Swooning Under Glass
World leaders are descending on Chicago this weekend, baiting the anarchists. The White Sox are invading the Cubs Nation. Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy are on stage over at the Goodman in a little four-hour production of one of the Greatest American Plays Ever Written, and millions of New Yorkers are still convinced that nothin’ [...]
Birth of a Cheese–I’m In!
Culture, the word on cheese, is a fine magazine (in print and in online formats) that focuses on great artisan and farmstead cheese and the communities that make and sell it. Yours truly is thrilled to have been selected to the 2012 Birth of a Cheese project organized by Culture. This year the project is [...]
Craft Beer in the Afternoon
Chicago Craft Beer Week 2012 takes place May 17-27. Yes, that makes 11 days. Need I remind you dear readers, that this is Chicago, a town with two baseball teams, and a town that has often been the home of the tallest, biggest, and fattest, of all things made by human hands and machines. So [...]
