A Reader writer embarks on an epic quest to understand the seductive power of caffeine.
Tag: Intelligentsia
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Help-Portrait returns to Logan Square for free photos (and pie)
For the fourth year, Missio Dei organizes an event to make sure professional portraits are available to all.
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Goose Island’s 2014 Bourbon County beers, reviewed by six increasingly drunk people
Chicago’s most hyped beers of the year arrive on Black Friday, and the Reader is ready.
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Baristas on the straight and narrow at Gracie’s Cafe
Behind coffee shop Gracie’s Cafe is a program to turn the formerly incarcerated into baristas.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 4/25: the American Whiskey Affair, Off Off Broadzway, and Intelligentsia’s Logan Square debut
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, April 25.
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Where to fulfill your most intense food obsessions
Where to fulfill your most intense food obsessions
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 1/18: Bingo Night Fund Raiser, Dolphin Reopens, and Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, January 18, 2013
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How I learned to stop worrying and drink coffee already
A caffeine newbie tries not to lose his mind as he navigates the wide world of coffee
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Mash Tun Oktoberfest and other food and drink events
Craft Spirits Week takes over Chicago’s food and drink event scene, with still more Oktoberfests, beer festivals, wine festivals, and dinners paired with spirits and ciders
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Yes, Logan Theatre is still reopening tomorrow
Logan Theatre will (finally) reopen for business tomorrow
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Tortas Frontera: the only place to eat at O’Hare
Rick Bayless is making miracles at O’Hare
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Pavement Tour Diary: Millennium Park
Pavement’s Chicago show, from behind the scenes. And Team Lemos takes a turn on the cowbells!
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Pavement Tour Diary: Four Days, Three Bands, and Two Countries (Part One)
Jeremy works for Pavement, Sonic Youth, and Iron & Wine all in one weekend. In this chapter, the Iron & Wine benefit for the Midwives Alliance of North America hits a few snags.
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Intelligentsia Barista Wins 2010 World Barista Championship
Intelligentsia’s Michael Phillips won the World Barista Championship in London last Friday.