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May 24, 2012
Can Asian Girls Trust Mexican Men?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do YOU have a big penis . . . for a Mexican?
Blogs
May 18, 2012
Punk Rockers Rise Against Set Honda Center Live Date
Good news for punk rockers here in OC: Chicago's Rise Against will be playing the Honda Center in Anaheim on Saturday, September 29 as part of a month-long North American tour. In April, the band released an EP, Satellite, exclusively through iTunes. Openers for the tour include Gaslight Anthem an ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Haven Gastropub Chef Fights For Foie
The clock ticks ever closer toward the July 1 ban on foie gras to take effect in the state of California, and a council of chefs is not going quietly into that good night. Yesterday, a group calling itself C.H.E.F.S, the Coalition for Humane and Ethical Farming Standards, took the fight for foie to ... More >>
Food
April 26, 2012
Game Day Fire-Grilled Hot Dogs Gets Their Game On
[Hole In the Wall] The Orange restaurant, with its wondrous wieners, is well-suited to a college town
Blogs
February 1, 2012
On the Line: Carmina Casso of Ciao! Deli & Pizzeria, Part Two
When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, it's time to visit bella Carmina Casso at Ciao! She reminisces about the day she felt liberated, as well as her Chi-town roots. The homespun wisdom actually starts in part one, but we give props for her brutal honesty in today's segment.Hardest le ... More >>
Blogs
September 15, 2011
No. 21: Mac and Cheese at Ecco
ProfessorSalt.comFontina, gorgonzola and pancetta mac and cheeseYou'd think a mac and cheese would be simple to pull off for a restaurant kitchen, but you'd be wrong. Never mind the technical difficulties of making a cheese sauce creamy-smooth, balancing the flavor profiles and so on, we're ... More >>
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July 28, 2011
No. 56: Bacon Hash Dog at Berkeley Dog
ProfessorSalt.comBacon. Hashbrown. Dog.Some things sell themselves: sex and bacon, to name two. The most savvy marketers know you just need to whisper those words, or show a well-shot photo, and the mere mention will hook into your brain like a stainless steel gaff-hook. The less you talk a ... More >>
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July 27, 2011
No. 57: Blueberry Donut at M & M Donuts
ProfessorSalt.comM&M's blueberry donutsEvery now and then, I'll overhear (accidentally, of course!) a great food tip while I'm eating at a place I love. One day, I'm lulled into a happy trance by the phenomenal nem nuong cuon at Dat Thanh when my ears perk up. One of the owners is raving abou ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
No. 58: Tempura Fried Poached Egg at Break of Dawn
ProfessorSalt.comEggstatic!The tempura-fried poached egg at Break of Dawn isn't normally an item served by itself -- it's the star of whatever ensemble it's cast with. It most often shows up in a dish of barbecue pulled pork piled onto jalapeno cornbread and served with an Asian slaw, but it migh ... More >>
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June 29, 2011
No. 79: Pork Curry at Miyabi-Tei
Welcome to the Weekly's list of our 100 Favorite Dishes for 2011! Tune in every day until we get to número uno! Now, on to the latest entry. . . .Supposedly, Portuguese missionaries introduced curry to Japan after they picked up the meal in Goa, India--I say "supposedly," because almost all food ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
#81: Quesadilla Chilanga at Alebrije's Grill
ProfessorSalt.comSince nobody could guess the exact name of last week's Guess Where dish, I'll tell you now. It's a quesadilla chilanga from the pink Alebrije's lonchera parked on Cubbon and Main Street in Santa Ana. Some of you guessed almost right, but a quesadilla is not a taco, no ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
#87. Mandoo at L&M Liquor and Deli
Dave LiebermanWelcome to the 2011 edition of Stick A Fork In It's 100 Favorite Dishes. We've just kicked off our countdown to #1 (which will appear the same week as our compendium on all that's good and right about Orange County).
