Chicago magazine's Beer Issue Hits Newsstands June 16th

Story highlights from the July 2011 issue of Chicago magazine, including 36 of the best beers in the region and the magazine's annual list of the city's most becoming singles. Read more

A Hollywood Bungalow in Ravenswood Gardens

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.25 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: From the outside, this 1920 house in Ravenswood Gardens looks a lot like countless other homes in the city’s bungalow belt... Read more

The Drudge Report, Flash Mobs, and Race

By Whet Moser

The Chicago "flash mobs" catch the traffic-driving eye of the Drudge Report, leading to a possible multiplying effect... and the inevitable discussions that surround crime in Chicago. Read more

Robata Cooking Comes to River North

By Jeff Ruby

TREND: Roka Akor, Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar, and Japonais introduce the ancient Japanese tradition Read more

Shiver Me Timbers: The Chaser Climbs Aboard the Red Witch’s New Cocktail Cruise

By Amalie Drury

You’ve seen the Windy. It’s that many-masted vessel docked at Navy Pier that looks like a playground for fanny-pack wearing families from Iowa hoping to live out their Pirates of the Caribbean fantasies.
Or at least that’s what I was thinking yesterday as my sister Liv and I prepared to venture aboard a skyline cocktail cruise on the Red Witch, a smaller boat operated by the same company... Read more

What Were They Thinking? Chicago Psychoanalyst Arnold Goldberg on Anthony Weiner and Dominique Strauss-Kahn

By Carol Felsenthal

Arnold Goldberg, a professor of psychiatry at Rush, discusses narcissistic personalities, the reality ego, and how Huma Abedin is Weiner's "narcissistic object choice." Read more

Chef Italia lights

By Jan Parr

As I was reviewing page proofs for our next issue, I stopped at an ad from Tower Lighting, which features these fantastic lights... Read more

Books We Like: Marcus Sakey's "The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes"

By Geoffrey Johnson

The Chicago novelist's latest is about about a man who wakes up without clothes or an identity on a beach in Maine, travels across the country's belly, and winds up in Los Angeles. Read more

Chicago Art Prints for a Good Cause

By Whet Moser

Jay Ryan, Sonnenzimmer, Mat Daly, and other leading lights of the Chicago gig-poster scene create prints for Louisville musician Jason Noble. Read more

Our Favorite Truck Show, HomeGoods is Good, Sale at Ligne Roset

By Bradley Lincoln

Glittering new office buildings and headline-grabbing high-rises (Vince Vaughn bought what?! Where?!) are all fun and dandy to read about, and bring welcome attention to our city’s storied architectural history, but the American Institute of Architects’ Chicago chapter is homing in on more intimate endeavors with its first annual Small Firm/Small Project Awards... Read more

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