Green City Market's Junior Board sweetens the pot for ticket sales to Masquerade del Mercado. tickets for Geek2Chic are now on sale. Halloween at Barn and Company is shaping up to be huge. more ›

Today's listings include a back-alley bike tour of eccentric art Sunday. more ›

Lillstreet Art Center celebrates a milestone, Rock For Kids and a food fest at the French market this weekend. more ›

Special to Chicagoist from Betsy Mikel more ›

Chefs in town sure seem generous with donating their time to charities and event. There was last week's Green City Market BBQ, of course, and this big ticket fundraiser Friday night at the Peninsula Hotel (108 E. Superior St.). Proceeds from the "Chefs and the City" event will support Vital Bridges, a non-profit providing housing, food, nutrition, case-management and prevention services to HIV-positive Chicagoans. more ›

The smell of fresh bread baking in the morning always often brings back memories of growing up across the street from the Mary Ann Bakery in the Hermosa/Kelvyn Park neighborhood. The bakery also made S. Rosen branded baked goods and we would head to school with near-certain knowledge that if we ate a hot dog or burger at lunch, it would be served on either a Mary Ann or S. Rosen bun. more ›

Since 1993, participating restaurants in the annual Dining Out For Life program have donated a portion of their evening's business to AIDS/HIV charities. Tonight, over 60 local restaurants ranging from Nookie's and Chicago Diner to Blackbird and Avenues are joining in. All proceeds raised this evening benefit AIDS Care Chicago. more ›

When it comes to competition, we here at Chicagoist don't mess around. You ask us to participate in an alt-media slam, for example, and we will scorch the earth beneath you like Sherman marched through Georgia. more ›

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