Blogs
June 14, 2011
No. 88: Chicago Dog at Chicago Harv's
Welcome to the 2011 edition of Stick A Fork In It's 100 Favorite Dishes. We've just kicked off our countdown to #1 (which will appear the same week as our compendium on all that's good and right about Orange County).
Calendar
May 26, 2011
Chicago
Maverick Theater
Blogs
April 5, 2011
Squaring Off Against My Childhood Hot Dog Preferences At Chicago Harv's
I am from New Jersey. Central New Jersey, to be more exact. I grew up in a place where there was exactly one way to eat hot dogs: with brown mustard and sauerkraut. Sure, if you went a little bit north there'd be those onions in red sauce, which are pretty good, but the proper hot dog is a ko ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
5 Ways the Airline Industry Has Given Up on Us
It's no secret airline travel has gotten worse in recent years, even before the 9/11 gut check. Normally, businesses facing that perception from customers would change their ways.Recent developments suggest the airline industry is doing just that: by totally giving up on the flying public. Five w ... More >>
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December 22, 2010
AnQi Going the Molecular Gastronomy Route for New Year's Eve
I've had molecular gastronomy dinners a couple of times--was floored by it at Moto in Chicago (along with a dinner bill that nearly equaled my weekly paycheck), was underwhelmed by it at Bazaar in Los Angeles. Isn't molecular gastronomy a 2007 trend? Not to the folks at AnQi.
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December 20, 2010
Rock'n Fish, South Bay and LA Live-Bases Seafood Restaurant, Now in Laguna Beach
Even though Laguna Beach is no longer the hippie bohemia of acid runners and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, even though the billionaires have gentrified out the millionaires from the seaside town, Laguna dining has still relatively kept the chains at bay, especially in the non-fast-food scene. ... More >>
Columns
December 9, 2010
Why Do Mexican Teenage Boys Shave Their Heads?
[¡Ask a Mexican!] And do Mexicans care about mistranslations?
Calendar
June 17, 2010
The Cool Kids
The Glass House
Calendar
November 19, 2009
Alex's Thanksgiving Jam
Alex's Bar
Blogs
September 17, 2009
Dance Music Pick of the Week: Gene Farris at Focus
One of my favorite house tracks of all time is Gene Farris' "Richard's Word," (sample) which floats a skit by the late, great Richard Pryor above an optimistic groove that's laced with a flighty flute loop. Pryor is at his gut-busting best riffing, for example, on what it takes, power tools and a ... More >>
Music
July 9, 2009
Chicago DJ Bad Boy Bill Goes Old-School, Releases an Album
One of my favorite house tracks of all time is Gene Farris' "Richard's Word," (sample) which floats a skit by the late, great Richard Pryor above an optimistic groove that's laced with a flighty flute loop. Pryor is at his gut-busting best riffing, for example, on what it takes, power tools and a ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2009
TONIGHT: All Time Low Secret Show (Hey, That Rhymes!) at Chain Reaction
Shhh! Baltimore-born pop-punk band All Time Low has a new album out today, and they're celebrating it by playing three "secret" shows in three different cities across the county in 24 hours--Washington DC, Chicago and our very own delightful burg of Anaheim. The band will drag their tired, neatly co ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2009
RIP Koko Taylor
The Queen of the Blues, Koko Taylor, passed away Wednesday in Chicago due to complications following a May 19 surgery to correct a gastrointestinal bleed. She was 80 years young.The woman born Cora Walton was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1997, was nominated for eight Grammys and one won i ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
The Register To Start Charging For Online Content?
