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Blogs, Bleader Aug 13, 2015
The case for ending the Chicago Air & Water Show

A 1996 Reader cover story details the dangers, costs, and pollution related to air shows.
- By Ryan Smith
- Tags: Throwback Thursday, News, #TBT, Throwback Thursday, Chicago Air & Water Show, air show, Cate Plys, Burton Natarus, Reno, Nevada, Top Gun, Ramstein, West Germany

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll Jun 24, 2015
Best bagels
- Tags: Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll, Best of Chicago 2015, Best bagels, Reno

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Nov 24, 2014
At the Kitchen Chicago, Avec vet Johnny Anderes takes charge

The Colorado minichain has parachuted into a stunning space on the river.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, The Kitchen Chicago, Avec, Johnny Anderes, Reno, Telegraph Wine Bar, Reid Murdoch Building, Claire Smith, Kitchen Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2013
137 tasty things from 2013

I ate it all.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Smalls Smoke Shack, Oon, Izakaya Yume, Sozai Bonzai, Ramen Misoya, Yan Bang Cai, Juno, Ben Roche, J.P. Graziano, Bacolod Chicken Haus, Parson’s Chicken & Fish, Longman & Eagle, La Palapa, Kabocha, Rub’s Backcountry Smokehouse, Brindille, Rainbow Cuisine, Sauce and Bread Kitchen, Piranha Club, Taquito Kitchen, Lazzat, The Berkshire Room, Dave’s Red Hots, Karaoke House Nina, Danny’s Egghead Diner, Three Dots and a Dash, Siena Tavern, Rickshaw Republic, Barrelhouse Flat, Billy Sunday, The Whistler, Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed, Drumbar, La Placita de Durango, Sumi Robata Bar, Division Street Russian Baths, The Little Goat Table, Donkey and Stick, Pepper & Salt, The Plant, Ward Eight, Reno, Tio Luis, Mitsuwa, Mott St., Grace, Oiistar, Gather, Dak Korean Chicken, Chengdu Expression, The Dawson, Publican Quality Meats, Michoacanito, Azzurra EnoTavola, Taqueria y Birrieria Morelia, Sing’s Noodle House, Sze Chuan Cuisine, The Chop Shop, Imani’s Original Bean Pie, Dusek’s, Gogi, Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Cremeria La Ordeña, Tanta, Travelle, Sofi, Blackwood BBQ, Slow City Makgeolli, Yoland Cannon’s Mississippi Delta Hot Tamales, Ben’s Bar-Be-Que, West Loop Salumi Barbecue House, Nduja Artisans, La Quercia

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Dec 23, 2013
Our favorite restaurants of 2013

From suburban ramen to west-side barbecue to tiki time in River North
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Tumblr, Characteristically Unimpressed Mike Sula, new restaurants, criticism, Mike Sula, Sam Worley, Mara Shalhoup, Chicago Reader, Matthias Merges, A10, Paul Kahan, Nico Osteria, The Radler, Lincoln Square, Rainbow Cuisine, Wanpen Phosawang, Pramote Rukprueksachart, Spoon Thai, Ramen Misoya, Gene Kato, Mount Prospect, Sumi Robata Bar, River North, Japonais, Gastón Acurio, Tanta, Three Dots and a Dash, Paul McGee, Lettuce Entertain You, bars, restaurants, Dillman's, Brendan Sodikoff, The Berkshire Room, Benjamin Schiller, cocktails, Reno, Katie Wyer, Rickshaw Republic, Homestyle Taste, Chinatown, Bridgeport, Sze Chuan Cuisine, Ben's Bar-Be-Cue, Smalls Smoke Shack, Takito Kitchen, Carnivale, David Dworshak, Ajoomah's Apron, Billy Sunday, Blackwood BBQ, Chop Shop, Dusek's, Gogi, Johnny Casserole, The Little Goat, Milt's Barbecue for the Perplexed, Oon, Parson's Chicken & Fish, Sofi, Ward Eight, Yan Bang Cai, Ahjoomah's Apron, The Chop Shop, Dusek's Board & Beer, Little Goat Diner, Sofi Restaurant, Berkshire Room, dining in 2013

