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Normally Chicagoist doesn’t watch the local news. We prefer to read our news on paper or online. We find that local news is too garish, too tainted, too … unhealthy; we just stopped watching altogether. But we were curious to see Fox’s new news show “The Ten.” We got a press release about it that stated that it was a “fast-paced, concise format designed for today’s news viewer.” We’re not even sure what that means,...

Normally Chicagoist isn't big into reporting on every restaurant/bar/whatnot that has its door shuttered for health code violations. But this one we couldn't let pass by. This morning, a Chicagoist operative was on assignment out in North Center (read: drinking many beers at the Globe watching the World Cup) when he stumbled on over to Lincoln Restaurant only to find the doors locked and a big ol' neon-green sticker on the front, which means...

Chicagoist will admit to having had a long-standing bias against rosés and other pink-hued wines. It stems from years of people ordering white zinfandel, or pinot grigio with a dash of grenadine added, if no white zinfandel were available. In recent months, however, we've started to lose that bias. As we've learned more about rosé, we realized that we should have directed our frustrations at the folks who insist on drinking wine badly. Most rosés...

Sometimes Chicagoist is in the mood to entertain, but not hold a big, expensive, planning-way-in-advance dinner party. We find the best thing to do is have a brunch. Brunch is a great way to have friends over, enjoy a meal that stays with you most of the afternoon, and doesn’t involve mixing a lot of cocktails (well, not usually, anyway). Chicagoist has a couple of good brunch buddies, two friends from the marathon training group,...