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HEADLINER
HEADLINERCubs!!! It might get a little crazy in Chicago tomorrow because the Chicago Cubs are ONE GAME AWAY from the World Series. When was the last time they were at the World Series? Back in 1945. Last night they whopped the LA Dodgers 8-4 in game 5. They’ve been World Series favorites since the start of the season. Time to get on that bandwagon and #FlyTheW…Read more
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• A day after the icy and final presidential debate, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were in NYC for the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation dinner Thursday night and a friendly roast turned into what some reports call 3 alarm fire. Trump talked about the politicians that favored him pre-presidential race “Suddenly, [they] decided when I ran for president as a Republican that I’ve always been a no-good, rotten, disgusting scoundrel. And they totally forgot about me…but that’s OK.” He made some quips until it got awkward with Trump called Clinton corrupt several times, and not in a joking kind of way, and there were lots of booos. Hillary got her turn, taking swipe at his rigged election commentary and then she went in “Sharing a stage with Donald Trump is like, well, nothing really comes to mind. Donald wanted me drug tested before last night’s debate. … I am so flattered that Donald thought I used some sort of performance enhancer. Now, actually, I did. It’s called preparation…And looking back, I’ve had to listen to Donald for three full debates, and he says I don’t have any stamina!”
• Not all heroes wear cape and that’s the case with movers Josh Lara, Cody Grant, Mike Zaininger. Thursday morning, Clint Engle of Plainfield, who had been released in 2014 following a 12-year prison sentence for beating his ex-girlfriend’s father, showed up to Skyline Smiles in the West Loop looking for said ex. She ran to a back alley where the movers coincidentally were working and pleaded for help. They hid her in the truck and Engle ran into the alley looking for her and subsequently shot himself and was pronounced dead. One of the movers, Cody Grant, told the Tribune, “an officer came to us and told us we saved her life because the guy was looking for her and was trying to kill her.”
• You might have to pretend to do some work today if your work is not social media specific because some major sites are experiencing service disruptions due to a DNS attack on server host Dyn in what is called distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack by hackers. Twitter (can they catch a break?!), Shopify, Etsy, People.com, CNN are some of the sites affected.
ENTERTAINMENT
• An indie film getting critical acclaim will open today in select theaters and it has a Chicago connection. Moonlight, written and directed by Barry Jenkins starring Naomie Harris, André Holland, Mahershala Ali, Janelle Monáe and breakout star Ashton Sanders who is in the theatre program at DePaul, is based on the play “In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue” by Tarell Alvin McCraney a 2013 MacArthur Genius grantee, Steppenwolf Theater ensemble member and most importantly an SLC Best Dressed on The Scene. But seriously, the film which has been getting a lot of buzz on the festival circuit, is told in three chapters about the coming of age of a black man growing up in Miami, who discovers his homosexuality, and his drug addicted mother. It will begin showing in Chicago next week.
• At the Seattle stop of his Saint Pablo tour, Kanye West went on a major rant revealing rift between him and Jay Z, also squashing hopes fans had for a Watch The Throne 2 album. The rift is not just in the studio though because he also said “Our kids ain’t never even played together.” Meanwhile Jay Z, with an estimated net worth of $610M, is making history as the first rapper to be nominated for the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
FASHION
• Comme des Garçon’s Rei Kawakubo will be the first living designer since Yves Saint Laurent in 1983, to be the sole subject of the Met annual fashion exhibit. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the theme for 2017’s Costume Institute exhibition and Met Gala and its about/on Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons. The exhibit will feature about 120 Comme des Garçons womenswear designs by Kawakubo, dating back to the label’s first runway collection in 1981 up until her most recent show. The 2017 ball will take place May 1 co-chaired by: Katy Perry, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour.
“Tell me your Dreams and I’ll write you a Fantasy. Tell me your Fantasies and I’ll paint you a Dream for the minds eye you can get lost in!” ― George H.W. Bush (#41)
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LOOK OF THE DAY
Danika Yarosh @ Jack Reacher premiere
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