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May 17, 2012
Ballard Scores Chicago Eats, Rainier Valley Welcomes Heaven Sent, & More
First off, in Ballard, Benito's Chicago Eatery is now up and running at 6201 15th Ave. N.W. Run by Chicago native Benjamin Kulikowski, the establishment features the "Windy City's" most notorious dishes -- deep-dish pizza, Italian beef sandwiches, and hot dogs -- made using locally sourced ingredien ... More >>
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May 14, 2012
Benito's Chicago Eatery Debuts in Ballard
Benito's Chicago Eatery is now up and running at 6201 15th Ave. N.W., according to My Ballard. Run by Chicago native Benjamin Kulikowski, the establishment features the "Windy City's" notorious deep-dish pizza, hot dogs, and Italian beef sandwiches. A menu featuring rotating specials and beer is als ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2012
Ballard Scores Chicago-Style Eats and Ethan Stowell-Style Pizza This Month
Benito's Chicago Eatery is expected to open by month's end at 6201 15th Ave. N.W., according to Seattle Met. Run by Chicago native Benjamin Kulikowski, the establishment will sling the Windy City's most notorious eats, including Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches, and of course, deep-di ... More >>
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February 15, 2012
Alabaster Offer Up Big Guitars, Big Vocals and a Glossy Production
Band: Alabaster Release: Unraveled Label: Self-released Release date: Out now This is super slick, female-fronted radio rock from a Seattle-via-Chicago six-piece. Their latest seven-song EP is filled with big guitars, big vocals and a glossy production that removes any edginess that may have ... More >>
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January 12, 2012
Kylie's Chicago Pizza Fills Your Mouth and Makes You Moan
Last week, Sexy Feast took me to Queen Margherita in Magnolia for thin-crust, Neopolitan-style pizza. This week, in celebration of National Pizza Week, I wanted more pizza, but something a little different. Luckily, last month I purchased a Seattle Weekly VOICE Daily Deal for Kylie's Chicago Pizza ... More >>
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November 23, 2011
Russian Circles
Last week, Sexy Feast took me to Queen Margherita in Magnolia for thin-crust, Neopolitan-style pizza. This week, in celebration of National Pizza Week, I wanted more pizza, but something a little different. Luckily, last month I purchased a Seattle Weekly VOICE Daily Deal for Kylie's Chicago Pizza ... More >>
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September 7, 2011
Brokaw
Last week, Sexy Feast took me to Queen Margherita in Magnolia for thin-crust, Neopolitan-style pizza. This week, in celebration of National Pizza Week, I wanted more pizza, but something a little different. Luckily, last month I purchased a Seattle Weekly VOICE Daily Deal for Kylie's Chicago Pizza ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Julie Kloss: The Sweet Side of Dutch Bike Co.
Photo courtesy of Dutch Bike Co.A bike shop probably isn't the first place you'd think of to grab your morning coffee or fresh baked pastry, but you might want to reconsider. Those 'in the know' frequent the Dutch Bike Company in Ballard for Lighthouse coffee, breakfast burritos, and the best ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Needle and Thread Is One of the Top-10 Secret Hot Spots in the World (According to Worth Magazine)
Chicago, L.A., New York, Hong Kong, Paris, London, South America, Australia and Seattle--the editors at Worth magazine certainly had their passports in order when they set out to put together a list of the "Top 10 (Secret) Hot Spots" for a man with a thirst. This is a list of modern speakeas ... More >>
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January 12, 2011
The Hood Internet
Chicago, L.A., New York, Hong Kong, Paris, London, South America, Australia and Seattle--the editors at Worth magazine certainly had their passports in order when they set out to put together a list of the "Top 10 (Secret) Hot Spots" for a man with a thirst. This is a list of modern speakeas ... More >>
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November 19, 2010
Detroit's 14KT Takes 2010 Red Bull Big Tune Crown at Last Night's National Final in Chicago
From 14KT's TwitterLast night 2010's Red Bull Big Tune--the beat battle brainchild of local legends Vitamin D, J. Moore, DV One and Jake One--culminated with a final competition in Chicago. Origninally the Austin regional runner-up (behind Seattle ex-pat Budo), Ypsilanti, Mich. native 14KT to ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Ballard Denny's Site Sells for $12.5 Million, MOD Pizza Expands to Capitol Hill, & Himalayan Kitchen Closes
The former Denny's Restaurant space at 5501 15th Avenue Northwest in Ballard has been purchased by a Chicago real estate investment firm for $12.5 million, according to The Puget Sound Business Journal. The Grand Slam-slinging establishment - which preservationists once fought to have marked ... More >>
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September 22, 2010
Shapers: Just Another Band In Masks
Seriously, this masked band thing is OUT OF HAND! Shapers are from Chicago. And they wear masks. Or tape.
Film
September 15, 2010
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel: Like an Elegy for the Mad Men Era
Seriously, this masked band thing is OUT OF HAND! Shapers are from Chicago. And they wear masks. Or tape.
