After 13 years as the ringmaster of "The Nude Hippo Show," creator and producer Tony Lossano is about to unveil a new online look and a new digital television outlet for the latest incarnation of his Chicago-based variety/talk magazine show.
The Newer-er Nude Hippo
Top story: With all the political heat and city news brewing, I will defer to an age-old rivalry as today's top story. It's funny how many Chicagoans are transplants and don't realize the significance of the game tonight. I'll be honest and subjective here: I hate the Packers so much. And I'm not even sure why.
My wife asked me yesterday if I disliked the Packers without Brett Favre. Even before Brett Favre, the Pack were hated in my household. Maybe it was my Dad or the fact that we lived right on the Wisconsin border (Bears fans in Packer country), but there was no mistaking it: we hated them. As a matter of fact, I believe I tossed my first swear word out in the living room after Packer players were celebrating a late touchdown. I found this on a Google search from a Packers site. I forgot this happened in 1986. For anyone looking for why Bears fans can't stand the Pack:
Ward Quaal
Ward Quaal, a giant of American broadcasting and the man who turned the call letters WGN into a nationally recognized and respected brand, died Friday in a north suburban nursing home. He was 91.
As an announcer for WGN Radio on Dec. 7, 1941, Quaal broadcast one of the first bulletins of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which launched the United States into World War II. Shortly after he became vice president and general manager of WGN in 1956, Quaal was credited with hiring both Wally Phillips and Bob Bell from WLW and WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, among other prescient moves.‚ He eventually moved up to president of parent company WGN Continental Broadcasting (now Tribune Broadcasting Co.).
Dearest Everyone,
Please imagine me hand-delivering this invitation to you, with a pretty red ribbon around it.
You can open (play >) it now...
As I ask in the video, if you think you'd like to be there, simply write "lovely" over there in comment section. The responses here (and on YouTube) will help me in terms of planning certain secret details.
30 minutes for...a taco? (photo: Steve Dolinsky)
I didn't have a chance to attend Day 1 on Saturday, but I did manage to walk the grounds at Millennium Park yesterday, after I hosted two of the cooking demos. ‚ There were plenty of additions this year: new tents (namely, Bon Appƒ©tit's presence) and lots of great wine purveyors; there were also a lot more food vendors and chefs. ‚ The only problem was, there was also a lot more people. ‚
"Here is a song for the kids down on the corner," Mac McCaughan sings in that famously trembling and tenuous tenor in "My Gap Feels Weird," one of the most instantly lovable tracks on the eagerly awaited new album from Chapel Hill, North Carolina's veteran indie-rock institution Superchunk. "With a look that tells you you don't even know them/ And you never will."
