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From their site: An Italian neighborhood pizzeria and bar by Spiaggia’s Tony Mantuano, Bar Toma features 20 varieties of pizza, a mozzarella bar, gelato, an espresso bar, Roman-style fritti, pizza salads with Italian beers, aperitivi and 60 wines. The Food: Wonderful. The pizzas were good as was the creamy mozzarella plate, but what we both …

This four-year old Asian fusion hotspot from Billy Dec and his Rockit crew is still going strong thanks to deliciously prepared food and a big space full of scenesters. The large menu from the former chef at Los Angeles’ Koi, Chef Rodelio Aglibot (a.k.a. the Food Buddha), is full of food from Japan, China, Thailand, …

I keep up on the Chicago dining scene, but I have to admit, I’d never heard of Italian restaurant, Pelago. Perhaps because keeping with its sophisticated air, it quietly opened in the Raffaello Hotel without much fanfare.  Or perhaps because its to the East of Michigan avenue right around the border between Streeterville and the Gold …

These videos have been going around. This is a good one of actual clips from real people you will recognize. Enjoy.  

“A modern take on an old Chicago neighborhood inn.” Is it a bar? Is it a restaurant? A gastropub? An inn to lay your weary head? If you selected all of the above…you are correct. Longman and Eagle in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood is like your neighborhood hub with good grub and a place upstairs …

One of my favorite things about Chicago is all the quaint side streets with cute homes of all kinds — big, small, brick, wood, old, new, modern, funky, crumbly.  There are big yards, small gardens, and tiny nooks to hang out in and enjoy a good book on a sunny day.  Because of the variety, …

Chicago is a one of the largest cities in North America.  In this city of four million people, there is something for everyone whether you live here or are just here on a visit to tour Chicago: world-class theater, professional sports, cutting edge restaurants, fortune 500 companies, and arts of all kinds.  And then in …

I love walking around residential areas of cities and checking out homes and architecture.  Much of Chicago’s wealthy Gold Coast neighborhood was originally a Catholic cemetery adjacent to the city’s cemetery at North Avenue which is now Lincoln Park.  In the 1860s, the graves were removed, but it was difficult to remove many of the …

  Remember the days when uncle Bob (okay, I don’t actually have an uncle Bob!) would force us through his slide show of the family road trip to the Grand Canyon?  Or then a decade ago we had to sit through that work Power Point presentation on Diversity Training? Recently I discovered Pecha Kucha. I …

It snowed a lot. I shot video. Watch it.