Heidi’s HotSpot Pick: Junior’s Sports Lounge

Heidi Barker, NBC5 Street Team
In case you’ve been in a cave for the last 6 weeks- here’s a news flash:
THE CHICAGO BEARS ARE UNDEFEATED!!
So, if you’re looking for a new cool joint to watch the Bears or your favorite sports team, hit Junior’s Sports Lounge. (www.juniorschicago.com) This upscale sports bar is in the University Village [...]

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Dance ’til you Drop

LeAnn Trotter NBC5 Street Team
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater is the bomb!! If you haven’t had a chance to catch one of their shows….you are MISSING OUT!

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Who’s Got Talent? America?

Danielle Barrera, NBC5 Street Team
NBC has a show called “America’s Got Talent.” Recently, I attended the Chicago auditions, not as a potential contestant, but instead, I covered the event in my role as an intern for NBC5.com. I learned a few things about talent — unfortunately, not many people have it. Most people [...]

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Live Music Review: Architecture in Helsinki

Brian Battle NBC5 Street Team
They could’ve named this show “The Bands With Unnecessary Names” Tour ’06. New York-cum-Philly “indie” success story Clap Your Hands Say Yeah headlined, along with Australia’s Architecture in Helsinki and Brooklyn-based Takka Takka.
Sandwiched between the two NY rock bands were the delightful Architecture in Helsinki. The eclectic group dressed [...]

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Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Birthday

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team
The South Shore Cultural Center was the place to see and be seen Saturday night. I always enjoy the chance to put on the penguin suit, so I thought it would be fun to rub shoulders with some movers and shakers, plus take some pics at the Rev. Jesse [...]

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Halloween Freak Fest

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team
New Rule: Women must admit that Halloween is just another excuse to dress like a whore. — Bill Maher
I had planned to go to Reserve Thursday night for a fashion show and event with Kimora Lee Simmons, but after she canceled, my boy Jonesy suggested we go to Level [...]

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Will Smith: ONLY 2 QUESTIONS!!

LeAnn Trotter, NBC5 Street Team
So, Will Smith is in town…to pub his new movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness”. There’s a screening at AMC River East. Usually you only get 5 minutes with the stars when they blow through town…..but in this case…we were only allowed two questions. What’s Up With That?

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Food Review: Tank Noodle

Shlomi Rabi NBC5 Street Team
Last night my friend Kristen and I headed up to Tank Noodle, a Vietnamese Mom’s and Pop’s place on 4955 N. Broadway. As opposed to previously visited locales, there were no salacious conversation to eavesdrop on, and if there were, they were in Vietnamese. As a general rule, it [...]

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Penthouse Party

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team
Is it possible to be so unbelievably bored? I guess it serves me right for thinking something exciting might happen at the Penthouse Pets party at China Grill and the Hard Rock Cafe. The event was put on by the Lincoln Park Young Professionals, who thought bringing in three [...]

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Movie Review: Shortbus

Shlomi Rabi NBC5 Street Team
This weeekend I went to see John Cameron Mitchell’s “Shortbus”. At its most visually didactic, the movie is about the sexploration that a group of thirty-something undergo. The sex scenes are natural and raw, and to their credit, the realistic depiction grants the actors the right to bypass trite [...]

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NYC BALLET: banished…….

LeAnn Trotter NBC5 Street Team
TO THE VIEWING ROOM. Have you ever watched the first ten minutes of a complicated ballet routine…….on a stage camera in what looks like a dressing room, (only everyone is dressed). It kind of feels like sitting in a corner with a “duffis” hat on.
There were 10 late arrivers…and they wouldn’t [...]

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Lam & Steak

Shlomi Rabi NBC5 Street Team
I couldn’t think of a better way to start my blogging saga than by reporting about the one soiree worth attending last night- the Derek Lam shindig at Helen Yi’s upscale fashion boutique in Bucktown. The display of clothes and accessories was beautifully arranged in a just-so manner [...]

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Ben Soldinger testing

Was hanging with a godfather of Metal, Alice Cooper! – very cool guy.

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Diddy Day

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team
Can you feel it? There’s definitely something special in the air. Of course, it’s Diddy Day in Chicago!
Why? Well that’s not exactly clear, but watching Mayor Daley and Diddy share a podium today was an interesting piece of unreality TV. It reminded me of years ago when I worked in Lexington, [...]

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I Know You Got Soul

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team
It was a somewhat intimate crowd that packed in the Park West Theater on the city’s North Side for the Heineken Red Star Soul concert. Heineken is sponsoring a concert series all over the country, focusing on neo-soul type artists. The headliners this night were Raheem DeVaughn, Bilal and Angie Stone. [...]

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Glammin’ It Up At Glamorama!

Marcus Riley, NBC5 Street Team
I look forward to Glamorama every year, perhaps more than any other event on Chicago’s social calendar. The fashion show is always well-executed, and there’s always something cool about partying on an entire floor of Marshall Field’s — er, Macys — afterward.
Granted, I haven’t even lived in Chicago two years, [...]

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