It’s Wednesday, half-way to the weekend. But, oh – you already have some fun options you might get into come Friday. Or, maybe you know who you wanna be with but not what you’d want to do.
Fellas, take notice. Your beloved will look favorably on you. But you’ll want to wait until you’re sure the gal is special and that what you have is special. Because this place is special. Continue reading “Date Night: Ada Street, Chicago”
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
Certain songs cut to the core of moments or chapters in one’s life. One song for me is Bob Marley’s Redemption Song, which for me, hearkens to sometime in my mid-20s. This song is about the scars that remain with all humanity years after the African slave trade and the responsibility of later generations to educate themselves and remember the struggles of those who came before. Continue reading “Marley, a Documentary on the Definitive Reggae Rockstar and Revolutionary”
In a town where bars come and go like the whims of our infamous gale-force winds, Green Mill Cocktail Lounge in Uptown remains defiant, surviving Da Mare, riots and over a century of fruitless Cubs seasons. Maybe the Boys in Blue, clad in grey stirrups, stopped at the Mill for a homecoming victory round after winning their first World Series in 1907 over the Detroit Tigers? I can’t be sure that it’s true, but I like to think it could be. Continue reading “Serving Drunkards Since 1902: Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, 4802 N. Broadway”
As moviegoers learn in romcoms like this scene from My Best Friend’s Wedding starring Julia Roberts and the swoon-worthy timbre of Durmot Mulroney, you can’t let a good thing pass you by.
It’s true (in this movie – SPOILER ALERT) when your best friend with whom you have secretly been in love with for years is marrying someone so cute you despise her and you say nothing until the wedding day.
And it’s also true when major cultural attractions go sight unseen by its own residents like the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s River Cruise (which also figures prominently in this scene). Continue reading “Booze and 5 More Reasons You Shouldn’t Let the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s River Cruise Pass You By (Thanks, Julia Roberts)”
