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Over the last four years, Donald Trump takes you to places where you think what could possibly be next? How could it get any more bizarre? Then came this last ten days!! It was nothing like we’ve ever seen before. Fiction writers could never come up with this! But, again we’re left wondering, what the Hell is next?!!
Buckle your seat belts because here we go with, Donald Trump’s week in review:
That’s it for Don’s week in review. Can’t wait to see what’s next because we know there will be something strange!!
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Walnut Room will reopen on November 7 featuring the 113th annual iconic Great Tree
As everything, in this cray year of the pandemic, things will be a little different this year at Macy’s State Street Store’s Holiday celebration.
The good things:
Here’s the details:
Dining in: For the first time in the history of the Walnut Room, patrons will be required to book reservations the holiday season, which will be available starting on October 9 on OpenTable.com. Patrons will be seated on a socially-distanced basis while the iconic Great Tree serves as the centerpiece of the holiday season in downtown Chicago.
“We’ve reimagined the Walnut Room experience while maintaining holiday traditions near and dear to the heart of generations of Chicagoans—from the beloved items on the menu to new ways to capture a memory in front of the Great tree or make a wish with the Fairy Princess,” said Matt Sarosy, Macy’s on State Street Store Manager. “We are committed to providing the quality experience our customers expect as well as providing a safe and healthy dining experience, following the Centers for Disease Control and local guidelines. The safety of our customers and colleagues is our top priority.”
The cost: The Walnut Room’s 2020 holiday menu features a three-course pre-fixe meal for $49.95 with a variety of choices, including Mrs. Hering’s beloved chicken pot pie, cider glazed turkey as well as Frango® ice cream pie and more. A kid’s pre-fixe meal will also be available for $19.95 and includes a 2020 Walnut Room holiday mug.
Takeout: Not quite ready to dine in? Chicagoans can enjoy the classic Mrs. Hering’s Chicken Pot Pie at home with family-style take-out meals that may be picked up in store or delivered by GrubHub.
In 2019 Macy’s celebrated favorites from from the past. Photo: Carole Kuhrt-Brewer
The annual Animated Holiday Windows and the 42 signature holiday trumpets that herald the holiday season above the windows along State Street will be part of the 2020 celebration.
As the first store to ever feature holiday windows created for the pure fun and joy of the season, Macy’s began a tradition that still lives on today. Each year, Macy’s on State Street’s annual holiday windows share the magic of the season within the themed window displays. Sure to surprise and delight, these elaborate displays are home to detailed art creations and animation which throughout the years have brought life to the classic tales of the Brothers Grimm, Dr. Seuss and many others. Nearly every element in the windows is handmade, as skilled craftspeople wire, sculpt, sew and paint to create the elaborate and magical windows. Macy’s Visual team, along with skilled carpenters and engineers, work round the clock for more than two weeks to unpack, sort and install the holiday windows before its ready for reveal.
Sitting at a table under “The Great Tree” in the Walnut Room has been a Chicago tradition for generations.
This year’s Great Tree will inspire Chicagoans to give ove and believe with festive gold ornaments sharing these heartwarming sentiments of the season. In accordance with local guidelines on indoor dining, the Great Tree will be accessible only to customers dining in the Walnut Room. New this year, Macy’s will provide a photo experience with the Great Tree—including one complimentary photo for each party of Walnut Room customers.
For 113 years, the Great Tree has been the centerpiece of the Chicago holiday season. Located inside the beloved Walnut Room at Macy’s on State Street, the Great Tree stands 45-feet-tall and hangs from the ceiling versus sitting on its base. Since the tree hangs from the ceiling, the very first piece to be installed is the star that sits on top. Section by section, the team steadily lifts, constructs and decorates the tree from the top down until completed. Generations of families have grown up with this holiday tradition, making a point to visit the illustrious tree adorned with more than 2,000 ornaments and 6,600 sparkling lights. The Great Tree is estimated to weigh approximately 3,000 pounds. As part of the 2017 tree lighting honoring this 110-year tradition, Macy’s restored vintage ornaments used in years past, including an Uncle Mistletoe figure dated back to the 1940s. A display of vintage ornaments and photos of past Great Trees is open for viewing on the 7th floor.
The Walnut Room is the very first restaurant and longest running in a department store. Opened in 1907 as the South Tea Room, it became known among the ladies of Chicago as the Walnut Room with its beautiful Circassian walnut paneling and Austrian crystal chandeliers. By 1937 it was officially named The Walnut Room. In this spot each year, the iconic 45-foot Great Tree appears from November to early January.
