Thanksgiving in Chicago
Because everyone from Chicago is actually from Ohio, none of us actually spends Thanksgiving here. This was my first year staying in the city for the holiday. You see, there are amazing benefits to...
View ArticleThere go the playoffs
The Bears needed more Sunday.More offense. More luck. More guys off the street to play for this depleted defense. More of anything that would help them beat Minnesota and keep them tied for first in...
View ArticleIs your Ventra card a risk to you?
After experiencing problems both activating his Ventra card and loading value onto it from his Discover card and then being double-charged for some fares, CTA rider Barry Finkel began to wonder how...
View ArticleGay hockey players cover Mariah
Chicago's official gay hockey organization has a message, and it's a festive one.The Chicago Gay Hockey Association released a Thanksgiving Day message last week, along with a spot on cover of Mariah...
View ArticleHow the internet deals with celeb death
It sucks to admit, but celebrities have been known to die from time to time. Americans collectively lose their shit when circumstances like this occur, like we forget that the Reaper is coming for me,...
View ArticleSouth Loop brewer seeks funding
OK, craft beer lovers of Chicago: It's time to put your money where your mouth is. South Loop Brewing Company, a fledgling brewery that hopes to one day open a South Loop brewpub, has launched an...
View ArticleMap: What's up with your Dominick's
The Chicago Tribune reports: Mariano's grocery stores, owned by Milwaukee-based Roundy's, will buy 11 Chicago-area Dominick's stores, three of which are in the city. The Chicago stores located in the...
View ArticleNot-so-merry TV
TV's theme this week appears to be outlaws with two new miniseries debuting: TNT's "Mob City" and A&E Networks'"Bonnie & Clyde." Here are some highlights from the TV schedule for Dec. 2 to...
View ArticleTrestman trust issues
Leading up to the Bears' overtime field goal attempt Sunday, uber-accurate kicker Robbie Gould had made 157 of 166 kicks of 40 yards or fewer, good for an essentially automatic 94.6 percent. From 47...
View ArticleIs this NIU's 'Super Bowl Shuffle'?
This year's best team in the state of Illinois has an anthem.Sung to the beat of Mann's "Mack"--which also features Snoop Dogg and IYAZ--two NIU alumni have penned what is the 2013 equivalent of the...
View ArticleWhose streets?
Anjanette Albert doesn't walk on the stretch of 111th Street where her son was murdered on his way home from Fenger Academy High School in 2009.It's just too hard.Four years have passed since...
View ArticleCracking up with 'Nutcracker' dancers
Holidays in Chicago are synonymous with the Joffrey Ballet's lavish production of "The Nutcracker," the classic ballet adapted in 1987 by Robert Joffrey from E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Nutcracker and the...
View ArticleFrom Grinch to kind-hearted believer
I hate the holidays. Ok, let me clarify. I hate the feeling that the holidays bring. That hopelessness that comes from never having enough money to give stuff to the people you love. The unsettled...
View ArticleTry this: Seoul Sassy fried chicken
Crisp2940 N. Broadway 773-697-7610Food writers love to compare delicious to crack cocaine--I've done it at least fifty times myself--but it turns out we had it all wrong. A recent study at Connecticut...
View ArticleMap stereoptypes city's neighborhoods
Chicago is a city of neighborhoods. And now, it's a city of stereotypes. Internet map makers released a stereotypical breakdown of Chicago Tuesday, and the results to some Chicagoans probably appear...
View ArticleWhy do you hate Ventra?
When the CTA contacted Jeremy Capp late last month to ask why he had not yet transitioned to Ventra, the Bucktown resident told the CTA he was not planning to activate his Ventra card until the "last...
View ArticleTaking on Lone Wolf
Mini-review:Lone Wolf806 W. Randolph St. 312-600-9391Rating: !!! ½ (out of 4) Heating upHere's my dilemma: It's 7:30 p.m. on a Friday and I'm jonesing for the burger at Au Cheval. I give the hostess my...
View ArticleCTA: Most Ventra rail glitches gone
Four months into the CTA's new fare-collection system, Ventra customers are still wasting too much time tapping their transit cards and waiting for the "Go" signal to pay on buses and continuing to...
View ArticleDJ Earworm mashes up 2013 music
DJ Earworm stuck Miley Cyrus, Lorde, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga and most everyone in the recording industry in a blender for his annual wrap of a year in music. "The United State of Pop 2013 (Living...
View ArticleOrigin story
Dan Schau was on the hunt for a second job when he came across an advertisement for sperm donations in a Seattle newspaper last year. The ad said men who qualified could receive free health...
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