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826CHI wants you to say “YES!” to BORING
When I first moved to the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago, I decided to check out the area. While strolling down Milwaukee Avenue, I noticed a store called the Boring Store. With a bright orange awning, and an illustration of a private detective with a shopping cart—I was intrigued. I walked into the Boring Store, [...]
Dust Off Your Ballet Flats, American Ballet Theatre Pliés Into Chicago for Five Days Only
I was 10 years old when my grandpa gave me the jewelry box painted with orchids and reeds. Inside, two opal swans slid across the mirrored top as I wound it and the music began to play. Sitting there in my lawn chair that summer afternoon, surrounded by family and friends visiting for my birthday, [...]
National Food Blogger Bake Sale on Saturday
A fellow Chicago bloggy friend, Maris of In Good Taste, has been working hard to plan the National Food Blogger Bake Sale here in Chicago. I’m definitely going to try to stop by because with treats and helping a good cause? You just can’t go wrong! Who: Some of Chicago’s finest food blogs and bakeries [...]
SAIC Spring Art Sale
I would very much like to be one of those people – who have original works by amazingly talented artists in their homes and sleep on big piles of money. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people – but it doesn’t mean that I can’t get enough of art. Fortunately, that’s where the twice [...]
The Cubs Season Cometh
Hear that? It’s the crisp sound of the first Old Style being cracked open on the Cubs home opener at Wrigley Field on Monday, April 12th. After five long months of baseball-lessness, the Cubbies are back in the Friendly Confines hoping their 162-game road leads to post-season glory in October. White Sox Fans, Southsiders, and [...]
More CHIRP, Less Tweet
With spring right around the corner (allegedly), the sounds of birds chirping outside our windows is sure to soon greet us. And this spring, they’ll have company. Chicago’s diverse independent music scene has a new voice joining the chorus; only that voice is more CHIRP, less tweet. Launched in January, CHIRP Radio is Chicago’s only [...]
Tips from a Chicago Trainer – Fab Abs!
Hopefully you’re all sticking to your health goals in 2010. If your workout routine needs a boost, however, I’ve got some great tips courtesy of Core Fitness Chicago trainer Nicole Krakora. She’s giving you the 4-1-1 on how to get rockin’ abs – in ways you may not have expected. Have you spent countless hours [...]
Know What I Don’t Need? A Car.
I haven’t owned a car since high school. I haven’t needed one. It’s been nice, because the combined cost of gas and insurance would render me much poorer than I had previously imagined. In college, my campus had an awesome public transportation system, and everything you ever needed to do was within a mile of [...]
Learning to cook – with a little help from my friends at Bespoke Cuisine
There are things that I know I’m good at. For example, I’m a great multi-tasker, I can plan an amazing event, and I can pack a suitcase like a pro. And I know there are things that I just can’t do. Such as, simple arithmetic, running more than a mile, and last but not least [...]
New Looks for 100% off
Where do you find this exceptional deal? Your closet, of course! If you’ve got the “closet full of clothes, nothing to wear” feeling, don’t jump to spend on something new before you’ve really tried to make something work from what you have. Want to know how? Follow these 5 steps: Get into the right mindset. [...]
