Subject: Chicago

• Dispatch from Chicago

  January 12, 2007

• Tongue Depech-er

  May 11, 2006

• Wayward Cast 11: The Cribs, Dr. Dog, Neko Case, and more

  August 2, 2007

• Get On Office

  September 26, 2007

• Beck, Are You Really Coming to KC?

  June 24, 2008

• Carnivàle Expressions

  April 2, 2009

• Barack Obama: Food Critic

  It's hard to believe this video is only seven years old, but here he is in 2001, espousing on food and reviewing Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop in Chicago. The most telling part of the video: Ever the politician, he ordered the southern sampler to avoid getting pigeon-holed into a one-entree kind of guy.From community channel guest to president in seven years: God bless America. Via News Radio 1290 via Drudge.-- Owen Morris

  January 6, 2009

• Tivo Alert: Check Please! premieres tonight

  As mentioned in Pitch Forks this week, tonight at 7:30 KCPT debuts its version of Check Please! a television show that puts restaurant reviews in the hands of normal joes, for better or worse.Here's the basic set-up: Three people each pick a local restaurant. It can be fancy or a truck stop, pretty much whatever that person likes. Then those three people try each others' picks. After all the meals, they get together with a host to talk about their experiences. The show was created in Chicago (wh

  January 15, 2009

• Best Diner Atmosphere

  October 9, 2003

• Laurent Garnier

  March 25, 2004

• Kelly Conwell: student chef of the year

  Congratulations to Johnson County Community College's Kelly Conwell, who won the central region's student chef of the year award at the American Culinary Federation Conference this past weekend in Schaumburg, Illinois. "I was absolutely completely happy just to even get to regionals and to win -- oh my gosh. Winning is great," she tells me.Conwell had to beat out three other students and make a menu in 60 minutes plus five minutes to plate. It took nearly a minute for Conwell to just describe ev

  February 26, 2009

• Mahjongg

  March 10, 2005

• Hit the Road

  June 29, 2006

• Minus Story

  August 3, 2006

• The Changes

  September 14, 2006

• Mongol Beach Party

  December 18, 2008

• 117 Homicides and Counting

  As City Hall tries to fix its Aim4Peace program, the killing continues.

  November 20, 2008

• In the Distance

  March 13, 2008

• Winter Wonderland II

  December 20, 2007

• The Lawrence Arms

  November 15, 2007

• Pelican

  March 15, 2007

• Letters from the week of 12-14-2006

  December 14, 2006

• African Studies

  November 2, 2006

• The Audition

  Sunday, August 20, at The Granada

  August 17, 2006

• Fourmation, Flosstradamus and Super Meego

  August 3, 2006

• Sybris

  June 22, 2006

• The M's

  February 9, 2006

• Breakin' Too

  November 17, 2005

• Wilco

  November 10, 2005

• The New Black

  Thursday, October 20, at the Record Bar.

  October 20, 2005

• Fat Sal and Señor Oz Soundsystem

  Thursday nights at Jilly's.

  July 21, 2005

• Chicago Hope

  Earatik Statik brings Windy City steez to the Hip-Hop Triple Header.

  June 9, 2005

• Drums and Tuba

  Tuesday, April 12, at the Bottleneck; Wednesday, April 13, at Mojo's.

  April 7, 2005

• Mark Farina

  Friday, September 10, at Kabal.

  September 9, 2004

• Hart-Felt

  A showbiz veteran brings all that jazz to Kansas City.

  August 19, 2004

• Another World

  A Broadway revue that's worth New York prices.

  May 13, 2004

• Nick Moss and the Flip Tops

  Friday, January 9, at the Grand Emporium.

  January 8, 2004

• DJ Dayhota

  Saturday, May 24, at XO.

  May 22, 2003

• Bohola

  Friday, March 7, at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church, 5700 W. 6th Street in Lawrence.

