Archive for January, 2008

Chicago Chinese New Year Celebrations in Chinatown

Every February despite the cold weather, Chicago’s Chinatown comes alive with decorations, lions and lots of food in celebration of the Chinese New Year. This year it falls on Thursday February 7, 2008. Last year in 2007 was the year of the Pig and in 2008 it is the year of the Rat. Each Zodiac animal [...]

New Produce Storage Bags

I have always enjoyed a trip to one of the local Chicagoland Jewel stores for some fresh fruit and veggies. I am a fan of salds too but I haven’t been buying all the lettuce and toppings much latley because I found that I would eat about 1/2 of it and then it would all [...]

Chicago Sketchfest Comedy Festival Rocks!

The Chicago Sketchfest Comedy Festival is awesome. I just went to see a double feature show last night and saw Space Future and Chronic Optimism. They are both local Chicago groups that perform at IO and Second City and Annoyance theaters. I haven’t been blogging as much latley due to work constraints so I didn’t post this earlier, [...]

Chicago’s Unseasonably Warm Weather

I have been completely confused by the unseasonably warm weather in Chicago over the last few days. It has been in the 50 degree range and occasionally hits 60 degrees fahrenheit. It is not typical for Chicago to be above 20 degrees in January let alone over 50. It is so weird to not see snow [...]

Make way for Valentines’ Day 2008

I noticed yesterday in the Jewel grocery store that the Christmas and New Year’s 2008 merchandise had already been herded to the back of the store, marked down and arranged with no particular care to indicate that within 12 hours of the holiday season being over, the store had moved on and it told me I should [...]