Watch David Leonardis on the “Jennie’s Reflections” show at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, on CAN-TV Channel 21 Chicago Public Access.
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Watch David Leonardis on the “Jennie’s Reflections” show at 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 5, on CAN-TV Channel 21 Chicago Public Access. Wilco’s Oct. 18 hometown show at UIC Pavilion is already sold out, and tickets for the 19th are going fast, but at press time there were seats left for front man Jeff Tweedy’s solo performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, in Edgewater. A benefit for Emanuel Congregation, the concert takes place at the temple.
Restaurateur Jerry Kleiner (Marche, Red Light, Gioco, Opera, et al.), who pioneered dining in the West and South Loop, now takes on an established restaurant neighborhood: Old Town. The Happy Meal is 30. This has certainly been a pretty piggy summer so far. Contrary to pork producers’ fears, the swine flu pandemic seems only to have whetted our appetite for pigging out. Pig roasts and other porcine feasts are popping up all over the place. “If you think that Chicago, from a gourmet’s point of view, is nothing more than a maze of red-hot stands, chili parlors, cafeterias, barbecue stalls, one-arm joints, chop suey restaurants, counter lunch rooms and all other such human filling stations, artistically embellished with bullet holes, you’re as mistaken as Columbus was when he started out [...] Not long ago, I read an opinion about how the newspaper features editor — a title I held for much of my career — has become obsolete, because, with the World Wide Web at their disposal, the public no longer needs to turn to newspapers (or online news sites) for the lifestyle and human-interest stories [...] |
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