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Who needs a drink after this year's primaries? Don't worry, with both Mardi Gras and Super Tuesday today, there's plenty going on around town where you can get your drink on, and watch the election returns.

The clock to '08 is ticking. What are you doing to ring in the new year? If the answer to that question is a desperate, collar-loosening, sweat-inducing "I don't know!" then here are a few last-minute suggestions. Everything listed here will cost you less than $40 and was not sold out at the time of posting.

To celebrate the new TV season, TV Guide is sponsoring free coffee at a bevy of area independent coffee shops. We aren't quite sure what connection TV Guide is trying to make here (You need caffeine to stay awake while reading this magazine? If you watched all of last night's shows you might need a little extra boost this morning?), but free coffee is free coffee, so we aren't going to think too hard about...

members, New Jersey skate shop owner, and writer for several alt publications, Chris just released his first book, Skinema, a mash-up of previously published porno reviews that have little or nothing to do with the films themselves. Instead, Chris uses the space to relate perhaps even dirtier stories involving hookers, transvestites and/or vomit in exploitative, hilarious articulation.

You wouldn’t necessarily know it by looking at him, but Dean “Deano” Schlabowske is a traditional kind of guy. Well, at least he is when it comes to wine. After 17 years in the wine business, Dean decided to put his experience to good use. His motto? Corporate wine still sucks. No, really, that’s what it says on the sign posted on the window of Cellar Rat Wine Shop, his two-month-old Wicker Park store. And he should know: He spent 15 years working for two of Chicago’s largest wine retailers (no, we’re not gonna name names; you figure it out).

Where Can I Get a Tattoo?

SCUBA Diving in Lake Michigan?

We know our readers probably have their favorite Mexican place, possibly an undiscovered hole-in-the-wall with the best mole in the city. We’d love to hear about it. When it comes to dining out with our baby, however, one of the best Mexican restaurants in Chicago has got to be Uncle Julio’s Hacienda on North Avenue.

We here at the Chicagoist offices like to think of ourselves as pretty hep and with it cats. (We know, we know, even constructing that sentence means that we’re not). So we like to keep up with everything that’s going on in the world, political culture and pop, art and beauty, love and war. What comes with that knowledge is that the things we must learn to make it in this world are not the...

Honestly, we are having trouble thinking of anything other than the Bears. We don’t specifically attribute it to a one track mind; it is hard to ignore buildings, t-shirts, and cab drivers telling us Go Bears. We have something a little tame for you this weekend, other than that grab a Konig Ludwig Weiss or opt for the non-alchoholic Clausthaler and enjoy!

What's Going on with the North Avenue Bridge?

After a day of seeing great art we can’t think of anything better than going to see some great fashion. • Head over to The Lot, 2038 W. North Ave. before it closes for the year (October 29.) The Lot is a spot where rotating vendors sell homemade clothes, vintage clothes, jewelry as well as other surprises. The Lot is just what it sounds like, a rare empty space near the Damen Blue Line stop....

We here at the Chicagoist offices like to play the “who’s overrated?” game. We usually start off with a rousing “ANGELINA JOLIE!”; and then do a quick step to “Bill Gates!”; and then one final “Julia Roberts!” and we’re done. It’s a fun game, but we just keep saying the same answers over and over again. Now we’ve got help. Henry Owings has a new book called “The Overrated Book”. “The Overrated Book” has roughly...

We like highlights, we like getting them, doing them and giving them. There’s a ton of cool stuff going on this week, check out the quick highlights, and let us know which author is going to get your attention. First off, it’s the closing night party for the Literary Gangs. They’ll finish up with a finale including Andy Ross and Jonathan Messinger. You can see the Literary Gangs on Tues., May 16th, 6:30PM, at the...

A couple of weeks ago, we wrote about Transitions Bookplace going through an icky transition of its own. Well, things have changed, and an angel (if you believe, clap your hands!) has come to save them. An anonymous benefactor has given them enough money to keep afloat (plus some), and is only asking for 1% ownership. We’re glad to hear Transitions is staying open, because otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to see real-life Medium, Allison...

Chicagoist loves animals. More specifically, we love our dogs (some of which can be seen here), so we were pumped today when we came across 2 dog events and one dog study all in the same day!

Some of us here in the Chicagoist office know a lot about comics and graphic novels. Some of us (ahem) don’t know quite as much. What we do know, is that we’d have to be under the biggest rock ever to have not heard of Jessica Abel, Queen of the Comics. Once you see her name for the first time, you will start to see it everywhere.

We’re pretty close with mom, but we won’t lie and say it’s all hunky-dory either. Usually, the closer we get with mom, the harder it is to keep our control when one of “those comments” comes out, like when she told us recently that we look great for being middle-aged.

James Frey discovered the glare of the Oprah’s Book Club spotlight isn’t always wine and roses. But Elie Wiesel and his haunting memoir Night, which Oprah selected for the next Book Club reading, isn’t likely to see the same fate. Wiesel's chilling account of life in a Nazi concentration camp and subsequent aftermath has stood up to 50 years of scrutiny. And anyone who suggests the Nobel Peace Prize winner embellished his story risks becoming...

Yowsas. Show of hands, anybody ever imagine publishing a novel that's been written in the span of only 3 days? Considering our difficulty in imagining writing a publishable novel, like, ever (though, y'know, who knows?), the prospect is terrifying. But that's just what Meghan Austin and Shannon Mullally did with their recently published novel Love Block, and they'll be sharing the craziness tonight at Quimby's.

Holy son of a gun, there is a lot going on in Chicago this weekend. And it is going to be HOT. And if you're anything like Chicagoist--lacking A/C in the ay pee tee--you may be thinking: "hmmm, McCormick Place may not be such a bad place to spend my weekend." In that case, lucky you, because the American Library Association will be there, hosting its 2005 Annual Conference.

Always wanted to find that special, out-of-the-way bar where everybody knows your name? Not particularly interested in good lighting, a clean floor, or the latest 'hood? Jonathan Stockton, Chicagoan and author of this quick-and-dirty guide to Chicago will read from and sign copies of his more in-depth guide Chicago's Best Dive Bars: Drinking and Diving in the Windy City tonight at Quimby's.

If you’re interested in surgical tools but didn’t have time to inspect them before you went under the anesthesia during your last triple bypass, check out the International Museum of Surgical Science. Besides an abundance of old and new medical paraphernalia, the museum houses sculptures of your favorite historical medical practitioners (if you have such a person) and kitschy paintings of the medical arts (an “official” Rembrandt replica, Egyptian hieroglyphs). Noteworthy objects include one of the first iron lungs, antique and slightly bemusing wheelchairs, frighteningly unsafe primitive X-ray machines, and an oddly excessive amount of amputation equipment. But perhaps the two high points of the museum’s collection are the trephinated skulls (holes poked through the skull to relieve tension) and the assortment of gallbladder and kidney stones.

Mayor Daley advised his book club followers yesterday to go forth and read en masse Walter Van Tilburg Clark’s classic 1940 Western saga The Ox-Bow Incident as the eighth in the city’s “One Book, One Chicago” exercise.

The AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour is stopping by North Ave. Beach this weekend for the Chicago Open presented by McDonald's. Play starts today and runs through Sunday.

Yesterday's high winds caused a bit of an incident at yesterday's Air & Water show.

Saturday and Sunday, the water show portion of the event runs from 9:30am - 10:30am and the air show runs from 11:00am - 4:00pm. Longtime announcer Herb Hunter delivers play-by-play coverage from North Avenue Beach.