HOT: Remember When Presidents Were Cool?
Barack Obama recently announced plans for his “presidential library” in Chicago, and besides the Obama Presidential Center creating jobs and injecting money into the local economy, Obama also made a few special spots for his buddies to come over and jam. OK, the planned recording and film studios in the forthcoming center won’t be a Windy City speakeasy for musicians — the studios are to be used for workshops and other educational purposes, though the former prez did namedrop Chance the Rapper and Bruce Springsteen as possible participants. Meanwhile, our current president doesn’t know why the Civil War was fought and was gleeful about the prospect of stripping health insurance accessibility from millions of citizens.
WARM: Pumped Chumps
Speaking of evil (and health insurance), in a GOP meeting before the House of Representatives passed its vicious healthcare law, reports surfaced that the gov-bros got pumped up to screw over sick people by cranking up Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” and Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s “Takin’ Care of Business.” Do they not know a certain pioneering Punk band with a name they’d love — Dead Kennedys — has a song called “Kill the Poor” just sitting right here?
COLD: Don’t Anyone Tell Them About the Philly NFL Team
Overrated Rock band Eagles must be getting bored because the group has started suing people over lame trademark claims again. The subject of the band’s ire this time seems capable of destroying the Eagles’ name with one bad night’s stay — it’s an 11-room hotel in Mexico. The Baja California Sur hotel is accused of calling itself Hotel California and making it seem as if it was the inspiration for that song by selling merch and subjecting Eagles music on its (mostly U.S.) visitors. Oddly, the hotel’s original name was allegedly Hotel California when it opened in 1950; a Canadian couple bought it in 2001 and decided to play up the Eagles tie-in.
This article appears in May 3-10, 2017.