To show the HD video capabilities of their new D800 camera, Nikon enlisted legendary Chicago-based portrait photographer Sandro Miller to create a five-minute film. (Discretion advised: the video contains graphic images.) more ›

Here are some more "neighborhood brands" from The Chicago Neighborhoods' Steve Shanabruch. more ›

Once Friedman announced the book project on Twitter last week, we had to know more. more ›

The CTA's Holiday train has a few runs left, so we decided to put together a gallery of some of our favorite photographs of the train from the CTA's Flickr pool for your viewing. Until the train runs next year, enjoy. more ›

(Legendary Chicago-based photographer Art Shay has taken photos of kings, queens, celebrities and the common man in a 60-year career. In this week's look at his photography archives, Art explains how he spent a lifetime trying to avoid taking stock photography.) more ›

Today Art shows how editing a photo here and there can make a photo tell more than a thousand words. more ›

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The folks at Hideout are putting together a photography exhibit called Scrap Book and they want your photos of lazy days and drunken nights at the bar. more ›

We stopped into Fork last week to try some bites and beers, snapping pictures along the way to give you a view of their offerings. more ›

Tonight is one of two times a year the sun will appear to set directly behind the Chicago skyline. One of the best places to view this is from Indiana Dunes State Park. more ›

A new photography exhibit opening today culls some of the best photographs from the Soul Train archives during the show's legendary run in Chicago. more ›

You may recall our visit to Rose Angelis and how we enjoyed the comforting Italian food - the tender calamari in spicy balsamic vinegar, the spinach pasta and the strawberries in caramel. We decided to head back to Rose Angelis and this time, snap some pictures for you to enjoy. more ›

Need a reminder of why Chicago summers are so great? Check this breathtaking time-lapse that crunches our already compressed glory season into four minutes. more ›

Today, Art looks back at a fateful trip to the Grand Canyon to remind us the more things change, the more they stay the same. more ›

This week, Art looks at our simian cousins. more ›

Every year, the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen brings some of the country's best chefs, sommeliers, wine producers and hardcore culinarians (read: foodies) together for a weekend of both work and (mostly) play. With cooking seminars, wine tasting workshops, jam-packed tasting pavilions, lavish dinners and notorious after-parties, it's hard not to have a great and gluttonous time. To celebrate our city's raging culinary scene, this slideshow highlights some of Chicago's finest as they eat and drink their way through this year's Classic. more ›

Last week, Craig Perman (Perman Wine Selections) and veteran chefs of the underground dinner scene Abe Conlon and Adrienne Lo (X-Marx) collaborated to host the third annual installment of Txakoholika, a Pop-up Pintxos and Wine Bar. Basque-inspired finger foods were paired with Sidra (hard cider) and five different Txakoli's, a slightly effervescent, highly acidic and dry wine (either white or rose) indigenous to the Basque region. Not only was this event a great way to introduce the new vintages of this truly unique juice to Chicago but allowed guests to experience San Sebastian for the evening. With summer around the corner, make sure you give these wines a try! more ›

It's always a pleasant surprise to be thanked for my military service. more ›

Today Art reflects on Harold Camping's rapture prediction. more ›

Regular Flickr pool contributor Craig Shimala shared this video of time-lapse video he created using a mirror effect, making the Chicago skyline into a badass cloud city, more ›

Today finds Art in a nostalgic mood. more ›

In this week of horror and entertainment I thought I would hold off until some other time on the horror in my own life -- my wonderful wife diagnosed with ovarian cancer and doing well in treatment -- and share with you (as you're bombarded with inane entertainment news of the Royal Wedding) a few moments I've spent over the years with real entertainers. more ›

Today in "Extra Extra:" Gov. Quinn sends the National Guard downstate to fight flooding. more ›

Today in "Extra Extra:" No camping out for X-Factor auditions at the Sears Centre. more ›

Yes, readers. That's a light dusting of snow you see in the photo, taken from our apartment 45 minutes ago. As if this being tax day wasn't enough. Some of you who are waiting until the last minute to have your tax returns postmarked are probably thinking, "I have to trudge through more of that to get to the post office?" Don't worry, this is about as bad as it gets today. Otherwise it's going to be cloudy and chilly with winds out of the east to northeast at 10-20 MPH and a projected high of 46 degrees. The clouds and precipitation are expected to stick around through Wednesday. Happy Monday, y'all. more ›

Baseball came to the flowering Bronx of my boyhood via stickball played with broom handles. Yankee Stadium was only a one hour's walk away from our three sewer long stickball street and we often sneaked in to worship the Babe, Lou Gehrig and the rest of the gods, and get their autographs on our brown sandwich wrappings. more ›

Today: The Obamas are going back to Oprah. more ›

If you're a flickr user and wish to have your photography considered for "Around Town" or other Chicagoist features, please tag your photos with "Chicagoist" and enter them into our flickr pool. more ›

Today Art shares with us (very adult) accounts of his acquaintance with the author of From Here to Eternity, James Jones. (Warning: Art has some frank talk about sex here.) more ›

Today =, Art shares never-before seen photos from his African music career. more ›