Next's El Bulli menu will run you $17/course. Le Cirque's visit to Chicago? $50/course. Why should we do this? more ›

The issue is that clapping at the end of a movie seems self-congratulatory, as if the audience were applauding themselves for picking such a great movie as much as for the movie itself. more ›

We received a press released a few weeks back that made us do a double take. The subject line: "Turn any Restaurant into a Breastaurant!" The release, advertising BreastaurantUniforms.com, a company founded by Terra Watson, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, promises that restaurant owners can increase traffic by putting their waitresses in sexy, revealing outfits. After some quick mocking on Twitter, we let it drop like so many other bad ideas we get in our email - but apparently it's not dead. Consumerist reports today that these establishments are growing in popularity despite the recession, and new chains are popping up to compete with Hooters, the old standard. more ›

On Monday mornings, we invite our readers to gather around our table and discuss a culinary issue of the day. If you have anything you'd like to talk about, send it to anthony@chicagoist.com more ›

Benjy offered up his mid-season assessment of the White Sox earlier today and I'll give my mid-season assessment of the Cubs tomorrow. But, really, our pals from Cubs Fan Report have summed it up pretty well in this video (featuring Schadenfreude's Justin Kaufmann). more ›

It's been a while since we've read a good, old fashioned anti-government manifesto. Luckily for us, reader Katie Scully was kind enough to share these pics, displaying a lengthy anti-Daley/Parking Meter/Taxes/2016 Olympics manifesto posted earlier this month in the front window of String A Strand in Lincoln Square. At first, we were going to have a little fun, but then we realized the rant could easily double for anything either we or our pals over at the Reader have written in the last six months. more ›

We were really hoping one of these days Mayor Daley would get around to addressing Michael Vick and Barry Bonds. Today, Da Mayor obliged during a rant in which he questioned the priority of federal investigators. Here's the gist, courtesy of CBS 2: more ›