Archive for January, 2008
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 [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | Posted in 312, Airports and Tourism Travel, Business Local, Food, Restaurants & Dining, Music Festivals Bands, Neighborhood Festivals, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Theater Plays Broadway Shows in Chicago, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
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 [...]
January 17th, 2008 | Posted in Chicago Consumer News, Food, Restaurants & Dining, Pop Culture, Shopping in Chicago, The Suburbs | No Comments
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, [...]
January 11th, 2008 | Posted in Chicago News, Improv and Sketch Comedy Shows, Music Festivals Bands, Pop Culture, Sights, Entertainment, Events & Attractions, Theater Plays Broadway Shows in Chicago, This Weekend in Chicago | No Comments
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 [...]
January 8th, 2008 | Posted in Chicago Consumer News, Chicago Weather | No Comments
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 [...]
January 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Chicago Consumer News, Grumpy post of the week, Holidays & Christmas, Pop Culture, Shopping in Chicago, The Suburbs | No Comments