Author: michael austin
A mighty wind on the lakefront
If you find yourself bicycling, running or walking on the lakefront path (no one Rollerblades anymore, do they?), and you find it to be easier than yo [...]
Mmmm, Mozart
The Sherwood Symphony concludes its 2005-2006 season on Friday, May 5 with a mostly Mozart concert at 7:30 p.m. at St. James Cathedral, 65 E. Huron (3 [...]
Mexican cooking class in hot Streeterville
Streeterville has had one of the hottest markets for new homes in the city lately, with a spate of high-profile high-rises, but upscale grocery and pr [...]
Grilling 101 in the West Loop
We don't want to count our chickens before we grill them, but the sun is starting to show its face regularly, and if your sniffer is sharp you know th [...]
Ready, aim — trickle!
Everything in Millennium Park that spits, spouts, streams or trickles will be turned on by noon tomorrow, Saturday.
That includes the popular Jaume Pl [...]
Everything is $5 at Southport restaurant
The strip of Southport between Addison and Irving went upscale long ago and is now lined with fancy restaurants. So it's nice in a way to see that in [...]
Lots o' matzo in River East
The new Max and Benny's deli is offering in-house and to-go Passover Seder menus on Wednesday and Thursday night, April 12 and 13, for $18.95 per pers [...]
"Movin' Out" is movin back to Chicago's Auditorium Theatre
"Movin' Out," the musical based on Billy Joel's songs and choreographed by Twyla Tharp, returns to Chicago, where its pre-Broadway run began. The show [...]
Tax Day dinner deals in the city
Here's a tasty tax season deal perhaps a little closer to home than Tinley Park or Oakbrook Terrace.
From April 15 to 18, Carnivale (702 W. Fulton Ma [...]
Tax Day dinner deals in the suburbs
It's a little out of the way for city folks, but on April 17 and 18, Tin Fish restaurant is offering "Tax Day" dining deals, consisting of the "1099" [...]
New in Loop: casino, water park, softball field!
Mayor Richard M. Daley today announced plans to turn the highly coveted parcel across from Marshall Field's flagship store on State Street, the so-cal [...]
Another unjustified "Thank you, Chicago!"
It happened again. Last night I was in Tower Records at Clark and Belden to return a movie (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe -- don't bother), when [...]
Release the hounds!
Driving north on Lake Shore Drive at 6:15 p.m. today I noticed that the lakefront path between Oak Street Beach and the North Avenue pedestrian bridge [...]
Millennium Park bean update
Close to three years after it was unveiled, Anish Kapoor's monumental sculpture, Cloud Gate, will be completely open to the public. City officials s [...]
Biograph Theater nearing completion
The historic Biograph movie house, at 2433 N Lincoln Ave in Chicago, the spot where the Lady in Red duped Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger, is in i [...]
"Sex" star in Cradle of Man
Come on, admit it -- you loved "Sex and the City." Now, instead of going to a Lincoln Park bar to sip Comsos and paint your nails during re-runs, you [...]
The hotels are coming, the hotels are coming!
Not since the Peninsula arrived close to five years ago has there been so much high-end hotel buzz in dowtown Chicago. Trump Tower is starting to actu [...]
Cooking with Tony on the Mag Mile
No foolin', on Saturday, April 1, chef Tony Mantuano, he of the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Midwest last year, presents the first in a seri [...]
May flowers be in your future
On a brutal day like today it's good to remind yourself that it won't last forever.
Soon your City in a Garden will return to being a city in a gard [...]
Urinetown continues to run
The Tony Award-winning Broadway hit "Urinetown the Musical" runs through June at the Mercury Theatre, 3745 N. Southport (773-325-1700) in the Lakeview [...]