A Hollywood Bungalow in Ravenswood Gardens
List Price: $1.25 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: From the outside, this 1920 house in Ravenswood Gardens looks a lot like countless other homes in the city’s bungalow belt…
Year: 2011
The Drudge Report, Flash Mobs, and Race
The Chicago “flash mobs” catch the traffic-driving eye of the Drudge Report, leading to a possible multiplying effect… and the inevitable discussions that surround crime in Chicago.
Robata Cooking Comes to River North
TREND: Roka Akor, Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar, and Japonais introduce the ancient Japanese tradition
Shiver Me Timbers: The Chaser Climbs Aboard the Red Witch’s New Cocktail Cruise
You’ve seen the Windy. It’s that many-masted vessel docked at Navy Pier that looks like a playground for fanny-pack wearing families from Iowa hoping to live out their Pirates of the Caribbean fantasies.
Or at least that’s what I was thinking yesterday as my sister Liv and I prepared to venture aboard a skyline cocktail cruise on the Red Witch, a smaller boat operated by the same company…
What Were They Thinking? Chicago Psychoanalyst Arnold Goldberg on Anthony Weiner and Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Arnold Goldberg, a professor of psychiatry at Rush, discusses narcissistic personalities, the reality ego, and how Huma Abedin is Weiner’s “narcissistic object choice.”
Chef Italia lights
As I was reviewing page proofs for our next issue, I stopped at an ad from Tower Lighting, which features these fantastic lights…
Books We Like: Marcus Sakey's "The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes"
The Chicago novelist’s latest is about about a man who wakes up without clothes or an identity on a beach in Maine, travels across the country’s belly, and winds up in Los Angeles.
Chicago Art Prints for a Good Cause
Jay Ryan, Sonnenzimmer, Mat Daly, and other leading lights of the Chicago gig-poster scene create prints for Louisville musician Jason Noble.
Our Favorite Truck Show, HomeGoods is Good, Sale at Ligne Roset
Glittering new office buildings and headline-grabbing high-rises (Vince Vaughn bought what?! Where?!) are all fun and dandy to read about, and bring welcome attention to our city’s storied architectural history, but the American Institute of Architects’ Chicago chapter is homing in on more intimate endeavors with its first annual Small Firm/Small Project Awards…
Indianapolis: The City Without Neigborhoods
Research by Chicago-based urban planner Aaron Renn and a host of Indianapolitans results in a comprehensive neighborhood map of the city. Now they’ll have to see if it sticks.