What paved the way for the opening of the Walnut Room? In the 1880s, it was still unacceptable for a lady to dine unescorted by a gentleman. So, if she became hungry or was downtown during the lunch hour, while shopping, she had no choice but to return home. One day Mrs. Hering, a sales associate in the Millinery Department, shared her own lunch—a homemade chicken pot pie made from her grandmother’s recipe—with a hungry client and the rest is history. Legend has it that her guest convinced Mrs. Hering to make more pies for the next day and invited her friends to dine and view the latest hats. As the story goes, Marshall Field was making his daily rounds, heard laughter from the stock room and poked his head in. Widely known for “giving the lady what she wants,” Field opened a modest tea room in 1890. The South Tea Room followed in 1907 and by 1937 was officially named the Walnut Room. To this day, Mrs. Hering’s chicken pot pie is still the most popular dish on the menu. Reservations during the 2020 holiday season and additional information are available at macyswalnutroom.com.
Macy’s Safety Measures
The health and safety of Macy’s colleagues and customers is always our top priority. Macy’s has implemented enhanced safety and wellness procedures to help alleviate any potential health concerns, following the Centers for Disease Control’s recommended protocol. This includes enhanced cleaning in heavily trafficked areas and hard surfaces, which include entrances, customer service stations, vertical transportation, restrooms and break rooms. Additionally, Macy’s provides our colleagues with face masks to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 and guides daily wellness checks to support a safe working environment. To further enhance safety, Macy’s also requires our customers to wear a facial covering while shopping in our stores. Customers in the Walnut Room will be asked to follow the local guideline that diners wear face covering while seated at all times (including when interacting with staff), except when actively eating or drinking, and to follow directional signage to promote social distancing. If the customer does not have a mask, Macy’s will be happy to provide one. Macy’s encourages colleagues to continue to follow the CDC recommended everyday measures and will remain vigilant and partner with local and state officials. Additional information about Macy’s mask policy and enhanced safety measures is available at macys.com.
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Chicago band Lifeguard make the kind of noisy, brooding rock that’s been foundational to generations of punk and indie bands, all the way back to the dawn of hardcore and no wave. On their self-released debut album, Dive, Lifeguard dispense driving bass lines that could enliven even the dreariest postpunk tune, impassioned drumming that ratchets up tension to the boiling point, and feral guitars so saturated with distortion it’ll rub off all over your face. The band’s reference points–postrock pioneers Tortoise, posthardcore titans Unwound, the eclectic catalog of SST Records–all made their marks before the three Chicago teens who formed Lifeguard last year were even born. But the group combine and recombine these sounds with the playful ease of musicians who witnessed the rise of the American punk underground firsthand. At least one member could claim to have that knowledge encoded in his DNA: bassist and vocalist Asher Case is the son of veteran Chicago rocker Brian Case, currently of Facs, who talked to Explosions in the Sky multi-instrumentalist Munaf Rayani in a 2019 Talkhouse interview about Asher discovering music on his own and with his friends. Much of the joy of Dive comes from hearing these three musicians explore new paths their elders never considered–the nervy melody on “Thinking” recalls 2000s indie rock more than it does earlier eras–and from the clear sense that they’re better able to do that by putting their heads together. v
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Since the summer, my buddy Nick and I have convened weekly to watch movies through Squad, a chat app with a screen-share function. For months, Nick has evangelized for free streaming site Tubi: it’s got lots of forgettable 2000s comedies featuring famous actors who’ve scrubbed those jobs from their CVs, plus tons of the absolute trash we both love, including way too many movies produced by Full Moon, a churn-’em-out horror-film company that makes Roger Corman look like John Carpenter.
For the record, Tubi also hosts some legitimately great films that are hard to find elsewhere. One of the first movies Nick and I watched together on the platform was Furious, an imaginative 1984 kung-fu flick I never thought I’d be able to see. I hadn’t found it streaming anywhere else, and only Amazon was selling the 2015 DVD release–provided you could come up with around $200 for a new copy. More recently Nick and I watched another cult film on Tubi, a plucky 1989 zombie movie called The Dead Next Door. I bring it up now because of a song on its soundtrack: Wilbur & the Hoodlum Patrol’s “Death & Violence.”
The writer and director of The Dead Next Door, J.R. Bookwalter, made the lovingly chintzy synth music that comprises the bulk of the soundtrack. I don’t know much about the musicians who recorded “Death & Violence,” but they sound like they’re doing a spot-on impression of an early hardcore band figuring out what to do as the tape rolls–the heavy-footed drumming sometimes falls behind the beat, and the crude riffs stumble through tempo changes that arrive so often that the guitarist never quite seems to catch up with what’s happening.
I recognized the song from a later zombie movie that Nick and I had already seen–the far less coherent 1990 film Ghoul School–and hearing it again made me wonder if “Death & Violence” had been a favorite in whatever tiny midwestern punk scene birthed it, passed around on cassette mixes or played late at night on college radio. The Dead Next Door was made in Akron, Ohio, and I know too little about the 80s punk scene there to make an educated guess. My online searches for “Wilbur & the Hoodlum Patrol” turned up next to no information pointing in either direction.
