Even with the Tribune’s official announcement of its three-week long eating extravaganza dubbed the Chicago Tribune Food Bowl, it was pretty hard to determine exactly why this mega event was taking place. A little scratching revealed the newspaper is emulating its one time sister paper, the Los Angeles Time’s and its super successful May event …
The Art Institute took the name of its arrestingly interesting exhibit of black and white photographs, Never A Lovely So Real: Photography and Film in Chicago, 1950 – 1980, from a Nelson Algren book, Chicago: City on the Make, where he mulls his love/hate regard for the city. The show sagely examines the duality of …
Never a Lovely So Real a Highly Engaging Look Back Read More »
Phillipe Cohen Solal, one of the co-founders of the exciting and innovative Gotan Project joins forces with longtime collaborator Christophe Chassol to produce a marvelous summer ode to flirtatious love. Building the song in layers that has hip hop rolling in perfect provocative harmony with the kind rat pack cool Dean Martin would find imminently …
A 90-minute car ride due north will land you in one of the most beautiful landscapes in North America. According to its promotional literature, the Anderson Japanese Gardens on the southern outskirts of Rockford, is also rated one of the continent’s highest quality Japanese gardens. Many may be familiar with smaller versions of Japan’s landscape …
True Serenity within Striking Distance – The Anderson Japanese Gardens Read More »
None of the following three restaurants have anything in common other than their knack for consistently offering delicious food at reasonable prices. In a couple of cases, the prices are remarkably low. Bacci, even though they’ve been around since the mid 90’s, was a complete surprise. Suddenly it was just there when I found myself …
Three Little Wonders – Bacci, Noon o Kabab, Peach’s Read More »