Mackinac Island: A Weekend Itinerary
STILL LIFE: Get beyond the usual tourist traps and explore the other side with this nature-lovers’ guide
Year: 2011
Brad Keywell on Innovation, Chicago Ideas Week
iDEA GUY: The Groupon cofounder tells us a thing or two about entrepreneurship
Hinsdale Home of Former Blackhawk Brent Sopel Hits the Market
Brent Sopel, a defenseman for the Blackhawks in their 2009–10 Stanley Cup championship season, is putting his Hinsdale home on the market today. In late July, after stints with the Atlanta Thrashers and the Montreal Canadiens, Sopel signed a two-year contract with Metallurg Novokuznetsk, a team in Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League…
Stylish Exercise Ball
Finally, an exercise ball that doesn’t look like something the chiropractor dragged in!
Adam Dunn Rises to the Top of Another Dubious Leaderboard
Adam Dunn has had the worst season by any player in the past two decades, and the ninth-worst in the past 50 years. But he has provided us with some interesting statistics to enliven an otherwise-boring baseball season.
TIFs, Reforms, and Structural Deficits
Is Chicago ready for TIF reform? Perhaps it’s ready for some reasonable changes to the internal workings of the special taxing scheme, but who knows about the future of the city’s structural tax and budget problems.
Former Photographer Opens Lincoln Park Flower Shop
Flower Power
After stints in other industries, including fashion photography, Nancy Krause opened Nancy Krause Floral Design & Garden Antiques (1101 W. Webster Ave.; 773-248-1516, nkfloraldesign.com) earlier this month. In the 1990s, Krause shifted her focus from photography to flowers when she opened two floral boutiques in downtown Chicago…
'Playboy Club' Creator Chad Hodge Gives Us the Backstory
A BUNNY’S TALE: The 34-year-old Highland Park native and Northwestern grad on his new fall show.
The Chicago Pedigree of My New Schwinn
A bike nerd post about stumbling on an obscure piece of local bike manufacturing history: the fillet-brazed lightweight Schwinn.
The Playboy Club and the 'Mad Men' Fetish
I can’t get away from dudes lining up to look like Don Draper, the man women want and men want to be, despite the fact that he’s a self-loathing jerk. Or maybe I’m just jealous that I’m not being target-marketed to.