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Your Perks: 1) 30% off Karma—a tiny box that turns you into a walking wi-fi hotspot. 2) Powerhouse umbrellas that can withstand even polar-vortex-level winds. 3) Up to 25% off an extremely useful device for keeping track of your valuables. That’s right: no more scrambling to find your keys/wallet/dog.
Restaurant Week is here again. Three hundred restaurants. $22 lunches, and $33 three-course and $44 four-course dinners. (Highlights: beef sirloin at the Bristol, oyster po’boys at GT Fish & Oyster.) Anyway, that’s a lot of eating you need to do. Good thing Restaurant Week is actually 14 days.
Sundance Film Festival gave us a glimpse at Hollywood’s next prestige pictures. This 24-hour movie-thon dredges up its awful past. Bring a toothbrush, a sleeping bag and a passion for flicks like Doctor Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and Kitten with a Whip. We wonder what that last one’s about.
Sitting in a bright dining room under an enormous skylight is one cure for seasonal affective disorder. Another: pulled-chicken tostadas, orange chocolate-chip pancakes and a gin-filled cocktail called a Kick Start. Luckily, Summer House has all of that, so you can conduct your own research.
The only way to get through this cold: become one with the cold. The quickest way to do that: jump into Lake Michigan at this charity plunger. You’ll be quickly swaddled with blankets and whisked to FatPour to drink beer and whiskey until feeling returns to your eyeballs.
The one-year anniversary of a BYOB lobster-roll shack—yes, that does call for a celebration. It also calls for a lobster roll. So Da Lobsta is offering UrbanDaddy members an $8 lobster roll on Saturday. You’re in charge of bringing the champagne.