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2013
The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, hipsters, Flat Iron Building, Bridgeport, neighborhoods, New York Times, next Seattle, Richard Lloyd, Jeff Huebner, history, Real World, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen Times, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Handley, Joe Judd, Shane Bugbee, Elliot Dicks, gentrification, Clem Jaskot Jr., Phyllis' Musical Inn, bars, Gold Star Bar, Nelson Algren, Wicker Park, HotHouse, Double Door, Pontiac, Subterranean, Flat Iron Building, Myopic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Autonomous Zone Infoshop, Buys Bee, Earwax Cafe, Urbus Orbis, commercialization, bohemia, brohemia, Sarah Crawford, Fine Arts Building, artists' colonies, coffeehouses, nightclubs, The Little Room, South Loop, artists, tea, Auditorium Hotel, Ralph Clarkson, Henry Blake Fuller, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Jane Addams, Bertha Palmer, Jackson Park, Hyde Park, Midway Studios, Floyd Dell, Evening Post, Evening Post's Friday Literary Review, Paul Durica, Margery Currey, salons, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, The Little Review, Richard Lloyd, Chicago winters, Towertown, Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, River North, Maxwell Bodenheim, them restaurants, Gold Coast House of Correction, Big John's Coal Scuttle, Jake Loeb, Thomas Dyja, Tree Studios, Prohibition, tearooms, Green Mask, Ballyhoo Cafe, drag shows, Dil Pickle Club, Washington Square Park, Newberry Library, Bughouse Square, Jack Jones, Tooker Place, Mae West, Ben Reitman, Chicago Tribune, alcohol, Charles Collins, Mitchell Dawson, Harriet Monroe, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Weil, Bill Haywood, Jack Johnson, Chicago Literary Times, Michigan Avenue Bridge, douchebags, yuppies, bros, Alfreda Gordon, Chicago Sunday Times, development, beatniks, hippies, New Yorker, Emily Hahn, Slim Brundage, College of Complexes, Piper's Alley, Lincoln Restaurant, Maury's, Cholly Wendorf, Bill Smith, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc, Hairy Who, Will Leonard, University of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, Frank Ryan, Norman Mailer, Dee Paira, Gavin Morrison, Rainbo Club, Logan Square, Jason Hammel, Logan Beach, Lula Cafe, Amalea Tshilds, Joe Bryl, Longman & Eagle, Reno, Bang Bang Pie, Parsons Chicken & Fish, Cozy Corner, Cole's Bar, Helen's, Two-Way Lounge, Whirlaway Lounge, The Whistler, Scofflaw, Weegee's Lounge, Logan Square Farmers Market, Dill Pickle Co-Op, Cafe Mustache, New Wave Coffee, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Matthias Merges, Jared Wentworth, Paul McGee, Maria Jaimes, Fireside Bowl, The Mutiny, John McDermott, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Latinos, buying property, Bridgeport, Pilsen, Jason Vincent, Bruce Finkelman, Thalia Hall, Modern Cooperative, furniture stores, Nightwood, Co-Prosperity Sphere, public transportation, mass transit, Version Fest, Mash-Tun Festival

Music, Music Sidebar Jun 26, 2013
Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival 2013

The "arts" in this case include music from Cave, the Cairo Gang, and William Cepeda.
- By Shannon Nico Shreibak
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Kedzie, Diversey Avenue, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Milo & Otis, Los Vicios de Papa, Cave, Dam-Funk, Jugo de Mango, Bare Mutants, All Tiny Creatures, Basic Cable, Luca Cimarusti, Lawrence Peters Outfit, Emmett Kelly, Cairo Gang, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco, Bill MacKay & LeRoy Bach, Santah, Dumpster Babies, Waco Brothers, M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, ShowYouSuck, AfriCaribe, Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Football, Netherfriends, Chicago Diner, Lula Cafe, Reno, Cards Against Humanity, Sonnenzimmer, Galer

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 19, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best Bagels

New York Bagel and Bialy
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2013, New York Bagel and Bialy, Reno, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Apr 19, 2013
New York Bagel & Bialy v. Reno for best bagel in Chicago

Two establishments, one old and one new, vie for the bagel crown.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: One Bite, Food & Drink, New York Bagel & Bialy, Reno, best bagels, New York school of bagels, Montreal school of bagels, Mike Sula, Tal Rosenberg

Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2013
Himmel's is home to the original Chicago Neapolitan pie

The erstwhile Pizza D.O.C. now serves schnitzel alongside its Neapolitan pies.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, pacca Napoli, Pizzeria da Nella Cucina Napoletana, Reno, Great Lake, Cesar D'Ortenzi, La Bocca della Verita, Pizza D.O.C., pizza, Nella Grassano, Himmel's

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jan 7, 2013
Recommended
Reno is more than just a miracle bagel

Logan Square pizza and bagel place, from the team behind Telegraph Wine Bar, excels at breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, pizza, bagels, Katie Wyer, wood-fired bagels, Montreal-style bagels, wood oven, Johnny Anderes, Elliot Green, Neapolitan-style pizza, Luke LeFiles, Reno, Logan Square, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2012
124 tasty things from 2012

