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Home » Archives for Gwynedd Stuart

Author Archives: Gwynedd Stuart

Posted inArts & Culture

Shaming online shamers with Jon Ronson

by Gwynedd Stuart October 28, 2015August 18, 2021

An interview with the author of the book So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, British journalist Jon Ronson

Posted inFood & Drink

Taking on food waste, one wilted vegetable at a time

by Gwynedd Stuart October 15, 2015August 18, 2021

At Stock, the cafe inside the new midwestern culinary mecca Local Foods, Abra Berens is giving new life to undesirable produce.

Posted inArts & Culture

In Fear of Dying, Erica Jong explores sex and death in the age of Internet dating

by Gwynedd Stuart October 14, 2015August 18, 2021

And renounces the zipless fuck for good.

Posted inBlogs

Pac-Man meets a Donkey Kong potato at Level 257 in Schaumburg

by Gwynedd Stuart October 6, 2015August 18, 2021

The classic mall arcade this is not. It’s also not a very good restaurant.

Posted inFilm

Goodnight Mommy

by Gwynedd Stuart September 24, 2015August 23, 2021

R • 1 hour 40 min • 2015

Posted inBlogs

It’s fall sitcom time! Pay attention before they all go away!

by Gwynedd Stuart September 21, 2015August 18, 2021

A look at what’s coming down the TV pike this season

Posted inMusic

A dozen Riot Fest acts in doughnut form

by Leor Galil, Philip Montoro and Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

You can blame Drive Like Jehu drummer Mark Trombino and his punny pastry shop for inspiring this foolishness.

Posted inArts & Culture

Dick Wolf’s Chicago Med offers a dose of ER-esque hospital drama

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Sometimes television has an elegant way of coming full circle. In 1994 we slid headfirst on a gurney through the doors of Chicago’s fictional County General Hospital, where we’d spend […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Nathan for You’s third season means more hilariously terrible business ideas

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

On Nathan for You, now in its third season, Canadian comedian Nathan Fielder poses as an expert and helps small business owners revolutionize their fledgling concerns by coaching them to […]

Posted inArts & Culture

The Daily Show enters the Trevor Noah era

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

It’s basically impossible to imagine The Daily Show without Jon Stewart, which is probably part of the reason people have reacted so poorly to Trevor Noah becoming his successor. OK, […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Get FOBABed at the Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beers

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

According to Reader Beer and Metal columnist Philip Montoro, “Not remembering shit is a common side effect of FOBAB.” That’s because a lot of the assertive beers poured at the […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Chris Pandel looks to elevate the steak house with Swift & Sons

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

In July chef Chris Pandel (the Bristol, Balena) told Chicago magazine of the Boka Restaurant Group steak house he’ll helm come October: “We don’t want to change the steak house. […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Intro hosts Jean-Georges Vongerichten protege Stephen Gillanders

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Back in March, when the weather was still cold and dreary, we praised chef C.J. Jacobson for bringing some west-coast sunshine to Intro, the Lettuce Entertain You concept that hosts […]

Posted inArts & Culture

Richard Sandoval’s Latin Eataly, Latinicity, is opening in Block 37

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

Piggybacking on the success of Italian-food wonderland Eataly, celeb chef and restaurateur Richard Sandoval plans to open Latinicity, a 22,000-square-foot monument to our collective love of Latin food, inside Block […]

Posted inMusic

Land and Sea Dept. gets a Prime Time spot at the MCA

by Gwynedd Stuart September 9, 2015August 18, 2021

With the opening of Cherry Circle Room and Game Room inside downtown’s stately but hip Chicago Athletic Club Hotel, it’s been a big year for Land and Sea Dept. Hell, […]

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