Forty-five places for ice cream and other frozen treats
Tag: Vol. 38 No. 42
Issue of Jul. 9 – 15, 2009
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Stephanie Kuehnert’s Ballads of Suburbia
Stephanie Kuehnert has a couple launch parties upcoming for her new novel, Ballads of Suburbia. The first is at the Beacon Pub in Forest Park (where Kuehnert tends bar) on Tuesday, July 21, 8 PM; the second at Women & Children First in Andersonville on Friday, July 24, 7:30 PM. Like Kuehnert’s 2008 debut, I […]
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7/15 — Free cocktails at doggy runway show
To celebrate the debut of Barque, a new line of “canine couture,” there will be a doggy runway show from 6 to 8 PM tonight at Top Dog Productions in Lincoln Park (1551 N. Kingsbury). The event, emceed by Sun-Times columnist Bill Zwecker, is free as long as you RSVP at 312-266-6683. There will be […]
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7/16 — AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players perform classic radio scripts
On Thursday, the AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) and SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Senior Radio Players will perform two classic radio scripts from 7 to 8:30 PM in the Chicago Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theater (78 E. Washington). The live performances, which include work by voice actors, sound effects artists, and live […]
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Practice What I Preach
Today’s Tribune article about cameras and red lights in Schaumburg gives us an understanding of how officials–and ordinary citizens–like to bend the truth.
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Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 10
In celebration of its tenth event in Chicago in just over two years, Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 10, next Tuesday from 8 to 9 PM, will be free (it’s normally $10). It’ll also move from its usual location at Martyrs’ to the Hyde Park Art Center, where HPAC director Chuck Thurow, poet Kevin Coval, architects […]
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7/15 — Free cocktails at doggy runway show
Free cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at a doggy runway show in Lincoln Park tonight.
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That woeful year — 1979
Disco Demolition Night and Jimmy Carter’s “Malaise” speech were just three days apart — coincidence?
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Today in business restrictions
Two news stories about unusual barriers being set up for small businesses in the city.
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I was just thinking that what Chicago really needs is rich New Yorkers driving up rent
A New York Times rich-people beat reporter condescends to Chicago, part infinity
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“Bertram Cope’s Year”: Chicago’s forgotten gay masterpiece
This is a repost, ’cause I think it’s interesting In the early 20th century Henry Blake Fuller was one of Chicago’s most famous writers, with a number of prominent realist novels under his belt and friendships with leading lights such as Thornton Wilder, Jane Addams, and Carl Van Vechten. He worked for the Saturday Evening […]
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Friday-night stargazing at N.U.
Northwestern University’s Dearborn Observatory opens its telescope for public observing every Friday night
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7/16 — AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players perform classic radio scripts
AFTRA/SAG Senior Radio Players recreate two classic shows from the Golden Age of Radio.