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Not Home, Yet Alone: The Chaser Kicks It Solo for a Hot Minute

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There’s an art to sitting at a bar alone, and I’m still mastering it. (Mom: “Sweetie, if I were you, I wouldn’t spend too much time in bars alone. So unhealthy.”) I don’t know if women can pull it off as easily as men, who always have the option of hunching over some huge beer while staring with laser focus at a hockey game on the nearest flat-screen. But…

The Hot List: 10 places everyone’s talking about and dining at in May in order of heat

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GILT BAR Gilt’s popular good-times vibe may finally break this space’s long-held jinx. Then again, we said that when Aigre Doux opened, too. 230 W. Kinzie St.; 312-464-9544 LONGMAN & EAGLE Overheard at this throbbing Logan Square porkopolis: “How long’s the wait?” “@#$%ing long, man.” 2657 N. Kedzie Ave.; 773-276-7110 M BURGER Lettuce’s cutesy burger … Read more

Weekend Photos: The Shady Lady

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Cue the pipe organ: The Shady Lady (712 N. Clark St.; 312-624-9008), a new circus-meets-burlesque lounge in River North, opened to the public last Friday, and our photographer was onsite to catch early adopters mugging for the camera. The bar marks the return of the once and future nightlife entrepreneur Dion Antic to Chicago’s bar scene. Antic is…