Cheese

Romance's final frontier smells of oil

by Gwynedd Stuart on February 19, 2013 at 4:32PM

A recent issue of the Reader was dedicated to eulogizing romance, a thing that died around the time UPS started delivering flowers in cardboard boxes. Or maybe it was when Marlon Brando filmed the butter scene in Last Tango in Paris.

Bar Pastoral offers lots of cheeses, makes it hard to Edam

by Sam Worley on February 6, 2013 at 1:07PM

There's wanting and there's wanting. A few disappointments present themselves straightaway on the menu at Bar Pastoral, the new Lakeview wine-and-sundry restaurant from the folks behind the Pastoral grocery enterprise, which opened its first shop in 2004.

Breaking: Goat cheese is flammable

by Julia Thiel on January 30, 2013 at 10:07AM

OK, so it's not really breaking news—it happened last week. And it's not technically cheese: brunost, also known as gjetost, is made from the whey of goat's milk and is popular in Scandinavia (but while it's sweet, it's usually referred to as cheese).

Parental Guidance must be good for someone besides Billy Crystal

by Ben Sachs on December 26, 2012 at 2:16PM

As I wrote earlier this year in a post about Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, I can never bring myself to hate inane family comedies like Parental Guidance because I've witnessed firsthand how happy they make people with developmental disabilities. Movies like these operate on the simplest level in terms of visual content, regularly depicting characters performing familiar actions (making toast, starting a car, watching a baseball game, etc) with little to no conflicting detail in the frame.

Products you definitely need (maybe)

by Julia Thiel on November 28, 2012 at 6:45AM

For Consumerism Week, I was going to write about Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping, an ongoing performance art project that encourages people to, yes, stop shopping. I figured I could also work in a reference to Whet Moser's excellent Chicago magazine post on the history of Black Friday, not to mention my colleague Kate Schmidt's imagining of other holiday-branded days.

The week I learned about hot chicken

by Sam Worley on November 14, 2012 at 10:43AM

I don't remember what I was doing, or reading. Just those words, "hot chicken," somewhere—somewhere on the page.

Gaslight Coffee Roasters: coffee, meat, cheese, and stuffed animals

by Mike Sula on October 25, 2012 at 3:36PM

It's become a cliche to invoke hipster cliches in any discussion about Logan Square, but mention the neighborhood with the words "coffee shop" in a tone any more positive than scornful and you have a rhetorical struggle ahead of you. You're already rolling your eyes at the java-stained beards and protectionist noncompete clauses, aren't you.

"Hey, are you gonna eat that?": a road food listicle

on October 13, 2012 at 12:00PM

John Denver brought a macrobiotic chef on tours. Sheryl Crow hired a chef who set up kitchens backstage to cook all-organic food.

Paul Michael Thomas smokes PCP in Death Drug,

Another Terrible experience hits town this weekend

by Ben Sachs on August 16, 2012 at 2:52PM

This weekend the folks at Chicago Cinema Society and Everything Is Terrible! will present a program of vintage antidrug materials at the Logan Theatre.

Romeo DanceCheetah during the 2010 U.S. Air Guitar Finals

Local air-guitar champ Romeo Dance Cheetah on national TV tonight

by Leor Galil on August 14, 2012 at 12:52PM

Tonight local U.S. Air Guitar Hall of Fame member and 2010 national champion Matt "Romeo Dance Cheetah" Cornelison will perform on national TV as a contestant on America's Got Talent. It's been a little more than a year since Cornelison's previous public display of what fellow air guitarists call "airness"; he was last seen around these parts competing in the July 2011 national championships at Metro, where Justin "Nordic Thunder" Howard took the prize.

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