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June 2011
The Good Neighbor in Bucktown
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.595 million
The Property: When Stacy Nigrelli and Ronald Berlind were building their home in Bucktown in the early 1990s, the neighborhood wasn’t yet a major hot spot, and the couple consciously tried to make their place fit in among the old-timers on the block... Read more
Intersected
By Bryan Smith
Two fatal crashes in two months turn a stretch of Illinois Street near the Tribune Tower into a memento mori. Read more
EFFEN Vodka’s Art of Design
June 22, 2011--Guests joined EFFEN at the Hard Rock Hotel Chicago as local mixologists competed to design the best vodka martini. Attendees were able to sample delicious EFFEN cocktails as well as vote for the best martini. Read more
Dish Flash: Twelve Questions for Frank Brunacci
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
Yesterday a press release announced that Frank Brunacci had left Sixteen, the high-end restaurant in the Trump Tower, but the release coyly left his destination unstated. Brunacci gave us the story. Read more
Kegged Cocktails? Don’t Knock ’Em Until You’ve Sipped ’Em, Says Tavernita’s Drink Guy
By Amalie Drury
The sprawling restaurant Tavernita, set to open in the old Martini Park space (151 W. Erie St.) in September with three separate bars inside, has been raising eyebrows for weeks. First came the news that the chef Ryan Poli would be leaving Perennial to head up this Latin concept from the group behind the nearby New York import Mercadito and its basement cocktail lounge, Double A... Read more
Rod Blagojevich: Done In By a Smart Jury
By Whet Moser
Far from the old "12 Angry Men" saw, Blagojevich's peers got along, developed clever techniques to weigh his guilt and innocence, and methodically analyzed the stagecraft that got him elected in the first place. Read more