"I'm impressed when a bar has something I've never had before," says Phil Kuhl, one half of the Beer Dudes—an entrepreneurial friendship founded on suds. Kuhl and the other Dude, Brian Moreland, met last April while bartending at Sheffield's (Kuhl also tends bar at Goose Island in Wrigleyville). Since then, they've begun hosting beer tastings around town, including a weekly Monday night event at Rockit Bar and Grill called Taste It, in which the guys pair three beers from a particular state with a three-course meal. "We're trying to ease people into appreciating beer," Kuhl says. "Beer isn't as intimidating as wine," Moreland adds. I caught up with the guys this past Monday to chat about spreading the gospel of brew...
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"I'm impressed when a bar has something I've never had before," says Phil Kuhl, one half of the Beer Dudes—an entrepreneurial friendship founded on suds. Kuhl and the other Dude, Brian Moreland, met last April while bartending at Sheffield's (Kuhl also tends bar at Goose Island in Wrigleyville). Since then, they've begun hosting beer tastings around town, including a weekly Monday night event at Rockit Bar and Grill called Taste It, in which the guys pair three beers from a particular state with a three-course meal. "We're trying to ease people into appreciating beer," Kuhl says. "Beer isn't as intimidating as wine," Moreland adds. I caught up with the guys this past Monday to chat about spreading the gospel of brew...
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"I'm impressed when a bar has something I've never had before," says Phil Kuhl, one half of the Beer Dudes—an entrepreneurial friendship founded on suds. Kuhl and the other Dude, Brian Moreland, met last April while bartending at Sheffield's (Kuhl also tends bar at Goose Island in Wrigleyville). Since then, they've begun hosting beer tastings around town, including a weekly Monday night event at Rockit Bar and Grill called Taste It, in which the guys pair three beers from a particular state with a three-course meal. "We're trying to ease people into appreciating beer," Kuhl says. "Beer isn't as intimidating as wine," Moreland adds. I caught up with the guys this past Monday to chat about spreading the gospel of brew...
"I'm impressed when a bar has something I've never had before," says Phil Kuhl, one half of the Beer Dudes—an entrepreneurial friendship founded on suds. Kuhl and the other Dude, Brian Moreland, met last April while bartending at Sheffield's (Kuhl also tends bar at Goose Island in Wrigleyville). Since then, they've begun hosting beer tastings around town, including a weekly Monday night event at Rockit Bar and Grill called Taste It, in which the guys pair three beers from a particular state with a three-course meal. "We're trying to ease people into appreciating beer," Kuhl says. "Beer isn't as intimidating as wine," Moreland adds. I caught up with the guys this past Monday to chat about spreading the gospel of brew...
List price: $1.95 million The Property: One hundred years old in 2008, this 14-room Prairie-style home has been thoroughly renovated and updated but at no cost to its original character, which comes from five-piece banded molding in the main rooms, a massive fireplace bricked in a herringbone pattern, and numerous windows on three sides (a rarity in Hyde Park’s older attached houses). The Tudor look of the beamed upper and brick lower portions carries through this and four other houses built on this corner in a Hyde Park “Professors’ Row” cluster. The architects of the cluster, Tallmadge & Watson, were among the leading Prairie architects—in fact...
Govind Armstrong has set his sights on Chicago. “ Govind who,” you say? Armstrong is the man behind red-hot Table 8 in Los Angeles and Miami, and he is breaking ground at an undisclosed location in River North by the end of January. “I’ve always wanted to do a place in Chicago,” says Armstrong, 38. “It’s got an impeccable dining scene.” Armstrong, an L.A. native who apprenticed at the age of 13 with Wolfgang Puck at Spago, has Costa Rican roots, but describes Table 8 on Melrose Avenue as: “Nothing fancy; warm and inviting, a little gem that you would walk into. It’s not exactly comfort food, but it’s approachable. We’re not reinventing how people should eat, or what they should eat.” (The only dish he’s bringing to his 120-seat restaurant in Chicago that he’d reveal to us was a prime salt-roasted porterhouse.) Armstrong is currently searching for a Chicago chef who is...
Last week, months of wrangling in the state legislature over how to fund the metro area’s rail and bus lines resulted in a deal that included an increase on the tax on real-estate transfers in Chicago. That increase¬—$3.50 per $1,000 in value of the property sold—will all go to mass transit, presuming the Chicago City Council approves the tax. (The current tax—$7.50 per $1,000—does not fund mass transit.)
The reasoning behind the measure was that Chicago was paying less than its share for transit because its sales-tax receipts weren’t up to what the collar counties collected. Since the owners of city property—not just housing, but retail and commercial real estate—clearly benefit from...
We've begun watching horribly graphic childbirth videos in our Bradley class. Yes, I understand their purpose: no one is trying to candy-coat this whole delivery thing, nor should they. Labor is obviously painful and wet and loud and bloody, and if we aren't ready for that we're doing ourselves—and our baby—a major disservice. But it's still gross.
There was the video in which the husband crumpled to the floor like an empty tent when the doctor presented the massive needle for his wife's epidural.
There was the water birth in some kind of icky prenatal jacuzzi that eventually had nine or so different kinds of fluid floating in it, none of which you'd want to see in your kitchen sink...
Très Chic Is your kitchen lacking a certain je ne sais quoi? Newly opened Genevieve Lethu (900 N. Michigan Ave.; 312-423-9948) can help. The luxury housewares store is the first U.S. outpost for the French tabletop-and-textile company. Located in the 900 Shops mall, the store is full of bright, fun tabletop items such as tablecloths, napkins, and plates and flatware sold by the piece or by the set. The company releases four to six tabletop collections a year that coordinate with previous collections, “treating housewares like fashion,” says Michaelene Nichols, the company’s manager for U.S. operations. For instance, the dinner-plate pattern called L’Amour ($25 a plate) matches a set of dessert plates ($66 for six) whose... Read more
"I've been traveling around the world; there ain't no ladies like [in] Chi-Town," Common told the sold-out crowd of 1,400 at his House of Blues concert Saturday night. Be still my heart.
I managed to catch up with the rapper, actor, fashion designer, book author, and native Chicagoan before the show, which benefited his own Common Ground Foundation. "[I] stay in tune with the people from where I'm from," he said. "The more you get, the more you give back." ...
December 19, 2007- Chicago magazine and J.Mendel co-hosted an intimate in-store shopping holiday party allowing over 50 of Chicago’s high- profile residents the opportunity to shop J.Mendel’s luxurious merchandise in a private setting, offering them more attention and personalized service. Read more
