Mike Green, owner of Roscoe Village’s venerable Village Tap, staged a Chicago beer coup on Thursday night, turning all 26 of the tavern’s drafts over to local brews, including such rarities as Half Acre’s Galactic Double Daisy Cutter and Three Floyds’ Thick White Freeks... Read more
Deuce’s and The Diamond Club, a twin-concept bar and lounge built from the ground up on the site of a former parking lot in Wrigleyville, may have opened quietly on August 1, but in a neighborhood with constant foot traffic and an insatiable taste for beer, word gets out... Read more
The dancing. Oh, the dancing! OK Go, that purveyor of just-try-to-sit-still viral videos, got the crowd on its feet and sweaty at Debonair Social Club’s Lollapalooza preparty Thursday night, when two members of the formerly Chicago-based band took over DJ duties right around midnight—just 24 hours and change after playing Obama’s 50th birthday bash at the Aragon... Read more
After a March fire slowed construction on their nearly completed pub, the folks behind Beckett’s Public House and Wilde Bar & Restaurant opened their third writer-themed spot, Lady Gregory’s, last month... Read more