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A flotilla of deep fryers is going full tilt at local restaurants and bars. It’s Lent, the season of the fish fry, when Roman Catholics, some 2.5 million strong here in the Chicago area, and some other Christians seek out seafood each Friday throughout the 40-day, pre-Easter period of abstinence. Check out these spots for your Friday fish fix. We check out all the best foodie news from Chicago restaurant chefs and others…. Chef Grant Achatz of Alinea in Lincoln Park recounts his experience judging the Bocuse d’Or culinary competition, where competitors included Jennifer Petrusky, a sous chef at Charlie Trotter’s. He ponders whether the international contest could become a reality show, like “Top Chef [...] There’s no food at his cafe. Chicago mentalist Fred Zimmerman’s “Psyche-Out Cafe” is an evening of mind games, fascinating stories, experiments to test your psychic abilities and demonstrations of ESP that provide a glimpse into the secret world of “psychic” practitioners. The Wednesday, March 3, event is the first of two special March “Magic Chicago” shows hosted by Robert Charles and Benjamin Barnes, with Jeanette Andrews in Edgewater. City Lit Theater in Edgewater cooks up a gritty, physical version of “Macbeth,” Shakespeare’s spookiest tragedy, boiling with energy and full of sound and fury. In the past year, violent incidents at Chicago schools have risen at an alarming rate. To take a stand against school violence, more than 20 students from Rogers Park’s Sullivan High School have worked with artists from Edgewater’s Raven Theatre to present a one-night show, “A Bird of Prey,” featuring scenes the teens [...] Haunted drive-in movie, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, Margate Fieldhouse, Uptown, $5 (includes popcorn and hot dog). ‘Fear,’ 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, The Neo-Futurarium, Andersonville, $15. We might have lost the Olympics, but we can rejoice in some reopened favorites and new dining opportunites. Intrepid Chicagoland restaurateurs are forging ahead, despite the still-sluggish economy. Club Lago’s fans and returning staffers are celebrating the Wednesday, Oct. 7, grand reopening of the River North Italian mainstay. The restaurant has been shuttered since last [...] Carnivale, River West.
OrganicNation visited Chicago to see the roof of one our most interesting buildings — no, not the rudely rechristened Sears Tower — but the one above Edgewater’s Uncommon Ground, which recently dedicated the nation’s first rooftop, certified-organic farm. |
 
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