Category Archives: schadenfreund

The Purple Hotel? I hear that’s a great place!

For you locals familiar with the place, here’s a bit of amusement:
Lincolnwood wants the Purple Hotel, a well-known north suburban property that has fallen on hard times, to correct what it calls “dangerous and hazardous conditions.”

The village cites such things as a leaky roof, a moldy heating duct and rodent droppings and an insect infestation in the kitchen in a court complaint.

The filing comes after workers from Lincolnwood’s building department found what it believes to be a host of violations of building, property maintenance and fire codes during three inspections late last month. The complaint says “dangerous and hazardous conditions exist” at the hotel “which, if the hotel is not shut down immediately, create an imminent danger to property and life, jeopardizing the public health, safety and welfare of the persons and property within and adjacent to (the hotel), unless and until such time as the numerous code violations are remediated to the satisfaction of the village’s inspectors,” according to the complaint, filed Sept. 29 in Cook County Circuit Court.

Man. I’d sure hate to be these guys

Payola? Say It Ain’t So!

For those of you who have yet to slip the surly bonds of over-the-air radio, I present an amusing tidbit: a 60-page PDF of e-mails detailing what Sony was giving/paying to radio stations to play their crap music, as well as a nice sprinkling throughout of what radio stations were on the take (this is part of the $10 million settlement that Sony just paid for Payola).

Link via BoingBoing