords collection: explore.chicagocollections.org/ead/depaul/8...

Put "well-organized and often aggressive" on our tombstone www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/24/m...

On this day in 1991, Nirvana released their second studio album “Nevermind” featuring singles "Smells Like Teen Spirit" "Come as You Are" "Lithium" and "In Bloom"

I can’t sleep and have found it.

Nirvana’s “Nevermind” was released on this date in 1991.

As someone in dark red, can confirm. The NW Side definitely smacks of transit desert (time-wise) in many ways.

If you see this, post a concert pic you took (I swear I took this shot myself)

I think this covers it? my brain is well and truly cooked

Share your favorite black and white movie (Clerks is close, but have to go with...)

Come get your pumpkins at the Logan Square farmers market this Sunday from Batridge Family Farms.

bow to your king 🎃

wild horses - prefab sprout - youtu.be/JetrXTkZGUw?...

Pickles and ice cream are next

I was asked yesterday to post a walkthrough of Life Over Time, the shortest-lived and generally weirdest iteration of the Field Museum’s fossil halls. If you visited between 1994 and 2004, this is the version you saw. I’ve got some time, so let’s do this.

Portage Park has elected its first pet mayor, Eden the dog. blockclubchi.co/3W2XtYh

🤣🤣🤣 (yes, I'm old enough to have worn through many Choose your own adventure books...) Maybe "Edward Packard" would be a pseudonym for @markfrost.bsky.social ;) (artist credit appears to be Matthew Skiff)

Chicago’s got a lot of great hot dog joints but only one of them is giving away free hot dogs today because Caleb threw 4 touchdowns on Sunday- the legendary Wiener’s Circle!

I’ve been writing detective comics for a long time now, so I know when a close up magician has been pushed into a canal.

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Tonight at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social, @chicagofilmsociety.org presents Chris + Heather's 16mm Big Screen Blowout #2, "another orgiastic evening of small-gauge confections." I was at Blowout #1, and it was an amazing presentation of weird little movies. Fun! musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

a page of Trump's UN speech, as captured by Getty

this is insane

Yo!!!! @workingbikes.bsky.social is donating a vintage Schwinn to our silent auction on 9/25. These bikes go for about $300 - the Violet color is apparently pretty rare. It’s being tuned up on Brandon’s bench as we speak! Get your tickets for the party: www.bikelaneuprising.com/events/bike-...

This App Turns Your Photos into Music If You Want to Do That For Some Reason

The rapture, but for cars in cities.