Why your mom might kill the CD.
Tag: Vol. 40 No. 8
Issue of Nov. 11 – 17, 2010
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Mehchelin
I’ve only been to one restaurant on the list of Michelin Stars for Restaurants I Can’t Really Afford to Eat At—and that was several years ago—so I have no standing, but I’m glad to see commenters at the Stew complaining about Lula not getting a star. It’s interesting to see what their famous yet opaque […]
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Joe Ricketts, Reagan Republican
When a Regan Republican says the Gipper cut spending, check your wallet.
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Dinner & a Show: Tuesday 11/16
Recommended entertainment paired with nearby restaurants.
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The Bums Will Always Lose
The Ricketts’ plan to get government loans to renovate Wrigley Field is pretty unpopular.
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Kate Middleton, Britain’s Newest Style Icon?
Will the new future queen of England make as big of a fashion splash as her fiance’s mother once did?
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Yelper Leaks Michelin List, Bibendum Gets Sick
The Chicago Michelin Guide hoo-ha ends with a yelp.
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Now Playing: Skyline
Cloverfield (2008) revitalized the giant-monster genre with its mock-camcorder account of space aliens tearing up Manhattan, but the folks who produced this knockoff for Columbia Pictures have completely missed the point, recycling the earlier movie’s cardboard plot but discarding its jerky stylistics in favor of the usual elephantine FX sequences. The premise is nearly identical: […]
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The Michelin Betting Pool
Mike Sula’s in on the Michelin Guide bet organized by Chicago mag dining critic Jeff Ruby.
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Rick Perlstein Talks Tea Parties
Rick Perlstein on “Fractures, Alliances and Mobilizations in the Age of Obama: Emerging Analyses of the ‘Tea Party Movement.'”