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Top 5: Summer Music Festivals

May 10, 2013

Because you can’t spend your ENTIRE summer at the pool, (though we encourage you to try) we’ve rounded up some of the season’s best music festivals around the country to remind ourselves that there’s life after Coachella. Clockwise from top … Read More

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The Windy City Top 10

April 5, 2013

Because we trust Chicago magazine’s culinary acumen, here are the current hotsy-spots in the city that’s keeping Manhattan on its epicurean toes.  1. The Boarding House 2. Found 3. Grace 4. Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House 5. Little Goat … Read More

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Cougar (or Panther) Town!

November 7, 2012

Luis Gispert’s ‘Pin Pan Pun’ show is the go-to gallery show for art flies in the Windy City. Here is what the Rhona Hoffman gallery says about the fantasist’s solo-exhibit work: “Working within the fields of photography, sculpture, and video, … Read More

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Food & Drink

‘Hearty’ Trenchermen Is a Bit of Everything (Maybe a Good Thing)

October 2, 2012

Beer-hall-in-a-bath house meets farm-to-table fabulosity at new Wicker Park restaurant. The food critics have spoken–in raves: Trenchermen is the hot new spot in Chi-town. Here’s how their flack describe the joint: “Creatively retooling the ubiquitous chef-driven concept by serving thought-provoking … Read More

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Food & Drink

Ralph Lauren Restaurant

September 5, 2012

Where form, function, and ‘club’ food meet. If you’re stuck in a fly-by layover, or just love the pedigree of RL, and Chicago, then the new restaurant and bar is the place to pull back a stool or chair. Very…yar… … Read More

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Inn-Sight

Lollapalooza 2012

August 7, 2012

This year’s Lollapalooza was a whirlwind of crazy weather, tons of people, and 130+ amazing bands. Thompson Hotels was on-site to capture our the windy city in all its glory, our favorite fashion looks & the performances that stole our … Read More

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Music

LollaShop Checks in at Thompson Hotels (Chicago)

July 25, 2012

Get your Lollapalooza duds on before the big event… Lollapalooza, to be held August 3rd-5th in Chicago, is launching a new pop-up shop concept with the first-ever “LollaShop” and relating events transpiring at the Thompson Hotel Lounge (where you can … Read More

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Food & Drink

The Train Car Trend

July 13, 2012

Upscale diners are baaa-ack (again). For the past 20 years, restaurateurs keep getting this nifty notion to bring back comfort food as well as the places that you used to get it: in diner (even though each year cities lose … Read More

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Food & Drink

As the Tables Turn…in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, and Miami

June 13, 2012

Some hot reservations for the hottest of months. LOS ANGELES: Bow & Truss. In North Hollywood. Do the suh-weet courtard patio. Bowandtruss.com CHICAGO: Nellcote. Go for the little dishes in this cool-old mansion. Nellcoterestaurant.com LONDON: Il Ristorante. Big anticipation here … Read More

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Food & Drink

Ice, Ice Baby

March 7, 2012

Guy walks into a bar, girl walks into a bar: Daniel Boulud’s new drinks and canapé books have the poison for both. Split between “For Him” and “For Her”—is Daniel Boulud Cocktails and Amuse-Bouches, a drinks and small bites guide … Read More

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Food & Drink

Whiskey Business

December 7, 2011

It’s about to be fuh-freezing in the Windy City, per usual. Saddle up to some of the city’s finest whiskey bars with this Johnny Walker, er, crawl. This list shows there’s plenty to go around. It was provided by the … Read More

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Food & Drink

Da Buttercream

October 19, 2011

New York’s temple of the cupcake, Magnolia Bakery, shakes its sprinkles on Chicago. We remember a time when there wasn’t a line outside Magnolia Bakery, the Greenwich Village grand-dame of the haute cupcake movement.  We filled our little white boxes and … Read More

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Nightlife

Whaddya’ Want? Eggs in Ya’ Beah?

September 21, 2011

Chicago’s The Bedford aims to get you lubed at the brunch hour, the new cocktail hour, doncha’ know? Chicago just won’t slow down with pretty cool new drink joints. The Bedford: a restaurant and sophisticates bar housed in an historic … Read More

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Food & Drink

Maritime Chic Hits the Midwest

August 15, 2011

Chicago’s new GT Fish & Oyster looks as good as it tastes. We won’t even mind eating at a group table at GT Fish & Oyster, the new River North spot opened by the super-cool owners of Girl & the … Read More

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