Blogs
July 16, 2010
Getting It Off Your Chest: Worst Cities For Food Lovers
So last week, we had a little web-world brouhaha over why Seattle has a better and more enduring BBQ tradition than Kansas City and how Seattleites giving the digital middle-finger to California should be proud never to have actually traveled to California. It was ugly and it was stupid and ... More >>
Food
June 30, 2010
Versus: Seattle's Windy City Wiener-Slingers Dog It
So last week, we had a little web-world brouhaha over why Seattle has a better and more enduring BBQ tradition than Kansas City and how Seattleites giving the digital middle-finger to California should be proud never to have actually traveled to California. It was ugly and it was stupid and ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
Versus: Windy City Dogs Fail to Blow Our Mind
The Dish A traditional Chicago Dog is made from an all-beef frank, topped with mustard, onion, sweet relish (usually the nuclear green variety), pickle spears, tomato wedges, sport peppers, mustard and a dash of celery salt before being laid to rest on a poppy seed bun. How difficult can it be to s ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
The Sears Tower of Hot Dogs
We're thinking of dedicating our Versus column next week to the iconic Chicago Dog. You know, those hyper-hearty all-beef hot dogs topped with yellow mustard, bright green relish, onions, tomato wedges, pickles, peppers and finished with a dash of celery salt? Yep. Those ones. What we want ... More >>
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May 12, 2010
Maps & Atlases
We're thinking of dedicating our Versus column next week to the iconic Chicago Dog. You know, those hyper-hearty all-beef hot dogs topped with yellow mustard, bright green relish, onions, tomato wedges, pickles, peppers and finished with a dash of celery salt? Yep. Those ones. What we want ... More >>
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May 6, 2010
Maps & Atlases Reveal Album Artwork, Headlining Summer Tour Dates
Barsuk's Maps & Atlases will release their debut full-length, Perch Patchwork, on June 29. (Click here to listen to the record's intricately proggy first single, "Solid Ground"). Today the band revealed Perch Patchwork's album cover and announced a headlining summer tour. They're currently on ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
Last Night: Tobacco Has Some Smoking Moments at Chop Suey
Tobacco played at Chop Suey on Tuesday, March 30th. There's a difference between a show rocking and a show ROCKING. Last night's Tobacco show at Chop Suey rocked (notice it's not in all caps), but never took off into that stratospheric, "holy shit, am I even on the same planet right now?" ter ... More >>
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March 31, 2010
My Kind of Pizza, Chicago's Is
Sheehan is lucky that Al Capone is dead, although the guy playing him probably prefers New York pie too.This week, Jason Sheehan uses his review of two Seattle-based purveyors of Chicago-style pizza to make one thing abundantly clear: He finds deep-dish pizza to be vastly inferior to the thin ... More >>
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March 30, 2010
Second City Pies at Jet City Places
The making of a proper deep-dish pie is a two-step process. First, massive quantities of dough are smooshed into a high-walled pan, pulled up and parbaked in order to give the crust a bit of strength. Some would argue that this is to make it better able to hold all the ingredients that will b ... More >>
Blogs
March 11, 2010
Barsuk Signs Chicago's Maps & Atlases
Barsuk just announced that they've signed Maps & Atlases, a super tinkly pop band from Chicago with a tendency for quickly-sung lyrics and xylophones. The record label hasn't released much detail about the band's future plans yet, since the announcement on Barsuk's website is only a few sent ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Update: Grant Achatz Will NOT F*@$ With Your Whiskey. At Least Not Yet ...
Just as God intended.Just when I was getting all excited about getting drunk on gin-flavored Pop Rocks and whiskey gelee, someone has to come along and spoil it all. The someone in question this time? Those bastards over at Grub Street Chicago who, this afternoon, had to go and burst my bubb ... More >>
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December 29, 2009
Counting Down My Top 10 Records of 2009, Pt. 7
This is the seventh entry in a ten-part series. Previous entries can be viewed via this link. Along with their peers in Pelican, Isis, Mono, Red Sparowes and Explosions in the Sky, Chicago's Russian Circles are at the forefront of the instru-metal movement. Giving listeners a welcome respi ... More >>
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December 3, 2009
Openings & Closings: Kylie's Chicago Pizza Opens, Candles Cafe For Sale
Open only a week, Kylie's Chicago Pizza (3601 Fremont Ave. N.) has taken over where Mad Pizza once stood in Fremont. Fremont Universe reveals that the new pizza joint will offer an inch-and-a-half-thick pizza for deep-dish lovers along with thin crust for those not yet willing to take the plu ... More >>
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November 17, 2009
Second Amendment Brief Filed by Bellevue Gun Nuts
The question before the U.S. Supreme Court, as asked by Alan Gottlieb's Second Amendment Foundation of Bellevue in a challenge to Chicago's gun ban, is whether the right to keep and bear arms applies to all states under the Fourteenth Amendment's privileges, Immunities, or due process clauses ... More >>
News
November 11, 2009
Cover Story: Barack & Load
Alan Gottlieb’s challenge to a gun ban in the President’s adopted hometown has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and fattened the ex-con’s wallet in the process.
