Swifty has come up with a fairly clever way to help out those hurricane victims.

Take all of those jars/cups/piggy banks full of spare change you’ve been collecting and bring them to a CoinStar machine, which will let you directly donate all of that cash to the Red Cross. You’ll be suprised how …

Well, only three of you submitted shuffled playlists for the war,

So here are the contenders! Just remember, you can’t vote for your own.

Miles Davis, “It Never Entered My Mind”

Sam Prekop, “Showrooms”

The Dead Milkmen, “Dean’s Dream”

Heroic Doses, “Ollie Oxen Free”

Bjork, “Bachelorette”

The Police, …

Chicago Chefs Organize Katrina Fundraiser

There are so, so many immediate things of which to mourn and be saddened by over the course of these past few days. Please excuse the phrase, but once Chicagoist starts thinking of all of the ways in which Katrina is fucking up the lives of our friends down …