“Without exception, your recommendations are el supremo, for which all of my senses will be forever grateful.” Correction In last week’s Best of Chicago issue, Marcus Liberty was described by Ted Cox as a past player on Simeon’s basketball team. In fact, Liberty was a player for Martin Luther King Jr. High School under Landon […]
Tag: Vol. 37 No. 41
Issue of Jul. 3 – 9, 2008
Restaurants: In the Neighborhood, July 3, 2008
Twenty West Town restaurants east of Ashland
Savage Love
QMy boyfriend and I both like porn and toys, and we’re obviously open about everything and often play with them together. But recently he posed an interesting question that left me feeling like a prudish conservative: If virtual-reality technology is developed such that one can have a sexual encounter with a computerized person (insert favorite […]
Letts Lite
Chicago’s playwright of the moment kicks back with a little comedy.
The Rusty Lamppost Theory
Alderman Bob Fioretti takes on the Second Ward’s problems one streetlight, one mailbox, and one pile of dog poop at a time.
The Sleeperer
How Theater Oobleck’s The Strangerer got the 3 AM e-mail from New York.
Omnivorous: Fuel for Food
The city’s last coal hauler is down to just two customers—both in the restaurant biz.
The Dead Zone
The mayor’s biggest power play yet—the acquisition of a swath of Bensenville—may soon be a fait accompli.
Restaurants: In the Neighborhood, July 3, 2008
Twenty West Town restaurants east of Ashland