We like pasta. It’s tasty, it’s quick, it’s cheap and it’s a very easy way to use up things in your refrigerator. This week, we just happened to have some scallions and some slightly wrinkly cherry tomatoes in our fridge, and with some inspiration from Marcella Hazan, we created this dish. It sounds a little odd, but trust us – give it a try. more ›

Chicagoist first picked up David Rakoff's acclaimed Fraud a few years back because he was Canadian and we had a thing for our neighbors to the North. Then we discovered Rakoff was gay and, well, hot (our criteria for picking new authors today) and we were hooked. Rakoff is a regular on This American Life and has been called by TimeOut Chicago an amalgamation of "the wit of Stephin Merritt, the observations of Jerry Seinfeld... more ›