What's up with Circuit?
Circuit nightclub, a Boystown mainstay for 15 years, has closed and its outlook for reopening is uncertain.Owner Michael Macharello said the club was closed by the landlord after years of arrears in...
View ArticleUber takes fight against city online
New regulations on city limo drivers could force a shutdown of on-demand car service Uber, and the company isn't taking it lying down.Under a proposed change to city ordinances made by the Department...
View ArticleLately, the Red Line has been a pain
Here we go again. The derailment Sunday of a Red Line train in Edgewater was the second incident to occur on tracks there in about a month, causing a section of the Red Line to be shut down for hours...
View ArticleTuesday: Eat. Drink. Do.
EATFishy PoliticsRa Sushi 1139 N. State St. 312-274-0011No matter your political affiliation, everyone can agree that free food is a great deal. Show your "I Voted" sticker and get a free California...
View ArticleSuper-close Tuesday
President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are neck-and-neck in national polls, while Obama has an edge in crucial battleground states that will decide Tuesday's election.The dynamic sets up...
View ArticleRedEye's election night observations
Newsrooms are great places to be on election night. There's free food, snarky commentary and deadline anxieties that turn journalists into ticking time bombs. Here are some of RedEye's observations...
View ArticleNew concerts on sale this week
*** = Recommended showsOn sale 9 a.m. Thursday***Mike Doughty, Monday, Dec. 10 ($22-$30, all ages) at City Winery.On sale 10 a.m. FridayThe Steepwater Band, Paige and the Reverent Few, Monday, Dec. 31...
View ArticleA blind date on Election Day
First dates are awkward. Blind dates are super-awkward. Blind dates on Election Day? Excessively awkward doesn't begin to cover it.Like any other Tuesday, I had a blind date on my calendar that I was...
View ArticleTime to dump the 36-year-old virgin
I started dating a guy about a month ago. I really like him and am interested in seeing where it goes, except for one thing: He's a 36-year-old virgin who's waiting until marriage to have sex. I've...
View ArticleRevolutionizing apartment rentals
Like many Chicagoans, Ryan Coon is sick of not being able to pay his rent online. "Everything else I pay electronically," the 28-year-old Old Town resident said. "Rent is the only reason I have a...
View ArticleWhere's 'Romney wins!' gear go?
When sports teams suffer postseason defeats, the pre-printed merchandise celebrating their would-be championships is often shipped off to impoverished countries. That means there's still a Bears 2007...
View ArticleNobody likes you, Clybourn Avenue
It's embarrassing when friends from out of town come to visit me and I have no idea where anything is. I'm not talking about my keys or my phone or my mind-that's just embarrassing on a daily basis....
View ArticleMeet the Bulls' urban cowboy
If you don't know a lot about Jimmy Butler, Bulls fans, it's understandable. He didn't see a lot of action as a rookie last season.His sophomore campaign will be different as No. 21 is expected to...
View ArticleI've got you, Abe
He's emo, he was steampunk before steampunk was even a thing, and Daniel Day-Lewis plays him in a new movie. He has a totally bitchin' beard, kills vampires and, oh, yeah, he freed the slaves, too.Meet...
View ArticleHappily ever after?
Same-sex marriage advocates are reveling in their four victories at the ballot box after 32 straight defeats, calling the results in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington on Tuesday a sea change...
View ArticleBond is music to fans' ears
James Bond is a character who has been played by six different actors in 23 films. That's heavy.What's even heavier is the fact that Adele's theme song for the new "Skyfall" movie has four times as...
View ArticleNate the great
Before he was the journalist and stats whiz who predicted the election dead-on, he was just Nate Silver, the high school newspaper editor who quoted Shakespeare for his senior yearbook photo.RedEye...
View ArticleWe have lots of oral sex
Discovery Channel's "Curiosity" this Sunday delves into two things most people enjoy: sex and numbers. The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, where Alfred Kinsey conducted his groundbreaking sex...
View ArticleSherrick McManis' special week
There are 53 men on the Bears' active roster, plus another eight on the practice squad, and everyone is with the team for a reason. Even the ones you haven't heard of.Until last week, that may have...
View ArticleBond: Play for creeps
Auric Goldfinger, Rosa Klebb, Dr. Julius No, Jaws... Add Raoul Silva to any list of memorable Bond movie villains.Javier Bardem's murderous, vengeance-seeking cyberterrorist in "Skyfall," opening...
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