A pig roast and cooking class, Hyde Park Art Center’s first Fryvalry, a tasting of spirits from Koval Distillery, Taste of Chicago, and more.
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 39
Issue of Jun. 18 – 24, 2009
Free Yacht show tonight (with tequila)
Yacht stops by the Ravenswood Billboard Factory tonight for a free performance. It happens to coincide with a Hornitos Tequila cocktail party.
Fingers on the pulse
Alderman Richard Mell sends out an e-mail asking constituents if they think the city should abandon its bid for the 2016 Olympics.
Pat Ryan scheduled to insult our intelligence today
2016 chair Pat Ryan will appear before city council today with his dog-eaten homework about the Daley Games financial guarantee.
6/24 — Two hosted bars
Let the liquor companies ply you with their free wares tonight at two separate marketing events.
Ain’t that a kick in the head
Medill’s commencement speech was less than inspiring to this aspiring-to-keep-being-a journalist.
Everything old is new again
The Chicago Reporter has a must-read analysis of Wells Fargo’s lending practices in Chicago – which is suggestive of the predatory lending that devastated Lawndale during the mid-20th century.
Go get ’em, Tiger!
County commissioner Tony Peraica asks state’s attorney Anita Alvarez and attorney general Lisa Madigan to take legal action against Mayor Daley over his Olympic funding commitments.
Pioneering playwright Doric Wilson visits Chicago
A leader of the off-off-Broadway and gay theater movements arrives for the midwest premiere of one of his plays.
6/24 — Drop-in health services for women
Drop-in health services, including breast and cervical cancer screenings, at the Howard Brown Health Center.