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What We're Reading: Katy Perry Rocks Party for Ken Griffin's Hedge Fund Co.

By DNAinfo Staff | November 9, 2015 3:40pm 

Here's what we're reading today:

Ken Griffin Parties Like With Rockstars: Pop star Katy Perry played a 25th anniversary party for Citadel, the Chicago hedge fund led by Ken Griffin, the richest man in Illinois, reporter David Matthews is reading in Crain's. Adult contemporary mainstay Maroon 5 will play a separate company party in New York, while a headliner for Citadel's bash in London has yet to be confirmed, Crain's reports. Perry, who performed at this year's Super Bowl, reportedly charges $500,000 per set, but that's apparently no issue for Griffin, who recently finalized a high-profile divorce and is still worth $7.1 billion, according to ForbesPartygoers this weekend didn't just get Perry, though. "Left Shark" also performed. 

Missouri Has Quite The Football Rivalry With Kansas: The University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe stepping down amid a controversy over race relations reminded senior editor Justin Breen of the 2007 New York Times story on the Mizzou-Kansas football rivalry. From 1854-61, Missouri, a slave state, fought with Kansas, a newly organized territory that abolished slavery. Nearly 200 people died in the fighting between Kansas and Missouri. The KU-Mizzou football rivalry, which began in 1981, was called "The Border War" and is now dubbed "The Border Battle."

Aziz Ansari's "Master of None" Gets Rave Reviews: While reporter Mina Bloom is a big fan of Aziz Ansari's Tom Haverford character in the NBC show "Parks and Recreation," Haverford has got nothing on Dev Shaw. Ansari plays Shaw in his new Netflix original show "Master of None," which has been earning rave reviews from just about every critic out there. The show is a lot like the FX comedy "Louie," mainly because it's very apparent that Ansari had full control. But don't let the comparisons fool you — the show has an original point of view. It tackles racial and gender stereotypes in a hilarious and poignant way, and you can't help but smile every time Shaw and Rachel, played by Saturday Night Live alum Noëll Wells, goof off in such a realistic way. (Spoiler alert: They goof off constantly, so expect to smile a lot.)

Expensive Wine is For Suckers: Reporter Ariel Cheung was happy to read that her plebian taste for Barefoot or Arbor Mist isn't as declassé as you'd think. A Vox explainer provides pretty solid proof that expensive wines are about as overrated as it gets. Blind taste tests showed without training on wines, most people prefer the cheaper versions. Reviewers even have trouble consistently complimenting the same wines. So enjoy your box of Franz and toast to two-buck chuck — cheap wine wins.

CTA Suffers Worst Graffiti Attack in Years: According to the Tribune, about a dozen of the CTA's newest railcars were tagged by vandals, who illegally entered their 98th Street rail yard on Halloween night. A photo of the tagged 5000 series was posted to chicagotransit.org, which the CTA confirmed was taken after the incident. Brian Steele, a spokesman for the CTA, called it "the most extensive graffiti attack that the CTA has suffered in recent memory." Though the total cost is still be evaluated, taxpayers will picking up the bill for this along with the design mistakes for the CTA's Loop Link Bus rapid transit grid, the Tribune reports.

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