Results tagged “westafrican”

We know from experience that local foodies can be a vocal and opinionated lot. Two new groups are now looking at adding their input to the discourse. The Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance, according to their mission statement, is "dedicated to celebrating, exploring, and preserving unique food traditions and their cultural contexts in the American Midwest." They plan on supporting the mission with public events, developing archival resources, and creating print publications. Their inaugural event, focusing...

Dance’s big guns prance around Chicago each spring, so we won’t have to. That’s for the best, since a few too many evenings on the couch and bar stool have robbed us of our best stage leaps. At least these folks haven’t lost a step: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns to the Auditorium Theater this weekend, bringing new work and a few of their gorgeous, athletic favorites. Influences range from traditional Indian and West...

Marshall Fields’ loyalists still stewing at Macy’s takeover now have another reason to boycott or reluctantly patronize the newly rebranded stores. Macy’s has taken over sponsorship of Symphony Center’s Day of Music, and the results are rather dubious.

We’ve traveled a bit, we’ve been to Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. We’ve acquired faint ideas of what living in a third world country must be like, but we still had cute REI backpacks and pretty, pink mosquito nets.

Author John Leland is going to be at the W Hotel on Adams tonight from 6pm - 8pm talking about his new book, Hip: The History. Leland is an award-winning reporter and his new book delves into the annals of history to bring us the lowdown on hip as we know it.