While that fat & the furious here stateside slug away at Chicago Craft Beer week, the truly ambitious won’t stop when the lights go dark this Friday at Revolution. No, the truly alcohol addicted will find it within themselves to hop over our little pond to the east and spend the long weekend with Belgium’s [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2011
Bill Dance – Fisherman, Funnyman, Everyman
Now that summer is here, kind of, and I’ve had a chance to take a few casts I am reinvigorated by the opportunity to get some fishing in. But not only that, I am also reinvigorated by the existence of all things hilarious. It’s as if a great weight has lifted and my soul has [...]
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy @ Pritzker Pavillion Reviewed
The title of this post is a bit misleading since I’m not really trying to review the show from last night, but more just revel in it’s total bounty a little bit more. I don’t go to rock shows, or otherwise, to attain some kind of bullshit objective superiority – or subjective inferiority for that [...]
Posted in Beer, Event, Instructional, Review Tagged Bonnie Prince Billie, Chicago, Pritzker Pavillion, The Cairo Gang, Will Oldham 1 Comment
Donate to Help “Beer Hunter: The Movie” Get Released
You can help with the release of Beer Hunter: The Movie, a documentary on the late Michael Jackson, photographed by his friend and co-conspirator J.R. Richards. Through this rare visual record we are treated to an intimate picture of Michael, starting in his local neighborhood of London and progressing over the course of the next [...]
2010 Pro-Tec Pool Party Masters Session
The old guys are still leading the way.
Posted in Event, Skateboarding Tagged Christian Hosoi, Jeff Grosso, Lance Mountain, Pro-tec, Steve Cabellero, Vans Leave a comment
Chocolate Bacon Stout Cupcake Recipe
The weather in Chicago has continued it’s schizophrenic pageantry of bullshit pulling us back from the premature summer of barbecues and late evening sunsets of last week into the mid-spring deluge of cold winds and water that seem to persist with a frequency that could have made Fred Rogers slip into a barbiturate crazed murdering [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes, Review Tagged bacon, butter, Buttermilk, Chicago, Cupcakes, Evil Twin, Lard, Mikeller, Soft DK Stout, West Lakeview Liquors 1 Comment
Wenlock Arms Possibly Closing?
Much to my – and many others – dismay, it appears London’s finest pub might be under threat of not only shutting down, but being bulldozed and turned into living quarters. The Wenlock Arms is a hidden gem in a city who takes it’s watering holes serious in numbers that would make Chicago blush. When [...]