I e-mailed Bookwalter last week to ask about this mysterious band, and he told me that “Wilbur & the Hoodlum Patrol” was a pseudonym for a local band called Argus–they made music for The Dead Next Door, his debut, and for at least one more of his early films. Bookwalter also pointed me toward the Facebook page of bandleader Mick Corcoran, who has yet to reply to my out-of-the-blue inquiry about punk songs he made decades ago.
Bookwalter released his synth score for The Dead Next Door in 2008. At that point, watching the movie was still the only way to hear the Argus recordings–two punk tracks as Wilbur & the Hoodlum Patrol, two country songs under the name Willie & the Wagon Wheels, and a heavy rock song as Argus–but that changed in 2017, when they appeared (alongside four other additional tracks) on an expanded edition of the soundtrack. I think “Death & Violence” belongs on a third-generation dubbed cassette, but I’ll settle for Spotify. v
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The mystery punk from The Dead Next DoorLeor Galilon October 5, 2020 at 11:00 am Read More »
Over the past few months, two losing records and unfortunate endings have had different effects on a pair of franchises. The Chicago Bulls are coming off a 22-win season, and in any other year, fans would be feeling apathetic yet again. The Sacramento Kings were a 31-win team this past season, and fans may not be sure how to feel.
But, for Chicago, this year has seen the Bulls finally take a turn for the better. Hiring Arturas Karnisovas and Marc Eversley to come in and tag team a retool, combined with hiring Billy Donovan as their next head coach, has the fan base buzzing.
Meanwhile, Sacramento has seen one of their star players seemingly wanting out. According to a recent report, guard Buddy Hield has stop returning Luke Walton’s phone calls.
Although Hield agreed to a four-year extension with Sacramento last year, he doesn’t seem thrilled with sticking around. He got his money, but now he wants out.
This brings up an interesting proposition. Would the Bulls be interested in trading for Hield?
In a recent piece from Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic, Eversley talked about how this Bulls team is in the middle of a retool — not a rebuild. He and Karnisovas want to continue building this roster around a solid core group. They believe this group is better than 22 wins.
With that in mind, what would they say about a deal involving Hield, the Kings’ no. 12 overall pick and Zach LaVine?
It’s been rumored for a while now; LaVine’s name whispered in a potential trade, that is. Swapping two primarily offensive-minded players while netting a lottery pick would be an interesting deal for Chicago. It would also give the Kings their guy they tried signing away from Chicago once upon a time.
Remember, the Bulls matched Sacramento’s offer sheet to LaVine in order to keep him around back in 2018.
The only negative to this deal may be the fact that Hield’s contract pays him over $86 million for the next four years. If Karnisovas and Eversley do not want to be tied down to a contract like that, they would resist interest. It’s likely that they want to go out and build upon “their guys” while keeping the majority of Chicago’s core intact.
Is LaVine one of their guys? Would Hield fall into that category? Those are key questions.
To put it in perspective, both LaVine and Hield shoot the ball well from the field, with Hield being a slightly better three-point shooter. LaVine has Hield beat on points per game (25.5 versus 19.2) while also averaging more rebounds and assists.
Because LaVine is viewed as a better player, the Kings would throw in their no. 12 pick. That would give Chicago the no. 4 and no. 12 pick to work with in the upcoming draft. But, would they then be able to package those picks together to either move up or work towards a bigger and better trade?
This is all an intriguing proposition for both sides. It’s speculation at this point, but Hield’s situation in Sacramento is worth monitoring for the immediate future.
According to David Kaplan of NBC Sports Chicago, Chicago Cubs President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein is meeting with owner Tom Ricketts to discuss his future with the team and impending exit from the organization.
While it’s a near certainty that Epstein will not be signing an extension after his contract is up in 2021, it’s also possible that Epstein departs during the current offseason and heads to his next project to build a World Series contender.
It was a big week for Chicago Bears fans leading up to the team’s week four matchup against the Indianapolis Colts. It was the first chance we’d get to see new starting quarterback Nick Foles with a full week of practice with the first team.
The Chicago Bears are now 3-1 after losing to the Indianapolis Colts in a fairly boring football game. It looked like yet another Bears game where the defense kept them in it while the offense was terrible. They couldn’t move the ball at all while Philip Rivers was able to do just enough to get the Indianapolis Colts the win.
It was a frustrating game to watch because they just couldn’t get anything going offensively at any point. The play calling was awful in every way, shape, and form.
After an abysmal offensive performance in the Chicago Bears 19-11 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, it’s fair to ask whether we have overestimated the offensive line’s progress. For the previous three weeks, we have been heaping praise on Juan Castillo for turning around a unit that left much to be desired last season.
However, through three weeks the team was running the football at an improved clip, ranking near the top 10 prior to the Colts game. In 2019 they rushed for just 91 yards per game. Through the first three weeks, they were averaging 138 yards per game.
