"My parents would kill me if someone ate my brains." --Spider (Andy Dick) on The Ben Stiller Show (in a sketch called "Melrose Heights 90210-2402")...

File under "Hollywood is reading my diary:" Amanda Seyfried is in talks to star in Zack Snyder's upcoming all-girl ass-kicker Sucker Punch. No joke, just last night I was catching up on Big Love -- which...amazing this season -- and......

Jim Carrey and Jake Gyllenhaal have signed on to star in a new adaptation of Damn Yankees, with Carrey playing the devil, Mr. Applegate, and Gyllenhaal playing Joe Boyd, the devoted Washington Senators fan who sells his soul to become......

Photo of Charlton Athletic FC and the Thames Barrier by Dean Nicholas. Londonist was treated to some fantastic views of the city, courtesy of the 'Star Over London' airship. Bostonist spent the week celebrating New England's quintessential summer meal, the lobster roll. Torontoist explored the dange...

Sweet zombie Stalins, it is hot as balls today. But it's also July 11, which means free Slurpees! All the new-fangled flavors—Monster Black Ice? Radiation Rush? Slurparita Pomegranite?—make us feel about a billion years old, and we kind of wish the store locator would tell you which Slurpee flav...

We know plenty of people whose devotion to the Cubs borders on the religious. So maybe it's not that surprising that there's a new way to show fandom: being interred in a Cubs mausoleum. Beyond the Vines, a Cubs-themed final resting place to be constructed in Bohemian National Cemetery, will include...

Carlos Zambrano remained in demigod form in Wednesday's 5-1 whipping of the Cincinnati Reds at Wrigley. Zambrano, who has a 0.64 ERA in his last two outings, allowed one hit, one run and no walks in eight innings to earn his 10th win of the season. That's 10 wins before the All-Star break, not to me...

Quick: What are the five most populous cities in Illinois? Duh, Chicago numero uno with 2.84 million people according to the latest counts, but the rest? Aurora (170,855), Rockford (156,596), Joliet (144,316), and Naperville (142,479). Rockford, you sneaky bastard! Thanks to a little over 4,000 new ...

A new report from the RTA says the CTA isn't doing enough emergency response drills, there's "debris" everywhere, operators aren't following safety protocols, tracks are severely deteriorated, and certain signal mechanisms have fallen into "disrepair." The CTA says they're on it, mostly. In essence,...

Remember when you found out through a series of zany sitcom plot twists time and again that telling little white lies will backfire on you? Well, an air-traffic control center in Elgin is learning that lesson the hard way; turns out fudging the truth isn’t so funny when you’re in charge of trave...