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May 2011
Collaboration
By Susan Victoria
This company names a trend that I spotted among emerging companies at ICFF: Collaboration... Read more
Dish Flash: Ian Schrager’s Plans for the Ambassador East and the Pump Room—Public and Jean-Georges Vongerichten
By Penny Pollack & Graham Meyer
No one knew exactly what to expect when Ian Schrager bought the Ambassador East hotel (1301 N. State Pkwy.), home of The Pump Room, the most famous restaurant in the city for decades. Dish got a look at the official release on the project. The hotel will be called Public, and it will emphasize service over extravagance. The restaurant will still be called The Pump Room, and, confirming the unconfirmed rumors Dish had been hearing... Read more
What the Joplin, Missouri, Tornado Sounded Like From Inside
By Whet Moser
In the time of stormchasers, we're pretty familiar with watching tornadoes from a distance. Less often do we get a sense of what a tornado is like from the inside. Here's a recording from inside a convenience store walk-in refrigerator as the tornado passed overhead. Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Murphysboro, Illinois
By Catey Sullivan
A loaf of bread and a jug of wine? Why go small? Memorial Day weekend means 12 wineries, 20 artists, four bands, and a restaurant row’s worth of food vendors gathered over two days in Jackson County for the annual Shawnee Hills Wine Trail Art & Wine Festival. Bonus: This wine festival features a vintage baseball competition. Here, how to lift a glass to the boys of summer in downstate Illinois... Read more
Chicago Craft Beer Week Photos: Beerfly Alleyfight at Haymarket
It was a multisensory extravaganza Saturday afternoon when Drinking & Writing Theater held its fifth annual Beerfly Alleyfight in Haymarket Pub & Brewery’s back bar. The event—part of Chicago Craft Beer Week, which continues through May 27—paired homebrewed beer with homecooked food and homemade art, but if that all sounds a little complicated, really, the operative word here is “beer”... Read more