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  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    Voodoo Funk, Derrick Carter, Questlove, And Horse Meat Disco Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

    ​We're going to stay away from Friday the 13th. Nothing good can come of it. Instead, start your weekend off on Saturday afternoon at PS1's Warm Up. It's a weird group of acts, really. Fool's Gold's funky-disco-infused house guru Treasure Fingers and catchy dance producer Kingdom man the decks ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 11, 2010

    'Deep Space Presents M50'

    ​We're going to stay away from Friday the 13th. Nothing good can come of it. Instead, start your weekend off on Saturday afternoon at PS1's Warm Up. It's a weird group of acts, really. Fool's Gold's funky-disco-infused house guru Treasure Fingers and catchy dance producer Kingdom man the decks ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 25, 2010

    Shellac

    ​We're going to stay away from Friday the 13th. Nothing good can come of it. Instead, start your weekend off on Saturday afternoon at PS1's Warm Up. It's a weird group of acts, really. Fool's Gold's funky-disco-infused house guru Treasure Fingers and catchy dance producer Kingdom man the decks ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2010

    This is What You Get for Saying "Fuck" On Your First Episode of Saturday Night Live: The New SNL Cast Primer

    ​Saturday Night Live is switching up their cast, and the New York Times has confirmed the new lineup. Who's out and who's in this season, which everyone will tell you is worse than the season before regardless?

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2010

    'Turrbotax Presents Untold & Brenmar'

    ​Saturday Night Live is switching up their cast, and the New York Times has confirmed the new lineup. Who's out and who's in this season, which everyone will tell you is worse than the season before regardless?

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Rahm Emanuel to Leave Motherfu**ing White House at End of G*damn Week

    ​ABC News' Jake Tapper is reporting that White House chief of staff Rahm "Special (Linguistic) Olympian" Emanuel is likely to leave his esteemed position as Barack Obama's chief-of-staff by the end of the week to explore a run as the mayor of Chicago, where his experience as a verbal gymnast m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2010

    Rahm Emanuel Announces Run For Chicago Mayor Via YouTube Video

    Ex-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who left his post on Friday, announced Sunday via YouTube what everyone already knew: he's running for mayor of Chicago. Watch your goddamn backs, "gangbangers."

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    Urge Overkill Play Mercury Lounge Tonight; Tickets Still Available

    ​Given the public's abiding interest in '90s bands that may or may not have reunited, we thought we'd point out that proudly hedonistic Chicago power-pop goofballs Urge Overkill are taking another crack at it, playing their first live show in forever tonight at Mercury Lounge, and at least las ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Lupe Fiasco's Lasers Has A Release Date

    ​So Atlantic Records has been sitting on Lupe Fiasco's new record, Lasers, for a couple years now, an untenable state of affairs given that "he's really much more than just a rapper from Chicago -- he represents a generation, and a movement," as it was explained to us last week by the guy plan ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 6, 2010

    Mike Reed's People, Places & Things

    ​So Atlantic Records has been sitting on Lupe Fiasco's new record, Lasers, for a couple years now, an untenable state of affairs given that "he's really much more than just a rapper from Chicago -- he represents a generation, and a movement," as it was explained to us last week by the guy plan ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 8, 2010

    Fright or Flight Response

    Why are Mexicanairlines so fearless?

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Magnolia Sets Up Mission Control in Harlem, Readies for World Domination

    Then one day, the cupcakes started eating us.​The cupcake cartel that is Magnolia isn't just opening five new locations around the country. It's priming itself for world domination with a new 5,200-square-foot production facility in Harlem, according to the Wall Street Journal. The new factory ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Butt-Dial Leads to "Hostage Situation," or, Why You Should Never Listen to Hip-Hop in Winnetka

    ​You know how when your phone rings and you're so excited to answer it because maybe you don't get phone calls all that often, and so you pick up, eagerly but outwardly cool, 'cause you're like that, and then you hear some muffled sounds and maybe something reminiscent of a gunshot or chairs b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Hijacking Alert Issued Over Spilt Airplane Coffee

    ​Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 5, 2011

    'Big Booty Hoes'

    ​Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 5, 2011

    The Smith Westerns+Ducktails+Bass Drum of Death

    ​Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    "Why Isn't My Blog More Popular?" Quitters Wonder

