Results tagged “theheart”

If it hasn't been drilled into your heads yet, street festival season is kicking into high gear. This week, we'll highlight a couple to check out, as well as feature one of the more humorous press releases to reach our inbox this week. Strap it on! We'll Call Ours the "Triple Bypass": Wendy's is hosting an online contest to see who can design their next burger. Folks who log on to www.thisismyburger.com can choose from...

The last time Chicagoist tackled eating on the Southwest Side, our map reading skills were called into question. So, knowing that this week's installment of "Cheap Eats" is located in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood, we'll let you debate whether this qualifies as a south side cheap eat, or a west side cheap eat. We're here to tell you about the food, which is worth the trip, with or without a compass. When Chicagoist last...

This morning, we've been running around the Chicagoist offices like mad, trying to get the place tidy. Like lots of other people this time of year, we've got family in town. Specifically, our sister (site) Austinist and a band they've been raving about called St. James. While little sisters aren’t always known for having great taste in music, this is the exception.

Has anyone been watching Rock Star: INXS? Has anyone noticed that Martin Casey, frontman for the Chicago group Lovehammers, is a contestant? Does anyone else besides Chicagoist find this absolutely hilarious? Maybe it’s because we’ve been known to joke about Lovehammers as the Chicago band most likely to go on a tour titled “The Nineties Never Happened” and the fact that Marty is trying out for a slot fronting INXS is just too rich for...

This Friday at the Music Box marks the long awaited (by Chicagoist, anyway) rerelease of Jacques Tati's classic Playtime (and, for better or worse, influence on Steven Spielberg's The Terminal). Like Francis Ford Coppola with his similarly neglected One From The Heart, Tati went all crazy Orson Welles on this one, demanding that an entire city be constructed on a soundstage. And again like Coppola, constructing that city on a back-lot effectively bankrupted him. But what a way to go out!

Congrats to our pal Claire Zulkey, who today had her 100th interview.. uh.. interviewee. The lucky #100 is JT Leroy, the co-producer of Gus Van Sant's "Elephant" and co-writer of the script for "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things," an award-winner at Cannes. He has also written a novel called Sarah and is in a band called Thistle.