Hot Doug’s liberates Chicago dogs
When I became a Chicagoan, I put away some New York things, but I will never, ever put pickle spears or celery salt or violent green relish on my hot...
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Volunteers who lent faces demonstrated `leap of faith’
Being one of the Crown Fountain faces may be considered cool these days, but back when it was time to create that particular sub-community of Chicagoans, Mery Palarea-Lobos, 34 --...
Millennium Park’s spouting faces
Who are the everyday Chicagoans whose glowing, 50-foot-tall faces peer out from the Crown Fountain's twin steel and glass towers, slowly blinking and smiling at the city like benevolent giants?...
Earth to NASA: A souffle, not creme brulee
As sophisticated as NASA types are, they could probably use some cooking lessons. When pictures of the surface of the Saturnian moon Titan, taken by the Huygens space probe, were...
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JANUARY 2 "The goodbye polka" `Oh, it's still for sale," says Janet Teifke, 64, of the Wolverine Gardens, the bar and dance hall that she and her husband, Carl, 71,...
Fornetto Mei’s mix of Italian, Chinese makes for a jumble
In general, when people from different cultures come together in a spirit of harmony and understanding, everybody wins. But nobody likes it when the relationship feels forced (hence imperialism's nasty...
Where we go when we die
"Listen to this: An artist decided to document the knowledge and skills of Danville, Ill. The result is a charmingly random, curiously compelling encyclopedia of the inner life of a...
Mr. Kite loses licorice Scotties
"Sweet spot: Mr. Kite wears his heart on his storefront" -- Feb. 10 Considering the time of year, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Mr. Kite's Confectionery has ditched...
The food just keeps coming at Osteria
Here's a sentence that, in the history of mankind, has probably never been uttered about a new restaurant: "I sure hope they have communal seating!" That grievance/warning aside, I have...
Remote possibilities
Americans are addicted to this whole makeover thing -- trying to transform something we find unpleasant into something appealing practically overnight. I'm not talking about turning Iraq into a democracy...