This could be nothing, but the media-watching folks at The Atlantic and Gawker seem to think it very well could be something big. The executives of the nation's top newspaper companies -- Register-owning, Irvine-based Freedom Communications among them -- met yesterday in Chicago to talk about the fu ... More >>
Columns
May 28, 2009
[!Ask a Mexican!] Special Cinco-Preguntas Edition
This could be nothing, but the media-watching folks at The Atlantic and Gawker seem to think it very well could be something big. The executives of the nation's top newspaper companies -- Register-owning, Irvine-based Freedom Communications among them -- met yesterday in Chicago to talk about the fu ... More >>
Blogs
February 20, 2009
Straight Dope Mentions Buena Park's Portillo's--Kind Of
One of my favorite columns after Savage Love is The Straight Dope, a decades-old column presided over by Cecil Adams in Chicago. Short description: Adams answers ANY question about ANYTHING. Recently, he branched off and began a separate column focusing solely on the Windy City. The latest installme ... More >>
Culture
February 19, 2009
[Trendzilla] Swimsuits? In February? Yep
One of my favorite columns after Savage Love is The Straight Dope, a decades-old column presided over by Cecil Adams in Chicago. Short description: Adams answers ANY question about ANYTHING. Recently, he branched off and began a separate column focusing solely on the Windy City. The latest installme ... More >>
Calendar
February 19, 2009
Chicago
Long Beach Terrace Theatre
Blogs
December 5, 2008
We're Doomed
I just read this from Editor and Publisher: "'[M]ore newspapers and newspaper groups will default, be shut down and be liquidated in 2009, and several cities could go without a daily print newspaper by 2010,' the Chicago-based credit ratings firm Fitch Ratings said in a report on the outlook ... More >>
Calendar
September 25, 2008
Walter Meego with Mr. White, B.B. Guns and James Monroe at Detroit Bar
I just read this from Editor and Publisher: "'[M]ore newspapers and newspaper groups will default, be shut down and be liquidated in 2009, and several cities could go without a daily print newspaper by 2010,' the Chicago-based credit ratings firm Fitch Ratings said in a report on the outlook ... More >>
Calendar
September 11, 2008
Four Eyes
N.E.R.D.
Calendar
January 10, 2008
Hot to Trot
Harlem Globetrotters
Features
November 22, 2007
Just a Random Female
Robbin Brandley’s confessed killer sits on death row. So why don’t her parents consider the case closed?
Music
October 25, 2007
Spinnin' & Singin' Pretty
DJ Colette Vox the House
Blogs
August 7, 2007
Photos: Lollapalooza 2007
The Daft Punk mothership lands in Chicago. Click the image for photos of Blonde Redhead, M.I.A. and other bands at the festival:
Culture
June 28, 2007
Razzle Dazzle
Chicago
Columns
March 29, 2007
Letters
'If you dont like him, dont listen to him, you fuckin moron'
Food
March 15, 2007
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
Pizza for Pesos: Chicago Pizza
Blogs
June 23, 2006
What's Good for the Goose ain't for the Zealot
So some young, misdirected, religious zealots who authorities conceive were too impoverished and unsophisticated to carry out plots to blow up an FBI building and the Sears Tower in Chicago are arrested in Miami. By the way, the kids are black. Meanwhile, older, misdirected zealots who reportedly ha ... More >>
Food
June 1, 2006
This Hole-in-the-Wall Life
Tamale Time at Chicago's Best
Music
May 11, 2006
CD Review
Eleventh Dream Day, Zeroes and Ones (Thrill Jockey)
Columns
April 27, 2006
!Ask a Mexican!
'When the Reconquista is complete, Chicago will be . . . well, Chicago to SanTanas New York.'
Food
October 27, 2005
'Wooooooooooow!'
The soggy/succulent Italian beef and Chicago hot dogs of Portillo's arrive in Buena Park
Music
March 17, 2005
I Predict a Riot!
The soggy/succulent Italian beef and Chicago hot dogs of Portillo's arrive in Buena Park
Food
September 20, 2001
Badass Roller Coaster
Lukes Chicago Pizza delivers the Italian beef
Features
July 27, 2000
Coleen Rider
Singer/Songwriter, Waitress
Columns
November 4, 1999
This weeks featured NFL game: Chicago Bears (3-4) vs. Washington Redskins (4-2)
Singer/Songwriter, Waitress
News
June 17, 1999
Iambic Pentathalon
The poetry of the game of poetry
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