Meet Kanye West’s style mentor
Work that turban!
Since sifting through dull newspapers, hyperbolic blogs, and overflowing RSS feeds for meaningful news can be an arduous process, News Net catches and compiles both the amusing and the significant reports that were overlooked throughout the work week. Here are some things to think about as the weekend begins.
• He might not be Mr. Chicago anymore, but Kanye West is still plenty fascinating to follow, both on Twitter and in life. This week, it was revealed that Kanye’s “style icon” and mentor is blue-blooded Yale sophomore Cassius Clay. (No, not that Cassius Clay.) The two met over some bangin’ slippers at Barney’s in New York this summer and have been besties ever since. Let this be a lesson to all potential celeb hangers-on: Step your motherfucking fashion game up.
• Speaking of game that needs stepped the f’ up, Batman 3 is apparently not filming in Chicago. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight follow-up is set to start shooting in April 2011 in New Orleans. It might make sense, considering the villain in the new movie is rumored to be Killer Croc, but still, a hearty boo to this purported city slight. Chicago has crocs, right? We at least have United Center Park.
• In the continuing dramatic saga that is Steve Albini’s chatty life, the engineer gave a pretty incendiary interview to GQ Magazine, which ran online this week. In it, he hates on Sonic Youth, fashion, magazines, and fashion magazines. All in a good day’s work, right?
• Wilco’s about to head into the studio to work on its new record, according to an interview Pat Sansone did with the LA Times. Recording won’t start until later this month, as Tweedy’s still hot on the Mavis Staples publicity trail, hitting Colbert, Letterman, and Farm Aid this week alone, as seen on Stereogum’s excellent “This week in Tweedy.”
• Tim Kinsella and Victor Villareal from Cap’n Jazz chatted up WBEZ’s 848 this week. Among the many “who knew” bombs Kinsella drops: “90% of [Cap’n Jazz] lyrics were written in one night the first time I took mushrooms and sat by a campfire.” Well, alright.
• In total non-celebrity news, Mayor Daley went on the record this week about the many reasons he believes Taste Of Chicago needs to go private. Saying, “The cost factor was enormous for Taste Of Chicago. No one made any money,” Daley went on to say that the city spent $1.5 million on this year’s fest. Hopefully that wasn’t spent on any of the gluey food people serve up at that timesuck.
