April 27, 2004

Somebody gonna Lotto? Anyone?

If you bought a lottery ticket in Calumet City last May with the numbers 03-23-28-29-38-42 on them, you have a week left to claim your jackpot. Nobody has stepped forward to claim the $2.5 million prize, and the deadline for claiming the prize is May 3rd. If nobody claims the money, you know what's going to happen to it? It's gonna get thrown to the wolves!

- jma | 27.04.04 ~ In the News

The Final Prime Shorts

Local film curator Xan Aranda brings the successful Prime Shorts film show to an end tomorrow evening at The Hideout. In her words: "Producing and curating this show has been the greatest! But we can't go steady anymore, Prime Shorts and me... It was a hot sweaty love affair that now needs to give way to other shiny objects and tempting projects." And: "With the promise of there being no uber-depressing dog-murder claymation, I hope you can make it to the swan song, the final sprint, the last (scheduled) Prime Shorts." If you've missed engagements at The Hideout and the Gene Siskel Film Center, then this is your last chance. 

- nh | 27.04.04 ~ Film

Go Skokie!

Skokie has gotten a community weblog all of their own. Go Skokie is aims to "create a community driven Web site for Skokie that offers 'news for the people by the people.'" The site was created by a team at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.

- ah | 27.04.04 ~ Weblogs

Found on Late Night

Here's a reason to stay up late: The Late Show with David Letterman tonight features an interview with Davy Rothbart, one of the founders of Found Magazine (which is co-based here and in Ann Arbor, MI). Davy will be showing Dave some of the bizarre and interesting things people have found and sent in to the magazine.

- ah | 27.04.04 ~ Radio/TV

Wall to Wall Recording

A while ago, I visited a renewed studio that some friends are working at. The place is called Wall to Wall and it's located deep in the bowels of a building downtown. It's a veritable maze of sorts, lined with deep crimson plush walls with recordings rooms and a main room that has history. Almost on this side of a pimp's love den from the 70's, you feel as if either Jimi Hendrix or The Beatles might have cut some tracks here back in the day. The pimp factor is quite high. While the photos on the site are cool, it's amazing in person. If you're interested in tracking and recording some music, this is the place to be. They're quite affordable too.

- nh | 27.04.04 ~ Music/Clubs

Don't die before visiting Superdawg

The Sun-Times reports that the best-selling travel book "1,000 Places to See Before You Die" has a number of Chicago locations in its list, alongside such exotic destinations as the Taj Mahal, the Pyramids of Egypt, and the North Pole. Among the Chicago locations mentioned in the book: the Art Institute, Charlie Trotter's, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Frank Lloyd Wright home in Oak Park .... and, yes, Superdawg.

- jma | 27.04.04 ~ Books/Authors

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