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Definitive Touch Men’s Contemporary Fashion Shopping Guide: North America
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Tam Popo / Tampopo Sushi – The Secret is Out
When I moved north, I started looking around for another go-to sushi spot. On Lincoln is Tampopo and for the past year it's been my most consistently delicious sushi spot and a great value. I did several searches on the site to make sure I hadn't mention it. I could have sworn I did but alas. It…
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A Turn of Phrase Will Make Your Day!
Coin That Phrase was a 2009 finalist for the Chicago Innovation Award. It's a social interaction and networking service that brings cool phrases to the attention of others. While some of the phrases are classical ones, others are new. If you look the phrases over, you can vote on them or do…
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How To: Dress For Winter Bike Commuting « Let's Go Ride a Bike
Excellent advice..includes a great video and helpful photos.
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YouTube - How To Dress For Winter Bike Commuting
Excellent video from a woman bike commuting in style through Chicago winters
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CLASSIXX To Get Sensual At Smart Bar This Saturday
Smart Bar will host LA-based duo CLASSIXX this Saturday in what promises to be an all night electro-disco romp, complete with syncopated hand waves, foot stomps and eyes-closed-head-swaying. CLASSIXX (Michael David and Tyler Blake) were one of 2009's front runners in the music blog scene,…
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More Chi-Town Theatre Moving To New York
photo of Desmin Borges and Usman Ally by Liz Lauren Superior Donuts may have closed on Broadway, but more Chicago goodness is headed east to keep Our Town company off-Broadway. The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, which had its world premiere at Victory Gardens last fall, will open at New…
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Jens Lekman Charms Chicago
We didn’t get to ring in the New Year with our favorite Swedish singer/songwriter, Jens Lekman, but we did catch him at the Empty Bottle the next night, and he even reenacted a sweet little midnight countdown for us. This was a one-stop tour, so it’s no wonder he sold out all three…
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Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on Chicagoist. Showplace ICON Theatre, movies with more features. Now open at Clark and Roosevelt. American Apparel, with 4 stores in Chicago, you can look your best anywhere you go. If you're interested in advertising on Chicagoist…
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The Not-So-Dark Personalities Of My Gold Mask
Photo by Jim Newberry, via My Gold Mask's MySpace Arresting vocals from Gretta Rochelle complement her minimal percussion and balance the guitar backing offered by My Gold Mask bandmate, and husband, Jack Armondo. Icy vocal edges slice through moody instrumentals that alternate with notes of…
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Friday Afternoon Diversion: Happy Birthday Mr. Jones
I am kind of a complete geek over David Bowie, so much so I DJed a Bowie Night earlier this week in celebration of his at the time impending birthday. Today is the actual big day though, and 63 years ago Bowie was born / landed on our planet / stepped through an inter-dimensional rift and has been…
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CTA Refunding Money Taken From Penny Rides
Did you use a Chicago Card while taking the CTA on New Year's Eve when the agency was allegedly giving people rides for a penny? There's a chance that they over-charged you and now you're getting refunded. Reader Steve Koo forwarded us an email the CTA is sending out to customers who were…
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Friday Flashback - The King Has Left The Chicago Stadium, Long Live the King
If you want to own a reproduction of this poster, they're all over Ebay. As it's Elvis' 75th birthday today, we thought we'd try to see exactly what was shaking in the city during the birth of rock music. The Sun-Times has an interesting piece about the birth of "In the Ghetto," but we wanted…
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Lots Of Eyes On Outback Bowl
Northwestern fans are still nursing their wounds from this year's heart-breaking (and thrilling) Outback Bowl where the Wildcats fell to Auburn 38-35 in overtime. And it seems a lot of fans were watching the team's first bowl appearance in 13 years. Crain's reports that the game earned the largest…
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Quigley Takes To The Stage For Military
Is there anything U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley won't do? It seems carving a penguin out of ice wasn't enough because he also busted out his acting chops on stage at the Goodman. It was part of a benefit production of “A Christmas Carol” for Chicago-area servicemen and…
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Kid Sister On Sound Opinions Tonight
Photo courtesy Sound Opinions Kid Sister appears on tonight's episode of Sound Opinions and man if she is not one of the most adorable interview subjects Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot have chatted with. She admits her musical theater nerdery, gracefully informs DeRo that she is now single and no…
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Windy Citizen Wants Your Questions For Blago
Windy Citizen head honcho Brad Flora is meeting this afternoon with former governor Rod Blagojevich and he's turning to readers for questions. Got a question you want Brad to ask? Head over here and let Brad know, but get to steppin': the two sit down this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. …
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Do This: The Local Tourist Restaurant Week
Looks like we're gonna have dueling restaurant weeks again for a 3rd straight year. In addition to Restaurant Week Chicago and the Chicago Originals Restaurant Week, all events Chicago website the Local Tourist has put together a restaurant week of its own. Starting today and running through…
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How did Lady Gaga get so huge? - Time Out Chicago
While schoolkids could describe Britney Spears’s vulva to a police sketch artist, the third-most-common inquiry on Ask.com this year was “Is Lady Gaga a man?” BEST SENTENCE EVER
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Around Town: Scenes From A Chicago Snowstorm
&n bsp; &nbs p; The latest winter storm has come and gone, dumping a pretty healthy amount of snow on us. Enjoy these beautiful photos shared by readers in our Flickr Pool. …
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