Chicagoland
Monday, March 15, 2010
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: Lindsay Obermeyer
Posted by Julia Thiel on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 8:11 AM
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts Dinner & a Show: Saturday 3/13
Posted by Whet Moser on Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 1:04 PM
Show: Joe Frank "His stories range from penetrating personal discussions of love and mortality to outsize tales of outrageous folly, like the one about a businessman attempting to set up a luxury ski resort in the middle of the Sahara desert," writes Alex Yablon. "But regardless of subject matter, they generate the sort of deeply uneasy, darkly hilarious mood associated with a David Lynch movie."
8pm, Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 N. Halsted St., 312-335-1650, $29
Dinner: Salpicon Though she didn’t actually cook for Rick Bayless—Priscila Satkoff was his assistant—the Mexico City native’s early training at the side of her mother and grandmother helped propel her tiny Old Town spot to an upscale destination rivaling her old boss’s.
1252 N. Wells St., 312-988-7811
Friday, March 12, 2010
Chicagoland, Music, Politics Commenters to Shannon Rovers: Put This in Your Pipe and Drone It
Posted by Whet Moser on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 2:58 PM
Three good stories on Chicago pols and politics in this week's issue are stirring readers' emotions, but a fourth is really striking a nerve: Deanna Isaacs's piece on the apparently heavily clouted Shannon Rovers and pipe band expert Bill Currie's lonely crusade against them. One commenter makes his point with the help of some videos, comparing three bands: the Rovers, a better local pipe band, and one of the best pipe bands on earth. Video links below the fold.
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: Zuleyka Vargas Benitez
Posted by Julia Thiel on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts Dinner & a Show: Thursday 3/11
Posted by Whet Moser on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:30 PM
- carl sweets
- Shapers
Show: Shapers "Shapers stepped onto the Chicago scene fully loaded. Their debut as a live band was just this past fall, and now they're self-releasing their first album, Little, Big*," writes Jessica Hopper, "a sweet heap of artful krautrock (Neu! and Cluster are clear influences) with occasional fitful vocals, and its nine songs cover an interstellar range."
9 PM, Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia, 773-227-4433 or 866-468-3401, $5.
Dinner: The Southern's slightly refined Dixie-inspired fare in a casual bar setting is a good platform for chef Cary Taylor's talents. One of three new Chicago restaurants reviewed this week.
1840 W. North, 773-342-1840
* Ed. note: Named after the John Crowley novel? Have heard great things about that book.
Chicagoland, Media The Several Dozen Words You Can't Say on WGN
Posted by Whet Moser on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:00 PM
This list of words and phrases banned from WGN Radio by CEO Randy Michaels is making the rounds. Perhaps it's wrong for me to be supporting Randy Michaels in anything, but I'm entirely behind getting rid of "literally," "white stuff," and especially "giving 110%."
I have beef with a few - "bare naked" is unfortunately verboten, but as long as "buck naked" and "naked as a jaybird" are overlooked, I can deal. I could go either way on "untimely death," but fortunately he doesn't seem to have explicitly forbidden "timely death."
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: Jake Oxnard
Posted by Julia Thiel on Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:42 AM
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: Trine Bumiller
Posted by Julia Thiel on Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:07 AM
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Chicagoland, Media The Spammers Are Getting More Sophisticated, Or Not
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Actual subject line of an otherwise standard e-mail scam I received today:
I WILL LIKE TO INVEST THIS FUND IN ANY VAIBLE MEDIA COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES .
+1 for target marketing, but, um, good luck with that.
Chicagoland, Visual Art Morning Art: Joanna Schuman
Posted by Julia Thiel on Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- 3/15 — Free Coffee at Dunkin' Donuts on March Mondays
- Sixteen Chef Frank Brunacci's Brother and Wife Are the Team Behind Lincoln Park's New Haute Hot Dog Stand, Franks 'N' Dawgs
- Lesbians Who Look Like Justin Bieber
- Pre-Minutemen Foursome the Reactionaries Surface on Vinyl
- Reviewed: Goose Island Stout Fest
