Hot Dogs! Get Your Hot Dogs Here!
So maybe the vendors aren't working their ways around the stands much anymore, but there still is the "All-American" Frankfurter to savor in a park, on the street, at a counter or booth. So on the list of 15 here,…
All Aboard — A Drag Show; Some Like It Hot — 1959 Billy Wilder Style
So last night as the Canadian wildfires momentarily took a smoke abatement break over the Manse, we invited Messrs Lemon and Curtis to perform with Ms. Monroe for a little less than two hours. No, we wanted Drag perfection --…
So Where’s the Polish?
PTL, the Times Food Section spent time describing one of Chicago's greatest offerings to mankind -- the Italian beef. Of course, the piece fou-fou'ed around it offering variations of one sort or another -- including vegan, but came back to…
The Man on Five and the Man in the Bunker: “The Whole World Is Watching” and “I Can’t Breathe”
When I read 45's Tweet in the newspaper -- "when the looting starts, the shooting starts," I believed he was quoting "The Man on Five," the Pharoah himself, Richard J. Daley, from whom all blessings once flowed -- my patronage…
The Home of Indiana Jones
For decades, I have loved the Oriental Institute on now blocked-off 58th Street on the University of Chicago campus. What an eye-opener to ancient Mesopotamia, Persia, and Egypt. After all, this was long before the fictional UC professor Abner…
Stopping by
I was so glad Lillian and I and Sheila could squeeze time to get together in Chicago during our visit there over the Columbus Day [Chicago Marathon] weekend. At her direction, we breakfasted at Valois in Hyde Park, near the…
Best View of Chicago’s Skyline — The Promontory
Took Lillian out to the Promontory, the manmade peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan in Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood last weekend. Although she had been to Chicago, she had never been much south of the Loop or certainly past the McCormick…
“Where’s Mine?” In the “City in a Garden”
Viola Davis in Steve McQueen's "Widows" Or Why Steve McQueen's "Widows" (2018); Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool" (1969); Daniel Petrie's "A Raisin in the Sun" (1961, based on Lorraine Hansberry's drama) Top the Taste of the Real Chicago -- All Three…
Where’s Deep Dish? Where’s Gino’s on Rush [Closed for Years]?
Deep Dish from Gino's East in Chicago Carol Helstosky's "Five Myths: Pizza" was as welcome as Friday nights in millions of households in the United States or even memories of long-ago breakfasts -- when much younger, left-over slices served at…