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Chicagoist has a love-hate relationship with wine. We love slurping the stuff – hey, we’ve even managed the swirl-and-sniff technique without spilling… well, most of the time anyways – but we hate that we feel so intimidated, overwhelmed and just plain stupid at wine shops (is it us or are wine clerks getting younger and younger?). Just Grapes understands our plight. According to Don Sritong, managing partner/director of wine education, the mission of this West...

Watching freaky video installations can be the most fun you’ll have at an art museum, but we’ve always wondered whether art patrons are really willing to drop a few thousand bucks for a few LED screens, DVDs and projection equipment, just to recreate the mind-blowing goodness in their own living rooms. More than a few are apparently. Donald Young saw this potential back in the 1970s when he and his then-wife Rhona Hoffman, whose own gallery is around the corner, started championing video artists and their post-groovy but no less mind blowing projects.