Calendar
October 21, 2009
August: Osage County
Alan Gottlieb’s challenge to a gun ban in the President’s adopted hometown has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and fattened the ex-con’s wallet in the process.
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October 21, 2009
Guinan
Alan Gottlieb’s challenge to a gun ban in the President’s adopted hometown has made it all the way to the Supreme Court, and fattened the ex-con’s wallet in the process.
Blogs
September 1, 2009
Festing x Three
Whether you've already downloaded your schedule and plotted the logistics of getting from Bagley Wright to the Mural Amphitheater in 13 minutes flat or are still on the fence about braving the Labor Day crowds, Bumbershoot is right around the corner. You may be an Emerald City newbie who can't belie ... More >>
News
July 22, 2009
Greg Nickels: Chicago-Style Bully?
Opponents who paint Nickels as an employer of Windy City machine tactics clearly have never been there.
Blogs
May 6, 2009
Shultzy's: Feels Like Lunch, SBW Pairing Event 5/13
I miss Chicago the most at lunchtime. In Chicago, places that do lunch -- be it a tavern, deli, sit down, or fancy place -- have a hustle and bustle to them, and people DRINK. (OK, this is only a brief "I'm a transplant and things are better where I come from" rant.) Seattle just doesn't lunch. Sure ... More >>
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April 1, 2009
Ab Baars Trio with Ken Vandermark
Friday, April 3
Blogs
January 30, 2009
Blagojevich, I (Kind of) Wish We'd Known Ye
Ex-governor Rod Blagojevich is perhaps the least smooth of them (Roger Ebert skewers the guy in today's Sun Times), but he comes from a long tradition of shady Illinois politicians ranging from the mild palm-greaser to the downright thieving. As a rule, I'm anti public-corruption; we voters put our ... More >>
Blogs
January 16, 2009
Von's: Super Cocky & Super Cheap
"Seattle's BEST Martini $3.50 all day, every day," The prime rib disco cabinetI'm willing to be the judge of that, how 'bout you? Von's Grand City Cafe (619 Pine St.) just gets rid of the entire happy hour concept. Now every time I walk by this place the smell of the prime rib in the window turns me ... More >>
Blogs
January 13, 2009
Safe Sextet
What to do tonight? Our Gavin Borchert suggests you see eighth blackbird (yes, they spell it that way) at the Benny:My guess is that in the future, it'll become apparent that Arnold Schoenberg's most lasting and significant contribution to music history was not the twelve-tone composition method he ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2008
Ask The Bartender: I Am Jack's White Friend
It's that time of week to answer one of those itching questions that come up about drinking, the bar, and everything that happens therein. This week's question comes from Jack:When I'm out and about on an average weekend night, I like to do a line of coke in the bathroom every fourth drink or ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2008
Obama Seat Sale
Duh Guv Back in January 2007, Gov. Chris Gregoire wagered Washington salmon and apples against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Chicago barbeque and hot dogs that the Seahawks would beat the Bears in the NFC playoffs. "I look forward to enjoying Washington smoked salmon and ... More >>
Blogs
November 12, 2008
Pizza by the Pound
Duh Guv Back in January 2007, Gov. Chris Gregoire wagered Washington salmon and apples against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Chicago barbeque and hot dogs that the Seahawks would beat the Bears in the NFC playoffs. "I look forward to enjoying Washington smoked salmon and ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2008
Studs Terkel Dead at 96
Duh Guv Back in January 2007, Gov. Chris Gregoire wagered Washington salmon and apples against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Chicago barbeque and hot dogs that the Seahawks would beat the Bears in the NFC playoffs. "I look forward to enjoying Washington smoked salmon and ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2008
Pleasureboaters Break-up: It's Official
Duh Guv Back in January 2007, Gov. Chris Gregoire wagered Washington salmon and apples against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Chicago barbeque and hot dogs that the Seahawks would beat the Bears in the NFC playoffs. "I look forward to enjoying Washington smoked salmon and ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2008
Weekend Review: Lollapalooza, Jousting, and Little Penguins
Duh Guv Back in January 2007, Gov. Chris Gregoire wagered Washington salmon and apples against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Chicago barbeque and hot dogs that the Seahawks would beat the Bears in the NFC playoffs. "I look forward to enjoying Washington smoked salmon and ... More >>
Film
March 12, 2008
Chicago 10: Not the ’60s Again!
Duh Guv Back in January 2007, Gov. Chris Gregoire wagered Washington salmon and apples against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's Chicago barbeque and hot dogs that the Seahawks would beat the Bears in the NFC playoffs. "I look forward to enjoying Washington smoked salmon and ... More >>
Calendar
February 13, 2008
Great Valentine’s Day Massacre
Should you feel your feelings or just bang your head?
Calendar
February 13, 2008
Serious Business
Because the kids in Seattle have the biggest bass
Diversions
December 26, 2007
Always Tip, Never Make Eye Contact!
Because the kids in Seattle have the biggest bass
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