    ​Old people tend to be bad at blogging, according to a sad, strange trend piece in Crain's Chicago Business, which is making the rounds online today so internet experts can chuckle at clueless novices. Like going to the gym, eating healthier and other New Year's resolution-type self improvemen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    9 States Are Now Under Blizzard Warnings, and Other Freaky Weather Facts

    ​Although our winter storm warning has been downgraded to an advisory, the weather still has the makings of something rather apocalyptic. It's being called "life-threatening." Across the nation, people are freaking out. Even people in England are worried about our well-being (or are smugly enj ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2011

    Your Weekend In Nightlife, Starring Stretch And Bobbito, DJ/Rupture, And Azari & III

    ​Your week starts with a little dancing, courtesy of a dancing DJ. We've sung Willy Joy's praises as Kid Sister's DJ more than once, but tonight it's all about him. Chicago's juke-loving, bass-fiending dance DJ celebrates the release of his Woman Like Me EP on Plant Music with a set at Ella We ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Man Surprised to Find that Online Girlfriend Asking Him for Money Is Not Real

    ​There is a sucker born every minute. On the Internet, multiply that by 200,000, and you'll get the amount of money that a hapless 48-year-old man from the Chicago suburb of Naperville sent his supposed "online girlfriend" whom he'd actually never met. But he'd seen her Florida driver's licens ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2011

    'Discovery Presents Trus'me+Tyson Ballard+VDRK'

    ​There is a sucker born every minute. On the Internet, multiply that by 200,000, and you'll get the amount of money that a hapless 48-year-old man from the Chicago suburb of Naperville sent his supposed "online girlfriend" whom he'd actually never met. But he'd seen her Florida driver's licens ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 8, 2011

    The Foodie Registry Invites Married Couples to Hit Their Friends up for Dinner

    ​Couples in Hong Kong recently began turning to McDonald's to fulfill their twisted dreams of matrimonial bliss, and now a fast-growing website is making it possible for American couples to gain edible pay-off for their decision to wed.

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    The 2011 James Beard Award Finalists Are...

    ​Earlier this afternoon in Portland, OR, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards. So without further ado, the nominees, after the jump:

  • Voice Choices

    March 23, 2011

    Jason Stein Quartet

    ​Earlier this afternoon in Portland, OR, the James Beard Foundation announced the finalists for the 2011 James Beard Awards. So without further ado, the nominees, after the jump:

  • Voice Choices

    March 30, 2011

    LIAR, LIAR

    What would you do for love?

  • Voice Choices

    April 6, 2011

    SLUDGE MATCH

    Metal in a meatgrinder

  • Blogs

    April 11, 2011

    Chicago Foodies Are Even More Batshit Than New York Foodies

    Alinea Grant Achatz, the man most likely to drive Chicago diners to distraction.​Remember way back when Ko opened and people were doing all sorts of crazy shitto get a reservation? Three years later, Chicago has put us to shame.

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Thieves Steal $80K Worth of Human Hair From Beauty Supply Store

    ​Thieves broke into a Chicago beauty supply store on Easter and made off with almost $80,000 worth of human hair. The Tribune reports that the robbers pried open a metal door at the shop's rear and targeted the most expensive brands of hair once inside. Jay Han, the owner of Beauty One, said t ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 27, 2011

    TALK SOUP

    Mark Bazer chats with Das Racist

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Backstreet Boy Makes Movie Debut

    ​My favorite Backstreet Boy, Kevin Richardson, got good reviews for stepping into Chicago on Broadway a few years ago, and now he's taken another career advance by going Indie-wood. He costars in the Steve Balderson-directed The Casserole Club, a Mad Men-era glimpse into the dark side of Cali ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    My Grandmother's Horehound

    ​The candy has a rather dusty appearance. That's "horehound," not "whore hound" -- though the joke works if you say it out loud, rather than see the word written. While the former might suggest an overly promiscuous feral dog, the latter is an herb that was used long ago to make hard candy.

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2011

    Tony Awards Prove My Blind Items Right!