I ate it all
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Year in Review, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Slurping Turtle, Bar Toma, Goosefoot, Three Floyd's Brewpub, Katsu, Nha Hang Viet Nam, Nhu Lan Bakery, Munster Donut, Yusho, Acadia, Sheeba (RIP), Alan Lake, Bread & Wine, Sankalp, Publican Quality Meats, Hagen’s, Urban Union, Lake Langano, RPM, Bar Ombra, Au Cheval, Baconfest, Cho Jung, Allium, Letherbee gin, Nellcote, The Nut House, Balena, Al Bawadi Grill, Troquet, Frog N Snail, Monti’s, Premise (R.I.P.), Spinzer Restaurant, ScofflawPhil’s Last Stand, Ma Gong La Po, Pizzeria da Nella Cucina Napoletana, Antique Taco, Cuenca’s Bakery, Kai Zan, Graham Elliot Bistro, Olga’s Deli, Himshikar, Smoking Goose’s Delaware Fireball, Dragon Ranch, Trenchermen, Yvolina’s Tamales, Savoy, Spencer’s Jolly Posh Food, Ghareeb Nawaz, Wood, Bavette’s Bar & Boeuf, Best Naan, P.E. Mullins, Masaki, Journeyman Distillery’s Featherbone Bourbon, Bonsoiree, 28-year-old cheddar, Covo Gyro Market, Bare Knuckle Farm, Butcher & Larder, Andy Thai Kitchen, Julien Fremont Cidre Brut par Nature, Elizabeth, Lao Ma La, Valentino Pasta, Wild Ophelia, The Publican, Homestyle Taste, Northern City, Masa Azul, Badou, La Sirena Clandestina, Fat Rice Avec, Reno, Embeya, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2012
At Logan Square's Reno, artisan bagels, wood-fired pizzas, and other things worth carrying cash for

New on the restaurant scene: Johnny Anderes's Reno
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Reno, Telegraph Wine Bar, Johnny Anderes, Jeremy Quinn, Luke LeFiles, Malort, kimchi, craft spirits, craft beers, Logan Square, Katie Wyer, Stumptown Coffee

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2012
Video
12 O'Clock Track: Catheters, "I Fall Easy"

"I Fall Easy" from the Catheters' 2002 album Static Delusions and Stone-Still Days
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Music, 12 O'Clock Track, Catheters, Sub Pop, Reno, Tahoe, Rye Coalition, trucker hat, Murder City Devils, gambling, Video

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The case for ending the Chicago Air & Water Show

A 1996 Reader cover story details the dangers, costs, and pollution related to air shows.

Best bagels

At the Kitchen Chicago, Avec vet Johnny Anderes takes charge

The Colorado minichain has parachuted into a stunning space on the river.

137 tasty things from 2013

I ate it all.

Our favorite restaurants of 2013

From suburban ramen to west-side barbecue to tiki time in River North

The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present

Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival 2013

The "arts" in this case include music from Cave, the Cairo Gang, and William Cepeda.

Readers' Poll
Best Bagels

New York Bagel and Bialy

New York Bagel & Bialy v. Reno for best bagel in Chicago

Two establishments, one old and one new, vie for the bagel crown.

Himmel's is home to the original Chicago Neapolitan pie

The erstwhile Pizza D.O.C. now serves schnitzel alongside its Neapolitan pies.

Recommended
Reno is more than just a miracle bagel

Logan Square pizza and bagel place, from the team behind Telegraph Wine Bar, excels at breakfast, lunch, and dinner

124 tasty things from 2012

I ate it all

At Logan Square's Reno, artisan bagels, wood-fired pizzas, and other things worth carrying cash for

New on the restaurant scene: Johnny Anderes's Reno

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A 1996 Reader cover story details the dangers, costs, and pollution related to air shows.

The Colorado minichain has parachuted into a stunning space on the river.

I ate it all.

From suburban ramen to west-side barbecue to tiki time in River North

A Chicago history, 1898-present

The "arts" in this case include music from Cave, the Cairo Gang, and William Cepeda.

New York Bagel and Bialy

Two establishments, one old and one new, vie for the bagel crown.

The erstwhile Pizza D.O.C. now serves schnitzel alongside its Neapolitan pies.

Logan Square pizza and bagel place, from the team behind Telegraph Wine Bar, excels at breakfast, lunch, and dinner

I ate it all

New on the restaurant scene: Johnny Anderes's Reno

"I Fall Easy" from the Catheters' 2002 album Static Delusions and Stone-Still Days

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