The weekend is pulling away from shore.
This Tater Tot-eating contest proves your world can change in just six minutes. At 8pm, you're just another handsome someone at the bar. At 8:06, you're showered in trophies, gift cards and free Tater Tots for a year. If there's not a laurel of hash browns, there should be.
Even Al Gore takes time from saving the environment to eat. (Warning: if he's at Bar Louie tonight, he's getting that trophy.) So after performing your Earth Day tree-planting duties, take your favorite activist to a five-course reward that includes Wisconsin steak, butterscotch bread pudding and all the low-wattage candles you want.
Whiskey. The streets are practically running brown with the stuff this week. This little bourbon joint debuts its version of WhiskyFest: a perfectly insane menu of 20 different whiskey flights, including a bourbon and scotch face-off called Hillbillies and Highlanders. Come to think of it, Sean Connery would be a great Jed Clampett.
Lagunitas Brewing's dark, quirky and slightly political new brew (billing itself as a "jobless recovery ale") may remind you of Chicago's alt-country rockers—but there's a hidden message in those initials too. Discuss the philosophical ramifications at Big Star, where we hear a few kegs of the stuff are going fast.
The lingering spring chill makes you want to wrap yourself in something soft, snug and possibly lambskin. Fortunately, West Loop upstart Atypykal launches a new line of lightweight lambskin leather jackets at this trunk show, along with a 20% discount this weekend. You're warming up already.
