Oh, to be young and in the weekend.
Your Perks: 1) Some of Banksy’s best work from his NYC residency is now ready for your walls. 2) A paper-thin portable battery charger. These should be mandatory. 3) A guitar signed by Eric Clapton or Van Halen or the Boss or... someone else equally legendary.
If you collected the most iconic songs and indelible scenes from John Hughes’s high school movies, then reimagined them as a theatrical cabaret show, you’d get this performance that you’re about to go to. Congratulations on reading the words you just read.
Tonight, there’s an old vaudeville theater in Lakeview hosting a casual screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of the paranoiac detective novel Inherent Vice. There will also be five beers on tap for you to drink throughout the show. Moral: that’ll be happening if you want to happen with it.
On one side of this new place called the Spoke & Bird, you’ve got a café/sandwich shop serving croque monsieurs, pastries and local beers. On the other, you’ve got a quiet little dining room in which to enjoy all of the above. Sometimes we make literal colloquialisms about the word “side.”
The Ritz-Carlton: elegant, though not exactly known for its burgers. Burger Bar: has the word “burger” in its name. Together, they’ve developed five burgers of their own—with accoutrements such as foie gras and cheddar-bacon waffles—for you to try. Teamwork is a beautiful thing.
There are two kinds of snowstorms. One is all cold and blistery and awful. The other is the name of this inaugural music festival at Navy Pier, featuring Moby and a bunch of experiential theatrics like drum towers, confetti cannons and pastry drones. They’re drones that drop pastries from the sky. Pastry drones.
