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February 2011
Epoch Pop-Up, Bring it Home TV, Urban Folk Circuit
By Bradley Lincoln
Chicago florist Mike Hines has been creating artistic, atypical, not-your-grocery-store-variety arrangements for private clients and upmarket hotels for the past ten years, at his lofty Epoch studio on the West Side... Read more
Slim Chance: Taste-testing low-cal cocktails at Le Colonial
By Amalie Drury
Egg foams, creams, drizzles, syrups: Sampling craft cocktails can feel like a bigger calorie fest than falling off the wagon at Sprinkles. And since loading up on who knows how many carbs before even glancing at a dinner menu is no way to stick to a New Year’s resolution, I’ve been wondering why no Chicago lounge that serves these 20-minutes-in-the-making concoctions had addressed the diet issue. Yet... Read more
Drama Lessons
By Gina Bazer
I’m sure I’m not the only designphile who also loves dissecting theater sets... Read more
The Chicago Pension Paradox
By Whet Moser
A new report from the Civic Federation finds that the gap between city employees paying into their pension funds and former employees receiving pension funds has sharply decreased over the past decade. In the wake of changes to pensions for future employees, legislators are looking into options for current employees. Read more
Dish Flash: Eight Questions for Homaro Cantu
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
Ing (951 W. Fulton Market; 855-834-6464), the new restaurant from the Moto chef Homaro Cantu, is named both as an acronym for “imagining new gastronomy” and after the verb suffix that signals, appropriately enough, the progressive tense. Read more
Slower, Elvis . . . Kiss . . . Kiss!
By Geoffrey Johnson
How Chicago's Tura Satana, the outrageously buxom movie star who won pop-cult enshrinement as the badass girl-gang leader Varla in Russ Meyer's 1965 movie "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," put the "zing" in the King of Rock'n' Roll. Read more