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Criterion Channel Celebrates 50 Years of Hip Hop Starting August 1

Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of hip-hop with this mixtape of the cultural phenomenon’s finest movie moments, featuring a stunning line-up of legendary musical figures including A Tribe Called Quest, Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, Tupac Shakur, RZA, Nas, Ice Cube, MC Lyte, and DJ Kool Herc. It was Herc who, at a Bronx…
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July 22, 2023
Sharing and Making Memories of “Yesterday” with Paul McCartney

Whenever people ask me what Fandads is about I always answer: “It’s Gil and myself writing about sharing our love for all things geeky with our kids.” There is no limit on what the geeky things can be. We share with our children our love for comic books, handheld games and even music. We never…
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August 1, 2017
Listen to the HALO 5 :Guardians Soundtrack

Right now for a limited time fans can listen to the entire HALO 5: GUARDIANS soundtrack. Sit back and listen to these tracks, composed by Kazuma Jinnouchi, as you imagine yourself running through ruins or driving a warthog through canyons and taking out whatever enemy comes at you. Until HALO 5: GUARDIANS releases, turn up…
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October 21, 2015
T-Shirt Thursday “I’m hooked on a feeling…”

With the big announcement about the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack being released on cassette later this year, I felt that this shirt is appropriate for today. This shirt came in through our friends at NerdBlock. I can picture this as a commercial that comes on in the middle of the night trying to get us…
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October 23, 2014
The many faces of my little girl.

My little girl is a character. She makes me laugh, cry and feel incredibly happy all within a matter of minutes. One thing that she likes doing, sometimes, is taking pictures. We all know our kids can get in moods when they love taking pictures, but sometimes they do not want to see a camera…
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September 2, 2014
The Dads do Baby Loves Disco

Saturday October 19, the Fandads along with dads from the Chicago Meet Up group got together to dance the afternoon away with our kids at Lincoln Hall for the Baby Loves Disco party. Never been to a Baby Loves Disco event. Well hopefully our recap will make you feel like you were there and you…
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October 31, 2013
T-Shirt Thursday!

Today’s shirt is a shirt I picked up a few years ago at Wizard World Chicago and like the Walking Dead/Star Wars shirt we showcased a few weeks ago, it also combines two of my favorite things: Star Wars and Records. Your Music is Wookity Wack! Can you imagine requesting a wack song from this DJ?…
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August 8, 2013
Sol Republic Headphones Giveaway!

Fandads has teamed up with A Blogger and a Father and a few other dad blogs to give all our readers a chance at winning a pair of Sol Republic Headphones. We figured this would be…
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January 7, 2013
Happy Thanksgiving from Us!

Happy Thanksgiving from the Fandads. We are very thankful for the exciting past few months. We saw our first sponsored giveaway from Rockabye Baby and from the Chicago Toy & Game Fair. We also want to say thanks to all our friends and family that have supported the site. We have a couple of interesting…
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November 24, 2011
Vote Gil for Mayor!

Most of my friends hated checking in. It sucked. It’s summer, you’re out with your friends, maybe biking in the park, or playing baseball and all of a sudden it’s noon. Maybe it’s four or six, it didn’t matter, but you had to check in. If you were lucky there was a phone nearby or…
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June 23, 2010