By Gina Bazer
Moroccan furniture and accessories dealer Galerie du Maroc is moving to Bucktown (1917 N Damen), opening its doors August 28—just in time for the Wicker Park and Bucktown “Last Call” Summer Sidewalk Sale. Read more
August 2010
By Richard Babcock
Saturday night, I took in the Signal Ensemble Theatre’s rendering of The Real Inspector Hound and I was reminded that the highlight (for me) of the play comes when Moon, finally given the chance to showcase his talent, spins into an hallucinatory imagining of the review he will write—a thunderously inflated speech... Read more
By Carol Felsenthal
If Rod Blagojevich has one hero in life besides Elvis, it’s Richard Nixon, and if there’s one newspaper that wrecked Nixon’s life and legacy it’s the Washington Post. How ironic, then, that the Washington Post is trumpeting almost the same line as Blago himself. The Washington Post of Pentagon Papers and Watergate? Yes. Last week, the paper ran an editorial titled “Federal prosecutors should not retry Rod Blagojevich.”... Read more
We haven’t seen so much red since the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup. Spotted Saturday: another outfit well acquainted with the cold and the ice, the University of Wisconsin Marching Band, at Will’s Northwoods Inn in Lake View... Read more
By Jan Parr
Eleanor Pritchard’s supersoft, luxurious, and understated throws/blankets have yet to find a retail home in Chicago, but they deserve to... Read more
August 12, 2010- Designs for Dignity kicked off the 2010 Kitchen Walk with La Dolce Vita Kick off Party at Artemide. The evening celebrated the 2010 Kitchen Walk which will take place on October 16, 2010 in Michigan’s Harbor Country. Guests enjoyed an evening of Italian cocktails and music, and an exciting raffle emceed by Jan Parr, editor of Chicago Home + Garden. Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.699 million
Sale Price: $1.600 million
The Property: Klaus Fritsch, who, with Arnie Morton, launched Morton’s The Steakhouse in 1978, has sold the 13-room house he built in 1998.
“My house was for parties,” Fritsch says... Read more
Sale Price: $1.600 million
The Property: Klaus Fritsch, who, with Arnie Morton, launched Morton’s The Steakhouse in 1978, has sold the 13-room house he built in 1998.
“My house was for parties,” Fritsch says... Read more
By Penny Pollack & Graham Meyer
The trend-wave of Korean tacos welcomes a new player: the forthcoming Del Seoul (2568 N. Clark St.; 773-248-4227), which we first heard about from a New York Times story about the trend... Read more
By Amalie Drury
A confession or a plain old fact, depending on how you look at it: I've never stepped stiletto inside Excalibur, River North's mega haunted-house-like nightclub and perennial favorite of Schaumburg bachelorettes.
Why not, you ask? Well, I guess the best answer is ... Read more
Why not, you ask? Well, I guess the best answer is ... Read more
By Carol Felsenthal
The key mistake in the government’s case against Rod Blagojevich happened right at the start of the trial, during jury selection, with the choice of a juror who ultimately became the sole vote siding with the ex-gov on key counts of the indictment. Sources say the holdout juror, an African-American retired state worker who had worked for the Illinois Department of Public Health, should have been dismissed... Read more