    ​This very week, my column has a blind item about an actor/director who broke up with a Wicked chorus boy, only to take up with the Pal Joey guy, who broke up with an ex Chicago cast member. I also said that the Chicago guy is now a pair with that Book of Mormon star. Well, at the Tonys toni ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2011

    VillageVines Finally Gets a Food-Related Name, Now Called Savored

    Savored​VillageVines, the online restaurant discount site that sounds vaguely like the bottle of $3 Chardonnay found in the back of grandma's cupboard, has undergone a makeover and now finally has a name that sounds like it's at least related to food. It'll now be called Savored. And with a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    What to Drink at Prune: The Chicago Matchbox (Like, Duh)

    Each week in The Daily Shot, we have ourselves a drink that we think you should try, too. girluninterrupt/foodspottingGet lit.​The drink: Chicago Matchbox The bar: Prune (54 East 1st Street, East Village, 212-677-6221) The price: $10 Ingredients: Homemade lemon vodka, Sacramento tomato jui ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Casey Anthony Career Plans! Here's A Great Idea!

    ​So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!

  • Film

    July 20, 2011

    Sex Is Comedy, Kind of, in Autoerotic

    ​So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!

  • Voice Choices

    August 17, 2011

    Umphrey's McGee

    ​So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!

  • Voice Choices

    September 28, 2011

    'Oktave' w/ Jeff Derringer+Edit-Select+Raiz

    ​So she got off. I guess that really was rotting pizza in her car trunk, not the decomposition stench of her murdered and duct taped daughter. So what's in Casey Anthony's glamorous future? I know!

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2011

    Deep Thoughts from a 'Pizza Douche': How a Slice Is Like Cleavage

    brendan-c/flickrLife of pie.​Sure, he's from Chicago and he's been called a "pizza douche," but Patrick Bertoletti, who happens to be ranked second in the International Federation of Competitive Eating, says he's eaten at more than 200 different pizzerias around the world, including New York's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2011

    Q&A: Chicago Artist Michael Tewz on His Work of Art Elimination, His Buddy Sucklord

    BRAVOTewz on Work of Art One of the more intriguing aspects of Work of Art, the BRAVO reality show we've been following, is that the show's producers chose a handful of cast members who'd already had a presence in the world, whose self-propelled careers could exist apart from the reality-television ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 26, 2011

    The Sea and Cake

    BRAVOTewz on Work of Art One of the more intriguing aspects of Work of Art, the BRAVO reality show we've been following, is that the show's producers chose a handful of cast members who'd already had a presence in the world, whose self-propelled careers could exist apart from the reality-television ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2011

    Download "Enough," A Yowly Gem From Chicago's Mannequin Men (Playing Tonight And Tomorrow)

    ​Tonight at Shea Stadium and tomorrow night at Cake Shop the fine Chicago garage-rock outfit Mannequin Men will perform, and it would behoove you to attend one or both shows, should you not have plans for the weekend yet. But don't take my word for it. Below, download the chugging "Enough," wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Ask the Critics: Where Can I Get Chicago-Style Hot Dogs?

    Robert SietsemaShake Shack's Chicago-style hot dog ​Mark L. Asks: I've been craving a Chicago-style hot dog. Who makes the best one in New York? Dear Mark: Having spent several years living in Chicago, I can appreciate your love of the Chicago-style hot dog, which differs from the classic Ne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2012

    Coffee Cup Motifs in NYC's 59th Street Subway Station

    ​Don't fall in! In the last 10 years or so, lots of subway stations have been revamped, many with mosaics intended to reflect some associations with what's above the station on the street. Some of these motifs involve food and entertainment -- there are fish in the Delancey Street station, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 4, 2012

    'Verboten' w/ Hot Natured

    ​Don't fall in! In the last 10 years or so, lots of subway stations have been revamped, many with mosaics intended to reflect some associations with what's above the station on the street. Some of these motifs involve food and entertainment -- there are fish in the Delancey Street station, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2012

    Broadway Replacements: Your Favorite?

    ​Darren Criss is attracting screaming Gleeks to How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and they're filling the seats once occupied by screaming Potterfiles. Which brings to mind the topic of Broadway replacements and how they fare in light of all the hoopla generated by the origina ... More >>

  • Film

    February 8, 2012

    'Talking Landscape: Early Media Work, 1974-1984'

    ​Darren Criss is attracting screaming Gleeks to How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and they're filling the seats once occupied by screaming Potterfiles. Which brings to mind the topic of Broadway replacements and how they fare in light of all the hoopla generated by the origina ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 25, 2012

    Rise Against

    ​Darren Criss is attracting screaming Gleeks to How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, and they're filling the seats once occupied by screaming Potterfiles. Which brings to mind the topic of Broadway replacements and how they fare in light of all the hoopla generated by the origina ... More >>

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