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The Chicago Auto Show opens to the public tomorrow ($10 admission), and while the extent of our car knowledge--well, here and there, there is one vehicle that's currently blowing our minds:

The cover story to today's Sun-Times food section deals with inexpensive substitutes for fancy kitchen tools that you can find at the hardware store, which is something we've been down with since we started using the kitchen for more than beer-pong and a mechanic's station for bike repair. We typically use paint brushes to marinade roasts and meats, to butter pastries and to clean out the coffee grinder. We also have a mini-propane torch for making creme brulee and meringues and have been known on occasion to use a rubber mallet as a meat tenderizer when our standard one just isn't enough.

Here's something to cleanse your palate after checking out this afternoon's diversion. We were checking out the weblog of the Illinois Winemakers' Alliance and came across this YouTube clip from Alton Brown's "Feasting on Asphalt." In the clip, Brown visits Baxter's Vineyards in downstate Nauvoo, where he and owner Brenda Logan (whom we interviewed yesterday) proceed to get Brown's cameraman feeling good on some of Baxter's selections. The kid's just pounding them back, God bless...

Today is National Get Over It Day. Chicagoist is going to get over Del Toro closing, a crush on Molto Mario, our dream of moving to France to drink wine all day, the death of wine maker Ernest Gallo and ... we don't have anything to get over regarding the new Grand Mart grocery. We do think it is nice, however, that Guaranty Bank isn't lonely anymore.