Video: Odds And Sods 2012: Undercover: The Pilot (Headlights cover XTC) and...
We've been meaning to show this off for a while: The folks from the excellent Illinois-based band Headlights were kind enough to be our guinea pigs for this year's Undercover series, playing us their...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: See the video for The Felice Brothers' "Ponzi"
We’re big fans of Celebration, Florida, the startlingly strange left-turn from New York folkies The Felice Brothers, so we’re happy to unveil the premiere of the video for “Ponzi,” a slippery ode...
View ArticleMusic: Odds And Sods 2012: Crooked Fingers: "Your Apocalypse"
When we spirited Eric Bachmann and Liz Durrett up to the 22nd floor of the Chicago Tribune building earlier this year for Crooked Fingers' cover of "Summertime" (part of our Undercover Summer Break...
View ArticleMusic: Odds And Sods 2012: Crooked Fingers: "Bad Blood"
When we spirited Eric Bachmann and Liz Durrett up to the 22nd floor of the Chicago Tribune building earlier this year for Crooked Fingers' cover of "Summertime" (part of our Undercover Summer Break...
View ArticleBooks: Odds And Sods 2012: Reader Meets Author: Patton Oswalt
A while back, we asked our Chicago readers to write a short essay about why they would like Patton Oswalt to come to their home for pie, conversation, and a private reading from Oswalt’s book Zombie...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: World premiere: a new Crooked Fingers video
Our friend and yours, Eric Bachmann, released his latest Crooked Fingers album last year--it's called Breaks In The Armor, and it's worth a listen. You may have seen a couple of the...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: A video quilt of whimsical Wes Anderson accessories
Two things become clear when making a Wes Anderson supercut. One, it has to be set to a '60s-style pop song, and two, there's no need to worry about jarring transitions in the color palette. With the...
View ArticleMusic: Odds And Sods 2012: Japandroids, The Men, and other Pitchfork 2012...
Famous musicians are not only usually pretty good at playing their own songs, but they’re more often than not pretty good at talking about other peoples’ songs, too. The A.V. Club toted its trusty...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: Exclusive video: Neil Hamburger gives Mark Eitzel...
In the latest in a series of promotional videos for Mark Eitzel's excellent new Don't Be A Stranger album, the sad-sack singer-songwriter meets up with comedian Neil Hamburger for some career advice....
View ArticleTV: Odds And Sods 2012: Happy Endings' ah-mah-zing future
In this deleted scene from Happy Endings’ second season, Penny (Casey Wilson) is visited by her future self, a yelled-herself-hoarse spinster who wears too much wrist jewelry, once took a two-year...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: Here's an exclusive Angry Boys scene
Perhaps you enjoyed Chris Lilley's comedy series as much as we did: Claire Zulkey spent some quality time with Angry Boys this year, and Summer Heights High is a bit of a classic, awright? (It's...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: Exclusive: Crooked Fingers' new "Bad Blood" video...
Please enjoy this new video for Crooked Fingers' "Bad Blood," from the band's 2011 album Breaks In The Armor. Enjoy it extra with the following knowledge: It stars Mike Lust, who's both the singer for...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: Exclusive: Behind the scenes of Sleepwalk With Me
In case you missed Mike Birbiglia's highly enjoyable Sleepwalk With Me in its limited theatrical and VOD runs, it is our duty to inform you that it's now available on lots of different platforms, plus...
View ArticleVideo: Odds And Sods 2012: Here's Patrick Stewart pimping his live-action...
There's a very special quality in the way Patrick Stewart does humor. Whether he's on Saturday Night Live as a baker boasting about his erotic cakes made to look like pooping women, on Ricky Gervais'...
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