Six Questions for Grant Achatz
Although it’s impossible to fully catch up with the constantly-in-motion Achatz, Dish checked in with him this week... Read more
On your agenda: You and Rosie talk Trump at the Siskel … Invisible Man makes its stage debut at the Court … dudes in tutus take over the Harris … plus, what the two-time National Poetry Slam champ Roger Bonair-Agard is doing this weekend Read more
It’s a sign of simmering frustration over the housing crisis—now in its second half-decade—that Jamie Dimon, one of the nation’s top bank executives, complained last Friday that “there is no one really in charge” of fixing the problem. “It is just kind of sitting there,” he said. The Obama administration also signaled this week that it hasn’t done enough to help homeowners... Read more
The U.S. homicide rate hit a 50-year low last year and violent crime hit a 40-year low in 2010, despite the terrible economy. Lead abatement may offer a substantial explanation—and a challenge to utilitarian theories of crime. Read more
Christine Ingraham is a new kitchen designer on the block, and she’s got an impressive pedigree: She’s the great-granddaughter of Frank Lloyd Wright... Read more
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Mike from Beverly asks if PMI is becoming a trend when refinancing. Read more
A Leg Up
The Austrian luxury hosiery brand Wolford—known for its patterned and brightly colored stockings, leggings, and tights—opened its second Chicago store this month in The Shops at North Bridge (520 N. Michigan Ave., first floor; 312-245-1894, wolfordshop.com)... Read more
In the postwar years, the mass migration of Southerners to Chicago caused substantial cultural tensions in the city—and of great official concern were the Appalachians who settled in Uptown and their "primitive jungle tactics." Read more
