DEMYSTIFYING THE MART: For decades, the River North behemoth felt impenetrable to everyone except the design cognoscenti. Now a new program aims to lure in the public. Here's your guide. Read more
Thanks to Chicago's Polish population, Paczki Day has become a holiday to celebrate our transplanted brethren perhaps second only to St. Patrick's Day. But back in the day paczki weren't the only game in town. Read more
Today Rahm Emanuel announced two of his transition teams, including his education team. Since the Chicago Public Schools, teacher contracts, charter schools, and school turnarounds will all be major issues for the new mayor, here's a look at the people he's appointed to help him. Read more
THE SOCIAL NETWORKER: He lunches with Desirée Rogers—weekly—and has the Midas touch for fundraising among his gilded circle of friends. Take a lesson, Mark Zuckerberg: When it comes to making connections, the Chicago entrepreneur and philanthropist Neal Zucker is the paradigm of gracious chic Read more
The Girl & the Goat chef is planning on opening an old-school diner called The Little Goat, a super-casual restaurant inspired by Mel's Diner of TV fame and the diners she went to as a kid. Read more
One of my favorite ways to spend a night out is to begin with something glamorous—the kind of party where your eye shadow glimmers in the soft light of the chandeliers and you fill up on endless Champagne top-offs while exclaiming that the flower arrangements are really altogether spectacular—then switch gears, ditching the heels for flats and wrapping up with something at the opposite end of the spectrum... Read more
J. Michael Bailey stirred the hornet's nest with a live sex demonstration after a session of his Human Sexuality class. The incident has been lousy with coverage, but reasoned discussion has been hard to find. Here's where to go to find it. Read more
