Fearful Symmetries

From Capital Brewery's Twitter feed : Tonight @The_Side_Door try some bacon infused Maibock and mint infused Dark Voyage. Also you can...

The food and drink part, anyway. Above is the shiny, new dining room at Cafe Bavaria which opened in Wauwatosa earlier this week. It is...

I discovered this morning that Mayor Soglin is directing Madisonians to a survey in order to find out what we want in a public market. I be...

Over at the Atlantic Cities blog Richard Florida writes about a report on what entrepreneurs seek out in cities where they would locate the...

Here in the depths of winter it's always nice to have a stronger beer to help get you through the chilly nights. Doppelbocks are a goo...

One of my favorite video games of all-time, 1997's The Last Express , is now available for iOS and Android devices. In the game, you tak...

Baderbräu bills itself as "Chicago's Original Craft Beer" and, while it may not be wholly accurate, its trademark Czech pil...

Chicago's Metropolitan Brewing is one of my favorite breweries. They brew tasty beers and refuse to populate their line-up with IPAs ...

Terry Gilliam's latest movie looks to be a hoot. I love the use of short lenses here. Appears to have been shot in a style akin to that ...

An alien is sent to Earth to pick up hitchhikers to have them sent back to her planet to be a delicacy. Sounds wonderfully odd. The trailer ...

Madison's Mobcraft bills itself as the world's first crowdsourced beer company. Giotto Troia, Henry Schwartz, and Andrew Gierczak...

Like my current pet peeve is—and here we're definitely talking about First-World problems—over-hopping of craft beer. Hops are a very ar...

I first tasted Capital's Appleanche last year at a pre-Great Taste event. Appleanche is an apfel (apple) doppelbock and it sounded li...

Back in the mid-2000s blogs were becoming a big deal and the folks at madison.com sought to capitalize on the trend. There were, if memory s...

Last month Juliana Kerr from The Chicago Council on Global Affairs was in town to discuss immigration. She met with Mayor Soglin who "c...

Frederick Wiseman is an American institution. He's a pioneer of documentary cinema and, at age 84 (Today is his birthday, in fact. Hap...

I enjoy spicy foods. I developed a taste for them back in the days when I cooked for a living. Our breakfast cook, Johnny, would occasiona...

Chicagoans of a certain age recall the day in 1987 when some goofball in a Max Headroom mask hacked into the signal of WTTW Channel 11's...

I've been sick lately and haven't been drinking much beer. I have also been neglecting new releases and so here are some new and new...