A severe weekend warning is in effect until further notice.
Your Perks: 1) Three bottles of wine, tailored to your tastes and delivered to your door. 2) A high-tech scale that measures your weight and body fat, and sends the data to your phone. 3) A pair of wireless Swedish-made speakers. In the Swedes you trust.
INT. ART INSTITUTE – NIGHT: YOU and YOUR DATE are snugly seated in the resuscitative warmth of a crowded auditorium for a special screening of Stanley Kubrick’s timelessly haunting masterpiece The Shining. Suddenly, YOUR DATE shrieks; YOU grab their hand. YOU (under your breath): “Great idea, me.”
Nico Osteria’s new cocktail series kicks off this weekend with an homage to the wondrously seedy hotel bars of 1930s Paris. First, you’ll sample a variety of era-inspired cocktails like the Spa Water—a mélange of absinthe, mint and aloe vera. Then you’ll write a novel about it. Maybe.
If your New Year’s resolution was to eat more braised-goat-meat sandwiches on house-baked white bread with sides of freshly fried potato chips at small new sandwich shops in Pilsen, well... yeah. Here.
In case you missed it: Wicker Park’s beloved Midwestern tavern Bangers & Lace recently opened up a cozy suburban outpost in Evanston with over 30 fancy-pants beers on tap and a bunch of delicious encased meats. You can call them sausages in a pinch.
Local blues hero Buddy Guy is taking the stage tonight (and a few other nights this month) at his eponymous club in the South Loop. Which means you can take a date there and listen to Buddy Guy and act all blues clubby. We’ll also accept “act normally.”