  March 6, 2003

• Wilco (The Album) to beget "Wilco, the Song"

  Silly Wilco. Silly, silly Wilco. Rolling Stone recently reported that the Chicago band's seventh studio album will be titled Wilco (The Album) and that it will contain a fan-appreciation-themed song called "Wilco, the Song." RS's Rock and Roll Daily caught up with drummer Glenn Kotche for the following update: There's a little something for everyone on the group's new disc, which they recorded in their loft space in Chicago. "One Wing" and "Sunny Feeling" are breezy, pop-friendly tunes; "Dee

  April 29, 2009

• NBC Action News smells something fishy

  If you didn't catch the local news last night, KSHB really put it to many restaurants in the area who are serving fish that's not what they claim it to be. The station's reporters tested 20 restaurants who serve expensive fish. Of the 20, only three -- The Savoy, Bonefish and Islamorada -- actually served the fish advertised on the menu. Another five or so restaurants served a variation of the species or had legitimate excuses. The Red Snapper did serve snapper to an undercover reporter, just no

  May 13, 2009

• SPECIAL CINCO PREGUNTAS EDITION

  May 28, 2009

• Naked Raygun to Release New Music

  Chicago punk rock legends (and one of my most favorite bands ever omg) Naked Raygun announced that they'll be recording new music. As an added bonus, they'll release it as a series of seven inch singles. "The band will be headed into Transient Sound Studios in Chicago, Illinois to lay down tracks that will eventually be pressed on a series of 7-inch records and represent the first new material from the band since 1992." I thought I was excited about the vinyl reissues Haunted Town started putti

  July 16, 2009

• The land of the gyro, no matter how you pronounce it

  Where does gyro meat come from? If you said Greece, try again. The world's largest manufacturer of gyro cones -- the ubiquitous cylinders of pressed meat in every Greek restaurant -- is in Chicago. In fact, all the gyro producers are in Chicago.The New York Times had an article yesterday on the first gyro kings and how they made the food a dietary staple in the late '70s:"We didn't have a distribution deal in the early days," said [Gyro's Inc. owner] Mr. Parthenis.... "So the first gyros ever sh

  July 16, 2009

• Introducing Fat City's newest bestest blogger

  Hello, everyone out there in Fat City. I'm the new guy, Jonathan Bender. Over the past several weeks, Owen and Charles have subjected me to rigorous tests involving baked beans and tomato basil soup. So far my stomach and I have survived.I'm an East Coast transplant, having married into the city of fountains -- but with a father from Chicago, I've been raised with an appreciation for deep dish pizza and the proper way to dress a hot dog. Since moving to the city just over two years ago, I've bee

  July 17, 2009

• You had me at Japanese ice balls

  If you're still blown away by the ice maker in your fridge, you might want to sit down for what you're about to read. Forget the argument about on the rocks or a splash of water -- you can now super-size your ice via spherical ice molds ($16). The molds create ice spheres that are 2 inches in diameter, they'll fit snugly in a lowball glass. The ice sphere has origins in Japan, where apprentice bartenders (possibly Ralph Macchio) hand carve spheres from blocks of ice. Expensive whiskeys are serve

  July 27, 2009

• Cool video of the day: Jason Smith's 'Time-lapse from Chicago, Kansas City and Oklahoma'

  Jason Smith's time-lapse video of Kansas City, Chicago and Oklahoma is pretty sweet. Meh, on the Coldplay song but cool video. Timelapse from Chicago Kansas City and Oklahoma from Jason Smith on Vimeo.

  August 27, 2009

• Text, Design, Emotion

  September 10, 2009

• Meatovations: The next steps in cheeseburgers

  ​Every so often in our history, hamburgers take a great leap forward. Burgers got upgraded when cheese was introduced into the equation; blue cheese and Kobe Beef seemingly changed everything again in the '80s and '90s. Now cheese and another idea from Japan are spearheading the latest innovations The Chicago Tribune reviews two newly opened joints near Chicago that are hoping to redefine the cheeseburger. Gabutto Burger, a Japanese import, serves patties that are 80 percent beef, 20 percent p

  September 14, 2009

• Rightbloggers see Chicago's Olympics snub as Obama's foreign policy crisis -- which they cheer

  ​ Roy Edroso's Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice.Last week rightbloggers were outraged when President Obama struck a conciliatory tone in his address to the U.N. General Assembly. They didn't like that, nor did they like Obama's warm reception there, and predicted this love-fest would only encourage our adversaries, with dire consequences for the United States.Time will tell. But this week a different intern

  October 5, 2009